The FBI didnt announce that they found Attas passport though .
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Perhaps this link settles it. It's still not an all American or non-Muslim tragedy.
Casualties of the September 11 attacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
^ Not one Saudi, there's got to be a conspiracy theory right there.
That was Mark Bingham, who used of his full name in calling his mother from Flight 93, saying "Hi Mom, this is Mark Bingham".
Ya what?
When did you or anyone call his ma giving his full name?
The last time I spoke with my mum and dad or brothers, or children, I just introduced myself with the one name they normally knew me by, not my full handle!!!
Well well, lookee here!
Uncle Sam's lucky finds! :)
" never in the history of modern warfare has so much been found so opportunely.
...two blocks away from the twin towers,....Atta's passport. We had all seen the blizzard of paper rain down from the towers, but the idea that Atta's passport had escaped from that inferno unsinged ........
And more,....:bananaman:
"On September 24 the belongings of alleged terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui threw up a cropdusting manual, while four days later came Atta's suicide note, ................the one with the counsel to shine your shoes before you meet your maker - a piece of advice which seemed suspiciously Norman Rockwellesque. It was here, too, that the stuff about 72 virgins awaiting him in heaven first started to circulate."
Uncle Sam's lucky finds | World news | The Guardian
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I've insisted all along that aircraft were involved,....but like I said, you read too many comics,..shapeshifting,...lizards and stuff.
Next thing you'll be telling me that god got in the act somewhere along the line, and the virgin Mary and so on,....Jehaizis!!!:rolleyes:
Dunno how old you are, leemo, but if you open your eyes up you'll find cover-ups everywhere, girls telling lies to their boyfriewnds about where they've been and vice versa, kids lying to their parents about something and so on, but saying..."hooked on a cover-up" sounds a tad naive, doncha think?
But, the Bush admin at the time did in fact give the Bin Laden family safe passage outa the states a few days after 9/11.
Bin Laden Family 'Evacuated' From US
Wednesday 03 September 2003
Members of Osama bin Laden's family were allowed to fly out of the US shortly after the September 11 terror attacks, a senior official has said.
Even though American airspace had been shut down, the Bush administration allowed a jet to fly around the US picking up family members from 10 cities, including Los Angeles, Washington DC, Boston and Houston.
Some 140 high ranking Saudi officials were also on the plane.
The revelations come from former White House counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke.
He said the Bush administration sanctioned the repatriation of the family in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.
'Repatriation approved'
"Somebody brought to us for approval the decision to let an airplane filled with Saudis, including members of the bin Laden family, leave the country," he told Vanity Fair magazine.
Mr Clarke said he checked with FBI officials, who gave the go ahead. "So I said, 'Fine, let it happen'."
He first asked the bureau to check that no one "inappropriate" was leaving.
"I have no idea if they did a good job. I'm not in any position to second guess the FBI," he said.
But Dale Watson, the FBI's former head of counter-terrorism, said the Saudis "were not subject to serious interviews or interrogations".
Permission to fly
Federal authorities gave permission for the plane to fly.
Tom Kinton, director of aviation at Boston's Logan airport, said: "We were in the midst of the worst terrorist act in history and here we were seeing an evacuation of the bin Ladens! ... I wanted to go the highest levels in Washington."
Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the US who is said to have organised the exodus, met President George Bush on September 13, 2001, two days after the terror attacks.
It is not known if they discussed the repatriation plan.
'No secret flights'
The White House has declined to comment on the claims, but sources told Vanity Fair the Bush administration was confident no secret flights took place.
Mr Clarke, who headed the Counter-terrorism Security Group of the National Security Council, said he did not recall who requested approval for the flights, but believes it was either the FBI or the State Department.
Special Agent John Iannarelli, the FBI's spokesman on counter-terrorism activities, said: "I can say unequivocally that the FBI had no role in facilitating these flights one way or another."
The wealthy bin Laden family broke ties with bin Laden years before the September 11 strikes.
Bin Laden Family 'Evacuated' From US
True enough, but why did Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik claim to have found it?
"The 9-11 commission staff statement reports that "four of the hijackers'passports have survived in whole or in part".
Two were said to have been recovered from the UA93 crash site in Pennsylvania, one was from a hijacker on AA11 (Satam al Suqami) and one (Abdul Aziz al Omari) was found in luggage that did not make it from the connecting flight Portland to Boston on to AA11. ABC News reported the alleged discovery of the Suqami passport onSeptember 12.
Days later other outlets such as CNN on September 16 and 17 reported that Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik had said on Sunday (the 16th) that a passport belonging to one of the hijackers was discovered a few days ago by a passer-by, several blocks from the crash site.
The FBI would not release the name on this mystery passport, leading to speculation that a second passport had been found at the WTC ruins. Some reports (e.g. the Guardian) claimed that it belonged to Mohamed Atta, the infamous ringleader.
Preposterous Passport "Discovery" Claims
Nonetheless, Satam al Suqami's "slightly charred" passport was found among all the WTC debris and dust and papers within hours of the twin towers exploding.:rolleyes:
Explain that one.
It was just press speculation i.e , a journalist made it up .
Its quite ironic that the very people who continually tell everyone not to believe everything that they read in the media are then quite happy to unquestionably believe anything that they read that suits their agenda and then still carry on believing it even when its been shown to be false reporting .
The whole 9/11 story was a press speculation deal.
Nobody saw a plane fly into the WTC towers or the Pentagon.
You saw it on a movie or TV.
The only real evidence was on the ground.
Most of that was destroyed immediately after the event.
The only hard scientific record left are the seismograph recordings, they weren't and couldn't be manipulated by the press.
Interesting that non of you denialists want to discuss the seismography.