As I understood the official legend of the hijacked plane in Pennsylvania,
it crashed, following a heroic struggle by the passengers against a number
of hijackers, but it always seemed more plausible that it had been shot
down before it could reach its intended target.

Now that Rumsfeld has confirmed that it was shot down, the questions
remain as to who shot it down, how, and on whose orders?

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NEWS FROM CNN

Surprise Trip for Donald Rumsfeld; Interview With Brigadier General James
Marks; Christian in Iraq

Aired December 24, 2004 - 12:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR: Hello. I'm Betty Nguyen here in Atlanta. Thanks
for joining us today. Here's the NEWS FROM CNN.
Rumsfeld on the frontlines. The embattled defense secretary makes a
surprise Christmas Eve visit to Iraq. We are live on the story from
Baghdad.

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NGUYEN: We want to go back now to that video that we're just getting
in from Donald Rumsfeld's visit to Iraq, a surprise visit, he is at
Camp Victory here in Baghdad in this video speaking to soldiers in the
mess hall. Let's take a listen.

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DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: And to change that way of
living, would strike at the very essence of our country.

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

And that is exactly what we cannot allow to happen.

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Full article at CNN ...
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0412/24/nfcnn.01.html

Cheers, Steve..

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