Reply #5: Look at the contrast between intelligence agents and the public [View All]

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Iris Anderson, passenger on UA Flight 176 (9/8/01, LA to Boston) who saw several hijackers evidently on a test run:

"It feels to me like yesterday," Anderson said in an interview with The Herald Journal just a month before the 9/11 anniversary. "It'll always be with me; what hit me ... was a feeling of remorse and guilt that I didn't stop them - I think that was part of my hysteria. Why couldn't I have known on the plane what they were going to do?"

Logan summer citizen believes she was on terrorists' 'test run' flight

Portland Jetport ticket agent Michael Touhey who checked in Atta and al-Omari:

Tuohey, who was interviewed by the FBI as the nation's air traffic system ground to a halt, has relived his brief encounter with the terrorists ''a million times, '' wondering whether there was anything he could have done to avert the attacks.

''Your rational mind is telling you one thing, but your what-if mind is pulling you in another direction, '' he said.

After his retirement in 2004, he started having hallucinations and pangs of guilt that caused him to become isolated and withdrawn.

Encounter haunts ex-ticket agent

Why haven't journalists asked CIA and FBI agents why they failed to respond to an obvious threat situation? Unlike Anderson and Touhey, they were in a position to do something.