What was the real target of Flight 93? In this letter, dated September 2003, from the U.S. Department of Energy – it was speculated that the target could have been a nuclear power plant on the east coast of the United States.
“9-11” , commonly referred to, was a series of rather sophisticated “coordinated suicide attacks” by a group of 19 Al-Qaeda operatives upon the United States on September 11, 2001.
The first target of the attack was the Twin Towers in New York City.
In that case, the hijackers intentionally crashed two different commercial airliners, packed with people into the Twin Towers – killing thousands of people in the process and causing a catastrophic collapse of both buildings resulting in cost estimates of damages over $55 billion plus dollars .
The second target of the coordinated attack on that day was the Pentagon building in Arlington County, Virginia, located just outside Washington D.C. – resulted in the killing of hundreds of people and causing untold hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage. Not including Homeland Security costs, and war funding and associated medical and burial cost of personnel…
The third target of the attack – unknown?
The fourth hijacked airliner, Flight 93, crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania, presumably after some of its passengers attempted to retake the plane. This attack cost hundreds of lives and caused hundred of millions of dollars in damages, not including investigative , burial and life insurance costs…
Combined costs of the 9-11-2001 attacks was estimated at over $3.3 trillion according to the New York Times (see article: 9-11 Tally $3.3 trillion http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/09/08/us/sept-11-reckoning/cost-graphic.html).
But many unanswered questions remain, none more perplexing perhaps than “what was the real target of Flight 93?”
We assume it was the White House or Congress, but according to a detailed study of the flight path and trajectory of Flight 93 (before it crashed in Shanksville) – put it in “direct line of a nuclear power plant on the east coast.”
It was just one of among 3 or so possible “targets” identified at the time. But in all the nuclear power plants specifically identified would have resulted in the most catastrophic damage and death, according to my analysis.
If, indeed a nuclear power plant was the “third unknown target ” of Al-Qaeda on 9-11-2001 then those people on board flight 93 could very well have saved the nation from suffering horrific “mass casualties ” – in an attack that everyone I talked to acknowledged could very well had the potential to kill “hundreds of thousands of people on that day”, especially if the plane managed to “crash itself” into the containment dome of the reactor itself.
This particular possibility is of course, only “speculation” at this point, but at the time it caused huge concern within some circles of government.
It also caused some people to investigate this possibility further, including myself.
In a response from the U.S. Department of Energy, dated September 10, 2003 officials acknowledged this concern for the first time.
The concern was also shared with officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security , as well as numerous Congressional leaders, including the Chairman of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee.
I know this to be a fact because I did the sharing of information in this case…
Largely, however the letter was ignored by the intelligence community at the time, including the Central Intelligence Agency who I attempted to notify twice of this matter – once by fax.
It was also never “acknowledged publicly or privately” by officials in the Bush Administration.
Today, I reveal the existence of this letter for the first time in this article, after first agreeing to keep the information “confidential for a period of not less than 9 years.”
The specific reasons for this remain “classified.”