Terrorists at sea

[Le Chat]

I was wondering why al-queda haven't blown up any America cruise liners as yet. Surely they would be an easy target and survivors none? Anyone else thought this...or have a possible answer?

[sandyRoe]

There's an on-going Islamic insurgency in the Philippines...

[keyplus90]

Naomi – unless you give me a scientific explanation that how a whole jet evaporated at pentagon, I have no intention to go back to R & S and waste my time. Perhaps you can explain that to me here.

[Davethedog]

I don't think you could smuggle enough explosive on board a ship to blow it up and if you could it would be difficult placing it where you could enough damage.

On a plane a comparativly small hole can take the plane down or even a part.

On a ship I would think that you would have to place a charge near the keel to have a good chance of sinking it, but only the crew go down there so any intrusion would be obvious. If you look a t WWII multiple hits with very large bombs didn't sink ships immediatly.

[Davethedog]

Airplane debris including Flight 77's black boxes, the nose cone, landing gear, an airplane tire, Parts of the fuselage,and an intact cockpit seat were observed at the crash site. The remains of passengers from Flight 77 were found at the Pentagon crash site and their identities confirmed by DNA analysis. Many eyewitnesses saw the plane strike the Pentagon. Further, Flight 77 passengers made phone calls reporting that their airplane had been hijacked.

Do you not get sick defending the indefensible?

[jomifl]

keyplus.. when you set fire to something that is flammable like an aeroplane it burns. What isn't oxidised into a gas that dissipates quite quickly(carbon for example) is oxidised into a light powder,( aluminiun and magnesium)which is carried away in the convection currents create by the heat of combustion. Metal parts that are too solid to oxidise melt and flow onto the ground and form pools which solidify on cooling. The only recognisable bits that are left are the engine and landing gear parts made from solid stainless steel and titanium and those bits around the perimeter of the fire that didn't get hot enough. Just like when you have a bonfire in your garden most of it dissapears.

[naomi24]

Keyplus, Dave and Jomifl seem to have done a good enough job, but just one more thing for you to think about before you talk about silly conspiracy theories again. Flight 77 definitely took off from Dulles and it definitely didn't arrive at its intended destination, Los Angeles. Now if you insist that it wasn't hijacked by Islamic terrorists and it didn't crash into the Pentagon, what do you imagine happened to it, its crew and all its passengers? Was it diverted to a pre-planned secret location and everyone on board sworn to eternal secrecy by the US government - or was it diverted to a pre-planned secret location and everyone on board ........ silenced? Mmm ... looking at it from that point of view, the plot appears to be thickening, so what do you think?

[beso]

Flight 77 would also have to be diverted by some means that made it invisible at both optical and radar frequencies. A secret CIA technology no doubt.

Keyplus demonstrates the profound gullability that allows someone to accept ridiculous conspirary theories and religious nonsense.

[naomi24]

No thoughts on that then Keyplus?