Originally posted by luckee
Terrorism isnt rocket science. This kinda of stuff can come together quite easily.
Bah!
Your right luckee, terrorism isn\'t rocket science. It\'s pure stupidity by smart people. And attacks as large as 9/11 don\'t come together easily.
Ok where shall I start? Well way back in 1996 I believe, many plans could have been coming together. Al-Queda members went around making home movies of American landmarks. The Golden Gate Bridge, The Sears Tower, The Statue Of Liberty, and the WTC. Their were many more landmarks on these tapes. We have a numerous amount of these tapes in our possesion.
The way the tapes are filmed, you can definatley tell they aren\'t just sight seeing. They took detailed shots of the support structures on the GGB. They also filmed the surroundings of the WTC. And many other small details.
You can\'t put an attack together of great magnitude in a short time. It takes years to finalize the small details. Months before 9/11 Al-Queda members had handheld GPS and went to the top of the towers and got the exact cordinates. It was all brilliantly planned, and that is what scares me the most.
As for the WTC attack the hijackers lived here in the US for many years. Taking classes (as luckee mentioned) and just trying to fit in. They aren\'t the ones that planed it, they just simply executed it when told to do so. Many of them didn\'t even know they were going to die. It\'s been said that only Muhamadd Atta knew the details, and the others that piloted the other planes knew. Their is really no way of knowing this for sure.
The only terrorism that isn\'t carefully planned IMO, is when they strap bombs on their backs and detonate themselves in crowded areas. And still this takes time, they can\'t plan it overnight. Thankfully, this hasn\'t happened in the USA.
The first bombing on the WTC took many years to plan. And they just parked a van rigged with explosives in the underground parking lot next to a main support wall. Sounds easy doesn\'t it?
With the nation on such high alert it\'s not going to be easy to pull off another attack that large. But we aren\'t bullet proof and we don\'t have a Great Wall keeping people out of our country. So yes, we will be attacked again and it will be a plan that has been carefully disected to the smallest of details when executed. And it will have been planed for many years.
It takes a lot of money to execute these attacks too. And we all no Bin Laden has plenty of $
I could go on and on, but most of you won\'t read all this anyways and I\'m getting tired.But it takes a lot of TIME, and very SMART people to plan attacks such as the WTC attack.
