Shoulder Launched Missiles and Commercial Airliners: The Next Attack?

Salon.com paints a pretty grim picture of things to come in this article. (The article is part of Salon's "Premium Content," but you can get it either by paying for it or for free by quickly clicking through a few ads from a car manufacturer instead.) UPDATE: (11/25/02 at 12:30 a.m.) Apparently, it's happened. "Two missiles were fired at but missed an Israeli airliner taking off from Mombasa, Kenya . . . ." I wonder if El Al's purported countermeasures worked? Read the preliminary reports here.