Sorry it took me a while to acknowledge your reply, but the reason I ask if anyone remembers Jeep-in-Mazar (sp?) is that he supposedly picked that name because when he left Afghanistan in late 2000 or early 2001 he had been forced to leave his Jeep in the town of Mazar which I believe was controlled by the Northern Alliance guerillas.
Anyway, he was on a thread the day before 9/11 where we were discussing the assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud, “the Lion of Panjsher”, the leader of the Northern Alliance who had fought the Soviets, and then the Taliban and by extension Bin Laden. He was assassinated by two Al Quedda posing as journalists on the 8th of September although at the time it was not known who his assassins were.
Within hours of the killing, the ruling Taliban officials named Bin Laden as Minister of Defense, Plenipotentiary, in effect bringing him into their government. Jeep-in-Mazar was insistent that this was not just a reward for the assassination but a sign of the merging of bin Laden’s group with the Taliban and bigger things to come. All of this within hours of 9/11.
As I recall, I looked back one time and went through the 9/11 threads before some were lost and it was 18 minutes after the first tower being hit that THIS forum had posters talking about Bin Laden by name and it took about a week for the stupid Lame-stream Media to bring it up and tell America who did this vile killing.
I remember the discussion of Massoud murder.
Didn’t recall the transfer of power from Taliban to al Qaeda.
Back in 2001 I was still traveling to make a living. Spent time away and did not have web part of that time. So it was in and out.
It took an extremely long time for the media to appear to “get it”. They were still talking about how Bush stole the election. Idiots. That finally ended with 9/11, Bush suddenly had to step up to the plate. Press finally knew to back off.