Ich kann nur jedem empfehlen, diesen langen Artikel:
http://observer.com/2004/06/911-tapes-reveal-ground-personnel-muffled-attacks/des New York Observers aus dem Jahr 2004 zu lesen. Gottseidank hat die Wahrheit kein Ablaufdatum ...
Hier ein ganz kurzer Auszug daraus:
Despite all the high secrecy surrounding the briefing, a half-dozen different family members were so horrified by voice evidence of the airlines’ disregard for the fate of their pilots, crew and passengers that they found ways to reveal some of what they heard on those tapes, and also what they felt. To them, the tapes appeared to show that the first instinct of American and United Airlines, as management learned of the gathering horror aboard their passenger planes on Sept. 11, was to cover up.
The response of American’s management on duty, as revealed on the tape produced at the meeting, was recalled by persons in attendance:
“Don’t spread this around. Keep it close.”
“Keep it quiet.”
“Let’s keep this among ourselves. What else can we find out from our own sources about what’s going on?”
“It was disgusting,” said the parent of one of the victims, herself a veteran flight attendant for United Airlines. “The very first response was cover-up, when they should have been broadcasting this information all over the place.”
That instinct to hold back information, some of the families believe, may have helped to allow the third hijacked plane to crash into the Pentagon and contributed to the doom of a fourth flight, United Flight 93. The United dispatcher was told by his superiors: Don’t tell pilots why we want them to land. The F.B.I. and the F.A.A. have also held back or, in one case, destroyed evidence in the government’s possession that would tell a very different story of how the nation’s guardians failed to prepare or protect Americans from the most devastating of terrorist attacks on the homeland.
“Flight 77 should never have taken off,” Ms. Dillard said through clenched teeth.
