[Velveeta]

~snippet on the Brazilian plane

A reporter for The New York Times, Joe Sharkey, was one of seven people aboard the plane, all of whom were “O.K. but shaken,” according to an e-mail message that Mr. Sharkey sent to his wife, Nancy, an editor at the newspaper.

“No one believes we managed to survive a mid-air collision,” Mr. Sharkey wrote. “Neither of the pilots can understand how a 737 could have hit us without them seeing it,” he added, noting that the smaller plane was “flying stable northwest at 37,000 feet with the sun off the left wing, and a 737 would have been obvious.”

Both of the aircraft were new, authorities said, and were equipped with anticollision devices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/world/americas/01crash.html?_r=2&ref=world&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[Velveeta]

Paper says it has unseen video by Atta

A previously unseen video made by Mohamed Atta, ringleader of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has been obtained by Britain's The Sunday Times, the newspaper reported Saturday.

In editions available late Saturday, the paper said it had been handed the so-called martyrdom video, but did not reveal the source of the tape.

It reported that Atta was filmed reading a document marked in Arabic as a will as he sat beside fellow hijacker Ziad Jarrah — who seized control of United Airlines flight 93, which crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pa.

The newspaper said that a timecode stamp on the videotape indicated it had been recorded on January 18, 2000 and the recording was made at an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan.

There was no soundtrack, the newspaper said. It quoted an unnamed U.S. source as saying that attempts to lip read the tape to transcribe the content had been unsuccessful.

The recording could help resolve questions over Atta's whereabouts in January 2000, after he fled his home in Hamburg, Germany.

Osama bin Laden is also shown on the hour-long video addressing supporters at a site in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the newspaper reported. It said a timecode stamp indicated the al-Qaida leader was speaking on January 8, 2000.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061001/ap_on_re_eu/sept11_video&printer=1;_ylt=AgTJwzH0jeieYmAkVbDRdjBbbBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-

[nw_arizona_granny]

Brazilian plane, is getting very odd.

Even the pilots don't
know when they were hit, only that they lost a wing.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

No one believes we managed to survive a mid-air collision

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