Well it looks like five thousand people were just murdered. So ask the question, who had most to gain. Certainly not the hijackers. They lost their lives. What about the people that are supposedly behind them, like Osama bin Laden?

The ones who benefit the most from this incident are those in the Bush administration, I feel.

The economy was likely to enter into a recession. Right or wrong, the public tends to place the blame for economic downturns on which ever president is in office at the time. Well now if the economy heads south, it's not their fault! It's this horrible tragedy of course that's shaken people's confidence!

The Bush administration had "nothing to do". No cause. The President was reading to school children when the planes hit. Bush himself has said that this has now become "the focus of (his) administration" They have found their issue, their cause to rally around, and their issue to campaign for re-election in three years.

Declaring a "war on terrorism" is like declaring a war on vice. It is endless and can be used indefinitely as an excuse to push through whatever agendas they like.

Congress has just approved a US$40 billion "relief aid package" with little or no oversights on how Bush gets to spend it. And this is not just for disaster clean up and aid to the victims. It's also for the "ongoing" war Bush has told us to expect and to "increase our intelligence capability".

Congress will have to go along with just about anything the president's administration wants that can be tied in to this disaster. Any representative or senator that dissents will look "unpatriotic" if they say no. The founders created three branches of government so that no one branch would have too much power.

Back to the suspects, shortly after the attacks a rental car was found in the parking lot of Boston's Logan airport. Inside was the Koran and an instructional video tape on how to fly airline. It's just not plausible that the perpetrators would be watching a video the day before the attack. It seems they'd have learned how to fly the plane well before then. If they didn't have it down by the day before something's wrong.

And it also doesn't make sense to leave such obvious evidence behind. It might if the attackers planned on taking credit for it. But they haven't. Just the opposite. Everyone is denying it. So if they didn't want to get blamed for it, wouldn't they be a little more careful about leaving behind such obvious evidence?

On Saturday, just days after the attack, they announced that in the rubble of the WTC they found one of the terrorist's passports. We all saw that fireball! The fire was so hot that it melted steel. But his passport survived?

And it was found even though they had only gone through 20,000 tonnes of debris out of a total of 1.4 million tonness? In other words they only scratched the surface of the ruins and there it was?

Something about all of this just doesn't smell right. So now might be the time to use our heads and try to look beyond the superficial.