It doesn't make sense that there were only four teams. Other probable targets: Renaisance Center/Penobscott Bldg, Detroit, Sears Tower, Chicago, St. Louis Arch, Big-Ugly-Bldg, Dallas, 'Mall-of-America, Wherever', Seattle Needle, etc, etc.
These people don't have any sustaining-powers. By that, I mean, if we want to bomb someone, we can do it relentlessly, for 30, 60, or 90 days, and continue. These people knew that they only had one shot at turning our own aircraft into guided missles. It would take 30 years for us to get complacent enough, for them to attempt it again.
I said all of that to say this: This was a Military Maneuver, designed to disrupt our business system, busy us with a lot of casualties and damage, and cripple our Economy.
The next logical step, would be to follow-up with additional, infrastructure attacks, such-as, bio-chem releases, which are actually not-that-dangerous, but tend to paralyze an already scared population, not-yet on a war-footing!
Remember, this is Military Plan, designed to destroy the United States of America! We have to be crippled, and rendered impotent! Remember Pearl Harbour? We didn't have a functional Battleship after Dec, 7th, 1941! So what's next from the Enemy?
Well, I don't know how many Islamic regiemes have been buying-up old Soviet diesel-subs, but Iran has at least 3 operational, and has 8 total, and they wern't empty beer-cans - they came with torpedoes, and maybe more stuff.
The idea of a huge, oil-tanker going amiss off our Atlantic shore isn't very appealing. Hmmm, the NATO Maritime Forces are now patrolling our Eastern Shores.
The trick is to remember that this is a Military Operation against our Country, designed to defeat us! Everything is in play! Oil! Energy! Manufacturing! Water! Transportation! Commerce! Think Military, not emotional!
Frankly, having G.W. Bush as President of the United States of America, at this time, and in this place, we are truly blessed. We have an Air Force Fighter Pilot as Commander-in-Chief, and he knew what-to-do, and did it!
There will be tribulations ahead, as we remove the cancer-of-Islamic-terrorism aimed at the Free-World, but we will prevail! We pulled 'Dirty-Little-Nip-Jap-Yellow-skinned-Bastards' out of caves in the South-Pacific in the late 50's, and fed them, and sent them back to work at Toyota!
Smootches, sweetie! Stay well...
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Oh, sorry, John. I was talking with my honey....FRegards
Most people who have been deep into the terrorist cells think the guy in Minnesota was the 20th man in the four teams, but like you said, there were supposed to be many more teams.
As I've said about 100 times in the past year, when you travel a lot internationally and get exposed to news outside the US, you find out that this Islamic war against America has been going on quite awhile, but our press has remained totally silent. I got into a huge flame war a couple of months ago when I said that Muslims all over Indonesia and the Philippines were butchering Catholic & other Christian missionaries and slaughtering whole churches-full of people. They also take Western tourist hostages everyday off beaches and out of hotels and behead them in the jungle. We are now (finally) getting reports these guys are part of the bin Laden network.
September 11th can be laid fully at the feet of the American press, which spent the entire past year pimping the Democrat talking points about "lock boxes" and "destroying Social Security" instead of paying attention to the very public war that was declared on this country by Islamic fanatics.
This story didn't even require any investigation...it was there, everyday on the AP.