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Old 11-01-2010, 12:56 PM  
Quentin
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Originally Posted by dyna mo View Post
it's much more simple than that.

the thinking is

if someone can link 2 mutually exclusives events together in a way that makes that linking a massive coincidence, then the 2 events together = conspiracy.
I understand that is the manner of thinking from which conspiracy theories gestate. My point is that, as conspiracy theories go, the notion that these package bombs were planted by the government in furtherance of lubricating public acceptance of airport body scanners is just more of a non sequitur than would be a conspiracy theory positing that this was a 'false flag' operation in furtherance of aiding the government's defense in the al Awlaki lawsuit.

My personal belief is that the bombing plot was not a conspiracy of any kind beyond the most obvious sort suggested by the facts that have been offered/reported here; namely, it was a conspiracy to set off some bombs.

It's not a terribly exciting theory, I know... but it has the merit of being simple enough to be practicable.
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