You think it is more likely that they used three planes and one missile... because... ahhh fuck becauses... It is more likely to you that they used three planes and one missile and that is what they are hiding? Why use an ICBM on a sunny day in front of hundreds of witnesses? The pentagon is a busy place. I295 loops around the front side, 1 block from an international airport... it is a stupid idea.
Or is it more likely that they are hiding their associations with a terrorist network out doing our dirty work against the 2nd and 3rd most powerful nations on earth, and got double crossed? What are the chances that the perfect cover of a common enemy does more good for us? What if...
What if we DO negotiate with terrorists?
What if we provide them intel, and equipment, and western thinking? I firmly believe a guy in a cave came up with smashing airplanes into buildings. It is pretty fucking basic. Do I think that a guy came up with the idea of guerrilla franchise? That is western thinking. Run your own cell. Recruit angry disenfranchised youth. Give them purpose... be your own boss, call the shots... free agency... THAT is America baby. What if we used all that psyop shit to try and manipulate these franchise cells into doing our bidding, while making them believe they were doing it for their own ideology? We feed you detailed info on who to hit, when and how... we provide you cover, cross chatter, and materials and training... and you don't hit us. We buy, you fly.
Of course we couldn't really let them spread like wildfire... we would have to contain them. Maybe they caught us... containing. Maybe that is why we were drilling these scenarios... because we knew SOMETHING was coming. We were drilling all kinds of shit that month... chem, bio, hijacking... we had a lot of credible threats... and STILL couldn't stop it. That is why you suppress the info... because we knew it was coming and couldn't do shit about it. It shows how weak an open society really is. We freak out, and bad guys gain morale. For us it had to be a total shock... no other way to handle it.
Enough conjecture. My point is... this seem much more believable to me. That is how our government works in the dark places... we do nasty, through others, far away from cameras. We use small groups who know as little as possible, and aren't likely to piece it together. We don't do "the big show". We work in shadows, in small numbers, in foreign places.