Question:
British Prime Minister Tony Blair concluded
his presentation of the evidence by stating: "No other
organization has both the motivation and the capability
to carry out attacks like those of the 11 September,
only the al Qaeda network under Osama bin Laden." Is
it true that no other organization has such capabilities
or motives?
Answer:
In fact, there are many organizations,
including state intelligence services, that have the
capacity for recruiting suicidists, providing them with
the wherewithal for seizing airliners and financing
their activities (which involved somewhere between $200,000
and $500,000).
They have a large pool of suicidist volunteers.
According to Janes' Report, in the ten years prior to
the September 11th attack, there were 271 suicide bombings.
Bin Laden and al-Qaida were credited with two. The other
269 were conducted by nine terrorist groups: the Islam
Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Palestinian Islamic
Jihad of the Israeli occupied territories; Hizbullah
of Lebanon; the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) and Gamaya
Islamiya (Islamic Group - IG) of Egypt; the Armed Islamic
Group (GIA) of Algeria; Barbar Khalsa International
(BKI) of India; the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(LTTE) of Sri Lanka; and the Kurdistan Worker's Party
(PKK) of Turkey. And this 269 does not include failed
suicidists attempts, for example the GIA in 1994 hijacked
an Air France airbus to Marseilles, demanded a full
tank of fuel and aimed to blow up the airliner with
its 283 passengers over Paris or crash it into the Eiffel
Tower (before French commandos stormed the plane) and
Abu Sayyaf, a Moslem group in The Philippines in 1995
organized a plot to hijack several planes and crash
one into CIA headquarters.
Moreover, many state intelligence services,
including those of Iraq, Syria, Libya and Iran, have
the capabilities to recruit suicidists under either
their own flag or under false flags. They also have
the means to secretly train them and provide them with
money, fake IDs and surreptitious weapons. Iraq, for
example, according to defectors, uses a Boeing 707 to
practice on at its anti-terrorist training base near
Salman Pak.
Any of the parties might have had a conceivable
motive. As yet, the actual motive for 9/11 attack is
not known (and, for that matter, may not have been known
to the suicidists about the planes).
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