Just three weeks after Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi arrived on July 3, 2000 to attend the flight school at Huffman Aviation in Venice, FL., the owner of the flight school, Wallace J. Hilliard, had his Learjet surrounded by DEA agents with submachine guns on the runway of Orlando Executive Airport.

Agents found 43 pounds of heroin, arrested everyone onboard, and confiscated the plane.

Any honest prosecutor in the country would have instantly linked the huge heroin haul discovered on the flight school owner’s plane to Mohamed Atta’s arrival at his flight school, and understood that he was looking into the heart of a continuing criminal conspiracy.

Before 9/11, someone with big clout in the Bush Administration was buying heroin from Osama bin Laden.

http://www.madcowprod.com/

See also http://www.madcowprod.com/04182006.html for more dirt.

Out of 200 flight schools in Florida, why did the terrorists choose to attend a drug trafficking school?

For the record, Hopsicker vehemently disagrees with the thermite-brought-down-the-twin-towers theory.

… Brigham Young University physicist Steven Jones … said he believes an incendiary substance called Thermite, bolstered by sulfur … to generate exceptionally hot fires at the World Trade Center, [caused] the structural steel to fail and the buildings to collapse.

In addition to his research in scientific areas, Jones is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and has also published papers like “Behold My Hands: Evidence for Christ’s Visit in Ancient America,â€? on archeological clues he has found supporting the belief that Jesus Christ visited Latin America after his resurrection, as chronicled in the Book of Mormon.

They don’t call it the Wing Nut Daily for nothing Rob.

I’m with boredinHK. It is just a TV show and I expect the commercial networks couldn’t give a fig about whether the 911 movies are factually based or not and if they accurately portray events. It is all about cashing in via ratings.

Do your democratic duty and ring Channel Ten, point out that you are a great supporter of the prime minister’s views on accurate historical information, and that you therefore request them not to show the film until such time that producers fix the well-documented errors.

Their phone number is Ph: (02) 9650 1010.

Patterson told WND he recognizes the television production conflates several events, but, in terms of conveying how the Clinton administration handled its opportunities to get bin Laden, it’s “100 percent factually correct,” he said.

But what version of the show did he view?

An ABC executive who requested anonymity told the Washington Post the network has made “adjustments and refinements” to the drama that are “intended to make clearer that it was general indecisiveness” by federal officials that left the U.S. vulnerable to attack, and “not any one individual.”

[Both quotes from Rob's source cited above.]

PS, I agree wholeheartedly with Frank Zappa.

But by the same token the whole scenario of 9/11 was so radically different from anything experienced before, it’s not hard to see why so many people failed to imagine the worst.

Important point and it does explain a lot of the governmental and intelligence failures leading up to the attacks. It was an audacious plan. It will never likely happen again but prior to 911 was not something that, for good reasons, was ever considered.

Fidel Catro will be next i think, but still musing as to who i should morph him into.