Interesting thing today From the Xymphora Blog that I thought some of you might not have seen (link they report is from ABC NEWS) http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/DailyNews/primetime_flightattendants_020718.html
From:
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2002_07_21_xymphora_archive.html#79292814
We are now getting a more detailed report of communication between Amy Sweeney, a flight attendant on Flight 11 (which crashed into the WTC on September 11), and American Airlines ground manager Michael Woodward (here is an early account of the conversation which notably misses a key element, and here is a longer recent article). Here's the interesting paragraph:
"Sweeney told Woodward the hijackers seemed to be of Middle Eastern descent and said they had gone into the cockpit with a bomb with yellow wires attached."
A bomb with yellow wires attached. The Mark Bingham phone call to his mother from Flight 93 said that the three men said that they had a bomb (and Tom Burnett in his call said: "They say there's a bomb."), but this revelation from Amy Sweeney is the first evidence released that there actually was a bomb on one of the planes (a story that there was a gun on Flight 11 has been denied). Edward Jay Epstein has already written to demolish the fiction that there was any evidence that the hijackers used only boxcutters and plastic knives in their operation. As he writes, in referring to this lie which he calls a 'fictoid': "Not only does it serve to shield the airlines, airports and airport screeners from massive liability from the victims at the World Trade Center, it protects the Bush Administration by diverting attention away from concern that airport security at three Federally-supervised airports was dangerously lax." It is amazing how successfully this lie has become accepted as part of the Official Story of September 11. It has appeared to me from the outset that these hijackers must have been well armed for their operation. It was simply too risky to rely on boxcutters alone. On top of the liability problem which the boxcutter lie helped to solve, it also neatly dealt with three other problems:
- If the hijackers had been heavily armed with guns and explosives, the
heroic story of how the passengers managed to fight the hijackers on Flight 93
(the one that crashed into Pennsylvania) would not have made much sense, and
the attack by the passengers was needed to explain why the plane crashed
without having been shot down by the U. S. military. I think the deep reason
the U. S. government doesn't want to admit that it shot down Flight 93 is that
it would raise questions in people's minds about why the other planes weren't
intercepted. While there may have been more time to shoot down Flight 93 than
the other planes, there should have been sufficient time to intercept all of
them, and especially Flight 77 (the one that is supposed to have hit the
Pentagon, a story I still
don't buy).
- If the hijackers managed to have weapons on the planes it raises the issue
of corruption in the airport security systems. In particular, it raises the
issue of whether the hijackers had managed to infiltrate the security systems
(there is even an odd report
that John Doe No. 2 of Oklahoma City bombing fame went to work at Logan
Airport!), or whether they had as accomplices the organized crime elements
that regularly corrupt airport security for the purposes of drug smuggling and
stealing from baggage. The issue of accomplices raises all kinds of issues
that the U. S. government would rather not face (and there are even darker
views of the Logan Airport security, although I don't know what to make of
this as it hints at some sort of conspiracy without any proof).
- The boxcutter story greatly simplifies the official solution to the
problems raised by September 11, which is to obviously increase security
measures at airports (and ban boxcutters and small knives). By imposing
heavy-handed security measures (with the accompanying tales of searching
people who obviously are not potential hijackers), the government manages to
convey an illusion of security and keeps the airline industry afloat. Of
course, if the hijackers didn't need to bring any weapons through security as
the weapons were already planted on the planes, it becomes immediately obvious
that the new security measures are a sham. The sad thing is that all this
inconvenience may just be a method of hiding the real danger from the flying
public.
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