World Trade Centre Attack. Although an horrendous act, do you think the tactics were brilliant ..........?

Question

bordering on genius. They (whoever) will NEVER win the strategic war but what a brilliant and well executed plan.

What are your thoughts

Have read some of your answers so far

Some of you got my point

Some of you need to be educated about terrorist mentality and thier lack of concern for life (even thier own) in achieving thier objective.

Some of you are so damn pious that you're as much as a threat as the damn bombers

Hope I get a bigger percentage of objective and intelligent views in the next few hours

Answer 1

I wounder if they lost some of their nerve they hit the towers so high, may be they pulled up at the last.... The better place to hit would have been lower, that would have placed more stress on the support beams and caused an earlier failure of the structures. If it was not loss of nerve and carefully planed to hit the structures that high so it would take longer for the towers to fall, they got their monies worth of terror, and now a life time of being hunted by our and similar Governments.

Please do not think for a second I condone such actions. I'm a Patriotic America born here and raised here in the military and served in the Air Force.

Answer 2

The tactic of flying a plane into a military target was conceived during WW2 [japanese kamikaze pilots first used this strategy]; so it is nothing new.
The Intelligence Services knew for sometime of this specific tactic [flying a civilian passenger plane into a building] that was being discussed within terrorist circles.
It was therefore not a surprise that this was carried out 1 year later; it did however obviously take USA completely unawares.
The operation itself was brilliantly planned [think of the logistics & timings], but as stated before it is possible that the pilots did lose their nerve at the end; if the planes had been aimed at the base the effects would have been more considerable. The collapse of the twin towers was unexpected and was a major stroke of luck for the terrorists.
It could have been much worse.
As for the propaganda required by the terrorists it is estimated that this was a major coup and their ranks were inundated with new volunteers by some 350%.
So overall I would have to disagree and say that this tactic achieved its aims & goals.
But please dont forget there are many more different tactics they can use; and some of these are much more efficient [i.e higher casualty rate]

Answer 3

No the only reason there tactics worked is because of the way Americans are raised. From day one Americans are taught at school do not fight back, always call the cops etc. If they would have tried to pull this attack off against any other people in the world it would have failed. I will say the plan was brilliant but it took a lot of luck as in no way shape or form should 3 or 4 people with box cutters have been able to overpower an entire airplane.

Also the plan may have been a great tactical victory for them but wars on with strategic thinking, the 9-11 attacks caused them to lose their training camps in Afghanistan. So while it was a good plan it could only have worked against a weak society, they would not have dared try and do that to a plane full of people from Israel, or South Korea, etc and it proved in the long run to be a mistake.

Answer 4

Surprise is the essence of most successful attacks. Warfare is a terrible thing and this act on innocent people will go down in history as probably the most heinous piece of terrorist activity.It was so unexpected it caught America on the hop.From the terrorists point of view it was a brilliant operation, unbelievable in it's daring, for the victims it was a most horrible tragedy.America was not awake on that watch. Also don't forget this was a concerted attack on the Pentagon as well as other targets which were not reached.The Pentagon is hardly ever mentioned, because they struck at the heart of the Military machine.

Answer 5

Brilliant tactics - First get a no-brainer elected as president, then knowing your own peoples gullibility to be fooled into believing that a bunch of guys with stanley knives can hijack aircraft and with no flying skills crash them better than any Kamikaze ace into large buildings. Skillfully manipulating a compliant media to broadcast your deception too. Superb Stratedgy - conning the world into believing you have been attacked buy 'Muslims' so that you can attack or invade any Muslim country you like (that just happen to have large oil reserves Oil). The consequence is that you grab the worlds biggest Oil reserves before the Chinese and Russians get their grubby little hands on them. Brilliant, Cheney & co should be proud... and probably is. But the real beneficiaries are the US and UK people themselves they now have no fears about filling their gas tanks for another 30 years at least.

Answer 6

Yes, I agree with you. Bin Laden had been planning the 9/11 over 3 years.

The very first idea of hijacking the airplanes and crashing into the simbolic buildings came out from now captured "Khalid Sheik Mohammed", one of the top aids of Bin Laden.

And the leader/executer of the 9/11 terror was Mohammed Atta, an Egyptian who had studied in Germany before.

According to the people around him, Atta was a "perfectionist". Did you know this? Atta actually acheived very good grades while studying in University Hamberg, in Germany. It is known that in order to impress the Germans, you need to be a "perfectionist". And Atta was a perfectionist.

Plus, Bin Laden's very strong financial support to the plan made it more successful. The 19 hijackers learned the flight lessons in the U.S., which is very costly.

Just like you said, it was a brilliant tactic.

Answer 7

yes of course it was an evil evil attack and have nothing but sorry for those that where lost and their families.

Right that said I could not agree with you more to be honest, the UK is well versed in terrorist attacks etc but even this was a stroke of genius on their part.....basically it showed in my opinion JUST how vulnerable the USA is and how complacent the country [at all levels] about getting hit by terrorists.

It showed that they are MORE than able to plan fund and execute a pretty good plan and I think with the immediate grounding of ALL other planes saved more than a few other targets that day...........

Whilst of course the rants will go on and on about shutting down the borders and they have a good point you know what my GREATEST fear is...................the ones that are ALREADY here biding their time, watching and waiting for the next time to [put into effect another such plan..........and sad it it seems it WILL happen again

regards

Answer 8

Brilliant?? I suppose you would have to compare the loss of life in comparison with the potential loss of life which would be what, about 20% of that possible (remember the building regularly held quite a few thousand more than were there on that day? Also, as the buildings pancaked rather than fell over the loss was even less than that. Secondly, the Pentagon plane, hardly a large score in creating mayhem of our defense system. And that's not even mentioning the failure of theplane that crashed in Pennsylvania. Lasltly, what was gained. Were the terrorists made more powerful? Did they grow wealthier? Did it produce a rush of recruits to their cause? No, in my book it was an average act of terrorism that failed miserably in meeting its target.

Answer 9

I agree, caught everyone with their pants down, despite conspiracy theorists half informed rants about a cover up!! Did they actually intend for the towers to collapse though or was it an unfortunate consequence? Cos if it was the latter its just a case of flying a plane into a building, which any drunk BA pilot could do! Ive often thought though that rather go for institutions (WTC and pentagon), if you really want to hit at a nation's morale why not take out their landmarks? WTC was a horrible, evil attack....but I bet the Yanks would be even MORE pissed off if you took out the Statue of Liberty!! What you reckon?

Answer 10

I feel the same way. Ingenious planning and knowledge, but bad timing. If they had waiting just an hour more think of what the casualties would have been.

One thing 9/11 should have taught us is that we are dealing with an ingenious enemy with no morals. And we worry about Abu Graib and foot paths compared to what they have done and are still doing. We can't use sleep deprivation, but they can chop off heads at will. What kind of world am I living in?

It also shows how much patience they have to carry out plans. They are concerned about the now as we do, but the future no matter how long it takes.