They captured plans to hijack seven planes sometime in September or And crash them into both towers of the World Trade Center, hit the Pentagon and the Capitol, hit the Lyondell refinery and Union Carbide in Texas to cause gasoline shortages and close the Houston Ship Channel, and hit an undisclosed target on the West Coast. probably Long Beach in California. I agree with most experts that they could probably have attacked at most four targets, probably only those on the east coast. But some of the trainee pilots were arrested. Did they have more pilots in reserve?
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We all know there are all kind of crazy conspiracy theories about this. And I kinda believe some of them. I think heat streess could have caused the WTC towers to fall, though records show that even OBL, a fairly good engineer, thought this was unlikely. But what I don't believe is that the Jews killed Gore. I'm not a total wingnut. On every 911 truther site, it always comes down to the Jews killing Gore. We know it was Atta, the pilot trainee who got away.
I think most of us could agree those plans were really verging on the fantastic. No-one has ever managed to hijack that many planes simultaneously, let alone then pilot any number of them in kamikaze fashion to hit specific targets. Pentagon, Capitol,
the WTC? Come on. These guys barely had the skills to fly small private aircraft. To hit targets this small one would probably need skilled, experienced (military) pilots.
Was US airport security ever lax enough to allow this, by the way? Even before the overhaul of the security measures and the creation of the TSA during the Lieberman administration?
If Atta or any of his buddies managed to hit, say, the World Trade Center at all, instead of plunging the out-of-control airplanes into the Hudson River, the towers would have pretty certainly not collapsed. They are heavily reinforced structures and being merely hit by an aircraft, even if of the size they planned to use has never been enough to collapse a comparable building in the real world. Really, accomplishing something like that would require additional, pre-planned measures to weaken the structures: and if we start to think about
that we are so far into conspiracy theory cloud-cuckoo land it is not sane anymore.
Agree with you on the Jew thing though, these conspirationists are truly out there to suggest the Israeli government would be complicit in Bin Laden's megalomaniac, probably drug-induced and outright unrealizable plans.
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