9/11...maybe this is what happened

Yeah there's a million possibilities.
Here's another:
The U.S had warnings about 9/11 as early as the 93 WTC bombing.
The investigation was followed closely at the White House by the man who served as head of counterterrorism in both the Clinton and Bush Administrations, Richard Clarke..but Richard was told by the CIA that the individuals responsible were just people who all coincidently hated the United States and somehow, somewhere had met and decided let's blow up the World Trade Center...

They decide the master mind is Ramzi Yousef, the man who was driving the van and who, minutes after the attack, sent a message to the New York Times claiming the bombing was in retaliation for American support of Israel and oppression of the Palestinian people...then he pissed off to the Phillipines for a bit to practice making bombs.


He wanted to test one of his home made pieces so he left one on a Japan bound flight and got off the plane before take off.
Coppers had no clues for awhile till Yousef accidently set his apartment on fire and bailed leaving a plethora of assasination plans and equipment..the po also found plans to simultaneously blow up numerous planes indicating that the initial idea of Yousef being the master mind were way off the mark..
Yousef got away but the coppers catch his goon Abdul Hakim Murad.
In an interrogation/torture sessions that went on for weeks, Murad revealed an even larger plot - to attack U.S. landmarks with aircraft, and that he was a trained pilot recruited specifically for that purpose, believing there were two Satans that must be destroyed: the Pope and America

In 1995, Ramzi Yousef's plot to attack U.S. landmarks with aircraft was taken seriously. The CIA issued a 'National Intelligence Estimate' which said "Several targets are especially at risk: national symbols such as the White House and the Capitol, and symbols of U.S. capitalism such as Wall Street. We assess that civilian aviation will figure prominently among possible terrorist targets in the United States."


That CIA report was over six years before 9/11.

So now that they realised Yousef was involved not only in the 93 bombing but also plans to assasinate the pope and blow up a bunch of planes they U.S upped the ante and got serious...by dropping 37,000 matchbooks, which featured his picture and a 2-million-dollar reward for information leading to his arrest..
One of his cronies caved for the cash and dobbed him in.
He was sentanced to over 200 years and gave only one interview..He told correspondent Raghida Dergham about a new Islamic militant group that would rise up to challenge the United States, "He was speaking about a network, an international network, a network all over, different countries, different nationalities, he was talking about al-Qaeda."

But alas, there was no network...Ramzi Yousef was the bomber man who alone threatened to destroy America... We had caught Yousef and he was the mad bomber, as far as we were concerned. He was the one who tried to blow up the World Trade Center One. He was the one who tried to do the Bojinka plot. He was the one who tried to get the Pope and blow him up. He was the one that wanted to get the President when he was in Manila and blow him up. I mean, this was a one-man squad to try and blow up people.

Yousef fucked up, made a call to his uncle-Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, from prison.
It was soon realised Mohammed was behind the finances of the whole operation so the U.S. government decided to try to kidnap Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and bring him back to face American justice, but there was no great enthusiasm for the job.
"So we asked CIA if they could go into Qatar without the permission of the local authorities and secretly snatch this guy. It didn't seem like a big request. Well, it turned out it was. The CIA, after a lot of analysis, came back and said no, they couldn't do it. They didn't have the capability. It flabbergasted me. We then turned to the military and said, 'Well, can you go in and snatch him?' They came back with a plan that was akin to the invasion of the country..."

Clinton's cronies appealed to the Emir of Qatar for assistance and Mohammed fled not long after..dissapearing into Afghanistan where he met a Saudi financier named Osama Bin Laden, who was known by the CIA to be a terrorist financier as far back as 1993.
By 96 Bin Laden had moved to Afghanistan and called upon the Muslim world to wage war against America via a unique mix of medievil theology and 21st CEO business techniques which resulted in the rapid build up of Al-Qaeda
In May 1998, Bin Laden called a press conference to announce he was joining forces with the Egyptian group, Islamic Jihad. In this press conference, he announced the creation of the International Islamic Front for Jihad against the U.S. and Israel. And he said that al-Qaeda was merging in this front, that very day..

Bin Laden published a 12-page declaration of war against the United States. Mike Scheuer, head of the CIA Bin Laden Unit, was impressed. "It was a learned document. It wasn't a wild man saying I declare war against you. It was a very reasoned document. I think that's what caught the eye of most of the people who were working against bin Laden, that this guy is something different than we had seen before. How was it received in Washington? It was blown off. Yeah, you know, bin Laden and what power is going to declare war on the United States?"

By 1998, there was a new power allied with bin Laden. The Taliban had seized control of Afghanistan and were imposing draconian, religious laws on the population. Mullah Omar, the reclusive head of the Taliban, protected bin Laden as a guest in his country..
CIA started tracking him and came up with a kidnap plan...a debate regarding innocent casualties arose and the hesitation gave Bin Laden time to blow up the U.S. African embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi.
Clinto fired up and shot off some cruise missiles but missed Bin Laden, who then continued to stay a few steps ahead as the CIA chased him all over the middle east.
Finally in Dec 98 they got a tip he'd be staying overnight in the Governors mansion in Kandaha.
"Hit him tonight, we may not get another chance" was the message..
Whitehouse doubted the intel and estimated close to 200 injuries.
This coupled with the close proximity of a Mosque was enough to cancel the attack.

The Clinton Administration's last good chance to kill Osama bin Laden was at a falcon hunting camp in southern Afghanistan in 1999. Falcon hunting is wildly popular with the ultra rich throughout the Arab world. The CIA followed bin Laden to the camp and determined that he was going to stay for a few days. But satellite photos also revealed the presence of a military C-130 aircraft from the United Arab Emirates indicating that senior officials from the UAE government were hunting with bin Laden. Once again the White House decided to stand down..They did not want to take the chance of killing some of America's closest allies in the Persian Gulf, despite the fact these allies were harbouring a known terrorist financier.


This bit is particularly retarded:
Members of President Clinton's national security team say they were less concerned about the cost of hitting bin Laden and his friends and more pre-occupied with the cost of missing. James Steinberg was the Deputy National Security Advisor at the time, "You don't want to look like you can't succeed. That's one thing that we were very conscious of is that to undertake a number of attacks that failed would not only not achieve our purpose but would actually strengthen bin Laden and his group. It would look like we could not get him and that we were ineffective in getting him

In December 2000, when George W. Bush was finally declared the winner of the U.S. presidential election, he sat down for a private meeting with Bill Clinton at the White House. In that meeting, Clinton says he told Bush that al-Qaeda was the biggest threat to the United States and that not catching or killing bin Laden was one of the greatest regrets of his presidency.

On January 20th, 2001 George W. Bush was sworn in as President of the United States. Five days later, Bush received a memo from his White House counterterrorism director, Richard Clarke, saying - "We urgently need a Principals-level review of the al-Qaeda network." That urgently required meeting would not take place for almost 9 months..

So on it went, Osama was busy planning the destruction and the Bush administration was busy with more pressing issues.

The testimony of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was recently introduced into evidence in a U.S. court. The testimony is based on hours of interrogations. Mohammed proudly described how he sold bin Laden on the idea for the 9/11 attacks and how they settled on methods and targets. "After the 1993 attacks on the World Trade Centre, I decided that explosives and bombs could be problematic, and so I focused on using airplanes as weapons. The most attractive targets were high buildings, both for their relative ease of targeting, as well as for the symbolic impact. Bin Laden expressed his desire to simultaneously hit the Pentagon, the White House, and the U.S. Capitol building. He had Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar in mind for the operation," he testified.

These lads had no problems getting into the U.S, like 16 of the 19 involved they should have been stopped at the border checks for problems with their visa etc...but information is power and in their stupidity the various intelligence agencies failed to share any of this information with each other, thus ensuring the men had a free run into the country despite 16 of them doing so illegally.

The CIA, FBI, the military and whoever else were to busy arguing about who would pay to replace the new drone predator plane should it crash to worry about monitoring lists of suspected terrorists.


In the spring and summer of 2001, U.S. Intelligence began hearing chatter about the 9/11 plot. A CIA informant reported that Osama bin Laden was interested in using commercial pilots as terrorists. On June 22, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a bulletin to airlines warning of a 'possible hijacking plot by Islamic terrorists'. On June 25, there was a threat advisory to all government agencies warning about the 'high probability of imminent spectacular terrorist attack by al-Qaeda'

On August 6th 2001, while on vacation in Crawford, Texas, George Bush was given his Presidential Daily Brief. The headline is stark - 'Bin Laden Determined To Strike in U.S.' The document suggested al-Qaeda 'would follow the example of World Trade Centre bomber, Ramzi Yousef, and bring the fighting to America'. The document highlighted 'patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks' but no action was taken

In August 2001, the CIA finally shared some key intelligence that could have prevented the 9/11 attack. The CIA told the FBI that Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar were al-Qaeda agents with U.S. visas and should be tracked down. Unfortunately, the FBI request to find the two was labelled 'Routine', giving the searchers thirty days to respond
FBI headquarters finally took notice that the two al-Qaeda suspects had flown into Los Angeles 18 months earlier, and so this cable was sent to the FBI office in LA asking for their help in tracking al Mihdhar and al Hazmi. The cable is dated September 10, 2001..

When the planes hit the military were among the last to be told..
Bush couldn't get in contact with anyone and Cheney possibly gave the order to shoot down civillian planes if they were suspected to have been hijacked, despite not being authorised to do so..
Two jet fighters took off from Langley air base and flew 250km in the wrong direction.
The air traffic controllers contacted some poor sod in a cargo plane over Washington and asked him to keep an eye out for an American Airlines plane just as the thing nearly rammed him..
Cheney ordered emergency measures designed to ensure continuity of the U.S. government in the event of nuclear war.
Around Washington, senior government officials were rushed off to bomb shelters and other secure locations in case more planes hit more key decision-making centres.
The senior air traffic controller ordered all planes to land..something never done before.
Whatever was left up there was the enemy..fantastic logic right there.

FAA headquarters officials were supposed to notify the military of the last hijacking but staff members there were recorded dithering about the hijacked United flight.

FAA HEADQUARTERS: They're pulling Jeff away to talk about United 93.
COMMAND CENTER: Uh, do we want to think about, uh, scrambling aircraft?
FAA HEADQUARTERS: Uh, God, I don't know.
COMMAND CENTER: Uh, that's a decision somebody's gonna have to make probably in the next 10 minutes. FAA HEADQUARTERS: Uh, ya know everybody just left the room.

Apparently, there was only one person at FAA headquarters who was authorized to call in the military.
The record shows that between 10:10 and 10:15 in the White House bunker, the Vice President was asked if military pilots could shoot down any hijacked aircraft headed for Washington. He immediately gave the order. The problem is that only the President had the authority to do so. Later, both Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney claimed to the 9/11 Commission that the President actually gave the shoot-down order about 15 minutes earlier, but the White House call records do not support their claim.
Even stranger still was the fact none of the pilots recieved the order...A presidential order not reaching the Air force..shit.
There is one pilot who received a shoot-down order, but he was not in a position to execute it. Marc Sasseville flies out of Andrews Air Force Base, just a few kilometres from the White House. He received the order not through the proper military channels, but directly from the Secret Service in the White House bunker with the Vice President...

Slowly Junior was told the story..the FBI knew the names of people in this country who were al-Qaeda and yet these people were allowed to get on airplanes under those names, not using false identity...
FAA headquarters had issued a terrorist hijack alert three months earlier...

Richard Clarke says that he did everything in his power to coax them into action against al-Qaeda without success. In the twenty-four hours following 9/11, the Bush team was ready to go to war.. "in meetings on September 11th and on September 12th, the defence department officials, including Secretary Rumsfeld, began talking about the need to attack Iraq. I first thought that they were kidding and it became clear that they weren't. Rumsfeld said, well yeah, we could attack Afghanistan but there aren't very many targets to bomb in Afghanistan and they're not worth very much. So we should bomb Iraq where there are much better targets. I thought there's no connection between what just happened and Iraq. That didn't seem to bother them. I said well attacking Iraq actually will make it more difficult for us to get the kinds of support we need in the world particularly in the Muslim world. That didn't seem to bother them. Secretary Powell tried to have a restraining influence on this discussion. Secretary Powell said look the world is not going to understand if we don't go after Afghanistan. That's where the attack of September 11th was launched from. So reluctantly, during the course of the week, the defence department came around to a consensus and the consensus was called Afghanistan first that's what the President approved, an Afghanistan first policy. It was very clear what was second,"

Eight months after the attack, Condoleezza Rice maintained that there had been no warnings, "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Centre, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon. That they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile."

James Steinberg, former Deputy National Security Advisor disagrees
"One could not, not have known about that. There were known plans to us to fly a plane into the CIA. We certainly knew about other operations in other parts of the world involving flying a plane into a target. So it was on everybody's radar screen and I don't accept the argument somehow that this couldn't have been imagined. It was very much something that people understood was a potential method of attack."

From the 1995 Intelligence Estimate, which predicted terrorists would use airplanes as weapons to attack U.S. landmarks, to the hijacking threats that were communicated to the President in August 2001 there were a lot of warnings on the path to 9/11..This is a failure of government right down the line. Whether it's the intelligence agencies, whether the immigration people, whether it's the FAA, whether, you name the agency, they all shared here in culpability