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Originally Posted by mdbapa
These posts are helping me out quite a bit.
However, both stories seem implausible.
1.) 19 angry muslims who, lead by Osama Bin Ladin living in Afghanistan, took control of 4 commercial jets and crashed 2 into the trade towers, one into the pentagon, and missed on the third attempt and crash landed in a field.
Ok, if this is exactly what happened, which would have to be the best thought out terror attack in history… How on earth could our government be so incompetent? Why was there no government officials removed from their positions due to their incompetence? Why did we only send 10-20 thousand troops into Afghanistan, if the people who were responsible were trained there? There were many warnings of a possible attack, too many to ignore. Even if I believe in the official story, I am still left with just as many unanswered questions.
2.) And the conspiracy theories that are talked about. It would take me forever to go over the details put forward- That should say enough about the implausibility.
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I'm speculating here, so bare with me.
It seems to me that the terrorists basically utilized the weaknesses in our homeland security at that time.
IIRC, NORAD was looking for threats
outside the US, not within. So, when calls of hijacked aircraft came in, it was assumed they were approaching from overseas.
Security and background checks most likely weren't as strict as they are now, especially for people that are being trained to be commercial pilots.
I've no idea about the reasoning for the troop deployment. Probably because that was considered to be a sufficent number.
The signs might have been there; they just weren't put together.
It seems to me, then, that terrorists weren't considered capable of such an act. The general idea was that terrorits were thought to want attention, not a lot of people dead. 9/11 changed that attitude.
It seems to me, then, that it was no one person's fault. It was just part of the mentality held at that time, possibly the same reason the attack on Pearl Harbor happened.
While one can have questions regarding the events of 9/11, as well as the events that lead to it, it doesn't have to make the offical story less plausible.
It's like the
Titanic disaster; we know what happened. It's the circumstances that people have questions about. Ditto for 9/11.
Again, these are speculations. They may be as wrong as can be.