[Poohbah]

I don't understand why the NYPD would want to blame Serbs for 9/11. I can easily understand why some people in the CIA might want to.

Well, you've demonstrated that you REALLY don't understand the conversation.

This was in reference to the FIRST WTC bombing, in 1993--not 9/11. And the NYPD just took the phone call. "Al-Qaeda" wasn't on anyone's radar in February, 1993.

BTW, Destro: yes, someone sympathetic to the Serbs could very easily call in to take credit on behalf of the Serbs. There is a reason why various actors engage in terrorism: it frequently works. In the early days after the WTC bombing, before they ran down the VIN, there was rampant speculation as to whodunit--ranging from Puerto Rican terrorists, to Serb/Croat/Bosniak nutballs, leftovers from the Baader-Meinhof gang.

[aristeides]

Yes, I did misunderstand the date, but my point stands. I can understand -- still more easily in fact, now that I understand we are talking about the earlier date -- why some people in the CIA would want to shift the blame for the first attack on the WTC to Serbs from their favored Islamists. I have a hard time understanding why anybody in the NYPD would be interested in shifting the blame.

[Destro]

Please tell me how the Serb side would gain from taking credit for WTC part one?