Reflections on 9/11/2001

I agree that the people responsible for 9/11 should be hung by thumbs until dead, no doubt.

My problem with this feeling is that there is a lack of clarity about who is actually responsible and our collective outrage was manipulated to meet other ends, that I agree less with.

To quote an unbiased wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda :
" Due to its structure of semi-autonomous cells, al-Qaeda's size and degree of responsibility for particular attacks are difficult to establish. However, this may also be because its size and degree are exaggerated. Although the governments opposed to al-Qaeda claim that it has worldwide reach, other analysts have suggested that those governments, as well as Osama bin Laden himself, exaggerate al-Qaeda's significance in Islamist terrorism.The neologism "al-Qaedaism" is applied to the wider context of those who independently conduct similar acts through political sympathy to al-Qaeda ideology or methods or the copycat effect."

No link has been established between any of the high jackers and the Bathists in Iraq under "So Damn Insane" Saddam Hussien. They are both Sunni and that is about it. Most sources researching Al-Qaeda believe that Bin Laden was just a financier with no real strategic connection to these heinous acts. Also, the BBC traced the names released by the FBI regarding the high jackers and found:
BBC world edition Sunday, 23 September, 2001, 12:30 GMT 13:30 UK
--- Hijack 'suspects' alive and well ---
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1559151.stm

The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in doubt.

My point is that there was never enough real intelligence on many levels regarding who was really responsible and it is clear now that motives of profit and manipulation of world markets and global strategic domination by the neo-cons took precedent over justice that was correct and proportional to the crimes.

This isn't a James Bond movie where from a secret evil lair a mastermind plans to take over the world as it has been portrayed.

My personal feeling is that Bush dropped the ball on the intelligence leading up to the attack, he had just taken a 2 month "summer vacation" and only returned a week and a half before the attack. There are many facts surrounding the actions of the Bush administration in that period, but one thing clear is clear, like the Kennedy assassination, no one will ever really know who was and was not involved.

What urks me more than anything is to have my patriotism questioned when asking for clarification of these obvious misrepresentations.