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Standing up

| December 31, 2009 8:00 PM

The attempted attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 was the third act of international terrorism in this decade to be disrupted by passengers and crew. It confirms an essential truth about the age of terrorism: Average citizens are the last line of defense, and in many ways the most important.

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