This
is a documentary produced by the History Channel of the 9/11
Commission. However, it is mostly a presentation of what the history
channel thinks is important rather than the official version of what
happened. They kept showing the wife of a victim who had passed away in
the attack over and over. She was angry and wanted answers. However
their overuse of one individual made me tire quickly of the entire
program.
The
conclusion of the 9/11 report is that we were not expecting planes to
be used as missiles and consequently were not vigilant enough in keeping
something like this from happening. Several of the hijackers were
known to the CIA, but dropped off the radar shortly before the attack.
Only one person was thwarted by a border agent, other than that it
appears all the hijackers were able to do what they wanted in hijacking
the planes. However a late flight, and passenger resistance kept one
plane from reaching Washington. We pretty much were caught with our
pants down. Even though memos had been passed around about a
significant threat from Al Qaida, specifics were not forthcoming, and
departments did not add two and two together. Part of this was a lack
of communication between agencies and within agencies.
Lets pray something like this never happens again.
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