Thank God we're not Russia

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:52:26 -0700, "gatt"
wrote:

In that case, then, we should have disbelieved the attacks of 9/11 until the
NTSB investigation reports came out. I mean...how did we even know the
planes crashed at all until the government investigators told us it was
acceptable to think such a thing?

K'mon Gatt, you're getting to be kind of out there with this line. No
one is claiming there were no crashes, they're just saying wait a bit
for the evidence that the crashes were due to explosions. They got
the flight data recorders, perhaps there will be evidence enough from
them to tell.

As to the WTC, again k'mon. You know as well as everyone else that
the eye witness reports were backed up by extraordinary video footage
of the airplanes smacking into the buildings and exploding in a huge
fireball. Within hours the CIA and FBI had leads on the hijackers.

Three buildings hit, four airliners down, all flights within the US
grounded within hours... there's no comparison to what happened in
Russia. It may well be that terrorists managed to plant bombs in the
airliners and blow them up in flight. But aside from "witnesses"
there is no other evidence yet to say that. Be patient, there's no
reason for it not to come out.

Corky Scott

Corky Scott wrote:

They got
the flight data recorders, perhaps there will be evidence enough from
them to tell.

NPR news this afternoon stated that the recorders contained nothing to indicate the
cause of the crashes. That seems awful fast work to me, though -- it usually takes
months for the NTSB to complete work with all the recorders of a typical airliner
crash. Perhaps they were referring to only the cockpit data recorders.

Yury? Do you know how many recorders the Tupolevs usually have?

George Patterson
If you want to know God's opinion of money, just look at the people
he gives it to.

"Corky Scott" wrote in message
No one is claiming there were no crashes, they're just saying wait a bit
for the evidence that the crashes were due to explosions.

They are? Where? Quote, please.

As to the WTC, again k'mon. You know as well as everyone else that
the eye witness reports were backed up by extraordinary video footage
of the airplanes smacking into the buildings and exploding in a huge
fireball.

Yeah, but other than the few million witnesses, what did the NTSB really
have for proof that it was terrorism? Sounds like a ludicrous question,
huh? Kinda like arguing that there's no evidence that the two Russian jets
that crashed didn't explode, given, you know, all the witnesses saying they
exploded.

Forgive me for not being a Russian bureaucrat. I'm just not good at that
sort of thing.

-c