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Exclusive: Hijacker in City Sept. 10 Used navigation tool to pinpoint WTC site
New York Daily News ^
| 5/22/02
| GREG B. SMITH
Posted on 05/22/2002 2:35:36 AM PDT by kattracks
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posted on
05/22/2002 2:35:36 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: *TerrOrWar; aristeides
Hmmm. Still haven't said why he went to Portland.
And it's interesting that he stayed in Manhattan, which just happens to be where the ambassador's kid was. Is that why they won't name the hotel?
To: Lion's Cub
My cousin working from home that morning in Tarrytown heard the plane and said she thought it was strange that it was flying so low......
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posted on
05/22/2002 2:51:41 AM PDT
by
geege
To: Lion's Cub
Maybe it's time to get GPS coordinates on radical mosques. Hard to tell. It's a toss-up. The best way to destroy Islam may be to publicize what it's about. Let's see how many of the RATs' "Soccer Moms" really want to wear Burkas?
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posted on
05/22/2002 3:53:54 AM PDT
by
jrlc
To: kattracks
Great. Now GPS purchases will require waiting periods and background checks.
To: Risky Schemer
Sick B*astard!
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posted on
05/22/2002 4:18:08 AM PDT
by
DooDahhhh
To: Lion's Cub
Hmmm. Still haven't said why he went to Portland.
I thought that was determined. They thought the security would be less intense there. Note the 12 minute gap between check-out time and flight departure, where any visible nerves would be mistaken for lateness-concern and security people would be less likely to stop them because of them.
-Eric
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posted on
05/22/2002 4:35:35 AM PDT
by
E Rocc
To: DooDahhhh
You care to explain why my disgust over the potential threat to or loss of yet another freedom or privilege causes you to reply with "Sick B*astard!"?
To: kattracks
One thing to add here.
My flight instructor (I just started taking flying lessons) says that the original coordinates for the WTC were obtained from Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000. Apparantly the proper coordinates were included for the buildings (and airports and anything else in the program). The day after the WTC attrocity Microsoft was ordered to pull all the "games" and redo them with false coordinates (or none at all).
I'm surprised that this wasn't in the story...
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posted on
05/22/2002 4:52:27 AM PDT
by
rohry
To: rohry
You could get the same coordinates from MapQuest or a hundred other programs or US Geophysical maps.
Comment #11 Removed by Moderator
To: kattracks
Wait a minute. Atta checks out of the Comfort Inn at
5:33am and then is seen
12 minutes later at
5:45am boarding a flight?
I wish someone could show me how to get from the motel, move through an airport and what little security they had at the time, and get on to an airplane in 12 minutes. Either this is a typo, or somebody is full of of it.
To: kattracks
This makes me sick. And you can bet there's more A@@#$@3&! out there just like him scoping out new targets, walking around virtually invisible to the rest of us.
To: kattracks
The FBI found transactions that show Atta used a credit card in Manhattan the day before the planes crashed into the World Trade Center. Until recently, law enforcement officials could not figure out why he was here.Really?
To: Risky Schemer
Because you value your petty 'freedoms' over the lives of chil-drun. [/democratdoublespeak]
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posted on
05/22/2002 5:24:26 AM PDT
by
BearCub
To: kattracks
Pathetic to see so much effort and planning put towards such a pointless end, unless of course, as a tool of the devil, he was attempting to end life on earth by starting a final conflict.
I have come to the conclusion that Islam and the rest of the world are incompatible. Either Islam will conquer the world or the world will rise up and exterminate Islam and all of its liberal appologists.
And, Islam has established the rules of engagement.
To: Redleg Duke
Deport. Arrest. Exterminate. All non-citizen muslim men in America.
Perhaps we need a new, real War President if President Bush and Feebee Director Mueller are not up to the job?
I nominate retired General Stormin Norman Schwarzkopf.
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posted on
05/22/2002 5:26:51 AM PDT
by
Jonathan
To: wcbtinman
Boarding a flight could mean standing on line, waiting to be boarded, which, at that time of day, would probably not take too long, as the airport would not be too crowded.Showed up late, to further lessen the chance of being screened tightly, and got on. This is why they boarded in Portland, instead of Boston. They would have been inside the airport, transferring, not checking in in Boston, which probably would have had better security.
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posted on
05/22/2002 5:27:16 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
To: PBRSTREETGANG
unless we begin to round up mideastern men (OK, muslims, arabs) we lose. the recent pronouncements by our government has in effect told us we have no control but we should be "alert" but thy're too PC to tell us what to be "alert" about.
To: Lion's Cub
The article says Atta might have been on Manhattan on Sept. 9th as well, in which case he probably stayed in NYC overnight. But apparently we don't know that for certain yet.
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