Grounded Planes on 9/11 -Former "20th Hijacker" was on
AA43
The 20th Hijacker By Ewing2001 -December 22, 2003
One of the most bizarre angles in the "official story" of September
11th, is the mysterious prior knowledge by the FBI of the
whereabouts of the former "20th and 21st hijackers". This was not
Moussaoui or someone else. On the morning of September 11th, according
to newspaper records, one of many planes were grounded in St.Louis,
home of Boeing: Flight
AA43. The FBI checked the passengers. Among
them: Ayub
Ali Khan aka Gul Mohammed Shah, 51, and Mohammed
Jaweed
Azmath, two Indians. After doublechecking various reports, we
have
to assume, that the FBI followed both people. One day later, on
September 12th, Ali Khan and Azmath got "arrested on an Amtrak
train to Texas from St. Louis", as "hijacker
20 and 21". The name
of the FBI agents, who were in charge of that operation, remained
unknown. FBI spokesman James Margolin, FBI Special Agent Lori
Bailey and Mindy Tucker, former Justice Department spokeswoman (now
Republican National Committee) confirmed the arrestment. The NY
Times revealed, that the train was stopped nearby Fort Worth, home
of a Naval Air Station and Lockheed Martin Corp. Was it in reality
a military operation?
While the first reports ignored, that both "suspects" came
from
Flight
43, some papers revealed the final dots: BBC and Chicago
Tribune reported on Sept 18th, "that the FBI was searching for a
number of passengers who were due to fly on American Airlines
Flight 43 from Boston, which was grounded due to a mechanical
problem". It was "scheduled 8:10 a.m. departure from Boston". AP
reported on September 18th, that Ali Khan and Azmath "took an Amtrak
train
to Texas from St. Louis after their plane was grounded as part of
the government-ordered shutdown of the U.S. aviation system". The
FBI claims, that the Amtrak was stopped for "a routine drug
search". Ali Khan and Azmath, were removed because the men had
box-cutting knives and about $5,000 in cash. The story suddenly
changed in one detail: From "a mechanical problem" to a
"government-ordered shutdown".
Catalysing Shut-downs
Actually it was Ben
Sliney, the National Operations Manager for the
FAA,
who ordered the shut-down. It was his first day of the job.
According to Bush's White House counsel, Alberto Gonzalez, Sliney
"made that decision", and "didn't need even Bush's consent to do
so". Sliney never testified at the September 11th commission.
Commander in Chief (CINC) of NORAD
was Gen.
Ralph "Ed" Eberhardt,
who was also in charge of the stand-down. Did he synchronise his
actions with Sliney? And who was behind Eberhardt? Some speculate,
it might have been Lewis "Scooter" Libby, deputy defence secretary
and member of PNAC, which needed "some catastrophic and catalysing
event - like a new Pearl Harbor". On September 20th, 2001, 42
supporters of PNAC signed a letter to Bush and demanded to invade
Iraq, among them many Libby friends: Frank Gaffney (Former Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense), Richard Perle, Robert and Donald
Kagan, Charles Krauthammer or Gary D. Schmitt (executive director
of PNAC). Libby helped hype the Iraq threat and also discredited
former UN-ambassador
Joe Wilson.
Wilson's wife Valerie
Plame was later outed as a CIA operative on
weapons of mass destruction.
According to a USA Today article, it was also Libby and Cheney, who
"met with officials at the [CIA's] Non-Proliferation Center before
the invasion of Iraq to discuss reports that Iraq was seeking to
buy uranium
in Africa." (Office of Special Plans) Libby and his
former lawyer, Mark Rich were also behind the promotion of former
French military company clerk, Laurent Murawiec, as a Rand
Corporation and Hudson Institute "military strategist". On July 10,
2002, at Richard Perle's Defense Policy Board, Murawiec called for
an invasion and occupation of the Saudi oilfields. Libby, back in
the Bush "41" Administration, worked with Secretary of State James
Baker III, on the collapse of the Soviet Union. According to the
Sunday Herald, in April 2001, Baker concluded in a report
(Strategic Energy Policy Challenges) that "Iraq remains a
destabilising influence to the flow of oil to international markets
from the Middle East' and because this is an unacceptable risk to
the US 'military intervention' is necessary." Since December 2003,
Baker reports to Bush on the Iraq Debt Effort.
Other PNAC-supporters, who obtain current military positions:
Eliot Cohen, Member of the Pentagon's Defense
Policy Board (DPB)
under Richard Perle.
Douglas Feith, who appoints the members of the DPB. Fred C. Ikle,
member of DPB, Bruce P. Jackson (ex-Lockheed, former Military
Intelligence Officer, President of the U.S. Committee on NATO) and
many more. DPF members include prominent firms and current war
profiteers like Boeing, TRW, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and
Booz Allen Hamilton (ex-CIA James
Woolsey) or smaller players like
Symantec Corp., Technology Strategies, Alliance Corp., and Polycom
Inc. Corporate Affiliations: Ronald R. Fogleman (DERCO Aerospace,
The
Mitre Corp.), David Jeremiah (Northrop Grumman, Wackenhut
Services), James Schlesinger (MITRE),
Jack Sheehan (Bechtel) or
Chris Williams (TRW, merged in 2002 with Blackstone, which obtained
a mortgage of WTC 7 in October 2000) Other PNAC members with
military ties include Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and
vice-commander in chief, Dick Cheney.
What
exactly did Cheney know on the morning of September
11th?
Shortly after the first tower is hit, the FAA had an open telephone
line with the Secret Service. Cheney:
"The Secret Service has an
arrangement with the FAA. They had open lines after the World Trade
Center was... ". Cheney didn't finish his sentence for unknown
reasons, but the open line was later confirmed by Brigadier General
Montague Winfield, command of the National Military Command Center
(NMCC). The FAA called NORAD
at 8:38 am about the first hijacking,
the FAA
call to NORAD
that Flight 77 had been hijacked was made at
9:24 (other reports on CNN say even 9:16 AM). At that time, Bush
was still at Booker Elementary School, no order was made to
evacuate the second tower. However WTC Building 7, 1 block from the
towers was evacuated.
Usman Farman, graduated with a Finance degree, who worked on the
27th floor (which must have been at Standard Chartered Bank),
reported, that "the security people told us to go north and not to
look back". Then, a few minutes later, "with a thousand people
staring, we saw in shock as the first tower collapsed". This was
the south tower at 9:59 AM.
Fifth Plane No.1
In early 2003, Azmath's family confirmed to AP, that Ali Khan
and Azmath were on the plane with Flight No.43, which was grounded
in St. Louis: "His family in Hyderabad saw his picture on
television. They had been worried that he might have been a victim
of the September 11 terror attacks because he was supposed to fly that
day from Newark, N.J. to his new job in Texas." Interestingly,
another detail seems not to fit either. Azmath's family claim, he
departed from Newark, but the FBI claimed, the plane departed from
Boston. What was the correct version? It looks, like Newark was the
correct airport. A check in the BTS Departure Statistics of AA/
Sept 11th doesn't show Flight 43 departing from Boston. Search
results in Newark show Flight43 with the tail number N635AA LAX,
scheduled for 8:10 AM. The departure time fits. The Actual
Departure Time was 8:10 AM, too. What exactly did the FBI know
about Flight43 and at which time?
Who told them to look for Flight43?
11 Minutes earlier, Flight 11 took off from Boston's Logan Airport,
14 minutes after scheduled departure. (7:45 was actually the
scheduled time) According to the timeline, officially on that plane
(but not on the passenger list) was Mohammad Atta.
At that time, Lt. Col. Dawne Deskins and other NORAD employees at
NEADS (NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector that covers the
Washington and New York areas) passed their 2nd hour of the second,
third, or fourth day of the exercise (conflicting reports) of a
week-long semiannual exercise called Vigilant
Guardian. Also on
that morning, John Fulton, Chief of the Strategic War Gaming
Division of the National
Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
and his team
at the CIA, were running a pre-planned simulation
exercise "in
which a small corporate jet crashed into one of the four towers at
the agency's headquarters". This means, that September 11 was
indeed part of a "wargame".
Did the "hijackers" know about it?
ABC News later reports that because NORAD is "conducting training
exercises [it] therefore [has] extra fighter planes on
alert." [ABC
News, 9/14/02] Colonel
Robert Marr, in charge of NEADS,
said, "We
had the fighters with a little more gas on board. A few more
weapons on board." [ABC News, 9/11/02] Flight 93 was delayed for 41
minutes on the runway in Newark, finally took off at 8:42.
(Interestingly Wheels-off Time was 8.28.) What was the reason for
this delay? 2 minutes after Ali Khan and Azmath departed from
Newark, 8:13 AM, Flight 11 was hijacked. One flight controller said
the plane was hijacked over Gardner, Massachusetts, less than 50
miles west of Boston. The BBC later reported, that "rumors flew
regarding a fifth hijacked plane, which was alternately reported as
missing, as circling Dulles Airport outside Washington DC, or as
making an emergency landing in Ohio after an onboard bomb
threat...." AA43 was obviously not "that fifth plane", "Ohio" does
not fit with St. Louis and Ali Khan and Azmath didn't hijack the
plane. AA43 aka Plane N635AA was a Boeing 757-223, certificated on
12/19/1990. It was still up in May 2003 The fate of Ali Khan and
Azmath is currently unknown, but their tragedy can easily be
traced. After being removed on that Amtrak train, the FBI "found"
box-cutting knives, hair dye, a knife and about $5,000 in cash.
Both "suspects" got jailed and sentenced. However their title "20th
and 21st hijacker", was passed in late 2001 to Ramzi Binalshibh
(since September 2002 at an undisclosed CIA location) and Zacarias
Moussaoui, jailed since December 2001. Ali Khan and Azmath were in
prison for over a year, but not anymore for a "hijacker terrorist
act", but for "credit card fraud". In an exclusive report and
interview with Village Voice from October 2002, other fishy details
of former "evidence" were revealed: "The hair dye was due to vanity
(Azmath sported close-cropped, graying hair in court), the box
cutters were tools of the men's newsstand trade" (Penn Station, New
Jersey, sold in August 2001), and "the cash was for moving to Texas
to find better-paying jobs." (to open a fruit stand)
But the article revealed also other disturbing infos:
Azmath's lead counsel, Anthony Ricco, told the judge that his
client "was housed under the most severe conditions I have ever
witnessed. In initial interviews with me, he was shackled, he had
[on] manacles, and those interviews were videotaped."Ricco told
reporters "that Azmath had been abused in such bizarre ways as
being taken to the outdoor exercise area on rainy days and locked
outside in the cold for hours". On January 3rd, 2003, the NY Post
reported Azmath received up to 14 months more in jail, but U.S.
District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin let him off with time served.
In February 2003, BBC reported, Azmath and his friend Shah aka Ali
Khan, meanwhile also released, "were deported to India after
spending 16 months in prison." Even after returning home both men
faced new problems. The Indian police charged them with passport
violation and Azmath faced the problem of securing Indian
citizenship for his Pakistani-born wife. In the same article,
Azmath announced to sue the US Government "for alleged physical and
mental torture". The lawsuit never took place.
It is now clear, that Azmath and Ali Kahn, both from Jersey
City, were scapegoats, but probably not for political reasons. If
we go back to other reports, it seems, that both have been part of
a script by someone else, which indeed included parts of the
official story. The masterminds, who wrote the script for Azmath
and Khan, not only tried to tie them with a "fifth plane", but also
with the anthrax attacks. Who wrote this hijacker script, which
included at least 2 innocent people, who didn't know about it? In
January 2002, CNN reported, that "Shah allegedly sold 15 fake
credit cards in the name of "Ayub Ali Khan" in July 1999, and an
unnamed co-conspirator allegedly wrote a $5,850 check for one of
those credit cards in July 1999, according to the indictment. The
check was drawn on a Citibank account that was opened at the World
Trade Center branch." This brings us to many new questions:
How did the FBI know, on which of almost 4,500 grounded planes they
had to look for other suspects?
Who had the inside information in Fort Worth to stop the Amtrak
Train?
And how can the coincidence be explained, that the FBI was in
charge of the arrestment, who just 24 hours earlier checked both
indians on the plane? Who tried to frame Ali Khan and Azmath? It's
also strange, that one version claims, the train was stopped for a
"drug routine check". Who was in charge? Or was that just a
cover-up? Probably not:
Fort Worth Police Department records that were made public revealed
that a background check found that both names of Azmath and Ali
Kahn "were on record with the DEA as being involved in narcotic
distribution." But Karl Colder, resident agent in charge of the
Fort Worth office of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration,
later said "the names on the list turned out not to be those of the
two men". Then, in October 2001, the FBI leaked to the press, that
Azmath and Ali Kahn got tested on Anthrax. Both lived only a few
miles away from Trenton, NJ, where the anthrax-laced letters got
postmarked. Even more odd, the FBI arrested their roommate who
worked at a newsstand in Trenton and "lived near the postal
facility where letters carrying anthrax were processed." If someone
tried to script the September 11 hijackers into the anthrax attacks,
why
did the FBI suddenly stop to follow this possibility? Did the Fort
Detrick-Battelle-SAIC connection become a political problem? Who
changed the script? How did the FBI receive the following infos?
A Dallas Morning article from October 2001 claimed, that Azmath and
Kahn were "seen with one hijacker at a mosque in Brooklyn, N.Y.".
This was obviously al Farouq mosque, run by Sheik Muhammad Ali
Hassan al-Mouyad, officially an "al-Quaeda financeer". But who
claimed, that there was a connection and who was this
"hijacker"?
And who was the "San Antonio man whom the two said they were going
to visit"?
Was it Albadah Al-Hazmi, who was at Coastal Aviation Lackland
AFB?
Why has the official story so many bizarre connections with Fort
Worth?
Who chose to hijack AMR Corp./American Airlines, which is a Fort
Worth-based airline?
Why did the official "hijackers" depart from Boston Logan and JFK?
Terminal B of Boston was renovated by American Airlines in 2000. In
October 2001, they announced the construction of New York's JFK.
Why did the hijackers decide to move $325,000 through 14 bank
accounts at SunTrust
Bank, which is also connected with American
Airlines (Peter J. Dolara, Senior Vice President-Miami, is on the
Board of Directors). Isn't it also an interesting coincidence, that
Moussaoui, in September 2001 not yet described as the 20th
hijacker, received flight
training at Ed
Boardman Aviation School
in Fort Worth? Was it planned, that the official script (maybe even
part of a wargame?) has to end in Fort Worth? Lt. Gen. Ted Stroup,
associated with JINSA, a PNAC supporter, and former colleague of
Jay Garner, is Assistant Director within the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers and Commander of the U.S. Army Engineer District at Fort
Worth, Texas. Can he help us to answer some questions?
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is currently in charge of Iraqi
contracts and furthermore has to deal with another war profiteer
scandal
of Dick Cheney's (another JINSA member) former company
Halliburton,
which High-priced gasoline was purchased from a
supplier run by a prominent Kuwaiti family. On 20 September 2001,
Stroup mentored Lieutenant General
Timothy J. Maude. Maude was
among those killed in the attack on the Pentagon. And another Fort
Worth-connection:
Suzanne Clark, head of corporate security for American Airlines
security operations center, said that a flight attendant aboard
flight
11 called the airline's security operations center in Fort
Worth. Other reports mentioned Madeleine Amy Sweeney , a flight
attendant, but she called Logan.
Clark claimed (which later was shrubbed from a renewed FAA report),
that hijacker
Satam al-Suqami had shot and killed passenger Daniel
Lewin, Akamai, former IBM and Technion, Israel's premier
technology
university. (A report in Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz identified him
later also as "former member" of Mossad's
IDF's elite Sayeret
Matkal unit. In Summer 2001, the Mossad
warned the CIA twice about
an imminent attack. Probably, Lewin was monitoring some "suspects",
or aware of an actor in a "wargame?". Was that Suquami or his
stand-in?) More odd, only a few days later, al-Suqami's passpord
was found on Vesey Street, in front of WTC 7, former office for
CIA, DoD and INS.
The fifth plane theory If Flight 43 was not the real
fifth plane, though rumours pointed on a plane which "had been
grounded for mechanical problems", or "heading towards Washington"
(according to Sky News), which plane was it? There are different
versions around, most of them based on unconfirmed rumours.
One "fifth plane" had crashed in the Camp David area, a Danish
Radio channel first reported, that even 8 airplanes were hijacked,
another "lost" article claimed, that "an American airline" was
missing additionally four of their aircraft. A "reliable source at
the Air Force confirmed that 6 U.S. planes had in fact been
hijacked, but he would commit to no other reports" (World News
Sources Report) In late October 2002, the CIA claimed, that Ramzi
bin al-Shibh, was planning to pilot a fifth hijacked plane to
strike the White House. Which plane was circling Dulles Airport
outside Washington DC, or "as making an emergency landing in Ohio"?
In the early days after September 11, yet another rumour pointed on
"flight 23", but the information got lost in cyberspace land. There
was indeed a flight 23:
At 9:00 AM, UA Flight 23 departed at JFK, on its destination to
L.A.
Attempts to find out more about this flight, didn't work out so
far.
The plane was registered as Boeing B767-222(ET), N602UA
At this time, it's not clear, if it's helpful to find out more
about this flight and the plane. N602UA is currently offered at
AuctionTransportation.com.
The auction will end on Wednesday, 24th 2003.
100 years, after the Wright Brothers had their first success with
their experimental airplanes, one of the biggest mysteries of
airplane aviation is that of September 11th. Maybe two historical
stories might help to point on other "inside symbols":
On the morning of April 15, 1926, a young aviator named Charles A.
Lindbergh was chief pilot of Robertson Aircraft Corporation of
Missouri, which eventually consolidated to form the modern-day
American Airlines. And then we have the historical flight 23 of
Orville at the controls, making two complete circles of the field
at Huffman Prairie. It was Huffman Aviation, who officially trained
Mohammad Atta and he was officially on a plane by American
Airlines. Would Atta or Bin Laden have been knowledged enough to
play with these kind of symbols? People, who believe in an inside
job, know already the answer. "Huffman" can't help us right now.
Rudi Dekkers, former manager is in jail and Huffman Aviation closed
its FBO doors in February 2003 when they were purchased by Triple
Diamond Jet Center. On December 21st, 2003, Tom Ridge announced the
elevation of the national threat level, based on credible
"chatter", "that could either rival or exceed what we experienced
on Sept. 11" How did Ridge know that, if he was officially not in
charge before Sept 11th? Why is he able to compare "chatter", when
the official version claims, that they did not know in time about
an increased chat before September 11? Why are they able to get
this information? Who are their contacts? Do they have inside
sources- if Al-Quaeda really exists as a closed unit? What do they
have to hide and why is it, that every time, when independent
investigation reached a new high or Bush's numbers a new low, the
threats increased? Do they really think, after a new attack, we
will stop to ask these questions?
We don't, especially if a WMD-attack might disable the last parts
of the constitution and turn this country into martial law and
totalitarianism. Some real patriotic citizens will continue to ask
until they get the answers...
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