Exclusive | First victim of 9/11 would be horrified by todays political divisiveness, woke blame game: best friend
The first victim of 9/11 would be “incensed over today’s political divisiveness and conspiracy theories” about the terror attacks, according to his best pal.Danny Lewin, an American-Israeli tech billionaire, is believed to have tapped into his Israel Defense Forces commando skills to fight the terrorists before being slashed in the throat on American Airlines Flight 11, which plowed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 am on that fateful morning.“Danny called it like it is – rather than the tragedy unifying the country, it’s now all about being divisive,” blasted Marco Greenberg, Lewin’s childhood friend.“He’d be very disappointed, but not surprised, to see how truth has been turned on its head.”Lewin was born in Denver and moved to Israel with his family when he was 14.
He shot into the stratosphere in brains and brawn, winning the “Mr.Teenage Israel” bodybuilding competition and going on to become a military commander in IDF’s most elite counterterrorism unit and then a star student at the prestigious Technion university. By Sept.
11, 2001, Lewin, 31, was a newly minted billionaire who had co-founded a revolutionary high-tech company, Akamai Technologies, which made the internet faster and more efficient.Living in Brookline, Mass., with his wife and two young boys, 8 and 5, the decorated commando was the “smartest guy in the room at MIT,” where Lewin was a Ph.D candidate, according to Greenberg, CEO of PR agency, Thunder11.On Sept.11, 2001, Lewin caught an early-morning flight out of Logan Airport for a business trip to LA.According to the 9/11 Commission Report, Lewin sat in 9B in business class, directly behind infamous hijacker Mohamed Atta.
Having “served four years as an officer in the Israeli military ..
.he may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him, not realizing that another was sitting behind him,” read the report, naming Lewin’s probable killer as Satam al Suqami, a 25-yea...