Missile Witnesses Needed Now - TWA 800

WorldNet Daily ^ | 29 March 2007 | Jack Cashill

[infidel29]

I'm sure Bush knows what happened...

John Kerry does. In the '04 campaign, he was on TV talking about various terror attacks and in his list he went through the embassies, the USS Cole, flight 800... the interviewer didn't make mention of it and nothing was ever said in other media about it(at least that I heard).

I listen to a lot of talk radio and someone put forth the notion that Kerry kept Gore out of '04 by threatening to tell what he knew about flight 800, but I don't remember who.

[Lancey Howard]

I suspect that much of the classified documentation that Sandy Berger stole from the National Archives and destroyed was related to this tragedy.

[3AngelaD]

If there was a coverup, I am more likely to believe your explanation than that our Navy did it.

[doorgunner69]

probably an un-armed Tomahawk, going for center-of-mass

You can stop reading right there, this idiot does not have a clue what he is babbling about............

[SolitaryMan]

BINGO!! A Tomahawk is a land attack missle. As a 22 year Navy veteran, there is NO WAY the crew of a ship would keep quiet about shooting down an airliner...

[GBA]

"According to The Review's author, the first missile, the one that destroyed the plane, was large and, if not un-armed, at least failed to explode. The missile shot above TWA Flight 800, found its mark and descended on it from the rear."

I don't think a spark from a frayed wire in the center tank brought down Flt. 800, but this is ridiculous. The first missile shot from above? Yeah, right. I have a friend who believes Cashill's only intent is to sell books. I am reluctantly starting to agree.

[Froufrou]

Yeah, without all that cockpit stuff, how does one 'track' - and no hound dog or huntin' rifle?

[mnehring]

[unkus]

See my Post # 6.

[Zeroisanumber]

"It had to be a bloody missile, probably an un-armed Tomahawk, going for center-of-mass," he said to a senior flight manager of his acquaintance. "They were most likely going for a target drone and testing their capability to go-through normal aircraft traffic to get at the target."

I'm no expert, but when did we start using Tomahawks to shoot down airborne targets?

I'm very skeptical of the TWA 800 missile theory. Too many people, from the ship that fired the missile, to the FBI, to the accident investigators, and on up the chain of authority to the President would have had to keep quiet about it. By now, someone, somewhere would have come forward and showed who fired what and how it hit the airplane.

Also, even assuming that the government did institute a cover-up, why would they bother covering up in the first place? If a missile fired by a USN ship brought down the plane, then it would be easier and safer for the careers of all involved if they just came out and said that there had been a terrible accident. Why would Bill Clinton, of all people, risk his presidency and jail time for some screw-up, nobody, Navy captain? And that's not even mentioning the careers and possibly even future livelihoods of the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Transportation, easily a score of military brass, and hundreds of FBI and Dpt. of Transportation investigators.

The whole theory just doesn't track.

[unkus]

Thank you for posting.

[chad_in_georgia]

It is simply amazing to me that Berger got away with doing that. How on earth do we not punish someone for destroying official federal documents?

[GBA]

Nevermind, I was mistaken: the missile shot above TWA 800 and then descended on it...well, okay...like that changes anything.

[COEXERJ145]

Excellent post.

The TWA-800 conspiracy theorists never look @ any facts. They just take a few eyewitnesses, ignore all the evidence that debunks their theories, and claim its a cover up.

[SpinnerWebb]

It was fired by a terror organization, as witnessed by the White House war room activity at the time

Curious. Tell me more.

[DCPatriot]

I have one simple question.

Why would admitting it was a terrible accident of a training exercise gone awry be such a bad thing?

[Zeroisanumber]

It was a missile. It wasn't one of ours. It was fired by a terror organization, as witnessed by the White House war room activity at the time.

Fired from where? Their secret submarine of terror? Their smuggled SAM missile site? A MANPAD that can hit a target 10 miles off Long Island and 13,000 feet in the air?

[chad_in_georgia]

a few? wasn't it like a 100-200 eyewitnesses?

[U S Army EOD]

Here we go again.

If the missile was fired from inside the main fuel tank and left no evidence a missile was used, I would be happy to believe this story.

I also believe the WTC was blown down because explosives can survive in a ragging fire.

No plane hit the Pentagon even though they found Amelia Erhart's body inside the Pentagon.

I haven't got time to research any of this because I am busy waiting for the Easter Bunny to hop by.

[SampleMan]

"It had to be a bloody missile, probably an un-armed Tomahawk, going for center-of-mass," he said to a senior flight manager of his acquaintance. "They were most likely going for a target drone and testing their capability to go-through normal aircraft traffic to get at the target."

Easily the stupidest/most ignorant comment I've ever heard. Tomahawks don't have air-to-air capability, nor do they ever fly at that altitude. Nor would the US military EVER test a missile through commercial airspace. This idea is especially spacious given that the test suggested would provide meaningless data.

If this quote is real, I very much doubt the authenticity of the "Navy Commander" given that I've never met one that stupid.