Saudi plot has Flight 800 implications
WorldNetDaily ^ | Dec 30, 2003 | Jack Cashill
Posted on 12/30/2003 1:45:22 AM PST by hotpotato
Last Saturday, the Mail on Sunday, a British newspaper, credibly reported a Saudi terrorist plot that may well have implications for understanding the destruction of TWA Flight 800.
According to the Mail, Saudi authorities arrested two pilots who were preparing to fly two light aircraft, each loaded with explosives, into a passenger plane. Apparently, they were stopped while on the flight-line at an airport near Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital. Details are sketchy because the Saudis have allegedly attempted to withhold information from authorities abroad.
"These terrorists are potent and inventive and I very much hope the British government will take note of these developments," Patrick Mercer, the opposition Conservative spokesman for British Homeland Security, told the Mail. "They must defend our airspace and issue timely, accurate and meaningful warnings to both airlines and passengers."
If the Saudis covered up an attempted mid-air bombing, they may not have been the first to do so. In our book "First Strike," James Sanders and I make the case that U.S. Navy missiles intercepted a terrorist plane packed with explosives on a mission comparable to the one planned by the captured Saudi pilots. We believe the resulting explosion devastated the doomed 747, which was then in close proximity.
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1048561/posts Informative post. Have always believe TWA800 was struck by a missile.