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C-130H pilot/copilot visual recon on Sept. 11th - any further info ?



 
 
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Old June 18th 04, 08:20 PM
Robey Price
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After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police, "George Z.
Bush" confessed the following:

Without trying to finger point, I find it a little embarrassing that our
military... hadn't gotten around to thinking outside the box enough
to deal with flying Boeing [757] jet fuel bombs.


I am neither embarrassed nor surprised. As an airline wienie this was
outside the box for us as well. We operated under a now defunct
approach called "the common strategy." Me personally...I thought I
would be safe from foreign terrorists flying a 757 domestically.

It now seems that there was a little advance notice about that kind
of attack developing. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, that "heads up"
warning from the spooks never got to the guys responsible for putting together
plans and procedures for dealing with such eventualities.


Can't argue with that. And not to be sarcastic, but how economical is
it to plan and train for threats "outside the box?" Simply from a
costs versus benefit POV?

In terms of deaths? http://tinyurl.com/2h4hv I understand the
emotional impact of 9/11, but I don't think we can spend to defend
against every horrific "out of the box" terrorist threat...or asteroid
collision...etc.

Robey
 




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