QUOTE(narafa @ May 29 2005, 12:45 PM)
Well, I think that the official story addresses the other side you are talking about, so I still believe that there is no need for replies about such sayings unless and only UNLESS, they have some truth behind them.
Perhaps, but everybody loves a conspiracy - the mundane story isn't nearly as exciting. Without proponents of the official story, there would be nothing to debate here and the thread would have died with the first post.
QUOTE(narafa @ May 28 2005, 03:08 PM)
I think that's why the Intel community is there and gets paid for, to separate the "real" threats from what's "hoax" and work on preventing these threats from turning into reality, or don't you agree with me?
I agree, and I've said such before. That's why my original comment was saying that despite being a part of the intel community, I can see where it's possible that we indeed dropped the ball. In a perfect world threats would be detailed enough that we could place them in two boxes labelled "Threat" and "Hoax" - but sadly things aren't that cut and dry. Historically we had never had a foreign terrorist attack on our soil. Not that folks hadn't considered the possibility, but generally the public grumbles over resources that get wasted for threats that may never happen.
QUOTE(narafa @ May 28 2005, 03:08 PM)
They do everywhere, I agree with you on this. I said this because of your word, "Which we created". Anyway, we are not discussing politics over here, although most things in this world end up in a politician hands, some way or another.
Sadly, truer words are rarely spoken.
QUOTE(narafa @ May 28 2005, 03:08 PM)
I am not saying that the gov is the one who did it, not on their own
I am saying in case the gov got some information that some guys are going to make such a thing, and as you mentioned a while ago, usually the intel don't have exact dates, so that's obvious why Ashcroft stopped flying a lot of time before it happened, because simply, they don't know the exact date. Yup yup. Likely there were several other unknowns as well.
QUOTE(narafa @ May 28 2005, 03:08 PM)
What is the probability of a non-hijacked plane crashing into a building?? I think it's near zero unless all the crew is dead. To make my point clear, the NORAD program was conducting tests of planes crashing into buildings as you said, ok that's fine. However, they never imagined that this might happen using hi-jacked planes, although what happened in Pearl Harbor is very similar, but without any buildings, only with ships instead.
Good point. I would counter with the odds of a plane hitting a building increasing exponentially depending on area. If a plane dropped over Los Angeles or over NYC, hitting a building would be likely I think.
QUOTE(narafa @ May 28 2005, 03:08 PM)
If you know Muslims, then you must know that they don't like their Holy Book, the Quran, to be miss treated, and hence won't carry it with them in such a flight. Yes, Muslims believe that the Quran helps in protecting them, but they were going to a suicide act, so they know very well that they need no protection, they are going to die anyway. Of course, this is the case if the hi-jackers were really Muslims.
And there's the fact that essentially "Muslims" and "Radical Muslims" are almost seperate religions altogether. At the least two very seperate ways to interpret a religion.
QUOTE(narafa @ May 28 2005, 03:08 PM)
And as you mentioned Germany and the terrorist cells there that are believed that they were stemmed from, I want to ask you a simple question, Do you know anything about the American intel and military presence in Germany?? How come with so much presence inside Germany, you got no information about such cells to prevent such attacks?
You can't arrest someone because they have anti-American sentiments. You especially can't do it on foriegn soil without regard for local authorities.
QUOTE(narafa @ May 28 2005, 03:08 PM)
Ya sure, no threat I agree, simply because there is no actual proof about what they are talking about.
The fact is that the US past govs missleaded the public in many historic cases before, that's why many are feeling right now that the whole official story is simply cooked.
And that's fine. Nothing wrong with analyzing a situation as long as they realize that someone with a different point of view may be just as legitimate as they are.
QUOTE(narafa @ May 28 2005, 03:08 PM)
I agree, there is no signle gov in the world that don't miss lead the public. They just got to know what is needed to be known and that's it. But this is not the debate. The real debate is how much and for what govs miss lead the public?? That's another issue completely. Sometimes miss leading the public is good when it comes to their safety, prosper and other good things. BUT, miss leading the public about an accident that killed around 3,000 people, hit the economy badly, and ended up in an engagement in 2 off the border wars is a little bit too much, or don't you agree with me??
Honestly, I think it was high time Saddam was removed from power. I'm glad we did it. Everyone talks about the cloak and dagger evil things Bush does... But Saddam was a tyrant in the open, he made no attempt to remotely hide the fact that he was corrupt and cruel. I still don't believe the gov't orchestrated the 911 attack. At most we dropped the intel ball.
QUOTE(narafa @ May 28 2005, 03:08 PM)
Besides, Osama Bin Laden is never caught as the American President promised hundreds of times in his speeches.
Doesn't mean we aren't still collecting intel and looking though.
QUOTE(narafa @ May 28 2005, 03:08 PM)
Ya, I don't see them happening either, because to keep an eye at merely everyone, you will need a huge number of watchers that you can't afford to hire and keep. Plus, the tons of information that you are going to get out of this will be getting out of date merely every second unless you are recording, and if you are recording what every American is doing, you will need a huge amount of data storage for that, which is not likely to happen, and if it happens, please tell me so that I can go buy the stocks of data storage companies.
I am not saying it's impossible, it's just a dream of the intel all around the world, and if you were living in the 50s, and living right now, you will notice that many dreams at that time became simple facts, just like that.
lol @ data storage stock

There's also the element that the more human watchers you employ, the greater the risk of a leak. Best to keep things simple I think.
QUOTE(narafa @ May 28 2005, 03:08 PM)
You can keep America safe and still keep pre-9-11 freedom if the intel community work harder than before, not by depriving people from their freedom..I am not attacking the intel community, on the contrary, I am just saying that winning the WWII could have been acheived without throwing any nuclear bombs over Japan. Have you gotten what I said???
In order to work harder, we'd need more resources and more power. I don't see either coming down the pipeline anytime soon unfortunately.
QUOTE(narafa @ May 28 2005, 03:08 PM)
The world can't be ruled by 1 world gov, it just can't happen. I don't have links about that cause I don't search for such idiot things. If the American leaders believe that they can make this come true, then sorry, they are nuts, and please forgive my language, I don't mean any offense. Let them learn the world history and see what happened to all leaders that tried to acheive this stupid goal.
I don't think the American government thinks it can pull it off, I think some people think the American government thinks it can pull it off.
QUOTE(narafa @ May 28 2005, 03:08 PM)
Ya that's what forums are all about, but if you think that the gov is hiding information regarding the 911, what in your personal opinion are these information, just a personal opinion apart from anything related to your work at the intel??
[right][snapback]645962[/snapback][/right]
Your not catching me unawares like that

I'm not going to go into personal opinion on hidden information, because if I'm right and it comes out later, it's my ass when they decide to see how I knew!
What I will do is offer my opinion on why I think letting the public in on all the information is often a bad idea.
I think there's a point where hiding information from the public is a necessity, for various reasons. We have a system set up in the intel community where you don't even talk about unclassified stuff in public, because even though one piece of information is unclassified, if it is positively link to another piece of information it becomes something higher. For that reason, a lot of stuff is held back. We need to protect information that can in anyway out an informant, for example. While it would be nice to tell the public that Joe Blow that's undercover in Iraq heard something, it's not gonna happen if it get's Joe Blow killed and/or loses us that vital route of intel.
On another front, the public is especially skittish (and moreso after 911) - Let's say we acted on all threats by releasing them to the public. We get a threat in that says a building in Dallas is going to get attacked by terrorists in the month of May. We don't know *which* building, and we don't know *which* day. What happens? We have a city-wide panic, people are fleeing, some people are looting, people don't report to work and the city economy takes a huge hit. June rolls around and there was no attack, guess who gets the blame? The government.
That's essentially what it comes down to. We have to protect the public, and take our knocks. We are ALWAYS going to be taking knocks, but we decide whether to take them with various conspiracy sites, or by shelling out money to a failing economy due to over reaction to threats. It's a huge balancing act.
Unfortunately even information that really is "safe" to release, once classified is under the miles of read tape to unclassify it. Even those rules are for a reason though, can't be unclassifying something accidently... by the time the mistake is caught the damage would be done, and that damage could mean loss of life.