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Website Publishes Half-A-Million Intercepted 9/11 Text Messages

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From CNN (video below):

“The only thoughts I have are of Nicholas, Ian and you,” read one text message. “I am terrified. I needed to tell you that I truly love you. always, diane.”

“I want to hold you now,” one text message a minute later reads.

“I know you have a new relationship and do not care about me. But just in case anything happens know I love you hon. Missed Ya good bye.”

9:25:40 a.m.

“Please call my work as soon as you get in the office. Need to know you’re safe.”

9:29:38 a.m.

“Wondering where you are. Are you okay. Give me a call back asap. I just need to know these things. Even if it’s collect. Call me. Darryl”

11:32:56 a.m.

“if i do not hear from you by high noon, i am going to pick laura up at school and tell her her father is dead.”

“goodbye my sweety…..im going to miss yo,” another said.

“Honey wanted to tell you how much i love you,” one sender wrote. “I was a little worried. I Don’t want to lose you now that I got you back. You mean everything to me. You have my whole heart and life. I love you so much.”

Some texts brought relief.

“My dad survived! I got a call from stepmom’s coworker saying my dad is alive, although that is all the info I have. I do not know if he is injured or unscathed.”

A message at 10:24 a.m. appears to show authorities working to secure the first family.

“TWINKLE AND TURQ ARE ACCOUNTED FOR AND SAFE,” the message says. Twinkle and Turquoise were the code names used for then-president George W. Bush’s twin daughters Jenna and Barbara.

At 10:32 a.m. a Secret Service message said “ANONYMOUS CALL TO JOC REPORTING ANGEL IS TARGET” — referring to a call to the Joint Operation’s Center refering a threat made against Air Force One, which used a code name of Angel.

A message from FEMA at 12:37 p.m. notes “we have no mission statements yet.”




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  • http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

    Thanks for the link. It was interesting to glance at and maybe some unknown blogger or low-level media staffer will take the weekend to find the nuggets.

    As for myself, I didn’t happen across anything as sad as what’s in the post and my heart goes out to everyone who experienced a loss, but the takeaway for me from this leak — if you’re a bad guy and if you think the authorities are listening, you could disguise your coded messages as junk text or sports scores and no one may be the wiser.

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