It’s actually outrageous that an act, that was founded upon US incompetence and complacency around its own internal flight security measures, has been allowed to change the world in the way, and to the extent, it has - and not for the better. Far from it.
Just to think that there’s hundreds of millions across the globe that think Bush and his cronies organised it. They say it’s the greatest conspiracy, yet most of the accusations from that day don’t make any sense at all.Just watching this 9/11 programme on BBC1. Watching hour by hour how Bush and his team acted. What a terrible day and and an awful 20 years that followed it. So many people affected.
The Man Who Knew is a good watch...Lawrence Wright’s book, the Looming Tower, goes into this in great detail. It’s a grim but properly gripping and brilliantly researched read. He rightfully won the Pulitzer for it.
Essentially internal politics and competition between the CIA and FBI led to known terrorists being let through the border. It was then too late.
John O’Neill, the FBI agent who spent years tracking and trying to prevent them getting into the States left the FBI, became head of security at the World Trade Center and was killed on 9/11. Tragic.
The Man Who Knew is a good watch...
Sorry I missed that.Land without God.
About a families years of torture and abuse in industrial "schools" in my country Ireland. I don't cry very often but holy fuck this was hard to watch, between anger and upset.