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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:navigation, search  This article is an orphan, as few or no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; suggestions are available. (February 2009) Tania Head is a Spanish woman who gained media attention after she fabricated a story about surviving the World Trade Center September 11 attacks.[1] Contents [hide] [edit] Claims as a 9/11 victim Head claimed that she was on the 78th floor of the South Tower (WTC 2) when United Airlines Flight 175 hit the floor where she stood. This would have made her one of only 19 people at or above the point of impact to have survived.[2][3] She said that a man by the name of Dave, who perished in the North Tower (WTC 1), was her fiance or husband.[4] She also claimed to have been given a dying man's wedding ring and to have returned it to his widow, and to have been rescued herself by Welles Crowther, a 24-year-old trader who perished in the collapse after rescuing others.[3] Head regularly recounted her claims to Ground Zero tour groups in vivid detail, saying, "I was there at the towers. I'm a survivor. I'm going to tell you about that."[2] [edit] Volunteer work as representative victim Head led tours for the Tribute W.T.C. Visitor Center for visitors including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and former New York Governor George Pataki. She also made many speeches at colleges and with support groups, recounting her story as a victim of the 9/11 attacks. Head indicated that these activities were unpaid volunteer efforts on her part. She was presented in retrospective articles on the World Trade Center aspect of 9/11 as representative of all of the 20,000 surviving New York victims who escaped the damaged buildings.[5] [edit] Claims disputed In late September 2007 The New York Times was unable to verify key details of her story, one of which, her engagement to a man named "Dave", was contradicted by family and friends, whose identities are being withheld to protect their privacy. Additionally, Janice Cilento, a social worker who is on the board of the Survivors' Network and close to Head, said she had made changes to her account of events in recent weeks. Head also claimed a degree from Harvard University and a graduate business degree from Stanford University, which the institutions deny.[3] The company where she said she worked at the World Trade Center, Merrill Lynch, said it has no record of her being employed there.[6] According to Adrian Gatton, who produced a documentary, The 9/11 Faker, for Channel 4 in the UK, Head was not even in the United States on September 11, 2001, but in Barcelona, Spain, where she was attending classes at a business school. A report in La Vanguardia, a daily newspaper in Barcelona, on October 2, 2007, told how Head attended classes in an MBA program at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, just a week after the attack in which she had supposedly been critically injured. None of her classmates heard her talk of the attack, she showed no injuries and said nothing about losing a fiancé or husband. The arm injury that she claimed to have sustained in the WTC attack had been explained to friends there as the result of an automobile accident, or alternatively of a riding accident. La Vanguardia added that Head attended classes in the program through June 2002 and told classmates she wanted to work in New York. Head had earlier attended the University of Barcelona, and worked for a local entertainment promoter and for Hovisa, a Spanish hotel company. Head was said to have traveled to the US for the first time in 2003.[1] Head's current whereabouts are unknown. In February 2008, an email was sent from a Spanish account to members of the World Trade Center Survivors Network, claiming that Head had committed suicide.[7][8] [edit] References
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The fantasist of 9/11: The story of Tania Head's escape from the Twin Towers captivat
The fantasist of 9/11: The story of Tania Head's escape from the Twin Towers captivated America and made her a heroine among survivors... Just one problem - she wasn't even there that day
By Adrian Gatton Last updated at 6:47 PM on 12th September 2008 During the years following the 9/11 attacks, many stories emerged of triumph, tragedy and heroism. But one story stood out. Tania Head was one of only 19 people to survive above the point of impact in the South Tower at the World Trade Centre. Her story was triumphant and tragic. She was a survivor who, despite horrific burns, had escaped the falling towers, but she was a victim, too, in that she lost her fiance, Dave, when the North Tower collapsed. As Tania Head became president of the self-help group, the World Trade Centre Survivors' Network, her vivid account of miraculous escape and tragic loss convinced everyone - politicians, media, fellow survivors and the families of those who died in the attacks.  Fake: Tania Head became a heroine for survivors of the 9/11 attacks, but her entire story was made up But Tania wasn't who she said she was. And on the day of the attacks she wasn't even in New York; she was thousands of miles away in Spain, sitting down to lectures at a prestigious business school in Barcelona, where she was completing a masters in business administration. Her fellow students went on to work in industry, but in 2003, Tania Head, a member of one of Barcelona's richest families, flew to New York to adopt her carefully studied persona as a victim of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But why did she do it? To get the answers I had to search across the U.S., Spain and even Switzerland for clues. I quickly found that many doors in New York were shut, but I found copies of her copious emails and writings. The answer to Tania's hoax appeared to lie in her own past, a mysterious arm injury and her almost professional pride in fulfilling her role successfully. But, more disturbingly, she took advantage of the culture of 9/11, in a so-called 'hierarchy of suffering' that built up among the survivors. Thousands of ordinary people who had been at work that day in and around the Twin Towers, and who had escaped with their lives, were traumatised by what they saw - and riddled with guilt that they had survived when almost 3,000 died. Postal worker Cynthia Shepherd was one of them. She stood beneath the towers and watched as bodies rained down around her, exploding on impact. She vividly remembers one man in a suit still tightly clutching his briefcase, and a woman who seemed to have been blown from the building while still behind her desk. These are images she can never forget, and life has been difficult to rebuild since then. In 2003, survivors like Cynthia came together to form a self-help group, the World Trade Centre Survivors' Network. Gerry Bogacz, who escaped the North Tower with minutes to spare, was one founder, together with a young woman, Carrie Coen Sullivan.  Devastating: Pictures of the Twin Towers' destruction horrified viewers all over the world, but Tania falsely claimed she had been at the top of them when the attacks occurred They were all trying to make sense of the carnage, cope with survivor guilt and lobby for the future of Ground Zero. 'I felt so guilty for surviving,' Carrie told me. Gerry says that in the 9/11 community the victims' families and heroes - fireman, policemen - were rightly put first. But survivors were ignored. After all, they were 'the lucky ones'. Getting recognition was tough. But one woman helped transform their status. A woman called Tania Head made contact and, given the power of her story, began her infiltration of the group and was soon to become one of its leading lights. What immediately set her apart was the power of her story. She said she had been on the 78th floor of the South Tower when the second plane hit. Her vivid account of her miraculous escape and tragic loss of her fiancé captivated everyone in the survivors' network. Unlike many survivors, Tania was relatively explicit about what she saw on 9/11: 'I looked around, it was like a horror movie, people were mounted on each other, the smell of burnt skin and people's insides was gagging. 'I kept thinking about my fiancé, about our wedding, I wanted to wear that white dress and swear my love for him. Something gave me the strength to get up. I believe today that it was my fiancé on his way to heaven.' Fellow survivors were amazed by her capacity to cope and also with her go-getting attitude to giving survivors a voice. Some felt ashamed they could not match her energy. I soon had a hunch, confirmed by one long-standing member of the network, that Tania - who emerged as a profoundly lonely individual - was in search of love and friendship, using the network as a sort of catastrophe-smitten lonely hearts club. When I started reading her hundreds of emails and writings forensically, it was clear that her conversations and emails to the friends in the group were full of iconic imagery: white wedding dresses, wedding rings exchanged, last words, love letters ripped up and cast into the ocean.  A US flag flies from a crane over the World Trade Centre site An overweight, non-descript person, her writings showed an unrequited desire for romance. That powerful narrative captivated those who heard it. It felt as though her vocabulary for that day and the aftermath had been gleaned from talking to real survivors, assiduous research on the internet and in books and films about 9/11 (she didn't put a foot wrong on the factual details of that complex event). And perhaps from movies about New York and screwball romantic comedies (part of the grand narrative was how she had originally met Dave, her fiancé, while fighting over a yellow cab). As the towers collapsed, Tania shared a breathless moment with a fireman: 'A fireman took me in his arms. Outside, he handed me over to another fireman, who was carrying me towards the ambulance when the tower came crushing down. 'He found cover under a truck and covered me with his body. 'We were engulfed and soon it was pitch black and impossible to see or breath. 'We shared his mask until we were rescued. Next thing I remember is waking up in the hospital.' While thousands were dying, Tania appeared to be playing out the script from a Hollywood blockbuster. 'She had all the key elements from everyone else's story,' said Barbara Conrad, another survivor who knew Tania. 'She saw it, ran from it, survived it, had a lost husband. Everyone else had one element, she had all the elements, the perfect story.' She claimed to have sustained a massive burns injury on her arm. When she surfaced in 2003 in the 9/11 community, it appeared to have largely healed. Together with her big story, this was the key to the success of her imposture, as Dr Al Siebert, a psychologist who knew her, explained to me. 'Her right arm was scarred and burned and withered, functional but clearly badly damaged from burns, and with that look of her arm and what she was saying, she was on the floor where some of the plane fuel came through burning. 'Just automatically you're going to look at that and assume she's one of the people actually burned by the flames. You don't question that.' Gerry Bogacz says he had doubts that it was a fuel burn, but felt it inappropriate to question her. Unlike others, the survivors had not been given privileged access to the 9/11 site. 'We had to stand out around the big metal gates with all of the tourists taking their pictures and the people selling the horrible tacky merchandise of the attacks,' said Carrie. There was no place to grieve. Tania's next move was to get the survivors a visit to the site. It proved that she seemed to know everyone in New York, from the mayor down. At the same time as letting survivors into her private world of grief, Tania acted as a sort of Girl Friday for the network. She became indispensable to the network and would later become president. As her fame spread, families of victims wanted to meet Tania, including the family of 9/11 hero Welles Crowther, whom Tania claimed had rescued her from the 78th floor. She told them in detail of one of the last moments she shared with their son before he died, helping others, in the collapsing towers.  Rescue effort: Workers search through the rubble 'Her story seemed to change,' said Gerry, as Tania didn't say much about him early on, yet later he became a big part of her story. No one seemed to pick up the anomalies in her story. She had claimed that she and Dave had a pet dog called Elvis. Yet when a friend visited her plush apartment near Central Park, there was no sign of a dog. People noticed, but didn't question her, when one day she said Dave was her fiancé, then her husband. Yet Tania's story was so moving that it led to the survivors finally being accepted as a group worthy of becoming a part of the 9/11 community - with a say in the big 9/11 decisions such as the memorial. This was sealed when, in 2005, she was chosen to guide the former mayor, Rudy Giuliani, and present mayor, Michael Bloomberg, and other dignitaries around the site. Barbara explains: 'Why was she chosen to give the tour to the mayor? Probably because her story was the most tragic yet triumphant of all. 'She made out that she helped other people along the way, that she was carrying her head high even though she had lost her husband, and had this permanent injury to her arm. So she was an inspiration to other people.' Until this point, Tania's quest had been for love and attention among an intimate group. But her story had taken on its own momentum, it was unstoppable. But despite the huge risks such publicity brought, that night Tania was exhilarated, telling survivors: 'For those who missed it, here's a short clip about it; notice the amount of cameras pointing at me and notice who I'm giving the tour to. 'Don't ask me what I said because I have no idea, I was freaking out, oh my God I was totally overwhelmed and I had to tell my story.' New York Daily News reporter Michael Daly, who had interviewed her, said she had been 'vetted by history'. Nobody could question her. Gerry recalls: 'Even though we tried to be egalitarian and equal, there's no question that this hierarchy of suffering does form and the stories that we were telling didn't seem to have as much impact as what she experienced.' Her story put her at the top.  A woman looks at pictures of people who were missing in the aftermath of the attacks By this stage, Barbara noted an 'arrogance' developing around Tania. She had fans ('Oh, look, that's Tania!' people would say in hushed tones). Once, during a car journey back from seeing relics of the Twin Towers in a hangar at JFK airport, she mused vaguely to one survivor: 'What if all this had just been a dream, and I was never even there?' The life of an impostor is a lonely one. Feeling comfortable, she was testing the boundaries of a confession to her new-found friends. Indeed, some survivors told me that if she had confessed to them she was a fake they would have forgiven her. Eventually, her story became so widely reported that the New York Times wanted to interview her. When she avoided them they grew suspicious. Last year she was exposed in a front-page story by the paper. Tania had not been in New York on 9/11 at all. Her real name is Alicia Esteve Head. She did not work for an investment bank as she claimed, but had been attending classes in Barcelona. She was a serial liar, whose arm injury - depending on which of her stories you believe - may have been from a car or a riding accident. Or it may have been a disabling birth defect. Tania was from a rich Spanish family and had even gone to finishing school in Switzerland. She had been leading a double-life. Her father, Francisco Esteve Corbella, and her brother, Francisco Javier Esteve Head, perpetrated a £24m fraud a decade ago and were jailed. We could not find out whether she is estranged from her family, but certainly people who knew her in Barcelona were well aware of her propensity for lying. Survivors were left bewildered about their president. 'There was disbelief,' said Gerry. Carrie was ambivalent about Tania: 'I'm very torn. It's a hard thing to discredit it all, I mean she still did good for our organisation.' I did once see Tania, on a chilly New York evening. I was taking a look at her apartment block near Central Park, when suddenly she emerged. She was in the company of an elderly-looking woman with whom she boarded a bus and travelled to a nearby pizza parlour. Her clothes were unremarkable, she struck me as nondescript and underwhelming. This matched what I later heard, few people - even though they had been with her many times - could remember anything distinctive about her: her lipstick, her clothes. It was as if Tania Head was her story. Without that, there was little left. I didn't approach her on that occasion, but every time I tried after that she refused to be interviewed. I wondered what her explanation would be. Sadly, among the real survivors there are many who would happily swap their lives for Tania's. Cynthia Shepherd, who has been trying to repair her life since 9/11, put it this way: 'I think if Tania had asked me to trade, I would have traded with her. I would have loved her to have my suffering and my pain and I can have her life.' ADRIAN GATTON was the producer on Cutting Edge: The 9/11 Faker, shown on Channel 4. __________________
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Please take the time to read this story through, because we have just proven another 911 story to be a fraud as well and have found the proof for it. But please go through this story with a fine tooth comb because in it lie all the clues anyone needs as a basis for investigating and finding all of the other hoaxes that were floated on 911. What it appears happened to me, is a rogue reporter who was actually doing his job, discovered this and couldn't let it go, thus exposing her.
But don't fall for a minute, the idea that none of those in the power group around her didn't know the whole thing was a hoax. That is WHY she was leading the Mayors around the 911 site, giving them tours, etc...Because she WAS part of that network. Original link for youtube; Also see this link about Ruth McCourt and Paige Hackel: A story we just proved to be a lie; Another Amazing 9/11 Passenger coincidence, and many inconsistencies (  1 2) Cheers- Phil  __________________
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Here is one 9/11 "victim" that the main stream media actually did all the work for us on. What is interesting is that this story is far from over yet. Tania Head and her story have a lot more mileage left on them. We need to deconstruct this story, as well as to deconstruct the Ruth McCourt & Paige Hackel story; We know that both stories are lies.
For instance, Tania Head was chosen to lead around the Governor and Mayor so that no real survivor's family would. A phony 911 victim. There to make the Governor and Mayors of NYC look good. And she did. She lead them through many photo-ops and many ground zeros tours. Take a look now at the story about Paige Hackel and Ruth McCourt; We just proved this to be a lie from an FBI investigative report; Flight 11 & 175: The Strange Tale of Ruth McCourt & Paige Hackel - Proof of Fraud But we need to read these stories and find out everything we can about them and all the articles, and yada, yada... Cheers- phil Related Stories: Did they Use Mike Riveros picture as one of the passengers on 9/11?  John J Wenckus | Passenger of Flight 11 -- Mike Rivero | WhatReallyHappened.com - Did they use Ari Fleischers picture as one of the Passengers on Flight 11?  From left to right: Ari Fleischer - White House Spokesman - Michael Theodoridis - alleged Passenger from flight 11 - Ari Fleischer, Darker Complexion Flight 77 Passenger - Is Lady Booth Olson, Barbara Olson of 9/11?  Also see these other Articles in this Section;
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So how do they get away with a completely bogus lie like this? Where is Tania Head now and has she takin to court for her lies? I read the first 2 posts Phil, will read the rest later. Can you help me understand more why they (the Mayors) used a fake 9/11 survivor to tour them around Ground Zero?
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Was Tania Head threatening those in Power who gave her the job?
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The Mayors used a fake 9/11 survivor because that's apparently all they have to choose from. And if this proves to be a stretch, then the reasoning is still crystal clear; They used her BECAUSE she was a fake and a fraud. They would face no opposition from Tania Head or the victims families she might have steered. They also would never face any hard public questions, nor receive any harsh judgment from Tania Head. That's why they hired her. And there is much more to this story then meets the eye, as there always is; 1. Was Tania Head becoming too demanding? 2. Was she taking herself too seriously, and threatening Guiliani and or Pataki with exposure if such and such conditions weren't met? 3. Did Tania Head simply piss off the wrong person of power? And they called her bluff by exposing HER? My own analysis is that Tania Head became too big for her britches. She became enamored with her new found high profile position. And she started making threats to those in power who hired her to perform this fraud. And they responded in kind, and exposed her, more then likely promising her other retaliatory measures if she squaked about the fraud. They probably threatened her with hurting or killing someone in her family or someone who is close to her if she opened her fat mouth AFTER they exposed HER. And then replaced her with a new, more obedient person to carry on the fraud. Do you guys think my analysis is reasonable? Cheers- Phil __________________
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