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...seems premature to discount that these terrorists, who are 3-0 now - remember the embassies, and the USS Cole? - and smart enough to not only hit the strongest country in the world where it hurts but short the markets ahead of time, have any tricks left in their deadly bag. If they hit us again, if they merely frustrate our mighty military, if this post-attack world lasts three or four or twenty years, our economy will not take long in adjusting to the new reality...
There's an arm or a foot or sometimes just a tooth, and they put that tooth in a bag. And they will match that tooth to a victim, and it will be placed in a coffin because it is a human being, or at least part of a human being, and human beings bury their dead. So instead of using backhoes and bulldozers to clear the remnants of the World Trade Center, hundreds of men scoop out the remains with their hands. They put them in 5-gal. buckets and pass them hand to hand down...
...pulverized to powder. Pieces of leather are often mistaken for skin because here both have turned gray. When a fire fighter's body is found, "there is dead silence," says fireman Jeff Silver, 34. "All the machinery is cut off, and everybody takes their helmets off while a body bag is brought over and brothers from his station come and carry him away...
...panic) and also expose individuals who may be unknowing accomplices. In 1986, El Al security at London's Heathrow airport discovered a bomb sewn into the suitcase of an unwitting Irish woman after she revealed that she had had a romance with a Jordanian, who had bought her the bag...
...Americans would find objectionable. Beyond that, the system requires a degree of ethnic profiling that would be viewed here as bigoted. Even with the moderate traffic at Ben Gurion, the Israelis can't grill everyone at length. So Israeli Jews get only pro forma questions like "Who packed your bag?" Foreign Jews get a relatively light going over. Foreign Gentiles get half an hour or so. And Arabs, including Arab citizens of Israel, get a full inquisition...