Mai 2001: Denver Council on Foreign Relations bespricht in seinem Bericht Heimatschutzmaßnahmen und erwähnt NY und Wahsington als die wahrscheinlichsten terroristischen Ziele. Spekuliert wird, dass Terroristen ein Flugzeug entführen und in ein symbolträchtiges Gebäude fliegen könnten. Der ursprüngliche Plan für den WTC- Anschlag von 1993 wird als historisches Beipiel herangezogen.
Homeland Defense and the Transportation Industry: The Civil Aviation and Surface Transportation Sectors
"Then came September 11, 2001, when all Americans understood what the attendants of these meetings had concluded beforehand--
In the last meeting (May 2001), participants discussed Washington and New York as the most likely targets, even discussing a scenario in which a plane is hijacked and crashed into a high-value target. In fact, this scenario had been discussed for some 40 years..." - Denver Council on Foreign Relations (12/01)
The Development of Homeland Defense: A New National Imperative
This is an interim, summary report on three regional seminar workshops on Homeland Defense held in Denver, Colorado, and sponsored by the Denver Council on Foreign Relations (DCFR) and the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (IUS), Rocky Mountain Region, also in association with the Institute on Globalization and Security (IGLOS), University of Denver.
May 16, 2000 (Denver Country Club), November 9, 2000 (Loews Giorgio Hotel, Denver), May 18, 2001 (Denver Country Club)
4. In regard to targets of attack, an attacker can take out key centers of energy or transportation without inflicting large casualties, so perhaps numbers of casualties should not be the sole guide for US counter-terrorist and Homeland Defense efforts.
Seminar workshop participants quickly agreed that MAD is not effective today against the likes of Osama Bin Laden or other terrorists so a new doctrine of defense of the homeland is needed.
While the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York several years ago was quite shocking, it was nowhere near what its perpetrator, Achmed Ramsey Youssef, had planned. His plan reportedly was to kill 250,000 people by blowing up the one tower so it would fall into the other tower, thus collapsing both.[/u] - Denver Council on Foreign Relations (Summer 2001)