jaydeehess
Penultimate Amazing
I noted how Simon had previously stated that air hijackings will not go as smoothly now given the events of 9/11 and the fact that the passengers of flt 93 attempted to overcome the hijackers.. Yet in the case of the Achille Lauro he derides the idea that a wheelchair bound passenger might not want to sit idly by. Of course he may very well have known that his actions might see him killed and of course he did know that he could in no way take on armed men physically.
It is possible that he planned on having the PLO kill him. The entire episode garned a huge amount of bad press for the PLO, LK might have understood how the world would see the killing of a man in a wheelchair. this thought is all speculation on my part but its more likely than Simon's pushing of the notion that Mrs. Klinghoffer killed her husband for insurance money. A notion that Simon was quite willing to entertain for some unexplained reason.
Of course my stated intent on bringing up the episode in the first place seems to have flown, or been willfully pushed, over Simon's head. The point was that Simon was decrying the security measures in place since 9/11 and stating that it would not occur again and that in his mind should not have happened in 2001 either.
That notion flies in the face of the FACT that terrorist actions have been occuring for decades, that there IS one incident of multiple coordinated aircraft hijackings in the past, that mass killings have been taking place for deacdes now as well, even coordinated truck bombings in several countries, and that to say that Arabs cannot advance in the measures they use, cannot manage coordinated attacks is simply mind boggling. The cognitive disconnect is astounding.
The ONLY thing that a terror group needs is logistical support and in the form of the cabal headed by OBL, one such group got that support. The idea was not OBl's it was brought to him and the planning set in motion by brining together others that could help. Such a thing takes years to develop.
Simon laughs at the attempts made in the name of Jihad and AQ since 9/11. All single person attempts. So far no hint of a secretive coordinated mass attack again. Could it be that the security measures in place for 11 years now have disrupted the ability to plan and carry out such attacks?
I am no fan of the Patriot Act or the equivalent in my own country. I do however not care at all that I have to now produce a passport to enter the USA from Canada (all I needed in the past was to state I am a Canadian and have a driver's licence available IF asked to show an ID), I do not mind having to show photo ID to board an airliner within Canada( I use my passport) , I do not mind being told to make sure my bags are not out of my sight prior to checking them in, I do not mind if my flight is delayed because a piece of luggage was loaded and the passenger has not boarded the plane.
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