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Thanks for clearing that up.
Coming Fall 2009…
Bin Laden driver knew 9/11 target: prosecutor
Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:33am EDT
By Jim Loney
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden’s driver knew the target of the fourth hijacked jetliner in the September 11 attacks, a prosecutor said on Tuesday in an attempt to draw a link between Salim Hamdan and the al Qaeda leadership in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial.
Hamdan’s lawyer said in opening statements that the Yemeni, held for nearly seven years before his trial, was just a paid employee of the fugitive al Qaeda leader, a driver in the motor pool who never joined the militant group or plotted attacks on America.
But prosecutor Timothy Stone told the six-member jury of U.S. military officers who will decide Hamdan’s guilt or innocence that Hamdan had inside knowledge of the 2001 attacks on the United States because he overheard a conversation between bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
“If they hadn’t shot down the fourth plane it would’ve hit the dome,” Stone, a Navy officer, said in his opening remarks.
The tribunal’s chief prosecutor, Col. Lawrence Morris, later explained that Stone was quoting Hamdan in evidence that will be presented at trial. Morris declined to say if the “dome” was a reference to the U.S. Capitol.
“Virtually no one knew the intended target, but the accused knew,” Stone said.
United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a field in rural Pennsylvania. U.S. officials have never stated it was shot down although rumors saying that abound to this day.
(My emphasis added.)
(H/T) Peter of LoneTree @ BlondSense.
5 Responses to “Thanks for clearing that up.”
July 23rd, 2008 at
Have you ever seen “Loose Change, Vol. 2″? It’s a dvd about possible US complicity in the 9/11 attacks.
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July 23rd, 2008 at
The Dome of the Rock? Go, turrists! USA! USA! Man, this starchy jingoism sticks in the noggin.
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July 23rd, 2008 at
Was there ever any doubt that flight 93 was shot down? Everything I read pointed in that direction…debris field and all. It is nice that it has been cleared up by the military though.
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July 24th, 2008 at
Despite all the secrecy and innuendo, maybe it was Cheney’s chrome dome they were aiming for!!
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July 24th, 2008 at
Of course it was shot down. The thing that assures us the whole “Let’s roll” story is bullshit is the simple fact that the Bush administration pushed that story. They lie as often as they breathe. There could be a hundred genuine conspiracies that took place that day, and we’d never hear about them from our government.
Oh, and… “the dome”? If by that he meant the Capitol, I believe every American schoolchild guessed that target on the very same day. Du-uh! The driver’s knowledge of that would mean nothing.
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