Time to make our own "statement"
Posted on 09/11/2001 11:54:11 AM PDT by Lady In Blue
| Followers of Osama bin Laden, the suspected Saudi terrorist, gave warning three weeks ago that they would carry out a "huge and unprecedented attack" on American. interests, a London-based Arab journalist said today.
Abdel-Bari Atwan, the editor of the Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, said that he received a warning from Islamic fundamentalists close to bin Laden, but did not take the threat seriously. "They said it would be a huge and unprecedented attack but they did not specify," Mr Atwan said in a telephone interview. "We usually receive this kind of thing. At the time we did not take the warnings seriously as they had happened several times in the past and nothing happened. This time it seems his people were accurate and meant every word they said." Mr Atwan, who interviewed bin Laden in 1996 and has since maintained contacts with his followers, said he believed that the attack on the World Trade Center in New York was the work of "an Islamic fundamentalist group" very close to bin Laden. The United States accuses bin Laden of operating a terrorist network from his bases in Afghanistan, and of blowing up two American embassies in East Africa in 1998. The Taleban, who have refused to hand him over, deny the charge. Mr Atwan said he was surprised by the scale of the attack, but said it was merely a continuation of bin Laden’s "Fatwa" - religious edict - against America. He said that anti-American sentiment was running high in the Middle East because of perceived United States support for Israel. |
And why do we support Israel?
Reasons number 1 throught 10- We know that Israel will not do this to the USA.
My God in His infinate mercy grant strength to the families of those who are lost. May God bless our leaders and guide them in the decisions ahead for out welfare and that of the world.
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.
I'll second that, bro. Just got home. Just started posting. Saw the footage on TV for the first time. I got on my knees for the first time in a long time also...
1. While it may be possible, I think its highly unlikely that any terrorist organization can pull off hijacking four airliners from three major airports at relatively the same time, given the type of controls that are in place at airports throughout the nation.
2. No single hijacker can take charge of an airliner and control the people in the coach and the pilot, second pilot and possibly the flight navigator, in the cockpit at the same time. And NO pilot will take an order from a hijacker to intentionally ram his plane into any building.
3. Being that all flights are tracked by radar from its point of origin to its desination, who sounded an alarm when either of these planes were found to be deviating from its assigned flight path?
There is something about this that smells to high heaven. I wonder what this distraction was created for?
Proposed PETITION to the CONGRESS of the United States: Whereas Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad of Lebanon, and Taliban have declared war upon the United States, and
Whereas these groups have committed unprovoked acts of war against the Government and the people of the United States of America:
I therefore petition the Congress to recognize and formally delcare a state of war between the United States and Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad of Lebanon, and Taliban,
and to authorize and direct the President to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad of Lebanon, and Taliban, and upon any government that harbors, aids and abets same,
and, to pledge all of the resources of the country to bring the conflict to a victorious termination.
Signed
One has to look at the attributes of the attack and what it would have taken to carry this out.
Somehow whatever hardware was used to "hijack" the planes would have had to have been gotten onto the planes past security. People are making a lot of assumptions about what this hardware was (guns in the hands of wild-eyed fanatical humans, where somehow the guns and the fanatical humans got on the planes past airport security) which haven't been backed up by anything yet reported. What if there was no human terrorist on the planes and they were commandeered by remote control? Crazy tin-hat idea, but it's been a crazy day.
And they would have needed someone who could fly the planes with some precision - whether on or off the plane - to be sure of success. A pilot isn't going to obligingly fly the plane into a large civilian target - especially when they know they're dead either way.
Whatever hypothesis you go with, there was a lot - a whole lot - of sophistication behind this one. Not your usual truck bomb. This was really slick, a lot slicker that anything else seen.
And who benefited from it?
We should all keep our eyes and minds open, and be slow to make assumptions. Very strange, this one.
Hopefully the crash investigators will be looking hard for the black boxes, weapons, etc.
Reply to number two. Research posts on here relating to Barbara Olsen
Reply to number three. This question holds some merit. One flight was commandeered over the Adirondacks which is 30 minutes air time from NYC. Details on reaction to this need to be found out.
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