Dick Eastman
Re: The pre-9/11 blunder you’ve probably never heard of
Tue Apr 13, 2004 19:06
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David Corn took the facts known to him and interpreted them to fit the official story. I have taken his facts and interpreted them below in a way consistent with what is known from the evidence in the attack on the Pentagon.

Here is my construction of what happened:

The two men accused of taking over Flight 77, al-Mihdar and Nawaf, where chosen early by the CIA as prospective candidates for the frameup when observed attending an anti-Zionist conference in Kuala Lumpur in January, 2000. When these men returned to the United States after having qualified themsleves as potentially dangerous by attending the meeting, the CIA was required to notify the FBI and State Department of the high-risk situation. Instead they monitored the frame-up candidates who, in February openly rented a house in San Diego, obtained proper California drivers licenses and, most fatally for them, enrolled in an aviation flight course. This was the relative isolation and the "skills" background the frame-up was looking for. In December, al-Hazmi parted with Nawaf moved to Arizona with another Arab friend, and so the CIA picked up a third victim for the set-up.

There has never been evidence that al-Mihdar and Nawaf al-Mihdar ever boarded Flight 77 or that any of the alleged passengers of that flight boarded either. No airport security video recording of any of the passengers or "hijackers" has been shown to the public. Al-Mihdar and Nawaf may have been murdered or secreted away well before September 11. (While some 9-11 investigators suggest the two may have been double-crossed by the CIA and Mossad into undertaking what they thought to be a blackmail hijacking, where the safety of passengers would be exchanged for release of prisoners held by the US or Israel -- I reject this thesis because if this were the case then the government would definitely have released video recordings of them boarding Flight 77. They were never aboard the plane. Instead, on or just prior to August 23, 2001 -- the day that the CIA informed the FBI that al-Hazmi and al-Mihdar were in the U.S. -- the CIA snatched the two frame-up victims to make sure the FBI would not frustrate their plans by locating them -- although, for one reason or another, the FBI did not notify their San Diego office until after the attack.

And, as David Corn, my source for the facts I have used above, informs us:

" CIA had a bead on two of the hijackers, who could have led the feds to others, and it did virtually nothing. ... the CIA has gotten a complete pass for one of the biggest screwups in U.S. history, and Bush has gotten a pass for giving the CIA a pass. ... Bush seems to have done nothing in response to this awful mistake. He has defended the pre-9/11 performance of the CIA. He has not publicly demanded accountability or explanations. Apparently, no one has lost his or her job for these "mistakes."

And too, as Corn points out, there was also the " infamous Phoenix memo, which was sent by an FBI agent in July 2001 to the bin Laden unit at headquarters and which reported that suspected extremists linked to bin Laden were taking flight instruction in Arizona?"

Corn concludes his article with the statement: " It’s as if al-Hazmi and al-Mihdar never existed." He is right. They never did exist, not as 9-11 hijackers at any rate.

Flight 77 did not crash at the Pentagon. The attack was accomplished by a second aircraft which fired an air-to-ground missile into the first floor of the west wall ahead of its own crash, while the Boeing 757 which witnesses saw approach the Pentagon from the west, disappeared into the flash and subsequent smoke and flame as well as the morning sun in the east, as it overflew the building and landed at Reagan National Airport just one mile beyond. The photo and video proof of all this is presented for your inspection here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5 

http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/Eastman/m18h05.html