“oh if some sort of hijacking occurred over us soil we would just have to spend out heaps on getting at the source of the trouble, hint hint”
Considering our history this isn’t out of pocket. I don’t follow the “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” meme narrative, but, the US has enough of a history of funding whatever insurgent group is against communism and then firebombing them when it stops being politically advantageous.
As the years have gone by, I cannot believe any government has the competence to stage something like this start to finish. However I believe they were much more likely quietly financing certain groups and putting ideas into their head. It could be as simple as saying "oh if some sort of hijacking occurred over us soil we would just have to spend out heaps on getting at the source of the trouble, hint hint" and al-qaeda going away and going "actually let's see if we can really make this spectacular"
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