Posted by
Mike on Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:13:48 PM
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What really happened on 9/11?
Osama bin Laden was a renegade CIA asset who turned against the West after fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, apparently because of his hatred for the Saudi regime. Looking at it in this context, there may be a plausible explanation for what happened.
It is inconceivable to me that US intelligence was not aware of a plot by al Qaeda to attack the Twin Towers using commercial airplanes as missiles on 9/11. Our military was undoubtedly prepared well in advance for anything that might have happened, and in retrospect anything that did happen. A decision was made at the top levels to allow the airplane hijackings to take place if the hijackers could get past ordinary airport security, and this is the key element of solving the puzzle.
President Bush was still in the dark to all of this before it happened. That is why he was commenting on the virtues of literacy to school kids when it happened.
Because our government knew of the threat well in advance, efforts were taken in conjunction with Israeli intelligence to minimize the collateral damage of flack in the event that the terrorist attacks were to materialize. We know that the Twin Towers were evacuated and the buildings closed for several days prior to 9/11. It is likely that Israeli intelligence agents took this opportunity in cooperation with the WTO lessee Larry Silverstein to plant high powered explosives at strategic locations within the buildings. This would explain why Israelis were observed celebrating on the rooftop of a nearby building on the morning of 9/11, and Larry Silverstein's statement that he had made a comment regarding WTO 7 to the NYFD Commander to "just pull it" implying that he had advanced knowledge of explosives planted in the building.
The two hijacked airplanes that did not strike the towers were both shot down by scrambling Air Force jets. That is why President Bush gave special recognition to the crew of airmen. The stories about passengers wrestling with the hijackers and Barbara Olson's cell phone conversation from above Washington were complete fabrications necessary to provide security cover. Both airplanes were shot down in midair.
A missile was then fired directly into the Pentagon. The refurbishing work on the Pentagon at the location of the strike was decided upon months before as part of the contingency plan to reduce civilian and military causalities in the event that the missile strike would be ordered, probably by VP Cheney, on 9/11.
From a moral perspective, the question is whether a government can order a strike on a military target of its own forces to provide security cover for another defensive maneuver against an enemy attack if precautions are taken to reduce the loss of life.