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Thread ID: 12184 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2004-02-06
2004-02-06 12:41 | User Profile
Man Says Wife Died In 9/11 Tragedy, But She Didn't
UPDATED: 9:09 PM EST February 5, 2004
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- The September 11th terrorist attacks killed many, many people. And, in a way, they took the life of a Brevard County woman who wasn't even there. This is a story of 9-11 fraud and deceit and someone trying to cheat the system.
"It's great, Florida in the sunshine. We've been very, very, very happy," says Donna Laskowski.
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For Donna and her two sons, life was finally on the right track. They moved to Florida to get away and hide from an abusive father and ex-husband. Even years later, the boys don't want their faces shown. All was fine, until son Stephen got a strange phone call.
The message was from Stephen's father and said the family had come into a large sum of money.
"He was asking me all kinds of questions about how to deal with, invest the money. I had no clue what he was talking about," explains Stephen.
Confused by the message, Stephen called his father back and, during the conversation, heard the name of the family's old insurance agent in Pennsylvania. So, Donna decided to call that office to find out what was going on. She got the receptionist.
"'Oh dear, God. My God. Oh God, Donna,' she said, 'You're alive,'" explains Laskowski. "[She said,] 'I don't believe you're alive. Oh my God, your husband was here and said you were dead.'"
Stephen Laskowski, Sr. had claimed Donna was working on the 12th floor of one of the towers of the World Trade Center when it came crashing down. He had turned in paperwork requesting more than a million dollars from the 9/11 Victim's Compensation Fund, just a week before the cut-off.
Donna's name was even listed on the victim's compensation website as a victim.
"That's when it hit me how bad this was," says Laskowski.
But what he did didn't surprise Donna. The family says, when they left behind their home in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, they also left behind a conman, a dangerous, but bright, individual who was always looking for new ways to interfere in their lives.
Channel 9 reporter Scott Thuman tracked down Stephen Laskowski, Sr. at his Pennsylvania home.
"Yes, my wife, Donna Lee Laskowski, died in the World Trade Center [on] September 11th," he said.
"See, what I have a hard time understanding is, I interviewed your wife last week," Thuman informed him.
"You did? Where?" asked Laskowski, Sr.
"You understand these papers that you filed with the government claim that she died in the towers. Your wife told me she never has been to New York, never been to the World Trade Center," Thuman said.
"You sure you're talking about the right Donna Lee Laskowski?" he asked.
"Yes," Thuman replied.
To which Laskowski, Sr. said, "Well that changes everything, doesn't it?"
He claimed it's all a misunderstanding, even though he had talked to his sons since 9/11 and, they say, never brought up that their mother might be dead.
Laskowski now says, he would refuse the money. "My wife's alive. That's great," he said.
Donna has since contacted multiple agencies, including the FBI and 9/11 compensation group, but has yet to see action. So she, and her boys, still, won't rest easy.
"Maybe this one big thing that he did, if justice is served properly, he'll stop. This will be an ending point," Donna says.
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2004-02-06 15:47 | User Profile
I get the feeling that contacting the authorities was less about a desire to do justice than about a 60/40 split not being good enough for Lady Laskowski. Why would "...a conman, a dangerous, but bright, individual..." contact the one person who could blow his scheme out of the water when he obviously didn't need to?
Either that, or when it became apparent that the grift wouldn't go through, she preemtively denounced her partner in crime.
"I had nothing to do with it!"
2004-02-06 23:37 | User Profile
[color=blue][size=4]THE WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWERS COLLAPSE AS AN ENORMOUS INSURANCE SCAM.[/size][/color]
[color=red]On the 23rd July, 2001, just seven weeks previous to the World Trade Center demolitions, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey signed a deal with a consortium (Larry Silverstein, Westfield America Inc and Lloyd Goldman) led by Larry Silverstein for a 99 year lease of the World Trade Center complex. The leased buildings included WTCs One, Two, Four, Five and 400,000 square feet of retail space. The Marriott Hotel (WTC 3), U.S. Customs building (WTC 6) and Silverstein's own 47-story office building (WTC 7) were already under lease. Silverstein is seeking $7.2 billion from insurers for the destruction of the center. One would estimate that the chances of the insurers paying out, are close to zero, but the court case drags on. Here are few articles concerning the World Trade Center deal and consequent legal wrangle.[/color]
From [url=http://members.fortunecity.com/911/september-eleven/insurance-scam.htm]The World Trade Center Towers collapse as an Enormous Insurance Scam.[/url]
2004-02-07 00:57 | User Profile
as a matter of fact, Silverstein is on record saying that building seven was demolished using explosives. Now you have to as youself, how could a team implant the necessary explosives when the building was already on fire ? Not to mention the CB records of NY firemen who said the fire was OUT 20 minutes before it fell they perished after they completed their job its also a proven fact that 9 of the alleged hijackers are living in Saudi Arabia and that Neil Bush's contract for security of the WTC expired on 911 I am acceptably going to have the media and government lie to me i just dont have to believe their lies i know the planes we flown by remote control I know that a missile hit the Pentagon These are facts the media will not address Its all crumbling like a house of cards The allegiance of the Elite is with Lucifer The Father of All Lies He will damn you If you let Him
2004-02-07 21:14 | User Profile
"its also a proven fact that 9 of the alleged hijackers are living in Saudi Arabia"
If its a proven fact, then prove it for us. Otherwise....
2004-02-08 05:19 | User Profile
[color=red][size=4]MANY OF THE SUPPOSED 9-11 "HIJACKERS" ARE STILL ALIVE.[/size][/color]
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The world's media has reported that many of the so-called hijackers "fingered" by the FBI are still alive. For example the BBC (British Broadcasting Cooperation) carried this report:
[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1559000/1559151.stm]Hijack "suspects" alive and well.[/url]
The following article is a remake of [url=http://www.mujahideen.fsnet.co.uk/wtc/wtc-hijackers.htm]http://www.mujahideen.fsnet.co.uk/wtc/wtc-hijackers.htm[/url] which lists many of the media articles dealing with the hijackers who were not hijackers.
Abdul Aziz Al-Omari (Flight 11) (Trained Pilot)
The identities of two men with the same name have been cobbled together to create an FBI "terrorist". Both are Alive!
The first has the same name, the same birth date as one of the FBI "terrorists" but has no idea how to fly.
The second has the name Abdul Rahman Al-Omari and a different birth date, but is the person pictured by the FBI and is a pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines.
Here are some quotes from the world's media concerning them.
Omari Number 1
"A Saudi man has reported to authorities that he is the real Abdul Aziz Al-Omari, and claims his passport was stolen in 1995 while he studied electrical engineering at the University of Denver. Al-Omari says he informed police of the theft." - [url=http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/WTC_suspects.html]ABCNews[/url]
"I couldn't believe it when the FBI put me on their list. They gave my name and my date of birth, but I am not a suicide bomber. I am here. I am alive. I have no idea how to fly a plane. I had nothing to do with this." - [url=http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/23/widen23.xml]Telegraph[/url] 23rd September 2001
"The name (listed by the FBI) is my name and the birth date is the same as mine, but I am not the one who bombed the World Trade Center in New York," Abdul Aziz Al-Omari told the London-based [url=http://www.asharqalawsat.com/]Asharq Al-Awsat[/url] newspaper.
"Al-Omari has since been found in Saudi Arabia and is apparently cleared in the case" - New York Times
"Saudi Embassy officials in Washington have challenged his identity. They say a Saudi electrical engineer named Abdul Aziz Al-Omari had his passport and other papers stolen in 1996 in Denver when he was a student and reported the theft to police there at the time." - [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1567000/1567815.stm]BBC[/url]
"Abdel Aziz Al-Omari and Saïd Hussein Gharamallah Al-Ghamdi, are well in life, the first in Saudi Arabia and the second in Tunisia for nine months." - [url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200109210084.html]Wal Fadjri[/url] 21st September 2001 ([url=http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fallafrica.com%2Fstories%2F200109210084.html&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en]translate[/url])
Omari Number 2
Mr. Al-Omari, a pilot with Saudi Airlines, walked into the US embassy in Jeddah to demand why he was being reported as a dead hijacker in the American media.
"Abdul Aziz Al-Omari is a pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines" - [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1559000/1559151.stm]BBC[/url] 23rd September 2001
"A pilot with Saudi Airlines, was astonished to find himself accused of hijacking * as well as being dead * and has visited the US consulate in Jeddah to demand an explanation." - [url=http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=94438]Independent[/url] 17th September 2001
This Al-Omari lives with his wife and four children in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Saeed Al-Ghamdi (Flight 93) (Trained Pilot)
"Saeed Al-Ghamdi is one of three hijackers that US officials have said are linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network." - [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1567000/1567815.stm]BBC[/url]
No BBC! Mr. Al-Ghamdi is still alive and well and at his job for Tunis Air.
"I was completely shocked. For the past 10 months I have been based in Tunis with 22 other pilots learning to fly an Airbus 320. The FBI provided no evidence of my presumed involvement in the attacks." - [url=http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/23/widen23.xml]Telegraph[/url] 23rd September 2001
"Asharq Al Awsat newspaper, a London-based Arabic daily, says it has interviewed Saeed Al-Ghamdi." - [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1559000/1559151.stm]BBC[/url] 23rd September 2001
"Abdel Aziz Al-Omari and Saïd Hussein Gharamallah Al-Ghamdi, are well in life, the first in Saudi Arabia and the second in Tunisia for nine months." - [url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200109210084.html]Wal Fadjri[/url] 21st September 2001 ([url=http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fallafrica.com%2Fstories%2F200109210084.html&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en]translate[/url])
"..... not dead and had nothing to do with the heinous terror attacks in New York and Washington." - Saudi embassy
Waleed Al-Shehri (Flight 11) (Trained Pilot)
"A sixth person on the FBI's list, Saudi national Waleed Al-Shehri, is living in Casablanca, according to an official with the Royal Air Moroc, the Moroccan commercial airline. According to the unnamed official, Al-Shehri lived in Dayton Beach, Fla., where he took flight training at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Now he works for a Moroccan airline." On Sept. 22, Associated Press reported that Alshehri had spoken to the U.S. embassy in Morocco.
"His photograph was released by the FBI, and has been shown in newspapers and on television around the world. That same Mr Al-Shehri has turned up in Morocco, proving clearly that he was not a member of the suicide attack." - [url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200109240325.html]Daily Trust[/url] 24th September 2001.
"He was reported to have been in Hollywood, Florida, for a month earlier this year but his father, Ahmed, said that Waleed was alive and well and living in Morocco." - [url=http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/20/wterr120.xml]Telegraph[/url]
"Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well." - [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1559000/1559151.stm]BBC[/url] 23rd September 2001.
Ahmed Al-Nami (Flight 93)
"I'm still alive, as you can see. I was shocked to see my name mentioned by the American Justice Department. I had never even heard of Pennsylvania where the plane I was supposed to have hijacked." He had never lost his passport and found it "very worrying" that his identity appeared to have been "stolen" and published by the FBI without any checks. The FBI had said his "possible residence" was Delray Beach in Florida." - [url=http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/23/widen23.xml]Telegraph[/url] 23rd September 2001
Salem Al-Hazmi (Flight 77)
"Mr Al-Hamzi is 26 and had just returned to work at a petrochemical complex in the industrial eastern city of Yanbou after a holiday in Saudi Arabia when the hijackers struck. He was accused of hijacking the American Airlines Flight 77 that hit the Pentagon." - [url=http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/23/widen23.xml]Telegraph[/url] 23rd September 2001.
Khalid Al-Mihdhar (Flight 77)
"Saudi officials at the embassy were unable to verify the whereabouts of the fifth accused hijacker, Khalid Al-Mihdhar. However, Arab newspapers say Al-Mihdharis still alive.
"..... there are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Al Midhar may also be alive." - [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1559000/1559151.stm]BBC[/url] 23rd September 2001
Others accused of being involved:
Ameer Bukhari
"Ameer Bukhari died in a small plane crash last year." - [url=http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/13/america.attack/]CNN Correction[/url]
Adnan Bukhari
"Adnan Bukhari is still in Florida" - [url=http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/13/america.attack/]CNN Correction[/url]
Amer Kamfar
".... that a suspect sought by the FBI, Amer Kamfar, was in fact an alive pilot in Arabia. " - [url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200109210084.html]Wal Fadjri[/url] 21st September 2001 [url=http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//allafrica.com/stories/200109210084.html&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en]translate[/url]
Even after the above has appeared in the world's media the FBI has made no attempt to alter its web-sites which clearly list the wrong names, wrong photos, wrong identities and probably wrong nationalities of the real hijackers.
Given that the hijackers (if there were any) were clearly using false identities, why has the FBI never attempted to find out the hijackers true identities? Why does the FBI seem totally disinterested in apprehending the real culprits? This lack of action from one of our "trusted" government departments is very close to treason.
From [url=http://members.fortunecity.com/911/september-eleven/hijackers-alive.htm]Many 9-11 "Hijackers" are Still Alive and Well.[/url]