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The report can be viewed here: http://www.twa800.com/pdf/brookhaven-report.pdf

I have numerous other related documents obtained under the FOIA. It is most interesting to note that in the "Executive Summary" of the BNL report, the FBI states there were no indications of explosives nor objects foreign to TWA800 found. However, a complete reading of the report relative to the pellets recovered from victims at autopsy indicates, again according to the FBI, they were of "unknown origin." This erroneous Executive Summary, is most likely the reason the report was declassified to begin with. Another example of official ineptitude.

Your continous postings of outdated and out of context communications from other forums is a useless exercise. I have no firm opinion today on whether Flight800 was the victim of a "bomb" or a "missile." It would appear either might be the case. More recent information however, tends to steer one in the direction of a missile, rather than a bomb, but again, I have no firm conclusions on that issue.

The follow up article on the Flight800 is forthcoming. I will state again, my main goal is to see the investigation re-opened, not solve the case on the internet. Not every piece of information has a "reference URL" -- (thank God!)

"I have no firm opinion today on whether Flight800 was the victim of a 'bomb' or a 'missile.' It would appear either might be the case. More recent information however, tends to steer one in the direction of a missile, rather than a bomb, but again, I have no firm conclusions on that issue. ."

You posted your own sequential timeline here in FreeRepublic on 25 August 2002.:

8:31:12 Initiating Event.
8:31:36 Massive Fireball explosion.
8:31:54 Splashdown.

Swordmaker's sequential timeline attempts to shorten the elapsed time between the Initiating Event and the Massive Fireball explosion "to make it fit" his own missile shootdown theory and alleges that Initiating Event (IE) took place at 8:31:13.

Swordmaker, again "to make it fit" his own missile shootdown theory, alleges that the first "ordnance" explosion seen by witness Meyer, took place at the time of the Initiating Event. In short, he alleges that witness Meyer saw the Initiating Event. You stated in your 15 March 2002 posting in the Yahoo TWA800 forum "based on Meyer's statements, I don't believe he witnessed the IE" and you added "look at his timeline". You have not changed your stance on that key issue since then. But you now state: "More recent information however, tends to steer one in the direction of a missile, rather than a bomb" - which raises the obvious question: What specifically is that "more recent information"?

Another related major issue is whether witness Meyer saw the streak of light before or after 8:31:12/13. Swordmaker, again "to make it fit" his own missile shootdown theory, alleges that witness Meyer first saw the streak of light at 8:31:10. You stated in the Yahoo TWA800 forum on 12 April 2002: "Most here are convinced a "missile" did the dirty deed. I'm not, not yet at least. The initial assessment was 'bomb'. I thought so to. I still do.". It's accordingly self evident that you did not then believe that the streak of light preceded the Initiating Event. Do you now?

Those who disagree with the "shootdown" conspiracy theorists, including the "bomb" conspiracy theorists, have to expect to be asked to explain the streak of light. What explanation for it did you have in mind at the time you made your referred to 15 March 2002 and 12 April 2002 postings? What explanation do you have for it now?

"The report can be viewed here: http://www.twa800.com/pdf/brookhaven-report.pdf".

Your source is FIRO - Tom Stalcup's "Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization" and the following excerpt from it is self explanatory.

A Brief Summary of a Declassified FBI Report Subject: The analysis of evidence with possible high energy characteristics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Tom Stalcup, Feb. 20, 2002
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The FBI report is a summary of the BNL activities and is apparently missing some pages and attachments.
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If the complete report is declassifed, it should all be available. You state:

"I have numerous other related documents obtained under the FOIA."

Please post them at this time or, if you have earlier posted them elsewhere, please provide us the URL(s).

"The follow up article on the Flight800 is forthcoming."

Your are presumably referring to your thread you started on 8 November 2002 which you so dramatically titled "Physical Evidence Points to Foul-Play in TWA Flight 800 Disaster" but failed to provide the readers of it with the "evidence", indicating instead that you were still working on it. Please provide the readers here with your best estimate of when to expect that long promised "evidence".

You also stated in #60:

"It is also EXTREMELY noteworthy that there is NO indication ANY of the information in the formerly SECRET BNLabs report was ever shared with ANY OTHER investigative agency or party to the investigation. This of course would include BOEING or it's LEGAL COUNSEL." [emphasis yours]

Do you have any evidence that Boeing and it's lawyers have NOT todate been provided with a complete copy, including the pages missing in FIRO's website?

Truth is determined with EVIDENCE - not suspicions, speculations, allegations or accusations.