Originally Posted by GateHold

When it came right down to it, success of the September 11th attacks had nothing -- nothing -- to do with boxcutters. The hijackers could have used anything. They were not exploiting a weakness in luggage screening, but rather a weakness in our mindset -- our understanding and expectations of what a hijacking was and how it would unfold. The hijackers weren't relying on weapons, they were relying on the element of surprise....