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U.S. gives Flight 93 site landowners one week to sell
This is complete BS. My guess is that this has been in the works for some time, but I can't say for sure. Why do they need so much land for a memorial? It seems like an outrageous amount of property. Aside from that, confiscating people's private property is pure evil! 
Posted on Sat, Jun. 6, 2009
U.S. gives Flight 93 site landowners one week to sell
By Amy Worden
Inquirer Harrisburg Bureau
The federal government issued an ultimatum yesterday to people who own land designated for the Flight 93 memorial in Western Pennsylvania: They have one week to reach an agreement on the sale of their land or the government will initiate proceedings to seize it.
The order came hours after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (D., Pa.) met with people who own 500 acres in and around the Shanksville area, where Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, and with victims' relatives eager to see the memorial built in time for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
"After meeting with the landowners and the Park Service today, I have high hopes that the parties are close to agreement and will be able to reach consensus over the land in the next week so we can keep the memorial on track without using eminent domain," Salazar said. "Only if the parties are not able to reach agreement will we have to use the last resort of eminent domain to acquire land."
U.S. gives Flight 93 site landowners one week to sell | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/06/2009
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