OK, what the hell has happened to the Brits?

Michael Nouak wrote:

Simply become an air marshal. On the day you get the call from Osama,
simply board your flight, maybe with another air marshal. At the
appropriate time, get up, scream "US Marshal, freeze!" and shoot the other
marshal, or any random passenger if you're alone, in the head.

Sigh And I thought I was devious.

This doesn't even require knowing the other Marshal(s). They'll pop up
immediately.

This is an interesting problem. The solution to your scenario is to have
marshals all know about one another (at least on a single flight). But
that increases the risk of all marshals' identities being exposed at once
by a single security failure.

I have to admit: I'm glad I'm not in the business of formulating these
plans.

- Andrew

Andrew Gideon wrote:

Michael Nouak wrote:

Simply become an air marshal. On the day you get the call from Osama,
simply board your flight, maybe with another air marshal. At the
appropriate time, get up, scream "US Marshal, freeze!" and shoot the
other marshal, or any random passenger if you're alone, in the head.

Sigh And I thought I was devious.

This doesn't even require knowing the other Marshal(s). They'll pop up
immediately.

After reconsideration...

This requires that the terrorists smuggle weapons on board. Most of our
discussion of determining the marshals' identities was aimed and not
smuggling weapons, but grabbing theirs.

So this doesn't really apply to the discussion of how putting marshals on
board might decrease security (by making weapons available).

However, what would occur if one unarmed terrorist popped up yelling "I'm
the air marshal". The marshal would subdue him/her, yes? The other
terrorists would then know the identity.

Hmm. Marshals would have to be trained to interfere only in extreme
cases...which means that the first terrorist might have to be a little more
extreme. But this does appear to be a potential vector for breaking the
identity of the marshals.

- Andrew

On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 14:07:23 -0500, Andrew Gideon
wrote:

However, what would occur if one unarmed terrorist popped up yelling "I'm
the air marshal". The marshal would subdue him/her, yes?

No.

Hmm. Marshals would have to be trained to interfere only in extreme
cases...which means that the first terrorist might have to be a little more
extreme.

Bingo!

-J

Jack Davis
B-737


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