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To: rolling_stone
You can't spell English, so maybe everyone should be apprehensive of you, eh?

Seriously, I believe the authorities are well aware that assembling a bomb would have little overall effect to a terrorist. They wouldn't be able to hijack a plane with one, or with a razor blade even, since that could only work on one horrid day. No one would believe them if they were to say to remain calm and everything will be okay. A bomb on a plane can kill a planeload full of people, but that is small potatoes to a bomb placed in a baseball stadium, or a busy street corner at lunch hour.

170 posted on 07/24/2004 7:39:19 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad
Sorry for the spelling errors, actually my poor touch typing is to blame...I am typing in the dark, spell checker would have caught those....time to turn on a light...Yes the impact of a bomb on a plane would physically be less than that in a crowded public place, but the object is fear and terror and to disrupt our economy....not necessarily body count...
regards rs
178 posted on 07/24/2004 7:48:35 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Cultural Jihad

Perhaps, Islamacists wish to blow up a plane precisely to kill Americans on the plane and not for any other reason. Certainly, this was the intention of the shoe bomber. Consider the intifada tactics of the Palastinians... Terrorists wish to well...create terror. If a plane is blown out of the sky by terrorists, it will certainly frighten people (to say the least) and cause the general public to consider that perhaps we can not stop terrorists. This would certainly affect our morale and our economy..people will stop flying.


188 posted on 07/24/2004 7:55:52 PM PDT by nyconse
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