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To: Ridin' Shotgun
So okay, I'll give you an easy one: Tell me why the cell phone calls made by passengers on the hijacked flights on 9/11 never emerged on their cell-phone bills.

Do you have anything close to proof of this claim, or is it something you read on a Rense website? Are the relatives of the victims all clamoring about the lack of the billing entries, or is it one or two? If it is one or two, that is called BILLING ERRORS, and unless you've got something better than a Jeff Rense website claim that the relatives en-masse did not get billed for those minutes, then you are doodling in the sand.

And what's up with this Remote Piloting crap up there? You can't honestly be THAT much a fan of Michael Rivero, can you?

72 posted on 01/16/2002 4:09:43 PM PST by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz
I'm not the Senate. People have questions and they're asking the Senate to investigate and provide the answers. Strange that it would take a citizen petition to get the Senate to investigate the circumstances surrounding what is certainly the hugest attack on America in history, don't you think?
74 posted on 01/16/2002 4:16:56 PM PST by Ridin' Shotgun
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To: Lazamataz
Best I know, Michael Rivero didn't have anything to do with this. Neither did I. We've gotten a trifle off topic and this will be my last post on this subject. I'm not the one saying this technology could be used in this fashion, but obviously someone else isn't so sure.

The Northrop Grumman Global Hawk is a robotized American military jet that has a wingspan of a Boeing 737. The excerpts below were taken from an article entitled: "Robot plane flies Pacific unmanned," which appeared in the April 24, 2001 edition of Britain's International Television News:
"The aircraft essentially flies itself, right from takeoff, right through to landing, and even taxiing off the runway," according to the Australian Global Hawk manager Rod Smith.
A robot plane has made aviation history by becoming the first unmanned aircraft to fly across the Pacific Ocean.
The American high-altitude Global Hawk spy plane made flew (sic) across the ocean to Australia, defence officials confirmed.
The Global Hawk, a jet-powered aircraft with a wingspan equivalent to a Boeing 737 [NOTE: two of the aircraft involved in the 911 crashes were Boeing 757s, two were Boeing 767s] flew from Edwards Air Force Base in California and landed late on Monday at the Royal Australian Air Force base at Edinburgh, in South Australia state. . . .
It flies along a pre-programmed flight path, but a pilot monitors the aircraft during its flight via a sensor suite which provides infra-red and visual images. (http://www.itn.co.uk/news/20010424/world/05robotplane.shtm) Then, on September 20, 2001, The Economist published comments from a former boss of British Airways, Robert Ayling: "On autopilot into the future "Robert Ayling, a former boss of British Airways, suggested in The Financial Times this week that aircraft could be commandeered from the ground and controlled remotely in the event of a hijack ...

76 posted on 01/16/2002 4:29:53 PM PST by Ridin' Shotgun
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