[extropy-chat] DESIGN: WTC New Architecture

[Mike Lorrey]

Actually, 2001 was the third time, if you count a second failed attempt
that was prevented by the FBI before they got the truck out the door. I
believe it was the second attempt that helped them finally get the
blind sheik behind bars.

--- Joseph Bloch <jbloch at humanenhancement.com> wrote:

> Actually, the WTC itself was attacked twice. Remember that truck-bomb
> in 
> 1993?
> 
> I remember reading that the failure of the 1993 attack was a large
> part 
> of the incentive for the terrorists to try again at the same target.
> 
> Joseph
> 
> Adrian Tymes wrote:
> 
> >--- "nvitamore at austin.rr.com" <nvitamore at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>"NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York officials released the latest design
> for
> >>the
> >>signature building at the World Trade Center site Wednesday after
> >>revising
> >>it to make the tower more secure."
> >>
> >>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/29/wtc.tower.redesign/index.html
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >So...since when has the same public/famous building, other than
> places
> >which house specific individuals (such as the President, or soldiers
> in
> >or near a contested country) that some would want to attack, ever
> been
> >successfully attacked twice?  (Granted, there is some cause and
> effect:
> >once attacked, ever vigilant.  And the politicians want to be seen
> as
> >"doing something", no matter how ineffective.  But still...)
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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