Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-up in Florida [Paperback]

Daniel Hopsicker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2005

Investigating the associations of Mohamed Atta and other terrorist pilots in Venice, Florida, as they prepared for the 9/11 attacks, this work discloses the FBI's massive post-attack cover-up to conceal their knowledge of the terrorists' activities. Unreported stories including the assassination attempt on President George W. Bush on the morning of September 11, 2001, and the rampant drug trafficking of the flight school financier are fully discussed, with attention to the stunning evidence of the CIA's knowledge that hundreds of Arab flight students were pouring into southwest Florida. This examination of the conspiracy behind the 9/11 investigation and the CIA complicity in the illegal activities that allowed the known terrorists to continue offers truth behind the "official" story of the attacks.

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About the Author

Daniel Hopsicker is the author of Barry & 'The Boys': The CIA, the Mob, & America's Secret History and filmmaker of the documentary Mohamed Atta & the Venice Flying Circus. He lives in Venice, Florida.

Product Details

• Paperback: 414 pages
• Publisher: Trine Day; 1 edition (October 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0975290673
• ISBN-13: 978-0975290675
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,020,459 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read -- Hopsicker's the Michael Moore of print, August 19, 2004

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Bonnie Bucqueroux "political malcontent" (Mason, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-up in Florida (Hardcover)

An important and thoroughly entertaining read. As Hopsicker says, the mainstream media spend more time telling us about Ben and J-Lo than they do researching the team of 19 "lone gunmen" who killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens. Like Michael Moore, Hopsicker also reminds us of things that float just below our consciousness. I remember reading that the Bush Administration ordered the FBI to shift focus from 9/11 to the anthrax investigation. What Hopsicker does is remind us that they never returned to that assignment. He has gone as far as he can in getting us answers, and he poses all the right questions we still need to pursue. In the great tradition of the Michael Moore renegade who searches out the truth for the rest of us, Hopsicker helps us understand that this attack remains one of the great unsolved crimes of all time. Let's hope this book becomes the success it deserves to be so that he and his Mad Cow Press can continue their work.

35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A TRUE Investigative Reporter!!!, August 19, 2004

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Uro Komos (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-up in Florida (Hardcover)

This book by Daniel Hopsicker, is a true work of investigative reporting. If only the 911 Commission, the FBI, and everyone else investigating 911 would have done the work that Hopsicker has done! He has many instances where what he found out through interviews with people who had encounters with the hijackers, that the 911 report had them not in Florida, but somewhere else! Since the 911 report only dealt with information from the FBI, this book is necessary to see what you are not being told about 911 in relation, especially to what the 'terrorists' were doing in Florida. The chapters on the flight schools is invaluable research, something that a reporter and/or especially an FBI agent should have done. This book is for those who want to begin to unravel the mysteries surrounding 911. This isn't conspiracy theory. This is factual information gained by solid investigative reporting - something that no major news outlet has done on 911 and certainly, few other authors. Highly recommended, insightful, full of questions that need to be answered but more than likely won't. Does the 911 report remind anyone who lived through the JFK assassination and the infamous Warren Commission. This book and Hopsicker's great website www.madcowprod.com have the juicy details and much, much more.

27 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Homerun for Hopsicker., October 10, 2005

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Patriotic American - See all my reviews

This review is from: Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-up in Florida (Hardcover)

This is the book frequently referenced in many fine works regarding the events of 9/11, most notably "The Big Wedding" by Sander Hicks.
That book and this one are the best one-two punch out there when it comes to exposing the truth of the 9/11 atrocity.

The best way to describe Hopsicker's style of journalism is:
"How are you gonna know if you don't get up and go?"

Rather than cut and paste mainstream articles that only hinted at the strangely conspicuous lifestyles and dubious government connections of the jihadists that were planning their massive "surprise" attack, Hopsicker decided to see for himself.

Hopsicker headed down to lovely Venice, Florida to get the scoop. What should rightfully be called "Terrorist HQ" was quickly abandoned by the mainstream press after they spent a couple of days there gathering the usual obligatory soundbites from the locals, including the flight school owner that trained some of the terrorists, Rudi Dekkers. Of course, soundbites can be hard to come by when FBI agents are swarming the town at the same time telling those same locals to keep their mouth shut about what they had seen and heard.
Now why would they want to do something like that?

As for Mr. Dekkers, he's a world-class crook and con-man with plenty of connections to drug-runners, international crime syndicates, and big-time political figures. You think those three things have nothing to do with each other? You need to do your homework. This book is a great place to start.

A strange coincidence that Mohamed Atta and his rogue gang of mass-murderers just happened to end up at the most crooked flight school in the whole country. Or was it coincidence? Shady things were going down in that one-horse town.
Atta and his crew were living it up down there, doing more cocaine than Scarface and downing more booze than an eighties rock band. Don't misunderstand - these guys were radical Islamist terrorists, just not "your father's" radical Islamist terrorists.
They partied hard at strip clubs and Atta even kept one of the strippers for a girlfriend - but not an Arab princess, she was actually your run of the mill caucasian infidel. She's interviewed in the book with some startling insights into the life and mind of the 21st century's most famous killer.

From mysterious rendezvous with wealthy Saudi financiers to frequent visits from his German buddies Wolfgang and Juergen, the life of Atta is not what your government told you it was and the circumstances surrounding the training for the kamikaze missions his team would eventually embark on have been covered-up for obvious reasons...

The U.S. Government had a whole bunch to do the 9/11 attacks.
They knew there were terrorists at that flight school because they PUT them there. It was a CIA-owned flight school in a CIA-controlled area making CIA drug runs. Of all the flight schools in the world, they just happened to end up there.
Of course, the government claims that Atta and his crew left town at the end of the year 2000. Garbage. Atta and his gang were living in Venice right up until mere days before they hit those towers.

This book is a trip into the shadowy underworld of covert ops - a world that your government would much rather you didn't know about and would like for you to believe doesn't even exist.

Stop believing the lies and take a trip to Venice with Hopsicker.