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To: SKYDRIFTER
I found one such reference in the early AM of 9/15, simply using Google to look for 'Ramzi Yousef', the spelling in the article Wallaby posted. It was a pretty early hit.

I wonder if it's sitting in my cache somewhere.

15 posted on 09/18/2001 4:54:10 AM PDT by Tarakotchi
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To: Tarakotchi
Found it; "American Spectator" Sep. 1997. Thanks for trying.
20 posted on 09/18/2001 8:52:52 AM PDT by SKYDRIFTER
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To: SKYDRIFTER
Using 'Ramzi Yousef 800' I found this from:

Claims on the Downing of TWA 800

"September 1997

The American Spectator

Letter from John B. Roberts II in reply to an earlier one from James Hall - Chairman of the NTSB

Early this summer Hall testified before Congress that a meteorite may have blown up TWA, an event about as likely as an attack by a UFO. Apparently, Mr. Hall is prepared to got to any length to avoid confronting evidence of terrorism in the crash of TWA 800..... minute traces of PETN and RDX were found in TWA 800. Hall would have us believe they came from a bomb-sniffing dog test. But the St. Louis Police Department test record says only that a 'wide-bodied jet' was used in the test, and provides no serial number for the aircraft......As TWA's 800's debris was being hauled ashore, it was being tested by the EGIS high-tech explosives detection system operated by FBI technicians and BATF bomb experts. Within five days of the crash, EGIS registered the first of more than a dozen 'hits' for PETN on the aircraft. The FBI laboratory--whose work, even before it was subsequently criticized by the Justice Departments's inspector general, was questioned by FBI agents working on EGIS--confirmed only two findings. Do the EGIS findings mean that there was once much more explosive residue .... Whether there were two positive findings or a dozen, the dog-test explanation is almost as zany as Hall's meteorite theory..... Hall states that the U.S. lacks intelligence leads, but at least one terrorist has claimed credit for the TWA 800 bombing. World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef told authorities his group is responsible. Yousef's claim has not been made public, but it is in the FBI file. "

I'm not suggesting this is necessarily credible but apparently here that allegation made it into print.

21 posted on 09/18/2001 9:09:50 AM PDT by Tarakotchi
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