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Pentagon: Rumsfeld misspoke on Flight 93 crash
CNN
| December 28 2004
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A comment Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld made during a Christmas Eve address to U.S. troops in Baghdad has
sparked new conspiracy theories about the terrorist attacks of September
11, 2001.
In the speech, Rumsfeld made a passing reference to United
Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers attempted
to stop al Qaeda hijackers.
But in his remarks, Rumsfeld referred to the "the
people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over
Pennsylvania."
A Pentagon spokesman insisted that Rumsfeld simply misspoke,
but Internet conspiracy theorists seized on the reference to the plane having
been shot down.
"Was it a slip of the tongue? Was it an error? Or
was it the truth, finally being dropped on the public more than three years
after the tragedy" asked a posting on the Web site WorldNetDaily.com.
Some people remain skeptical of U.S. government statements
that, despite a presidential authorization, no planes were shot down September
11, and rumors still circulate that a U.S. military plane shot the airliner
down over Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
A Pentagon spokesman insists Rumsfeld has not changed his
opinion that the plane crashed as the result of an onboard struggle between
passengers and terrorists.
The independent panel charged with
investigating the terrorist attacks concluded that the hijackers intentionally
crashed Flight 93, apparently because they feared the passengers would overwhelm
them.
