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Ernesto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 12:22 PM
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Two who put Moussaoui on FBI's radar speak out
In their first public interviews, Nelson and Sims recount how they set the case into motion:
At only one of those schools - Pan Am's Eagan facility - did employees sniff out an al-Qaida operative's suspicious behavior and tip off the FBI. To do so, Nelson, a flight engineer, and Sims, a Texas-born pilot, say they had to buck resistance from company headquarters.
Nelson thought about a videotape, "Security First," that Japan-based Nippon Cargo Airlines had sent to the school. It described an incident a year and a half earlier in which a deranged young man hijacked a Nippon Boeing 747-400 in Japan, fatally stabbed the captain and flew over Tokyo for 45 minutes before the co-captain regained control.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/12819925p-13670124c.html


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Greyskye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 01:17 PM
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1. Good background on official resistance
on the corporate level:

After comparing notes with Nelson, McHale decided to call Pan Am headquarters in Miami.

He said a company salesman responded forcefully: "Alan, he's a paying customer. He paid. Leave him alone."


Excellent article. Use www.bugmenot.com to bypass the registration page.


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seafan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 02:53 PM
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2. Another article with very detailed info:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5365905.html

"How 2 men helped FBI bring down Moussaoui", from April 24.

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Prevost said Moussaoui wanted to learn how to take off and land and to fly between JFK and Heathrow airports as "an ego thing" that he could tell his buddies about.

But McHale said Prevost expressed concern that "there's really something wrong with this guy."

In particular, he was disturbed that the new student had asked whether it was possible to shut off oxygen to passengers, McHale said.



Can you imagine if Americans knew this information outright, right now, and also knew of the great lengths this administration has engaged in, to keep us all from finding out about this, this administration would be out of office on its ear and lining up defense lawyers.



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MasonJar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 04:34 PM
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3. Any group of people that can vote a person in who has tortured
prisoners just does not give a da_n about anything this cabal does.
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