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From: 911Truth.org
Date: 04/10/05 20:59:37
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Subject: 9/11 Truth Alert: Larry Flynt, OK City and Pro Bono "Hijacker Hunts"


9/11 Truth Alert: Larry Flynt, OK City and Pro Bono "Hijacker Hunts"

CONTENTS
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- Fundraising Results & Gratias
- Larry Flint takes on 9/11
- Oklahoma City 10th Anniversary Truth Rally
- Play "Hunt the Hijackers" Now!
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FUNDRAISING RESULTS & GRATIAS
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First off 911truth.org would sincerely like to thank the hundreds of you who generously responded to our funds request last month. We collected a little over $4000 -- a decimal place shy of what we needed to launch "911 in 30 seconds" media contest, but enough to help us seed other low-rent projects such as the "Hijacker Hunt" described below. We fully understand the despair now afflicting many truthseekers, but we think that spirits (and donations) will pick up this spring as many heartening new possibilities heave into view.

DONORS NOTE: We have acknowledged and sent premiums to those who contributed by mail, but we are blocked from receiving addresses of online contributors. If you contributed online and would like to finally receive your tax-exemption letter and/or donor premium, please send us your mailing address and put "DONOR REQUEST" on the Subject line. These addresses will not be shared with anyone and will be held in strictest confidence.


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LARRY FLINT TAKES ON 9/11
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Despite hit jobs like the Popular Mechanics' disinfo rant and the suffocating Schiavo/pope/Michael Jackson media congestion overall, our truth may really come alive in 2005 as 9/11 skepticism finally starts to take off in the alternative press. "We're All Paranoid," the 3/21/05 San Francisco Bay Guardian's 9/11 cover story, was exceptionally long, detailed and sympathetic, and nostalgically reminds you what journalism was originally intended to do. (http://911truth.org/article.php?story=2005032321332746 )

The next big, welcome and ironic breakthrough will hit the newsstands the June first as Larry Flint features renowned theologian Dr. David Ray Griffin in a four-page Hustler interview/article entitled "What if Everything You Knew about 9/11 was Wrong?" Hustler is not only a major mass market rag, Flint has exploited it skillfully in the past to break major cover-ups around the FBI, Catholic clergy child abuse, the Clinton-stoners' own sexual scandals, etc. If he gets gratifying feedback on his first 9/11 effort and/or recognizes the need for more investigative follow-through, he could become a formidable ally. In any case, in this interview he will bring the best evidence for US 9/11 complicity a giant step closer to the mass awareness it deserves.

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OKC BOMBING 10TH ANNIVERSARY TRUTH RALLY
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"Former Oklahoma State Representative Charles Key, co-author of “The Final Report”*, in cooperation with The OKC Bombing Investigation Committee, REACH committee, and writer/documentary film producer Christopher Emery are pleased to announce “The OKC Bombing: A Day of Truth ~ Ten Years Later” reception, dinner, and speakers forum to be held in Oklahoma City on Tuesday, April 19th and Wednesday, April 20th, 2005.

Speakers for the special ten-year anniversary event include former U.S. Congressmen Bob Barr and Charles Key, retired USAF Brigadier General Benton K. Partin, local police & grand jury members, and many other heavy OKC truth warriors.

What is new and most hopeful is that Key has also included major 9/11 truth advocates such as former PA Assistant Attorney General Phil J. Berg, Byron Belitsos, Gabriel Day, and many more, and he is further proposing long-term strategic cooperation between the OKC and 9/11 truth movements. This convergence is largely due to the fact the commonalities between the OKC and 9/11 plots have become all too obvious, including the official involvement, the suppressed evidence, the FBI cover-up, the cowed media, and hundreds of victims still hungering for the facts. We urge you to visit the event's website at http://www.okctruth.org and Key's own site at http://www.okcbombing.org for reference and envision ways our two powerful truth crusades can creatively interact.

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PLAY "HUNT THE HIJACKERS" NOW
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Given the new drive for 9/11-related hearings in DC this summer, we feel it is extremely important that these events show up on the media map. One simple powerful way to attract surviving "journalists" and focus public attention is to include one or two of the alleged hijackers in the public witness list.

There have been press stories for years about five surviving "hijackers" who complained FBI reports of their murderous demise were premature at best. Despite these articles and testimony, the FBI has never once attempted to correct their original hijacker list and the 9/11 Commission never questioned their deception on this front at all.

We are therefore asking all of you to help us track down at least two of these gentlemen so they can tell their stories to DC, CSPAN and the American public, and ask why, three years later, the FBI still refuses to clear their names.


We need current addresses, phone numbers and/or emails and we need them asap. If you have any PI skills or investigative talent, we could certainly use some fast help on this front. Please address all your findings (and how you wish them credited) to: investigations@911truth.org

"Hunt the Hijackers" Starting points c/o cooperativeresearch.org

" September 16-23, 2001 : Reports appear in many newspapers suggesting that some of the people the US says were 9/11 hijackers are actually still alive:

Ahmed Alnami is still alive and working as an administrative supervisor with Saudi Arabian Airlines, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01] He had never lost his passport and found it “very worrying” that his identity appeared to have been stolen. [Telegraph, 9/23/01] However, there is another Ahmed Alnami who is ten years younger, and appears to be dead, according to his father. [ABC News, 3/15/02]

Saeed Alghamdi is alive and flying airplanes in Tunisia. [Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01, Telegraph, 9/23/01, BBC, 9/23/01] He says he studied flight training in a Florida flight schools for parts of the years, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001. [Arab News, 9/18/01]

Salem Alhazmi is alive and working at a petrochemical plant in Yanbou, Saudi Arabia. [Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01, Telegraph, 9/23/01] He says his passport was stolen by a pickpocket in Cairo three years ago and that pictures and details such as date of birth are of him. [Guardian, 9/21/01 (C), Washington Post, 9/20/01, Saudi Gazette, 9/29/02]

((Graphic: The Salem Alhazmi on the left [Saudi Gazette, 9/23/01] claims that the FBI pictures of a Salem Alhazmi such as this one on the right [FBI] are of him, from when his passport was stolen. ))


The brothers Waleed M. Alshehri and Wail Alshehri are alive. A Saudi spokesman said, “This is a respectable family. I know his sons, and they're both alive.” The father is a diplomat who has been stationed in the US and Bombay, India. [Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01, Arab News, 9/19/01] There is a second pair of Saudi brothers named Wail and Waleed M. who may have been the real hijackers. Their father says they've been missing since December 2000. [ABC News, 3/15/02, Arab News, 9/17/01] The still living Waleed M. Alshehri is a pilot with Saudi Airlines, studying in Morocco. [Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01, AP, 9/22/01] He acknowledges that he attended flight training school at Dayton Beach in the United States. [BBC, 9/23/01, Daily Trust, 9/24/01] He was interviewed by US officials in Morocco, and cleared of all charges against him (though apparently the FBI photos are still of him!). [Embry Riddle Aeronautical University press release, 9/21/01] The still living Wail Alshehri is also apparently a pilot. [Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01] What are the odds that two Saudi terrorist brothers would find two other Saudi brothers with the same names who were pilots with one even training in Florida?

Abdulaziz Alomari is alive and working as a pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines. [New York Times, 9/16/01, Independent, 9/17/01, BBC, 9/23/01] He claims that his passport was stolen in 1995 while he was living in Denver, Colorado. [Los Angeles Times, 9/21/01] “They gave my name and my date of birth, but I am not a suicide bomber. I am here. I am alive.” [Telegraph, 9/23/01, London Times, 9/20/01]

On September 19, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. distributes a “special alert” to its member banks asking for information about the attackers. The list includes “Al-Midhar, Khalid. Alive.” The Justice Department later calls this a “typo.” [AP, 9/20/01, Cox News, 10/21/01] The BBC says: “There are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Almihdhar, may also be alive.” [BBC, 9/23/01] The Guardian says Almihdhar is believed to be alive, but investigators are looking into three possibilities. Either his name was stolen for a hijacker alias, or he allowed his name to be used so that US officials would think he died, or he died in the crash. [Guardian, 9/21/01 (B)] Almihdhar is wanted for other terrorist acts (see January 15, 2000), so it's not surprising he's still hard to find. There are three official pictures of Almihdhar—one of them doesn't look at all like the other two (see photos on left).

((Graphic: Three different pictures of Khalid Almihdhar. Which one does not belong? [FBI, 2/12/02, Boston Globe, 9/27/01] ))

Marwan Alshehhi may be alive in Morocco. [Saudi Gazette, 9/18/01, Khaleej Times, 9/20/01] Family and neighbors don't believe he took part in the attacks. [Reuters, 9/18/01]

Atta's father says he spoke to his son on the phone on September 12, 2001 (see September 19, 2001 (C)).
No one claims that Hamza Alghamdi is still alive, but his family says the FBI photo “has no resemblance to him at all” (on the other hand, Ahmed Alnami's family says his FBI picture is correct). [Washington Post, 9/25/01]

Majed Moqed was last seen by a friend in Saudi Arabia in 2000. This friend claims the FBI picture doesn't look like Moqed. [Arab News, 9/22/01] There are three official pictures of Majed Moqed—one of them doesn't look at all like the other two (see photos on below right).

The Saudi government has claimed Mohand Alshehri is alive and was not in the US on 9/11, but no more details are known. [ [AP 9/29/01 (B)] imagewidth="300" topic="coverup">The Saudi government insists that five of the Saudis mentioned are still alive. [New York Times, 9/21/01] On September 20, FBI Director Mueller says: “We have several others that are still in question. The investigation is ongoing, and I am not certain as to several of the others.” [Newsday, 9/21/01] On September 27, after all of these revelations, FBI Director Mueller states, “We are fairly certain of a number of them.” [Sun Sentinel, 9/28/01] Could it be that the bodies (and sometimes faces) in question are correct, but the names were stolen? For instance, the Telegraph notes, “The FBI had published [Saeed Alghamdi's] personal details but with a photograph of somebody else, presumably a hijacker who had ‘stolen’ his identity. CNN, however, showed a picture of the real Mr. Alghamdi.” [Telegraph, 9/23/01] Police have even determined who sold at least two of the hijackers their fake ID's. [BBC, 8/1/02 (B)] On September 20, The London Times reported, “Five of the hijackers were using stolen identities, and investigators are studying the possibility that the entire suicide squad consisted of impostors.” [London Times, 9/20/01] Briefly, the press took this story to heart. For instance, a story in the Observer on September 23 put the names of hijackers like Saeed Alghamdi in quotation marks. [Observer, 9/23/01] But the story died down after the initial reports, and it was hardly noticed when Mueller stated on November 2, 2001: “We at this point definitely know the 19 hijackers who were responsible,” and claimed that they were sticking with the names and photos released in late September.

((Graphic: How can all of these pictures be of Majed Moqed? [AP 11/03/02] ))

Yet many of the names and photos are known to be wrong. Perhaps embarrassing facts would come out if we knew their real names, such as more terrorists who studied at military bases or were on watch lists?

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For source and hyperlinks to original press reports see: "September 16-23, 2001" entries at http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&startpos=1100#a091901changingstory