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Flipping it over, you need to look at what you do believe- that a bunch of Saudi students from Hamburg, who could hardly fly a plane performed feats of military-style flying that only skilled and experienced pilots could possibly have performed.
"Feats of military-style flying?" Please. Taking off had already been taken care of, and landing in one piece (the hardest part) wasn't part of the hijackers' plan. That leaves finding three large buildings by sight, in broad daylight, and steering the plane toward them -- something they easily learned in what little flight school they attended. Hell, even I could find my way by sight from DC to NYC via Baltimore, Wilmington and Philly. But then again, if you think Bush is a genius, and steering a plane toward obvious unprotected targets is "military style," you're really not in a position to decide what "only skilled and experienced pilots could possibly have performed."
