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'Don't do
anything foolish, you won't be hurt. We have more planes, we have other planes"
"At 10:45 p.m.
(the night of the attack) FBI
agents arrived at Shuckums Restaurant in Hollywood, Fla., about 30 miles north
of Miami, and began interviewing employees, including Patricia Idrissi,"
read a typical account, in the Charleston Post and Courier
on September 16, 2001.
They showed her pictures of two men. She recognized one. He was the guy who
drank the Stolichnaya vodka for three hours one recent Friday and didn't seem to
want to pay his $48 bar tab.
"Of course I can pay," the man said, according to restaurant workers. "I'm a
pilot."
"As the night wore on, investigators zeroed in on Central and South Florida and
two suspects: Mohamed Atta, the man who was drinking vodka, and Marwan
al-Shehhi, who was drinking rum," the paper reported.
The story went out on the AP wire.
“We were able to recognize both gentlemen,” said
the bar's manager, Tony Amos. He told reporters he had identified a man in a
photo bearing the name Mohamed underneath, who, along with two other men, had
each consumed at least several drinks apiece. Mohamed said he was a pilot, Amos said.
“Atta drank Stoli vodka for three straight
hours,” remembered the bartender, Patricia Adrizi. “The guy, Mohamed, was
drunk,” she told reporters. She identified a picture of his sidekick Marwan
Al-Shehhi, and said he had been drinking rum.
Was Mohamed Atta really an Islamic
fundamentalist?
Maybe Atta was Islamic Stolichnaya
Together with other tales of heavy drinking which
were surfacing, the report was at odds with
the portrait beginning to emerge of the terrorist ringleader as a fanatic and
puritanical Islamic fundamentalist.
What if, instead, Atta was a slick cat? A
cool Arab spy? Someone who knows the importance of the authentic Russian
heritage of their brand of vodka when
you're 'ready to let the night unfold?'
When the Los Angeles Times
mentioned the terrorist’s night at Shuckums in a story on the terrorist final
days a week later, the reports of heavy drinking were gone.
"That same night (Sept 7) down the coast in Florida, Atta and Al-Shehhi went to
Shuckums sports bar in Hollywood along with a still unidentified third man,"
said the Times.
"The owner, Tony Amos, says
Atta sat quietly by himself and drank cranberry juice and played a video game,
while Al-Shehhi and the other customer tossed back mixed drinks and argued."
But wait. There's more.
There’s hard physical evidence to prove something
is very wrong with the only explanation the American people are ever likely to
get..
Atta and Marwan returned a rent a car
at this rental facility in Pompano Beach on Sept 9. This
signed rental car
contract is proof.
Pompano Beach is a considerable distance from
Baltimore.
Mohamed Atta rented several cars at Warrick Rent
a Car during the last month of his life. “They rented two cars over three
different contracts, a total of about five weeks,” proprietor Brad Warrick told
us.
During his questioning by the FBI, Warrick said,
he learned details of the attack which the Bureau has chosen not to tell the
American people. “The FBI told me that Marwan almost missed the building. Marwan
was flying one hundred miles per hour faster than Atta, they said. And that’s
why he flew into the building deeper and that’s why that building came down
first, because there was so much fuel deeper into the building.”
“Their explanation was Atta was very cool, calm,
collected, just zeroed right in on it, just bingo. And Marwan on the other hand,
ten years younger, was just scared to death and he flew erratic, and at the last
minute nearly missed the building.”
“Mohamed dressed to the nines,” said Warrick.
“Nice, nice pants and shirt. Nice clothes, business like. He carried a briefcase
and he had all the credentials he needed… credit card, drivers license, and
proof of insurance and he had that, everything matched.”
As we listened to Brad Warrick’s description of
Mohamed Atta, it sounded like he was describing—not an Islamic
fundamentalist—but a perfect spy. “He had Allstate Insurance,” said Warrick.
“The address on his insurance card matched his drivers license. He was a perfect
customer.”
So... just what’s being concealed here? Was the 9/11
commission investigation just incredibly sloppy? Could there have been a
second Mohamed Atta? This brings up the possibility, slight as it may be.
The FBI report to the 9/11
Commission says nothing about Atta in Miami on Sept 7. For good measure they say
nothing about him being back in Miami Sept 9.
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If Atta
left Ft. Lauderdale for Baltimore on Sept. 7…how could he have been drinking at
Shuckum's raw bar for three hours that afternoon?
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IF Atta left Ft. Lauderdale for
Baltimore on Sept. 7…How could he have been in Fort Lauderdale returning a
rental car
Sept. 9?
These are not small matters.
Imprecision from any branch of the American government in the murder
investigation of 3000 people is unacceptable.
The answer that seems right to us—at least at
this time—is there’s something’s very deliberately being concealed from
the American people about the hijackers final days. So...the really big question about Mohamed Atta's final days
isn’t what was he doing…
Its why are they lying to us about it?
We think at least part of the answer may be in
Portland, Maine. Going to Portland wasn’t a spur of the moment decision. The
terrorist ringleader booked his ticket from there to Boston two weeks before the
attack.
Of course, the FBI told the 9/11 Commission
"nobody knows" why Atta went there...
We think that means something pretty juicy
happened that they don't want known.
NEXT WEEK: THE DRUG RING THE STAFF REPORT SAYS
WASN'T THERE.
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