9/11: An Inside job

1. 9/11: An Inside job Sean Clark

2. history • September 11th, 2001 will go down in infamy as one of the darkest days in U.S. history. Allegedly, 19 terrorist from the organization Al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial airplanes and intentionally crashed them into U.S. landmarks. But once someone digs deeper into the truth, they will begin to uncover what really happened on that day, and they will realize that they will no longer be able trust the United States government again.

3. The twin towers • At 8:46 a.m., American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower in New York City, between floors 93 and 99 going 466mph, followed by United Airlines Flight 175, which hit the South Tower at 9:03 a.m. between floors 77 and 85, going 590mph. They both collapsed about an hour after being struck. The 9/11 Commission Report stated that the towers collapsed due to fires from the jet fuel burning. However, never in history has a steel-framed skyscraper collapsed from fire.

4. The twin towers • The Twin Towers are made of steel that has a melting point of 2750 degrees Fahrenheit. The jet fuel in airplanes burn at 1500 degrees Fahrenheit. Supposedly the jet fuel is what caused the weakening of the towers, allowing them to collapse. So how could something that burns at 1500 degrees cause the type of destruction it did to a structure that has a melting point of almost double?

5. The collapse • According to the Commission Report, the WTC buildings “pancaked”, meaning one floor collapsed and then fell on top of the next floor. This would cause a chain reaction of all the floors collapsing on one another. The bottom floors would cause resistance on the top floors, therefore slowing the descent of the collapse. But the WTC’s collapsed at a near free-fall speed. Each tower collapsed at a rate of 10 floors per second. There is only one way that is able to replicate the speed the towers fell, and that method is called a controlled demolition.

6. The collapse The video on the left is a controlled demolition. The video on the right is the collapse of the North Tower. Notice the similarity between the two, as how they collapse at the same speed, and the release of large dust clouds when coming down.

7. Wtc7 • The building that is most often forgot about is World Trade Center 7, which is a 47-story building one block over from WTC 1 and 2, and the farthest away out of the WTC complex. At 5:21 p.m., over 8 hours after the attacks took place it mysteriously imploded and fell to the ground in 6.5 seconds. Molten steel was found in the basement of the North and South Towers as well as WTC7. For over 6 weeks, hot spots could be found in the debris that is over 2000 degrees Fahrenheit; which is much hotter than jet fuel even burns.

8. wtc7 This video shows a side-by-side comparison of the collapse of WTC7 compared to a controlled demolition. They both fall at the same speed, and release mushroom clouds of smoke to the surrounding area.

9. Hot spots An aerial view of Manhattan shows the collapse of the Twin Towers and WTC7. Letters “A” and “B” show the hot spots where WTC7 used to be, and letters “C” through “H” show the hot spots of the Twin Towers. These images where taken 5 days after the attacks.

10. evidence • Dr. Steven Jones, a physics professor at BYU found exact traces of thermite, an explosive compound, in the WTC steel and dust coming off the buildings through electron microscope analysis. He also found Thermate, a patented brand of thermite used in the demolition industry. The thermite was used to cut the columns in the WTC to make it collapse.

11. Evidence Notice the cleanly cut support beams and the white explosive powder found around the edges of the support beams.

12. The pentagon • At 9:37 a.m. Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon in Arlington, VA. The man responsible for flying Flight 77 into the Pentagon was Hani Hanjour. He supposedly made a sharp 330-degree turn, almost completely circling the Pentagon, flying just inches above the ground, and hit the western side of the Pentagon that has almost no one in it, instead of just flying straight, which would have led him directly into the office of the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

13. The pentagon Below: Rumsfeld’s office in the Pentagon in relation to where the plane struck. This is the flight path of Flight 77. The plane made a sharp turn to avoid Donald Rumsfeld’s office and crashed into the side that was recently renovated.

14. The lead hijacker • Hani Hanjour was the one accused of flying Flight 77 into the Pentagon. But Interviews conducted later with Hanjour’s flight instructor reveal the Hanjour was “below average” and a “terrible pilot”. It was also stated by his instructor that Hanjour had difficulty flying a small 2 seat plane. So how could someone who was a below average pilot maneuver a Boeing 757 that even expert pilots say is impossible to have that much control over while flying at such a low altitude? Maybe it wasn’t Flight 77 after all.

15. The pentagon • A Boeing 757 is 44 feet tall, and 125 feet wide, yet there is no evidence that something that big crashed into the Pentagon. A hole that was 16 feet wide was made in the side of the building, which is nowhere near big enough to be caused by an airplane. There were also no skid marks on the lawn on the Pentagon, which means the plane had to have been flying incredibly close to the ground at 400 mph, yet didn’t make contact with the ground until it crashed into the building. No seats, luggage, or bodies were found at the site of the Pentagon crash. Also, the planes’ wings, engines, and tail were not found. An explanation was given that the entire plane was vaporized upon impact by the jet fuel. However, jet fuel does not burn hot enough to disintegrate steel and titanium alloy.

16. The pentagon Below: Notice the lawn of the Pentagon has no skid marks on it, just tire tracks made by fire trucks. That means that plane would have had to fly incredibly low to the ground and not make contact at all until it hit the building. Above: The hole in the Pentagon where the plane supposedly crashed. As you can tell, it is clearly too small to have been made by a Boeing 757.

17. The rubble • Shortly after the attack, government agents picked up all pieces of debris, and the Pentagon lawn was covered with dirt and gravel so any remaining forensic evidence was covered up. Someone was able to capture a picture of what looked to be an engine from a small plane. The most logical reasoning is that it came from a Global Hawk. Only one engine was found at the crash site, the same amount that a Global Hawk has, whereas a Boeing 757 has two, which are around 9 feet in diameter. Left: Engine found at Pentagon. Right: Global Hawk engine.

18. Global hawk • The Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk is an unmanned aerial vehicle used by the United States Air Force and Navy as a surveillance aircraft. Since global hawks are unmanned and remote controlled, it can easily maneuver to make sharp turns like Flight 77 did. It is also capable of flying low to the ground without crashing. In addition, it is just the right size to make a hole the same size that was put in the Pentagon.

19. Video evidence • The surveillance videos from surrounding buildings were immediately confiscated by FBI agents. The Department of Justice has still refused to release over 80 of those videos to this day. The U.S. media has no problem showing over and over the two planes crash into the Twin Towers, yet they can’t release videos showing a plane crash into the Pentagon? Maybe because it wasn’t a Boeing 757 that crashed after all. This is the only video evidence the government will release of the Pentagon attack. An object can be seen coming in at the :24 second mark. The object that strikes the Pentagon is not big enough to be a commercial airliner, or else it would be more visible and appear longer in the video.

20. Flight 93 • At 10:03 a.m. Flight 93 crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania after passengers revolt against the hijackers trying to re-gain control of the plane. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, Flight 93 crashed in Shanksville, PA going 536mph, leaving an 8 to 10 foot deep crater in the ground. Upon impact, the plane fragmented, and debris was scattered over a large area. However, in the direct area of the crash, very few pieces of evidence from the plane could be found in the crater. Many other pieces of the plane such as pieces of the body were discovered miles away, and the engine of the plane was found over two miles away.

21. Similar plane crashes These are plane crashes similar to Flight 93. Notice that huge segments of the plane can be seen, and chairs are still en-tact to the plane.

22. Flight 93 These are pictures taken from the crash site of Flight 93. Allegedly a Boeing 757 crashed here, yet there is no evidence suggesting that. Only a giant crater in the ground can be seen, yet when compared to other plane crashes, significant evidence of a plane can be seen, and there are no craters.

23. Flight 93 • But what if Flight 93 didn’t even crash? Reporters at WCPO Channel 9 out of Cincinnati, OH reported a Boeing 767 out of Boston made an emergency landing Tuesday, September 11th, 2001 at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport at 10:45am due to concerns that it may have a bomb aboard. Comments were made by then Mayor of Cleveland Michael R. White. White said the plane had been moved to a secure area of the airport, and was evacuated. United identified the plane as Flight 93. Those comments were removed from the television’s website later that day.

24. Missile? • It is possible that Flight 93 didn’t even crash, instead some sort of missile was shot into the ground to make it appear as a plane had crashed there. The passengers could have easily been taken to the airport, put in government custody, then relocated to an unknown location, or even killed. This aerial photo of the Shanksville crash easily looks like a missile was shot, then burrowed into the ground to make the crater.

25. Osama bin laden • Osama bin Laden was accused by the U.S. government to be the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks. Bin Laden is on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists, and has been there since the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassy. For years now the U.S. has been trying to capture bin Laden, but have always failed. To the mainstream public, bin Laden is a radical terrorist, but the history behind him and his family’s connections with the U.S. might surprise most.

26. Osama bin laden • In 1976, Osama’s older brother Hashim hired a man in Texas named Jim Bath to handle all the investments in the U.S. for the bin Laden family. Bath also happens to be a close and life-long friend and former Air National Guard pilot with George W. Bush. The connections between Bush and bin Laden’s family become more evident when Bush Sr. visited Saudi Arabia and met bin Laden’s family in 1998 and 2000 for signing business deals on behalf of the Carlyle group which is the largest defense contractor in the world and continues to reap massive profits of the post 9/11 “war on terrorism” and Afghan/ Iraq wars. In January 2001, Bush Administration ordered the FBI and Intelligence agencies to “back off” investigations involving the bin Laden family, including two of Osama’s relatives (Abdullah and Omar) who were living in Falls Church, VA – right next to CIA headquarters. In July 2001, while bin Laden was already one of America’s “most wanted”, he spent two weeks in the American hospital in Dubai, where he had an American doctor, and was visited by the local CIA.

27. Osama bin laden • In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks while U.S. airspace was restricted, planes sanctioned by the Bush administration flew about the country gathering some 140 high-ranking Saudi Arabians – including several relatives bin Laden – who were then flown out of the country within a week of the attacks, according to a senior White House official.

28. False flag • False flag (aka Black Flag) operations are covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is flying the flag of a country other than one's own. The Bush Administration wanted the U.S. people to believe that there were terrorist groups in Afghanistan and Iraq, and they were the ones responsible for the attacks on 9/11.

29. The middle east • Bush needed a reason to invade the Middle East, so he thought the best way to do that was to declare a “war on terror”. Bush states many times when referring to the Iraqi War as the “war against terror”. He stated that the reasons they declared the war was to stop al-Qaeda, get rid of the weapons of mass destruction that Iraq supposedly had, and to find Osama bin Laden. If the U.S. was trying to stop al-Qaeda and other terrorists they believed were in the Middle East, they were looking in the wrong place, since NONE of the alleged hijackers were from Iraq, Afghanistan, or Pakistan. So what were the true motives for invading the Middle East?

30. oil • One of the main reasons Bush wanted to invade the Middle East was because of oil. Over 60% OF THE world’s oil is located in the Middle East across an area roughly the size of Texas. The Bush Administration invaded to try to get a new government in-place that would allow for the construction of an oil pipeline. Oil is the most important thing to the U.S., and they will do anything to get it.

31. The future • After years of speculation, finger-pointing, conspiracies, and worthless blaming, no one knows exactly what happened on September 11th, 2001. Things can’t be changed now, but the American people can be informed as to what the government is capable of doing to its own people. Amid the attacks, political corruptions, and many other government scandals, Americans have stayed loyal to their nation. The best thing that could be taken out of what happened on that dark day in 2001 is that perhaps our nation was brought closer together in a time of need. For a while after the attacks, people didn’t look at each other as black or white, young or old, or rich or poor, they were all Americans. It’s just sad that thousands of innocent people had to lose their lives in the attacks, and numerous soldiers had to go fight for a nation’s selfish political agenda.