A question nobody has asked?

[pooja]

If I was a terrorist, and the homeland security rating on our border are so poor (ie: ports, canadian and mexican border, food sources, water sources), why would you attack an airplane that has heightened security since 9/11. I don't understand, unless its rigged? Because if I was a terrorist, I would target easier things like the Port in New Orleans and finish off what Katrina couldn't.

[katty]

1. that's right...could have done that long before this week.

[htuttle]

2. You mean sneak a bomb onto a plane as cargo (that isn't examined)?

Naw, not 'Tom Clancy' enough.

[Nickster]

3. That's almost the exact same conversation I had this afternoon.

Why hit the places that they are looking the hardest and not hit the ports that are barely screened at all? Seems like it's far easier to hit and if you want to be a martyr, why not increase your chances of actually pulling off your mission?

[Dunedain]

6. Maybe

It's a head fake?

[Nickster]

7. I hadn't considered that possibility. I'm sure all that NSA spying would

have caught something like that donchya think?

[Dunedain]

10. Probably

Just spitballing.

[lindisfarne]

4. not to mention, you'd stay alive for another target ... n/t

[abluelady]

5. As Someone Else Said

They hate our airplanes!

[JAYJDF]

8. This is my reply to any Repuks who want to talk about terrorist

It makes zero sense to not utilize the open borders. Plenty of big cities just inside the borders to target. Things still don't add up

[Dover]

9. Richard Clark covered that little loose end this morning in an interview.

He said that we shouldn't only be looking at the airlines, because Al Qaeda was capable of pulling off many different kinds of attacks simultaneously.


So I figure that while the neocons have the country focused on the skies, they'll probably do something less expected....like pull the rug out from underneath us.

[Iwasthere]

11. Yep. Watch Texas soon

There is going to be an explosion from a container there but it wasn't put there by terrorists from another country... not new news that they are ready to show all it CAN happen here... then they will say we cannot risk changing our leadership...