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...Alshehri, in his mid-20s, had graduated in 1997 with a degree in aeronautical science and a commercial pilot's license from the prestigious Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla., where nearly a quarter of all commercial pilots train. He surely knew how to fly the large aircraft the terrorists planned to ram into their targets. He was on American Flight 11 with Atta. Abdulaziz Alomari told his Vero Beach landlord in July 2000 that he was a Saudi commercial pilot when he moved in with a wife and three kids. He was then taking classes at FlightSafety...
Someone, maybe Atta, was meticulously casing the airport, checking plane schedules, looking for half-empty flights, testing security measures. He and his accomplices obviously learned a great deal about airline schedules, aircraft capabilities and fuel loads, perhaps even seat configurations. The car was found there again Tuesday night, containing a "ramp pass" to enter restricted areas of Logan Airport. Maybe that someone was reconnoitering with accomplices who worked on the planes, who could plant weapons onboard. Monday night, some of the Boston suicide squads collected at the Park Inn in suburban Chestnut Hill. By Wednesday dozens of police in bulletproof...
...Mahmoud Ahmad, the head of the powerful Pakistani InterServices Intelligence department, who was visiting Washington. A senior Administration official says Armitage gave Ahmad a set of demands that were "eyeball peeling," including the rights to overfly Pakistan's territory (important if the U.S. is to use the two aircraft carriers it has in the region), a full exchange of intelligence and the use of its ports. "You're either 100% with us or 100% against us," said Armitage, according to the senior official...
...part of a security alert issued last week to its members, the Air Line Pilots Association recommended new measures to deal with any terrorist threat--depressurizing the aircraft or making drastic maneuvers to keep hijackers off balance; protecting the cockpit at all costs, regardless of what is happening in the rest of the plane; installing a dead bolt on the otherwise flimsy cabin door and eventually developing an impenetrable, high-tech portal that can still open in the event of an accident; and using an emergency crash ax if necessary as a "potential defensive weapon...
...campus which has missed the point. Their rally was noble in its intent of wishing for peace, but failed to provide an alternative reponse to the attack on America. They urge diplomacy and peace, but we are not dealing with a reasonable enemy: anyone who would dare turn civilian aircraft into deadly weapons to kill thousands of innocent people is not reasonable. He is evil...