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Post number 10143

HoldenCaulfield — Wed, 12 Sep 2001 18:00:23 -0800

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.

By: krisjohn

krisjohn — Wed, 12 Sep 2001 18:18:40 -0800

Direct Time URL - http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,174639,00.html

By: jaek

jaek — Wed, 12 Sep 2001 18:40:56 -0800

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.

By: crammo

crammo — Wed, 12 Sep 2001 19:25:16 -0800

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