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To: combjelly who wrote (460606)	3/3/2009 11:42:39 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1574061

>>> Nope. The original plan was to take 10 planes. That's what I thought; you guys are conflating different issues. The original plot -- which came from Yousef (KSM's nephew), not KSM, involved 12 planes. After Yousef was captured, KSM went to bin Laden and proposed a plan involving 10 aircraft. Bin Laden immediately dismissed it as impractical. Only later was bin Laden convinced to reconsider and the 10-aircraft plot was never considered after that time that I'm aware of. There was a plan for a "second wave" to occur after 9/11 but it never materialized. KSM himself was known to have been training 39 people. There was no shortage of people who were willing to commit the act as Z has claimed. The question was operational in nature -- how many people can you put into flight training, get onto aircraft, and do what has to be done without getting caught -- that was the bottleneck. They could have easily gotten 1000 men to commit themselves to the operation. Whether they would have been trained or trainable, reliable, certain to follow through, those are all open questions. These people basically did not volunteer. They were selected for a "mission" and basically had no idea what the "mission" was. When they were selected the leadership had to know with a degree of certainty the level of their commitments.