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Originally posted by Rasputin13
Probably because they didn't want to draw any extra suspicion to their vehicle before they carried out their mission. What's the big deal with spending a few dollars for a ticket? That will keep officials from snooping around their car for not having the ticket. That's just my guess.
Originally posted by tommyc
Another fact, is that the bombers bought 'return' train tickets and not one-way tickets. Why would they buy return tickets if they were not intending to go back?
Also the car had other bombs in it and others were at a flat, so it would seem they intended to go back and use them somewhere else.
Originally posted by tommyc
Originally posted by Rasputin13
Probably because they didn't want to draw any extra suspicion to their vehicle before they carried out their mission. What's the big deal with spending a few dollars for a ticket? That will keep officials from snooping around their car for not having the ticket. That's just my guess.
The bombers would have been long gone before anyone had discovered a car without a ticket. Even if it had been discovered without a ticket, it would have been only one of thousands of other cars caught without tickets - nothing suspicious about that.
As it turned out, it took a couple of DAYS before their car was discovered with an expired ticket, and it only arose suspicion because the bombings had already happened and it was feared those who had used the car were victims.
Just a thought I had, but a possible explanation could perhaps be that one or more of the bombers didn't know what was going to happen, and so the other/s wanted to keep the preceding events as normal as possible.
Originally posted by Ponderosa
I do find it interesting that there were exercises being run simulating an attack on the subway at the same time it actually happened, just like 9/11, and i'm not totally convinced by the official story.
However the ticket purchasing part doesn't really mean much to me. I recall hearing that some terrorist, hopefully someone else knows who, was arrested because when he had attempted to enter the US the customs person found it odd that it was a one way ticket and they apprehended him. So in that case to avoid that kind of suspicion you buy the tickets.
Originally posted by Boatphone
Originally posted by tommyc
Originally posted by Rasputin13
Probably because they didn't want to draw any extra suspicion to their vehicle before they carried out their mission. What's the big deal with spending a few dollars for a ticket? That will keep officials from snooping around their car for not having the ticket. That's just my guess.
The bombers would have been long gone before anyone had discovered a car without a ticket. Even if it had been discovered without a ticket, it would have been only one of thousands of other cars caught without tickets - nothing suspicious about that.
As it turned out, it took a couple of DAYS before their car was discovered with an expired ticket, and it only arose suspicion because the bombings had already happened and it was feared those who had used the car were victims.
Just a thought I had, but a possible explanation could perhaps be that one or more of the bombers didn't know what was going to happen, and so the other/s wanted to keep the preceding events as normal as possible.
This does not prove anything, they could have just done it out of habit...
Originally posted by tommyc
Another fact, is that the bombers bought 'return' train tickets and not one-way tickets. Why would they buy return tickets if they were not intending to go back?
Also the car had other bombs in it and others were at a flat, so it would seem they intended to go back and use them somewhere else.
Originally posted by koji_K
Originally posted by tommyc
Another fact, is that the bombers bought 'return' train tickets and not one-way tickets. Why would they buy return tickets if they were not intending to go back?
Also the car had other bombs in it and others were at a flat, so it would seem they intended to go back and use them somewhere else.
In case of a possible mission abort?
-koji K.
Originally posted by tommyc
The Mirror Newspaper has today reported what I had posted.
Originally posted by tommyc
Is there such a thing for suicide bombers because they would only stop if they are caught, and even then they might still blow themselves up with whoever caught them.