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A new tape showing Osama Bin Laden meeting with September 11 hijackers days before the attack has served to boost the Bush administration's war on terror agenda as the fifth anniversary of 9/11 nears, yet one of the hijackers who appears in the tape is reported elsewhere as still alive and completely unconnected to the terror plot.
The tape purports to show Bin Laden meeting with alleged 9/11 hijackers Wail Alshehri and Hamza Alghamdi days before the attack in Afghanistan.
Telling therefore it is that Wail Alshehri was one of the accused hijackers reported by the L.A. Times to still be alive and protesting his innocence in Saudi Arabia after 9/11.
The formula is simple. The U.S. government needs to dangle the boogeyman in front of the public at regular intervals to prop up its flailing agenda. A course of propaganda is agreed upon, the target is identified as the "U.S. home audience," and Al-Jazeera releases a new tape.
The target is again the "U.S. home audience," and allied with the White House's recent announcement that it would target conspiracy theorists as terrorist recruiters, this is another lurid effort to beat back the rampaging wildfire of enlightenment created by the burgeoning 9/11 truth movement.
Originally posted by nataylor
Does somebody have a link to the video? I can't actually find the darn thing to watch.
Originally posted by thesaneone
just a theory BUT what if we were attacked by terrorist and THEN our goverment took advantage of the whole situation. again just a thought
Originally posted by Gazrok
Personally, I've never been of the "government is behind 9/11 attacks" crowd.
Why? Simple, the same objective could have been achieved without such a blow to the US economy, and the almost destruction of an entire industry (i.e. airlines). This angle for control seems almost self-defeating. A plane into Rushmore or the Statue of Liberty would have had the same effect, but without the economic backlash.
However, to play devil's advocate for a moment...since most 9/11 conspiracy theorists are convinced that Osama is still on the U.S. payroll...a video with him and the hijackers would only strengthen their argument, not weaken it...if taken in such a context...
Just some food for thought, if it hasn't been mentioned in all these pages...
Do I believe the US government was behind 9/11? No
Do I believe they took advantage of the opportunity to take more control? Sure I do...
Do I believe they know far more than they admit about the attacks? Absolutely...but I think it's more of embarassment than anything else. After the fact, the pieces and prior intel made much more sense, and they knew who did it way before admitting it publicly.
One thing to remember about hijacker names... In the middle east, it is EXTREMELY common for many to have the same name, surname, middle, etc. Naming is more titular (i.e. son of, from here, from there, etc.) not the way we think of it. There are literally hundreds or more "Saddam Husseins" in the middle east for example.... So when you see, so and so is alive... you have to keep the above in mind....
[edit on 8-9-2006 by Gazrok]
Originally posted by KnowItAll
Originally posted by thesaneone
just a theory BUT what if we were attacked by terrorist and THEN our goverment took advantage of the whole situation. again just a thought
This is the most rational thought I've seen on this thread, and I believe is actually what happened. I do in fact believe that the events of 911 actually were carried out by terrorist...I also believe that the Administration took FULL advantage of the situation to carry out an agenda in the ME.
GOOD POST SANEONE!!!
Originally posted by Gazrok
Do I believe the US government was behind 9/11? No
Do I believe they took advantage of the opportunity to take more control? Sure I do...
Do I believe they know far more than they admit about the attacks? Absolutely...but I think it's more of embarassment than anything else. After the fact, the pieces and prior intel made much more sense, and they knew who did it way before admitting it publicly.
Originally posted by mecheng
Then who was? If it's Al Qaeda then why isn't OBL dead or captured yet and why is it that Bush stated he doesn't care about him any longer, that he's not a priority? Why hasn't OBL been charged or convicted yet? Why does the FBI not have him wanted in connection to 9/11?
Originally posted by mecheng
Then who was? If it's Al Qaeda then why isn't OBL dead or captured yet and why is it that Bush stated he doesn't care about him any longer, that he's not a priority?
Al-Qaeda is a U.S.-sponsored Intelligence Asset used to Justify War in the Middle East
JPG: Is it accurate to say that your research points to 9/11 looking more like an inside job?
MC: Well, I haven’t made that statement. I never made a statement that it’s "an inside job".
What I’ve done in my writings is to show that the official narrative or explanation regarding 9/11 can be refuted, namely that the official narrative is a lie.
What the 9/11 Commission Report has submitted is an extensive narrative of what happened on that day and what happened on the planes. And the evidence suggests that the 9/11 report is a lie. It’s fabricated.
But I can’t say unequivocally that this was an inside job. What I can say with certainty, backed by evidence, is that the U.S. administration is involved in a cover-up pertaining to the investigation of who’s behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And what they have presented in the 911 Report, as well as in numerous national security statements is to my mind totally fabricated.
Originally posted by Mammoth
One small thing i noticed during the short seconds of this video was the background, quite obvious actually. And maybe edited for unknown reasons... Yet i thought in myself, if these are farewell videos, then where did they get these pictures from? From something that had yet to happen!? Look in the background, these are clearly pictures from the 9/11 attacks.
Originally posted by deltaboy
The FBI charged Osama for 1998 attacks on the embassies which Osama has yet to confess on, only to say that he supported the attacks on the American embassies
and 9/11 he says he did not do it, just only supported it, until few years later he finally admitted it.
Weird eh?
The FBI prefers hard evidence before they put someone on trial and convicted.