US strong on theory, weak on evidence - 9/11

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 02:09:29 GMT

The two most respected newspapers in America, The New York Times and The Washington Post, have carried stories in the last few days about the perpetrators of the terrorist attack on September 11th. The stories in both newspapers obviously have been based on briefings from what are known as intelligence sources, mainly in the United States but also in Europe. Therefore they probably convey the extent of official knowledge of who the perpetrators were and from where they came. The New York Times article of last Sunday identified Mohammed Atta, an Egyptian who had qualified as a city planner in Hamburg, as the ring-leader of the group. It said it was he and three others, who also died in the attacks, who chose the date of the atrocity, flew the planes, planned the whole operation and organised the logistics.