Hopsicker,D. Welcome to TerrorLand. 2004
Hopsicker, Daniel. Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta and the 9-11 Cover-up
in Florida. Eugene, OR: MadCow Press, 2004. 400 pages. (www.madcowprod.com)
The two basic assumptions of this book are that the feds are trying to
hide something about the events leading to 9/11, and that some clues can be
found by following leads in Venice, Florida, where three of the four pilots
learned to fly. Huffman Aviation plays a central role, and two flight-school
entrepreneurs active in Venice, Wallace J. Hilliard and Rudi Dekkers, have
curious connections and are always out of money, but never worry about it.
Narcotics, perhaps, or the CIA, or both? It seems that you can't poke around
any small aviation company in the U.S. without finding CIA connections
sooner or later. Hopsicker's previous book was about Barry Seal and the
CIA at the Mena, Arkansas airfield during Iran-contra.
The FBI was running around Venice after 9/11, telling people to keep
their mouths shut. Does this mean anything? The 9/11 Commission report,
issued after this book appeared, traces the key terrorists well enough to
make this book seem too narrow in its focus. Nevertheless, interesting
questions are raised by Hopsicker that no one else has investigated. It's
possible that the feds wanted to cover up patterns of activity that should
have set off alarms, but didn't. Why not? Probably for reasons unrelated
to 9/11 -- bureaucratic turf wars, protecting sources and methods, drug
profiteering, or whatever. Chances are that 9/11 was a complete surprise.
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