James Woods: the 911 Terrorist Were on my Plane

O'Reilly Factor | February 14, 2002 | James Woods

[codebreaker]

Woods is a rare Hollywood conservative.

[Fred Mertz]

Thanks for excellent summary.

[denydenydeny]

He avoided answering some of O'Reilly's questions indicating he expected to be called as a witness in the Moussarri (?) trial.

Woods also indicated that Moussaoui was not one of the men who travelled with him.

[breakem]

3rd thread on this, I'm so confused, yours was 15 minutes after the others

[Rockyrich]

I saw the interview and thought it was great. I also thought it was nice that, given the shots O'Reilly has taken, that J. Woods gave him this as an EXCLUSIVE interview. Good going!

[cajungirl]

He is a smart man. He must feel just awful, it gives me the chills to think that he knew what they were and the FAA didn't do anything. The pilot reported it but nothing happened. He may be one of the only people prior to 911 who actually saw these guys and knew what he was seeing. I am impressed with him.

[aculeus]

3rd thread on this, I'm so confused, yours was 15 minutes after the others

I did the search but I also spent more than 15 composing the post.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Different time zones ;)

[blam]

Fascinating, I saw this interview. You summarized it very well. I didn't know James Woods was one of us.

[Keith in Iowa]

3rd thread on this, I'm so confused, yours was 15 minutes after the others

But this is the most accurate thread as to what was actually said.

[breakem]

I'm thinking of posting one with a transcript with one error, then you can post one that's 100%.

[WillaJohns]

I, too, saw the O'Reilly interview with James Woods, and you captured it perfectly here. I repeat your words again, as I found this the most chilling part of the tale:

He also said that the idea that none of the terrorists knew about each other was wrong since the men he saw died on different 911 flights.

In other words, these guys all knew each other, they were not separate "cells" each blindly doing their own thing. One man James Woods recognized died on one flight and another died on another flight--none of which flights was the Boston-LA flight James Woods was on.

There are more of these guys out there, that's what I was trying to say.

[weikel]

He went to MIT so he is likely smart( eng majors tend to be conservative unlike liberal arts students) and thus like a conservative.

[Keith in Iowa]

Osculate my gluteus maximums.

[aculeus]

You summarized it very well.

Thank you!

O'Reilly was (correctly) impressed with Woods' account and so was I.

[Pharmboy]

He's no dummy. Graduated MIT (he could beat all of our butts in quadratic equations).

[TLBSHOW]

Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2001 9:38 a.m. EDT

Twin Tower Terrorists May Have Made Dry Run

Did terrorist hijackers who slammed two Boeing 767s into New York's Twin Towers on Tuesday stage a dress rehearsal a week before the attack?

That's the intriguing question raised by the account of actor James Woods, who is reportedly telling friends that he saw a suspicious group of Middle Eastern men behaving in a "clandestine" manner during the earlier flight from Boston to Los Angeles.

Exactly a week before the devastating attacks, Woods boarded a plane at Boston's Logan Airport, the same departure point the terrorists used.

Woods sat in first class, according to friends, two of whom repeated his account to the New York Post's Cindy Adams. He was alone except for four other passengers - all Middle Eastern males.

The actor immediately noticed the men behaving "bizarrely." They neither drank, nor ate a morsel nor spoke out loud for the entire flight. There was no reading, no slouching, no nodding off.

"They were clandestine. Spoke only to each other in audible tones. And stared straight ahead," Adams was told.

"They were clearly very uptight," Woods' friends quoted him as saying.

The actor was sufficiently troubled by their behavior to report it to a flight attendant - but she shrugged the incident off. When Woods landed he informed authorities on the ground, who reportedly "seemed unwilling to become involved."

The day after the attacks on New York and Washington, Woods called the FBI. At 7 a.m. Thursday investigators summoned the actor for an immediate interview.

SEPTEMBER 18TH

[breakem]

Shrink it down to a manageable size and get your head out of it.