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seafan

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3. Summer of 2000: Atta and Al-Shehhi show up at Huffman Aviation, Venice, FL
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 02:37 PM
Oct 2015
9/11 Flight School Owner: Last 10 Years "Have Been Bad", September 9, 2011

A decade after terrorists did the unthinkable in taking down the World Trade Center towers, the former owner of the South Florida flight school where two of them trained says he’s still paying the price.

“The last ten years have been bad,” says Rudi Dekkers, the former owner of Huffman Aviation, in Venice, where hijackers Mohammed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi trained before Sept. 11.

Dekkers, now 55, didn’t lose any loved ones in the 9/11 attacks. But he says the financial losses and the losses to his reputation have been staggering.

After dealing with government investigations, threats to his life, even a helicopter crash he calls “suspicious,” Dekkers says his life has never been the same.

“I did not realize when Sept. 11 happened, that I was involved,” said Dekkers. He said he learned of his involvement when the FBI called him the next day.

"I woke up that morning, the day after Sept. 11 and I had a phone call at 5:30 in the morning, I never have a phone call 5:30 in the morning,” he said. “But I still did not click anything with 9/11 because that's not something you expect.

"I talked to the FBI...I don't think I realized until it sank in. I can't explain it...no one wants to be involved in something like that. I knew how big the disaster was because of the day before and now I'm involved?"

Dekkers says his involvement began in the summer of 2000, when Atta and Al-Shehhi showed up at Huffman ready to drop thousands of dollars on flight lessons.

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Jeb Bush seized flight school records at 2 AM on September 12


Florida is the epicenter of so much of the September 11 tragedy. And Jeb Bush is in the middle of it.

"Phantom Flight From Florida", from the archives: (Unable to hyperlink directly, but here it is.)
http://web.archive.org/web/20011108145853/http://www.tampatrib.com/MGA3F78EFSC.html


And because of Jeb Bush's zealous efforts for his brother in November, 2000, to circumvent the will of the electorate, we were left with this on September 11, 2001:






The Bushes have inflicted so much sorrow on the world.




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