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Anomalies of the September 11th Attack, its Run-Up, and Response. Accepting the official story of the 9/11/01 attack requires one to accept a long series of anomalies -- extremely improbable events, amazing coincidences, and contradictionS.

Run-Up to the Attack
Numerous incidents preceding the attack indicate many people had advanced knowledge of the attack.
 

• Put Options
  Stock trades bet on the fall in share values for the two airlines whose planes were used in the attack.
  Put options purchases on United Airlines and American Airlines stock rose to six times normal levels in the days preceding the attack.
   

• Avoidance of the Airlines, the WTC, and the Pentagon
  Government officials and executives avoided the targets of the attack.
  Pentagon officials canceled travel plans on September 10th.
  San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown received a warning not to fly on September 10th.
  Scotland Yard prohibited Salman Rushdie from flying on September 11th.
  Two employees of Odigo, the instant messaging service, received e-mail warnings of the attack two hours before the first assault on the WTC.
  Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, cancelled plans to address Israeli support groups in New York City on September 11th.
  Business executives, some of whom worked in the WTC, caught early planes to attend a meeting at Offutt Air Force Base on the morning of September 11th.
   

Hijacking Scenario
The attack scenario was irrational on the part of the alleged hijackers, and its execution is incomprehensible in light of their behavior. There is no credible evidence that Arab hijackers were involved in the September 11th attack.
 

• Attack Plan
  By flying from remote airports and going far out of their way, the attack planners exposed their plan to almost certain ruin, had the air defense system operated normally.
  The originating airport for Flights 11 and 175 was Boston Logan instead of any of several airports near New York City. This created about 40 minutes of exposure to interception for each flight.
  Flight 77 flew to the Midwest before turning around to return to Washington D.C.. It was airborne an hour and 23 minutes before allegedly attacking the Pentagon. That would provide ample opportunity for interception even if the air defense system were 95% disabled.
  Flight 93 flew to the Midwest before turning around to fly toward Washington D.C. Had it reached the capital, it would have been airborne over an hour and a half. The odds of escaping interception with that plan would be infinitesimal under Standard Operating Procedures.
   

• Behavior of Villains
  The behavior of the alleged hijackers preceding the attack is inconsistent with skill and discipline needed to have a hope of pulling off such an attack.
  Mohammed Atta allegedly barely caught Flight 11, a key flight in the event that he was supposedly planning for years.
  The alleged hijackers partied at topless bars and drank alcohol, despite being portrayed as fundamentalist Muslims, for whom such behavior would be surprising.
   

• Evidence Void
  There is no hard evidence that any of the alleged hijackers were on any of the doomed flights.
  No video of any of the 19 hijackers at any of the three originating airports of the four flights has been made public.
  None of the alleged hijackers' names appeared on the airlines' passenger lists.
  eight of the alleged hijackers have turned up alive since the attack.
  None of the 4 flight crews radioed Air Traffic Control about hijackings in progress.
  None of the 4 flight crews punched in the four-digit hijacking code.
  No remains of any of the hijackers was identified at any of the crash sites.
   

• Phenomenal Success
  The success with which hijackers allegedly took over 4 jets with knives and then piloted the jets to small targets is simply miraculous.
  None of the 4 flight crews were able to stop the alleged hijackers, in spite of several of the pilots being Vietnam veterans.
  None of the alleged hijackers were good pilots, yet the three buildings were hit with phenomenal precision.
   

• (Lack of) Military Response
  Despite normal intercept times of between 10 and 20 minutes for errant domestic flights, the airliners commandeered on 9/11/01 roamed the skies for over an hour without interference.
   

• Failures to Report
  According to NORAD's timeline the FAA reported errant airliners after inexplicable delays.
  The FAA took 18 minutes to report Flight 11's loss of communication and deviation from its flight plan.
  The FAA took 39 minutes to report Flight 77's deviation from its flight plan.
   

• Failures to Scramble
  Interceptors were only scrambled from distant bases after long delays.
  Despite the fact that Flights 11 and 175 were headed for New York City, no interceptors were scrambled from nearby Fort Dix or Laguardia, or from Langley, Virginia.
   

• Failures to Intercept
  Once in the air, interceptors flew at only small fractions of their top speeds, assuring they would fail to intercept the airliners.
  The two F-15s scrambled from Otis AFB to chase Flight 11 flew at an average of 447 mph, about 23.8% their top speed of 1875 mph.
  The two F-16s scrambled from Langley to protect the capital flew at an average of 410.5 mph, about 27.4% of their top speed of 1500 mph.
   

Failures to Redeploy
Nearby fighters on routine patrol duty were not redeployed to intercept the airliners, nor were fighters that belatedly reached Manhattan sent to defend the capital.
Two F-15s flying off the coast of Long Island were not redeployed to Manhattan until after the second tower was hit.
The two F-15s scrambled from Otis AFB to protect Manhattan could have reached the capital in 9.6 minutes once they arrived over New York City. That was still 34 minutes before the Pentagon was hit.
 

Building Collapses
On 9/11/01 three skyscrapers totally collapsed with fire given as the sole or primary cause. Fires and bombings have never before or since caused steel-frame buildings to collapse.
 

• Building 7
  Building 7 imploded late on 9/11/01. It was not hit by an aircraft.
  Building 7 experienced total collapse, allegedly because of fires, when no steel frame building before or since has ever collapsed, totally or even partially, due to fires. Building 7 was an over-engineered 47-story steel frame skyscraper, standing over 350 feet from the nearest of the Twin Towers. Only small fires burned in it on September 11th.
  Building 7 collapsed in a nearly perfectly vertical fall, leaving the buildings only 60 feet on either side virtually unscathed.
  Building 7 collapsed into a remarkably small rubble pile of mostly pulverized remains, when no steel building falling for any reason has ever pulverized itself.
  Building 7 contained a 23-million-dollar emergency command center, but instead of using it for its ostensible purpose, then-Mayor Giuliani evacuated his team to a makeshift command center as soon as the September 11th attack started.
  The emergency command center was pulverized along with the rest of the building, even though it was constructed as a bomb-hardened shelter.
  The remains of Building 7 were rapidly removed and the steel recycled, evidently without any on-site and only extremely limited off-site examination. The rapid disposal operation proceeded despite the fact that no one was believed buried in the rubble, and the tidy rubble pile was not blocking adjacent roads.
   

• Twin Towers
  The Twin Towers exploded into dust and shattered steel, a behavior inconsistent with the known behavior of steel structures outside of explosive demolition.
  The South Tower was struck 17 minutes after the North North Tower, and in a less damaging manner, and it had less severe fires, yet it collapsed 29 minutes before the North Tower.
  The South Tower's core structure was largely undamaged by the off-centered jet impact, unlike the North Tower, yet it collapsed sooner.
  The South Tower had much less severe fires than the North Tower, and yet collapsed sooner.
  Smoke from the fires in the South Tower became progressively darker up to the time it collapsed.
  Firefighters reached the crash zone of the South Tower and calmly described controllable fires.
  Both towers started to crumble at regions well above the crash zones in the first seconds of their falls.
  Both towers fell straight down, through themselves, following the path of maximum resistance, a behavior never before observed in spontaneous collapses of any type of vertical structure.
   

• Pentagon Attack
  The Pentagon attack occurred well over an hour into the crisis despite its close proximity to Andrews Air Force Base, was alegedly piloted through an extreme and precision attack maneuver by an incompetent, and resulted in the one relatively onoccupied portion of the building being hit.
  Wide-Open Target
  The Pentagon -- the heart of the military establishment of the world's greatest super-power -- was hit well over an hour into the attack without being protected by any defensive action.
  The Pentagon is within 11 miles of Andrews Air Force Base, which apparently had two combat-ready fighter wings on 9/11/01.
  The attack plane was monitored on radar as it approached the capital.
  Unlikely Super-pilot
  Alleged Flight 77 pilot Hani Hanjour was not up to the task.
  The spiral dive approach to the Pentagon was such an extreme maneuver that experienced air traffic controllers thought it was military jet. The tree-top final approach skimmed objects in the yard and crashed the plane into the first floor of the building. Experienced pilots have wondered if any human pilot could have executed the maneuver.
  Hani Hanjour was considered incompetent by his flight school instructors, and was denied rental of a single engine plane.

Evidence Vacuum
Authorities systematically confiscated or destroyed the evidence.
Video recordings from adjacent businesses were seized by the FBI shortly after the attack and never seen since.
 

Only five frames of video have been released by the Pentagon (and then only as an unofficial leak) from all the secutity cameras that monitor its periphery. Those frames show signs of forgery.
Investigators were not allowed access to the crash site until well into October.

More than Just a Crash

 
Was the crash engineered?
A photographed scrap of aircraft debris that has markings similar to an American Airlines 757 corresponds to the forward portion of the starboard (right) side of the plane, yet the scrap was far to the left of the plane's path.

• Eyewitnesses reported the smell of cordite.
  Several eyewitesses reported that the jetliner exploded before reaching the facace of the Pentagon.
  Portions of the facade where the wing ends and tail of a 757 would have collided show no gouging. Were these parts shredded by explosives before they reached the facade?

 

•  Death Toll
  The death toll of the attack, though horrific, was much lower than it would have been if not for numerous aspects of target selection and timing.
   

• Flights
  All four flights were unusually empty.
  Flights 11, 175, 77, and 93 were only at 47%, 31%, 28%, and 16% occupancy, respectively.

 

• World Trade Centre
  The towers were attacked before most people had arrived, and were hit high enough to allow most people to escape.
  When Flight 11 hit the North Tower at 8:46 AM, the World Trade Center buildings were at less than half the occupancy of a typical mid-day.
  The first tower to be attacked was hit just 15 stories below the top, and trapped people mostly between the 95th and 110th floors.
  The second tower to be attacked was hit only 30 stories below the top, and the plane missed the core, allowing people to evacuate from above the impact zone. The 17 minutes that elapsed since the first hit allowed many people to escape the second tower while the elevators were still working.
   

• Pentagon
  125 people were killed in a building with 20,000 people.
  The portion of the Pentagon that was attacked, the West Block, was in the process of being renovated, and so was at low occupancy.
  No high-level Pentagon officials were killed in the attack.
   

• Response
  Despite the worst failure in history of the military to protect American civilians, there were no consequences for the responsible authorities, and no honest investigations.
   

• Air Defence Failures
  No one was held to account for the numerous unprecedented failures in air defense.
  General Richard Myers, Acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on September 11th, was confirmed as Chairman on September 13th in spite of being unable to provide any meaningful answers to questions regarding the air defence failures.
  NORAD's press release contradicted early statements by high-ranking officials that no interceptors had been scrambled on 9/11/01.
  NORAD's vague timeline raises far more questions than it answers, yet officials have never been required to give a full account.
   

• Building Collapse Inquiry
  The total collapses of WTC 1, 2, and 7 were the three largest engineering failures in history (based on the official story). How was it investigated?
  FEMA was given the sole authority to investigate the collapses even though it is not an investigative agency.
  The investigative team assembled by FEMA consisted of unpaid volunteers.
  The investigators were not allowed access to Ground Zero.
  The investigators were not provided with the blueprints of the buildings.
  FEMA's report states the causes of the collapse "remain unknown at this time". (By the time the report was released the steel had been entirely disposed of.) The fact that Building 7 (supposedly) failed in a way that contradicts 100 years of engineering experience makes it the largest and least understood structural failure in history.
  
  http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/analysis/anomalies.html

In the attempt to explain each of these anomalies only on the grounds that the government could not possibly be so corrupt as to do this, there must be at some point be a realisation at precisely what you are doing. The arbitrary dismissal of each point moves further and further into the realm of incredibility. Remember all of these anomalies have to line up for the government to be clear of any corruption.

"In this they proceeded on the sound principle that the magnitude of a lie always contains a certain factor of credibility, since the great masses of the people in the very bottom of their hearts tend to be corrupted rather than consciously and purposely evil, and that, therefore, in view of the primitive simplicity of their minds, they more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big. Such a falsehood will never enter their heads, and they will not be able to believe in the possibility of such monstrous effrontery and infamous misrepresentation in others; yes, even when enlightened on the subject, they will long doubt and waver and continue to accept at least one of these causes as true. Therefore, something of even the most insolent lie will always remain and stick -- a fact which all the great lie-virtuosi and lying-clubs in the world know only too well and also make the most treacherous use of."
 

-- Adolf Hitler

Mein Kampf

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