as mary schiavo(former Inspector General of the Dept. of Transportation 1990-1996) reports :
http://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/aviati...ADAFspeech.htm
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Many aviation industries are using the spin that this horrible terrorism was unimaginable and unforeseeable. Yet from 1993 to 1997 (more recent data are not available at this time) worldwide there were 87 hijackings, 7 commandeerings, 5 bombings or shootings, 50 attacks at airports, and 16 shootings at aircraft in just 5 years. The notion that these hijackings and terrorism were an unforseen and unforeseeable risk is an airline public relations management myth. A look at the facts dispels that corporate spin. Terrorist attacks against U.S. aircraft on U.S. soil date as early as November 1955 when United Airlines Flight 629 left Denver with the mother of Jack Graham on board. Graham was an American, a domestic terrorist threat. He had placed a bomb in his mother's suitcase to collect her insurance policy. He could not . . . she had never signed the policy. Today, 46 years later, we still have less than a 10% chance of the airline screening her luggage. Senator Hollings says its 2-3%.
Thirty-three years after the first such attack on U.S. aviation, terrorists used the same old tried and true method . . . a bomb in a suitcase . . . to bring down PanAm 103. Not only was such a risk foreseeable, but a danger the airlines had a legal obligation to protect against. That airline's security was deemed by the courts to be wantonly negligent, and the airline was subjected to exemplary damages to punish its lax and careless security and to deter it and others from such behavior in the future.
But then, Osama Bin Laden has previously resorted to this method as well. He planned to bring down 12 U.S. airliners within 48 hours over the Pacific in 1995. He did a test run on a Philippine jetliner in 1994, and killed a passenger and injured several others, but the plane managed to land. He would have to try something different the next time around. He did, but he followed the example of several previous terrorist attacks. Documents seized in that investigation revealed they intended to crash a plane into the CIA building near Washington, D.C.
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this kind of background to the lies the administration told goes on and on..
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Just because a bunch of people marched single file out of the Pentagon doesn't mean this was expected.
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the drill was specifically for a plane crashing into the pentagon.. before the attacks.. and just after the attacks we heard the whitehouse say that these kinds of attacks are unheard of, unthinkable and completely a surprise!
..all i'm saying is that this is just another simple case of them being full of shit and blatantly lieing.. why would they lie if they had nothing to hide?!