Yes, flight 800 is now understood to have crashed because of bad wiring in
the center fuel tank. \
The frenzy at the time over the phantom terrorists tightened domestic
"security" once again. And, once tightened, it doesn't get relaxed.
Gene Coyle
Jim Devine wrote:
> >USA TODAY reports that President Clinton was ready to bomb sites of
> suspected Middle East terrorist in the wake of the crash of TWA 800. The
> story is sourced to a new book, "In the Blink of an Eye: The FBI
> Investigation of TWA Flight 800" by Pat Milton, a reporter for The
> Associated Press. The book also claims that Clinton had placed the U.S.
> armed forces on the highest state of alert since the Cuban Missile Crisis
> in the weeks before the crash, based on intelligence reports that Iran was
> planning a series of terrorist attacks against the U.S. <
>
> Hasn't the explosion of flight 800 since been attributed to technical
> problems with the plane?
>
> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &
> http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html
