I think it's too easy to say that US intelligence services should have
known about this. 4 planes hijacked, even if there were 4 or 5
hijackers per plane, that's not many people. Let's say these people did
all their planning in a foreign nation, or even if they were in the US,
did all the planning in meetings as opposed to by e-mail or phone or by
mail. They had few (if any) weapons. There was no need to rent vans
(for a truck bomb), or huge amounts of fertilizer (or whatever) for that
same purpose.
I can see a possible scenario where the number of people involved is
small, and preparations required little in the way of acquisition of
materials.
The very fact that this was so well orchestrated and executed shows that
we aren't dealing with stupid people. They obviously knew how to keep
what they were doing under wraps. I'm not sure that we can point a
finger at US intelligence - yet.
regards,
frank
Tonghang Zhou wrote:
> All four planes that crashed (on NY buildings, the Pentagon and
> in Pensylvinia) were headed to california from Boston or DC areas.
>
> This looks like deliberation to me. One thing I see is that these
> planes would carry the most fuel and result in biggest destructions.
>
> That 3 of them should complete their missions entirely and the
> fourth one at least successfully hijacked, all within an hour
> or two, shows almost fool proof execution. Must've taken a very
> long time to plan and required huge preparation and organization
> efforts.
>
> Yet it was a total surprise when it happend. In my humble opinion,
> this all brings severe doubt on the competency of the US security
> offices (CIA, FBI, State Dept, etc.)
>
> Tonghang.
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