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Re:IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991) by icegreentea on Saturday July 05, 2014 @12:16AM (#7991007)
Clearly they meant the general public thought it was outside the realm of things that would actually happen, as opposed to realistic seeming (yet safely 'impossible') things of fiction.

For example Tom Clancy's Debt of Honour wraps up with a Japanese airliner flying into the Capitol Building killing off the majority of the US Government.

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Re:IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991) by TeMPOraL on Saturday July 05, 2014 @12:21AM (#7991022)
No, I believed that it was outside the realm of imagination, that the concept of flying a passenger plane into a building as a form of suicide attack never entered the collective mind of the society. I stand corrected though, thank you and shepardrtc for the Tom Clancy reference. I guess one gets to learn something new every day ;).
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Re:IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991) by glomph on Saturday July 05, 2014 @06:58AM (#7991551)
You may also be interested to see the originally intended album cover for this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_Music that was planned for release in september 2001.
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Re:IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991) by e12e on Sunday July 06, 2014 @02:39AM (#7993934)
Terrorist plots aside, there's also this:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-08-22-sept-1...

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