Probe reconstructs horror, calculated attacks on planes

The Boston Globe ^ | Nov 23 01 | Glen Johnson, Globe Staff

[runningbear]

ASHINGTON - In some cases, the attacks were swift and ruthless, the hijackers slitting the throats of passengers and stabbing flight attendants to gain immediate control of the cabin. They probably used the universal ''Boeing key'' to unlock the cockpit door and kill the pilots before they could even touch their radios.

[runningbear]

A chilling account put in a horrible time line of events.

if this story from the Boston Globe was already posted, sorry. I searched and found nothing)!

[ozzymandus]

It made me very angry to read this. I hope those who are urging a "negotiated" settlement with the Taliban and El-Quidah are forced to read this horrifying article. Death is too good for people like this.

[runningbear]

I would like to see OBL and Saddam, both with their heads off! I want revenge...Might makes right! "In Memory of 9/11"

[Intolerant in NJ]

William H. Webster, the former FBI and CIA director, told reporters last month that it ''would not surprise me'' if some of the hijackers had been duped like the flight crews...if so, it's going to be mighty difficult for these crackpot terrorists to enlist the help of many others in their plots in the future...except for other crackpots, of course.......

[dep]

no. beheading is too neat and painless.

no, after careful consideration i have decided that there is one and one alone method of execution that is appropriate. it involves a stomach tube, a funnel, and bacon grease heated to where it's beginning to smoke. and there must be no surprise about it -- in fact, they should watch each other check out, full in the knowledge ahead of time that they are going to hell, whether theirs or ours.

of course, if they want to provide solid information that leads to their compatriots being rounded up, a .45 to the back of the head would await them instead, their choice.

dep

[runningbear]

ewe!! Well, if pain is to be inflicted, then how about the Florida electric chair. Last known, on death row, inmate's head shot flames out as he was being electrocuted! Now that is pain in checking out!

[fire_eye]

The thing that appalled me at the time, and that continues to horrify me upon reading this, is how accurately the terrorists were able to predict that the American passengers could be intimidated.

What, now, are we going to do to undo this "go along to get along", "teach peace", "turn the other cheek" mentality that makes us such targets for evil?

Will the American people wake up, and start shouting down and destroying the leftist, Socialist apostles of "nonviolence" and "negotiation" who have drugged us from childhood into being "nice", or are we all going to just wring our hands and go about our way apace, trying to "get on with our lives" and hoping for "closure" while the terrorists sit and wait for us to back into the same old delusional, mentally disarmed state in which they found us on Sept. 11?

[Howlin]

Bump.

[CathyRyan]

I would like to see the whole nest of them cleaned out. I fear the other shoe has yet to drop.

[runningbear]

hard to say. Depends of the individual strengths of each person's mentality. If you are a leader, you will lead. If you are a follower, then you'll follow. I grew up with the individual minds thoughts. The saying, question authority first before you act. Others, maybe hopeless. That is why there is that thing called the animal chain kingdom. Only the strong will survive.

In all, only the changes will tell to those who are taught on strong values in life.

[runningbear]

I would like to know if anyone has an audio of the PA flight. Seems it has been edited sometime after Nov. 20th. The original aired the whole tape, screams and all. Now, it has been edited to a little over 4 mins minus the screams, only talked of it! If you(anyone) has it, post it or link it please!

[StriperSniper]

BTTT

[IronJack]

Just like Patton marched the civilian population through the concentration camps he liberated, so the Taliban prisoners should be made to read this account. Then they should be taken to Ground Zero and the Pentagon, and finally to that scarred landscape in rural Pennsylvania, where, within sight of the murdered Americans, they should have their infected, pus-ridden brains blown out.

[runningbear]

Bump!

[LibWhacker]

Investigators say the hijackers picked the flights deliberately . . . And the 767s shared a common cockpit design with the other two planes hijacked Sept. 11, a pair of Boeing 757s. That meant the hijackers had to study only one set of instruments to learn how to fly either plane.

I like to know ahead of time what kind of plane I'm getting on, but, perhaps, in the future, the airlines shouldn't release this information.

As far as I'm concerned, all members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban are accessories to murder, and the penalty must be death.

[Jhensy]

Never EVER forget....

[Gracey]

Never EVER forget..

Never Forget-HERE

[runningbear]

your link is not connecting. Did you mean this

America Attacked 9-1-1

[Gracey]

OOps Sorry HERE

[Gracey]

Thanks. Yes. I know this is has been on here before but it goes well with this article.