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Sept. 11 Panel Challenges Ignorance of Threat Scenario

Steve Scott

Monday, June 2nd, 2003

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Failure to consider that airliners might be seized and crashed deemed 'fatuous' Senior U.S. government officials have told an independent commission that prior to Sept. 11, 2001, they never conceived that airliners might be used as weapons of mass destruction. These admissions raise serious questions about the ability of the aviation security system to adjust its defenses to a pattern of precursor events, raising the specter that terrorists could alter their method of attack and once again inflict a deadly…

Congress

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