[Ronin]

I’m missing something. What happened in 1991? I mean, specifically in relation to this topic.

The point I was making in my post is that what Clancy described in 1994 was very close to what actually came to pass on Sept. 11, 2001.

I am not going to allege that the Jihadi’s got the idea from the book, but it’s certainly not impossible. And, as Tex pointed out, it’s also possible that some of the passengers on Flight 93 had read the same book, realized what was happening, and died preventing it.

[MrEdd]

When you responded to my post you had read what happened in 1990 and 1991. It just may not have dawned on you what I was saying.

During the 1990 - 1991 war
the US dropped many, sorties of fuel air explosives on the Iraqi lines and positions. Unlike other munitions that work using explosives that are complex and difficult to synthesize, FAE are simply a big container of jet fuel under pressure being pumped out through nozzles as it nears the ground. When it gets to ground zero, it ignites the huge area of fuel vapor that has been created.

The larger ones evidently put out a shock wave similar to the Hiroshima bomb, though with less heat and with none of the radiation.

The possibilities of large planes carrying jet fuel became impossible to ignore.