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9-11 Conspiracy: Part 2

This week this site will revert to the non-pron roots of the internet: craziness and paranoia. Yesterday I presented the world’s only conspiracy that links prophecy, Toynbee Tiles and 9-11. Today I take on some of those same topics myself. Enjoy:

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Recently, Sunday morning brunch talk turned to 9-11 conspiracies. Since the dovate.com juggernaut of public opinion hasn’t gone on record one way or another on this particular common myth, here’s what I have to say about all that:

I highly doubt large-scale government planning in the attacks and generally accept that the conspiracy was planned and carried out by extremely well connected terrorists. At the same time, the commonly accepted belief (Saddam Hussein and bin Laden sat in a cave with 19 evil-doers and hatched their evil Muslim plot to overthrow the United States and behead every Christian from Omaha to Boise) is at least as much myth as any conspiracy. The official account isn’t a whole hell of a lot better.

Here’s my best guess:

At least some (and probably most) of the terrorists had connections to intelligence agencies in the United States, Pakistan, Europe and the Middle East. This doesn’t mean that these governments were complicit in the 9-11 attacks…

Think of it like this.

I don’t believe that a group of 2 dozen military, political and financial elite meet in a secret chamber every August to plan out the course of human history. That’s just stupid.

But think about it. How many people really are on the world stage with their hands on real power? Ten thousand? Twenty thousand? Fifty thousand? Even if it’s twice that, it’s still not a substantial number. Think of it as what it is… a community. All together it’s small town’s worth of people.

So let’s think of it as a small town. No one trusts anyone else and all are out for money, power and resources. It’s a small town, so money comes from the bank, power from the police and resources from the landowners as well as from the gas station just outside of town. Interestingly, the gas station is the only thing that’s not owned by the Americans.

The 9-11 terrorists were the local drug dealers. For years the chief of police ignored them in exchange for information about the gas station owners.

They were never friends, but they did help with the old Soviet town and with the gas station. At a point, they could do whatever the hell they wanted without the police even looking at them. And not only wasn’t anybody looking, in 25 years of working as town assets, they learned how to play the system.

They knew the passport office that gave passports to anybody. The agents working there assumed that whoever came through had business being there and gave them what they needed, no questions asked. They knew how to operate in the open without raising alarms. When alarms did go off, they were quickly suppressed. You can’t touch assets. So they plotted, they planned and then one day they blew up the police station and robbed the bank.

Of course I can’t prove a word of this, but it makes much more sense to me that 9-11 was a really, really bad case of blowback rather than the perfect plot hatched, planned and executed from a cave in Afghanistan. Since it’s embarrassing, since it would expose the nasty underbelly of intelligence work and since it might compromise state secrets to reveal, only future historians have any chance at verifying any of this. Unfortunately I’m guessing that all record of Mohammad Atta as CIA asset were shredded long, long ago. O’well.

Since that’s not a gratifying conspiracy theory, here’s a crazy conclusion:

9-11 was a conspiracy. Terrorist planned or not, it was a conspiracy. All in all, it must have involved a few dozen people. Conspiracies leak. Is it possible that it people outside the terrorist circles caught wind of a plot? It’s almost impossible to imagine that they didn’t. Is it possible that someone in a position of power in Saudi Arabia knew about the attacks and didn’t say anything? Pakistan? Israel? The United States? Stranger things have happened.

If you don’t believe my general thesis, listen to Michael Springman, the man who once worked at the place where 15 of the 19 hijackers got their passports: