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The authors have done an excellent job in writing and stating their case in this non-fiction book! They tell you what is their speculation and document what they detail as fact. Since it is written in an investigative reporting journalistic style, it is not a book you can read in one night. But, it does periodically summarize what you have read so that you can put it down and pick it up days later and not lose the sequencing of facts.

I am wary of blindly accepting “conspiracy theories”, especially about possible terrorist activities in the present climate of our nation. But this book made such a compelling argument that I filed my own “Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA)” request to the FBI and the NTSB. So far only the FBI has allowed me to obtain some documents. The catch is that the ONLY “Documents available for release consist of 757 pages”. Seeing as there was over a year of investigations by the FBI that included multiple interviews with over 700 eyewitnesses, research of police, Navy, and CIA involvement and participation in the investigation, etc., this is a conspicuously limited amount of documents. As I have had to pay to get a copy of them, I am still waiting for the documents to arrive. I am extremely interested in seeing what those documents contain (or lack).

I am aware of and have researched the conflicting articles (and books) that appeared in the media of the months and years following the crash. I am also aware that there was more than one government reason given for the crash. It changed every time the NTSB or witness reports made it into or were leaked to the media news (in error) and were later dispelled by the government. Since the Dan Rather Scandal in 2004, if you still believe in major media investigative reporting without bias, I might have some prime real estate development (swampland) to sell you.

The FBI was in charge of the crash investigation from day one (07/17/1996). From day one the NTSB was NOT in charge of the investigation. It was not even called in to work the crash until a day after the FBI and the Navy were. Technically, the FBI is only brought in when an accident is ruled out and a crash is considered to be a crime. Also, with the FBI in charge they can invoke the "National Security" clause to quash any news they do not want the public to know about or to limit information given out via the “Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA)”.

Over 100 eyewitnesses followed an object in the sky as it made a sharp turn and then saw an explosion, were not allowed to give testimony at the NTSB Congressional Investigation. I challenge you to do a web (www) search on “TWA Flight 800 Eyewitness” and see what information you find. Read the sites with an open mind and then draw your own conclusions.

While appearing on the Larry King Live show, Senator John Kerry suggested that the TWA Fight 800 was brought down by a terrorist act. At the time, I thought that maybe he had made a mistake. But on September 24, 2001, on Hardball with Chris Matthews, he casually recited a number of terrorist attacks against the U.S.A., including the mention of TWA “Flight 800” (again).

After TWA Flight 800 crashed in 1996, to which an increasing amount of people are now starting to believe that the crash might have actually been a terrorist strike, Al Gore was put in charge of the new airline and national security commission. The commission originally declared additional security measures would need to be implemented immediately in order for the airline industry to thwart the risk of terrorist activity, including the hijacking of planes. The airline industry immediately screamed bloody murder about the cost of implementing the added security measures. After a short amount of time, the major airline companies donated approximately $500,000 to the 1996 Clinton DNC Presidential Campaign. The commission backed off the "immediacy" of its requirements and changed them to be only recommendations. Without issuing the empowerment for the government agencies or commission to back these recommendations up, there was no reason for the Airline Industry to initiate them. Since 9/11, most, if not all, of those same recommendations have been put into place.

If the recommendations had been followed and the enforcement of them not possibly been bought off by special interests, it is my belief that the chance of a war in Iraq might have been greatly reduced. One can only speculate whether preventive action in the 1990’s would have been sufficient to deter the September 11, 2001 tragedy, but this book gives you a lot of information to dwell on. Remember, in the first half of 1996, in a written proclamation, Usama Bin Laden formally declared war on the United States of America. Why did it take over 5 years for us to declare war on him?

Listed Below Are Just Some Of The Supporting Documentation (Books, Articles, And Links) …

Books:

Ron Brown's Body: How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hillary's Future By Jack Cashill

First Strike – TWA Flight 800 And The Attack On America By Jack Cashill And James Sanders

The Third Terrorist: The Middle Eastern Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing By Jayna Davis

Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage For 9/11 By David N. Bossie

The First Terrorist Act By Harold Thomas Beck

Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America By Yossef Bodansky

Report Links:

Interim Report on the Crash of TWA Flight 800 and the Actions of the NTSB and FBI – Cmdr. Bill Donaldson, USN/Ret. And the Associated Retired Aviation Professionals - July 17, 1998 http://www.TWA800.com/report/Flt800.pdf

Report Of Congressman James A. Traficant, Jr. - To The Transportation & Infrastructure. Subcommittee On Aviation - On The TWA Flight 800 Investigation - July 15, 1998 http://members.aol.com/bardonia2/traf.htm

Other Links:

9/11 Commission QuickTime Sound Clip: George "Stephie" Steponallofus, Dick Morris and, indirectly, Louis Freeh in his recent 9-11 Commission testimony-- http://users.rcn.com/scherado/misc/freehbombshell.mp3

Iraqis behind 747's demise.htm WorldNetDaily Iraqis behind 747's demise.htm (July 16, 1996 TWA Flight 800)-- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31818

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/eyewitnesses.htm

http://www.Flight800.org/witness_evidence.htm

http://www.Cashill.com/

http://www.multipull.com/TWAcasefile/proof.html

http://www.angelfire.com/hi/TWA800/

http://www.aci.net/kalliste/donaldso.htm

I will always believe TWA-800 was a terrorist act of murder........period.

Do you also post here using the handles "ILL" and "iliya Pavlovich"? The amount of pontificating by these posters is overwhelming.

Are you going to comment on your other threads?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?id=195930

Baloney! OKC was the first strike!!! (by Saddam, too!)(can't prove it. Just believe it.)

If the recommendations had been followed and the enforcement of them not possibly been bought off by special interests, it is my belief that the chance of a war in Iraq might have been greatly reduced.

Huh? What has one got to do with the other? We didn't go to war in Iraq because of 9/11, we went because of its violation of UN resolutions, it' s WMD programs, and to free millions of people from a tyrant.

There have been a number of long threads on this subject over the years, and after reviewing a lot of very intelligent posts and interesting information I've reached three basic conclusions:

1. The "official" cause of the crash was utter bullsh!t, for a number of reasons -- including: a) the manner in which the FBI had to add an accelerant to stage the explosion in its simulation of the accident, and b) the lack of any scientific basis for their explanation that the aircraft actually climbed a thousand feet after it was torn apart.

2. IF the crash of TWA Flight 800 was an act of terrorism, it was destroyed by an on-board explosive and was not shot down by a surface-to-air missile.

3. IF TWA Flight 800 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile, it was an accidental shoot-down by naval vessel off the south shore of Long Island that night.

TWA-800 fight....Makes me wonder if Sandy the Burglar found information on this in his pants.

Ron Brown's Body: How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hillary's Future By Jack Cashill

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