Nine Eleven Coincidences Part 11 (Who Benefited?)

The Bush administration is still working with Al Qaeda to destabilize Iran:

The Administration may have been willing to rely on dissident organizations in Iran even when there was reason to believe that the groups had operated against American interests in the past. The use of Baluchi elements, for example, is problematic, Robert Baer, a former C.I.A. clandestine officer who worked for nearly two decades in South Asia and the Middle East, told me. “The Baluchis are Sunni fundamentalists who hate the regime in Tehran, but you can also describe them as Al Qaeda,” Baer told me. “These are guys who cut off the heads of nonbelievers—in this case, it’s Shiite Iranians. The irony is that we’re once again working with Sunni fundamentalists, just as we did in Afghanistan in the nineteen-eighties.” Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted for his role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is considered one of the leading planners of the September 11th attacks, are Baluchi Sunni fundamentalists.

The New Yorker

NetRunner

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I disagree that bin Laden and Al Qaeda had nothing to gain via 9/11. Assuming they wanted to damage or weaken the U.S. ability to project its influence around the world.

If they knew how Bush & PNAC would react, they knew that we'd start wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, inflaming the middle east, and driving their recruitment numbers through the roof. If they knew we'd stretch our economy past its limits, and burn our bridges with our allies, and shred our own Constitution, they'd have known that would massively hamper our ability to project power throughout the world.

In fact, I think there's a case to be made that the two groups could've found common cause, and seen this as a win-win situation. PNAC gets boatloads of money, and Al Qaeda gets a weakened U.S.

The question really is, why does PNAC hate America as much as Al Qaeda?