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Originally posted by IvanZana
You dont think that having the military run a massive wargame exercise on 911 simulating hijacked airplanes crashing into the pentagon and new york
Originally posted by IvanZana
by terrorists trained by and living near u.s bases in Florida
then having their passports fly out of burning buildings and plane
only to have some of them alive and well somewhere else in the world somewhat conspiratorial?
Originally posted by Kulturcidist
Well, why wouldn't they? The idea of terrorists using passenger jets to attack Western targets was hardly new at that time, in 1994 the French had prevented an attempt by GIA (Algerian Islamic terrorist group) to crash a hijacked Air France jet, fully loaded with fuel, into, surprise surprise, the Eiffel Tower. And just a year earlier the WTC had already been attacked, so it wasn't that much of a stretch.
en.wikipedia.org...
"No one could have imagined them taking a plane, slamming it into the Pentagon" -- I'm paraphrasing now -- "into the World Trade Center, using planes as a missile."
And if the military was indeed "training" for an actual attack then we wouldn't know such exercises had ever taken place, that kinda stuff stays classified forever.
Originally posted by Griff
But yet "no one could imagine hijackers using jets to crash into buildings" right?
"No one could have imagined them taking a plane, slamming it into the Pentagon" -- I'm paraphrasing now -- "into the World Trade Center, using planes as a missile."
www.cnn.com...
No one but the very people tasked with thinking of such things.
Why aren't you asking Ms. Rice what she ment by this when it was "hardly new at this time"?
Originally posted by Griff
It's amazing how if it was a conspiracy everyone would be talking but yet these things "stay classified forever".
Originally posted by Kulturcidist
Yep, that's why they called it an "intelligence failure." We got caught with our pants down, it happens.
I meant they wouldn't have been made public knowledge if those exercises were indeed dry-runs for Operation 9/11, what kind of a moron trains for a terrorist plot and informs everybody about it?
Originally posted by Griff
I wish I could screw up my job as much and still get promoted. I hope Ms. Rice can sleep at night knowing that she couldn't think of a scenario that has already happened in the past and ended up killing over 3,000 innocent people.
Originally posted by Griff
If I screwed up a design and killed 3,000 people would you still be saying "oh well, it happens"? I highly doubt it.
Originally posted by Kulturcidist
As I already mentioned in that other thread, I side with the experts that actually do this kinda stuff for a living.
And the overwhelming majority of them see no evidence of a conspiracy, simple as that.