Osama Bin Laden is dead since December 26, 2001. Translation of Funeral Article in Egyptian Paper al-Wafd

[mmiichael]

Going back to basics on 9/11 - what were they thinking?

The bad guys sit around in a meeting and have decided rather than set off some fireworks in Boston, LA, Philadelphia, they'll go for a real waker upper with a budget almost as big as a Sci-Fi movie with lots of special effects and back screen projected explosions.

"Let's train a load of whack job suicide kamikaze guys with Saudi passports, train them to fly, have a couple crash right into the World Trade Center, and one each into the White House and Pentagon for a chaser. Otherwise they'll think we just made this all up. We plant explosives in WTC to make sure it collapses instead of just a few million in dame and only a few hundred lives. We got to have at least 2-3 thousand die. And remember to keep the secret gold buried in the basement to the very last minute. Mossad will help with the logistics, I hope they can restrain themselves from celebrating in the streets when they pull it off. Sound like a plan fellas?"

Sorry folks, the Truther version, though there are some valid observations of intelligence chicanery, defies rationale, coherence or logic.

Something very serious happened that day, that had been strategized and worked on for years.

Who plotted it, who engineered it, who was complicit?

The full answers are embarrassing to the outgoing US administration, I think obviously. From what I've been told, from a few knowledgeable Arab friends and their sources, Saudi Arabia is the first place to look. The politics and sympathies of the country are not easily summarized. Reluctantly dependent on keeping their regime intact, the Fahd family has a lot of internal conflict on their policies with the West. Putting the fear of Allah into Americans was something worth doing. And generally it was considered to everyone's advantage provoking the US into playing a role in shaking up the Middle East status quo.

Iran was considered the biggest problem. It is nearly impossible to wage conventional warfare there, primarily due to the terrain, as well as their Russian alliance. Iraq was ripe, some left unfinished Bush family vendettas with Saddam Hussein, but more immediately, the Chinese, Russian, and French abuses of the oil for food program, made the US itchy for a direct mainline to the oil patch. Iraq also offered a strategic buffer for the dominant Sunni regimes in the region, hemming in Iran on it's western front.

Afghanistan is another story. Suffice to say being on Iran's northern border has a lot to do with it. The multibillion dollar drug trade emanating from there, was another.

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Is this even close to a bare bones outline of what happened? I think I touched on some overriding concerns of the key players.

The actual planning and execution of 9/11 is still to be nailed down. Whose initial idea was it, who was complicit, what was the expected outcome?


Mike F