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Sooo, I'm an engineer. I saw the planes hit the buildings. Jet fuel is explosive. That took out the floor, left an air gap that allowed the mass of the top section of the buildings to gain enough inertia to cause the collapse it all.. To believe there was more to it than a plane crashing into the building would be to believe that the government (or some other diabolical group) was actually able to pre-plant explosives that would not be detected AND the planes would hit the exact floor where the explosives were located.

That whole scenario just doesn't seem credible. Further, what would the government have to gain by participating?

I know you believe what you believe and not intending to get into a debate...in my mind no other scenario makes sense than the planes taking the buildings down.

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A little background:

The "Bojinka" plot

In 1994, Ramzi Yousef (KSM's nephew and the mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing) and KSM planned the "Bojinka" plot, which involved bombing 11 to 12 U.S. trans-Pacific airliners in flight.
  • Aircraft as weapons: A key part of the Bojinka plot was Yousef and his co-conspirator Abdul Hakim Murad's idea of hijacking and crashing a plane into CIA headquarters.
  • The discovery: Philippine authorities uncovered the plot in 1995 after a fire broke out in Yousef's apartment, where they found his computer with details of the plan. Yousef was later captured.

The 9/11 plan

After the Bojinka plot was foiled and the 1993 bombing failed to bring down the towers, KSM and Osama bin Laden modified and scaled back the earlier plans to create the 9/11 plot.
  • Lessons learned: KSM concluded that crashing a plane into a target was more effective and had fewer problems than traditional bombing methods. He had previously considered crashing planes into the World Trade Center and CIA headquarters.
  • Bin Laden's role: In 1999, bin Laden approved a scaled-back version of KSM's "planes operation." The final targets were selected based on their symbolic value and feasibility.
  • Pilot training and surveillance: The selected hijackers underwent flight training in the U.S. and conducted surveillance flights to study security arrangements. They identified weaknesses like how cockpit doors were opened after takeoff and confirmed that they could smuggle box cutters onto planes.
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