Been reading the board for a while now and this post made me want to speak up. I have a few problems with what happened on 9/11 and in the following years.
First off, for those who don't believe that "our" government would purposely attack its own citizens in order to push forward its own agenda, read the Northwoods documents released by the CIA:
"the Top Secret memorandum describes U.S. plans to covertly engineer various pretexts that would justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba. These proposals - part of a secret anti-Castro program known as Operation Mongoose - included staging the assassinations of Cubans living in the United States, developing a fake “Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington,” including “sink[ing] a boatload of Cuban refugees (real or simulated),” faking a Cuban airforce attack on a civilian jetliner, and concocting a “Remember the Maine” incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in Cuban waters and then blaming the incident on Cuban sabotage. Bamford himself writes that Operation Northwoods “may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government.”
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/
I remember reading that when the towers were attacked the first time, our federal government had an Egyptain military officer undercover with the terrorists. He was to aid the operation until the time when the feds had enough proof to put these guys away for good. The only problem was that the Egyptian was to provide the fake explosives to the terrorists which he was to obtain from our government. When he got the fake explosives, he realized that they were real and started speaking out to cover his own ass. When the feds told him to keep going along with the project, he started talking to reporters and was even mentioned in a few newspapers. After the explosions occurred, he left the country quickly and has never been heard from again.
When McVeigh blew up the Oklahoma federal building, there were many witnesses who claimed that dark-skinned men helped him and were seen around the building with McVeigh and Nichols. There was much testimony during the trial to such accusations. There were a number of cameras that showed exactly what happened during the explosion but the federal government refused to show any of the tapes during the trial. Does anyone else wonder why the single most powerful piece of evidence in the trial wouldn't be used?
After both of those events occurred, our wonderful government did it's best to pass the Patriot Act. It wasn't called the Patriot Act then, but it was the same legislation, almost word-for-word. When you look at the last twenty years of American history, I think a pattern becomes apparent. I think it took more than one act of government sponsored terrorism to get us where we are today. Like with any covert operation, there are going to be fuckups, it's how you spin the fuckups that determine how history is written.
I remember reading in the news that after 9/11 all of the flight traffic controllers were brought together to write out a final statement. Immediately following the incidents, each controller used tape recorders to catch the moment on tape, so that details wouldn't be forgotten with time. After the final version of events were written down, all of the tapes were ordered destroyed by the feds by ripping the tapes up and placing them in various trashcans around the building.
As far as how many it would take to pull off this conspiracy, how many people would it take to fly the planes? We have been able to remote control large commerical aircraft for over a decade. In my home state they are going to be housing unmanned 737s. How hard would it be to have a black ops fellow to place a canister of knock out gas (like the russians used in the theatre siege) on board with an altitude sensor or timing device? Once everyone starts passing out, some government dork in a bunker somewhere takes control of the plane and convienently flies it into a building. Sounds pretty simple to me. And if you don't believe that we could convince our guys to do it, i doubt it would be too hard to get on of the terrorists to throw a "bomb" in their luggage thinking that they are going to meet Allah but in reality they are going to miss all of the real action.
Just a few rambling thoughts, I could go on forever.
Bannock