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lurkette · 10-23-2003, 05:08 AM

I think we are much more vigilant now. Even if someone did manage to smuggle blades of some sort onto a plane, what do you think are the odds that a planeload of passengers is going to sit quietly while they hijack it just because they have some boxcutters? You're probably safer on a plane than in many large cities. I'm more concerned about other kinds of attacks that are still pretty unlikely - dirty bombs, surface-to-air missiles, biological attacks. I think we're still targets, but a lot of the wind has been taken out of al qaeda's sails. IMHO they shot their wad with the 9/11 attacks, and anything they do in the future will be much smaller scale, unless we get complacent and relax our guard.

10-23-2003, 05:08 AM	#6 (permalink)
lurkette My future is coming on Moderator Emeritus Location: east of the sun and west of the moon	I think we are much more vigilant now. Even if someone did manage to smuggle blades of some sort onto a plane, what do you think are the odds that a planeload of passengers is going to sit quietly while they hijack it just because they have some boxcutters? You're probably safer on a plane than in many large cities. I'm more concerned about other kinds of attacks that are still pretty unlikely - dirty bombs, surface-to-air missiles, biological attacks. I think we're still targets, but a lot of the wind has been taken out of al qaeda's sails. IMHO they shot their wad with the 9/11 attacks, and anything they do in the future will be much smaller scale, unless we get complacent and relax our guard. __________________ "If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France