Conspiracy or coincidence? Flight 93 memorial attacked over crescent shape

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/conspiracy-or-coincidence-flight-93-memorial-attacked-over-crescent-shape-802363.html

By Leonard Doyle in Shanksville, Pennsylvania
Saturday, 29 March 2008


United Airlines Flight 93 came in low and fast over this poor Appalachian community, passing directly over a scrapyard where one of the few witnesses to the disaster said the plane was at a tilt and low enough to "count the rivets".


Burnished into the nation's collective memory of 11 September 2001 is the heroism of Flight 93's passengers, who overwhelmed the hijackers and forced them to ditch the plane rather than let them attempt an attack on the US Capitol building 150 miles away.

But disagreement and rancour has dogged efforts to commemorate the 40 victims of terrorism on this Pennsylvania hillside. Seven and a half years after the tragedy, several family members of those who perished say that the planned memorial is in the shape of an Islamic crescent and points directlytowards Mecca.