Hijacker shot passengeron Flight 11

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WorldNetDaily: Hijacker shot passenger on Flight 11: FAA memo

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DAY OF INFAMY 2001
Hijacker shot passenger
on Flight 11: FAA memo
'One bullet fired,' killing 9B occupant, but agency claims report was in error

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Posted: February 27, 2002
5:35 p.m. Eastern

By Paul Sperry
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON - An internal Federal Aviation Administration memo summarizing the Sept. 11 hijackings says a passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 11 was shot to death by a single bullet, WorldNetDaily has learned.

The FAA claims the memo, time-stamped Sept. 11 at 5:30 p.m., was written in error.

"It was a first draft," said FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown in a phone interview today. "There was no gun."

She said a final draft of the executive summary, received by FAA Administrator Jane Garvey, does not include the account of a gun being fired aboard the plane.

Brown refused to release the final draft, however, arguing it is "protected information."

WorldNetDaily has obtained a copy of the first draft of the memo, which can be viewed here.

Here is the key excerpt, which was very specific:

"The American Airlines FAA Principal Security Inspector (PSI) was notified by Suzanne Clark of American Airlines Corporate Headquarters, that an on board flight attendant contacted American Airlines Operations Center and informed that a passenger located in seat 10B shot and killed a passenger in seat 9B at 9:20 a.m.

"The passenger killed was Daniel Lewin, shot by passenger Satam Al Suqami. One bullet was reported to have been fired."

Related story:

American denies giving gun info to FAA

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[sam_paine]

also wondering how they'd gotten one on board.

Well, they just arrested 20 folks at Boston's Logan Airport (where this flight originated) with forged identities that had " access to all areas of the airport, including terminals, baggage areas, screened passenger checkpoints and runways."

I'd say that with the "secure" folks being that badly screened (if at all) it might not be too hard to have the cleaning/food services guy put a gun or bomb in the seat cushion/toilet/magazine rack/whatever.

Or maybe a gun was planted in the terrorist's bag far away from the plane by a mere baggage handler or a team of security screener(s) inside the airport!!!

[ladyjane]

Remember the stories of truck bombs going off...

And you think car bombs didn't go off?

[sam_paine]

by a mere baggage handler ...

to clarify before I'm crucified...I meant a security team searching carry-on bags,etc....I know it'd be hard to "draw" from the cargo hold!

[Vigilanteman]

Thanks for posting. While the print is not good quality, I notice referece to "selectee passengers" or "no selectee passengers boarded." Does this refer to standby fliers? Do you have any idea?

[honway]

The real problem with your theory: In CDT, it would have been 7:45 am when the first plane hit.

I sit corrected. Thank you. I should think before I reply. So what do you think, is the story about the gun a mistake or a fabrication?

[Timesink]

This is a surprising bit of news, but I seriously doubt if WND reported the entire story. There's a reason why the FAA totally discounts this report, and the reason can't be classified or even sensitive. But now that WND has printed half the story, it's incumbent for the FAA and AA to respond to it, perhaps in another publication.

Unfortunately, the WND has been so willing to present itself as the newspaper of record for conspiracy theorists over the last couple of years that they have lost much of their credibility amongst the (far far larger) community of more skeptical readers. The FAA and AA will completely ignore the WND story until and unless some more "legitimate" publication also publishes it.

[glc1173@aol.com]

"The American Airlines FAA Principal Security Inspector (PSI) was notified by Suzanne Clark of American Airlines Corporate Headquarters, that an on board flight attendant contacted American Airlines Operations Center and informed that a passenger located in seat 10B shot and killed a passenger in seat 9B at 9:20 a.m." (WorldNetDaily)

What a joke.

Anyone seriously think that a flight attendant is going to count what seat a skyjacker was in when he shot a passenger - and in what seat the dead passenger was riding?

The flight recorders from the planes that hit the WTC have yet to be recovered.

If this isn't a hoax, it sure is the next best thing!

[sheik yerbouty]

Satan al Saqami

[eno_]

Gun planted by staff at Logan Airport perhaps?

That would be consistent with the PROVEN accounts of plans to hijack at least one more plane, and the PROVEN accounts of security sweeps finding (at least) boxcutters on more planes.

JFK is at least 10 times worse than Logan. So it is believable there was other on-the-ground assistance, too. It also makes the reasons for choosing JFK stronger - easier to corrupt or infiltrate.

AND it would be VERY inconvenient for ailines to have to really implement REAL security quickly. Lots of motive for coverup.

[eno_]

Nevertheless, if this was a short term coverup to protect us from ourselves, then the government has truly become the nanny of the baby sheeple.

You have any doubt?

[sakic]

World Net Daily continues to be as reliable as the 3rd level trash sheets that exist below the National Enquirer.

[No Truce With Kings]

And you think car bombs didn't go off?

Not on 9/11. Except if you subscribe to the wacko conspiracy theories that Al Qaeda planted half a dozen thousand-pound bombs in the WTC to knock it down.

[No Truce With Kings]

The report seems too specific to have been idle speculation ... specific names and seat numbers and on-board source (stewardess). If they did manage to get a gun aboard Flight 11, it means security was even worse than previously reported.

Yeah, and the death could have just as easily been explained because the passenger had had his throat cut. If some hair-trigger FAA bureaucrat heard that a passenger was killed by a hijacker, absent other information, he might have assumed it was done by a gun -- and reported it as such. A lot of wild stories came out on 9/11. Given the choice between believing that this is another or believing that there has been a massive cover-up in the FAA, you can bet a tin-foil-hat I find it easier to believe it was a wild story. Obviously others find it comforting to see conspiracies everywhere (the truth is out there), but I don't concern myself with the fears of the feeble-minded.

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #73

While your assertion may or may not be true, the problem is that you assertion is highly uninformative. You did not argue anything about why this particular information has to be believed or not. Your statement is more like drive-by-hit by some shill from some agency. I hope that is not the case. If so, you had better be more specific about your assertion.

[Joe Driscoll]

that an on board flight attendant contacted American Airlines Operations Center and informed that a passenger located in seat 10B shot and killed a passenger in seat 9B at 9:20 a.m.

I don't suppose that the Operations Center tapes their calls. At the very least the phone company would have a record of it. Can we get the name of the individual that received the call?

[angcat]

:( look what a bright light this useless evil devil garbage destroyed...................we should nuke them...........................

[Yougottabekidding]

As the day Sept 11th wore on, airline personnel began securing their parked aircraft around the system. Within a few days, inspections revealed box-cutters taped under passenger seats inside the aircraft of AA, Delta, and other carriers around the country... My colleagues found them. Inside job?

I can tell you there are a LOT of foreign-born Pakistanis and Arabs in airline aircraft maintenance organizations and working for contractors.

[eno_]

Why would it even matter if it were true? If I'm not mistaken, Congress has already passed legislation awarding compensation to the victims and precluding their families from suing the airlines anyway.

Well, there is a very simple answer to that one: If it is true there was a gun on board, the deal to immunize the airlines from liability could be challenged on grounds of bad faith. Similarly, you cannot "trick" someone into signing a contract without risking having the contract being challenged later. It is the difference between tough negotiation and trickery.