38 posted on 9/11/01 6:15 AM Pacific by Catspaw
Catspaw was the first on this thread to name Osama bin-Laden, within 20 minutes after the first plane hit!
Have you anything else for us, Catspaw?
On other 9/11 threads, HalfIrish named OBL at 9:08 & I named him at 9:09. It was a gut instinct guess, based on past history, notably the prior terrorist attack at the WTC in 1993.
What else do I have for you? Only what a few commentators have said: OBL has this obsessive-compulsive side. He & al Qaeda will select targets (primary, secondary, possibles) and try repeatedly to hit it (the WTC is a prime example), using a variety of tactics, coming at it from different directions, misdirection, using the unexpected. The WTC was bombed the first time & was probably prepared for a bomb in a vehicle driven into its underground parking garage. It was not prepared for hijacked planes flying into the buildings, terrorism coming from the sky.
The other thing is that there is about an 18 month interval between terrorist acts from OBL. However, because we know this, it could be longer or shorter. In other words, we can never let down our guard until bin Laden and al Qaeda are wiped from the face of the earth. Toss in some of the Palestinian terrorist groups, who hate us as much as they hate the Israelis (note that more than one Freeper named Palestinians on 9/11), and I don't think we'll be safe for quite some time.