I have to say right now, at the risk and high probability of being called a tin-foil hat wearer, that I'm wondering if they've announced this with future intentions of creating another 'terrorist crisis'.
How many times over the past couple years have we heard the US presidents and our own Prime Ministers state with 100% certainty that there will be future terrorist attacks and we need to be ready for them? Quite a few, infact enough times that it's riled my suspicions.
Were there to be future 'terrorist attacks' then it would be another 9/11 getting people riled up and ready to support a war in <insert place of choice>.
Yes I believe 9/11 was goverment controlled, and one thought that has crossed my mind is were there to be a future 'terror attack' controlled once again by the goverment, they could simply state, "this is clearly a retaliation for OBL", and then invade another country.
Go ahead bash me and send me my foil, I don't mind. In my mind, it's a real possibility.
God, I honestly wonder at some people. Do you really believe that the US government had the brains and audacity to plan and carry out the 9/11 attacks as a way to provide the perfect excuse to allow them to start going around the Middle East stealing all the oil and killing all the Muslims, and the plan works so well that after 9/11 the whole world (bar a few exceptions) is so sympathetic that they can invade Iraq using the good old WMD excuse. Yet once the war has been won and they are fully in control of both the sky and the ground they don't bother to fill a Hercules to the brim with WMD, fly it over to Iraq and bury it in the desert somewhere and then arrange for a convoy with an embedded CNN reporter to 'stumble' across it a few days later so they can announce to the world, 'Hey look guys, we was right, lets roll straight into Iran, they got some nukes, honest'.
The only cover up I could believe in is the possibility of the various intelligence agencies trying to cover up their own incompetance and lack of inter agency communication regarding how they each missed the chatter prior to 9/11, but to suggest that the US government is capable of planning and carrying out 9/11 then fail to follow it up with planting some WMD in Iraq is laughable, planting a few WMD would have been childs play compared to 9/11, so why didn't they do it ? Why did they allow themselves to look like a complete set of idiots in the entire worlds eyes when no WMD was found ?
9/11 was planned and carried out by a bunch of Islamic terrorists lead by Bin Laden. For me it doesn't matter if the guy was involved in the detailed planning of the mission or just provided the inspiration, he was the figure head for the organisation that claimed responsibility so he got what he deserved imho.
Sorry for contributing to more 9/11 clutter in this thread, but it just winds me up sometimes. Back on topic. Yay, glad the scumbag got a bullet in the head and I hope it hurt the horrible man.