Friday, June 18, 2004
9/11 Confusion
This is the best article I have seen on 9/11 in a long time. I wonder how long it will take for the public to learn what the airlines and FAA knew and when they knew it that day. Apparently the FBI is keeping a lot of information from the public in order for it to be used as evidence in the so called 20th highjacker trial of Zacarias Moussaoui. Victims families were allowed to listen to tapes of selected cell phone conversations from highjacked planes and cockpit voice recorders but were sworn to secrecy. Apparently these recordings have deeply angered and shocked victims families and led them to believe that at least some of the mayhem of 9/11 was preventable.
It doesn't make a lot of sense to me that a public airing of this information would jeopardize a trial of Moussaoui unless his compatriots were recorded saying - "Boy it is too bad that our good friend Zacarias Moussaoui could not be here as he planned, he would have enjoyed this!" I would be agreeable to withhold airing of such a recording until his trial if that is the case. People who have heard these recordings seem to be of the opinion that it is American Airlines managers who are being protected rather than a prosecution effort.
This is the best article I have seen on 9/11 in a long time. I wonder how long it will take for the public to learn what the airlines and FAA knew and when they knew it that day. Apparently the FBI is keeping a lot of information from the public in order for it to be used as evidence in the so called 20th highjacker trial of Zacarias Moussaoui. Victims families were allowed to listen to tapes of selected cell phone conversations from highjacked planes and cockpit voice recorders but were sworn to secrecy. Apparently these recordings have deeply angered and shocked victims families and led them to believe that at least some of the mayhem of 9/11 was preventable.
It doesn't make a lot of sense to me that a public airing of this information would jeopardize a trial of Moussaoui unless his compatriots were recorded saying - "Boy it is too bad that our good friend Zacarias Moussaoui could not be here as he planned, he would have enjoyed this!" I would be agreeable to withhold airing of such a recording until his trial if that is the case. People who have heard these recordings seem to be of the opinion that it is American Airlines managers who are being protected rather than a prosecution effort.
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