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04/26/2004: "Planes as Terrorist Missles"

From Tim Blair: "Paris blogger Karibu points out that I’m wrong to characterise strong French tactics against terrorism as anything new". What caught my eye was M. Karibu's report that "the objective of the [1994 Islamic] terrorists was the crash the plane in the middle of Paris."

Granted, our intelligence services get a lot of leads, and it would be difficult to derive from that tidbit the 9/11 attacks. So I'll just ask one question. Should we have recognized this threat before or after January, 2001?