Originally Posted by
exerda
"7 or 8 a/c" = "thousands of lives lost" ...
What, 7 or 8 A380s configured entirely for Y? Some of the Japanese 747s in full-Y, with 26" seat pitch?
Comrade Chertoff has shown he is as good at math as he is at security.
Not to mention that EVERY independent expert in chemistry and explosives has called the plot completely untenable. Yet DHS keeps citing their own "experts" to the contrary, but refuse to disclose any of the details, just "trust us, we're right, and everyone else is wrong."
And the plotters apparently were at the yokel stage of "hey, wouldn't it be cool if we could do this?" and didn't have the sort of expertise to even begin to pull this off."
Also interesting how they showed old Lockerby explosive tests to drive the point home. They said it, but it was easy to miss. Good for scare tactics though.
Technically, he's "truthful" with the thousands ... as it's about 2800 based on UA's 747, but that's assuming 8 planes completely full, and that's being generous. It's a lot of people, but stilln ot 9/11. And of course, he's implying that thousands was in the scale of close to 10k or more by how he was using it.
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