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Friday, July 23, 2004
Just Music In The Skies?
According to Clinton Taylor, the 14 Syrians were just musicians, not terrorists (my previous posts here and here).
Regardless, this incident does draw much needed attention to a few things. As Clinton points out:
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Regardless, this incident does draw much needed attention to a few things. As Clinton points out:
June 29 was no ordinary day in the skies. That day, Department of Homeland Security officials issued an "unusually specific internal warning," urging customs officials to watch out for Pakistanis with physical signs of rough training in the al Qaeda training camps. The warning specifically mentioned Detroit and Los Angeles's LAX airports, the origin and terminus of NWA flight 327.Yep. Let's hope we learn something from this.
That means that our air-traffic system was expecting trouble. But rather than land the plane in Las Vegas or Omaha, it was allowed to continue on to Los Angeles without interruption, as if everything were hunky-dory on board. It certainly wasn't. If this had been the real thing, and the musicians had instead been terrorists, nothing was stopping them from taking control of the plane or assembling a bomb in the restroom. Given the information they were working with at the time, almost everyone should have reacted differently than they did.
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