Ralph Lewis wrote:
>
> Perhaps I am thinking first world and I should be thinking third world. But
> I have no idea how someone puts together an operation like this and pulls it
> off with the level of intelligence in place today. Something like this has
> to be planned a long time out and some warnings should have gone off. This
> was not something a dozen individuals thought up last week would be a good
> idea to do.
>
What would it take at minimum? Four crews of say 3-4 people
each, armed with undetectable kinds of knives and possessing
basic combat fighting skils; one person per team who is
minimally able to handle a large commercial carrier in flight;
careful picking of flights for intersecting times; getting all
teams on board; handling the flight crew.
I don't see why this would need to be planned that terribly far
in advance. A month or two should be sufficient given enough
really dedicated people with the basic talents. If the group
is really zealous it shouldn't be that hard to keep the plan
quite for that kind of timeframe.
> Also as I said, 4 airliners not on flight plan? And no red flags are going
> off. If nothing else there should be a scramble to find and track the planes
> for their own protection in case some weird error is happening in the
> nations flight control system.
>
>From what I have understood there was one other bit of
sophistication, knowing how to turn off some of the tracking
devices.
> And all of this in a situation where individuals have allowed government
> intrusion into their lives, accept four hour check in times, etc just so
> this would not happen.
>
> To me that is incompetency beyond belief.
I don't think so. But perhaps I am missing something.
- samantha
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