1) TV documentaries to the contrary, a proper analysis of the
collapse of each of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11/01 shows
that they were not destroyed by the fires and plane impacts.
2) There are scores of accounts of people hearing and/or seeing
explosions before and as the towers fell - including explosions in
the lobby or basement of both towers.
3) Steel girders weighing tens of tons were hurled hundreds of feet
and lodged into nearby buildings. Debris in the footprint of each
tower was barely two stories high.
4) The WTC towers fell nearly as fast as the debris that they
created, indicating little or no resistance from the floors below.
5) The Twin Towers each had a massive structural central core. In a
gross misrepresentation the 9/11 Commission report referred to this
core as "a hollow steel shaft, in which the elevators and stairwells
were grouped."
6) Structural failure in a skyscraper would have an entirely
different appearance than that of the collapsing World Trade Center
towers. A failing building would be prone to topple, buckle or shed
debris instead of being progressively shredded, with perfect radial
symmetry, at close to free-fall speed.
7) The Twin Towers generated vastly more dust and pulverized
material than can be accounted for by the total gravitational
potential energy of the buildings - the only substantial source of
energy available for that destruction.
8) Mayor Giuliani has stated publicly that he was told the first
tower was about to collapse. This is extraordinary considering that
in the history of high-rise fires there has never been such a
collapse.
9) The second tower to be hit - the south tower - received less
damage than the first yet it collapsed in approximately half the
time. Judging by the black smoke, the fire was dying out at the
time.
10) The 5:20 p.m. total collapse of WTC 7, a gleaming 47-story
modern skyscraper, has the appearance of a perfectly engineered
internal demolition. No plausible explanation has been offered for
this and it was ignored by the 9/11 Commission.
11) The collapse of WTC 7 was reported by the BBC a half hour before
it happened, suggesting that the building's destruction was planned
and the news scripted.
12) WTC debris was hastily sold as scrap metal, allowing no proper
investigation of the cause of the destruction.
13) During nearly an hour-and-a-half of national crisis no fighter
planes took off from Andrews Air Force Base - a base whose primary
assignment is to protect the nation's capital ten miles away.
14) On the eastern seaboard on 9/11, air defense was deployed from
unnecessarily remote bases after unexplainable delays and the planes
traveled at a fraction of their top speed - all to arrive too late
in both New York and Washington.
15) There is evidence that five of the "hijackers" had lived at
and/or trained at U.S. military bases.
16) The passenger lists for all four flights, published by the
airlines and CNN after September 11th, contained none of the
hijackers' names. The flights were only about 30% full.
17) The documented behavior of the "hijackers" before 9/11 was
decidedly un-Muslim.
18) The FBI's most-wanted list does not mention 9/11 as a crime that
Osama bin Laden is sought for. An FBI spokesperson has stated that
this is because of no hard evidence.
19) Numerous pre-9/11 al Qaeda and bin Laden investigations were
thwarted or hampered by higher-ups.
20) President Bush has twice stated in public that before he entered
the Emma T. Booker Elementary School classroom he looked at a
television and saw the first WTC tower being hit by a plane. Such
footage was not shown on TV until later that morning - till after
the second crash.
21) The public has never seen clear pictures or video of the
Pentagon being hit. Security camera video from a nearby gas station
and a hotel were confiscated by the FBI within a half hour of the
attack.
22) The extreme and roundabout maneuvering of "Flight 77" led to it
hitting the only part of the Pentagon that was under construction.
Virtually no plane wreckage was visible after the attack.
23) Plane debris in Pennsylvania was found five mile from the crash
site, suggesting that the plane was destroyed while in the air. No
plane wreckage was visible at the stated crash site.
24) A brother and a cousin of the President were affiliated with one
of the security companies (Securacom) for the World Trade Center
complex.
25) Calls for an investigation into the attacks were repeatedly
brushed aside by the administration. Finally, after 14 months, the
9/11 Commission was formed. The commission ended up being packed
with insiders with conflicts of interest and it took as its starting
point that al Qaeda was responsible for the attacks.
26) Max Cleland, the one squeaky wheel on the commission, referred
to the limited scope of their work as a "national scandal."
President Bush then appointed him to the board of the U.S.
Export-Import Bank and there was no longer a squeaky wheel on the
commission.
27) There were many stock market anomalies just prior to 9/11,
indicating individuals with inside knowledge of the planned attacks.
The 9/11 Commission has absolved the investors behind these
anomalies with comments such as that they had "no conceivable ties
to al Qaeda."
28) There is a large body of material expounding on the aggressive
role that the U.S. could or should play on the world stage. This
includes frank references to imperial aspirations and to the
usefulness of a new Pearl Harbor-type event. The point of view is
akin to that of Manifest Destiny.
29) Plans for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were set in motion before
9/11/01.
30) The 9/11 attacks and the threat of terrorism have been invoked
repeatedly to gain support for domestic and foreign policy
initiatives that otherwise would not be popular. We are told that
the new "war on terror" justifies a wholesale shift in our
priorities and that that war may not end in our lifetimes.