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To: KLP who wrote (256331)	7/1/2008 6:48:25 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

Condoleezza said that nobody could have guessed that such an attack as 911 would be done. That says more about her lack of imagination than Osama and co's imagination. Long before 911, it was obvious to me that there was a huge security gap in airliners, because I was sitting directly behind an open cockpit door while flying across the USA. It would have been a simple matter of standing up, taking two steps and asking the pilot to not do anything rash and to hand over the controls. I didn't mention the security hazard to the air crew as they are generally crazy and would assume that I was the security threat and would have me arrested for mentioning the risk. So I just left it that sometime somebody would do that, which they did and an excellent job of it they did, with several aircraft hijacked simultaneously, and achieving the destruction of both Twin Towers. Osama and co would be able to figure out the idea of toxic liquids hidden inside people. It's hardly genius material. Condoleezza might not imagine it, but that's not surprising. Same for internal bombs. Mqurice