Nyctohylophobia

I wish conspiracy theorists like Xymphora weren't gullible enough to take the words of terrorists and their associates at face value. Take Mohamed Atta's father, for instance. He lied that he called his son on 9/12/01, that Atta hated bin Laden, he was afraid of flying, and did not look like the man captured in numerous security videos. The last one is obviously false to anyone who has compared photos of the Egyptian Mohamed Atta with ATM photos and other surveillance tapes. Atta personally met with Osama bin Laden in late November 1999. Atta's flight training is a solid fact; he had no fear of flying, and no fear of crashing a Boeing 767 into a symbol of American economic might. While in Germany he had emailed U.S. flight schools to discuss flight training. He was on the AA Flight 11 manifest and had obtained a valid U.S. driver's license. Xymphora says "real Atta" was quiet and polite, and that "pseudo Atta" was a jerk. Notwithstanding Atta's evil murder of thousands of innocents, "... Atta voiced virulently anti-Semitic and anti-American opinions, ranging from condemnations of what he described as a global Jewish movement centered in New York City that supposedly controlled the financial world and the media, to polemics against governments of the Arab world." Atta's father was also making the ludicrous claim that Mossad was behind 9/11. He finally stopped being dishonest in 2005 and admitted his son's jihadi suicide. Atta's cousin, Marwan Alshehhi did pretend to be Atta's bodyguard and Atta pretended to be a Saudi prince at Huffman Aviation, the operative word being "pretend."¹ The reports cited as proving Atta was a gambler do no such thing; they are tentative at best. The hijackers are said not to have been fundamentalist Muslims because they sought to sleep with prostitutes and drank alcohol. But the hijackers made attempts to disguise their radical nature by blending in with "infidel" culture, with Atta being a member of Al Takfir Wal Hijra. Even religious men still have lapses and sin.

[1] Atta was neither a Saudi prince nor a former Saudi Air Force pilot.




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