[jlogajan]

The bureau locked itself into a theory that an exploding fuel tank caused the crash.

Sigh. Tinfoil alert! Actually the FBI presumed it was a bomb or missile and the NTSB had to convince them there was no evidence of a bomb or missile.

[Joe Boucher]

I wouldn't believe or trust the F.B.I. any more then say the B.A.T.F. or the palestinian authority.

[First_Salute]

Bump.

[First_Salute]

See: A High-Tech Lynching: ABC News, The FBI, And The Greendale School Myth, Toogood Reports, August 14, 2002, by Nicholas Stix (posted by Starmaker).

[The Great Satan]

My guess is it will turn out that the anthrax sent to AMI did indeed come from the infamous "J-Lo" letter, just as the folks at AMI and Bob Stevens' treating physicians, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, believe. That package, which apparently contained a tin can holding a symbolic Star of David buried in soap powder, reportedly arrived about 1 week before 9-11, but was deemed suspicious and not immediately opened. The incubation time for inhalation anthrax is about one week, so I think the intent was to stage a small-scale lethality demonstration coordinated with the hijackings -- a little reminder to our leaders to be careful before rushing to point a finger at the author of the attack.

I eagerly await Mr. Brennan's follow-up articles.

[aristeides]

For both the anthrax and TWA 800, we have good reason to believe the FBI is concealing, for whatever reason, a Middle Eastern connection.

The past couple of weeks have provided us additional reason to consider the possibility that the Olympic Park bombings in Atlanta, simultaneous with TWA 800, were also Middle Eastern: the bomb that was recently set off at Hebrew University in Jerusalem was in a backpack and contained nails. That sounds just like the bombs in Atlanta.

If TWA 800 was downed to disrupt the '96 Olympics in Atlanta, what does that tell us about the bombings in Atlanta? Steve Hatfill may have more in common with Richard Jewell than one realizes at first blush.

[EternalHope]

Great article. I look forward to the next installment.

[Thud]

It's more like the Richard Jewel case in the Atlanta Olympics bombing than the investigation of TWA Flight 800.

[Fred Mertz]

Excellent article and thread. Thanks for posting it.