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To: stockman_scott who wrote (128571)	4/6/2004 11:23:06 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

A war on terror was long overdue... Extracting only the acts connected with airplanes from history produces a list that follows. Why did it take the FBI, the CIA, Congress and preceeding Presidents 33 years to connect the dots? Because there was only one significant dot, in plain sight, a huge cicle around (airplane+-terrorist+bomb) The terrorist attack on the United States yesterday ( September 11th, 2001) was the worse in history. It was not however the first terrorist attack of this new century, and certainly the last century was one in which terror came to the forefront of the world scene. Here is a partial list of some of the major terrorist action since 1968: 1968: July 23rd – Three members of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijack an El Al plane to Rome 1969- February 18th An El Al aircraft in Zurich Switzerland was attacked, the copilot was killed August 29th A TWA 707 was hijacked by Palestinian terrorist to Damascus September 29th – A TWA plane flying from Rome to Lodi Italy was hijacked to Damascus 1970- February 10th. A bus carrying passengers to an a plane is attacked by Palestinian terrorist at the Munich airport February 21st- A Swissair plane on a flight to Israel is blown up in mid air by Palestinian terrorists. April 21st- A bomb explodes aboard a Philippines airliners. All 36 aboard are killed September 6th- An attempt is made to hijack four planes. The attempt to hijack an El Al plane fails, while three other succeed. The planes all end up in the Jordanian desert. 1972 January 26th A bomb explodes on a Yugoslav plane killing all but one passenger May 30th- 24 people are killed at Lod airport by Japanese terrorist recruited by Palestininians 1973-February 23rd- Israel shoots down a Libyan plane over the Sinai desert fearing it was a flying bomb 1973- August 5th Five people are killed when a Libyan terrorist group attacks a TWA plane 1974- September 8th Libyan terrorist plant a bomb on board a TWA plane flying from Athens to Rome, all 85 passengers are killed. 1975- September 30th A Hungarian airplane explodes killing all 64 persons on board 1976- January 1st-Eighty-two people are killed aboard a Lebanese plane June 24th- An Air France plane is hijacked to Uganda. Israeli later stages a daring rescue mission to free the hostages. Septermber 29th- A Gulf Air plane explodes killing all 166 people aboard. 1985 June 23rd 345 people are killed when Sikh terrorist explode a bomb aboard an Air India 747 1986- September 5th A Pan Am aircraft is hijacked by Palestinain terrorists. Twenty passengers are killed. 1988- Pan Am flight 103 is blown up over Lockerbie Scotland. All 259 passengers and crew are killed. multied.com Sig