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

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:

Main 9/11 bases:

Distance between:

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

Airliners hijacked part 1:

Airliners Hijacked part 2:

• Dimensions in meters [x 3.2811 for feet]
• Last 2 values are measured / calculated with scaled layouts of these planes from airliners.net. Very accurate, try it out.
• Height tail on the ground [wheels]. *
• Very important for the Pentagon hole.**

Dimension of buildings:

Casualty estimates:

Conversions:

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

• On september 6, 1970 4 airliners were hijacked at ths same time, one failed. These planes were taken to an airport in Jordan by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. A very coordinated airline hijack carried out 31 years earlier, almost exactly to the day.
• In april of 1994 a man tried to hijack a DC-10 by hitting the pilots on the head with a hammer. After a wrestle he failed, but later in the prosecution it became known the man wanted to crash the plane on a company called Federal Express in Memphis. He had a dispute with the management.
• In december of 1994 Algerian extremist hijacked a jetliner that was leaving from Algiers to France. They directed the plane to Marseille from where they wanted to fly further to Paris, but they demanded 3 times more fuel than they needed, which worried the authorities. Hostages that were being released told that the hijackers were probably going to blow up the plane above Paris or crash it into a building, possibly the Eiffel Tower. In the end, French special forces killed the hijackers. 20 sticks of dynamite were found.
• In early 1995 Abdul Hakim Murad was arrested in his Manila apartment by the Philippine police, then questioned and tortured. He revealed that he was part of a plan in which these fundamentalist would blow up 11 US airliners and crash 2 others in the Pentagon. This plot was confirmed later that year by Ramzi Ahmed, the first WTC bomber.
• In 1996 the FBI was afraid that a plane might be crashed on the Olympic Games in Atlanta. From july 6 to the end of the games in august all airplanes were banned by the FAA to come within a 1 mile radius of the olympic village. Other sites around the olympic games had a no-fly zone of 3 miles. During that time they were mainly referring to a small aircraft.
• During the Olympic Games of 2000 authorities were worried for: “a fully loaded, fuelled airliner crashing into the opening ceremony before a worldwide television audience.” Safety measures for this kind of attack have been incorporated in the Olympic Games security plans since 1972. The main suspect for planning this kind of attack was Osama Bin Laden during that time.
• From october 24 to 26 in 2000 the Pentagon held an exercise whereby an airliner was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon.
• An annual FAA report from 2000, the Criminal Acts Against Aviation was released early 2001. It stated: “Bin Laden’s anti-Western and anti-American attitudes make him and his followers a significant threat to civil aviation, particularly to US civil aviation.”
• During the G8 conference in Genoa, Italy, the whole airspace around the conference was closed down and anti-aircraft missiles were placed upon surrounding buildings, after Egyptian intelligences announced that there were plans to crash a hijacked airliner on the conference headed by Bin Laden. Bush slept on the carrier USS Enterprise just to be safe.
• During the trials of the Bin Laden coordinated attacks on the embassees in Dar-es-Salaam and Nairobi it became known the terrorists had received training (inc. airplane flying) in Oklahoma and Texas. One of these people flew a US bought military plane to Sudan to be delivered to Bin Laden.
• During 2001 internal memo’s were spreading in the Bush administration and some warnings were given to the public that a big, never seen before attack was being planned by terrorists. One of those warnings was given to Bush on August 6 2001 in his Presidential Daily Briefing. In this document it is made clear to Bush that Bin Laden might be planning a new attack in the US involving the hijacking of an airplane. Pretty strange that Bush didn’t act immediately when he heard the first plane struck the North Tower.
• February 10, 2005, Associated Press, Report: FAA Had 52 Pre-9/11 Warnings:
  "WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration received repeated warnings in the months prior to Sept. 11, 2001, about al-Qaida and its desire to attack airlines, according to a previously undisclosed report by the commission that investigated the terror attacks. The report by the Sept. 11 commission detailed 52 such warnings given to FAA leaders from April to Sept. 10, 2001, about the radical Islamic terrorist group and its leader, Osama bin Laden. The commission report, written last August, said five security warnings mentioned al-Qaida's training for hijackings and two reports concerned suicide operations not connected to aviation. However, none of the warnings pinpointed what would happen on Sept. 11. FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown on Thursday said the agency received intelligence from other agencies, which it passed on to airlines and airports. But, she said, "We had no specific information about means or methods that would have enabled us to tailor any countermeasures." Brown also said the FAA was in the process of tightening security at the time of the attacks..." (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&u=/ap/20050210/ap_on_re_us/sept_11_faa&printer=1)
• The pilot of the Lone Gunman, first aired march 4 2001 on FOX Television from Rupert Murdoch, was about an airliner being taken over by remote control and flown into the WTC. This was done by the ‘shadow government’ to justify a war. If the entertainment industry can come up with something like this, then the intelligence agencies have undoubtly thought about this. (Most people think this episode was written by Chris Carter but in fact, it was John Sheban’s work. Chris Carter had a ‘very minor’ role in this episode. Murdoch, Carter and Shiban were not reachable for comments.)
  Update: Januari 2005 - Alex Jones Interviews X-Files/Lone Gunmen Star Dean Haglund:
  "Yeah, that we shot in March of 2000. In that episode…it’s the pilot of the Lone-Gunman... there is a government plot where they take a computer and basicly override all the pilot’s control systems and by remote control are gonna fly it into the World Trade Center, in the series, to start a worldwide war on terror…on terrorists.

  I didn’t even put it together until I got a call of one of the writers; 'Haglund, are you watching this?'...And then it took me a while to go ‘Oh yeah, good God, the pilot..it’s exactly what they wrote! And they were really freaked out about it, the writers. So clearly, I think they were just picking up on what was already out there, all the AP wire stories and the Times...I think it was staged and I think it was eh…according to [?], it was America’s Reichstag.”

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

• Tatyana Koryagina, top advisor to president Putin of Russia told in July, 2001, that the US was being selected for financial destruction by a enormously rich and powerful international group and that a big terrorist attack on the US was immenent. This was not the only warning in the Russian media, people were adviced to change their dollars for other currencies fast.
  (http://www.propagandamatrix.com/true_world_order_koryagnia.html)
• Twelve times the usual amount of put-options were placed on airline industries (United Airlines, American Airlines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, etc) and relating companies in the days and weeks before 9/11. These trades were carried out on every major stock-market; Hong Kong, Tokio, Chicago, New York, London, Berlin, etc. The total value of these trades are estimated to be in the multiple billions of dollars. It’s is obviously very hard to find out who were responsible for these trades, since the international banking system does have the duty to keep trading information private. Most transactions went through The Deutsche Bundesbank investment wing A.B. Brown. (Michael Ruppert - Fromthewilderness.com)
  TBR News (article not dated):
  "Between August 26 and September 11, 2001, a group of speculators, identified by the American Securities and Exchange Commission as Israeli citizens, sold “short” a list of 38 stocks that could reasonably be expected to fall in value as a result of the pending attacks. These speculators operated out of the Toronto, Canada and Frankfurt, Germany, stock exchanges and their profits were specifically stated to be “in the millions of dollars."
  Adam Hamilton of Zeal LLC, a North Dakota-based private consulting company that publishes research on markets worldwide, stated that "I heard that $22 million in profits was made on these put options"...The Times said market regulators in Germany, Japan and the US all had received information concerning the short selling of insurance, airlines and arms companies stock, all of which fell sharply in the wake of the attacks... City of London broker and analyst Richard Crossley noted that someone sold shares in unusually large quantities beginning three weeks before the assault on the WTC and Pentagon. He said he took this as evidence that someone had insider foreknowledge of the attacks...It was reported by the Interdisciplinary Center, a counter-terrorism think tank involving former Israeli intelligence officers, that insiders made nearly $16 million profit by short selling shares in American and United Airlines, the two airlines that suffered hijacking, and the investment firm of Morgan Stanley, which occupied 22 floors of the WTC... On Sept. 6, 2001, the Thursday before the tragedy, 2,075 put options were made on United Airlines and on Sept. 10, the day before the attacks, 2,282 put options were recorded for American Airlines. Given the prices at the time, this could have yielded speculators between $2 million and $4 million in profit. The matter still is under investigation and none of the government investigating bodies -including the FBI, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and DOJ -are speaking to reporters about insider trading...Investigations were initiated in a number of places including Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Switzerland and Spain. As in the United States, all are treating these inquiries as if they were state secrets." (http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a048.htm)
  December 18, 2001, The Toronto Star and Reuters:
  "German computer experts are working around the clock to unlock the truth behind an unexplained surge in financial transactions made just before two hijacked planes crashed into New York's World Trade Center Sept. 11...Were criminals responsible for the sharp rise in credit card transactions that moved through some computer systems at the center shortly before the planes hit the twin towers? Or was it coincidence that unusually large sums of money, perhaps more than $100 million, were rushed through the computers as the disaster unfolded?...Using a pioneering laser scanning technology to find data on damaged computer hard drives and main frames found in the rubble of the World Trade Center and other nearby collapsed buildings, Convar has recovered information from 32 computers that support assumptions of dirty doomsday dealings... It could turn out that Americans went on an absolute shopping binge on that Tuesday morning. But at this point there are many transactions that cannot be accounted for...'There is a suspicion that some people had advance knowledge of the approximate time of the plane crashes in order to move out amounts exceeding $100 million,' [Richard] Wagner said. [data retrieval expert at Convar]"
• In the weeks and days before 9/11 intelligence agencies from England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Israel, Egypt, Jordan and probably Morocco had warned for a large attack on the United States. They were all ignored.
• In Juli of 2001 John Ashcroft is warned to stop flying commercial airliners and to use his private jet instead.
• Salman Rushdie, a writer of the satanic verses and sentenced to death in Iran if he would ever enter that country because of this, was banned from flying in the US and Canada a week before 9/11. This ban came from the FAA and since that ban he was placed under 24 hr a day observation from MI5 and MI6 who had to approve all his flights. [tip: watch Dark secrets inside Bohemian Grove from Alex Jones]
• A group of pentagon officials had a flight planned on the morning of september 11. They cancelled it for ‘security reasons’ on september 10.
• 8 hours before the attack, mayor Willy Brown gets a telephone call from Washington DC, [supposedly from Condoleeza Rice] that it would be wise to cancel his trip. He would have left on the morning of september 11 from the Bay Area to New York City.
• 2 hours before the attack, at least 2 employees from the Israeli Instant Messaging Service Odigo get a warning of an imminent attack on the WTC. This company is located 2 blocks away from the WTC complex.
  Washington Times, September 28,2001:
  "NEW YORK -- OFFICIALS at instant-messaging firm [Israeli] Odigo confirmed today that two employees received text messages warning of an attack on the World Trade Center two hours before terrorists crashed planes into the New York landmarks...Diamandis said the sender of the instant message was not personally known to the Odigo employees...contacted Israeli security services. In turn, the FBI was informed of the instant message warning." (http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/01/09/WTC_Odigo.html)
  So if we know two hours before the actual attack where its going to take place, why weren't the hijackers stopped?

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:

• It is important to note that in the first newspaper and tv covers of 9/11 it had been stated repeatedly that NO airplanes had been scrambled the first hour after Flight 11 was hijacked:
  Richard Myers, vice chairman of the Joint chiefs of staff:
  “When it became clear what the threat was, we did scramble fighter aircraft, AWACS, radar aircraft and tanker aircraft to begin to establish orbits in case other aircraft showed up in the FAA system that were hijacked…That order, to the best of my knowledge, was given after the Pentagon was struck.” He has repeated this at least 3 times when questioned by the 9/11 commission. 'To the best of his knowlegde'? He's one of the few people who should know exactly when such an order was given.
  Marine Corps Major Mike Snyder, spokesman for NORAD:
  ”no U.S. fighter jets had been scrambled at all until after the Pentagon crash.”
  Boston Globe, September 15, 2001:
  ”The command did not immediately scramble any fighters even though it was alerted to a hijacking 10 minutes (actually at least 21 minutes) before the first plane… slammed into the first World Trade Center tower... The spokesman said the fighters remained on the ground until after the Pentagon was hit…The failure to act was particularly surprising since Snyder had also admitted that fighters routinely intercept aircraft.”
  NY press:
  ”Initial reports suggested that no aircraft were scrambled to intercept or shoot down the hijacked jets.”
  Vice-President Dick Cheney on 16th September in ‘Meet the Press’ at NBC:
  ”The first hijacking was confirmed at 8:20, the Pentagon was struck at 9:40, and yet, it seems we were not able to scramble fighter jets in time to protect the Pentagon and perhaps even more than that.”
  Cheney’s reaction mentiones nothing about fighters being scrambled from Otis and suggests that the president made the decision to scramble planes after the Pentagon crash.
• Only a few days after this the official story changed and 2 F-15’s were scrambled from Otis air, but they were too late to intercept Flight 11 or Flight 175. The time they were scrambled and when they were warned changes with every newspaper story.
• Since we cannot pinpoint the time these jets were scrambled let’s look at what has been said about the speed at which they were flying. An F-15 can easily reach speeds above 1600mph or 2600kmh when on high altitude.
  According to Major Gen. Paul Weaver, director of the ANG:
  “The pilots [fly] ‘like a scalded ape,’ topping 500 mph but [are] unable to catch up to the airliner.”
  ABC News:
  “The fighters are hurtling toward New York at mach 1.2, nearly 900 miles per hour.”
  NORAD commander Major General Larry Arnold:
  “..they head straight for New York City at about 1100 to 1200 mph…”
  Otis ANG spokeswoman:
  “An F-15 departing from Otis can reach New York City in 10 to 12 minutes” (Speed of flight would then average about 1200mph / 1900 kmh, with take-off included.)
• No military jets were seen on any of the dozens of camera’s pointing at the WTC even though they should have arrived around the second crash. (That's in the case they were horribly slow.)
• F-16’s on 24 hour standby modus from Langley AFB could not be in time in Washington DC to intercept 2 unknown inbound planes, while they had all the time in the world. They were finally scrambled around 9:49, after the Pentagon crash. (other sources claim 9:30) According to NORAD they were flying 650mph, according to different newspaper articles they were flying 300 to 410mph. The maximum speed is 1500mph so by flying so slow they were not able to catch Flight 93 in-time. Fortunatly, it crashed ‘on it’s own’ in a very remote region.
• Andrews AFB is just 11 miles south from Washington D.C., but no jets were ordered in the air before Flight 77 hit the Pentagon. Andrews had 2 combat-ready squadrons, consisting of F-15's and F/A 18's. But the 121th fighter squadron of the Air National Guard is/was also located there, equipped with F-16's who saw it as their task to 'stand ready to respond to the needs of the District of Columbia - and the nation - should the need arise'. (Not QRA) The incoming jetliner even circled over the White House, the Capitol and came very close to Andrews AFB before it completed it’s circle and hit the Pentagon. The minute the Pentagon was hit, fighters were sent to Washington that arrived within a few minutes. They couldn't give the order a bit sooner?
  This is what you could read at the website of Andrews AFB up to a few days after 9/11:
  ”…to provide combat units in the highest possible state of readiness.”
  That task changed into:
  ”…vision to provide peacetime command and control and administrative mission oversight to support customers, DCANG units, and NGB in achieving the highest levels of readiness.”
• The F16’s that arrived in Washington DC around 9:50 could have intercepted the last ‘disobedient’ aircraft, Flight 93 within 5 minutes, more then 22 minutes earlier than other reported interceptors. (A combined speed of at least 1600mph depending on altitude over a 128 mile distance, because the planes would be flying into each other.) The fact that there were 3 nuclear powerplants between Washington D.C. and Flight 93 might have been a good reason to go after it immediately. Since figthers from Langley and Andrews should both have been present, enough fighters could patrol DC ánd go after Flight 93.
• Former Pentagon air-traffic controller:
  "All those years ago when I was at the Pentagon, this wouldn't have happened. ATC Radar images were (and are) available in the understructures of the Pentagon, and any commercial flight within 300 miles of Washington D.C. that made an abrupt course change toward Washington D.C., or turned off their transponder and refused to communicate with ATC, would have been intercepted at supersonic speeds within minutes by fighters out of Andrews AFB. Why there were no fighters from Andrews up baffles me. If we could get fighters notified, scrambled, and airborne within about 6 minutes from Andrews AFB then, we could now."
• General Richard Myers, vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (at the Pentagon):
  ”…before the crash into the Pentagon, military officials had been notified that another hijacked plane had been heading from the New York area to Washington.” (that was at least before 9:40)
  And still we waited for fighters to scramble from Andrews AFB till after the Flight 77 attack. And still the fighters from Langley were flying way below their maximum speed or may even have been on the ground.
• The supposedly scrambled fighters from Otis air should have arrived at Manhatten just after the second tower had been hit, just over 9:00AM. (worst case scenario.) If the US military had so much trouble scrambling other fighters it could have easily sent these one or two fighters to Washington DC, 211 miles away, a ride of just 7 minutes on top speed. This would mean that an F-15 would be at least 25 minutes earlier at the Pentagon than Flight 77!
• Other possibilities of fighters jets that could have been used to intercept are fighters in one of the dozens of AFB in the north-east area, one of fighters patrolling the 200 miles Air Defense Intercept Zone just out of the coast or figthers that were taking part in of the military exercises going on that morning. Vigilant Guardian was one of them, 3 F-16’s in North Carolina doing bombimg runs were a second.
• And how about anti-aircraft missiles? They should be on standbye in Washington. You would expect that a Patriot battery in the neigborhood of the Pentagon and White House could shoot an airliner right out of the sky. There were some news reports about Secret Service agents standing on the roof of the White House with Stinger missiles. 2 or 3 of those missiles could probably have taken out the airliner when it made it’s turn over the river, between the white house and the Pentagon. It was flying well below the ceiling of 3 km, the altitude that a stinger missile can reach.

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:

• George Bush went to his brother Jeb Bush in Florida on september 10 2001. On the morning of september 11 he was notified that a plane had hit the World Trade Center just before he went into the elementary school in Sarasota. When he was inside, sitting in front of the class he was notified that a second plane had struck the southern tower and that America was under attack. But without doing anything he just sat their another 7 minutes doing nothing, while he should be out giving orders. After those 7 minutes he supposedly talked to Dick Cheney and left the school eventually around 9:30. What Bush and Cheney did discuss is still not clear, not even after the 9/11 hearing. But they didn’t order any jets to be scrambled after these 2 attacks and 1 new hijacked plane in the air. They waited for the missing Rumsfeld to do something.
  After this, Bush was flown to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana , in the afternoon he went to Offutt AFB in Omaha, Nebraska were a group of very influential businessmen coincidentally were having a ‘charity’ event on the morning of september 11, including Warren Buffett. After 90 minutes he leaves again and heads for Washington preparing his speech to the nation.
  During one of his later speeches Bush even claimes to have seen the first attack live on television even though that video wouldn’t surface till the next day. That was after the people were let to believe that Bush was notified of the first plane when he was sitting in the classroom being informed by one of his man, on camera. This man must be the worst liar in the world.
• Warren Buffett, someone very close to the Rothschilds and the elite of the international bankers and business world was holding an annual charity meeting for tennis and golf sports at Offutt AFB and was sitting at US Strategic Command right after the first attack. A known participant of the meeting who was flying-in that morning was Ann Tatlock, the luckiest business woman in the world because her offices of Fudiciary Trust were located high up in the World Trade Center Towers. (She is also a trustee of HHMI together with Carlyle's James Baker III) She heard of the attack on her way in and was just in time to watch the second attack on CNN as she walked in US Strategic Command. Warren Buffett organising a charity is in itself very interesting but what makes it so importatnt is that A: The charity is at US Strategic Command or at least on the same AFB. [He does live in the town of this in-the-middle-of-nowhere-base] and B: Why is George Bush coming here for a short time, before adressing the nation? (Forbes 10/15/01, San Francisco Business Times, week of 2/04/02, Broadway To Vegas 9/09/01)
• Dick Cheney's location has always been a point of speculation but now it seems that he was at the Alternate Joint Communications Center, a highly secured complex of buildings inside Raven Rock Mountain, about seven miles north of Camp David. It is an alternate command center in case of a nuclear war or another national disaster. Later in the day several helicopters with officials landed at this site, one of them carrying Paul Wolfowitz. There is speculation that the attack was coordinated from this bunker, although it cannot be stated as a fact. Again, we need an investigation into this. (Philadelphia Daily News)
• Donald Rumsfeld was somewhere in the Pentagon during the attack.
  According to the 9/11 commission:
  “He was having breakfast with Congressional leaders, and they hear a plane has hit the Pentagon, and he runs out.”
  Christopher Cox, chairman House Policy Makers of California confirms this on his website. He told how he was having breakfast with not only Rumsfeld but also Paul Wolfowitz. Rumsfeld was discussing the threat of terrorism and that we could be ‘hit any moment.’ ‘What a coincidence’ were his words. I guess none of these people in the room had a mobile phone. So, he runs out, starts helping people, all very noble, but in the meantime another plane is heading for Washington…Shouldn’t he contact General Montague of the NMCC first…or at the very least Cheney and Bush?
• Not that Brigadier General Montague Winfield would know a lot, he had left his post around 8:30 it now turns out. In the 9/11 hearings Charles Leidig, Jr wrote down that Brigadier General Montague Winfield had asked him on september 10 2001 if he would take over his spot as Deputy Director of Operations in the NMCC for a few hours the next day. Charles Leidig, Jr just had passed his exame for that position 30 days earlier and did not have any experience in that position.
  Charles Leidzig jr.’s own written account:
  ”On 10 September 2001, Brigadier General Winfield, U.S. Army, asked that I stand a portion of his duty as Deputy Director for Operations, NMCC, on the following day. [September 11] I agreed and relieved Brigadier General Winfield at 0830 on 11 September 2001.”
  This was 15 minutes into the first hijacking. Needles to say that communication was further troubled by this decision to put a rookie on one of the most important spots of the country. At around 10:00 the brigadier General returned, about the same time that Rumsfeld was reachable again. A few minutes later the crisis would be over.
• Another very important place had a weakness. The director of the White House Situation Room, Deborah Loewer was travelling with Bush in Florida. The Situation Room is the place in the White House where 24 hours a day all national and international developments are being monitered and transferred to the necessary agencies. The minute a plane was hijacked the situation room should have known about it. [They only called Loewer after the first impact instead of at the time of the hijacking] From there they could contact the NMCC and the President. The fact that the director wasn’t there didn’t mean that everything should come to a halt, but it was definetly not a desirable position. There hasn’t been given a reason publicly why the director had to travel with the president. This is highly unlikely and it might even have been the first time since Bush was in office.

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.

• The planes hit and the towers shake for some seconds. A lot of people in the tower are worried that it is going to come down, but after the initial shaking everything seems fine. A cloud of small metallic particles is raining over the streets, which could have been part of the fuselage and wings of the airliner. (hint to Pentagon) A few larger parts of the airplane have been found, including pieces of the landing gear, at least one engine and part of the fuselage. That last part is easily recognized by the windows.
• Ivillage UK, Tiffany Keeling (north tower):
  “We saw fire engines on the street below, ran to the stairwell and got down two floors when someone came onto the speaker system and told us we weren’t in imminent danger. At that moment a lot of people went back upstairs, but I kept trudging down.” (http://www.ivillage.co.uk/newspol/newspolfeatures/newsviews/articles/0,10233,164564_180647-1,00.html)
  LA Times, September 12, Tiffany Kneeling (north tower):
  ”Keeling and the other trainees headed for the stairs. When they were between the 59th and 58th floors, a voice on the building's public address system said the north tower was the only structure in danger and that everyone could return upstairs. Half of her group went back up.”
  The globe and mail:
  ”Ms. Chedel told her husband that he had to get out of Tower 2, which hadn't yet been hit, any way he could. She heard a muffled sound, like someone talking in the background, and her husband told her it was the speaker system…He told me the speaker said to not go down..”
  Mercurycenter:
  ”After about 15 minutes, Seeling, Winn and their colleagues neared the bottom. A voice came over the loudspeaker, warning of an isolated fire in the North Tower. The safest place to be was back in their offices, it said…But no one seemed to take the advice.”
  Christian Science Monitor, September 17, 2001:
  ”Then, as they reached the 70th floor,[came from 103 of the South Tower] they heard an announcement: The building was secure. No one needed to evacuate. [they descended anyway]… They had descended three more floors when United Airlines Flight 175 slammed into their own south tower [between the 78th and 84th floor]… first he and those around him thought an explosion had come from below. An incredible noise - he calls it an "exploding sound" - shook the building, and a tornado of hot air and smoke and ceiling tiles and bits of drywall came flying up the stairwell…In a flash of panic, people began fleeing higher into the building. Then a few men began working on the crowd, calming people down, saying that downstairs was the only way out…As they descended, a few other survivors stumbled into the corridor. A construction painter, his white T-shirt covered in blood, was helped downstairs by others. But the stairwell was still far from jammed with evacuees…Elliott assumed his was one of the final groups descending. They saw only two firemen going up. They told them there had been an explosion near the 60th floor.”
• So people were told to go back into their offices after the first plane had hit and right up until the second one smashed into the south tower. This is very interesting because it seems that the assumption was that you will be safe from the falling debris in these towers . The design of buildings make sure that the burning areas are closed off and that the steel, as always, will not succumb to fire, seemingly even when an airplane had struck it. You will see later in this article that nobody expected the towers to come down.

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

• Some pictures of what is talked about can be seen here.
• On the moment each of the two planes fly into their building multiple witnesses are hearing more than one explosion. These explosions also happen later on between the impact of both planes and the collapse of the towers:
  Steve Adams from the BBC tells:
  “There was an explosion—I didn’t think it was an explosion—but the base of the building shook. I felt it shake . . . then when we were outside, the second explosion happened and then there was a series of explosions. . . . We can only wonder at the kind of damage—the kind of human damage—which was caused by those explosions—those series of explosions”
  "There was a huge bang and the building physically shook...Seconds later there were two or three similar huge explosions and the building literally shook again."
  Stephen McArdle was making an audio recording that morning. We can hear:
  "That was an explosion"…[then we hear another explosion on the tape]… "Let's get out of here!"[everybody is running out of the building. Some time later the tape stops]. The tape has been confiscated by the FBI only to be heard from never again.
  Kim White, 32, employee on the 80th floor:
  "All of a sudden the building shook, then it started to sway. We didn't know what was going on," she told People. "We got all our people on the floor into the stairwell . . . at that time we all thought it was a fire . . .We got down as far as the 74th floor . . . then there was another explosion."
  Edmund McNally of Fiduciary Trust, somewhere about the 97th floor and some time before the building came down:
  "Liz, this was a terrorist attack. I can hear explosions below me."
  Christian Science Monitor, September 17, 2001:
  ”Then, as they reached the 70th floor,[came from 103 of the South Tower] they heard an announcement: The building was secure. No one needed to evacuate. [they descended anyway]… They had descended three more floors when United Airlines Flight 175 slammed into their own south tower [between the 78th and 84th floor]… first he and those around him thought an explosion had come from below. An incredible noise - he calls it an "exploding sound" - shook the building, and a tornado of hot air and smoke and ceiling tiles and bits of drywall came flying up the stairwell…In a flash of panic, people began fleeing higher into the building. Then a few men began working on the crowd, calming people down, saying that downstairs was the only way out…As they descended, a few other survivors stumbled into the corridor. A construction painter, his white T-shirt covered in blood, was helped downstairs by others. But the stairwell was still far from jammed with evacuees…Elliott assumed his was one of the final groups descending. They saw only two firemen going up. They told them there had been an explosion near the 60th floor.”
  Teresa Veliz:
  Teresa Veliz was a manager for a software development firm. She was on the 47th floor of the North Tower when American 11 struck. Veliz was able to reach the ground level at about the same time that the South Tower collapsed. Flung to the ground in total darkness, Veliz and a colleague followed another person who happened to have a flashlight. As she narrated later: “The flashlight led us into Borders bookstore, up an escalator, and out to Church Street. The explosions were going off everywhere. I was convinced that there were bombs planted all over the place and someone was sitting at a control panel pushing detonator buttons. I was afraid to go down Church Street towards Broadway, but I had to do it. I ended up on Vesey Street. There was another explosion. And another. I didn’t know which way to run.” (September 11: An Oral History by Dean E. Murphy Doubleday Books, 2002)
• As the planes hit the towers something goes terribly wrong in the subbasements of both of the buildings, close to a hundred levels below the impact:
  Stationary Engineer Mike Pecoraro, who is working 6 basement levels underneath the north tower (1 floor below the car garage), is being interrupted from his work by a co-worker. His co-worker notifies him that the lights flickered:
  "...By this time, however, the room they were working in began to fill with a white smoke. “We smelled kerosene....The two decided to ascend the stairs to the C level, to a small machine shop where Vito Deleo and David Williams were supposed to be working. When the two arrived at the C level, they found the machine shop gone...“There was nothing there but rubble, “Mike said. “We’re talking about a 50 ton hydraulic press – gone!” The two began yelling for their co-workers, but there was no answer...We couldn’t see through the smoke...The two made their way to the parking garage, but found that it, too, was gone. “There were no walls, there was rubble on the floor, and you can’t see anything” he said...They decided to ascend two more levels to the building’s lobby. As they ascended to the B Level, one floor above, they were astonished to see a steel and concrete fire door that weighed about 300 pounds, wrinkled up “like a piece of aluminum foil” and lying on the floor. “They got us again,” Mike told his co-worker, referring to the terrorist attack at the center in 1993. Having been through that bombing, Mike recalled seeing similar things happen to the building’s structure. He was convinced a bomb had gone off in the building." (Chief engineer Magazine - http://www.chiefengineer.org/article.cfm?seqnum1=1029)
  Construction worker Phillip Morelli describes being thrown to the ground by two explosions while in the fourth subbasement (B4) of the north tower. This is at the time of the plane impact 90 some floors above him:
  "I go downstairs, the foreman tells me to go remove the containers. As I am walking by the main freight corridor building, in the corridor, that's when I got blown. I mean, the impact of the explosion of whatever happened threw me to the floor and that's when everything started happening. It knocked me right to the floor, you didn't know what it was of course. You're assuming something just fell over in the loading dock, something very heavy, something very big. You don't know what happened and all of a sudden you just felt the floor moving and get up and the walls...and then...now I'm hearing that the main freight car, the elevator fell down. I was right near the main freight car, so I'm assuming what that was. Then...you know...you heard that coming towards you. I was racing, I was going towards the bathroom...all of a sudden..I opened up the door...I didn't know it was the bathroom and all of sudden a big impact happening again and all of the ceiling tiles were falling down, the light fixtures were falling down, swinging out of the ceiling. And I come running out the door and everything...the walls were down and now I start running towards the parking lots...I just assumed a car or something exploded on B1 or something big or heavy thing fell over...when the floor is moving underneath you...there was a lot of smoke down there, a lot of people screaming...and were running up the ramps...you gotta go clear across the whole from one to two world trade center... and then, all of a sudden, it happened all over again; building 2 gets hit. And again, I don't know that, I just know that something else hit us to floor. Right in the basement you felt it, walls were caving in, everything that was going on. I mean, I know people that got killed in the basement, I know people who got broken legs in there in the basement, people got surgery, because the walls hit them in the face." (NY1 News - http://ny1.com/pages/RRR/911special_survivors.html)
• As the second plane, flight 175, hits the south tower 2 very obvious flashes can be seen at the top section of the north tower. The first one is at the lower right corner of the floor that will collapse 1.5 hours later, another one is a few milliseconds later and happens closer near the top, again on a corner of the building. It looks like a few more possible explosives were caught on camra during that time, because of smoke puffs that arise at the same time, one of them at the same time during the first flash on the same corner, but the other wall. Also, it is possible that smoke puffs on another corner are pushed away in two circles because of explosives, but this is hard to say since the video is too short.
  Update: After seeing a higher quality video, these 'flashes' turned out to be gusts of wind, which blew fire and smoke out of the building. But premise that explosives were responsible remains.
• A short time after the attack (about 9:07) a huge smoke plume rises off the ground around WTC 6. Some time later we learn from witnesses that an explosion had devastated WTC 6 only minutes after the people in that building had been evacuated. (I witnessed this smoke plume live on CNN, heard the rumors about a bomb and wondered why nobody came back on it afterwards) Photo's taken after the attack show a huge round hole from top to bottom right in the middle of WTC 6. The rest of the building stands strong.
  Update: This is something different than the misleading smoke plume Dave von Kleist has shown us. That actually turned out to be smoke rising up after the south tower had collapsed.
• According to the head of security he and a NY firemen had to dig out a few people from the Port Authority on the 22th to 24th floor of the north tower which housed the FBI office, because they were devastated by explosions. The men were busy digging through the rubble at about the same time that the south tower collapsed. They managed to save the 2 or 3 men trapped on these floors. This devastation took place 73 floors below the impact of the plane and were very convenient for some people. (For the details of this destruction you can search this document for Greenspan, Morgan, Goldman Sachs or Mobil Oil)
• The 36 year-old Assistant Chief Engineer Joe Shearin was walking on the 38th floor of the north tower during the impact (about 55 floors up):
  "On the 38th floor, Joe Shearin exited the elevator and began his walk down the hallway to meet with the tenant who had requested to see him. About 50 feet down the hallway, he heard a loud explosion and was lifted into the air. "I can't even tell you how far I traveled," he recalled. When he landed, people were already coming out of their offices into the hallway... What Joe first believed was that an equipment room on the 43rd floor, which had an electrical substation, had blown up...Upon reaching the 43rd floor, "there were patches of ceiling that was just down on the floor, water pipes were broken, water was gushing like a brook or river that was just running down the corridor of the machine room". (Chief Engineer Magazine - http://www.chiefengineer.org/article.cfm?seqnum1=1029)

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

• A clip from the 2002 documentary 'Why the Towers Fell', confirms the statements that a loud boom initiated the collapse. A clip from the 2002 CNN documentary 'America Remembers' show a large amount of what seem to be small local detonations as the tower progresses downward. More details can be found on this page.
• Explosions are heard before each tower comes down and also during their collapse:
  American Society of Newspaper Editors, By N. R. Kleinfield (NY Times writer):
  Police officers warned people in the vicinity to move north, that the buildings could fall, but most people found that unthinkable. They stayed put or gravitated closer. Abruptly, there was an ear-splitting noise. The south tower shook, seemed to list in one direction and them began to come down, imploding upon itself. It looked like a demolition,” said Andy Pollock. It started exploding,” said Ross Milanytch, 57, who works at nearby Chase Manhattan Bank. “It was about the 70th floor. And each second another floor exploded out for about eight floors, before the cloud obscured it all...People started walking briskly north until the premonition became real — another horrifying eruption, as one floor after another seemed to detonate...Ross Milanytch: 'The dust was about an inch and a half thick on the ground.'" (http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=3423)
  Elaboration on Ross Milanytch, who was witnessing the collapse from the 22th floor of Chase Manhatten Bank:
  "[I saw] small explosions on each floor [as the tower came down]" (Jim Marrs - The War on Freedom: The 9/11 Conspiracies. His source: A magazine America at War article entitled, "They Saw It Happen: Eyewitness accounts to the World Trade Center Attack.")
  Nadine Keller:
  "There was smoke everywhere. I heard the bomb and saw both buildings crumble like biscuits"
  Anonymous to American Free Press:
  "a number of brief light sources being emitted from inside the building between floors 10 and 15." He saw about six of these brief flashes, accompanied by "a crackling sound" before the tower collapsed.”
  Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History and vice-president of The Planetary Society's described what he saw in an email of 12 september 2001:
  ”I hear a second explosion in WTC2, then a loud, low-frequency rumble that precipitates the unthinkable -- a collapse of all the floors above the point of explosion.”…..
  ”I hear another explosion followed by a now all-too familiar rumble that signaled the collapse of WTC1…..I saw the iconic antenna on this building descend straight down in an implosion twinning the first.”
  Unknown survivor:
  "So they escorted us thru the exit of World Trade 2 and I had just reached the revolving door of the building that I heard a loud explosion and the whole building collapsed."
  Geronimo Jones from letsroll911:
  ”Seconds before the South Tower crumbled to its doom, I heard/felt a series of explosions. Same with the North Tower. There was no denying it, I could feel the vibrations of them like a small earthquake. Yet when I turned on the news none of the other eyewitnesses commented on this.”
  AP reporter Dunstan Prial:
  "I heard a sucking sound just before the first building collapsed."
  Witness live on CNN just after the second collapse:
  "The entire top of the building just blew up..."
  Reporter just after the Pentagon has collapsed CNN mentiones this at around 10:15:
  "We have a report now of a fourth explosion at the Trade Center."
  Live on CNN a reporter says this just after the first collapse:
  "There has just been a huge explosion..."
  Breakingnews newsflash:
  "Third explosion at World Trade Centre...A huge explosion has occurred at the second of the two twin towers hit by planes in New York. The tower is now covered in smoke...[newsflash of 3 minutes later]...There are reports that a part of the second tower has collapsed after the new explosion." (actually, it's gone)
  FOX news anchor live at 10 AM as the first tower collapses:
  "There is an explosion at the base of the building . . . white smoke from the bottom . . . something has happened at the base of the building." (I have seen this giant smoke column and the speculation on CNN if it might have been a carbomb...always wondered why it wasn't brought up again, especially since it was maybe 10 seconds before the collapse...)
  Update: It could be that this was the south tower that had already collapsed. There were camera viewpoints in which one building was blocked by the other.
  An emotional witness on FOX television:
  "We just heard a very loud blast...explosion."
  Emotional reporter or witness on FOX television:
  "It's not clear now is why this explosion took place..."
  FOX reporter questiones a policeman who clearly had to run for his life:
  reporter: "Do...do you know if it was an explosion or a building collapse?"
  policeman: "To me it sounded like an explosion..."
  Witness on FOX television just after the collapse:
  "But it was a huge explosion...a huge [inaudible because videocut]"
  Hispanic man on FOX just after the collapse:
  "...I saw the tall building..that thing was a bomb because..,two of them..."
  FOX reporter who walks on the street, just after one of the collapses:
  "This is actually, we believe debris from one of the planes that hit one of the towers of the World Trade Center. The FBI is here as you can see, they have roped the area off, they were taking photographs, securing this area, just prior to that huge explosion that we all heard...and felt."
  September 2, 2004, Alex Jones is interviewing a witness of 9/11, Andrea Ptsores during the huge demonstations as the republican convention in New York City:
  "Actually, I was working in the World Trade Center complex the day of september 11th. I was in the building the night before, I am a member of a professional association on the 44th floor of 1 World Trade...some of the key points are that there were explosives up through 6 World Trade that I heard before either tower came down."
  Mr. Beller's Neighborhood (Manhattan) - survivor from the 81th floor of WTC 2:
  "I was almost out. I got down to the lobby, right near the Border's book store. And then there was this explosion. I don't know, I just got thrown to the ground and all this stuff fell on top of me."
  London Guardian:
  "In New York, police and fire officials were carrying out the first wave of evacuations when the first of the World Trade Centre towers collapsed. Some eyewitnesses reported hearing another explosion just before the structure crumbled. Police said that it looked almost like a "planned implosion" designed to catch bystanders watching from the street. "
  ABC news Don Dahler en Peter Jennings live:
  DD: ”As if a demolition set it off”…PJ:.”if anyone has ever witnessed a controlled demolition…you need to be at the base of the building” (a few seconds after he made these comments, Don Dahler makes it very clear that certainly fires must have destroyed the buildings)
  CNN live:
  “It almost looks like one of those planned implosions...but of course nothing is planned here…”
  Dan Rather from CBS seems to have made similar live comments on 911. Unfortunatly I have no quote.
  Some newspapers were writing the same reports:
  LA times, September 12, 2001:
  ”There were reports of an explosion right before the tower fell, then a strange sucking sound, and finally the sound of floors collapsing. Then came a huge surge of air, followed by a vast cloud of dirt, smoke, dust, paper and debris. Windows shattered. People screamed and dived for cover...Not long afterward, at 10:30 a.m., the second tower of the World Trade Center collapsed. The top of the building exploded with smoke and dust. There were no flames, just an explosion of debris, and then more vast clouds swept down to the streets. People were knocked to the ground on their faces as they ran from the building. "
  But of course not everyone heard of the explosions:
  JoeValiquette of the FBI:
  "...told AFP that he had not “heard anything” about reports of explosions in the building and that he had “never heard any discussion of it” in the FBI’s New York office”.

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

• Some people felt the direct results of explosives, just like the FOX reporter said: "that huge explosion that we all heard...and felt":
  Ronald DiFrancesco, one of the 4 known survivors who were above the 78th floor of the south tower:
  ”As he left the building, he saw a fireball rolling toward him. He put his arms in front of his face. He woke up three days later at St. Vincent's hospital. His arms were burned. Some bones were broken. His lungs were singed.”
  Don Halasy:
  "As I turned to run, a wall of warm air came barrelling toward me. I tried to outrace it, but it swept me up and literally blew me into the wall of a building. By the time I regained my footing, a hailstorm of debris was falling from the sky."
  David Handschuh, a photojournalist close to ground zero:
  ”…Handschuh got down to the end of the block and turned the corner when a wave – a hot, solid, black wave of heat threw me down the block. It literally picked me up off my feet, and I wound up about a block away.”
  March 18, 2002 issue of New York Magazine, Richard Polatchek:
  "That's when I saw all these firemen come running out of Tower Two, screaming to get away, the building was imploding. When the building came down, it wasn't a "cloud of dust," it was just this wave of debris -- concrete, wire. It was knocking people off their feet." (http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/sept11/features/5788/index1.html)
  March 18, 2002 issue of New York Magazine, Amy Ting:
  "...One of the fireman came running in through the revolving door, yelling, "The building's coming down!" And it did; I flew from the middle of the lobby to the corner. It lifted me up in the air." (http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/sept11/features/5788/index1.html)
  The French documentary makers who produced '9/11 the filmmakers' videotaped this wave as they were running from the north tower. It also shows the air rushing (a sucking sound) back to fill the vacuum.

2.1.5 Explosives have also been reported by firemen

• Firemen Louie Cacchioli:
  "I was taking firefighters up in the elevator to the 24th floor to get in position to evacuate workers. On the last trip up a bomb went off. We think there were bombs set in the building." (notice the 'we')
  A group of firemen in the documentary ‘911 – the filmmakers’:
  Fireman one: "We made it at least two blocks and we started running. Floor by floor it started popping out." Fireman two: (makes sound and hand gentures to show how the floors popped out) "It is if they had detonators..."
  Fireman one: "Yeah! detonators..."
  Fireman two: "It is if they had planned to take down the building…boom…boom …boom…boom”
  Fireman one: "Yeah...detonators...all the way down, I watching it and running."
  Fireman three: "Right, just ran up west."
  Fireman one: "And then you saw this cloud of shit chasing you down the road."
  In june of 2002 some transcipts of the firemen at the scene were released:
  ”Official: Battalion 3 to dispatch, we've just had another explosion.”
  “Official: Battalion 3 to dispatch, we've had additional explosion.”
  “Dispatcher: Received battalion command. Additional explosion.”
  Fireman communicating live during the collapse of the second tower:
  "...We got another explosion on the tower..."
  Another live transcript:
  "We have numerous people covered in dust because of the secondary explosion..."
  NBC reporter Pat Dawson at the morning of 911:
  ”...The Chief of Safety of the Fire Department of New York told me that...er...he thinks that there were actually devices that were planted in the building. One of the secondary devices he thinks that took place after the initial impact was, he thinks, may have been on the plane that crashed into one of the towers. The second device, he thinks, he speculates, was probably planted in the building…
  Randy Lavello article:
  "Before beginning this article, I met Auxiliary Lieutenant Fireman and former Auxiliary Police Officer, Paul Isaac Jr. at the World Trade Center Memorial. Paul, along with many other firemen, is very upset about the obvious cover-up and he is on a crusade for answers and justice. He was stationed at Engine 10, across the street from the World Trade Center in 1998 and 99; Engine 10 was entirely wiped out in the destruction of the towers. He explained to me that, “many other firemen know there were bombs in the buildings, but they’re afraid for their jobs to admit it because the ‘higher-ups’ forbid discussion of this fact.” Paul further elaborated that former CIA director Robert [James] Woolsey, as the Fire Department’s Anti-terrorism Consultant, is sending a gag order down the ranks. “There were definitely bombs in those buildings,” he told me. He explained to me that, if the building had ‘pancaked’ as it’s been called, the falling floors would have met great resistance from the steel support columns, which would have sent debris flying outward into the surrounding blocks. I asked him about the trusses, and quoted the history channel’s ‘don’t trust a truss’ explanation for the collapses. He responded in disbelief, and told me, “You could never build a truss building that high. A slight wind would knock it over! Those buildings were supported by reinforced steel. Building don’t just implode like that; this was a demolition.” (http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_lavello_050503_bombs.html - May5, 2003)
• Some pictures of what is talked about can be seen here.

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

• People that were watching tv also noticed the peculiar way the buildings came down. (including me)
  The Albuquerque Journal, hours after attack quotes Van Romero, an explosives expert and former director of a demolition company:
  “My opinion is, based on the videotapes, that after the airplanes hit the World Trade Center there were some explosive devices inside the buildings that caused the towers to collapse…too methodical to be a chance result of airplanes colliding with the structures."
  10 days later he demanded a retraction of the article and on September 22 this was printed in the same magazine:
  ”Certainly the fire is what caused the building to fail”
  In the March 2005 Popular Mechanics article that refutes the 9/11 conspiracies selectively:
  "Romero responds: "Conspiracy theorists came out saying that the government got to me. That is the farthest thing from the truth. This has been an albatross around my neck for three years." (http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1227842.html?page=4&c=y)
  September 12 , Danish "Bomb expert" Mr. Bent Lund in the Daily (Copenhagen) Newspaper "BT":
  "...an estimated amount of circa 1 tons of Extra high-explosives Bombs must have been detonated inside the World Trade Center complex in order to make the Towers collapse in the manner they did." (Also changed his mind)
• A television camera located at the top of one of the surrounding buildings overlooked the north tower. 11.7 seconds before the sudden collapse it is shaking violently for 2.1 seconds. It is very hard to hear if there is an explosion because a helicopter is hovering nearby but there is a possibility that you hear a very deep rumble at this moment. (I cannot say it for sure though) On the moment the camera shakes a big chuck of debris is falling of the towers what indicates that it is not just someone bumping against the camera.
  It is also very important to note that te same thing happened with the south tower. Around 8 seconds before the collapse debris can be seen falling off 2 different sides. Then everything is ok again till the actual collapse.
• The antenna of the north tower went at the very beginning of the collapse straight down, indicating that the central support columns had failed together with the rest of the structure. (didn't swing sideways) Some say the central antenna is the first part to move but in either case, it is at the very first millisecond of the collapse that the antenna went through the floor. The central part of the building did collapse at the same side which was weakened by the airplane impact, even though some claim the opposite.
• A movie circulating on the internet shows the inside of the helicopters at the moment of one of the collapses. It looks like it is hit by a shockwave, people are screaming, the camera shakes violently. The movie is a little bit too short though to tell for sure.
• A French cameraman is filming firemen working in the shadow of the north tower. This cameraman and some of these firemen had to run for their life when they were inside the south tower when it collapsed. Again, they just didn't expect the north tower to come down when a huge thunder comes up....however, this thunder, including a little shaking of the ground, occurs at least 5 or 6 seconds before the tower actually starts collapsing. Only 11 seconds after the rumble starts the firemen at the base of the tower start running away. Where does the sound come from? If the sound initiated the collapse everyone had already been buried in rubble by the time they looked up.
  In this movie you can see very clearly how a huge vacuum has been created sucking the air with great force back to the building, just as some nearby witnesses have reported.
• Mark Loizeaux during the excavation of the site (president of Controlled Demolitions Inc, the main company to clear the WTC site):
  ”If I were to bring the towers down, I would put explosives in the basement to get the weight of the building to help collapse the structure.” (American Free Press)
• There were rumors that pools of molten steel had been found beneath the WTC towers. These were confirmed.
  Mark Loizeaux, president van Controlled Demolitions Inc (the main company that cleared the WTC rubble):
  "yes, hot spots of molten steel in the basements at the bottoms of the elevator shafts of the main towers, down seven [basement] levels” (American Free Press)
  Peter Tully, president van Tully Construction of Flushing (a company that helped to clean up the WTC sites):
  ”I saw pools of literally molten steel” [I presume “molten-but-not-any-more”] (American Free Press)
  Everyone who thinks kerosine could do something like that needs a basic chemistry course. With or without enough oxygen, it’s just not gonna work.
• A picture taken by a NASA satellite 5 days after the attack, registered temperatures of 680 ºC to 740 ºC (1250ºF to 1360ºF) below the pile of rubble where WTC 1&2 (and 7 to a lesser degree) once stood. That's enough to keep aluminium melted. Should it have been so hot in the first place so deep down? Smoke came out of WTC complex for 3 months, even though it was non-stop sprayed with water.
• The whole inside of the buildings was completely blown to pieces. The staircases, the elevator shafts, the concrete floors, the aluminium covering, the furniture and the people….everything is reduced to tiny pieces or even smaller.
  A (seemingly) frustrated NY fireman confirms in the 9/11 documentary by two French cameramen:
  ”You have 2 110 story office buildings, you don’t find a desk, you don’t find a chair, you don’t find a telephone, a computer, the biggest piece of a telephone I found was half the size of a keypad and it was about this big…the building collapsed to dust.”
• Only the steel beams had survived the collapse. For the most part they were shattered in just the right size to be loaded on the available trucks and be hauled away within days. The outside portion of the building was (as you could see on regular footage) still partly standing after the collapse and fell over the inside. Whatever caused the buildings to fall down, explosives could hardly have done a better job.
• Controlled Demolitions Inc did also clean up the site of another controversial event, the Oklahoma bombing. (where live television reported many times that there were 2 other bombs in the building, that were being removed) They have a patent on what they call DREXS [Directional Remote Explosive Severance] what basicly means something like ‘remote-controlled-shaped-charge-device-to-sever-steel/concrete’. I have not been able to find much about it besides that for some reason they seem to be able to do demolition jobs faster than other companies. Remote controlled devices tied to a computer sure is faster and more convenient then laying a couple of kilometers of wire and/or detonating cord. Is this so special in the demolition industry? I don’t know. All I know is that remote controlled devices could have been placed in the towers to bring it down.
  They also advertize they can sever any building in just the right size as the available equipment allows it to be dragged away. Is this something special? I don’t know either.
• A lot of people like to point to the huge spike that was registered by one of the seismic centers. My problem with it, is that a 'further collapse' also showed a similar spike, only smaller. There is also some seismic activity before the huge spike, which could have easily been the first part of the collapse of the building. Only when the first large pieces started hitting the ground, the huge spike appeared. But interpretating seismic data is something only experts can do, so I won't touch it. I have seen no expert who have been quoted as saying the seismic spike indicated explosives were used. (at least not in a clear, direct way) Here's a good piece which shows both sides of the story. (http://911review.com/errors/wtc/seismic.html)
• The floors of the WTC consisted of a layer of concrete. These were all pulverized and covered the area of the WTC with up to 10 centimeters of concrete dust. I personally would expect the concrete to break into many pieces during the collapse, not to pulverize.
• A very thorough and mathematic piece is written by a guy named Jim Hoffman (engineer, physisist and graphics artist) who tries to shows that the expansion (and temperature) of the pyroclastic cloud and the pulverization of all non-metals in the tower is way too big to have been caused by gravity alone. His conclusion:
  ”The amount of energy required to expand the North Tower's dust cloud was many times the entire potential energy of the tower's elevated mass due to gravity. The over 10-fold disparity between the most conservative estimate and the gravitational energy is not easily dismissed as reflecting uncertainties in quantitative assessments.The official explanation that the Twin Tower collapses were gravity-driven events appears insufficient to account for the documented energy flows.”
  

  	energy, KWH	source or sink
  	+ 111,000	falling of mass (1.97e11 g falling average of 207 m)
  	- 135,000	crushing of concrete (9e10 g to 60 micron powder)
  	ignoring water vaporization
  	- 400,000	heating of gasses (2e9 g air from 300 to 1020 K)
  	- 11,300,000	heating of suspended concrete (9e10 g from 300 to 1020 K)
  	assuming water vaporization sink was not supply-limited
  	- 1,496,000	vaporization of water (2.38e9 g water)
  	- 41,000	heating of gasses (2e9 g air from 300 to 373 K)
  	- 1,145,000	heating of suspended concrete (9e10 g from 300 to 373 K)

  
  Some unknown person has commented on this piece (version 3.0 instead of the final 3.1). This person agreed for the most part but calculated about 14 tons of Amatol (or similar) would have accounted for the rapid increase in temperature/ expansion for the pyroclastic cloud, where Jim Hoffman didn't want to contemplate the usage of explosives. (probably so that no one would attack him for being a conspiracy theorist)
• Multiple videos of the collapses show rapidly expanding debris clouds (and even a couple of flashes) that are located 2-3 floors below the collapsing floors or even as much as 30 or more.
• At least one video shows a flash, which is followed by a debris cloud. At that moment, the toppling upper part of the south tower breaks in two, exactly at the spot the flash appeared only milliseconds before. The event is preceeded and followed-up by more rapidly expanding smoke puffs, 1 or 2 a second before the tower starts to collapse.
• Especially with the south tower some good footage is available where you will notice the very violent collapse of the building. After a few floors have been completely blown out, it looks like multiple firecracker strings are going off, ripping apart the floors of the building from top to bottom….very violent, very loud. Halfway the collapse the dust clouds cover the entire building so you cannot really see what happens at the bottom part.
• Both of the buildings collapsed in 10 to 12 seconds. You can calculate this by watching the video with a stopwatch, or by counting the amount of frames that have passed between the start and the end of the collapse. 10 to 12 seconds means there wasn't that much resistance from the all-steel building, which a lot of people find peculiar. Just as the fact the collapse was so methodolical and so complete. I don't really have an opinion on the first issue.
• Some pictures of what is talked about can be seen here.

2.1.7 The towers were built to resist a 757 or 767

• According to numerous statements I heard on TV, the towers were not built to withstand an airplane attack of the magnitude of a 757 & 767. They were only build to withstand a 707. Unfortunatly, if you look at any aviator website you can see that a 707 is just as big and heavy as a 767 and a 707 is even larger then a 757. The fuel capacity is roughly the same. The architects of the WTC towers and other expert on this area had this to say:
  Lee Robertson, WTC project's structural engineer:
  ”I designed it for a 707 to hit it. The Boeing 707 has a fuel capacity of more than 23,000 gallons, comparable to the 767's 23,980-gallon fuel capacity.” (767-400 he’s talking about, at the WTC we were dealing with a smaller 767-200)
  Aaron Swirski, a shocked WTC architect on september 11 from Israel:
  "That it collapsed is a really, really incredible thing…..It was designed around that eventuality to survive this kind of attack. It was designed like a pipe, if you make a hole in a pipe it doesn’t collapse…fireproof doors should have contained the fires" (The fire didn’t seem to spread and people talking through mobile phones have said they were trapped between fireproof doors, so I suppose that part worked)
  And why didn’t the the terrorists hijack a 747? This plane is about 7% faster, takes 4 times more much fuel with it and has a 50% greater wingspan, making it much heavier and a far more lethal weapon.
  January 25, 2001, Frank A. DeMartini, World Trade Center Construction & Project Manager, had this to say about a plane impact into one of the towers:
  "The building was designed to have a fully loaded 707 crash into it, that was the largest plane at the time. I believe that the building probably could sustain multiple impacts of jetliners because this structure is like the musquito netting on your screen door, this intense grid. And the jet plane is just a pencil puncturing that screen netting, it really does nothing to the screen netting."
  Professor Wilem Frischmann of the Pell Frischmann Group and the City University of London had examined flaws in building construction before. On october 1, 2001, the BBC wrote about an interview with him:
  "'Prior to 11 September, I scarcely believed that this icon was vulnerable'... He added that the impact of the Boeings, puncturing the outer steel shell of the towers would not in itself have caused the towers to fall. 'My current analysis of the collapse sequence [suggests that] damage caused to the outside would not have triggered collapse.' Although the explosion caused by the fuel-laden aircraft would have been intense, the lack of available oxygen inside the towers would, according to Professor Frischmann, have limited the fireball's temperature to less than 1,000 Celsius. This was within the design limits that the towers were supposed to withstand." (He's talking about the temperature of the fireball, it takes considerable time before so much steel also gets close to the same temperature) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1579092.stm)
  Scripps Howard News Service, September 11 and September 12, 2001:
  "Hyman Brown, a University of Colorado civil engineering professor and the World Trade Center's construction manager, watched in confusion as the towers came down. "It was over-designed to withstand almost anything including hurricanes, high winds, bombings and an airplane hitting it," he said." But:
  Los Angeles Times, September 12, 2001:
  "Hyman Brown, a University of Colorado civil engineering professor and the construction manager for the World Trade Center, said that flames fueled by thousands of gallons of aviation fuel melted the towers' steel supports. This building would have stood had a plane or a force caused by a plane smashed into it," he said. "But steel melts, and 24,000 gallons of aviation fluid melted the steel. Nothing is designed or will be designed to withstand that fire."
  Well, as you will read below, steel doesn't melt steel, although it might weaken it. Anyway, if someone wants to hear mr. Brown's opinion he needs to call to Israel now:
  July 4, 2003, Intermountain Jewish News:
  "For Hyman Brown, construction manager for New York's World Trade Center in 1965, the Twin Towers' awful falling on Sept. 11 convinced him to "go up" and make aliyah...Global terrorism "is all connected. You can't separate Palestinian terrorism from the terrorism shown to us here in the US." While the US seems to have a post-Sept. 11 grip on terrorism, Israel continues fighting a daily war against terrorist attacks. Brown felt he could best contribute to Israel's struggle by becoming one of her citizens...Twelve years ago he married his second wife, a doctoral candidate in Holocaust studies. A Christian, she decided to convert -- to Orthodox Judaism." (http://www.ijn.com/archive/2003%20arch/070403.htm)
  Bob Halvorson of architects Halvorson and Kaye:
  "There is going to be a debate about whether or not the World Trade Center Towers should have collapsed in the way that they did." (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1579092.stm) (A truly prophetic statement)

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

• At least one person who survived the initial crash and fires of flight 11 (north tower), was standing inside the big black hole the airplane had made, waiting to be rescued. This person didn't seem to have any burned or dirty clothing. The all-consuming inferno, that supposedly was the reason for the sudden collapse, was in reality quite limited. But the collapse still happened. No sagging, no warning, no partial collapse….just out of the blue with no one really expecting it.
  And when we're talking about 7 WTC, there was no real damage done to that building at all, since no plane or airplane pieces hit it. Even FEMA in 2002 could only guess how the fire started in the first place.
• Brian Clark, survivor from the south tower who was above the area of impact:
  "You could see through the wall and the cracks and see flames just, just licking up, not a roaring inferno, just quiet flames licking up and smoke sort of eking through the wall."
  Stanley Praimnath, survivor from the 81th floor of the south tower:
  "...walls flattened into dusty heaps, office equipment strewn violently, flames flickering about and rubble everywhere."
• Firemen who reached the 78th floor of the south tower stated they could see only two isolated pockets of fire. It would be easy to control them. Firemen were coordinating everything from inside the lobby of the south tower up to the moment it collapsed. By reading the transcripts and seeing the documentary from the two French cameramen it is very obvious that the firemen didn’t have the slightest clue the building was going to come down, which is not at all that strange since steel buildings are supposed to withstand what happened on 911. Never before 911 has the steel core of such a building collapsed because of fire. (FEMA's own words) The WTC towers were very, very strong. The firemen knew that:
  9:25AM, firemen are going up the tower:
  Stephen Belson: “Chief, I'm going to stop on 44 [floor]”
  Chief Palmer: “Take your time”
  Firemen who reached the fire at the south tower just before it collapsed:
  Battalion Seven Chief: "Battalion Seven ... Ladder 15, we've got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able to knock it down with two lines. Radio that, 78th floor numerous 10-45 Code Ones.
  Ladder 15: "Floor 78?"
  Battalion Seven Chief: "Ten-four, numerous civilians, we gonna need two engines up here."
• Firemen didn't seem to expect at all that the towers were about to collapse.
  Fireman 1 from French documentary '9/11 - the filmmakers':
  "It just came down....and it wasn't supposed to come down."
  Firemen 2 from French documentary '9/11 - the filmmakers':
  "You know, kinda walking at this point. Felt we were safe..." (after the first collapse, just below the north tower)
  Firemen 3 from French documentary '9/11 - the filmmakers':
  " I thought...[can't hear it]...then come up with a plan and then we go back in...that's what I thought it would be like..." (after the first collapse, just below the north tower)
• But someone knew the buildings would come down, even though the experts on site had no clue.
  Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in an interview with Peter Jennings on CBS News:
  ”We were operating out of there [WTC 7 bunker] when we were told that the World Trade Center was gonna collapse …and it did collapse before we could get out of the building.”
  Absolutely no one, including the firemen who had sat up a command post in the building didn’t have the slightest clue the building was gonna come down, so why would the Mayor know it? He’s got some explaning to do. (I’m not saying he knew persé what was going to happen. But someone knew and told him.) Unfortunatly, the 2004 9/11 commission has not asked him any questions about his statement.

2.1.9 More on the temperature inside the World Trade Center towers

• Unproofed steel melts at about 1500 ºC / 2700 ºF and it can be forged by temperatures that should exceed 600 ºC / 1100 ºF.However, for an unprotected steel frame to collapse, temperatures usually have to be above 1100 ºC / 2000 ºF and even for a single steel beam this temperature is usually about 750 ºC / 1400 ºF. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, of the more than 170 areas examined on the exterior panels, only three locations had a positive result indicating that the steel may have reached temperatures in excess of 250 ºC / 482 ºF. (Little available oxygen and most of the fuel is burned in the first minutes) It also concluded that both buildings had more than enough strength after being hit by the jetliners, but also that the fire must have caused the failure, so I guess it ignores it's own conclusions in the final summary to fit the official explanation. FEMA's 2002 estimates were anywhere from 400 ºC / 750 ºF to 1100 ºC / 2000 ºF, although this does not seem to be supported by the 2004 NIST evidence. (FEMA, NIST & Corus real world tests)
  One week later, Kevin Ryan was fired from his job at Underwriter Laboratories (Certified the steel components of the WTC) for questioning the official story in an email to this particulair researcher of NIDS, which carried out the above investigation. (South Bend Tribune & Global Free Press, November & December, 2004) That email his reproduced below:
  November 12, 2004, Prisonplanet. Frank Gayle of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) gets a reply from Kevin Ryan of Underwriters Laboratories: (Underwriters Laboratories is the company that certified the steel components used in the constuction of the World Trade Center towers. NIST reseascherd the steel after the collapse)
  "Dr. Gayle,

Having recently reviewed your team's report of 10/19/04, I felt the need to contact you directly.

As I'm sure you know, the company I work for certified the steel components used in the construction of the WTC buildings. In requesting information from both our CEO and Fire Protection business manager last year, I learned that they did not agree on the essential aspects of the story, except for one thing - that the samples we certified met all requirements. They suggested we all be patient and understand that UL was working with your team, and that tests would continue through this year. I'm aware of UL's attempts to help, including performing tests on models of the floor assemblies. But the results of these tests appear to indicate that the buildings should have easily withstood the thermal stress caused by pools of burning jet fuel.

There continues to be a number of "experts" making public claims about how the WTC buildings fell. One such person, Dr. Hyman Brown from the WTC construction crew, claims that the buildings collapsed due to fires at 2000F melting the steel (1). He states "What caused the building to collapse is the airplane fuel…burning at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The steel in that five-floor area melts." Additionally, the newspaper that quotes him says "Just-released preliminary findings from a National Institute of Standards and Technology study of the World Trade Center collapse support Brown’s theory."

We know that the steel components were certified to ASTM E119. The time temperature curves for this standard require the samples to be exposed to temperatures around 2000F for several hours. And as we all agree, the steel applied met those specifications. Additionally, I think we can all agree that even un-fireproofed steel will not melt until reaching red-hot temperatures of nearly 3000F (2). Why Dr. Brown would imply that 2000F would melt the high-grade steel used in those buildings makes no sense at all.

The results of your recently published metallurgical tests seem to clear things up (3), and support your team's August 2003 update as detailed by the Associated Press (4), in which you were ready to "rule out weak steel as a contributing factor in the collapse." The evaluation of paint deformation and spheroidization seem very straightforward, and you noted that the samples available were adequate for the investigation. Your comments suggest that the steel was probably exposed to temperatures of only about 500F (250C), which is what one might expect from a thermodynamic analysis of the situation.

However the summary of the new NIST report seems to ignore your findings, as it suggests that these low temperatures caused exposed bits of the building’s steel core to "soften and buckle." (5) Additionally this summary states that the perimeter columns softened, yet your findings make clear that "most perimeter panels (157 of 160) saw no temperature above 250C." To soften steel for the purposes of forging, normally temperatures need to be above1100C (6). However, this new summary report suggests that much lower temperatures were be able to not only soften the steel in a matter of minutes, but lead to rapid structural collapse.

This story just does not add up. If steel from those buildings did soften or melt, I’m sure we can all agree that this was certainly not due to jet fuel fires of any kind, let alone the briefly burning fires in those towers. That fact should be of great concern to all Americans. Alternatively, the contention that this steel did fail at temperatures around 250C suggests that the majority of deaths on 9/11 were due to a safety-related failure. That suggestion should be of great concern to my company.

Thanks for your efforts to determine what happened on that day. You may know that there are a number of other current and former government employees that have risked a great deal to help us to know the truth...Please do what you can to quickly eliminate the confusion regarding the ability of jet fuel fires to soften or melt structural steel. "

2.2 WTC 7: It’s becoming very, very hard to dismiss explosives.

• In 1999, 2 floors in the middle section of WTC 7 (Salomon Brothers Building) were rebuild. It got blast-resistant windows which could handle winds up to 250 to 300kmh / 160 to 190mph. It also got it’s own water supply and even it’s own oxygen supply. This was an important office for mayor Giuliani, as he could speak very quick to members of the Secret Service, DoD, CIA (secret, an unknown company was it's front) and the SEC, who were all located in the same building. Officially this whole building was emptied immediately after the attacks, precisely at a moment it would have been useful, since it had excellent oversight of the two towers. Giuliani even mentioned he got a warning the WTC towers were about to collapse and decided to evacuate 7 WTC as a result. (already adressed above)
• November 29, 2001, Washington Post:
  ”But experts said no building like it, a modern, steel-reinforced high-rise, had ever collapsed because of an uncontrolled fire, and engineers have been trying to figure out exactly what happened and whether they should be worried about other buildings like it around the country.”
  WTC 7 had never been hit by an airplane or aircraft part. How did the fires start? We don’t know. How did it collapse? We don’t know. In fact, even FEMA has no clue.
• This 47 story / 174 meter (570 feet) high building went to ground in only 6.5 seconds in the late afternoon around 5:30. If you wouldn't know better you'd think the ground beneath it just liquified , it just sinks right in. You can watch any video of a demolition of a similar building and it shows you the same thing.
• Almost nobody seemed to have bothered making a picture of this building. There are much more pictures of the other WTC buildings that were on fire after the collapse. Maybe that is because their fires were much, much worse. So, why did these buildings not collapse?
• One side of the building is burning much more than the other side. (If the steel melted you would expect the building to sag a bit on one site before collapsing. At the very least you would expect the building not to collapse from side to side all in the same second. However, that’s what happened.
• The penthouse on top of the roof, in the center to be exact, is the first part to collapse. The outside of the building collapses over the inside creating a perfect demolition. Explosives won’t do it any better.
  Update: After watching a video of the collapse again, I noticed part of the penthouse collapsed seconds before the rest did, a flash appears in the process.
• Tom Franklin, a photographer was wandering around WTC 7 around 4 to 5 PM when he saw firemen running out of WTC 7. Another nearby firemen was waving with a white flag. It looked like everyone was taken from the vicinity of WTC 7. Dan Rather also knew about the impending collapse because he was talking about a probable collapse of Building 7 before it happened. His station also made one of the few shots which showed the complete collapse.
• September 2, 2004, Alex Jones is interviewing a witness of 9/11, Andrea Ptsores during the huge demonstations as the republican convention in New York City:
  "On 7 World Trade we knew it was not in bad condition and later on in the day on live radio when one of our local live reporters was downtown with (inaudible but possibly 'me on') public radio; He was saying the building was not in bad condition but they were talking about demolishing it. And why would you demolish a building in perfectly good condition?"
• Another witness interviewed by Alex Jones had spoken to many people who were around building 7 when it came down:
  "I am (inaudible). They said over and over again that from the face of the building and from the mid (inaudible) that explosives were bringing down the World Trade Center; to run for your life."

2.2.2 The 7 WTC 'pull it' controversy.

• Apparently Larry silverstein tries to explain something to us in the 2002 PBS documentary ‘America Rebuilds’:
  “I remember getting a call from the, uh, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, "You know, we've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is, is pull it. And they made that decision to pull and then we watched the building collapse.”
  I mailed Jowenko BV and asked if 'pull' was an industry term for 'demolish'. They said it wasn't. Implosionworld said the same thing. I run into the same problem when looking into different dictionaries. There is always a distinction made between 'pull down', 'pull away' and 'pull back'. And I have not been able to find one person on the internet who uses this word as a substitute for 'demolish'. So I think it's safe to assume that Larry needs to clarify what he ment, but unfortunatly he refuses to do that.
  In the same PBS documentary this is said by one of the construction workers:
  "[narrator]The department of design and constuction had leveled World Trade Center buildings 4 and 5...[telephone rings] Hello?...ow, we're getting ready to pull building six....[The documentary moves on to the next person] We had to be very careful how we demolished building six..."
  Now, lets see what implosionworld told me:
  "There is no such phrase in explo-demo. Most likely he meant "pull out" as in have people evacuate. Conventionally, "pull a building" can mean to pre-burn holes in steel beams near the top floor and affix long cables to heavy machinery, which then backs up and causes the structure to lean off its center of gravity and eventually collapse. But this is only possible with buildings about 6-7 stories or smaller. This activity was performed to bring down WTC 6 (Customs) after 9/11 because of the danger in demolishing conventionally."
  Of course these companies are not going to adhere to any conspiracy theories, but they did help in dispelling another possible red herring. The fact that it is very likely that 7 WTC has been blown up doesn't change at all, but I wonder why Silverstein made this strange statement and especially why PBS conveniently put that 'ready to pull building six' sentence in. Maybe someone is messing with our heads. I don't know.

2.3 The official FEMA investigation and the destruction of evidence.

• 9/11 Commission in the first half of 2004:
  "The CVRs and FDRs from American 11 and United 175 were not found."
  But in October of 2004, New York City firefighter Nicholas DeMasi claimed that he escorted federal agents on an all-terrain vehicle in October 2001 and helped them locate three of the four black boxes. His account is supported by a volunteer, Mike Bellone, whose efforts at Ground Zero have been chronicled in the New York Times and elsewhere. (American Free Press/Greg Szymanski | December 13 2004)
  Ted Lopatkiewicz, spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, told CBS News in 2002:
  "It's extremely rare that we don't get the recorders back. I can't recall another domestic case in which we did not recover the recorders." [more on the black boxes in chapter 5] (Philadelphia Daily News, October 28 2004)
• Why was the debris of the WTC hauled away within 1 or 2 days? This is illegal since you are destroying evidence. The US government didn’t really seem to care anyway, a few weeks later the first steel was shipped to India and China to be smelted.
  Michael Bloomberg, successor of Giulinani as mayor of New York:
  ”There are better ways to study the tragedy of September 11. Just looking at a piece of metal generally doesn't tell you anything.”
  Not everyone one seemed to agree and a few tests were possible before everything was shipped overseas.
  Engineers of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the Associated Press:
  "Early tests on steel beams from the World Trade Center show they generally met or were stronger than design requirements, ruling them out as a contributing cause of the collapse of the towers, federal investigators said Wednesday....preliminary tests on some of the 236 pieces"
  Daily Mail:
  ”Last month, fire experts told Congress that about 80% of the steel was scrapped without being examined because investigators did not have the authority to preserve the wreckage.”
  Dr. Frederick W. Mowrer, fire protection engineering department:
  ”I find the speed with which potentially important evidence has been removed and recycled to be appalling.”
  NY Times:
  ”In calling for a new investigation, some structural engineers have said that one serious mistake has already been made in the chaotic aftermath of the collapses: the decision to rapidly recycle the steel columns, beams and trusses that held up the buildings. That may have cost investigators some of their most direct physical evidence with which to try to piece together an answer.”
  It seems the government officials don’t really care about listening to the experts in this field.
• FEMA has done the official 10 month inquiry of the World Trade Center disaster. It was headed by Dr. W. Gene Corley, who also did the official investigation of WACO & the Oklahoma bombing. They didn’t look for evidence of explosives being used and a lot of people were unsatisfied with the way the research was carried out. Too little money was available, part-time scientists were being used, lots of documents and material were off-limits and the people involved in the inquiry did not have the power to subpoena anyone.
  Bill Manning , the editor of Fire Engineering Magazine, in the january issue of 2002:
  ”A growing number of fire protection engineers have theorized that the structural damage from the planes and the explosive ignition of jet fuel in themselves were not enough to bring down the towers… The current [FEMA] investigation is a half-baked farce…the destruction and removal of evidence must stop immediately…”
  Ronald Hamburger, an expert in structural analysis at ABS Consulting and a director of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations:
  ”I'd like to be able to have a set of the drawings for all of the affected buildings…I don't have that….I have not been given access.”
• Januari 2002, Tom Daschle tells the press about a conversation with Dick Cheney:
  ” The vice president expressed the concern that a review of what happened on September 11 would take resources and personnel away from the effort in the war on terrorism.”
  CNN, 4 days later:
  ” President Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle Tuesday to limit the congressional investigation into the events of September 11..”
  ”He asked that only the House and Senate intelligence committees look into the potential breakdowns among federal agencies that could have allowed the terrorist attacks to occur, rather than a broader inquiry that some lawmakers have proposed, the sources said.”
  Although the democrats and the senator of course ‘didn’t agree’ this is exactly what has happened since then. The official story, with holes in it you could drive a freight train through is being accepted without scrutiny. Only the blahblah about ‘who did what wrong and who should we give more funding’ is allowed.
• Article in the Washington Post, May 6, 2004 - "FAA Managers Destroyed 9/11 Tape".
• On February 9, 2005, the NY state highest court decided not to release a collection of firefighter tape recordings from September 11. The same story as usual, privacy and because of ongoing prosecutions. (Zacarias Moussaoui) (http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/Feb05/100205_911tapes.html)
• The March 2005 edition of William Randolph Hearst-owned (Boho) Popular Mechanics magazine tries to debunk the whole 9/11 Truth community, without ever referring to that name. The piece only debunks the known red-herrings and doesn't deal with financial transactions or other important issues. The Pod is debunked, much time is spent on debunking the 'no plane at Pentagon' myth and the seismic data at the WTC is disputed. A very, very shallow attempt is made with trying to debunk the socalled 'smoke puffs' at the World Trade Center, because it only shows one unclear picture. No witnesses or other evidence is mentioned.
  Since June 1st, 2002, the president and CEO of Hearst Corporation is one Victor F. Ganzi. Mr Ganzi is also an officer/director of the Hearst Foundation. Ganzi can easily be tied to Jeb Bush and the CIA, if we look at projects he is involved with. (http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/pm/index.html) (http://www.rense.com/general62/ppop.htm)

2.4 The unusual security drills and evacuations in the weeks before the attack.

• 6 weeks before the attack, the World Trade Center complex got it’s first private owners. Larry Silverstein, architect of WTC 7, obtained control of most of the buildings in the complex, including the two towers. Frank Lowey, a business buddy of him, leased the underground shopping mall beneath the World Trade Center Towers. From that time on they controlled the maintenance and security of the buildings. (Together with Securacom where Marvin Bush had just left as a board member) These two men have connections with all kinds of international bankers, businessmen and politicians.
  (more about all these connections later)
• Ben Fountain, a financial analyst who worked at the World Trade Center Complex, told People Magazine that there were numerous unannounced and unusual emergency drills throughout the entire World Trade Center Complex. A part of the complex was evacuated at a time and this started only weeks before the attacks. The reason for it was simply: “security issues.”
• In the weeks before the attacks there were several bomb threats, what caused the security to be hightened. The thursday before the attacks (On tuesday after the weekend) the extra security was taken away including the bomb-sniffing dogs. Everything went back to normal.
• According to Scott Forbes, a senior database administrator for Fiduciary Trust Inc, he was given a 3 weeks notice that the cabling network in the South-Tower was being upgraded for extra bandwith. In the weekend of 8 and 9 september 2001, the power was turned off from the 48th floor and up. All this took around 30 hours to complete and in that time you could get access to any part of the upper building if you were able to get past the initial guards. No camera and security systems were working at the time and a lot of technicians were walking in & out during those hours. Scott Forbes told that this upgrade costed Fiduciary Trust a huge amount of money and that it had never required a total power down. Scott Forbes worked till monday morning to get everything online again and had the day of september 11 off. The head of Fudiciary Trust also had that day off and went to a charity meeting of Warren Buffett. 1.6. That charity meeting was located at the same base Bush would land that afternoon before returning to Washington.
• According to this same Scott Forbes, security camera's atop of the World Trade Center were off on september 11, something that is very unusual.
• A Fiduciary employee who was on one of the lower floors and escaped immediately after the first (North) Tower was struck, reported that he was amazed by the large number of FBI agents that were already on the streets surrounding the WTC complex only minutes after the initial strike. [Remember the Tripod II exercise whereby FEMA had already installed itself on the Manhatten island the day before.]
• Scott Forbes also told that Fiduciary employees trapped between the 90-97th floors of the South Tower told family members (via cell-phone calls) that they were hearing “bomb-like explosions” throughout the towers.
  Scott Forbes:
  "I have mailed this information to many people, including the 9/11 Commission, but no one seems to be registering these facts."
• On November 14, 2004, someone from New Jersey heard a conversation on Coast to Coast AM, where the afore mentioned drills and the maintenance work was mentioned. He called in an told:
  "Well, I work in New Jersey and the 10th of september...I work at night...and as I was driving down by Giants stadium...you can see the World Trade Center from there...and I lived here my whole life and...eh...normally there are lights on in both towers. At one...you know...at one time there was someone doing maintenance in there, but this particular night both towers were completely black, except for the beacons on both of the roofs and the antennas up there. And I had told people about it and they couldn't understand why...I was taunt saying that. But normally there's some type of light, someone doing maintenance in there at one particular time, but this particular night both towers were actually black...[skeptical Art Bell asks what that would mean]...It's just strange that that had happened, like I said, I lived here my whole live, I've seen the World Trade Center actually being built as a kid."

2.4.2 Securacom and their responsibility for the WTC complex, United Airlines and Dullas Airport.

• In 1993, Marvin Bush, a brother of George Bush, came on the board of Securacom, a very large security company. The following years, the biggest customers of that company were the World Trade Center Complex (who became a customer after the first WTC bombing in 1993), Dullas Airport (where flight 77 would leave) and United Airlines (flight 93 and 175). This company delivered almost everything that had to do with the security issues of these locations and/or airliners: Security guards, armored vehicles, closed circuit camera systems and other electronics. They also had the expertise to check or upgrade existing security systems. Marvin Bush left in 2000.
  According to the CEO of Securacom (later renamed to Stratesec Inc.) Barry McDaniel, Securacom still had full responsibility till the ‘day the buildings came down.’ This same CEO has admitted in an interview over the phone that the FBI has not done an investigation into the company. On the question if a closely related company to Securacom, named KuwAn, has been approached by the FBI, McDaniel only mentioned: ‘just look at the public sources’. KuwAn is a Kuwaiti private investors bank, where some Bushes and other members of Securacom have been sitting on the board.
  When Marvin Bush left in 2000, he went to HCC Insurance Holding, where he kept himself busy with terrorism insurance.
  Another customer of Securacom was / is Los Alamos. If you read the papers you might have noticed that once in while they mysteriously lose a hard drive with top-secret information. As David Icke would phrase it: ‘Nothing to worry about, just a coincidence.’ (Also look for the death of Bertha Champagne) (February 1, 2003 - The Progressive Populist - Margie Burns - http://www.populist.com/03.02.html)

2.4.3 Other important information about the World Trade Center.

• In 1989 there supposedly was a plan being designed and priced to put up scaffolding, take the WTC towers down and rebuild them. The reason stated was not only asbestos related, but also because of a considerable design flaw in the WTC towers involving galvanic corrosion resulting from direct contact of dissimilar metals. In this instance, the heavy exterior aluminum panels were reportedly directly connected to the steel superstructure of the WTC towers. The price in 1989 was reportedly $5.6 billion to do this demolition and rebuilding to correct what would be a serious design flaw. If that is the case, there would have been rapid and very damaging corrosion to the steel superstructure due to a process that is called galvanic corrosion. The Statute of Liberty had to be repaired for that same reason where the copper exterior had over time come into contact with the iron skeleton structure inside that makes the shape of the monument, so the process can occur in structures standing in air...In short, the "life cycle" of the WTC was not 200 - 300 years, more like 30 years or so. The exterior skin of the building - in being aluminum and connected directly to the super structure - was making the building weaker every day.
  There was a 1989 meeting and the folks at the architectural firm [Emory Roth, the project architect that took over after the design architects completed the conceptual drawings] that had their office, records, plans and specs seized - were told that the $5.6 billion "take it down, rebuild it" project was cancelled and in about "10-12 years" they would "blow it up and start over". Evidently someone did not want to spend $5.6 billion (1989 dollars) to tear the WTC towers down and rebuild them properly, without the asbestos and without the defect that would rapidly deteriorate the superstructure of the building. (The author of the article mentiones he had a source for this, that did not want to go public. The author, Karl W.B. Schwartz mentiones he was an architect up to 1988) (2004 - http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/121704Schwarz/121704schwarz.html)

2.5 An international conspiracy - The Zionist connection.

• The earlier mentioned Larry Silverstein & Frank Lowey who took over the WTC complex 6 weeks before the attacks, have a close connection with other Zionists through organisations like the United Jewish Appeal, Anti-Defamation League, NY museum of Heritage (holocaust memorial) and others. Another interesting point is that they weren’t even the highest bidders for the lease of the complex. A short description of some of these Zionist people:
  1. Larry Silverstein – Former chairman of UJA & Jewish Philanthropies of New York. He is a very wealthy businessman who actually built WTC 7 in 1987. He owns a lot of very expensive real-estate in NY. He had a six-weeks-old terrorism insurance and would get 3.55 billion dollars in case the WTC would be destroyed in an attack. After the attacks he wanted 7.1 billion dollars because he saw both of the planes as a separate attack. This claim has been rejected in 2004, but he's not giving up just yet.
  2. Frank Lowy – Second richest man of Australia. Former Israeli commando. Very good friend of Rupert Murdoch. Donates heavily to Israeli charity organisations and international political lobby groups. One of the closests aides of Tony Blair, prime minister of Britain is the pro-Israel Lord Michael Levy who has gotten generous donations of Lowy. Frank Lowey bought the underground WTC mall together with Larry Silverstein.
  3. Henry Kissinger – Famous and very controversial US diplomat. Pro-Israel, donates millions to the earlier mentioned jewish charities and is very close to the banking dynasties as Rockefeller & Rothschild. He was the first choice to head the 9/11 investigations but had to resign because of heavy resistance of the people against this decision. In 2004 the issue had been raised that Kissinger Associates was a primary benefactor of a hightened insurance payout on the World Trade Center, that had gone into effect in June/July of that same year.
  4. Rupert Murdoch - Ows 175 newspapers and channels in the US, UK & AU. All his news media tends to be anti-european [except the UK], pro-Israel and pro-War on Terror. He has produced the famous Lone Gunman pilot and a very interesting fact is that the bankers have ‘forgiven’ his huge unpayable debts that were threatening his survival in the early nineties. He is good friends with Ariel Sharon and openly supports the right wing Likud Party.
  5. Lewis M. Eisenberg – Arranged the deal between the Port Authority and Silverstein/Lowy to hand over the complex to these men. Eisenberg had a leadership position in the UJA, just as Larry Silverstein and has been vice-president of American Israel Public Affairs Committee, an Israeli lobby organisation. In the late eighties he was the center of a sex scandal when working for Goldman Sachs.
  6. David Rockefeller – Played an advisory rol for the Port Authority. Member of a banking dynasty that controls the US money supplies through the Federal Reserve and other banks, which is headed by another right wing Jew, Alan Greenspan. David Rockefeller was the visionary of the two original towers.
• Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli prime minister and close to the people mentioned above was quite happy with the attack. In an interview directly after 9/11 he had this to say about the attack:
  ” It's very good…Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy for Israel.” (Sunday Herald - 02 November 2003 - http://ww1.sundayherald.com/37707)
• Around 9 AM the New Jersey police gets a call from a woman near Libert State Park. She is watching 5 Arab-looking people on top of a white van, who are laughing and cheering as tragedy unfolds. They are also videotaping the event from the 'Urban moving' van. The FBI is going to check it out, but the men apparently have already left when they arrive. What happens in the next couple of hours is not really known, but these filming and seemingly happy 'Arab-Israeli's' are seen at different places throughout New Jersey.
  Later that day, at 3:31 PM an FBI memo is circulated that the police should be on the lookout for a white van with middle eastern looking men. What looks like the above men, are arrested around 4:30 PM just south of the Giants stadium. In the car the police finds 4700 dollars, a pair of foreign passports (1 had a German as well as an Israeli) and a pair of Stanley Knife box-cutters.(Likely because these people were part of a moving company, but there still might be a connection with the hijackers) Also some pictures were found they had made of themselves with the devastated towers in the background, maps were found with certain places in the city highlighted and bomb sniffing dogs reacted if they had smelled explosives, even though the police didn't find any explosives in the car. (As is not an unique case with these Israeli vans, see 2.5.3)
  They were arrested and later deported. Quotes:
  Sunday Herald, November 2, 2003:
  "It’s not surprising that the New Jersey housewife who first spotted the five Israelis and their white van wants to preserve her anonymity. She’s insisted that she only be identified as Maria...Maria grabbed a pair of binoculars and, like millions across the world, she watched the horror of the day unfold. As she gazed at the burning towers, she noticed a group of men kneeling on the roof of a white van in her parking lot. Here’s her recollection: “They seemed to be taking a movie. They were like happy, you know ... they didn’t look shocked to me. I thought it was strange.” Maria jotted down the van’s registration and called the police." (http://ww1.sundayherald.com/37707)
  The Mercury, October 17, 2001:
  "An employee of Urban Moving Systems, who would not give his name, said the majority of his co-workers are Israelis and were joking on the day of the attacks...'I was in tears,' the man said. 'These guys were joking and that bothered me. These guys were like, "Now America knows what we go through." (http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/sears.html)
  NJ News, September 12, 2001:
  "The five men, who were in a van stopped on Route 3 in East Rutherford around 4:30 p.m., were being questioned by police but had not been charged with any crime late Tuesday...Sources also said that bomb-sniffing dogs reacted as if they had detected explosives, although officers were unable to find anything. The FBI seized the van for further testing, authorities said.. Sources said the van was stopped as it headed east on Route 3, between the Hackensack River bridge and the Sheraton hotel. As a precaution, police shut down Route 3 traffic in both directions after the stop and evacuated a small roadside motel near the Sheraton...There are maps of the city in the car with certain places highlighted," the source said. "It looked like they're hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park." (http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/01/12/WTC_Mysteries3.html)
  ABC News, June 21, 2002:
  "Around 4 p.m. on Sept. 11, the van was spotted on a service road off Route 3, near New Jersey's Giants Stadium. A police officer pulled the van over, finding five men, between 22 and 27 years old, in the vehicle. The men were taken out of the van at gunpoint and handcuffed by police...One of the passengers had $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock. Another was carrying two foreign passports. A box cutter was found in the van...According to the police report, one of the passengers told the officers they had been on the West Side Highway in Manhattan "during the incident" — referring to the World Trade Center attack. The driver of the van, Sivan Kurzberg, told the officers, 'We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem.'"
  Israel National News, October 26, 2001:
  "Five young Israelis are "on the verge of collapse," according to family members, as their incarceration in New York on charges relating to the Bin Laden attacks continues. They were arrested on Sept. 11, only hours after the World Trade Center attack, on charges of "plotting to blow up" a New York bridge...Katie Shmuel of the Galilee town of Yokne'am (mother of one of the suspects) 'It's ludicrous. They were on the George Washington Bridge at the time of the bombing, and the FBI had warnings of a terrorist plot, of guys in a white van, to blow up the bridge. So when the FBI saw this van...they put one and one together and got three, and immediately arrested them."
  The other four passengers were Kurzberg’s brother Paul, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari. In the following investigation at least 2 of them turned out to be Israelis working for the Mossad. People associated with the company Urban Moving disappeared Within a few months these arrested intelligence agents were released and deported to Israel. When they were interviewed on a Israeli talkshow one of them said:
  ”The fact of the matter is we are coming from a country that experiences terror daily. Our purpose was to document the event.” (After denying they had anything to do with the event. Strange choise of words, but it doesn't prove they had foreknowledge. Maybe he thought it as in ' it was the right thing do' )
  March 15, 2002, the Forward, Jewish NY magazine:
  "According to one former high-ranking American intelligence official, who asked not to be named, the FBI came to the conclusion at the end of its investigation that the five Israelis arrested in New Jersey last September were conducting a Mossad surveillance mission and that their employer, Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, N.J., served as a front...After their arrest, the men were held in detention for two-and-a-half months and were deported at the end of November, officially for visa violations." (http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.03.15/news2.html)
  N.J. News/ Bergen Record, September 12, 2001:
  "A business traveler staying at the Homestead Studio Hotel said she watched state troopers drive the suspects away in a procession of state police cars about 5 p.m. "First, they told us we could hang out in the lobby, but then they told us to leave," the traveler said...At 10 p.m., the hotel guest said she could see at least two police officers searching through the van while a crowd of other officers kept their distance." (http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/forget.html)
• Several even less known news reports tell of a van that was actually packed with explosives on 9/11:
  Jerusalem Post news flash, September 12, 2001, 8:45:
  "American security services overnight stopped a car bomb on the George Washington Bridge connecting New York and New Jersey. The van, packed with explosives, was stopped on an approach ramp to the bridge. Authorities suspect the terrorists intended to blow up the main crossing between New Jersey and New York, Army Radio reported." (http://cgis.jpost.com/cgi-bin/General/printarticle.cgi?article=/Editions/2001/09/12/LatestNews/LatestNews.34658.html - still there on January 26, 2005) & (http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html)
  TCM Breaking News, September 12, 2001, 4:27:11 AM :
  "Reports from New York are saying three people have been arrested with a van of explosives. The van was stopped along the New Jersey turn-pike near the George Washington Bridge. It was not clear why police stopped the van but when they did they found it was laden down with tonnes of explosives."
  Adam Lisberg, September 15, 2001, The Record of New Jersey:
  "FBI agents and Bergen County Sheriff's Department crime scene technicians spent three hours Thursday night searching the Weehawken headquarters of Urban Moving Systems at 3W 18th St.Investigators first became interested in the business after witnesses reported Tuesday that three men seemed to celebrate the World Trade Center explosions in Liberty State Park, then drove away in a company van."
• Breaking News, September 13, 2001, 2:51:49 PM:
  "The allegation came as police in New Jersey told the New York Times the hijackers who left from Newark airport on the flight which crashed in Pennsylvania had received aid from associates in the area...the team was "aided by confederates in Newark who were responsible for logistical support, including money, rental cars, credit cards and lodging". And it emerged that FBI investigators believe each team of hijackers acted independently from each other but under orders from a supreme commander...The conclusion was reached after evidence from the flights' passenger lists, payphone records, evidence taken from the rental car seized in Boston and the frantic phone calls made from the hijacked planes."
• New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, December 13, 2001:
  "The State on Wednesday obtained a court order giving inspectors from Consumer Affairs access to the facility allowing consumers access to retrieve their goods and belongings. The State, at the same time, filed a lawsuit in Hudson County Superior Court against Urban Moving Systems and its owner Dominick Suter...According to the complaint, on or about September 14, 2001, Suter departed from the United States and left no one acting as an agent for Urban." (http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/press/storage.htm)
• Between March 2001 and 9/11 about 140 Israeli's were arrested followed by another 60 after the event. Pretty much all have been deported without charges. It is well understood that the vast majority were Israeli spies even though they usually claimed to be tourists, movers or art-students.

2.5.2 More circumstantial evidence of Zionist involvement in 9/11.

• India’s leading weekly magazine, The Week, reported in February 2000:
  "On January 12, Indian intelligence officials in Calcutta detained 11 foreign nationals for interrogation before they were to board a Dhaka-bound Bangladesh Biman flight. They were detained on suspicion of being [Muslim] hijackers. ‘But we realized they were tabliqis, so we let them go’ said an intelligence official...The eleven has Israeli passports but were believed to be Afghan nationals who had spent a while in Iran. Indian intelligence officials, too, were surprised by the nationality profile of the eleven. ‘They say they have been on tabligh in Indian for two months. But they are Israeli nationals from the West Bank,’ said a Central Intelligence official. He claimed that Tel Aviv ‘exerted considerable pressure’ on Delhi to secure their release. ‘It appeared that they could be working for a sensitive organization in Israel and were on a mission to Bangladesh,’ the official said." (http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/fullstory.asp?id=57 - Reported by many papers and magazines)
• Washington Post, September 10, 2001 publishes a report from the 'Army School of Advanced Military Studies' (SAMS), which has been looking to solutions for the Palestine-Israeli conflict. An analysis of different organisations follows:
  "It calls Israel's armed forces a "500-pound gorilla in Israel. Well armed and trained. Operates in both Gaza and the West Bank. Known to disregard international law to accomplish mission. Very unlikely to fire on American forces
  Of the MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence service, the SAMS officers say: "Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act." (http://www.public-action.com/911/sams.html)
• Daniel Lewin, who played a prominent role onboard Flight 11 in trying to stop the hijackers, was a former Sayarat Matkal officer, which is an Israeli commando unit. He was one of two jews that were on board of the 4 planes. Supposedly Satam Al-Suqami, who was sitting behind him, stabbed or shot him.
• Executive Intelligence Review, December 13, 2001:
  "A well-placed Washington source has alerted EIR that there is growing suspicion among U.S. government law enforcement and intelligence agencies that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has dispatched special operations teams into North America. The warning came in the context of a discussion about the recent deportation of five Israelis who were detained on Sept. 11 for suspicious behavior… You know, the guys doing the Happy Dance when the Towers fell?
  "Portions of the funds garnered from the illegal operations, according to sources, are funneled to offshore bank accounts of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Some of these dirty funds were reportedly diverted to Sharon's election campaigns. This Israeli mafia apparatus receives technical support via a number of Israeli communications firms, that subcontract with major American telephone companies and government law enforcement agencies." (http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2850megaspies_story.html)
• December 20, 2002 issue of Executive Intelligence Review:
  "The United States government has been provided with concrete evidence that the Israeli Mossad and other Israeli intelligence services have been involved in a 13-month effort to "recruit" an Israeli-run, phony "al-Qaeda cell" among Palestinians...Palestinian officials promised to provide detailed evidence, and did so on Dec. 8, in a press conference addressed by Colonel Shbak, and by Palestinian Minister for Planning and International Cooperation Nabil Shaath. Shbak told the international representatives that, "Over the past nine months, we've been investigating eight cases in which Israeli intelligence posing as al-Qaeda operatives recruited Palestinians in the Gaza Strip." Colonel Shbak said that 3 men were under arrest, and 11 had been released. He explained that those released had voluntarily provided information going back to May 2002, about the contacts that had been made asking them to operate as an "al-Qaeda" group. The alleged al-Qaeda recruiters were traced to Israeli intelligence, said Colonel Shbak. He detailed incidents, some of which were described in official documents, of cell phone calls and e-mails, where Palestinians were asked to "join al-Qaeda." Shbak said, "We investigated the origin of those calls, which used [wireless phone] roaming, and messages, and found out they all came from Israel," reported the publication, IslamOnline. He said that the potential "recruits," had been given money and weapons, "although most of these weapons did not even work." He also noted that the money for these targetted Palestinians "was transferred from bank accounts in Jerusalem or Israel."Minister Shaath announced at the press conference that the P.A. had "handed ambassadors and consuls of the Arab and foreign countries, documents revealing the involvement of the Israeli intelligence in recruiting citizens from Gaza Strip in a fake organization carrying the name of Qaeda." (http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2002/2949idf_qaeda.html)
• Israeli trading with foreknowlegde has already been discussed in 1.3.
• "...there were questions concerning the number of Israeli citizens killed in the attacks. The day after, the Jerusalem Post claimed two Israelis died on the hijacked airplanes and that 4,000 were missing at the WTC. A week later, a Beirut television station reported that 4,000 Israeli employees of the WTC were absent the day of the attack. This information spread across the Internet but was quickly branded a hoax. On Sept. 19, the Washington Post reported about 113 Israelis were missing at the WTC and the next day, President Bush noted more than 130 Israelis were victims. Finally, on Sept. 22, the New York Times stated... "There were, in fact, only three Israelis who had been confirmed as dead: two on the planes and another who had been visiting the towers on business and who was identified and buried." (http://www.jimmarrs.com/views2.php?recordnumber=6 - can't find original anymore)

2.5.3 The hilarious Israeli moving van controversies and their connections to the Venice Airport.

• As far as I am familiar, the first 'Israeli moving van controversy' happened on the morning of 9/11. You can read about it 2.5.
• #2 - The Miami Herald, October 3, 2001:
  "As the nation stands on high alert, the FBI is searching for six men stopped by police in the Midwest last weekend but released -- even though they possessed photos and descriptions of a nuclear power plant in Florida and the Trans-Alaska pipeline, a senior law enforcement official said Tuesday...The six men stopped by police were traveling in groups of three in two white sedans, said a senior law enforcement official, who requested anonymity...they [also] carried "box cutters and other equipment,'' the official said...They appeared to be from the Middle East and held Israeli passports...Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller were "furious'' that the INS allowed the men to be released without consulting the FBI, the official said."
• #3 - October 17, 2001, The Mercury (Philadelphia neigborhood):
  "A manager there [Pizzeria Uno on West Ridge Pike] advised the police officer that a tractor-trailer was observed backed up to the dumpster at the rear of the restaurant. The manager noticed a freshly dumped pile of furniture adjacent to the Dumpster, according to police. The manager confronted the vehicle's operator, a Middle Eastern man, police said...The man, who later identified himself as Moshe Elmakias, 30, denied that he did anything and fled the scene...The manager said that a sign posted on the side of the vehicle read "Moving Systems Incorporated" police said...the vehicle was spotted parked on the curb in front of John Kennedy Ford on Ridge Pike...A Middle Eastern man, later identified as Ron Katar, 23, exited the sleeper area of the cab and said that the operator was across the street as he pointed toward the Don Rosen Porsche dealer...Elmakias and a white female, Ayelet Reisler, 23, were approaching the vehicle from the dealership, but the female then began walking in a different direction, acting as if she were not with Elmakias, according to reports. Reisler was detained and checked for identification. She had a German passport in her name and medication in a different name...[Elmakias] said he was in Plymouth because he was supposed to make a pickup...Elmakias could not, however, provide a name or telephone number of the customer...Among the items in the truck was a Sony video camera. Plymouth Police Officer David McCann reviewed the tape found inside the camera. The tape had video footage of Chicago with zoomed-in shots of the Sears Tower." (http://www.zwire.com/site/mercury_101801.html)
  So again we have evasive Jews (judging from the name) that are seemingly interested in a large public building. We have another moving Company (Urban Moving and Moving Systems Inc.) and again we have one person with a German passport.
• #4 - FOX News, May 13, 2002:
  "A Budget truck was pulled over in Oak Harbor, Wash., last Tuesday near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station and found to have traces of TNT on the gearshift and traces of RDX plastic explosive on the steering wheel, Fox News has learned...Shortly after midnight on May 7, federal officials say local police pulled the vehicle over for speeding. Documents read to Fox News indicate that the driver and passenger told local police they were delivering furniture from California but that authorities doubted the story because of the early morning hour. A bomb-sniffing dog first detected explosives on one of the men and inside the truck. High-tech equipment was used later to confirm the presence of TNT and RDX plastic explosive. Documents read to Fox News indicate that both driver and passenger were Israeli nationals...one of the men had not entered the country legally, and the other was in violation of his visa. Both men were taken into custody for immigration violations. At 7:30 that morning local police were notified that the BATF and FBI had tested the truck and found traces of explosives on the steering wheel and gear shift. Officials say no other charges of been filed against the driver and passenger and an investigation is ongoing. Authorities say records for the Budget truck do not indicate any recent rental for the purposes of transporting explosives, which would require special permits." (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,52681,00.html)
  Daniel Hopsicker - Madcowprod.com, May 20, 2002:
  "In Oak Harbor, Washington, Fox News reported last week that two Israelis with altered passports were apprehended in a rental truck containing traces of TNT and plastic explosives on a state highway running past the home of a fleet of U.S. electronic spy planes, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. The local press reported it. The backpedaling which followed, however, was fast, furious—and national. Tests revealing traces of explosives were ‘in error.’ They showed ‘false positives.’ [just cigarette residue as can be found in almost any car, and not explosives] The Israelis alibi had ‘checked out.’ It was a ‘non-story.’ There were no follow-ups.
  Seemingly coincidentally, the Israelis had been pulled over in Oak Harbor, Wa., home of a commuter airline which had been run by the business partner of Venice flight school owner Rudi Dekkers...Richard Boehlke...[they] started an unsuccessful airline, Florida Air, whose only accomplishment, other than having been publicly endorsed by Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, seems to be to have provided a rationale for the presence of several British Aerospace Jetstreams poised on the tarmac of an airport within easy reach of Caribbean hot spots. Boehlke’s company, Alterra, had a gleaming facility located just a hundred yards from Dekkers’ Huffman Aviation at the Venice Airport...before going bankrupt last year Richard Boehlke made his millions operating elder-care facilities, first in Washington state and then nationally...Just down the block from Boehlke’s assisted living home in Venice Florida, a stone’s throw from the Venice Airport, is a stately complex that was built to house the national headquarters of nursing home giant Beverley Enterprises, then owned by a name often linked with America’s super-secret National Security Agency, Jackson Stephens.
  We discovered that the woman cited by authorities and used by the FBI to discount the FOX NEWS report on the incident (Police Seize Rental Truck With TNT Traces) has—just one week after providing the Israelis’ alibi—moved. A spokeswoman at the facility declines to give out any information concerning her present whereabouts, citing privacy concerns.
  Jackson Stephens, Rudi Dekkers, Richard Boehlke, [All with interests in Venice as well as in Oak Harbor] and a no-doubt sweet little old lady living in elder care beside the Navy's electronic spy plane base...No doubt it is all just a coincidence." (http://www.madcowprod.com/issue23.html)
• #5 - Alamogordo News, May 22, 2003:
  "That they were speeding through the school zone first got his attention. That they had Israeli driver's licenses and expired passports made him suspicious. Cloudcroft Police Chief Gene Green stopped the 2-ton van on Thursday, for speeding. They claimed they were hauling furniture from Austin to Chicago...[stopped in the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico]..."But they couldn't give us an address in Deming they were going to," he said. "Once we got into the truck, they had some junk furniture I wouldn't have given to Goodwill." Also inside the vehicle were, Green said, "50 boxes" they claimed was a "private" delivery, but the men insisted they had no "idea what was in them." At that point, the officers called for drug-sniffing and bomb-sniffing dogs. The men were turned over to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and U-Haul recovered the truck. Contents of the boxes remain unknown, pending investigation." (http://www.alamogordonews.com/Stories/0,1413,160%257E9596%257E1401528,00.html)
• #6 - Tennesean, May 10, 2004 (incident happened at May 8):
  "Two Israeli men who led Unicoi County authorities on a high-speed chase in a rented moving truck have been turned over to federal immigration authorities...[Schmuel] Dahan pleaded guilty to evading arrest, and [Almaliach] Naor to possession of a fraudulent identification card. Both men were sentenced to 30 days in jail, which was suspended since they are in the custody of federal authorities...Witnesses told authorities that a bottle was tossed from the truck during the pursuit...A lawyer for the two men said they rented the truck to haul furniture and got lost when they got off Interstate 26." (http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/04/05/51650385.shtml?Element_ID=51650385)
  American Free Press and Daniel Hopsicker on the same May 8 incident:
  "During the chase the Israelis threw a bottle containing a fluid from the truck, an act they later denied. The vial contained an unknown substance, which appeared to be some kind of accelerant because it became warm when it was shaken, said Harris [A scientist who had investigated the substance said is would be ideal for growing bio-cultures]...In the wallet of Dahan, an Israeli soldier based in Miami Beach, police reportedly discovered a “Learn to Fly in Florida” business card...The Israelis’ truck tested positive for drugs, Hopsicker reported. “While the FBI dismissed the finding as a ‘false positive,’ local law enforcement regard the test as highly accurate,” wrote Hopsicker...“They were just three miles from where, if you get off at exit 15, off I-26, you’re just a half-mile from all the nuclear plants,” Harris told the Associated Press...“I got a sick feeling when I saw it. It’s the nation’s sole provider of fuel for the Navy’s nuclear subs,” said Harris...Hopsicker claims that the “Learn to Fly in Florida” business card belongs to another Israeli named Nissan Giat. Giat is an “Israeli military veteran,” said Hopsicker, and a freelance flight instructor in the Miami area, working out of the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. Asked about Dahan and Naor, Giat told Hopsicker: “These guys aren’t terrorists; they belong to the Israeli military...despite convictions for evading arrest and working illegally on tourist visas, the Israelis were soon released and back at Summit Moving Van Lines in Miami, claims Hopsicker.” (http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/dangerous_blind_spot.html) (Jeff Rense interview with Hopsicker on May 18, 2004)
• #7 - News4jax, May 25, 2004:
  "Two Israeli men working for a moving-and-storage company who attempted Kings Bay Submarine Base Friday are being held for deportation. The two entered the Franklin gate about 10:30 a.m. Friday to pick up some items in base housing, base spokesman Ed Buczek said. Neither was able to present valid work permits to security personnel, and one had an expired passport. Base personnel and bomb-sniffing dogs inspected the van, prompting a lockdown of the base. St. Marys police closed access to an area one-half mile surrounding the base and called in a bomb squad, Buczek said. "The military dogs were alerted to a scent in the cab of the truck," Buczek said. "Guards closed access to the base and notified the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service." Nothing was found in the van..Kings Bay is near Sea Island, which will host the G8 Summit next month." (http://www.news4jax.com/news4georgia/3344771/detail.html)
  American Free Press and Daniel Hopsicker on a May 21 incident:
  "Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, home to eight Trident submarines...Buczek said the two were driving a Budget rental truck and were working for the moving company, Advantage Moving and Storage in Norcross, Ga. There was no answer when AFP made repeated phone calls to the office of Advantage on May 26 and May 27." (http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/dangerous_blind_spot.html)
• Hours after the attack the police had seized a 'suspicious' white sedan at Boston Logan Airport, after having received a phone call from someone who remembers to have seen 5 Arabs in that car. When searched, they find a koran and an Arabic flight instruction manual. The car turned out to be rented. Coïncidence?
• The Lavon Affair of 1954 is also very telling in this context. Back then the Mossad blew up a US facility in Cairo and tried to blame the Arabs for it. Unfortunatly for Israel, one of the bombers was caught, creating a huge scandal. However, in the end they do seem to get away with everything.
• Lyndon LaRouche's Intelligence Executive Review has gone to great lengths in exposing this Israeli drugs-diamonds-gold-weapons smuggling network.

2.6 The ‘coincidental’ destruction of sensitive data because of the attack and other financial benefits.

• The CIA had it’s biggest office outside Washington DC inside WTC building 7. Another unknown federal organisation had been fronting for this large secret spy base. In the office all documents were stored about Bin Laden’s attack on the embassies of Dar-es-Salaam & Nairobie. The documents about his attack on the USS Cole have also been lost, just as a lot of other general info about him. It also was a base for undercover agents posing as diplomats to the United Nations. Some suspect this base mainly focussed on spying for economic gains, instead of political gains. (NY Times - November 4, 2001 - everything besides the last line)
• The Secret Service had it’s biggest office in WTC 7. About 200 men were employed in that office.
  US Secret Service special agent David Curran:
  ”All the evidence that we stored at 7 World Trade, in all our cases, went down with the building.”
• The Securities and Exchange Commission had a big office in WTC building 7. Most of it’s files gathered in the investigation against Enron have been lost. About a 100 charges have been dropped because of this attack. Kenneth Lay, former Enron Chief, is very close to the Bushes.
• Evidence of financial fraude between Citigroup’s Salmon Smith Barney and Worldcom has been destroyed during the collapse of WTC 7. Backup tapes from corporate emails between september 1998 and december 2000 were in that building, according to Citigroup.
• The FBI had an office in the North Tower from the 22th to 24th floor. These offices were already destroyed by what looks like explosives, well before the tower came down. A few members were trapped on this floor by the explosion and have been saved by the head of security with the help of a fireman. In these offices there lay evidence against Alan Greenspan (head Federal Reserve), Morgan & Company and Goldman Sachs about the fixing of the gold price. Other evidence that was destroyed in this blast were papers against Mobil Oil and James Griffin about a bunch of oil scandals in Kazakhstan and Iran.
• German attorney Stefan Grossman makes another interesting point. Mr. Grossman uncovered that the insurance riders on the World Trade Center (WTC) towers 1 and 2 had apparently been increased in June or July 2001 from somewhere around $1.05 billion to the neighborhood of $4 billion. Reportedly the beneficiaries of these serendipitous "three times the payout" insurance riders" are Henry Kissinger of Kissinger McLarty Associates, Peter G. Peterson of Blackstone Group and Maurice Greenberg of AIG (insurance).(2004 - http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/121704Schwarz/121704schwarz.html)
  Update, Februari 4, 2004: I just saw the same author promoting the small/no plane at Pentagon theory, so personally I consider this information extremely unreliable.
• The likely foreknowledge of the Deutsche Bundesbank, AB Brown / ex-CIA director A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard also is very interesting. It is discussed in 1.3.
• July 10, 2002, CNN:
  "The September 11 hijackers were able to open several [35] U.S. bank accounts using illegitimate Social Security numbers, FBI officials said Wednesday. Officials said the hijackers appeared to have relied most heavily upon SunTrust Banks for the movement of funds through accounts opened in Florida...An FBI official confirmed that one of the first signs of a large transfer of funds dates to 2000, when $110,000 was deposited in an account traced to Mohammed Atta, the alleged ringleader of the attacks, and Marwan al-Shehhi, another of the alleged hijackers.While investigators have traced more than $325,000 in funds so far, they said they believe the hijackers had access to at least $500,000 before the attacks were carried out. " (http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/07/10/hijackers.accounts/)
  July 10, 2002, CBS News:
  "Dennis Lormel, the chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's unit conducting the financial inquiry of the Sept. 11 plot, told the New York Times that the hijackers moved $325,000 through 14 bank accounts at SunTrust Bank, making that bank the most heavily relied upon...Contrary to earlier reports, the Sept. 11 hijackers did not steal anyone's identity, Lormel said. Instead, they just made up Social Security numbers to set up bank accounts and drivers' licenses, he said. ...California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she was surprised the false Social Security numbers were not spotted. They just made them up and that went through? How does that happen? Feinstein said." (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/10/attack/main514687.shtml)
  September 15, 2001, st. Petersburg Times:
  "Finally, Mr. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has large stock holdings in a company called SunTrust Banks, Inc. and has stock in Coca-Cola. SunTrust also has stock in Berkshire and Coca-Cola and remember that Mr. Buffett is one of the directors of Coca-Cola."
  Kansas - The Wichita Eagle, November 17, 2004:
  "The filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission omitted information on Berkshire's holdings in SunTrust Banks Inc. as confidential. Buffett requests confidential treatment when Berkshire is buying or selling a stock. Berkshire held 5.8 million shares of SunTrust, the eighth-largest U.S. bank, as of June 30, unchanged from March." (Share price at 70 dollars at this time and about 50 several years back. Total outstanding shares in Januari 2005 = 371 million) (www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/10199651.htm)
  Warren Buffett is a close associate of the Rothschilds (and many people in the bankers clique). His fortune is estimated to be above 40 billion dollar (2004) and growing fast. Buffett also met George Bush on the morning of 9/11, together with Ann Tatlock, who had an airliner flying into her office the day of her absence.
• During the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, over 1 billion dollars in precious metals was being stored underneath the complex. Since then it has been a carefully guarded secret how much gold has been stored there. Very few newspapers reported on these gold deposits after the attack, and the few who did made only notice of amounts of around 200-230 million dollar from the bank of Nova Scotia. [one did say around 650 million] However, the most detailed report came from the TimesOnline which gave these number:

Some newspapers mentioned the amounts of gold that was being recovered in november 2001 by a group of policemen and firefighters. Those amounts account for around 1/6 of the gold and 1/3 of the silver that were mentioned in the detailed TimesOnline article.
Another very interesting detail is that during the clearing of the rubble in the WTC 5 delivery tunnel a 10 wheel lorry was found crushed by falling steel. It was loaded with gold, but apparently the driver got away because no body was found. Anyone seen ‘Die Hard with a vengeance’? It was produced by (20th Century) FOX, just like the Lone Gunman pilot. The German aspect is very interesting, since besides Arabs, the Germans seem to have played a prominent role in the attacks.

2.7 The 'no United / American Airlines at the WTC-hypothesis' is gaining some sudden momentum in mid-2004. Why?

• The 'pods' and 'rails' that people have claimed to be against the underside of the planes, creating flashes. This is discussed in 5.1.6. and here.
• According to Dave von Kleist who made the video 'In Plane Site' the audio clip of a panicked woman who is screaming 'That was not an American Airlines, that was not an American Airlines' is possible evidence of another type of plane hitting the WTC. My take on it: When you see something terrible happening, or something extremely shocking, good or bad you often give this type of reaction, like 'That did not happen, that did not happen, tell me I did not see that.' Very weak I must say, because it contradicts exactly what other people say had happened.
• Mark Burnbach (spelled right?) was interviewed live by Fox News during the event in NY. He mentioned a blue circular logo at the front of the plane. 'It definetly didn't look like a commercial plane, I didn't see any windows on the side...it was not a plane that I had ever seen on an airport.' Well, can't argue with this interesting statement but I don't see a lot of claims backing it up. And to be more precise, I haven't seen one at all. Even when we take a few stills from some better videos we can see the colors of the tail-logo, the tail, the silvery top fuselage, the United Airlines text, the thin red stripe on the side, the interrupted white stripe at the bottom of the plane. Also the size of the plane and some small visible details on the plane and wings itself can be distinguished. The statement was later considered to be faulty, I guess for once the regular media was right.
  Update: The witness was at least a mile away in Brooklyn.
• On 18 august 2004 Dave von Kleist, a prominent 'no AA plane at WTC believer' claimed on Coast to Coast AM to George Noory that one of the witnesses (at the Pentagon) claimed that: "it was like a cruise missile with wings" (like his video shows) and that this was one of the conformations that a plane did not strike the building. Unfortunatly for him the quote started with: "I looked out my window and I saw this plane, this jet, an American Airlines jet...". I 'm sorry, but for someone who made a video about 911 and makes such a disasterous mistake is not really credible in my eyes even though some other things he investigates are done ok. A lot of times during the interview he mentiones letsroll911, a site which doesn't mind a little bit of speculation. More remarks on these Pentagon 'misquoted' statements in 3.6.2. (For the transcript of the quote, which initially was made on film - CNN - http://archives.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/09/11/witnesses/)
• Let'sRoll911 posts a vague picture on it's site, mentioning 'this plane has no windows.' That's nice, but the details are way too blurry to make any substancial claims. More at 5.1.6.

3.1 The Pentagon. My own theory, a quick table on what people actually saw and some general info:

Since I measured the hole in one of my articles and looked at what all the witnesses had to say, I am convinced that an American Airlines 757-223 hit the building. My personal guess is that the plane flew low over the mountains and high hills of the Allegheny Plateau. It's a guess, but as you will see further in this article that all the evidence points to American Airlines flight 77. This does not mean that it is likely that no one is hiding what actually happened at the Pentagon. Because if no one did, you would expect that all the security camera videos were already available in the public domain.

Summary on the quotes you are going to find in this document:

* This way you can get a good indication if they saw a large or a small plane. If someone just said: "I saw the plane and I saw it crash", it is not counted, even though chances are 99,9999% they were talking about a 757-223, called flight 77.

By looking at this table, I know most of you will think I ignored all the quotes on missiles and silent planes. I haven't. Just look them up. Quotes were gathered from many places including large lists from Eric Bart and SomeGuyYouDontKnow33.

Some general info on flight 77:

• 1. At least 37 minutes after Flight 11 stopped returning answers, it begins to look like Flight 77 might also have been hijacked. Suddenly the plane goes off-course at about 250 miles into it’s flight. (exact location seems to be unknown) It looks like it’s heading back to were where it came from…Washington DC. A few minutes later the transponder is turned off, which means the plane is anonymous from this moment on, although you can still follow it on radar. But for some reason the media likes to let you believe that a 757-223 becomes something very close to a B2 Stealth Bomber if it doesn’t have a transponder signal. They seem to have ‘lost’ the plane for some time. (And I guess it’s the mountains)
  2. Around 9:05 West-Virginia flight controllers spot a fast moving unidentified plane, ‘possibly flight 77.’ NORAD doesn’t seem to get notified until 9:24. If this is because of the FAA or the NMCC is unknown.
  Dick Cheney and Rice, who are supposedly in the bunker of the White House are getting a call at 9:27 that an unidentified plane is 30 miles out of Washington DC and is heading towards them. (Dick does not seem to have been there)
  3. The plane makes a 360 degrees turn around the Pentagon and finally decides to dive in the west wing under a 45 degrees angle. Why the plane didn’t do that the first time around is a sensible question, because it did give the US government additional minutes to shoot it out of the air.
• Something that is just as strange is why the hijackers would pick the west-wing. Usually when you pick a target to attack you study the target. You check where to hit the target, when to hit the target and how to hit the target. If the hijackers would have picked any other wedge, chances were that it would slide through all 5 rings, and even hit an opposing wedge. This has been stated by the people working on the renovation and it might easily be true since Flight 77 penetrated 3 of the 5 rings of the wing that was much, much stronger than the rest. It just doesn’t make sense for terrorists who have planned their actions so well, to not know that this wing has been in full-time renovation since January of 1998.
• Wedge 1 demolition began in January of 1998, it would have been completed 5 days after 9/11, but there had been some delay in the construction so most people would have moved-in right after 9/11.
• A few light poles have been knocked down as described by more than a dozen witnesses. I did a simple calculation and found out that the plane would have to have a wingspan of at least 26-28 meters and would have at the very most a wingspan of 40 meters. A Boeing 757 has a wingspan of 38 meters, so it fits perfectly. A lot of people think that the wing would break after hitting a few poles but that is not true. You can watch the 3 different movies of ‘NASA crashes a plane’ where you can see that the wing of the airliner is remarkebly strong. In that movie, the wing hits the ground before the fuselage does and it stays in one piece, without trouble. Also, just look at the WTC crashes, the wings slam through much stronger steel beams…a lot more too. No, a few hollow light poles cannot stop a 100 ton airliner going 400mph. (fuel / passenger & baggage estimate included) Eye witnesses did state that the plane started to wobble after it hit a few poles.
• The hole in the Pentagon is 84 meters deep and there is no crater which indicates the object went completely horizontal into the building. Witnesses confirm this.
• I measured the hole / heavy structural damage in this article and found it to be consistent with the damage 757-223 would do.
• The president was planned to land at 12:30 that day at the Pentagon helipad. Because of that reason the secret service was already taking security measures.
• According to a few witnesses they couldn’t short-cut through the parking lot of the Pentagon just before the attack, because of extra safety measures after the WTC attack. If they were that quick, couldn’t they get a few fighters in the air to defend the nation's capital?
• A few minutes after the crash at the Pentagon the Secret Service commands fighters in the air from Andrews AFB (where the slow C-130H came from), to guard the skies over the Pentagon, the White House and the Capitol. Why did they do this so late? It was known for a long time that 2 unknown flights were inbound for Washington DC. According to witnesses, the fighter jets were present just ten minutes after the crash of flight 77.
• You would expect that the pilot of Flight 77 was very skilled. But that seems not have been the case.
  Newsday, September 23, 2001:
  "At Freeway Airport in Bowie, Md., 20 miles west of Washington, flight instructor Sheri Baxter instantly recognized the name of alleged hijacker Hani Hanjour when the FBI released a list of 19 suspects in the four hijackings. Hanjour, the only suspect on Flight 77 the FBI listed as a pilot, had come to the airport one month earlier seeking to rent a small plane.... However, when Baxter and fellow instructor Ben Conner took....Hanjour on three test runs during the second week of August, they found he had trouble controlling and landing the single-engine Cessna 172. .....chief flight instructor Marcel Bernard declined to rent him a plane without more lessons." (http://www.newsday.com/ny-usflight232380680sep23.story)
  Hanjour has followed or tried to follow half a dozen flight courses, but all seemed to end in failure. For some reason he did receive a commercial pilots license in April 1999, for reasons the FAA never wanted to specify.

3.2 Dozens of witnesses: A very loud silver American Airlines airliner crashed into the building:

• Jose Velasquez, supervisor nearby gas station where a security tape had been confiscated:
  "It was like an earthquake…(The engine and the vibrations)”
  Elaine McCusker:
  ”I saw a very low-flying American Airlines plane that seemed to be accelerating.”
  James Mosley, 4 stories up on a scaffold outside the Navy Annex:
  ”The building starting shaking, and I looked over and saw this big silver plane run into the side of the Pentagon. It almost knocked me off.”
  Christopher Munsey:
  ”A silver, twin-engine American Airlines jetliner gliding almost noiselessly over the Navy Annex, fast, low and straight toward the Pentagon, just hundreds of yards away. It was a nightmare coming to life...The plane, with red and blue markings, hurtled by and within moments exploded in a ground-shaking "whoomp," as it appeared to hit the side of the Pentagon. A huge flash of orange flame and black smoke poured into the sky. Smoke seemed to change from black to white, forming a billowing column in the sky.”
  Vin Narayanan (saw C-130):
  ”Then I looked up to my left and saw an American Airlines jet flying right at me. The jet roared over my head, clearing my car by about 25 feet. The windows were dark on American Airlines Flight 77…The tail of the plane clipped the overhanging exit sign... The windows were dark on American Airlines Flight 77 as it streaked toward its target, only 50 yards away. The hijacked jet slammed into the Pentagon at a ferocious speed. But the Pentagon's wall held up like a champ. It barely budged as the nose of the plane curled upwards and crumpled before exploding into a massive fireball.. The plane exploded after it hit, the tail came off and it began burning immediately...Within five minutes, police and emergency vehicles began arriving.”
  Alan Wallace, fireman who had to run for his life and reported molten metal due to extreme heat:
  "Firefighter Alan Wallace was standing outside his fire station when he looked across the nearby interstate and saw a white airplane with orange and blue trim heading almost straight at him. It slammed into the building just a couple hundred feet from him." (Scripps Howard News Service on 9/11)
  ”We have had a commercial carrier crash into the west side of the Pentagon at the heliport, Washington Boulevard side. The crew is OK. The airplane was a 757 Boeing or a 320 Airbus.”
  Madelyn Zakhem, executive secretary at the Smart Traffic Center (Arlington), had just stepped outside:
  "...she heard what she thought was a jet fighter directly overhead. It wasn't. It was an airliner coming straight up Columbia Pike at tree-top level. "It was huge! It was silver. It was low -- unbelievable! I could see the cockpit. I fell to the ground....I was crying and scared." (Roads of the Futute - September 21, 2001 - The Friday Report)
  Tim Timmerman, a pilot in his home near the Pentagon:
  ”I was looking out the window; I live on the 16th floor, overlooking the Pentagon, in a corner apartment, so I have quite a panorama. And being next to National Airport, I hear jets all the time, but this jet engine was way too loud. It didn't appear to crash into the building; most of the energy was dissipated in hitting the ground, but I saw the nose break up, I saw the wings fly forward, and then the conflagration engulfed everything in flames…. It was a Boeing 757, American Airlines, no question….It added power on its way in, the nose hit, and the wings came forward and it went up in a fireball…A piece of twisted aircraft fuselage lay nearby...It was so close to me...” (London Guardian - September 12, 2001)
  Joe Harrington, installing new furniture in Wedge 1, walked out on the parking lot before crash:
  ”One of my guys pointed to an American Airlines airplane 20 feet high over Washington Blvd. It seemed like it made impact just before the wedge.”
  Joseph Royster, in his car:
  "I was on the street driving, and then the plane went over the top of my car, just over the treetops ... It was a big aircraft just on its course."
  Steve Storti, on the balcony of his apartment building which is less than a mile away from the Pentagon in Crystal City:
  "Then he caught the glint of silver out of the corner of his eye. He looked up to see a passenger plane with the trademark stainless-steel fuselage and stripes of American Airlines...Time seemed to slip into slow motion as he watched the plane cross over Route 395, tip its left wing as it passed the Navy annex, veer sharply and then slice into the Pentagon. "I remember thinking that whoever is flying this knows what they're doing," Storti said. "The plane traveled straight as an arrow. It didn't waver and it didn't flip from side to side." Storti watched the plane slide silently into the Pentagon "like a car entering a garage." (The Providence Journal - September 12, 2001)
  Master Sgt. Noel Sepulveda, who received a Airman’s Medal and Purple Heart for his actions near the Pentagon:
  "The plane’s right wheel struck a light pole, causing it to fly at a 45-degree angle, he said. The plane tried to recover, but hit a second light pole and continued flying at an angle. "You could hear the engines being revved up even higher," Sepulveda said. The plane dipped its nose and crashed into the southwest side of the Pentagon."The right engine hit high, the left engine hit low," Sepulveda said. "For a brief moment, you could see the body of the plane sticking out from the side of the building. Then a ball of fire came from behind it." An explosion followed, sending Sepulveda flying against a light pole." (Master Sgt. Dorothy Goepel Air Force Print News - April 15, 2002)
  Cheryl Hammond, at the Pentagon's south parking lot:
  "I thought they'd put out an alert or something," Hammond said. "We saw the big American Airlines plane and started running." (The Pentagram)
  Mike Walter, USA Today, on the road when a jet slammed into the Pentagon:
  "I was sitting in the northbound on 27 and the traffic was, you know, typical rush-hour -- it had ground to a standstill. I looked out my window and I saw this plane, this jet, an American Airlines jet, coming. And I thought, 'This doesn't add up, it's really low...And I saw it. I mean it was like a cruise missile with wings. It went right there and slammed right into the Pentagon...Huge explosion, great ball of fire, smoke started billowing out. And then it was chaos on the highway as people tried to either move around the traffic and go down, either forward or backward...We had a lady in front of me, who was backing up and screaming, 'Everybody go back, go back, they've hit the Pentagon...It was just sheer terror." (http://archives.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/09/11/witnesses/)
  ...it turned and came around in front of the vehicle and it clipped one of these light poles ... and slammed right into the "Pentagon right there." "Now there are some people who say that it skipped and went into the Pentagon and it may have gone that way, but that’s not what I saw. What I saw was the jet went very low into the Pentagon and it went straight." "It seemed like it was a slow, graceful bank and then once it straightened out, that's when it sped up." "...you could see chunks of the wreckage on the ground, pieces of the plane.... It literally disintegrated on impact. It hit, and as it went into the side of the building it sheared off the wings." (Digipresse interview, May 22, 2002)
  Joel Sucherman:
  "It came screaming across the highway, route 110…I did not see the engines, I saw the body and the tail; it was a silver jet with the markings along the windows that spoke to me as an American Airlines jet, it was not a commercial, excuse me, a business jet, it was not a Lear jet, ... it was a bigger plane than that." [Suchmacher said more, you’ll see it below]
  Mary Ann Owens, on a highway between Arlington National Cemetery and the Pentagon:
  "The sound of the engines came so quickly I thought it was another helicopter landing. I looked left to see a large plane barely clear the I-395 overpass. Instantly I knew what was happening, and I involuntarily ducked as the plane passed perhaps 50 to 75 feet above the roof of my car at great speed. Street lights toppled as the plane barely cleared the Interstate 395 overpass. ... Gripping the steering wheel of my vibrating car, I involuntarily ducked as the wobbling plane thundered over my head. Once it passed, I raised slightly and grimaced as the left wing dipped and scraped the helicopter area just before the nose crashed into the southwest wall of the Pentagon. The impact was deafening. The fuselage hit the ground and blew up. I could see office walls through the broken outer walls, then smoke and flames engulfed the west wall. Perhaps 10 seconds had passed since I first saw the plane. At first no one moved. Then debris began falling over the cars." (Gannett News Service & This is Local London - 9/11)
  Robert A. Leonard, driving northbound in the HOV lanes on I-395 (His car passed the crest of the hill, at the point where Washington comes fully into view and the Pentagon is on the left):
  "I braked, looked out my left window and saw a large commercial aircraft aiming for the Pentagon."The aircraft, so close to the ground, was banked skillfully to the right, leveled off perpendicular to the Pentagon's southwest side, then went full throttle directly toward the building. The plane vanished, absorbed by the building, and there was a slight pause. Then a huge fireball rose into the sky." (The Washington Post)
  Omar Campo, gardener, working on the grass on the other side of the road:
  "I was cutting the grass and it came in screaming over my head. I felt the impact It was a passenger plane. I think an American Airways plane."
  Alfred S. Regnery, northbound on I-395:
  "As I approached the Pentagon, which was still not quite in view, listening on the radio to the first reports about the World Trade Center disaster in New York, a jetliner, apparently at full throttle and not more than a couple of hundred yards above the ground, screamed overhead...I knew it was about to crah." (Human Events Online - September 17 2001)
  Mary Lyman, driving northbound on the I-395:
  "I actually saw the plane in front of me, coming in at a very steep angle toward the ground and going fast -- I think I actually heard it accelerate -- and then it disappeared and a cloud of smoke started billowing." (The Washington Post - September 16, 2001)
  Michael James, who was in his car:
  "The plane came over the top of us and brushed the trees. Then it looked like it hit the helicopter pad and skipped up and went right into the first and second floors." (Rocky Mountain News - Lexis-Nexis - M. E. Sprengelmeyer)
  Afework Hagos, a computer programmer in the traffic jam at Columbia Pike:
  ”There was a huge screaming noise and I got out of the car as the plane came over. Everybody was running away in different directions. It was tilting its wings up and down like it was trying to balance. It hit some lampposts on the way in… I saw American Airline insignia and when it made impact with the Pentagon initially I saw smoke, then flames”
  Phillip Thompson, stuck in traffic, gulf war veteran:
  ”I saw an American Airlines jet come overhead and slam into the Pentagon. The plane looked as if it were coming in for a landing - cruising at a shallow angle, wings level, very steady. But, strangely, the landing gear was up and the flaps weren't down….. and the blast hit us in a wave…..”
  Levi Stephens, 23, courier Armed Forces Information Service:
  ”what looked like a 747" plowed into the south side of the Pentagon, possibly skipping through a heliport before it hit the building.”
  Personnel working in the Navy Annex:
  ”I was driving away from the Pentagon in the South Pentagon lot when I hear this huge rumble, the ground started shaking … I saw this [plane] come flying over the Navy Annex. It flew over the van and I looked back and I saw this huge explosion, black smoke everywhere.”
  Jack Singleton, president of Singleton Electric Co. Inc:
  ”The plane's left wing actually came in near the ground and the right wing was tilted up in the air. That right wing went directly over our trailer, so if that wing had not tilted up, it would have hit the trailer.”
  Dave Winslow, Associated Press reporter, from a 10th floor apartment of a 17-floor block in Pentagon City:
  "I heard this enormous sound of turbulence. . .As I turned to my right, I saw a jumbo tail go by me along Route 395. It was like the rear end of the fuselage was riding on 395. I just saw the tail go whoosh right past me. In a split second, you heard this boom. A combination of a crack and a thud. It rattled my windows. I thought they were going to blow out. Then came an enormous fireball." (The Washingtonian - Lexis-Nexis)
  Steve Anderson from the USA Today building:
  ”I watched in horror as the plane flew at treetop level, banked slightly to the left, drug it's wing along the ground and slammed into the west wall of the Pentagon exploding into a giant orange fireball.”
  Mark Bright, Defense Protective Service officers and one of the first on the scene:
  ”I knew it was going to strike the building because it was very, very low -- at the height of the street lights. It knocked a couple down…. I heard the plane power-up just before it struck the Pentagon.”
  James Ryan, in his car:
  "On my left, right above me - a little over. I see an American Airlines plane, silver plane, I could see AA on the tail. I noticed the landing gear was up...[How heigh was it] Within a hundred feet. It was very low. At that point he tilted his wings this way and this way (mimics), And the plane was slow, so that happened concurrently with the engines going down. (mimics) And then straightened out sort of suddenly and hit full gas. (mimics) It was so loud it hurt my ears. It was just so loud. He just went straight in at that point. ...[went over a hill and he heard an explosion]...The plane was low enough that I could see the windows of the plane. I could see every detail of the plane..." (Digipresse interview)
  Kim Flyler, in the car trying to get on a nearby parking lot:
  ”At that moment I heard a plane and then a loud cracking noise.... Right before the plane hit the building, you could see the silhouettes of people in the back two rows. You couldn't see if they were male or female, but you could tell there was a human being in there."
  Steve Eiden from his truck on a nearby road:
  ”You could almost see the people in the windows, he said as he watched the plane disappear behind a line of trees, followed by a tall plume of black smoke.”
  James R. Cissell, former photo journalist stuck in traffic:
  ”I saw this plane coming in and it was low - and getting lower. If you couldn't touch it from standing on the highway, you could by standing on your car…. I thought, 'This isn't really happening. That is a big plane.' Then I saw the faces of some of the passengers on board…'It came in in a perfectly straight line…It didn't slow down. I want to say it accelerated. It just shot straight in.”
  Linda Plaisted, in office at home in Arlington less than one mile from the Pentagon:
  "The sound of the plane grew louder and louder...I looked out the window to the West just in time to see the belly of that aircraft and the tail section fly directly over my house at treetop height...I started to run toward my front door but the plane was going so fast at this point that it only took 4 or 5 seconds before I heard a tremendously loud crash and books on my shelves started tumbling to the floor." (Wherewereyou.org contribution #1148)
  Oscar Martinez:
  ”I saw a big jet flying close to the building coming at full speed. There was a big noise when it hit the building.”
  Allen Cleveland, from a Metro train going to National Airport (Also saw the C-130):
  ”I looked to the right of the train as we were coming into the station, and noticed a jet flying in real low, about a mid-sized passenger jet flying in. I know it was silver, that's the only thing I know.” (Washington Post video)
  Bobby Eberle, looking from his car on the road:
  ”Riding in a convertible ... I looked back and saw a jet airliner flying very low and very fast.”
  Kat Gaines, route 110 approaching the parking lots:
  ”I saw a low-flying jetliner strike the top of nearby telephone poles.”
  Skarlet, webmaster of punkprincess.com:
  ”As I came up along the Pentagon I saw helicopters. That's not strange. It's the Pentagon. Then I saw the plane. There were only a few cars on the road, we all stopped....It was headed straight for the building. A huge jet. Then it was gone. A massive hole in the side of the Pentagon gushed smoke. The noise was beyond description. "Buildings don't eat planes. That plane, it just vanished. There should have been parts on the ground. It should have rained parts on my car. The airplane didn't crash. Where are the parts? There was a plane. It didn't go over the building. It went into the building. I want them to find it whole, wedged between floors or something. I want to make it make sense. I want to know why there's this gap in my memory, this gap that makes it seem as though the plane simply became invisible and banked up at the very last minute.” (http://punkprincess.com/archives/002150.html)
  Penny Elgas, looking from her car from a nearby road:
  ”Traffic was at a standstill. I heard a rumble, looked out my driver's side window and realized that I was looking at the nose of an airplane coming straight at us from over the road (Columbia Pike) that runs perpendicular to the road I was on. The plane just appeared there- very low in the air, to the side of (and not much above) the CITGO gas station… then it banked in the slightest turn in front of me, toward the heliport… the plane seemed to be not more than 80 feet off the ground and about 4-5 car lengths in front of me… that other wing rocked slightly toward the ground... an American Airlines plane… gently rocked and slowly [She claims because of the adrenaline and shock she saw everything in slowmotion without registering the sound from that moment on] glided straight into the Pentagon…. At the point where the fuselage hit the wall, it seemed to simply melt into the building. I saw a smoke ring surround the fuselage as it made contact with the wall. It appeared as a smoke ring that encircled the fuselage at the point of contact and it seemed to be several feet thick. I later realized that it was probably the rubble of churning bits of the plane and concrete. The churning smoke ring started at the top of the fuselage and simultaneously wrapped down both the right and left sides of the fuselage to the underside, where the coiling rings crossed over each other and then coiled back up to the top. Then it started over again -- only this next time, I also saw fire, glowing fire in the smoke ring. At that point, the wings disappeared into the Pentagon. And then I saw an explosion and watched the tail of the plane slip into the building.”
  Father Stephen McGraw:
  ”Washington Boulevard… The traffic was very slow moving, and at one point just about at a standstill…waited in the left hand lane of the road, on the side closest to the Pentagon…I did not hear anything at all until the plane was just right above our cars… passed about 20 feet over my car… The plane clipped the top of a light pole just before it got to us, injuring a taxi driver, whose taxi was just a few feet away from my car…. My only memories really were that it looked like a plane coming in for a landing. I mean in the sense that it was controlled and sort of straight. That was my impression… There was an explosion and a loud noise and I felt the impact. I remember seeing a fireball come out of two windows (of the Pentagon). I saw an explosion of fire billowing through those two windows.”
  Shari Taylor, Pentagon parking lot:
  "I looked over my shoulder and you can hear the plane coming in, it was just so loud...descending lower and lower, until he was almost on top of Route 27 that runs alongside the Pentagon. And then he just slammed into the Pentagon." (We Were on Duty documentary)
  Wanda Ramey, stood at the Mall plaza booth and had an excellent view on the crash:
  "I saw the wing of the plane clip the light post, and it made the plane slant. Then the engine revved up and crashed into the west side of the building," she said. "It happened so fast. One second I saw the plane and next it was gone." Recalling those moments again, Ramey said it appeared the building sucked the plane up inside. "A few seconds later, I heard a loud boom and I saw a huge fireball and lots of smoke," she said." (MDW News)
  Terrance Kean, architect, from a 14-story building nearby:
  ”I heard the loud jet engines and glanced out his window. I saw this very, very large passenger jet. It just plowed right into the side of the Pentagon. The nose penetrated into the portico. And then it sort of disappeared, and there was fire and smoke everywhere. . . . It was very sort of surreal.”
  David Marra, 23, an information-technology specialist:
  ”I saw an American Airlines jet swooping in, its wings wobbly, looking like it was going to slam right into the Pentagon: "It was 50 ft. off the deck when he came in. It sounded like the pilot had the throttle completely floored. The plane rolled left and then rolled right. Then he caught an edge of his wing on the ground." There is a helicopter pad right in front of the side of the Pentagon. The wing touched there, then the plane cartwheeled into the building.”
  Bruce Elliott, form. commander of the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, from the south parking lot:
  ”I looked to my left and saw the plane coming in…It was banking and garnering speed...It clipped a utility pole guide wire, which may have slowed it down a bit before it crashed into the building and burst into flames.”
  William Middleton, sweeper who was less then a mile from the Pentagon:
  ”I looked up and spotted a commercial jet whose pilot seemed to be fighting with his own craft. Middleton said the plane was no higher than the tops of telephone poles as it lurched toward the Pentagon. The jet accelerated in the final few hundred yards before it tore into the building.”
  Scott P. Cook and Ray Verle from fifth floor of the Portals building, at theTidal Basin and Maine Avenue [also described C-130 very detailed]:
  ”It was a 757 out of Dulles, which had come up the river in back of our building, turned sharply over the Capitol, ran past the White House and the Washington Monument, up the river to Rosslyn, then dropped to treetop level and ran down Washington Boulevard to the Pentagon.”
  Bob Dubill, employee of USA today looking from his car on the road [pulitzer price winner]:
  ”I saw a jetliner fly over the roadway. It filled his field of vision. The jet was 40-feet off the ground speeding toward the Pentagon…the wheels were up..and I brazed myself for the explosion.”
  Dan Creed and 2 collegues at the naval annex, next to the Pentagon:
  ”We saw the plane dive down and level off. It was no more than 30 feet off the ground, and it was screaming. It was just screaming. It was nothing more than a guided missile at that point. It's just the most frightening thing in the world, going full speed, going full throttle, its wheels up.”
  Sgt. William Lagasse, a pentagon police dog handler, the son of an aviation instructor, at a nearby gas station:
  ”I saw the aircraft above my head about 80 feet above the ground, 400 miles an hour…I thought the plane was about to drop on top of me, it was that close. I knew the plane was not going to land. The 757's flaps were not deployed and the landing gear was retracted… It was close enough that I could see the windows and the blinds had been pulled down. I read American Airlines on it… I got on the radio and broadcast. I said a plane is, is heading toward the heliport side of the building.”
  Army Captain Lincoln Leibner, south parking lot:
  ”I saw this large American Airlines passenger jet coming in fast and low... I was about 100 yards away…You could see through the windows of the aircraft. It was accelerating, It was wheels up, flaps up, engines full throttle... The plane completely entered the building… between the second and third floors… I got a little repercussion, from the sound, the blast. I've heard artillery, and that was louder than the loudest has to offer....Captain Lincoln Leibner says the aircraft struck a helicopter on the helipad, setting fire to a fire truck…” [The truck was indeed on fire but I haven’t read anything about a chopper on the helipad, although there was a chopper above the building.]
  Lt Gen Ron Kadish, Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization at the Navy Annex:
  ”I walked in the office and stood peering out of the window looking at the Pentagon. As I stood there, I instinctively ducked at the extremely loud roar and whine of a jet engine spooling up. Immediately, the large silver cylinder of an aircraft appeared in my window, coming over my right shoulder as I faced the Westside of the Pentagon directly towards the heliport. The aircraft, looking to be either a 757 or Airbus, seemed to come directly over the annex, as if it had been following Columbia Pike - an Arlington road leading to Pentagon. The aircraft was moving fast, at what I could only be estimate as between 250 to 300 knots…The aircraft was at a sharp downward angle of attack, on a direct course for the Pentagon. It was "clean", in as much as, there were no flaps applied and no apparent landing gear deployed. He was slightly left wing down as he appeared in my line of sight, as if he'd just "jinked" to avoid something. As he crossed Route 110 he appeared to level his wings, making a slight right wing slow adjustment as he impacted low on the Westside of the building to the right of the helo, tower and fire vehicle around corridor 5.”
  Terry Morin, form. United States Marine Corps Aviator, from Federal Office Building [Navy Annex]:
  ”…The noise was absolutely deafening. The aircraft was essentially right over the top of me and the outer portion of the FOB (flight path parallel the outer edge of the FOB). Everything was shaking and vibrating, including the ground. I estimate that the aircraft was no more than 100 feet above me (30 to 50 feet above the FOB) in a slight nose down attitude. The plane had a silver body with red and blue stripes down the fuselage. I believed at the time that it belonged to American Airlines, but I couldn't be sure. It looked like a 737 and I so reported to authorities. Within seconds the plane cleared the 8th Wing of BMDO and was heading directly towards the Pentagon. Engines were at a steady high-pitched whine, indicating to me that the throttles were steady and full. I estimated the aircraft speed at between 350 and 400 knots. The flight path appeared to be deliberate, smooth, and controlled. As the aircraft approached the Pentagon, I saw a minor flash (later found out that the aircraft had sheared off a portion of a highway light pole down on Hwy 110). As the aircraft flew ever lower I started to lose sight of the actual airframe as a row of trees to the Northeast of the FOB blocked my view. I could now only see the tail of the aircraft. I believe I saw the tail dip slightly to the right indicating a minor turn in that direction. Elapsed time from hearing the initial noise to when I saw the impact flash was between 12 and 15 seconds.” [rest of his testimony can be found in other parts]
  James S. Robbins, a national-security analyst and 'nationalreviewonline' contributor, watched from his 6th story office window in Arlington:
  "I was standing, looking out my large office window, which faces west and from six stories up has a commanding view of the Potomac and the Virginia heights. The Pentagon is about a mile and half distant in the center of the tableau. I was looking directly at it when the aircraft struck. The sight of the 757 diving in at an unrecoverable angle is frozen in my memory, but at the time, I did not immediately comprehend what I was witnessing."
  Michael Tinyk, at work on the 10th floor of the U.S. Trademark Office in Crystal City:
  "he saw a dark orange and blue commercial airliner just above the tree line "coming in lower and lower" on what he instantly registered as the "wrong side" of the flight path to the airport. "There was no reason for a plane to come in that low, that fast" ... The plane took "a flight path straight up 395..." (The Providence Journal-Bulletin - Lexis-Nexis)
  Thomas J. Trapasso, on the deck of his house about 1 mile away from the Pentagon and just west of I-395:
  "The engines were just screaming, and the wheels were up," Trapasso said. "It disappeared over the trees, and I heard a boom. I knew something awful had happened--that an airplane had crashed somewhere in Washington, D.C." (Aviation Week - September 17, 2001)
  Army Brig. Gen. Clyde A. Vaughn, in his car on I-395:
  "Vaughn said "I was scanning the air" as he was sitting in his car. "There wasn't anything in the air, except for one airplane, and it looked like it was loitering over Georgetown (many miles west of the Pentagon), in a high, left-hand bank," he said. "That may have been the plane. I have never seen one on that (flight) pattern." Georgetown is a sector of the District of Columbia jammed with shops and restaurants - it is one of the city's most vital tourist draws. Commercial aircraft that are either approaching or departing from nearby Ronald Reagan National Airport do not fly over Georgetown, and rather trace their flight route over the nearby Potomac River, which separates the district from South Arlington, Virginia, location of the Pentagon. A few minutes later, Vaughn witnessed the craft's impact."
  Rodney Washington, stuck in stand-still traffic a few hundred yards from the Pentagon:
  "It was extremely loud, as you can imagine, a plane that size, it was deafening," Washington said. The plane was flying low and rapidly descended, Washington said, knocking over light poles before hitting the ground on a helicopter pad just in front of the Pentagon and essentially bouncing into it. It "landed there and the momentum took it into the Pentagon," Washington said. "There was a very, very brief delay and then it exploded." Washington speculated that it could have been worse: "If it had kept altitude a little bit higher it probably would have landed in the middle of the Pentagon, in that court." (http://www.boston.com/news/packages/underattack/globe_stories/0912/After_assault_on_Pentagon_orderly_response+.shtml)
  Ian Wyatt, 24, is walking to his job:
  "All of a sudden I hear incredibly loud jet engines flying very low over the highway. I duck, I look up, it looks like a silver American Airlines, twin-engine plane and then boom. I couldn't see from the bridges but then there was this plume of smoke coming up from the Pentagon...It was going so fast and it was so low" (The Free Lance-Star - video)
  Some 'Barbara' at a CNN audio interview on the morning of september 11:
  "We were trying to get off of the exit for the Memorial Bridge. On the left-hand side, there was a commercial plane coming in, and was coming in too fast and the too low, and the next thing we saw was a go-down below the side of the road, and we just saw the fire that came up after that...[Was there a sound as well?]...that I can't verify, because the windows were up in the vehicle...[So you believe it was a commercial airliner that was hitting the Pentagon?]...Yes, and I'm not sure exactly where the Pentagon, where it was in relationship top where the plane went down. You know, but it was relatively close to one another...No, I did not see what kind of an airline."
  'K.M.', a Pentagon City resident:
  "I live in Pentagon City (part of Arlington) and can see the Pentagon when I look out my window. ... It was so shocking, I was listening to the news on what had happened in New York, and just happened to look out the window because I heard a low flying plane and then I saw it hit the Pentagon. It happened so fast... it was in the air one moment and in the building the next..." (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/1537530.stm)
  'Steve' (cyclesail@yahoo.com), who was about half a mile away, posted in a google groups message:
  "I saw the jet just before it crashed. Something big and silver, nose down going aimed like a dart straight into it. The fireball was huge, 10 stories high and our building shook hard. Everyone in our two towers ran to the fire escapes. Most not knowing what exactly was happening. I had more fear because I saw what happened." (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.food.drink.beer/msg/d37c10da4bf8fae2?oe=UTF-8&output=gplain)
  Whisper2i (whisper2i@aol.com):
  [did you see the plane there?? or parts of it?]...No, but I saw the plane hit the building on 9/11. It was a plane. it was big it was flying low, and it hit the pentagon. I saw it from the front seat of my car on the highway that passes that side of the pentagon. There are parts all over the place, they are all smaller than a US nickle because of the force of the crash." (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.folklore.urban/msg/5d5cc167a660e256?output=gplain)
  Radio Transmissions tape, released by the Arlington Police Department:
  "Motor 14, it was an American Airlines plane, uh, headed eastbound over the Pike, possibly toward the Pentagon." (C-span audio file)
  Unnamed Navy admiral, who was walking outside the Pentagon:
  "It was a good size jet aircraft. I saw it clip a light pole but keep coming and then slam into the front of the building." (Houston Chronicle - Lexis-Nexis - Michael Hedges)
  Dennis Clem:
  "There was a commercial airliner that said American Airliners over the side of it flying at just above treetop height at full speed headed for the Pentagon."

3.2.2 Extra flight controller information about the path of Flight 77:

• Danielle O'Brien, from the Radar room at Dulles Airport:
  ”It was an unidentified plane to the southwest of Dulles, moving at a very high rate of speed … I had literally a blip and nothing more… At a speed of about 500 miles an hour, the plane was headed straight for what is known as P-56, protected air space 56, which covers the White House and the Capitol. The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that that was a military plane. You don't fly a 757 in that manner. It's unsafe… The plane was between 12 and 14 miles away… Vice President Cheney was rushed to a special basement bunker. White House staff members were told to run away from the building… And it went six, five, four. And I had it in my mouth to say, three, and all of a sudden the plane turned away… the plane continued to turn right until it had made a 360-degree maneuver… We lost radar contact with that aircraft. And we waited…. The Pentagon's been hit.” [500mph is high rate? Well, when were talking about an unidentified plane that is at 500mph closing in on the capital we might say that it’s fast…I think.]
  her explanation:
  ”I think that they came eastbound and because sun was in their eyes that morning, and because the White House was beyond a grove of trees, I think they couldn't see it. It was too fast. They came over that Pentagon or saw it just in front of them. You can't miss the Pentagon. It's so telltale by its shape and its size, and they said, 'Look, there it is. Take that. Get that.' They certainly could have had the White House if they had seen it.”
  CBS news:
  ”Radar shows Flight 77 did a downward spiral, turning almost a complete circle and dropping the last 7,000 feet [2100 meter] in two-and-a-half minutes. The steep turn was so smooth, the sources say, it's clear there was no fight for control going on. And the complex maneuver suggests the hijackers had better flying skills than many investigators first believed.”

3.3 The Pentagon: Witness accounts: The noise, the blast, the heat, the injuries and the damage.

Outside the Pentagon:

• Terry Morin, form. United States Marine Corps Aviator, from the Navy Annex (listed above):
  “The tail was barely visible when I saw the flash and subsequent fireball rise approximately 200 feet above the Pentagon.…a large explosion noise and the low frequency sound echo that comes with this type of sound. Associated with that was the increase in air pressure, momentarily, like a small gust of wind. For those formerly in the military, it sounded like a 2000lb bomb going off 1/2 mile in front of you. At once there was a huge cloud of black smoke that rose several hundred feet up.”
  Mike Dobbs, Marine Corps officer on one of the upper-levels of the Pentagon (reported a 737 below):
  “Everyone said there was a deafening explosion, but with the adrenaline, we didn't hear it.” [this is what I ment at the beginning of 3.4]
  Richard Benedetto, a USA today reporter:
  ”It was an American Airlines airplane, I could see it very clearly...I didn't see the impact. It sounded like an artillery shell. It hit on the west side of the building, near the helipad...The sound itself sounded more like a thud rather than a bomb…rather than a loud bomb explosion it sounded muffled, heavy, very deep.”
  James S. Robbins, a national-security analyst and 'nationalreviewonline' contributor, watched from his 6th story office window in Arlington (listed above):
  ”(saw 757)There was a silvery flash, an explosion, and a dark, mushroom shaped cloud rose over the building. I froze, gaping for a second until the sound of the detonation, a sharp pop at that distance, shook me out of it.”
  Lt Gen Ron Kadish, Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization at the Navy Annex (reported silver 757 above):
  "What instantly followed was a large yellow fireball accompanied by an extremely bass sounding, deep thunderous boom. The yellow fireball rose quickly as black smoke engulfed the entire Westside of the Pentagon, obscuring the whole of the heliport. I could feel the concussion and felt the shockwave of the blast impact the window of the Annex, knocking me against the desk."
  Alan Wallace, firemen:
  ”I hadn't even reached the back of the van when I felt the fireball. I felt the blast… I remember feeling pressure, a lot of heat"
  Deb & Jeff Anlauf from the 14th floor of the Sheraton Hotel 1.6 miles away from the Pentagon (They saw 'a plane' very quick moving past the window):
  ”… she heard a loud roar… You felt like you could touch it; it was that close… when it hit, the whole hotel shook.”
  Mickey Bell, just in front of the crash-site (was almost hit by a large airliner):
  ”Bell had just left the trailer when he heard a loud noise. The next thing he recalled was picking himself off the floor, where he had been thrown by the blast. Bell, who had been less than 100 feet from the initial impact of the plane, was nearly struck by one of the plane´s wings as it sped by him…. The full impact of the closeness of the crash wasn´t realized until coworkers noticed damage to Bell´s work vehicle. He had plastic and rivets from an airplane imbedded in its sheet metal… The blast wasn´t very loud to them.”
  Daniel & Cynthia McAdams, inside about 1.6 miles away:
  “We heard a plane fly directly overhead around 9:45 a.m. It was unusually loud and low. Seconds later,we heard a big boom and felt the doors and windows of our three-story building shake.” (Didn't see the plane)
  Donald R. Bouchoux, 53, a retired Naval officer, a Great Falls resident, a Vietnam veteran and former commanding officer of a Navy fighter squadron:
  "I was driving down Washington Boulevard (Route 27) along the side of the Pentagon when the aircraft crossed about 200 yards [should be more than 150 yards from the impact] in front of me and impacted the side of the building. There was an enormous fireball, followed about two seconds later by debris raining down. The car moved about a foot to the right when the shock wave hit. I had what must have been an emergency oxygen bottle from the airplane go flying down across the front of my Explorer and then a second piece of jagged metal come down on the right side of the car." (Washington Post, September 20, 2001)
  David Battle, standing outside the Pentagon just about to enter (saw 'a plane'):
  "It was coming down head first," he said. "And when the impact hit, the cars and everything were just shaking." (Albuquerque Tribune Online - September 12, 2001)
  Gary Bauer, who was in his car, very close near the Pentagon:
  "I had just passed the closest place the Pentagon is to the exit on 395...when all of a sudden I heard the roar of a jet engine. We looked out the front of our windows to try to see the plane, and it wasn’t until a few seconds later that we realized the jet was coming up behind us on that major highway. And it veered to the right into the Pentagon. The blast literally rocked all of our cars." (Massachusetts News and Charlotte Harold interview)
  James Keglovich, across the street from the Pentagon:
  ""They began exclaiming, "Where's he going? What's he doing?" when suddenly they saw the plane clip a taxi cab on the nearby bridge. The crash was exceptionally loud, he said. It shook the building and knocked people down who were closer to the point of impact." (The Tampa Tribune - September 15, 2001)
  Linda Plaisted, in office at home in Arlington less than one mile from the Pentagon (saw belly of a large jet):
  "I started to run toward my front door but the plane was going so fast at this point that it only took 4 or 5 seconds before I heard a tremendously loud crash and books on my shelves started tumbling to the floor." (Wherewereyou.org contribution #1148)
  Sgt. Dewey Snavely, driving on Arlington's Quaker Lane:
  ”..jet engines rumbled overhead…The guy I was with looked up and said: 'What the hell is that plane doing?’ Then we heard an explosion and the truck rocked back and forth.”

3.3.2 Inside the Pentagon:

• Peter M. Murphy, in a Marine Corps office on the 4th floor, E-ring, almost directly above the impact:
  ”It was a noise louder than any noise I had ever heard that shook the room. I had been standing with my back to the window and was knocked entirely across the room, while Hogue was jolted into his office. Garofola's desk literally rose straight up several inches then slammed down.” (didn't see the plane coming)
  Don Perkal, deputy General Counsel, Washington Headquarters Services, Office of the Secretary of Defense:
  ”People shouted in the corridor outside that a bomb had gone off…Even before stepping outside I could smell the cordite. Then I knew explosives had been set off somewhere.” (didn't see the plane coming)
  Gilah Goldsmith, personnel attorney at the Pentagon:
  ”An incredible whomp noise…[It didn't seem so unusual since her office is situated near a narrow area where trucks sometimes come by and hit the wall.]…It smelled like cordite, or gun smoke.” (didn't see the plane coming)
  Carl Mahnken David Theall, Army public relations office, couple dozen feet from impact:
  ”A computer monitor had blown back and hit Theall in the head, but he was conscious and he led the way out for his buddy…Buddy, I ain't going to let you go. We had survived this. This force that drove us through walls.” (didn't see the plane coming)
  John Thurman, Army Major who works in the Pentagon Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff:
  "To me the explosion happened in two portions. It didn't sound like much. There was a large whoosh and then a kind of a karumph sound." ('We Were on Duty' documentary) (Didn't see the plane)
  Tom Van Leunen, Pentagon Navy Public Affairs Office:
  ”One witness whose office was deep within the section of the Pentagon that was struck said the explosion seemed to last five or six seconds.It wasn't like a rumble, it was just – boom!… It was shocking. ... It immediately put you on your heels, in fact in my case, actually, it kind of knocked me down.” (didn't see the plane coming) (http://www.boston.com/news/packages/underattack/globe_stories/0912/After_assault_on_Pentagon_orderly_response%2B.shtml)
  Michael Stancil, was in Pentagon basement:
  ”I heard a vibrating sound like a motor. Suddenly, a big gust of air blasted through the room, paper started to fly and smoke began to pour in.” (didn't see the plane coming)
  Stanley st Clair, worked on renovations in the west-wing:
  "It shook the whole building and hurt our ears. Papers and furniture and debris just went flying through the hallway and I thought it was a bomb or something." (didn't see the plane coming)
  Air Force Lt. Col. Marc Abshire, D ring eight corridor:
  "It shot me back in my chair. There was a huge blast. I could feel the air shock wave of it…I didn't know exactly what it was. It didn't rumble. It was more of a direct smack.” (didn't see the plane coming)
  Lieutenant Colonel Michael Beans:
  ”The blast lifted Beans off the floor… then the room filled with this real bright light, just like everything was encompassed within this bright light... his head and forearms were burned.” (didn't see the plane coming)
  LTC Brian Birdwell:
  ”The flash fire was immediate and the smoke was thick. The blast had thrown him down, giving him a concussion… jet fuel in his lungs.” (didn't see the plane coming)
  John Bowman, a retired Marine lieutenant, near the south main-entrance:
  ”Most people knew it was a bomb. Everyone evacuated smartly. We have a good sprinkling of military people who have been shot at.” (didn't see the plane coming)
  LTC Victor Correa:
  ”I was knocked down by the impact and saw a fireball come over my head…the fireball was coming like a wind, a cloud of smoke trailing it…the speed of lightning…I also noticed to my right the windows going out and coming back in…We thought it was some kind of explosion. That somehow someone got in here and planted bombs because we saw these holes.” (didn't see the plane coming)
  Matt Hahr, senior project manager at the Pentagon, talks about an employee of him:
  ”He was thrown about 80 ft [24 meters] down the hall through the air. As he was traveling through the air, the ceiling was coming down from the concussion. He got thrown into a closet, the door slammed shut and the fireball went past him. Jet fuel was on him and it irritated his eyes, but he didn't get burned.” (didn't see the plane coming)
  Dan Fraunfelter, Pentagon contracter was in the west wing on the 3th floor several hundred feet from the impact:
  ”It lasted just a split second, a strange sucking, whirring sound, like a loud vacuum cleaner. [jet engine] Then the sound stopped, the building shook violently, and the lights went out. I ran into the corridor and saw smoke coming from about 100 feet away. The smoke was so thick he couldn’t see anything…I dropped to the searing hot floor and started to crawl. Somewhere inside the blackness he noticed the floor was deeply cracked. He knew all about this flooring—it was a strong epoxy with concrete underneath.” [He had crawled into the section that would collapse 30 minutes later. He was now right above the initial impact.] (didn't see the plane coming)
  Stanley St Clair, was working on renovations on the first floor of the section which was struck by the plane:
  ”It shook the whole building and hurt our ears. Papers and furniture and debris just went flying through the hallway and I thought it was a bomb or something. Then someone started shouting get out, get out." (Didn't see the plane coming)
  Peggy Menacle, defense department worker near the impact in one of the inner rings:
  ”The jet's impact was like a bomb blast. The doors blew out and debris just came flying out. It blew me 10 feet” (didn't see the plane coming)
  Marc Abshire:
  ”It shot me back in my chair. There was a huge blast. I could feel the air shock wave of it” (didn't see the plane coming)
  Sheila Moody was in Pentagon room 472:
  ”I heard a whoosh and a whistle and I wondered where all this air was coming from. Then a blast of fire that left as fast as it came. I looked down and saw her hands aflame, so she shook them.” (didn't see the plane coming)
  Lt. Col. Art Haubold, a public affairs officer with air force, opposite wing, A ring:
  ”All of a sudden, the windows blew in. We could see a fireball out our window." (didn't see the plane coming)
  Jerry Henson, very close to the site of the impact. He was wounded and pinned down:
  ”The impact was quite clear, but it wasn't what you would think. It was just a loud kathump. Just a loud noise. (didn't see the plane coming)
  Sean Boger, Air Traffic Controller and Pentagon tower chief:
  "I just looked up and I saw the big nose and the wings of the aircraft coming right at us and I just watched it hit the building." "It exploded. I fell to the ground and covered my head. I could actually hear the metal going through the building." The crew, Boger and Spc. Jacqueline Kidd, air traffic controller and training supervisor, prepared for President George W. Bush to arrive from Florida around 12:30 p.m." (dcmilitary.com - November 16, 2001)

3.3.3 More than one explosion:

• 'Dave', near the lincoln memorial:
  ”I heard two booms, which sounded like the artillery salutes at the 4th of july. It was likely the noise from a secondary blast at the Pentagon.” (Didn't see the plane)
  Lisa Burgess, reporter for Stars & Stripes in the inner-most corridor near the impact site:
  ”I heard two loud booms - one large, one smaller, and the shock wave threw me against the wall.” (Didn't see the plane)
  Carla Thompson, who works in an Arlington, Va., office building about 1,000 yards from the crash:
  ”I glanced up just at the point where the plane was going into the building...I saw an indentation in the building and then it was just blown-up, everything red.” (Crash followed by explosion, as with the WTC) (http://bernie.house.gov/documents/articles/20010912170838.asp)
  Charles H. Krohn, the Army's deputy chief of public affairs:
  ”One of the aircraft's engines somehow ricocheted out of the building and arched into the Pentagon's mall parking area between the main building and the new loading dock facility, said Charles H. Krohn, the Army's deputy chief of public affairs. Those fleeing the building heard a loud secondary explosion about 10 min. after the initial impact.” (Aviationnow.com) (Didn't see the plane)
  A possible explanation besides for the explosion after 10 minutes is given by Lt. Col. Ted Anderson:
  ”Nearby, tanks full of propane and aviation fuel had begun igniting, and they soon began exploding, one by one… Back in the building again, Anderson said he began "screaming and hollering for people as secondary and third-order explosions started going off. One of them was a fire department car exploding-I think my right eardrum exploded at the same time, and it unequivocally scared the heck out of me." (Didn't see the plane)

3.3.4 The debris that is coming down: fiberglass and aluminium, concrete and possibly 2 engines.

• Joel Suchmacher, USA today multimedia editor:
  ”Ironically, the passage of emergency vehicles got traffic moving again, which was now crunching over twisted metal Sucherman guessed was the skin of the plane.”
  Staff Sgt. Chris Braman, who was inside the Pentagon:
  ”The lawn was littered with twisted pieces of aluminum. He saw one chunk painted with the letter A, another with a C…[a man next to him]…This was a jet.” (Did not see the plane)
  Ret. Lt. Col. Tom McClain:
  ”I saw the remains of the engines in the North parking lot of the Pentagon as well as melted aluminum and other debris left from the aircraf.” (Didn't see the impact)
  Charles H. Krohn, the Army's deputy chief of public affairs:
  ”One of the aircraft's engines somehow ricocheted out of the building and arched into the Pentagon's mall parking area between the main building and the new loading dock facility.”
  Mark Faram, writer Navy Times [made controversial American Airlines wreckage photo]:
  ”That was the only piece of wreckage of any size that I saw, but was by no means the only piece. As I stepped onto the highway next to the triage area, I knelt down to tie my shoe and all over the highway were small pieces of aircraft skin, none bigger than a half-dollar. Anyone familiar with aircraft has seen the greenish primer paint that covers many interior metal surfaces - that is what these shards were covered with.”
  Will Jarvis, Pentagon emplyee 300 meters from the impact:
  ”We thought the plane was a dump truck backing into the building, because there was a lot of construction going on…There was just nothing left. It was incinerated. We couldn't see a tail or a wing or anything… Then I saw little bits of silver falling from the sky.”
  Lon Rains, Editor Space News, on Interstate 395:
  "I remember vividly that as I turned off my cell phone I was watching the almost serene image of thick pieces of flaming fiberglass insulation floating down onto the highway." (http://www.space.com/news/rains_september11-1.html)
  Tony Terronez, from a nearby highway:
  "...something made me look in my rearview mirror and by the time I looked up I saw the side of the Pentagon explode. I was stunned...The side of a building just exploded! As the fireball got higher and higher, you saw this debris go up in the air. I'm watching this in my rearview mirror, and then I thought, `Oh my God, there's debris coming toward me!' So my reaction was, I ducked into my passenger seat and I heard the pitter-patter of pebbles and concrete bouncing off my car. And the next thing you know, I heard this big crash come from somewhere. [on the car next to him]...
  Pulling away from the Pentagon there was tons of stuff on the ground, big pieces of metal, concrete, everything. We got up to a certain point and there was this huge piece of something -- I mean it was big, it looked like a piece of an engine or something -- in the road. And there was somebody, definitely a security guard or maybe a military person, with his car in front of it making sure no one touched it." (http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/amazing1001.htm)
  Don Fortunato, detective who arrived a few minutes after the impact on the scene:
  ”Traffic was at a standstill, so I parked on the shoulder, not far from the scene and ran to the site. Next to me was a cab from D.C., its windshield smashed out by pieces of lampposts. There were pieces of the plane all over the highway, pieces of wing, I think…. There were a lot of people with severe burns, severe contusions, severe lacerations, in shock and emotional distress.”

3.3.5 More on the heat during and after the explosion:

• Alan Wallace, a fireman under a car only 30 yards from the impact:
  ”The van protected him against burning metal that was flying around…. then race back to the firetruck… The entire back of the truck was destroyed, the cab on fire… The ground was on fire. Trees were on fire. Hot slices of aluminum were everywhere…. He had faced incoming fire before [in Vietnam] but he had never witnessed anything of this devastating intensity.”
  Alan Wallace in another piece about him:
  ”The ground burned near Wallace with heat so hot he thought several times that his pants were on fire.”
  Fireman captain Defina who was on the scene within 3 minutes [conformation of the truckfire]:
  ”… saw that the Fort Myer crew was trying to fight the Pentagon fire with their disabled new E-One Titan. Its back end was on fire…”
  William Yeingst, a man who witnessed Alan Wallace the other firemen:
  ”They got out and looked, and the whole back of the fire truck had melted.”
  Lt. Willis Roberts, U.S. Army Rescue:
  ”We're having a lot of trouble in there. It's about 3,000 degrees inside.” [1650C]
  Terry Morin, form. United States Marine Corps Aviator, from Federal Office Building [Navy Annex]:
  ”The firemen were appreciative, as the heat inside the building was, in their words, "unbelievable." It was reported that at least three of the fireman had to be given IV fluids due to the extreme heat.”
  Lt. Col. Ted Anderson:
  ”We turned left and saw nothing but huge, billowing black smoke, and a brilliant, brilliant explosion of fire… One of the Pentagon's two fire trucks was parked only 50 feet from the crash site, and it was totally engulfed in flames.”
  Walker Lee Evey, program manager of the Pentagon restoration project:
  ”The fire was so hot, that it turned window glass to liquid and sent it spilling down walls into puddles on the ground. The impact cracked massive concrete columns far beyond the impact site, destabilizing a broader section of the building than contractors had originally thought.”
  Unanymous 38-year-old Marine major who helped in the initial rescue inside the building:
  ”The B-ring was decimated…that heat and fire, it could eat you alive in three seconds.”
  Carlton Burkhammer, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue went into the building with full flash gear and oxygen bottles 3.5 hours after the crash:
  ”The building was so unstable, television only showed a fraction of the damage. It was a war zone, some parts of the building, there was nothing left intact… [1 hour in the building]…One man was sent to the hospital for dehydration. We were spent…We did not find any live people. The dogs are almost as depressed as the guys are.”
  Don Furtunado, detective who went in after the collapse:
  ”There’s so much debris, twisted metal, everything’s charred and pitch black... There are piles of concrete, desks, filing cabinets, duct work and ventilation pipes, all the things that can’t be incinerated.”

3.3.x Unused.

3.3.7 Smoke:

It’s hard to say what the white smoke is is we read the following accounts. It could be dust thrown in the air during the impact, but it can also be a description of an explosive. [gray smoke puff followed by flash/fireball followed by thick black cloud] Hard to say, not really a ‘smoking gun’ if you ask me.

• Jose Velasquez, supervisor nearby gas station where a security tape had been confiscated:
  ”By the time I got outside all I could see was a giant cloud of smoke, first white then black, coming from the Pentagon.”
  Henry Ticknor, intern minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington:
  ”There was a puff of white smoke and then a huge billowing black cloud"
  Christopher Munsey (also above):
  "Smoke seemed to change from black to white, forming a billowing column in the sky."

3.3.8 What rescue workers have observed inside the building during and after the event.

• Captain Defina and airport Battalion Chief Walter Hood:
  ”The only way you could tell that an aircraft was inside was that we saw pieces of the nose gear. The devastation was horrific.”
  Michael Tamillow, battalion chief and rescue expert, Fairfax County, Virginia, Fire Department:
  ”…found parts of the fuselage from the Boeing 757… No large pieces apparently survived.”
  Carlton Burkhammer, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue went into the building with full flash gear and oxygen bottles 3.5 hours after the crash:
  ”We found office furniture that had been moved across the room by the force of the crash. There were metal file cabinets wrapped into “U” shapes around the building’s support columns.”
  Terry Mitchell, chief, Audiovisual Division, Office of ASD PA:
  ”This is right inside the E Ring. This is a hole in -- there was a punch-out. They suspect that this was where a part of the aircraft came through this hole, although I didn't see any evidence of the aircraft down there… [QUESTION:] Did you see any evidence of the aircraft anywhere?[MITCHELL:] Yes, I did. You could see just small pieces of it.”
  Carlton Burkhammer, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue went into the building 3.5 hours after the crash:
  ”I spotted lime-green pieces from the interior of the plane. You could tell where the plane had gone because of the destruction of the steel and concrete beams.”
  ”Early Friday morning, shortly before 4 a.m, Burkhammer and another firefighter, Brian Moravitz, were combing through debris near the impact site…the two spotted an intact seat from the plane’s cockpit with a chunk of the floor still attached…Then they saw two odd-shaped dark boxes, about 1.5 by 2 feet long. They’d been told the plane’s “black boxes” would in fact be bright orange, but these were charred black. The boxes had handles on one end and one was torn open…the FBI confirmed: black boxes from American Airlines Flight 77.”

3.3.9 Another plane inbound:

Don Fortunato, detective who arrived a few minutes after the impact on the scene:
“There’s a second incoming, 20 miles out, inbound to us. So people started packing up what they could, and we ran.. Other police officials were told there were two to four unaccounted-for planes in the skies. It was extremely difficult to move all those medical supplies and people.. About two minutes later, we heard two F-16s screaming over the Pentagon and circling.” [more on the evacuation because of the treat of new airliners can be found in quotes above]

3.4 Confiscation and destruction of evidence:

Jose Velasquez, supervisor nearby gas station where a security tape had been confiscated:
”The gas station's security cameras are close enough to the Pentagon to have recorded the moment of impact…I've never seen what the pictures looked like… The FBI was here within minutes and took the film.”
Allen Cleveland [saw a silver airliner and C-130]:
”I have done my research on this and according to time magazine it took 24 minutes before Norad was supposedly notified about this particuliar jet and fighters were scrambling to intercept at that time. Isn't it odd how there is Not a single mention of this aircraft in ANY of the articles written about this crash? Also if you had not noticed... There is not a single picture or live footage of the actual jet prior to its crash at the Pentagon. Nor is there any of the one that crashed in Pennsylvania. But if anyone who rides the metro-rail knows, there are plenty of video cameras all around national airport at the parking garages and the high level security buildings found all around Crystal city. (3 of which I have personally found pointed directly towards crystal city which would have given a great line of site shot of that jet prior to the crash as well as any other plane which might have been following it. I personally believe that the government new full well that this was about to happen and they are hiding something a lot bigger than they are willing to let out. I was interviewed at Washingtonpost.com and gave them my full story, but they did not print it as I have told you.”
Article in the Washington Post, May 6, 2004 - "FAA Managers Destroyed 9/11 Tape":
"Hours after the hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Center Towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, an FAA manager at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center gathered six controllers who communicated or tracked two of the hijacked planes and recorded in a one-hour interview their personal accounts of what occurred, the report stated... as is common practice.

According to the report, a second manager at the New York center promised a union official representing the controllers that he would "get rid of" the tape after controllers used it to provide written statements to federal officials about the events of the day.

Instead, the second manager said he destroyed the tape between December 2001 and January 2002 by crushing the tape with his hand, cutting it into small pieces and depositing the pieces into trash cans around the building, the report said.

The inspector general concluded...'The destruction of evidence in the Government's possession, in this case an audiotape -- particularly during times of national crisis -- has the effect of fostering an appearance that information is being withheld from the public.

The report was conducted at the request of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) after the panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, officially known as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, complained that the FAA had been less than forthcoming in turning over documents and issued a subpoena to the agency for more information." (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A6632-2004May6&notFound=true)

3.5 The second spotted plane, a C-130H.

A military C-130H spectre cargo plane was seen flying behind Flight 77. The eye witness accounts on the ground vary a little bit from each other and from the pilot, but it was there. And as far as I can see it had a good reason to be in the neigborhood.

Allen Cleveland [witness who a saw silver airliner crash at the Pentagon…has more to say about camera’s a little further]:
”Within 30 seconds of the crash I witnessed a military cargo plane (C130) fly over the crash site and circle the mushroom cloud. My brother in law also witnessed the same plane following the jet while he was on the HOV lanes in Springfield. He said that he saw a jetliner flying low over the tree tops near Seminary RD in Springfield, VA. and soon afterwards a military plane was seen flying right behind it.”
Kelly Knowles, a few miles from the Pentagon:
”A few seconds later, a second plane that seemed to be chasing the first passed over at a slightly different angle… There was most definitely a second plane…It's so frustrating because nobody knows about the second plane, or if they do they're hiding it for some reason.” (The quote "saw two planes moving toward the Pentagon, one veering away as the other crashed." is often used for people promoting the theory that the second plane, that got away, was Flight 77.)
Wheelhouse and his sister, Pam Young from the Arlington National Cemetery, less than 1 mile away from the Pentagon:
”They watched the jet approach and slam into the Pentagon. Both of them, as well as at least one other person at the funeral, insist that there was another plane flying near the hijacked jet…Wheelhouse said the second plane looked like it may have been a C- 130 transport plane, but the other three witnesses say they're not sure what the plane looked like… Wheelhouse believes it flew directly above the American Airlines jet, as if to prevent two planes from appearing on radar while at the same time guiding the jet toward the Pentagon. As Flight 77 descends toward the Pentagon, the second plane veers off west.”
Vin Narayanan, USA Today reporter [saw airliner clip poles]:
”I hopped out of my car after the jet exploded, nearly oblivious to a second jet hovering in the skies.”
Joel Sucherman [The first jet was an American Airlines, definetly no learjet according to him]:
”I saw a second plane.”
Arlington worker who declined to be interviewed:
" …a mysterious second plane was circling the area when the first one attacked the Pentagon.”
John O’keefe, editor of ‘Influence’ [lobbying magazine] in his car at Interstate 395, up Washington Boulevard [didn’t hear large explosion as the jet crashed]:
”The first thing I did was pull over onto the shoulder, and when I got out of the car I saw another plane flying over my head…. Then the plane—it looked like a C-130 cargo plane—started turning away from the Pentagon, it did a complete turnaround.”
Scott P Cook and Ray Verle from fifth floor of the Portals building, at theTidal Basin and Maine Avenue:
”As we watched the black plume gather strength, less than a minute after the explosion, we saw an odd sight that no one else has yet commented on. Directly in back of the plume, which would place it almost due west from our office, a four-engine propeller plane, which Ray later said resembled a C-130, started a steep decent towards the Pentagon… from east to west… and it was descending at a much steeper angle than most aircraft.. the plane reached the Pentagon at a low altitude and made a sharp left turn, passing just north of the plume, and headed straight for the White House... But right over the tidal basin, at an altitude of less than 1000 feet, it made another sharp left turn to the north and climbed rapidly. Soon it was gone...”
Lt. Col. Kenneth McClellan, a Pentagon spokesman:
”A C-130 cargo plane had departed Andrews Air Force Base en route to Minnesota that morning and reported seeing an airliner heading into Washington at an unusual angle. Air-traffic control officials instructed the propeller-powered cargo plane to let them know where it's going. But, there was no attempt to intercept the hijacked airliner. A C-130 obviously goes slower than a jet. the Pentagon had no knowledge of the C-130's encounter, because all reports were classified by the Air National Guard, the Pentagon spokesman said. It was very hard to get any information out..”
The 9/11 Commision:
”The 9/11 Commission reports that it is a C-130H and the pilot specifically identifies the hijacked plane as a 757. Seconds after impact, he reports, “Looks like that aircraft crashed into the Pentagon sir.”
The pilot of the C-130, Lt. Col. Steve O'Brien:
”I took off at 9:30 from AFB and was instructed by Reagan Airport Flight Control to intercept and indentify an incoming plane. When air traffic control asked me if we had him [Flight 77] in sight, I told him that was an understatement—by then, he had pretty much filled our windscreen. Then he made a pretty aggressive turn so he was moving right in front of us, a mile and a half, two miles away. I said we had him in sight, then the controller asked me what kind of plane it was. That caught us up, because normally they have all that information. The controller didn't seem to know anything.I said it was either a 757 or 767 and its silver fuselage means it is probably an American Airlines plane. They told us to turn and follow that aircraft — in 20-plus years of flying, I've never been asked to do something like that.”
”Just after the explosion I could see the outline of the Pentagon.[smog] I then asked if should set up a low orbit around the building, but I’m told to get out of the area as quickly as possible. I took the plane once through the plume of smoke and thought if this was a terrorist attack, it probably wasn't a good idea to be flying through that plume.”

3.6 The Pentagon: Alternative hypothesis and theories that something else than Flight 77 hit the Pentagon.

Below are some theories/assumptions. Most of them I consider pure disinformation except for a few that I believe to be misinterpretations by witnesses on the ground at the time of the crash.

3.6.2 Theory number 1: A missile struck the building - the 'video' - a Rumsism - misquotes:

The missile theory is primarily based on the ‘released’ Pentagon video, which is without the slightest doubt a complete hoax. I don’t even want to post the pictures here because it eats away my limited bandwidth and wastes your printer inkt. You can find the 'video' all over the net. I will give some pointers that I personally find peculiar:

1. First of all, it’s not an official release. No official US federal organisation has said: ‘Yes, it’s from us and it is a real untampered video.’ So if these 5 frames ever prove to be hoax no one is responsible.
2. Only 5 frames. In a single seconde you have at least 25fps (PAL or NTSC differ a bit) and many security camera have 60fps or even 100fps. Just watch any movie of a plane crash, missile launch or even the detonation of a high explosive and watch it frame by frame in a video editing program. You’ll see immediately that these snapshots have been carefully selected. Then you gotta ask yourself…why?
3. Where is the plane that everyone saw? It could not have hidden itself behind that square block on the foreground. Planes don’t leave smoke trails low on the ground and missiles don’t knock lampposts down. No one reported seeing a smoke trail, everyone reported seeing a plane knocking down lampposts. My conclusion…the smoketrail wasn’t there.
4. A plane doesn’t move fast enough to move from behind the square block in frame 1 all the way into the building in frame 2. Maybe you need to do a calculation when you are a presenting evidence in a court but here on the net I would think common sense will do, just watch the WTC impact video’s frame by frame. There’s just no way.
5. The first fireball/flash in the Pentagon movie looks exactly like what you’d expect from a high explosive. Very white and a very rapid expansion [but still, lots of frames missing.] I hardly see any debris flying and I would be amazed if the firetruck and the firehouse would still be standing after such an explosion. You would also think large pieces of the plane will be blown back since you cannot shatter a plane with a single bomb except when you’re using such a heavy bomb that you blow thalf the Pentagon to pieces.
6. The follow-up fireball looks like what you expect from a plane crash or a heavy bomb [after 2-3 seconds] but since we have no idea of the time between the images we just cannot tell.
7. Without any additional comment the film was dated [underside screen] september 12 2001 with a very wrong time. Of course nobody forgot to adjust this date when hoaxing the video, as some have speculated. Nobody is that stupid. And it would be no problem to adjust this date either, as some other people have speculated. It could simply be that the people who controlled the camera didn’t care about the date or it could be done on purpose for some extra confusion and dividing among the 'truth seekers'.

Conclusion: The 'missile trail' is probably pasted in since not one witness has described seeing it, almost all frames are missing and we cannot say anything useful about the explosion since we have no idea of the timetable. It would be no problem for anyone with a basic knowledge of Photoshop to make a picture of the Pentagon and create these GIF's themselves. My advice; Watch it…then loose it. Oh, and I read on different sites that there is something wrong with the shadows. I’ve looked and looked but I cannot see anything abnormal. Maybe it’s just me.

Donald Rumsfeld, october 12 2001, in Parade Magazine:
”Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filled with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center.”

1.You can refer to the plane as a missile because it was used as one. It’s not a bad description at all.
2. The (inaudible) is a little bit to convenient. It’s the only ‘inaudible’ word on the whole page and it’s exactly on such a spot that the whole conspiracy-community goes: ‘What? What?!… Tell me!!’
3. Rumsfeld is not Bush. He doesn’t make ‘Rumsims’ and if he does he will probably say very calm: ‘I am sorry, that’s a confuzing description. Can you please ignore those words, I’ll describe it better for you.’ And the one reporter that would choose to post it anyway would undoubtly have heard that ‘inaudible’ part as well. The reporter also had to get the approval of the editor of this large magazine.
4. Plastic knives? Is that another ‘rumsims’?
5. The ‘leaked’ video and the more recent and megadumb ‘no plane at WTC theory’ fit very well with this ‘confession’ of Rummy. Unfortunatly, both of these theories are dead wrong and only distract of what really happened.

My opinion: Not worth looking into, since it doesn’t stroke with any of the witnesses and it might even have been a deliberate move.

’Soundwitnesses’ of the missile theory, that are often quoted as proof that a misslie struck the building:

Tom Seibert, a network engineer at the Pentagon:
"We heard what sounded like a missile, then we heard a loud boom...We just hit the dirt. We dived instinctively. We were sitting there and watching this thing in New York, and I said, 'you know, the next best target would be us. And five minutes later, boom." [This 'witness' was watching TV inside the Pentagon.] (http://a188.g.akamaitech.net/f/188/920/5m/www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html)
Michael DiPaula, project coordinator Pentagon Renovation Team, in construction trailer 75 feet from the crash:
”Suddenly, an airplane roared into view, nearly shearing the roof off the trailer before slamming into the E ring. It sounded like a missile… Buried in debris and covered with airplane fuel, he was briefly listed by authorities as missing...There were three loud thump, thump, thumps. You could hear the metal cracking and crinkling, and the explosion.” (Sunspot - Baltimore sun)
Mike Walter, USA Today (also quoted above):
I was sitting in the northbound on 27 and the traffic was, you know, typical rush-hour -- it had ground to a standstill. I looked out my window and I saw this plane, this jet, an American Airlines jet, coming. And I thought, 'This doesn't add up, it's really low...And I saw it. I mean it was like a cruise missile with wings. It went right there and slammed right into the Pentagon...Huge explosion, great ball of fire, smoke started billowing out." [Nice quote but he clearly stated he saw a big loud American Airlines jet as everyone else.] (http://archives.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/09/11/witnesses/)
Update: In May of 2002 Mike Walter is interviewed on camera, by Digipresse, on site at the Pentagon, to tell us again what he saw:
"I said that as a metaphor. (The cruise missile) To me it was like a missile was fired at a building. It exploded as you'd imagine a missile to explode. ... It was an American Airlines jet. And I watched it go into the building. I saw the big 'AA' on the side...It wasn't a bomb, it wasn't a missile, it was an American Airlines jet, and I watched it go into the building." (http://digipressetmp3.teaser.fr/uploads/492/walter2.ram)

Tony Terronez, from a nearby higway:
”So I got about 100 yards or so past the heliport and then all of the sudden I heard this loud screeching sound that just came out of nowhere and it intensified. This huge WHOOSH! And something made me look in my rearview mirror and by the time I looked up I saw the side of the Pentagon explode....At that point I realized -- you see at that point I didn't know it was a plane, I thought it was a missile strike...” [He didn’t see anything impact, he only heard a loud ‘whoosh’ and saw an explosion.] (http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/amazing1001.htm)
Lon Rains, Editor Space News, from Springfield somewhere on Interstate 395:
”With the Pentagon to the left of my van at about 10 o’clock on the dial of a clock, I glanced at my watch to see if I was going to be late for my appointment. At that moment I heard a very loud, quick whooshing sound that began behind me and stopped suddenly in front of me and to my left. In fractions of a second I heard the impact and an explosion. The next thing I saw was the fireball. I was convinced it was a missile. It came in so fast it sounded nothing like an airplane...I remember vividly that as I turned off my cell phone I was watching the almost serene image of thick pieces of flaming fiberglass insulation floating down onto the highway.” [By reading the text, he did not see any object, only a large fireball a few moment after impact. We would need an interview with this reporter to be sure.] (http://www.space.com/news/rains_september11-1.html)
Kirk Milburn, a construction supervisor for Atlantis Co., who was on the Arlington National Cemetery exit of Interstate 395:
"I was right underneath the plane," said Kirk Milburn, a construction supervisor for Atlantis Co., who was on the Arlington National Cemetery exit of Interstate 395 when he said he saw the plane heading for the Pentagon. "I heard a plane. I saw it. I saw debris flying. I guess it was hitting light poles," said Milburn. "It was like a WHOOOSH whoosh, then there was fire and smoke, then I heard a second explosion." [Again, he states he saw a plane. The secondary explosion though, as reported by more witnesses, is very interesting.] (http://a188.g.akamaitech.net/f/188/920/5m/www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html)

Another thing that missile theory supporters argue as a smoking gun for their theory, is the fact that the constuction workers covered all the grass in the neigborhood with a layer of sand on top of a layer of rocks. This was supposedly done to protect the workers against the effects of depleted uranium that are often found in missile warheads of the US. Personally, I think it’s very normal to cover the ground of the reconstruction area with these two layers, otherwise you will end up in a giant mudpool the first time it rains. Every truck or crane will become stuck. And I don’t think Donald Rumsfeld would be helping people at ground zero if their was depleted uranium. He would have known about it.

Conclusion: We are still waiting for any evidence that a missile hit the Pentagon. Nobody even remotely thought about seeing this. Lose the theory. Besides that, a missile would produce a big round hole, not a 'fusealage-wings hole'.

3.6.3 Theory number 2: A Global Hawk, F-16 or other military jet hit the Pentagon:

This one is very simple to disprove. A global Hawk is so fragile that it could never have knocked down all those street lights and a F16 doesn’t have the wingspan to do that. You can say that somebody took down those lights after the crash in front of hundreds, if not thousands of witnesses, but if you really believe that you seriously have a problem. Anyway, nobody even remotely described these planes at the moment of the crash and a lot of people saw those street lights get run down by an American Airlines jet.

3.6.4 Theory number 3: A truckbomb was placed next to the Pentagon and there was no plane - Meyssan the UN globalist?

This theory was fired up by Thierry Meyssan in his book “L’effroyable Imposture”. Unfortunatly, it doesn’t correspond with anything that the witnesses have have been telling about the attack. Maybe this guy should learn to read and speak english a little bit better. (Yes, I know mine could use a little improvement too) This absolutely is a 100% garbage theory and I just cannot believe that anyone serious could ignore so must evidence that proves him wrong. A few days after his book came out the so called ‘security camera video’ came out and the controversy started. Then it was Eric Hufschmid’s turn with the missile/Global Hawk theory. Although we absolutely cannot rule out that their wasn’t anything in the building or in the airplane, the theory of a truck bomb or that there was no plane involved does not hold ground. Lose it.

Update: Just read somethin pretty interesting. Thierry Meyssan is the director of the left-wing Voltaire Network (Réseau Voltaire). Why I think this is interesting is because Voltaire's role in the French revolution of 1789 is quite clear. According to a conspiratorial view of history, backed with many facts, Masons Voltaire and Rousseau (not to be confused with Réseau, which means Network) were key players in the Illuminati, the organisation that was at the base of the French revolution. A case can be made that this organisation survived through the ages, causing waves of Marxist/Socialist revolutions in Italy, Germany, Belgium and the famous 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.

This organisation was known to create multiple versions of 'reality' for it's enemies (the rest of the world) and then playing them out against each other. And that has basicly happened in the 9/11 Truth community.

Voltaire Network has subsidiary websites; A Spanish 'Red Voltaire' and a more basic, English 'Shabak Voltaire'. The websites are pro-UN and very anti-United States (under Bush). A lot of their articles have to do about how vulnerable the United States is and how Russia and China, in combination with some European countries are trying to build an economic and military alliance against the United States. I cannot read Spanish and French that well, but I higly suspect they both are pro-Communist/Socialist.

They have the '9/11 Pentagon Strike' disinfo-of-the-year-movie on the frontpage of 2 of their 3 websites. It's also quite interesting to see how it starts with a speech of Hitler, blaming a small clique of Jews for all the problems... It's not real hard to imagine Bush is trying to build a Third or Fourth (Roman) Reich, although I would have to dig deeper at the meaning of it all.

Thyrrie Meyssan speech before Arabs - He proposes that the United Nations should come in and do a new truly independent 9/11 Investigation. Isn't that along the lines what Michael Moore also wants, to solve all the problems of the United States citizens? In this speech you will find the most famous disinfo quote of all: "something like a cruise missile with wings". Obviously, this selective quoting has been done on purpose.

I looks like Putin advisor Tatyana Koryagina was right.

3.6.5 Theory number 4: A combination of the above theories including a version whereby an F16 flew under Flight 77. Flight 77 flew over the Pentagon, the F16 fired a missile and crashed into the Pentagon. [disinfo in my opinion]

Again, please show me a witness or any peace of good evidence that backs this up. 1 or 2 helicopters have been seen, 1 American Airlines jetliner has been seen that actually crashed into the building and 1 C-130H has been seen right behind the jetliner. Nothing else, lose these theories.

3.6.6 Another type of airliner flew into the Pentagon, possibly a 737: [just misinfo in my opinion]

Steve Patterson, 43, a graphics artist, who was watching TV in his 14th-floor apartment in Pentagon City, when he saw a silver commuter jet fly past the window:
"The plane was about 150 yards away, approaching from the west about 20 feet off the ground, Patterson said. He said the plane, which sounded like the high-pitched squeal of a fighter jet, flew over Arlington cemetary so low that he thought it was going to land on I-395. He said it was flying so fast that he couldn't read any writing on the side. The plane, which appeared to hold about eight to 12 people, headed straight for the Pentagon but was flying as if coming in for a landing on a nonexistent runway..." [The route the plane is flying seems to be accurate, but since this person couldn't even identify the American Airlines logo, which dozens of other could, he doesn't seem to have been in a particularly great spot to have given an accurate description of the airplane.] (http://a188.g.akamaitech.net/f/188/920/5m/www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html)
Anonymous, his location is also unknown, supposedly from NBC on 9/11:
"I saw what looked to be maybe a 20-passenger corporate jet, no markings on the side, coming in at a shallow angle like it was landing right into the side of the Pentagon." [Same as above. Even though I could find this quote on only one small geocities site, which tried to prove a 757 did hit the building, I do believe it is authentic]
John O’Keefe, who was listening to the radio in his car at Interstate 395 [Also saw the C-130 cargo plane turning away after the crash]:
"I don’t know whether I saw or heard it first -- this silver plane; I immediately recognized it as an American Airlines jet...It came swooping in over the highway, over my left shoulder, straight across where my car was heading. There was a burst of orange flame that shot out that I could see through the highway overpass. Then it was just black. Just black thick smoke.
...The eeriest thing about it, was that it was like you were watching a movie. There was no huge explosion, no huge rumbling on ground, it just went ‘pfff.’ It wasn’t what I would have expected for a plane that was not much more than a football field away from me." [These statements about the sound and the explosion are so contradictory when comparing it to all the other claims I think it’s just adrenaline and shock. A few witnesses described seeing everything in slow-motion or loosing track of sound as soon as they understood the situation. At least one in included somewhere above. He does however, state to have seen an American Airlines jet. Of course you can argue how large that jet was.] (http://www.nylawyer.com/news/01/09/091201l.html)
Ervin Brown, who works at the Pentagon:
”I saw pieces of what appeared to be small aircraft on the ground, and the part of the building by the heliport had collapsed.” [quite a normal reaction considering there were mainly only very tiny pieces of aircraft littered around the neighborhood. A lot of people who had seen the plane crash, said the same thing]
Steve DeChiaro, engineer:
”I reached the west side of the building I saw a light post bent in half. But when I looked at the site, my brain could not resolve the fact that it was a plane because it only seemed like a small hole in the building,… No tail. No wings. No nothing…shortly after 10 a.m. police yelled at people to get back. Just as we're about to open the door[to get into the building], they start screaming, 'There's another inbound plane'…For nearly 15 minutes, they stood watching the Pentagon burn and periodically checked the sky for another plane.” [It is not clear to me if he saw the plane, he was about a mile away when the impact occurred. The the hole doesn’t seem that large and the plane was entirely gone so it’s not really that strange he finds it hard to believe]
State Department employee Ken Ford looking from the 15th floor:
”We were watching Reagan National Airport through binoculars a short distance away. The plane was a two-engine turbo prop that flew up the river from National. Then it turnedback toward the Pentagon. We thought it had been waved off and then it hit the building.” [It isn’t entirely clear but since he says he thought it was waved off I assume they didn’t follow it all the way. In that case another plane that they weren’t watching could have crashed into the building. That being said, he’s also talking about a turboprop engine which looks very different from a turbofan engine of a 757. It’s highly likely that he saw a different plane than the one that flew into the Pentagon. He is the only one who has spoken of a turboprop]
D.S. Khavkin., from an 8 story building nearby:
”At first, we thought it was the jets that sometimes fly overhead. However, it appeared to be a small commercial aircraft...The engine was at full throttle. First, the plane knocked down a number of street lamp poles, then headed directly for the Pentagon and crashed on the lawn near the west side the Pentagon.”[It depends on what you call small, compared to a 747 the 757 is pretty small indeed. Without an additional interview nothing can be said about his statement]
Don Wright in an interview with the Sun Sentinel (audio):
“It was about 9:35 and I was looking out our 12th floor windows at 1600 Wilson Boulevard in Rosslyn, Virginia, and I watched this...it looked like a commuter plane, two engined ... come down from the south, real low, perceived right on and crashed right on into the Pentagon…I watched it come down real low over the trees and it just dipped down…came down right over 395 right into the Pentagon” [Some people argue that because he describes a seeing a commuter plane, that it could only have been a small plane. Well, on the internet you can find that press reports call a Fokker-100 with 122 passengers also a commuter airplane or some people (search this page) call an 757 and 767 a commuter airplane. We would need an additional interview to clarify what he exactly saw.]

Jim Sutherland, a mortgage broker:
”Jim Sutherland, a mortgage broker, was driving near the Pentagon at 9:40 a.m. when he saw a 737 airplane 50 feet over Interstate 395 heading in a straight line into the side of the Pentagon. The fireball explosion that followed rocked his car. Drivers began pulling over to the side - some taking pictures - not quite believing what they were seeing.”
Terry Morin, form. United States Marine Corps Aviator, from Federal Office Building [Navy Annex]:
”I believed at the time that it belonged to American Airlines, but I couldn't be sure. It looked like a 737 and I so reported to authorities.”
Mike Dobbs, Marine Corps officer from one of the upper levels in the Pentagon:
”… I saw an American Airlines 737 twin-engine airliner strike the building.”

So 3 known witnesses saw a 737. I must say, I have found this quite interesting for a while, especially because I thought the Pentagon hole was to small for a 757-223. But now that I’m convinced that that is not the case (either the other way around, the hole is too big for a 737) I don’t see a reason why someone would substitue a 757 with a 737 or why they should say that a 757 has been hijacked while it is a 737. Then again, a boeing 737 and 757 can easily be confused with each other, especially if the plane is moving fast and low. (I wouldn't have recognized a 757 from a 767 or 737 before 9/11) Another thing is, if the plane is coming from where the sun is, you might not be able to judge the color of the airliner that easy. These 3 witnesses are an overwhelming minority that leads me safely to believe that indeed Flight 77, a Boeing 757-223, slammed into the building around 9:40AM. And except for the type of plane they saw, their statements fit right in with the majority.

4.1 Flight 93: The confirmed facts and the witnesses on the ground.

• Cincinatti newspaper WCPO had the following story on their website for almost 3 years. When the story became widely known via Dave von Kleist (in mid 2004) it was retracted:
  "A Boeing 767 out of Boston made an emergency landing Tuesday at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport due to concerns that it may have a bomb aboard, said Mayor Michael R. White. White said the plane had been moved to a secure area of the airport, and was evacuated.
  United identified the plane as Flight 93. The airline did say how many people were aboard the flight. United said it was also 'deeply concerned' about another flight, Flight 175, a Boeing 767, which was bound from Boston to Los Angeles.
  On behalf of the airline CEO James Goodwin said: 'The thoughts of everyone at United are with the passengers and crew of these flights. Our prayers are also with everyone on the ground who may have been involved. United is working with all the relevant authorities, including the FBI, to obtain further information on these flights' he said."
  A very, very strange story that needs explanation. Why would a Mayor made a 'speculative statement' as this? Cleveland Hopkins International Airport was also right next to the path of Flight 93. No other media station seems to have picked up on this story from this local, but not small newspaper. For now, let's assume nothing from this story and direct our attention to other points of interest.
• The area were Flight 93 came down is one of the more desolated areas in the US. The nearest reasonable sized town is Somerset, 10 miles away over dirt-roades. Around 10:03 the plane suddenly went a dramatically different way, to the north-east. This can be of a number of reasons, only one of them being an attempt of the passengers taking back the plane.
• Official sources say that Flight 93 crashed for unknown reasons at 10:03, probably due to a wrestle between the hijackers and passengers. The cockpit voice recorder [1 of 2 black boxes] stops also at 10:03 according to the FBI. But seismic data shows that the crash happened at 10:06:05. What happened during those 3 minutes?
• The released tape of Flight 93 is 4 minutes. There are only two short sections where you hear the hijackers talk to the passengers, they pushed the wrong button…
• The moment Flight 93 hit the ground an C-130H was at 17 miles distance. It was the same C-130H that was at the Pentagon. It was heading for Minnesota.
• According to the official sources the nearest fighter jets were still 11 minutes away from intercepting the plane. This is wrong because fighter jets arrived in Washington could intercept Flight 93 head-on within 5 minutes if Flight 93 continued to Washington. Shootdown orders had been given by Bush and Cheney for planes that would threaten the capital.
• Bill Wright, who was flying a small Piper airplane saw Flight 93 at a distance of 3 miles, minutes before the crash. He was told to stay away and land immediately without been given a reason.
• Multiple witnesses on the ground report hearing an explosion before the crash.
  Laura Temyer:
  ”I heard like a boom and the engine sounded funny. I heard two more booms, and then I did not hear anything…I think the plane was shot down"
  Linda Sheple:
  ”I heard a loud bang and saw the plane bank to the side before crashing."
• Multiple witnesses see debris floating to the ground in a few concentrated spots.
  3 witnesses with each other:
  ”It just looked like confetti raining down all over the air above the lake.”
  Jim Stop, 2.5 miles back from crashsite:
  ”I said he could see parts falling from the plane as I was fishing.”
  Residents around the lake:
  ”A jetliner was flying over at low altitude and was falling apart on our homes.”
  Somersett state trooper:
  ”People were calling in and reporting pieces of plane falling.”
• Multiple witnesses see how the smoking plane turns upside down after the engines have gone silent and how it dives with it’s nose into the ground into what seems a massive explosion that shatters the plane.
  Unknown witness:
  ”All at once it just stopped. There was no engine noise, nothing.”
  Unknown witness:
  “I didn’t see the plane but I heard the plane’s engine. Then I heard a loud thump that echoed off the hills and then I heard the plane’s engine. I heard two more loud thumps and didn’t hear the plane’s engine anymore after that.”
  Tim Thornsberg:
  ”It came in low over the trees and started wobbling. Then it just rolled over and was flying upside down for a few seconds ... and then it kind of stalled and did a nose dive over the trees.”
  WTAE-TV witness:
  ”It made a high-pitched, screeching sound. The plane then made a sharp, 90-degree downward turn and crashed.”
  Bob Blair:
  “I saw the plane flying upside down overhead and crash into the nearby trees. Windows shattered for half a mile at the impact. My buddy, Doug, and I grabbed our fire extinguishers and ran to the scene.”
  Michael Merringer, 2 miles from crashsite:
  ”I heard the engine gun two different times, heard a loud bang and the windows of the houses all around rattled”
  Larry Williams:
  ”I he heard the engines roar real loud and shut off.”
  Eric Peterson:
  ”The plane continued on beyond a nearby hill, then dropped out of sight behind a tree line. As it did so,
  it seemed to be turning end-over-end. Then I saw a fireball, heard an explosion and saw a mushroom cloud of smoke rise into the sky… a great explosion and you could see the flames. It was a massive, massive explosion. Flames and then smoke and then a massive, massive mushroom cloud.”
  Conclusion of reporter:
  ”Witnesses reported eerie sounds from the aircraft as it fell. Some people heard an explosion [up to 3], and others heard sputtering.”
• Pluta:
  "There was no way anything was left. There was just charred pieces of metal and a big hole. The plane didn't slide into the crash. It went straight into the ground. Wings out. Nose down."
  Police spokesman Thomas Spallone:
  ”The debris field spread over an area size of a football field, maybe two footballs fields.Bits of metal were thrown against a tree line like shrapnel. Once it hit, everything just disintegrated, there are just shreds of metal. The longest piece I saw was 2 feet long."
  Wallace Miller:
  “The surviving pieces were no bigger than a carrier bag.”
  Media reports confirm the same thing:
  ”Reporters said the crater was about 40 feet wide and more than 8 feet deep. The largest debris from the plane was no bigger than a phone book.”
  According to official sources the plane impacted on very soft soil burrowing large portions of the plane at a dept of 20/25feet [7.5 meters].
• It turns out that a big piece of 1 of the engines was found a mile back down the flight path. Official sources explain that this happened due to the impact of the plane. The weight of the engine part is at least 700 pounds and can be up to a ton.
• Small debris has been found back on the trail, over a hill, as far as 8 miles. This includes United Airlines magazines, books, [seat] clothing and small human remains. Blown away by the wind after the crash according to official sources.

4.1.2 Flight 93: The small, white jet that has been spotted.

• Multiple witnesses see a [stange] small white agile jet during the crash flying very low above the ground.
  Susan Mcelwain:
  “It came right over me, I reckon just 40 or 50 feet above my minivan ... it was so low, I ducked instinctively. It was traveling real fast, but hardly made any sound." ….. "it had two rear engines, a big fin on the back like a spoiler on the back of a car and with two upright fins at the side ... A few seconds later I heard this great explosion and saw this fireball rise up over the trees…The ground really shook…only when I got home I realised it wasn't the white jet, but Flight 93.”
  Dennis Decker and Rick Chaney:
  ”As soon as we looked up [after they heard an explosion], we saw a midsized jet flying low and fast…It appeared to make a loop or part of a circle, and then it turned fast and headed out….a Lear-jet type, with engines mounted near the tail and painted white with no identifying markings.”
  Lee Purbaugh:
  “Yes, there was another plane. I didn't get a good look but it was white and it circled the area about twice and then it flew off over the horizon.”
  Tom Spinelli:
  "I saw the white plane. It was flying around all over the place like it was looking for something. I saw it before and after the crash."
  Susan Custer:
  She saw a small white jet streaking overhead: “Then I heard the boom and saw the mushroom cloud.”
  Robin Doppstadt:
  “When I walked outside I saw a white jet circling the crashsite”
  Dale Browning:
  “Then it climbed very quickly and took off. It's the damndest darn thing,”

There are lots of small, white jets with the engines mounted at the back and a T-shaped tail, but the jets from Bombardier and Gulfstream are one of the few who have these upright fins at the end of the wings as described by one witness.

"Jurors in the trial of accused Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui ...Additional recordings would be played from the cockpit of an executive jet that tracked Flight 93 on Sept. 11, according to written proposals subject to approval by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema....An official for NetJets, a company that sells shares in private business aircraft, confirmed that the plane tracking Flight 93 belonged to the company. The official, who asked not to be identified by name, said the company was asked not to comment on the Sept. 11 flight but would not say who made the request." (Holland Sentinal 08/09/2002)

Netjets is owned by a company of Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway Inc.) who was at Strategic Command on the morning of september 11 holding a charity event (more on this later). Bush landed on this base before flying back to Washington to give his speech to the nation. Netjets has these Gulfstream planes in it's fleet, but no Learjets. These jets go anywhere from 520 to 560 mph / 832 to 896 kmh on altitude and fit right in with the witnesses and the official conformations that a Netjets plane was in the neigborhood during the crash.

Glenn Cramer, local emergency dispatcher:
”We got the call about 9:58 this morning from a male passenger stating that he was locked in the bathroom of United Flight 93 traveling from Newark to San Francisco, and they were being hijacked. He was very distraught. He said he believed the plane was going down. He did hear some sort of an explosion and saw white smoke coming from the plane, but he didn't know where.”
Since in the official version all the telephone calls are accepted as truth without question you would think the FBI would do a serious investigation of this call. Glenn Cramer had been told to stay quiet after his initial account and the tape was confiscated.
FBI spokesman Bill Crowley:
”The conclusion of the investigation is that no explosives were used on board the plane.”
”There is no evidence of a small jet in the neigborhood during the crash.” Some time later they changed that story and said that there was a white plane just crossing the area at 5000feet.

4.2 Jet fighter theory.

There is some evidence that military jets were in the neigborhood of Flight 93 when it went down but this is not confirmed by people on the ground in the following days.

A flight controller from New-Hampshire ignored the ban to speak and told the press:
”…an F-16 fighter closely pursued United Airlines Flight 93... the F-16 made 360-degree turns to remain close to the commercial jet, the controller said…he must've seen the whole thing”
Nashua Telegraph Newspaper:
”FAA air traffic controllers in Nashua have learned through discussions with other controllers that an F-16 fighter stayed in hot pursuit of another hijacked commercial airliner until it crashed in Pennsylvania.”
Ernie Stuhl, the mayor of Shanksville:
”I know of two people - I will not mention names - that heard a missile…military F-16 fighter jets were very, very close.”
Susan Mcelwain, who saw a white plane, said she talked that day to the wife of an Airforce employee:
”She said her husband had called her that morning and said 'I can't talk, but we've just shot a plane down.”
Dennis Mock, from Shanksville:
”I think it was shot down…that's what people around here think.”

• In februari of 2004, according to form. Colonel Donn de Grand-Pre, Flight 93 has been shot down by the North-Dakota airguard 119th fighter group who were flying F-16’s. These fighters did not come from their home base in Fargo but were scrambled at 9:35 from Langley AFB. It would have been quite easy for them to intercept the plane well before 10:00 when they supposedly fired 2 infra-red missiles at the plane. He had told his story before but only a Portugese newspaper was interested.
• In april of 2004 a caller to the Howard Stern show says he heard an explosion in the air and saw 2 fighters circling around Flight 93. Howard didn’t want to talk about it.
• In june of 2004 the name of the fighter pilot who supposedly shot down Flight 93 had come out. No source has been given by letsroll911, a site which doesn’t mind a little bit of speculating.
• Donn de Grand-Pre, who in februari didn’t gave the name has confirmed to Alex Jones that the name is correct. It still remains a bit of a question what that pilot was doing on the morning of 9/11.
• At 9:22 an unusual seismic wave was registered near Shanksville, the site were Flight 93 would crash only 44 minutes later. It is thought to be a sonic boom but a according to one site a close-up analysis of a NASA seismologist has shown [quite detailed] that it differs from the sonic boom wave of an aircraft. Of course he didn’t know what this wave could be. Normally it seems it’s not registered in this place.

4.3 Questions about the passengers of the plane:

The 4 minute Cockpit Voice Recorder release (at least, the only one I could find) is no absolute proof that the official story is true:

1. You don’t hear anyone storming the cockpit.
2. According to the news media we are talking around 9:22 when we first hear the hijackers. The FAA has already notified NORAD according to CNN 6 minutes earlier of a possible hijack of Flight 93. In te tape the FAA is asking if anyone else heard ‘the scream’ because it wasn’t clear. They have been trying to contact Flight 93 for 6 minutes or something? Why isn’t that part publicly available?
3. You hear 2 separate voices say something like: “Everybody remain seated, we have a bomb on board.” They mistakenly press the wrong button twice when they are sending the passagiers a message so that everybody can hear it. There is no interaction with the FAA or anyone else.
4. Someone from one the planes is saying that he sees black smoke puffs at two o’clock when asked to look for Flight 93. It looks like something happened.
5. We don’t hear anyone storming the cockpit.
6. We don’t hear explosions or engine noises.
The point is, we still don’t know what happened.

4.4 The telephone calls that were made.

There are enormous contradictions in the answers on the question if mobile phones could have been used on the high altitudes that Flight 93 was flying at. In a lot of cases the plane was flying at 31.000 feet. What people have to say:

• Prof. A.K. Dewdney and four colleges/friends have done some experimenting. They took 4 mobile phones up in a small plane and started making calls from different altitutes to see if there was any validity in claims that mobile phones work very bad in airplanes. The phones were a Nokia 6310i, Audiovox 8300, Motorola i95cl and Startac.
  Even at low altitutes as 2000 or 4000ft there were lots of failures, disconnections or an extremely bad sound quality. At 8000ft all calls failed. Some of the calls from Flight 93 were supposedly made at a time the plane was flying over 30.000ft. Highly questionable to say at the least.
• "Wireless communications networks weren't designed for ground-to-air communication. Cellular experts privately admit that they're surprised the calls were able to be placed from the hijacked planes, and that they lasted as long as they did. They speculate that the only reason that the calls went through in the first place is that the aircraft were flying so close to the ground." (http://www.elliott.org/technology/2001/cellpermit.htm)
• "Expert opinion within the wireless telecom industry casts serious doubt on "the findings" of the 9/11 Commission. According to Alexa Graf, a spokesman of AT&T, commenting in the immediate wake of the 9/11 attacks:
  "it was almost a fluke that the [9/11] calls reached their destinations... From high altitudes, the call quality is not very good, and most callers will experience drops. Although calls are not reliable, callers can pick up and hold calls for a little while below a certain altitude." ( http://wirelessreview.com/ar/wireless_final_contact/ )
• "While serious doubts regarding the cell calls were expressed in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, a new landmark in the wireless telecom industry has further contributed to upsetting the Commission's credibility. Within days of the release of the 9/11 Commission Report in July, American Airlines and Qualcomm, proudly announced the development of a new wireless technology --which will at some future date allow airline passengers using their cell phones to contact family and friends from a commercial aircraft"(http://www.qualcomm.com/press/releases/2004/040715_aa_testflight.html)
• "Travelers could be talking on their personal cellphones as early as 2006. Earlier this month [July 2004], American Airlines conducted a trial run on a modified aircraft that permitted cell phone calls." (WP, July 27, 2004)
• Qualcomm and American Airlines are exploring [July 2004] ways for passengers to use commercial cell phones inflight for air-to-ground communication. In a recent 2-hr. proof-of-concept flight, representatives from government and the media used commercial Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) third-generation cell phones to place and receive calls and text messages from friends on the ground... For the test flight from Dallas-Fort Worth, the aircraft was equipped with an antenna in the front and rear of the cabin to transmit cell phone calls to a small in-cabin CDMA cellular base station. This "pico cell" transmitted cell phone calls from the aircraft via a Globalstar satellite to the worldwide terrestrial phone network" (Aviation Week (07/20/04)
• "Mr. Sheehan, who is also a certified pilot, notes that cell phones are regularly used on private and corporate planes "thousands of times every day" without incident. He says he has dialed from the air on many occasions. When asked whether cell phones should be included among the list of devices such as laptop computers that are now permitted above 10,000 feet, he says "that would be OK. It's not a problem."
  This is from a 1996 Wall-street journal article that is talking about the completely ungrounded charges that mobile phone usage can be dangerous when used inside an airliner. Even in this highly theoretical piece at the beginning of the 'mobile phone age' some problems with calling from the sky are being mentioned. The private and corporate jets mentioned by mr. Sheehan usually fly lower, somewhere around 10.000 to 12.000ft. which is a lot lower than the 31.000ft. reported for a lot of Flight 93 calls.

4.5 Possible scenario’s.

• Flight 93 was hijacked and the passengers tried to retake the plane. They managed to brake into the cockpit at 10:03 and the terrorist started blowing up bombs. (Sounds pretty good….there is not too much evidence to back it up, but it sounds good. It leaves many questions.)
• Flight 93 was shot down at 10:03 at great height. The fighters stayed at great height so no one or only a few would see them. (Sounds good also. You would possibly need more than one missile to bring it down explaning the multiple ‘thumps’ heard.)
• Several bombs brought it down. Possibly a bomb went-off during the final impact, disintegrating the airplane in small pieces.
• Some kind of combination and/or other unknown causes. (as is usually the case.)

5.1 The technical data of the airliners.

5.1.1 The technology behind the black boxes:

Large commercial aircraft like the Boeing 757 and the 767 are required by the FAA to be equipped with 2 different black boxes. The first one is the CVR [Cockpit Voice Recorder] which records radio transmissions and engine sounds, the second is the FDR [Flight Data Recorder] which records all the parameters like time, altitude, airspeed, heading and auto-pilot. The boxes are located in the tale section of the plane so they a very big ‘compression zone’.

* New tests are 1 hour in propane fireball.
** Forgot the time, can't find it ATM. It's at least for several hours.

Only a small part of the entire box needs to survive, that’s the memory part where the data is stored, the so-called CSMU [Crash Survivable Memory Units]. Usually the box itself is a complete mess. Former standards were 100G and 1000G.

There were a total of 8 black boxes in these 4 planes. 4 of them were destroyed in the WTC and never found (That is open to speculation since october 2004. Look at the WTC topic.), at least 1 was found in the Pentagon-crash but turned up ‘blank’ and according to the newspapers the black boxes from Flight 93 were found. Later it turned out the CVR only had a few barely audible sentences on it that were quite convenient. We don’t hear anything of the FDR.

I hope to find some exact numbers about the percentage of black boxes that actually turns up ‘blank.’ In the meantime, this quote will have to do:

Ted Lopatkiewicz, spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, told CBS News in 2002:
"It's extremely rare that we don't get the recorders back. I can't recall another domestic case in which we did not recover the recorders."

5.1.2 The ‘1.5G limit so NORAD took over the plane myth’:

A lot of claims have been made about the fact if the planes could have been remote controlled. Maybe that is true but one very influential piece that appeared on the internet is 100% disinfo. I’m quoting:

”The Boeing 757 and 767 are equipped with fully autonomous flight capability, they are the only two Boeing commuter aircraft capable of fully autonomous flight.”

Autonomous flight? That’s an expensive word, I had some trouble spelling that. Why don’t you just say autopilot? An autopilot that is just on about every airliner. And in the case of a 757 / 767 the autopilot can fly and land on itself [but some handlings have to be done by hand like landing gear and flaps], but it cannot take off. So ‘fully’ is a little bit misleading because it is usually referred to when someone is talking about a drone who does take-off on it’s own. I am not saying it isn’t possible because it can be done, but the option to take-off on it’s own is normally not installed in these planes because the FAA won’t allow it.

“They are intelligent planes, and have software limits pre set so that pilot error cannot cause passenger injury.. They are limited to approximately 1.5 g's, I repeat, one and one half g's.. No matter what the pilot wants, he cannot override this feature.”

These claims are completely false. There is a very big difference between Boeing and Airbus planes. With an airliner from Boeing, pilots can turn-off the autopilot [autonomous] and pull as many G’s as they can handle. All Airbus airliners since the A320 [1988] have a hard-wired limit of 2.5G that the pilots are allowed too pull. These Airbus planes rely much more on digitalized techniques such as ‘fly by wire’. ‘Fly by wire’ means that a computer adjusts the pilots steering movements according to the data parameters it receives. [air pressure, distance from the ground, speed, etc] An airbus plane also uses digitalized inputs, no force is needed besides pushing the required button. The Boeing 757 / 767 have a hydraulic / conventional steering mechanism. They are working with steel wires and lots of moving parts. In theory a pilot that applies enough force to the steering wheel should be able to overcome the autopilot.

”The plane that hit the Pentagon approached or reached its actual physical limits, military personnel have calculated that the Pentagon plane pulled between five and seven g's in its final turn.”

I cannot comment on that since I have not any accurate data concerning the actual flight path and the speed of the plane besides estimates. I doubt that you have the exact data.

”The 767 and 757 are the only commuter planes made by Boeing that can be flown by remote control. It is a feature that is standard to all of them, all 757's and 767's can do it… Norad can fly the planes to safe destinations via remote. Only in this flight mode can those craft exceed their software limits..”

Completely made up. This feature has not been installed. Of course you can fly a plane like this with remote control, NASA did it in 1984 with a Boeing 720 simulating a crash, but it is not standard.

A few extra notes can be made about how much G an airliner and a pilot without a pressure suit can be able too withstand:

1. Airplane manufacturers don’t seem to brag about the maximum G’s heir plane can take. It looks like that information is not being released. I have not been able to find it anywhere, but have read several times that it is normally not released into the public.
2. The Airbus 2.5G limits have a safety margin of at least 50% and it is confirmed that their planes can take at least 3.8G.
3. In the past a Boeing 747 did come into trouble over the Pacific Ocean. It made a dive 90 degrees towards the ground but the pilots were able get the plane horizontal again by pulling just over 5G. Fortunatly they made to the coast and landed the plane some hours later. However they did lose a few small parts that are still on the bottom of the ocean. So, it is confirmed that a Boeing 747, that is much bigger than a 757 / 767 can pull off a 5G+ maneuver. Does this mean a 757 / 767 can pull off higher G maneuvers without failing or losing parts? I don’t know but I am tempted to say yes.

A 757 / 767 do have the following technology onboard:

1. GPS Global Positioning System navigation
2. FMCS Flight Management Computer System autopilot
3. OPS / OPC Operational Program Software / Configuration uploadable software units.

Predators are controlled by remote control via a satellite. According to some people in the field it shouldn’t be too hard to implement this in the civilian aviation. It might also be possible to preprogram the plane via the above software mentioned, but I cannot be sure since I don’t work in this highly technical field.

UPDATE: Maybe this link from the site of Stanley Hilton can provide some more answers: http://deprogram.info/page6.html (I haven't checked it out yet.)

5.1.3 Airplane altitude and speed:

• The maximum speed of a Boeing 757/767 is just above 920kmh / 575mph at altitutes above 10.5km / 35.000feet. The lower an airplane goes the more air resistance it will encounter. The same airplane on sea level can easely be slowed down by as much as 50% and even when it is diving towards the ground it will not come close to the horizontal speed at 35.000ft. Claims that the airplanes flew with 500 or 600 mph into the buildings are false, it just cannot reach those speeds at sea level. [or at the height of the WTC]
  My [rough] calculations show Flight 175 did around 650kmh / 410mph when it dove into the South Tower. According to Flight Explorer Flight 11 [North Tower] slowed down to 555kmh / 346mph during the final descend which shows the same thing. My calculations may even seem to be a bit high but it can be that Flight 175 made a sharper descend.

5.1.4 My opinion if hijackers could have flown those planes:

That’s a very hard question since I have no exact data on the flight paths. Personally I wouldn’t see why these people could not have flown it into the WTC towers. I have done quite some flight sims in my younger years and it seems to me it’s a lot harder to land a plane than it is to crash it on the same thin strip of asphalt. You can look ahead for at least 60km / 40 miles, the twin towers are very big landmarks and you will be able to point your nose to them a very long time before the impact. It’s just like crashing on a runway.

The Pentagon looks a lot harder but I don’t have any good data on height, speed, turn rate, anything. However, witnesses over a distance of at 1.5 miles make no mention of sharp turns, all claim the plane came down in an almost straight line without making too many corrections, so it looks like it could ‘lock onto’ the Pentagon, while the pilots only had to concentrate on height. It seems like their circle around the Pentagon was quite wide since very few witnesses describe seeing the plane while it is turning.
However, the supposed pilot Hani Hanjour seemed to have a lot of trouble even handling a small Cesna plane, just weeks before. That certainly doesn't make sense.

So, my opinion is: As far as I can see the hijackers, in theory, could have flown those planes if the G-forces would not have exceeded too much above 5G. But I cannot be certain since I don’t have all the necessary data and because I am not a pilot. But especially the skill of flight 77 doesn't seem to fit.

Rudi Dekkers to Emperor’s clothes, 13 september 2001 - Interviewed by Jared Israel:
"We train small single engine, small multi-engine airplanes. And they are good for four people; that's it. That's not turbine. Total different systems. Not capable to fly anything like that...what happened was after the training they had here they went to another flight school in Pompano Beach and they had jet training there, simulator or big planes, but there is where they conducted the training to do what they had to do...I have spoken to many captains from the airlines and they say there is no way what the planes did they could have done that. They changed altitude. They changed speed. They changed direction. They had to know about the equipment to do what they had to do and there is no way that could have been done." (http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/dekkers.htm)

5.1.5 The claimes of Colonel Donn. De Grand-Pre:

Donn de Grand-Pre has done a 72 hours non-stop inquiry from 16-19 september 2001 after the 9/11 attacks with a group of military and civilian pilots. Donn made a 24 page review of that meeting and sent it to the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Hugh Shelton, who was at time being replaced by gen. Richard Myers. This gen. Hugh Shelton made 500 copies of the report and spread it all over the Pentagon and the White House. Nothing has come out of this report into the public although it did create more unrest between the military and civilian side of the Pentagon, according to Col. Donn. Here are the conclusions of the rapport as documented in a Portugal newspaper, the only paper to mention it at the time:

1.“During the press conference Captain Hill maintained that the four airliners must have been choreographed by an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). This system can engage several aircraft simultaneously by knocking out their on-board flight controls.”

2.”The so-called terrorist attack was in fact a superbly executed military operation carried out against the USA, requiring the utmost professional military skill in command, communications and control. It was flawless in timing, in the choice of selected aircraft to be used as guided missiles and in the coordinated delivery of those missiles to their pre-selected targets.”

3.“ Dr. Paul Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury, and presently Senior Research Fellow at Stamford University, has lent his support to the independent inquiry findings. He also claims that Osama Bin Laden was not responsible for September 11th. The doctor has challenged President Bush to make public the so-called “irrefutable evidence” incriminating Bin Laden.”

4. “THE NEWS, in an attempt to further substantiate the potential veracity of these findings, spoke to an Algarve-based airline pilot, who has more than 20 years of experience in flying passenger planes, to seek his views. Captain Colin McHattie, currently flying with Cathay Pacific, agreed with the independent commission’s findings. However, he explained that while it is possible to fly a plane from the ground, the installation of the necessary equipment is a time-consuming process, and needs extensive planning.”

Alex Jones has done a lenghty interview with him in february of 2004. The only thing I don’t understand is why that rapport is not publicly available. Make a PDF, put it on the web. I would love to see the sources and the caculations.
Update: In the meantime, I have done extensive research on the Pentagon and when I went back to read some of the claims of Colonel Donn The Grand-Pre, I noticed he stated that either a missile or a Global Hawk hit the Pentagon. To me, this means he doesn't know what he is talking about. (http://www.prisonplanet.com/022904degrand.html)

5.1.6 Flashes, rails, pods, etc seen on the WTC planes:

A small but enlightening article has also been written by me.

6.1 The big conspiracy: Bin Laden and his gang of freedom-haters. Some of the hijackers turned out to be alive.

The list is probably incomplete, but this is as far as I have seen up to this moment.

The terrorists:

• Saudi Gazette, September 18, 2001 and The Khaleej Times, September 20, 2001:
  "Marwan al-Shehhi is still alive in Morocco..."
  Daily Telegraph (UK), September 23, 2001:
  “Their names were flashed around the world as suicide hijackers who carried out the attacks on America. But yesterday four innocent men told how their identities had been stolen...The men, all from Saudi Arabia – spoke of their shock at being mistakenly named by the FBI as suicide terrorists. None of the four was in the United States on September 11 and all are alive in their home country...The Telegraph obtained the first interviews with the men since they learnt that they were on the FBI’s list of hijackers who died in the crashes in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania...All four said they were outraged to be identified as terrorists. One has never been to America and another is a Saudi Airlines pilot who was on a training course in Tunisia at the time of the attacks. Saudi Airlines said it was considering legal action against the FBI for serious damaging its reputation and that of its pilots...The FBI released the list of 19 suicide terrorists three days after the attacks...Saeed Al-Ghamdi...Al-Omari...Salem Al-Hamzi...Ahmed Al-Nami” (http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/23/widen23.xml - Also by ABC, the BBC and the London Independent)
  BBC, September 23, 2001, 'Hijack 'suspects' alive and well':
  "Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well. Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre on 11 September. Now he is protesting his innocence from Casablanca, Morocco." (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm)
  Boston Globe, September 25, 2001:
  "Although a Brooklyn apartment lease from 1995-1996 bears Ziad Jarrah's name - and landlords there have identified his photograph - his family insists he was in Beirut at the time...two days before the hijacking, his nephew called and told the family he'd be coming home for a cousin's wedding in mid-September. "He said he had even bought a new suit for the occasion." (http://web.archive.org/web/20010925123748/boston.com/dailyglobe2/268/nation/Hijack_suspect_lived_a_life_or_a_lie%2B.shtml)
  Online Service of the Arizona Daily Star, September 28, 2001:
  "An FBI notice to banks on Sept. 19 raised the possibility that Almihdhar might still be alive without speculating or explaining how that could be possible." (http://www.azstarnet.com/attack/10928TERRORISTMUGGRAPHIC.html - Also mentioned by CNN and the the BBC)
• CNN, September 21, 2001, 8:55 PM EDT (0055 GMT):
  "FBI Director Robert Mueller has acknowledged that some of those behind last week’s terror attacks may have stolen the identification of other people, and, according to at least one security expert, it may have been “relatively easy” based on their level of sophistication...Chris McGoey is a San Francisco, California-based security consultant...the perpetrators could obtain information about an actual person to get duplicate materials, or they could establish a virtual individual from scratch. The latter would be more difficult, says McGoey, since it would require the creation of documents...Could a common criminal on the street do this stuff? No. They're not sophisticated enough. These (the hijackers) are people who researched, planned and studied. They likely didn't have to go to a forger to do it." (http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/21/inv.id.theft/)

6.2 The evidence presented against the 19 terrorists.

• Within hours the police found a white car at Boston Logan Airport. In it they found an Arabic flight training manual and a koran. Some ‘Arab-American’ tipped off the authorities about this ‘suspiscious’ white car.
• 2 bags of Mohammed Atta had ‘unitentionally’ been left behind at Boston Logan Airport. He was the only one of the passengers who had that problem. They contained:

  1. A videotape of a Boeing 757 aircraft.
  2. A flight-operating manual of a 757 aircraft. [same as 767]
  3. An Arabic/English handbook.
  4. His latest testament from april 1996 and his ‘suicide/instructions letter’. [He must have been planning for a long time according to the FBI.]
  5. A flight-computer to calculate fuel usage and other ‘plane-stuff’.
  6. Chart navigation tool.
  7. A serrated folding knife.
  8. A Koran.
  9. A bottle of cologne.
  10. Some type of suit.

• 3 copies of a ‘suicide and instruction’ letter from Mohammed Atta have been found. The first one was left behind by accident at the Boston airport. The second one was found near Dulles Airport in the car of Nawaf Alhazmi who hijacked Flight 77. The third one was found in the completely disintegrated wreckage of Flight 93.
• The passports of the ringleader, Mohammed Atta and Satan Suqami, were found a few blocks from the WTC complex. How a paper passport in the pocket of a terrorist could have survived the impact and the followng inferno remains a little bit of a mystery. David Icke had made a call to one of the major news stations a year later. [as I can remember the interview correctly…it was something like that] The answer was: “A rumor that might be true.”
• Ziad Jarrah, hijacker of Flight 93 had sent on septmeber 10 a letter to his girlfriend in Germany in which he stated that: “I did what I had to do, and you should be very proud of that..[more]”. Unfortunatly he had made a mistake by writing the wrong adress on the envelope. The letter was sent back to his house and the FBI opened it.
• A bartender from Hollywood, Florida, said to the associated press he had seen Mohammed Atta and 2 others in his bar the friday before the attacks. Atta had been drinking rum for 3 hours and was pretty drunk and didn’t want to pay. When asked if he didn’t have the money he said: ‘of course, I’m a pilot of American Airlines.’ When Daniel Hopsicker went looking for the bar in 2002 or 2003 for his book and video it was gone.
• In the days and weeks after september 11 hundreds of people are being arrested. All kinds of claims have been made about people that were being caught with knives, flight manuals, links to Bin Laden. Money transfers have been made to and from Bin Laden by people connected with 911….all this evidence but no one has been officially charged besides one person who still is after 3 years of trial far from being convicted..….why are we even paying for all those thousends off investigators that were put on the case?
• After exactly a 1000 days after 9/11 the FBI showed their results of their ‘largest investigation ever undertaken’ during the 9/11 hearings. They claimed that Mohammed Atta and his close friends had spent their last days shuffling between Baltimore and Boston, contradicting everything that has been said about these hijackers. They showed a picture of a video at the airport. According to the media quoting official sources, the witnesses, investigative authors and journalists Mohammed Atta and 2 of the people he worked with were in the Miami area. The difference:
  
  

  FBI: september 7 september 9 september 10 september 11 Creditcard bills, witnesses and newspapers: september 7 [late afternoon] september 9

  Atta flies from Ft. Lauderdale to Baltimore. Atta flies from Baltimore to Boston to meet with Marwam Al-Shehhi. Picks up A. Alomari. Atta and Alomari drive for unknown reasons to Portland. They fly from Portland to Boston Logan Airport and the rest is known. Atta and Al-Shehhi are sitting in the Shuckums bar of Ft. Lauderdale drinking wodka and rum. Atta is pretty drunk after 3 hours and is arguing over the bill when they leave. When asked if he can't pay the bill he is supposed to have said: 'of course, I am an American Airlines pilot and I can pay my bill.' Atta and Al-Shehhi are returning a car in the Miami area, at Warricks Rent A Car. They have rented 2 different cars over 3 contracts in the past 5 weeks. They are arguing about on who's creditcard the bill should be put. Why bother bringing a car back and arguing over the bill if you are going to be dead in two days?

  
  What Atta and Alomari did in Portland remains unknown. Atta had bought this ticket 2 weeks before so it’s been carefully planned. The FBI should know. A lot of thanks [pretty much all] must be given to Daniel Hopsickers research.
• The 4 minute Flight 93 tape. It has already been discussed in the chapter 4.
• In june 2004 a tape was heard from Flight 11, the first plane to be hijacked. People could hear someone that was “supposed to be Mohammed Atta” say things like: “nobody move please…we are going back to the airport…don’t try to make stupid moves” Of course, just like the tape of Flight 93…it was an accident, Atta pushed some wrong buttons so everyone could hear it. The timelines given were again contradictory. NORAD didn’t get a call until 9:03 but other sources claim that fighters jets were already lauched at 8:57. [So stand-bye armed and ready-to-go fighters needed 44 minutes to take off.]
• In mid 2004 the 9/11 commission released some short grainy videos in addition of an earlier picture showing some of the hijackers at the airport boarding the plane. What can we say about this video?...looks like some hijackers were actually at the airport alhough the released video is of very bad quality. (Some claim the shadows underneath the cars don't match the early morning. I agree, the only thing is, I haven't seen the full video and cannot find it anymore either. So I have no idea if one of the security camera's in the released airport tape showed part of the outside. I also cannot find any claims from the 9/11 commission about the exact time these images were taken. But they had to be in the early morning, between 7:15 and 8:10.)
• In august 2004 the FBI released a partially burned photo of one Ziad Jarrah. It supposedly was from his visa that was recovered from the Flight 93 crashsite. Why did they wait 3 years to come up with this evidence? Why do the pictures show what looks like 2 different men - one with a much longer face than the other? How did it manage to fly out of the pocket or bag from the hijacker, through the fuselage and through the inferno and through the blastwave that disintegrated the plane and shattered windows in the area?

6.3 The big conspiracy: Official, missing & withheld evidence about the hijackers.

• Where are all the videotapes from the 3 different airfields? They still have not been released. There is no doubt that all the hijackers should be on these tapes, if they indeed were responsible. In july 2004 a grainy video has been released showing a few hijackers that have shown to be alive.
• The passenger lists have been given to the media. Why is there not even 1 Arabic name on those lists? (CNN)
• BBC, September 21, 2001:
  "The FBI has named five hijackers on board Flight 11, whereas Ms Sweeney spotted only four...business class...spoke very good English...[reached cockpit and plane changed course]...Also, the seat numbers she gave were different from those registered in the hijackers' names." (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1556096.stm)
• An autopsy report of Flight 77 does not show any Arab names.
• Of the 19 hijackers at least 7 were found to be alive according to a respected news sites like the BBC. In the time following 2 more have been found alive with high probability. The FBI has kept the pictures and the names of these men on their site as the hijackers.
• Numerous hijackers have lived in military owned appartements and trained on American AFB. No details have been given about this.
• Pictures of some of the hijackers do not match. A very obvious one is Khalid Almidhar , who was on flight 77. 1 photo of him shows a round faced, balding man, another picture shows him as a younger man with a square face and no balding at all. These are completely different man.
• Al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi had been known to be associated with al-Quaida since early 1999 by the National Security Agency, and were put on a terrorism watch list on august 24, 2001. Why weren't they recognized and arrested when they boarded flight 77?
• 4 of the 5 hijackers of flight 77 were taken aside for further screening after they set-off metal detectors. That is, according to the airport surveillance video, finally released in 2004 by the 9/11 commission. Why didn't the airport security find anything suspicious (like the knives) on them?
• Zacarias Moussaoui is the only ‘hijacker’ that has been charged with complicity in the 911 attacks. In november 2003 the FBI had already publicly stated he was only a minor player in Al-Quada and that he had no knowledge of the attack. He is still not released.
• What were Mohammed Atta and Abdulaziz Al-Omari doing in Portland the day before their attack?
• The New Yorker by Seymour Hersch, October 1, 2001:
  "Many of the investigators believe that some of the initial clues that were uncovered about the terrorists' identities and preparations, such as flight manuals, were meant to be found. A former high-level intelligence official told me, "Whatever trail was left was left deliberately--for the F.B.I. to chase...In interviews over the past two weeks, a number of intelligence officials have raised questions about Osama bin Laden's capabilities. "This guy sits in a cave in Afghanistan and he's running this operation?" one C.I.A. official asked. "It's so huge. He couldn't have done it alone." A senior military officer told me that because of the visas and other documentation needed to infiltrate team members into the United States, a major foreign intelligence service might also have been involved." (http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?011008fa_FACT)
• Again, not one person has been convicted for complicicy in the 911 attacks.
• The story of Mary Schneider, by Tom Flocco:
  "Homeland Security whistleblower Mary Schneider was removed last Thursday from her duties as an adjudications officer and directed to remain off the premises of the Orlando Citizenship and Immigration Services. (After a 30 year career)...
  
  ...From 1991 through May of 1999, as an Immigration Examiner, Mary adjudicated/processed requests to adjust status, consisting mostly of marriage (green card) interviews, and also naturalization interviews.
  
  During this period, Mary intercepted six felony fraud sham marriage rings and obtained over 35 signed, videotaped confessions of fraudulent sham marriages. Two of these six rings were comprised of illegal Muslims. For this highly documented unprecedented, exceptional enforcement performance Mary was removed and prevented from conducting marriage interviews and assigned only naturalization interviews and given unacceptable performance appraisals by the conspirators with intent to fire Mary from her federal career and sole source of income...
  
  ...Schneider, who interviews aliens for immigration benefits, was told by outside informant Christine Sharrit that her former illegal Moroccan Muslim husband Lyazid Abad had lived with Atta in a central Florida apartment sometime prior to 1997--providing evidence that Atta had lived surreptitiously in this country with or without FBI knowledge for a substantial period of time.."
  This Lyazid Abad also drove the half-brother of Osama Bin Laden, Khalil, around, who had a house in Orlando, Florida. This Khalil Bin Laden was allowed to leave the country in the days after 9/11 together with the rest of the Bin Ladens, via the well-known private airplane flights, the only flights allowed in the days after 9/11.
  Since the moment she has tried to get her information out, she has been reprimanded and intimidated. Files have been stolen from her office that were locked-up, her computer has been hacked into, her videos have been lost and other departments have agrivated people while impersonating her. She has written letters to her superiors in different departements, to senators, and even to the White House, but all without any success.
  By the way, most of the illegal immigrants she encountered who were participating in sham marriages were Moroccans, who could get jobs at Disney World or something. (2004 - Tom Flocco and Rense)
• In 1992 Mohammed Atta is recruited by a German couple, after he receives his degree in architecture from the University of Caïro. In Hamburg, Germany he gets free housing by friends of this couple, who knew his father. He is going to the "Engineers Syndicate", which is an unofficial front for the Muslim Brotherhood. During this time he also winds-up working for an elite US - German Government exchange program, called the "Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft". The U.S. branch of the society is called "CDI International" and is run from the United Nations headquarters in New York. Prominent backers of "CDI International" are Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and the Clintons. This exchange program for "young German engineers" pays Mohammeds bills when he goes to Cairo, Istanbul, and Aleppo in Syria in 1994 and 1995. In 1996 and 1997 they emply him as a "tutor" or "seminar participant". (Hopsicker - http://www.madcowprod.com/mc422004.html)
• Wikipedia:
  "The Hamburg cell was, according to U.S. and German intelligence agencies, a group of radical Islamists that included students who eventually came to be key operatives in the 9/11 attacks. Now well-known members included Mohamed Atta [flight 11], Marwan al-Shehhi [flight 175] and Ziad Jarrah [flight 93]. [others] included Said Bahaji, Zakariya Essabar, Mounir el Motassadeq, and Abdelghani Mzoudi...On November 1, 1998, Atta, al-Shehhi, and Ramzi Binalshibh moved into a large four-bedroom apartment together on Marienstraße. Here they formed the secretive Hamburg cell, which also included [the above]... and others. They met together three or four times a week to discuss their anti-American and anti-Semitic views, and to decide how best to fight for their cause." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_cell)
  The members supposedly went to Kandahar to be introduced to Al-Queda and met with Bin Laden. After that they came back to Germany where they rolled into flight training. After a while they were advised by their instructor to resume flight training in the United States, what turned out to be Venice Beach.
• Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was a frequent visitor of the Hamburg Cell. This men was born in the middle-east, joined the Muslim Brotherhood at age 16, educated at the United States and then went on working with Bin Laden and plotting many terorrist attacks. The 9/11 Commission Report calls him "the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks." On March 1, 2003, the ISI reported that they had captured him in a raid in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, although this has been disputed by different sources. Many reports have indicated that Mohammed was either an asset or a member of the ISI during the 1980s or 1990s, and that he has carried a Pakistani passport since the 1980s. On October 12, 2004, Human Rights Watch reported that 11 suspects, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, had "disappeared" to a semisecret prison in Jordan, and might have been tortured there under the direction of the CIA. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Shaikh_Mohammed)
• Page 161 of the 9/11 Commission Report supposedly describes Atta's towards the west:
  "In his interactions with other students [in Germany], Atta voiced virulently anti-Semitic and anti-American opinions, ranging from condemnations of what he described as a global Jewish movement centered in New York City that supposedly controlled the financial world and the media, to polemics against governments of the Arab world. To him, Saddam Hussein was an American stooge set up to give Washington an excuse to intervene in the Middle East." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Atta)
• Newsweek April 23, 2003:
  "Investigators in the United States and Hamburg, Germany, tell NEWSWEEK they believe that exiled members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood played critical roles in supporting and recruiting the Hamburg-based leaders of the Al Qaeda cells that carried out the 9-11 attacks. One suspected figure in that nexus is alleged Syrian Muslim Brotherhood member… Mohammed Haidar Zammar. German and U.S. investigators believe the 300-pound Zammar helped arrange for Mohammed Atta and other future 9-11 terrorists to attend Al Qaeda terrorist training camps in Afghanistan--and that the 9-11 plot was hatched while the Hamburg suspects were in the camps."
  September 11, 2004, Washington Post:
  " The Brotherhood -- or al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun, as it is known in Arabic -- is a sprawling and secretive society with followers in more than 70 countries. It is dedicated to creating an Islamic civilization that harks back to the caliphates of the 7th and 8th centuries, one that would segregate women from public life and scorn nonbelievers...In some nations -- Egypt, Algeria, Syria, Sudan -- the Brotherhood has fomented Islamic revolution. In the Palestinian territories, the Brotherhood created the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, which has become known for its suicide bombings of Israelis. Yet it is also a sophisticated and diverse organization that appeals to many Muslims worldwide and sometimes advocates peaceful persuasion, not violent revolt. Some of its supporters went on to help found al Qaeda, while others launched one of the largest college student groups in the United States...For decades, the Brotherhood enjoyed the support of the government of Saudi Arabia and its oil billions, which helped the group expand in the United States...For years federal agents paid little heed to the Brotherhood, but after Sept. 11 they noticed that many leads went back to the Brotherhood. "We see some sort of nexus, direct or indirect, to the Brotherhood, in ongoing cases," said Dennis Lormel, until recently a top FBI counterterrorism official...Brotherhood radicals in Germany and Spain are suspected of organizing logistical support for the al Qaeda cell that carried out the attacks. Western governments subsequently shut down a huge banking network in Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Bahamas that was set up by a leading Brotherhood figure, citing its numerous financial ties to al Qaeda and other terrorists."
• The Bushes (and Washington officials in general) have a tendency to socialize with these extremist parts of the Muslim Brotherhood, before or after 9/11. People like Musa Abu Marzuk (Hamas chieftain), Abdullah Shallah (Islamic Jihad leader), Sami Al-Arian (Islamic Jihad leader), Abdurahman Al-Amoudi (head of the American Muslim Council. Chief spokesperson for imprisoned Hamas chief Marzuk), Saleh Kamel (founder of a Sudanese Islamic bank which housed several accounts for senior al-Qaida operatives), Bin Laden family and others. These people have frequently met with Washington-officials and conduct heavy business with each other.(2004 - Daniel Hopsicker - http://www.madcowprod.com/10292004issue.html and many others)
• Sibel Edmonds and Behrooz Sarshar were translators, hired by the FBI right after 9/11. Both of them discovered that some of the documents they were translating, showed that the FBI absolutely had foreknowledge of an impending attack several months before 9/11. It also showed how people in high places in the US government and the business world were accessary in these attacks. From december 2001 these people tried to inform their superiors, even up to FBI director Robert Mueller and assistant director Dale Watson. Everyone they informed about the documents told them to leave it alone, because it would open a can of worms. Later both of them testified behind closed doors to the 9/11 commission, but none of their information was used. Both of them have been given a gag order, because of ‘state secret privilege’ and ‘national security’. On April 30, 2004, Sibel Edmonds was a guest on WGDR radio for about 50 minutes. Here she gave this information, but was not able to elaborate on who exactly was involved with the terrorists, because of the gag order:
  "I have seen several, several top targets for these investigations of these terrorist activities that were allowed to leave the country--I'm not talking about weeks, I'm talking about months after 9/11...I understand the Saudis have been named because 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. However, the names of people from other countries, and semi-legit organizations from other countries, to this day, have not been made public...If they were to do real investigations we would see several significant high level criminal prosecutions in this country…they will do everything to cover this up...You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one… And I keep underlining semi-legit organizations and following the money. When you do that the picture gets grim. It gets really ugly...The most significant information that we were receiving did not come from counter-terrorism investigations, and I want to emphasize this. It came from counter-intelligence, and certain criminal investigations, and issues that have to do with money laundering operations."
  According to this person, there were many more of these investigations that were squelched. It did not matter who they turned to; mid-level FBI supervisors, FBI assistant director Dale Watson, Director Robert Mueller, Senate Judiciary Committee, the Department of Justice Attorney General or to senators. They either obstructed the investigation or were too passive in their support. (May 07, 2004 - John Hogue in the Baltimore sun)

6.4 The Florida flight schools at Venice Beach, Florida. Hundreds of young arabs in a retirement-community. (Most of this has been discovered by Daniel Hopsicker.)

• In 1998 two Dutch nationals, Rudi Dekkers and Arne Kruithof decided to come to Florida within months of each other. Both openend their ‘competing’ flight schools at opposite sites of the Venice Forida Airport. Dekkers had another flight school in the neigborhood at Naples. This whole area of the US is very quiet, usually nothing really happens here. What a coincidence. Rudi Dekkers trained Atta and Al-Shehhi, Arne Kruithof trained Ziad Jarrah. (flight 93)
• Within in a year both of these flight schools are teaching around 400 to 500 foreigners how to fly, officially because Dekkers is actively advertizing in Germany and Belgium. People in the neigborhood started complaining because the planes, which were regularly flying in whole squadrons, were starting to become a nuisance.
• Both are spending millions on new aircrafts and Arne Kruithof is spending an additional few millions by building a large hanger. These "Magic Dutch Boys" seemed to have a lot of money and a lot of succes.
• Rudi Dekkers was financially backed by the wealthy businessman and mormom-bishop Wally Hilliard (Wallace J. Hilliard). This man had connections with people high up in the Democratic party (friend of Clinton for example). In July of 2000, the same month Mohammed Atta came to his flight-school, one of his Learjets was caught with 20kg/43 lb of heroin on board, which is worth many millions in US dollars. “The biggest heroin catch ever in central Florida”, according to the local police. It’s not hard to figure out what all these foreigners are trained for. By the way, the co-pilot turned out to be an DEA-agent.
• One of the employees who housed the two WTC 9/11 terrorists was an ex C-130 pilot what had not been mentioned in the newspapers. The CIA has smuggled large quantaties of drugs with this type of plane from all over the world.
• Mike Springman was a former employee at the US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi-Arabia before september 11. It happened many times he didn’t give off a visa to Arabic men because they simply couldn’t give a good reason to enter the United States. After he turned them down people in Washington gave someone else in the a call consulate who gave these men the required visa’s to come to the US. He had seen at least a 100 Arabic men getting visa’s in this way.
• Attorney Stanley Hilton (advisor to former presidential candidate Bob Dole and former Schoolmate of Paul Wolfowitz) represents over 400 families who have been affected by the september 11 attack. One of his witnesses is the ex-girlfriend of Mohammed Atta. According to her he was indeed a (pscycho) playboy and not a religious extremist. He and his friends were on the pay role of the international intelligence agencies and had access to massive amounts of cocaïne and money, she said.
• According to Atta's girlfiend, Amanda Keller, Mohammed Atta's closest friends/colleagues were not only Arabic men, but also white German and Swiss men. They all met once in a while with people higher up; "people who came flying in with a larger private jet."
• Amanda Keller, Atta's girlfriend:
  "These guys had money flowing out of their ass...they just never seemed to run out of money...It was just like 'Oh my God'...and they had massive supplies of cocaïne...You know, in that one building, in the Huffman Building...there's a doorway that leads down there, I don't know where it goes, but they have someone standing in front of that door, you are not allowed to go down there, it's forbidden..only for certain people...when they would come in, they [Hilliard - who always had a lot of people around him and came in a bigger airplane] would say they had to take care of things and nobody, unless they were with the flightschool was allowed over there. They actually had the gate chainlocked and closed...that's what I don't understand, he [Atta] said he was student, but he was allowed to go off on his own if he wanted to, he had like the privileges of an instructor." (Hopsicker - http://www.madcowprod.com/mc422004.html)
• She also told Mohammed Atta was fluent in half a dozen languages so that he able to speak with these men.
• After she had thrown his clothes on the street he had come back a few days later and gutted her mother-cat with all the other young kittens. Amanda Keller was a stripper at the time.
• People in the Venice Beach area describe Mohammed Atta as a dark, unfriendly figure. Marwan Al-Shehhi who was usually with him came over as very friendly. A bar owner in Florida taught they were ‘drugs dealers or something’ since they would talk rather noisy about tens of thousands of dollars and would frequently bang their hand on the table. Mohammed Atta usually just sat and listened, speaking very little.
• After 911 Rudi Dekkers was interviewed on every newsstation telling how an ‘asshole’ and ‘sociopath’ Mohammed Atta was. But according to witnesses in Venice Beach both were good friends with each other. Sharing cabs and drinking in bars. People who interviewed Rudi Dekkers told that there were always two FBI agents with him who were watching what said. Amanda called Rudi a pervert. (Exactly what he was, he bothered every beautiful woman and was incredibly boorish)
• Rudi Dekkers is wanted in the Netherlands for a multi-million dollar fraude.
• The FAA couldn't touch Rudi Dekkers, even though he violated many rules. People who wanted something to do about Dekkers, were told that he was 'protected'.
• Daniel Hopsicker interviewed by Sander Hicks on June 11, 2004. Hicks asks him about Max Bruge:
  "..he introduced himself as a consultant to the government of the US an ex marine with the brushcut, owns an airport in Mississippi. And clearly he had strong government connections, and he told me he had checked in to Wally and Rudy, based on things I told him. What he heard about Rudy Dekkers was "Rudy was huge." He is not national, he is "transnational." And he was warned to stay away from him and not to ask questions." (http://sanderhicks.com/hopsickerinterview.html)
• Mohammed Atta couldn't be touched either it seems. At one time, he even let his plane standing on the runway, where it had come to a halt. Normally that would get you kicked out of a flight school, but Atta could get away with it.
• Mohammed Atta supposedly was a student of the flight school. However, he could leave on his own whenever he wanted and had all the priveleges of an instructor. Amanda found out that Atta was already certified to fly about half a dozen airplanes.
• Within 24 hours of the attack, all the files of the local law enforcement bureau of Venice Beach were confiscated by federal agenst and loaded on a National Guard C-130, never to be seen again. According to the officer who told this to Daniel Hopsicker, Governer Jeb Bush was on board that C-130. All the important files on the persons surrounding the flight schools and their connections were made unavailable this way. (http://www.madcowprod.com/mc342004.html)
• Wally Hilliard and Rudi Dekkers were quick to start selling their assets connected to Huffman Aviation in the days after 9/11. If 2 magic Dutch boys weren't enough, a source close to Huffman Aviation said 'two Dutch Investors' were interested in buying the assetts. (http://www.madcowprod.com/mc342004.html)
• Both Arne Kruithof as Rudi Dekkers have been involved in two different plane/helicopter crashes since 911. Both survived. Rudi Dekkers has been accused of fraud again, this time in the USA. According to some he’s no longer ‘protected’ since he said some wrong thing about Bush in public.
• Rudi is still in the United States as of early 2005. Allegedly he is training to fly with larger jets.

6.5 The evidence presented against Osama Bin Laden and what the man supposedly had to say for himself.

• September 28, 2001, The Pakistani newspaper Ummat claims to have had an interview with Osama bin Laden, who sounds very logical and very prophetic:
  "I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle.
  
  The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; the people who are a part of the U.S. system, but are dissenting against it. Or those who are working for some other system; persons who want to make the present century as a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity so that their own civilization, nation, country, or ideology could survive. They can be anyone, from Russia to Israel and from India to Serbia...
  In the U.S. itself, there are dozens of well-organized and well-equipped groups, which are capable of causing a large-scale destruction. Then you cannot forget the American-Jews, who are annoyed with President Bush ever since the elections in Florida and want to avenge him.

  Then there are intelligence agencies in the U.S., which require billions of dollars worth of funds from the Congress and the government every year. This [funding issue] was not a big problem till the existence of the former Soviet Union but after that the budget of these agencies has been in danger. They needed an enemy. So, they first started propaganda against Usama and Taleban and then this incident happened. You see, the Bush Administration approved a budget of 40 billion dollars. Where will this huge amount go? It will be provided to the same agencies, which need huge funds and want to exert their importance. Now they will spend the money for their expansion and for increasing their importance. I will give you an example. Drug smugglers from all over the world are in contact with the U.S. secret agencies. These agencies do not want to eradicate narcotics cultivation and trafficking because their importance will be diminished. The people in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Department are encouraging drug trade so that they could show performance and get millions of dollars worth of budget. General Noriega was made a drug baron by the CIA and, in need, he was made a scapegoat. In the same way, whether it is President Bush or any other U.S. President, they cannot bring Israel to justice for its human rights abuses or to hold it accountable for such crimes. What is this? Is it not that there exists a government within the government in the United Sates? That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks.

  I have already said that we are not hostile to the United States. We are against the [U.S. Government] system, which makes other nations slaves of the United States, or forces them to mortgage their political and economic freedom. This system is totally in the control of the American Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States. It is clear that the American people are themselves the slaves of the Jews and are forced to live according to the principles and laws laid down by them. So the punishment should reach Israel. In fact, it is Israel, which is giving a blood bath to innocent Muslims and the U.S. is not uttering a single word.
  
  The countries which do not agree to become the U.S. slaves are China, Iran, Libya, Cuba, Syria and Russia..."
  According to Reuters the claim was not verified and the Pakistani newspaper had ‘a reputation for sensational reporting.’(http://www.serendipity.li/wot/obl_int.htm)
• On December 14, 2001 a video surfaced from November 9, 2001, in which Osama Bin Laden confessed the crime of masterminding the attack on the WTC. This video is hardly worth discussing but here some points:

  1. Osama has become fat.
  2. Osama’s nose is much smaller, much less prominent.
  3. He appears to write something down with his right hand. According to the FBI Osama is left-handed.
  4. He is wearing a ring for the first time.
  5. The video is of very bad quality.
  6. A big portion of the movie in missing.
  7. The audio is of even worse quality, so much noise you can hardly hear what is being said.
  8. Different international newspapers have claimed the translations are way off.
  9. Different international newspapers even claimed that translations were made up, like arguing that Osama said he has nukes.
  10. Quoted by the Accociated Press a middle east newspaper has claimed the video itself is years old even though the US translations indicate the video is only weeks old.
  11. Later on, the US press even claimed the tape had revealed some names of the hijackers. 2 of them being still alive.

• 2 days before the US election of 2004, Osama Bin Laden appears on television. He takes responsibility for the 9/11 attacks and he acknowledges that Mohammed Atta was his "main man". Interestingly, he tells the world how the slow reaction of Bush, has made it more easy for pilots to reach their targets. Bin Laden also mentiones how the Patriot Act was introduced to give Bush more dictatorial power.

6.6 Possible assassinations

• John O'Neill was a middle-east expert and a high-ranking officer in the FBI leading the investigations into the 1993 WTC bombing, the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers barracks in Saudi Arabia, the 1998 bombing of the US embassies and the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. He went to Yemen to investigate the Cole bombing but was booted out in november 2000 by US ambassador to Yemen, Barbara Bodine because she 'didn't like his heavy-handed style.' He got no permission to return because she thought his team was too large and they used to many heavy weapons.Undoubtly she had her orders from Washington. During the following year repeated attempts to resume an investigation are torpedoed. In mid-june 2001 O'Neill meets with French intelligence expert and intelligence-online.com editor Jean-Charles Brisard in Paris and expresses his frustration at the Bush administration:
  "All the answers, everything needed to dismantle Osama bin Laden's organization, can be found in Saudi Arabia... the main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism are U.S. oil corporate interests and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it." (So he directly attacks the Bushes and their associates)
  In august 2001 Barbara Bodine retired and at that time a media smear campaign against John O'Neill started: He supposedly forgot to tell one of his men to watch his briefcase when he had to go away for a short time. His collegues later left for luch, forgetting his briefcase with 'top secret counterespionage and counterterrorism programs' information. This briefcase was later found in a hotel room and John O'Neill was under investigation. This campaign was mainly headed by the FBI's second in command Tom Pickard who was very close with John Ashcroft and the Bush Team.
  Because of this John leaves the FBI in late august and gets a job as head of security of the WTC complex. He mentions to friends in New York that he fully expects the building to be targeted by terrorists in the future. On september 11 he runs outside to tell his son he his ok, then he went back into the building. End of story.
• Abu Zubaya was believed to be a high ranking member of Al Quaida and a close associate of Bin Laden. On march 2 2002 he was captured in Faisalabad, Pakistan and was interrogated by the Americans in the following weeks. After some time the interrogations stalled and the Americans tried to trick him. He was told that he would be questioned by the Saudi's that would be even less friendly, trying to scare him. Instead they flew him to an Afghan compound and let 2 Arab-looking men question him with US special forces being present. Instead of being intimidated he was relieved and gave his interrogators the private numbers of 3 Saudi princes, one of them being Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, a westernized nephew of king Fahd and well known race horse owner. (His horse won the Kentucky Derby of 2002) The numbers checked out but when they told him he lied he gave a 10 minute monologue about the decade old relationship between the Saudies, the Taliban, the Pakistani ISI and the Bin Ladens. One person he named was a Pakistani high-ranking air force officer named Mushaf Ali Mir. A few weeks later these 4 men started to die:
  On 22 july 2002 prince Ahmed died at age 43 of a heart attack. On 23 july 2002 Prince Sultan bin Faisal bin Turki al-Saud, 41 was killed in a high speed car accident. The next week prince Fahd bin Turki bin Saud al-Kabir 'died of thirst', miscalculating the amount of water he had to take with him. (A man who lived his whole life in the desert...) 7 months later Mushaf Ali Mir died in a plane crash during clear weather with his wife and closest confidant. (Time Mag, CNN)
• On 29 september 2003 Bertha Champagne, the long time 'baby-sitter' of the children of Marvin Bush (headed securacom) was crushed by her own car when she got pinned down between the car and the wall of a Secret Service building. How it actually happened is still a mystery. In the first instance the police failed to mention that she was connected to Marvin Bush. A week later only the Washington Post posted a short article about it. 'From The Wilderness' called the son of Bertha Champagne who seemed to be very nervous. According to the FTW article:
  "A Housten Businessman...who has dealt personally with the Bush family in Houston for a number of years, said there should be skepticism when looking at bizarre deaths like that of Champagne. The source speculated that Champagne might have happened upon some sensitive information the Bush family wanted kept secret."
• The earlier mentioned attempts on Arne Kruithof and Rudi Dekkers also look like assassination attempts.

6.7 Tangled webs they weave - Persons and companies that might have known of, or have been involved in 9/11.

• Names you might want to investigate and connect to each other are put in the table below. These are businesses and persons that have been tied to 9/11 in one way or the other, even though a lot of them might not have known anything about a plan to attack NY and Washington. A lot of them seem rather busy with their own local exploits and it looks like when all these companies and persons are put together they form one worldwide drug, gold & diamond trafficking network. (for starters) This is the world where your 'freedom hating terrorists' emerged from:

  US-Dutch-Rep-Commi connection	Zionist-Israeli connection	Swiss/German connection	Muslim-Arab connection
  Arne Kruithof (Dutch)	David Rockefeller	Dietrich Reinhardt	Shafiq Bin Laden
  Glenn Goodman	Larry Silverstein	Pascal Schreier	Yeslam Bin Laden
  Rudi Dekkers (Dutch)	Frank Lowy	'Folker' (German industrialist)	Osama Bin Laden
  Wallace (Wally) C. Hilliard	Lewis M. Eisenberg	German passport coincidences	Khalil Bin Laden
  Jerry Falwell	Rupert Murdoch	Atta's white German associates	Abdullah Bin Laden
  Richard Boehlke	Henry Kissinger	Islamic 'Hamburg Cell'	Lyazid Abad
  Jackson Stephens	Alan Greenspan		Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
  Truman Arnold	Ariel Sharon	Swiss/German interests***	Adnan Khashoggi
  Mark Shubin and father	Benjamin Netanyahu	Deutsche bank / A.B. Brown	Sami Al-Arian
  Kenneth Good	Dominick Suter	Allianz Group	Abdurahman Al-Amoudi
  Neil Bush	Israeli 'art students / movers'	Munich Re (insurance)	Saleh Kamel
  Marvin Bush	Mossad	Swiss Re (insurance)	Khalid Bin Mahfouz and his family
  George W. Bush		NADA Management	Saudi Prince Alwaleed
  George H.W. Bush	Investment banks / insurance	Thyssen-Bornemisza	Youssef Nada
  Jeb Bush	Goldman Sachs		Mike Springman's warning
  James Baker III	Morgan & Company
  John Gray	The Blackstone Group		Hamburg Cell members
  Warren Buffett	The Federal Reserve		Mohammed Atta
  Guillermo Garcia Frias	Kissinger McLarty Associates		Marwan Al-Shehhi
  Dick Cheney	Suntrust banks		Ziad Jarrah
  Condoleezza Rice	Enron		Mohammed Zammar
  Donald Rumsfeld	Carlyle Group		Said Bahaji
  Montague Winfield	AIG inc.		Zakariyah Essabar
  Charles Leidig, Jr			Mounir el Motassadeq
  Robert James Woolsey			Abdelghani Mzoudi
  	Other companies		Ramzi Binalshibh
  Dutch international drug connection	(Exxon)Mobil Oil
  Mabel Wisse-Smit (of Orange)*	Securacom / Stratesec Inc.		Muslim organisations
  Prince Johan Friso of Orange**	Feduciary Trust		Al-Queda
  			Israeli fake Al-Queda cells
  			Muslim Brotherhood
  			Al Taqwa organization

* Suspected of arms deals with Adnan Khashoggi. (who is connected to Rudi Deckers backer Wally Hilliard) Head of Brussels office of Soros Open Society. Former girlfriend of the well-known drug kingpin Klaas Bruinsma. She worked with UK drugs kingpin Mike Trace. She is the former girlfriend of Mohammed Sacirbey, who has been caught stealing 2.5 million dollars (London Times) from the United Nations. She also seems to have inside knowledge of the Srebrenica massacre and the Balkan war in general. In 2004 she married to Prince Johan Friso of Orange, but the Klaas Bruinsma scandal made sure Friso would never be able to become king.
** Friso is the second son of queen Beatrix. He worked for Goldman Sachs until he married Mabel. He left as 'vice-president investment banking.' His grandfather is 'Bilderberg Bernhard'. (Who died in 2004)
*** According to Dave Emory these companies (Only Deutsche Bank I don't know) are part of the 'German Underground Reich', the 'Bormann Group' or the 'Fascist International'. This might sounds strange, but he has done good research. See the links page for that.

I only included the 3 hijackers from the Hamburg cell. I don't really know where the rest came from besides that between 7 to 9 have been found to be alive. Their identities had been stolen.

A lot of the persons that are mentioned and who were active in the United States have been covered by Daniel Hopsicker.

7.1 A war in the planning. Project for the New American Century.

• Zbigniew Brzezinski was Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor and an advisor to Ronald Reagan in the 70ties and 80ties. He set up the Trilateral Commission for David Rockefeller. Once in a while his name, or that of his sons pops up in the media. Like when he and his sons were accused of plotting to steal the Ukrainian elections of 2004. Or if the question arises who wrote the policy for Kerry, the 2004 presidential candidate that didn't get elected. Some quotes from his 1997 book "The grand chessboard" makes clear what the agenda for the next decades will be:

  1. ”About 75 per cent of the world's people live in Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for 60 per cent of the world's GNP and about three-fourths of the world's known energy resources.”
  2. “The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.”
  3. ”It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation… Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.”
  4. “Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.”
  
  So here you have a possible reason for 9/11 (4), for the invading of Afghanistan and Iraq (1 &2) and the reason behind the Patriot-Acts, the Victory-Acts and the acts that are going to come. (3)
  
  An important note is that it became known in 2002 and 2003 that the "vast oil reserves" under the Caspian sea had been vastly overrated. From 200 to 250 billion barrels it went to 15 to 40 billion barrels of medium quality. So his exact description about what countries to "take" first has undoubtly changed.

• PNAC, a neocon thinktank gave out it’s "statement of principles" in 1997, the year this project was born. One of the things it stated: “We aim to make the case and rally support for American global leadership.” Signed: Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. Do you still have any doubts abouts the aims of the "Bush administration?"
• PNAC sends a letter to Clinton in 1998: “[we] Aim at the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power” and “a shift toward a more assertive U.S. policy in the Middle East, including the use of force if necessary to unseat Saddam.” Yours truly; Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Richard Armitage. (Every one has been taken up in the Bush Administration 2-3 years later) Between 1998 and the end of 2000 many papers will follow advising for the removal of Saddam Hussein from power.
• Just before president Bush comes to power PNAC gives out it’s document "Rebuilding America’s Defenses." Again, it was telling that more money should be spend on the army, the navy and the airforce so that the US could be more dominant overseas. The US had to measure itself an imperial role. However they did understood: “the process of transformation , even if it brings revolutionary change, will be a long one, absent some catastropic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.”
  It depents how you look at this but for a critical historian it is clear that Pearl Harbor was NOT a surprize. It was planned and allowed to happen so that the people would finally support US interferance in WWII.
• On September 3, 2001 Britain makes it’s biggest military displacement overseas since the Falkland war: 24 surface ships, multiple amphibious vessals, 2 nuclair submarines, Harrier fighters and about 8500 troops. They are being moved to Oman for a big desert warfare exercise. Oman is a country around the Persian Gulf.
• Well before 9/11 international newspapers including the BBC and the Guardian are speculating about possible war plans with Afghanistan. Even mid-october has been stated as the possible start of a war with Afghanistan to capture Osama Bin Laden. Supposedly, plans are already on the desk of Bush, ready to be signed. Reasons for war that are not mentioned, is Peak oil and that since 2000 the Taliban has cracked down so heavy on poppy farmers that 96% of the harvest has been destroyed. This poppy destruction will cost the US economy several hundred billion dollars per year, since it has a lot of involvement in smuggling these goods around the world. Whatever the reason was, all that was needed on that moment was a pretext for war…a new Pearl Harbor.
• The new leader of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai has been an ex-Unocal (Big US oil company) employee.
• Opium crops have sky-rocketed again after the fall of the Taliban. In october 2002 Tommy Franks had this to say againt the New York Times when talking about the drugs problem:
  ”One area American troops will stay clear of is drug interdiction…resolving the issue [is] up to the Afghans and nonmilitary agencies.”

7.2 Osama Bin Laden, his family, the Saudi Kingdom and the Bush family.

• Osama is a creation of the CIA, that is not being denied. It is not mentioned very often but the story is "he went against us". Through the eigties the US funded the Mujahedeen in their fight against the Russians, they gave them money, they gave them weapons, they openened the training camps that are now labeled "terrorist camps" and they put the Pakistani ISI in place to help Osama manage all this. It is in your best interest not too believe everything intelligence agencies say.
• Osama was wanted during the 1990’s for terrorist attacks on American targets, the biggest one being the attacks on the US embassies of Dar-es-Salaam and Nairobi in 1998, killing 213 people and injuring around 2000. A year before 911 he was also wanted for having attacked the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 US sailors.
• In July 2001 Osama Bin Laden was hospitalized in Dubai in an American military hospital. He was getting his routinely kidney dialysis. He was in that hospital for 15 days and was being visited by the CIA who didn’t made an attempt to arrest. This was documented by Le Figaro, a large newspaper in France. This message is even being repeated by some democratic sites pushing Kerry and Dean. Details mentioned are that it was july 12 and CIA agent Larry Mitchell was at least one of the meeters.
• CBS News did an investigation of Osama’s whereabouts and found out that he was being treated on september 10 2001 in a hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He needed a kidney dialysis. He was not treated by the regular staff of the hospital, instead the military / ISI kept everyone out of the way and had their own people treat him. Some workers at the hospital remembered seeing this man who’s face would be all over the news from the next day on. What CBS failed to mention was that Rawalpindi is not only crawling with intelligence officers from the Pakistani ISI, but also with American representatives and intelligence officers who are usually there to tell them what to do.
• On the morning of september 11 the top of the Carlyle Group was having a meeting at the Carlton Ritz Hotel in Washington DC. Big names were present as Frank Carlucci and James Baker III. But also former CIA director George H.W. Bush was present together with Shafiq Bin Laden representing the Bin Laden family. They were watching together how the events of september 11 unfolded.
• The Bin Laden family is the wealthiest family in Saudi Arabia besides the royal family and they have a massive influence on each other. The Saudi and Bin Laden family both have done business for over 30 years with the Bushes.

  1. The Bin Laden family has financially backed George Bush senior during his election campaign.
  2. Saudi Arabia ambassador Prince Bondar always had a very close relation to the Bushes and the CIA. When George Bush senior was president prince Bondar could walk into the White House at any time. He had the private telephone number of the CIA director.
  3. The brother in law of Osama has helped George Bush junior to set up his first oil company Arbusto.
  4. A later company Bush junior was involved with got 25 million dollars from the same brother in law when his company was in financial trouble.
  5. The Bin Ladens were doing business with a bank in Housten were Bush junior was on the managing board.
  6. When in 1996 a US army barracks was blown up in Saudi Arabia, Osama became a suspect and the rest of the Bin Laden family got the contract to rebuild.

• In the days after september 11 private and commercial jets were flying out of the country partly while all normal flight were grounded. They were filled with wealthy Saudie businessmen and officials. Around 24 members of the Bin Laden family were part of a total of around 162. (One of the numbers between september 11 to september 15) For more than 2.5 years this has been denied by the US government but in april of 2004 this was finally confirmed during the 9/11 hearings. One flight from Tampa wasn’t mentioned in the hearings.

7.3 A war in the planning. Something is going on between the countries around Pakistan, the US and Mohammed Atta.

• In October of 1999 Musharraf comes to power in Afghanistan. This is done with the help of elements in the ISI, one of them being Lt. Gen. Mahmood (or Mahmoud) Ahmed, who was just back from his first visit to the US. Later on Musharraf replaces the head of the ISI by this same Mahmood Ahmed and it comes out that the former head of the ISI has earned tens of millions of dollars by smuggling heroin. The money had been put on a Deutsche Bank account. Isn’t it interesting to note that the only 2 names known in the public that had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks are the Deutsche Bank and the CIA, the last one known for smuggling heroin out of Afghanistan while working together with mafia, rebels and other intelligence agencies?
• In the months before 9/11, Pakistan, India and the Taliban were being visited by senator Bob Graham, senator John Kyl, CIA clandestine operations officer Porter Goss, CIA director George Tenet (replaced by Goss as director of the CIA in August 2004) and Dep. Secretary of State Richard Armitage. They were meeting people like Musharraf, Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed, Pakistani ambassaodor to the Taliban, Abdul Salam Zaeef and other officials. Right before 911 Saudi Prince Abdullah also makes a visit to Pakistan and meets with Mahmood Ahmed and Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
• Mahmood Ahmed returns to the US from September 4 to September 11. He meets with an unknown number of officials in the Pentagon, the White house and the Capitol. Some of them are CIA director George Tenet & Mark Grossman, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. Pakistani newspapers find it most interesting. They speculate that at least a part is about Osama Bin Laden..
• On the morning of september 11 Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed, director of the Pakistani Secret Service, the ISI, was eating breakfast at the Capitol with senator Bob Graham and Porter Goss. This is interesting because this was his second stay in the United States ever and it was reported in early October of 2001 that Mahmood Ahmed had given an order to Saeed Skeikh to sent Mohammed Atta $100.000,- . Bob Graham was the chairman of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees and Peter Goss was a CIA operative of clandestine [secret] operations. These two people were later involved in the joint House-Senate investigation of 911 which came to the conclusion that there was ‘no smoking gun’ that the Bush administration had any foreknowledge of the 911 attacks. Bob Graham about the meeting to the NY Times:
  ”We were talking about terrorism, specifically terrorism generated from Afghanistan.”
• Because of the 9/11 attacks Mahmood Ahmed decided to stay untill September 16. He met again with numerous officials including Richard Armitage, Colin Powell and Senator Joseph Biden, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Armitage supposedly gave him a tough choice:
  “Help us and breathe in the 21st century along with the international community or be prepared to live in the Stone Age.” And Colin Powell gives Ahmed a list of 7 demands. Supposedly he accepts them all.
  On september 13 the airport of Islamabad is being closed because "threats to Pakistan’s strategic assests have been made", according to one Pakistani official. The next day the airport opens and Pakistan announces his support for the US. Later on it is rumored that Israel and India treatened to attack the country or disable Pakistans nuclear capabilities.
• In 2002 George Tenet tells us that around 9/11 the CIA had almost the whole of Afghanistan crawling with informants, because the US was looking for Osama Bin Laden. The CIA had begun doing this in 1999. By the time the war broke out the US had an enormous amount of up-to-date information to work with.

7.4 The obviously very dependant 9/11 commission.

• The commission is supposed to investigate the Bush administration. Guess who appoints the members for this investigation…President Bush.
• The commission members must have the appropiate security clearances for access to classified information. If they disclose this information to the public without permission they will be subject to severe penalties because they are considered government employees. So everything that is labeled "National Security – (top) Secret" is off limits for the commission.
• When you investigate the government, the last you want to have is a bunch of rich businessmen, who have been through numerous scandals and are members of globalist thinktanks. But for some reason that is exactly the case. I will try to keep the discriptions very brief:
  Henry Kissinger: Resigned as chairman because of numerous conflict-of-interests. This person has been discussed in chapter 2.
  George Mitchell: Also resigned instead of revailing any conflict-of-interests. He was supposed to be the vice-chairman.
  Thomas Kean, chairman of the commission: A former Republican governor of New Jersey. Kean sits on the board of directors of a huge oil and gas company called Amerada Hess, which has a joint venture, for extracting Caspian Sea oil , with Saudi Delta Oil, called Delta-Hess. A familiar name on Delta-Hess' board is the ex-CIA director John Deutsch. Saudi Delta Oil is owned by the bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi clans, which have ties to bin Laden's Al Qaeda. According to a 1998 testimony of James Woolsey, Osama has married Mahfouz's younger sister. bin Mahfouz is also suspected of having funneled millions to Al-Qaeda. Delta Oil also has a joint venture with Unocal, the company that wanted an oil pipeline through Afghanistan and for who Harmid Karzai, now president of Afghanistan, has worked.
  Kean himself is also co-chairman of a Homeland Security project, which is partly responsible for all the terrorism-bills like the Patriot act, Victory Act I & II, Domestic Security Enhancement Act, etc. Kean is a long time member of the CFR. He is also involved with Quad Ventures LLC (an 815 billion dollar education industry). Partners is of this venture are Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo Bank and some other important names in the world-wide web of clandestine economics. The first two companies were heavely involved in the Enron scandal and the Enron top has always been protected by the Bushes. (http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO212A.html)
  Lee Hamilton, vice chairman of the commision: This person replaces long time CFR member George Mitchell, who resigned in the same way as Henry Kissinger. They rather leave than to disclose any conflicts of interest. Lee Hamilton is a CFR member since at least 1988 and has been chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Select Intelligence Committee. He investigated the Iran/Contra drug affair and as usual, he stated that there was no evidence to prove any of the charges, which has recently been disproven by the CIA itself.
  Jamie Gorlick: Considered one the most powerful women in the US. CFR member and vice-chair of the giant mortgage lender and insurer Fannie Mae. Former Deputy Attorney General under the very controversial Janet Reno. Has been connected to the CIA and has had her fair share of scandals.
  Richard Ben-Veniste: Well known Washington Attorney. He has defended the biggest drugsdealer ever, Barry Seal and can be linked through a former client of him, Truman Arnold, to Wally Hilliard. This was the person who financially backed Rudi Dekkers (the Dutch guy who trained some of the 911 hijackers) and who had one of his learjets confiscated with 20kg of heroin.
  Fred Fielding: Was involved in covering up evidence during the Nixon watergate scandal, but managed as one of the only to escape jail. Has been in at least one more financial scandal.
  Jim Thompson: Former governor of Illinois, now chairman of the a large Chicago law-firm. He has been accused of smuggling drugs from China to the US via the CIA. This was done after China didn’t pay the gold it was supposed to do, so they decided drugs would do. Nothing came from the charges.
  John Lehman: An investment banker who has worked with Henry Kissinger. He sits on several boards of big companies but seems to be one of the few who isn’t involved in scandals.
  Slade Gorton: A former senator of Washington State, who is now involved with a Seattle law firm. Gorton has been quoted by the Seattle Times, right after september 11, saying: “...there was nothing government intelligence officials could have done to thwart the attack.” The Times has quoted him as saying: “I doubt we can expect to get too much inside information no matter what we do.”
  Tim Roemer: A moderate Democrat congressman. He is credited with bringing the organization representing survivors and families of victims of the 9/11 attacks into the mix of support for the commission. Member of the House Intelligence Committee.
  Max Cleveland: former senator of Georgia. Barring leaks:
  ” We will have to wait another 17 months to see what the product of the commission will be. By that time the publics attention will undoubtedly be focused on other things.”
  Well, that’s the independent commission which represents the people.
• As usual, the commision focusses itself on diversionary questions. Especially on:

  1. Did this administration take the threat serious enough?
  2. Was Iraq involved?
  3. Was Iran involved?
  4. Should we spent more money on counter-terrorism?

• It does touch on a few important questions:

1. When was the shootdown order given?
2. When did NORAD get notified?

The problem is, it doesn’t do anything with the answers. It doesn’t search for contradictions and it excludes anything that might lead to anything more than "our government was unprepared".

• It excludes a million questions:

1. Why are there so many mainstream reports about hijackers being alive?
2. Why did general Monteque leave the NMCC when the hijackings already started?
3. Why didn’t Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz show their faces until 1.5 hours in the attack, especially since they were present at the Pentagon?
4. Why have standard procedures been ignored to an extreme extent?
5. Why were 2 foreigners (both Dutch) allowed to own 2 different flightschools on the same airport while training hundreds of middle eastern men in a retirement-community?
6. Why don’t the passenger lists show any Arabic names?
7. What rocked the surrounding area before each of the towers collapsed?
8. Why are there reports from workers, who were present in the basements of the towers, that explosions had wrecked havoc on this place, during the impact of the planes?
9. What does the seismic data show at the beginning of the collapse of each tower?
10. Why did Larry Silverstein say that WTC 7 had been pulled?
11. Why have so many people in New York heard, felt or seen, what they call explosives?
12. Why are the people in the independent commission not independent?

• It is even being used to wage a new war. Since July 2004 they are claiming that Iran has ties to Al-Qaeda.
• The conclusions of the 9/11 commission in the summer of 2004:

  1. U.S. military and civilian aviation officials were unprepared "in every respect" to stop the attacks.
  2. Protocols in place at the time did not call for intercepting hijacked planes.
  3. NORAD and the FAA "struggled, under difficult circumstances, to improvise a homeland defense."
  4. The NORAD commander said the Air Force could have stopped the planes if notified immediately.
  5. The military got first word of the American Airlines Flight 11 hijacking nine minutes before it hit the World Trade Center.
  6. Vice President Dick Cheney relayed President Bush's orders to shoot down hijacked jetliners, but the orders were apparently too late.
  7. The 9/11 attacks cost somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to execute, plus the cost of training the 19 hijackers in Afghanistan.
  8. Al Qaeda spent $30 million per year, according to the CIA.
  9. The largest expense went to the Taliban, at $10 million to $20 million per year.
  10. Most funds came from donations, with much money raised in Saudi Arabia.
  11. There's no evidence that any government gave money to al Qaeda.
  12. There's no "credible evidence" that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda.

  Conclusion: There is no legal government any more. But not to worry, that’s the way it's always been throughout history.

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1. When was the shootdown order given?
2. When did NORAD get notified?

The problem is, it doesn’t do anything with the answers. It doesn’t search for contradictions and it excludes anything that might lead to anything more than "our government was unprepared".

• It excludes a million questions:

1. Why are there so many mainstream reports about hijackers being alive?
2. Why did general Monteque leave the NMCC when the hijackings already started?
3. Why didn’t Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz show their faces until 1.5 hours in the attack, especially since they were present at the Pentagon?
4. Why have standard procedures been ignored to an extreme extent?
5. Why were 2 foreigners (both Dutch) allowed to own 2 different flightschools on the same airport while training hundreds of middle eastern men in a retirement-community?
6. Why don’t the passenger lists show any Arabic names?
7. What rocked the surrounding area before each of the towers collapsed?
8. Why are there reports from workers, who were present in the basements of the towers, that explosions had wrecked havoc on this place, during the impact of the planes?
9. What does the seismic data show at the beginning of the collapse of each tower?
10. Why did Larry Silverstein say that WTC 7 had been pulled?
11. Why have so many people in New York heard, felt or seen, what they call explosives?
12. Why are the people in the independent commission not independent?

• It is even being used to wage a new war. Since July 2004 they are claiming that Iran has ties to Al-Qaeda.
• The conclusions of the 9/11 commission in the summer of 2004:

  1. U.S. military and civilian aviation officials were unprepared "in every respect" to stop the attacks.
  2. Protocols in place at the time did not call for intercepting hijacked planes.
  3. NORAD and the FAA "struggled, under difficult circumstances, to improvise a homeland defense."
  4. The NORAD commander said the Air Force could have stopped the planes if notified immediately.
  5. The military got first word of the American Airlines Flight 11 hijacking nine minutes before it hit the World Trade Center.
  6. Vice President Dick Cheney relayed President Bush's orders to shoot down hijacked jetliners, but the orders were apparently too late.
  7. The 9/11 attacks cost somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to execute, plus the cost of training the 19 hijackers in Afghanistan.
  8. Al Qaeda spent $30 million per year, according to the CIA.
  9. The largest expense went to the Taliban, at $10 million to $20 million per year.
  10. Most funds came from donations, with much money raised in Saudi Arabia.
  11. There's no evidence that any government gave money to al Qaeda.
  12. There's no "credible evidence" that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda.

  Conclusion: There is no legal government any more. But not to worry, that’s the way it's always been throughout history.

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