Sentence examples for fighting hijackers from inspiring English sources
Was Glenn Thompson not, in his own selfless way, as heroic as any of the brave firefighters and police offices who attempted similar rescues?" Donald W. Goodrich can ask the same question about his son Peter, a passenger on United Airlines Flight 175, whom he described as physically imposing and a stout defender of others, easier to imagine fighting hijackers than herded to the back of a plane.
"If they were fighting with the hijackers, I guarantee it happened right here," he said.
C2 The Search for Security PASSENGERS ON ALERT A new breed of traveler is in the skies: passengers who vow to "do whatever it takes, or go down fighting" to stop hijackers.
Government forces are fighting Kurdish separatists in the area, and the hijacker was initially suspected of political motives.
The Saudi ambassador to the United States has angrily denied that his country failed to cooperate with the F.B.I. and C.I.A. in fighting terrorism and has dismissed accusations that it helped finance two of the hijackers as "outrageous".
You can dismiss this as fighting the last war -- terrorists will find new tricks, and in any case the next hijacker who tries to commandeer an airplane is likely to be pounded into submission by the passengers -- but it shows what can be done with determined leadership and money.
Syrian soldiers fighting their way through the winding, narrow streets of Aleppo's old city this week might choose to remember a young Egyptian student who spent months in Aleppo in the 1990s, working on an urban planning thesis that included the very battlefield in which the army is now fighting: Mohamed Atta, the leader of the 9/11 hijackers in the US.
Four of the key pilots and planners in the "Hamburg cell" who would take operational control of the September 11 attacks, including the lead hijacker Mohammed Atta, had a chance meeting on a train in Germany in 1999 with an Islamist militant who struck up a conversation with them about fighting jihad in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
