[foreshadowed at waco]

I sincerely hope that Reid's incompetence leads to the arrest of all the other creeps involved in this scheme--imagine thinking that blowing up a lot of planes and killing thousands of strangers simultaneously is a stroke of genius--the Allah these guys bow down to is not the God of creation--they are Satanic drones.

[foreshadowed at waco]

FYI

[Pharmboy]

I have a slight disagreement here; I think the trial run was "successful." It was Flight 587.

[thatsnotnice]

called "The Mother of Satan" by Palestinian militants, because its inherent instability makes it dangerous to both the victims and bomb maker.

I guess they have never played with mercury fulminate then... amateurs.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

trial run

[Fred Mertz]

FYI

[sam_paine]

Having obtained Boeing blueprints, Yousef calculated the most devastating place to detonate his bombs was in a seat above the center fuel tank, adjacent to the wing. The bomb alone would not destroy the plane, but it would detonate the fuel, ripping the jet apart.

TWA800 ping....???

[zog]

--this latest deal disturbs me. It honestly doesn't sound like any sort of sophisticated attack or plan to me, not even a trial run attack. This guy sounds a lot more like a drugged out zombie-ish lee harvey oswald patsy with a show fulla nuthin. Lighting a match to set it off? This never made any sense to me. Why go to all the trouble of building something like this that doesn't work? On the one hand, the spooks/authorities/cops whatever are quick to say how sophisticated they are with casio watch timers and etc, but here you got firecracker joe with his cobjob dud el kaboom shoe. It don't compute. The amazing carcano bolt action machine gun with smart bullets variant.

[NJJ]

Reid's bombing attempt may have been a "trial run" for future. . .

I think it's highly unlikely it would have been a trial run since it only would have alerted airline security and foiled future attempts if it failed. If he was successful, we would have never known what happened, as has been suggested in other cases. More than likely he had been trained in bomb making from readily available sources and this plot may have been on his own initiative following his buddy Moussaoui 's news situation.

If it were planned to do several others, they would have done then all at the same time, just as they did on 9/11.

[FreedomPoster]

More coming, but we can't even consider ethnic/religious profiling to more efficiently use security resources. No, that might offend Islamic Americans, and we can't have that, so we'll continue to randomly check the shoes of Aunt Martha from Des Moines. We are idiots.

[FreedomPoster]

More coming, but we can't even consider ethnic/religious profiling to more efficiently use security resources. No, that might offend Islamic Americans, and we can't have that, so we'll continue to randomly check the shoes of Aunt Martha from Des Moines. We are idiots.

[OKCSubmariner]

Besides TWA 800, the cause of another crash is still being ruled unknown even though terrroism could be the cause.

Remember American Flight 587 which broke apart 2 minutes after takeoff over Queens and Jamaica Bay Nov. 12?

TWA 800 and American 587 crashed soon after take off from John F. Kennedy International Airport.

[Pericles]

While on the lam in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Far East, Yousef trained other bin Laden terrorists in the use of explosives and told them of a plan he code-named "Project Bojinka" -- "bojinka" means "explosion" in Serbo-Croat -- which used a form of shoe bomb.

I hope the readers realize that Yousef fought for the Bosnian Muslim entity. You all remember the Bosnian Muslims that the Clinton administration fooled America into helping as explained in BIN LADEN GATE.

Read also Project Bojinka - US Knew Of Bin Laden Philippine-Based Airliner Crash Plots in 1995