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Are you implying the 'inside job' conspiracy theory, or suggesting these were the goals of Al-Qaeda?
I'm not saying that to reject the former, it has some debatable credibility, but if you're proposing the latter, "to destroy an important symbol of the US, terrify the US population and force them to waste resources chasing an unseen enemy" doesn't make sense from Al-Qaeda's perspective, contradicts the choices of targets, and contradicts their stated motives both years before and after the 2001 attacks. (quick wiki summary to launch from)
'Are you implying the ‘inside job’ conspiracy theory, or suggesting these were the goals of Al-Qaeda?"
...how? do you get to these non-sequiturs.
If you don't know something, just ask.
On 9/11, a bunch of Saudi terrorists destroyed two very tall buildings in NYC in 2001. The quote of mine are several of the explicitly stated goals of that terrorist group that were successfully carried out.
I can't help you if you don't "believe" in 9/11, that's...what happened. You can just read about it. Like, everywhere.
I did. I asked a question.
Where are these goals explicitly stated by al-Qaeda? Please provide sources.
For example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks#Motives
This is why the planes were sent to the Twin Towers (symbol of economic power) and the Pentagon (symbol of military power).
Their goal was to combat US military intervention .They don't care about random US citizens being scared, that doesn't help them combat the US military, and they didn't want the US to be in their country so why would they want to be chased? It makes no sense for "terrifying the US population and forcing them to waste resources chasing an unseen enemy” to be the goals of al-Qaeda. They didn't want to waste resources, they wanted soldiers gone or killed.
Thank you for agreeing with me and providing the sources you're asking for.
I don't get what you're trying to do here.
i see you're just making things up here:
"they don't care about random US citizens being scared, that doesn't help them combat the US military, and they didn't want the US to be in their country so why would they want to be chased?"
but again I'm not really sure what you're after.
Good luck.