James Woods' 9/11 Flight Experience

In August 2001,

actor James Woods was on a flight from Boston to Los Angeles when he observed

some Middle Eastern passengers acting strangely.

He told authorities what he saw and the FBI has

apparently corroborated that it may have been a dry run for the 9 11 hijackers.

I got a phone call that actually wakes me up and he said,

we want to talk to you about the flight that you took in August.

I said, oh, did the manifest match of any of the flights yesterday on my flight?

He said, well, we can't tell you that.

I said, well, look, I'll get ready and I'll come down to the

federal building and he said, we're outside your house, we'll just wait.

Wow, 7 15, so this is serious.

I said, and this is the only funny part of any of this, I said,

how did you know where I lived?

And there was a pause, he said, we're the FBI, thank you.

So they came in and I said, look, I'm dying to know, were these the guys?

And he said, well,

we've had 36 000 tips in one day and there's two of us and we're going

to be at your house all this morning so you can do the math,

but we can't tell you, you know.

Since then, I have identified for sure two of them as two of the terrorists

who actually were not on flight 11, but one was on flight 175 and

one was on flight 77.

And I've been told unofficially,

not by the FBI, but by someone else and actually a higher level of government,

believe it or not, just through a coincidence, through a mutual friend,

that all four of them were terrorists involved. That is unbelievable.

So there was basically a rehearsal with these guys.

Right, but what's significant about this is that it was a rehearsal with four men

and I can't say it as a fact that they were the four, but I've been

led to believe without going into details of how,

that they were on different flights.

So the notion that they were separate cells,

and this is tricky territory,

but I think in the Massare trial,

there's going to be some contention that, you know,

he was a soldier and didn't know what was going to happen until he stepped on the

plane and then decided in a fit of good conscience not to be a terrorist anymore.

In fact, the fact that these two people were

identified by myself and other people and were on the

Boston LA flight and ended up dying on two other flights of the four flights

on September 11th shows that they were What an amazing story.

There was cross collateralization.

I've never heard this. This is the first time you're telling a story.