Richard Rowland wrote:
I have no doubt that anyone pointing out the inconsistencies, in the official report, will be derided as conspiracy wackos, antisemitic, and worse. However, the act of 9-11 was a sophisticated plan that wasn't, nor could it have been, concocted and carried out from a cave. One of the things that made this deception work was that large-scale military simulations were being conducted. How would those hiding in caves have access to that information?
However, those whose software was being used by the military would know everything. It's to no one's advantage that the t***h is being withheld, except for those responsible.
I have no doubt that anyone pointing out the incon... (
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Who was hiding in a cave? Khalid Sheikh Mohammed first presented the idea for the September 11 plot to bin Laden in 1996 in Afghanistan. Nothing was done with it until 1998. In late 1998 or early 1999, bin Laden summoned Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to Kandahar and gave approval for him to go forward with the plot.
Then, in the spring of 1999, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Al Qaeda's military commander), Osama bin Laden, and his deputy Mohammed Atef held a series of meetings in which they finalized the plan. KSM took charge of the operation and over the next two years, he, Osama bin Laden along with other members of Al Qaeda, refined the plan, recruited the attackers, trained them, set up the financing. Mohammed Atta was appointed the field commander. The ball was in Atta's hands.
In a sense, the attack was a military operation; the general and his staff work out the plan, subordinates are assigned to train and equip those who will carry out the attack, and the field commander leads the attack. Once the plan goes operational, it is out of the general's hands.
In January, 2000, the first two of the twenty terrorists, Nawaf al-Hazmi, Khalid al-Mihdhar, arrived in Los Angeles and by early 2001, all of them were in the United States. During this time, the attackers continued pr********ns and training, including gym workouts to stay in shape. Three weeks before the attacks, KSM selected the targets from a list of ten and Atta was notified. He was given the date of the attack three days in advance.
The plan was brilliant in its simplicity, it was by no means "sophisticated". Al Qaeda was not burdened with the expense of a sophisticated or complex operation. (Total cost was estimated at around $500,000) They did not face the logistics of smuggling weapons or any heavy gear into the US, they had powerful weapons waiting for them at airports in Boston, Washington DC, and Newark. All they needed to access them were nineteen flight tickets.
Osama bin Laden DID NOT micromanage the operation from a cave in A-stan. And, not until well after the attacks was he compelled to hide from the forces sent to find him. Beginning in 1995, attempts were made to arrest or k**l him, but not until after the 9/11 attack did the effort go forward in earnest.
FYI: NORAD and the DoD conducts training exercises year round, those taking place on 9/11 were neither "large scale" or unusual.
Pointing out inconsistencies in the official reports is one thing, no problem asking some questions, but manufacturing a conspiracy out of whole cloth is entirely another, and those that have done this are definitely whackos. Moreover, it is irrefutably true that anti-Semites have joined the 9/11 conspiracy movement with their own version based entirely on hatred of Jews and Israel.