What if Al-Qaeda doesn't admit to 9/11?

It shouldn't be forgotten after all that A-Q had already bombed the US embassy in Kenya in 1998

Plus they truck bombed the WTC earlier. I think the US attitude would be
"guilty as charged" regardless of whether or not A-Q denyed responsibility for 9-11.
 
IIRC, within minutes, people were speculating in chat rooms and forums that it might be Al Qaeda. Within minutes, not even hours. I remember that too.

I remember that very soon after the Oklahoma City bombings that there was speculation that a Muslim group had done it.

I also remember all the speculation after the Boston Marathon bombing that it was the work of domestic right-wingers.
 
Well the recorders taken from Flight 93 would show that arabic speaking men took control of the plane. The one terrorist which underwent additional security checks pre-flight and going by investigations, combined with passports and visas upont he passenger list the government would link Al-Qaeda to the attacks. Same with other planes all which had passenger lists and in hindsight links between the terrorists and Al-Qaeda was rather obvious.
 
IIRC, within minutes, people were speculating in chat rooms and forums that it might be Al Qaeda. Within minutes, not even hours. I remember that too.

I was on Internet at that time and not many people pointed at AQ since they didnt say anything. People were speculating for hours until the first leads came.

PLFP was the first who admitted to the attack iirc, something they retracted less than 15 minutes later
 
Probably, but it might not be in time to stop the governments response to the group that claimed to have carried out the attack.

Give the US Government more credit than that. They aren't going to go charging it at the first group that claims responsibility and bomb whatever country they are in. They will investigate it first to make sure that there aren't more attacks coming from at home first. As Fenwick said, they have passenger records and information from the black box of Flight 93. They are going to determine the true culprit before acting, a response will take longer.
 
Give the US Government more credit than that. They aren't going to go charging it at the first group that claims responsibility and bomb whatever country they are in. They will investigate it first to make sure that there aren't more attacks coming from at home first. As Fenwick said, they have passenger records and information from the black box of Flight 93. They are going to determine the true culprit before acting, a response will take longer.

I was active duty navy at the time. The talk on the ship for the first 24-48 hours was that we were going to bomb Iraq for it.
 
I was active duty navy at the time. The talk on the ship for the first 24-48 hours was that we were going to bomb Iraq for it.

Rumsfield was looking for any links between and Al-Queda for 9/11 for whatever reason.

But remember they believed Al-Queda was involved before they had claimed responsibility and their beliefs were quickly confirmed when they looked at the passenger manifests and recordings (records of the men who were already suspected sleeper agents) hence the agressive stance of the military (the enemy has been identified). They were sure and they needed to be. If they unsure (for whatever reason) and some other group claimed responsibility, there would be a delay period until these claims could be confirmed.
 
Rumsfield was looking for any links between and Al-Queda for 9/11 for whatever reason.

But remember they believed Al-Queda was involved before they had claimed responsibility and their beliefs were quickly confirmed when they looked at the passenger manifests and recordings (records of the men who were already suspected sleeper agents) hence the agressive stance of the military (the enemy has been identified). They were sure and they needed to be. If they unsure (for whatever reason) and some other group claimed responsibility, there would be a delay period until these claims could be confirmed.

Rumsfield wanted to see if there was a connection between 9/11 and Iraq because Rumsfield, Cheney, and Bush wanted to take down Iraq.
 
Rumsfield wanted to see if there was a connection between 9/11 and Iraq because Rumsfield, Cheney, and Bush wanted to take down Iraq.

Perhaps if some really stupid group in Iraq took credit even though they weren't involved the US might jump the gun
 
To be fair, we did sort of bomb Iraq for it.

I remember as a kid who had yet to give a crap about history or politics, I pretty much saw Afghanistan and Iraq as the same war, and got in a large argument with a kid who was parroting his father's conspiracy theory about oil and I said many times we went to Iraq because of 9/11.

I know we're talking about ignorant little kids and all, but it's something I keep in mind when thinking about the wars, even though I know now it's somewhat wrong. Who was correct or not is somewhat irrelevant because it was very much a "Uh-huh!"/"Nuh-uh!" kind of argument. (Though that kid was a dickwad for unrelated reasons.)
 
Another idea is that a group that no one has heard before sends out a major announcement saying that they did it and they have cells around the world willing to do the same unless their demands met. They send the announcement to all the major press and they keep claiming that they did it even if the government says otherwise.
 
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