[Tacis]

Interesting article. I've always said that we missed some good leads by failing to follow up on what, to me at least, were obvious possibilities. On 9/11, four crews of Saudis seized 4 aricraft and crashed them. That much we know.

But, how likely is a 100% attack. Try sending a bunch of folks on the east coast to a meeting. There will ALWAYS be delays, cancellations and unavoidable problems. There weren't just 4 Saudi crews, there were 6 or 8. They all left from home that morning and reported to an airport. Somewhere, there was a wreck on the tollway and some didn't get there. Those were the Saudis that we should have tracked down!

Most of the Saudi terrorists, however, in the country today, came across the much easier Mexican border. They will launch the next attacks.

[eno_]

Absolutely!

The picture of 9/11 does not fit a betting man's view of things. Atta's remarks indicate there was no set numnber of planes to be hijacked. He probably didn't know the scope of the entire operation. It is almost dead certain that other hijack teams escaped after being delayed on the ground or when their flights landed prematurely.

The fact that seemingly ZERO (maybe one, recently) of these people were ever captured, while 5000 or so random Arabs with sketchy cash businesses were hauled in by the Feebs doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling about air travel security.