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Old 20th Jan 2011, 02:43
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Originally Posted by Canadian Break
Pretty much spot on with my thoughts; defence of the Homeland just has to be the No 1 priority - who would have predicted 9/11?
I remember plenty of talk about the threat of hijacked airliners as weapons in the 90s; I seem to recall Tom Clancy or some other thriller writer putting it in one of his books and in March 2001 the 'Lone Gunmen' spinoff from the X-files began with a show about some shady government agency hijacking airliners to crash into the World Trade Center.

Lots of people predict lots of things that later come true; the hard part is figuring out which of those predictions are correct _before_ they come true .
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