Doogie Hoosier wrote:

> Condoleezza Rice said, "I don't think anyone could have predicted that
> these people... would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked
> airplane as a missile." (5/16/02)
>
> When the first bombing of the Trade Center happened in 1993, my 11
> year-old son asked me why the terrorists didn't just hijack a plane
> and fly it into the building. I was thinking the same thing.
>
> I told my son why I thought that had not been done...that the airlines
> must have some way of keeping terrorists from taking over a plane.
> When planes had been hijacked in the past, the pilots would fly to
> Cuba or wherever to keep the hijackers from killing crew or
> passengers, but they would not allow the plane to be used as a bomb
> even if the whole crew and all the passengers were murdered.
>
> But that's besides the point. Rice is full of shit. I thought of it.
> My son thought of it. The terrorists thought of it. Probably
> thousands or millions of normal every-day citizens thought of it. But
> the ones who knew that it COULD BE DONE had not thought of it,
> according to Rice.

It's better than that - they were warned specifically about attacks
using hijacked airplanes.