Mystery of Longboat Key - Bush, Atta visit same Florida Island resort before September 11

MadCowMorningNews ^ | JUly 29 2002 | Barry Hopsicker

[Palladin]

Very interesting stuff. Sounds like the FBI in Tampa is due for a good housecleaning.

[Fred Mertz]

Cripes honway, your #53 is blockbuster material IMHO.

Thanks for your stupendous research skills.

[aristeides]

If Atta's presence at Longboat Key a couple of nights before 9/11 is connected with Bush's stay there, somebody let somebody know Bush was going to stay there. I wonder when the plans were made for Bush to stay there. If Middle Easterners are a conspicuous presence on the staff of the Hilton on Marco Island, I wonder if they are present on other hotel staffs.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[ladyinred]

I am beyond thinking anything with the Jihadists is a coincidence. It is very possible they intended to take out the President the night before the attacks. I don't think the people in this country are getting it yet. They mean to destroy this nation, bring us to our knees, so that we bow to ALLAH!

If this is indeed true, then we were in more danger last September than we knew.

[ladyinred]

Ping!

[swarthyguy]

>It is very possible they intended to take out the President the night before the attacks.

Or that morning....I read a thriller once with a similar plot to kill a world leader while he stayed at a beachfront resort.

>more danger last September than we knew.

It certainly felt that way, around noon on the eleventh.

[swarthyguy]

>I wonder if they are present on other hotel staffs.

Why only mideasterners? Indians, Pakistanis, American converts, Latinos.....

[eno_]

I think this is simpler than you might think. The press had to be able to plan at least a few days ahead. It should be possible to determine how much in advance Atta made his travel arrangements. If he could not have known, well, it's just a freaky coincidence. If a sympathetic person in the Washington press corp could have told him details of the President's itinerary before Atta made travel plans, then it is clear. Or it might even have been publicly available information. In either case, it is possible to determine if Atta could plausibly have known the President would be there.

[piasa]

MadCow is for all practical purposes an offshoot of Radio Havana.

Kind of like the Riverfront Times in St. Louis (worse, perhaps) or Larry Flynt, or the fatwas of Mullah Omar, or a randomly selected palestinian textbook- but occasionally entertaining if only to find out what DU and James Carvile are going to be putting out over the next 3 years.

[swarthyguy]

>publicly available information

Bush's schedule was probably posted on the website. How they might have known where he would be staying.....

[Travis McGee]

GOT IT! Thanks.

[Travis McGee]

See Piasa's comment on MadCow.

Her info is always rock solid, and unless proven otherwise (which has never happened yet) I take it as gospel.

[Travis McGee]

Not to hard. In a small place like a Key, the USSS advance preparations would leave a huge footprint, like Ringling Brothers coming to town.

[eno_]

Someone already posted a link to other coverage of the same incident, without MadCow's loony slant.

[honway]

Miami Herald
9-12-01
Tony Amos, the manager of Shuckums restaurant in Hollywood, said Wednesday that FBI agents showed photos of two men to employees of the restaurant Tuesday night.

The photos had signatures on the bottom, Amos said. Amos was able to identify the photo of a man whose first name was signed Mohamed, but he could not make out the last name.

Amos said a waitress and bartender identified both men as customers who ate dinner at the restaurant some time last week.

Amos said the man identified as Mohamed gave him some trouble when the dinner bill came. Amos said he told the man to be thruthful if he didn't have enough money to pay the bill.

"The guy said, 'I can afford to pay the bill. I'm an airline pilot,'" Amos said.

[Shermy]

Bump.

[swarthyguy]

Florida 9-11 Ping.

[swarthyguy]

And here too.

[Dog]

What the hell....Atta was there also??