Mohammed Atta was a wealthy, chain-smoking drug dealer

[grandg]

http://www.madcowprod.com/gg/102204issue.htm
so why did he kill himself?

[grandg]

1. He could have been president

they were also both pilots

[jmowreader]

2. Seppuku?

Or a weird Arabic version of such, involving large airplanes...

Okay, here's the scenario: Someone in Mohammad Atta's circle found out that Atta was a drug dealer. Drug dealing is haraam (forbidden), m'kay? So said person calls Osama and tells him Atta's a dope dealer. Osama calls him in and tells him, you kill yourself in an honorable, revolutionary manner--and take out as many Americans as you can in the process--or we'll cut your fucking head off in front of your cell's members.

[grandg]

3. so

what about the other 18? definitely drug dealers.

[amerfayed]

6. yes

that is who al-qaeda recruits... criminals and drug users.

[leesa]

7. So does the CIA...and they had a big interest in squashing the

Taliban because the Taliban had shut down the opium in Afghanistan. The CIA and US banks and corporations needed that cash flowing.

[grandg]

8. I think that your comment

about no heroin/drug trade is a little naive. UBL and friends were the kings of heroin. Terrorism is financed by the drug trade. bin laden is the #1 terrorist and was in a country that was the #1 producer of heroin by far.

[amerfayed]

9. the 9/11 report

claims that bin laden did not use drug money to fund 9/11.
and that is believable.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. He was a Libertarian?

Gosh.

[grandg]

5. a fundamentalist libertarian