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When the four cells arrived at their takeoff airports on Tuesday morning, they no longer needed the karate and flight manuals investigators would later discover. Two teams of five rendezvoused at Boston's Logan, a third group of four at Newark and the last five men at Dulles, with their knives and their box cutters either stashed in their shoulder bags or perhaps already concealed onboard. Wail Alshehri, Waleed Alshehri, Mohamed Atta, Abdulaziz Alomari and Satam Al Suqami boarded American Airlines 11 and drove it square into the World Trade north tower at 8:45 a.m. A few minutes later...
...employees through doors, riding unguarded elevators, walking through concourse doors, gates and jet-bridges...and cargo facilities unchallenged, and driving through unmanned vehicle gates." The massive amount of construction going on at the nation's airports, including two of last week's suspect ones, Logan Airport in Boston and Newark airport in New Jersey, also gives slews of unauthorized workers room for mischief...
...helped contribute to a surge in income from south of the border. Continental's revenue from Latin American countries has quadrupled to $1 billion since 1997, and its passengers have increased from 3.4 million to 5.5 million. Such services, as well as the 150 Spanish-speaking employees in both Newark and Houston and the bilingual signs at more than 20 airports, also appeal to American Latinos...
Indeed, had we made a preemptive strike and executed the terrorists before they boarded planes in Boston, Washington and Newark, thousands of innocent Americans would still be alive. Thousands of children would still have fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters. As National Review’s Jonah Goldberg points out, “Who would argue that assassinating these hijackers in advance wouldn’t have been preferable to what happened Tuesday...
...other major airports, the day was likewise starting as usual: at Newark International Airport a United Boeing 757, tagged with the flight number 93, took off for San Francisco. The 'load' of passengers for this flight would have worried the airline's business office: only 38 passengers were on board, about a quarter of what the plane can typically hold. The Boeing 757 is smaller than its 767 sister; it has only one aisle and can carry up to 192 passengers in a two class configuration. It is also a twin engine plane, and would also be fully loaded with...