Posted on 08/27/2004 2:01:17 PM PDT by Cincinna
Really. Let's stick to the obvious facts. Al Qaida never took credit for either flight 587 or flight 800. If it was Al Qaida that took down both flights, Bin Laden wouldn't have been publically silent. The terrorists would have been shouting it from the roof tops.
Except there were no passengers on board with a Canadian passport. Hmmmm.
Actually all the NTSB said on the day of the crash was that they had no evidence it was terrorism, and that was in direct response to a reporter's question. No jumping up and down, no saying it was or wasn't anything, just truthfully answering a stupidly timed question.
Sure, the bolts on the tail just suddenly came loose, just like a spark burned through the fuel tank and caused an explosion.
They didn't claim EgyptAir990 either -- not publicly. But the government officials knew. Clinton knew.
You mean the tail section didn't just fall off all by itself?
I always thought that one of the MO's of Al-Queda was not to acknowledge their hand behind any specific operation, especially immediately after it happens. I do not believe they have ever came right out and said "Yep , it was us" in regard to 9-11. The Bin Laden videos of late 2001 make references to it and you can surmise what they mean, but never a clear "I did it" press release. Splinter groups out to get free PR always take credit like the Russian planes and the Palestinian group with 9-11.
Yep, and I was expecting the same thing to happen regarding the Russian jets, but it seems the Russian government has chosen honesty. Or at least they think they would have been fooling no one since they crashed three minutes apart.
nah, the engines just fell off by themselves ... happens all the time ... [/sarcasm]
Pretty easy to tell. Check the flight manifest.
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I don't remember about the Cole or the embassies, but there was a videotape of Osama claiming responsibility for 9-11 all over the television not long afterward (a couple of months or so).
That is one of the regrettable fallouts of governments covering up terrorist attacks as accidents.
Many terrorist groups want notoriety for their actions. Thus, if a government covers up an act (singular acts called accidents, bad fuel, broken fuel line, cross winds from another plane, etc.), it emboldens those terrorist groups to commit bigger and more expansive acts that are too big to be covered up and classified as accidents.
Flight 800 might have been explaned away as an accident. Was it terrorist or accident? We need the truth.
Flight 587 might have been explaned away as an accident. Was it terrorist or accident? We need the truth.
One plane hitting one of the Twin Towers might have been explained away as an accident. Two planes, much more difficult to explain away. Three planes, impossible to explain away.
There were 30 odd witnesses to an explosion. The single thing that makes it a possibility though (for me) is that vertical stabilizers simply don't separate from airplanes in flight. It would be like your nose separating from your face in a stiff breeze.
Actually, he wasn't claiming responsibility.
He was just applauding the actions.
I find it amazing that all the eyewitnesses on the ground who reported seeing a small explosion by the right wing of the plane were never heard from again.
I've smelled "terrorist" on this since day one.
Faulty rudder my arse.
Agreed. However, a lot of people here seem to think that every plane crash is caused by terrorism or the USN.
Al Quaeda knocked off a plane load of Hispanic people because they can disguise themselves as such.... Three middle-eastern men escaped a ship in Texas a couple of years ago and hid out in a motel in Waco. Everyone thought they were just quiet Mexicans - even the Mexican maid.
I never believed either of them were accidents
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