Some time after March 9th, Americans will get to see a full length film dramatization of al-Qaeda's first attempt at a suicide-hijacking.
That is the real thing from 1994 as it happened. For the movie trailer go BTF.
Unlike the Bush Administration in 2001, French G.I.G.N. save the passengers, the A300 Airbus, and the Eiffel Tower.
When we get this film in general release, having a few million Americans see L’Assaut will end the “Freedom Fries” scam forever.
Bush & Co. deserve to get pooed royally for their slanders against the French. Obviously, the Bush Administration could have prevented Binladen's 9/11 attacks from succeeding.
Julien Leclercq's film will premier on March 9, 2011.
The L’Assaut Movie poster has premiered. The movie poster for the Julien Leclerq film is obviously from the last third of the film when Air France Flight 8969 is raided. L’Assaut / The Assault (2011) stars Vincent Elbaz, Mélanie Bernier, Grégori Derangère, and Aymen Saidi. L’Assaut‘s plot synopsis: “On Christmas Eve 1994 four armed men from the Islamic terrorist group GIA hijacked Air France Flight 8969 in Algiers. When they landed in Marseille the plane was raided by highly trained French forces and all four kidnappers killed.”
Four heavily armed Afghansi veterans boarded Flight 8969 in Algeria carrying 20 sticks of dynamite. Seven years later the 9/11 suicide-hijackers and their handlers learned from the mistakes, from this Christmas Eve 1994 attack, that had allowed France’s G.I.G.N. to retake the plane.
Time magazine covered this suicide-hijacking event in detail on January 9, 1995.
The hostage drama began on Christmas Eve as Air France Flight 8969 prepared for a scheduled 11:15 a.m. departure for Paris. Most of the 227 passengers had settled into their seats in an almost festive mood, as they looked forward to joining family and friends for the holidays. The boarding of four armed men in blue uniforms with Air Algerie identification badges caused no alarm. Explaining they were security agents, the men proceeded to check the passengers’ passports. Then they suddenly closed and locked the doors. “I knew it was a hostage taking when they shouted, ‘Allah is great!’ ” recalled a 40-year-old Algerian-born mechanic now living in France. “I thought of my children back in France, and I became afraid. Three men entered the cockpit, the fourth covered us with his Kalashnikov. No one budged. Then the waiting started.”
For two of the travelers, the wait was over all too soon. One traveler, an Algerian policeman identified during the passport check, was ordered by the hijackers to the front of the plane. Passengers heard him plead, “Don’t kill . me, I have a wife and child!” The terrorists shot him in the head and dumped him outside onto a baggage cart, where he lay in agony for some time. The second victim was Bui Giang To, 48, a commercial attache at the Vietnamese embassy in Algiers. “They asked the Vietnamese man sitting in the rear to come forward,” recounted one of the passengers. “Poor guy — we saw him come back to get his leather jacket. Then we heard the shot.”
Anatomy of a Hijack — By THOMAS SANCTON — Time Magazine 1/9/1995
Eventually the A300 Air France Flight 8969 was allowed to take off from Houari Boumedienne Airport, Algiers, Algeria. It flew to Marseille, where the team from Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN) staged an armed intervention.
That action is what you see in the first video, above.
The four suicide-hijackers were Afghansi veterans of Osama Binladen's jihadi army.
America’s F.A.A. learned, too.
But then F.A.A.’s Committee on Security and Counterterrorism decided not to issue changes to bring American practice in line with international I.C.A.O. standards. Air France eliminated the possibility of taking over it's airliners but installing bars and fancy $200 locks to seal off the cockpits.
F.A.A. did nothing.
Even when the infamous Presidential Daily Brief dated August 6, 2001, stated that "hijack a U.S. airliner" was on the table, nothing was done. Bush went golfing and his government, generally, dialed down counterterrorism to no heat at all.
Lawrence Wright built a solid time line around Richard Clarke and the F.B.I.’s John O’Neill for what was going right in the American government prior to 9/11.
New Yorker time line
This film, "L'Assaut" puts the lie to most of what has been done in America to cover up incompetence related to 9/11. Only a Governor of Texas, or an alcoholic ex-Governor, could miss the point.
BTW: I am a 9/11 survivor from the WTC site. FEMA number. Lost friends and people we knew by the dozens.
I can imagine America's progressives arranging it so's millions of the Tea Party people see this. They're the ones sucked in the worst with Fox News and BushCo lies.
They realize that "Freedom Fries" is a scam, who knows what all they might question ?
Maybe some warm evening President Obama could set up a drive-in for folding chairs on the South Lawn ?