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Notice from the person that probably caused all of this. A few days ago (July 7 2005 maybe?) I replaced the words "Islamist" with "CIA" in describing the persons involved in the attack. The "controversy" seems to have erupted since then regarding the definition of terrorist.
Certainly there can be no question that the attacks were a terrorist attack. But the evidence that it had anything to do with the religion of Islam is utterly absurd. Bin Laden was a CIA operative when Al-Qaeda was set up, and evidence suggests that the relationship still exists. If Al-Qaeda committed the attacks, they would be the best friends the Bush regime ever had, having given the regime the public support needed to bomb Afghanistan and invade Iraq. The administration's old business buddies made out quite well building an oil pipeline through Afghanistan and giving Halliburton and the arms industry billions in development deals. The White House's cozy relationship with the Bin Laden family, exposed in detail in Fahrenheit 911, seems to reinforce this.
Neverminding the questionable evidence of a 757 crash at the Pentagon or the definition of "terrorism," I was simply removing the false assumption that an entire world religion should be slandered on the basis of a world event that the Bush administration seemed ready and waiting for. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.215.217.104 ( talk • contribs) 23:58, 10 July 2005
"==Muslim Celebrations== Muslims throughout the world celebrated the attacks. Most famously, people in Gaza and the West Bank danced and fired guns in the streets. " can anyone claim this didnt happen?
Yes. Kingturtle 22:51, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Yes. 'throughout the world' is an untrue description of what amounts to a disputed video recording of, at most, ten or twelve people (most of whom were children). illWill 22:30, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
AlMac| (talk) 02:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Anyone else pissed that Bloomberg Actually has the balls to use his so called downtown recovery, as a reason to re-elect him, If I see another 90 second TV spot for Bloomerg I'm going to run against that crook,
If the economy is recovering, and if he's doing so much then why are the blocks and blocks boarded up businesses, creeping further and further uptown, there are midtown neighborhoods for gods sake, that are starting to go under under his 'leadership' He hasn't done a single thing for this city except keep the poverty south of his townhouse.. He's a very slight improvment over Rudy( the little nazi) and any body who votes either of them into any political office deserves to have their citezenship revoked.. and, so it's not off topic, someone please tell me how someone can be the 'hero of 911' if he was elected months after 911?
I've changed the motive section to try and be more accurate and comprehensive; feel free to alter it, but I wanted to make sure that the following problems with the previous version were addressed: (1) the article gave Al Qaeda's beef with Israel a prominence disproportionate to that in the source it cited, yet (2) gave no mention of Al Qaeda's opposition to US economic policy in the Middle East or (3) allegations that the US oppresses the people of the Middle East - both of which are extremely important motivating factors. (4) It did not mention the White House's explanation of the motivation for 9/11, which is by far the most widely held in the media. (5) It was kinda repetitive. (6) Although I believe Al Qaeda was, obviously, responsible for 9/11, the article was a bit off-handed to people who think otherwise, and didn't mention the motivations attributed to the alternative perpetrators, which the motive section ought to do. I thought it was also important to point out that Islam was a motivation, but tried to temper that by suggesting Al Qaeda has a distinct interpretation of the religion.
I read the sentence "Captured al-Qaeda mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is rumored to have said that Flight 93 was definitely targeting the Capitol" as being POV and almost as if it were trying to be dramatic (how can a rumour be definite?).
I have changed this to "Captured al-Qaeda mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is rumored to have said that Flight 93's target was the Capitol" to (hopefully) get a more NPOV.
Osama bin Laden's second interview and denial of commiting the attacks should be mentioned. Otherwise this article will be completetly biased against Muslims. Also it should be stated that the Israel-Palestine Two-state solution was to be made public the day after the attacks and cannot be looked at as just coincidental [1]. "Is a predominantly Christian country and therefore is heretical and islamophobic" is not in the quoted article [2] so I have removed it.
Here's the current layout of all the see also / links section:
In a word: bleh. Here's my proposal:
("victims and damage" and "victims" can be merged into one of these categories)