One thing that has bothered me about the WTC destruction.

[LiberalArkie]

If I had wanted to destroy the buildings, I sure would not have used airplanes. Just too many things could go wrong.

I would have just leased several suites in the buildings. I wouls have had the moving companies move the crates of computers etc to the suites for later unpacking.

A couple of guys would then come in and arm the explosives, set the timer and leave.

I never understood why the plane thing.

I guess it just showed that the terrorists loved the Hollywood method of doing things.

[LuckyLib]

1. Easy to terrorize an entire country with a few airplanes.

[LiberalArkie]

Not really, just think if a message was sent out that said at

10 AM the WTC building would explode. People would never know which ones would be next. It is too easy to stop planes and other exotic methods, like dirty bombs. How do you stop companies from leasing space in high rises. How do you stop let's say IBM from renting a floor in the Sears tower.

[karlrschneider]

2. It wouldn't be possible that way. AND the airplanes added the

dramatic (visible terror) effect.

[jwtravel]

8. Airplanes also added

massive, asymmetrical damage with both physical impact and fuel supply.

[RandiRhodesArchives]

3. What terrorist do you mean, exactly?!

The ones who hijacked the planes (with box cutters, LOL!) or..........
the CONs who sat back and went DUH! WHY IS I NEED TO READ PDB HERE ON AUG. 6th?!

[Mz Pip]

4. Even if they hadn't totally

destroyed the buildings it would have been dramatic.

It was really a pretty simple plan.

Setting up explosives and timers and detonating devices would be much more complicated.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[John Q. Citizen]

10. Building #7 ? It's part of the " Big Lie" People don't want to appear

to far away from the mainstream. Makes them feel too uncomfortable.

Why do you think blowing up a building requires timers? You aren't suggesting the insurgents in Iraq are using timers to blow up convoys are you? Or buildings, for that matter.

I wonder why the insurgents in Iraq don't just drive airplanes into the convoys. It would be much easier. Of course they would have to also figure out a way to nullify any air defense the Coalition might have, but that would be easy also.

[sabbat hunter]

12. you mean

the heavy damage and multiple floor fires?

the video of the collapse that most seem to love to show, is on the opposite side of the building, the north side, away from the damage and fires.

[John Q. Citizen]

13. No, I meant to say that is was just a lucky 3 fer. Of course it was

I mean, what else could have caused it?

It's easy to hijack a plane and fly it at high speed into a target, even if one has never flown a jet before, it's easy to nullify air defenses, and it's easy to recruit and deploy 19 hard drinking, strip club loving, gambling Islamic religious extremists who want to die for Allah.

What was I thinking????

Sorry I appeared to be a dissenter. I'm really just like everyone else.

[magellan]

5. Drama, fear factor

Terrorists are about terror. Flying planeloads of innocent people into buildings is way more nightmarish than simply blowing a building up.

Oh yeah, and anyone who wants you to revisit that horror all the time to "remember" it is a terrorist too.

[MrModerate]

6. They tried a bomb before, and it didn't work . . .

Besides, the "Hollywood thing" equals terror. Any way you look at it, planes smashing into a building is much more terrorizing than planting a bomb.

I don't think the plotters counted on the towers' collapse. In that sense, the building collapse, our ridiculous and over-the-top response, and turning Iraq into a training and recruitment ground -- those were pure gravy.

[Cleita]

7. Money?

Flying lessons and airplane tickets are cheaper than leasing expensive NYC real estate and buying computer equipment for cover.

[michael_1166]

15. Flying lessons?

You mean the flying lessons they had on Cesssnas? They must have been really talented, because they effortlessly changed from Cessna to Boeings. And then, on their first day in a real cockpit, they executed flight manoevres that seem almost impossible even to seasoned pilots. Wonder why this is the only fairytale out of Bush's mouth that goes almost unquestioned by most of our fellow democrats and liberals.

"It" just can't be? Oh my.

[shugh514]

9. Shock and Awe nt.

[sabbat hunter]

11. not enough

a building that size, with bomb sniffing dogs around people would notice these things.

[soulcore]

14. except they pulled the teams of bomb sniffing dogs...

from the WTC and the Pentagon beforehand.

Call me a coincidence theorists.

[Sinti]

16. If you believe in MIHOP the simple answer is that it's ME terrorist MO

Plane hijacking = ME terrorists, no questions asked, no investigation necessary.