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Logan Ticket Agent Committed Suicide?, Woman who checked in Atta & Alomari

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Shoestring	Posted: Oct 14 2006, 04:34 PM
Regular Member Group: Members Posts: 110 Member No.: 2,818 Joined: 9-June 06	Check out the following article from the Sunday Mirror: http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/archive/arch...-name_page.html Michael Tuohey, the man who checked in Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari at Portland Airport, says, "I later discovered the ticket agent in Boston - who completed their reservation because of my actions - committed suicide." The Logan ticket agent is also mentioned here: http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200509/20...50912_103.jhtml "Plagued by sleepless nights and visions of Atta, Tuohey felt another layer of guilt when he learned the ticket agent in Boston who checked in Atta and Alomari for the last leg of their flight committed suicide." Does anyone know any more details of this? What was the ticket agent's name? When did she kill herself? If this is true, I wonder if the reason she "committed suicide" was that Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari never checked in at Logan Airport the morning of 9/11. The ticket agent knew this inconvenient fact and therefore she had to be gotten rid of.

slick	Posted: Oct 14 2006, 04:41 PM
Life Is A Paradox Group: Members Posts: 1,672 Member No.: 2,498 Joined: 30-May 06	Or perhaps she didnt commit suicide.. who knows..

bob'syouruncle	Posted: Oct 14 2006, 05:17 PM
Member Group: Members Posts: 30 Member No.: 5,943 Joined: 27-September 06	Other links/views on the topic: http://susiemadrak.com/2006/09/12/10/51/co...nd-contrast-14/ and a debunking site http://www.blogpi.net/the-oprah-winfrey-91...nt-suicide-myth They are right, this is something that should be pretty easy to prove one way or the other.

Eckolaker	Posted: Oct 14 2006, 05:18 PM
Regular Member Group: Members Posts: 169 Member No.: 3,005 Joined: 20-June 06	I highly doubt she committed suicide.

mid life crises	Posted: Oct 15 2006, 07:09 PM
Regular Member Group: Members Posts: 139 Member No.: 2,032 Joined: 15-May 06	maybe she never even really exisited??

Killtown	Posted: Oct 15 2006, 07:28 PM
Veteran Group: Members Posts: 3,102 Member No.: 8 Joined: 10-February 06	Good find Shoestring! Can you do a write up on this so I can post it on my Oddities page?

SittingBull	Posted: Oct 16 2006, 08:34 AM
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QUOTE (Killtown @ Oct 15 2006, 07:28 PM)

Good find Shoestring! Can you do a write up on this so I can post it on my Oddities page?

Sure! Unfortunately I've only got the three quotes on this. The first comes from the Sunday Mirror:

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Mr Tuohey recalls the moment he first saw Atta and Alomari. "Atta had a look of hatred and contempt in his eyes that is burnt into my memory. It will never leave me.

"I thought they looked like two Arab terrorists but then I berated myself for the stereotype and did nothing.

"I later discovered the ticket agent in Boston - who completed their reservation because of my actions - committed suicide. I have to live with a double guilt. But I have been over the scenario a thousand times and, for the life of me, I could not have done anything different according to the procedures that existed."
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/archive/arch...-name_page.html

The there is the quote from the Oprah Winfrey Show website:

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Plagued by sleepless nights and visions of Atta, Tuohey felt another layer of guilt when he learned the ticket agent in Boston who checked in Atta and Alomari for the last leg of their flight committed suicide.
http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200509/20...50912_103.jhtml

And finally, a quote from Yankee magazine:

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Oprah Winfrey, with Tuohey as her studio guest, told 20 million viewers that a woman who'd worked at American Airlines in Boston had later killed herself. Earlier, Oprah's producer had told Tuohey she had a message from the woman's husband: "It's not your fault."

"When she said that," Tuohey says, "it felt like a stone was lifted from my heart."
http://www.yankeemagazine.com/thisissue/fe...iveyears911.php

I couldn't find anything in the 9/11 Commission Report about who the Logan ticket agent was. Nor any news articles revealing her name or even acknowledging that Atta and Alomari checked in with any ticket agent at Logan.

There's one other suspicious death of a 9/11 witness that I've so far come across. This was Pete Raffa, the director of operations with the Toledo Air Guard, which launched fighter jets at 10:17 a.m. on the morning of 9/11. According to the Toledo Blade:

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Toledo Air Guard officials declined to talk about the events that morning, even in general terms permitted by the military.

Lt. Col. Carole Allen - the base spokeswoman - said personnel were still grieving over the unexpected death of their 44-year-old commander of operations, Pete Raffa, who died seven days ago of a heart attack.
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...ArtNo=112090036

SittingBull	Posted: Oct 16 2006, 08:23 PM
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 499 Member No.: 81 Joined: 12-February 06	The fact that we do not know her name and that Tuohey is not well known speaks for itself. This means, that direct eyewitness for the boarding were neither interviewed nor reported in the official account.

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