Did Tom Clancy tell the Terrorists how?

[TJJJ]

Anybody ever read Tom Clancy's novel - Debt of Honor?

This book was copyright 1994

In it, at the end, he has one of the bad guys fly a plane loaded with petro into the white house to kill the president.

I find it ironic that within 7 years the same thing happens to the twin towers.

Just interesting.

TJJJ

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by TJJJ

Anybody ever read Tom Clancy's novel - Debt of Honor?

This book was copyright 1994

In it, at the end, he has one of the bad guys fly a plane loaded with petro into the white house to kill the president.

I find it ironic that within 7 years the same thing happens to the twin towers.

Just interesting.

TJJJ

My hunch: they would have figured it out on their own.

[John Atkinson]

The concept of using an airplane as a suicide bomb isn't really new. The Japanese raised it to "fine art" status in WW2.

The Germans even invented a one-way piloted rocket bomb intended to be flown into buildings and such. The few remaining German pilots weren't all that keen on that plan.

[CC1]

tJJJ,

I agree with others than the concept was not new but it is amazing that something fictional authors had come up with and were obviously plausible scenarios did not set off warning signs that we should guard against that.

One of the strangest things I found after 9-11 was that somewhere in the East (not an Arab country surprisinglly but I believe somehwere like Malyasia) somebody was selling a 2001 calendar many months before 9-11 that had a depiction of one or two planes smashing into the twin towers. That is not one of those conspriacy rumors but was a factual news story that was veriried. As was the fact that a teenage Pakastani student at a private NYC school got mad at his teacher and just a couple of days before 9-11 pointed out the window at the world trade center towers and told his teacher that in a couple of days they would no longer be there. His dad was a Pakastani diplomat at either their NYC Embassy or the United Nations and I believe they got out of the country quickly. The teacher reported the incident after the towers fell. Those are documented isntances not the crazy conspiracy theory stuff I abhor.

[Esther]

Originally Posted by CC1

tJJJ,

I agree with others than the concept was not new but it is amazing that something fictional authors had come up with and were obviously plausible scenarios did not set off warning signs that we should guard against that.

One of the strangest things I found after 9-11 was that somewhere in the East (not an Arab country surprisinglly but I believe somehwere like Malyasia) somebody was selling a 2001 calendar many months before 9-11 that had a depiction of one or two planes smashing into the twin towers. That is not one of those conspriacy rumors but was a factual news story that was veriried. As was the fact that a teenage Pakastani student at a private NYC school got mad at his teacher and just a couple of days before 9-11 pointed out the window at the world trade center towers and told his teacher that in a couple of days they would no longer be there. His dad was a Pakastani diplomat at either their NYC Embassy or the United Nations and I believe they got out of the country quickly. The teacher reported the incident after the towers fell. Those are documented isntances not the crazy conspiracy theory stuff I abhor.

Wow! This is the first I have heard of this.

[Ron]

On March 4 2001 six months & one week before 9/11, this episode of "Smoking Gun"
a spin off of "X Files" was aired.
Interesting similarities.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUKQz-xm0is

[TJJJ]

Originally Posted by CC1

tJJJ,

I agree with others than the concept was not new but it is amazing that something fictional authors had come up with and were obviously plausible scenarios did not set off warning signs that we should guard against that.

One of the strangest things I found after 9-11 was that somewhere in the East (not an Arab country surprisinglly but I believe somehwere like Malyasia) somebody was selling a 2001 calendar many months before 9-11 that had a depiction of one or two planes smashing into the twin towers. That is not one of those conspriacy rumors but was a factual news story that was veriried. As was the fact that a teenage Pakastani student at a private NYC school got mad at his teacher and just a couple of days before 9-11 pointed out the window at the world trade center towers and told his teacher that in a couple of days they would no longer be there. His dad was a Pakastani diplomat at either their NYC Embassy or the United Nations and I believe they got out of the country quickly. The teacher reported the incident after the towers fell. Those are documented isntances not the crazy conspiracy theory stuff I abhor.

I had read that book some years ago, Clancy, but did not remember it until reading it lately. I just thought it real ironic that he was writing about crashing a plane into the white house. Wasn't that where the plane was headed that crashed in Penn?

It just piqued my curiosity!

I had heard some of what you posted about. Interesting.