I'm watching a show where a PLANE WITH EXPLOSIVES HIT THE WH

[xultar]

First aired 1998 last aired in May 2001

Whaddaya mean they didn't think something like this would happen?

The show is called 7 Days. A guy went back in time to prevent it from happening.

[aden_nak]

1. The pilot of The Lone Gunmen had a 747 (almost) crashing into the WTC.

It aired about 6-8 months before 9/11.

[xultar]

10. I'm all the way live on LIHOP

[Javaman]

15. A friend of mine made a low budget movie months before 9/11...

that depicted a jet crashing into a sky scraper. He literally finished the edit 3 months before 9/11. It was set to release Sept 20th. Needless to say, his distributor pulled it.
So one: if some low budget filmmaker can conceive of a plain hitting a skyscraper, it doesn't take a stretch to think someone else can.
two: our gov't officials are idiots
three: in film, timing is everything.

[HereSince1628]

2. Condi will say ANYTHING to shirk responsibility

And she believes that the reality of the American people is the product of propaganda catapulted from behind the ramparts that are Karl Rove's office walls.

[AlGore-08.com]

3. Of course, that's based on something that actually happened

I posted all this on another board:

But the idea of planes flying into things to blow them up should have been obvious to anybody charged with counter terrorism planning - - the Japanese flew an awful lot of planes into military targets during World War II.

In 1974, a psychotic celebrity stalker named Samuel Byck attempted to storm a parked aircraft and hijack it, with the intent of crashing it into the White House in order to kill Richard M. Nixon. The police, who spend an awful lot of time imagining scary things like "what if that psycho over there actually manages to steal that plane" shot him, which put an end to his plan to - - again - - fly a plane into the White House to kill the President. (FYI, Byck then committed suicide rather than surrender to the police.)

More from Rotten.com on other reasons why 9/11 wasn't really "unthinkable":

http://www.rotten.com/library/crime/terrorism/terror-tactics/kamikaze-jet-hijacking/

The earliest documented warning of what lay ahead for the United States currently appears to have come in late 1992 and early 1993, when informants working for the Egyptian and U.S. governments reported that a terrorist who had infiltrated the Sudanese Air Force was planning to bomb an Egyptian presidential mansion then crash his fighter into the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.

The terror plot, which was linked to al Qaeda, clearly showed exactly how airplanes appealed to terrorists. But there was so much worse to come.

By the time of the above incident, people were beginning to wake up the possibility that someone could pull off a suicide hijacking, and the Pentagon commissioned a study to look into the risk in 1993. In early 1994, a disgruntled FedEx worker tried unsuccessfully to storm a jet's cockpit and crash the plane into a company facility. It didn't take long for the concept to advance dramatically.

The date was September 11, 1994. YES, THAT'S RIGHT, SEPTEMBER 11. After downing a lot of crack cocaine and booze, Frank Eugene Corder climbed into an airplane and took off. Had he spent a little less time partying, the crash would have come that evening. Instead, around 2 a.m. the morning of Sept. 12, Corder attempted to crash the stolen airplane into the White House. He missed by a matter of yards.

Like Timothy McVeigh, Corder was a Army veteran. Like Jose Padilla, he had passed a few stints in prison. Like Mohammed Atta and Zacarias Moussaoui, he was a student pilot. He was officially designated a lone, uh, planeman and quickly forgotten.

(snip)

On December 24, 1994, Algerian Armed Islamic Group hijacked an AirFrance commercial jet and threatened to crash it into the Eiffel Tower. AIG is an Islamic terrorist group tied to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. As warnings go, this was a dead giveaway.

The plot had been scheduled for New Year's Eve, but the operatives carrying it out had moved it up to Christmas Eve due to concerns about being caught. The change of plans ended up putting the flight on a refueling stop before it could hit the tower, and French commandos stormed the plane, successfully killing the hijackers.

[xultar]

11. I remember that asshat from 1994. LIHOP!

[Rowdyboy]

4. I just finished watching it again too....Cool little series that was VERY

spot-on in some of its stories. Did you know the two main characters/love interests, Jonathon LaPaglia and Justina Vail actually disliked each other. Still think they had good on-screen chemistry.

[Blue Belle]

6. Where did you watch that show??

Was it on TV?? or did you rent it?? I'd like to see it.

[Rowdyboy]

9. Its broadcast daily on SpikeTV, 9am-10am CST

They just finished rebroadcasting the first two part episode and are about to start the rest of season one. Its not art but it is kind of fun. Hope you have SpikeTV on your cable. Its good for "Seven Days", "Star Trek TNG and DS9" and the original "CSI". The rest of their program is pretty grim-car show, goofy Japanese contests etc.

[xultar]

12. Must be the anger that made them so HOT! Notice when they closed

the airports they switched to a truck.

[ET Awful]

5. And don't forget that the climax to both the book and the movie

the Running Man involved flying a plane into a building.

The book (by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman) was first published in 1982.

Nobody could have imagined it my ass.

[xultar]

13. When I read all of these example I get so SICK and I wanna beat the shit

out of the LIHOP crowd.

[soleft]

7. Anti aircraft guns at G8 Summit in July of 2001

To prevent a plane from crashing into building.

Who could believe someone would use a plane as a missile?????

Who could believe such a lying evil woman would ever be our secretary of state?

[Brewman_Jax]

8. One of Tom Clancy's novels

has a plane crashing into the Capitol building.

NSA Rice's and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's resignations should've been on Bush's* desk on Sept. 12, 2001.

[MissMarple]

14. That was the first heads up they were either incompetent or lying.

I remembered too clearly the Clancy book's description of a crash into the Capitol building, during a joint session of Congress no less. My jaw literally dropped when Condoleeza Rice said on CNN with a straight face that "they had no idea" something like that could even happen. :-)