[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by Marriott

actually actually actually last time i checked Al-Queblahblah didnt claim responsibility. They praised the attacks and said some stuff about america but stopped just short of repsonisibility. (and no i am not a conspiracy person)

While you might not be a conspiracy person, someone is misinforming you:

"[W]e calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all. (...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. ...We had notification since the previous Thursday that the event would take place that day."
- Transcript of Osama bin Laden videotape, December 13, 2001

"........for the record, we had agreed with the Commander-General Muhammad Atta ... that all operations should be carried out within twenty minutes, before Bush and his administration notice."
- Full transcript of bin Ladin's speech, November 1, 2004