But I was thinking about this: The operation to bring this type of calculated and clinical devastation took months, possibly years to plan and rehearse for. Whoever is responsible is very organised and has access to considerable resources to both evade detection or suspicion. They have a definite agenda. Which includes what to do in the aftermath. Do they A) immediately give a statement that they, and their group was responsible, or B) retreat into denial. So far it's B), Bin Laden, chief suspect as he is has denied involvement. Which of course doesn't mean he's innocent, he's most probably not, he and his organization obviously acknowledge the fact that terrible retaliation wouldn't be long in coming.
This brings up the curious question as to why they clumsily left the obvious signposts in the car found at Logan airport, which contained Arabic language flight manuals. If they wanted to cover their tracks and avoid blame until some time after the incident then why leave any clues at all? Unless of course they wanted to stir it up even more by leaving the blame to be linked to several possible suspect groups.
It leaves it all in the no-mans land of ambiguity. The Arabic flight manuals could be a red herring for all we know. After the chaos they caused they want to now remain silent. It could be anyone, someone perhaps who deliberately wanted the blame to be aimed at Bin laden and his followers...?
It's just something to think about.
Oh, wait ...
This operation didn't really require any more coordination than "board this flight at this time of day, overpower crew and passengers with knives, try and crash into these targets..."
[ September 12, 2001: Message edited by: MeGotBeer ]
We don't know for sure who the Intelligence communities ar currently looking at. I think it's a fair bet that many different groups are being investigated. Fundamentalists of some form are obviously to blame, whether politically, economically or religiously motivated. No stone will be left unturned.