He probably meant Ali.
Posted on 07/22/2004 1:18:43 PM PDT by pittsburgh gop guy
The hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 tried repeatedly to fend off passengers storming the cockpit in the final minutes before one of the hijackers, Ziad Jarrah, shouted “Allah is the greatest” and nosed the plane into a field in Somerset County, according to the final report of the September 11 commission.
The report includes a transcript of conversation captured by the cockpit voice recorder on the hijacked jetliner that shows the uprising started at 9:57 a.m. Sept. 11 after passengers onboard learned through cell phone conversations with family members that three other hijacked planes had been flown into buildings in New York and Washington.
As passengers began beating on the cockpit door, the report says, Jarrah rolled the airplane left and right, attempting to knock the passengers off balance. At 9:58:57, the report says, Jarrah began to nose the airplane up and down to topple the passengers outside the cabin door.
“The recorder captured the sounds of loud thumps, crashes, shouts and breaking glasses and plates,” the report states. At five seconds after 10 a.m., the recorder captured a conversation between Jarrah and another person, apparently another hijacker in the cockpit.
“Is that it? Shall we finish it off?” Jarrah asks the other person.
The other hijacker responds, “No. Not yet. When they all come, we finish it off.”
Fighting continues to be heard outside the cockpit. At that point a passenger is heard shouting, “In the cockpit. If we don’t we’ll die!”
Sixteen seconds later, a passenger yells, “Roll it!”
While the report does not state so, previous reports indicated that passengers might have used a beverage cart in an attempt to knock down the cockpit door.
At 10:01 a.m. Jarrah stopped the violent maneuvers with the airplane and said, “Allah is the greatest! Allah is the greatest!” He is then heard asking the other hijacker, “Is that it? I mean, shall we put it down?”
The other replies, “Yes, put it in, and pull it down.”
According to the report, the hijackers never left the cockpit, “but must have judged that the passengers were only seconds from overcoming them. The airplane rolled onto its back, and one oft the hijackers began shouting, “Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest.”
The aircraft struck the earth at 580 mph outside the Somerset County town of Shanksville, 20 minutes flying time from Washington.
“Jarrah’s objective,” the report says, “was to crash his airliner into symbols of the American Republic, the Capitol or the White House. He was defeated by the alerted, unarmed passengers of United 93.”
(Excerpt) Read more at postgazette.com ...
Remember these are the heroes that fatass Moore called whimps.
That pretty much discounts all the conspiracy missile theories.
unarmed passengers. Imagine if just one had been armed.
30 years of teaching people not to fight armed attack came to an end that day.
Federal policy caused that entire series of events:
Disarmed aircrew
Aircrew trained to meekly submit
An American public that had been taught cowardice, had it pounded into them.
One guy on an aircraft fought the hijackers and was cut to ribbons as his fellow Americans did nothing and rode to their deaths.
It will never happen again like that either. Everyone knows it will be a fight to the death of they are on a plane, train or bus that is being hijacked.
Get yourself a gun, get armed and stay alert. The more of us that stand ready, the greater our security. The government cannot win this fight for us, on the homeland, it is up to We The People.
Fight!
Never Forget!!!!!!!
God bless the brave souls who gave their lives to save our Capitol, and God bless their grieving families. I was on Capitol Hill the morning of 9/11, and I will never forget what they did. They may have saved my life and those of many of my friends.
Will this put an end to the rumors that our planes shot down Flight 93?
What are you talking about? It was obviously a plot, and the black helicopters from the UN's secret underground lair fired a missile at the plane--that's why he says "put it in," don't you see? That's code to the pilot of the UN helicopter to fire the missile! God! This is so obvious!
I’ve been waiting a long time to see that confirmed somewhere…
A man and his wife that were friends of the family told me that. They’d been out doing chores and didn’t have any idea what was going on (with the attacks).
He claimed he was outside messing with his truck and heard the plane. He said he knew there was something wrong because he heard it and there was no airport nearby. Said it was low-ish in the sky when he saw it, that it was coming down at a pretty steep angle, and that it was nearly completely upside down.
the Bush campaign can't use this material.
But if we had an effective 527, they would take this clip, and the other related clips - and make it into a "this is what we are fighting for" ad, to wake up the sheeple who are fast asleep, and for whom 9-11 hardly even happened.
God bless these people and their families and friends. These passengers were Americans with nothing but sheer bravery and love of fellow man. Their actions, done while knowing they would be killed, saved untold numbers of lives on the ground, possibly in the United States Capitol building. We can never overpay tribute to their honor or bravery.
In my estimate, and of course it's God's call, but those hijackers are in Hell now. Good riddance.
"Let's roll!"... but DO NOT search Arab male airline passengers for fear of upsetting the ACLU...
Where are the pictures...where are the videos....all replaced with complacency
Is there any reason why these heroes can't qualify for the Congressional Medal of Honor? If the award can only be given to members of the military, I believe they were all part of our militia and took it upon themselves to call themselves to active duty in a time of our dire need.
Something good came out of the 911 report after all - vindication of the brave folks of flight 93.
BUMP!
He probably meant Ali.
God Bless Flight 93.
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