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Al Qaeda Flying Planes Into the World Trade Center and Pentagon Was Foreseeable
A whistleblower using the alias "Iron Man" was the head of a special
joint military-intelligence operation called DO5, a branch of the Joint
Forces Intelligence Command, alleges that his team knew that
the World Trade Centers and Pentagon were likely targets of Al Qaeda,
and that he ran this information up the chain of command.
As Truth-out reports:
"I kept the original classifications on the slides, as historical documents, although the fact that al-Qa'ida was likely to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was clearly no longer classified" ...
Iron Man further elaborated on this point by stating that high-level
DoD officials held discussions about DO5's intelligence activities
between the summer of 2000 and June 2001 revolving around al-Qaeda's
interest in striking the Pentagon, the World Trade Center (WTC), and
other targets.
In other words, the Bush
administration was fully aware the terrorist organization had set its
sights on those structures prior to 9/11 and, apparently, government
officials failed to act on those warnings.
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Iron
Man describes a "sensitive," "oral briefing" that took place that
summer "indicating that the World Trade Centers #1 and #2 were the most
likely buildings to be attacked [by al-Qaeda], followed closely by the
Pentagon. The briefer indicated that the worst case scenario would be
one tower collapsed onto another."
Furthermore,
as he states in his letter, Iron Man was certain that such a scenario
was part of a "red cell analysis" discussion that took place prior to
the intelligence briefing and included a finding that the buildings
"could be struck by a jetliner." He wrote that there was a suggestion
about alerting WTC security and engineering or architectural staff,
"but the idea was not further explored because of a command climate
discouraging contact with the civilian community."
One official who attended the DO5 briefing was Vice Adm. Martin J.
Meyer, the deputy commander in chief (DCINC), USJFCOM (Iron Man's
complaint does not identify Meyer by name, but notes the presence of the
"DCINC" for USJFCOM). But despite the red flags raised during the
briefing, Meyer reportedly told Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold, the commander
of the Continental United States NORAD Region (CONR), and other
high-level CONR staffers two weeks before the 9/11 attacks that "their
concern about Osama bin Laden as a possible threat to America was
unfounded and that, to repeat, 'If everyone would just turn off CNN,
there wouldn't be a threat from Osama bin Laden.'"
This is certainly interesting and newsworthy.
But there is substantial additional evidence that 9/11 was entirely foreseeable.
According to MSNBC, "There have been a slew of reports over the past decade of plots to use planes to strike American targets".
In 1994, the government received information that international terrorists "had seriously considered the use of airplanes as a means of carrying out terrorist attacks" (see also this article).
According to the New York Times, "The F.B.I. had been aware for several years that Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network were training pilots in the United States ...."
In 1998, U.S. officials received reports concerning a "Bin Laden plot involving aircraft in the New York and Washington, areas." Officials received reports that al Qaeda was trying to establish an operative cell in the United States and that bin Laden was attempting to recruit a group of five to seven young men from the United States to travel to the Middle East for training in conjunction with his plans to strike U.S. domestic targets.
Indeed, the report concluded that "a group of unidentified Arabs planned to fly an explosive-laden plane . . . into the World Trade Center".
A 1999 report for the National Intelligence Council warned that fanatics loyal to bin Laden might try to hijack a jetliner and fly it into the Pentagon.
There were extraordinarily high terrorist attack threat levels in the summer of 2001, involving threats of attack within the U.S., and the U.S. government knew there were Al-Qaeda cells within the U.S. (or watch the video here).
In July 2001, a briefing prepared for senior government officials warned of "a significant terrorist attack against U.S. and/or Israeli interests in the coming weeks. The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties ... (it) will occur with little or no warning.".
Shortly afterwards, the Attorney General stopped flying commercial aircraft within the United States based on a threat assessment by the FBI.
FBI agents recommended to FBI headquarters, in July 2001, an urgent nationwide review of flight schools regarding terrorism, and mentioned Bin Laden by name.
2 months before 9/11, intelligence services believed that Bin Laden intended to crash airplanes into the G8 Summit in order to kill President Bush and other world leaders. Condoleezza Rice was very focused on this threat to President Bush.
A pre-9/11 National Intelligence Estimate was entitled "Islamic Extremists Learn to Fly", and was apparently about Islamic people taking classes at U.S. flight schools.
The Federal Aviation Administration “had indeed considered the possibility that terrorists would hijack a plane and use it as a weapon,” and in 2001 it distributed a CD-ROM presentation to airlines and airports that cited the possibility of a suicide hijacking.
President Bush was told in August 2001 that supporters of Bin Laden planned an attack within the U.S. with explosives and that they wanted to hijack airplanes.
A month before 9/11, the CIA sent a message to the Federal Aviation Administration warning of a possible hijacking "or an act of sabotage against a commercial airliner".
Leaders of U.S. special military teams claim to have tracked the hijackers prior to 9/11 (and see this).
The August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Brief was entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US".
According to National Public Radio, the former CIA Director had warned congress shortly before 9/11 "that there could be an attack, an imminent attack, on the United States of this nature. So this is not entirely unexpected".
U.S. intelligence officials informed President Bush weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks that Bin Laden's terrorist network might try to hijack American planes, and that information prompted administration officials to issue a private warning to transportation officials and national security agencies.
An employee who worked in the Twin Towers stated "How could they let this happen? They knew this building was a target. Over the past few weeks we'd been evacuated a number of times, which is unusual. I think they had an inkling something was going on"
And a guard who worked in the world trade center stated that "officials had recently taken steps to secure the towers against aerial attacks"
On September 6, 2001, Condoleezza Rice was warned that a terrorist attack inside the United States was imminent
Also on September 6th, author Salman Rushdie was banned by US authorities from taking internal US flights; the FAA told his publisher the reason was that it had “intelligence of something about to happen”
A former FBI translator - who the Department of Justice's Inspector General, several senators (free subscription required), and a coalition of prominent conservative and liberal groups have claimed is credible - says that the government was provided with information about the planned attacks, including the fact that the attacks would be carried out using airplanes ("I saw papers that show US knew al-Qaeda would attack cities with airplanes"), and some information about date ranges and targets. She also alleges that Bin Laden worked for the United States right up until 9/11. If true, then the U.S. would presumably have known what Bin Laden was up to.
The National Security Agency and the FBI were both independently listening in on the phone calls between the supposed mastermind of the attacks and the lead hijacker. Indeed, the FBI built its own antenna in Madagascar specifically to listen in on the mastermind's phone calls. The day before 9/11, the mastermind told the lead hijacker "tomorrow is zero hour" and gave final approval for the attacks. The NSA intercepted the message that day and the FBI was likely also monitoring the mastermind's phone calls. (The NSA claims that it did not translate the intercept until September 12th; however, the above-mentioned FBI translator said that she was frequently ordered to falsify dates of translations regarding 9/11)
Newsweek stated "On Sept. 10, NEWSWEEK has learned, a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns" (pay-per-view; cached version of article here)
9/11 family member and "Jersey Girl" Patty Casazza was told by whistleblowers that -- before 9/11 -- the government knew the exact day, the type of attack, and the targets.
The Military Had Drilled for Attacks Such as 9/11
Indeed, the military had actually drilled for aerial attacks with planes.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the military air defense agency responsible for protecting the U.S. mainland, had run drills for several years of planes being used as weapons against the World Trade Center and other U.S. high-profile buildings, and "numerous types of civilian and military aircraft were used as mock hijacked aircraft". In other words, drills using REAL AIRCRAFT simulating terrorist attacks crashing jets into buildings, including the twin towers, were run.
And the military had conducted numerous drills of planes crashing into the Pentagon. For example, see this official military website showing a military drill conducted in 2000 using miniatures; this article concerning a May 2001 exercise of a plane crashing into the Pentagon (see also this article and this one); and this article about yet another drill of a plane hitting the Pentagon from August 2001.
The military had also run war games involving multiple, simultaneous hijackings (first paragraph), so this aspect of 9/11 was not as overwhelming as we have been led to believe.
See this short excerpt of a Peter Jennings newscast on 9/11 (excuse the music and subtitles).
There are literally hundreds of further examples of facts which tend to show that 9/11 was foreseeable (see this timeline for additional information).
If It Wasn't Foreseeable Before, It Was Then ...
Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta testified to the 9/11 Commission:
"During the time that the airplane was coming into the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President … the plane is 50 miles out…the plane is 30 miles out….and when it got down to the plane is 10 miles out, the young man also said to the vice president “do the orders still stand?” And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said “Of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary!?"
(this testimony is confirmed here and here).
So even if 9/11 wasn't foreseeable before 9/11, it was foreseeable to Dick Cheney - the man in charge of all counter-terrorism exercises, activities and responses on 9/11 (see this Department of State announcement, this CNN article and this essay) - as the plane was still 50 miles away from the Pentagon.
But What Do High-Level Officials Say?
In addition to the former CIA director and other credible witnesses discussed above, many high-level officials have gone on record raising questions concerning the foreseeability of the attacks:
Former 9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland said "As each day goes by, we learn that this government knew a whole lot more about these terrorists before Sept. 11 than it has ever admitted" (he also said, when he resigned from the 9/11 Commission: "It is a national scandal"; "This investigation is now compromised"; and "One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up".)
The former head of the Department of Homeland Security (then a top justice department terrorism prosecutor) said "As of Sept. 10th, each of us knew everything we needed to know to tell us there was a possibility of what happened on Sept. 11th . . . We knew the World Trade Center was a target . . . We knew an airplane could be used as a weapon."
Then-ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee and a member of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11 stated "They don't have any excuse because the information was in their lap, and they didn't do anything to prevent it"
Then-current chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee was "not surprised there was an attack ...."
Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said "very serious questions have been raised about what they [U.S. government officials] knew beforehand." See this, this and this.
Former White House counsel John Dean stated "It seems very probable that those in the White House knew much more than they have admitted . . . After pulling together the information in the 9/11 Report, it is understandable why Bush is stonewalling. It is not very difficult to deduce what the president knew, and when he knew it [Dean is echoing the questions asked by Watergate prosecutors]. And the portrait that results is devastating."
A 24-year Air Force veteran and former Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the Defense Language Institute said "Of course Bush knew about the impending attacks on America. He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism".
U.S. General, Commanding General of U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, decorated with the Bronze Star, Silver Star, and Purple Heart (General Wesley Clark) said "We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intelligence information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time".
Former Federal Prosecutor, Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Department of Justice under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan; former U.S. Army Intelligence officer, and currently a widely-sought media commentator on terrorism and intelligence services (John Loftus) says "The information provided by European intelligence services prior to 9/11 was so extensive that it is no longer possible for either the CIA or FBI to assert a defense of incompetence".
The Group Director on matters of national security in the U.S. Government Accountability Office said that President Bush did not respond to unprecedented warnings of the 9/11 disaster and conducted a massive cover-up instead of accepting responsibility.
Obviously, given the above, terrorists crashing planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon was foreseeable. And yet the people responsible for dropping the ball were not only not fire, many were promoted ... just like many of the knuckleheads who caused the financial crisis have been promoted to top posts.
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It is precisely heads rolling since 9/11 that facilitated government tyranny.
Do you mean the US Goobermint lied to it's people and the world, so that it could create an excuse to perform wanton acts of war globally and unchallenged?
I'm shocked by such accusations!
(sarcasm off)
A significant terror attack in the US was inevitable and we were ready. Ready to invade Iraq and to have now 5 other wars in the region and institue the ever growing national security state. Bush was lucky it happened under his watch.
All those thinking it was an inside job are wrong. The inside job was to wait and be ready.
Bark all you want. This is old fodder.
Ah yes, a GW non-financial article (though with a different take that will rile the usual moonbats). Guaranteed to draw out all the batshit crazies, who do their part to help keep Zerohedge from being everything it could be attacking real problems and real crooks. Instead, the ghost-chasing loons fly in in formation, tossing out the same discredited drivel, championing the same Pied Pipers on Peyote. It’s enough to make a sane man think that maybe the banksta’s running the show is the lesser of two evils.
I wonder, Tyler, do the clicks generate enough cash to make attempted site suicide worth the risk?
RE http://www.scribd.com/doc/4866520/Collateral-Damage-911-Covert-Ops-Fundi...
It's mighty interesting but is there a way to DL it without a Facebook account?
Thx!
I think Tom Clancy played the scenario in one of his books years ago, qaeda probably got the idea from him, I guess we need to ban books.
We're really lucky Al Qaeda is so uncreative that they needed a jerkoff like OBL to give them terrorist ideas.
I could think up 100 scenarios that would cost less and kill more Americans with less risk and expense to the perps in an afternoon. We're lucky our enemies are so inept which makes me think we really dont have Muslim enemies and they were just stupid dupes working for the CIA to provoke a MENA invasion execuse, that's probably why OBL was killed rather than captured when we could have easily taken him, its also why we broadcasted his killing INSTANTLY rather than keeping it secret using the intelligence that we captured for maximum value.
Usually in warfare when you capture an enemy leader and reams of intelligence data you don't blab but use it against the enemy keeping them in the dark as long as possible-right up until the moment the lead passes through their brains.
CIA? CIA alone would not have been enough to execute this gigantic logistic task.
It was a masterpiece conducted by M@SS@D (with the help of the CIA and the "Neo-Cons").
If you have any doubt, just watch the video "911 Missing Links"
The Al-CIA-da narrative is weak.
under no circumtance did al qaeda have the logistical and technical capabilities to blow up the wtc. this treason was only possible through the opertional capabilities of usa intelligence. no plane hit the pentagon....only the plutocrats and cia have the ability to lie on so grand a scale and subborn the news agencies to carry water for them....
do5 was observing noise and the machinations of deep covert intelligence operations commissioned by the rockefeller-rothschild axis of evil...
Knuckleheads! Now that was up there with Pan heads. It's nice to see some reason, in this simple world. People (often) major in minor things.
"Al QaedaFlying Planes Into the World Trade Center and Pentagon was Foreseeable"
Wait, whaaa?
Chindit and I (and others) rest our case in spite of the slings & sycophantic arrows ;-)
Atta et al would not trust the CIA or Mossad or Mrs. Peacock in the library with a pipe wrench enough to carry out the attacks as a false flag.
It was incompetence as we have always said. They were here on visa. The visa's expired. They were not deported. A commission was held that found no government culpability...surprise...LOL!
Furthermore...again I will say, it will never happen again like this because everyone now knows they are dead if the aircraft is taken over & controlled by terrorists.
If tried again, there will be several large grease spots in the center aisle of the plane because people with nothing to lose but everything to gain will not be as compliant.
All hail Todd Beamer & the end of DHS.
Is that the new ADL Zionist official party line? Atta not trusting his employers, the CIA and Mossad?
So the U.S. Military, the largest and most expensive military the world has ever known is incompetent? Why the fuck are we paying all these taxes to support them? Why the fuck do you Zionist terrorists trust them to do your fighting for you in Iraq? Are you stupid?
Are you guys ever going to get your story straight?
This has got to be one of the most stupid comments ever posted on ZH.
I knew you were a 9-11MORON, but this takes the top three awards for dumb, dumber and dumbest.
Hollow, Hollywood History !!!
"Let's Roll!" United Flight 93,
The Saddest Lie Of All
http://www.undergroundnation.ca/Let's%20Roll!%20On%20United%20Flight%2093%20-%20The%20Saddest%20Lie%20Of%20All.htm
An aircraft, having a metal skin and fuselage, acts like a Faraday cage, tending to block or attenuate electromagnetic radiation. One can make a cellphone call from inside an aircraft while on the ground because the weakened signal is still close enough to the nearest cellsite (relay tower) to get picked up. Once above 10,000 feet, however, calls rarely get
through, if ever.
"One can make a cellphone call from inside an aircraft while on the ground because the weakened signal is still close enough to the nearest cellsite (relay tower) to get picked up. Once above 10,000 feet, however, calls rarely get through, if ever."
This part of the conspiracy theory has been dismantled by the people who received the calls from the planes. The cockpit to ground transmissions confirm what happened on the planes. It also recorded the terrorists trance like "Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar" as they flew them in.
Its not even debatable anymore DP...reality is a bitch, at some point you will have to deal with reality just like GW is starting to do.
"Its not even debatable anymore ..."
You're at least right about that, Zionist-ADL scum.
FBI: 9/11 cell phone calls from jets did not happen
http://xenophilius.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/fbi-911-cell-phone-calls-fro...
"You're at least right about that, Zionist-ADL scum."
You fancy yourself quite the detective don't you?...you fucking little dweeb.
Everyone here knows I'm not jewish...strike one.
You see, in order to be taken seriously (instead of just throwing what you deem to be an insult) you have to actually offer something of merit...strike two.
Your article is trash...simply put, the author is a raving lunatic, much as you seem to be and most of those who promulgate this bullshit.
The towers were 2,000 ft. tall...30,000 ft. has nothing to do with anything as your article implies as the planes came in level, they flew that way for awhile, not straight down from 30,000 ft...strike three.
Your out, go back to the dugout and sulk...you stupid prick.
Let's see here...
David Ray Griffin, well known writer and public figure, provides documented information openly on a reputable broadcast network, CBC.
nMeAsshole, a nobody, spouts off unscientific nonsense and a personal attack bullshit on a blog.
So... who is the "stupid prick"?
So, the "brave" draft dodging "warrior" returns with a knife directed at my back...you seem to be seriously invested in the 911 con-spiracy...whats your angle DP?
You admitted you left this country long ago...is this some morbid game you play on others in between lighting your bong?
The bane of all conspiracy theory novelists is the ever moving goal posts they base it on...once one is met & knocked down, another is erected, at some point everyone tunes out because of the ones knocked down previously...the author is left rejected...like you.
You did it to yourself DP...you wanted it to be true...so bad...you would advocate any insane, unprovable notion besides what it really was.
I can't help you...I did try, softly at first. Now with a hammer.
David Ray Griffin is a moonbat of the first order. He fancies himself a "theologian" who can't quite seem to find himself let alone any higher being or purpose. Perhaps you and he shared some blotter at Berkeley to come up with a higher purpose back in the day? ;-)
Blotter is so old school... CIA poison for the masses.
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A couple of hits might cure that shit for a brain of yours of all the nasties.
"Blotter is so old school... CIA poison for the masses."
You didn't hang with the ones I hung with obviously ;-)
"A couple of hits might cure that shit for a brain of yours of all the nasties."
LOL!...my brain & my reasoning made it through that point in time just fine...(if a seven way hit of LSD25 in one sitting lasting two days doesn't expand your horizons nothing on this earth will...LOL)...and no, I don't care that you smoke bud, most of my friends do...I'm sure I will again, when I retire.
And no...I don't work for Zionists as your panting hyperactive pooch feral serf assumes...and no, I'm not fucking government psy-op or any other ridiculous schizophrenia, just me hoss.
Take care of yourself DP.
My mind is open re: 9/11. But nmewn's comment made sense and was logical, whereas yours made none and had none Sorry DP, you threw the MORON boomerang and it came home to roost.
"My mind is EMPTY re: 9/11."
There... fixed it... just to help you along on your quest for enlightenment !
Only empty of clutter and distractions, DP. But, props for the circa. IQ95 come back, spooked me into memories of HS. lol!
Disinformation is his job! Really!
Going long on the company that produces those red, yellow and blue sticky dots (no, not Wonder Bread.)
The best strategy is attacking the weakest point.
So far I know, the weakest point is the collapse of WTC 7.
WTC 7 shows that people behind it are incredible stupid, naive and arrogant.
So there is a hope !!!
george washingtton is blind deaf ,,
and the third bldg fell how ,,
and the thermite
and the stand down of aircraft,,,
george washingtton is blind deaf ,,
and the third bldg fell how ,,
and the thermite
and the stand down of aircraft,,,
It all sounds like repetitive conditioning to affirm once again that a rabid Islamic organization called "The Toilet" or "The database" (Al Queda) had something to do with the events on 9/11/01. You can say al-queda a million times, it doesn't make them any more real. We've got blowback copycats now, sure, but as was said by intelligence officers and governments at that time, al-queda does not exist because it is literally a segment of the CIA. Our late foreign secretary of the United Kingdom, Robin Cook believed that firmly before he died.
I'd like to beat you unconscious with a wet towel, which could take some time. And so would Robert Cook if he wasn't dead.
Where's Michael Wiener "Savage" when you need a good Muslim blood libel?
A whistleblower using the alias "Iron Man" was the head of a special joint military-intelligence operation called DO5, a branch of the Joint Forces Intelligence Command, alleges that his team knew that the World Trade Centers and Pentagon were likely targets of Al Qaeda, and that he ran this information up the chain of command.......<<<<<<
really??? no shit.........ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
and they call the place where this bullshit came from "truth out" ???
yeh sure........
But no one was demoted, let alone fired.
... because everyone was in on it.
You blew it at "Al Qaeda Flying Planes Into the World Trade Center and Pentagon"
Gullible Moron.
If the real George Washington was like you GW, we'd still be British colonies.
As far as them getting promoted. Not a huge surprise. The motto while I was in was "screw up, move up." That is why all the retards are on top. Anyone who could do anything anywhere else got out.
"some people were promoted" ===> one was re-elected!
i'm just a simple public-skool grad; don't know nothing about melting point of steel or shear strength or how a novice pilot could drive a 757 through a 330-degree descending turn and then aim it low and straight enough to put a 44' tall target into a 77' tall pentagon *completely* - zipping along at 325 knots at less than 30 feet above the ground while overcoming the inherent ground effects well enough to hit the target perfectly AND never touch the ground before doing so.
but like i say, i don't know nothin' 'bout that stuff. what interests ME is what never seems to be talked about: the fact that none of those 4 "hijacked" airliners never even got off a 'help' or 'hijack' call. i know a man who drove 747's for a living: the heavies. HE says that's impossible. no matter how fast and well the baddies breached the flight deck, they couldn't be faster than the time it takes a flight crew member to blurt "american 77 squawk 7500" - the hijack code - or, more importantly, to **push the "we're being hijacked" button** that each pilot had at ready reach.
a minimum of 8 guys....with 8 hijack buttons right there at their fingertips....and not one was pushed. what are the freakin' ODDS?!?
The explanation is very simply: the hijackers were doing God's work.
the story about hijacked airliners was just made up. it never happened.
Those box cutters were turbo charged!
I swear I saw ads for those turbo charged box cutters on TeeVee and at the "As seen on TeeVee" stores nationwide. They were on sale for $9.99 a pair.
Tell ya man, those turbo charged box cutters are super quick at destroying the "hijack" buttons within split seconds.
Could also be that the buttons all malfunctioned accidently at all planes.
A land that can kill the master chief terrorist in his alleged compound, loose a helicopter in the process, dump the body at see and so on.. the odds are completely off the charts anyway.
I concur.... being an avionics technician on aircraft. That 7500 squawk you were refering to comes from the transponder on the aircraft. It is a general information code transmitted to the ground control of any Air Traffic Control Radar that the plane is in range of. At the max, it takes about 5sec. to enter that into the control panel. Pilots are trained for these types of senarios. This has been stupid from day one.
+1000
I know the ZH readers will be as paranoid as me and hence up to speed with this, but if you're not: check out 'Operation Northwoods' online. False flag airliner plan from the 1960s.
Whether it was a false flag attack or not, the 9-11 attack was immenently foreseeable. Anyone with have a brain who had been paying attention to terrorism could have predicted flying planes into buildings. That of course explains why W's administration could easilly have missed it. And I honestly believe if they knew it was a possibility there were factions in the administration who knew that this could move their agenda beyond their wildest wet dreams. And so it did.
If fact, there is an article explaining just that realisation was concluded by a special counter terrorism unit whose memo warning just that possbility was recently declassified.
You can start here: http://my.firedoglake.com/valtin/2011/06/13/dod-whistleblower-documents-...
All the symptoms of a declining Empire ,most notably the initiation of meaningless wars and the onset of dementia.
"...the Bush administration was fully aware the terrorist organization had set its sights on those structures prior to 9/11 and, apparently, government officials failed to act on those warnings."
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Actually, they did act, they planted demolition charges at the WTC in preparation.
Yes, all 3 buildings had free-fall demolition charges pre-placed. That took a lot of time, money, people, explosives, wiring, coordination, etc.
caporegimes are inherently flawed as long as they involve humans. with a big enough bounty & a safe destination, i'm sure a path to the head of the spider can be acquired. the same is also true of one or more of the soldiers who carried out the OBL raid.
no matter what happend our multi billion dollar inteligence aperatus failed BIG TIME, spurning 10yrs of oil war and anything else OBL coulda shoulda woulda
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till we are paying $4 at the pump... only then to find out we should have invaded the libyans who hated our freedom the whole time
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CIA should be disbanded if you ask me... having the US Army chasing them around the world fixing the godamn mess... the peacecorps could do a better job