US Releasing 9/11 Flight 77 Pentagon Crash Tape

Robotron23 writes "The BBC is reporting that the US government has decided to release the videotape depicting the crash of Flight 77 into the Pentagon building, nearly five years after the 9/11 attacks. The government had previously withheld the tape due to 'ongoing investigations' into al-Qaeda's Zacarias Moussaoui. A government representative commented that they 'hope that this video will put to rest the conspiracy theories.'"

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Re:You can't stop the paranoia.

[Instine]

Paranoid yeh. Is that what they're saying about me now?

They niether want to increase, nor allay paranoia. They want to keep some paranoid and a bit twichy, and the rest saying, 'don't be so bloody mad, look its on the tape you freak'.

This creates a lovely fog bank of fevered discussion around strategic irrelevancies. That clouds out any real issues "Why are we at war with a country that hasn't attacked us?", "If more Americans kill Americans, than terrorists, why don't we torture Americans to extract 'Intelligence' on their next targets?", "why is 'liberal' a dirty word in the 'Land of the Free'?" etc...