[Nettime-bold] Re: one more thing

["Ivo Skoric" <ivo@reporters.net>]

Yes. Apparently - the terrorists presented themselves as regular 
hijackers. Hi, we are your friendly kidnappers. We have a bomb on 
a plane, but we don't mean harm. Just remain calm and we shall 
leave as soon as our demands are met. Only in the case of the 
fourth plane - where some passengers learned over the cell phone 
about the other three hijacked planes crashing into buildings, they 
realized that something was wrong with those hijackings. And they 
acted. All power to them. Too bad that none of them was train pilot. 
Although I think the hijacker drove the plane to the ground whe he 
saw the plan was unravelling. Only someone with a sick mind 
could imagine where the planes heading for WTC were going. I 
would, since I have a sick, conspiratorial, mind, be suspicious - 
because hijackers do not regularly pilot the planes themselves - 
that would raise a flag with me. Then if the plane would fly at a low 
altitude, that would be another alarm. I would try to engage 
hijackers in conversation, probing them for their demands. And, 
since they were not armed with firearms, I think that passengers 
would be able to overtake them in all 4 planes, if they thought what 
was on their minds.

ivo

Date sent:      	Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:05:58 -0400
From:           	"Marko Maglich" <MMaglich@ny.whitecase.com>
To:             	ivo@balkansnet.org, edagro@bellatlantic.net
Copies to:      	FrodeauxB@aol.com
Subject:        	Re: one more thing

They thought it was a regular hi-jacking: take me to Cuba, etc.  The only plane where the passengers did manage to find out what was going on, seems to have been brought down by those passengers attacking the hi-jackers.
--Marko


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>>> ivo@reporters.net 09/14/01 06:49PM >>>
  "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing" -  Edmund Burke

The airplanes that terrorists used to destroy the WTC and ruin 
Pentagon were large passenger jets. There were 4-5 hijackers on 
each plane and there was more than 50 passengers and crew 
members on each plane. The hijackers were armed with nothing 
more than knives - exacto-knives, box-cutters to be exact. It 
sounds improbable that the passengers and the crew could not 
overwhelm the hijackers with the ratio of 10:1 in their advantage.

That does however fit into my speculation that Americans learned 
to depend on the rule of law too much. They chose to be less free 
in the name of safety. The risk mitigating rules are preferred to the 
celebrated American personal liberty. Courage is suspicious and 
discouraged, pardon the pun. Common sense is taught to be 
secondary to the regulatory law. And everybody expects the 
authorities to step in. And when they can't, as this was the case, 
then there is a tragedy. But the real tragedy is that many 
Americans accepted to trade off their freedom for security and that 
the events of 9/11 will, perhaps, point American society even more 
in that direction.

ivo

>>A Nationalist is a Globalist who's city has been bombed.<<
(that applies on all cities - Sarajevo, Belgrade, Bhagdad or New 
York)



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