Posted on 05/16/2005 7:14:47 PM PDT by Calpernia
We know now that America has been the victim of a large, well-planned, and well-executed terrorist act. The parameters are yet to be fully explored, but that won't stop the usual suspects from pontificating (and, yes, that includes me) on what happened and what needs to be done as a result.
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Mr. Clancy is a novelist.
I never saw Tom Clancy's WSJ editorial. Pinging for interest.
I wasn't aware that Tom Clancy had written an editorial on the subject of 9/11.
It immediately struck me at the time that the weapon of choice for the terrorists was the same as in his "Debt of Honor" (1994) with the difference being that the pilot acted alone and crashed into the Capitol building during a joint session wiping out the entire U.S. government.
I have sometimes wondered if the assorted terrorist groups read Clancy and used his fictional plots as actual plans with, albeit, modifications to suit their objectives.
I thought that too when I first read it.
But, Sheik Rahman met with bin Laden, al-Zawahiri and Atef in Afghanistan in 1989 to plan the world-wide network of cell centers and to raise money for the Mujahadeen rebels.
And in November of 1990 the FBI, raided El Sayyid Nosair's rented house here in Cliffside Park, New Jersey. They seized: ammunition, top secret manuals from the U.S. Special Forces Warfare school in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, maps of the World Trade Center, pictures of the World Trade Center, bomb recipes and the untranslated sermons and writings describing Sheikh Rahman's sermons which said that they wanted to hit the edifices of capitalism -- "the high world buildings."
So I think Clancy's books aren't the inspiration for terrorism. I think he gets his material from info we have out there.
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