Daggett- Bush sat in front of a class for seven minutes reading a children's book after he learnt that the second tower had been hit.

Read your phycologists reports on the reactions of people who have just been given shock news or been involved in truama. The first reaction is always numbness. This is the way the body protects people from too much shock to soon. Forget your hollywood and T.V. movies when they show someone reacting to shock, screaming and carrying on, it has been reported on many occasions that there has just been a deadly calm silence before say a car accident or something when people realise it is imminent. Also to news of the death of a loved one.

They may scream or cry later on but not always at the first realisation.

There is a documented progression of reactions following bad life events and it goes like this -:
Numbness; Denial; Shock; Anger; Depression;
Philosophical Reflection; Acceptance.

Even people who always thought they were strong will react like this.

>Gage, became Skeptical of the idea that people living in Afghan caves could possibly have brought down the World Trade Centre.

Maybe Gage should read up on it a bit more and he would know that it was Osama Bin Laden, Princely son of one of the Sudi Arabian Sheiks to whom money was no problem who conspired with educated men one of whom at least to my recollection was an educated muslim living in Germany to hijack the planes that were flown into the twin towers.
The Taliban who came from Pakistan and had set up an extremely cruel religious Muslim government in Afghanistan gave Osama assylum after the event.

The Taliban were hardly illiterates living in caves, they were found to have very modern computers and were living in luxury by Afghanistan standards. It was at this point that Osama Bin Laden was tracked by satellite by the Americans and was known to be hiding in caves with some supporters of his cause in the Afghanistan mountains. The Taliban would not hand him over. Gage needs to read up on it a bit more he seems to be lacking knowledge on the sequence of events.

Sharkfin,

It is an indisputable fact that Osama bin Laden began his terrorist career as a CIA asset nurtured by the US to defeat a leftist Government in Afghanistan in the late 1970's.

In July 2001, when he was wanted by the FBI on charges of terrorism, he went to the American hospital in Dubai fro treatment. During his stay he was met by the Dubai station chief. This has been discussed in the "9/11 Truth" forum at http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2166#50161

For a man who has supposedly been hunted for years by the US, he has had an astonishing number of lucky escapes. This is discussed in the "War: not in my name" forum at http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=8306&page=0#130548

Sharkfin wrote, "The Taliban would not hand him over."

Rubbish!

The Taliban did offer to hand him over.

I showed this in the "9/11 Truth" forum at http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2166#59233

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Sharkfin,

It wasn't just Bush who failed to do anything after he learnt of, not the first, but the second attack, but his whole entourage of minders as well as Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, the whole of NORAD, etc., etc.

And as those paid so generously by the US public to defend them from attack by domestic and foreign enemies appeared comatose the rest of America sprang into action to try to mitigate the disaster, and that included Battalion Chief Oreo Palmer who ran most of the way up to the 78th floor of the South Tower, the floor below where the second aircraft (supposedly Flight 175 hit). Had the whole building not been rigged with massive quantities of demolition charges by people working for Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice et al, he would have been able to save many lives on that day. (See http://candobetter.org/node/966)

The kindest possible interpretation of the conduct of Bush and his entourage -- and only by people ignorant of the full picture -- would be unprecedented monumental incompetence.

Again, why did the newsmedia fail to inform the American public in the 2004 re-election campaign of what could only have been either that or actual collusion in the attack?