[Nettime-bold] truth shotdown?

[wade tillett <super89@bigfoot.com>]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=95051

Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
20 September 2001

...

The data made clear that military intelligence was aware of the
hijackings – and possibly the suicidal nature of their mission –
before any of the aircraft had hit their targets. It also raised
questions about who ordered the fighter jets to undertake their
intercept mission and what their instructions would have been in the
event that they successfully caught up with a passenger aircraft while
it was still in the air.

The US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, revealed in a television interview
over the weekend that President George Bush had given an order last
Tuesday for the military to shoot down any civilian aircraft that
disregarded instructions from air traffic control and appeared to be a
threat. However, Mr Cheney and Mr Bush explained that the presidential
order was given only after the first three planes had hit their
targets.

...

The rumours that this plane was shot down are based on the fact that
debris was found up to eight miles from the crash site, that one of
the passengers talking on a mobile phone reported hearing an explosion
and seeing a plume of white smoke in the cabin, and that eyewitnesses
saw a second aircraft in the sky at the time of the crash. The FBI has
said the wide debris field was probably the result of the explosion on
impact.

There has been no official comment on the report of an onboard
explosion, or on whether a bomb brandished by one of the hijackers was
real. The aeroplane's flight recorders have been recovered, but the
FBI has refused to divulge their contents.



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