I have not had much to say about 9/11, until now.
I was in high school when it happened. Our journalism teacher roamed the hallways with a tape recorder, asking students for reactions. I declined, informing him that I did not believe in disaster-mongering.
Such terrorist attacks are not a serious threat to national security. They are easily stymied by a competent security apparatus. One merely need deport the Muslim immigrants, and deny entry to future applicants. No loss there.
With a certain amount of naivete, I supported the Afghan and Iraqi wars. Unconquerable Afghanistan fell to a competent tribal campaign. Iraq was never going to be difficult to conquer. The warnings of a second Vietnam were ridiculous. Iraq is not bordered by a China backed by a nuclear Russia at the height of the Cold War. And even Vietnam was winnable, had not our Communist-sympathizing government kneecapped our putative ally at every turn.
I grew increasingly disenchanted with the incompetence of the bloody and benightedly progressive Iraqi and Afghan occupations. In retrospect, we should’ve left Saddam in power, defanged after Kuwait. Only a strongman or a theocracy can rule over that snakepit. Afghanistan we should’ve turned over to the Russians – a win-win for us.
However, the nation, still smarting from the shock of an attack on our home soil, reelected Bush to his second term. Military coffers swelled, the New York government officials became heroes, and a slew of new legislation swelled state power.
With the benefit of distance, let us examine 9/11, as it will be seen in the cold light of history.
There is plenty of damning evidence, but it’s mixed with lower quality info that detracts from the rest. What I’m presenting here, at least the core of the argument, is solid.
** Hypothesis Zero – Al Qaeda attacked America
The default assumption is that a Bin Laden subset of Al Qaeda carried out the attack independently.
I always assumed this to be true. Any alternative would be nigh inconceivable. However, I was wrong. The truth was right in front of my face the whole time; I was simply too stupid and ignorant to see it.
Prior to 9/11, many things have happened to skyscrapers – those proud achievement of the modern city, towering edifices of steel and concrete.
There’ve been plane crashes, fires, arson, tank fire, bombs, air strikes, rocket fire, earth quakes, etc. Such things have happened all over the world, not just in the West, with its highly safe building codes.
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Despite this, I cannot find one skyscraper that has ever collapsed in its own footprint, other than by demolition. And WTC 7 is the first steel-frame building to collapse due to fire.
It’s easy to see why. A skyscraper is not a house of cards, but a steel and concrete grid bolted into the ground, capable of bearing its own weight indefinitely.
Steel softens around 1000F and melts around 2500F. source Even if raging fires manage to soften part of the structure, the rest will remain standing.
In order for a skyscraper to free-fall into its own footprint, one must carefully rig demo charges to take out all the support columns within milliseconds of each other, floor by floor. One must also collapse the inside slightly before the outside, to ensure it implodes rather than leaning over.
Fire is simply incapable of the simultaneous precision destruction required to achieve this effect.
Here is the only skyscraper I could find that even partially collapsed due to fire. This building burned for 20+ hours. The only damage to the skeleton is what you see here – a few floors at the top lost their outer layers, a sluggish peeling action characteristic of softened but not liquid steel:
By contrast, here are videos of skyscrapers being demolished by explosives:
Note the characteristics of demolition – pre-flashes to weaken the structure, the main charges that generate puffs of cloud, the structure collapsing into itself at free-fall speed, the massive dust cloud that billows outwards as concrete is turned to dust (called a pyroclastic cloud). In one flashy PR demo, they blow fireball pyrotechnics before the main demolition – accomplishing nothing but an impressive visual.
Steel buildings are extremely tough. You wouldn’t want to try to bring one down without explosives:
Even with demolition explosives, it can be difficult to get the building to collapse neatly into its footprint.
What did the collapse of the last building in the second video look exactly like? WTC 1, 2 and 7.
The above videos should be sufficient to impress upon you just how tough buildings are, and the kind of precisely placed explosive power that it takes to get them to freefall into their own footprint.
Now let’s take a look at the collapse of WTC 1, 2 and 7:
** Who knew, and what happened?
*** The nice version
Certainly Larry Silverstein knew well in advance. He deserves to die.
Giuliani appears to have been clued in on a need to know basis, i.e. very little – only warned to move away from the buiding because it was going to collapse, and he was too close. Various important people probably received warnings to be elsewhere or to not fly, but that hardly constitutes complicity.
We could imagine a scenario similar to Pearl Harbor, in which key intelligence providing advance warning was passed up the military chain of command, then withheld from those who would act on it.
Certain financial parties knew, and placed large bets against airline stocks and affected financial firms. They did it within enough sophistication to play off the resulting investigation, which looked only for direct ties to Al Qaeda.
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The payoff in this version of events is 7 billion for Silverstein (more than double what he paid for the complex), heroic status for New York brass, reelection for Bush, legislation enhancing state power, a war to fill everyone’s pockets, and control over an oil rich region.
*** The naughty version
When we begin to consider the selection of targets, however, a more sinister picture emerges.
How convenient that a sparsely occupied, newly renovated/reinforced wing of the Pentagon was hit – the only wing reinforced to resist a blast.
How convenient that massive documentation on corporate fraud went up in smoke with WTC 7’s SEC offices, and that the Pentagon’s accounting offices likewise vanished one day after Rumsfeld announced that 2.3 trillion was missing from the Pentagon.
In light of the targets, it seems more likely that the entire operation was initated by Americans, and only carried out by Muslim patsies.
In this version, Rumsfeld knew as well. He too deserves to die.
So far we have a small conspiracy giving orders to a larger group of people who for various reasons follow orders and look the other way. Bits leak out here and there, but the size of the lie is its own defense. The idea that this operation requires lots of people with full knowledge is false.
*** The crazy version
I do not think it necessary to suppose that the planes used were military, rather than hijacked civilian jetliners.
However, the precision of the hit on the Pentagon, necessary and actual, suggests they may not have wanted to leave this to the inept hands of a Muslim suicide patsy.
I don’t buy the fake airliner theory, mainly because it creates the problem of disposing of the people on board. But there is enough evidence that one can’t entirely dismiss it.
*** Precedent for conspiracy
There are no shortage of Muslim suicide patsies. source What they lack is competence.
It’s very plausible that 9/11 was not the first false flag attack on American soil, but rather the work of a well-oiled machine that had successfully staged several already, giving them the confidence to go for the big payday. Prime suspects would be the mysterious anthrax attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing, the first WTC bombing, etc. If so, they have a record of successfully suppressing dissent and expanding state power and budgets.
Prior to that, our intelligence service already had experience running a similar operation in Western Europe – Operation Gladio. This whole thing could be viewed as Cold War chickens coming home to roost.
** America is dead
The revelation of this betrayal means that America is dead. Worse than that, she is undead – her corpse animated by an evil spirit. As with any undead being, the only solution is to pierce her heart and cut off her head.
The elites who have risen to the top of the American empire, and manipulate it with Machiavellian psychopathy, deserve death in its very nastiest forms. It is unlikely that justice will find them in this life – for which we should be thankful, lest they repent and escape eternal damnation.
If you are a patriot who loves what America once was, it is your sacred duty now to undermine and destroy her, that new, wholesome nations may arise in her place. Stop the tragicomedy at the black pharoah, lest Caligulas and Neros be next.
** Citations, quotes and evidence
*** Demo evidence
**** Only Demolition and Earthquakes Have Leveled Steel High-Rises
That people would readily embrace the official story that plane impacts and/or fires caused the total collapse of three skyscrapers on September 11th could be predicted from the currency of the concept of building collapse, supported by the periodic reports of thousands dying from collapsing buildings in severe earthquakes. Lost are distinctions between building types, between building standards, and between degrees of collapse.
Nearly all the buildings that claim earthquake victims are heavy masonry low-rise structures, not steel-framed high-rise structures.
Collapses of buildings of any type of construction are rare in the developed world, whose building standards anticipate severe stresses.
Nearly all building collapses not involving controlled demolition are partial rather than total.
Excepting the 9/11/01 anomaly, the only documented cases of high-rise buildings undergoing complete collapse involved either controlled demolition or severe earthquakes. Of those, only controlled demolitions have caused such buildings to fall vertically into their footprints, leaving relatively small rubble piles, as was the case with WTC 1 and 2, and Building 7. In fact there are numerous observed characteristics of the destruction of the Twin Towers that have not been observed in natural collapse events.
**** Concrete dust cloud
The buildings did not topple. They were blown up and imploded, instantly transforming huge amounts of concrete into dust.
**** Collapse speed
The roofline of WTC1 (The North Tower) begins dropping with sudden onset and accelerates uniformly downward at about 64% of the acceleration of gravity (g) until it disappears into the dust. This means it is meeting resistance equal to about 36% of its weight. The implication of this, however, is that the force it is exerting on the lower section of the building is also only 36% of the weight of the falling section. This is much less than the force it would exert if it were at rest. The acceleration data thus prove that the falling top section of the building cannot be responsible for the destruction of the lower section of the building.
*** Prep and Coverup
**** Prepping for the attack
Authorities undertook a number of actions in the days and months preceding the attack that appeared to facilitate the attack. These include the following:
The FAA’s ban on armed pilots, implemented two months before the attack
The FBI’s shutdown of hundreds of Arab websites a week before the attack
Lapses in building security on the weekend before the attack
A reported increase in evacuation drills of the Twin Towers in the lead-up to the attack
The scheduling of a number of war game exercises to coincide with the attack. (Thus preventing fighter intercept of the airliners.)
***** CIA team placed demo charges
It would’ve taken only a small team with building access to attach canisters to the supports of WTC 1, 2 and 7. Given the buildings’ security, this would have most likely been the work of the CIA, cooperating with Silverstein.
**** Flight recorders
We have reason to believe the FBI recovered 3 of the 4 flight recorders for the WTC jets, and covered it up.
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*** Who knew?
Only some combination of top New York City officials, U.S. government officials, and owners of the World Trade Center could have accomplished the demolition of the complex and assured the thorough destruction of evidence.
It is not necessary that New York officials be fully aware of the plot, only that they followed instructions regarding the cleanup.
**** Who benefited?
Beneficiaries of the attack included the highest officials in the New York City and Federal governments, and corporations benefiting from policies enacted by those officials.
George W. Bush enjoyed an immediate surge in popularity and the burying of investigative reports on electoral fraud by his brother Jeb’s Republican election machine in Florida. “United We Stand” slogans propagated across the nation as Bush boasted of “smoking out” the terrorists.
Rudolph Giuliani became an instant hero by immediately appearing for photo ops as the hands-on mayor at Ground Zero, and by taking command of the situation. He was exalted as Man of the Year by Time magazine while he managed the largest evidence destruction operation in history.
The new War on Terror would become the umbrella for whole new levels of pork, unaccountability, and corruption in the nexus of government and industry that would fight the war.
The weapons industries prepared for a new orgy of corporate welfare, as the Pentagon budget would be further bloated. Certainly we would need billion-dollar stealth bombers to smoke the elusive Osama bin Laden out of his cave.
Vice President Cheney’s company, Halliburton, would soon be getting fat no-bid contracts to rebuild the infrastructure that American bombs would destroy in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The owner of the World Trade Center complex would receive a $3.6 billion payout for the destruction of the seven buildings, and would seek a second payout on the basis that the attack was two “occurrences” (because there were two plane crashes). Silverstein Properties had just acquired a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center, and a new insurance policy, in July of 2001. Silverstein would be ridded of those white elephants, the Twin Towers, with their obsolete office space and asbestos abatement problems.
The Project for a New American Century got the new Pearl Harbor that it said would be needed to rapidly achieve its goals.
**** Dead Pentagon accountants
An office of the Army that had just re-occupied the Pentagon’s recently renovated Wedge One, named Resource Services Washington, lost 34 of its 45 employees. Most were civilian accountants, bookkeepers and budget analysts. 3 Defense Secretary Rumsfeld had announced on the eve of the attack that more than $2 trillion was missing from the Pentagon.
***** Pentagon jet
There’s little reason to believe that the Pentagon was struck by a drone or missile, rather than a jet. That would create the problem of disposing of the hijacked aircraft.
However, it’s rather convenient that the portion of the Pentagon struck was newly reinforced and largely empty for renovations.
**** Ownership, Control, and Insurance of The World Trade Center
The World Trade Center complex came under the control of a private owner for the first time only in mid-2001, having been built and managed by the Port Authority as a public resource. The complex was leased to a partnership of Silverstein Properties and Westfield America. 1 2 The new controllers acquired a handsome insurance policy for the complex including a clause that would prove extremely valuable: in the event of a terrorist attack, the partnership could collect the insured value of the property, and be released from their obligations under the 99-year lease. 3
The lease deal didn’t close until July 24th, just 6 weeks before the attack. 7
***** Insurance Payouts
Don Paul also documented the money flows surrounding the loss of Building 7.
In February of 2002 Silverstein Properties won $861 million from Industrial Risk Insurers to rebuild on the site of WTC 7. Silverstein Properties’ estimated investment in WTC 7 was $386 million. So: This building’s collapse resulted in a profit of about $500 million. 8
The insurance money flows involved in the destruction of the original six World Trade Center buildings were far greater. Silverstein Properties, the majority owner of WTC 7, also had the majority interest in the original World Trade Center complex. Silverstein hired Willis Group Holdings Ltd. to obtain enough coverage for the complex. Willis undertook “frenetic” negotiations to acquire insurance from 25 carriers. The agreements were only temporary contracts when control of the WTC changed hands on July 24. 9
After the attack, Silverstein Properties commenced litigation against its insurers, claiming it was entitled to twice the insurance policies’ value because, according to a spokesman for Mr. Silverstein, “the two hijacked airliners that struck the 110-story twin towers Sept. 11 were separate ‘occurrences’ for insurance purposes, entitling him to collect twice on $3.6 billion of policies.” This was reported in the Bloomberg News less than one month after the attack. 10
The ensuing legal battle between the leaseholders and insurers of the World Trade Center was not about how the 9/11/01 attack on the WTC could be considered two attacks, when the WTC was only destroyed once. Rather it seemed to revolve around whether the beneficiaries thought it was one or two “occurrences.” The proceedings before U.S. District Judge John S. Martin involved a number of battles over the insurers’ discovery rights regarding conversations about this issue between insurance beneficiaries and their lawyers. 11 12
In December 2004, a jury ruled in favor of the insurance holders’ double claim. 13
*** Precedent for conspiracy
Examples of false flag terrorist attacks and operations include:
[ed’s note: explanatory text after the dash is mine]
The Reichstag Fire
Operation Himler – Nazis fake Polish aggression
The Manchurian Incident – Japanese fake Chinese aggression
Operation Gladio – European multi-country false flag terror operation
Operation Ajax – False flag terror to install the Shah of Iran
The Attack on the USS Liberty – US whitewashing of deliberate Israeli attack on US ship, to preserve operational secrecy and goad US into warExamples of fabricated attacks include:
Gulf of Tonkin Incident – Vietnam War causus belli
The Kuwaiti Incubator Story – PR coached causus belli for Operation Desert StormExamples of apparently facilitated attacks include:
The Pearl Harbor Attack – Intel of coming attack withheld from Admiral
In addition to actual attacks, some contemplated false-flag attacks have become public. Although the US government has never admitted to carrying out false-flag attacks, military planners have developed plans for such operations.
Operation Northwoods
While none of these incidents shares all of the most important features with the 9/11/01 attack, each has several important parallels.
**** Kennedy assassination
We have reason to suspect that Kennedy was killed by the financial elite for threatening the power of the Fed.
UPDATE:
It was not my intent to write a post on how the 9/11 attacks happened, but rather to focus on disproving the mainstream version. However, I’ve decided on a scenario I find most plausible.
I think the three flights that hit their targets did so by computer autopilot. Somehow or other, the flight pattern was loaded into the computer beforehand.
At a certain altitude, a gas canister in the baggage compartment, sneaked aboard in luggage, released a knockout gas, thus preventing any calls or distress signals from the three aircraft. Baggage compartments are climate controlled, so the gas would propagate.
There were probably hijackers aboard all four planes, but they were rendered unconscious by their handlers in three to ensure that their poor piloting skills would not interfere with the mission, particularly the precision strike on the Pentagon.
The fourth plane did not have a gas canister. It was shot down, and the fighter pilot ordered to keep silent about it. That way, America gets a hero, and our defense doesn’t look totally incompetent.
My scenario borrows a lot from attack scenario 404, the main difference being that there were hijackers on board all 4 planes. Easier than faking three planeloads of guys.
That’d be the smart way to do it.