Hello Steve,

SA>This has come in on WorldNet Daily while I was replying to your message.
SA>It has the overview of the official legend, the eyewitness accounts etc.
SA>If Rumsfeld simply put his foot in it, he's in no hurry to remove it.
SA>Perhaps he knew his time was nearly up, & decided to let it slip out.

Maybe Rummy is simply getting a bit tired of being a lackey for Bush...

--Lee

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SA>DAY OF INFAMY 2001
SA>Rumsfeld says 9-11 plane 'shot down' in Pennsylvania

SA>During surprise Christmas Eve trip, defense secretary contradicts
SA>official story

SA>Posted: December 27, 2004

SA>1:00 a.m. Eastern

SA>(c) 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

SA>WASHINGTON - Ever since Sept. 11, 2001, there have been questions
SA>about Flight 93, the ill-fated plane that crashed in the rural fields
SA>of Pennsylvania.

SA>The official story has been that passengers on the United Airlines
SA>flight rushed the hijackers in an effort to prevent them from crashing
SA>the plane into a strategic target - possibly the U.S. Capitol.

SA>During his surprise Christmas Eve trip to Iraq, Defense Secretary
SA>Donald Rumsfeld referred to the flight being shot down u long a
SA>suspicion because of the danger the flight posed to Washington
SA>landmarks and population centers.

SA>Was it a slip of the tongue? Was it an error? Or was it the truth,
SA>finally being dropped on the public more than three years after the
SA>tragedy of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000?

SA>Here's what Rumsfeld said Friday: "I think all of us have a sense if
SA>we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed
SA>the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or
SA>the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the
SA>plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut
SA>off peoples' heads on television to intimidate, to frighten - indeed
SA>the word 'terrorized' is just that. Its purpose is to terrorize, to
SA>alter behavior, to make people be something other than that which they
SA>want to be."

SA>Several eyewitnesses to the crash claim they saw a "military-type"
SA>plane flying around United Airlines Flight 93 when the hijacked
SA>passenger jet crashed - prompting the once-unthinkable question of
SA>whether the U.S. military shot down the plane.

SA>Although the onboard struggle between hijackers and passengers -
SA>immortalized by the courageous "Let's roll" call to action by Todd
SA>Beamer - became one of the enduring memories of that disastrous day,
SA>the actual cause of Flight 93's crash, of the four hijacked jumbo
SA>jets, remains the most unclear.

SA>Several residents in and around Shanksville, Pa., describing the crash
SA>as they saw it, claim to have seen a second plane - an unmarked
SA>military-style jet.

SA>Well-founded uncertainly as to just what happened to Flight 93 is
SA>nothing new. Just three days after the worst terrorist attack in
SA>American history, on Sept. 14, 2001, The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record
SA>newspaper reported that five eyewitnesses reported seeing a second
SA>plane at the Flight 93 crash site.

SA>That same day, reported the Record, FBI Special Agent William Crowley
SA>said investigators could not rule out that a second plane was nearby
SA>during the crash. He later said he had misspoken, dismissing rumors
SA>that a U.S. military jet had intercepted the plane before it could
SA>strike a target in Washington, D.C.

SA>Although government officials insist there was never any pursuit of
SA>Flight 93, they were informed the flight was suspected of having been
SA>hijacked at 9:16 am, fully 50 minutes before the plane came down.

SA>On the Sept. 16, 2001, edition of NBC's "Meet the Press," Vice
SA>President Dick Cheney, while not addressing Flight 93 specifically,
SA>spoke clearly to the administration's clear policy regarding shooting
SA>down hijacked jets.

SA>Vice President Cheney: "Well, the u I suppose the toughest decision
SA>was this question of whether or not we would intercept incoming
SA>commercial aircraft."

SA>NBC's Tim Russert: "And you decided?"

SA>Cheney: "We decided to do it. We'd, in effect, put a flying combat air
SA>patrol up over the city; F-16s with an AWACS, which is an airborne
SA>radar system, and tanker support so they could stay up a long time ...

SA>"It doesn't do any good to put up a combat air patrol if you don't
SA>give them instructions to act, if, in fact, they feel it's
SA>appropriate."

SA>Russert: "So if the United States government became aware that a
SA>hijacked commercial airline[r] was destined for the White House or
SA>the Capitol, we would take the plane down?"

SA>Cheney: "Yes. The president made the decision ... that if the plane
SA>would not divert ... as a last resort, our pilots were authorized to
SA>take them out. Now, people say, you know, that's a horrendous decision
SA>to make. Well, it is. You've got an airplane full of American
SA>citizens, civilians, captured by ... terrorists, headed and are you
SA>going to, in fact, shoot it down, obviously, and kill all those
SA>Americans on board?

SA>"... It's a presidential-level decision, and the president made, I
SA>think, exactly the right call in this case, to say, I wished we'd had
SA>combat air patrol up over New York.'"

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SA>Source: WorldNetDaily ...
SA>http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42112


SA>Cheers, Steve..

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