PENTAGON RESEARCH

Why has Flight 93 suddenly taken center stage? Why have cockpit tapes and photos been released after 4 years in secrecy? Is it coincidence that the film United 93 has been promoted in conjunction with the Moussaoui trial? Is it coincidence that it will be released in theaters near the announcement of the trial verdict?

The truth is that we're witnessing a shrewd and calculated move to shift the public focus and 9/11 sentiment onto the Flight 93 story. 9/11 Truth groups have successfully started awakening people to the facts of the four events that occurred that day. Of those four events only one was in a remote, obscure field. Only one is unavailable for substantial inspection of evidence. Only one is embedded in a legend of American heroism. Plain and simple it is the last resort of the perpetrators to hide.

When was the very first mention of Flight 93 in conjunction with a story of heroism? The answer lies in an interview conducted in the vice president’s office on September 11, 2002 with CNN’s John King:

“Word came that Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania. Aides frantically called the White House to find out whether a military jet had shot it down.

'The vice president was a little bit ahead of us,’ said Eric Edelman, Cheney's national security advisor. ‘He said sort of softly and to nobody in particular, 'I think an act of heroism just took place on that plane.'" CNN

So let's try and imagine the situation. Cheney and Rice are in an underground bunker. From the 9/11 Commission Report we know the phone line to the president wasn't working. Cheney had just given shootdown orders. His aides were "frantic". Attacks had already occurred killing thousands. Washington was being evacuated and false reports of every kind were flying everywhere. The aides were trying to find out if our own military had shot the aircraft down. But Cheney says, ".... sort of softly and to nobody in particular, 'I think an act of heroism just took place on that plane.'" Stop and think about that for a second.

What could he have possibly based that statement on? Even his aide noticed Cheney was, “a little bit ahead of us”. I would go so far as to say he was a lot ahead of everybody. There was absolutely no possible way that Cheney was aware of the alleged cell phone calls and most certainly he had not heard the cockpit voice recorder. Where did he get his idea from? Was it a pre-planned story? Was it his cover story for giving illegal shootdown orders without the president's approval?

The least likely thing of all the possibilities that would've happened to that aircraft is that passengers could take control of the cockpit and cause the hijackers to crash it. There is no historical precedent for such a thing to even come up with the idea. In retrospect we were told the 4 alleged hijackers had bombs, knives, box cutters and mace. They were overpowered? Inexperienced hijackers might have lost control of a plane they had never flown before, a bomb may have gone off, or maybe it was shot down. Is there any other "official" evidence that something else took place on that plane?

In a typical Rumsfeldian slip Donald Rumsfeld in an address to the troops on Christmas Eve, “made a passing reference to United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to stop al Qaeda hijackers. But in his remarks, Rumsfeld referred to ‘the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania’." CNN

How similar is a plane being shot down and passenger heroes taking control of an aircraft and saving America from a fourth terrorist attack? How would the terrorists have "shot down" the plane - did they have fighter jets too? Those are two completely different concepts with no similarity at all. If you were certain of the Flight 93 story how could you even think of the notion it had been shot down? Read the CNN article referenced above to see how the complicit media scrambled to cover this slip.

With the official story crumbling rapidly and being replaced by truth, the spin doctors are as frantic as Cheney's aides were. The first effort to direct the public’s attention away from the facts at the WTC and the Pentagon to Flight 93 occurred in January when the A&E channel aired its film Flight 93. The next diversion occurred March 27th when Rumsfeld made his first visit to the Flight 93 crash site in over four years and said, “This is so much more personal. ... I've already been to the others and have wanted to come here because it's also such an important site. It's important to pay respect to these heroes." (Source)

Nearly the entire emphasis of the Moussaoui trial was Flight 93. For the first time in over 4 years they released the alleged tape of the last minutes of Flight 93 for the dramatic effect. Everything else vanished into a hole in a field but apparently that recording survived. Why not play the last minutes of any of the other three flights? Why not tell their story? Why not allow the full transcripts of the 9-1-1 audio recordings from the WTC? Why not the video from the Pentagon? It seems that never before viewed footage of an aircraft actually impacting the Pentagon would be more effective than a scratchy audio tape that was so hard to hear in the courtroom that they had to subtitle it.

The most interesting comment of the Moussaoui trial was, "Under cross-examination by defense attorney Edward B. MacMahon Jr., Fitzgerald [FBI] acknowledged that there was no evidence of any contact between Moussaoui and the hijackers." What? NO EVIDENCE. Washington Post

This trial was a well-crafted diversion to promote Flight 93 as a legend and give unsuspecting Americans a false sense of justice. The trial officials were even on FOX news outside the courthouse saying how accurate the film was. It hasn't even been released and they had already previewed it?

Remember, any reconstruction of Flight 93 is purely imagination. It is based on very little physical evidence from the crash site (which is only a hole), an alleged cockpit recording that has mysteriously been withheld for over four years, several alleged cell phone calls and Dick Cheney’s underground bunker premonition.

The rest is pure public manipulation to direct the average person's attention away from the facts now being presented about the WTC and the Pentagon by the 9/11 Truth movement. The story of heroism connects with our emotions and makes us feel irreverent if we are ever asked to question the story. This will happen to millions of people. Look for this movie to be one of the top films of all time.

Russell Pickering

Read this extremely honest movie review by Cole Smithey