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Originally Posted by xxxdvdbuy
Our part was the watch list (it's part of our system that failed).. The list did no good in Nigeria or Amsterdam so why do we have it???. Personally I think the guy got the material from someone in Amsterdam, but we can speculate all day on the full event.
Like I said if the watch list was paid attention too or updated, then the service agent would have never allowed the kid to board the plane in Nigeria. It was a US plane, if it was Nigerian Airways or someone else I would agree with you BUT IT WAS A US PLANE, A PLANE THAT HAS OVER 2,000 DESTINATIONS INSIDE THE US! (don't you get it??). And yes we should look at ourselves, if we had 1/10th of the security measures in place back on 9/11 those towers would still be there.
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Actually champ, you should bone up on your history.
There was a bunch of warning signs, and reports of the 9-11 attack prior. They, being the higher powers that be, simply never worked up the chain of command through the acronym bureaucracy prior.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/
Just as the embassy knew in this case, the U.S. government knew prior to 9-11 and did nothing. So while you can blame the airlines, the government was tipped off and sat with it's thumb up it's proverbial ass.
So it actually comes down to, "what is it that YOU don't get". Even when the government has advanced warning, they do next to nothing with it because the same bloated bureaucracy still exists that the office of Homeland Security was supposed to correct in the first place and didn't.
