Breaking News! 9/11 Mastermind confesses

Busherie you are missing the point that I am trying to get across to you. I know wars kill people, everybody knows that people die in wars; this is the very nature of war. I am not even defending this, I am not defending the decision to invade Iraq, this is a matter of another debate and not relevant to this issue.

The issue is was this war part of an on going deliberate act in a long line of acts that were fore planned and thought though. This is why I laboured the point of intent in my last post.

It is my contention and I stand by it that although the war inside Iraq is terrible and has had terrible consequences it was never planned this way. There, IMO was no deliberate and malicious intent on anybodies part for thousands of innocent people to die and the country to slide towards civil war. This war was not started to achieve this, it never was, although this has happened.

It is, from what I read, your contention that this was the case, that the war inside Iraq was deliberately started to further a political agenda and that the deaths of thousands of innocent people was actually part of this. This I disagree with, although I disagree with this war I do not believe it was started as part of an on going deliberate program simply designed to spread death and destruction and totally destabilise the Middle East... yes this has happened but it was not the intention, it was never the intention..

This is the difference with somebody deliberately allowing the terrorist actions of 911 to happen. It would have been intended.

This is why I will not be convinced that somebody deliberately allowed innocent citizens in their own country to be targeted. Because for this to happen it is not simply a case of miscalculating, or simply not seeing the consequences of ones own actions. It is the reverse it is very calculated and a deliberate act. It would have been an act of unparallel evil. To simply sit back and do nothing and knowingly put thousands of innocent lives at risk.

To summarise, the follow events of 911 have , yes have been disastrous not just for the Middle East but for World security in general, but although this has happened it was done though simply misreading and miscalculating the consequences of starting something with unforeseen consequences.
To state that these consequences were deliberately engineered and that somebody, the neocons, would in anyway see this as in their best interest is wrong. then to take it further and suggest that anybody would deliberately allow 3000 of their own to be murdered to start a chain of events which as had nothing short of catastrophic results, which were also engineered is simply wrong, plain and simple.

Is it possible that they did so? Yes of course it is possible but is it plausible? No it is not. Because allowing the targeting of your own citizens and then deliberately spreading death and destruction is in nobody’s interest.

We differ in our opinions but I will condemn any politician, including our own for getting it all wrong, for simply making matters worse. But I will not be party to condemning anybody for deliberately, maliciously and intentionally allowing it all to happen, without absolute proof. To date there is none.

On this I will end because I really have no desire to dragged further and further into a political debate. I have stated my opinion and stand by it

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Thx for taking the time to answer.

Before we end this debate, I would like to clarify my position.

I don't believe the neocons thought their wars would end up this way. They did not think it would led to civil war.

However, it's likely they let 9/11 happen (or did not try to stop it, if you prefet) to start the war, not to bring endless violence to the middle-east.

Busherie
 
Thx for taking the time to answer.

Before we end this debate, I would like to clarify my position.

I don't believe the neocons thought their wars would end up this way. They did not think it would led to civil war.

However, it's likely they let 9/11 happen (or did not try to stop it, if you prefet) to start the war, not to bring endless violence to the middle-east.

Busherie
To complete this argument, here is an interesting document: a slide presented to Rumsfeld in 2002, saying that by december 2006 theyre would be only 5000 troops left in IRaq. So the neocons likely used 9/11 for their plans and no, they didn't know it would be such a mess. They even though (i'm speculating here) that Iran would be in their hands by now. Looks like it's gonna a tough task... :

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Washington D.C., [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]February 14, 2007[/FONT][/FONT]- The U.S. Central Command's war plan for invading Iraq postulated in August 2002 that the U.S. would have only 5,000 troops left in Iraq as of December 2006, according to the Command's PowerPoint briefing slides, which were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and are posted on the Web today by the National Security Archive (www.nsarchive.org).
The PowerPoint slides, prepared by CentCom planners for Gen. Tommy Franks under code name POLO STEP, for briefings during 2002 for President Bush, the NSC, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, the JCS, and Franks' commanders, refer to the "Phase IV" post-hostilities period as "UNKNOWN" and "months" in duration, but assume that U.S. forces would be almost completely "re-deployed" out of Iraq within 45 months of the invasion (i.e. December 2006).


http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB214/index.htm
 
To complete this argument, here is an interesting document: a slide presented to Rumsfeld in 2002, saying that by december 2006 theyre would be only 5000 troops left in IRaq. So the neocons likely used 9/11 for their plans and no, they didn't know it would be such a mess. They even though (i'm speculating here) that Iran would be in their hands by now. Looks like it's gonna a tough task... :

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Washington D.C., [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]February 14, 2007[/FONT][/FONT]- The U.S. Central Command's war plan for invading Iraq postulated in August 2002 that the U.S. would have only 5,000 troops left in Iraq as of December 2006, according to the Command's PowerPoint briefing slides, which were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and are posted on the Web today by the National Security Archive (www.nsarchive.org).
The PowerPoint slides, prepared by CentCom planners for Gen. Tommy Franks under code name POLO STEP, for briefings during 2002 for President Bush, the NSC, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, the JCS, and Franks' commanders, refer to the "Phase IV" post-hostilities period as "UNKNOWN" and "months" in duration, but assume that U.S. forces would be almost completely "re-deployed" out of Iraq within 45 months of the invasion (i.e. December 2006).


http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB214/index.htm

I have highlighted exactly what you have been doing. Pure speculation means nothing.

And no the fact that Rumsfeld said there would only be 5000 troops inside Iraq back in 2002 and he got it wrong does not prove anything other than the fact the got it wrong.

It certainly does not prove that 911 were allowed to happen and if anything it reinforces exactly what I have been saying to you all along. That being that although 911 was used as political muscle to start this war, the long term consequences were never planned.
 
I have highlighted exactly what you have been doing. Pure speculation means nothing.

And no the fact that Rumsfeld said there would only be 5000 troops inside Iraq back in 2002 and he got it wrong does not prove anything other than the fact the got it wrong.

It certainly does not prove that 911 were allowed to happen and if anything it reinforces exactly what I have been saying to you all along. That being that although 911 was used as political muscle to start this war, the long term consequences were never planned.

You've misunderstood me. I quoted this document because I've often been told:

"busherie, you accuse the neocons to have let 9/11 happen, to start wars that have been a disaster. How could they have done this".

Question to which I reply: they let it happen and usd to start wars they though would be easy to win.

In this context, the slide saying that by december 2006 there would be only 5000 troops left in Iraq shows you how optimistic and self-confident they were.

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Second thing I wanted to ad:

[FONT=arial,helvetica] Gitmo Detainee Denies Role in 9/11 Plot[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica]NewsMax.com Wires[/FONT]
Thursday, March 29, 2007

WASHINGTON -- A Saudi accused of arranging financing for the Sept. 11 terrorist plot participants told a hearing he got money transfers from two hijackers inside the United States just hours before the attacks, said a transcript the Pentagon released Thursday.
But Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, who was based in the United Arab Emirates on Sept. 11, 2001, denied that he was a member of the al-Qaida terrorist network and he also denied that he sent money to the hijackers.
He is one of 14 "high value" detainees who were transferred to Guantanamo last September after being held in secret CIA prisons abroad. The transcript contained no reference to his detention; a portion in which he explained how he was captured in Pakistan was censored by the Defense Department.
The hearing, held to determine whether he is an "enemy combatant" eligible to be charged with war crimes, was conducted March 21.
Al-Hawsawi said he was told by al-Qaida operative Ramzi Binalshibh about the Sept. 11 plot one day in advance and was instructed to fly that same day from the UAE to Pakistan, where he met Binalshibh the following day.
Asked by a member of the Combatant Status Review Tribunal his reaction to realizing he was "part of that operation," al-Hawsawi replied, according to the transcript, "In the beginning I was surprised by the size of the operation. It was mostly a surprise to me."
The trancript does not fully explain the significance of the allegation that al-Hawsawi received thousands of dollars in money transfers from two of the hijackers shortly before the Sept. 11 attacks, other than establishing his association with them.


Al-Hawsawi told the hearing that he did not know why he was sent the money, totaling $17,860.

U.S. authorities said hijackers Mohammad Atta and Waleed al-Shehri sent the money by Western Union from locations in Massachusetts and Maryland to money exchange offices in Sharjah, UAE, where al-Hawsawi had opened a post office box in June 2001, according to UAE General Postal Authority records.
The transcript said that recovered Western Union receipts show that in separate transactions, Atta sent $2,860 and $5,000 from Laurel, Md., on Sept. 8, and that fellow hijacker al-Shehri sent $5,000 from Logan Airport in Boston on Sept. 9 and another $5,000 the same day from a Greyhound Bus terminal in Boston.​
At his hearing, al-Hawsawi acknowledged receiving the money transfers from the two men. Asked what he did with it, he replied, "I put it in my bank account in the United Arab Emirates. Only, I did not do anything else with it."
He spoke through a translator.






Okay: there are interestng questions:



- if you're about to comit suicide, why send money back to this guy? Plus, you're taking the risk to get caught in the process.

- UBL is a millionaire: what does he care about 17000 dollars?

- If money was sent back to this guy because he need the money to come to the US or something else, why didn't AQ send money through it chain of command, rather than sending the money through the operatives already in the US?

- Lastly, since this guy spent years in CIA jail (you know what that means) how come he is the first one to deny any links with AQ and 9/11?



Interesting questions here... (note I'm not using these lines to prove anything, just askin' questions)



B
 
This is the key point.

Testimony is evidence, but it is not proof, regardless of whether or not the man was tortured. (Personally, I find the very idea that anyone in this country even contemplates torture is disgusting, barbaric, and ultimately counterproductive, but that's a topic for the Politics forum.) The testimony is only significant if it can be verified against the larger body of evidence.

However, having read the 9/11 Commission Report, I'm sure it can. It may also corroborate many more sources of information that we don't have full access to.

It may also explain other evidence that previously wasn't understood or considered to be mere anomalies. That would make it valuable, even significant if that leads to new discoveries.

As far as convincing the Troothers, who cares? They've already demonstrated that they can't be reasoned with. This trial, in case nobody noticed, is not being held for their benefit.

I'm currently having a look through the report again, and trying to find a few links with KSM and German intelligence leading up to 9/11, which I believe can be supported.

Did you find any such examples (I know this is an old thread now)?

I agree with the poster you are replying to in some respects. KSM is hidden away behind closed doors, at the mercy of people who haven't really had a history of being honest and open gossips. The problem here is that a significant amount of chapters 5 and 7 relies on 'According to KSM', 'According to KSM', and I think that puts off a lot of truthers. It also contains the highly absurd notion that KSM was going to land the last plane (In his original plan) and deliver a speech to the women and children about Israel and those lot, so when you hear something like that it puts you off a bit.
 

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