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RE: WTC: pilot puzzle

  • From: Mathias Körber
  • Date: Thu Sep 13 22:20:07 2001

Yup. And it taught me that references to CNN URLs are
useless, as CNN updates the stories. One has to save/quote
the whole articles. (In the first version of that article
there was no mention of Ameer's earlier death).

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Leigh Anne Chisholm [mailto:[email protected]]
| Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 08:24
| To: Patrick W. Gilmore; Mathias Körber; [email protected]
| Subject: RE: WTC: pilot puzzle
| 
| 
| The second (CNN) article did say that Ameer was believed to have 
| been killed
| in a mid-air collision but the article became bizarre because it 
| went on to
| say that Ameer Bukhari and his brother were two of the pilots responsible
| for the hijackings on Tuesday.   I've heard about faking your death, but
| it's kind of difficult to fake your death when you collide mid-air with
| another aircraft.
| 
| The second article has since been updated to say that Ameer's 
| brother Adnan
| is actually in FBI custody and is cooperating with FBI agents.  Neither
| Bukhari brother (alive or dead) piloted the hijacked aircraft.  
| The article
| says the mistake was made because their names were "tied to a car 
| left at an
| airport in Portland, Maine".  Adnan Bukhari's lawyer is saying that it
| appears the brothers' identities were stolen and that Adnan had no role in
| the hijackings.  There is an apology from CNN on that link.  The story
| itself has been corrected, and an apology has been inserted into the text.
| 
| It was an interesting mystery while it lasted...
| 
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
| > Patrick W. Gilmore
| > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:02 AM
| > To: Mathias Körber; [email protected]
| > Subject: Re: WTC: pilot puzzle
| >
| >
| >
| > At 01:31 PM 9/13/2001 +0800, Mathias Körber wrote:
| >  >
| >  >This was just mentioned on a CNN chatboard:
| >  >
| >  >quote from the board: So Ameer Bukhari, student pilot, from 
| Vero Beach,
| >  >Florida was killed in a plane crash on 9-11-00 and Ameer
| > Bukhari from Vero
| >  >Beach, Florida hijacked a plane and crashed it into the
| > WTC/Pentagon/rural
| >  >area on 9-11-01? What is going on? The first link is to a cincinatti
| >  >newspaper, scroll down and read about the plane crash. Check out the 2
| >  >articles.
| >  >
| >  >http://enquirer.com/editions/2000/09/13/loc_tristate_a_m_report.html
| >  >http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/12/investigation.terrorism
| >
| > The second article says:
| >
| > <quote>
| > Ameer Bukhari is believed to have been killed in a light aircraft
| > accident
| > prior to Tuesday's attacks.
| > </quote>
| >
| > Where is the contradiction?
| >
| >
| >  >Mathias Körber     |2385 Bay Road
| > |Tel:+1-650-381.6044|Fax:+1-650-381.6055
| >
| > --
| > TTFN,
| > patrick
|