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THREAD on 20th anniversary of the Sep. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks about the experience that day of the Americans who were to fight back against Al-Qaeda. Page numbers from my book “First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11” - 1 
4:45pm (GMT+5) Sep 11, 2001, @CIA officer David Tyson’s Tashkent-London flight took off. He was preoccupied by 9/9 Al-Qaeda assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud (he’d met him in Panjshir). Same moment 6,000 miles & 9 time zones away, Mohammed Atta was boarding a plane (p. 3) - 2
8 a.m. (GMT-4), Trumbo Point, Fleming Key, Florida. Capt Justin Sapp, a Green Beret with 5th SF Group, entered water to swim to shore during his SF diver qualifying course. He was beneath the waves as 9/11 attacks unfolded. Later, he was assigned to @CIA Team Alpha (p. 24) - 3
This tweet from @SenJohnMcCain received a barrage of spammy replies crammed with as many hashtags as possible. There's some variety, but all seem to contain #opmayflower2018. (Thanks @Shaun7559 for the tip.)
Looking at replies to McCain containing #opmayflower2018 results in 4808 tweets (including retweets) from 397 accounts; 983 original tweets from 47 accounts. The activity started at 6:30 PM Central on 5/11; volume is high for a little over an hour.
This table shows the frequency of the various hashtags included in the #opmayflower2018 tweets. We'll come back to the ones highlighted in blue (cyan?) later.
