Is it possible that the architects of the plan would expect that the team members could keep quiet for the rest of their lives, never to give in to conscience and guilt?
core question of any intelligence operation
Is it possible that no amount of what would be an astounding amount of physical evidence at the scene would ever turn up?
4 airplanes? What else?
Is it possible that no emails, text messages, hard-drives, letters, receipts or other supporting communications evidence ever turn up?
Abel Danger? John O'Neill? Sebil Edmonds? Michael Springman? Mineta? Amanda Keller? ISI? ..................................
Is it possible that the mastermind(s) of what would be the largest and most complex conspiracy in history not have at some point said, “Y’know, there’s way too much that can go wrong here. Why don’t we just plant some bombs on a few high-visibility targets, plant a couple bodies as evidence, and do some follow-up messages to the world’s media? It would take only a half-dozen guys, tops.”
The Arabs should ask a lot more questions.
* they had to expect air defense
* they had to expect no radar holes
* they had to expect losing control at high speed
* they had to expect being late and miss the flight
* they had to expect missing the target
* they had to expect being traced by FBI and CIA (O'Neill, Abel Danger)
* they had to expect that one of them speaks out (just like the staged Crop Duster Atta who chanted about his plans in Florida before Atta first entered the US)
* they had to expect problems to get a Visa
* they had to expect that someone uncovers the moneytrail from ISI to Atta
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Is it possible that the mastermind(s), having gone to all the months of planning and execution of this massive plot, all to play the American public, not have followed up with several easy-to-manage attacks like that described in the paragraph above so as to keep the apparent terror threat high and palpable?
* Anthrax
* London 7/7 (smaller scale, same scheme, mastermind is MI6 agent, trail of constructed evidence, simultaneous attacks, simultaneous emergency training at the very same stations etc. pp.)
Btw, it is much easier to feed the masses with video and audio messages of a black bearded phantom than blew things up leaving more evidence.
Is it possible that the mastermind(s), so adept at plotting and executing a wildly intricate plan in the middle of the most populous city in the US so as to apparently justify war on Iraq under the guise of the pre-emptive removal of weapons of mass-destruction, not toss a couple WMD out the back of a cargo plane to the Iraqi desert below so as to provide justification for the war? Y’know, instead of suffering the rebuke of most of the civilized world as well as diminished stature when they, in fact, never turned up?
If you find WMDs then you can identify the origin. On the other hand, bombing Iraq into the stone age will not provide access to the Caspian Sea area.
The answer can only be no. For some of this, much less all of it, to take place successfully is not possible. Not even a little. And there’s a word for when something is not possible.
Impossible.
Did some Arabs do it with a con-man in Hamburg who managed the whole thing between the evil ones in the desert and the doing-cocaine ones in Florida? The answer can only be no. For some of this, much less all of it, to take place successfully is not possible. Not even a little. And there’s a word for when something is not possible.
Impossible.
(So much about statements.)
Btw, how many people were in the cockpit of each plane? Seven?