El Al may not have many flights but, except for the armed pilots and armed agents aboard, every single flight operated by El Al would be a target because the Arabs surrounding Israel cannot stand to have them there. David R http://home.attbi.com/~damiross http://home.attbi.com/~damiross/books.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alireza Alivandivafa" <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 21:08 Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] U.S. Nears Decision On Guns in Cockpit > I did not say all cops in England, I said beat cops. El Al has not had any > hijackings because they don't fly as many flights as others and because > terrorists know that the secret police will storm a plane and kill every passenger if > they have to to keep is from being hijacked. It is sort of like with Air > France a few years ago, a hijacker wont touch them because they will lose every > time. Considering the number of hijackings that actually do happen, and the > fact that the PAX strategy is not to just sit there anymore, hijackings are not > going to do much of anything anymore. You should see "Bowling for Columbine" >