another question would be - if the above person(s) who decoded the data went through the freedom of information act then wouldn't it be possible to get another unbiased analysis to confirm their findings?
And another question would be, what happened to all the people on the plane? They were all checked in. People dropped them off at the airport. Loved ones said good-bye to them. Personal effects from passengers were found in the Pentagon. How did they get there?
I heard some of the passports of the 19 highjackers were found at the twin towers crash site too....I guess they were made from the same material as a black box
well actually they claim they did not recover the black boxes from the towers
but they did indeed find a passport the very next day and the body of john O'Neil
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In his final hours on the job, O'Neill signs an authorization for the FBI to return to Yemen. Calling Fran Townsend at the Justice Department from his desk, O'Neill explains, "I wasn't leaving here until I did it, because I promised that we would send them back. When I pulled them out, I had to. But I was determined to be the one who signed the piece of paper to send them back."
O'Neill also e-mails Lou Gunn, whose son had died in the Cole attack, to tell him that he was retiring, but that the FBI was returning to Yemen.
Late August 2001
New Job: The World Trade Center
According to Chris Isham, O'Neill recognized the threat still posed to the World Trade Center. "When he had first gotten the job at the World Trade Center, he told me, 'I've got this great job. I'm head of security at the World Trade Center.' And I joked with him and said, 'Well, that will be an easy job. They're not going to bomb that place again.' And he said, 'Well actually -- he immediately came back and he said, 'actually they've always wanted to finish that job. I think they're going to try again."
Sept. 10, 2001
Intimations
On the eve of Sept. 11, O'Neill is with friends on the town. According to Jerry Hauer, O'Neill warns him that night: "We're due for something big." O'Neill explains, "I don't like the way things are lining up in Afghanistan." Still, O'Neill tells friends that he is happy about his new job. "[It] doesn't get better than this," he says.
Sept. 11, 2001
Two Hijacked Planes Hit World Trade Center Towers
O'Neill is in his 34th floor office in the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. when American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into it. Among others, O'Neill calls Valerie James once he is outside the building. He asks her what hit the building and tells her, "Val, it's horrible. There are body parts everywhere." A few seconds later he tells her, "Okay, I'll call you in a little bit." O'Neill also sends a text message to Fran Townsend to report that he is okay.
In the minutes after the attack, O'Neill makes his way to the command center that had been set up. There he sees FBI agent Wesley Wong. Wong would tell Esquire magazine later, "He was in FBI mode. Then he turned and kind of looked at me and went toward the interior of the complex. From the time John walked away to the time the building collapsed was certainly not more than a half hour or 20 minutes." Wong is the last person to see him alive.
Sept. 28, 2001
Memorial Service for O'Neill
A week after his body is found in the debris of the South Tower, about a thousand mourners attend John O'Neill's service in Atlantic City.
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