[DrLiberty]

Gee, I guess the govt would never suspect planes being used as missiles.

Oh yeah, try Project Bojinka 1995. Or did that info get eaten up by Carnivore too.

More recently, at the G-8 Summit in Italy, what was one of the major threats to be guarded against? Why it was an airplane being used to attack the leaders, like a missile.

Talk about short attention span.

[Iwentsouth]

DrLiberty

You forot to mention that the G-8 summit had anti-aircraft missle protecting them. the american people had nothing.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Gee, I guess the govt would never suspect planes being used as missiles.

No, that would never cross the minds of the thousands and thousands of people involved in our intelligence agencies.

[jwalsh07]

Using a secret agent they had recruited who was in close contact with the bin Laden organization, Mr. Mubarak said, his intelligence chiefs tried unsuccessfully to halt the operation.

Mr. Mubarak said his intelligence officials had no indication what the target would be and had no idea of the magnitude of the coming attack.

I'm an Arabic translator by night. Here is what Mubarak said in English. We didn't know sh8t and even if we did we wouldn't have lifted a hand to stop it.