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Todd: Hello… Operator…listen to me…I can’t speak very loud. – This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco.. We have a situation here….Our plane has been hijacked…..can you understand me? Lisa: (exhaling a deep breath to herself) I understand… Can the hijackers see you talking on the phone? Todd: No Lisa: Can you tell me how many hijackers are on the plane? Todd: There are three that we know of. Lisa: Can you see any weapons? What kind of weapons do they have? Todd: Yes…. they don’t have guns….they have knives – they took...

You could still see his mouth and his chin, but only the right side of his face from the nose up. The rest of the photo and the document on which it was printed -- except for the man's first and last name and a broken series of numbers -- was charred or burnt away. Investigators searching the area in Pennsylvania where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, found this telltale piece of evidence. It was the tourist visa that let Ziad Jarrah enter the United States from Germany. On the face of it, Jarrah was a...

September 11, 2001                                         The Islamic Jihad [carried out by mostly Saudi Arabs] massacres (around) 3,000 innocent people in the U.S. * al-Qaeda's Bin Laden admits to the crime. * The sick 'death cult' - Arab "Palestinians" celebrating it. * Ring leader: Mohamed Atta & his accomplices: profiles of '"Pious" dirty Muslim hypocrisy'[The Jihadist Muslim terrorists --while professing criticism of western sexual morality and covered with towels pictures containing women hanging in their hotel room, they-- visited/used: strip joints, lap dances,...

America’s New Battle Cry: “Fagit About It” by Norma Zager “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave...” Elmer Davis The other day I watched as New Yorkers were being interviewed about the proposed Mosque. One typical—and yes I say typical because there is such a thing as a typical New Yorker—and that is not a bad thing. In fact it’s rather a colorful and fun thing, actually. So the New Yorker steps up to the microphone and says, “I have one thing to say to the Imam:...

Why Worry? by Ari Bussel I was asked each day following the activation of the nuclear reactor in Iran why there is nothing about Iran in the Israeli media. There may have been a small news item somewhere, but the news is not really of much interest to anyone. I wonder how the threat seems so far away. Could it be Iran’s new launch and delivery capabilities or a renewed determination to eliminate the tiny nuisance along the shores of the Mediterranean is now paled by comparison to a focus on much bigger fish? Perhaps it is Iran’s desire to...

The Last Game by Ari Bussel There are three pivotal moments I remember feeling we are all really not that different from one another. The first was in 1994, Luciano Pavarotti (who passed away 13 years later), Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras performed at the Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles with Zubin Mehta conducting. As I walked back home from our office, a few blocks away in Beverly Hills, I could hear their voices through the open windows. There was no traffic, no one outside, just the sounds of the three tenors in concert emanating from people’s homes. The second...

Homeland Security: Despite overwhelming support in and out of Congress, legal protection for airline passengers who report suspicious behavior is being blocked by Democratic leaders. Wasn't one 9/11 enough for them? Were it not for the courage and sacrifice of the passengers of United Flight 93 who forced their plane into a Pennsylvania field, many in Congress might not be here today, with a gaping hole where the U.S. Capitol still stands. We wonder if this fact is appreciated by those trying to block final passage of the so-called "John Doe" provision protecting from legal action those who report suspicious...

BOSTON (AP) — A woman on a trans-Atlantic flight diverted to Boston for security concerns passed several notes to crew members, urinated on the cabin floor and made comments the crew believed were references to al-Qaida and the Sept. 11 attacks, according to an affidavit filed Thursday. Catherine C. Mayo, 59, of Braintree, Vt., was to appear in federal court later Thursday on a charge of interfering with a flight crew after disrupting United 923 as it flew from London to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. The flight, with 182 passengers and 12 crew members, landed safely with the escort of...

Everyone remembers the pictures, but I think more and more about the sounds. I always ask people what they heard that day in New York. We've all seen the film and videotape, but the sound equipment of television crews didn't always catch what people have described as the deep metallic roar.

Some pics I took of the Flight 93 Memorial yesterday. I have the rest in panos that are way to big to post.

"He just felt that whatever God's plan was for him, it had something to do with the White House and was going to impact a lot of people." A report in Newsmax states: "In a startling interview with Michael H. Brown, publisher of Spirit Daily, Deena Burnett, widow of the Flight 93 passenger Thomas Burnett, recalled that both she and her husband had premonitions about Tom's early death." Burnett, according to his wife, had come back to church after "straying" from God as a young man. Raised a Catholic, he became "so devoted to his Lord" that he gave up...

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What are you willing to look at when you go to the theater to see a movie? Whether it’s because of my age or the times we live in, I find a real element of risk in going to the movies. There are things that I do not wish to see, images and actions I would rather not chance having burned into my brain in that singular and powerful way that movies are able to do. In a purely free market, people would be able to see whatever they wanted to see, just as they would be allowed to provide...

OK, people -- it's taken longer than I thought, but my story on Flight 93 is finally running tomorrow. It will the lead news story in the Philadelphia Daily News -- hopefully we can get some other media to pick it up. Here's the full text -- I'll put up a link early tomorrow when it's available. I guess this means I'm officially out of the closet LOL!By William Bunch Philadelphia Daily News (bunchw@phillynews.com) The final three minutes of hijacked United Flight 93 are still a mystery more than a year after it crashed in western Pennsylvania — even...

Field report about United Airlines Flight 93, one year anniversary memorial service. "A Time For Honor And Hope"

<p>Tom Burnett Sr. said his son would have laughed at the thought of having his high school football jersey retired. Tom Jr., after all, was a steady quarterback, but not a superstar by any means.</p> <p>He was a leader more than anything, someone who knew how to take charge without having to raise his voice. A guy you could count on regardless of the situation.</p>

<p>The family of Tom Burnett Jr. -- the Bloomington Jefferson graduate credited with leading a Sept. 11 assault on hijackers aboard United Flight 93 -- has returned to the Twin Cities with his remains, his sister Mary Jurgens said Monday night.</p>

Each spring, the Saint John's University Alumni Association Board of Directors selects four Johnnies to receive the Alumni Achievement Award. The award recognizes alumni for outstanding career success and/or outstanding volunteer service to church and community. This year a fifth alumnus, Thomas F. Burnett, Jr., '85, has been selected for his heroic action on September 11, 2001.Tom was a victim of the September 11th terrorist hijacking and crash of United Airlines Flight 93 near Pittsburgh. He is survived by his wife, Deena, and three young daughters. During the hijacking, he called his wife at their home in San Ramon, CA,...