09-07-2011, 03:13 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:In some ways it was a 'test run' for the WTC - mostly in how the media, agencies of government and public would react to bold-faces lies and cover-ups! IMHO. [Of course, the now all but forgotten WTC bombing#1 was yet another test for the ultimate op.....9-11
Not so much a "test run" -- although I remind myself and others that either/or models don't work very well when analyzing intelligence operations.
My hypothesis: The February 26, 1993 WTC bombing, the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and the July 17, 1996 TWA 800 shoot-down were casus belli tactics in the larger strategy to provoke the response that finally came in the wake of September 11, 2001.
Either Clinton wouldn't or couldn't bite -- at least not with a large, publicly observable bite radius -- or he played his part in a too-modest drama that worked only after new script doctors were called in (a process with which I am most familiar) to punch it up.
The unelected "President" George W. Bush, however, never had the authority to order retaliation. He was Howdy Doody.
As for the identity of Buffalo Bob ...
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If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene