No. Too many involved, too many insiders involved (MHO). Since a call to one of the suspected cells to another cell congratulating themselves on the 'deed' makes me think they were already tapped. Don't forget, most of these animals were on the FBI's "Watch List". Fat good that did. Janni At 10:18 AM 9/14/01 -0400, you wrote: >I toss in another question. > >Do you think that the "Old School" >wire taps of suspect persons might >have prevented this?? > >Byron > > > >AOL and Earthlink. Apparently the terrorists were sending messages through >those ISP's. What do >y'all think, invasion of privacy or necessary evil? > >George