Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Here is my latest post on McAdams' forum. Dave Reitzes refuses to respond to my point that pilots would never have turned over control of the planes to terrorists, but Glenn Viklund wants to know if they did.

Forget it, Dave. You're taking the 5th on my issue, therefore, you can go to hell.

But Glenn, you ask a legitimate question: did the pilots turn over the planes or not? Let's consider the report of Barbara Olson to her husband, Ted Olson, Solicitor General of the United States. She said that the pilots, as well as the passengers, were herded to the back of the plane.

Late in the day on 9/11, CNN put out a story that began: “Barbara Olson, a conservative commentator and attorney, alerted her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, that the plane she was on was being hijacked Tuesday morning, Ted Olson told CNN.” According to this story, Olson reported that his wife had “called him twice on a cell phone from American Airlines Flight 77,” saying that “all passengers and flight personnel, including the pilots, were herded to the back of the plane by armed hijackers. The only weapons she mentioned were knives and cardboard cutters.”

Not a word about the pilots resisting. Not a word about them refusing to give up control of the planes. The whole implication was that at knife-point, the pilots handed over the plane to the terrorists.

That is the semi-official account, and no one in officialdom (government or media) has ever disputed it.

"In one account, Barbara Olson calls from inside a bathroom. [Evening Standard, 9/12/01] In another account, she is near a pilot, and in yet another she is near two pilots. [Boston Globe, 11/23/01] Ted Olson's account of how the call is made is also strange and conflicting. Three days after 9/11, he says, "I found out later that she was having, for some reason, to call collect and was having trouble getting through. You know how it is to get through to a government institution when you're calling collect." He says he doesn't know what kind of phone she used, but he has "assumed that it must have been on the airplane phone, and that she somehow didn't have access to her credit cards. Otherwise, she would have used her cell phone and called me." [Fox News, 9/14/01] But in another interview on the same day, he says that she used a cell phone and that she may have gotten cut off "because the signals from cell phones coming from airplanes don't work that well." [CNN, 9/14/01 (C)] Six months later, he claims she called collect "using the phone in the passengers' seats." [Telegraph, 3/5/02] But it isn't possible to call on seatback phones without a credit card, which would render making a collect call moot. Many other details are conflicting, and Olson faults his memory and says that he "tends to mix the two [calls] up because of the emotion of the events." [CNN, 9/14/01 (C)] "
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And here is the response of Mike Williams of 911myths.com, whom I consider to be a professional 9/11 dis-infoer:

"Nothing too astonishing here. She made two calls, for instance, so maybe the details got mixed up: one she was in the bathroom, the other near two pilots. Or maybe a pilot was hiding near the bathroom. Who's to say?"

So, Mike Williams has got a pilot hiding in the bathroom! Do you understand how bizarre this is. PILOTS DO NOT HAND OVER PLANES TO TERRORISTS. They just don't, Mike. I know you are a successful author and software inventor and 30 year gunsmith, but apparently, you have never been a pilot. Pilots do not turn over planes- at knife-point, at gun-point, or anything else.

By the way, happily, Ted Olson found joy again with a new wife. But you know something? She looks an awful lot like Barbara Olson, and some people think she is Barbara Olson, after plastic surgery.