The russians were stupendously obvious in blowing up their own as a method deflecting attention away from the hideous state of their economy and humiliation upon humiliation since the soviet system started to crumble...
Pogroms and villification of a weaker/weak enemy/section of society are used consistantly through history as a means of controlling the serfs when they get a bit too uppety about what their governments or elected <insert cough here> leaders are up to, or not up to, as the case may be.
"Mr President, welcome to the oval office. From movements in the bond and stock markets over the past years, we can be pretty sure the US economy is going to head into a pretty unsavoury spell of recession. Unless you can cook up a dirty great distraction - I'm afraid you're going to go the way of yo' papa."
I'm only half tongue in cheek here...
Lovely things like the actions of Bush straight after the first plane went in... The lack of a missile air defence for washington/new york (plenty of the major cities around the world have a limited set of these... particularly around their main points of defence, government and finance... think: Pentagon, Whitehouse and World Trade Center)... The strange things the Vice-HeartAttack-In-Chief was saying... Zero fighters sent to intercept the other 2 planes after the first plane went into the WTC (any hijacked plane normally acquires a military escourt AS SOON AS IT'S REPORTED OR DEDUCED that the plane is not under the control of it's pilot)...
It stinks. To high, high heaven.
tisonlyi - awaiting knock on the door from the men in black.
OH, and it was NOT kenedy who sent over the vast numbers of US troops to vietnam. Those honours fall on Johnson and Nixon.
FACT.