I have been contributing lately to another blog which is a bit left of center, in my opinion. As a result, I was involved in a recent back and forth with some guy that thinks Bush, Cheney et al were behind 9-11. In response, I submitted my own theory of what happened that day. I thought I would reprint it here. It's quite complicated, so you might want to get a pen and paper. No matter how bizarre you might think it is, this is what I fervently believe, and I am willing to suffer the barbs and derision. Here goes.
Al-Qaeda sent approximately 20 young Muslims, 15 of whom were Saudis, to the US on a mission of Jihad. On September 11, 2001, they divided into teams and hijacked four jets, killed the stewardesses and pilots, then took over the controls of the planes. Shortly thereafter, three of the planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon while the fourth was crashed into a field in Pennsylvania as passengers attacked the terrorists and stormed the cockpit.
Now here's the one detail I cannot prove, but I sincerely believe that as those four jets crashed into their targets, the hijackers were shouting....
"Allahu Akhbar!"
Fire away, folks.
Pretty good. You forgot to mention that most of them were from Saudi Arabia though, and yet for some reason we went and attacked Iraq. That's the crazy (yet true) part of the story.
ReplyDeleteI was referring to the fact that our government was very eager to put into the minds of Americans that it was Iraq who attacked us.
ReplyDeleteI will concede that things in Iraq are getting better - mainly because we started to let the military have more control over the situation. (And no, I'm not thanking Obama for that. I'm not going to praise the Bush administration for it either though, because that's what they should have done in the first place.)
Anyway, I'll just go back to the point about the 9/11 "Truthers". Their ideas are nutty. They say that the official story involves a lot of coincidences while ignoring that their story involves even more of them.
The problem with the 9/11 Truthers and all other Truthers as a matter of fact is that we can't explain everything. There is an explanation for everything but we just don't know it. Things may look suspicious to them but, as you point out, the alternate explanations bring up many more questions with implausible answers.
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