"Israel's national carrier, El Al, already has protection systems and all other commercial carriers in the country are set to follow suit. "

I also found it to be a bitter commentary on our times. These kids are in college, and they had no internal values. Their vocabulary consisted mostly of profanity, and they couldn’t even come up with a coherent plan for getting themselves out of a fix. They wandered around aimlessly and eventually turned on each other. What could this be but an inadvertent commentary on the state of American education today?

Senior Democratic congressman David Obey has called for the resignations of both Mr Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz. The Pentagon's planning for post-war occupation could not be seen as "anything other than a disaster", Mr Obey said.