[Pearls Before Swine]

re: bomb being a fake, on-ground witnesses reporting banking consistent with fight for controls

Yep, that is also possible. Still, to attack people armed with razors and while you also believe they have a bomb in a hi-jacked plane they intend to crash is definitely a Hobbesian choice.

[Fury]

Agreed. I believe that details of this flight (the passengers who fought to prevent the flight from reaching its' objective) would be the most concerning and frustrating to bin Laden et al. It demonstrates that many American's will not cower when faced with adversity and that they will also fight back, even if that means they sacrafice their own life. With that said, the folks on that plane are heros. And their Islamic extremist adversaries will have died with their mission not completed. They are a disgrace to their families and to Islam. I like to think that they were suprised and indeed horrified when the passengers rushed them.

[FreeLibertarian]

Yep, that is also possible. Still, to attack people armed with razors and while you also believe they have a bomb in a hi-jacked plane they intend to crash is definitely a Hobbesian choice.

The passengers of that flight deserve the Medal of Freedom. I suspect they will be just the first of many in this War. (I wish someone would come up with a name other than "America's New War")