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Yeah I can see how the needle would be on the list along with a lot of other sites but in reality if I was a terrorist i'd think of a hundred other places to wreak havoc upon first.

I read in the times a while back that Usama's #2 I forget his name but he was the one who actually dreamed up 9/11. He wanted to do it on a grander scale, taking out the towers, white house, statue of liberty and a couple other places. He himself wanted to pilot one of the hijacked planes and land it in washington and come out and give some grand speech before blowing it up. Usama basically told him "slow down!!!" and do it on a smaller scale which would have a larger chance of success.

I understand they wanted a major loss of life but I always felt that hitting that statue while not causing any great deal of death woulda been a major symbolic strike against america. Maybe it's me but that's how I always felt, it wouldn't have caused havoc in the city cause its out in the water but imagine looking out in the water and never again seeing the statue of liberty, the ultimate sign of our liberty.

Then again if they didn't miss the white house that woulda been the ultimate in symbolism.