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To: tekboy who wrote (21205)3/12/2002 1:56:11 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
For the "Conspiracy theory" types, here is one that got by me.

Mysteries lingering in terrorism's ashes

Michelle Malkin

As of yesterday, six months have passed since the September 11 terrorist attacks. Here are a half-dozen unresolved mysteries still on my mind:
What really happened on United Airlines Flight 93? As the Philadelphia Daily News reported back in November, many folks in Shanksville, Pa., where the hijacked Boeing 757 crashed, believe the plane was shot down. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a small, unmarked jet flying overhead immediately after impact. Others are convinced they heard the piercing sound of a missile. A federal flight controller told the Telegraph of Nashua, N.H., that an F-16 had indeed been in "hot pursuit" of Flight 93 until it hit the ground. One of the 911 calls from a passenger on the flight indicated there was an explosion aboard the plane. The FBI immediately confiscated the tape.
The 8-mile-wide debris field seems to bolster claims of an on-board explosion. So did the discovery of a 1 ton chunk of the plane's engine far from the rest of the crash site, which some say points to evidence that a heat-seeking missile targeted the flight. Then there's the 8-minute gap from the time all cell-phone calls from the plane ceased and the time it crashed.
Although both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder were recovered, not a single scrap about what was on the black boxes has been officially released. This despite the government's otherwise routine release of such information. (Recall that after American Airlines Flight 587 crashed in New York last November, the feds released detailed information from one of the black boxes within less than two days.)
The feds insist on keeping all the Flight 93 data secret because disclosing such information might "interfere with enforcement proceedings." Against whom? All the hijack culprits are dead.

washingtontimes.com
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