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Originally posted by virgom129
reply to post by filosophia
I'm not sure WHO did it but I'm pretty sure WHO didn't...
Thats 19 cave dwellers with box cutters and minimal flight training...
Originally posted by roboe
Originally posted by virgom129
reply to post by filosophia
I'm not sure WHO did it but I'm pretty sure WHO didn't...
Thats 19 cave dwellers with box cutters and minimal flight training...
Good thing the perpetrators on 9/11 weren't cave dwellers then. Three of the pilot hijackers held university degrees and the fourth held a commercial pilots' rating.
Originally posted by virgom129
reply to post by roboe
Yeah well I hold a commercial pilots' rating too, but I cant fly the planes they flew....
So whats your point???
A commercial pilots' licence means you can fly a single engined prop plane. You can get a twin endorsement and levels for instruments...
It doesn't mean you can fly a commercial jet......
Originally posted by virgom129
reply to post by aching_knuckles
Same faces, same names, same fingerprints but definitly different guys...
Ohh and one still had his red bandanna..
Just ask the CIA or NSA
Originally posted by virgom129
reply to post by roboe
These guys can answer your questions better than me...
Have a good read about what professional pilots think then get back to me.
pilotsfor911truth.org...
Originally posted by virgom129
reply to post by roboe
Why would Mossad (and by extension Israel) risk losing their biggest (if not sole) ally?
Theres always the question of the missing $Trillions..........
The technology revolution has transformed organizations across the private sector, but not ours, not fully, not yet. We are, as they say, tangled in our anchor chain. Our financial systems are decades old. According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions. We cannot share information from floor to floor in this building because it's stored on dozens of technological systems that are inaccessible or incompatible.
We maintain 20 to 25 percent more base infrastructure than we need to support our forces, at an annual waste to taxpayers of some $3 billion to $4 billion. Fully half of our resources go to infrastructure and overhead, and in addition to draining resources from warfighting, these costly and outdated systems, procedures and programs stifle innovation as well. A new idea must often survive the gauntlet of some 17 levels of bureaucracy to make it from a line officer's to my desk. I have too much respect for a line officer to believe that we need 17 layers between us....
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2002 -- As part of military transformation efforts, DoD Comptroller Dov S. Zakheim and his posse of accountants are riding the Pentagon's financial paper trail, seeking to corral billions of dollars in so-called "lost" expenditures.
For years, DoD and congressional officials have sought to reconcile defense financial documents to determine where billions in expenditures have gone. That money didn't fall down a hole, but is simply waiting to be accounted for, Zakheim said in a Feb. 14 interview with the American Forces Information Service. Complicating matters, he said, is that DoD has 674 different computerized accounting, logistics and personnel systems.
Most of the 674 systems "don't talk to one another unless somebody 'translates,'" he remarked. This situation, he added, makes it hard to reconcile financial data.
Billions of dollars of DoD taxpayer-provided money haven't disappeared, Zakheim said. "Missing" expenditures are often reconciled a bit later in the same way people balance their checkbooks every month. The bank closes out a month and sends its bank statement, he said. In the meanwhile, people write more checks, and so they have to reconcile their checkbook register and the statement.
DoD financial experts, Zakheim said, are making good progress reconciling the department's "lost" expenditures, trimming them from a prior estimated total of $2.3 trillion to $700 billion. And, he added, the amount continues to drop.
"We're getting it down and we are redesigning our systems so we'll go down from 600-odd systems to maybe 50," he explained.
"That way, we will give people not so much more money, but a comfort factor, to be sure that every last taxpayer penny is accounted for," he concluded.