Simply astonishing.

September 12, 2001 6:00 PM

Simply astonishing. Within the past few months, the FBI had placed two men associated with an Islamic Jihad terror group on a border watch list, but through a screw-up, the pair got into the U.S. The two men appear to have been on the American Airlines Flight 77, the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, TIME has learned.
posted by HoldenCaulfield (3 comments total)

Direct Time URL - http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,174639,00.html
posted by krisjohn at 6:18 PM on September 12, 2001

Converting to kilotons is easy: a fully loaded Boeing 767-200 has energy (both kinetic and potential) of less than half a kiloton.

Weapon of Mass Destruction has no strict technical definition; the definition in the US Code includes hand-held RPG rockets. Loaded airliners are extraordinarily destructive, but nuclear weapons they ain't.
posted by jaek at 6:40 PM on September 12, 2001

New user, so I can't post directly. But, what do folks think about the rumours that Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania was shot down to prevent it from crashing in a more populated area?

No one would blame the U.S. government for shooting it down, but will we ever know?

From the Washington Post
posted by crammo at 7:25 PM on September 12, 2001