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I find the particular memo requesting volunteers for suicide mission one of the most interesting:

The Command of Ali Bin Abi Taleb Air Force Base

Subject: Volunteer for Suicide Mission

Air Brigadier General Abdel Magid Hammod Ali

Commander of Ali Bin Abi Taleb Air Force Base

Air Colonel Mohamad Majid Mahdi.

Why is this particular suicide mission requested from Iraqi AIR FORCE?? Did Iraq even have an Air Force in March of 2001?? Exactly what kind of suicide mission would they be requesting 3 months before 9/11?

Another interesting point relating to this memo:

The 911 conspiracy theories present a particular theory that these 19 men could not have been advanced enough as pilots to have the accuracy to hit the targets as perfectly as they did since they went to flight school and were not good students to begin with. They theorize that the pilots would have to have been either professional pilots which indicate state sponsorship (the U.S. govt. for the theorists; the hijackers were CIA operatives) or it was remote controlled plane.

We all know how ludicrous these theories are, but lets revisit the theory with this memo as a reference. This memo give the INDICATION that Iraq had his air force volunteer for a suicide mission - the only suicide mission that follows this memo that has to do with airplanes/pilots is 911.

One might counter that, some of the terrorists trained in flight schools none were in any air force. That is not proven, for one thing we don't really know exactly who most of the hijackers were. Another point, I would include is that easily there could have been a professional pilot (an Iraqi air force pilot or Iraqi commercial pilot - can be the same in Iraq) involved that knew exactly how to fly accurately and the hijackers who have trained in flight schools were there to be co-pilots and back up.

I find this entirely feasible, since we know that 911 was a compartmentalized attack, the majority of the hijackers had no idea of the actual plot. Possibly just 2 people per plane knew of the actual plot, leaving the pilot and co-pilot with the others as the traditional hijackers doing the footwork.

Just some logical thoughts!

" Why is this particular suicide mission requested from Iraqi AIR FORCE?? Did Iraq even have an Air Force in March of 2001??"
Iraq had an airforce during this period. But it was greatly diminished in structure and capability due to many of their fighter aircraft being flown to Iran during the first gulf war and never returned. I do not know how many Russian built jet transports they had in use. If they did have some Russian trained pilots on big jets, then perhaps goons could have been trained by them in general proceedure, and flight methods for handling large aircraft.
But that is not an issue as I see it. Guys like Atta where adequately trained to fly Boeing commercial jets once in the air. Take over the airplane cockpit, punch in the gps coordinates for flying the plane to the towers for instance, set the desired attitude, pull back the throttles a bit, push the wheel forward to decend to the low attitude, punch the autopilot button. Bingo. Plane flies itself to destination. When target in view, unset autopilot, aim plane for target. If you have to make a wild wide turn, course correction so be it, just do it, at this point one is not worried about passenger comfort in deep bank turn etc..
One does not have to understand very much about flying such an aircraft in this given scenario.