Who are the terrorists?

Question

3000 - 4000 people died on 9/11 we've killed between 43,000 and 48,000 Iraqis in the years since, that's not including our other wars. who are the terrorists again? I can think of one that lives in a big white house.

Remember Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.

Answer 1

That governments have permitted terrorist acts against their own people, and have even themselves been perpetrators in order to find strategic advantage is quite likely true, but this is the United States we're talking about.

That intelligence agencies, financiers, terrorists and narco-criminals have a long history together is well established, but the Nugan Hand Bank, BCCI, Banco Ambrosiano, the P2 Lodge, the CIA/Mafia anti-Castro/Kennedy alliance, Iran/Contra and the rest were a long time ago, so there’s no need to rehash all that. That was then, this is now!

That Jonathan Bush’s Riggs Bank has been found guilty of laundering terrorist funds and fined a US-record $25 million must embarrass his nephew George, but it's still no justification for leaping to paranoid conclusions.

That George Bush's brother Marvin sat on the board of the Kuwaiti-owned company which provided electronic security to the World Trade Centre, Dulles Airport and United Airlines means nothing more than you must admit those Bush boys have done alright for themselves.

That George Bush found success as a businessman only after the investment of Osama’s brother Salem and reputed al Qaeda financier Khalid bin Mahfouz is just one of those things - one of those crazy things.

That Osama bin Laden is known to have been an asset of US foreign policy in no way implies he still is.

That al Qaeda was active in the Balkan conflict, fighting on the same side as the US as recently as 1999, while the US protected its cells, is merely one of history's little aberrations.

The claims of Michael Springman, State Department veteran of the Jeddah visa bureau, that the CIA ran the office and issued visas to al Qaeda members so they could receive training in the United States, sound like the sour grapes of someone who was fired for making such wild accusations.

That one of George Bush's first acts as President, in January 2001, was to end the two-year deployment of attack submarines which were positioned within striking distance of al Qaeda's Afghanistan camps, even as the group's guilt for the Cole bombing was established, proves that a transition from one administration to the next is never an easy task.

That so many influential figures in and close to the Bush White House had expressed, just a year before the attacks, the need for a "new Pearl Harbor" before their militarist ambitions could be fulfilled, demonstrates nothing more than the accidental virtue of being in the right place at the right time.

That the company PTECH, founded by a Saudi financier placed on America’s Terrorist Watch List in October 2001, had access to the FAA’s entire computer system for two years before the 9/11 attack, means he must not have been such a threat after all.

That whistleblower Indira Singh was told to keep her mouth shut and forget what she learned when she took her concerns about PTECH to her employers and federal authorities, suggests she lacked the big picture. And that the Chief Auditor for JP Morgan Chase told Singh repeatedly, as she answered questions about who supplied her with what information, that "that person should be killed," suggests he should take an anger management seminar.

That on May 8, 2001, Dick Cheney took upon himself the job of co-ordinating a response to domestic terror attacks even as he was crafting the administration’s energy policy which bore implications for America's military, circumventing the established infrastructure and ignoring the recommendations of the Hart-Rudman report, merely shows the VP to be someone who finds it hard to delegate.

That the standing order which covered the shooting down of hijacked aircraft was altered on June 1, 2001, taking discretion away from field commanders and placing it solely in the hands of the Secretary of Defense, is simply poor planning and unfortunate timing. Fortunately the error has been corrected, as the order was rescinded shortly after 9/11.

That in the weeks before 9/11, FBI agent Colleen Rowley found her investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui so perversely thwarted that her colleagues joked that bin Laden had a mole at the FBI, proves the stress-relieving virtue of humour in the workplace.

That Dave Frasca of the FBI’s Radical Fundamentalist Unit received a promotion after quashing multiple, urgent requests for investigations into al Qaeda assets training at flight schools in the summer of 2001 does appear on the surface odd, but undoubtedly there's a good reason for it, quite possibly classified.

Answer 2

Actually...No. WE have not killed 43,000-48,000. The terrorists have done that. They continue to car bomb themselves and kill innocent civilians. I recall one month about a year ago one of the nightly news programs said that in that particular month, only like 300 combatants were killed by American Troops while something like 3,500 civilians were killed due to car bombings etc.

I agree, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. We should have stayed in Afghanistan and finished that mission. But then again...Only Hind Sight is 20/20. At that time, the world thought Iraq was involved. The world thought he had WMD. The world agreed he was a threat. Right now Bush has not spent as much time as Clinton did!!! Remember...Clinton Kept troops in the region policing Iraq for 8 years! By my count, Bush has 5 more to go!

Answer 3

well there are roughly more that 50% muslims all over the world. 1 stupid group ruined it for everyone. Im a muslim.. Bush doing this in iraq may cause some really broken hearts and emotional breakdowns of kids in Iraq.. When they grow up what do you think they will become??? obviously tthey want revenge... well the terrorist group out there were those kids at one time that didnt get toys but guns and bombs to support their own country... Its all bush and his fathers fault.. I wouldnt be surprised if another group emerges in the next 20 years as soon as alqaida is finished! history repeats its self.. Bush should realize that! I think he is the begining of the end of the USA! :(

Answer 4

the version between a soldier and a terrorist isn't who they wrestle for, yet how they wrestle. Terrorists kill civilians and use concern as a weapon. squaddies, on the different hand, have interaction in wrestle in preserving with a algorithm, and in elementary words antagonistic to different squaddies. you could say what you want about the validity of conflict as a answer to complications, yet "no longer killing unarmed civilians" is a step up from what a terrorist does. that's a step in the right direction.

Answer 5

Perhaps not.
No matter which administration is in the white house at present, terrorism is a fact of life.
I do not believe that we needed to go into Iraq with bombs and bullets. I guess a lot of people forget that we had inspectors in Iraq looking into every part of that country for Wmd's.
Saddam said that they could inspect anything but his palaces, he was threatened and recanted.
He said, okay inspect the palaces.
How that equals non-compliance I do not know.
The one thing though Terrorism does exist, we did not bomb our buildings, we just bombed the wrong place first.

Answer 6

You're not really right- its the transfer of identity and the creation of a popular stereotype. Sort of like all americans are overweight and love guns.. not true at all and unfair.. but its the word terrorist.

Answer 7

Talibam, Boko Haram, Al Shabaab, Hezbollah, Hamas, ISIS are the enemies.

Answer 8

I say we all are cos when you watch war on tv you say to your self thank god I don't live there. Also most of us don't try to force the gorverment to stop what's going on. I sit on the fence so I don't know which side to pick.

Answer 9

Organizations that accept only fax and not .pdf emails. Think about the organizations that only accept fax and you will see that everything about them hints toward them being a terrorist organization.

Answer 10

Everyone in the Bush regime.