Posted on 09/18/2001 9:53:18 AM PDT by truther
In the most gruesome revelation yet about events on board the hijacked planes that targeted New York and Washington last week, President Bush hinted Monday that several flight attendants had been killed when terrorists sliced open their throats.
"It's barbaric behavior," Bush told a gathering of military leaders at the Pentagon. "They slit throats of women on airplanes in order to achieve an objective that is beyond comprehension."
The airborne executions may have taken place after the bloodthirsty hijackers brandished boxcutters and knives, then handcuffed an unknown number of crew members. On Friday a severed pair of female hands bound together by wire was discovered at the Twin Tower disaster site in New York.
As early as last Thursday, reports began to surface that passengers aboard the hijacked planes revealed in frantic cell phone calls to the ground that stewardesses were being stabbed.
Aboard American Flight 11, which slammed into the Twin Towers, one caller indicated that a flight attendant had her throat slit.
Aboard United Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania before reaching its target, a passenger had reportedly been killed.
The White House declined to elaborate on Bush's remarks about the airborne executions. "I'm aware of public reports involving things that were said on cell phones with passengers on the flight in southwest Pennsylvania," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters, without further detail.
Bush's comments were first reported by the New York Daily News.
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Saddam Hussein: dead
The Taliban: dead
Rush briefly mentioned yesterday that the idea of nuking Mecca has been raised, in the context of "We have a missile with Mecca's name on it: if there are any further terrorist attacks on Western interests, Mecca is history", in the hopes that not even bin Laden wants to dare be held responsible for provoking that kind of a response, but you never know.
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