Posted on 09/12/2001 8:09:27 AM PDT by Michael Rivero
It's been about 24 hours since the attacks against the Pentagon and the World Trade Towers. There has been a lot of news reporting, some of it accurate, and some of it wildly speculative.
But there is one item conspicuously absent from the news reportage.
There has not been a single report that any armed hijacker was arrested on the way TO an airplane yesterday morning.
Think about that.
We are being told that four teams of at least three armed hijackers each got past all the security at three modern airports, and not one of them was detected.
A 100% success rate? For terrorists operating in a strange country far from any support? That is a bit hard to accept.
Reports that did escape from the aircraft following the hijacking reported that the hijackers succeeded in wresting control of the aircraft using only knives, possibly as small as ordinary supermarket carton cutters. So, along with a 100% sucess rate at getting past all that security, add to that miracle the fact that all four hijacking teams managed to select aircraft that did not have a sky marshall on them (which according to a recent Discovery Channel Wings program are still being used on flights).
100% success evading modern airport security. 100% success rate choosing flights without sky marshalls. Pretty damned hard to do for a group of terrorists.
But far easier for a nation-state with the intelligence resources of a nation-state to pull off.
They looked through the camera (SLR) and took the lens off. And yes they checked my keyring, and what they say is is that it was a purely random check, that every so many bags coming through get a thorough inspection.
Congratulations on your being able to get a knife on board a plane. You have been very lucky not to get caught. But terrorists cannot rely on luck, they have to plan, because if just one of them had gotten caught, it would increase the chances that more of them would get caught, not to mention that the US would know who to launch the nukes at.
And you are still evading the second point I raised, that somehow these four teams knew they would be on flights that did not have sky marshalls and that they could use their knives without fear of being shot.
Excellent questions but I wouldn't expect an answer from Rivero other than implications that the U.S. military/intelligence community aided and abetted the hijackers.
Why should he spoil his record now?
P.S. I do not dispute that the terrorists might have had support of one (or more) nation states.
Why don't you take a moratorium on your craziness- at least until the dead are buried.
Well, you just couldn't stay away, could you, Michael/FormerLurker? Why am I not surprised that this story brought you out of the woodwork. What's the weather like in Hawaii?
Most likely the terrorists were living here for quite some time, and had people inside the airports to assist them. In other words, foreigners living here long term.
Please use some restraint and try not to fall all over yourself exploiting this tragedy for your own purposes.
The Honolulu airport says otherwise. I checked.
Why would they be? They spotted a huge hole in airport security. Airport security in this country is based on the notion that only lone gunmen hijack planes. They never envisioned a successful hijack with box cutters. Stone simple.
100% success rate choosing flights without sky marshalls.
Take your idiocy somewhere else, Rivero. We haven't had Sky Marshalls for years.
That's a great idea, OP.
Discovery Wings had a show on them just two weeks ago, and I called the Honolulu airport on this. Sky Marshalls are still used. Passengers and hijackers aren't supposed to know they are there (as you demonstrate).
That seems to be the case, as the stories in Boston trickle out.
The sky marshall program barely exists, if at all.
But, like every other tragedy to hit this country, Rivero will whip the militia and anti-government types into a frenzy, with the CIA and FBI ultimately to blame for this tragedy.
Michael is as predictable as clockwork.
Bullsh**, Rivero. I don't trust a single thing you post anymore, because I can't tell if it's a fact or something you pull out your backside, because so much of what you post has been pulled from there.
I think he means Israel. Of course, there is no EVIDENCE that Israel was involved in this, but Michael Rivero rarely bases his theories on evidence.
People like Michael Rivero ruin FR for everyone.
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