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Originally Posted by Rochard
That's about some stupid bullshit right there. That's like saying "Some jackass walked into a bank and shot someone during a robbery" and then blaming it on the police saying they didn't prevent the gun man before hand.
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Actually the biggest, most organized and planned terrorist attack in US history is nothing like some jackass robbing a bank, and the entire state, defense and intelligence apparatus of the US and its allies is also nothing like a local PD. I'm surprised you would think otherwise.
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Did the Air Force fail? Prior to 9/11 were they tasked with policing civilian airliners? Aren't there legal restrictions to how the US military can act on US soil? Did NORAD Fail? Was it their job to track civilian airliners in the US? Funny, because I always thought their radar was tasked with tracking Russian bombers coming over the North Pole and what not.
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Of course. All the Russians had to to was get into US airspace it was game over.
Before 9/11: no radar, no air defense, nothing, not even over obvious prime targets like the Pentagon or White House. Sylvester Stallone and Tom Cruise were enough to keep the Russians at bay, and NORAD's job was to track Santa Claus.
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All this fucker is doing is pointing fingers saying "do you honestly expect a group of Arabs tricked the CIA?". No, not at all. No one saw them coming. Again, its just like a gun man at a bank - you don't point you fingers at the highway patrol saying "why didn't you stop him".
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No, nobody saw them coming. There were not numerous intelligence reports before 9/11 that something was about to happen. We had no conception that planes could be used as weapons. No plots were ever foiled, no movies or books ever had that as their premise. Nothing.
Who could have predicted an attack on the WTC? It's not like it actually happened, in 1993. Who could predict someone stealing a plane and crashing it into, say, the White House? It's not like that happened too, on
September 11 1994.
Other events that never happened
just in that same one year include:
Air France Flight 8969, where an Islamist group hijacked a plane with the apparent intention of crashing it into the Eiffel Tower.
PAL Flight 434, a precursor to "
Project Bojinka", a large scale plot to hijack multiple airliners and crash one into the headquarters of the CIA.
FedEx Flight 705, where a suicidal hijacker of a cargo plane over Arkansas, armed with two claw hammers, two mallets, a knife, and a speargun, was overpowered by the crew and the plane landed successfully.
The list goes on and on and on.
Yes, no wonder 9/11 was a complete surprise to absolutely everyone everywhere and could not possibly have been averted. Oh, except it
was averted, at least right up until the neo-cons took over the White House, after talking about a 'new Pearl Harbor'.