There are also problems in relation to many of the other alleged hijackers. For example, the BBC reported that Waleed al-Shehri, who supposedly died along with Atta on American Flight 11, spoke to journalists and American authorities in Casablanca the following week.44 Moreover, there were clearly two men going by the name Ziad Jarrah the name of the alleged hijacker pilot of United Flight 93.45
Accordingly, besides the fact the men labeled "the hijackers" were not devout Muslims, they may not have even been Muslims of any type.
And if that were not bad enough for the official story, there is no good evidence that these men were even on the planes - all the evidence for this claim falls apart upon examination. I will illustrate this point with a few examples.46
B. Passports at the Crash Sites
One of the purported proofs that the 19 men identified as the hijackers were on the planes was the reported discovery of some of their passports at crash sites. But the reports of these discoveries are not believable.
For example, the FBI claimed that, while searching the
streets after the destruction of the World Trade Center, they discovered
the passport of Satam al-Suqami, one of the hijackers on American
Flight 11, which had crashed into the North Tower.47 But for this to be
true, the passport would have had to survive the collapse of the North
Tower, which evidently pulverized almost everything in the building into
fine particles of dust except the steel and al-Suqami's passport.
But this claim was too absurd to pass the giggle test:
"[T]he idea that [this] passport had escaped from that inferno
unsinged," remarked a British commentator, "would [test] the credulity
of the staunchest supporter of the FBI's crackdown on terrorism."48 By
2004, the claim had been modified to say that "a passer-by picked it up
and gave it to a NYPD detective shortly before the World Trade Center
towers collapsed."49 So, rather than needing to survive the collapse of
the North Tower, the passport merely needed to escape from al-Suqami's
pocket or luggage, then from the plane's cabin, and then from the North
Tower without being destroyed or even singed by the giant fireball.
This version was no less ridiculous than the first one, and the other stories about passports at crash sites are equally absurd.
C. Reported Phone Calls from the Airliners
It is widely believed, of course, that we know that there
were hijackers on the airliners, thanks to numerous phone calls from
passengers and crew members, in which they reported the hijackings. But
we have good reasons to believe that these calls never occurred.
Reported Calls from Cell Phones: About 15 of the reported
calls from the airliners were said to have been made on cell phones,
with about 10 of those being from United Flight 93 the one that
reportedly crashed in Pennsylvania. Three or four of those calls were
received by Deena Burnett, who knew that her husband, Tom Burnett, had
used his cell phone, she told the FBI, because she recognized his cell
phone number on her Caller ID.
However, given the cell phone technology available in 2001,
high-altitude cell phone calls from airliners were not possible. They
were generally not possible much above 1,000 feet, and were certainly
impossible above 35,000 or even 40,000 feet, which was the altitude of
the planes when most of the cell phone calls were supposedly made.
Articles describing the impossibility of the calls were published in
2003 and 2004 by two well-known Canadians: A. K. Dewdney, formerly a
columnist for Scientific American, and economist Michel Chossudovsky.50
Perhaps in response, the FBI changed the story. In 2006, it
presented a report on the phone calls from the planes for the trial of
Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker. In its report on United
Flight 93, it said that cell phones were used for only two of the
calls, both of which were made the plane, shortly before it crashed, had
descended to a low altitude.51 These two calls were, in fact, the only
two cell phone calls made from any of the airliners, the FBI report
said.52 The FBI thereby avoided claiming that any high-altitude cell
phone calls had been made.
But if the FBI's new account is true, how do we explain that so many people reported receiving cell phone calls? Most of these people said that they had been told by the caller that he or she was using a cell phone, so we might suppose that their reports were based on bad hearing or faulty memory. But what about Deena Burnett, whose statement that she recognized her husband's cell phone number on her Caller ID was made to the FBI that very day?53 If Tom Burnett used a seat-back phone, as the FBI's 2006 report says, why did his cell phone number show up on his wife's Caller ID? The FBI has not answered this question.
The only possible explanation seems to be that these calls were faked. Perhaps someone used voice morphing technology, which already existed at that time,54 in combination with a device for providing a fake Caller ID, which can be ordered on the Internet. Or perhaps someone used Tom's cell phone to place fake calls from the ground. In either case, Tom Burnett did not actually call his wife from aboard United Flight 93. And if calls to Deena Burnett were faked, we must assume that all of the calls were because if there had really been surprise hijackings, no one would have been prepared to make fake phone calls to her.
The Reported Calls from Barbara Olson: This conclusion is reinforced by the FBI's report on phone calls from American Flight 77 the one that supposedly struck the Pentagon. Ted Olson, the US Solicitor General, reported that his wife, Barbara Olson (a well-known commentator on CNN), had called him twice from this flight, with the first call lasting "about one (1) minute,"55 and the second call lasting "two or three or four minutes."56 In these calls, he said, she reported that the plane had been taken over by hijackers armed with knives and box-cutters.
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