July 23, 2004

'Shall we finish it off?'

From CNN, reporting on the 9-11 commission's findings on Flight 93:

"The airplane headed down; the control wheel was turned hard to the right. The airplane rolled onto its back, and one of the hijackers began shouting, 'Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest.'

"With the sounds of the passenger counter-attack continuing, the aircraft plowed into an empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 580 miles per hour, about 20 minutes' flying time from Washington, D.C."

But it had nothing to do with religion.

Posted on July 23, 2004 09:01 PM