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In reply to the discussion: The Great Thermite Debate... [View all]BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Last edited Wed Dec 11, 2013, 08:52 PM - Edit history (1)
I mean, these were the guys who couldn't shoot straight. They were hardly a well oiled machine. Given how they stumbled through the preparations, it is really amazing they were able to fly the planes at all. This is not the profile of the kind of enemy we see with al Qaeda.
The careful planning and flawless execution that would have been required to rig up the explosives in those buildings is so far beyond what we saw of any of Osama's people that it makes no sense at all. And that leaves gaping holes.
Let's say I work for Osama. We're already going to fly two planes into the towers. And now we're going to work for months setting up thousands of charges in the towers -- all under some central control. Why would we do this? After all, aren't the plane crashes enough terror? Why even bother? The amount of extra terror you get from imploding the buildings hardly seems worth the effort.
But OK, let's say you want to bring one of the towers down just for that added bit of terror. Are you going to take the risk and all the extra work to do both towers? I just can't see that.
And if all of the above is true, that doesn't explain why you would then go rig up WTC7 for a similar implosion. That's not terror. That's just strange at that point.
I'm not feeling it. *IF* the buildings were imploded, it was done by somebody who had a lot more skills, resources, and protection than Osama bin Laden, and a whole lot more good reason to take out all of those buildings, especially WTC7.