The Contestants in the Sandbox -- Mohammed Atta
Whenever people want to think of the perpetrators of 9/11 they usually get no farther than Osama Bin Laden, especially because they hope that he is still alive and thus capable of suffering when retribution comes his way. They get little satisfaction out of the idea that he could be dead.
But all is not lost. Bin Laden was not "the Man." The real culprits of that outrage were Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian aka "The Doctor," who conceived the project, and Mohammed Atta, his countryman who pulled it off.
Have you seen their faces? It's written all over them. Zawahiri looks like he's bubbling all over with ideas but is content to let others carry them out, while Atta appears to be the sort who is only too pleased to do just that. He has the the eyes of one of those Nile crocodiles.
(Photo from "Wikipedia the free encyclopedia")
This means that Atta , even more than The Doctor, is the man that we should really be yelling about. But wait a minute. Isn't that a totally moot point? Weren't his ashes all mixed up with those of hundreds of others in the WTC debris as a result of his taking over the controls of Flight 11?
--Are you kidding? Do you really believe that they would have permitted such a man to go out on that mission from which there was no return? Atta was the ramrod who kept all the rest of those gangsters in line, four and possibly more teams of them, scattered across the U.S., for about two years, without anybody blowing the game, and eventually achieving a result that must have gone far beyond their wildest hopes, while using only the barest of means. As such he was far too valuable a resource to be expended. He was more valuable than all the money that Bin Laden ever furnished.
As much as he would have liked to have gone along -- especially on Flight 11, which he would have considered truly sensational as they zoomed into the second glass tower while seeing the first already in flames -- Mohammed Atta wouldn't have trusted the amenities of the Heaven that awaited. He was into results, not virgins, and he would have wanted to see right here on Planet Earth the aftermath of his labors. He was a stone cold no-nonsense realist. Have you studied his face?
When, earlier in their plan, Atta and his cohort stalled their training plane on the runway of the Miami International Airport, he didn't waste time calling Triple-A or looking under the hood himself, though the cause was just a loose spark plug. Instead they simply left the plane sitting right there in the path of taxiying airliners and walked off the field, leaving some control tower operators with their heads seriously bent out of shape.
--No, my thinking is that they had another man board Flight 11 in his name in Boston, and that means that quite likely Mohammed Atta is STILL HERE, enjoying all the after tremors in which we are now indulging ourselves, and working somewhere as a starlight salesman. He probably feels that he hasn't done enough, yet he has all the appearance of being permanently retired, while time marches on. Now that he doesn't have to run himself ragged keeping in step men whom he must have largely regarded as being a bunch of idiots, he smiles more, thus rendering him harder to recognize.
Yet, have you given his picture more than just a passing glance? I have, and I'm wondering how he can hope to hide forever. To my eye his features literally spell out "red rum."
Egypt should be chastised just for letting a man with a face like that out of the country, but they probably breathed a gigantic sigh of relief.
But all is not lost. Bin Laden was not "the Man." The real culprits of that outrage were Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian aka "The Doctor," who conceived the project, and Mohammed Atta, his countryman who pulled it off.
Have you seen their faces? It's written all over them. Zawahiri looks like he's bubbling all over with ideas but is content to let others carry them out, while Atta appears to be the sort who is only too pleased to do just that. He has the the eyes of one of those Nile crocodiles.
(Photo from "Wikipedia the free encyclopedia")
This means that Atta , even more than The Doctor, is the man that we should really be yelling about. But wait a minute. Isn't that a totally moot point? Weren't his ashes all mixed up with those of hundreds of others in the WTC debris as a result of his taking over the controls of Flight 11?
--Are you kidding? Do you really believe that they would have permitted such a man to go out on that mission from which there was no return? Atta was the ramrod who kept all the rest of those gangsters in line, four and possibly more teams of them, scattered across the U.S., for about two years, without anybody blowing the game, and eventually achieving a result that must have gone far beyond their wildest hopes, while using only the barest of means. As such he was far too valuable a resource to be expended. He was more valuable than all the money that Bin Laden ever furnished.
As much as he would have liked to have gone along -- especially on Flight 11, which he would have considered truly sensational as they zoomed into the second glass tower while seeing the first already in flames -- Mohammed Atta wouldn't have trusted the amenities of the Heaven that awaited. He was into results, not virgins, and he would have wanted to see right here on Planet Earth the aftermath of his labors. He was a stone cold no-nonsense realist. Have you studied his face?
When, earlier in their plan, Atta and his cohort stalled their training plane on the runway of the Miami International Airport, he didn't waste time calling Triple-A or looking under the hood himself, though the cause was just a loose spark plug. Instead they simply left the plane sitting right there in the path of taxiying airliners and walked off the field, leaving some control tower operators with their heads seriously bent out of shape.
--No, my thinking is that they had another man board Flight 11 in his name in Boston, and that means that quite likely Mohammed Atta is STILL HERE, enjoying all the after tremors in which we are now indulging ourselves, and working somewhere as a starlight salesman. He probably feels that he hasn't done enough, yet he has all the appearance of being permanently retired, while time marches on. Now that he doesn't have to run himself ragged keeping in step men whom he must have largely regarded as being a bunch of idiots, he smiles more, thus rendering him harder to recognize.
Yet, have you given his picture more than just a passing glance? I have, and I'm wondering how he can hope to hide forever. To my eye his features literally spell out "red rum."
Egypt should be chastised just for letting a man with a face like that out of the country, but they probably breathed a gigantic sigh of relief.
posted by Carl (aka Sofarsogoo) | 7:42 AM
2 Comments:
Carl Gardner, you should make a picture of yourself available with this blog. I feel it could better illustrate your point that one can somehow "see" potential fanaticism by just looking at photo. There's a word for this gift of yours, it called a "stereotype". Welcome to the 21st century. Be thankful that our legal system doesn't find people guilty in the same manner.
-Mike
Well, very likely one day I WILL get around to posting my picture, so that you can wreak revenge in Mr. Atta's behalf. I'm sure it will be the easiest thing in the world for you to do. Meanwhile I think it's a big stretch for you to bring up the legal system as an example of perfect virtue. Our legal system has done many terrible things to people throughout history for some very baseless reasons, horrors that no weblog can even remotely approach.
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