I understand that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens. Were the attackers Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia or not?
Anyway, being that Trump is good buddies with the Saudi government, it might have been averted. Did the Kushner family have ties to the Saudi government too?
Now lets see. The terrorists were Saudis. So Trump would have apologised for the buildings being in the way and had the government pay damages to the Saudis, then buy up the site cheap and put an overpriced poor taste building up with its own coal fired power station.
Bush was oblivious, and Trump is far more oblivious than Bush. The only difference is that Trump would have blamed everyone else for his failure, just as he does in everything else.
Robert Mueller was director of the FBI that day. True, he'd only been on the job for a week. But doesn't he bear some responsbility for not connecting the dots?
@beckyromero I'm not saying no one knew that Islamic terrorists were planning to attack us. I'm saying that the flaws in our intelligence system and lack of [b]specific[/b] information on the ground prevented 9/11 from being thwarted. Notice that things have improved since then and other attacks have in fact been prevented.
@LeopoldBloom [quote] I'm saying that the flaws in our intelligence system and lack of specific information on the ground prevented 9/11 from being thwarted.[/quote]
KNOWING that Islamic terrorists intended to take over passenger jets and FLY THEM was all the "intelligence" that was needed to thwart their plans by having the FAA order the securing of all cockpit doors and not allow hijackers access to the cockpits under ANY circumstances.
THAT is what should have been done BEFORE 9/11 as the FBI knew about the flying schools in Minnesota AND Phoenix (both task forces reporting to the SAME high-ranking FBI official in Washington, D.C.), as well as having arrested Zacarias Moussaoui on August 16, 2001.
[quote]Your plans for an FBI Headquarters' "Super Squad" simply fly in the face of an honest appraisal of the FBI's pre-September 11th failures. The Phoenix, Minneapolis and Paris Legal Attache Offices reacted remarkably exhibiting keen perception and prioritization skills regarding the terrorist threats they uncovered or were made aware of pre-September 11th. The same cannot be said for the FBI Headquarters' bureaucracy and you want to expand that?! Should we put the counterterrorism unit chief and SSA who previously handled the Moussaoui matter in charge of the new "Super Squad"?! You are also apparently disregarding the fact the Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs), operating out of field divisions for years, (the first and chief one being New York City's JTTF), have successfully handled numerous terrorism investigations and, in some instances, successfully prevented acts of terrorism. There's no denying the need for more and better intelligence and intelligence management, but you should think carefully about how much gate keeping power should be entrusted with any HQ entity. If we are indeed in a "war", shouldn't the Generals be on the battlefield instead of sitting in a spot removed from the action while still attempting to call the shots? [/quote]
Coleen Rowley's Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller (An edited version of the agent's 13-page letter) http://www.apfn.org/apfn/wtc_whistleblower1.htm
Trump doesn't really listen to the intelligence communities from what I've heard. So he'd probably never see it coming. I think his response would have been significantly harsher.
I’ve always wondered how nuclear testing effects people. Even if done in the ocean you’d think that stuff still got in the air. And radiation carried by the wind.@windinhishair
@marriedplus3 It gets carried continents away. The US received radiation from the Fukoshima nuclear accident in Japan a few years ago. It was detected on monitors throughout the country.
@JT123 [quote]Yes because Bill Clinton still would have ignored the FBI warnings about 19 Middle Eastern men learning to steer jets in Florida![/quote]
The Clinton administration, tried to get bin Laden, but could not. They however warned the Bush administration about it, but Rice decided to ignore it, and the Bush focus was on Iraq.
911 was planned during Clinton. Why didn't he stop it?
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it was an inside job, those primitive savages can't pull off this kinda shit unless you admit that they might be more than a savage, sheep loving cave people
@strongbow My god you are stupid. Worse, is that you have no clue how ignorant you are. Your pal is doing the sword dance, with the King of bin Laden's country.