United 93: Todd beamer and Mark Bingham Anomalies

Eagle54

The Force is Strong With This One
Hello, everyone.

Well, it appears that alleged 9/11 heroes Todd Beamer and Mark Bingham, of United 93, once lived in the same small town (Los Gatos, California, population no more than 30,000) at the same time. Also, it appears that they attended Los Gatos High School at the same time.

This connection is mind-boggling.


The following link describes the situation:

http://www.911movement.org/thread.php?164

This link is a thread on a message board.


Also, here is some information about the population of Los Gatos, California:

http://www.town.los-gatos.ca.us/index.asp?NID=515
 
Eagle54 said:
Hello, everyone.

Well, it appears that alleged 9/11 heroes Todd Beamer and Mark Bingham, of United 93, once lived in the same small town (Los Gatos, California, population no more than 30,000) at the same time. Also, it appears that they attended Los Gatos High School at the same time.

This connection is mind-boggling.
Ok, they went to the same high school so that is a connection but what are you implying (if anything)?
So apparently Bingham lived in Redwood Estates, which is unincorporated Los Gatos in the Santa Cruz Mountains and quite a drive from the town of Los Gatos (min. 6 miles depending how far in one lives).
Los Gatos is very spread out, so when one says "once lived in the same small town" that might emphasize this connection more than what was factual.

Has anybody done the same or similar research for all passengers on all planes? Maybe these connections are more common than you might think?

Thanks for pointing out this interesting, but in my case not mind-boggling, connection.

(Added) If you need any additional info about Los Gatos, let me know.
 
It would help all readers of the forum to explain who Bingham and Beamer are and their roles in 911. Then, I think, the "coincidence" would make itself clear.
 
domivr said:
Eagle54 said:
Hello, everyone.

Well, it appears that alleged 9/11 heroes Todd Beamer and Mark Bingham, of United 93, once lived in the same small town (Los Gatos, California, population no more than 30,000) at the same time. Also, it appears that they attended Los Gatos High School at the same time.

This connection is mind-boggling.
Ok, they went to the same high school so that is a connection but what are you implying (if anything)?
So apparently Bingham lived in Redwood Estates, which is unincorporated Los Gatos in the Santa Cruz Mountains and quite a drive from the town of Los Gatos (min. 6 miles depending how far in one lives).
Los Gatos is very spread out, so when one says "once lived in the same small town" that might emphasize this connection more than what was factual.

Has anybody done the same or similar research for all passengers on all planes? Maybe these connections are more common than you might think?

Thanks for pointing out this interesting, but in my case not mind-boggling, connection.

(Added) If you need any additional info about Los Gatos, let me know.
Small town, eh?

Isn't that where AFFS and Lasertech are based?
 
Laura said:
It would help all readers of the forum to explain who Bingham and Beamer are and their roles in 911. Then, I think, the "coincidence" would make itself clear.
On 9/11/2001, United Airlines Flight 93 was one of 4 planes allegedly hijacked by terrorists.

On UA 93, the passengers allegedly fought the terrorists and caused the plane to crash.

The four passengers most associated with fighting the terrorists were Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Jeremy Glick, and Thomas Burnett.

In earlier posts, I showed that Beamer, Bingham, and Glick were connected to Israel.

Now, it turns out that Beamer and Bingham went to high school together in a small California town.
 
domivr said:
Ok, they went to the same high school so that is a connection but what are you implying (if anything)?

So apparently Bingham lived in Redwood Estates, which is unincorporated Los Gatos in the Santa Cruz Mountains and quite a drive from the town of Los Gatos (min. 6 miles depending how far in one lives).
Los Gatos is very spread out, so when one says "once lived in the same small town" that might emphasize this connection more than what was factual.
Because the United States is so big and because we have lots of cars, buses, trains, etc., if 2 people live only 6 miles apart, then they are virtually next-door neighbors.
 
Eagle54 said:
Azur said:
Isn't that where AFFS and Lasertech are based?
What is AFFS?
It's "The Academy for Future Science".

You can read about it and the connections there in this post: http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=1139

Cheers.
 
Eagle54 said:
Because the United States is so big and because we have lots of cars, buses, trains, etc., if 2 people live only 6 miles apart, then they are virtually next-door neighbors.
Your point is valid, but the reality on the ground is more complex. Redwood Estates might as well be a village on its own compared to Los Gatos proper. They have their own water company, elementary school, community pool, post office, etc. It is a tight mountain community that is rural (homes on septic, redwood groves, etc) and has a quite distinct cultural feel on top of being geographically different from Los Gatos. People living there will be employed locally (e.g. construction) or in the Santa Cruz or Los Gatos (and beyond) areas.

Without more data on Beamer and Bingham and their respective families, the 2 year high school overlap is interesting but not necessarily meaningful. Or so I think.

To be honest, one of the things that came to mind when I found out (trough your post) that Herbert Hoglan lived in Redwood Estates, was if he had some connection to the Lockheed Martin missile test site in the Santa Cruz Mountains (near Bonny Doon).
So far there is nothing to suggest that. Now that would have been a interesting connection.

Please let me know if there is anything I am missing or misunderstanding.

So far my impression is from all your posts that you are mostly making superficial connections to Israel.

As a thought experiment, let's say I died on one of the planes on 9/11.
You probably would have found out that I was hired by an American company in '99 by an Israeli citizen (my manager). This company definitely had and has business ties to Israel in the form of employees and sales and ties to the US military-industrial complex. I also have a friend who knew Mark Bingham personally.
After my (thought experiment) death in 2001 these connections to Israel and Bingham (if they surfaced) would have been interesting and perhaps meaningful to some on the surface, but completely meaningless in reality.
 
This might also be a reach, but in attempting to research a Hoglan/Lockheed Martin connection I came across the information at this site that another passenger on flight 93 was Donald Greene, who
"was the chief financial officer of Safe Flight Instrument Co."
Googlesearching the above company yielded, among others, this site which states,
"The company has produced more than 600,000 stall warning indicators. Other products include angle-of-attack systems, airborne wind shear warning systems, automatic throttles, and engine monitoring devices. Customers include most aircraft manufacturers, as well as the U.S. military and business jet operators.
 
Well, I do think that this connection between Beamer and Bingham is suggestive and could be followed up to see if there is more to it. But, as Domivr said, if HE was involved, similar connections might be found (though not as close), and in the end, the fact is that Domivr was NOT involved, and Beamer and Bingham were and ... connected in a more curious way.
 
Previously, I wrote an article that described the connections between 9 passengers of the 9/11 hijacked planes and the state of Israel.

(To see the article, go to the following location:
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=3675

This Internet location is a thread on the Signs Of The Times message board. The first posting in the thread, written under the username Eagle54, is the article.)

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Two of the passengers that I wrote about were Todd Beamer and Jeremy Glick of United Airlines Flight 93. Well, I have now written a follow-up article on Beamer and Glick. My main source for this new article is the book "Let's Roll", which was written by Todd Beamer's widow Lisa Beamer.

The article appears below. For each paragraph that has page numbers at the end, the page numbers refer to the pages of the hardcover edition of "Let's Roll" where the information in the paragraph can be found.

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Todd Beamer, one of the people who supposedly fought terrorists on United Flight 93 on 9/11/2001, was employed by Oracle Corporation.

On 9/13/2001, Larry Ellison, chief executive officer (CEO) of Oracle, sent an email to Oracle employees. In this email, Ellison praised Todd for Todd's heroic actions in fighting the terrorists and in stopping the plane from reaching its destination in Washington DC.
(pages 184, 185)

There was just one problem. No authority from United Airlines or from the government had yet announced to Todd Beamer's family or to the public that Todd Beamer had been involved in fighting the terrorists. In fact, Lisa Beamer was told by a United Airlines employee in the evening of 9/14/2001 that the FBI had just publicly released information about Todd's heroics. So, Lisa wonders, how did Larry Ellison know about Todd's heroics one day before the FBI released the information to the public? (pages 185-188)

Maybe Larry Ellison helped the US Government concoct the "official" story of 9/11. Maybe Ellison arranged for Beamer to be on United Flight 93 for the sole purpose of providing a hero for the 9/11 story.

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Let us look at how Todd Beamer ended up on Flight 93 in the first place.

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During the first week of September 2001, Todd and Lisa Beamer were in Italy. Todd and Lisa were without their kids, but Todd and Lisa were not traveling alone. The Beamers were joined by 500 Oracle employees and guests. This trip was a reward from Oracle to employees who performed well. The trip was a combination of business and pleasure. During the daytime, the employees and guests went sightseeing. During the evening, there were business dinners. The final day of activities (sightseeing and business dinner) was 9/9/2001. (pages 148, 152, 153)

Because of the high number of people on this trip, it is very possible that CEO Ellison himself scheduled the trip.

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At some point before the trip to Italy began, Todd was told that he would be attending some meetings in San Francisco on 9/11/2001. Todd would have a meeting at 1:00 PM San Francisco time and a dinner meeting at night. (pages 153, 154)

Thus, before the start of the trip to Italy, Todd knew that he would have to be in Italy until 9/9/2001 and then in San Francisco on 9/11/2001.

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If the trip to Italy was scheduled by Ellison, then who scheduled the meetings in San Francisco? According to Lisa Beamer, the meetings in San Francisco were extremely important. Todd would be meeting with some executives from Sony Corporation, who would be flying in from Japan. The meetings would also include Oracle's chief financial officer (CFO). (pages 153, 154)

In most American companies, the CFO works closely with the CEO. Therefore, it is very likely that these meetings were scheduled by CEO Larry Ellison.

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Given that Todd would be in Italy for all of 9/9/2001 and that Todd had to be in San Francisco by 1:00 PM on 9/11/2001, Todd had two travel options:

1) Todd would fly to Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, from Italy on 9/10/01 and would fly to San Francisco on the same day. On 9/11/01, Todd would attend his meetings.

2) Todd would fly to Newark on 9/10/01 and would fly to San Francisco on 9/11/01. Then Todd would attend his meetings on 9/11/01.

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The Beamers left Italy in the early morning of 9/10/01. Todd pondered his two choices while on the flight to Newark. Todd decided that he would arrive in Newark on 9/10/01, spend one night at home with his wife and his kids (whom he had not seen in a week), and then travel to San Francisco on 9/11/01.
(pages 153, 154, 158)

Actually, it is possible that Todd did not have to make any decision at all. There was a fire at Newark Airport in the late afternoon of 9/10/01. So, the evening flight to San Francisco that Todd thought about taking was cancelled. (page 158)

According to Lisa Beamer, Jeremy Glick, who would help Todd fight the terrorists, was supposed to fly to San Francisco from Newark in the evening of 9/10/01. Glick's plane was first supposed to land at Newark. However, the fire caused the plane to be rerouted to JFK Airport in New York City. Glick had the option of traveling from Newark Airport to JFK Airport (presumably by car, bus, or train) and boarding the plane to San Francisco at JFK Airport. However, Glick chose to go home to Hewitt, New Jersey, and to fly to San Francisco from Newark on 9/11/01. (page 204)

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Even without the fire, Larry Ellison could have reasonably assumed that Todd would choose to fly to San Francisco on 9/11/01. Ellison could have assumed that taking two long flights on the same day would be a big strain on Todd. Or, since Ellison knew that Todd's trip to Italy would be for adults only, Ellison could have reasonably assumed that Todd would want to spend one night with his kids before leaving town. However, the fire improved the chance that Todd would not fly out on 9/10/01. The fire certainly deterred Jeremy Glick from flying out on 9/10/01.

So, was that fire an act of arson? Was someone trying to make sure that Beamer and Glick flew out on 9/11/01?

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Also, why DID the fire deter Glick from flying out on 9/10/01?
It is a relatively short drive from Newark Airport to JFK Airport.
It can not be said that Glick wanted to spend one more night with his family before leaving town. Glick had a wife and a daughter, but they were vacationing in upstate New York. So, Glick went home to an empty house. So, was Glick really deterred by the fire? Or did Glick simply use the fire as an excuse to travel on 9/11/01?

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There are a few more items that should be mentioned.

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9/10/01 was a Monday. As mentioned above, on the plane from Italy to Newark, Todd Beamer thought about whether he should fly to San Francisco on 9/10/01 or 9/11/01. Another thing Todd thought about on the plane was the workweek ahead. Todd was dreading the upcoming workweek. Todd was not looking forward to that week at all. This attitude troubled Lisa Beamer. In the past, Todd had always been excited about work, even during challenging times. However, Todd was now complaining that he would have a lot on his plate at work that week. (pages 154, 155)

So, the obvious questions are the following: Why was Todd so afraid of work suddenly? What was Todd told by his bosses at Oracle about that workweek? What did Todd think was going to happen?

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Jonathan Oomrigar worked in one of Oracle's California offices and was one of Todd Beamer's favorite Oracle co-workers. Jonathan participated in the Oracle trip to Italy, and, before the trip to Italy, Jonathan and Todd had traveled together on business to Israel. (page 148)

According to Todd's cell-phone records (which Lisa Beamer presumably saw after Todd died), Todd called Jonathan on the morning of 9/11/2001. According to Lisa, Todd and Jonathan spoke about Todd's San Francisco meetings. (page 191)

Presumably, Todd's phone records do not reveal the content of the conversation. So, only Todd and Jonathan would know for certain what the conversation was about. Since Todd is supposedly dead, Jonathan would be Lisa's source as to the content of the conversation.

So, what did Todd and Jonathan do in Israel? What did Todd and Jonathan discuss while they were in Italy? And what did Jonathan and Todd discuss on the morning of 9/11/2001?

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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has a connection to Israel. In September 2001, Ellison owned 70% of an Israeli company called Quark Biotech.

Source: 9/3/2001 article in Fortune magazine
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/09/03/309267/index.htm

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In summary, we have the following:

1) Both the trip to Italy and Todd's meetings in San Francisco may have been scheduled by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.

2) Given the schedule of the trip to Italy and the San Francisco meetings, Todd Beamer had only two options for traveling to San Francisco (9/10/01 or 9/11/01).

3) In order to spend time with his children, Todd chose to travel on 9/11/01. However, even if Todd had chosen to travel on 9/10/01, the 9/10/01 fire at Newark Airport would probably have prevented Todd from doing that.

The fire did prevent Jeremy Glick, Todd's partner in fighting terrorism, from flying to San Francisco on 9/10/01. Alternatively, Glick was not deterred by the fire, but rather used the fire as an excuse to travel on 9/11/01.

4) Todd was worried about the workweek of 9/11/01. Previously, Todd had always been excited about work, even during challenging times. Now, Todd was worried.

5) Jonathan Oomrigar, a co-worker with whom Todd had traveled on business to Israel, was in Italy with Todd and received a phone call from Todd on 9/11/01.

6) In September 2001, Todd's boss Larry Ellison owned 70% of an Israeli company.

7) Larry Ellison knew about Todd's heroics aboard United Airlines Flight 93 about one day before the FBI released that information to the public.

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So, were Todd Beamer, Jonathan Oomrigar, and Larry Ellison working on some operation for Israeli intelligence? Were Beamer, Oomrigar, and Ellison helping Israeli intelligence to perpetrate the United 93 portion of the 9/11 attacks?
 
Todd Beamer and his wife Lisa Beamer graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, in 1991. After Todd died on 9/11/2001, Wheaton College built the Todd Beamer Student Center in Todd's honor.

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Wheaton College also built Soderquist Plaza, and this plaza was used to connect the Beamer Center to Wheaton College's main campus. The money to build Soderquist Plaza was donated by Don Soderquist and his wife JoAnn Pollard Soderquist. Mr. and Mrs. Soderquist are alumni of Wheaton College (Class of 1955).

Source: http://www.wheaton.edu/alumni/magazine/winter2005.pdf (page 7)

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Also, please look at the photograph at the top of the following web page: http://www.wheaton.edu/beamercenter/photos

This photo was taken at the opening ceremony of the Beamer Student Center on October 1, 2004. From left to right, the people in the photo are the following:
then-President of Wheaton College Duane Litfin, Lisa Beamer, Mrs. Soderquist, and Mr. Soderquist.

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Well, who is Mr. Soderquist? And why is his support of Todd Beamer so important?

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Don Soderquist is a former Senior Vice Chairman of Wal-Mart. Also, in 1998, the Soderquist Center for Business Leadership and Ethics was founded in affiliation with John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. The Soderquist Center was named after Don Soderquist, and Mr. Soderquist serves as the Executive-in-Residence at the Center. Mr. Soderquist provides direction and inspiration to the Center.

Source: http://www.soderquistcenter.org/about/people

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Furthermore, on April 17, 2001, just a few months before the 9/11/2001 attacks, Mr. Soderquist and the Center hosted a business seminar where the main speaker was former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a Likud Party hardliner.

Source:

(press release dated March 14, 2001) http://www.jbu.edu/news/press_releases/release.asp?id=405

(press release dated April 17, 2001)
http://www.jbu.edu/news/press_releases/release.asp?id=388

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So, the man who funded the plaza that connected the Todd Beamer Student Center to the main campus of Wheaton College is a man who has connections to hardline former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Also, Todd Beamer's Oracle boss Larry Ellison has connections to Israel. In September 2001, Ellison owned 70% of an Israeli company called Quark Biotech.

Source: 9/3/2001 article in Fortune magazine
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/09/03/309267/index.htm

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Also, Todd Beamer and Oracle co-worker Jonathan Oomrigar traveled to Israel together on business.

Source: page 148 of the hardcover edition of Lisa Beamer's book "Let's Roll"

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Gee, Todd Beamer seems to have a lot of connections to Israel.
 
According to the official story of the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks, Todd Beamer and Mark Bingham fought terrorists on United Airlines Flight 93 and forced that plane to crash in Pennsylvania.

However, I have discovered that United 93 is not the only connection between Beamer and Bingham.


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First of all, Beamer and Bingham went to high school together. Specifically, they attended Los Gatos High School in Los Gatos, a town in northern California.

Mark Bingham attended Los Gatos High School for 4 years, from 1984 to 1988. [1]

Todd Beamer attended Los Gatos High School during the 1986-1987 school year, which was his senior year. [2]

So, for 1 year, Beamer and Bingham went to high school together.


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Todd Beamer and Mark Bingham are also connected via the business world.
Specifically, they are both connected to a man named Eric Benhamou.




Mark Bingham graduated from college in 1993, and his own company opened for business in 1999. For some period of time between the 1993 graduation and the 1999 opening, Bingham worked for 3Com Corporation. [3]

The CEO of 3Com from September 1990 to December 31, 2000, was Eric Benhamou. [4]

Thus, Benhamou was the CEO during Mark Bingham's employment at 3Com.

Now, did Benhamou and Bingham know each other personally? Well, if you look at the news database Factiva (available at public libraries), you will find two 3Com press releases, one from September 2, 1999, and the other from October 11, 1999. These press releases appeared in the publication known as Business Wire. If you look at the bottom of each press release, you will see Mark Bingham's name and phone number listed in the "contact" section. So, Bingham was a press secretary for 3Com, just as Tony Snow is the press secretary of the White House. So, just as we are sure that Tony Snow personally knows the people in charge of the White House (Bush, Cheney, etc.), we can be sure that Bingham personally knew Benhamou.




In addition to working for 3Com, Mr. Benhamou was a member of the Board of Directors of the company known as Legato Systems.

Benhamou was appointed to Legato's Board of Directors in 1993. [5]

Benhamou was on Legato's Board as late as September 2001. [6]

David Beamer, Todd Beamer's father, was appointed Legato Systems's executive vice president of worldwide sales in January 2001. [7]

David Beamer was appointed chief operating officer (COO) of Legato Systems in February 2002. [8]

Thus, David Beamer and Eric Benhamou worked at Legato at the same time for at least 9 months (from January 2001 to September 2001).

Furthermore, during those 9 months, Benhamou had the high rank of member of the Board of Directors, and David Beamer had the high rank of executive vice president of worldwide sales. Thus, it is very probable that Eric Benhamou and David Beamer knew each other personally.




So, Eric Benhamou worked with Mark Bingham and with David Beamer, Todd's father.


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Also, Mr. Benhamou has many ties to Israel. [9]


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There is another passenger from United Airlines Flight 93 that should be noted, and that is Nicole Miller. At the time of 9/11, Nicole was a student at West Valley College in northern California. Alice Hoglan, Mark Bingham's mother, was also a student at West Valley College at the time of 9/11. [10]


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So, Todd Beamer has ties to Mark Bingham, and Mark Bingham has ties to Nicole Miller.







[1]
Source: http://www.svcn.com/archives/lgwt/09.19.01/cover1-0138.html

[2]
Source: http://www.svcn.com/archives/lgwt/09.19.01/cover2-0138.html

[3]
Source: 1/22/2002 article in the magazine The Advocate
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2002_Jan_22/ai_81790790

[4]
Source: Benhamou's biography on the 3Com website
http://www.3com.com/corpinfo/en_US/investor/resources/executivebios/benhamou.html

[5]
Source: June 1993 issue of Software Magazine
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SMG/is_n9_v13/ai_13922367

[6]
Source: 9/24/2001 article in the publication Business Wire
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2001_Sept_24/ai_78549452

[7]
Source: January 8, 2001, article in the publication Business Wire
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2001_Jan_8/ai_68883629

[8]
Source: February 28, 2002, article in the publication Business Wire
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_Feb_28/ai_83357513

[9]
Source: Benhamou's biography on the 3Com website
http://www.3com.com/corpinfo/en_US/investor/resources/executivebios/benhamou.html

[10]
Source: http://www.svcn.com/archives/lgwt/09.26.01/cover-0139.html
 
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