•    Reviews & Comments on Daniel Hopsicker's Inestigations…
  • “Hopsicker is the kind of bulldog journalist who, having found a bone, will just keep digging. And digging. And it's remarkable what he's turned up.”
     

  • “Hopsicker has established a tremendous track record for ground level factual investigations of things the mainstream media won't touch with a ten foot pole. Will it be enough to get him on CNN? Or even the Colbert Report? I'm not that optimistic, though if the so-called alternative political culture has any hope of defining itself as something more than a comedy show, it could use a good dose of Daniel Hopsicker.”
     

  • “Thanks to Joseph Cannon for continuing to beat the drum on behalf of Daniel Hopsicker, 9/11's most substantial and excoriated researcher. He links to Hopsicker's video presentation on Mohamed Atta's "strange and spooky associate" Wolfgang Bohringer, which corroborates evidence provided by Atta's girlfriend Amanda Keller before Keller herself was spooked into retracting her story.
     

  • “It continues to fascinate me how so many applaud books that obfuscate the real story. The most important research concerning Atta and conspiracy of 9/11 is one that everyone runs from. that is Danny Hopsicker's investigation into Atta, the flight school, in Venice. Florida.”
     

  • “Hopsicker's investigation makes everyone else appear to be a bullshit artist.”
     

  • “The most important research concerning Atta and conspiracy of 11/09/01 is one that everyone runs from... Danny Hopsicker's investigation into Atta & the flight school in Venice, Florida.” 
     

  • “Hopsicker's investigation--his published research, WELCOME TO TERRORLAND. his website, http://www.madcowprod.com, makes everyone else appear to be a bullshit artist.”

  • “Daniel Hopsicker is one of those reporters of the good old kind that John Pilger -- one of the best-regarded journalists in the world -- says he is missing more and more: "Their journalistic experience has taught them to take their time and listen to people; they willingly accept danger and inconvenience to follow leads and collect facts. They look skeptically at the powerful. They are hat all reporters really should be, namely real investigative journalists."
     

  • "Daniel Hopsicker is an award-winning investigative journalist and the author of two of the best books ever written on America's Secret History. Hopsicker has broken more real news on the 9/11 terrorist conspiracy and their connections in America than anyone in the world"

"Many leads follow, interconnect and dovetail from Hopsicker's investigation, for example, from Turkish FBI translator Sibel Edmonds testimony, (Edmonds being an extraordinarily credible witness with impeccable credentials), which was never incorporated into the 9/11 hearings, to Anthony Elgindy's subsequent prosecution and role regarding insider trading info and stock manipulation (and FBI connections), the DTCC, about which I've commented, past history and interconnections regarding the UAE, Khashoggi, BCCI (Bank of Commerce and Criminals International), Islamic fundamentalist funding in Afghanistan and elsewhere, including, of course, to the current issue of the Dubai Port deal.”
 


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  • “…On NUMEROUS websites, BOTH domestic and foreign, I've read/seen theories regarding 9/11 and planes hitting or not hitting the Pentagon, WTC, explosives detonating, etc., all premised on hypothetical constructs which may be true or not true, in part or in whole, but, at the moment, can be neither proved nor disproved, and, for that reason are weak, suspect and dubious.
     

  • "Yet, these same websites do NOT, ALSO, EQUALLY, refer to the hardnosed, factual evidence and connections acquired by some very diligent research by Hopsicker on his website. It's simply a curious question to me as to why the other theories appear almost universal, yet, Hopsicker's diligent investigation never appears on those very same websites questioning the official version of 9/11.”
     


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 " AT THE CENTER OF the Sept. 11 legend is the man known as Mohamed Atta: ringleader and pilot of the 767 that slammed into the North Tower. Atta's sojourn in Florida in the months prior to the attacks has been woefully neglected by the dominant media. Fortunately, investigative journalist Daniel Hopsicker dug into Atta's time in Florida, and what he came up with is sordid, provocative and should put to rest once and for all any notions that Atta was any kind of Muslim, let alone a 'fanatic.' "


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Daniel Hopsicker is one of those reporters of the good old kind that John Pilger -- one of the best-regarded journalists in the world -- says he is missing more and more: 'Their journalistic experience has taught them to take their time and listen to people; they willingly accept danger and inconvenience to follow leads and collect facts.  They look sceptically at the powerful.  They are what all reporters really should be, namely real investigative journalists.

The mass murder of 11th September is totally unsolved until this day. Who exactly were the alleged 19 hijackers? The FBI doesn't know.  Had they helpers? The U.S. government has stopped the police investigation after a few months, destroyed evidence, carted off documents and locked them away.  When state attorneys and police are not allowed to investigate, then reporters have to do it. Hopsicker is a U.S. citizen, formerly a television journalist and today a free-lance reporter.

One who is persevering in his research, rings doorbells unannounced, takes a good look around on the scene, talks to neighbours and caretakers.  For two years, Hopsicker investigated the trail of Mohammed Atta in Venice, Florida. 
Until shortly before the attack, Atta lived in this pensioner's paradise, of all places, and longer than officially admitted. Here, there is a small, discreet airport.  Here, strange things happen. The police have to look away time and again on instructions from above. Hopsicker meets worried witnesses, discovers Atta's American ex-girl friend who lives in hiding.  She is a sometime stripper with a pink hair-rinse; she tells of sex, drugs and jealousy.

Hopsicker runs into Atta's helpers in the U.S. -- but those "brothers", as Atta calls them, are no bearded turban-wearers, but smart business types, among them Germans, too.  Atta the 'terror pilot' did not come out of an Afghan cave. He was promoted/protected* by the West: "Welcome to Terrorland".

 

 

 “Quietly, and under the endless night of a major media blackout, the Iran-Contra researchers have continued, until we find ourselves right back at Iran. One was Gary Webb, disowned by the San Jose Mercury News after publishing a series of articles detailing the link between the CIA, the Contras, and the explosion of crack cocaine in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Another is Daniel Hopsicker, whose stellar work on happenings in Venice, Florida before and after September 11, 2001, continues to be ignored.”
 

 

 " AT THE CENTER OF the Sept. 11 legend is the man known as Mohamed Atta: ringleader and pilot of the 767 that slammed into the North Tower. Atta's sojourn in Florida in the months prior to the attacks has been woefully neglected by the dominant media. Fortunately, investigative journalist Daniel Hopsicker dug into Atta's time in Florida, and what he came up with is sordid, provocative and should put to rest once and for all any notions that Atta was any kind of Muslim, let alone a 'fanatic.' "

from the New York Press


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Read this antidote to The 9/11 Commission Report in the sprit in which it's intended: as a homicide investigation that's compiled cartons of evidence - ranging from jaw-dropping to uproarious. The reader then plays the role of the DA and is tasked with making the case.

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"A RELIGIOUS MUSLIM, a party animal or both?

A new book by an U.S. journalist on Mohammed Atta, allegedly the pilot of the first plane that flew into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, reveals a man hooked on drugs and alcohol while living in Florida

"Sex with Mohammed was horrible," Amanda Keller remembers. "He had no passion."

That's one of the more explosive sentences in the book "Welcome to Terrorland" by U.S. journalist Daniel Hopsicker on the life of Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta in Florida in 2000

Lutz Kroth, head of the publishing house that brought out the book in Germany, Zweitausendeins, told DW-WORLD that impression arises "only because our opinions have been greatly influenced by mainstream media." 

Kroth, who says the book is among the "ten best selling books right now," added: "Hopsicker is the only journalist who researched at the scene of events, went from door to door, collected facts and basically did what we expect from the media -- continued digging when the police stopped."

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"AS THE RESULT of a two-year investigation, an intrepid journalist has disclosed evidence of a cover-up concerning the flight schools in Florida that trained three of the four terrorists who piloted the hijacked planes. Daniel Hopsicker saw Venice, Fla., as the biggest unexploded crime scene in the September 11, 2001 attacks and arrived there two months later. He deserves to be recognized for the fearlessness with which he pursued leads down dark alleys peopled with intelligence and drug-running gangsters and for his tenacity in tracking down witnesses, such as Mohamed Atta’s girlfriend. Hopsicker’s discoveries, if accurate, should focus the 9/11 Commission’s investigation on the CIA and its use of flight schools in Florida for training Arabs as kamikazes."

from Scoop.nz


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"WAS THERE A MASSIVE FBI-led cover-up in Florida to conceal the true story of how terrorist Mohamed Atta and others learned to fly airliners? Was the CIA not "asleep at the switch," but actually running the operation?

Hopsicker's new book is the result of a two-year investigation including interviews with Mohamed Atta's girlfriend, and following connections to Germany. "For at least four of Atta's seven years living in Hamburg," writes Hopsicker, "he was part of a 'joint venture' between the U.S. and German Governments, an elite international 'exchange' program run by a little-known private organization which has close ties to powerful American political figures like David Rockefeller and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger." The book has also been translated into German." 

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"HOPSICKER'S BOOK, Welcome to Terrorland, details his investigation of what he calls the "Venice flying circus." Through interviews with Keller, Hopsicker has drawn a private picture of Atta, a psychopath Keller says dismembered a litter of kittens in her apartment when she dumped him. 

Hopsicker is still researching the three Huffman-trained 9/11 pilots, who he says had financial, drug-trafficking and military intelligence ties to the U.S. government. He is developing suspicions that Atta and the entire school were involved with Osama bin Laden in heroin trafficking. Hopsicker reports that on July 25, 2000, the DEA in Orlando discovered more than 30 pounds of heroin inside a Learjet owned by Wally Hilliard, owner of Huffman Aviation. Earlier that month, on July 3, Atta and Marwan Al-Shehri had started flight lessons at Huffman. Hopsicker claims it's not a coincidence that Atta was allegedly importing heroin with Hilliard's help, selling Afghanistan's notorious opium and heroin to finance the Taliban. Hilliard would not be interviewed for this story."

from the Long Island Press


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"TERRORISTS, DRUG RUNNERS, COVER-UPS, CIA, KGB and shady characters are the cloak-and-dagger kinds of elements that make for a riveting spy novel or action thriller. It’s hardly the place you’d expect to find retired Green Bay businessman Wally J. Hilliard.

Yet Hilliard finds himself in the middle of a nonfiction tale published as “Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-Up in Florida,” by Daniel Hopsicker (Mad Cow Press, $29.95). Hopsicker links Hilliard to Huffman Aviation, the flight school that trained Atta and the other hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

The author implicates Hilliard in a complicated plot as the investor in the flight school in Venice, Fla., and owner of a Lear jet that was seized by Drug Enforcement Administration officials after it returned with a passenger who was jailed for possession of heroin.

from the Green Bay Press Gazette

 

 


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