Motivation alone doesn't prove guilt. What about capacity?

[Boojatta]

The planning of the attacks was technically and organizationally not a sign of benevolence, but a sign of high intelligence. To hijack four huge airplanes within a few minutes and within one hour, to drive them into their targets, with complicated flight maneuvers. This is unthinkable for people whose mother tongue isn't English.

[LARED]

1. And why is that? - nt

[Darwins Doberman]

4. because apparently the OP is channeling Rudyard Kipling

I mean it's not like there have ever been German terrorists.

Only white Americans or Brits can pull something like this off! Don't you understand, people who don't speak English and/or have olive colored skin are primate savages without the mental capacity to ride a bicycle let along fly a plane into a building despite years of planning.

[hack89]

2. They were middle class, educated men

led by a college educated engineer - they were capable of high intelligence as far as I am concerned. The Taliban executed very complex strategies and tactics against the Russians - surely the could do it against us.

Your reference to complicated flight maneuvers is a straw man - they executed very basic maneuvers well within the scope of their training.

[William Seger]

3. "Inconceivable!"

What exactly do you know about "high intelligence?"