"Oh yeah. Everyone will feel normal if a marines on board"
Yes. They don't have to know he's a marine, they have these things called clothes you can buy in stores
Think the marine would be out numbered, put three or four. No big deal(they could've gotten guns on board too, cabin pressure being fucked? Screw the semantics, the idea was to discuss there were things to do against four men armed with box cutters, like a bigger knife. Or a blow dart, or fucking breaking their necks or a claymore), but you're right, there's a chance they didn't know which flight it would be on. There was, however, an indication that they did know do to the fact that they were known terrorists, they were probably flagged when they took the ticket, three or four known terrorists getting on the same flight? Well then.
I agree about the symbolism thing, though. I thought that in the very begining when it happened, that with that not only did the terrorists show the american people what can happen.. but more importantly they showed other countries and governments that America can be touched, and MOST IMPORTANTLY gave other terrorist factions the balls to move as well. I had thought there could possibly be an influx of terrorist attacks in the near future.
At one point I thought Bush let it happen, or possibly *arranged* it to happen. For alot of odd reasons. The first reason was because after the World Trade Center got destroyed, there was a drop in gas and oil prices, why? Isn't that strange that prices would *drop* after the WORLD TRADE CENTER was destroyed. Plus the fact we now see Bush going to Iraq, if Bush had known that attacking the World Trade center would barely hurt the economy, bombing it wouldn't have had too many loses(besides the lives that were lost). The benefit? He rallied the people up enough to attack Iraq, to remove Saddam, and to go search for Terrorists. Once we capture Iraq, we'll have cheaper oil.
"It wasn't ignored. It was filed away with every other of the thousands of reports and leads. they do the best they can, but a bloated beuracracy has trouble moving fast."
A wonderful thing this day in age, do you know what it is? Do you? They are called Computers. When someone in America who has a warrant gets on an airplane, there's a very large chance they will know about it. When four or five known terrorists are on the same airplane who had recent reports about learning how to fly them get on the same plane. Well, they just ignore that. What are the chances that a terrorist gathering would involce terrorist activities.
Maybe it was coincidence? And while sipping coffee on board they were like, "Hey what's up Habib, I saw abdhul earlier. All of us should hi-jack this plane and fly it into the WTC, look I have some box cutters here," "OKAY GUY".