Friday, August 27, 2004
Shoe Bomb Success?
A captured al-Qaeda operative has told Canadian intelligence investigators that a Montreal man who trained in Afghanistan alongside the 9/11 hijackers was responsible for the crash of an American Airlines flight in New York three years ago.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service agents were told during five days of interviews with the source that Abderraouf Jdey, a Canadian citizen also known as Farouk the Tunisian, had downed the plane with explosives on Nov. 12, 2001.
The source claimed Jdey had used his Canadian passport to board Flight 587 and "conducted a suicide mission" with a small bomb similar to the one used by convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid, a "Top Secret" Canadian government report says.
But officials said it was unlikely Jdey was actually involved in the crash, which killed 265 people and is considered accidental. The fact that al-Qaeda attributed the crash to Jdey, however, suggests they were expecting him to attack a plane.
I've always been suspicious of that "crash". Coming a mere two months and a day after 9/11, our Government had every reason to cover up a terror attack. America wasn't ready to hear that we were attacked again. When wannabe shoe bombmer Richard Reid was arrested, the Government said he was "testing" the shoe bomb, but evidence seems to show that his wasn't the test, the shoe bomb had already been a success, and Reid was just a continuation of Al-Qaeda's war on US aviation.
The tail section of a plane and two engines don't just fall off by accident. NTSB investigators have examined the engines and found no evidence of mechanical failure. Although we were told catastrophic engine failure was the probable cause.
More than a dozen eyewitnesses, including a police lieutenant and a firefighter, said they saw an explosion before the vertical stabilizer and both engines separated from the plane. Aviation expert Vernon Grose said that he's increasingly skeptical
that the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 was accidental.
"I am backing away from the idea that this is simply an accident"
He questions the sequence in which the plane broke up before slamming into
a residential area in Rockaway, Queens. "Photographs indicate the vertical
stabilizer of the aircraft with the American Airlines insignia right on it
fell into Jamaica Bay long before the engine falls off in Queens".
And don't get me started about TWA Flight 800.
