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In Europe we had a rash of airplane hijackings in the 1970s and 1980s, onsequently there is plenty of institutional experience in how to deal with terrorism and
by HarryHirsch 13y ago
In Europe we had a rash of airplane hijackings in the 1970s and 1980s, onsequently there is plenty of institutional experience in how to deal with terrorism and aircraft.
We chose not to plump for the TSA groping squad. Neither should the US.
- anigbrowl 13y agoThere were also quite a lot of hijackings in the US during that period. But none of them ended as badly as 9-11, so it's not a terribly meaningful comparison.
- HarryHirsch 13y agoI wouldn't say the comparison was meaningless. The blood toll of Entebbe and Landshut was less, but the public impact was enormous. One must keep the public mood in the back of one's head - this was in 1977, there was a series of attacks by the Red Army Faction, which everyone had thought was dead, and then, just as now, there was the discussion about dragnet surveillance and civil liberties, there was even discussion about the aims of the RAF, perhaps they even had a point. The keyword is "Deutscher Herbst".