A Daniel Pipes Article
from the mind of Zeke_Wilkins.
A recent Daniel Pipes article (here) describes semi-credible evidence that the crash of American Airlines flight 587 in November of 2001 might have been an Al-Qaeda attack. The theory is it was a Richard Reid style attack that was successful. It is interesting, and warrants further investigation.
posted by Zeke_Wilkins at 5:07 PM
2 Comments:
I read something on this stating that some operatives were caught for 'something' and it was discovered that they were trying to take down a plane... I think that they were in Canada. (This is from memory, so bear with me...) Basically, what they said was that the operatives appeared to be unsuccessful at even attempting to carry out their plan, and when the plane went down, they tried to claim responsibility without actually having to do anything. In other words, Al-Qaeda was plotting to take down a plane, and when one convieniently came down on its own, they just tried to take credit without having to actually carry out a suicide mission.
But, on the other hand, crash investigations are difficult to investigate. I know that this crash in perticular was a hard impact... so, who knows.
Well, that's good info. I guess another possibility is that they had a few agents working to bring down planes in a similar fashion. I guess if AA#587 was a successful bombing, then there is no reason why there couldn't have been three attacks planned instead of just two (AA587-successful, Richard Reid-unsuccessful). Knowing how al-Qaeda does their opperations, it would be very unlikely for them to send only one agent in to do an attack.
The possibilities are endless, really. If they did send in a wave of operatives trying to blow up planes (plural) then we are either lucky that they didn't succeed (as they did in Russia) or successful in our antiterrorism efforts.
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