On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:36:08 GMT, "Jim," wrote:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...us/sept_11_faa

Excerpt:
The FAA received repeated warnings in the months prior to 9-11 about
al-Qaida and
its desire to attack airlines from April to Sept. 10, 2001, according
to a secret report
by Bush's 9-112 Whitewash Committee. The commission report, written
last August,
but kept from the American people until after the election said five
security warnings
mentioned al-Qaida's training for hijackings and two reports concerned
suicide operations
not connected to aviation.

You forgot to mention that folks from the committee said that this was no big
deal. Just having that info gives no 'actionable' information that aircraft
would be hijacked on a given day and used as missiles.

The 'use as a missile' is the big part missing from all that information. A rule
to allow the deaths of stewardesses would not have been put into place based on
any of that intelligence.

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

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Rene Descartes