Possible reason Disney slandered American Airlines

[Pab Sungenis]

Aren't United and U.S. Airways major partners in the Disney travel packages? I don't think American is.

Does anyone know for sure why they were singled out and lied about?

[The Deacon]

1. Since I Didn't Watch The Epuke Motion Picture

What lie did they tell about American Airlines?

[gratuitous]

4. Apparently . . .

I didn't watch the snorefest either, but apparently the "dramatization" was that Mohammed Atta and some of his cohorts were identified by airport security in Boston as bad uns, but the word came down from some muckety-muck at corporate headquarters that they should be allowed on the plane. The offending airline is American in the dramatization. What actually happened is that some of the hijackers were identified in the Maine airport where they started their little odyssey that day. Procedures in place at the time were apparently followed, but there was no procedure in place to restrain anyone from boarding a plane, and no law allowing them to be detained without reasonable cause for doing so (some nit-picky liberal nonsense about the First and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution that are no longer operable under King George the Stupid).

[MaineDem]

6. Encounter haunts ex-ticket agent

It's been five years since Michael Tuohey was on the receiving end of an icy stare from the ringleader of the 9/11 attacks, but the former US Airways ticket agent will be forever haunted by that brief but chilling encounter at Portland International Jetport.

Tuohey said he will never forget the anger in the eyes of Mohamed Atta after he refused to give boarding passes to him and accomplice Abdulaziz Alomari for their connecting flight in Boston, which they crashed into the World Trade Center hours later on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

Five years later, the reason Atta and Alomari drove to Portland rather than begin their deadly journey at Logan International Airport remains a mystery.

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At about 5:30 a.m., with no passengers left to check in, Tuohey was about to step away for a smoke break when he spotted two Arabic men who "looked a little confused." The agent was surprised to see that the men had $2,400 tickets, a rarity.

Tuohey checked their baggage and went through the routine security questions, starting with Alomari and then turning to face Atta.

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/911/060911911maine.shtml

A good article about the ticket agent and his creepy meeting with the hijackers.

[Old and In the Way]

8. This is interesting....

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/new_questions_about.html


One of the major inconsistencies between Tuohey’s description of their appearance and the surveillance photo released was that the two men in the photo were dressed casually in shirts without suits and ties, and there was no white shawl over Alomari’s head.

“They left my workstation in suits and ties. I didn’t see them take their coats off,” recalls Tuohey. “Atta left carrying a small duffel bag and the other had a very small bag. I guess they could have placed the jackets, ties and shawl in Atta’s bag. I just don’t know.”

Asked if a surveillance camera was posted by his workstation, he said he was told by the FBI on 9-11 that the video camera had been out of order for several weeks and no other pictures were available.

“I had worked there a long time and never knew the cameras were broken until I was told by the agents,” said Tuohey, adding they were installed by airport officials and not U.S. Airways.

<snip>

“The eyewitness quoted in the original Portland Press Herald article, who put Atta and Alomari on the 19-seater to Logan, was Jane Eisenberg of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. I interviewed Ms. Eisenberg around the same time as Jerry, and she told me when asked if she could confirm if the two men she saw on the 19-seater were the same two men the FBI was displaying all over the major networks, ‘No, I cannot.’

“And remember, it was the FBI who told Tuohey the camera he worked under every day hadn’t worked for some time. They knew that, but a guy who worked directly under it every day didn’t know?

“Also, a friend of Tuohey’s, who took that flight to Boston, was quoted as saying, he recalled seeing the two leaving the plane in Boston in suit coats and ties.

“Like Tuohey mentioned, Alomari also wore a shawl of some type that is missing in the famous photo. Although he assumed they must have placed these articles of clothing in their carry-on bags, his friend on the plane didn’t mention them dressing up again on the flight.

I know this is a questionable link, but I hadn't hear about the security camera's being inoperable. What's with all the broken video camera's in the airports on 9/11? Interesting that he's told this by the FBI...

The clothing discrepancy seems to be interesting as well.

[Aviation Pro]

2. Delta is....

KMCO is lousy with Delta flights.

[Marnieworld]

3. It's not like there was a lot of fact-checking over at"The Film Institute"

With no experience or standards in place the only once tested production company (that gets a $40 million dollar budget project-yah that happens) certainly felt comfortable with their telling of events, facts be damned!

[Hav]

5. .

But it's not only that. It is that they specifically picked out the persons or companies they wanted to slander or protect.

From another poster:
"Another example is the film blames the Washington Post for tipping off Bin Laden that his satellite telephone communications were monitored. The article they claimed to have done that, but which in reality did not mention monitoring, appeared not in the WaPo but in the RW Moonie Washington Times. It had been publicly known and reported for years that Bin Laden used sat phones. But he apparently stopped using them due to security concerns before any newspaper reported that US intel agencies had been monitoring them."

[fasttense]

7. I know I've been wondering the same thing. Why American Airlines?

Why didn't they make up a fictitious name if they didn't want to stick to the facts?

[jilln]

9. "Arabic men"?

I believe that most press stories have factual errors in them, and this error makes me even warier, if the newspaper in question can't even check its English.