Perhaps I am thinking first world and I should be thinking third world. But
I have no idea how someone puts together an operation like this and pulls it
off with the level of intelligence in place today. Something like this has
to be planned a long time out and some warnings should have gone off. This
was not something a dozen individuals thought up last week would be a good
idea to do.
Also as I said, 4 airliners not on flight plan? And no red flags are going
off. If nothing else there should be a scramble to find and track the planes
for their own protection in case some weird error is happening in the
nations flight control system.
And all of this in a situation where individuals have allowed government
intrusion into their lives, accept four hour check in times, etc just so
this would not happen.
To me that is incompetency beyond belief.
Ralph
At 03:03 PM 9/11/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Ralph Lewis wrote:
>>
>> This came up in a conversation I had this AM. How could the coordination of
>> such an attack have been missed by Echelon, Carnivore etc.
>>
>> How were these coordinating- ham radios in a single pad code.??????? Even
>> that should have raised flags.
>>
>
>There isn't any need for that sort of communication to do
>something like this. Separate groups of terrorist, one group
>per plane, with preset targets and syncrhonized watches would be
>sufficient.
>
>
>> One outcome should be san investigation into how our government missed so
>> badly.
>
>Well, an investigation in how these planes were taken over is
>certainly called for. I wonder if various types of gas that
>could knock out everyone not protected are guarded against
>sufficiently by airport security. That is one way I could think
>of, off the top of my head, that this could be done without
>firearms being on board.
>
>>
>> FOUR airliners in the air off of their flight plan???
>>
>> The incompetency --- beyond belief. And this is by a government that over
>> the past four decades has become a police state.
>>
>
>Precisely what incompetency do you have in mind? That the
>government is not watching all of us twenty four hours a day
>with full control over all technology if we start acting in
>really aberrant ways?
>
>- samantha
>
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