[RandallFlagg]

I have to think that if al-Qaeda had done the job they'd have been trumpeting it to the sky by now

Because they know that Bush and America would get the blame for it.
France would blame us for it.
The 9 dwarves would blame Bush for it.
Other terrorist organizations would blame us for it.
Moveon.org would blame Bush for it.


Why not? They blamed us for 9-11. They blamed us for Saddam starving his people.
EVERYTHING'S our fault. Haven't you heard?



Sorry. I flew off a little there....

[11B3]

Sharm is (or at least used to be when I was there) a complete security nightmare. Baggage handling for a charter plane? Nah. "Why bother" would be the attitude there.

Add to that the fact that there is an uninhabited island just off the coast a few miles that is easy to access by small boat. The 737 would have flown directly or very nearly so over that island on take-off. Even a SA-7 would have no problem finding the exhaust trail of a 737 taking off.

This thing reeked of terrorism from the start. Missile, bomb, whatever. Binny's girls don't always claim credit right away. Egypt was far too swift in calling this an 'accident' for me.