Rumsfeld says Flight 93 was ’shot down’

By John Byrne | RAW STORY Editor

In either a gargantuan slip of the tongue or a momentous gaffe departing from the Bush Administration-approved timeline, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told troops in Iraq that the Sept. 11 flight over Pennsylvania was “shot down,” RAW STORY has discovered.

The quote was found in CNN’s transcript of a video of the Secretary’s visit to Camp Victory in Baghdad. The audio is available from National Public Radio (skip to 3:30) here.

Rumsfeld appears to suggest that terrorists shot down Flight 93, the flight immortalized with the possibly inaccurate “let’s roll” tale in which passengers struggled to retake the plane, driving it into the ground.

Others, however, who have long taken issue with the events as reported, believe the United States shot down the airliner. No doubt Rumsfeld’s remarks will fuel a new controversy among those who find serious flaws in the historical timeline.