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The Japs knew when to bomb Pearl Harbor because of a phone call from a known Jap sympathizer giving the particulars about that day.

Off subject, but I was watching a show on the History Channel last night on the Samurai and at the end of the show, they were talking about Kamakazi pilots. I don't know why I never saw the connection sooner, but it struck me differently last night. The similarities between the kamakazi pilots and the 9/11 hijackers were amazing. Both acts were meant to start a war. Both acts used planes. Both acts purposely targeted US assets. Both were surprize attacks. Both caused huge damage and considerable loss of life.

Osama did do a little bit of history education on his enemy, didn't he?

Yes OBL did need a lesson.

On the topic, I have it firsthand that one of the "Top Ten" names for the initial operations in Afganistan was going to be "Operation Sleeping Giant," but it was rejected as too obscure. (Jap Gen on Pearl Harbor . . "I am afraid we have merely awoken a sleeping giant.")

The similarities between the kamakazi pilots and the 9/11 hijackers were amazing. Both acts were meant to start a war.

This is not correct. The Kamikazes were not used at Pearl Harbor but only toward the end of the war when the Japanese were desperate.

If the History channel tried to compare the Kamikazes with the 9/11 hijackers then I really have to wonder about about the scholarship of the program.

- The kamikaze pilots flew their own plane - the hijackers killed innocent civilians and hijacker theirs.
- The kamikaze pilots targeted military targets - the hijackers targeted civilian and governmental targets.
- The Kamikazes pilot wore military uniforms to designate their allegiance - the 9/11 hijackers hid among civilians
- The kamikaze pilots flew in marked planes representing a country that had declared war against the United State - who knows who the 9/11 hijackers represented since no nation ever declared war.

There is no similarity between the two groups.