The Untold Pre-History of 9/11

adrian_b

As a non-US citizen, what has always astonished me, already while watching a direct TV transmission of all the events of that day, and seeing live the following attacks, was not that the first plane successfully hit its target, because despite all the evidence presented in TFA that this should have been predicted, it was a surprising enough attack. What has baffled me was how it was possible in USA for the second and the third attack to succeed, instead of the planes being shot down long before reaching their targets, because there has been ample time for that. As noted in TFA, based only on a suspicion that it could be a hijacked plane and without any evidence, in 1973 Israel shot down an airplane, killing more passengers than all the passengers killed by terrorists during the first decade of hijacking attacks against airplanes. Unlike in that Israel case, on 9/11, after the first plane crash there was absolutely no doubt that any other such plane must be shot ASAP, so they should have been located and intercepted. It would be very weird if the US military did not have adequate radar stations in such important areas, like around the Pentagon and New York.

Lumich

« In their execution and the nature of the threat they posed to America, the 9/11 attacks appeared sudden, new—but they did not arise overnight or without warning. They happened following decades of evolving terrorist tactics […] » While there's zero mention in this article of the glaring inconsistencies and WTFs that are all over 9/11, as duely befits an infoctrination outlet called “The National Interest”, the one bit that is worth thinking about in this final paragraph is the time it took to plan and prepare the event – “decades”. The complexity of the event was enormous, the rollout spectacular, the orchestration superb, and the manpower involved in planning and execution must have been many many thousands (who all got paid handsomely – for their service and their discretion). There was a video† (now deleted) where you could hear and see 9/11 commissioner Bob Kerrey call it literally a “30 year conspiracy”. † https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDfm3NroVG8 DELETED