[hchutch]

I wonder if I could have had the ability to call someone and give them the information. Barbara was a warrior, and although I never had a chance to talk with her (and never will), she was able to give us some idea of what happened, and that will help.

I hope he takes some consolation from this in his time of grief.

[YaYa123]

from DRUDGE: "Ananova :

"Passenger phoned husband moments before Pentagon crash

A passenger managed to reach her husband on her mobile phone moments before American Airlines flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon.

Barbara Olson, a commentator for CNN and wife of US Solicitor General Theodore Olson, was one of 58 passengers on the Boeing 757. They had been herded to the back of the plane along with the four flight attendants and two pilots. In two brief and furtive conversations with her husband, Olson, 46, gave a few details about the plane's hijackers, CNN reported.

She mentioned that there was more than one, but the only weapons she described were knives and cardboard cutters, the network said. "What do I tell the pilot to do?" a frightened Olson pleaded.

Theodore Olson was able to alert the Justice Department's command centre of the hijacking in progress, but it was too late to help his wife and the other people aboard the plane. They were all killed when the airliner smashed into the Pentagon."

Story filed: 23:00 Tuesday 11th September 2001"