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To: i-node who wrote (387519)	5/30/2008 10:04:00 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1575535

Now, true, they didn't have a date, a list of names, airline flight numbers and a detailed time line. Well they could cancel all flights in the country every day of the year. Or they could use some of the hypothetical superspies tejek and cj think exist who can using completely legal methods find out everything about every terrorist in the world and arrest them without a hint of violence or rough treatment. Its so simple. If you were a genius like those two, you'd realize this is the smart way to handle things.

To: i-node who wrote (387519)	5/30/2008 11:22:09 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575535

Well, they knew that terrorists wanted to hijack airplanes and fly them into buildings. THAT was spelled out in the PDB. 1. Have some FBI and CIA guys pretend they were terrorists, see what kind of weapons they could get onto a commercial flight, see if they could get into the cockpit. 2. They'd find out they could EASILY get into the cockpit! Get THAT fixed ASAP! At the very LEAST, make sure pilots could lock themselves securely in the cockpits and were required to stay there until they reached their destinations. Inform the PILOTS of the threat! What if the pilots refused to fly into the buildings? 3. Now what? Do THEY know how to fly a plane? No. So, find out where terrorists would learn how to do that. See if any terrorist-types had been doing that. 4. Consider arming pilots or putting armed air marshals on every flight. Public notice of the threat? 5. If despite all that, they needed to shoot an airliner down, were the armed forces prepared to do that in short order? Make sure they were. A gassed up airliner would make quite a bomb! --that's with one minutes thought!