1) Terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, with films and confiscated passports of people who traveled there to train.
Or were they islamist militant training camps? There's a diffrence between terrorist and islamist militant.
Passports etc. are VERY easy to fake, btw.
2) Taliban harboring the self-named Al Qaeda of Bin Laden and Al Zawahiri.
Makes sense, during the cold war the Muhajadeen led by bin Laden were sponsored by the CIA with almost 3 billion dollars. bin Laden is a CIA asset.
Both bin Laden and al Zawahri have been trying for decades to create a radical Islamist state in the Middle East, they tried to make revolutions in several countries, but never succeeded, because everybody thought they were loonies. It's natural that if there was a big terrorist attack somewhere in the west, which nobody claimed responsibility of, they would surely cling on to it claim it was them, to get more support for their crazy fantasies.
However, bin Laden was honest and after the WTC attacks in 2001,
denied involvement, if he really was behind the attacks, why the heck would he have done that?
3) The first WTC bombing and evidence presented in court that tied Ramzi Youssef to that crime, as well as his cleric.
That does not prove that al Qaeda is an international terrorist organization. Furthermore, the
FBI let the bombing happen and there was also some
Mossad connections to it.
4) The kinds of bombings with coordinated timing (such as Madrid, London, and others) which cannot be pulled off by "isolated extremists". No, if you look into what it takes to pull such things like this off under the radar, the amount of recon and support required for the cells to pull this off is pretty considerable.
Or a intelligence organization like the CIA, MI5 or Mossad?
In the late 50's US planners were worried about the growing popularity of the communist left in Italy. So they started a operation codenamed Gladio along with European intelligence agencies, the operation was however eventually led by the CIA. More than 600 people were initially recruited and trained by the US and UK in Sardinia.
In the 1972 elections in Italy the communist party polled 27% and their support was increasing, shortly after that a series of bombings occured in Italy, they were meant to shift Italian politics sharply to the right. In 1969 the Piazza Fontana killed 16 people, they were done by Gladio operatives.
In april 1972 a bomb attack killed three carabinieri (police officers), Gladio was behind it.
In november 1973 Gladio operatives blew up an Argo 16 aircraft in mid-air.
In 1974 there was a bombing in Bresica, which killed 8.
In 1978 the Italian PM was kidnapped and assassinated, by so called "Red Brigades", which were actually Gladio agents. Months after the assassination of the Italian PM, Albino Luciani was elected Pope, he was concidered to be soft on communism, because his father was a communist, he was therefore a threat and thus assassinated 33 days after being elected.
In 1980 they bombed the Bologna trainstation, 80 killed.
All of these attacks were blaimed on the leftwing in Italy.
This has now been declassified and admitted, they are proud of the fact that they kept the operation secret for 45 years.
http://www.isn.ch/php/collections/coll_gladio.htm
http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/gladio.htm
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_277.shtml
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=10373
Another intresting operation, which was however not carried out, but it was planned and approved by the US government ... Operation Northwoods.
Among other things they were going to get an aircraft at Eglin AFB, paint it too look like a civil aircraft, fly it over Cuba, send a may day that Cuban MIG fighterjets were attacking it, then they'd blow it up with a remote control. And thus have a pretext to invade Cuba. There were also many other plans, read the document for yourself:
http://www.gwu.edu/%7ensarchiv/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf
What I'm saying is, the governments of the west, especially the US, UK and Israeli governments are fully capable of staging terrorist attacks with lots of casualties to further their agenda, they have planned to do it on American soil and they have done it in foreign countries.
5) The video and audio tapes by Bin Laden and Al Zawahiri themselves, calling their followers to action.
Well the first bin Laden videotape
, and it was confirmed by a [url=http://www.countertyranny.com/2005/11/25/237/bin-laden-tape-a-fake-swiss-lab-says-2002/Swiss lab[/url]. The second one is [url="http://www.countertyranny.com/2005/11/26/241/is-the-2004-bin-laden-video-tape-a-fraud-2004/"]questionable, especially because there have been so many reports of
bin Laden being dead.
And videos are nowadays VERY easy to fake aswell. With some make up, wigs, clothes, special effects, CGI and a fairly good editing crew, you could make video of George Bush and Dick Cheney doubleteaming a mule, and make it seem like the real thing.
6) We can keep going on and on... but it appears you just choose to ignore all of these facts as they don't support your view of what you wish to be true?
What facts? /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif
2) Once you understand how the autopilot and Flight Management System (FMS) work, that a commercial airplane is MUCH easier to fly than a 2 or 4 passenger Cessna?
OK mister expert, what is required for the autopilot and FMS applications to function properly, other than the plane being airborne? Because the devices tracking the plane were turned off moments after the communication broke, which I'd reckon rendered the autopilot and FMS useless, since from what I've read, they depend on GPS navigation systems to function, but correct me if I'm wrong?
So what are the odds of someone who can't fly a Cessna, being able to fly a big commercial airliner without the autopilot and FMS?
