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I think it's a pretty long stretch to argue that the 9/11 hijackers deliberately avoided civilian casualties. If they wanted to minimise loss of life, they would have called in warnings to Gov't agencies and media outlets, several of them, as the IRA did before several of its' more impressive fireworks shows. If they had wanted to minimise loss of life, they could simply have crashed the planes into open fields, or taken them out over the ocean. Instead, they selected as their primary targets two very large buildings with a HUGE head-count capacity. I doubt very seriously that they considered how many people would be there at which time: they just looked for the biggest box that can hold the most stuff and shot for that. And if they -had- been in such a mood....duh. NYC never sleeps, airports included. They could have done their little dance in the middle of the night, when the buildings would be as close to empty as anything in NYC ever is. They still would have had their "shock and awe;" two 100-story skyscrapers on fire in the middle of the night would have been a HUGE piece of S&A. But they didn't.
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