9-11 Clean Up Crew At
Work?
July 4--Venice Florida
The owner of one of the two
Venice, FL. flight schools at which Mohamed Atta and his terrorist cadre
learned to fly barely survived the crash of a private plane last
Wednesday when it nose-dived to earth after taking off from the Venice
Airport.
The MadCowMorningNews has
learned that subsequent events have left local aviation experts wondering
if Arne Kruithof's near brush with death was just accident, or something
more sinister.
Arne Kruithof, owner of Florida
Flight Training, was one of three men who dragged themselves out of the
mangled fuselage of a Twin Beech E18 and dashed to safety just moments
before the plane's 300 gallons of fuel exploded in a fireball.
Onboard along with co-pilot
Kruithof, whose school trained Siad Al Jarrah, the terrorist at the controls
of the plane that went down in western Pennsylvania, were the pilot, Glenn
Goodman, and passenger John Mills.
The men, who told investigators
they were on their way for a pleasure trip to Cancun, were "shaken up,
but essentially without injuries," according to a Venice Police spokesman.
"They were really lucky to
walk away from this."
While 'mechanical failure'
is believed to be responsible, the precise cause of the crash remains unknown.
"Did they check the fuel
tanks for rubber balloons?"
The MadCowMorningNews has
learned that Kruithof's near brush with death has local aviation experts
wondering if the crash was just an accident.
Could someone now be attempting
to ensure Kruithof’s silence in the so-far anemic Congressional 9/11
investigation?
Does someone want Arne Kruithof
dead?
This notion was bolstered
late this week by the unseemly haste with which the plane's wreckage was
destroyed... well before an FAA finding on the cause of the crash.
"The plane was almost immediately
dragged off to be compacted even though the FAA hadn't yet determined the
cause for the crash," one local aviation observer told us.
"That's not just irregular.
It's highly irregular. So we're all kind of wondering just what the hell's
going on. And besides... isn't it a little warm in Cancun in July?"
Magic Dutch Boys Two by
Two
It was Dutch national Kruithof's
purchase of one of the two Venice flight schools, at the same time fellow
countryman Rudi Dekkers purchased the other, that led to them being dubbed
the Venice 'Magic Dutch Boys.'
("Two damn Dutch boys training
terrorist pilots is one damn Dutch boy too many," growled one famous Southern
lawman to us last fall. "It's untidy.")
Even before the tragedy of
September 11th, both men's dealings had lifted some eyebrows at the Venice
Airport... And though both have gotten a free ride from the national press
that has done nothing to lift the cloud of suspicion hanging over them
locally among their aviation peers.
The two flight schools at
Venice Municipal Airport cater almost exclusively to international students.
Huffman President Rudi Dekkers has trained some 800 foreign students at
his school during the past two years.
Venice residents said the
city's other flight school, Florida Flight Training, also had numerous
international students.
Kruithof is expected to testify
at Congressional Hearings at some point both about his relationship with
Rudi Dekkers--the other Dutch national flight school owner at the Venice
Airport--and partner Pascal Schreier, a German national living in Munich.
"Say, didn't the terrorists
come from Hamburg?"
Their company, Aviation Aspirations,
(Kruithof is VP) provides both financial assistance and a "Mentor
Programme."
Schreier recruited students
in, among other places, Hamburg. The company's motto, somewhat ironically,
is: "Better training because we care."
About their "mentoring programme,"
the company's literatures says: "The help is both financial and practical.
We now provide one-to-one practical assistance from experienced Professional
Pilots (our Mentors) whom we have established throughout the world.
Could 'mentor' be just a
cute way to say 'handler?'
Do good recruitment prospects
require special mentoring?
French newspaper Le Monde
has reported that Osama Bin Laden's brother Yeslam sent student pilots
to Venice for training.
Is Aviation Aspirations a
front, being used as a vehicle to recruit and assess potential intel assets
like terrorist pilots?
Birds of a Feather
The crash also threw a spotlight
on some of Kruithof's curious associations.
Glen Goodman, the pilot of
the downed Beech craft and Kruithof's partner in Florida Flight Maintenance,
for example, incorporated a business in Florida in July of 2000, just after
the terrorist pilots began training at the Venice Airport.
Named for the "N-Number"
of the business's sole asset, an aging DC3, it never filed an annual
report and was subsequently closed by the State of Florida--like many other
companies related to the Venice 'Magic Dutch Boys--on September 21,2001.
When we ran the N number
we discovered that the plane's colorful history includes long stints in
exotic locales like Manuel Noriega's Panama, Costa Rica, and Fort Lauderdale,
and is now resting in a military flight museum, exactly the same kind of
venue from which the CIA has 'liberated' military planes in the past for
use by foreign drug cartels.
Known as N90079, Inc., the
company was set up as a "for profit" corporation, not as a "fund-raising
sponsor or non-profit" that might otherwise associate with a program to
raise money to restore planes for a museum.
In fact, the plane can be
traced back to an infamous South Florida Customs airplane "boneyard," where
"planes with checkered pasts" in a fenced storage yard... like the sister
ship to the Fairchild C-123 shot down over Nicaragua in 1986 with Eugene
Hasenfus aboard.
Goodman has apparently allowed
a certain Christian missionary organization named Missionair to use the
DC3 to ferry around the Caribbean something called the "Living Water Teaching
Ministry."
Could the CIA be using Christian
operations like Missionair, and Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing at the
nearby Sarasota Airport, for cover in the Caribbean, just as Bin Laden's
people use Muslim charities?
It is all probably just coincidence.
It is probably also just
coincidence that the sister company to Magic Dutch Boy Rudi Dekkers' terrorist
training school, a failed airline had in its brief lifespan just one celebrity
endorser...
Florida Secretary of State
Katherine Harris. From the Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
"As one of Florida's top
politicians, Katherine Harris doesn't have much time to do a lot of personal
traveling. So she appreciates the convenience that Florida Air offers."
In the indifferently-motivated
September 11th investigations so far, the one really burning question hasn't
even come up. It is this:
"What's been going on
in Florida?"
One Florida law-enforcement
official involved in the probe of the Sept. 11 attacks shakes his head
ruefully.
"First we couldn't count
votes. Now we're training terrorists."
We think the state should
post signs at all of its borders:
"Welcome to Terror-Land."
"Remain seated at all times." |