• progbob@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      11 months ago

      Was pondering the same kinda question when Osama bin Laden was accused to be the guy behind the 911 attacks. The Bush administration was pushing that terrorist threat narrative claiming Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. (that of course were never found) He was ultimately denied to go to war by Congress because of insufficient proof of that. So, how come an allegedly educated guy like ObL (that came from a good family with business ties to the Bush family) could not have foreseen that the 911 attacks would ultimately give Bush exactly what he wanted…? At that point he was already on the run. Shouldn’t he have known that an American invasion of Iraq would ultimately destabilise the Muslim world and give America further strategic advantages…?!! The outcome could in no way have suited someone considered to be a Muslim extremist, yes or no??!

      • novibe@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        11 months ago

        Not to say there is 0 evidence Osama is at all responsible for 9/11. But the only evidence was that video of him “admitting it” has been proven to have wrong and misleading subtitles. He’s not talking about any attacks or anything related to terrorism in the video.

        • progbob@feddit.de
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          11 months ago

          Yeah, …if that even was Bin Laden at all. Those ‘admitting it’ videos shouldn’t bear any significance, especially today with all that fancy video sorcery

          • novibe@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            edit-2
            11 months ago

            The video I mean is actually really old. They aired it after 9/11 as proof it was Osama, but some German Muslims saw it an recognised it (besides being able to understand what Osama is saying). It was a video from the 90s, where Osama is talking about his ideology and mostly Islam stuff, nothing about any attacks at all.

            There is a guy called James Corbett, he has a website called thecorbettreport. He is a weird anarchist who is paranoid about surveillance technocracy, but he has great documentaries about 9/11, Al Qaeda, Osama, even some stuff like how Big Oil came to be and took over the world etc etc. I recommend his long form docs on stuff like that because he is VERY thorough with sources.