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.
About a week after Sept 11 news reports were released that the terrorist had been buying large blocks of seats to lower the number of passagers on the flights to make them more manageable during the hijackings.
I can't imagine that the airlines couldn't put two and two together with large block of seats being cancelled by MEs.
American Airlines: Amercian Airlines,Good morning how can I help you.
Mr. Terrorist: (w/ thick accent) Yes I would like to cancel my reservations.
AA : What is your flight and how many seats.
MT: Flight 333, we had 240 seats.
AA: 240 seats!, You are going to cancel all of the seats?
MT : Yes, my family has come down with the flu.
AA: That will be find sir. We will credit your VISA card. Thank you for flying with AA.