9/11 Yarn a Web of Lies

ABCNews ^ | 9/27/2007 | RUSSELL GOLDMAN

[txroadkill]

In all the stories that came out of 9/11 -- stories of love, loss and heroism -- Tania Head's tale had it all.

As president of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network and as a tour guide at ground zero, she told countless people for the past six years about being burned on the 78th floor of the south tower. Head says she was rescued by a citizen hero, and felt compelled to escape by her promise to return a wedding band to a victim's wife and by her love for a man she later learned had died in the north tower.

Tania Head's story, however, was too good to be true, as The New York Times reported Thursday.

Though she'd spoken to journalists for years and recounted her story hundreds of times among other survivors, the newspaper found that nearly every detail of Head's tale was false.

Now the many survivors of 9/11 and the families of victims who had come to trust Head, at times suppressing their own grief to help her cope with her enormous loss, are left to wonder why she would perpetrate such an enormous fabrication.

"I've heard her story over and over," said Janice Cilento, a social worker and board member of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network.

"I've been there anytime she needed someone to listen, even if it was at three in the morning. She has stolen my time and my soul," she said.

Cilento said many of the network's members "feel very upset and betrayed.

"We have members who thought Tania's trauma was so extreme they did not want to discuss their own. They gave their time to help her, and she didn't even need it," she said.

[txroadkill]

OMG.

[traditional1]

You wonder how many millions of dollars of phony claims have been paid, too, (similar to Katrina Billions) to non-deserving "survivors".

People like those hav no shame, and figure it's just Goverment Money (they don't know the Government has NO money; it's taxpayers who fund it all).

[martin_fierro]

Guilty.

[pillut48]

A true HEAD case, eh? What was this woman thinking?!? >:-(

[papasmurf]

The links are guilty, too. LOL

[endthematrix]

"You wonder how many millions of dollars of phony claims have been paid..."

I worked investigating Workers' Comp fraud. It costs BILLIONS per year, and plenty of those claims are scammers.

[El Sordo]

I’ve met this type before.

She was thinking that she would finally get the fame and attention that she rightly deserved.

[endthematrix]

ping.

[endthematrix]

(Head Alert)

An Amazing Woman & Her Smile
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1903379/posts?page=1bboop

[papasmurf]

I found This one that works

papa

[Albion Wilde]

Yeah, that's the ticket!

[CaptainK]

Their first clue should have been her claim that she had a fiance.

[Theresawithanh]

When I read about this yesterday, I was hoping her story was true and that she hadn’t made it up, even though I strongly suspected that she did. Whatever on earth would make somebody do something like this, a need for attention, perhaps? Very, very sad.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

You wonder how many millions of dollars of phony claims have been paid, too, (similar to Katrina Billions) to non-deserving "survivors".

Not this woman, according to the article. She seems to have done it simply to enjoy playing a suffering victim. Victim-hood has become glorified in our Oprah culture, and people will go to great lengths to be seen as victims, real or imagined. Some victims lay claim to some sort of moral superiority over non-victims and revel in the power and attention it gives them. Very big among members of the Left, such as Cindy Sheehan.

[Enduring Freedom]

I believe her - if a face had fallen 78 stories, it would look just like that.

[xJones]

According to the Times, Head never attempted to receive financial remuneration for her "survivor" status.

This is the only good thing about her, she didn't go for the money. She was in it for the great sympathy and attention.

It's sort of like people that claim to be Viet Nam war vets, and they'd never even been there, they just copied the stories of real vets who had.

[Tall_Texan]

OTOH, she has positioned herself well to be a member of a Democrat’s campaign manager position. She can tell bald-face lies with a straight face and enough conviction that people believed her.

[Chieftain]

She can tell bald-face lies with a straight face and enough conviction that people believed her.

Well Hillary's camp isn't interested in her then. She would be more beliveable than their candidate!

[7thson]

It's like those who make up they were in the military, doing heroic deeds, yet never were. I worked with a guy in my division onboard the Independence. He had this huge scar on his arm, from his elbow nearly down to his wrist. Another guy in the division told me to ask him about the scar. I did and he gave me this long story, making him seem like a hero. A week later, the same guy told me to ask the guy with the sacr how he got it again and I did. A different story but making him heroic nonetheless.

I suppose you could say it's sad in a way that people feel so sorry about their lives they have to make stuff up to seem exciting to others. For years, people would ask me about the navy and I would blow it off because it all seemed so mundane to me. Than one time I told a story of some incident that happened with a bunch of guys on ship and the person I was telling the story too thought it was interesting as hell! It made me realize that we all - more or less - lead interesting lives and interesting thing do happen to us. It just may not appear so to us at the time.

[traditional1]

"Some victims lay claim to some sort of moral superiority over non-victims and revel in the power and attention it gives them."

Sounds like the bulk of the people who constantly vote straight (D) tickets!