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Originally posted by Hadrian Aventine:
Excuse me if this is rude, but biological warfare and such is Tom Clancy "If" items.
Originally posted by Puke:
speaking of tom clancy, cnn is linking to some interview with him and citing him as an authority on terrorist's orginizational logistics. no wonder people condenm western culture.
Yesterday as I stared in shock at my television screen, something about the whole scenario seemed eerily familiar. Last night I finally remembered what it was.
In 1996 I read a book by Tom Clancy called Executive Orders. In the book, terrorists crash a 747 into the capitol building, killing almost everyone inside. It's almost spooky re-reading the scenes of devastation in light of what's happened.
I have to say that I, too, am stunned that we didn't see this coming. If Tom Clancy, a novel writer, could predict an airliner being used as a terrorist weapon, why the hell is American Intelligence scratching their collective heads saying "Gee...I dunno. We never really thought about this kinda thing."
A couple of other warning signs that went unheeded:
Remember the small plane that managed to crash into the Clinton white house?
Even the Columbine shooters wrote about stealing/hijacking a plane and crashing it into Washington.
I don't mean to be critical. I'm just saddened that it took such a tragic loss of life to get the US to wake up.
Solar
[This message has been edited by Solar (edited 12 September 2001).]
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