9/11 will be like JFK's assassination I am afraid, we will never know really the "underside" of the cards.
It's very intriguing to note that :
- If some facts are hidden, conspiracy theorists somehow play the game of the ones hiding things, by discrediting the seeking of truth.
- Somehow, Fascislamists are the objective allies of certain US lobbies.
- Luck or not, it allowed the US to step more foots into the ME, control more oil reserves and confine tomorrow greatest rival, China, whom appetite for energy will keep growing and growing.
The only thing that I am sure of is that some well placed people in Europe and the US knew that such an attack with hijacked planes was to take place soon on US soil :
- Proven on US soil (journalists showed how the intelligence went up the chain of command but was unheard at some point)
- Proven in France for example since the French DGSE (equivalent to US CIA) had warned the US on january 2001 that such attacks were to take place really soon. They even mentionned that likely the terrorists would hijack a plane going from Frankfurt to the US (it did not happen that way, but Germany was a backgarden for the terrorists).
A french journalist, Guillaume Dasquie, got access to 328 pages of a DGSE report where everything was written.
See in Le Monde (french equivalent of the NYT or HT) :
http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/artic...avaient-de-ben-laden-en-2000_896448_3224.html
Afterwards, this journalist got detained by the french authorities for divulging top secret information.
Too, it was not the first time that terrorists had planned to crash an airplane into a building. Back in 1994, 5 Algerians hijackers took hostage +100 people, they wanted to fly to Paris (to crash into the Eiffel tower in fact). Plane first landed in Marseille where an assault took place after they shot a few hostages. Assault lasted 20 minutes = all 5 terrorists dead, a dozen of SWAT team members injured, remaining hostages freed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7a5D3sMJKM&feature=related
It's too bad there are so many conspiracy theories around 9/11 because some important details are very troubling, and again it serves some people interests to have those conspirationnists playing around. Maybe (just an hypothesis), if some authorities knew it was going to happen, they didn't think it would take such proportions as the WTC collapsing or thought it would be only one plane in which a rookie pilot couldn't go very far. In this hypothesis, they couldn't foresee everything, a bit like the french assault on the plane (notice how it took time to open the door : they made a very stupid mistake = they trained on assaulting an empty plane, hence the door was placed a bit higher, which is why the moving ladder was not set on the correct height... Stupid, no ?)