Lone Gunmen episode that forecasted 9/11 attack on WTC
I had heard about this Lone Gunmen episode before but never saw any of it until today. It was actually the series pilot, and aired March 4, 2001.
The story was about terrorists seizing control of an airliner with remote avionics, and flying it into the World Trade Center.
And it turned out that the terrorists were native: a “faction” within the U.S. national security apparat.
Their motive: to restart the cold war arms merchandizing. This seems (IMHO) the only element of the forecast to have been a bit off.
Recall Rice’s statement while testifying before the 9/11 Commission that no one in U.S. intel had anticipated terrorists flying jetliners into buildings. Seems the Octopus doesn’t watch television.
The series was an X-Files spinoff featuring the cool nerds (known to friends as the Lone Gunmen) who’d occasionally hack computers to aid the X-Files FBI paranormal team.
The X-Files (for those even less familiar with TV than me) was mostly about aliens in league, since Roswell, with certain Washington powers.
Here’s something: Journal of 9/11 Studies
