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A comment Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made during a Christmas Eve address to U.S. troops in Baghdad has sparked new conspiracy theories about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
In the speech, Rumsfeld made a passing reference to United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to stop al Qaeda hijackers.
But in his remarks, Rumsfeld referred to the "the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania."
A Pentagon spokesman insisted that Rumsfeld simply misspoke.
Originally posted by watch_the_rocks
U.S. Secretary of Defense admits Flight 93 was Shot Down
Ohh yeah. Look who bet you to it by half a year!
I don't see how he could have accidentally said that if it did not happen.
Originally posted by Caustic Logic
Cool beans! Great thread! I like the questions about WHY they would lie about a shoot-down. It's certainly worth a thought.
Originally posted by Caustic Logic
As for why cover up the Flight 93 shoot down, here's a thought:
A military shoot-down of a civilian airliner is legally different from a plane crashed under unclear circumstances during a terrorist attack. One falls under the President's mandate of attack and natioanl defense. A military shoot-down might open some whole different line of procedings - trials, evidence, media coverage - questions like "how did it get to that point? how did hijackers get through like that?" - and a process not controlled from the hite House. I'm not sure of the laws at all and frankly am afraid to look.
But it's worth a thought.