Anthony Summers - The Eleventh Day

46 removed/FBI warehouse:ibid., 24, Libération , 3/30/02, “Arlington County After-Action Report,” www.co.arlington.va.us/fire/edu/about/pdf/after_report.pdf, Annex C, 53–;

47 report concluded:Mlakar et al., 58;

48 “hogwash”/“To look”:corr. Mete Sozen, 2010;

49 Empire State:“B-25 Empire State Building Collision,” www.aerospaceweb.org, “Ask the Pilot,” Salon , 5/19/06;

50 photos:Goldberg et al., photo section;

51 “planted”:Griffin, Debunking ,

52 “Don’t be taken in”:“New Study from Pilots for 9/11 Truth: No Boeing Hit the Pentagon, Global Research , 6/24/07. Fetzer was impressed by the suggestion from James Hanson, a retired attorney, who claimed that he had traced the debris that was found at the Pentagon to an American Airlines 757 that crashed in Colombia in 1995! (ibid. & Idaho Observer , 2/8/05);

53 aircraft remains:“Photos of Flt 77 Wreckage Inside the Pentagon,” by Sarah Roberts, www.rense.com (referred to the authors by Sarandis Papadopoulos, an editor of Pentagon 9/11 , whom Roberts consulted), “Pentagon & Boeing 757 Engine Investigation,” www.aerospace.org, “Airplane Fragment in Patriotic Box,” exhibit description, http://americanhistory.si.edu, Libération , 3/30/02.

54 Carter:address at Coalition on Political Assassinations conference, 2002. The ashes given to May’s fiancé are interred in Maryland.

55 Flight 77 crew remains:Submission by Toni Knisley, American Airlines flight service administration manager, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, http://ns11makehistory.appspot.com, Burlingame bio. at www.arlingtoncemetery.net. Forensic work on the Pentagon victims was done by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at Dover, Delaware. Remains of five individuals also found at the crash scene, and believed to be those of the hijackers, were eventually handed over to the FBI (Goldberg et al., 183, 178).

56 remains identified:Goldberg et al., 177–, 183, 204, “Attack on the Pentagon,” www.arlingtoncemetery.net;

57 photos:Exhibits P200042, P200045, P200047, P200048, U.S. v. Zacarias Moussaoui , www.vaed.uscourts.gov;

58 “A stillness”:Goldberg et al., 195;

59 “the bodies”/“For all we know”:Griffin, Debunking , 268–.

60 “cell phone calls”:“Operation Pearl,” 8/03, www.serendipity.li. Wireless and cell phone industry sources have said cell phone calls from planes were possible—even from high altitudes—at the time of 9/11, though connections were sporadic (e.g., NYT , 9/14/01, “Final Contact,” 11/1/01, www.connectedplanet.com, eds. Dunbar & Reagan, 83–, David Aaronovitch, Voodoo Histories , London: Jonathan Cape, 2009, 224).

61 seatback not cell phone:In May’s case, the skeptics’ claims grew out of early news reports that the attendant used her cell phone to call home—the record shows she did not. Solicitor General Theodore Olson, for his part, made it clear in a Fox News interview after 9/11 that he simply did not know what sort of phone his wife had used to call. The records now available show that only seatback phone calls, or attempted calls, were made from Flight 77.

The skeptics have claimed flatly that American Airlines 757s “were not equipped with seatback phones.” Though the airline had apparently decided to discontinue seatback phone service prior to 9/11, analysis indicates that such phones were still in use on some flights as late as March 2002. That they were still in use on 9/11 is evident from the phone records alone.

The skeptics have also claimed that the reports of passengers’ calls from Flight 93—see Ch. 7—are suspect. Griffin even suggests that Todd Beamer’s long call to operator Lisa Jefferson did not occur. Beamer’s call, however, is listed in the telephone company records now available. As in the case of Flight 77, early reports of “cell phone calls” made from Flight 93 sowed confusion. Deena Burnett, widow of Flight 93 passenger Tom Burnett, told the FBI that her husband made a series of three to five calls home on his cell phone. The records show that Burnett made three calls on a seatback phone. There is no way of knowing whether Mrs. Burnett simply misremembered the exact number of calls she got from her husband, or whether he did use his cell phone to make some of the calls. The records show that many Flight 93 calls, initially described as being by cell phone, in fact originated from seatback phones (early news:

Las Vegas Review Journal

, 9/13/01; made it clear: Olson, Fox News, 9/14/01;

only

seatback phone: DOJ “Briefing on Cell and Phone Calls from AA77,” 5/20/04, in “Flight 93 Calls” folder [inc. details on other flights], B12, T7, CF, & Moschella to Marcus [& attachments], 4/26/04, in

“Flight 11 Calls folder—Calls from AA11, AA77, UA175, & UA93, ATT Wireless & GTE Airphones,” B13, T7, CF; “were not equipped”: Griffin,

Debunking

, 266–; discontinue/analysis: “Airline Grounds In-Flight Phone Service,” 2/6/02,

www.news.cnet.com

,

Business Week

, 9/30/02, AA spokesman John Hotard cited at “American Airlines Flight 77 Calls,”

www.911myths.com

; suspect: e.g., Griffin,

Debunking

, 86–, 292–; Griffin re. Beamer: “The Ultimate 9/11 Truth Showdown,” 10/6/08,

www.alternet.org

; Burnett: FBI 302 of int. Deena Burnett, 9/11/01, INTELWIRE, Moschella to Marcus [& attachments], 4/26/04, records show: MFR 04020029, 5/13/04, CF, FBI 302 of int. Mark Rugg, 7/1/02, “Key 302s,” B19, T7, CF).

62 “have had a little”:“Comments on the Pentagon Strike,” www.cassiopaea.org;

63 “transformers”/“morphing”:Griffin, Debunking , 89, 86;

64 “Either Ted”/“is based on”:“The Ultimate 9/11 Truth Showdown, www.alternet.org;

65 scattered in three:Exhibit P200318, U.S. v. Zacarias Moussaoui .

66 “It took”:transcript, Larry King Weekend , CNN, 1/6/02; Mrs. Olson is indeed interred in Door County, at Ellison Bay Cemetery. Had Dr. Griffin cared to check, he could have established this long before he made his most recent suggestion, in 2008, that she might be alive. (Ellison Bay Cemetery: int. Mayor’s Office, Liberty Grove, WI, Barbara K. Olson listing, www.findagrave.com).

67 “cannot ignore”:Griffin, Debunking , 266, & see Griffin, New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 , Moreton-in-March, U.K.: Arris, 2009, 28;

68 “overwhelming”/“an inside”:Griffin, Debunking , 1, 309, & see Griffin & Scott, Empire , 12;

69 “a prima facie”: Griffin, New Pearl Harbor , 2009, 131.

70 Project:“Rebuilding America’s Defenses,” Washington, D.C.: Project for the New American Century, Sept. 2000, 10, 4, 51, “Statement of Principles,” www.newamericancentury.org.

71 “the Pearl Harbor”: WP , 1/27/02; This part of the passage echoed almost word for word testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee in 1999. The then–executive director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Andrew Krepinevich, spoke of the difficulties in transforming the U.S. military, “in the absence of a strong external shock to the United States—a latter-day ‘Pearl Harbor’ of sorts” (testimony of Andrew Krepinevich, 3/5/99).