"john" wrote in message
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> On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:27:50 GMT, Adam Weiss
> wrote:
>
> >john wrote:
> >> On 10 Dec 2005 15:49:18 -0800, "Sprocket"
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>This guy was sitting in Row 21. Alpizar was shot in the Jetway. Under
> >>>these circumstances, you're probably right, 'he didn't hear anything'.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hey shit head:
> >>
> >> Maybe you can interview the other 199 passengers for any that DID hear
> >> the word "bomb"
> >>
> >> Let us know your results.
> >>
> >
> >
> >Does it suck that Rigoberto Alpizar was shot? Yes. In hindsight, was
> >he such a threat that he needed to be killed? NO.
> >
> >But hindsight is golden. Foresight is not.
> >
> >Whether or not he said "bomb" - Alpizar was acting in such a way that
> >the marshalls had good reason to believe he posed a threat. As much as
> >we might like them to be, air marshalls aren't clairvoyant. They could
> >not have known that Alpizar was just an imbalanced nut job who'd had a
> >bad day and was off his meds. For all they knew, he might have been
> >running away after having set an IED.
>
> How do you know that the marshalls had good reason to believe he posed
> a threat?
>
> The marshalls NEEDED to say that they heard "bomb" in order to justify
> the shooting.
Wrong. They only needed to believe he was a threat.
Paul Nixon
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