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To: jlallen who wrote (475746)	4/28/2009 9:27:44 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577903

Really? Planes were off the table after 9/11? That would come as a surprise to every passenger in the past three years who had their liquids confiscated in an airport security line. Those security measures were instituted because in 2006 we foiled an al-Qaeda plot to hijack airplanes leaving London’s Heathrow airport and blow them up over the Atlantic (a plot our intelligence community says was just weeks from execution). Apparently al-Qaeda didn’t get Noah’s memo explaining that hijacking airplanes for terrorist attacks is “no longer viable al Qaeda strategy.” This is an excellent point. We've had a couple nitwits running around here claiming there was no way airliners could have been used again after 9/11. But what about the fact that this and other plans have been stopped at the last minute by intelligence, and apparently wouldn't have been stopped by airport security? It is amazing to me that only 8 years after 9/11 people have forgotten what happened and the ingenuity with which these terrorists carried out 9/11.