REMAINS OF FIRST 9/11 VICTIM ARE ID'D

New York Post ^ | July 11, 2004 | Uri Dan & Adam Miller

[balk]

WND - March 1, 2002

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26676

[Keith]

He also was probably in first class, saw what they were trying to do to the flight crew, and got killed fighting back...

[Grampa Dave]

Sounds like he was a man who would have fought back instead of setting in his seat wetting his pants.

[Grampa Dave]

Here is the full story that balk gave us the link to:

DAY OF INFAMY 2001
Friends think Flight 11
Israeli was 'executed'
Daniel Lewin, named in FAA shooting memo, was officer in elite unit of Jewish state's military

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Posted: March 1, 2002
7:10 p.m. Eastern


By Paul Sperry
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com


WASHINGTON -- In another tragic irony of Sept. 11, three of the five Islamic hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 11 were seated next to an elite Israeli commando. And it may just have gotten that Jewish passenger killed before all the others.

In fact, his friends and associates are now sure of it, after reading a secret government memo naming Israeli-American Daniel C. Lewin as a gunshot victim on the flight.

WorldNetDaily published the Federal Aviation Administration memo in an exclusive article Wednesday. The FAA, while confirming the document is authentic, claims the report of Lewin's shooting, written several hours after the Sept. 11 hijackings, was premature and inaccurate.

His friends don't buy it.

"Danny was an officer in a secret unit of the Israeli army called 'sayeret matkal,'" said Yehuda Schwartzberg, a childhood friend from Jerusalem. "My guess is that he did something in some way to stand up against the hijackers, and was executed because of it."

Keith Lowery, a business associate of the late Boston high-tech executive who had dual citizenship, says the terrorists may have singled him out because of his "Jewishness" -- as they did Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

The FAA memo's summary of the Flight 11 shooting incident, real or not, is the most detailed and specific -- not to mention shocking -- of the four hijacking summaries. It says Lewin, sitting in seat 9B, was "shot by passenger Satam al-Suqami," sitting behind him in seat 10B. (Both names match those on the manifest released by the airline.)

"One bullet was reported to have been fired," the memo states.

What's more, the report echoes another account of a fatal struggle in that same business-class section of the plane -- as revealed by the FBI.

An FBI investigative document reconstructing notes of a frantic phone call from a Flight 11 flight attendant to her manager on the ground in Boston, reveals that "a business-class passenger" was killed by the hijackers.

"A hijacker also cut the throat of a business-class passenger, and he appears to be dead," Amy Sweeney relayed to American flight services manager Michael Woodward on the ground at Logan International Airport.

She also relayed the exact seat numbers of the hijackers in the ninth and 10th rows -- the very rows cited in the controversial FAA report.

The FBI's account of the unrecorded call was leaked to the Los Angeles Times, which ran a story Sept. 20.

The 31-year-old Lewin, an Israeli citizen since a teen, was a captain in the Israel Defense Force and had extensive anti-terrorism training.

"Anyone who knows Danny knows that it was not his nature to go down without a fight," Schwartzberg said. "Maybe this (memo) shows that he died a hero."

An FAA special agent agrees.

"With his background in special forces, he would have had more of a fighting instinct click into gear, rather than be herded around" or fooled by their cover, said the agent, who wished to go unnamed. "They probably killed him first because he was fighting back."

Lewin, a graduate of MIT and Israel's Technion, lived with his wife, Anne, and two sons, Eitan and Itamar, in Brookline, Mass., where he helped run Akamai Technologies -- which he co-founded, nearly becoming a billionaire in the dot-com stock boom. He previously worked for IBM's research lab in Haifa, Israel. His parents and brothers all live in Israel.

Attempts to reach his family for comment were unsuccessful.

Lewin was traveling to Los Angeles on business.

[eno_]

I found the strong criticism of people like me who though it possible he was in fact shot very curious.

Even today, with the "enhanced" TSA screening, hidden weapons are found only 50% of the time (according to tests the TSA no longer does because they were embarassing).

Similarly, some time before 9/11, AQ terrorists killed a Japanese man with a bomb smuggled on to a plane that might have brought the plane down had it been a little more powerful. They claimed to have a bomb on flight 93. If that claim were true it might explain wreckage found an otherwise impossible distance form the impact.

[FreeAtlanta]

I wonder if enough time has passed and we have forgotten enough to have returned to the "sitting in our seats and wetting our pants" method of operation. Right after 911, everyone said, "never again!" Now, I don't know how many would refuse to fight back. It makes me ill to think about it.

[LayoutGuru2]

Wow, I wonder how a gun got on AA11? I thought they were just armed with box cutters.

[bondjamesbond]

He tried to fight back. He was ahead of the curve, based on his experiences in Israel. He would have been happy to see that the rest of us caught up with him later that same day.

Lewin co-founded Akamai Technologies Inc. You use Akamai everyday, you just don't know it.

[Tamzee]

So many heroes that day... and he was one of the very special that died fighting the animals.

[Grampa Dave]

"I wonder if enough time has passed and we have forgotten enough to have returned to the "sitting in our seats and wetting our pants" method of operation. Right after 911, everyone said, "never again!" Now, I don't know how many would refuse to fight back. It makes me ill to think about it."

I'm sure that we couldn't count on any liberals to get up and fight probably a lot of others who claim to be otherwise.

One of our sons and few nephews who fly a lot. Are guys, who could handle themselves and look like they could, and they are assigned aisle seats when they are at the ticket counters.

Often on SW, the attendants move others to put them on the aisle seats.

A friend who is rather tall and big and in great shape, gets up graded to Business Aisle seats quite often without paying the extra or using his air miles. He played college Rugby and semi pro Rugby, and he is still in good shape.

We have to get used to the fact that about 10 to 30 % of Americans do the heavy lifting for the rest of the nation. That was the same in the revolutionary days as it is now.

[Grampa Dave]

I had not heard about the gun until I did the search on this young man.

It is not surprising. Airport security was not all that great before 9/11.

[Logic n' Reason]

Let's be careful here...the use of the term "hero" needs to be severely curtailed.

This guy, for sure, was a victim. I don't know what his activities were on board the aircraft before he was murdered, but assuming he fought back somewhat, that would make him a survivalist too.

But a "hero"?

No, we have to make sure that a true hero is held to a much higher standard.

At any rate, may he rest in peace.

[olde north church]

No, he was not a "VICTIM", he was a "CASUALTY". You have a victim in a car accident or a mugging. In a war, those who die are CASUALTIES!
9/11 was the first large-scale successful attack launched on the Fatherland. When we call those who died in those attacks "VICTIMS" we minimize their status in American history.

[Logic n' Reason]

I'll buy that; tho the distinction is a fine one.

"Casualties" it is!

[veronica]

The Jewhating psychos at LF, some who are banned Freepers, claim Lewin was one of the hijackers - ("Mossad"). Such is the hate of these psychos that they spread such filth.

[Salem]

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[JudyinCanada]

Thanks for the ping, Salem.

Daniel Lewin still inspires...reading of his life inspired me this morning.

I, too, cried all over again for that tragic day and the complete waste of humanity. Evil must be defeated. It will not go away of its own accord. Why this is not crystal clear to everyone is beyond me.

May the Lord smile gently at Daniel this morning.

[Akira]

Wow, I had no idea he was the guy behind Akamai. Thanks.

RIP.

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And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
Bereshet/Genesis 26:4