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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I know that attributing to the 9/11 hijackers and planners any sort of thought for their victims completely short-circuits the synapses of many Americans. But I have to think they picked that time because they felt there would be enough casualties at that hour, and didn't feel the need to cause any more than enough.
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Say what? The symbolic targets were the goal, the body count was just an added bonus. Their schedule was fucked up anyway, 9/11 wasn't the original go date, they didn't have a whole lotta control over the weapons (time frames / locations of the aircraft), some of their operatives had been busted, etc. Granted, this is all coming from various State Department lectures and the 9/11 Commission report and I'm a complete dumbass. I figure the attacks of 9/11 are a product of both blind luck and incredible failures on the United States' part to share info amongst hide-the-ball rival LE / intel agencies. Of course, hindsight is 20/20 and we got rocked in the chin pretty good. It's easy to see the failures afterward and play up both sides of the conflict.
And consider my synapses fried... I just spent the last couple years studying terrorism at cawl-edge and the goal of the greater global jihadist movement has always been to kill as many of whitey as possible in his own home. Suicide bombers are promoted. Nuclear weapons are on the table. There is no "enough." You don't think that the GJM would green light operations that killed as many adult (Muslim PR issues with killing kids) whities as possible?
How did you arrive at the conclusion that those who slammed planes into the WTC and Pentagon were looking to reduce their bodycount? Because of the time the planes impacted? Because that side of the Pentagon was largely uninhabited due to renovation? Please explain, I'm totally lost here.
You can't call me a "textbook righty."
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Also: Glenn Beck's a blubbering talking-head pussy like every other muppet on FOX/MSNBC/CNN.