I don't buy the writers premise. I don't believe many Americans have trouble accepting that the terrorists were "planted" here in the US.

We see America haters among us every day.

Saudis fired intelligence chief who failed to deliver bin Laden into U.S. trap

Before the terrorist attacks on the United States, Saudi Arabia was pressured to fire its intelligence chief early this month because he was linked to Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden.

These boys were stolid henchmen of the "assymetrical warfare" arm of the Trans-Asian Axis. You bet they were
organized, disciplined and professional. They were no doubt recruited and developed to fit perfectly into roles
in scenarios developed by Moscow's, Beijing's and Islamabad's darkest Ops. Don't believe me? Then I suggest reading the various papers written by Yossef Bodansky on this topic and, check out what the Indians have been
writing about pan-national "terrorism" (assymetrical strategic warfare) for years. Bodansky and the Indians
make very credible and geostrategically logical arguments. When we say "A war on terrorism" I sincerely wonder if
we realize that what we are really saying is "A war on China, Russia, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Cuba,
Venezuela, North Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Syria, CIS, Mongolia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Sudan, as well as a 5th
column who have infiltrated the US Government since the 1920s". This is heavy sh&%!

I reckon one good way to turn these normal-seeming "don't fit the profile" guys into terrorists would be if you had some of their family, somewhere back home, under some kind of... "protection".

Another thing to consider is that many of these hijackers may not have completely realized the full extent of the mission. In fact it was only really necessary for the trained pilots to know. At least that's how I would have set up the attack if I were one of these twisted sonsofbitches.

Good points