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If OBL was really responsible

MrFliop

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If OBL was really responsible for 9/11, then why did he issue the following statement to Al Jazeera on 9/17/01?

"The U.S. government has consistently blamed me for being behind every occasion its enemies attack it. I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons, I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules. The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations."
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Why would someone commit a crime, deny any responsibility less than a week later, then 3 months later release a video saying that he was behind the crime? This just doesn't make sense to me.
 
MrFliop said:
If OBL was really responsible for 9/11, then why did he issue the following statement to Al Jazeera on 9/17/01?



Why would someone commit a crime, deny any responsibility less than a week later, then 3 months later release a video saying that he was behind the crime? This just doesn't make sense to me.
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He lied.

Pretty simple, really.
 
MrFliop said:
If OBL was really responsible for 9/11, then why did he issue the following statement to Al Jazeera on 9/17/01?



Why would someone commit a crime, deny any responsibility less than a week later, then 3 months later release a video saying that he was behind the crime? This just doesn't make sense to me.
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So nutbags fly planes into buildings and the thing that doesn't make sense to you is when they take responsibility?

:boggled:
 
It appears to me the answer is in the question:

"I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules. The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations".

Translation: My hosts the Taliban have realised that I have probably called down an almighty **** storm on their heads. They are not happy. Maybe if I say I didn't do it the Americans will leave us alone.
 
Jack by the hedge said:
It appears to me the answer is in the question:

"I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules. The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations".

Translation: My hosts the Taliban have realised that I have probably called down an almighty **** storm on their heads. They are not happy. Maybe if I say I didn't do it the Americans will leave us alone.
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This.
 
MrFliop said:
If OBL was really responsible for 9/11, then why did he issue the following statement to Al Jazeera on 9/17/01?



Why would someone commit a crime, deny any responsibility less than a week later, then 3 months later release a video saying that he was behind the crime? This just doesn't make sense to me.
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Prisons are full of innocent men. Just ask any of the inmates.
 
OBL said:
I did not plan the recent attacks ... The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations
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Hmm let's see.

KSM planned the attacks
Atta exercised the operation

Perhaps he is just right?

OBL just sponsored and blessed the thing.

Nifty little rascal!

(And by the way: Lying is permitted in Islamic Djihad)
 
MrFliop said:
If OBL was really responsible for 9/11, then why did he issue the following statement to Al Jazeera on 9/17/01?


Why would someone commit a crime, deny any responsibility less than a week later, then 3 months later release a video saying that he was behind the crime? This just doesn't make sense to me.
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Seriously? Why would someone commit a crime and lie about it? Hello.

Why does someone ask a stupid question? Human nature?

Gee mom. I did not do it. Oops, I lied.

Time to run and hide. (possible best answer)

Was this a trick question?
 
MrFliop said:
If OBL was really responsible for 9/11, then why did he issue the following statement to Al Jazeera on 9/17/01?



Why would someone commit a crime, deny any responsibility less than a week later, then 3 months later release a video saying that he was behind the crime? This just doesn't make sense to me.
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So either he lied about being involved or he lied about not being involved, right? Since he couldn't logically be both involved and not involved (unless he's the "Schrödinger's cat" of terrorism), the one thing we can say with certainty about OBL is that he was a liar. Since we have established that he was a liar, we cannot rely solely on his testimony and have no recourse but to see what all the other available evidence tells us about his guilt or innocence.

A year or so before the attacks he gave a western journalist a TV interview that was broadcast on one of the TV news magazine shows of the time (20/20, IIRC)*. In that interview he stated quite clearly that unless the United States acceded to all his demands his organization was going to attack the United States in a large scale and dramatic fashion. So, even if he had not said a word following the attacks, his earlier threat coupled with previous attacks he was behind (and admitted to), would still have made him prime suspect #1 in the 9/11 attacks.

Any reasonably well-informed adult living in the late 90s/early 2000s was already well aware that OBL was an extremely dangerous man.




* I remember watching it at the time and thinking to myself "this is not going to end well".
 
For a movement that is so quick to label anything you don't like as "disinfo", you're remarkably poor at spotting a real example.
 
I can't imagine someone who is willing to kill hundreds (9/11 wasn't the only thing he was involved in), would be willing to lie to people. I mean, that's just completely outrageous that someone would be willing to take that gigantic leap from mass murder to lying.

I dunno, I'm kind of thinking....NEW INVESTIGATION!
 
Everybody knows that OBL was flying the fake plane into the Pentagon but got lost somewhere around Chevy Chase so they had to send him out into the atlantic to park the jet on an aircraft carrier and send a missile in his place.

shame about all those people.... they were forced to move to Rhode Island!
 
Utterly pathetic thread. After over 10 years, is this the best you can do in terms of promoting your own alternate theory?
 
JohnG said:
So either he lied about being involved or he lied about not being involved, right? Since he couldn't logically be both involved and not involved (unless he's the "Schrödinger's cat" of terrorism), the one thing we can say with certainty about OBL is that he was a liar. Since we have established that he was a liar, we cannot rely solely on his testimony and have no recourse but to see what all the other available evidence tells us about his guilt or innocence.

A year or so before the attacks he gave a western journalist a TV interview that was broadcast on one of the TV news magazine shows of the time (20/20, IIRC)*. In that interview he stated quite clearly that unless the United States acceded to all his demands his organization was going to attack the United States in a large scale and dramatic fashion. So, even if he had not said a word following the attacks, his earlier threat coupled with previous attacks he was behind (and admitted to), would still have made him prime suspect #1 in the 9/11 attacks.

Any reasonably well-informed adult living in the late 90s/early 2000s was already well aware that OBL was an extremely dangerous man.




* I remember watching it at the time and thinking to myself "this is not going to end well".
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How do you know he wasn't also lying when he said he would attack the US in the interview?
 
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