Friday, February 16, 2007
The end of hijacking?
It has become obvious that on September 11, 2001, al Qaeda trained the entire world to fight back against hijackings. The interesting question is, when al Qaeda pioneered the conversion of airliners into weapons of mass destruction, did it realize that the tactic would only work once? If it did realize that, why didn't it try to take more planes?
CWCID: Glenn Reynolds.
3 Comments:
By 
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Fri Feb 16, 11:30:00 PM:
Allow lairlines pilots to carry firearms when their on duty and how to use them in the narrow confines of a airliner cockpit
By , at
Sat Feb 17, 10:36:00 AM:
If I remember correctly, the original plan was to get 10 planes, 5 for each coast. However, there are not massive numbers of talented fanatics available, so the plan had to be scaled back. If the Democrats will let us, we can win this war.
By , at
Sat Feb 17, 03:34:00 PM:
Osama scaled back the plan, which KSM had pitched as "Bojinka 2.0" for reasons of operational security.
That many men to implement it meant that much more risk of exposure: someone would boat and talk, someone would be picked up by security forces and tortured in non-Western countries and talk, someone would follow money and men transfers and pick something up, etc.
KSM's original Bojinka plot was foiled due to lack of operational security: a laptop with the extensive plans was found in an apartment the plotters had to abandon when it caught fire as they cooked up the explosives.
