TinFoilHat - KSM, two shoe bombers, crash of American Airlines Flight 587

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.attytood.com/2007/03/ksm_two_shoe_bombers_and_the_c_1.html#more

Why did terrorist lowlife Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tell his American interrogators that there was a plot for shoe bombings of two airliners, when only one such try -- the failed attempt on a 2001 trans-Atlantic flight by Richard Reid -- is known about?

Here's what was reported in the transcript (PDF file), that his confession statement presented at his Guantanamo tribunal included this :

I was responsible for the Shoe Bomber Operation to down two American airplanes.

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Why? Because I still remembered this report, from the Canadian National Post of Aug. 27, 2004 (on Nexis, no longer online):

A captured al-Qaeda operative has told Canadian intelligence investigators that a Montreal man who trained in Afghanistan alongside the 9/11 hijackers was responsible for the crash of an American Airlines flight in New York three years ago.

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I want to be clear about one thing. I wrote this post because I think there's a significant chance that KSM is indeed trying to take credit for downing Flight 587 here, since the claim so closely dovetails the Canadian report of a second shoe bomber, plus the fact that both were "American" Airlines flights.

[John Q. Citizen]

1. What was the flight that supposedly exploded from fumes in a tank?? I recall Peter

Lance, in his Triple Cross time line writing about this.

[MnFats]

2. Are you referring to TWA Flight 800? Blew up and crashed into Long Island Sound?

there were lots of reports, some off the wall, some seemingly credible, of a missle bringing that one down.
NTSB, a pretty reliable agency, concluded fumes in a fuel tank exploded...

[Aviation Pro]

3. No, no, no. no. no. no....goddamit.

AA 587 was brought down by the aerodynamic force of fully deflecting the Airbus rudder three times. It was not terrorism, but a result of the pilot's upset training. IT WAS NOT TERRORISM!