Suspicions

Chief among my suspicions regarding who was behind the attacks on the World Trade Center September 11, 2001 . .

1. Osama bin Laden never took credit for them. Wouldn't he have beat his chest? Why did the major news networks pin it on him immediately without his taking blame?
   
2. Would he really have attacked the same building again? I don't think so. Too cute, and not smart. But those who would want to implicate him in the crime might.
   
3. The identified hijackers were all from Saudi Arabia. We have military bases there. Not to mention huge business interests and relationships that tie to the Bush family.
   
4. These teams of five Arab men got onto four airplanes without any challenge whatsoever, even though in several cases the security system implemented by the F.A.A. to stop likely hijackers from boarding alerted airport personnel.
   
5. Four airplanes went off their official flight plans and flew around in random patterns for 30-40 minutes without any warning being sounded, without any planes being scrambled to stop them.
   
6. The skill required to fly a massive jet airplane (done twice) straight between the floors of a skyscraper is enormous. I know this as I was watching the news that day with a USAir pilot who exclaimed "These guys are heroes!".
   
7. The F.B.I. was informed at least twice that Arab men wanted to take flight lessons to learn to fly large jet airplanes, but they didn't want to learn how to land them. The F.B.I. did nothing.
   
8. Bush was briefed about the expectation of these attacks occurring two weeks before they did. He did nothing.
   
9. The attackers spent the night before getting drunk; committing a mortal sin in the eyes of their Moslem faith. Islamic suicide bombers might be expected instead to spend the night before an attack fasting and praying.
   
10. The high degree of precision and coordination this attack required is not typical of Arab terrorist attacks.
    
11. A Pennsylvania Congressman from the Pittsburgh area said he knew something was about to happen because he noticed increased military maneuvers around the Pittsburgh airport two weeks prior.
    
12. Just arranging all those visas would seem to require collusion.

Most damning is what came afterwards, what the attack was used an excuse for. This resonates with a long American military history of the false provocation.