Condi claimed "we never imagined terrorists would use aircraft as missles".
Yet in July 2001 she accompanied the President to the Genoa G-8 Conference - at which anti-aircraft missle batteries had been assembled to ward of threats of renegade aircraft.
From the State Dept website: a link to a press conference Bush gave with Vlad Putin at the Genoa G-8 Conference on July 11, 2001.
Here's the BBC on security preparations at the Genoa G-8 Conference..
Anti-aircraft missiles have been deployed at the airport, and naval vessels are patrolling the seas.