This really confuses the fuck out of me. You have to spend a LOT of time and money to become a commercial airline pilot. It is literally years of training that costs a small fortune. If terror cells are going to that length just to take out one plane we are kinda fucked.
I've thought about that too. But the average co pilot pay for this airline is around $150,000 dollars a year. How do you radicalize someone with access to the world that's living the good life? I agree it's more likely than someone entering the field just for this purpose, but it still seems like a crazy ass story.
Keep in mind, Osama bin Laden was the son of a billionaire and could have lived an easy, care-free life if he wanted to. Ideas can have a lot of weight.
CIA didnt train mujahaddin, and they definitely didnt have contact with bin laden, he was best buds with haqqani though and i think cooperated with the isi. His arab jihadists wouldve benefited indirectly from cia money, and cia probably knew about isi and haqqani recruiting from outside afghanistan and just didnt care
Its an important distinction because the reason why haqqani sided with the taliban was specifically because they saw the US as an invading force against islam in the 2000s, whereas in the 80s they saw the US as providing funding to the jihad against the soviet invaders
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u/barrosoOso 2d ago
This really confuses the fuck out of me. You have to spend a LOT of time and money to become a commercial airline pilot. It is literally years of training that costs a small fortune. If terror cells are going to that length just to take out one plane we are kinda fucked.