More Holes in Suspected 9/11 Faker's Story

2007_10_taniahead.jpgMore details about Tania Head's life have come to light ever since the NY Times published its article about her. Head rose to a certain kind of prominence as a survivor of the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center, claiming to have been on the 78th floor of the WTC when the planes hit and that her fiance also died at the WTC. She became president of a 9/11 survivors group, trying to forward their causes, giving tours at Ground Zero and told one victim's family members how their son saved her. But then the Times found out that pieces of her story didn't add up.

After the Times article, La Vanguardia, a Barcelona newspaper, reported Head had attended a Barcelona MBA program a week after the September 11 attacks, telling classmates her scars were from a "high-speed crash in a Ferrari" - scars she later told people were from the WTC attacks.
One of Head's classmates told the Post that Head was partying on Costa Brava during the attacks. And a person she was allegedly working with in Thailand following the 2004 southeast asian tsunami had no recollection of her. While Head became the head of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network, a position she was stripped of last month, there's no indication that she ever took any funds from the organization.

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Enough, she's a crazed loner who lied in order to get attention, I get it.
No more please.

doubt she took any money. im seeing more "pathetic" than "con"

even I think we should stop hounding her.
she fits in a ferrari?

There is a definite disconnect between that image of her and a Ferrari...

God bless Rudy! He galvanized a nation into seeing hope and optimism when it's greatest city was at it's lows...

Rudy Giuliani for President 2008!

They must have had a four day pasta eating competition after she road in a Ferrari and she thought it was just snack time. I could see why there was an accident. High speed accident huh? Probably the poor Ferrari had a suspension overload problem and flipped over when it made a left turn as it was pulling out of the Olive Garden restaurant parking lot.

Sophia Loren she ain't.

Did she eat her way down from the 78th floor?

It is Never Ending Pasta Bowl time at the Olive Garden...

I make her to be about late forties/early fifties. How does one get so fat, ugly and stupid in so few years?

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