This is off-topic, but you should probably know: the FBI, CIA and others were monitoring the hijackers _specifically_ prior to 9/11. As a matter of tradecraft, Al Qaeda often mention specific times and operations during calls, to flush out whether their calls are being intercepted: they mention places/dates, to force the FBI, etc to pick them up (and monitor from a safe distance; you lose some operatives, the others continue. The intelligence agencies would rather monitor people for as long as possible to catch all of them). So it is a matter of policy not to automatically act on mention of an attack. We don't know if the attackers said to each other, on 9/11, "today is the day we hijack the planes"; we do know, that if they did, and the FBI heard, they would not necessarily have acted upon it. On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 18:10, Gary MacDougall wrote: > > > > > >Yes, the American Empire is certainly on the move... and the World is > >their oyster. > > > >Be afraid, be very afraid. > > > >Ted > > > > > > Maybe you should talk to the family of the 3300 people in the WTC that > died because the FBI, CIA > or Special Services didn't have or couldn't intercept the many mail, fax > and cell phone communications > that went between the cowards that flew planes into the buildings. > > You know, I feel safer now than I did on 9-11. The price of freedom is > costly. > > > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > WAR IS GOOD > > FREEDOM IS SLAVERY > > IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH > > > > > > > > -- Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine
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