9/11 families excluded from Guantanamo hearing

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Source: Reuters

9/11 families excluded from Guantanamo hearing
05 Jun 2008 02:38:43 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Jane Sutton

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, June 4 (Reuters) - As the Guantanamo war crimes court prepared to arraign five prisoners on death penalty charges of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks, a Pentagon official apologized on Wednesday for excluding victims' families from the hearing.

The U.S. military quietly invited one woman whose brother was an American Airlines pilot killed in the plane that crashed into the Pentagon in the 2001 attacks.

But the invitation to attend Thursday's arraignment at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba was rescinded when the New York Daily News revealed that lone invitee Debra Burlingame was an ardent defender of President George W. Bush who spoke in support of his administration at the Republican Party convention during his 2004 re-election campaign.

Relatives of other victims complained that the Guantanamo trials were being politicized and the Pentagon's legal adviser, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, acknowledged the matter was mishandled.

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/NASU60401.htm

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1. The on e they invited may be Debra A. Burlingame

Her brother was the Flight 77 (Pentagon) pilot.

She's also the Founder of "9/11 Families for America".

http://www.911familiesforamerica.org

I always wonder if this group was encouraged to blunt the "9/11 Families" (Jersey Girls, et. al.) whose "Unanswered Questions" link is in my sig line.


When I looked up Burlingame, I discovered a creepy NY Times story about the pilot's daughter.

Daughter of 9/11 Flight Pilot Is Found Dead After a Fire

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Shortly before the fire erupted, Mr. Rojas said, there were “louder noises than usual” coming from the apartment upstairs, “like somebody running around up there, like somebody doing something up there in a rush.”

Then he said he heard a thud — “like somebody dropped something”— and three or four minutes later the building’s fire alarm sounded. Mr. Rojas said that within minutes his apartment filled with smoke. He then safely left the building.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/nyregion/06fire.html

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2. Wow ... hadn't heard that bit of news either . . .

Mr. DeFazio said the fire, which law enforcement officials are calling suspicious, began shortly after midnight in the apartment Ms. Burlingame shared with her companion and was still under investigation, as was the cause of Ms. Burlingame’s death. No one else was injured in the fire, Mr. DeFazio said.

"Suspicious" . . .

When you begin to look at it, there were an odd bunch of people involved in 9/11 "deaths" ---

Olson, being one I especially wonder about ---

Thanks for the info!

And "YES!," I agree this was to counter the Jersey Girls who made such amazing headway in
forcing the criminals in the White House in moving to what turned out to be a sham investigation.