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harrison Donating Member (916 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 08:53 PM
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Great article on 911 Moms. They get the picture....

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.




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whathappened Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 09:00 PM
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1. ya right
man these people have sold so many lines , they don't even rember what they said 5 minutes ago
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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 09:00 PM
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2. What incredible arrogance
"We got lucky" Right. And Bush hit his trifecta.

They knew something like this was going to happen.

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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 09:45 PM
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3. Don't forget the warnings that were ignored
from the flight school in Eagan, MN
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paulthompson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 01:59 AM
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4. dupe
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