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Originally posted by Zzub
Chilling reading, it's bringing a tear to my eye reading the police transcripts. It brings me back to that horrible day.
Thanks for the links.
Originally posted by UniversalFiction
Have just finished reading these.... I feel... I dunno what I feel.... pretty choked up that's for sure. Brought it all back.... the panic stricken radio transcripts and un-answered roll-calls are disturbing.....hell
Originally posted by EastCoastKid
There's nothing wrong with talking about it. We all shared the tragedy. It belongs to us all.
Originally posted by SpittinCobra
I wonder, how long 9/11 will be talked about. Do all the terroriest have to be gone, for it to stop. I guess it will always be talked about, but so openly. It seems to be getting old, I realize this thread is 6 months old, nothing against this thread, or you ECK.
Originally posted by SpittinCobra
I guess you guys are right, I guess as long as ther is question about it... Maybe if answers tha made people happier about the truth, what ever that might be, it will die down.
Is it in school history books yet?
Originally posted by mepatriot
FLAG never had a website, and after receiving certain threats (followed by my decision to leave the country for awhile) has not reconvened. We did do a good deal of collaborative research, though I was the primary force behind it. We never had more than 30 members at any given meeting.
Originally posted by mepatriot
FLAG never had a website, and after receiving certain threats (followed by my decision to leave the country for awhile) has not reconvened. We did do a good deal of collaborative research, though I was the primary force behind it. We never had more than 30 members at any given meeting.
The firefighters were still using the antiquated “handie-talkie” radios that failed to work during the 1993 bombing of the twin towers, when Giuliani was also mayor. He not only failed to replace them, but also located the city’s new emergency command centre at the World Trade Center against the advice of key officials. It proved useless when it was most needed.
Lack of communication also meant that warnings from police helicopters about an imminent collapse failed to get through.
“Giuliani told everybody the bodies were pulverised, but I was digging them up every day. It was grisly stuff, limbs, little bones - people were blown to bits - but the bodies were there,” said Riches, 55.
The searchers refused to stop. An ugly clash between the firefighters and the New York police left 18 officers injured. Eventually Giuliani backed down and allowed the work to continue, but not before branding the firefighters’ actions as “sinful”.
The Commission was established by the 2003 Intelligence Authorization Act (H.R. 4628) to (1) conduct an investigation, (2) identify, review and evaluate lessons learned, and (3) issue a report to the President and Congress containing findings, conclusions and recommendations.
When Kean was appointed to replace severely conflicted Henry Kissinger, he asserted his only constituency was the students at Drew.
Well, it turns out that is not exactly true. Kean sits on the Board of Directors of Amerada Hess, one of the world's leading independent oil and gas companies. The company is coupled with Delta Oil, a Saudi Arabia company in a joint venture called Delta-Hess. Delta-Hess in turn is a partner in Azerbaijan with a consortium developing Caspian Sea oil resources.
Delta Oil is owned by the two Saudi families of Khalid bin Mahfouz and Mohammed Hussein al Amoudi. Both are alleged to be major financial backers of Osama bin Laden and have been named in a lawsuit by families and survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Bin Mahfouz is Osama's brother-in-law. His sister married bin Laden.
The long-time member of the CFR also forgot to mention his role as general partner in Quad Ventures LLC. Quad is a limited partnership operating in the $815 billion education industry whose partners include; Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch Community Development, Wells Fargo bank and insurance giants Prudential Financial and Wachovia. Top officials in most of those companies are also CFR members. Both Citigroup and Morgan Chase are deeply involved in the Enron scandal. Citigroup received a slap on the wrist when found to have laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money which some suspect helped fund terrorism.
Commission vice chairman and former congressman Lee Hamilton was appointed to replace former senate majority leader George Mitchell (CFR), who like Kissinger declined to disclose potential conflicts of interest and resigned. Hamilton, a CFR member since at least 1988, was chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Select Intelligence Committee.
In 1987, House Speaker Jim Wright (who later resigned in disgrace) appointed Hamilton to chair a committee investigating the Iran/Contra affair. When a question was raised about CIA/Contra drug smuggling, the response was release by Hamilton of a cursory review that concluded there was no truth to the charges. The CIA recently released a report (that received almost no publicity) admitting the drug connection.
Originally posted by anhinga
...heard that one, haven't gotten to the actual quotes yet, there isn't enough time in a day to research this properly.