payne1000 wrote:
All your posts are from a conspiracy theorist who hides his identity. You're supporting and defending the Bush Administration's conspiracy theory which claims 19 Arabs from a cave in Afghanistan were able to get through airport security without showing up on the security videos, hijack 4 airliners, knock down three office towers using only two of the airliners, then crash another of the airliners into the Pentagon without leaving any airliner wreckage at the scene. When you support lies that obvious, even if you identified yourself, you would still have no credibility.
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Betty Ong and Amy Sweeney were both flight attendants on AA11, both of these women, using the on board phones, contacted AA offices on the ground. Ong was in contact with AA Reservations and Sweeney was in contact with AA manager, Micheal Woodward. Sweeney told Woodward that the airplane had been hijacked, that a flight attendant and a passenger had been stabbed, that the flight crew in the cockpit was not responding to calls, and that MACE or some such agent had been sprayed into the forward 1st Class cabin. Both Ong and Sweeney stayed on the phones and continued to provide Woodward with updates, which included two sudden radical turns, and a fairly rapid descent. (Which all coincided with communication and radar data from ATC Boston)
Before a commercial flight departs, a passenger manifest is issued to the purser aboard the flight. Both Ong and Sweeney were in the 1st Class cabin when the terrorists launched their attack. Both of them saw at least three of the terrorists vacate their seats. The purser aboard AA11 obviously pulled up the passenger manifest and provided Amy Sweeney with enough information that she was able to relay the seat assignments of three of the hijackers to Woodward at AA HQ. Woodward's assistant pulled up the current AA11 manifest and identified the three. Abdulaziz al-Omari in 9G, Satam al-Suqami in 10B, and Mohammed Atta in 9D.
Both Ong and Sweeney were still on the phones when the jet hit the North Tower.
In the months preceding the attack, several of the 9/11 terrorists, including Atta, were tasked with intelligence gathering missions in which they booked flights within the United States and intercontinental flights into the United States. During these flights, the terrorists noted times from takeoff to reaching cruise altitude, they studied cabin crew habits, behavior and routines, they noted times when seat belt restrictions were lifted, times when meal service began, they logged every time a pilot or member of the flight crew exited the cockpit, and they determined which seat assignments or rows would give the hijacking teams the best tactical advantage for the attack.
BTW: the 19 hijackers DID NOT come from a cave in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden was in a cave in Afghanistan and once he gave Kahlid Sheik Mohammed the green light, he had no further contact with the hijackers until 6 days before the attack when he sent them his encouragement and wishes for success.
Kahlid Sheik Mohammed was the mastermind of the "Planes Operation", he planned the attack, organized the training, worked up a target list, and managed the financing. Mohammed Atta was given tactical command of the hijacking teams. In late 1998 and early 1999, the hijackers scattered, some went to Germany (The Hamburg Cell), some went to the ME, and some went to southeast Asia--Singapore and the Philippines. In January, 2000, they began to arrive in the United States. The rest is history.
BTW: Even your old buddy, David Chandler, agrees that an American Airline Boeing 757 crashed into the Pentagon.