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To: FaultLine who wrote (4759)	10/13/2001 2:51:15 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hijackers "surveyed other U.S. landmarks" uk.news.yahoo.com Saturday October 13, 03:40 PM PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The September 11 hijackers and alleged colleagues surveyed several U.S. sites for possible attacks including the Sears Tower in Chicago, Florida's Walt Disney World and the largest U.S. shopping center, the Mall of America, the Philadelphia Inquirer has reported. Citing unnamed Bush administration officials, the newspaper said three internal government reports show that groups linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network also evaluated Disneyland in California and unspecified sports facilities. Possessions of hijackers and what were described as "their alleged colleagues" included sketches or reports describing the facilities, the newspaper said. But the report said surveillance information gathered by authorities investigating the attacks that destroyed the World Trade Centre, damaged the Pentagon and killed nearly 5,400 people, did not suggest the sites had actually been chosen as targets. The Inquirer quoted an FBI spokesman as saying the agency had no information about threats to those specific sites. The newspaper report was published two days after the FBI warned of possible new attacks in the United States. On Friday, an anthrax scare in New York raised fears that the bacteria with germ warfare potential could threaten corporate mail rooms across the United States. The Inquirer said security has been tightened at all the sites identified in the government reports since September 11. The Sears Tower is the tallest building in the United States. The sprawling Mall of America, outside Minneapolis, is the nation's largest shopping venue.

To: FaultLine who wrote (4759)	10/13/2001 2:54:26 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Because it is considered to be the fact, consensus among serious historians. Based on the unfortunate decisions made by the winning parties of WW1, luckily not totally repeated after WW2. That is, the question of punishing the losing part. Which then demands looking more closely into WW1 and what that really was about. Which all becomes much too complicated for regular propaganda manufacturers and movie producers. Ilmarinen On an investor thread one should maybe have some opinion on what the crash of 1929, just before real nazism, nationalism and extremism got its best chance in some time. But it would, maybe, be disaster for many old movies, although they would gain as aprt of documentaries on regular propaganda.