Thread: Korean Airlines Flight 007 survivors and other alleged conspiracies

когда они вдруг повели себя

For that matter, they could've gotten a much higher number of deaths (your claim is that the goal was to create an artificial casus belli, remember!) by hitting the WTC towers at, say, the 25th floor, and in the early afternoon rather than in the early morning (easily 30,000 deaths that way, instead of 3,000).

Насколько я знаю, погиб обслуживающий персонал - руководители не пострадали. Возможно, они хотели пожертвовать только незначительными, с их точки зрения людьми.
Один вопрос всё равно остаётся без ответа: какие цели преследовали террористы?

Originally Posted by Marcus

Насколько я знаю, погиб обслуживающий персонал - руководители не пострадали. Возможно, они хотели пожертвовать только незначительными, с их точки зрения людьми.

I don't know where the line is drawn between "обслуживающий персонал" and "руководители". What I do know is that the victims of the WTC attacks included people from illegal-immigrant restaurant workers to millionaire executives with "Vice President of..." titles, and many different levels of middle-class workers in between.

Originally Posted by Marcus

Один вопрос всё равно остаётся без ответа: какие цели преследовали террористы?

Х*й его знает, the terrorists are all dead and we can't ask them what their motivations were -- for example, did they really believe that this was the logical first step towards the establishment of a Global Caliphate, as many American conservatives claim?

However, one can suggest some more general answers:

(1) They simply wanted to "prove that it could be done", by succeeding where the 1993 truck-bombings in the WTC had failed;

(2) They hoped that the attacks would symbolically humiliate the USA, and also weaken it economically;

(3) They hoped that others would imitate their example, and encourage others to attack America;

(4) They hoped that a weakened USA would be forced to remove its military bases from Saudi Arabia and to stop supporting the Saudi regime, so that they (the terrorists) could take political control of "the holy peninsula";

(5) They truly believed that Allah would reward their efforts in the afterlife.

All of these are possible explanations even if you reject the theory that "a huge global network of Al-Qaeda jihadists is working to establish a worldwide caliphate because they're still angry about losing Andalusia"...