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Actually, no it wasn't...


Since you don't seem to trust *our* government, here's some quotes out of
one of the non-coalition countries:

"Heinz Fromm, the head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency, told a
court in Hamburg on Friday that he believed the devastating terrorist
attacks that leveled New York's World Trade Center were planned by the
Islamic extremist group al Qaeda in Afghanistan in the late 1990s."

"Der Spiegel said the plot to use airplanes as weapons against U.S. targets
was hatched as early as 1996. Mohammed's first plan was to use small planes
loaded with explosives, but bin Laden reportedly dismissed that idea in
favor of hijacking large passenger planes with the question: "Why swing an
axe when you can use a bulldozer?""

http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,336...72_1_A,00.html