----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam C. Lipscomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 7:41 AM Subject: Re: NATO (Was: RE: Tragedy in Israel)
> Jeroen wrote: > > This was not an armed attack. The only items that could be seen as weapons > > are the boxcutters and the likes that were used against the crews and > > passengers of those planes. Hijacking a plane is not an act of war, it is > > an act of terrorism. > > You are correct, in a limited sense: *Hijacking* a plane is not an act of > war. Piloting said plane into a civilian structure occupied by up to 20,000 > civilians *IS*. > > > The WTC and Pentagon were hit by civilian airplanes; civilian airplanes > are > > not weapons. > > Noooooo, of course not. Technically speaking, they remained airplanes until > the moment of impact. > What makes it an act of war, is that it was a concerted effort to attack multiple targets, with the intention to kill many people, using fully fueled airliners as an explosive device, with no regard for the passengers of said airliner, in an effort to cripple a nation. I must disagree. Considering prior intent, those planes became weapons the moment control was wrested from the proper entities. xponent Tall Dutch Buildings Maru rob
