Sunday, September 11, 2016

The grassy knoll of 9/11.

Yesterday was what is known as 9/11 in the US. In 2001, Islamist terrorists hijacked 4 planes and crashed them deliberately, killing 2,996 and injuring 6,000 others. Suspicion fell on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, who denied it at first but claimed responsibility 3 years later in 2004. Naturally, there are many conspiracy theories, most of them claiming that US and/or Jews were responsible. We have our own conspiracy theory. Bill Clinton launched Cruise missiles at an Al Qaeda training compound in Afghanistan in an attempt to kill Bin Laden in 1998 but he had probably been alerted by an attack on a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan and so had stayed away. After the missile attacks Bin Laden knew he was a marked man and stayed hidden. Was it Bin Laden who planned the 9/11 attacks? All the 4 planes used in the attacks took off from airports on the east coast of the US and were destined for California on the west coast, which meant that their fuel tanks were full, so as to inflict maximum damage. At 8.46 AM one plane flew into the upper third of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York. This tower collapsed after 102 minutes, at 10.28 AM. At 9.03 AM a second plane hit the South Tower in the middle and this tower collapsed after just 56 minutes, at 9.59 AM. Most of the casualties were in this tower. Why did the first plane hit so high? Had it hit lower down casualties would have been much higher as people would have been trapped in the upper floors. Apparently, the first plane hit high deliberately so that the smoke rising from the burning tower would not cloud the view of the second plane, which flew underneath the smoke to get a clear view. This was precise military planning, which would have been beyond Bin Laden's knowledge. So who planned the entire operation? Saddam Hussein hated the Al Qaeda and Iran would not indulge a bunch of Sunni extremists. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi Arabian citizens but the royal family which controls that nation with an iron grip is dependent on the US for survival. Bin Laden was killed in 2011 in Abbottabad which hosts the Pakistani military academy. Bin Laden was a passenger in a car stopped by police in Abbottabad for speeding. No one noticed. The Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, who was Bin Laden's father-in-law and protector, died in a hospital in Karachi in 2013. Is it too much to think that the ISI in Pakistan was protecting both Bin Laden and Mullah Omar and planned the 9/11 attacks. No wonder Bin Laden denied any involvement in the attacks till 2004. Now suddenly US Senators are alleging Pakistani involvement in killing of US soldiers in Afghanistan. Are they really that stupid or is the US slightly responsible for 9/11 for supporting the Pakistani Army? No wonder they are terrified of Donald Trump as president.

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