Judge for yourself
inside 9/11:war on america part 10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do4G2bjVzQ4
inside 9/11:war on america part 11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuau_dFmV2g
Yes, I've seen that. It does give an outline of what was known but is short on details.
'The system was blinking red' is all fine and dandy but what do you do unless you had actual concrete info on the where, when, how and who concerning these attacks?
It is possible that all of this was known, that someone knew 'something' was planned for the east coast, someone else knew 'something' was planned for Sept 11, and others expected hijackings while still others were highly suspicious of several or all of the 19 AND yet these people did not share or had no way to share, their information with each other.
If a dozen people have pieces of a puzzle but are unaware of each other then the puzzle will not get put together.
BUT....... it is just possible that someone, somewhere, who was higher up in the intel chain, did see all of this and knew Atta was likely planning a hijacking with several others, of multiple aircraft on the eastern seaboard and that these would be suicide missions. Did this person (or office) not react in time and for Nat Security reasons we have not been told they were very close to stopping this? Did this person (or office) simply hesitate or was it put together too late to get the wheels going? ,,,,,,,,, or with a cynical, callous motivation were the attacks simply not stopped?
the last is of course the LIHOP senario and it can also break down in a couple of directions.
1)Perhaps some pieces of the puzzle were still missing. Say they knew that Hanjour and his crew were going to carry out a hijacking but they did not know it would be a suicide mission nor that there were multiple planes involved. The senario now is that this was allowed, let the (ie single) hijacking occur then counter it when they make demands and land elsewhere. Maybe even assume that a few hostages would be killed. This alone would garner action against Al-Qada by the administration and we know that many in the intel feild were frustrated with both Clinton's and Bush's lack of action.
Then on the day of the hijacking this group watches in horror to see that they had allowed not one run-of-the-mill hijacking but 4 suicide mission hijackings.
The CYA would begin immediatly.
I have never seen a TM member offer the above senario. Why? Because it does not demonize their poltical enemies enough for their satisfaction.
2) the senario favoured by a few not quite so crazy TM members, that the entire plan was known at very high levels and still allowed to occur.
There are several things that argue
against '2' for sure.
First of all Bush's reaction is one of complete shock, not that of a person waiting for these events to play out at which time he will jump to action, take command and be the hero President.
Second there is the report that Condi Rice told her friend in California not to fly that morning. If true then she obviously did not know the whole plan as all the planes were hijacked from eastern cities. Her friend was in the west and likely would not even take off until later in the day eastern time well after the hijackings had taken place.
Third, Don Rumsfeld was in his office at the Pentagon and I for one do not see him as the type to set himself up for possible martyrdom.
So if the entire operation was known in advance by someone then it was not Bush, Rummy or Rice.
For the first senario though, there are a few tantilizing yet surely inconclusive clues to support it, but its all circumstantial.
Intel agencies were frustrated with lack of action on Islamic threats.
Rice appears to have known there was the possibility of hijackings specifically on Sept 11 somewhere in the USA.
Much of the intel about the hijackers was broadcast to the public before the end of the day on Sept 11 which is pretty quick.
I can see how a conspiratorially minded person could view all of this circumstantial evidence and jump to the conclusion that the attacks were alowed to occur.
