Dhugal Gardner CP 7

I had a good chat with Abdullah today at the CIES building before our class. Prior to that, I saw Hamad outside the building with some classmates, Anwar and Mohammed. Hamad introduced Mohammed to me, telling me he is from Iraq, and joked that 'they are at war with each other'. This Gulf War reference got us going on a bit of a political tangent, that went sort of like this:

Mohammed: So you like politics?
Me: Eh, I'm more into conspiracy theories.
(blank faces all around)
Me: You know, when the official story given by governments is hiding something...like the whole 9/11 thing.
Hamad: Ah yes! I know this.
Me: Yeah, there are people out there that believe the U.S. government carried out the 9/11 attacks to initiate a war in the Middle East. There are just so many questions that are still unanswered, so much doubt...

I went on citing some examples: the hole left in the side of the Pentagon was much smaller than the hole a 747 would create, and furthermore, there was absolutely no recovered wreckage. The manner in which the two towers fell was consistent with that of a demolition, suggesting charges were planted strategically in the buildings. Jolly good chat.

The conversation with Abdullah was much more innocuous. We talked about working out and good foods to eat. His speech seems to be getting clearer, which is encouraging.

awesome conspiracy movie for anyone interested!