Posted on 02/03/2016 7:15:40 AM PST by InvisibleChurch
JERUSALEM: Osama bin Laden got inspiration for the deadly 9/11 terror attacks from a 1999 plane crash in which an Egyptian airline pilot deliberately downed his plane in the Atlantic Ocean, the al-Qaida has claimed.
In an article titled 'September 11 attacks — the story untold' published in its weekly magazine al-Masrah, the al-Qaida said the inspiration for the September 11 attacks was the story of Gamil al-Batouti, the Egyptian co-pilot, who deliberately crashed EgyptAir flight from Los Angeles to Cairo, killing 217 people, including 100 Americans.
According to al-Masrah, when the then al-Qaida chief Osama heard about the Egyptian plane crash, he asked, "Why didn't he crash it into a nearby building?", pronouncing the idea of targeting buildings, the Jerusalem Post reported.
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it was from his brother Neva
He could have read Tom Clancy as well. Don’t remember the title of the book, but a Japanese airline pilot crashed his plane on the Capitol Hill.
Tom Clancy also described an “Oklahoma City” bombing. Dangerous guy... :-)
Huh.
Did Bin Ladin also see TWA 800 as inspiration?
That was “Debt of Honor”. Good stuff.
“Debt of Honor.”
At that time, I remember thinking this was intentional terrorism (murder), but amazingly, it got sloughed off to other reasons. How naive were were (and still are).
Would not be surprised one day that it comes out after so many years that Tom Clancy was a CIA spook like Ian Fleming was in British Intelligence.
Debt of Honor.
Had a happy ending - the entire US Congress, SCOTUS, Cabinet and a Liberal President wiped out...
I thought it was those eeeeeevil guys - George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who were REEEEEEALLY behind it!
CNN wouldn’t lie to me, would they???
Geeez.... Islam
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