{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Thinking about how all the components of the September 11 attacks were all known factors. Like\nMilitant groups might hijack...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/662225344389087232/", "html": "<p>Thinking about how all the components of the September 11 attacks were all known factors. Like</p><ul><li>Militant groups might hijack commercial airliners. This happened reasonably regularly during the Cold War.</li><li>Airplanes can destroy large objects by piloting themselves into collision with vulnerable locations. This was Japanese <i>kamikazes</i> in WWII</li><li>Islamic militants might conduct suicide attacks. I think this actually started with the Tamils, but you heard about it all the time w/r/t the first Palestinian &ldquo;intafada&rdquo; around the turn of the 90s</li><li>Obama bin Laden, <i><b>specifically</b></i>, wanted to pull operations to destroy the World Trade Center, <i><b>specifically</b></i>. There had been a car bomb attempt in the underground garage earlier in the 90s that was supposed to work like the Project Mayhem bombs at the end of Fight Club.</li></ul><p>And it still blew everyone&rsquo;s mind</p>"}