12 puzzling questions about 9-11-01
 
 #   1: Why is there so little damage to the Pentagon after being struck by a full size Boeing passenger airliner?
 #   2: Why was there a report of a jet engine landing 6 miles from the Pennsylvania crash site of flight 93?
 #   3: What caused the stand down of the nation's air defenses?
 #   4: Why hasn't the government updated the hijacker identity information?
 #   5: Why are there no released video of the Arab "hijackers" boarding the flights?
 #   6: What caused the collapse of WTC Building 7?
 #   7: What caused the seismic activity that immediately preceded each of the tower's collapse?
 #   8: What energy source melted the steel beams in the collapsed skyscrapers?
 #   9: Why were investigators prevented from analyzing the cause of the twin towers collapse?
 # 10:  Who sent the warning message to the Odigo employees?
 # 11:  Who faked the 'hijacked passenger' phone calls?
 # 12:  Who profited from the unusual stock market activity?


Question #1:  Why is there so little damage to the Pentagon after being struck by a full size Boeing passenger airliner?

We've all seen the same images.


What happened to the wings?


U.S. Navy photo


www.space.com photo

Here's an excellent (Shockwave Flash) presentation.  Notice the wooden furniture adjacent to the damage.  The presence of unburned wood indicates that there wasn't enough nearly heat energy to "vaporize" the plane or bodies as has been widely postulated.


Question #2:  Why was there a report of a jet engine landing 6 miles from the Pennsylvania crash site of flight 93?

While at work on 9-11 I saw a Yahoo! and a Associated Press internet story about the engine from the 4th "hijacked" jet that fell about 6 miles from the crash site in Somerset County, PA.  When I attempted to go back to the stories a few hours later, they had vanished. That in itself is not unusual. What is, is that I never heard anything else about the engine event.  Six miles was indicative of either an on board bomb or a shootdown.  Instead I started to hear about "Let's Roll!"

There have been reports of lighter debris falling miles from the crash site.  Official explanation is that it was wind driven.  The debris fell too far away and came down too quickly, for the light under 10 MPH breeze to account for the distance traveled.

Related research:  http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=Flight+93+engine


Question #3:  What caused the stand down of the nation's air defenses?
I've read and heard in the independent internet press that the Pennsylvania plane was shot down by a member of the "Happy Hooligans", a (ND) squadron who happened to be training on the East Coast and who got the OK from the Adjutant General of North Dakota (who was obviously out of the loop).  If the AG were not available to give that pilot the order to fire, the U.S. Capitol building may have changed a little bit.

Other than that one accidental mistake, there would have been clear sailing, zero air defenses intercepting the bogeys.

Related research:  http://www.standdown.net/


Side note:
Here is a page which details the missile launches immediately before impact by the jets into the towers during the 9-11 attack.  This anomaly has caught many peoples attention.  My guess is that the missile's function was to destroy the fuselage, removing evidence of deception.  There is a widely overlooked video available of the second impact which clearly shows the fuselage emerging from the corner of the tower relatively intact, then exploding into thousands of pieces before falling onto the streets below. 

New video of jetliner hitting WTC surfaces - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics. September 7, 2003

It's very curious that the story was not mentioned much.  After listening to the CBS rationale for witholding it's true story about the Niger yellow cake, it isn't too far fetched to assume that this video was also far too influential to be released anytime before a Bush re-election.  The tape does exist.   ABC Pays to Use Historic Sept. 11 Video

The only additional public information about the tape that I could find is this Hollywood Reporter story: Man who shot 9/11 tape sues New York 1 over use.  Perhaps there's nothing on the tape worth seeing. 


Question #4:  Why hasn't the government updated the hijacker identity information?

Before September 12, 2001 was over the government had released the names and pictures of the 19 alledged hijackers.  Subsequently it has been revealed that about 9 of them are still alive.  In the intervening 3 years there has been no effort to correct this huge mistake!  This sure seems like a government cultivated hate program targeting Arabs and Islam.


Question #5:  Why are there no released video of the Arab "hijackers" boarding the flights?

After almost three years, in July 2004 the US government released a video that purportedly shows the hijackers boarding.

There are 3 problems with the released video, 1) no date/time stamp present,  2) the shadows outside don't match with the time of day that the video was supposed to represent and  3) the bomb detectors in picture weren't in use at Washington Dulles Airport in 2001.

Maybe the other passengers won't sign releases, and the government had to recreate the video.


Question #6:  What caused the collapse of WTC Building 7?  (Near perfect demolition.)

FACT:  Dozens of top-quality, high-strength, hardened steel supports disintegrated simultaneously in the WTC #7 collapse.

Diesel    fuel    can    not    melt   steel.

Even if it could, the chances of dozens of structural beams melting at the same instant is infinitesimally minute.  Given the official government explanation, what you see in the video is impossible.

Related research: http://www.wpi.edu/News/Transformations/2002Spring/steel.html


Question #7:  What caused the seismic activity that immediately preceded each of the tower's collapse?

Seismographs at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, 21 miles north of the WTC, recorded strange seismic activity on September 11 that has still not been explained.

The Palisades seismic record shows that — as the tower collapses began — a huge seismic "spike" marked the moment the greatest energy went into the ground.  The strongest jolts were all registered at the beginning of the collapses, well before the falling debris struck the earth.  These unexplained "spikes" in the seismic data lend credence to the theory that massive explosions at the base of the towers caused the collapses.

Related research: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/shake.html
http://www.freedom-privacy.net/articles/sonic-pulses-afp.html


Question #8:  What energy source melted the steel beams in the collapsed skyscrapers?

"Using jet fuel to melt steel is an amazing discovery, really.  It is also amazing that until now, no one had been able to get it to work, and that proves the terrorists were not stupid people.  Ironworkers fool with acetylene torches, bottled oxygen, electric arcs from generators, electric furnaces, and other elaborate tricks, but what did these brilliant terrorists use? Jet fuel!"  excerpted from Muslims Suspend Laws of Physics, Part II

An observation by Michael Rivero, editor of What Really Happened?
"Interestingly, jet fuel -- somewhat similar to common kerosene and not much different than charcoal lighter fluid -- burns at roughly 875 degrees. Whether a little or a lot of fuel is burned, it still burns at roughly the same temperature. Now: Think about all the kerosene burning in all those kerosene heaters (and lanterns), constructed primarily of thin, low-grade, steel sheet metal. Think about all those kerosene heaters burning merrily away, with temperatures perhaps approaching 875 degrees at the hottest. Think about how parts of all those kerosene heaters would then turn into bubbling pools of melted steel before the horrified eyes of countless poor souls who had no idea the fuel used in their heaters would actually "MELT" the heaters themselves. Of course, this does NOT happen -- which gives us a pretty good idea that what had been sold far and wide by the U.S. government and innumerable media outlets as the "cause" of the trade center towers' collapse is in fact absolute fiction and fantasy, without the slightest shred of scientific fact or collaborative evidence and testimony to support such monstrous and utter nonsense."

"..several subevents of the WTC collapses stand out: the reported seismic spikes associated with the collapses; the observed near free-fall times of collapse; the pyroclastic clouds of debris; and the pools of molten steel found in the basement of the WTC tower complex, steel still warm weeks after 9-11."   Excerpt from Calculations on the Possible Use of Thermite to Melt Sections of the WTC Core Columns  -  D. P. Grimmer


Question #9:  Why were investigators prevented from analyzing the cause of the twin towers collapse?

FACT: The builders and owners of the World Trade Center property, the Port Authority of New York-New Jersey, a governmental agency that operates in an accountability vacuum, denied investigators access to evidence.

This is excerpted from http://www.theunjustmedia.com/chapter_13.htm

Thanks in large part to Time Magazine's "Person of the Year 2001", New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the steel beams were quickly recycled before investigators even had the chance to look at them! A media darling and lifelong supporter of Israel, Saint Rudy Giuliani made sure that all of the "smoking gun" evidence was destroyed and right quick too. Much of the steel was recycled in America, but an additional seventy thousand tons of WTC steel was sold to Metals Management - a New York company with a jewish (Zionist?) president named Alan Ratner. Ratner then turned around and shipped the unexamined steel to China and India for recycling! (6)

China Radio International’s English Edition also reported:

“New York's Metals Management is among the firms taking steel from the huge project to clear Ground Zero. The company says it has bought 70,000 tons of scrap from the ruined twin towers. Some of the scrap has been shipped across the Pacific to Asian, including China and India. Among the consignments of scrap are the "very dense" steel girders from Ground Zero, which could finally yield 250,000 to 400,000 tons of scrap for recycling.” (7)

Imagine that! The largest criminal investigation in history and the investigators weren't even permitted to see the most important evidence of all - the steel! During the whole time that Saint Rudy the Recycler and Ratner the Rat were destroying evidence, many of the most respected engineers in the country openly complained not only about the recycling, but also about the Federal government's suffocating control of their investigation. On December 25, 2001, the New York Times ran a story about the frustrations of some of the engineers who were called in to study the cause of the collapse:

“Interviews with a handful of members of the team, which includes some of the nation's most respected engineers, also uncovered complaints that they had at various times been shackled with bureaucratic restrictions that prevented them from interviewing witnesses, examining the disaster site and requesting crucial information like recorded distress calls to the police and fire departments..." (8)

They made their concerns known publicly. Bill Manning, editor of the 125 year old Fire Engineering magazine, noticed a strange difference between the WTC investigation and other major fire investigations in New York City’s past. Manning wrote:

"Did they throw away the locked doors from the Triangle Shirtwaist fire? Did they throw away the gas can used at the happy land social club fire?...That's what they're doing at the World Trade Center. The destruction and removal of evidence must stop immediately." (9)

A real investigation should start with Republican hero Giuliani.

Bill Manning, Fire Engineering's editor in chief, summoned members of the fire service to "A Call to Action." In his January 2002 Editor's Opinion, "$elling Out the Investigation", he warns that unless there is a full-blown investigation by an independent panel established solely for that purpose, "the World Trade Center fire and collapse will amount to paper and computer-generated hypotheticals." Manning explained: "Clearly, there are burning questions that need answers .... The lessons about the buildings' design and behavior in this extraordinary event must be learned and applied in the real world."

Another Smoking Gun:  The Collapse of WTC 1 Began ABOVE the Aircraft Impact Level

Related research: http://www.americanfreepress.net/08_16_02/Foreign_Firms_Charged_/foreign_firms_charged_.html


Question #10 - Who sent the warning message to the Odigo employees?

Odigo, an Israeli/American instant messaging service company, reported that two of its workers received warning messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 which predicted the attack would happen. The company cooperated with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to determine the origin of the message predicting the attack.

Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said the two workers received the messages and immediately after the terror attack informed the company's management, which immediately contacted the Israeli security services, which brought in the FBI.

Related research:  http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744


Question #11:  Who faked the 'hijacked passenger' phone calls?  (Let's Roll!)

The 9-11 cell phone calls that supposedly originated from the hijacked jets could not have happened as portrayed by the government.

An experiment was conducted to see if cell phones can work in airplanes.  The experiment found that the percent of success rate of contact was:

89% at 2,000 feet
44% at 4,000 feet
30% at 6,000 feet
  9% at 8,000 feet
Flight 93 was flying at 35,000 feet.

A good explanation for this is excerpted from the page at this link:

"When you make a cell phone call, the first thing that happens is that your cell phone needs to contact a transponder.  Your cell phone has a max transmit power of five watts, three watts is actually the norm.  If an aircraft is going five hundred miles an hour, your cell phone will not be able to 1. Contact a tower, 2. Tell the tower who you are, and who your provider is, 3. Tell the tower what mode it wants to communicate with, and 4. Establish that it is in a roaming area before it passes out of a five watt range.  This procedure, called an electronic handshake, takes approximately 45 seconds for a cell phone to complete upon initial power up in a roaming area because neither the cell phone or cell transponder knows where that phone is and what mode it uses when it is turned on. At 500 miles an hour, the aircraft will travel three times the range of a cell phone's five watt transmitter before this handshaking can occur.  Though it is sometimes possible to connect during takeoff and landing, under the situation that was claimed the calls were impossible.  The calls from the airplane were faked, no if's or buts."
 
Posted by:grassroot
06-07-2004 @ 8:12 AM

heartbone, it appears that the cellphone information is correct based on all experiments that my family and friends have engaged while traveling in the past few weeks. They were part of my experiment without knowing why I was asking them to participate.

This alone puts all of 9-11 in question.

Related research: Canadian Professor says 9-11 Cellphone Calls 'Impossible'


Question #12:  Who profited from the unusual stock market activity?  (Who can police the police?)

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.”

SEC SECRET PROBE OF STOCK DEALINGS BEFORE 9/11

"Needless to say, the SEC buried the investigation." - Michael Rivero

This cover-up is so huge that I would expect a pip-squeak racket like the SEC to go along with it.

Was the 9-11 attack a self-inflicted wound to garner sympathy?
It makes good sense to follow the money....

There are reports of a sharp rise in credit card transactions which moved through some computer systems at the WTC shortly before the planes hit the twin towers.  Unusually large sums of money, perhaps more than $100 million, were rushed through the computers as the disaster unfolded.  More than a couple of years back, this was reported,  "A world leader in retrieving data, German-based firm Convar is trying to answer questions and help credit card companies, telecommunications firms and accountants in New York recover their records from computer hard drives that have been partially damaged by fire, water or fine dust...  The CONVAR data salvage has made it completely clear that more than $100 million in insider credit card transactions took place in the hours and minutes before the twin towers collapsed. The mainframe computers in the towers processed these transactions; and the credit card data would have been lost forever had it not been for the successful data reconstruction of the CONVAR specialists."

And this report has been all but forgotten, "A German company, CONVAR of Pirmasens near the French border, was given more than 400 computer hard drives from the wreckage of the World Trade Center. These are extremely sensitive computer components that went through the collapse of the World Trade Center. Using blue laser technology, CONVAR succeeded in reconstructing all the data from the computer debris.This includes diverse financial data and telecommunication protocols up to a few seconds before the collapse of each tower. (Source: e-mail from CONVAR Germany on October 16, 2003.) The U.S. government’s blatant lie about the allegedly missing black boxes is outright made ludicrous by this fact.

The reconstructed data was given by CONVAR to the FBI.  The FBI was held by law to investigate, based on the reconstructed data, who placed the inside transactions."

GERMAN FIRM PROBES FINAL WORLD TRADE CENTER DEALS

Incriminating data exists.  Big money can do big things.  In June 2002, Ontrack/Convar was acquired by Kroll Inc. (Kroll O'gara Eisenhardt), which has strong ties with the US Government.

MULTINATIONAL.CORPORATION BOUGHT GERMAN FIRM TRYING TO DECODE LAST MINUTE WTC FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS

The following is from: http://incunabula.org/valis/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=83&topic=105

Kroll O’ Gara Eisenhardt is one of the oldest security companies in the United States and, some say, responsible for every U.S. President since the end of WW2.  What does an upstanding, powerful company like Kroll do in its spare time?  Why it trains local forces in Saudi Arabia, of course!

One partner of Kroll, Cable & Wireless provides training in Counter-Terrorism and Urban Warfare in Saudi Arabia.  In August 2001, former Kroll employee, Jerome Hauer, arranged a security job in the Twin Towers for FBI Agent John O’Neill.  At the time, O’Neill had been investigating ENRON’s business deals with the Taliban and was subsequently pulled from that investigation.  Neither Kroll nor Hauer was asked to testify about this coincidence.

Kroll Associates, a security consultant firm, which was renamed to Kroll Inc. in August 2001, started in New York City in 1972. In December 1997, Kroll merged with armored car manufacturer O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt to form The Kroll-O'Gara Company.

O'Gara is responsible for the security of all US-Presidents since 1945. However the background of Kroll is very interesting, too:

In 1993, Maurice Greenberg's American International Group (AIG), became co-owner of the "private spy agency", Kroll Associates, as a result of rescuing Kroll from bankruptcy with a cash infusion. Kroll was notorious during the 1980s as the "CIA of Wall Street" due to the prevalence of former CIA, FBI, Scotland Yard, British secret service and British Special Air Service men Kroll employed for corporate espionage in takeover bids, as well as for destabilization of foreign nations.


I'm certainly not a reporter, just a curious citizen who feels that the press is an important part of the American system of checks and balances.  Maybe things have changed.  If they haven't, then consider these as my biggest questions about 9-11 that I want answers to from actual news reporters.  Why do I feel like I'm in The Matrix?


The previous page that was at this link (December 9, 2002 - September 23, 2004).

PEACE, the anti-Bush.