terrorism, we wanted to have a special look at iranian connection. clinton chief of staff leon panetta. i woke up the president to alert him of what had happen and the concern at this moment was that this might very well be a terrorist attack. on that first night at the white house there were discussions about bombing targets in iran and elsewhere. kal willstr kalstrom was eager for answers. if this was terrorism, there would be consequences. we could go to war. if we knew who the perp t perpetrators were. and iran? the usual suspects to quote casablanca. libya, private terrorist groups, et cetera, et cetera.
to my head. the pilots didn t say anything, and the data didn t say anything, and yet, we had a fireball seen from 40 miles away. that had never happened before. in the first few days, kalstrom met with the families at a airport hotel. it was just overwhelming. what did they want you to say to them? they wanted me to tell them what happened. and i didn t know. by the end of the week, 140 bodies had been recovered. one was brenna zievert, the younger of the two sisters who came home one time with a tattoo on her shoulder that her mother did not like. i said, you know, that may be something that you do not like, and it may never like, and when it happened the one thing that she was identified so quickly is because of the tattoo.