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...recent hijacking of a South Texas cable operator is a case study in how Hizballah moves in. The Texas cable company has an agreement with a New York-based satellite communications aggregator, which moves feeds to a variety of customers from throughout the world, including Lebanon. A technician in New York made an "improper connection," according to an official with the cable company's communications provider who detailed the hijack for TIME. That opening was detected by Hizballah...
...writes that if he and Dylan manage to escape from the school after the killing spree, they'll flee to a foreign country from which they couldn't be extradited. "If there isn't such place, then we will hijack a hell of a lot of bombs and crash a plane into NYC with us inside [f]iring away as we go down, just something to cause more devistation...
...course, it once would have been easy to dismiss the four working-class British men who strapped on backpacks and bought Tube tickets. Or the 19 men who imagined they could hijack passenger jets with box cutters. Historically, it's been law enforcement's job to separate the genuinely scary people from the goofballs--particularly when the goofballs are American citizens whose eccentricities, however radical, are protected by the Constitution. But times change, and as shown by last week's indictments and dozens of other arrests over the past five years, the Bush Administration appears less focused on trying...
...voice, clearer than usual, would repeat "code blue, Six West" through the enormous hospital complex. The code team residents would drop everything - being in the middle of an operation the single exception - and run at full speed to the floor location. Chief residents had keys that could instantly hijack big elevators jammed full of people; younger residents galloped up or down the stairs...
...traffic system and the merchant control systems so that you can see it at eye level and...how, like us, they were blind...and struggled to grasp what was going on. Once I seized on that as my way in, it became a question of the plane. The hijackers are the heart of 9/11. Flight 93 was the last plane in the air simply because of air traffic control problems at New York’s airports. But what that meant was by about half past nine, when that hijack had began, 9/11 was over. The towers were hit half...