Terror responses:  couple useful facts.  "A Congressional inquiry into intelligence activities before Sept. 11 found 12 reports over a seven-year period suggesting that terrorists might use airplanes as weapons... Between 1998 and 2001, the last fiscal year for which President Clinton submitted a budget, counterterrorism spending across all government agencies grew by more than 50 percent, to $9.7 billion."  10:08:37 PM