[Cicero]

Bin Ladin's family made their money constructing high-rises in Saudi Arabia. Osama bin Ladin was trained as a construction engineer. According to stories released after 9/11, he had hoped that the buildings would fall over rather than collapse in on themselves. As you say, that would have killed far more people.

Even as it was, it is only by God's blessing that 20,000 or more weren't killed in the collapse. I have heard of several people who seemingly accidentally didn't get to work on time that morning.

[KriegerGeist]

Do you or anyone you know have a list (or know where I can find one) of the terrorist attacks that occurred

I know there was the first World Trade Center bombing in the underground. Then there was a bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon, someplace called the Kobar Towers? A couple of embassies in Africa (or just one and the other somewhere else?) The U.S.S. Cole etc. Plus, I believe there is proof somewhere that the OK City bombing was not "domestic" and that Timothy McVeigh was not smart enough to pull that off.

I want to dispel a myth-conspiracy-theory-accusation that the Bush Administration orchestrated the 9-11attack to justify the "War on Terror". One way to do this is to ask who then orchestrated the: insert list here _________ attacks before 9-11.

I have some relatives that have made some outrageous claims and I'm not going to let them go unanswered...even if it cuts us off.

[Paleo Conservative]

Even as it was, it is only by God's blessing that 20,000 or more weren't killed in the collapse.

I remember rather vividly how the networks were scrambling to find relevant people to interview to get their opinions. Fortunately Fox was able to get Newt Gingrich on the phone within perhaps 30 or 40 minutes of the first attack. Fox was interviewing him well before the South tower collapsed. As a professional historian he had really keen insight about the situation. He called it the "Pearl Habor of the 21st century." At the time people were just beginning to die; nobody knew how many people would die, but based on the number of people who could have been in those buildings he thought the numbers could possibly approach those of Antietam or Gettysburg.