were the hijackers of the jets that hit the WTC US gov't agents? Or stooges of the US gov't?
Who knows?
There's even theory by ex-military officers that the autopilots could be taken over and the planes flown remotely, regardless of what onboard hijackers did or didn't do. The tower and radar tapes would be able to prove or disprove that. One theory is Islamists penetrated intelligence agencies and remotely piloted the planes during an exercise already planned, coincidently, for that day.
In any case, certainly we see the use of the "bungling" defense for protecting bin Laden and Mo Atta prior to 9/11, and a fear among administration officials of allowing access to any evidence.
Regardless of the mechanism, even if it were the purported Islamist hijackers as reported, the prior knowledge issue is too strong to be ignored and swept under the rug without an independent investigation on how to avoid this in the future. Such investigation is clearly being resisted.
As a result, here's what grows in the minds of those who look at the record of this administration, who have read history:
liberty.hypermart.net
On the morning of September 11, four large passenger jets with full fuel tanks went off course over the US Northeast, and ceased communicating with Air Traffic Control. Flight controllers overheard sounds of a struggle from the cockpit of one plane. Passengers made cellular phone calls from two of the flights, reporting that the planes had been hijacked. Normally, when something like this happens, the US Air Force, which has fighter jets ready to intercept troubled or suspicious civilian aircraft on short notice, begins escorting the offending plane, and, if necessary, forcing it to land, within ten minutes of being alerted by the FAA. |
