Gail Sheehy: Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush

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Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush
by Gail Sheehy August 20, 2003 2:20 pm

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After the formal meeting, senior agents in the room faced a grilling by Kristen Breitweiser, a 9/11 widow whose cohorts are three other widowed moms from New Jersey.

"I don’t understand, with all the warnings about the possibilities of Al Qaeda using planes as weapons, and the Phoenix Memo from one of your own agents warning that Osama bin Laden was sending operatives to this country for flight-school training, why didn’t you check out flight schools before Sept. 11?"

"Do you know how many flight schools there are in the U.S.? Thousands," a senior agent protested. "We couldn’t have investigated them all and found these few guys."

"Wait, you just told me there were too many flight schools and that prohibited you from investigating them before 9/11," Kristen persisted. "How is it that a few hours after the attacks, the nation is brought to its knees, and miraculously F.B.I. agents showed up at Embry-Riddle flight school in Florida where some of the terrorists trained?"

"We got lucky," was the reply.

Kristen then asked the agent how the F.B.I. had known exactly which A.T.M. in Portland, Me., would yield a videotape of Mohammed Atta, the leader of the attacks. The agent got some facts confused, then changed his story. When Kristen wouldn’t be pacified by evasive answers, the senior agent parried, "What are you getting at?"

"I think you had open investigations before Sept. 11 on some of the people responsible for the terrorist attacks," she said.

"We did not," the agent said unequivocally.

A month later, on the morning of July 24, before the scathing Congressional report on intelligence failures was released, Kristen and the three other moms from New Jersey with whom she’d been in league sat impassively at a briefing by staff director Eleanor Hill: In fact, they learned, the F.B.I. had open investigations on 14 individuals who had contact with the hijackers while they were in the United States. The flush of pride in their own research passed quickly. This was just another confirmation that the federal government continued to obscure the facts about its handling of suspected terrorists leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks.

So afraid is the Bush administration of what could be revealed by inquiries into its failures to protect Americans from terrorist attack, it is unabashedly using Kremlin tactics to muzzle members of Congress and thwart the current federal commission investigating the failures of Sept. 11. But there is at least one force that the administration cannot scare off or shut up. They call themselves "Just Four Moms from New Jersey," or simply "the girls."
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link http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage3.asp

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2. I highly recommend this article!

If the link doesn't work, try going to

http://www.observer.com/

and you can find a link there from that front page.

I've been in some email contact with a couple of these women exchanging info for my 9/11 Timeline, and they do really kick butt.

Here's a really interesting paragraph:

"We can’t get any information about the Port Authority’s evacuation procedures or the response of the City of New York," complains Kristen. "We’re always told we can’t get answers or documents because the F.B.I. is holding them back as part of an ongoing investigation. But when Director Mueller invited us back for a follow-up meeting—on the very morning before that damning report was released—we were told the F.B.I. isn’t pursuing any investigations based on the information we are blocked from getting. The only thing they are looking at is the hijackers. And they’re all dead."

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In a democracy that had a real free press, you'd think the fact that there are no 9/11 related investigations going on would be big news! Especially since the latest 9/11 report showed that over a dozen associates of the hijackers were being investigated BEFORE 9/11. Where are these people now? For instance, there's an imam, Anwar Aulaqi, who was a close friend of two of the hijackers mentioned extensively in that report. Just after the report came out, the FBI said the imam was cleared of all suspicions of terrorist ties. A few days after that, Newsweek found a friend of the imam in San Diego who told them the imam told him in August 2001 that he would be leaving for Kuwait. "He came over before he left and told me that something very big was going to happen, and that he had to be out of the country when it happened," this friend says.

Yet there hasn't been a single person charged by the US for any role in the 9/11 plot since 9/11! Why aren't obviously suspect people like this imam even being investigated?

Talk about a cover up, aided and abetted by the media!

[stilpist]

3. Wow! That's powerful!

All hail those four women!

Unfortunately they're up against the immovable object. Former governor Bush obviously can't let anyone ever find out what really happened. And he's got the entire U.S. government at his disposal.

- stil