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Will the Sheeple and our leaders get the message this time?

Even more frightening than the specter of increasingly frequent acts of terrorism is the damage that has been and will be done to our hard-won Constitutional liberties -- a gift from God that was won by the shedding of the blood of Patriots.....

[Alas]

And they will try it again. And again. Once a plan is as successful as this one was, it is almost impossible not to want to duplicate it on an even grander, steady scale. War will now be defined not as something to be won like WW2 but rather as something to combat, as seen by continuous acts of Terrorism that will become a mainstay of our lives and have permanently shaken us to our core.

Not if the president takes this preachers advice!

God has not appointed George Bush president to turn the other cheek, He has not anointed President Bush as president to take our tax dollars just to buy friends around the world, He has appointed, anointed and armed President George Bush to avenge the strike on the USA. "But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil."

[lady lawyer]

How come no one ever mentions Libya as a possible source of this? Khaddafi is crazy enough to do this, and some Libyans still hate us because we bombed Tripoli.

[Dumb_Ox]

He would guess that it cost around 200 million.

In what currency? For all the talk about the sophistication of the attack, it appears quite inexpensive to pull off. Say 50 terrorists directly involved. Their upkeep, training, and supplies could be quite small, maybe $50K apiece. That's only 2.5 million US$ Pennies for bin Laden; what's his net worth again?

[Barak]

I fear most immediately for our commercial aircraft. It will take at least a year to make our planes secure with clearances of passenger lists, undetected security marshals on planes, locked cockpits, trained security personnel, etc.

Bullsh!t.

That's the easiest and cheapest problem in the world to solve. You lay off your minimum-wage security-checkpoint people, you sell all the machinery, and you let people carry onto an aircraft whatever makes them feel safest. Presto! no more hijackings.

Other terrorist activities may or may not be harder to bring to a halt.

[LSJohn]

Lots of valid info/analysis in this, but lots of bogus too. This is pure BS:

"The other thing he mentioned is that in the early 80's our Intelligence changed their rules which is that they wanted agents with clean resumes."

What they did was to increase their focus on ELINT and reduce HUMINT capability, but it had nothing to do with resumes.

[Publius6961]

He said four planes got through but do not believe for a moment that only four planes were involved. There were at least 10 more but Bush halted our air force crews [sic]and grounded them instantly. Apparently, we were lucky only 4 got through.

Is it too naive to believe that all passengers of all planes in the air at the time of the terrorism act and subsequently requested to land were photographed for future identification?

What a golden opportunity.