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; 15)3)45-1+ &: An Interesting Day: President Bush's Movements and Actions on 9/11 Continued from Page 36 Going Nowhere as Threats Increase Shortly after takeoff, Cheney apparently informed Bush of “a credible threat” to Air Force One. [AP, 9/13/01 (D)] US Representative Adam Putnam “had barely settled into his seat on Air Force One… when ;!36) )/)'3&5-21 he got the news that terrorists apparently had set their sights on the plane.” of [Orlando Sentinel, 9/14/01] The Secret Service had received an anonymous call: “Air Force One is next.” The caller allegedly knew the Eternal Love agency’s code words relating to Air Force One procedures. Pilot Colonel Mark Tillman was told of the threat and he asked that an armed guard be stationed at the cockpit door. The Associated Press reported that the threat On March 6, 2004, Thomas Pierce, his wife, JoAnn, and his came “within the same hour” as the Pentagon crash (i.e., before 10:00 daughter Lisa were on the water taxi that overturned in a.m., roughly when the plane took off). [AP, 9/13/01 (D)] Details suggest Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. He lost both of them that day. this threat was not the same as the earlier one, but it’s hard to know for sure. Pierce’s account of the accident and the letter to Lisa by one of the In his comments at Booker, Bush said he was immediately flying reservists that rescued her give the reader a grim understanding of back to Washington, but soon after takeoff, he, Cheney and the Secret what that day was like. But this is not a book about the accident - Service began arguing whether it was safe to fly back to the capital. this book is about the power of love. Love as we know it and [Telegraph, 12/16/01] Andrew Card told Bush, “We’ve got to let the dust understand it, and love that goes beyond our understanding. This settle before we go back.” [St. Petersburg Times, 9/8/02] The plane is a book Pierce never intended to write but he felt compelled to apparently stayed over Sarasota until the argument was settled. Accounts share the things that carried him through this tragedy and all the differ, but until about 10:35 a.m. [CBS, 9/11/02 (B), Washington Post, signs that helped him move on with his life. It is truly a celebration 1/27/02], Air Force One “appeared to be going nowhere. The journalists of two lives that will go on forever. on board – all of whom were barred from communicating with their offices – sensed that the plane was flying in big, slow circles.” Once you have read this book you will find yourself passing it on [Telegraph, 12/16/01] to friends and family, so that they too can share the experience of Cheney apparently called Bush again at 10:32 a.m., and told him the power of love. of another threat to Air Force One. Within minutes, the argument was www.thelastrose.com over, and the plane turned away from Washington and flew to Louisiana instead. [Washington Post, 1/27/02] Bush recalled: “I wanted to come back to Washington, but the circumstances were such that it was just impossible for the Secret Service or the national security team to clear the way for Air Force One to come back.” [CBS, 9/11/02] Given that the rocket-like takeoff was due to a threat, this must have been another threat, possibly even a third threat. Around 10:55 a.m., there was yet another threat to Air Force One. The pilot, Colonel Mark Tillman, said he was warned that a suspect airliner was dead ahead. “Coming out of Sarasota there was one call that said there was an airliner off our nose that they did not have contact with.” Tillman took evasive action, pulling his plane even higher above normal traffic. [CBS, 9/11/02 (B)] Reporters on board noticed the rise in elevation. [Dallas Morning News, 8/28/02, Salon, 9/12/01] The report was apparently a false alarm, but it shows the folly of having Bush fly An Inspiring True without a fighter escort. Story Were There Threats to Air Force One? The threat or threats to Air Force One were announced on September 12, after mounting criticism that Bush was out of sight in This is the Amazing but true story of Lori Dawn Cartagena, a Louisiana and Nebraska during most of the day and did not return to glamorous young Australian Entertainer who traveled to America Washington until 10 hours after the attacks. White House spokesman Ari after spending over twelve months from 1968 to 1969, Fleischer said there was “real and credible information that the White entertaining American and Australian troops in Vietnam during House and Air Force One were targets.” [White House, 9/12/01] On the war. After surviving numerous ambushes and mortar attacks, September 13, New York Times columnist William Safire wrote—and Lori eventually flees war torn Asia and arrives in Canada. After a Bush’s political strategist Karl Rove confirmed—that there was an brief affair with a handsome, charming Toronto businessman, “inside” threat that “may have broken the secret codes [showing a she moves to Florida to join a stage show where she finds knowledge of presidential procedures].” [New York Times, 9/13/01] Had herself in another desperate situation. Lori discovers she is terrorists hacked their way into sensitive White House computers? Was pregnant and eventually has to make the most heartbreaking there a mole in the White House? decision of her young life. as soon as her newborn son was taken away from her, Lori vowed she would one day find him Continued on Page 38 again. She tried several times , but to no avail. However, 34 years later-he found her. The reunion was the most wonderful event both mother and son could only have dreamed of over those long, agonising years. www.loridcartagena.com