Continuing from previous blogs . . . All things considered, the strikes of September 11, 2001, from the perspective of the skyjackers, amount to a miracle of timing. Let’s start with the timing of appointments of key U.S. personnel.  

Part of this topic has been canvassed elsewhere, but a quick overview with the 20-20 of hindsight still comes as something of a shock. Everybody recalls that, among key personnel, Robert Mueller, new Director of the FBI, took his position one week before 9/11. Former FBI man and the globe’s premier bin Laden nemesis John O’Neill had ...   more »