Crypto Blamed for US terrorist attack - World Exclusive

[Bruce Tober]

pro-forma disclaimer - I have no military or piloting experience let
alone expertise. That having been said.

In message <97673.1000375321@thrush.ravenbrook.com>, Nick Barnes
<Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> writes

>estimates higher than 20K.  I believe that the official unofficial
>estimate of the WTC toll is now 5-6K.

Correct

>There seem to have been between
>10 and 20 hijackers actually on the planes (3-5 on each: the reports
>from the Pennsylvania flight strongly indicate 3).  Given the total
>lack of prior intelligence, it seems more likely to me that this was a
>mid-sized terrorist group, with no more than 500 active members.

correct, apparently

>Undoubtedly using crypto to communicate, FWIW.

Not necessarily. Brief and seemingly mundane sentences or even words
could just as easily have conveyed needed messages following on from
seemingly or not mundane meetings, over the past year or three. "Hi Sam,
I'm on flight xyz from Boston. I'm just boarding the plane and
surprisingly it's on time. So I should be able to meet with you at x
oclock at LAX." Hell, I've rung my son on the few ocassions i've flown
to the states and said virtually the same thing to him.

Having given that message to the co-ordinator of the attacks, he has all
the info he needs to know that all is aok.

>commercial airline pilots.  Maybe not even that.  Possibly one real
>pilot having trained a number of others on a sim ($100-$200/hour).

Yep.

>I cannot imagine any government anywhere conniving at this.  Iraq?
>Libya?  North Korea?  Surely even the Taleban are not so foolish.

Agreed. and if bin Laden is anything near the murdering scoundrel the
usa would have us believe, why has he so vehemently denied the deed. One
would think that if he was involved and did that, his henchmen would be
waiting to kill him at any moment for being a traitor to their cause.


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