This is what I have been reminded of during this morning’s testimony.
From Reuters via Wired 12/14/2001
BIN LADEN CAUGHT ON TAPE
WASHINGTON -- OSAMA bin Laden said he was the most optimistic of all his colleagues about the Sept. 11 attacks but not even he dared hope they would bring down the World Trade Center towers, according to a videotape released on Thursday that Washington says seals bin Laden's guilt.
The Pentagon released the nearly hour-long amateur videotape, accompanied by an official U.S. translation, that U.S. officials say incriminates the Saudi-born militant, now being hunted in Afghanistan.
"(Inaudible) we calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower," said bin Laden, according to the U.S. translation.
"We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all," recounted bin Laden, seated on a flowered sofa discussing the attacks with a group of men, possibly in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.
Bin Laden, who inherited millions from his family's construction fortune in Saudi Arabia, makes reference to his own knowledge of that business.
"(Inaudible) due to my experience in this field, I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit and all the floors above it only," bin Laden said.
"This is all that we had hoped for," he said, according to the translation. Instead, the weight of the upper floors brought down the entire structures as they collapsed.”
What happened on January 6, 2021 was Donald Trump’s wet dream