Posted on 08/11/2005 11:57:19 AM PDT by Southack
In Vero Beach, FBI agents searched four homes in three neighborhoods, according to witnesses.
A tenant in one of those houses, Adnan Bukhari, was cooperating with the federal agents, sources said.
Bukhari's brother, Ameer Bukhari, died in a small plane crash in Florida last year, according to a lawyer for the family.
Federal sources had initially identified the brothers as possible hijackers who had boarded one of the planes that originated in Boston.
Their names had been tied to a car founded at an airport in Portland, Maine.
But Bukhari's attorney said it appeared their identifications were stolen and said Bukhari had no role in the hijackings.
Information found in another rental car left in Boston's Logan Airport -- where two of the hijacked flights
originated -- led investigators to two more men who were pilots: Mohammed Atta and Marwan Yousef Alshehhii.
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/12/investigation.terrorism/
January 7, 2002 Posted: 1:07 PM EST (1807 GMT)
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TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- A note written by the 15-year-old boy who crashed a Cessna into a Tampa office building indicated he supported Osama bin Laden and that the act was deliberate, authorities say.
Charles J. Bishop, who took the plane on an unauthorized flight across Tampa Bay, died at the scene of Saturday's crash into the 42-story Bank of America Plaza building. He apparently made no attempt to avoid the structure, witnesses said.
Thanks for the ping, Biker Chick!
Well duh, by definition, any successful cover-up would require that you NOT know about it unless you were one of the conspirators.
Failure of local controller to provide adequate spacing between two airplanes that resulted in a midair collision.
I might add that the report indicates that the weather was clear and VFR, therefore, both pilots had a duty to "see and be seen". I lost a Mooney M-20 with my step-dad and his friend aboard, a WWII B-25 pilot, in a midair collision with a Piper PA-28 over the California Mojave Desert in the early eighties. The skies were clear. The NTSB's conclusion was that the pilot who hit the Mooney was at the wrong altitude for the direction of flight and inexperienced (less than 500hrs). FWIW, I don't see anything in this report other than human error and the coincidence that one pilot was an Arab and the the incident happened on 9-11-2000. More coincidental than providential.
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Evidence found in a rental car left in Portland, Maine, led investigators to two houses in Vero Beach, Florida. One had been rented by two brothers from Saudi Arabia.
In Vero Beach, FBI agents searched four homes in three neighborhoods, according to witnesses.
A tenant in one of those houses, Adnan Bukhari, was cooperating with the federal agents, sources said.
Bukhari's brother, Ameer Bukhari, died in a small plane crash in Florida last year, according to a lawyer for the family.
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And of course, let's not forget the Egyptian suicide pilot.
One little plane running into another little plane, without announcement or obvious attempt to create terror is hardly comparable to 9-11
Governments HATE multi-billion dollar impacts on the economy.
This government is far more concerned about a comfy populace that grows forgetful and weary about the threat of terrorism.
You do have a point, but I also have a pretty good point about the nature of people. You can't involve lots of people. They talk.
Federal sources had initially identified the brothers as possible hijackers who had boarded one of the planes that originated in Boston. Their names had been tied to a car found at an airport in Portland, Maine."
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/12/investigation.terrorism/
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Very interesting, Southack. Thanks for posting this.
Heads up. Bubba coming up on Blitzer's show after the break.
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I read this earlier today. If it's true that this guy was a roomate of Atta, then it seems likely to this reader that he could have also been logging air time to partcipate in the eventual attack on 9//11/01.
The FAA reprot blames the crash on the Air Traffic controllers error (they were switching shifts) I think it's an ironic coincidence that this occurred exactly one year before the attack but I don't think it was a deliberate attack on that day. I do, however, think that Al Quaeda lost a 5th pilot on that day.
Was the Saudi pilot trying to land?
I understand they are not very practiced at that part.
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