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To: Rokke
"So much for that source. Antiaircraft missiles do not have "round pellets" in their warheads. Their warheads are scored metal casings that do not create "round pellets" when they explode."

http://flight800.org/FIRO_pet_attach.pdf

A Brief Summary of a Declassified FBI Report

Subject: The analysis of evidence with possible high energy characteristics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory

Tom Stalcup, Feb. 20, 2002 A recently declassified FBI report presents the results of an analysis of TWA Flight 800 debris “that exhibited possible high energy characteristics” and other items of “unknown origin.”[1]

The FBI and NTSB contracted scientists from the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) to analyze these items, but restricted the scientists from sharing their findings with individuals outside the official investigation. The parties to the investigation (e.g. Boeing and TWA) did not participate in this activity.

Some of the items tested are listed below: Note: All quotations that follow have been taken from the aforementioned report[1] unless cited otherwise.

1. One of 20 similar objects of “unknown origin” approximately 0.2 inches in diameter found during victim autopsy examinations.

2. A piece of titanium alloy consistent with jet engine parts that contained “spike fractures” and “melting.”

3. Part of the left side of the aircraft that contained a penetration apparently “directed into the fuselage.”

The FBI report is a summary of the BNL activities and is apparently missing some pages and attachments.

Its “Executive Summary” seems to conflict with the findings presented in the body of the report.

The summary reads “no material compositions were found to indicate the presence of non-TWA Flight 800 or weapons related materials,” but item 1 (listed above) was inconsistent with aircraft wreckage.

[1] These pellet-like objects were in fact tested “because of their dissimilarity in appearance with TWA 800 debris.”

After numerous examinations, the report classified their origin as “unknown.”

When polished, the objects of unknown origin became “orange-colored and transparent.” They were non-conductive, and contained Zirconium, Barium, and Cerium within a multi-phase Aluminum-Titanium “matrix.” The significant quantity of Zirconium and the presence of Barium is indicative of an incendiary device[3, 4] and the matrix structure of these object is consistent with pellets used in anti-aircraft missiles1.

Similar pellets were apparently recovered from the bodies 1National Defense Magazine stated that “pellets embedded in a titanium matrix”[2] are used in anti-aircraft missile warheads.

- 4 - of victims of a recent missile engagement of a civilian airliner.2 Two days after the BNL report was submitted to the FBI leadership, then FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom sent a letter to the NTSB requesting that the discussion of “Missile/Warhead Impact/Bombs/Explosives”[7] be banned from the NTSB public hearing on the crash, scheduled to be held the following week.

The NTSB complied with the request and the FBI classified the BNL report as “secret.” Although FBI investigators suspected “that a missile might have been used against flight 800,”[6] there is no indication that the any items discussed in the BNL report were ever analyzed by warhead experts.

On the contrary, the report mentioned having “little forensic documentation or guidance on large-body aircraft missile engagements.”

The characteristics of the items discussed in the BNL report are consistent with a missile engagement. But by not supplying proper guidance, classifying the report as secret, and influencing the agenda of a public hearing, the FBI leadership reduced the likelihood of this evidence ever becoming proof.

References: 1. FBI, TWA Flight 800 Brookhaven National Laboratory Examinations.

Declassified FBI Report, 1997. 2. Ezell, V.H., Experts Question Lethality of OICW Warhead. National Defense

Magazine, .

3. Durgapal, V.C., A.S. Dixit, and R.G. Sarawadekar, Study of zirconium-potassium perchlorate pyrotechnic system. Proceedings of the International Pyrotechnics Seminars, 1988. 13.

4. Taylor, F.R. and L.R. Lopez, Development of a reliable, miniature delay system using zirconium / nickel alloys - potassium perchlorate - barium chromate. Proceedings of the International Pyrotechnics Seminars, 1991. 16.

5. Pravda, UKRAINE DENIES MISSILE HITTING RUSSIAN LINER. "UNCONVINCING," SAYS AIR FORCE MARSHAL. Oct. 9, 2001, Pravda.ru, 2001. 6. Mayer, D., Witness Group Study Report. NTSB Public Docket, 2000.

7. Kallstrom, J., Dec. 3, 1997 Letter to NTSB Chairman Jim Hall Regarding Objections to Hearing Items. NTSB Docket, 1997.

8. Bott, R., TWA Flight 800 Missile Impact Analysis. NTSB Public Docket, 1997.

2 In the recent missile engagement of a Sibir Airlines aircraft over the Black Sea, “metal articles [were] found in several bodies [that] closely resembled in shape and weight pellets inside S 200 missiles.”[5]

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720 posted on 06/27/2006 2:03:03 PM PDT by radialenginefan
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To: radialenginefan
I read through the actual FBI document you linked to because I don't like reading someone else's "summary". The pellets in question were non-metallic. Zirnconium and barium are used in MANY applications besides incendiary devices. And the only reference to pellets being used in anti-aircraft missile warheads is a nebelous notation to an undated National Defense Magazine that says "pellets embedded in a titanium matrix" are used in anti-aircraft missile warheads. My BS flag started to go up, so I did a little more digging. Again, I like to read actual sources for my self, so I searched for the article your source references. Here's a link....

Experts Question Lethality of OICW Warhead

And here is a quote of the paragraph containing the evidence your source quotes...

"This flexibility, when applying the HIP process, gives ammunition manufacturers a wide variety of lethal options in warhead design, with different applications, from anti-personnel to anti-materiel. In addition to the warhead for the OICW 20 mm round, Bodycote engineers have designed prototypes for a new warhead for the Stinger shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile with high density tungsten pellets embedded in a titanium matrix."

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!! The reason there is no date provided with the article in your absolutely GARBAGE source is because the article was written IN 2001! And the warhead is only a "designed protype". And the pellets are tungsten! Is THIS the kind of trash you are going to hang your hat on?

Do you understand how absolutely pathetic it is that the con artists at FIRO push out this trash and just expect people to take their word that their analysis is accurate. That is almost as pathetic as the suckers who accept their trash as accurate without researching it themselves. It is no wonder con men around the world are making millions selling conspiracies. P.T. Barnum was absolutely right.

724 posted on 06/27/2006 2:56:06 PM PDT by Rokke
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