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To: combjelly who wrote (195792)	7/25/2004 2:03:05 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572686

"Was an al-Qaeda plot unfolding on Northwest Airlines flight 327?" Oh, no! Please, not this. The capper of the whole deal is how incensed she was that no one was arrested because she was paranoid... The woman peddled her article to a number of outlets before getting it published at Women's Wall Street Journal[?], a new one for me. Since then, its been getting a lot of internet play, working on people's ongoing paranoia. To answer her final question, sure terrorist could learn to play instruments, heck, they might have known even before they became terrorists. However, given the fact that they were booked for a gig and had their tickets and lodging paid for, it doesn't sound like they were just a garage band. Besides, I'd think that terrorists would go for a cover that wasn't quite so noticeable. Not that logic had anything at all to do with here article... Her whole premise was bizarre. First of all, most of us may see boogeymen on flights where there are none. Its hard not to after 9/11. However, she should have realized like most of the rest of us do that when she got to LA safely and the guys turned out to be musicians that she freaked about nothing. Secondly, I find her premise unlikely because I don't believe that al Qa'ida will do the obvious and repeat itself with another WTC event. I suspect it will come in some other form instead of planes flying into buildings......not that we shouldn't remain vigilant on all flights. But the worst part about all of this is that its pretty clear where its heading. All Arabs or other suspicious looking people [read foreign looking] need to be stopped and searched all the time and when traveling in groups, prevented from proceeding period. Nothing less will satisfy certain elements in this country. As for NewsMax, someone needs to tell them that people [read foreign and Arab] are not stopped and arrested or prevented from going someplace because its the "PC" thing to do but rather because that's not the way a democracy works and our Bill of Rights reads. ted