More Nuttiness from the Loosers

"A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest"--Simon and Garfunkel, The Boxer.

Perhaps a classic example of this showed up in the Loose Change Forum the other day. While sifting through the evidence from the Moussaoui trial, one of the Loosers noticed something about a passenger list on Flight 93:



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Well, the Loosers took one look at this and saw that Mark Bingham's name was not on the list! Wooooooo! The "No-Mark Bingham" theory has just been launched!

But... notice anything else about this list? Who's that Jarrah, Z? Or that Alghamdi, S? Aren't those two of the Flight 93 hijackers, along with Alhaznaw(i), and Al-Nami? What are they doing on the list? Didn't Jim Fetzer assure us the flight manifests didn't include the hijackers? At 0:55:



As for why Bingham was not included on the list, I assume it's because he was late arriving for the flight; in fact, the only reason he got on was because the plane was delayed at the gate:

One passenger was late. Mark Bingham had overslept and his friend, Matthew Hall, drove madly from Manhattan to Newark. They screeched to a halt outside Terminal A at 7:40. Bingham leapt from the car, lugging the old, blue-and-gold canvas bag he'd used as a rugby player at the University of California at Berkeley a decade earlier.

United attendants reopened the door to the boarding ramp and let him on the plane

Hat Tip: Reality Bites at the JREF Forum.