Wendigo
And there's no reason to believe that he couldn't do it on his own - a much more impressive attack was carried out not long ago by a "lone wolf" in Oklahoma City. I suppose that it would have been hard to smuggle a Ryder truck full of ammonium nitrate onto a military base, though.
That "lone nut" story regarding Oklahoma City is TOTAL BULLSHIT.
We know 100% that Mcveigh had many accomplices, including both neo Nazi white seperatists
*and* Iraqi operatives. There's so much evidence showing Oklahoma was a much wider conspiracy, that the notion that that was just the work of some lone disaffected guy is ridiculous
Hell his partner Terry Nichols met with WTC plotter Ramzi Yousef in the Philipines a year before the OKC bombing. And John Doe No 2, revealed to be Iraqi national Husseim al-Husseini
was working at Boston Logan on 9/11. Add to that the multiple explosives coming from inside the Federal buildings(proven by witnesses, seismic data, military anaylsis of the structural integrity,
etc) etc. and Tim Mcveigh looks to simply be the patsy.
We also know Oklahoma City bombing operative Mujahid Menepta took Mohamed Atta, Zacharious Moussaoui and Marwen al Shehi months before 9/11 to the same Dreamland motel near Oklahoma City where he took Mcveigh and Nichols before the OKC bombing in 1995.
Often times we WANT to believe these cases are just the product of a lone nut...
but when we look at all the facts and real evidence of the murders of John F Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and the Oklahoma City bombing...the lone wolf theory doesn't stand up to scrutiny
LilPoKPoKi
I don't think him being in a mosque with the hijackers is causing suspicions.
It's more that the Awlaki that Hasan revered who is said to have written "44 Ways to Support Jihad" and linked to Al Qaeda that's raising a few eyebrows.
There is no evidence yet that he had conversations with the hijackers, but he definitely seemed to like that Awlaki man.
And again, I'd caution calling Awlaki and outright al Qaeda sympathizer...but from my research into 9/11, he seems intimately linked to bin Laden family terror charity WAMY in Virginia(where he housed several of the hijackers). He worked hand in glove with Omar al Boyoumi, the Saudi intelligence operative who brought Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar(a couple of the main hijackers) to San Diego. From his time in Colorado, California and Virginia he seems a bit too coincidentally linked to terror sympathizers.
And you are correct; though it technically was peace time...and as horrible as the USS Cole attack was; it counts as assymetrical warfare. The attack on the Pentagon involved a plane full of civilians(though, even many of those were military or ex military)
Chains4w
All pocky did was quote-block a mainstream media source, with a three sentence blurb at the end describing his take. And it is a very damning source with some very damning information. Combined with witnesses decrying him in the "Huffington Post," of all God damned places, the "guy was obviously ill" line is all but dropped.
I swear, the FBI could find chat logs, cell calls and emails with high level and mid level al Qaeda operatives....hell, the FBI could find that this guy traveled to terrorist training camps
and people would say "no no, don't mention the word Islamic terrorist...it's all a Fox News lie".
IF a self avowed Christian nut walked into a gay club and started shooting people...I guarantee you the left would be having a field daying...having whole news programs devoted to Christian extremists.