On Dec 15, 7:23 pm, riverman wrote:

but to state categorically that there is nothing
irregular or unresolved

Any incident of this magnitude would have some things that look
irregular and remain unresolved.

That's called "normal".

Was the entire thing hatched and
executed without members of the US security services knowing anything
about it? Absolutely not.

What?!? You were holding to the reasonable side of skeptical, but that
went waaay overboard.

Even the most innocuous things are seldom what they appear.

Yeah, humans are fallible finite creatures; we can't figure everything
out all the time. Real life isn't CSI.

As Ken (I think) said earlier, sure it's probably true that the
official line "simplifies" and probably covers some minor things up,
but to suggest that our gov't had any role or even just knew about it
and let it happen is stepping into Martian territory...

Jon.