Hijackers' Meticulous Strategy of Brains, Muscle and Practice

NY Times ^ | 11/04/01 | By DON VAN NATTA Jr. and KATE ZERNIKE

[mombonn]

Absolutely chilling reading.

Three other suspected members of that cell fled in early September and are being sought as accomplices.

Are they, even now, planning their next attack?

I wonder if you get the 72 virgins if you committed suicide for allah but weren't told you were doing that.

Fitz, I'd call what happened to the "muscle" MURDER if they weren't told everything.

Either way, I'll bet the entry into "paradise" was a bit of a shock to all these animals.

[Wright is right!]

"The fact that they called each other 'cousin' during the call..."

Read the passage in the article again:

"The call rang aboard another sparsely occupied jetliner a bit farther back on the same tarmac, on a cellphone belonging to Marwan al- Shehhi, in seat 6C on United Airlines Flight 175. The conversation between the two men, so close that they called each other cousin, lasted less than one minute — just long enough, investigators say, to signal that the plot was on."

Now - MY question is - did UAL 175 take off that day? Or was it amongst The Grounded? And where was UAL 175 departing to?

Michael

[abner]

It crashed into the south tower.

[thinden]

somebody posted a piece a while back re: OBL owning substantial stock in a secure satellite cell phone company. he's a pretty shrewd operator.