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Old Apr 9, 2010 | 5:40 pm
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
And why would a suicidal bomber-as-passenger want accomplices on board the same plane as they intend to destroy? This whole idea of a team of suicidal bombers targeting the same plane is about as stupid as stupid can be.
You lost me here. A team of suicidal bombers was on every 9/11 plane. In those cases, they were using the planes as their bombs; today, knowing they're thwarted in that aspect of terrorism and also knowing that these liquid/plastique explosives are notoriously hard to get to go "boom" in a plane, I can easily imagine a team of suicidal bombers on a single plane.

While the FAMs are busy with decoy #1, his two partners in coach work up the real bombs.

Or...if bomber #1's bomb doesn't work just right, bombers #2 and #3 are backup.

To not be able to imagine scenarios and work to plug them is about as stupid as stupid can be.
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