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I-" ISLAND EDITION STATE EDITION 50 cents on O'ahu 75 cents on Neighbor Islands FRIDAY July 23, 2004 A A I TS NEWSPA PER H0H0LULUADYERTISER.COM 11 Vv'V Report cites FB CIA faiiire INSIDE TODAY Bon dance royalty Kalihi couple have been performing together for 50 years ISLAND LIFE 1 "V' lit- cy "sip) 'C r. sVyJ 911 panel warns deficiencies could allow another attack BY JOHN YAUKEY Gannett News Service WASHINGTON The Sept. 11 hijackers were not the super-stealthy operatives who moved smoothly through the nation's taut security web as originally thought, according to the much-anticipated report released yesterday by the independent commission investigating the 2001 terrorist attacks. Instead, the conspirators often stumbled and argued their way along, falling through gaping cracks in the nation's countert-errorism network, some of which remain open amid warnings that al-Qaida is plotting another strike soon. "We are safer than we were before 911," said Tom Kean, chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks and a former New Jersey governor.

"But we are not safe." The 911 Commission Report is critical of the White House under Presidents Bush and Clinton, Congress and numerous federal and local agencies for failing to detect, thwart and better respond to the hijackings. But its assessments of the intelligence and security failures leading up to the attacks have raised acute concern because of the recent warn- SEE REPORT, A12 V-n I 7T" -'-'-r-r- 'TtfiiitTi iim i mi i mi ii mi i iii Associ3t6cI Press Family members of Sept. 1 1 victims reviewed the commission's final not government neglect, allowed 1 9 hijackers to carry out the report yesterday. The report concludes that a "failure of imagination," deadliest terrorist attacks in U.S, history. RELATED STORY A15 Panel says cockpit wsn't fcreaehed Irons perfect in Africa Kaua'i surfer scores a 10 in Billabong final SPORTS 1 0 7 4 Watch out for scams State Insurance commissioner says con artists on prowl BUSINESS pi Branching out in Hawaii In WaikTkT Shell show, Michelle Branch preview a new act TGIFI14 The assertion, included in the panel's dramatic summary of the harrowing flight, contradicts the firmly held belief by some victims' families that passengers breached the cockpit and fought with hijackers during their final moments.

In phone calls from the plane, four passengers said they and others planned to fight the hijackers after learning of the attacks on the World Trade Center i in New York earlier that With the words "Let's roll," passengers rushed down the airliner's narrow aisle to try to overwhelm the hijackers. Relying on the cockpit recorder and flight data, the commission said terrorist-pilot Ziad Tarrah violently rocked the jet's wings and told another hijacker to block the door. With the sounds of fighting outside the cockpit, DISCOVERIES AT WAL-MART SITE December 2002 begins on the Sam's Club Wal-Mart on Ke'eaumoku Street January 2003 The remains of 25 bodies are discovered remains found on the site since construction began in Decern- ber2002. The state attorney general's office could not be reached for if 4. I ft 2700 S.

KING ST. UH MANOA j. Jarrah asked, "Is that it? Shall we finish it off?" Another hijacker, not identified, replied, "No, not yet. When they all come, we finish it off." Jarrah began pitching the nose of the plane up and down to throw passengers off balance. Seconds later, a passenger who wasn't identified yelled, "In the cockpit! If we don't, we die!" And 16 seconds afterward, another SEE COCKPIT, A13 during grading work.

An archaeologist has determined they might be from the 1853 Honolulu smallpox epi- demic. Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 0 Hawai'i Nei, which oversees perpetual care of the remains of Native Hawaiians, protests treatment of the re comment last night, but Deborah Ward, state Department of Land and Natural Resources spokes- woman, confirmed that the at- torney general is looking into BY WAYNE HARADA Advertiser Entertainment Writer KPOI-FM, a well-known and once-influential rock 'n' roll radio station broadcasting at 97.5 on the FM dial will take on new call letters, becoming known as KHNR-FM in the next few weeks as it changes hands in a transaction awaiting approval from the Federal Communications Commission. KPOI is considered a "legacy station" in the radio industry. Its brand name, in use since the late 1950s in Hawai'i, has been associated with the birth of rock and Top 40 programming. It's one of four New Wave Broadcasting stations being acquired by Maui-based Visionary Re WINDWARD WESTRIDGE 247-1200 487-3777 lJ State to look into handling of remains Bones at Wal-Mart site may have been moved illegally BY JAMES GONSER Advertiser Urban Honolulu Writer The state attorney general's office has launched an investigation after a set of human remains found Saturday at the Wal-Mart construction site on Ke'eaumoku Street was removed in apparent violation of state law governing the handling of ancient remains.

The finding makes 43 sets of Hijackers purposely crashed Flight 93 in field, report says BY TED BRIDIS Associated Press WASHINGTON Passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 fought back against the hijackers, but never actually made it into the cockpit, the Sept 11 commission concluded. Democrats, Lingle spar over for schools BY TREENA SHAPIRO Advertiser Staff Writer House Democrats said yesterday that the Lingle administration is withholding $11.8 million earmarked by the Legislature to reduce class size in Hawaii schools, buy more math books and implement other changes. State budget director Georgina Kawamura, however, said it is unfair to say Gov. Linda Lingle has not released the money because she has not been asked to do so by the Department of Budget and Fiscal Services as part of a long-standing process. The money was included in the Reinventing Education Act, which went into effect July Although the administration has said it will not release any new appropriations until after projected tax revenues are released at the next Council on Revenues meeting in September, Kawamura's office has been reviewing items case by case.

Kawamura said she will make a recommendation to Lingle as early as this afternoon, after which Lingle can make a decision. At a press conference yesterday, Democratic Reps. Sylvia Luke, Scott Saiki and Roy Taku- SEE SCHOOLS, A1 6 INSIDE Report put spotlight on al-Qaida links with Iran. A1 2 U.S. must fight PR war in Arab world, panel says.

A12 91 1 panelists won't go away in election year. A13 Publicizing Moussaoui's arrest might have delayed plan. I A14 mains, which are sacred to 7 May to October 2003 1 3 more sets of remains are found. By March 2004, the total will reach 42. July 1 7 The 43rd set of human remains is found.

the incident. Ward said Wal-Mart's contract archaeologist, Akihiko Sinoto, had moved the remains SEE REMAINS, A4 KPOI-FM lated Entertainment for $11 million. Visionary expects to keep the call letters but sell the station to Salem Communications when the FCC approves the transactions. Approval is expected in early August. Because the KPOI call letters are being retained by Visionary, there is speculation that the KPOI name will be transferred to another frequency, though Visionary is not releasing details of its plans at this time.

The transition is connected to a shakeup in the ownership of Hawai'i radio, with New Wave moving out of the market. "KPOI still is the best calllet- SEE KPOI, A16 RESTAURANT ROW New owner, name await legendary 8 sections, 128 pages Classifieds F1-6 Comics E8 Crosswords E2 Editorials A18 Movteads" TGIF32-35 Nation and World A3 Obituaries B2 Stocks D2, D4-5 TV listings E7 Weather 7 I A2 i Si, m11WnWhHHntit tVti MsT ii'-rii ijsl COPYRIGHT. 2004 III 40901 000011 A GANNETT NEWSPAPER EUGENE TANNER The Honolulu Advertiser Fil Slash, assistant program director, music director and disc jockey at KPOI 97.5 FM, does his afternoon show. MILILANI 627-0177 944-5500 255-6903 I I npi ir'mrmcl -WTWWMIW iimm Jtitsmim 7ry.r llllll II I II Ill lill ill HIM Illlfl I id i JiHHinii.TI, i 1 lT. i.

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