From: The Older Gentleman on
J. Clarke <jclarke.usenet(a)cox.net> wrote:

>> But he got one prescient fact right: the idea
> > of deliberately suicide-crashing a commercial jet into a building....
>
> Yep. And I do wonder if that's where they got the idea.

Hmmmm.....


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From: Twibil on
On Nov 9, 10:43 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older
Gentleman) wrote:
>
>
> >> But he got one prescient fact right: the idea
> > > of deliberately suicide-crashing a commercial jet into a building....
>
> > Yep.  And I do wonder if that's where they got the idea.
>
> Hmmmm.....

Has neither of you ever heard of Kamakazes? Only reason the WW2
Japanese weren't crashing zeros into buildings on the American west
coast was that they lacked the range to do so.
From: The Older Gentleman on
Twibil <nowayjose6(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 9, 10:43 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older
> Gentleman) wrote:
> >
> >
> > >> But he got one prescient fact right: the idea
> > > > of deliberately suicide-crashing a commercial jet into a building....
> >
> > > Yep. And I do wonder if that's where they got the idea.
> >
> > Hmmmm.....
>
> Has neither of you ever heard of Kamakazes? Only reason the WW2
> Japanese weren't crashing zeros into buildings on the American west
> coast was that they lacked the range to do so.

How many Kamikaze pilots used commercial jets? ;-)

But yes, good point, well made.


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