purpose of the 9/11 attacks

* mzm apparently worked for Homeland Security. TPMM:

"We don't yet know the full scope of who was using Wade's operations, and why. Normally, a private contractor choose a specialty: open source intelligence analysis, training security forces, translation, IT design. But MZM sounds like it would do anything for anybody. What other programs has MZM dipped into that we don't yet know about?"

* i haven't mentioned the Kaloogian scandal. here's the summary by SDUT (they gave props to bloggers):

"For weeks, Kaloogian's campaign Web site featured a photo of a peaceful city block to help make his case that things are going well in Iraq.
There was one problem with the photo. It wasn't Baghdad. It was a suburb of Istanbul, Turkey."

* sibel left a comment yesterday:

""Thank You Luke; this award belongs to all whistleblowers & those who support them.
Your Blog is the best one out there connecting the dots in my case; thank you for all your hard work."

cheers to all the whistleblowers, all those who support them, and the woman leading the Whistleblower Coalition.

* arkin:

"In the end, KSM says that the purpose of the 9/11 attacks was to "wake the American people up" to its support for Israel against the Palestinian people, and to its support for Arab governments that led to "further exploitation of Arab/Muslim peoples."

He says, according to the CIA, that he and other al Qaeda plotters "had no idea that the damage … would be as catastrophic as it was, and he did not plan on the U.S. responding to the attacks as fiercely as they did…""

nobody could have imagined...