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Sydney Hoeltzli wrote:

Paul Baechler wrote:

They don't demonstrate that there's no interest in using aircraft;
general aviation was non-existent in Lebanon in 1981, and is for all
practical purposes non-existent in Saudi Arabia. You can't reasonably
argue that failure to use a non-obtainable weapon is evidence that
there's no interest in using it.

I'm not trying to make the above argument. Where and why did
you get the impression I had?

It's the argument you're effectively making when you drag the foreign
bombings in.

The point is, this is a group which has demonstrated an interest
in using car and truck bombs.

It's a group which has demonstrated a willingness to use truck bombs
when aircraft aren't available. If you limit your argument to al-Qaida
attacks within the US they used commercial airliners (i.e., airplanes)
50% of the time (assuming both WTC attacks were made by al-Qaida).

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Paul Baechler