>>[And in Russia I seem to remember some guy flew straight into some >>sensitive area. It wasn't just some sensitive area which Matthias Rust (a teenager) flew into. He landed near the wall of the Kremlin in Red Square, after a flight which originated in Helsinki. I remember that this incident happened in the evening of May 1987 on a Soviet national holiday. There isn't a hope in hell he would have succeeded in landing in Red Square on May Day, so I am assuming it would have been on 28 May, which was the national holiday celebrating the National Border Guards....the Border Guards being responsible for protecting the very border which Rust had to fly over on his way into Soviet airspace. At the time, Gorbachev was in power in Moscow, and immediately following this incident the Soviet Defence Minister Sergei Sokolov was given the arse by Gorby. There were other things going on behind the scenes in terms of this sacking, but the Rust incident was the major reason for the sacking. The Rust incident is largely responsible for Gorbachev rapidly introducing glasnost and perestroika into every day Soviet life. Although the Red Square incident was not a terrorist one, the thing which I was wondering about some time ago, is that there has clearly been a breakdown in communication between the various American military and intelligence organisations, or that the intelligence just wasn't there in the lead up to the attacks. It is find to have national unity and solidarity and such, but why didn't heads roll in Washington last year?