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Pokemon English Voice Compare/Rank, League Trainers

In which I rank the English dub voice actors of Pokemon characters from strongest to weakest, and sometimes throw in my 2 cents of who I think would be solid casting choices. This one is for League Trainers (covers Gym Leaders, Elite Four, Frontier Brains, Trial Captains, and Island Kahunas.)

BROCK: 1. Eric Stuart - Original dub voice actor for Brock. When it comes to voices that fit the age, appearance, and whole personality of this character, there’s none better. His Casey Kasem-esque voice was especially great in the original series dub, providing plenty of iconic and memeable (”jelly donut”, “drying pan”, etc.) moments. 2. Johnny Yong Bosch - Voice of Brock in Pokemon Origins. This is up there with Lucien Dodge as Blue and Jamieson Price as Giovanni in terms of being A+ perfect casting. He sounds similar to Stuart’s earliest Brock voiceover, and carries a great, gravely intensity. 3. Tom Bauer - Voice of Brock in Pokemon Masters. Tom does a decent Eric Stuart impression, but it’s all too clearly just that: an impression. His voice also is a bit higher than the design calls for. 4. Bill Rogers - VA who took over from Eric Stuart in the main anime. At first, he was a worthy successor to Stuart, and his acting was some of the best from all the new TPCI cast. I don’t know what happened but his Brock devolved into this deep, gruff, overly mature growliness and very unconvincing acting. It doesn’t sound right at all.

MISTY: 1. Rachael Lillis - Original dub voice actress for Misty, and boy did she ever hit it out of the park. She absolutely EPITOMIZES Misty. 2. Reba Buhr - Voice of Misty in Pokemon Masters. She channeled Rachael Lillis exceptionally well in her initial outings as the tomboyish mermaid, but unfortunately sounds higher and more child-like as of her last reprisal. I don’t know what happened but it’s not working out. 3. Michele Knotz - VA who took over from Rachael Lillis in the main anime. At first, in The Mastermind of Mirage Pokemon, her imitation was freakishly spot on, just as it can be as Jessie. But her Misty is now kind of its own thing and while it’s not awful, it’s not very distinct. FANCAST OPTION - Brianna Knickerbocker. We’ve recently seen in her role as Pirika in the new Shaman King anime dub that Brianna can totally nail the Rachel Lillis voice, so had she been cast as Misty, she would’ve done her part flawlessly.

LT. SURGE: 1. Patrick Seitz - Voice of Lt. Surge in Pokemon Masters. He does a good but not stellar job. The doofy, macho Patrick Warburton type voice works fine, but you’d think they would’ve had him give a gruffer, more militant type of performance like Gamagori or Keith Shadis. 2. Maddie Blaustein - Voice of Lt. Surge in the anime. She gave him her best deep, macho voice, but it just wasn’t the right kind of macho voice for the character. Sounds too dumb and thuggish. FANCAST OPTION - Phil Parsons, doing his Nappa voice. If any studio had somehow got a hold of him for this, he would’ve slayed it.

ERIKA: 1. Xanthe Hyunh - Voice of Erika in Pokemon Masters. Her past roles would peg her as a naturally perfect fit for Erika, and yes, she is. 2. Lauren Landa - Voice of Erika in Pokemon Journeys, taking over from Leah Applebaum and a trade up in almost every way. 3. Nathalie Gorham - Voice of Erika in Movie 20, I Choose You! She does a passable job in a bit part, though it’s a bit odd that she seems to be imitating Jennifer Darling as Ayeka from Tenchi Muyo!. 4. Leah Applebaum - First voice actress of Erika in the anime. Her voice fit the shallow and absent-minded Gym Leader perfectly, but her acting and line delivery ruins it. It’s not that much better than her Nanami Kiryuu performance in the Revolutionary Girl Utena dub.

KOGA: 1. Christopher Bevins - Voice of Koga in Pokemon Masters. Everything Koga’s voice needs, he gets down. The deep pitch, gruff tone, Japanese accent, and “Fwahahahaha!” It’s sheer perfection. 2. Stan Hart - Voice of Koga in the anime. The VA of Professor Oak putting on a Japanese ninja voice. It’s okay, but pretty forgettable. FANCAST OPTION - Chris Tergliafera. Just give a slight fake Japanese accent to Gundham Tanaka and he’d be an ideal Koga.

SABRINA: 1. Lizzie Freeman - Voice of Sabrina in Pokemon Masters. The tranquil sound of her voice and her line delivery makes a perfect fit. 2. Lisa Ortiz - Voice of Sabrina in the anime. Lisa gives a memorably low-key, creepy performance in this role, but we don’t really get to hear her as regular Sabrina, just Evil Sabrina. Also, her child voice kind of sucked.

BLAINE: 1. Kirk Thornton - Voice of Blaine in Pokemon Masters. He gets it down perfectly, sounds just how an eccentric, hot-blooded old man like Blaine ought to. 2. Michael Haigney - Voice of Blaine in the anime. The voice he puts on fits Blaine very well, but it’s very apparent that it is indeed “put on” by a guy who’s not exactly an old man in any sense. FANCAST OPTION - Quinton Flynn. Imagine Flynn reprising his Dr. Riddles voice in his 60s? That would be a perfect Blaine!

GIOVANNI: 1. Ted Lewis - Voice of Giovanni in the main anime. This is what most kids growing up with Pokemon, especially from the very beginning, no doubt hear in their heads for Giovanni. His fancy Italian accent he put on at first was a little inconsistent prior to him dropping it in favor of a transatlantic Yami Bakura type voice, and nowadays he blends the best of both into his deliciously evil voice. And he’s always killed it in giving Giovanni the menacing presence and charm that he needs. 2. Jamieson Price - Voice of Giovanni in Pokemon Origins and by far one of the strongest casting choices and strongest performances in that dub. The tone he takes is very cold but suave and intelligent sounding, and his naturally deep voice just commands authority. 3. Andrew Russell - Voice of Giovanni in Pokemon Masters. Given his minimal amount of previous work, this was an unorthodox casting choice, but Andrew really nails the smooth, shady, devious criminal mastermind voice, often sounding like a Keith Silverstein impression. 4. Richard Epcar - Voice of Giovanni in Pokemon Generations. On paper, this is solid casting, but his material was so lackluster that all he had to do was phone it in, making his Giovanni very forgettable. 5. Craig Blair - Remember that one season where this frankly awful (and thankfully now retired) voice actor filled in for Ted Lewis twice, and sucked big time at imitating him? You’re forgiven if you didn’t. FANCAST OPTION - Keith Silverstein. For whatever reason, I was henging my bet on him being the VA they’d use for Giovanni in Pokemon Masters, so when Andrew Russell ended up channeling him so much I can’t help but wonder if that was the initial idea. He’d be a perfect fit given how he’s performed in villainous roles such as Ougai Mori, Gabriel Agreste, Gild Teroso, and Masayoshi Shido. Other spot on voice talents to cast as Giovanni would be Crispin Freeman and Chris Rager, who’d easily measure up to Price’s take.

BLUE: 1. James Carter Cathcart - Voice of Gary Oak in the main anime. Look, I just have to put this one first, it’s GARY MOTHERFUCKING OAK. Plus it just fits the original Gen 1 character way too well. Smug and insufferably snotty when he’s a jerk, but more amiable when he mellows out without ever quite losing the defining cockiness. 2. Lucien Dodge - Voice of Blue in Pokemon Origins. Lucien just totally nails Blue. The natural tone of his voice and his every vocal inflection carries across a better-than-thou jackass characterization, and his turn towards humility in the final act is convincingly played. 3. Billy Kametz & Henry Mason - Voice(s) of Blue in Pokemon Masters. If we could take the voice that Lucien Dodge gives Blue and combine it with the more rough delivery of Erik Kimerer, it would pretty much be the late Billy Kametz’s take on Blue, which is emulated by Henry Mason following Billy’s unfortunate passing. Not one of their strongest roles, but definitely suitable for Blue. 4. Erik Scott Kimerer - Voice of Blue in Pokemon Generations. He gets the arrogance down pat, but his voice just doesn’t really fit Blue the way the others do. It’s just Ryuji Takasu if he was an asshole. FANCAST OPTION: Billy Bob Thompson. Not only has he provven he can flawlessly imitate James Carter Cathcart, but even his awful Pokemon Trainer voice sounds more Gary/Blue than it does Red!

LORELEI: 1. Erica Lindbeck - Voice of Lorelei in Pokemon Generations. She uses her most natural sounding voice brimming with a cold, calculated sort of confidence, like she’d later use for Ritsuko Akagi. It’s ideal voice acting for how you’d imagine Lorelei to sound like. 2. Lauren Landa - Voice of Lorelei in Pokemon Masters. While she’s got a suitable voice for the part, her problem is the opposite of Jayne Grande’s - she’s not cold enough and puts too much feeling into her lines when she should’ve approached the role more like Erica did. 3. Jayne Grande - Voice of Lorelei in the main anime. Lorelei may specialize in Ice types, but this performance is cold, even for her!

BRUNO: 1. Greg Chun - Voice of Bruno in Pokemon Masters. Sounds very much like the below two, with the extra advantage of being an Asian-American VA, perfect for a martial arts master! 2. Bill Rogers - Voice of Bruno in Pokemon Generations. A deeper, gruffer, more refined version of Blaustein’s take in just a few lines. 3. Maddie Blaustein - Voice of Bruno in the main anime. The acting is solid, but the voice is basically the same she’d used for Sabrina’s father earlier in the series, and for most male characters she voiced.

AGATHA: 1. Ellyn Stern - Voice of Agatha in Pokemon Generations. Sounds convincingly aged AND creepy as well? This totally IS Agatha! 2. Dorothy Elias Fahn - Voice of Agatha in Pokemon Masters. She does alright, but I can tell that she’s putting on a voice and it does not sound as natural. She sounds more like an English noblewoman! 3. Lisa Ortiz - Voice of Agatha in the main anime. Same as the above FANCAST OPTION - Linda Chambers-Young, of course!

LANCE: 1. Bill Milsap - Voice of Lance in Pokemon Masters. Think Grant George crossed with Steve Blum and that describes Bill’s voice for Lance here, and I think it works really well. He sounds appropriately bold and heroic, but his voice can veer towards warmth and towards intimidating fearsomeness depending on the lines he’s speaking. 2. Ben Diskin - Voice of Lance in Pokemon Generations. While basically the same voice he does for other serious bishie characters like Young Xehanort, it suits a character like Lance. He’s particularly good when he raises his voice and displays his feroctiy. 3. Wayne Grayson - Voice of Lance in the main anime. When the character appeared in Johto and Hoenn, Wayne’s voice for him was terrible and not remotely fitting. But when Lance was reintroduced in Journeys, Wayne reprised the role and finally did him justice. 4. Robert Bucholtz - Voice of Lance in Pokemon Origins. For a Dragon Master, leader of the Elite Four, and future Champion, Bob’s voice acting for Lance is exceptionally dull and carries no presence. It’s just the most Average Joe sort of voice you could hear. FANCAST OPTION(S): Grant George or Max Mittelman for Lance?

FALKNER: 1. Howard Wang - Voice of Falkner in Pokemon Masters. He carries the right qualities to his voice and line reading to match the original. 2. Matthew Mitler - Voice of Falkner in the anime. He did alright. Much different than his usual roles in the anime, and fairly accurate to Akira Ishida.

BUGSY: 1. Cristina Vee - Voice of Bugsy in Pokemon Masters. The voice she uses for Bugsy sounds kind of like Jimmy Neutron, which really works for conveying the young prodigy aspect of Bugsy’s character. 2. Tara Jayne Sands - Voice of Bugsy in the anime. Decent but generic, not sounding all that different from her Ritchie voice.

WHITNEY: 1. Sarah Williams - Voice of Whitney in Pokemon Masters. A very fitting casting choice, and her peppy, ditzy delivery perfectly delivers. 2. Megan Hollingshead - Voice of Whitney in the anime. Decent but generic, not sounding all that different from her Duplica voice. Or in other terms, she needed to go more Mion and less Shion in this role.

MORTY: 1. Brian Hanford - Voice of Morty in Pokemon Masters. His very low, flat sounding voice just really suits the inquisitive Ghost type trainer, though his delivery has unfortunately sort of gone all over the place. 2. Andrew Rannells - Voice of Morty in the anime. Not one of Andrew’s more notable roles, but he got the job done best he could. FANCAST OPTION - Daniel J. Edwards. Given his voice acting in Yu-Gi-Oh!, he could easily combine the best of Brian and Andrew.

CHUCK: 1. Bob Carter - Voice of Chuck in Pokemon Masters EX. Not super deep but still very growly and forceful is just how I like him to sound. 2. Dan Green - Voice of Chuck in the anime. Obvious casting is obvious, and he did a decent job in the role when he appeared in Johto, but got much better with his Journeys reprisal.

FANCAST OPTION - Marc Thompson. Again, Dan Green didn’t do poorly at all, but this is who I wished 4Kids had cast instead.

JASMINE: 1. Kimberly Woods - Voice of Jasmine in Pokemon Masters. Some complain she sounds too high and childish, but I think it suits Jasmine perfectly; makes her sound super sweet and likable. 2. Tara Jayne Sands - First voice actress for Jasmine in the anime. In Jasmine’s first episode, Tara got it down perfectly, but then sounded all wrong in her second appearance. To be fair, this was likely the writing’s fault since Jasmine’s characterization across both episodes was not consistent. 3. Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld - Second voice actress for Jasmine in the anime, taking over from Tara Jayne Sands. Had to imitate Tara’s second portrayal of Jasmine and she did alright at that.

PRYCE: 1. Kyle Hebert - Voice of Pryce in Pokemon Masters. A perfect fit: Kyle’s old man voice is just right for the kind of old man that Pryce is. 2. James Carter Cathcart - Voice of Pryce in the anime. HIS old man voice, though, is never convincing and sucks just as bad here. FANCAST OPTION - James Siei. He’s it in him to convincingly voice an older character and deliver a “wise sensei” quality for Pryce.

CLAIR: 1. Sarah Williams - Voice of Clair in Pokemon Masters. She slayed it! 2. Eva Kaminsky - Second voice actress for Clair in the anime, taking over from Megan Hollingshead. A massive improvement, though her material was regrettably limited due to Iris’ special not being dubbed. 3. Megan Hollingshead - First voice actress for Clair in the anime. Generic Megan Hollingshead performance. Phoned in and boring. FANCAST OPTION - Carol Jacobanis would’ve been an ideal fit.

ROXANNE: 1. Sarah Miller Crews - Voice of Roxanne in Pokemon Masters. Sounds a little bit similar to a Sarah Williams role, but there’s just something about the tone she uses in her voice and for her lines that works so well for the tough and beautiful little know-it-all. 2. Karen Neill - Voice of Roxanne in the main anime. Karen was far from the best voice actress 4Kids had, to put it lightly, but she’s got a nice voice and this, like Ishizu Ishtar, was one of her better roles. 3. Erica Schroeder - Voice of Roxanne in the animated trailer Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire. There’s nothing to this gig - it’s just phoned in.

BRAWLEY: 1. Jon Allen - Voice of Brawley in Pokemon Masters. He got it down almost too perfect. Sounds exactly like a rough brawling surfer dude! 2. Jason Griffith - Voice of Brawley in the anime. Right casting, wrong performance. The “surfer dude” aspect was WAY too exaggerated!

FLANNERY: 1. Lisa Ortiz - Voice of Flannery in the anime. Lisa tended to be overused by 4Kids as a VA for characters, but casting her as Flannery was truly a slam dunk, as her Lina Inverse voice is exactly what a hot-blooded spitfire like Flannery calls for. She’s just perfect! 2. Laura Post - Voice of Flannery in Pokemon Masters. I certainly can’t call Laura’s take BAD, but I just don’t buy it all that much, especially not when we have Lisa Ortiz’ take to compare it to. FANCAST OPTION(S) - Carrie Savage, had only she been doing voicework for Bang Zoom at the time (when she’d guest starred in the Black & White series episode “Where Did You Go, Audino?”, she sounded a lot like Lisa Ortiz) Or for more outside-the-box casting, theater actress Dana Steingold - anyone else hear her Saraline Timbers voice sounding very Lisa Ortiz-esque?

NORMAN: 1. Keith Silverstein - Voice of Norman in Pokemon Masters. All he had to do was use his most natural voice, and he totally rocked it! 2. Dan Green - Voice of Norman in the anime. It’s akin to his later Knuckles voice and while that’s not the worst you could do for Norman, they JUST had Dan Green voicing the other “Brendan or May’s father” character, Professor Birch, a role he fit far more naturally into, so I’d rather they’d cast someone else. FANCAST OPTION - Travis Willingham. He’d sound close enough to Dan Green without literally being Dan Green, and be a better fit for Norman’s voice in the JP version of Masters than Keith was.

WINONA: 1. Jeannie Tirado - Voice of Winona in Pokemon Masters. She’s got such a lovely sounding voice and it really works for breezy Winona. 2. Amy Birnbaum - Voice of Winona in the anime. She was just okay.

FANCAST OPTION - Molly C Quinn, if anyone could get hold of her.

TATE & LIZA: 1. Cassandra Lee Morris & Kira Buckland - Voices of Tate & Liza in Pokemon Masters. Yeah, they sound about right, though it’s odd that Cassandra didn’t voice them both since she reprised her Leo voice for Tate but her Luna voice went to Iris (because Eileen Stevens?) 2. Jason Griffith & Andi Whaley - Voices of Tate & Liza in the anime. No, they do not sound right. Their voices nor their acting!

WALLACE: 1. Mickey Caputo - Voice of Wallace in Pokemon Masters EX. Goes very low and raspy despite the light, effeminate tone, and his delivery really sells the elegant artist who’s perfromative but level-headed. 2. Sean Reyes - Voice of Wallace in the anime. Nothing about this vocal performance stands out to me. Just like Wallace in this anime! FANCAST OPTION - Johnathan Todd Ross. He’s got the sort of voice I’d imagine for Wallace, so with acting and delivery akin to what Mickey Caputo did in the role, he’d be surprisingly excellent.

DRAKE:

1. Brian Maillard - First voice actor for Drake in the anime. Hard to recall that Leopold Loggle used to be in 4Kids dubs, but he got Drake right in all ways.

2. Edward Bosco - Second voice actor for Drake in the anime, taking over from Brian Maillaird. Basically a soundalike performance, but a fairly decent one.

3. Steve Kramer - Voice of Drake in Pokemon Masters. ??? Steve! STEVE! Drake is a sailor, not a pirate! What are you doing?!?

FANCAST OPTION - Gregg Berger. He’s pretty old now, and he’s got just the right kind of voice for the part.

FACTORY HEAD NOLAND: 1. Kaiji Tang - Voice of Noland in Pokemon Masters. 100% the right casting for a character like this. Kaiji owns the role with his every line. 2. David Wills - Voice of Noland in the anime. Noland is supposed to be a handyman that doesn’t seem to be too bright a guy but is much more knowlegable than he first appears - David’s performance just makes him sound like a doofus frat boy. I blame poor direction here.

PIKE QUEEN LUCY: 1. Emilyn Morinelli - Voice of Lucy in the anime. Despite Lucy being massively out-of-character in this anime, Emilyn’s voice for her was just the sort of light, “snakey” type voice I’d expect to hear from her. 2. Carrie Keranen - Voice of Lucy in Pokemon Masters EX. Satsuki Kiryuin’s VA doing her Satsuki Kiryuin is pretty easy casting and it works for Lucy, but just not quite as well as Emilyn Morinelli’s take.

SALON MAIDEN ANABEL:

1. Alexis Tipton - Voice of Anabel in Pokemon Masters EX. Very elegant, fairly androgynous, warm and inviting yet undeniably formidable and threatening when need be. She gets it all down in a commendable vocal performance that does justice to Anabel’s awesomeness.

2. Hilary Thomas - Voice of Anabel in the anime. I can tell she’s going for a deep and androgynous voice, but the problem is...well, she fails at it. Hard. This is clearly the voice of some random grown woman, and her delivery leaves much to be desired as well.

FANCAST OPTION - Erika Harlacher and Caitlin Glass would’ve been easy picks given their work as Kyoko Kirigiri. And for a less big name casting choice, they could’ve gone with Norma Gose, whose natural voice sounds pretty much totally on point with how I’d imagine Anabel to sound like.

ROURK: 1. Alejandro Saab - Voice of Rourk in Pokemon Masters. Yeah, this sounds totally right for how this guy would sound. 2. Craig Blair - Voice of Rourk in the anime. A typical badly acted perfromance from Craig, but Rourk’s so boring it kind of works?

GARDENIA: 1. Erica Mendez - Voice of Gardenia in Pokemon Masters. Has got more of this manic “pothead” energy to it than Erica’s usual roles, and it totally encapsulates the lovable plant-loving oddball. 2. Lara Starr Rigores - Voice of Gardenia in the anime. This...is not right. Not the right tone, not the right delivery, doesn’t even sound the right age! One of the most glaring miscasts in the dub’s history.

FANTINA: 1. Erica Schroeder - Voice of Fantina in the anime. The clear, pretty sounding voice, goofy French accent, and energetic acting all delivers at perfectly portraying the fabulous Fantina’s character. 2. Karen Strassman - Voice of Fantina in Pokemon Masters. Her French accent is more authentic sounding than the above and her voice ain’t bad, but there’s not as much detectable enthusiasm in many of her lines, which puts her take at a decent second place.

MAYLENE: 1. Erica Lindbeck - Voice of Maylene in Pokemon Masters. The young voice and forceful yet humble and friendly tone she gives just nails what Maylene’s character is all about. 2. Rachael Lillis - Voice of Maylene in the anime. She does nothing wrong in her performance, but the fact that it’s Rachael Lillis, so recognizable as the original VA for both Misty and Jessie in this anime, is distracting.

CRASHER WAKE: 1. Kyle Hebert - Voice of Crasher Wake in Pokemon Masters. His voice for Wake sounds deep, snarly, and above all BIG AND LOUD! 2. J. David Brimmer - Voice of Crasher Wake in the anime. Spot on casting, and I like his voice for Wake better than Kyle’s, but the direction and acting failed him - he gave a standard performance rather than go as gloriously over-the-top as this role warrants.

CANDICE: 1. Kether Donohue - Voice of Candice in the anime. Casting was on point and the performance she gives is definitively Candice. KIAI! 2. Ryan Bartley - Voice of Candice in Pokemon Masters. It’s an alright voiceover...it’s just not Candice the same way Kether was. Sounds not high enough, not hot-blooded enough, and just too plain.

FANCAST OPTION - Julie Ann Taylor. Why wasn’t she available to voice Candice? She would’ve done it way better than Ryan did!

VOLKNER: 1. Chris Hackney - Voice of Volkner in Pokemon Masters EX. Everything about his voice and how he reads his lines here works. 2. Eli James - First vocie actor for Volkner in the anime. He doesn’t quite own the role the way Chris would, but he set the standard for Volkner’s voice and gave a wonderfully fitting performance. 3. Griffin Puatu - VA for Volkner in Pokemon Journeys. His take is decent, but lacks the authenticity in the voice that Eli and Chris got. AARON: 1. Kevin K. Gomez - Voice of Aaron in Pokemon Masters EX. He sounds a bit Robbie Daymond Spider-Man-esque in this role, which is obviously perfectly suitable for a Bug type trainer. 2. Chris Adams - Voice of Aaron in the anime. His take was alright. FANCAST OPTION - Greg Ayres. C’mon, you can hear it too!

BERTHA: 1. Dorah Fine - Voice of Bertha in Pokemon Masters EX. Didn’t really imagine Bertha sounding any way other than this, so she’s got it. 2. Sondra Jayne - Voice of Bertha in the anime. Her take was alright.

FLINT: 1. Landon McDonald - Voice of Flint in Pokemon Masters. Just look at the dude and try to imagine anything less than this as his voice! 2. Tom Wayland - First voice actor for Flint in the anime. Precursor to Landon’s Flint and one of Wayland’s most notable performances. 3. Daman Mills - VA for Flint in Pokemon Journeys. Just like Flint’s pal Volkner’s replacement VA, his take is decent, but lacks the authenticity of Tom or Landon.

LUCIAN: 1. Brandon McInnis - Voice of Lucian in Pokemon Masters EX. He gets the refined, snobby geekiness down perfectly. This IS Lucian! 2. David Lapkin - Voice of Lucian in the anime. Uh, no. This is NOT Lucian. The voice is too deep and the acting is wooden as hell. FANCAST OPTION - Joe Ochman. Might seem too old for this role, but he can totally pull off a voice that’d fit Lucian exceptionally well.

CILAN: 1. Jason Griffith - Voice of Cilan in the anime. His energy is a tad lower than it should be for this version of Cilan, but his voice is so distinct and charming that it fits Cilan perfectly. 2. Caleb Yen - Voice of Cilan in Pokemon Masters EX. This was solid casting, but he way overdid it on the high, effete voice. “Mild mannered” should not translate to girly-voiced mousiness. FANCAST OPTION - Shannon McKain, from what we’ve heard of his work, could do a refined, improved version of Caleb’s take. As could Daman Mills, the VA for another green-haired Unovan male.

CHILI TIE - Adriel Varlack & Lucien Dodge - Both the anime VAs and the Pokemon Masters EX VAs sound identical in just how well they fit.

CRESS: TIE - Kory Getman & Tom Wayland - Both the anime VAs and the Pokemon Masters EX VAs sound identical in just how well they fit.

LENORA: 1. Taylor Billingslea - Voice of Lenora in Pokemon Generations. No real voice acting experience, but her bit part as Lenora delivered. 2. Norma Nongauza - Voice of Lenora in the main anime. Her voice is nice, but clearly this woman was not an actress in any capacity.

BURGH: 1. Billy Bob Thompson - Voice of Burgh in the main anime. The sound of his honey-sweet voice and the quality of his flamboyantly artsy acting is exactly what Burgh needed, he got it down so hard! 2. Ezra Weisz - Voice of Burgh in Pokemon Masters EX. I’ve warmed up to his initial take compared to when I first heard it, but maintain that he didn’t need to push the flamboyance so hard since he had such a perfectly, naturally good voice for Burgh without it. And then he only made it worse in the reprisals. Fuck, go back! I hate it! 3. Chris Niosi - Voice of Burgh in Pokemon Generations. His problem is the opposite of Brandon’s - he didn’t go flamboyant enough.

FANCAST OPTION(S) - Bang Zoom had Jonah Scott and Brandon McInnis available. I think they’d have done better than Ezra Weisz.

ELESA: 1. Sarah Natochenny - Voice of Elesa in the animated trailer for Black2/White 2. While quite recognizable since she voices Ash, Sarah has got the medium pitch voice and showy yet in control delivery that best suits Elesa. Plus, she really was a fashion model! 2. Deborah Gatton - Voice of Elesa in Pokemon Masters EX. It’s a little higher that I’d have liked, but otherwise she does a fantastic job. 3. Mela Lee - Voice of Elesa in Pokemon Generations. Decent enough for a single line, though still a bit high in pitch and Mela got more to work with when voicing Karen in Pokemon Masters. 4. Eileen Stevens - Voice of Elesa in the main anime. As with Jupiter, Eileen does not convince in this type of role. She puts on a very typical fashionista voice and goes all over the place acting-wise.

CLAY: 1. Kirk Thornton - Voice of Clay in Pokemon Masters. Deep, gruff, aged, and with the right western accent, Kirk totally nails Clay. 2. Sean Schemmel - Voice of Clay in the main anime. He sounds like he’s voicing Gokule (Goku and Hercule fused together) doing a Yosemite Sam impression. That’s hilarious, even if not too fitting. 3. Steve Staley - Voice of Clay in Pokemon Generations. He does the cowboy accent, and that’s it. His voice sounds way too light and young, it doesn’t sound right coming out of Clay’s mouth at all! FANCAST OPTION(S) - Marc Thompson or Kyle Hebert. If either one of those guys did a deep cowboy voice, they’d nail Clay too.

SKYLA: 1. Laura Stahl - First voice of Skyla in Pokemon Masters. Unlike her Hau, Laura is all too perfectly fitting as ever-enthusiastic Skyla. 2. Sarah Natochenny - Voice of Skyla in the main anime. She and Eileen Stevens totally needed to swap Skyla and Elesa around, as Sarah’s airhead take can grate on you. Of course, it’s really the lacking writing for Skyla as a character in this anime that disservices Sarah in the role. 3. Serena Varghese - Voice of Skyla in Pokemon Generations. She sounds like a squeaky voiced little girl. What were they thinking? FANCAST OPTION - Carrie Keranen, ‘cause a more upbeat and optimistic sounding Alya Cesaire would be a great Skyla voice!

BRYCEN: 1. Benjiman Becker - Voice of Brycen in the main anime. He got the tone right, but that voice sounds a little too light to fully fit him. 2. Christopher Bevins - Voice of Brycen in Pokemon Masters. He does have the voice down, but the acting is atrocius! Yeah, the guy looks like a masked superhero and he’s an actor in Poke’ Star Studios, but this does not justify the cheesy tone that Bevins uses. 3. Chris Niosi - Voice of Brycen in Pokemon Generations. All he did was grunt. No dialogue. Barely even a performance. FANCAST OPTION - Zeno Robinson. How well he channeled Keith David in Amphibia really showed he’s got the potential for this.

DRAYDEN: 1. Michael McConnohie - Voice of Drayden in Pokemon Generations. One of the finest casting choices in this series. In both shorts the character appears in, Michael just naturally is THE ideal Drayden! 2. Mike Pollock - Voice of Drayden in the anime. His take got much better after his first appearance, it’s just not Michael McConnohie.

IRIS: 1. Cassandra Lee Morris - Voice of Iris in Pokemon Masters. Going higher, squeakier, and even more youthful than she normally does, Cassandra gives Iris exactly the sort of rambunctious, energetic, and sassy voice and performance I’d imagine to hear from the character. 2. TIE - Eileen Stevens & Anairis Quinones - Voices of Iris in the main anime. Eileen’s vocal performance as Iris is, for the most part, really good and lots of fun to listen to. My only issue is actually just the voice itself, how it sounds a little too matured and sometimes shrill compared to Aoi Yuki’s take. Anairis Quinones was my Fancast Option for Iris for a while since she’s got a voice not too unlike Eileen Stevens, isn’t white, and has Iris in her name...and then they actually cast her as Iris for the Masters 8 Tournament in Pokemon Journeys!

3. Cherami Leigh - Voice of Iris in Pokemon Generations. Cherami Freaking Leigh should be casting gold, but she unfortunately fell into the same trap Grant George did as N in that her line reads come in three different voices without any solid consistency. Had she carried her initial voice through the whole performance, she’d have got it.

CHEREN: 1. Landon McDonald - Voice of Cheren in Pokemon Masters. While some of his line delivery would fit better with BW Cheren than the B2W2 Cheren that he’s playing, his voice and tone are dead on for how Cheren ought to sound. Smart alecky but not overly arrogant. 2. Todd Haberkorn - Voice of Cheren in the main anime. This was as ideal casting as you could get for Cheren. His voice and Landon’s voice sound quite alike. He really only gets second place here due to his material; I did not care for the Cheren he was playing at all. 3. Jason Griffith - Voice of Cheren in the animated trailer for Black 2/White 2. Oh dear, what were they thinking with this one? This voice doesn’t suit Cheren whatsoever. It’s like you’re expecting Ienzo but get Zexion, as in Vince Corazza’s horribly awkward sounding Zexion! FANCAST OPTION - Darren Dunstan. His Kaz Kalinkaz in Chaotic was basically a dead ringer for Landon and Todd as Cheren anyway.

ROXIE: 1. Alyson Rosenfeld - Voice of Roxie in the anime. Her young voice and her loud, performative delivery just ROCKED this role! 2. Brianna Knickerbocker - Voice of Roxie in Pokemon Masters. She gives a fun performance, but she kinda overdoes the stereotypical punk rocker quality when a more natural take would’ve sufficed. MARLON: 1. Ray Chase - Voice of Marlon in Pokemon Masters. Not the most obvious casting choices for Marlon, yet he slid right into the role. 2. Ted Lewis - Voice of Marlon in the anime. Blegh. This does not work, Ted. Stick only to Tracey and Giovanni from now on!

CAITLIN: 1. Sarah Miller Crews - Voice of Caitlin in Pokemon Masters. She gives the best balance of elegance and sleepiness that you could ask for, making her the definitive fit for Caitlin’s character. 2. Miriam Pultro - Voice of Caitlin in the anime. The sound of her voice is okay, but the acting left a whole lot to be desired. FANCAST OPTION(S) - Tara Jayne Sands or Carrie Savage. Miss Kaya from One Piece really should’ve voiced Caitlin at least once.

VIOLA: 1. Lori Gardner - Voice of Viola in the anime. She totally gets it! 2. Brianna Knickerbocker - Voice of Viola in Pokemon Masters. One word for her performance: annoying. Look, just because Viola’s a Kalos Gym Leader doesn’t mean she needs a French accent, especially since no other Kalosian character has one and we have both Professor Bellis AND Fantina talking with one in this game!

GRANT: 1. Cory Willis - Voice of Grant in the anime. He, too, totally gets it! 2. Erik Scott Kimerer - Voice of Grant in Pokemon Masters. Typical sounding Kimerer voice that just has me thinking “that’s a white boy!”

KORRINA: 1. Ryan Bartley - Voice of Korrina in Pokemon Masters. If her Candice underwhelmed, then her Korrina more than makes up for it. 2. Lisa Ortiz - Voice of Korrina in the anime. Third Gym Leader she’s voiced after Sabrina and Flannery, and this is also a casting slam dunk.... so why did she have to go and do the Amy Rose voice like she did for Mars, AGAIN?!? Korrina oughtn’t sound so squeaky!

RAMOS: 1. Steve Kramer - Voice of Ramos in Pokemon Masters. Does he kind of sound like Bill Farmer as Hopediah Plantar to anyone else? If so, then that means he did perfectly in this role. 2. Anthony Salerno - Voice of Ramos in the anime. Clearly a much younger guy trying to voice an old man with a hick accent. YEESH!

CLEMONT: 1. Michael Liscio - Voice of Clemont in the anime. He portrays Clemont very much along the lines of how I’d imagine he’d sound. 2. Kyle McCarley - Voice of Clemont in Pokemon Masters. He does not, but he’s such a natural fit for a nerd that it works all the same.

VALERIE: 1. Skyler Davenport - Voice of Valerie in Pokemon Masters. I tend to enjoy her voice acting in just about anything, and this no exception. 2. Kate Bristol - Voice of Valerie in the anime. Misses the “manic pixie girl” energy completely and voiced Valerie the same way she did Sixth from Future Diary. No! Absolutely not!

FANCAST OPTION - Lisa Jacqueline. She reprised her role in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, so she’s not totally done voice acting, and what better fit for the fairy type Gym Leader than the original dub voice of Bloom from Winx Club?

WULFRIC: 1. J. David Brimmer - Voice of Wulfric in the anime. So glad they got him back for more voice acting, as he is a perfect fit for Wulfric! 2. Jamieson Price - Voice of Wulfric in Pokemon Masters (credited as Taylor Henry). Decent, but I think he’s better at voicing bad guys.

WIKSTROM: TIE - Brad Venable and Barrett Leddy, the voices of Wikstrom in Pokemon Masters and the Pokemon Journeys anime dub respectively. They sound so alike in how they approached this role!

MALVA:

1. Samara Naevmi - Voice of Malva in the main anime. Gives Malva this smug, aristocratic tone that the other VAs for her lack, which is what I feel is needed to help Malva really stand out as a character.

2. Marissa Lenti - Voice of Malva in Pokemon Evolutions. Her part is brief, but the solemn tone harboring an emotional undercurrent is deliverted perfectly for what that bit part requires of her.

3. Kira Buckland - Voice of Malva in Pokemon Generations. She sounds like a female newscaster, alright. That’s literally about it.

FANCAST OPTION - Sabrina Weisz, given her work in Miraculous.

SIEBOLD: 1. Sean Chiplock - Voice of Siebold in Pokemon Masters. This very Dee Bradley Baker-sounding voice is exactly how he should sound. 2. Eli James - Voice of Siebold in the anime. As always he does a fine job, but his Siebold is in the shadow of his Volkner and Colress.

HALA: 1. Kane Jungbluth-Murray - Voice of Hala in Pokemon Masters EX. Can’t really say much other than he sounds just right for the part. 2. Ryan Andes - Voice of Hala in the anime. Very similar sounding to the above, but at times he doesn’t sound quite old enough to me.

OLIVIA: 1. Marissa Kennedy - Voice of Olivia in the anime. A case like Cilan where the version of Olivia she’s voicing is radically different a character from the games, but her voice still sounds so ideal for her. 2. Julia McIlvaine - Voice of Olivia in Pokemon Masters. Olivia is around Brock’s age, right? Well, Juliva’s take is too deep and makes her sound a good few years older than she’s meant to be!

NANU: 1. Michael McMillian - Voice of Nanu in the anime. When I look at Nanu and his thuggish face, a gruff, grizzeled, raspy voice is what I hear, and this relatively unknown VA was able to deliver just that. 2. Sean Chiplock - Voice of Nanu in Pokemon Masters. How he plays the part suits Nanu too, but it’s just not quite “dark” sounding enough. FANCAST OPTION - Kirk Thornton. Why’d he have to stop at just Blaine and Clay? He would’ve absolutely killed this role too!

HAPU: 1. Della Saba - Voice of Hapu in Pokemon Masters. She sounds PERFECT in this role. Exactly the kind of voice I’d expect of Hapu! 2. Brittany Lee Hamilton - Voice of Hapu in the anime. She doesn’t do bad, she’s just not entirely convincing. Her Georgia in the Black & White dub was so iconic that I can’t unhear it in this voice. FANCAST OPTION - Philece Samplar. She was alive prior to last year, and she’d have made an ideal voice for Hapu too.

LANA: 1. Rosie Reyes - Voice of Lana in the anime. The definitive Lana! 2. Ama Lee - Voice of Lana in Pokemon Masters EX. Ama makes for a perfectly decent Lana. I felt that with her initial take that too many of the line reads that they went with were misdirected as she starts to sound a bit too much like Misty and not nearly as good as Rosie Reyes’ Lana, but she showed notable improvement upon reprising the role for Sygna Lana during the Villain Arc. FANCAST OPTION - Could we maybe have traded Ama Lee out for Mela Lee? She totally would’ve been able to deliver a fitting take.

KIAWE: 1. Marc Swint - Voice of Kiawe in the anime. He just had such a cool sounding voice as Kiawe right out the gate, sounding ferocious when in battle and also hysterical with his comedic delivery. No wonder his voice acting career really took off following this role. 2. Chris Jai Alex - Voice of Kiawe in Pokemon Masters. He also does great, capturing Kiawe’s laid back side and his fiery side very well.

MALLOW: 1. Rebecca Soler - Voice of Mallow in the Sun & Moon anime. Rebecca’s been around and done voices for a while, and she was a golden choice for voicing Mallow. And her performance in “Memories In The Mist” is so powerfully moving, it’s hard not to weep over it! 2. Amber Connor - Voice of Mallow in Pokemon Masters. She gets a nice voice for Mallow down to, but due to a lack of more extensive material she just could not hope to match Rebecca Soler’s turn.

3. Emily Cramer - Voice of Mallow in Pokemon Journeys. She gets the job done, but is simply doing a stand-in performance/impression of Rebecca Soler for a limited amount of time.

SOPHOCLES: 1. Jeannie Tirado - Voice of Sophocles in Pokemon Masters. Sounds just about right for the character, and as we hear from Norman in The Promised Neverland, Tirado can naturally nail down a ‘boyish’ quaity. 2. Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld - Voice of Sophocles in the anime. She tried way too hard to sound like a boy at first, but eased it up so that her Sophocles sounds more like a slightly lighter version of Tirado’s.

ACEROLA: 1. Christine Marie Cabanos - Voice of Acerola in Pokemon Masters. Flawlessly cast, and gives her usual energized, high-pitched vocal performance that’s so likable and enduring for her roles. 2. Lauren Kammerling - Voice of Acerola in the anime. Fucking WOW. And I thought Lara Starr Rigores as Gardenia was a huge misfire but THIS might well be the single worst miscast of a League Trainer voice in the anime dub. She’s super flat in the acting and sounds NOTHING like the child that Acerola is supposed to be!

FANCAST OPTION - Monica Rial, poster child for Creepy Cute.

MINA: 1. Cherami Leigh - Voice of Mina in Pokemon Masters. One of her lower and deeper tones, sounding something like Linda Cardelini in Gravity Falls. An exact match for how I’d pictured Mina to sound. 2. Samara Naeymi - Voice of Mina in the anime. Meh. Not godawful or anything, but unlike her Malva, it’s pretty bland and forgettable.

KAHILI: 1. Janice Kawaye - Voice of Kahili in Pokemon Masters. Sounds close to her Peko Pekoyama voice, and it absolutely works here. 2. Unknown VA - Voice of Kahili in the anime. Who even was this?

FANCAST OPTION - Colleen O’Shaughnessey. For whatever reason, I feel her voice would go well with Kahili’s character.

NESSA: 1. Anairis Quinones - Voice of Nessa in Pokemon: Twilight Wings. Just love the way she plays the role, she sounds best suited for it. 2. Tiana Camacho - Voice of Nessa in Pokemon Masters EX. Initially she sounded off with this “slighty above a whisper” tone in much of her line delivery, but her reprisal saw improvement and her voice and accent sound spot on.

BEA: 1. Shara Kirby - Voice of Bea in Pokemon Masters EX. Her voice most naturally suits the character, and the accent she uses is an added plus. I can totally buy her as one tough customer. 2. Laura Stahl - Voice of Bea in Pokemon: Twilight Wings. Slightly lighter than Shara’s voice and lacks the accent, but otherwise great. 3. Tiana Camacho - Voice of Bea in the main anime. On one hand, her acting is super on point. On the other hand, she pitches her voice way deeper than was needed, which makes her sound kinda goofy.

ALLISTER: 1. Casey Mongillo - Voice of Allister in Pokemon: Twilight Wings. They were such an ideal pick for the role, wish they got more lines! 2. Norma Gose - Voice of Allister in Pokemon Masters EX. Does a decent enough job sounding like a boy, and with a nice accent too! 3. Ryan Bartley - Voice of Allister in the main anime. Shinji was better suited for this than Rei. This just isn’t Ryan’s natural element.

FANCAST OPTION - David Errigo Jr. Ferb for Allister, please?

OPAL: 1. Mairin M. Miller - Voice of Opal in the main anime. This is exactly the sort of voice I was thinking I’d hear out of Opal. Well played! 2. Laura Post - Voice of Opal in Pokemon: Twilight Wings. Sounds like Ragyo Kiryuin trying to imitate an old lady. Doesn’t really work.

MELONY:

1. Wendee Lee - Voice of Melony in Pokemon Masters EX.

2. Laura Post - Voice of Melony in Pokemon: Twilight Wings.

PIERS: 1. Aleks Le - Voice of Piers in Pokemon Masters EX. He’s got the grunge, the flair, the mood, and above all, THE YELL! He rocks it! 2. Edward Bosco - Voice of Piers in Pokemon: Twilight Wings. Not a whole lot of lines, but what we do hear from him suits Piers very well. 3. Howard Wang - Voice of Piers in the main anime. Like with Roxie in Masters, just doing a typical punk rocker voice isn’t quite enough.

RAIHAN: 1. Danny Kramer - Voice of Raihan in the main anime. A total unknown as a VA, but he manages to pin down all the essentials of Raihan in this performance, with a suave voice that fits him best. 2. Nazeeh Tarsha - Voice of Raihan in Pokemon: Twilight Wings. He was a great casting pick and on a single line, he got Raihan right. But he direction failed him, as he mostly sounds too smug and weasely! 3. Mike Dent - Voice of Raihan from Pokemon Masters EX. Mike just…isn’t it as Raihan. He sounds overly peppy and like a casual geek rather than a cool guy who gets real feral in battle.

IONO:

1. Lily Ki - Voice of Iono in Pokemon Masters EX. LilyPichu is an actual online personality and streamer well known from Youtube well before she got more voice acting gigs - there could be no more perfect a fit for Iono. She puts in all the chipmunky squeakiness and manic gremlin energy you’d expect to hear out of this character given her design and dialogue. A bit grating? Yeah! That’s the whole idea!

2. Julia Gu - Voice of Iono in Pokemon: Paldean Winds. Julia voiced a manic-obsessive school idol fangirl turned school idol in Love Live! Superstar!!, so she was pretty ideal casting for a enthusiastic showboat like Iono. I think the only issue with her is that the voice direction let her down a little but not pushing her to go even harder and more energized in her line delivery.

3. Erika Harlacher - Voice of Iono in Pokemon Horizons. Sort of a reversal of the above: she goes impressively wild with her delivery, but the voice itself is just not nearly high enough in pitch, making it weird to hear coming out of Iono.

FANCAST OPTION - Hilary Haag was my go-to headcanon Iono voice, for obvious reasons. Everything Iono is, she can get down erffortlessly.

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The 9/11 Hijackers Last Steps – A Timeline

9/10/01—At the Pink Pony Nude Theater in Daytona Beach, FL, a man with a Middle-Eastern accent says “Tomorrow America will see bloodshed.” They leave a Koran behind...

(originally posted on Creeping Sharia on September 10, 2009)

Know your enemy, and never under-estimate him.

We pick up the timeline of the 9/11 terrorists, and hijackers to-be, from the assassination of Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Massoud on Sep. 9, 2001 – however the timeline begins well prior to that in the 1990’s and goes further than what we posted here. Excerpts from Free Republic.

Annotated Timeline of the 9/11 Hijackers for Researchers

various | 5/13/2002 | compiled from published sources

“We love death. The US loves life. That is the big difference between us.” — Osama Bin Laden

THE HIJACKERS FLIGHT 11 Mohammed ATTA (11) (also known as Mohammed al-Amir) Born September 1, 1968 in Kafr al Sheikh, Egypt. ATTA grows up in Cairo with his middle-class family. Abdulaziz ALOMARI (11) Saudi Arabian. Little is known about him. Walid AL-SHEHRI (11) From Khamis Mushayt in Saudi Arabia. Former teacher, who left his job allegedly to consult an Islamic holy man about his brother’s mental illness. Satam AL-SUQAMI (11) Born June 28, 1976. Saudi Arabian. Islamic-law-school student at King Fahd University in Riyadh. College roommate of MOQED. Wail ALSHEHRI (11) Born 7/31/73. Brother of Walid. Former phys-ed teacher who left his job because of “mental illness.”

FLIGHT 175 Marwan AL-SHEHHI (175) Born in United Arab Emirates on 5/9/78. Hamza ALGHAMDI(175) Born 11/18/80. From Beljurashi in southern Saudi Arabia. Was working in a “humiliating” job as a stockboy in a housewares shop when he was recruited for the jihad. Ahmed ALGHAMDI(175) From Beljurashi in southern Saudi Arabia. Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan Al-Qadi BANIHAMMAD (175-4) (aka Fayez Ahmed) Citizen of United Arab Republic. Mohand ALSHEHRI (175) Former student at the Imam Muhammed Ibn Saud Islamic University in Abha, Saudi Arabia for one semester.

FLIGHT 77 Hani HANJOUR (77)– Saudi Arabian Born August 13, 1972. Son of a wealthy businessman from the wealthy al-Faisaliyah section of Taif. Khalid ALMIDHAR (77) Saudi Arabian. Veteran Al-Qaeda operative about whom little is known. Majed MOQED (77) Saudi Arabian. Law student at the King Fahd University in Riyadh. The son of a head of the Baniauf tribe from Annakhil near Medina. Sometimes listed as the third “logistics” person after ALMIDHAR and Nawaq ALHAZMI. Nawaq ALHAZMI (77) “He told me once that his father had tried to kill him when he was a child. He never told me why, but he had a long knife scar on his forearm,” said an acquaintance. Brother of a police chief in the coastal town of Jizan. Salem ALHAZMI (77) Saudi.

FLIGHT 93 Ziad al-JARRAH (93) Born in Al Marj, Lebanon May 11, 1975. The son of a civil servant and a schoolteacher. Educated in a Catholic school in Beirut. Ahmed ALNAMI (93) Born December 1977. Saudi, from the town of Abha. Former law student at the King Khaled University Islamic Law School in Abha. Ahmed Ibrahim AL-HAZNAWI (93) Born October 11, 1980. Saudi from the village of Hezna. Son of an imam, and reportedly became one himself. Close to Hamza and Ahmed ALGHAMDI. Saeed ALGHAMDI (93) Saudi, from Khamis Mushayt.

September 9, 2001—Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Shah Massoud is assassinated by two al-Qaeda operatives pretending to be Arab journalists.

September 9, 2001—Foreign intelligence officials intercept a telephone call on between Osama bin Laden and his adoptive mother Al-Kalifa in Syria, according to a report by NBC. “In two days, you’re going to hear big news, and you’re not going to hear from me for a while,” says bin Laden. AJC 10/2/01 Link

September 9, 2001—The owner, Richard Surma, notices that AL-SHEHHI, another tenant, (AHMED/BANIHAMMAD, presumably) and one other visitor who was constantly with them, have left the Panther Motel. AL-SHEHHI shaves his goatee before he departs, leaving only a mustache. AL-SHEHHI then returns the rental Corsica to Warrick’s for good., with an additional 1,035 miles on it. Link AL-SHEHHI flies to Boston. After they leave, owner Surma, cleaning out the rooms at the Panther, finds a tote bag in the trash. It is packed with aeronautical maps of the entire East Coast, martial arts books, a protractor, an English-German dictionary, Boeing 757 flight manuals, books from a flight school, and computer printouts with a detailed list of airline flights and times. A maid, cleaning the room, finds a box cutter. –Chicago Tribune 9/17/01

In Boston, AL-SHEHHI rents the room next to AHMED/BANIHAMMAD at the Milner. He makes a call from the room to Western Union, which authorities believe was one final attempt to refund unneeded cash to their contact in the United Arab Emirates. At some point in the day AL-SHEHHI wires $5400 to “Mustafa Ahmad” in the UAE. Link

September 9, 2001—Waleed AL-SHEHRI (11) wires $5000 to “Ahamad Mustafa” in the UAE. At some point in the day Wail and Waleed AL-SHEHRI order a call girl and pay her $180 for a 20-minute session.

September 9, 2001, 8:27 AM—The white Mistubishi appears at Logan airport again, remaining until 9:13 AM. Boston Globe 9/23/01

September 9, 2001— ATTA arrives in Boston. At Logan Airport, he watches that day’s American Airlines Flight 11 as it prepares for departure. He stands there at the gate with no luggage or briefcase, only a folder. A passenger remembers: “When I was actually boarding the airplane, he was standing at the gate counter writing on a card…the only thing he could see of the airplane was the pilots and the front of the airplane.” Link The same witness had seen him at curbside, asking “strange” questions. Later, he meets up with ALOMARI. They rent a blue 2001 Nissan Altima with Massachusetts license 3335VI at an Alamo Rent-a-Car in Boston at around 6 PM. They spend the night in a Boston hotel.

September 9, 2001, 4:15 PM—The white Mitsubishi returns to Logan again. It leaves at 5:39 PM.

September 10, 2001—There are 4,526 put options bought on UAL versus 748 call options. For American Airlines, the number of puts is 60 times the daily average.

September 10, 2001, afternoon—One of the Flight 93 hijackers goes to Nardone’s, a go-go bar on Route 1 in Elizabeth, NJ., about two miles from Newark International Airport. He has one beer and pays $20 to watch a dancer in the private VIP room. Link |

September 10, 2001, 4:25 PM—The white Mitsubishi returns to Logan again. It leaves at 5:05 PM.

September 10, 2001—ATTA and ALOMARI drive 100 miles north to Portland, ME in the afternoon. At a toll booth at Exit 13 of the Massachusetts Turnpike, ATTA “boils over in anger” when the operator demands that he pay the $3.10 toll. He speeds away without paying, and the toll taker writes down their tag number.

September 10, 2001—Hamza ALGHAMDI checks into the Days Hotel in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood. He is signed in as “Ghamdi.” ATTA+taxi+Hamburg&hl=en”> Link

September 10—Sometime today, JARRAH writes a farewell letter to his girlfriend. “You should be very proud, because it is an honor and in the end you will see that everyone will be happy.” According to Der Spiegel, the four-page letter is dated Sept. 10. Because of a mistake in the address, the package was returned to the United States and fell into the hands of the FBI.

September 10, 2001, 6:59 PM—A message is posted to a Yahoo financial message board reads “to the deapest part called the center of the earth by this wekend north east region will be destroyed new providance soon to fall apart.” Link

September 10, 2001—ATTA and ALOMARI arrive in Maine and check in to the Comfort Inn in South Portland, about a mile from the Portland International Jetport, at about 5:45 PM. Sometime between 8:00 pm and 9:00 pm, ATTA and ALOMARI are seen at Pizza Hut, 415 Maine Mall Road, South Portland, Maine, for approximately fifteen (15) minutes. This is apparently their last meal on earth. 8:31 PM —ATTA and ALOMARI make a cash withdrawal at a Key Bank drive-up ATM, 445 Gorham Road, South Portland. 8:41 PM—they are next recorded at a Fast Green ATM, located in the parking lot of a Pizzeria Uno restaurant, 280 Maine Mall Road, South Portland. They leave the account almost empty. 9:15 PM—They buy gasoline for their car at the Jetport Gas Station on 446 Western, Avenue, South Portland. 9:22 PM—ATTA enters a Wal-Mart on 451 Payne Road in Scarborough and spends twenty minutes there. ATTAck/investigation/ausport10042001.htm http://www.webdesk.com/terrorists-in-maine/”> Link Others believe ATTA viewed the Portland flight as a final test run for the plan to carry small knives onto planes.

September 10, 2001—AL-SHEHHI, AHMED/BANIHAMMAD, Mohand ALSHEHRI, and AL-SUQAMI price prostitutes, but found their prices too high.

Two of ATTA‘s bags, bearing his name tags, don’t make the transfer. http://www.suntimes.com/terror/stories/cst-nws-hijack16s1.html According to Der Spiegel, the FBI examines the bags and finds, among other things, a videotape on how to fly a Boeing 757 and 747.and airline uniforms. The immediate speculation is that the hijackers or some of their associates used the uniforms to gain access to areas of Logan Airport that would normally be secure. The FBI also wonders whether the uniforms were connected to an April 2001 break-in at the Hotel Nazionale in central Rome, in which two American Airlines pilots said they were robbed of their uniforms, badges, and airport access badges. An unidentified third vehicle, rented from a local Dollar Rent a Car franchise, is also found at Logan. Previously, investigators had identified two cars rented from the Boston office of Alamo Rent a Car. Link

September 10, 2001—At the Pink Pony Nude Theater in Daytona Beach, FL, a man with a Middle-Eastern accent sitting with two other men says “Tomorrow America will see bloodshed.” They leave a Koran behind at the strip club. Orlando Sentinel, 9/14/01

In NawaqALZHAMI’s car at Dulles, police find a cashier’s check made out to a flight school in Phoenix., four drawings of the cockpit of a Boeing 757, a box cutter, a map of Washington, and a handwritten note with the name “Mohumed” and ABDI’s northern Virginai phone number. ABDI had entered the USA as a Somali refugee on an I-94 visa. He had formerly worked for Caterair, an airline caterer at National Airport. When ABDI is picked up a few days later, on his person was a newspaper article about Ahmed Ressam’;s 1999 attempt to smuggle explosives across the border. (Human Events, 10/15/01) There was apparently another handwritten note saying “OSAMA 5895316,” AWADALLAH’s first name and old phone number on it (CNN 2/18/02)

September 11, 2001, just after midnight—Outside Newark International Airport, three men park a red Mitsubishi Galant at the entrance to the Airport Marriott hotel while two of them check in. The third man drives the car to a nearby Days Inn. All three were later positively identified as Flight 93 hijackers. One of the men in the Marriott is JARRAH, who paid $450 in cash for two no-smoking rooms, each with a double bed. The one with him is probably his roommate AL-HAZNAWI, though this is just a guess. The rooms JARRAH chooses have a clear view of the New York skyline. Link Link AL-HAZNAWI’s final bank statement, opened after Sept. 11 by his former landlord, showed that he left behind just $14. Link

At some point on the evening of the 10th, all of the hijackers, as required, read the “Instructions for the final night,” which were found in multiple places after the attacks, including in the wreckage of Flight 93. There are 16 in all. They begin: 1. Renew your convenant with God. 2. Know all aspects of the plan well and expect reaction and resistance from the enemy. Instruction No 3 is to read the ninth sura of the Koran. This sura, usually known as al-Tawba (penitence) or al-Bara’at (immunity), is the only one among the 114 suras in the Koran which does not begin with the words: “In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful.” Some have suggested that this is because of the stern injunctions it contains: “When the sacred months have passed away, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush” Link According to Bin Laden on the captured video, the “soldiers” knew that this was a martyrdom operation, but were not told until just before they boarded the plane. Clearly the four pilots, plus Nawaq ALHAZMI and ALMIDHAR, knew all. “Be calm and resolute, young man,” says ATTA’s letter to the hijackers, “For you will soon be going to paradise.” Link

September 11, 2001—In the UAE, approximately $16,348 is depositied into AL-HAWSAWI’s Standard Chartered Bank account. Then, at 9:22 AM local time, AL-HAWSAWI moves approximately $6534 from the $8,055 in Fayez AHMED/BANIHAMMAD’s (175) Standard Chartered Bank account into his own account, using a check dated September 10, 2001 and signed by Fayez AHMED/BANIHAMMAD; AL-HAWSAWI then withdraws approximately $1361, nearly all the remaining balance in AHMED/BANIHAMMAD’s account, by ATM cash withdrawal. Later that day, AL-HAWSAWI left the UAE for Karachi, Pakistan.

5:30 AM—ATTA and ALOMARI check out of the Comfort Inn, putting the $135 charge on ATTA’s Visa card. They leave an airline timetable on their room. After driving less than a mile to the airport, they park their Nissan and enter the airport. They drive the short distance to the Portland International Jetport and leave the Nissan there. Police find the “final night” instructions, plusemaps of New England and Boston, facial tissues, a toothpick, and an empty bag of Chips Ahoy crumpled in the ashtray. Link 5:40 AM—ATTA and ALOMARI enter Portland International Jetport Airport parking lot. They park on the first floor directly across from the airport entrance. 5:43—ATTA and ALOMARI check in at the U.S. Airways counter. 5:53 AM—The final pictures of ATTA and ALOMARI are taken by the security cameras at the airport in Portland, as they pass through security before boarding a flight to Boston. Each carries a shoulder bag. ATTA and ALOMARI board separately, keep quiet and don’t draw attention to themselves. Link However, once on the plane, they are described as “joined at the hip.” The Age, 9/17/01. The witness believed that they were business travelers, as it seemed that they were going over paperwork. 6:00 AM—ATTA and ALOMARI depart on their Colgan Air flight to Boston. 6:30 AM—The Colgan Air flight arrives at Logan Airport. ATTA and ALOMARI apparently clear another security checkpoint. At Logan, the pair sit by themselves in the waiting area by Gate 11, leaning forward in their seats and talking quietly, other passengers recall. ATTA is in seat 8A, next to ALOMARI, and across the aisle from David Angell and his wife Lynn. Link AL-SUQAMI is in 10B. The AL-SHEHRI brothers are in 2A and 2B.

After checking out the Valencia, Nawaq and Salem ALHAZMI board 77 together, checking in at the coach line rather than the first-class line. One of them shows a Massachusetts drivers’ license. Link

As Flight 11 is in line for takeoff, ATTA calls AL-SHEHHI, further back on the tarmac on UA 175, on his cellphone for the last time. The conversation lasts less than a minute, and is believed to have been a final confirmation that the plot was a go. AL-SHEHHI is in seat 6C. Ahmed ALGHAMDIis in 9D. AHMED/BANIHAMMAD is in 2A. Hamza AGHAMDI is in 9C.

JARRAH calls his girlfriend from the airport hotel in Newark. ALMIDHAR’s seat on 77 is 12B. Salem ALHAZMI 5E. Nawaq ALHAZMI 5F. HANJOUR is in 1B. MOQED 12A.

7:59 AM—AA Flight 11, a Boeing 767, departs Logan Airport with 81 passengers and 11 crew.

8:14 AM—UA Flight 175, a Boeing 767, departs Logan Airport with 56 passengers and 9 crew.

Approximately from 8:15-8:20 AM— Using box-cutters and small knives, ATTA and his team seize control of Flight 11. According to flight attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney, four attackers had cut the throat of a passenger in business class, killing him. They also stabbed the two flight attendants in First Class, including Karen Martin (who was given oxygen by the other flight attendants) and a pilot, she said. Flight attendant Betty Ong reported that two men in the eighth row [ATTA and ALOMARI] killed a man sitting behind them.. Ong also stated that the hijackers had sprayed something in her face—mace, presumably—that made her eyes burn and made breathing difficult. Three of the hijackers had been sitting in business class themselves and one [this could only be ATTA] spoke very good English.

That Sweeney mentioned four hijackers rather than five supports the theory that they used topographical cues to decide on when to make their move. It has been theorized that Flight 11 had the easiest navigation to the target, as its original route took it straight west, across the Hudson River valley. Following the river would have given ATTA a straight line of navigation to New York City, so for this reason the plane was seized early in the flight, since the landmark of the Hudson would be impossible to miss as long as the plane continued to the west. The hijackers didn’t need to keep the original pilots around after the climbout period. The fifth hijacker, therefore, would be needed to watch for the Hudson valley during the seizure period. Almost certainly this function was performed by one of the AL-SHEHRI brothers sitting in 2A. The dry runs the terrorists took during the summer would have been necessary to allow them to familiarize themselves with the topography.

The hijackers get into the cockpit, presumably, by drawing one of the flight crew out with their attacks on the flight attendants. Possibly by accident, someone keys the microphone so that their conversations could be heard by flight control in Nashua, NH. ATTA is heard saying, “Don’t do anything foolish. You’re not going to get hurt.” ATTA is also heard to say, “We have more planes, we have other planes.” It is possible that one of the hijackers falsely mentions to one of the American pilots an intention of heading toward LaGuardia or JFK airports in New York City.

Both cell phone calls reported that most of the coach passengers had no idea that anything was wrong.

8:20 AM—AA Flight 77 departs Dulles Airport.

Around 8:25 AM—Flight 11 makes a sharp right turn over Albany, NY. Its transponder is turned off.

Approximately 8:32 AM–Flight 175 is seized. 175 traveled a more southeasterly route, passing within easy visual range of the WTC towers. By this theory, the plane would have been seized the moment the towers became visible, as the towers themselves would have been the only necessary landmark. Again, this would have required the hijackers to have taken the flight previously, and to have sat in a window seat on the left side of the plane. On September 11, AHMED/BANIHAMMAD in 2A would have been the one to give the signal. The one call from 175 that we know of mentioned that men with knives were stabbing flight attendants in an attempt to force the crew to unlock the cockpit doors.

Around this time, multiple bomb threats are called in to the Boston and Cleveland Air-Traffic Control centers, which happen to be the ones handling the three flights currently in the air.

8:36 AM—Flight 175, now piloted by AL-SHEHHI, makes its first turn toward New Jersey. Shortly after, its transponders are turned off.

8:40 AM—FAA informs NORAD that Flight 11 has been hijacked.

8:42 AM—UA Flight 93—UA Flight 93 Departs Newark Airport with 38 passengers and 7 crew..

8:43 AM—FAA informs NORAD that Flight 175 has also been hijacked.

8:45 AM—Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. It is believed that all of the hijackers congregated in the cockpit at the final stages of the flight to shout their “Allahu akbars” together.

8:55 AM—Flight 77 suddenly turns to the east. Flight 77’s transponder is turned off just after it crosses the Ohio River, so this is probably the landmark the hijackers used. Barbara Olson’s phone call indicated that the hijackers had herded the passengers to the rear of the jet.

9:02 AM—Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

9:05 AM—Flight 77 appears as an unidentified blip on radar over West Virginia.

9:24 AM—FAA informs NORAD that Flight 77 has also been hijacked.

Approximately 9:30—Flight 93 is seized. Flight 93’s nearly 180-degree turn just before Cleveland indicates that the hijackers may have used the sighting of Lake Erie as a landmark and a signal to seize the plane. The route the hijackers took strongly suggests that its intended target was in Washington, DC. Link The Flight 93 hijackers put on red bandannas just before they take over the plane. The headbands are a signature of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, who are known for wearing them during their machine-gun massacres on Coptic Christians and tourists at Luxor and elsewhere. It is not known whether any of the other three hijacker teams did this, but it is likely. The hijacker who is entrusted with guarding the passengers at the back of the plane wears a red box strapped to his waist, and claims to the passengers that it is a bomb. At least one passenger is murdered, along with the pilots.

9:37 AM—Ground controllers in Cleveland hear someone in broken English announce to the Flight 93 passengers that there was a bomb on board and that the plane was returning to the airport. The plane makes a sharp turn to the southeast at this time. The transponder is turned off at this time.

Freeper chris in nj says that the CVR tapes from Flight 93 “are an incredible amount of evidence against the 20th hijacker.” Link

9:30 AM—The “leader” of the Flight 77 hijackers, possibly ALMIDHAR, tells the Flight 77 passengers to call home because they are all about to die.

9:38 AM—Flight 77 crashes just short of the Pentagon.

10:03 AM—After an uprising by the passengers, Flight 93 crashes in Shanksville, PA.

There was an early theory that the hijackers had obtained access to the “jump seats” in the cockpits of the planes, but there is no hint of this in any of the recent accounts of the contents of the Flight 93 CVR. Link

Bin Laden tunes in to the radio to hear American news broadcasts of the event. “They were overjoyed when the first plane hit the building,” he said on a video later obtained by American forces, talking about others listening with him that day. “So I said to them: Be patient.” He said, “At the end of the newscast, they reported that a plane just hit the World Trade Center.” “Allah be praised,” replied one of the other men in the videotape. “After a little while, they announced that another plane had hit the World Trade Center,” bin Laden recalled. “The brothers who heard the news were overjoyed by it.” Bin Laden also mentions on the same video that “one group of people did not know the other,” but this was not essentially true.

Another flight out of Newark Airport that day, American Airlines Flight 43 to Los Angeles, is forced to land in St. Louis when the FAA grounds all commerical air traffic. Two passengers on this flight, Ayub Ali KHAN and Mohammed Jaweed AZMATH, board a train for San Antonio, but they are taken off the train by the FBI. They have boxcutters, disguises, and large amounts of cash with them. Khan and Azmath had lived at 6 Tonnele Ave., Jersey City, a four-story building with rooftop views of lower Manhattan, for about 2 1/2 years. Link It has been theorized that the two were part of a hijack team that lost its nerve. Given the very significant differences in age and ethnicity, and the apparent lack of contact that the two men had with the hijackers or their immediate associates—and also given the apparently wide circle in the American Muslim community who knew about the plot—one wonders if this was not an unofficial, “unsanctioned” hijacking.

MOUSSAOUI is seen cheering as he watches television pictures of the destruction from his secure unit. Shortly afterwards the FBI connects him with the attacks via BINALSHIBH. Finally, the FBI gets around to searching MOUSSAOUI’s computer, and find that it contains information about “dispersal of chemicals” as well as about crop-duster planes. MOUSSAOUI’s former roommate AL-ATTAS is arrested

September 13, 2001—The Visa card connected to AL-HAWSAWI’s account is used to make six ATM withdrawals in Karachi, Pakistan.

September 14, 2001—The Islamic prayer room at TUHH is shut down and the computer seized by German police.

September 16, 2001– In India, Saudi diplomat Ahmed Alshehri, based in Bombay, denies he was the father of hijacker Waleed M. ALSHEHRI. Reports from a Saudi newspaper editor say that both Waleed and Wail ALSHEHRI were Ahmed’s sons.

Around September 20—ATTAR leaves Germany for Sudan, where he lives openly.

November 9, 2001—A video is recorded in Afghanistan on which Osama Bin Laden names many of the hijackers, including Nawaq ALHAZMI, Salem ALHAZMI, and Wail ALSHEHRI, along with JARRAH and ATTA, and commends them to Allah. He mentions the AL-SHEHRI family name seven times, and the ALHAZMI and ALGHAMDI family names multiple times. He acknowledges that ATTA ran the operation: “Not everybody knew (…inaudible…). Mohammad (ATTA) from the Egyptian family (meaning the al-Qaida Egyptian group), was in charge of the group,” bin Laden said on the tape.The tape is found in Jalalabad a week or two later.CBS News 12/20/01

November 16, 2001—BINALSHIBH’s suicide video is discovered in the rubble of Mohammed Atef’s house in Kabul. He and four others are seen on the tape wearing red cloth knotted around their heads, as the hijackers of Flight 93 (and likely the others) did.

(the timeline continues at the link above)

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Just two days before 9/11, the New York Times publishes an article on their website examining the threat of an al-Qaeda attack on US interests. The article focuses on a videotape made by bin Laden which was released in June 2001 (see June 19, 2001). The article notes that “When the two-hour videotape surfaced last June, it attracted little attention, partly because much of it was spliced from previous bin Laden interviews and tapes. But since then the tape has proliferated on Islamic Web sites and in mosques and bazaars across the Muslim world.” It further notes that in the video, bin Laden “promises more attacks.” Referring to the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, he says, “The victory of Yemen will continue.” He promises to aid Palestinians fighting Israel, an important shift in emphasis from previous pronouncements. He also praises the Taliban, suggesting that previous reports of a split between bin Laden and the Taliban were a ruse. The article comments, “With his mockery of American power, Mr. bin Laden seems to be almost taunting the United States.” [New York Times, 9/9/2001] Curiously, shortly after 9/11, the New York Times will remove the article from their website archive and redirect all links from the article’s web address, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/09/international/asia/09OSAM.html, to the address of another article written by the same author shortly after 9/11, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/international/12OSAM.html. (Note the dates contained within the addresses.)

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