In the beginning
One common and recurring 9/11 theme is that the US media and government "rushed to judgement" on the attacks, ascribing responsibility to bin Laden far too quickly, and releasing the names and photos of the alleged hijackers in an implausibly short time.
9/11 truthers, by contrast, generally like to portray themselves as more thoughtful types, whose opinions are based on evidence and took much longer to form. We've often heard people say that they believed the "official story" at first, for instance, only changing their minds when confronted with the case made by History Commons, Loose Change or whoever it might be.
This may well apply to some individuals. But what's also true is that a large part of the current 9/11 truth case was expressed online within days - and in some cases just hours - of the attacks. Here's a selection.
(Please note, these have been snipped solely to illustrate early use of 9/11 arguments that would be commonly used later. Some of the posts and articles make additional points that we've stripped out entirely. Follow the source link if you want to read the whole thing.)
If you watch the time sequence, you'll see that it happens like this:
- A plane hits tower #1, blowing a hole in it high up. The expected things then happen:
- The building stays up. A reinforced concrete building is *extremely* strong. Terrorists set off a large bomb *inside* that building without significant damage. Notice that neither plane impact does anything like break off a big hunk of building floors and send it crashing into the street. The WTC towers were specifically designed to survive a direct impact from a jumbo jet - which *both do*.
- The stories from the impact point up burn horribly. Note, fire moves upward, not downward.
- The second plane hits the second tower, lower and moving faster. It blows a bigger hole through it, showering debris on the street, but the building is clearly still standing and still looks quite solid.
- The second building begins burning, also from the impact point up.
- Perhaps a half hour later, the fire in the first building *goes out*. It is still smouldering and letting off black smoke, but there is no flame. Anyone who saw the documentary on that horrid skyscraper fire in Philadelphia that led to the codes requiring sprinklers on every floor knows why. There's no way to get fire apparatus into a skyscraper effectively, so it needs to be designed into the structure - which it is. The water flows from the roof reservoirs down. Sprinklers can kill incredible infernos, and that's what these do.
- The fire in the second building goes out.
- Then, later, the second building suddenly crumbles into dust, in a smooth wave running from the top of the building (above the burned part) down through all the stories at an equal speed. The debris falls primarily inward. The tower does not break off intact and collapse into other buildings. The bottom does not crumble before the top. The burned out section crumbles also. The crumbling comes from the top (above the damage). It moves at a uniform rate. All of the structural members are destroyed in a smooth pattern, so there is no remaining skeleton. The damage is uniform, symmetric, and total.
In summary, it looks exactly like a demolition - because that's what it is.
- The first tower collapses in a similar demolition wave.
There's no doubt that the planes hit the building and did a lot of damage. But look at the footage - those buildings were *demolished*. To demolish a building, you don't need all that much explosive but it needs to be placed in the correct places (in direct contact with the structural members) and ignited in a smooth, timed sequence. Someone had to have had a lot of access to all of both towers and a lot of time to do this...(David Rostcheck)
Buildings brought down...
... by shape charges wrapped around steel. This is an inside job bought to you by your friendly CIA/MOSSAD/FBI connection.
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It was an inside job, alright -- inside, all the way to the very highest levels of the national government. Such as G.W. Bush.
... So many of the BushMob's high-priority agendas are furthered by this morning's events that it's just not possible they were not the original and primary motivators of the monstrous devastation wrought in New York City. ... Due to vast number of casualties involved in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, the psychological impact upon the American people is likely to be very severe. It's a tried and true Machiavellian tactic: create the problem -- in this case, severe deadly attacks upon the nerve centers of the nation SUPPOSEDLY emanating from an "EXTERNAL" source, and then offer the "solution" -- possible nuclear war against supposed "foreign" perpetrators, and a massive increase in "martial law" type scenarios at home. Create a MAJOR "external" threat, and then sit back and watch the 'tribe" rally round the "leader."
Big, big win for the BushMob and global elite of the New World Order. ... The hit on the Pentagon could very well have been an additional move by the BushMob to cement and consolidate power within the highest levels of the U.S. military. You're either with us, or you're dead.
Indeed, as so many commentators and analysts have already noted, there is literally no way that what took place today in New York and Washington D.C. was NOT an inside job.
This is directly analogous to the burning of the Reichstag in Germany by Hitler: an event perpetrated by the Nazis yet blamed upon "Communists", "Jews" and so on, and used to terrorize the German people into acceding to the Nazi takeover of their nation. The BushMob, whose ties to the Nazis are vast, extensive and firmly rooted in time, is undoubtedly playing the same kind of card with today's "terrorist" attacks upon New York City and Washington
IT WAS THE BUSH MOB.(Source)
Engineering experts say WTC towers brought down by explosives: Gov't source
-- Source claims BushMob instigated/abetted attacks to initiate global 'Oil War'
Professional structural engineers and architects who analyzed video footage of the World Trade Center towers collapse nearly TWO HOURS AFTER jets were deliberately crashed into the upper levels of the two buildings, maintain that the total collapse of the structures was the result of explosives previously placed within them, according to a highly-placed and well-informed government source.
Our contact was present as engineers viewed footage of the WTC towers collapsing, and heard first-hand as these experts stated without any uncertainty that ONLY internally-placed explosives could be responsible for the two buildings giving way as they did.
The fact that explosives planted in the lower levels of the MASSIVELY-guarded World Trade Center towers -- where they would do the MOST structural damage -- brought the buildings to the ground long AFTER the hijacked jets crashed into the upper levels, AND even MORE so the fact that this information is being DELIBERATELY CONCEALED and WITHHELD from the public, completely undermines the "official" story about the devastation wrought both in New York City AND in Washington D.C. today. This proves conclusively that to a shockingly great extent, what took place today was very much an "INSIDE JOB."
According to our source, the BushMob was very much involved in the terrifying atrocities carried out today, primarily in furtherance of one specific agenda. He says that this how the ruling elite has decided to initiate the "Oil War"; and that the tens of thousands killed in the destruction of the World Trade Center will by the rallying point and battle cry; by which the understandable desire of the American people to avenge those deaths will be manipulated and directed into support for military actions against certain Arab nations which control a large percentage of the world's oil reserves.
This source also feels it's certain that bona fide Moslem extremists were utilized in carrying out the actual attacks.
What happened to airport security? What happened to Air Traffic Control? Why weren't the hijacked aircraft intercepted? HOW did a hijacked plane EVER manage to penetrate PENTAGON airspace?
And also: WHAT would even the most crazed, fanatical terrorists hope to accomplish by inflicting such massive and severe destruction against the world's strongest military power, other than calling down utter and complete devastation upon their countrymen's' heads???
What exactly would these terrorists achieve by such actions?
THINK ABOUT IT!
Does ANYBODY believe the horrid lies our government is propagating regarding this horrendous tragedy?
It WAS an "INSIDE JOB."(Source)
How did each tower implode?
Demolition experts will tell you that towers are the most difficult buildings to bring down in a controlled manner. A tower tends to fall like a tree, unless the direction of its fall is controlled by directional charges.
Each Trade Center tower was perfectly "smokestacked" - its fall was completely contained by the boundaries of its foundation. This could not have happened coincidentally. It must have been accomplished by strategically placed and precisely timed internal charges. Video coverage clearly shows internal charges precipitating and accompanying the controlled demolition of each tower.
Why does the official story not recognize the implosion?
Why is the media not demanding an answer to this most important question?
Who could have placed the charges?
Vigilance to justice is the duty we the living owe to those who suffered a horrific death at the hands of these terrorists. ...
We must honor the victims.http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.warpowers.act/browse_thread/thread/b4dc1afcacd03949/ded1aaeff5e6ea9f (Source)]
Have you already heard of the latest rumours? Osama Bin Laden is supposed to have made stacks of money by buying put options before the attacks. With stock prices falling after the attacks, he could have made billions of dollars...
(Source)
The non-response (ground to air missiles -ed) as the Dulles plane flew over the White House and turned to go into the Pentagon is inexplicable that late in the scenario unless this was in inside job. I am sure there is a false sponsor ready to be handed to us.
(Source)
Who is Larry Silverstein? He stands to gain over $30 billion in insurance payments for the recent jetliner crashes onto his WTC properties. There were few if any buyers interested in his troubled seven buildings. The State of Israel, also, by association, stands to benefit from this payout. [follow the thread below]
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In analyzing the 9-11 nightmare, we were puzzled by the official response to the so-called third plane. That is the one that left Dulles Airport, flew to Ohio, near the West Virginia and Kentucky borders, turned around, flew back to Washington and struck the Pentagon.
Concerning this plane, we asked: how could it stay in the air, hijacked, for almost an hour after two other hijacked planes had struck the WTC Towers, and not be seen by U.S. air defense forces? How could it fly to the Midwest, turn around and fly back to Washington and hit the Pentagon without being spotted and therefore intercepted? ... And why, if they really were confused about what to do, why, after the Commander in Chief was informed about what was happening, didn't he immediately convene an emergency meeting to discuss the issue? Why did he keep reading to children and listening to stories about goats while the 3rd plane flew towards Washington?
Officials knew the first and second planes had hit highly visible symbols of US power. They knew this third plane was heading back to Washington. Couldn't they be reasonably sure that the target was a symbol of US power in Washington? Then why didn't they fully evacuate the Pentagon?Jared Israel
I got into a little tiff with a co-worker this morning concerning his admonishment of the U.S. military as to whether or not fighter planes should have intercepted the hijacked craft before they hit.(particularly the one in Pittsburgh)
After considering his points,I agreed it seemed as if they should've.It at least seemed reasonable to expect , especially in consideration of the fact that planes responded so quickly to Payne Stewarts' _private_ plane...a fact he brought up.
He claimed that from the time of the second hit on the towers till the plane crashed here in western PA(about 20 miles away)plenty of time was had to mobilize and intercept.(Source)
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 - ANOTHER OPERATION NORTHWOODS?
...we must wonder if the inexplicable intelligence and defense failures claimed by US Government agencies are simply part of some elaborate cover story. Even worse, we must consider the possibility that the September 11th attacks on New York and Washington were simply a bigger, badder version of the Gulf of Tonkin "incident," which was successfully foisted upon a gullible US public to push them into supporting the war against Vietnam.
(Source)
There were no "suicide" pilots on those September 11 jets. The jets were controlled by advanced robotics and remote-control technology, not hijackers...
The Northrop Grumman Global Hawk is a robotized American military jet...
Now consider Operation Northwoods...
Yet... [Hanjour] is the man the FBI would have us believe flew Flight 77 into the Pentagon "with extraordinary skill." He could not even fly a Cessna 172!
By shifting the plane's position so radically, Flight 77 managed to hit the side of the Pentagon directly opposite the side on which the offices of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Chief of Staff were located...
We are asked to believe that one of the hijackers brought his passport with him on a domestic fight, even though he knew he would not need it then, or ever again; that upon impact the passport flew from the hijacker's pocket (or was he holding it in his hands?), that the passport flew out of the aircraft, that it flew out of the burning tower, and that it was carried by the air currents and landed safely, where it could be discovered, several blocks away ...
Without a doubt, Flight 93 was shot down...
On September 30 I looked at the passenger lists of those four flights. To my surprise, the lists contained none of the hijackers' names...
Mr. Atta, the pilot of Flight 11 (north World Trade Center), was particularly helpful. He kindly left his car at the Boston Airport. Luckily, an unnamed source drew the FBI's attention to this car. According to radio reports, the FBI found a suicide note written in Arabic and a copy of the Koran in the car. Mr. Atta liked to write in Arabic; he wrote a second, long document in that language, which, for some reason, he put in his luggage. Coincidentally, this luggage did not make it to Flight 11, so the FBI found it at the airport. Another lucky break! But why Mr. Atta would take luggage on a suicide mission has not been explained...(Carol Valentine)
The Perplexing Puzzle of the Published Passenger Lists
...I began with American Airlines, Flight 11. This was the plane that crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. I began with the list of passengers. This was not difficult. The passenger lists for all four planes are posted on CNN's Website...
On American Airlines Flight 11, there were no Arab names on the passenger list. So, how does the government know who the hijackers were?
(Gary North
Links
- The History of 9/11 Conspiracy Theories has more details on who came up with particular ideas and arguments