James Woods did not report a dry run of 9/11 attacks

Actor James Woods said he observed and reported four suspicious men possibly making a hijacking trial run on an airline flight before the 9/11 attacks.

... The flight now appears to have been a dry run for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, in which hijackers seized and crashed four commercial planes, including one flying the same Boston-to-Los Angeles route.The day after the terrorists crashed the planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in western Pennsylvania, Woods called the FBI to report his eerie experience....

September 2001 ist einer der fünf Angeklagten für prozessunfähig erklärt worden. Grund seien Misshandlungen in der Haft. Bei den islamistischen Attacken waren fast 3.000 Menschen getötet worden. mehr ... Um kaum ein anderes Ereignis ranken sich so viele Verschwörungslegenden wie um die Terroranschläge von 9/11.

September waren ein für das noch junge 21. Jahrhundert beispielloses Verbrechen. Die Tragödie stellte die Berichterstatter vor eine bis dahin noch nicht dagewesene Herausforderung. tagesschau.de dokumentiert in Auszügen, wie die Tagesschau und die Tagesthemen am 11. September 2001 berichtet haben.

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The flight now appears to have been a dry run for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, in which hijackers seized and crashed four commercial planes, including one flying the same Boston-to-Los Angeles route. The day after the terrorists crashed the planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in western Pennsylvania, Woods called the FBI to report his eerie experience....

According to Reuters, Woods “tipped ... Woods observed four men of apparent Middle Eastern origin acting so oddly that he reported them to the flight attendants and authorities on the ground when he landed....

The Oscar-nominated actor told the FBI in August 2001 that he was alone in first class with the four men and noticed during the entire cross-country flight that none of them had anything to eat or drink, nor did they read, sleep, or appear to make themselves comfortable. They sat erect in their seats and stared straight ahead, saying nothing to flight attendants and speaking to each other only in inaudible tones. James Woods, who was flying back to Los Angeles after visiting his mother in Boston, said via his publicist that he was “extremely unsettled by their behavior.”

A month before the 9/11 al-Qaida attack that took almost 3,000 lives, at least two of the hijackers performed a dry-run, much like those recently reported by inflight commercial airline personnel. And 9/11’s dry-run was witnessed and reported by none other than award winning actor and producer James Woods.

On a flight from Boston to Los Angeles, Hollywood star and firebrand conservative James Woods witnessed what the FBI believes was a 'dry-run' for the 9/11 attacks. According to Reuters, Woods "tipped off the FBI about his encounter with four...

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Luckily for Woods and the rest of the passengers, nothing happened that day but the FBI has confirmed that it may very well have been a dry run for the 9/11 attacks.