You wrote:

> Captain Hill maintained that the four airliners must have been choreographed by an AWACS.
> This system can engage several aircraft simultaneously by knocking out their on-board flight controls.

>     If our jets can do this, why didn't they?
>    They had all the time in the world.

 Hey, Bart!

 Why didn't they? They did, allegedly. As it turned out, by coincidence, no doubt, two AWACs planes were
 airborne at that time, on pre-planned 'exercise' missions. (A point I mentioned in my previous date rape piece
 you printed a while back). (Just as we recently found out the CIA had planned for that day practicing a 'simulated'
 emergency of a plane crashing into its headquarters, and earlier knew about the 40,000 plus British and American
 forces that had been gathered near Afghanistan operations areas by pre-planned exercises on 9/10).

 So the theory isn't that the AWACs failed to act, but that they directed the flights
 of those planes, likely without suicide pilots at all.

 Bart, 7 of the 19 alleged hijackers have been proven to be alive and well, and one has been proven dead
 a year before 9/11. If any of those guys boarded the planes in the first place, we're not sure who they were.
 My information is that no security cameras caught any of these guys in the supposed airports of departure
 that day (I think Atta was filmed in the Maine airport earlier that day, getting to Logan with only 15 minutes
 to make his connection).

> None of the suspects named by the FBI appeared on any of the official passenger lists.

>          Is this true?
>          Can anyone confirm?

 There are official passenger lists missing any name of the hijacking suspects. Those are also short
 of the number supposed to have been aboard, and for some of the planes, short more than the
 supposed number of hijackers. But in all cases, at least short enough that you could add the 4 or 5
 supposed hijackers and fit them in the stated passenger load.

 So, it could be that the lists have simply been purged of the names of the 19 (although that still leaves
 some passengers unaccounted for). But that has never been officially stated or admitted, either by the
 airlines or by government officials.

 Deadhead