@TheMadPirate@amerika Well, "was there some kind of conspiracy to make or let it happen" is a completely separate issue and will remain difficult to prove in a convincing way long past our lifetimes.
That it was exploited for political ends is essentially uncontestable; conflating the exploitation of it with the possibility that it was allowed to happen makes it completely goddamn impossible to talk about its exploitation, because people start arguing whether it was allowed to happen or not.
One thing to keep in mind: lots of stuff gets reported to the law enforcers all the time, and they have to decide what to act on, and sometimes they guess wrong.
Also prevailing theory at the time was based upon a hijacker model, not a hijack planes to fly them into buildings model, so they rejected anything that did not fit that thesis.
@p@amerika@TheMadPirate fun fact (younger) people forget: before 9/11, most hijacking were done by leftists. a meme way to get to cuba or north korea. My mom, when she first heard an airplane hit the WTC she thought it was related to WTO anarchists back in 1999 (you guys remember that?)
@dagda@TheMadPirate@amerika@stelo It's the only sequel Carpenter ever did, but it's more like a comedy version of Escape from New York. Bruce Campbell's in it, he plays the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills.