To: Don Earl who wrote (604 ) 5/11/2003 9:36:42 AM From: rrufff Respond to of 20039 Your posts are usually best ignored, but I have a little time to waste this morning to play with some of your silly ideas. As I suggested in the post to which you responded,I hesitate to put down government conspiracy theories but, in this case, there seems to be no basis in reality. The line above quoted from you speaks for itself. Often times, the type of person who becomes consumed with his own conspiracy ideas is very defensive when challenged and exhibits edpisodes of paranoid delusions. I loved your statement that you had "little time to waste" on my silly ideas, given the history of this thread. Let me clear up one misconception that you have. All the hijackers are known. There is an issue with their names. The names were also hijacked both through Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Iraq's records have been in a shambles since 1991 as a result of the regime wishing to hide its mass murders and torture. Terrorists have often taken the names, particulary very common names, from Iraqi names. I'm told that the head hijacker's name, which I don't have with me now, is something like our James Smith. I don't believe the Iraqi government had anything to do with this. Most who have commented are of the opinion that Al Queda used this to their advantage, having easy access to names and addresses that were not being used. Just to show you that I don't blindly defend the US, it is very easy to hijack ID's here in the US and one only has to look at the daily news online to see this. It is exponentially easier to do the same in Iraq. Does this remotely indicate that the US was involved? Of course not. Only someone who grasps at straws and sees anything out of place would say, "See we don't know their ID's even though we know who they are. Therefore, US was involved or Israel or CIA or NSA or Moussad. They are teh only ones who could do this, etc., etc., etc." The hijackers are known, even though their identities are not fully explained, but they sure as hell were not Israelis or Americans.