How 9-11 Happened - Ann Coulter

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 4/01/04 | Ann Coulter

[Lucky2]

Ann as always has hit the nail on the head. It's all about the democrats and their lack of interest in protecting their country and it's citizens. The blood of 3000+ American citizens is on their hands. God bless our President Bush, God bless America!

[theFIRMbss]

>In 1979, President Jimmy Carter allowed the Shah of Iran to be deposed by a mob of Islamic fanatics

Well, hell, Truman and
Ike (and everyone else!) let
the Arabs just take

the oil fields British
and US companies built.
Everyone's to blame . . .

[AFPhys]

I completely agree with you that these have been but battles.

This is why I insist that Iraq be called the BASH.

(Battle Against Saddam Hussein)

[AFPhys]

You are completely on target here. This is one of Ann's best columns ever. It will be very useful in demonstrating to any non-socialist what has really happened the past 25 years. Some of the FReeper additions in this thread are very useful in fleshing it out, too.

[Stallone]

That loveable little tart can write.

Required reading for all potential voters in 2004.

Do your part, Freepers - distribute to everyone you know.

[xp38]

an interesting trio here

[Stallone]

OKC Blast Linked To bin
Laden - FBI Refused To
Accept Evidence
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22122
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
3-21-1

A former investigative reporter for the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City last night told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly she has gathered massive evidence of a foreign conspiracy involving Saudi terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in the 1995 bombing of the federal building that killed 168 people.

Jayna Davis, former reporter for KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, says she took her evidence -- including hundreds of court records, 24 sworn witness statements and reports from law enforcement, intelligence and terror experts -- to the FBI, which refused even to accept the material.

Two men were convicted of murder and conspiracy charges in the bombing -- Timothy McVeigh, who faces execution May 16, and Terry Nichols, who yesterday asked that Oklahoma charges against him be dismissed as he has already been convicted in federal court.

Nichols, 45, is serving a life prison sentence for his federal conviction on eight involuntary manslaughter counts and conspiracy for the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. State prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Nichols. But defense attorneys said yesterday constitutional protection against double jeopardy bars the state from seeking the death penalty.

Davis said federal authorities investigating the bombing decided early on in the probe that the blast was the result of a domestic conspiracy, not a foreign one, ignoring all evidence to the contrary.

She said a Middle East terrorist cell was in operation only blocks from the federal building, and that an Iraqi national who formerly served in Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard was in contact with McVeigh the day of the bombing. She said this suspect arrived at the crime scene in a Ryder truck moments before the blast and sped away in a brown Chevrolet pickup truck immediately after.

An all-points bulletin was issued for this suspect, but was later withdrawn inexplicably.

Davis said her evidence indicates a conspiracy involving McVeigh, Nichols and at least seven men of Middle Eastern ethnic background. She called bin Laden the mastermind of the conspiracy.

"The evidence we have gathered definitely implicates McVeigh and Nichols," she said. "I want to make that very clear. They were in it up to their eyeballs."

Davis also points to court records offered in the Nichols defense that suggest he had contacts with a member of bin Laden's terrorist organization in the Philippines prior to the bombing.

When she took her hundreds of pages of documentation of conspiracy in the bombing to the FBI, Davis said agents "turned me away and refused to take my statements."

"I was flabbergasted," she told O'Reilly. "I am unable to imagine any reason they would not accept it."

[cartoonistx]

[Stallone]

For 15 years now, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has known with certainty that terrorists use center fuel tanks to destroy passenger planes.

In 1989, according to the NTSB, terrorists destroyed an Avianca Airlines jet by placing a small bomb over the center fuel tank. The methodology relies on a terrorist smuggling a small amount of plastic or liquid explosive inside a passenger jet. The bomb is then detonated in a row of seats located near the center of the plane, immediately over the fuel tank.

While it is extremely rare to ignite aviation fuel with a mere spark (to this day, NTSB investigators cannot explain the source of ignition that caused the presumably accidental explosion of TWA Flight 800 in 1996), the energy from even a small amount of high explosives will initiate a catastrophic explosion of the fuel tank. The bomb works best when it is a shaped charge that channels its explosive energy down through the floor of the aircraft directly into the tank. This is the effect Richard Reid had in mind when he boarded American Airlines Flight 63 with explosives laced to his feet.

Al Qaeda has experimented with this technique for attacking 747 aircraft. Pakistani-born terrorist Ramzi Youssef, who is now in prison for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, planned to blow up a dozen U.S. jumbo jets on a single day using bombs over center fuel tanks. To calibrate the precise amount of explosive needed, Youssef conducted a test bombing on a Philippine Airlines jet.

Fortunately, he and his co-conspirators were foiled after a fire in their Manila safehouse resulted in authorities detecting their plot to blow up passenger planes on trans-Pacific routes before it could be put into effect. It was in this same safehouse that Filipino security services found documents outlining plans to crash aircraft into government buildings in Washington.

Some experts believe that TWA 800 was actually destroyed by a bomb of this type rather than by the accidental ignition of the center fuel tank.

According to Larry Johnson, a former CIA and State Department counter-terrorism official who participated in the Pan Am Flight 103 probe, an FBI official told him that Youssef claimed in 1996 that al Qaeda had destroyed TWA 800. Approximately 5 percent of the wreckage of TWA 800 -- some eight tons of the plane, equivalent to a mid-sized cargo truck -- has never been recovered. Mr. Johnson told me that the Pan Am 103 aircraft pieces, which bore evidence of a bomb attack, were "small enough to fit on top of a table." The precise source of the explosion of TWA 800 -- whether a bomb, a missile or malfunctioning equipment -- has never been identified and may never be known.

[Stallone]

For 15 years now, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has known with certainty that terrorists use center fuel tanks to destroy passenger planes.

In 1989, according to the NTSB, terrorists destroyed an Avianca Airlines jet by placing a small bomb over the center fuel tank. The methodology relies on a terrorist smuggling a small amount of plastic or liquid explosive inside a passenger jet. The bomb is then detonated in a row of seats located near the center of the plane, immediately over the fuel tank.

While it is extremely rare to ignite aviation fuel with a mere spark (to this day, NTSB investigators cannot explain the source of ignition that caused the presumably accidental explosion of TWA Flight 800 in 1996), the energy from even a small amount of high explosives will initiate a catastrophic explosion of the fuel tank. The bomb works best when it is a shaped charge that channels its explosive energy down through the floor of the aircraft directly into the tank. This is the effect Richard Reid had in mind when he boarded American Airlines Flight 63 with explosives laced to his feet.

Al Qaeda has experimented with this technique for attacking 747 aircraft. Pakistani-born terrorist Ramzi Youssef, who is now in prison for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, planned to blow up a dozen U.S. jumbo jets on a single day using bombs over center fuel tanks. To calibrate the precise amount of explosive needed, Youssef conducted a test bombing on a Philippine Airlines jet.

Fortunately, he and his co-conspirators were foiled after a fire in their Manila safehouse resulted in authorities detecting their plot to blow up passenger planes on trans-Pacific routes before it could be put into effect. It was in this same safehouse that Filipino security services found documents outlining plans to crash aircraft into government buildings in Washington.

Some experts believe that TWA 800 was actually destroyed by a bomb of this type rather than by the accidental ignition of the center fuel tank.

According to Larry Johnson, a former CIA and State Department counter-terrorism official who participated in the Pan Am Flight 103 probe, an FBI official told him that Youssef claimed in 1996 that al Qaeda had destroyed TWA 800. Approximately 5 percent of the wreckage of TWA 800 -- some eight tons of the plane, equivalent to a mid-sized cargo truck -- has never been recovered. Mr. Johnson told me that the Pan Am 103 aircraft pieces, which bore evidence of a bomb attack, were "small enough to fit on top of a table." The precise source of the explosion of TWA 800 -- whether a bomb, a missile or malfunctioning equipment -- has never been identified and may never be known.

[kingu]

Thanks; Credit Mark Steyn for the tagline, and University of North Carolina for the photo (which was apparently taken somewhere around January '03.)

[GmbyMan]

Alright. I recognize Drudge and Ann but who is the other one? Ann's legs look especially skinny in this picture.

[xp38]

My first guess was Leslie Stahl of 60 minutes but I'm not certain now. You are right about Drudge though. Hopefully someone who does know for sure can identify her better than I.

[lonevoice]

ping

[Remole]

The woman on the left is almost certainly Peggy Noonan.

[Seamus Mc Gillicuddy]

Would it be appropriate to call it the war against Militant Islamic Fundamentalism?

[Wolfstar]

Triple amen. This is probably Ann's best column ever.

[macrahanish #1]

I was going so what until I read #7.
Loch Ness is one cold sucker.

[ought-six]

Is that Peggy Noonan on the left there?