-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Robert Dean [mailto:qualiall_2 at yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 8:42 PM To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: "sophisticated, precise, well-funded"?
>From what I understsand, small pocket knives and box cutters are
perfectly
acceptable to bring onto a plane...
KRD
> At the risk of sounding like Robert Luttwak, what does it really take
to
do
> something like this? Once someone gets past concern about their own
life
> and organizing with the like-minded, it seems like it doesn't take
much.
> After probing the detection devices at different airports, you arm
yourself
> with weapons that can escape detection, read the airline schedules,
and
then
> you act. Does it take that much training to fly an airliner once it's
taken
> off? (I've seen that pc-based flight sim experience is accepted for
some
> hours in pilot's certification.) From a purely "operational"
standpoint,
> couldn't this be done without much central coordination?
> re
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