Posted on 08/29/2002 1:41:13 PM PDT by DrLiberty
The attack was well-planned. I would guess that the hijackers planned from the beginning to kill the pilots as quickly as possible.
Atta shows up on a surveillance camera at an airport that day. (As well as having his name on the original passenger list). We know he was flying somewhere.
If he wasn't on one of those doomed flights, and is still alive, he should notify his family so they don't feel they have to "defend" him any more.
I'm sure someone, somewhere, is trying to apply a scenario just like this to the events of 9/11.
How about this scenario??...
Background:
Intolerance against Muslims is rampant among the pilots of 4 specific planes.
Plot:
In order to kill the vacationing Atta and his friends (and "teach a lesson" to all other radical Muslims) the pilots decide to crash their planes.
We might want to add touches like having a "hate" radio host say a code word over the air that sets off the pilots' frenzy.
Maybe the plot can include Atta and his friends killing the pilots in an unsuccessful attempt to save the planes and the passengers.
Anyone have Oliver Stone's phone number?
I think Carlin's "stiff upper lip" must have spread to his brain.
Nothing is working upstairs.
In a thousand words or more, The Portugal News turns what everyone already knew into a tinfoil hat story worthy of Justin Raimondo (sp?) and adds nothing whatever of value. We were here. We saw what happened.
I give it eleven paranoia points out of ten.
Except for some question of the cause of the crash in PA - whether the hijackers crashed it because they were losing a fight in the cockpit, or whether it was shot down because it was minutes away from D.C. - there is no indication 9/11 was anything other than what it appeared to be. Nothing about 9/11 is inconsistent with Al Quaida's known capabilities and intentions.
Nah...he just took something everybody knew, added some tinfoil hat rumor from both far-left and far-right wingnuts...and VIOLA!! He has a PAYCHECK!!!! (he got paid by the word)
LOL...guess I should have forced myself to read the rest of the article....on second thought...NAAAHHHH
I guess the questions would be, what were the dissimilarities between the aircraft they used and and the 737, and is it possible to bring them into line with a 737? Fuel capacity seems to be the problem. Could it have been solved without being obvious about it, or without witnesses? 
Well...I believe you've given us a good explanation for this hallucinatory article.
Remember the hand held GPS reciever that was found in some Arab's apartment in NYC? First the guy said he never saw it before, then he said it was his...then he said it must belong to his buddy....and that mentally challenged judge let him walk.
It was an aviation radio, not a GPS. And it turns out that it didn't belong to the Arab at all, but an American pilot on the floor below him--and that the hotel rent-a-cop had planted it in the Arab's room so that he could "find" it and be the big hero.
Thanks...after posting my question and continuing on through the replies, I saw your answer to the same question by Howlin. Guess I shoulda read all the replies first and saved some typing :- )
Makes a good movie of the week, but hardly anything substantial here.
A further point was how the FBI had managed to retrieve the passport of one of the suspects amid the molten and twisted remains of thousands of tons of steel and rubble brought about by the Twin Towers collapse.
A good question, to be sure, I've often wondered that myself, but hardly indicative of any kind of "conspiracy". Since only one was found, maybe it was just luck? Maybe.
The entire rest of this article argues for an alternate explaination based on pure conjecture (AWACS system) with no physical evidence to support the presence of such technology on the plane(s). Indeed, the WTC wreckage incinerated whole bodies where literally nothing is left; how can we ever hope to find evidence of an AWACS system on board? Supposing such is clouding the issue, at best.
The argument here is that since the plane didn't: Nosedive, swerve to the left or right, and since the pilots didn't punch in the 4 digit code for hijacking into the transponder, then it MUST have been under someone else's control from the beginning, and therefore the AWACS MUST be there, even though we can never hope to recover it from the "molten and twisted remains of thousands of tons of steel and rubble brought about by the Twin Towers collapse". It MUST be there though, since there's no other POSSIBLE explaination for how the plane could've been brought under control of the terrorists so quickly.
Right?
1. Kick down flimsy door. 2. Overpower pilots before they can even punch in the 4 digit code, much less send plane into nose dive or swerve about. 3. Use training garnered from places like Moussaoui went to (which was for training to fly a JET, not a CESSNA) to fly plane into towers.
Yeah, ONLY possible explaination; this article is so right. < /sarcasm >
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