Was 9/11 Preventable? 2A by Ms. Bush https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9 Record down as many red flags as possible under your reading to provide evidence for your classmates en-us 2021-12-06 12:01:09 UTC 2025-01-02 19:11:25 UTC hello@padlet.com The checkpoint for flight 175 was controlled by American Airlines. However, it contracted with the Huntleigh USA to perform screening. https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931352166 2021-12-06 15:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931352166 set of metal detector alarms but were still allowed on the plane. https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931352180 2021-12-06 15:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931352180 Mohamed Atta was selected by CAPPS, Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, created to identity passengers who should be subject to special security measures https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931355019 2021-12-06 15:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931355019 For three decades the airports have been focusing on guns and explosions rather than dangerous people https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931356681 2021-12-06 15:12:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931356681 The security system was weak due to individual pieces of the overall program were uncoordinated. Meaning information in one sector was not communicated to the others. https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931358240 2021-12-06 15:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931358240 The X-ray machine that was made to screen the carry-on items, did not find anything that was dangerous. https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931359190 2021-12-06 15:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931359190 The hijackers were allowed to get on the plane because their past suggested that they would not complete a suicide mission. https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931362922 2021-12-06 15:15:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931362922 One of the Hazmi brothers did not have photo identification, and he did not understand English. https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931363511 2021-12-06 15:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931363511 Made Moqed set the metal detector off, was wanded by a screen, and then he was allowed to pass the inspection. https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931370061 2021-12-06 15:17:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931370061 https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931372695 Door were only required to be locked during take off ]]> 2021-12-06 15:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931372695 https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931374253
  • The mastermind behind the attacks on 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, sent two terrorists to California because it was “a convenient point of entry from Asia” and was far away from the target (New York). These men were also able to easily obtain US visas 
  • The two terrorists began taking flight lessons as soon as they learned English 
  • American friends of the two terrorists noticed strange behavior between them, but didn’t say anything 
  • Some people were told about the terrorists' extremist ideals but didn’t say anything 
  • Signs of hostility and “craziness” were seen by some who had interactions with the terrorists 

    • ]]>     2021-12-06 15:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931374253     Nawaf al Hazmi set the metal detectors off twice, and had an identified item in his back pocket. Yet, he still passed. https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931376591 2021-12-06 15:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931376591 "At almost every step along the way, the system posed no challenge to the terrorist" https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931382863 2021-12-06 15:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931382863 "assuming they were followed to the letter--would have prevented the hijackers from carrying out their baleful missions" https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931383999 2021-12-06 15:22:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931383999 https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931386908 major U.S. airports in 68% of their attempts in 1998 and 1999. They were able to board aircraft 117 times without going through security, often because airport and airline employees didn't close security doors behind them. ]]> 2021-12-06 15:23:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931386908 Security lacked closed-circuit television surveillance. There is no documentary evidence to indicate when the hijackers passed through the checkpoint. https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931390649 2021-12-06 15:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931390649 in the 1970s deployed undercover agents on all "high-risk" international flights and many domestic routes. That would strengthen security not merely because the government might ensure that training standards and work rules are better enforced--which could be a faulty assumption--but because lines of authority and accountability will be much clearer. https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931390834 2021-12-06 15:25:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931390834 https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931392846 The commission further recommended that the airlines and government be forbidden from maintaining permanent databases on so-called selectees--people selected by the CAPS system for closer scrutiny--and that the entire system should only remain in place until "explosive detection systems are reliable and fully deployed"--another sign of the naive, prevailing assumption before Sept. 11 that explosives, not people, represented the real threat. ]]> 2021-12-06 15:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931392846 In 1996, Dan Issacharoff, a former security chief at El Al, told a National Research Council panel on airline security that, although El Al inspects all baggage, it also conducts face-to-face questioning of all passengers. https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931396237 2021-12-06 15:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931396237 Crash site of Flight 93 FBI collected 14 knives. no evidence of firearm. https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931397544 2021-12-06 15:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931397544 https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931398504 When the terrorists of Flight 175 were checking into their flight, the United ticket agent noticed they had trouble understanding the standard security questions…]]> 2021-12-06 15:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931398504 https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931398519 The company pleaded guilty last year to hiring more than 1,300 untrained screeners--including dozens of criminals whose backgrounds had not been checked--to work at Philadelphia International Airport from 1995 to 1998. ]]> 2021-12-06 15:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931398519 https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931400272 Hani Hanjour, Khalid al Mihdhar, and Majed Moqed (terrorists of Flight 77) were flagged by CAPPS. The Hazmi brothers were selected for extra scrutiny because they were seemed to be suspicious and one of the brothers did not have photo identification nor could understand English. They all boarded the plane, only their bags were held off.

    ]]>     2021-12-06 15:28:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931400272     Commercial aircraft design offered almost no protection from cockpit takeovers. Such attempts, in fact, have been growing more frequent in recent years https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931404937 2021-12-06 15:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931404937 https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931411540 the cockpit doors are only required to be locked during takoff so they were unlocked]]> 2021-12-06 15:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931411540 The easy availability of the key to the cockpit might explain how the cockpit was taken by surprise https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931412183 2021-12-06 15:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931412183 https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931413875 one of the hijackers had a "bomb" strapped to his chest but we still don't know if it was fake or not ]]> 2021-12-06 15:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mbush21/h3a9bu1zeko6ede9/wish/1931413875