Time: Mon Mar 17 10:27:54 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA29746; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:00:24 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 10:27:25 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: SNET: Missile Could Have Hit Yet - F_I Now Say (fwd) <snip> He almost said IT (in the "Subject:" line)! >Interesting 'blurb' from page four of Monday's South Bend Tribune: >NEW YORK (AP)- > The FBI agent in charge of the TWA Flight 800 investigation has >acknowldged for the first time that a shoulder-fired missile could have >downed the jetliner. > James Kallstrom said there was no evidence of such an attack, and >condemned renewed claims that the jet was struck by a US military missile. > "This terrible, terrible tragedy was not caused by our military", >Kallstrom said Thursday. "Our military, in particular the Navy divers, are >the heroes of this operation -- not the culprits". > In vestigators have focused on three possible explanations for the July >17 disaster that killed all 230 people aboard: a bomb, a missile or >mechanical failure. > Kallstrom said that it is "technically possible" a terrorist using a >shoulder-fired, Stinger-type missile could have shot down the plane. He said >investigators are examining the possibility although there is no evidence to >support it over other theories. > He noted that similar missiles have been used to down more than 25 >commercial planes over the past two decades in AFrica, the Middle East and >the former Soviet Union. Stinger-type missiles are designed to shoot down >planes. > He would not elaborate on where a missile could have been fired from to >hit Flight 800, which was 10 miles offshore and more than 13,000 feet high >after taking off from New York's Kennedy Airport. > The missile theory has been bolstered by people who reported seeing >something in the sky before the disaster. Kallstrom said there were too many >people who described "strange events like flares and streaks of light in the >sky" to ignore the possibility of a missile. > However, Kallstrom said investigors long ago eliminated any "friendly >fire" scenerios or military cover-up as suggested by Pierre Salinger, a >former ABC newsman and press secretary to President Kennedy. > Salinger offered an expanded version Thursday of his theory that a Navy >Millile shot down the jet. At a Paris newsconference, he released a 69-page >document and a set o radar images from a video. > The tape "completely confirms a missile fired down TWA 800", Salinger said. <snip> ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ========================================================================
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