>> various members of the royal family indeed helped to finance the attacks.
IIRC the attacks were forcing some planes to run into two skyscrapers. What financing was necessary for it other than the plane tickets?
IIRC the attacks were forcing some planes to run into two skyscrapers. What financing was necessary for it other than the plane tickets?
Several of the 9/11 Hijackers enrolled in flight schools:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_of_the_September_11_a...
And were otherwise supported to operate inside the US for many months.
>> The 9/11 Commission stated in their final report that the "9/11 plotters eventually spent somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to plan and conduct their attack"
Still a non-trivial amount of financial support.
I stand corrected. Although there's no evidence as to who did the funding. I couldn't ever get my head around there islamic terrorist organisations and their different countries, even tho we in Istanbul and in Turkey had a lot of problems caused by them.
Given that P(funding|royal family) is very high, I'm not surprised to learn that this was also partially funded by them.
(I am absolutely not an expert in any of this. this is secondhand)
Edit: Lol at German auto correct. I meant:
Pilot training and preparation
An 8 pack of box cutters is $8.95. Going to school to learn to fly is within the reach of individuals - and only a few of them needed to learn how to fly. MS Flight Simulator is said to be good enough to learn quite a bit, too.
>planning and organization The best way to get past security is just to try it out several times. Send 2 teams for every mission, hope not both are stopped. After all, when you get stopped all they're going to do is take your knife. In the worst case, they might call the cops and you're burned.
People are seriously making this out to be a big deal. The only serious barrier is finding enough people willing to commit to the same goal and being somewhat disciplined and ready to die.
Fake ID to enter the country is probably the only real thing that might require some money or connections. Then again, I don't know what passport inspection c.2001 was like. Fake ID to fly on a domestic flight is trivial.
http://www.amazon.com/Box-Cutters-Utility-Knives-Breakaway/d...
MS Flight Simulator is fantastic to learn to fly. You still need left seat time in a real aircraft but it's great for fundamentals and navigation.
Can one not get student loans?