"Steve Terry" wrote in message
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I was in NY days before 9/11 and I'd never seen such an open city, in none
of the great buildings i visited was i once asked to open my shoulder bag
or searched, at the time i thought to myself what a soft target the city
was

When i few from LaGuardia to Atlanta (for $25) i could have paid by cash
and called myself Saddam Hussein.
Like during Pearl Harbour the US was on a complacent peace footing.

Quite, I've seen people walk right up to the gates to meet people; folks
checking in guns, knives, hunting vests and ammo right on the tarmac on
internal flights to the states. I've also met a couple of academics from the
university that taught the Saudi boys how to take off. At the same
conference met a Saudi academic who was be moaning the fact that no young
Saudis wanted to go to university since daddy owned an oil well and all the
had to do was go to prayers and spend the rest of the day drifting. Foreign
infidels do all the work for them.

Hindsight is a glorious thing.