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| View Larger Image | First Strike: TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America
by Jack Cashill, James Sanders
| | List Price: | $22.99 |  | | 8 New starting at: | $2.94 | | 52 Used starting at: | $0.46 | | 2 Collectible starting at: | $22.99 | | | | | Sales Rank: | 446692 | | Studio: | WND Books | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 256 | | Publication Date: | March 05, 2003 | | Publisher: | WND Books |
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Product Description
September 11, 2001, did not represent the first aerial assault against the American mainland. The first came on July 17,1996, with the downing of TWA Flight 800. This book looks in detail at what people saw and heard on this fateful night. First Strike explains how a determined corps of ordinary citizens worked to reveal the compromise and corruption that tainted the federal investigation. With an impressive array of facts, Jack Cashill and James Sanders show the relationship between events in July 1996 and September 2001 and proclaim how and why the American government has attempted to cover up the truth. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 31 reviews)
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Defend Clinton? 
Man, this is tough. I am not a fan of recent presidents, Clinton included. However, this is a bit over the top. Why in this country can we not accept that things like a center fuel tank exploding, as heartbreakingly ordinary as it sounds, could be the cause of a jet crashing into the sea? Yes, I did read this book, but even though the information is presented in a compelling way (hence 2 stars as opposed to one) it is , as far as I can tell, an example of the authors believing something to be so going in, and interpreting certain things to prove it. I would never say that the authors are cynical and mindless and lying to prove a point. They seem passionate in their beliefs and I have no doubt they are concerned what the ramifications of what they believe happened would be going forward. I just don't believe that what they believed happened happened.
August 15, 2008 | |
A Book Your Government Would Like You Not To Read 
Jack Cashill's books are a singularity. Someday probably decades from now when the truth will bubble to the surface about what really happened to TWA Flight 800 Jack should be awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature.
I started out as a skeptic, I was totally engaged in this telling of terrible tragedy. This book has everything drama, suspense, mystery and intrigue. I finished the book wondering how long it will be before the American public finds out the true story.
Can't recommended this book high enough for forensic historians.
May 19, 2008 | |
GREAT BOOK!
sad and horrible
BUT great book!
READ THIS BOOK!
:-)
Thank you
January 18, 2008 | |
First Strike: TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America
This is a very intriguing book. It is a book that is very hard to put down. I read it in two settings, albeit, almost two months ago.
If the events described in this book really took place, and they seem to be very well documented, and the theory presented here is correct, then shame on the NTSB for falsifying it's reports, shame on the airline industry for not speaking up, shame on Boeing for accepting the blame (and probably the liability) for the tragedy; shame, shame, shame, on the Clinton administration for yet another lie and cover-up, shame on the Navy for their sloppy interdiction, and shame on the media for their crappy investigative reporting.
Having handled a lot of JP-4 jet fuel in the military, and because I know commercial jet fuel, known as Jet-A, is pure kerosene and has a flashpoint of 120 degrees F, plus the fact that Boeing never made any meaningful modifications to it's 747 aircraft as a result of the crash of Flight 800, I never did buy the spark induced exploding middle fuel tank explanation for the cause of the crash. But, the idea that our very own United States Navy took this plane down, while unsuccessfully trying to defend it from a terrorist attack, never occurred to me at the time, much less was it mentioned by the liberal media who hung on every word from the corrupt; "I did not have sex with that woman", Clinton administration.
This book brings into question, the need for investigations by the NTSB; the public would be better served by a private agency (without political baggage) investigating aviation accidents and providing objective non-bias reports. It also brings into question, once again, the integrity of all of our political, military, and industrial leaders, many of whom profess to have the best interests of America at heart. Lastly, after reading this book one must wonder who is in charge in matters involving national security such as we have here, the military, the FBI, CIA, the white house? Who decides who is in charge, and which of these agencies can bungle things the worst?
This is a good book for conspiracy theorists as well as those who have faith in and trust our leaders. It's a grippingly interesting and recommended read.
January 12, 2007 | |
Yes, but... 
This book takes you through the whodunit, gathering evidence, etc. and arriving at a plausible explanation at the end. The other major story here is the coverup. The Navy, the NTSB, the FBI, the CIA all were involved in the coverup, so the order had to come from the White House. No one else had the authority to order all those different branches of government.
The question is one of motive. If it was terrorists, their real objective was undoubtedly economic. Who cares about one commercial airplane? But with airports all over the nation, if any flight was vulnerable to the kinds of missles used against Russian helicopters in Afghanistan, no flight would be safe. If it had gotten out that TWA 800 was brought down by a terrorist missle, there would have been an immediate catastrophic drop in airline passengers. This would have been an economic disaster for the airline industry and for the USA.
A responsible press would not have allowed itself to be coopted into such a terrorist scheme, and the government would have tried to thwart it. Hence, the news blackout and the cover-up. This is the most parsimonious explanation for the coverup. There is no need to posit evil Presidents or a corrupt press. Of course, there was a little more to it than that.
However, indicting James Sanders AND HIS WIFE! (who had nothing to do with the investigation) is another matter. Sanders was only doing his job as an investigative reporter. What is worse is that the jury found them both guilty! In that chapter, Sanders presents all the evidence and testimony presented by both prosecutor and defense, so you can judge for yourself. That twelve jurors found them guilty in this case is shocking (and this can't be blamed on the President).
By the way, the explanations presented in the reviews here are only half-truths. Read the book and you'll know what happened.
May 26, 2006 | |
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