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9/11 – My own review of the entire event.

writer Joël v.d. Reijden  
updated March 7, 2005  
version 5.3 - you might need to hit the refresh button  

1.0 Introduction
1.1 Events of the day and important data. (detailed dimensions, performance, deaths, conversions)
1.2 Bush, Cheney, Rice: “No one would ever have imagined this, we could not have known.”
1.3 Well, we kinda knew but we didn’t tell you.
1.4 Smells like a standdown.
1.5 The standdown explained. Military & law enforcement drills on the morning of 9/11.
1.6 The standdown explained. The important people are missing.
   
2.1.1 WTC 1&2. People sent back up the towers
2.1.2 The possible use of explosives at the time the planes impacted the building to right before the first collapse
2.1.3 The possible use of explosives just before and during the collapse of both of the towers
2.1.4 Reports from witnesses who seemed to have felt the effects of explosives
2.1.5 Explosives have also been reported by firemen
2.1.6 What demolition experts have said and the evidence for the use of explosives
2.1.7 The towers were built to resist a 757 or 767
2.1.8 How intense was the fire? And why did the firemen established their commandpost inside the towers?
2.1.9 More on the temperature inside the World Trade Center towers
2.2 WTC 7: It’s becoming very, very hard to dismiss explosives.
2.2.2 The 7 WTC 'pull it' controversy.
2.3 The official FEMA investigation and the destruction of evidence.
2.4 Security drills and evacuations in the weeks before the attack.
2.4.2 Securacom and their responsibility for the WTC complex, United Airlines and Dullas Airport.
2.4.3 Other important information about the World Trade Center.
2.5 An international conspiracy - The Zionist connection.
2.5.2 More circumstantial evidence of Zionist involvement in 9/11.
2.5.3 The Israeli moving van controversies and their connections to the Venice Airport.
2.6 The ‘coincidental’ destruction of sensitive data because of the attack and other financial benefits.
2.7 The 'no United Airlines at the WTC-hypothesis' is gaining some sudden momentum in mid-2004. Why oh why?
   
3.1 The Pentagon. My own theory, a quick table on what people actually saw and some general info
3.2 Dozens of witnesses: A very loud silver American Airlines airliner crashed into the building.
3.2.2 Extra flight controller information about the path of Flight 77.
3.3 Witness accounts: The noise, the blast, the heat, the injuries and the damage.
3.3.1 Outside accounts of the attack.
3.3.2 Inside accounts of the attack.
3.3.3 Witnesses: Some hear more than one explosion, others give the explanation.
3.3.4 The debris that is coming down: fiberglass and aluminium, concrete and possibly 2 engines.
3.3.5 More on the heat during and after the explosion.
3.3.x Unused.
3.3.7 The color of the smoke.
3.3.8 What rescue workers have observed inside the building during and after the event. [also blackboxes]
3.3.9 Another plane inbound.
3.4 Confiscation and destruction of evidence.
3.5 The spotted second plane, a C-130H. It was there and it seemed to have a good reason to be there.
3.6 Alternative hypothesis and theories that something else than Flight 77 hit the Pentagon.
3.6.2 Theory number 1: A missile struck the building - the 'video' - a rumsism - misquotes. [disinfo imho]
3.6.3 Theory number 2: A Global Hawk, F-16 or other military jet hit the Pentagon. [disinfo imho]
3.6.4 Theory number 3: A truckbomb was placed next to the Pentagon and there was no plane. [disinfo imho] + Meyssan info
3.6.5 Theory number 4: A combination of the above theories. [disinfo imho]
3.6.6 Theory number 5: Another type of airliner flew into the Pentagon, possibly a 737. [misinfo imho]
   
4.1 Flight 93: Confirmed data and the witnesses on the ground during the first day.
4.1.2 Flight 93: The small, white jet that has been spotted.
4.2 The jet fighter theory.
4.3 Questions about the passengers of the plane.
4.4 Questions about the telephone calls.
4.5 Possible scenarios.
   
5.1 The technical data of the airliners.
5.1.1 The technology behind the black boxes.
5.1.2 The ‘1.5G limit so NORAD took over the plane myth’.
5.1.3 Airplane altitude and speed.
5.1.4 My opinion if hijackers could have flown those planes.
5.1.5 The claimes of Colonel Donn. De Grand-Pre. [disinfo or misinfo imho]
5.1.6 Flashes, rails, pods, etc seen on the WTC planes [only on video, not by witnesses].
   
6.1 The big conspiray, Bin Laden and his gang of freedom-haters. Some of the hijackers turned out to be alive.
6.2 The evidence presented against the 19 hijackers.
6.3 Official, missing & withheld evidence about the hijackers.
6.4 Flight training in Venice Beach, Florida. Hundreds of young arabs in a retirement-community.
6.5 The evidence presented against Osama Bin Laden and what the man supposedly had to say for himself.
6.6 Possible Assassinations
6.7 Tangled webs they weave - Persons and companies that might have known of, or have been involved in 9/11.
   
7.1 A war in the planning. Project for the New American Century.
7.2 Osama Bin Laden, his family, the Saudi Kingdom and the Bush family.
7.3 Something is going on between the countries around Pakistan, the US and Mohammed Atta.
7.4 The obviously very dependant 9/11 commission.
   
8.1 Sources

1.0 Introduction

"49.3% of New York City residents and 41% of New York citizens overall say that some of our leaders "knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act...Despite the acute legal and political implications of this accusation, nearly 30% of registered Republicans and over 38% of those who described themselves as "very conservative" supported the claim...Overall results have a margin of sampling error of +/-3.5."
- Zogby International, public opinion tracker. Poll taken before NY Republican covention from August 24 to 26 2004.

It's been quite some time since I first started gathering this data. At first, I expected to make a small list of maybe 2 pages, but at this moment it has grown to about 75 pages. (In MS Word, Times New Roman, letter size 9) Small additions and corrections will be made when new information becomes available, so it is unlikely that this article will be "finished" any time soon. In this document you will find all the flaws in the official story that are known to me. Keep in mind, that I only started adding sources after many months of gathering. I never expected the contradictions would be this immense and didn't plan on sharing it with everyone else. However, most second-hand sources known to me have been mentioned at the links-page, so you will be able to start your own research with relative ease. Most of the newer information has a link in small size text at the end of the quote and most material that has been written before this, will be updated over time. Most quotes already have detailed names and dates of the persons and/or newspapers involved.

My english grammer and my overall grasp of the picture surrounding 9/11 were in pretty bad shape at the beginning of this article, so don't be surprized to find some sections riddled with all kinds of grammatical mistakes. Every section will be updated over time. I also noticed that some of the earlier sections I wrote, have been oversimplified or have small mistakes in them. They also will be corrected over time.

1.1 Events of the day and important data:


Edited chart from media lab

The time between the events of the day:

Flight 11 fails to respond:
Flight 175 first signs of trouble:
Flight 11 hits North Tower:
Flight 77 [Pentagon] hijacked:
Flight 175 hits South Tower:
Flight 93 is hijacked:
Flight 77 hits the Pentagon:
South Tower collapse:
Flight 93 preliminary crash:
Pentagon collapses:
North Tower collapse:
WTC 7 mystery collapse:
8:13:xx
8:41:32
8:46:26
8:50:xx
9:02:54
9:16:xx
9:40:xx
9:59:04
10:06:05
10:15:xx
10:28:31
17:20:xx
First fighter jets should be scrambled within 15 min. (Nato QRA)
crosses the path of the pursued Flight 11
94th - 98th floor according to FEMA

78th - 84th floor according to FEMA
at least, that is the time NORAD gets notified
average time. 9:37 to 9:43 is possible

according to seismic seismic data

Time between:

Flight 11 hijack and crash:
Flight 175 hijack and crash:
Flight 77 hijack and crash:
Flight 93 hijack and crash:

First hijack and last crash:
First possible interception within:

North Tower impact and collapse:
South Tower impact and collapse:
33 minutes
21 minutes
50 minutes
50 minutes

113 minutes
124 minutes

102 minutes
56 minutes





[officially fighters were still 11 min. away]

Main 9/11 bases:

Otis ANG
Langley AFB
Andrews AFB (Air Force One)
2 F-15’s on 24 hour standbye with guns, heat-seeking missiles extra gas, pilots in G-suits and warmed-up engines. (NATO QRA)
2 F-16’s on 24 hour standbye with guns, heat-seeking missiles, pilots in G-suits and warmed-up engines. (NATO QRA)
2 squadrons of combat-ready F-16’s and F/A-18’s available. 121th fighter squadron of the Air National Guard were also stationed there who were able to respond within minutes when given the order, even though they are not on NATO QRA. (Order was given after the Pentagon was hit)

Distance between:

Otis ANG and NY
Langley AFB and NY
Andrews AFB and NY

Otis ANG and DC
Langley AFB and DC
Andrews AFB and DC

Otis ANG and Somerset
Langley AFB and Somerset
Andrews AFB and Somerset

313km / 195 miles
450km / 281 miles
275km / 172 miles

650km / 406 miles
213km / 133 miles
18km / 11 miles

738km / 461 miles
388km / 242 miles
213km / 133 miles

Maximum speed of airplanes at altitudes around 30.000 feet / 10 km:

Boeing 747
Boeing 757
Boeing 767
F-15 Eagle
F-16 Falcon
F/A-18 Hornet
Hercules C-130
625mph [+] 1000kmh [+]
600mph [+] 960kmh [+]
600mph [+] 960kmh [+]
1875mph [+] 3000kmh [+]
1500mph [+] 2400kmh [+]
1190mph 1915kmh
375mph [+] 600kmh [+]
[comparison]


[45.000ft]

[40.000ft]

Airliners hijacked part 1:

Flight number

77
93
11
175
comparison

plane type

Boeing 757-223
Boeing 757-222
Boeing 767-223ER
Boeing 767-222
Boeing 747-400

max. passengers

228
228
216
216
416-524

weight empty

58 tons
58 tons
80 tons
80 tons
181 tons

fuel cap.

11.489 gal / 43.490 L
11.489 gal / 43.490 L
16.700 gal / 63.210 L
16.700 gal / 63.210 L
63.705 gal / 241.140 L

Airliners Hijacked part 2:

type

757-200
767-200
747-400

length

47.3m
47.2m
70.7m

wingspan

38.0m
47.6m
64.4m

height tail*

13.6m
15.8m
19.4m

top fuselage to bottom engine**

5.4m
6.6m
9.7m

width fuselage

3.8m
5.3m
6.9m

Dimension of buildings:

building

WTC 1
WTC 2
WTC 7
Pentagon
Pentagon windows

height

415m
417m
174m
23.56m
2.1m

sides

2x 63.5m
2x 63.5m
?
280.9m
1.5m [width]

stories

110
110
47
5
x

employess

20.000 - 25.000 est.
20.000 - 25.000 est.
?
25000
x

Casualty estimates:

north tower employees
south tower employees
firemen
police officers
flight 11
flight 175
subtotal WTC complex

Pentagon building
flight 77
subtotal Pentagon

flight 93
on the ground
subtotal Somerset County

total deaths

NY - people treated in hospitals
DC - people treated in hospitals

1640
620
347
22
93
65
2787

125
64
189

44
0
44

3020

6291
88





[77 passengers, 5 hijackers, 9 staff, 2 pilots]
[51 passengers, 5 hijackers, 7 staff, 2 pilots]

 

[53 passengers, 5 hijackers, 4 staff, 2 pilots]


[37 passengers, 4 hijackers, 5 staff, 2 pilots]

Conversions:

1 mile
1 feet [foot]
1 gallon
mach 1
celcius
1.6 km
0.3048m
3.7854 L
around 1075kmh
5/9(F-32)



[Speed of sound, it varies according to atmospheric conditions]
[just reverse formula when needed]

1.2 Bush, Cheney, Rice: “No one would ever have imagined this, we could not have known.”

1.3 Well, we kinda knew but we didn’t tell you.

1.4 Smells like a standdown.

There are a couple of bases in the United States that have fighter jets on 'Quick Reaction Alert' (NATO - QRA), 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. These jets are fully armed and have warmed up engines. Pilots are standing by with their G-suits strapped on and if necessary, a vehicle is standing by to take them to the runway. The wards also are standing-bye to disconnect the planes from the warming-up equipment, take off the wheel blocks and open the hanger doors. After these QRA forces have given the get-go, these jet fighters must be airborne within 15 minutes, according to NATO protocols. However, in the US pilots always try to be up in the air within 5 minutes. Otis ANG and Langley AFB are 2 of these bases where QRA jets are stationed.

Forces who were not required to be up in the air within 15 minutes were also plentiful in the Washington area. Fighter jets were patrolling the coast and there were at least a dozen more AFB in the surrounding area of the hijacked planes. Andrews AFB, just south of Washington DC, had 2 squadrons of F-16’s and F/A 18’s. The 121th fighter squadron of the Air National Guard were stationed there who were able to respond within minutes when given the order, even though they are not on NATO QRA. (The order was given after the Pentagon was hit) It seems that at least some of the planes could have taken out Flight 77 or Flight 93 way before they reached there final destinations. It also seems no order was given to do so, until it was too late.

As soon as the FAA loses contact with a plane it notifies the National Military Command Center (NMCC) in the Pentagon which then makes contact with NORAD. NORAD knows which bases in the surrounding area have fighters on standbye (QRA), meanwhile the NMCC contacts Donald Rumsfeld to get the order to scramble the planes. (that is officially needed since july 2001) In case of a real emergency fighters might be scrambled without Rumsfeld approval but in no way will these planes be shot down. Since june 2001, that is the sole responsibility of the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. (Michael Ruppert)

Airliners and small planes are being intercepted all the time. Between september 2000 and juli 2001 this has happened 67 times and normally it is no problem to have a fighterjet looking in the cockpit of the troubled plane within 25 minutes after the FAA contacts the military through the NMCC. The FAA usually tries to contact the plane for a few minutes before calling the military. So, Flight 11 gets a few minutes to fly after 8:13 before the military gets warned. It would be quite close to intercept that plane. This is entirely different from the other 3 planes.

In the above text and map you can see for yourself that any of those last 3 planes should have been intercepted. Even Flight 175 shouldn’t be a ‘close call’, since fighter jets should already have been pursuing Flight 11 and were very close to Flight 175 when it got into trouble. Fighterjets are a lot faster than commercial airplanes as you can see in the above tables.

The failure to intercept Flight 77 is probably the strangest of all. Flight 77 had been able to fly all the way back to Washington DC, within miles of Boiling and Andrews AFB, 80 minutes after the first hijacking. After it reached the Washington suburbs, it makes a 270 degree turn around the military heart of the US and finally dives into the Pentagon.

Fighterjets also should have been much, much sooner to Flight 93. It was flying straight into at least 4 airforce bases when it was already known for about 20 minutes that it had been hijacked. Even if the airplane was shot down at 10:03 / 10:06, instead of crashing the reaction would have been much too slow. Fighter jets from every airforce base in the area should have already been swarming around Flight 93.

What happened in the armed forces on the the morning of 911 is still not known. A lot of sites dicuss this in great detail although reliable information is scarce. Here are some of the main points:

1.5 The standdown explained. Everybody was confused. Military & law enforcement drills on the morning of 9/11:

On the morning of september 11 a lot of different exercises were being prepared or were already in progress. This has been thoroughly documented. NORAD officers and civilian air traffic controllers have stated in interviews that they thought it was just another exercise. Later research, mainly by Michael Ruppert and Stanley Hilton, seems to indicate that some of these exercises included fake targets that would show up on the radar screen, confusing everybody who tried to take counter-measures. Stanley Hilton says he found out through numerous interviews with airforce and CIA officials, that there had been about 35 of these exercises in the 2 months preceding September 11. He also argued that Bush reacted so calm on the morning of September 11, because he also thought it was just another exercise. Even so, a lot of information regarding the exercises remains sketchy. (Michael Ruppert - Crossing the Rubicon and numerous interviews at Rense & Coast to Coast AM) (Stanley Hilton - 2003 Alex Jones interview - 2004 Alex Jones interview)

The following exercises were being prepared or were going on at the morning of september 11:

1. Unnamed exercise carried out by the CIA and NRO: At 9 AM on the morning of September 11, a drill started at the NRO office, which is located 4 miles from the Dulles Airport. 3000 people had to be evacuated as fast as possible out of the NRO buildings after a (simulated) airplane had crashed into the complex. When it became known there was a real attack going on, the exercise was cancelled, 3000 people were sent home leaving only the essential people. (Associated Press - August 22, 2002)
2. Vigilant Guardian & Vigilant Warrior: (Probably) different sides of the same exercise coordinated by NORAD and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The plot was that at least one airliner was being hijacked on the morning of september 11 and possibly more. It had already started when the hijackings were taking place and NORAD was fully staffed because of it. On the morning of September 11 and/or in the past both the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have been simulated targets of these exercises. (Aviation Week & Space Technology, June 3, 2002, Newhouse News) (USA Today - Aril 18 2004) (CNN - April 19, 2004) (The Olympian - April 19, 2004) (Richard Clark in his book 'Against All Enemies' - March, 2004)
3. Northern Vigilance & Northern Guardian: More exercises carried out by NORAD. For this exercise a lot of fighter jets had been moved from the east coast to Canada and Alaska to counter a Russian attack coming from the poles, leaving the east coast more vulnerable.(Toronto Star, December 9, 2001)
4. Tripod II: A biowarfare exercise that was going to start on September 12 in NY city. It was being coordinated by the US justice department and the authorities of NY and located at Pier 29, below the Brooklyn Bridge, which connects Manhattan to Brooklyn. It has been a long discussion whether or not FEMA was involved in this excercise even though it was already known through an interview on CBS right after 9/11. In that interview someone from the National Urban Search & Rescue (part of FEMA) admits (freely) they came into town late monday evening, several hours before the attack on the WTC. The excercise itself was confirmed by Rudolph Giuliani during the 9/11 hearings in May of 2004. But besides these 2 testimonies it has always beeen denied by FEMA itself...why?

1.6 The standdown explained. The important people are missing.

A document introduced in June 2001, CJCSI 3610.01A by the joint chiefs of staff states that only the secretary of defense [Rumsfeld] can issue a request for “potentially lethal support “ in case of a hijacking. So, it remains a bit vague what the exact bounderies are here, but it does mean that only Rumsfeld can officially give an order to shoot down an airplane in case of a hijack. That is perfectly reflected by Bush and Cheney when asked about the slow reaction to send fighters into the air during the 9/11 hearings:

”… the Vice President stated that he called the President to discuss the rules of engagement for ordering air cover. But, [Cheney and Bush] did not order air cover because it would do no good unless pilots had instructions on whether they were authorized to shoot if the plane would not divert. The job of issuing such instructions belonged to Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld.”

So this basicly means: “Let’s all sit back and do nothing till Rumsfeld has turned his mobile phone back on.” Rumsfeld went conveniently missing-in-action during the first 1.5 hours of the hijacks. So even though they said they eventually gave the order to shoot down Flight 93 [which hasn’t been confirmed by the commission] it was much too late.

The 9/11 commission concluded this about the conversations between Bush and Rumsfeld:
“If a hijack was confirmed, procedure called for the President to empower the Secretary of Defense to send up a military escort, and if necessary, give pilots shoot-down orders…The president apparently spoke to Secretary Rumsfeld for the first time that morning shortly after 10:00…no one can recall the content of this conversation but it was a brief call in which the subject of the shootdown authority was not discussed.”

Out of these words from the the 9/11 commisssion / Bush & Cheney testimony it seems like the president, the Commander in Chief doesn’t have the authority to shoot down a plane if it is not approved by Rumsfeld? OK…why then have surfaced so many other stories that Bush & Cheney had given orders [after 10:00AM] to shoot down the plane after the Pentagon crash. If they could do it at that moment, why not sooner? [there’s no proof these orders have been given]

At the time of the attacks Donald Rumsfeld was in the Pentagon. As soon as he heard about the attacks he should have gone to the National Military Command Center [also in the Pentagon] where the nerve center of the military apparatus is found. At the NMCC you can speak to and coordinate between agencies such as the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, NORAD, FAA, Airforce Force One, the White House, etc. Since half of the Pentagon was watching the attacks live on TV it is highly questionable that Rumsfeld would not have known, especially since he’s an essential character in coordinating the counter-attacks. Doesn’t he have a mobile phone?

The head of the NMCC was Brigadier General Montague Winfield. He should have given the request of the FAA for fighter support immediately to NORAD. Meanwhile he should have contacted Donald Rumsfeld. But Donald Rumsfeld isn’t there and wait a minute…the Brigadier General went missing during the attack! Better yet, he went missing after the first hijack had already started. What the...?! What are all these people doing? Let’s check it out:

The essence of the story is that every agency had to be [and normally is] in very close contact with each other through the NMCC, but that because of a sequence of 'mistakes' everything went wrong. There were so many mistakes that almost 1.5 hours after the first signs of an attack, an unindentified hijacked airliner could fly past the Pentagon, over the White House with the Situation Room in it, over Capitol Hill, along Andrews AFB, back to Pentagon and finally crash into it. And all that in the most heavely defended airspace of the most powerful nation on earth. Automaticly believing that all this was just a ‘screwup’ is quite amazing to me.

2.1.1 WTC 1&2. People sent back up the towers.

2.1.2 The possible use of explosives at the time the planes impacted the building to right before the first collapse.

2.1.3 The possible use of explosives just before and during the collapse of both of the towers

2.1.4 Reports from witnesses who seemed to have felt the effects of explosives

2.1.5 Explosives have also been reported by firemen

2.1.6 What demolition experts have said and the evidence for the use of explosives

2.1.7 The towers were built to resist a 757 or 767

2.1.8 How intense was the fire? And why did the firemen established their commandpost inside the towers?

2.1.9 More on the temperature inside the World Trade Center towers