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Bigfoot73 said:Atta may indeed have had some sympathy with Islamic radicalism. Being a Saudi he would have experienced the intolerant Wahabi strand of Islam which may have left him more sympathetic to al-Qaeda.
Sympathetic enough to travel to Afghanistan and attend a terrorist's camp lectures? I can't see why it's so difficult to accept that he had a background in Islamic militancy.
Bigfoot73 said:I live in a mainly muslim area and I'm used to the phenomenon of muslim men drinking, gambling, doing drugs and fornicating and then going to mosque on Fridays.It just seems an improbably long way to go from living like that to suicidal terrorism.
Depends whether or not you presuppose someone who is prepared to kill himself and thousands of others is likely to behave in a consistent and reasonable manner. I don't. Look at David Koresh, for example. Sincere? Probably. Behaviour consistent with professed beliefs? Probably not.
Bigfoot73 said:I suspect the hijackers didn't really know who they were working for. Their sponsor organization could have been indirectly cultivated by the CIA from the start.A introduces B to C, who like them reads blogs by shaikh/imam X, spiritual leader of movement Y.He knows of a madrasa in country Z. etc. etc.
Nobody in this disparate underworld really knows who everyone really is or where they came from, and infiltration, manipulation and orchestration would be so easy. The Pakistan ISI chief's donation of 100 00 dollars to someone using the name Mohammed Atta just days before 9/11 deepens the mystery still further, and who's to say he hadn't been misled too?
There are so many contradictions about the hijackers. Nutjobs, patsies, or players?
Perhaps. But then there's no evidence for any of this and to suspect as much is simply a leap of faith based on prejudice.
Bigfoot73 said:Why did Atta's luggage contain an airline uniform he would never have had the chance to put on, and his will- which would never have been read unless left at the airport?A recent exchange about the passenger list failed to elicit the actual list - I still maintain that Atta's name wasn't on it.
Where is the evidence that he had an airline uniform in his luggage? The basis of this appears to be misreporting. Even if there was a uniform what would this indicate? Any theory which could arise out of it would surely be vastly more implausible than the events as laid out in the official accounts.