{"id":726,"date":"2001-11-20T08:11:42","date_gmt":"2001-11-20T13:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=726"},"modified":"2001-11-20T08:11:42","modified_gmt":"2001-11-20T13:11:42","slug":"paper_trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/20\/paper_trail.html","title":{"rendered":"Paper trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guardian <\/i>reports<\/a> that among the paperwork left behind by fleeing Taliban and al-Qa’eda leadership is more hard evidence of their plans, their activities, and their involvement in 9-11 (in case anyone was still doubting):<\/p>\n

The scraps of half-burnt paper, meticulously kept notebooks and pages torn from magazines and technical manuals reveal the vast and terrifying scale of the terrorists’ ambitions to launch a jihad against the West. They reveal plans to assassinate world leaders in their cars; to bomb the power stations of America, Europe and Asia; and to make weapons of mass destruction from chemicals and smuggled nuclear material.
\n[…] The most satisfying finds for President Bush’s administration are likely to have been a page torn out of Flying magazine listing flight schools in Florida – including Walkwitz Aviation in Titusville and Phoenix East Aviation in Daytona Beach, two schools linked to the hijackers of 11 September – and a form that comes with a Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 computer program. The program, which simulates the experience of flying a commercial jet, is often used by pilots and is similar to one found in the luggage of Mohammed Atta, one of the hijackers. <\/p>\n

This article is fascinating (if chilling) reading, and there’s lots, lots more than what I’ve quoted above.<\/p>\n

(Via OpinionJournal)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Guardian reports that among the paperwork left behind by fleeing Taliban and al-Qa’eda leadership is more hard evidence of their plans, their activities, and their involvement in 9-11 (in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-11"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133115,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/20\/an-aviation-toast-to-mary-ellis.html","url_meta":{"origin":726,"position":0},"title":"An aviation toast to Mary Ellis","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-Mar-17 6:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ms. Ellis helped shuttle Spitfires (and other warcraft) between factories and RAF bases during WWII, freeing up combat pilots to do combat pilot sorts of things. 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