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An interesting read from someone who might know something about the topic...an Airline Pilot.
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"With respect to airport security, I wrote on Nov. 10, "it is remarkable how we have come to place Sept. 11, 2001, as the fulcrum upon which we balance almost all of our decisions. As if deadly terrorism didn't exist prior to that day, when really we've been dealing with the same old threats for decades." Indeed, and one of the grand and seldom acknowledged ironies here is that the success of the Sept. 11 attacks had nothing to do with airport security in the first place.
Yes, you read that correctly. Think about it. What weapons the 19 hijackers had or didn't have was irrelevant. Had box cutters been banned, they would have relied on something else. Something as simple as pencils would likely have sufficed. It wasn't about hardware. It was about the element of surprise. The men were taking advantage not of a loophole in security, but a loophole in our mind-set.
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