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2004-07-26 Terror Networks

FBI informant tipped US off about planes being used as weapons in 1993

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-07-26 12:55:31 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yup. This was one of several scenarios many agreed that Islamacist or other groups could potentially use to attack the US.

But the question is, what to do with that information when it was given?

We're seeing how controversial security measures can be even after 9/11. And how expensive, both to implement and in the way that they discourage some to fly at all (which has economic impacts).

Could measures have realistically been put in place earlier? Which of the many potential attacks of other kinds will we conclude -- after they are successful -- that we were too lax about?

Finding the right balance is going to be as much a matter of luck as of will or attention.

Posted by rkb 2004-07-26 11:14:37 AM|| 2004-07-26 11:14:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Could measures have realistically been put in place earlier?

Probably, although given the length ot time between the "warning" and 2001 was a long seven years. Public patience with more drastic security measures absent a 9/11/2001 disaster would have worn thin rather quickly, and would have likely led to relaxation of the more strict measures or their discontinuation entirely.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-07-26 11:20:29 AM|| 2004-07-26 11:20:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Of note I believe is that, at that time (in the context of the first WolrdTrade Center bombing trials in the mid-90s), Emad Salem was widely impugned as an unreliable informant.

Check out this interview with famed lefty moonbat lawyer William Kunstler, lawyer for one of hte defendants.

So, I am guessing that efforts like this contributed greatly to discounting anything that Emad Salem had to say.

Posted by Carl in N.H 2004-07-26 12:30:59 PM|| 2004-07-26 12:30:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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