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Brad:
that image-clip excerpt was involved in a World Net Daily series which spurred
ongoing controversy:
wnd.com/images2/faa911memoside.jpg
http://911review.org/brad.com/sept11_cell-phones/faa911memoside.jpg
Also, a Wayne Madsen page references the entirety of the clip as an "original FAA
memo" and provides the fuller content than yours of the same Executive Memo WND
published.
http://911review.org/brad.com/ISRAELI_ART_STUDENTS.html
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/Artstudents.htm
World Net Daily article
Hijacker shot passenger on
Flight 11: FAA
memo
'One bullet fired,' killing 9B occupant, but agency claims report was in error
Posted: February 27, 2002
An internal Federal Aviation Administration memo summarizing the September 11
hijackings says a passenger aboard American Airlines
Flight 11 was shot to death by a single bullet,
WorldNetDaily has learned.
The FAA claims the memo, time-stamped September 11 at 5:30 p.m., was written in
error.
"It was a first draft," said FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown in a phone interview
today. "There was no gun."
She said a final draft of the executive summary, received by FAA Administrator
Jane Garvey, does not include the account of a gun being fired aboard the plane,
which slammed into the first World Trade Center tower not long after departing
Boston.
Brown refused to release the final draft, however, arguing it is "protected
information."
WorldNetDaily has obtained a copy of the first draft of the memo, which can be
viewed here.
Here is the key excerpt, which is very specific (although the time is plainly
wrong):
"The American Airlines FAA Principal Security Inspector (PSI) was notified by
Suzanne Clark of American Airlines Corporate Headquarters, that an on board
flight attendant contacted American Airlines
Operations Center and informed that a passenger located in seat 10B shot and killed
a passenger in seat 9B at 9:20 a.m.
"The passenger killed was Daniel Lewin, shot by passenger Satam Al Suqami. One
bullet was reported to have been fired."
In fact,
Flight 11 had already crashed well
before 9:20 a.m. (assuming the FAA memo writer was referring to the Eastern time
zone and not a later one). At 8:25 a.m. ? nearly an hour earlier than stated in the
memo ?
Flight 11 had turned sharply off its
planned westbound path and headed south toward Manhattan. It then crashed into the
north tower at 8:48 a.m.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26626
Note; Sperry questions the time mentioned in the "memo."
a Sierra Times piece: Guns on AA
Flight 11
Based Upon Questionable Data By J.J. Johnson - Sierra Times.com Published 03. 1. 02
at 2:27 Sierra Time states
"WND does illustrate how both the FAA and American Airlines denied knowledge of
the document - one saying it was never sent, and the other saying it never was
received. Sierra Times questions the authenticity of the document as a whole."
http://911review.org/brad.com/archives/passenger_shot_FAA_memo.html
http://www.sierratimes.com/02/03/01/arjj030102.htm
This article is not meant to criticize World Net Daily, as they did report that
both sides of the matter denied transmission of the document, leaving the questions
lingering about the document's original source. But with so many timeline errors,
The Sierra Times has concluded the entire document as suspect and has no merit as
evidence to the events of
Flight 11, including
the fatal shooting of passenger Daniel Lewin in seat 9B.
http://911review.org/brad.com/archives/passenger_shot_FAA_memo.html
http://www.sierratimes.com/02/03/01/arjj030102.htm
I was led to do all of this when I discovered a puzzler in Brad's image in the
line: Two selectee passengers (Christine Adams and Nicole Miller) were boarded on
this
flight with no unusual behavior noted per
the air carrier personnel and screeners."
I had to find out more about the names noted as 'selectee passengers.'
A search produced a listing of victims which didn't include Christine, but
Christian Adams. It should be, Christian Adams, 37, Biebelsheim, Germany, foreign
sales manager, German Wine Fund.
http://911review.org/brad.com/archives/passenger_shot_FAA_memo.html
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/13/victims_list.htm
Later, after my first post of this, I found:
FAA official claims gun memo not draft
Managers checked 9-11 report for accuracy and 'nobody disputed'
Flight 11 shooting Posted: March 7, 2002
By Paul Sperry
... But Brown points out that, given the multiple jumbo-jet crashes and
catastrophic attacks on the country that day, the information-gathering process at
the operations center was unusually chaotic, leading to several errors ? only one
of which was the gun account.
Indeed, the same
Flight 11 summary containing
the gun incident said the jet crashed at 9:25 a.m, when in fact it hit the first
World Trade Center tower at 8:48 a.m. In another error, United Airlines
Flight 93
passenger Christian Adams' name is misspelled as "Christine."
Still, these errors are perfunctory by comparison. There's a big difference
between confusing weapons and causes of death, and mixing up times and spellings of
names, skeptics point out.
Sources familiar with what happened that day in FAA's emergency operations center
say information was coming in at a frenetic pace. As new pieces of data arrived,
they were written down on paper and posted on a "status board" for the four
flights. At the end of the day, one or more staffers summarized all the information
on the board in a report.
The gunshot account "was recorded factually from what was on the wall containing
all the information we had at that point in time," the FAA source involved in the
process said.
The shooting passage is the most specific in the report:
"The American Airlines FAA Principal Security Inspector (PSI) was notified by
Suzanne Clark of American Airlines Corporate Headquarters that an on board
flight attendant contacted American Airlines
Operations Center and informed that a passenger located in seat 10B shot and killed
a passenger in seat 9B at 9:20 a.m.
"The passenger killed was Daniel Lewin, shot by passenger Satam Al Suqami. One
bullet was reported to have been fired."
Apart from the time, many of the details check out.
The passenger seating matches that of the airline's manifest. Clark in Fort Worth
did contact FAA Principal Security Inspector Janet Riffe in Washington, though both
deny discussing a gun.
"We do not know where that got its life in this summary written for Jane Garvey,"
said American Airlines spokesman John Hotard.
Also, an American
flight attendant on the
plane did call and report a passenger being killed by hijackers seated in rows 9
and 10 although the passenger died of stab wounds, according to the FBI's
account of what she said. And she called Logan International Airport in Boston,
however, not American's system operations control center at Fort Worth. It was
another American
flight attendant who called
Fort Worth, but she apparently did not mention a passenger being killed.
The FBI, which got the manifest from American within hours of the first crash,
denies it was the FAA source for the gun story.
And officials at the bureau say they have come up with no evidence in their
investigation of the hijackings to suggest any passengers were shot aboard the
flights.
"There is no evidence that any shots were fired at any time on any of the
flights," FBI spokesman Bill Carter told WorldNetDaily.
So how did a detailed account of a shooting on
Flight 11 end up in a high-level government report?
"In any investigation, there is information that may be developed very early on
that, after further scrutiny and further investigation, is determined to be no
longer operative," Carter explained.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26732
So, now my puzzlement has grown even more since the times in the memo are
questionable.
