To: The_Reader_David
IT's not necessarily megalomania. They know from experience that if the hit isn't big enough it will either be denied, blamed on something else, or swept under the rug in some other way. Take shoe bombing -- I have a suspicion that before Richard Reid blew it for them by getting caught, there had been several airliners blown out of the sky by shoe bombs. Like TWA 800.
140 posted on
12/08/2006 10:40:10 AM PST by
ichabod1
(After the attacks of 9/11, profiling Muslims is more like profiling the Klan.)
To: ichabod1
There was a radio-mounted bomb in the luggage of 800.
145 posted on
12/08/2006 10:45:33 AM PST by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: ichabod1
"...there had been several airliners blown out of the sky by shoe bombs. Like TWA 800." To quote the late Groucho, "That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard."
To: ichabod1
IT's not necessarily megalomania. They know from experience that if the hit isn't big enough it will either be denied, blamed on something else, or swept under the rug in some other way. Take shoe bombing -- I have a suspicion that before Richard Reid blew it for them by getting caught, there had been several airliners blown out of the sky by shoe bombs. Like TWA 800. Also consider the Oklahoma University bomber from 2005
268 posted on
12/08/2006 4:54:22 PM PST by
SauronOfMordor
(A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
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