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I was going to say 'what if' but someone else already did:

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 : (REFERENCES BY OFFICIALS TO TWA FLIGHT 800 AS A TERRORIST INCIDENT, INCLUDING ADMISSION BY SENATOR JOHN KERRY) In the weeks following Sept. 11, 2001, several political insiders referred to the destruction of Flight 800 as a terrorist incident. But only one did it twice. That person is Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts. Appearing on Larry King Live on Sept. 11 itself, Kerry suggested that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by a terrorist act. ----- source may be "Why did Al Gore really drop out? Cashill & Sanders suggest Kerry was willing to expose subversion, " by Jack Cashill & James Sanders, WorldNetDaily.com , Tuesday, December 17, 2002

SEPTEMBER 24, 2001 : (ANOTHER REFERENCE TO TWA FLIGHT 800 BEING A TERRORIST INCIDENT BY SENATOR JOHN KERRY) On Sept. 24, on Hardball with Chris Matthews, the authors watched as Kerry casually recited a number of terrorist attacks against the United States, among them TWA "Flight 800." Like Larry King before him, Chris Matthews either did not catch the remark or chose to let it pass. If the first admission seemed more or less innocent and accidental, the second one had to be purposeful. Indeed, Kerry's office took and responded to calls about his remarks on Flight 800 after the first incident. If a mistake, it seems highly unlikely that it could have happened again. But it did. ----- source may be "Why did Al Gore really drop out? Cashill & Sanders suggest Kerry was willing to expose subversion, " by Jack Cashill & James Sanders, WorldNetDaily.com , Tuesday, December 17, 2002

What does Dick Morris know? On July 15, I was able to question Morris on Paul Schiffer's excellent Cleveland-area radio show. Although in his new book Morris refers to TWA 800 as one of three "attacks" in the "terrorist summer of 1996," he clearly did not want to talk about this incident on the air. ----"What does Dick Morris know about TWA 800?" WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, July 18, 2003 | Jack Cashill

How can George Stephanopolous continue to pose as a "journalist" while he keeps quiet on why he told Peter Jennings that the destruction of TWA 800 was a "bombing"? Why was NSA honcho Tony Lake kept out of the July 17-18 meeting at the White House family quarters while his deputy, Sandy Berger, was reportedly invited in? ----"What does Dick Morris know about TWA 800?" WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, July 18, 2003 | Jack Cashill

On July 17, 1996 – Liberation Day in Saddam's Iraq and two days before the Atlanta Olympics – TWA Flight 800 blew up in the sky off the south coast of Long Island. The reader need not endorse a particular theory as to the nature of that crash to appreciate the role that Richard Clarke played in devising the one theory that prevailed. How Richard Clarke concocted the TWA 800 'exit strategy' ... and why WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, April 6, 2004 | Jack Cashill

JULY 17, 1996 : (MOVEMENT FOR ISLAMIC CHANGE ISSUES A COMMUNIQUE THE SAME DAY AS TWA FLIGHT 800 IS DESTROYED IN MIDAIR) Early on July 17, 1996, the very day TWA Flight 800 was destroyed, the Islamic Change Movement issued a communique that, according to Yossef Bodansky, "laid the foundation for the downing of TWA 800." As director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, Bodansky knows the subject as well as any man alive. This is the "group" that had taken responsibility for the Riyadh bombing in 1995 that killed five Americans and two Indian nationals, and the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia on June 25, 1996, that killed 19 American servicemen. The communique was chilling: "The mujahideen will deliver the ultimate response to the threats of the foolish American president. Everyone will be amazed at the size of that response," it read in part. "Their time is at the morning-dawn. Is not the morning-dawn near?" Dawn in Afghanistan corresponded almost exactly to dusk in New York, the moment of TWA Flight 800's demise. - "TWA Flight 800 - no longer an accident! Jack Cashill on evidence Iraq orchestrated attack," WorldNetDaily.com, Wednesday, November 20, 2002, by Jack Cashill

JULY 17, 1996 : (TWA FLT 800 EXPLODES, 230 PEOPLE KILLED - See "MOVEMENT FOR ISLAMIC CHANGE" ) The possibility of a Middle East connection has been raised with regard to the 17 July explosion of TWA flight 800 off New York which killed 230 people. Investigators were in late July still searching the seabed for evidence of what caused the Boeing 747, bound from New York to Paris, to crash in flames. The White House has cautioned the media against the kind of early speculation which in 1995 wrongly blamed the Oklahoma bombing of a government building on Muslim fundamentalists.
However, some of the media in the US and Europe have said Muslim extremists opposed to the US presence or role in the Middle East may be responsible.
Attention has focused on groups such as the Movement for Islamic Change, which claimed responsibility for the bombing on 25 June of a US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in which 19 American airmen were killed. The London-based Arabic language Al-Hayat says it received a statement from the group hours before the plane crash warning of a new attack against the US, but US officials said such warnings were routine. Investigators say circumstantial evidence points to a bomb explosion aboard the TWA flight. Some have alleged that the White House was initially discouraging sabotage theories in order not to spoil the festive atmosphere of the Olympic games in Atlanta, Georgia. -- "Middle East link probed in TWA crash," Middle East Economic Digest, News; Pg. 14 , August 2, 1996 Copyright: EMAP Business International Ltd. All rights reserved

AUGUST 3, 1996 : (REPORTS SURFACE THAT THERE WAS A TERRORIST SUMMIT IN TEHRAN RECENTLY CONCERNING MOSTLY US TARGETS : "MOVEMENT FOR ISLAMIC CHANGE" CREATED - See LIBYA, SYRIA, IRAN, HEZBOLLAH) Three or four sources have been telling ENN of a "terrorist summit" that has recently taken place in Tehran. Israeli intelligence sources have said that attacks "to be directed primarily against U.S. targets." were discussed at the meeting. French sources say that the main goal is the annihilation of Israel and the United States. Discussed were ways to improve the terror camps, propaganda -- it has been seen that Iranian and Libyan rhetoric against the U.S. has been increased as of late, and financing. An official international terrorist organization, represented by Iran, Libya and Syria, was said to have been formed. It is to be called the "Movement for Islamic Change." Other members are said to be from the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. - "ORGANIZED TERRORISM; "Movement for Islamic Change," By Steve Macko, ENN Editor, Excerpted from EmergencyNet NEWS Service Daily Report, Vol. 2 - 216, Saturday, August 3, 1996

AUGUST 23, 1996 : (BIN LADEN'S 'DECLARATION OF WAR' ON US) Date on bin Laden's written "declaration" of attack against the US. The document was written and published about two months after the bombing in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Demands included the removal of US troops from Saudi Arabia, and the overthrow of the government of Saudi Arabia.

AUGUST 26 , 1996 : (IRAQIS HIJACK SUDANESE AIRLINER IN KHARTOUM AND DIVERT TO ENGLAND) Six Iraqi dissidents hijack a Sudan Airways A310 Airbus airliner en route from Khartoom to Jordan and divert it to Stanstead, England. After eight and one half hours negotiating with British authorities the hijackers release all the 13 crew and 180 passengers unharmed.