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The only thing I don't get was why they did this attack when Bush was out of town. With all the inside info they had, surely they knew he wasn't at the WH. But the idea that one of these hijacked planes would take out AF1 makes absolutely no sense.

It may be that with all the talk about how much of an idiot Bush is supposed to be, a mere figurehead as the folks on the left and the Europeans had for so long claimed, with his presidency in question and supposedly not popular, that they figured he was less critical than Cheney. It may also be, what with the terrorist links in Florida, that there was a team down here to take him out as the plane took off, or by some other means.

That's a good line of thinking, but I don't buy it for this reason. Some of the info coming out about their having secret codes for our emergency plans indicated that they had a good knowledge of the line of succession, how we protect that, etc. So they had to know that Cheney would be in the bunker by then. However, your theory may be right if that plane was delayed more than they had anticipated. Hence maybe explaining why they passed on the WH, and figured the Capitol had already had many of the Congressmen evacuated. It flew all the way out to stinkin' western KY before turning. However, if that was the case, why didn't they go straight into the Pentagon?