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Way back in the early 80's when I had the Wall Street Journal delivered, I read an article about Intel being given to the Reagan administration about Islamic terrorists planning an attack against American Skyscrapers using hijacked American airliners.


The administration reasoned that such an attack would kill the attackers and was therefore unlikely.  They also reasoned correctly that such an attack could not be stopped without draconian security measures that would be unacceptable to the American public unless such an attack actually occurred.


We knew what to expect almost 20 years before it happened and were powerless to actually do anything about it.


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