Posted on 02/14/2002 5:14:08 PM PST by aculeus
On the O'Reilly Factor tonight actor James Woods revealed details of his August experience on board a westbound transcontinental flight -- including his conclusion that the men he saw were the actual terrorists involved in the 9/11 massacres.
Contrary to previous reports he did not report his experience to the FBI prior to 9/11.. He did, however, express his concerns about the four Middle Easterners to the pilot during the flight. He has since learned that the pilot then notified the FAA. Basically, he told the pilot that the men were acting like hijackers.
On 9/11 Woods called the FBI. The next day he was awakened early in the morning by a call from an FBI agent who asked to meet him. Woods offered to come to the FBI office and was told "No problem. We're in a car outside your house."
Woods made it clear in his interview -- and this greatly impressed O'Reilly -- that based on things the FBI said and his examination of published photographs, the men on his flight were all 9/11 'martyrs'. For one thing when he asked the agent if they had compared the manifest of his flight with the ID's of the terrorists the agent said they had received tens of thousands of calls since 9/11 but they were spending four hours with him ... in other words, "Draw your own conclusions, Mr. Woods".
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.
He avoided answering some of O'Reilly's questions indicating he expected to be called as a witness in the Moussarri (?) trial.
Woods deserves a great deal of credit for his 'heads up' behavior and for his cooperation with the FBI.
Woods also indicated that Moussaoui was not one of the men who travelled with him.
I did the search but I also spent more than 15 composing the post.
But this is the most accurate thread as to what was actually said.
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.
Thank you!
O'Reilly was (correctly) impressed with Woods' account and so was I.
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.
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