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 ...