They set out to take out the US, because of our "arrogant agression" in Kosovo (russias backyard, with Clark and the NATO Gang and chinas embassy tit for tat, remember our embassies) and the recent surviellence plane incident of april 2001 and many other incidents of strain made way before that.
As such I see Sept 11th as a failed attempt, most certainly commited by proxy. It failed in destroying two of the targets, more then likely with the whitehouse/pentagon gone. The light would be green for continued crippling attacks and the anthrax threat panic aftermath could have been much more damaging, leading to the 'red dawn' type invasion. They want to cut off the head of the snake with a long razor tipped poison blowdart shot from 1000 yards in the dark, so not to attract the venomous bite of the USA and world opinion. We have nightvision, so we know, but aren't tipping our hand for other reasons.
It also should be noted that we have used proxy in the past very effectivly against the soviets and the chinese. It's not a new thing, I would expect them to use it against us.
Here is some forgotten news from 2001.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/07/16/missile.treaty/
Pre 911: Reuters ("N.KOREA SAYS RAINBOWS BLESS KIM JONG-IL RUSSIA TOUR," Seoul, 08/23/01) reported that the DPRK's official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said that a series of "natural wonders" took place during leader Kim Jong-il's trip to Russia. KCNA said that on August 4, a 20-meter high "waterspout" rose, mushroom-like, in the center of a lake in the DPRK and was visible for 10 minutes. It added that two days later, a rainbow appeared over a monument to the Kim family "as if congratulating Kim Jong-il on his outstanding revolutionary activities to glorify president Kim Il-sung's revolutionary cause." The rainbow followed an "unprecedented" appearance on July 31 of a double rainbow three times in 30 minutes over the northwestern city of Shinuiji.
Nezavisimaya gazeta ("WHAT FOR DID YOU COME, DEAR GUESTS?," Moscow, 3, 08/21/01) published comments of Sergey Kazennov, Geostrategic Problems Sector Chief, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, and Vladimir Kumachyov, Vice President, Institute of National Security and Strategic Problems, on DPRK leader Kim Jong-il's recent visit to the RF. They believe that the RF is becoming "an element of the emerging important pole of the future multipolar world." The one-sided West- oriented RF foreign policies of the early 1990s are criticized, as the sudden break with DPRK then did not pay any dividends to RF, but rather made it of less interest to the partners in Northeast Asia. On the contrary, this time just the talks about RF participation in the DPRK- ROK railway restoration and its link to the Trans-Siberian railway increased the international rating of the RF and President Vladimir Putin personally. "The role of an effective mediator between 'the clean' and (in Western view) 'the unclean' countries and regimes may prove extremely advantageous to Russia."
Jiefang Daily (Xinhua News Agency, "JAPAN WILL BUILD MORE AEGIS FRIGATES," Tokyo, 08/18/01, P4) reported that according to a report in Tokyo News on August 17, the Japanese Navy will build two more Ageis frigates with strong capabilities for theatre missile defense within the next two years. Japanese Ocean Defense Forces are reported to have had 4 Aegis frigates so far. The report said that Japan will purchase the core system from the US. Tokyo News pointed out that the implementation of this program by Japanese Ocean Defense Forces would likely violate the relevant items of the Constitution.
A nifty one from WND. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22332
Bottomline Al Queda may be the razor tipped poisened dart, but the airsupply is coming from these two.
