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Originally posted by esdad71
Our government is not smart enough nor equipped to pull off something of the magnitude of 9/11.
The reason DHS was created was because of the intel failures that were found during the 9/11 investigation.
I mean, if it was a government operation, would they not have made sure flight 93 had reached its destination, when in fact they shot it down themselves?
Originally posted by esdad71
do you really think there is anything to be hidden from journalists about 9/11?
[edit on 2-5-2006 by esdad71]
Originally posted by Crazy_Mr_Crowley
Face it. 9/11 was an inside job.
Originally posted by pawnplayer
Simply put, there are certain people who have very poor perceptions regarding the US government or the Bush administration being behind the 9/11 attacks. People tried to throw all kinds of "proofs", "statements" and "conspiracy theories" from the Internet, as if the Internet is always right about everything and government versions are always wrong. I can understand their "obsessive" needs to offer different alternative views instead of the official versions. I mean this is the ATS.com - deny ignorance and all that.
Those who believed or assumed that the 9/11 attacks are an inside job are really amateurs. They are like trying to solve the cause of arson by simply pointing a burnt piece of wood on the floor as the evidence of arson.
Three questions should bear in mind for those who think 9/11 attacks as an inside job:
1 - Were you there with the real investigators on the causes of the 9/11 attacks as well as being physically at the affected sites during the investigations?
2 - Do you have any credible expertise to prove and determine, without a doubt, the 9/11 attacks as an inside job?
3 - Do you have any solid experience and/or skills in intel gathering, federal administrative tasks, infrastructure engineering, airline engineering, demolition/explosion materials, autopsy, fire investigation, counter-terrorism, law enforcement, etc. etc. or all of above??
Please, please do not provide me hyperlinks to other experts or websites on all things relating to the 9/11 attacks.
The questions I'm asking are for the members participating in this discussion thread.
Originally posted by pawnplayer
Three questions should bear in mind for those who think 9/11 attacks as an inside job:
1 - Were you there with the real investigators on the causes of the 9/11 attacks as well as being physically at the affected sites during the investigations?
2 - Do you have any credible expertise to prove and determine, without a doubt, the 9/11 attacks as an inside job?
3 - Do you have any solid experience and/or skills in intel gathering, federal administrative tasks, infrastructure engineering, airline engineering, demolition/explosion materials, autopsy, fire investigation, counter-terrorism, law enforcement, etc. etc. or all of above??
Please, please do not provide me hyperlinks to other experts or websites on all things relating to the 9/11 attacks.
The questions I'm asking are for the members participating in this discussion thread.
Originally posted by pawnplayer
1 - Were you there with the real investigators on the causes of the 9/11 attacks as well as being physically at the affected sites during the investigations?
Originally posted by Mog_of_Eligius
To use this analogy is a great injustice to the thousands of innocent lives LOST and the other tens of thousands of lives DESTROYED by wars that came from the events of 9-11.
Originally posted by Mog_of_Eligius
We are free thinking and feeling creatures. Because we are not "experts" does not mean we cannot speak with authority or authenticity about the events that happen in our reality.
Most people who question the official story do not have expert opinions, but rather common sense and hundreds of questions. Why is my house on fire? Why wont my car start? Why? Why? Why? The lack of answers is deafening.
I've read numerous threads here and other places about the US government's involvement in 9/11 and a lot of it is quite convincing. But something I've never seen is how members or supporters of AlQueda feel about that possibility.
If they think it's true or if it is in fact true, then wouldn't they have negative feelings towards what took place that day? Especially given what has taken place since then? All 9/11 did was pave the way for the US to achieve it's well known goals in the Middle East, no? It seems like this would not be a "victory" for AlQueda?
Are there websites/forums in English where members/supporters of AlQueda address this subject?
Is AlQueda extremely exaggerated?
Is AlQueda even real?
Originally posted by AccidentallyOnPurpose
AlQaeda is a CIA invention. AlQaeda isn't real. AlQaeda isn't your local mickey mouse club that offers memberships and weekend meetings discussing new means to attack the west because they hate their freedom and values. Since there is no AlQaeda thus there are no supporters.
Afghan Jihad
His wealth and connections permitted him to pursue his interest in supporting the mujahideen, Muslim guerrillas fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. (See: the History of Afghanistan.) By 1984 he had established an organization named Maktab al-Khadamat (MAK) (Office of Order in English), which funneled money, arms and Muslim fighters from around the world into the Afghan war.
Some argue that MAK was supported by the governments of Pakistan, the United States[6] and Saudi Arabia, and that the three countries channelled their supplies through Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). This account is vehemently denied by the U.S. government, which maintains that U.S. aid went only to Afghan fighters, and that Afghan Arabs had their own sources of funding, an account also supported by Al Qaeda itself. [7].
Robin Cook, former leader of the British House of Commons and Foreign Secretary from 1997-2001, wrote in The Guardian on Friday, July 8, 2005, "Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally 'the database', was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians."
Formation of al-Qaeda
By 1988, bin Laden had split from the MAK and established a new militant group, later dubbed al-Qaeda by the U.S. government, which included many of the more militant MAK members he had met in Afghanistan. The Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989 and bin Laden was lauded as a mujahideen hero in Saudi Arabia.
Afghan jihad
Al-Qaeda evolved from the Maktab al-Khadamat (Office of Services, MAK) — a Mujahidin organization fighting to establish an Islamic state during the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Osama bin Laden was a founding member of the MAK, along with Palestinian militant Abdullah Yusuf Azzam. The role of the MAK was to channel funds from a variety of sources (including donations from across the Middle East) into training Mujahidin from around the world in guerrilla combat, and to transport the combatants to Afghanistan. The MAK was mostly funded by donations from wealthy Muslim individuals but was also allegedly aided by the governments of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and indirectly by the United States, which channeled much of its support via the Pakistani intelligence service, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate. During the latter half of the 1980s, the MAK was a relatively minor grouping in Afghanistan with no direct combatants; rather it limited its activities to fundraising, logistics, housing, education, refugee care, recruitment and the financing of other mujahideen.
After a protracted and costly war lasting nine years, the Soviet Union finally withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989. Mohammed Najibullah's socialist Afghan government was rapidly overthrown by elements of the Mujahidin. With Mujahidin leaders unable to agree on a structure for governance, anarchy ensued with ever-changing control of ill-defined territories falling under constantly reorganising alliances and schisms between regional warlords.
Outreach from Afghanistan
Toward the end of the Soviet military mission to Afghanistan, some mujahideen wanted to expand their operations to include Islamist struggles in other parts of the world. A number of overlapping and interrelated organizations were formed to further those aspirations.
One of these was the organization that would eventually be called al-Qaeda which was formed by Osama bin Laden in 1988. Bin Laden wished to extend the conflict to nonmilitary operations in other parts of the world; Azzam, in contrast, wanted to remain focused on military campaigns. After Azzam was assassinated in 1989, the MAK split, with a significant number joining bin Laden's organization.
Gulf War and start of U.S. enmity
Following the Soviet Union's withdrawal from Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 had put the Saudi Arabian ruling House of Saud at risk both from internal dissent and the perceived possibility of further Iraqi expansionism. In the face of seemingly massive Iraqi military presence, Saudi Arabia's own forces were well armed but outnumbered. Bin Laden offered the services of his mujahideen to King Fahd to protect Saudi Arabia from the Iraqi army. But from the strategic viewpoint, were Iraqi forces to be ejected from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia provided the only possible land-bridge whereby international troops could assemble in order that the Iraqi invasion could be repulsed.
After some deliberation the Saudi Monarch refused bin Laden's offer and instead opted to allow United States and allied forces to deploy on his territory. Bin Laden considered this a treacherous deed. He believed that the presence of foreign troops in the "land of the two mosques" (Mecca and Medina) profaned sacred soil. After speaking publicly against the Saudi government for harboring American troops he was quickly forced into exile to Sudan and his Saudi citizenship was revoked.
Shortly afterwards, the movement which came to be known as al-Qaeda was formed.
later dubbed al-Qaeda by the U.S. government
Originally posted by Crazy_Mr_Crowley
On top of that 150 different countries and intelligence agencies warned the US before hand and yet they play the dumb card. It just doesn't make sense.
How could terrorists plant explosives in the building? We've all seen the videos of 9/11 and testomony from people who were there. It's clear that the building was brought down by internal explosives. The fires only burned for 56 minutes so that would have not been enough time to melt the steel enough for the building to collapse exactly like a controlled demolition.
9/11 was a False flag terrorist attack. Governments in history have done it all the time for whatever their personal gains and interests are. Hitler did exactly what Bush is doing now. Fake a terrorist attack, blame a foreign enemy, bring down the consititution and build a police state.
History is repeating itself in case some of you can't understand that.