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Re: Beer Prices and Baseball

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From: Geoff Miller
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:43
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Julian Macassey  <julian@tele.com> writes:

> Note that most of these desperadoes that were going to blow
> up transatlantic planes lacked a vital item - Passports.

Passports are simple to obtain, as you've told me many times.
Plotting to commit acts of terrorism is somewhat more involved
and time-consuming.  Getting passports could reasonably have 
been left for last, once the plan had been developed.  After
all, there'd have been no hurry.


> They had as much chance of boarding a transatlantic flight
> as Geoff Miller. But they had dreams.

And "if at first you don't succeed," then what?  How does the 
rest of that saying go?



Geoff

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