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Originally posted by GenRadek
Originally posted by Yankee451
Seems they had about ten years to wire the buildings for explosives.
But dont you know that all explosives have a short shelf life once in the field? Explosives tend to grow unstable, lose their explosive ability, decompose, and lose effectiveness over time. You cannot rig a building and wait years, expecting the explosives to go off without a hitch. The rigging, wiring, blasting caps, all have to be maintained because they too, degrade over time. Constant maintenance would be required to make sure the darn things dont go off or degrade to the point where a sudden gust of wind wouldnt set off the charges prematurely.
What about the inspectors? Wouldn't they notice something amiss? Or are they now added to list of "in on it"? How large is this list going to be?
Originally posted by MamaJ
There have been so many people like George Carlin who honestly think this was a cover up as well. Many many Hollywood stars have come out to speak their opinion and have not been murdered or committed suicide.
BUT...there are also the others....who have either committed "suicide" or been in a "plane crash" that knew something they were not supposed to tell.
Its pretty obvious that all these Arab men with their chatter, schooling and the fact the Government KNEW they were planning such an event....its plain as day this was planned....and not planned by some crazy guys who just learned how to fly a plane. I mean....come on now!~
What about the inspectors? Wouldn't they notice something amiss? Or are they now added to list of "in on it"? How large is this list going to be?
Lightweight aluminum wings cannot cut structural steel columns. Anyone who says they can is either lying or a fool.
Clarke speculates—and readily admits he cannot prove—that the CIA withheld the information because the agency had been trying to recruit the terrorists, while they were living in Southern California under their own names, to work as CIA agents inside Al Qaeda.
Originally posted by patternfinder
Originally posted by GenRadek
Originally posted by Yankee451
Seems they had about ten years to wire the buildings for explosives.
But dont you know that all explosives have a short shelf life once in the field? Explosives tend to grow unstable, lose their explosive ability, decompose, and lose effectiveness over time. You cannot rig a building and wait years, expecting the explosives to go off without a hitch. The rigging, wiring, blasting caps, all have to be maintained because they too, degrade over time. Constant maintenance would be required to make sure the darn things dont go off or degrade to the point where a sudden gust of wind wouldnt set off the charges prematurely.
What about the inspectors? Wouldn't they notice something amiss? Or are they now added to list of "in on it"? How large is this list going to be?
if you had read the article you would have seen that they didn't say anything about planting the thermite or anything of the sort.....it was talking about the PLANS for demoing the building.....
Originally posted by Yankee451
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
Greetings and en garde...
I think the question should be whether AQ ever stopped working for the CIA to begin with.edit on 11-8-2011 by Yankee451 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Originally posted by Yankee451
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
Greetings and en garde...
I think the question should be whether AQ ever stopped working for the CIA to begin with.edit on 11-8-2011 by Yankee451 because: (no reason given)
Ah......begging the question - wonderful - this is the fastest I've ever seen a CT resort to a well known logical fallacy.
Let's not actually establish that AQ works for the CIA - let's jsut say that it is true.
I now fully expect a wave of illogical "connect the dots" drivel including repitition of the speculation/myth about OBL being paid by the USA via the CIA .........blah, blah, blah....
do you have any actually verifiable evidence, or are we gonna have to sit through more diatribes of people telling me stuff that they "know", and is "obvsious"....but they somehow can't actually provide any credible info to prove??
I'm betting it's the later.....still
The mujahideen were significantly financed, armed and trained by the United States [Central Intelligence Agency] (CIA) during the administrations of Jimmy Carter[39] and Ronald Reagan
At that time, the Taliban governed most of Afghanistan, and were engaged in a long-running civil war against a Russian-backed insurgency known euphemistically as the Northern Alliance. John was quickly accepted as a volunteer soldier, and received two months of infantry training in a Taliban military camp before being dispatched to the front lines.
These young soldiers performed heroically in the defeat of the Soviet Union. Their cause was openly supported by the American government itself, particularly during the administration of President Ronald Reagan, who took office two weeks before John's birth in early 1981.
The training camp in Afghanistan where the Ansar received their infantry training was funded by Osama bin Laden, who also visited the camp on a regular basis. He was regarded by the volunteer soldiers as a hero in the struggle against the Soviet Union. These soldiers did not suspect Bin Laden's involvement in planning the 9/11 attacks, which were carried out in secret. John himself sat through speeches by Bin Laden in the camp on two occasions, and actually met Bin Laden on the second such occasion. John has said he found him unimpressive.
Originally posted by GenRadek
Originally posted by Yankee451
Seems they had about ten years to wire the buildings for explosives.
But dont you know that all explosives have a short shelf life once in the field? Explosives tend to grow unstable, lose their explosive ability, decompose, and lose effectiveness over time. You cannot rig a building and wait years, expecting the explosives to go off without a hitch. The rigging, wiring, blasting caps, all have to be maintained because they too, degrade over time. Constant maintenance would be required to make sure the darn things dont go off or degrade to the point where a sudden gust of wind wouldnt set off the charges prematurely.
What about the inspectors? Wouldn't they notice something amiss? Or are they now added to list of "in on it"? How large is this list going to be?
Additionally, other newer explosive materials contain inhibitors and/or stabilizers that lengthen the shelf life of the products. Some explosive products now contain TNT, Composition "B", Pentolite, Tetryl, RDX, PETN and other military type explosives which are extremely stable over a wide range of conditions for a long period of time. Many of these products have virtually unlimited shelf life.
Originally posted by aboutface
reply to post by -W1LL
Well no matter how the details are spun, the reinforced message I am hearing from this is that there were foreign hijackers who crashed planes into the buildings. The timing is interesting too. I somehow believe that this is the first of the many similar stories we'll be fed until the 10th anniversary of those horrendous murders.
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
do you have any actually verifiable evidence, ...?