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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

“Must have been one of those lighting strikes that blows up airliners..”

What motive for a bomb?

There’s no point in a terrorist blowing up a plane and not taking credit for it.

Kill someone for the insurance money? Maybe. But why take all those innocent people?

Wonder what they know about the bomb threat?


21 posted on 06/03/2009 10:42:57 AM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: y6162
There’s no point in a terrorist blowing up a plane and not taking credit for it.

You assume they didn't take credit for it.

The purpose of terrorism is to control behavior of the target through the use of violence or threat of violence.

What if the French government was quietly told "You just lost a plane. You may be able to keep this quiet. If you do not comply with our demands, you will lose a bunch more planes in a more dramatic manner".

67 posted on 06/03/2009 11:30:53 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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