9/11-- A Bungled Sting Operation?

This idea is actually something I considered early on in my 9/11 research, not wanting to believe the government would deliberately allow its citizens to be killed.

A man named Michael Wright has a whole web page devoted to this idea, and there is some interesting info there. In particular:

In its issue 8 of 2002, the British magazine Eye Spy alleged that the entire 9/11 hijacking operation was a sting attempt coordinated by Barbara Olson, wife of U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson. Olson died on American Airlines flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon.21 Eye Spy claims that four agents were on United Airlines flight 175 and seven or eight more were on United 93. They report that Olson was accompanied on the aircraft by three federal agents. While expanding the view of the scope of the sting operation, Eye Spy agrees that the sting planners expected the aircraft to be landed by hijackers instead of crashed into buildings.

Eye Spy would not support my suspicion that the five men described by news media as "heroic passengers" were actually CIA operatives on United flight 93. The article states: "Washington allegedly deleted the names of the many agents, along with names of the 19 hijackers, from the passenger lists of the flights." I had formulated my own bungled sting explanation in regard to the Pennsylvania flight before seeing this article in Eye Spy.

The idea that there were US agents on the hijacked flights can explain why the numbers of passenger names don't add up to the official passenger count, but you have to wonder why the agents didn't try to do more once it was clear that the hijackers were steering the plane. While I can't completely rule out the "sting" idea, I think overall it is a naive view of 9/11 when taken together with all the other evidence of complicity of that day. If anything, 9/11 makes more sense as a NORAD live-fly hijacking exercise gone wrong than a sting operation gone wrong. But I don't event think that is the complete explanation. Mr. Wright refers to the '93 WTC bombing as another "sting" operation gone wrong-- which it was in a way. Except in that case it was the FBI who deliberately made the sting operation go wrong, not the suspects. Perhaps 9/11 can be seen in that light. Perhaps some of the FBI agents involved in helping the 9/11 hijackers thought it was a sting operation, but other mole agents actually sabotaged the sting.

Certainly, many of the people in the government who assisted the 9/11 operation probably thought they were involved in either some sort of sting operation or some sort of benign exercise. Then it just took a few people in the right place (i.e moles) to turn the benign aspect of 9/11 into the catastrophe it was.