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Originally posted by MRuss
I'm truly asking because this because I'm trying to learn--not to challenge the truthers.
So, if 9/11 was an inside job then does that mean that all AQ threats are still part of the "inside?"
Do you believe Al Qaeda exists and means to harm us?
Is one mutually exclusive of the other?
Originally posted by metaldemon2000
reply to post by My.mind.is.mine
They believe it was a terrorist attack because it was a terrorist attack. The question is who are the terrorists? It doesn't matter if you are Muslim or believe in the flying spaghetti monster, everyone was taken in by this crap.
Originally posted by yourmaker
Al Qaeda is an American invention. They were a proxxy asset in the 80's.
Funded, armed and trained to do the bidding of the United States.
My guess is they were contracted for 9/11 by the CIA, Mossad and Saudi royals so that the US/NATO alliance could invade the Middle East to extract natural and human resources with a justification of being struck first.
Part of the plan was taking Afghanistan and Iraq, setting the stage for Libya and the revolutions which preceded it just like the colour revolutions in the Caucasus which led to a brief war between Georgia and Russia during the '08 Olympics.
They are the perfect scapegoat, their organization has been advertised as to recruit natural born terrorists into the region so there will always be a resistance to fight against and legitimize the NATO alliance's work in the region.
Originally posted by metaldemon2000
Beliefs may vary.
911 truthers however do share the belief that our govt had some sort of a hand in it however.
Two things are certain.
The Muslim world does despise the US and its ways
The Muslim worldwide thinks that bin laden and company didn't carry out the attacks and that it was a false flag.
What does that tell you?
Originally posted by MRuss
I'm truly asking because this because I'm trying to learn--not to challenge the truthers.
So, if 9/11 was an inside job then does that mean that all AQ threats are still part of the "inside?"
Do you believe Al Qaeda exists and means to harm us?
Is one mutually exclusive of the other?
Originally posted by MortlitantiFMMJ
What resources does Afghanistan have that could justify that expense? And alot of the Iraqi oil contracts went to China
KABUL, Afghanistan – KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan is gearing up to award contracts to mine one the world's largest iron ore deposits buried in a peaceful province of the war-torn nation that has at least $3 trillion in untapped minerals, the country's top mining official said Thursday.
Geologists have known for decades about Afghanistan's vast deposits of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and other prized minerals, but a U.S. Department of Defense briefing earlier this week put a startling, nearly $1 trillion price tag on the reserves.
Afghanistan's mining minister is vowing transparency in the awarding of contracts to exploit what he says is the country's nearly $3 trillion in untapped mineral wealth
Originally posted by ignant
Yes there is one Muslim world, a collective. And it hates us so much! They invade our countries and steal our oil.
They killed almost 3,000 of their own citizens, and then said Bush did it. Bush denied it and went into hiding. We found Bush on the 10th year after his atrocities upon his own people, and buried him at sea. Its certain he did it so he does not need a trial. There's Bush juniors after us now though .Quick, everyone run and hide!
Originally posted by My.mind.is.mine
reply to post by MortlitantiFMMJ
What's in Afghanistan?
heroin!
the occupation has wrought one massive transformation in Afghanistan, a development so huge that it has increased Afghan GDP by 66 per cent and constitutes 40 per cent of the entire economy.
That is a startling achievement, by any standards. Yet we are not trumpeting it. Why not?
The achievement is the highest harvests of opium the world has ever seen.
The Taliban had reduced the opium crop to precisely nil. They stamped out the opium trade, and impoverished and drove out the drug warlords whose warring and rapacity had ruined what was left of the country after the Soviet war.
That is about the only good thing you can say about the Taliban; their suppression of the opium trade and the drug barons is undeniable fact.
Now we are occupying the country, that has changed. According to the United Nations, 2006 was the biggest opium harvest in history, smashing the previous record by 60 per cent.