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Prosecution: Bin Laden's driver knew hijackers aiming for Capitol
2008-07-23
  • Salim Hamdan told U.S. 4th plane aimed at "the dome," or U.S. Capitol
  • That plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field as passengers overtook hijackers
  • Defense claims Hamdan did not know Osama bin Laden's plans
  • Hamdan, captured in Afghanistan in 2001, has pleaded not guilty
    • Posted by:Fred

    #4  Not to mention they were also able to make a fortune by short-selling the stocks of airlines before the attack.
    Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2008-07-23 23:14  

    #3  HIGH-PROFILE, SELECT POLITICAL-MEDIA STATEMENT

    Not solely. It disrupted an industry, placed constraints on the freedom of travel, forced a government to take actions that impinged on its citizens liberty and placed a brake on several nations' economies.

    Sounds like was an attack in a guerrilla-warfare campaign to me.
    Posted by: Pappy   2008-07-23 22:23  

    #2  No surprise here.

    HMMMMM, iff my old Afghan War cohort OSAMA was truly intent on attacking and destroying the WH + Congress, SUICIDE TRUCKS OR SUIC COMMANDO-SAPPER TEAH COULD HAD ACHIEVED IT AND AT HIGHER PAN-SUCCESS PROB THAN USING AIRLINERS. IMB the only pragmatic utility of using commercial airliners in that fashion on 9-11-2001 would be as a HIGH-PROFILE, SELECT POLITICAL-MEDIA STATEMENT.

    As a WAR/ATTACK METHOD, many of the CIVILIAN deaths at the WTC may arguably be UNAVOIDABLE, BUT IMO OSAMA's CREDIBILITY + PRESTIGE, INCLUD FOR RADICAL ISLAM, WOULD HAD BEEN GREATER IFF THE AIRLINER CIVILIANS WERE NOT INVOLVED.

    'TIS POLITICS + CORRECTNESS, NOT WAR.

    Methinks ZARKEY = ZARQHAWI would agree wid me.
    Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-07-23 21:42  

    #1  Come in Lucky, how do you feel about this revelation? Your fading Lucky... :( Send word.
    Posted by: .5MT   2008-07-23 19:48  

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