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If Osama bin Laden had approached Boeing with an order of ten 747s, paid for in cash at list price, and the deal could be kept out of the news media and away from public scrutiny, the deal would have been done.
c'mon. Even Ferrari will pre-qualify (vet) some of their customers. Read: no airplane company wants their commercial product to become smoldering holes in the ground. That is bad PR.

Well, except for Boeing military missile division, I suppose.
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