"but most foreigners simply fail to comprehend how big the American empire really is!"Nor how screwed up and inefficient it can get! LOL, we were saved from the worst consequences by good old-fashioned American bureaucratic bungling! That'll teach 'em to mess with us! Whoo-Hoo! We're number one! We're number one!
But al Qa'ida is probably still laughing about how long it took us to figure out what the intended primary target really was. Or at least for the public to figure it out.
--Boot
Now that we know that it "works" to protect us, that just solidifies the belief that single-piece FCM needs no improvement!
Still, these guys could have put the major airports serving the world's first and second most important cities out of business for years!