Jack Cashill is the author of this article and of several books on this topic. He makes his money writing books concerning various conspiracy theories.
With regard to your responses to my points...
1. If the rocket motor was still burning, it was smoking. Big time. Anyone who has witnessed a SAM launch knows that the smoke trail of a burning SAM is unmistakable, unforgettable, and far more prominent than even the flame from the rocket. Yet almost no evidence of that trail is described anywhere near TWA 800.
2. When TWA 800 went down it was still daylight.
3. SAM warheads are proximity or contact fuses. They are not designed to penetrate an aircraft and then explode. They are designed to explode just outside an aircraft to shower that aircraft with thousands of pieces of shrapnel to sever electrical, hydraulic and fuel lines. Not a single piece of evidence was found in TWA 800 to support that.
4. This article states the missile residue was found in rows 17-19. The aircraft was moving at roughly 350kias when it was hit. If the missile hit it in anything other than a perpendicular flight path, the "residue" would have been spread through the length of the fuselage. Not just two rows. If the missile hit the aircraft from the bottom, than it must have been fired from almost directly below it, because no SAM flies a profile that would cause it to intercept an aircraft from a vertical climb. If the missile had been fired from almost directly below, than everyone would have seen a large column of smoke connecting TWA 800 with the source of the missile launch. Nobody did.
It does not matter what your current theory may be about the destruction of this aircraft. The fact of the matter is; the government lied to us.
After almost 10 years now, I was hoping that the Bush administration would open up the raw data. Unfortunately, that has not happened.
We must live with that standard of scientific disclosure today and accept that nothing will change.
However, when something like this happens once again, American citizens will immediately get involved and document the facts, before our government can smother them.
Didn't TWA 800 go down around dusk? If I remember correctly the whole scene was viewed from Fire Island. I also remember that the aircraft was sent to an empty hanger in Calverton, Long Island, NY. Sort of remember that the dive team were Navy personnel. Somewhere in the recesses of my gray matter is that a reporter was arrested for having fabric tested for explosive residue. Jim Kalstrom was in charge of the investigation.
If I recall correctly, about 260 people reported seeing a missle strike TWA800. These people are all nuts and liars? ( A few of these were pilots).