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Originally posted by OtherSideOfTheCoin
reply to post by MarioOnTheFly
5. This one is my favorite.You would need to be certain, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that your crew of 19 will successfully board their respective targets, even though, they were all arab looking, with arab names, some on terrorist watch lists, and were carrying concealed weapons (box cutters). You would need to be sure that none of them will fail to pass the airport security checks. If just one of them fails, the whole plan could just collapse. So 19...why 19? Does it make sense to have odd number of hijackers for an even number of planes? Was one of the planes easier to hijack than the rest and needed fewer guys to control it?
Rather than go through each of your 7 points I will just play with this one for a while,
First of all terrorist watch lists were not the same as they were after 9/11, the lists they were on were not circulated correctly between departments, the terrorists were on the state departments TIPOFF list which the FAA did not have access to. The fact that they were Arabs holds is of no significance however several were selected for CAPPS screaming, it was also quite easy before 9/11 to get on a plane with a box cutter.
On the issue of why 19, well there was supposed to be 20 hijackers however Ramzi Bin al-Shibh (others have been named as the 20th hijacker) was unable to attain a American visa so they made do with 19.
Originally posted by MarioOnTheFly
reply to post by OtherSideOfTheCoin
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So the list was for the state department. Than I suppose, everyone that enters the country is compared against the list, by someone at the state department?
Originally posted by OtherSideOfTheCoin
reply to post by MarioOnTheFly
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And that was the problem, the agencies were not exchanging the information so no, nobody was looking.
Originally posted by MarioOnTheFly
reply to post by OtherSideOfTheCoin
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So the list is useless, and the state departmnet wasn't doing their job. Good to know you guys are paying their wages...
Originally posted by MarioOnTheFly
Not everybody, because nobody took the fall but Osama...what you are saying are dead letters on a screen. OS apologists just shrug shoulders and say "incompetence"...which means..."not guilty".
What do you mean? There is a protocol for checking persons before allowing them in to the country. There is a protocol for dealing with hijackers. There is a protocol also for arresting the accused and having them tried for the crime for which they are accused of.
There are protocols for everything. Protocol for filling forms, for applying for jobs, for putting out fires...there are protocols for plethora of things. Protocol means...prepared response to a predictable situation. Hijacking airplanes is certainly predictable...as was 1000 times shown...and I hate to quote it again...but here it is...Operation Northwood. Claiming that such an event was somehow out of the realm of predictability...is IMO...looking the other way.
But sure...we can argue about specifics...since one of the Hijackers wore orange shorts...that somehow excludes this event from being resolved with protocol. There is a protocol for hijacked airplanes...and whatever the outcome of the hijacking is...protocols were not followed.
I do actually. Human behavior is more or less very predictable. Where I don't have faith is institutions...because they are run by the money...not morality.
The 9/11 Commission itself was incredibly critical of government, agencies and institutions, describing "deep institutional failings", "failure of imagination" and a lack of organisation.
Originally posted by dawnprince
If 9/11 was truly an act of foreign terrorists , why attack the towers at such an early time ? surely if they wanted to be sure of maximum loss of life , they would have attacked when the towers were sure to be more populated .
In that case why fly planes into them?
If it was a controlled demolition just "pull it " and down come both of the towers with every single person inside with no chance whatsoever of anybody evacuating the buildings?
Originally posted by samkent
reply to post by Classified Info
In that case why fly planes into them?
If it was a controlled demolition just "pull it " and down come both of the towers with every single person inside with no chance whatsoever of anybody evacuating the buildings?
Excellant! Bravo!
Why waste time with remote controlled jets.
Just pick a few bad guys in positions to access explosives.
Kill the bad guys and leaves their bodies in to buildings with allah notes.
Set off the explosives.
You don't have to shoot down a plane in PA.
You don't have to plant plane parts in DC.
Originally posted by kidtwist
Planes are more dramatic!
Originally posted by Classified Info
Originally posted by kidtwist
Planes are more dramatic!
Maybe to you.
To have the towers standing there one minute and then seconds later they are GONE with everybody that was inside...is much more dramatic to me.
Originally posted by thedman
reply to post by maxella1
Apparently you have problem with READING COMPREHENSION or did you fail to read the link you
submiited....?