Friday, May 27, 2005
 Mad Cow Morning News May 19 2005: Mohamed Atta didn't drink, do cocaine, or hang out in strip clubs, and the official FBI account of the terrorist conspiracy to take down the World Trade Center is pretty much right on the money, according to a new book, "Perfect Soldiers: The Hijackers, Who They Were, Why They Did It," by Terry McDermott, a reporter for the L.A. Times.
Mini-review: 'Perfect Soldiers is perfect dreck... But dreck which speaks volumes about the state of the 9.11 cover-up."
With almost nothing new, McDermott's book is instructive only in what it leaves out: who Atta was and who recruited him. McDermott deals with the stickier facts, even ones reported by numerous sources, through the simple expedient of blithely ignoring them.
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McDermott, in a curious oversight, doesn't even mention secretive flight school financier Wally Hilliard or sidekick 'Magic Dutch Boy' Rudi Dekkers....
In an interview on Hardball with Chris Matthews McDermott tries to dismiss reports of the hijackers high-living ways. But Matthews already knew otherwise. "It seems like they (the hijackers) came to America and hung out in sort of the underworld," he said. "They hung out at the fast- food places, the strip bars-- the sleazy side of American life..."
"I don't think it's true to say that most of these guys did that," McDermott retorted. "I mean, Atta, for instance, never went in a strip club in his life. This guy was so repressed that I don't think he ever had an impure thought."
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