1990s Precedents for 9/11/01
The 1990s saw several deceptions used as pretexts for wars
and the advancement of police-state aparatuses.
While none of these incidents shares all of the most important
features with the 9/11/01 attack,
each has several important parallels.
The most direct precedent to the 9/11/01 attack was the
Oklahoma City bombing.
In both case most of the damage was produced by hidden explosives
but blamed on a diversion.
Consider this comparison:
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| OKC 1995 |
WTC 2001 |
| collapse produced by |
internal explosives |
internal explosives |
| collapse explained as |
progressive collapse
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progressive collapse
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| diversion |
AMFO truck bomb |
767 crashes |
| patsies |
Timothy McVeih and Terry Nichols |
Mohammad Atta, et.al. |
| absent during attack |
FBI and ATF personnel |
CEOs |
| evidence handling |
rubble buried without analysis;
surveillance tapes suppressed by FBI |
steel recycled without analysis;
Ground Zero photographs prohibited;
Pentagon surveillance tapes suppressed by FBI |
| legislation passed in wake of |
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 |
USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 |
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