You wrote: "The streets of New York were filled with unburnt paper that had been blown out of the buildings by the explosions. It is not at all unusual for light items to be blown free of major explosions without harm..."

Yes, perhaps. But Atta's passport was presumably on the plane, not in the buildings. In any event, this very passport was reported stolen in 1999.

You also wrote: "Considering most of the military leaders who would have to be in on this conspiracy were sitting in the Pentagon at the time, deliberately allowing someone to fly an airliner into their own offices should seem a little odd, even to you."

I don't think the identities - let alone the locations - of the plotters at the time of the attacks have been established. Be that as it may, well-established facts about Pearl Harbor, for example, clearly show that GI's lives (or careers, in the case of Admiral Kimmel and Gen. Short), along with ships, planes and anything else will be sacrificed by those in power if it suits their purposes, which in that case was to stampede the American public into support for U.S. participation in WWII.

It may come as a surprise to you, but evil men can be not only clever, but devious.

Nowhere have I said that I think current President Bush is reponsible for 911, but his actions on that date were certainly puzzling and have raised some doubts.

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