- Genre:true crime
- Sub-genre:Espionage
- Language:English
- Pages:134
- eBook ISBN:9780692284551
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Overview
For the first time anywhere, Flight Path reveals a new crime scene, classified for over 15 years, relating to the most infamous crime of the 21st Century. After an intensive seven year investigation, journalist Kristjan Thorsteinson delivers a groundbreaking true crime book that adds to the historical record and provides a clear explanation of U.S. espionage and counterterrorism efforts in Europe.
While the threat to Air Force One on the morning of September 11, 2001 has been widely talked about for many years, no one has ever publicly identified what the threat was. Flight Path does so in well-sourced detail, drawing on a wealth of declassified 9/11 Commission documents and rarely seen news reports.
Anyone with an interest in true crime, counterterrorism, espionage, and dark networks (terrorist organizations and transnational organized crime) will find Flight Path essential reading.
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Description
The August 20, 2001 incident, the fifth al-Qaeda plane and the threat to Air Force One on September 11, 2001.
- Citing a declassified FBI document from the files of the 9/11 Commission, Flight Path reveals the August 20, 2001 incident, where a man terrorized the passengers and crew of a Continental Airlines 737, flying from Newark Liberty Airport to Frankfurt, Germany. The man used a box cutter to do this, three weeks before the September 11, 2001 attacks. Although he was disarmed and apprehended, Newark Liberty Airport officials were never notified of this event. Flight Path develops this incredible news story further by showing the many connections the al-Qaeda terrorist organization has had to Frankfurt, specifically the Frankfurt Airport. According to the German press, Frankfurt has been identified as the "logistical command post of Osama Bin Laden in Europe" (Die Welt, 2001). The Hamburg Cell was only the tip of the iceberg. Three weeks later, on September 11, 2001, yet another Continental Airlines jet from the same origin airport would be targeted by al-Qaeda.
- Flight Path identifies a fifth plane used by the al-Qaeda terrorist organization on the morning of September 11, 2001. Originating out of Newark Liberty Airport on the morning of the attacks, Continental Airlines Flight 1078 was later discovered vandalised at the Daytona Beach International Airport on the morning of September 12, 2001. The luggage from the flight had not been removed. Box cutters were found taped to the backs of fold down trays. The message "To Bush, With Love" was found scratched into the front wheel well of the jet.
- Using declassified "Committee Sensitive" 9/11 Commission maps showing the progress of Air Force One on the morning of the attacks, as well as U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics data on Continental Airlines Flight 1078, Flight Path reveals that both planes were in the same airspace at the same time. After being classified for over 15 years, read Flight Path now and learn of the very real and credible threat to Air Force One on September 11, 2001.
- Flight Path gives a concise history of the sometimes rocky relationship between the intelligence services of the United States and Germany. There is a considerable emphasis on the convergence between terrorist networks like al-Qaeda and transnational organized crime.
