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Tuesday, July 21, 1998.
TWA FLIGHT 800
We talked about this just a bit yesterday. There are a lot of people who are suspicious of the official story, and just as many people who defend the official story vigorously.
Well, the mystery of TWA 800 deepened yesterday with a briefing conducted in Washington.
Bill Davidson is a retired U.S. Navy Commander and a trained aircraft accident investigator. Davidson spent 15 months conducting his own investigation into the causes behind the crash of TWA 800, and his conclusions differ greatly from the official story put forth by the National Transportation Safety Board.
When Davidson opened his briefing yesterday he said "Somebody came into our waters and shot down - for the first time ever - a flag carrier of the United States."
According to a story by Steve Allen in WorldNetDaily, Donaldson said that TWA 800 "was intentionally destroyed by a powerful, proximity fused, airbursting, anti-aircraft weapon launched from a position approximately one nautical mile off shore and three nautical miles east of Moriches Inlet, Long Island, New York." Donaldson says that seconds later a second missile was fired from a position closer to the TWA 747.
Government officials are, of course, discounting Donaldson's account.
Of interest to me are the people who were at that briefing in support of Donaldson and his account.
One such person was Admiral Thomas Moorer, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Moorer expressed his belief that an act of terrorism was involved in the downing of Flight 800.
One eye-opener in the WorldNetDaily story is the comment of Vernon Grose. Grose is a physicist and was a member of the NTSB. He was interviewed extensively by CNN and other media outlets - nearly 170 interviews - about Flight 800. Grose says "I've spent two years defending the NTSB, only to find out that the facts don't seem to line up with the official story." Grose says he feels "betrayed" by the NTSB.
O.K., so what could possibly be going on.
If Flight 800 was shot down by terrorists, why would our government try to cover that up?
Several reasons.
First, if the people of this country got wind of the fact that terrorists had used missiles to shoot down an American airliner, you wouldn't be able to give away transatlantic tickets. Can you imagine getting on a flight to Paris with a fear that you were going to be shot out of the sky by terrorists? The economic impact on the airlines and on tourism would be catastrophic. There would be no realistic way to quell the panic in the flying public.
Second, it would be a public relations nightmare for the government. The news that terrorists had managed to fire a missile from the territorial waters of the U.S. off the coast of our most populous city could be enough to cripple, or bring down an administration already in trouble.
There are also considerations to be given to how the administration would deal with the immediate public outcry and demands for vengeance.
Some callers yesterday brought up some interesting arguments against the possibility of a terrorist attack. Why, for instance, wouldn't the terrorist organization have immediately claimed credit? Well, who's to say they didn't? Are we privy to all communications from such organizations to our government?
Folks, I don't know what happened to Flight 800. Fuel tank explosion, terrorist missile, I don't know.
What I do know is that our government's story can't be trusted. Not because the story itself is suspicious, but because the government that issued the story can't be believed. This is a government headed by an administration known for it's inability to be honest with the people of this country. There can be no doubt that it would lie to us about Flight 800 if its political interests were served by doing so.
Click here to read the entire WorldNetDaily story about TWA Flight 800
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