Posted on 11/22/2006 8:50:59 AM PST by Hal1950
This is a bunch of baloney.
TWA800 was brought down by a missle of unknown origin. The FBI knows it. They were ordered to make sure the investigation did not arrive at anything related to terrorism.
Man, I'm awfully tempted to send Cashill a bunch of wacky anonymous letters just for the amusement of seeing them turn up in a WingNutDaily article by him a few months later - I live near the NSA to boot, so I can even get them postmarked around here for extra authenticity :-)
Don't waste your time with the 'conspiracy theorists'. They react to facts the same way that Linda Blair reacts to Holy Water. This has been the most investigated accident in US history, yet they continue on.
Yousef outsmarted the FBI by making his critical calls in Baluchi, a language its agents could not translate.
Of course the FBI would never think to RECORD those calls, and even if they did record tem, only Yousef and the guy he called knew this language/sarc off
The FBI ran the investigation for months.
Nothing, NOTHING was normal about the TWA800 investigation.
At least two other aircraft with the center fuel tank of identical design have exploded at random.
The article should be named "Triple Cross Blows"
Alright please move on after you have picked up your tin foil hat. Conspiracy freaks show me proof and I will go along. Spout out baseless conjecture and you lose me.
Anyone who believes that a spark from an epoxy encased pump motor blew up the plane is investing all their retirement money into condos in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica.
One must ask this question: How many 747's have logged how many flight hours until 1996 and how many have blown up to a center fuel tank pump motor spark?
or maybe:
3) Might have been a bomb - can't prove it either way so let's ask for a list of plausible alternative explanation and all agree to settle on the one with the least risk to the civil aviation industry, the economy, the Olympics which were about to take place, and oh yeah, to the Toon's legacy and international posture. Would not take very many in the inner circle to "favor" the best theory for everyone when they just didn't know for sure. Once word spreads downward that "the boss(es) like this theory the best", the rest is easy, especially in civil service. People could keep their doubts but would not do much about it. And the Toon did not want to have to worry about bringing yet another nameless, nationless, criminal to justice.
It's the Kennedy Asassination syndrome. If someone famous dies or an explosion takes out something, it's automatically the muslims, the mob, the freemasons, etc. who did it. There's no such thing as an accident.
Clinton did not want it to be terrorist related because he did not want to have to go to war with a real enemy. Playing at it with Serbia was what he wanted because it was a philanthropic war, one in which there was absolutely no discernible National interest.
Not only that, two of his White House aides have referred on television to when TWA800 was either shot down or was bombed. One of them was George Stephanopholous and I can't remember who the other one was.
...I have some real points of disagreement with Lance's arguments. Although Lance pushes the mainstream media to their limits, he has largely stayed within their pale. This I understand, especially on the subject of TWA Flight 800. To mention the word "missile" in that context is to risk losing a TV presence.I think, generally, conspiracies are nearly impossible to maintain on a large-scale for any length of time. People just cannot keep their mouths shut.
Again, don't bore them with facts.
>>This, or the possibility of a bomb in a piece of luggage in the forward cargo compartment is far more plausible than a missile.<<
Except, a lot of people saw a missle. If you throw that out, this is just another event fraught with conspiracy theories and to be treated as such.
I put them in the same category of eyewitnesses who see or hear explosions on airplanes before they crash. It happens frequently when there are airplane crashes. After the fact, the cause is determined to be windshear or pilot error or something else, and there is no evidence of an explosion (i.e., the cockpit voice recorder does not pick up the sound, the flight data recorder does not show anything).
Surface to air missiles typically use a "boost-sustain-coast" flight profile, so light emitting rocket exhaust would not likely continue all the way until impact.
While a large, radar guided missile could have impacted the center mass of the airplane, and has a large enough warhead to cause the level of damage to split TWA 800 into two pieces, a shoulder launched Stinger would have impacted an engine, and the warhead could not cause the level of damage to cause the fuselage to split into two.
At least there's talk about the b.s.
Maybe it will spread to other places where the lazy worthless bought-with-a-price media won't go anymore, the cowards.
Yep, and they won't quit. I say let 'em go, "They're on a roll"....lol
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