We'd never seen anything like 9/11. Except we had, but didn't recognize it. We needn't go back to Operation Northwoods, the Lavon Affair, or the other false flag conspiracies of suppressed history. Just two summers before, a nearly identical psyop was deployed upon the Russian people to consolidate the transfer of power to Vladimir Putin, who was facing his first election, and to provide the pretext to invade Chechnya.

Four apartment complexes had been bombed and 300 killed. Putin promised to "liquidate all terrorists." He proclaimed Russia was facing a war between "good" and "evil." "It's our boys," said Putin, fanning war fever and hysteria, "against terrorists" belonging to an "international Islamic conspiracy."

Residents in the city of Ryazan discovered a huge bomb in their basement and called the local police. Initially, federal authorities claimed terrorists had been thwarted, but when the perpetrators were apprehended shortly thereafter by Ryazan police, and found to be agents of Russia's security service FSB, the story changed: it was now claimed to have been an "exercise," and the sack of explosive hexogen was said to have contained nothing but "sugar." In 2002, an incurious Duma voted against a parliamentary inquiry into the bombing campaign.

The war in Chechnya has resulted in the death of 10% of the Chechen population, as well as thousands of Russian conscript soldiers. Disbelief, a documentary regarding the bombings and the revelation of state guilt, may be viewed here: https://archive.org/details/Disbelief2004

Not only by history's precedence, but by current events, 9/11 isn't really that extraordinary.

It's interesting to note how Western pundits who would likely dismiss as nonsense the mere suggestion of a 9/11 conspiracy have no problem at all assessing the Russian apartment bombings as state terror. David Satter, a fellow of the Hoover Institution and the Hudson Institute and former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times of London, wrote "The Shadow of Ryazan" with funding from the Smith Richardson Foundation, an abbreviated version of which was published by The National Review: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1069686/posts

It's funny how easily the generalized dismissals of conspiracy, such as how it "meets a psychological need," or that "something so big couldn't be kept a secret," vanish into one's political blind spots. That is, to the opinion makers, conspiracy can be the most reasonable explanation of events, so long as it's OVER THERE, and it's something THEY do. Satter finds Putin and the FSB guilty of waging a false-flag terror campaign against the Russian people, but don't expect him to be called a kook in a tinfoil hat for it.

And just as in Russia's 9/11, THE AGENTS ASSIGNED TO BLOW UP ONE OF THEIR TARGETS IN THE USA ON 9/11 WERE CAUGHT IN THE ACT BUT LATER RELEASED DUE TO A SUCCESSFUL GOVERNMENT COVERUP. In the words of CBS’s Dan Rather, “Two suspects are in FBI custody after a truckload of explosives was discovered around the George Washington Bridge. Whether the discovery of those explosives has anything to do with other events of the day is unclear, but the FBI…said enough explosives were in the truck to do great damage to the George Washington Bridge.” Google “Israelis arrested on 9-11” for more information.

"The FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11" -- FBI spokesman Rex Tomb, June 5 2006

"It is difficult for me, even in the so-called year of the spy, to conceive of a greater harm to national security than that caused by the defendant." - Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger at the trial of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard

"We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba." "We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even Washington." - US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Operation Northwoods, 1962