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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5225)	10/15/2001 11:20:40 AM
From: jayhawk969	Respond to of 281500

Note to self... If on a hijacked plane and you are being told over the cell phone that your plane will likely be used to commit mass hara-kiri... make sure the hijackers know this as well... I don't think you will have to inform them. They now know.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5225)	10/15/2001 12:00:05 PM
From: epsteinbd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I doubt that theory. First, the last night letter was obvious for those pirates that could read at least; second, it seems that most of them were in close contact for weeks if not more, and the "end" was bound to leak, whether from conversations or from postures etc.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5225)	10/15/2001 12:43:16 PM
From: LLLefty	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>....FBI investigators have officially concluded that 11 of the 19 terrorists who hijacked the aircraft on September 11 did not know they were on a suicide mission, intelligence sources said on Saturday...< Hawk Have you given any thought that this article has appeared, as best I can see, only in the Guardian. i doubt that the Guardian has better sources in the FBi and other intelligence agencies than do Washington-based American journalists. I doubt further that even if the FBI has reached that conclusion that it would give an exclusive such as this to a left-wing publication whose shtick is sniping at the US. Unless, of course, it's a nice bit of mild disinformation placed in exactly the right paper. Would serve the Guardian right to be used in such a way. In any event, I would think the NYTimes or the WashPost would have followed it up by now and worked up their own stories. But then the story might have been leaked to the Guardian from British operatives working with the FBI in London. On the other hand......