Heh.

I try not to post multiple blogs on a given day, because I don't like to clutter up the thing. But something just "crossed my desk" that requires immediate comment.

In a relatively interesting article published by the online magazine Slate two weeks ago, there is a list of six "misconceptions" held by who the article calls "everyday Americans" regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, DC.

One of the misconceptions is that the attacks could not have been prevented. In the past, I've associated the claim that the attacks could have been prevented with senseless diatribe by the likes of Gore Vidal that President Bush, among others in the U.S. government, knew that the attacks were going to happen, and were possibly among the plotters.

More believable is the idea that the attacks were a reasonably predictable event based on past behavior by the sewer-level class of insects defined, in general, as terrorists. One of the examples that the article points to is a 1994 highjacking of a French airliner by Algerians, who threatened to crash the plane into the Eiffel Tower.

I'll go right to the point:

"They were tricked by French officials into landing in Marseilles to refuel, where they were overpowered."

They were tricked by French officials.

That just struck me as funny.




- posted by seanmh @ 1:23 PM