bsteph, im not sure if you were speaking to me in your post, but I was not replying to anything anyone said in the forums. Just htat everyoneSEEMS to have already pointed their fingers in a direction with nothing more than suspicion. When I say everyone, I mean that there hasnt been much discussion from anyone in chats, television, school etc, merely everyone is discussing how to kill the fucker. True, he deserves to be punished for his past crimes, but at the moment, there is no evidence against him. He's in hiding, and I really can't see why that would automatically make him a suspect in this any more than he was before. He's in permanent hiding for his past crimes, and he knows he's the major suspect in this. If he didn't do it or if he did, he will still hide, so him being in hiding should not count as "evidence". I've had one predominant theory in this whole ything, but I am still wide open to other suggestions, because my theory has no more proof for it than we have for who got rid of Jimmy Hoffa. My theory is that it was a military based attack by another country. Terrorist organizations are usually proud of what they do, and proudly claim responsibility. It's been suggested that they would be too scared to claim because of everythingthing that happened. To me, this only means that the3y would be even prouder, and wave their hands in the air saying "WE DID IT!" If it was military based by another country, no country will come out and say "Hello Mr. President, we, the nation of -insert here_ proudly claim this crime, would you like to nuke us to the point where grass won't grow on our land for 5000 years now please?" If a country is responsible, I won't expect any claims for fear of total retaliation that the USA is capable of. If it was military, one has to think of who has much to gain. There are 4 potential other super powers oni the world that could take the US's place as "the" superpower of the world. First is Canada, though that is almost entirely ruled out as a possibility cause we would lose too much in screwing the US. The second is Russia. While they don't have the potential to take pover immediately, if the united states was reduced, they could easily recover in about 20-30 yearws or so. That is also unlikely. Thridly is Japan, simply because of the knowledge and technological power they possess, but the country is too small to become the world's superpower anytime soon, plus their markets are too directly connect to North America. Third is China, who the way I figure, has the most immediate possibility to gain anything in the wake of all this. I won't go into the extreme details of my theories, that would take waaaaayyyy too long. Keep in mind other possiblities: It could be domestic terrorism. remember mcveigh? It could be bin Ladin. It very well might not be bin Ladin. It could be a new terrorist group's first attack (they gotta start somewhere, might as well start big eh?). It could be military based by another country. It pretty much could've been anyone with the resources (there are too many people in the world, perceived to be both good and bad people, with the moeny to finance the intelligence for this) available to do this. Point being, we are not the US intelligence agencies, we are merely consumers and civilians. We don't know anything except what the media tells us. One thing you can hold for sure in mind is thaat we don't know anywhere near everything there is to know about this (there are reasons the CIA FBI NSA and other agencies are so secretive). What we know is that the pointed finger is aimed at bin Ladin, which gives the nation a temporary scapegoat so everyone can sleep a little easier at night. Remember, there are many possibilities. Make your own theories, but don't rule out anything, and don't be surprised when we are all surprised to the reprecussions of all this. ry