James Wood on O'Reilly

[vc1111]

Saw the "highlight" clips from the O' Reilly show over the weekend, which included the interview with James Wood in which he stated that he'd actually witnessed a "practice run" by the terrorist prior to the 9/11 murders.

I loved the line wherein he describes asking the FBI agent how he got his personal address. The reply was, "Sir, we're the FBI."

[Canuck_Buck]

vc, do you mean to say that James Woods is claiming he saw the terrorists do a fly by onceat the towers?

[vc1111]

Canuck, no, what he said was that in Aug of 2001 he was on a plane and spotted four men that appeared for a variety of reasons to be about to hijack the plane. He was so convinced that he went forward in the plane and demanded to speak with the pilot.

The pilot concurred that they and their activity aboard the plane appeared suspicious and he reported it to the FAA and they notified the FBI.

Wood was then contacted by the FBI after 9/11 and informed indirectly that all four were involved. They questioned him, etc, etc.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted by Admins]

[vc1111]

Iff, do I believe him? I'm inclined to because I've never known him to come out with any other such wild claims; plus it makes sense that the terrorists would complete a practice run. He was very credible as he told of the incident.

As to efforts to prevent terrorism, I doubt that as a nation, we we're anything but asleep prior to 9/11.

[il coyote]

Howdo you get permission to speak to the pilot, by DEMANDING???? Even before 9/11, does that sound right??

I believe that a celeb, any celebrity, witnesses something like that, we would have heard about it within hours or days, instead of years.

I've heard he is a very, very intelligent man, but i need a little more to go on to believe the claim.

[vc1111]

Howdo you get permission to speak to the pilot, by DEMANDING???? Even before 9/11, does that sound right??

Essentially that's precisely what he did and in the process he told the flight attendant, "I'm fully aware of the seriousness of even saying the word 'hijack' aboard a commercial flight." He was taken seriously and was granted audience with the co-pilot.

I believe that a celeb, any celebrity, witnesses something like that, we would have heard about it within hours or days, instead of years.

Actually no, you most likely would not for a variety of reasons. For one, most celebritys would probably request that the airline and the FAA keep their report confidential.

Also the airline itself would most likely try to squelch the publicity that their airline was or may have been the target of would-be hijackers; not good public relations for the airline if you think about it for 2 seconds or so.

Lastly, the FAA would probably not release such information until they did whatever investigation they needed to do in order to confirm or deny the information and also to avoid tipping off that the potential hijackers were even under suspicion.

Note this in my first post:

Saw the "highlight" clips from the O' Reilly show over the weekend...

It was a highlight clip, one of many, of memorable interviews that O'Reilly conducted in the past. While I'm not certain how long ago, it was not an interview that he conducted just this past weekend, or as you say "years Later."

Finally, note that O'Reilly and the Fox Network, at the time of the interview, considered the report credible enough to include it on O'Reilly's program.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted by Admins]