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The whole world remembers the date fifteen years ago, when on September 11, already distant 2001, terrible terrorist attacks were committed in the United States of America, dividing history into two stages: the period before this event and after. Unfortunately, the truth about 9/11 was carefully classified.
According to the official version of the White House, the terrorists hijacked 4 planes, 2 of which crashed into the buildings of the New York World Trade Center, and the third plane was aimed at the Pentagon headquarters in metropolitan Washington. Another airliner, possibly shot down by the US Air Force, crashed into an open field. As a result of these tragic events, at least 2,977 civilians died, and another 24 are considered missing. This event had a colossal public response. Figuratively speaking, the fundamental American symbols were destroyed: military power and money. Millions of Americans and television viewers from other countries watched the attempted attack on the Pentagon and the destruction of shopping centers. Futuristic pictures from American blockbusters have turned into reality.
The tragic event that happened in that terrible September has two versions of what happened. According to the official interpretation, the "attack on America" was the work of the organizer of the terrorist "Al-Qaeda" and terrorist number 1 Osama bin Laden. This, of course, is not the truth about 9/11. As follows from official reports, lightly armed terrorists managed to hijack aircraft and consistently attacked not only the trading "twin towers", but also the building of the US Department of Defense. Organized by the "forces of evil" terrorist attacks in the USA, which entailed not only destruction, but also numerous human casualties, could not remain unpunished, and the White House declared "war on all world terrorism." However, there is another version of what happened. She speaks of the involvement of secret special services and the highest American power structures in this action originally planned by them. One way or another, the world was destabilized anyway. And then American President Bush "responded to the terrorists with war."
The truth about 9/11 or why doubts arose
Despite the fact that Americans have always been considered masters of large-scale staging, doubts about the reliability of the official version appeared immediately. The Pentagon building has not yet burned down, but experts and individual journalists have already paid attention to significant nuances. The fact is that even with an inexperienced look at the burning building, it was impossible to detect the slightest signs that a Boeing had crashed into it. Moreover, there were no traces of the plane crashed somewhere near the Pentagon. The damage was visible only in the wall of the building, but the debris was so minor that it could fit in a human palm. There were no fragments of the fuselage, wings or tail section found, and there was no objective evidence that a real plane crashed into the Ministry of Defense building, bringing down a section of this structure. The fact was recorded that the overlap between the floors collapsed. However, this did not happen immediately, but only 45 minutes after the start of the "attack". The absence of certain fragments of the Boeing was explained by the fact that, apart from the black box and the steering wheel, everything burned down. Then the question arises: do modern Boeings have the ability to remove engines and fold wings? After all, judging by the size of the breach, before the plane crashed into the building, he just "folded its wings". These questions remained unanswered. The perimeter of the Pentagon is crammed with state-of-the-art surveillance cameras, but only 5 years later, individual footage was published. However, they were made with a delay and in such a low quality resolution that they did not at all dissuade the skeptics of the official interpretation of events. Not only military specialists, but also civilians with the courage and elementary knowledge in these areas, remained with the opinion that the destruction in Washington has only one "entrance" and is characteristic of a launched missile, but not for a plane carrying a suicide bomber.
In this regard, the words of the retired Major General of the US Armed Forces, Mr. A. Stubblebine, who not only visually assessed the damage, but also carried out professional measurements of the length of the nose section and the position of the functional wings of the aircraft at the time of the so-called collision, are indicative in this regard. In addition, the depth of the physical damage to the building of the US military department was studied. There is only one conclusion: the hole in it was not made by an airplane. At the same time, a turbine was found in the breach, which is similar to an important functional part of a combat missile. It is noteworthy that the day before, on September 10, the then head of the Ministry of Defense, Mr. D. Rumsfeld, was forced to make a public statement that the main military department of the United States was experiencing serious financial difficulties. Moreover, the Pentagon was unable to report to the Senate Commission on where 2.5 trillion were spent. dollars It goes without saying that after the explosions in part of the buildings of the headquarters of the Navy, the issue of the lack of funds was forgotten, and the Pentagon's budget, on the contrary, was increased. According to political analysts, it is also very suspicious that after this action no one not only went to jail or was fired, but did not even receive an official reprimand. It is reliably known that the signals of attack by this or that combat means existed. However, nothing was done to prevent it.
Even more questions arose about the nature of the New York skyscraper tragedy. The fact is that history has already known episodes when planes rammed skyscrapers. The consequences of such events are incomparable with the tragedy of September 11th. So, for example, in 1945, an operating military bomber crashed into the 73rd floor of the Empire's tallest skyscraper at that time. Then two whole floors burned out, but the fire was extinguished by local forces in 40 minutes. This building serves its owners to this day. What did we see in the Twin Towers episodes? In the case when there is a complete and even collapse of the supporting structure, consisting of 80 columns, there is no need to talk about any influence on this process of the plane crashing into the building. Engineering columns of a general structure cannot cease to exist in the entire building at the same time. The technical nature of destruction in this case can have only one explanation: the use of high-quality explosives. But ordinary Americans and the whole world were presented with a different explanation: the 110-storey skyscraper after the attack of the plane collapsed as decimated by the fire. Over the hundred-year history of this type of high-rise buildings, there has not been a single case when it collapsed from the consequences of a fire. Even if we imagine for a minute that something like this happened, then a building of such a structure can never fall so perfectly evenly, as if it were carried out along a geometric ruler. Moreover, in addition to the "twins" there was also a neighboring building №7. It also applies to the infrastructure of the World Trade Center. Boeings of "terrorist forces of evil" did not touch him, and the fires that broke out there at first did not bode well. However, this building also collapsed, as if knocked down. These terrible shots still stand before our eyes.
But another thing is even more terrible. Any professional architect, or a specialist in demining units will confirm the objectivity of the conclusion that the planes and the fire have nothing to do with the fact of these destruction. Elementary laws of physics indicate that controlled explosions of buildings filled with civilians were organized in New York. These conclusions were confirmed by the results of the work of 8 scientists who carefully examined the samples from the scene of the tragedy and came to the conclusion that the towers of the shopping center were definitely destroyed by a pre-planned series of successive explosions that involved the use of thermite mixtures. The official version does not mention and does not explain in any way the presence of chemical nanothermite at the site of the destruction of skyscrapers. But in some simply incredible way, in the place of the explosion that destroyed a huge skyscraper, the passport of one of the terrorist hijackers survived. As you know, Al-Qaeda and the CIA had long-standing ties and, as it turned out later, it was the American special services that helped the virtuoso terrorist get into the United States. As Thierry Meyssan, the author of the famous film "9/11", reasonably informed, American diplomats received instructions from high-ranking CIA officials to issue visas to "double agents" of the American Central Intelligence Agency and the corresponding service. Saudi Arabia.
To this day, professional military and intelligence officials believe that the official version of the White House does not stand up to scrutiny. The real coordinators of the September 11 tragedy were the American special services, the current authorities and personally the vice-president of the then administration Dick Cheney. As follows from the statement of the former high-ranking CIA official, Mr. R. Steele, it was Cheney who could, but did not stop the planned attack, which was used for the purposes of the White House. A special counter-terrorism exercise was scheduled by the US Vice President for the date of September 11, which distracted the attention of American air defenses. In addition, it is known from reliable sources that Dick Cheney gave a personal order to the FBI to destroy information confirming that the intelligence department's analytical department was well aware of the names of the hijackers. The organizers of these attacks were confident that the world would never know the truth about 9/11.
What happened next
Most of the then acting American elite needed to destabilize the world situation and was looking for an enemy. Moreover, the version that such an enemy was skillfully created by them is becoming more and more relevant. Less than 3 months later, the United States launched a well-known military operation on the territory of modern Afghanistan, the purpose of which was to catch and neutralize the "chief terrorist" Bin Laden. It took 10 years and he was caught. True, not in Afghanistan, but in Pakistan, where he lived in his own house. However, there are also many questions left in this story. Nobody saw the body of a world famous terrorist. He was allegedly thrown from an American warship into the ocean. The question arises: "Why was everything done this way?" To make it impossible to identify the body and find out the truth? The new Afghan war lasted 13 years and allegedly ended in 2014. But she did not bring peace on this earth. According to official data from the West, at least 3.5 thousand servicemen were killed there. Nobody calculated the exact number of killed and died Afghans. But another "result" of this military operation is reliably known: for 13 years, the cultivated areas of the Afghan opium poppy reached a record size of 250 hectares (about this). Readers should be reminded that over 40% of Afghan drugs go to The Russian Federation and the countries of the former USSR.
The protracted struggle with Bin Laden was not enough for the White House. In 2003, they landed in Iraq: their last days lived out Saddam Hussein. There was no direct connection between the then leader of Iraq and the # 1 terrorist. However, is this important for an aggressive Yankee ?! Moreover, they are fighting under the banner of a "just war on terrorism" and are eliminating the "nuclear threat" in the Middle East. Then there was Libya. At the same time, the chaos in Iraq directly contributed to the generation of new "terrorists No. 1" in the person of the "Islamic State". It's the turn of the bloody civil war in Syria and the ensuing migration crisis of an unprecedented scale in the EU.
And who are the judges
Today's horror in the Middle East is a direct consequence of the events of fifteen years ago. If the official version of the White House is recognized as correct, then the actions of the authorities and the Pentagon can be called unprofessional, negligent and thoughtless. If you follow a more objective alternative version, the situation is much worse. After all, cooperation and the use of terrorists for their own purposes is a real crime. As Tommy Franks, the former head of the US Army High Command, once let it slip, the December invasion of Afghanistan was being prepared long before 9/11. The military expected only a pretext, but politicians and special services provided this. Today it is no secret to many that Dick Cheney was the unofficial head of Kellogg Brown and Halliburton. During the period when the American administration successfully exploited the 9/11 theme to justify the illegal landing in Iraq, it was these firms that gained access to Baghdad oil and most of all military contracts. The hunt for the "main terrorist of the world" lasted for 10 years. According to many independent experts, that was exactly how much time it took for the States to implement a certain part of the planned programs. When this topic was exhausted, Bin Laden was “successfully eliminated” by special forces. But the fact that the body of the most wanted person in the world, who untied the hands of the "fighters against terrorism", was not shown to the public looks at least strange.
Taking advantage of this tragic date for ordinary residents of September 11, the Americans stubbornly trumpeted everyone about their difficult fight against terrorism. However, time puts a lot of things in their place. Today, many already understand that all these declarations were in fact the use of terrorism to fight the objectionable governments and peoples of these countries. In the wake of chaos and unrest that comes to this or that country, together with the champions of democracy, the Americans are solving their business and geopolitical problems. In the States themselves, the well-known "Patriotic Act" was also adopted. This legislative document at the federal level "untied the hands" of the government and special services in matters of control, supervision and surveillance of both its own citizens and unwanted persons from abroad. The reader may ask: "What about the notorious democratic freedoms and rights?" In fact, everything is simple. When the White House needs it, the whole "democracy" fades into the background. Moreover, there is such a convenient sign: "for the sake of national security."
Global and private dividends
Thus, no matter how terrifying it may sound, 9/11 allowed the United States to address both global geopolitical and local private interests. The neoconservatives and Dick Cheney have multiplied the profitability of their funds and the profitability of their own firms. The budgets of the CIA, the FBI and the "stricken" Pentagon were significantly increased. Such states as Saudi Arabia and Israel were not left without political and financial dividends. The Saudis removed Saddam Hussein and were interested in strikes against Syria, Yemen and Lebanon. Israel was most satisfied with the Islamophobic position of the United States, which united the two police states. This allowed Israel to receive even more American money. It is noteworthy that, until recently, the White House did not want to release 28 pages of the final 850-page opinion of the commission, which was engaged in a detailed investigation of the events of that terrible autumn. In August 2016, the Americans had to do this. It turns out that the United States has long been silent about the financing of those terrorist operations. Today, the US Congress passed a law that allows the relatives of the dead ordinary Americans to file lawsuits against the SA. However, there are serious players in Riyadh. They immediately threatened to "dump" all American assets belonging to them. For the information of readers, this amount is at least about 750 billion dollars. The Americans prefer this portion of the assets to be in the hands of the Saudis. Therefore, poor Obama immediately promised to veto the initiative of the American Congress. Dirty politics and business rule this world. How can all this be called, somehow, differently.
All that remains is to sincerely sympathize and empathize with all the victims of that autumn of 2001 and their loved ones. And to all those who died every day or were left homeless over the past 15 years of "Americans' struggle against terrorism." The White House and US intelligence agencies did more than just unleash a new war in Afghanistan or the Middle East. September 11 became, in a way, the starting point of the desire to reformat the entire world order. But in this regard, the overseas hegemons did not succeed in everything. After all, many know and are already openly talking about the fact that the "strategic plans" of the United States provided for provocations of war and chaos on the territory new Russia... Strong Russian power, which the country absolutely needs at this stage of development, as well as a competent policy of extinguishing the hotbed of hostilities in the Russian Caucasus, forced the overseas authors to somewhat modify the prepared scenarios. Nevertheless, tensions in today's world have once again reached the mark of the most difficult periods of the Cold War. The balance of power is very fragile. The consequences of any new war can be disastrous. Will there ever be a time when these elementary truths will be understood in Washington? I'd like to believe that "yes".
On September 11, 2001, in the United States, suicide bombers of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger planes - the towers of the World Trade Center, and two others - on the Pentagon and, presumably, on the White House or the Capitol. All planes, except for the last one, reached their targets. The fourth hijacked plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Victims of the 9/11 attacks, including 343 firefighters and 60 police officers. Not only US citizens were killed, but also 92 other states. In New York, 2,753 people were killed, in the Pentagon - 184 people, 40 people crashed in Pennsylvania.
There are also 19 terrorists who died in the attacks, 15 of them were citizens of Saudi Arabia, two were United United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt and one from Lebanon.
At 8.46 (hereinafter local time), an American Airlines Boeing 767, en route from Boston to Los Angeles, crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) on Manhattan Island in New York between the 93rd and 99th floors. There were 81 passengers on board (including five terrorists) and 11 crew members.
At 09.03 a United Airlines Boeing 767, en route from Boston to Los Angeles, crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center between 77 and 85 floors. There were 56 passengers and nine crew members on board.
At 9.37 a Boeing 757 of American Airlines, en route from Washington to Los Angeles, crashed into the Pentagon building. There were 58 passengers and six crew members on board.
At 10.03 a United Airlines Boeing 757, en route from Newark (New Jersey) to San Francisco, crashed into a field in southwestern Pennsylvania, near the city of Shanksville, 200 kilometers from Washington. There were 37 passengers and seven crew members on board.
As a result of a severe fire at 9.59, the South Tower collapsed, and at 10.28, the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
At 18:16, the 47-storey building of the Center complex collapsed international trade located in the immediate vicinity of the WTC towers. The fire started in it.
The exact figure of the damage caused by the 9/11 attacks is unknown. In September 2006, US President George W. Bush announced that the damage from the September 11, 2001 attacks was the lowest for the United States.
On November 27, 2002, an independent commission to investigate the 9/11 attacks (9/11 Commission) was established in the United States. In 2004, she released the final report on the investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy. One of the main findings of the 600-page document was the recognition that the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks took advantage of the work of the US government and intelligence services.
The only person convicted in the case of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States is a French citizen of Moroccan origin, Zacarias Moussaoui. He was arrested in August 2001 after graduating from flight school in Oklahoma and training on a Boeing 747 simulator in Minnesota. In April 2005, Moussaoui was found guilty of intent to commit a terrorist attack, which was to become the fifth in a series of tragic events of September 11, 2001. On the personal instructions of Osama bin Laden, he was supposed to hijack a plane and ram the White House in Washington - this is a terrorist.
In May 2006, by a decision of the federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, where the trial took place, Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced.
Six other suspects of involvement in the attacks were arrested in 2002 and 2003, they spent several years in CIA prisons, and in 2006 at the American base in Guantanamo, Cuba.
In February 2008, the US Department of Defense committed murder and war crimes as part of an investigation into the 9/11 attacks.
Charges were brought against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who, according to the 9/11 Commission report, is the central figure in the preparation of the terrorist attacks in the United States; a native of Yemen, Ramzi Binalshiba (another spelling of Ramzi bin al-Shiba), who provided organizational support to terrorists and transferred money to them; Mohammed al-Qahtani, who, according to the investigation, on September 11, 2001, was supposed to become another, the 20th hijacker of four American planes; as well as Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Mustafa Ahmed Hawsawi (another spelling of Mustafa Ahmad Hausawi) and Walid bin Attash.
Hearings in the case of those accused of involvement in the organization of the terrorist attack.
In March 2016, New York Federal District Judge George Daniels issued a court order in absentia, according to which Iran must pay $ 7.5 billion to relatives and other representatives of those killed at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon building. The judge determined that the Iranian authorities must pay another three billion to insurers who covered property damage and other material losses. Earlier, Judge Daniels ruled that Tehran could not prove its innocence in providing assistance to the organizers of the terrorist attack, in connection with which the Iranian authorities for the damage caused during it.
In September 2016, the U.S. Congress passed legislation allowing the heirs of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia, where most of the terrorists who carried out the attacks were citizens. Already in early October 2016, an American woman who lost her spouse during the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, filed the first lawsuit against Saudi Arabia. In March 2017, relatives of the victims in the United States. In April, it became known that more than two dozen US insurance organizations had filed a lawsuit against two banks in Saudi Arabia and companies associated with the family of Osama bin Laden, as well as against several charities for a total amount of at least 4.2 billion dollars in connection with the attacks.
On September 11, 2001, a series of terrorist attacks were carried out in the United States, which resulted in the death of 2,977 people. According to the official version, the destructive attacks were carried out by members of the Al-Qaeda group *, but there are facts that can refute the generally accepted point of view.
Quick version
The official version of what happened is as follows. In the early morning of September 11, 2001, four passenger Boeings were hijacked in the air by Arab terrorists. The hijackers were armed only with stationery knives and gas cans. Two aircraft attacked the twin towers of the World Trade Center, located in southern Manhattan, a third plane was sent to the Pentagon building, a fourth did not reach the Capitol and crashed in the middle of a field in Pennsylvania.
This version was formed literally a few days after the tragedy and the American government did not change it again. Such hasty conclusions suggest that Washington was preparing for this in advance.
We have already encountered a situation when the White House "knew for sure" that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction, Muammar Gaddafi was sponsoring international terrorism, and Bashar al-Assad was using chemical weapons.
None of these charges have ever been confirmed. However, these suspicions became a pretext for the US-sanctioned use of armed forces in Iraq, Libya and Syria. It is expected that after the events of September 11, the Americans intensified military operations in Afghanistan.
Immediately after the explosions, the head of Al Qaeda * Osama bin Laden declared his innocence in the attacks. Unusual behavior for a person who always gladly took responsibility for terrorist attacks that were carried out with his participation. Later, bin Laden nevertheless admitted to his involvement in the events of September 11, however, according to some, this was a person only similar to the leader of Al Qaeda *.
Strange destruction
Probably not everyone knows that during the attack on New York, three buildings of the World Trade Center (WTC) collapsed. In addition to the well-known twin towers No. 1 and No. 2, there was also a skyscraper No. 7. The government commission, set up to investigate the events of 9/11, chose to remain silent about this fact. House number 7 is a 47-storey high-rise that is noticeably inferior to its twin brothers in height.
In particular, it housed the New York branch of the CIA headquarters. This building escaped being hit by an airplane, but by 5 pm it collapsed in the same way as the twin towers.
The building collapsed because of burning fragments that fell on it from crumbling skyscrapers, as well as the ensuing fire, authorities said. However, much closer to the towers were the WTC buildings numbered 3, 4, 5 and 6, and they all survived. Maybe there was another reason for the fall of the 7th house?
As for the Twin Towers, researchers are still concerned with an interesting question: why did not only the upper floors of the building collapse, but also the lower ones? The official version is relentless: when the building was destroyed, the top carried away the rest of it.
However, a discrepancy arises here too. Parts of the tower's structure did not fall in different directions, but folded right under the base, like a house of cards.
The designers of the World Trade Center all as one declare that during the construction of high-rise buildings the possible hit of an airplane was taken into account, as is the case with all skyscrapers. If a catastrophic scenario does occur, then, according to them, it cannot lead to devastating consequences of this magnitude.
The disaster footage clearly shows that the planes crash into buildings in completely different ways: the liner entered the northern tower right in the center, into the southern tower at an acute angle, chopping off the edge of the skyscraper. At the same time, the destruction of the towers was surprisingly uniform and symmetrical, as in a prepared explosion. And then a strange thing happens: the southern tower, which was less damaged by the explosion, collapses first, and only half an hour later the northern one falls, where the consequences of the catastrophe should have been more impressive.
Experts analyzed the video of the collapse of the towers and almost unanimously stated that this is how industrial demolition of buildings occurs. Indeed, if you carefully look at the slow motion footage of the disaster, you can see how blast waves run across the entire height of the building at equal distances - as if a pre-laid charge had detonated.
Here are two more facts that will make you think. Shortly before the terrorist attack, the floors, into which the planes subsequently flew, were closed for repairs. And a few weeks before the tragedy, the owner of the twin towers, Larry Silverstein, insured them for $ 3 billion, and insurance against terrorist attacks was spelled out as a separate item.
Selective fire
If you believe the official conclusions, then in a monstrous fire, hundreds of thousands of tons of steel structures were melted, and hundreds of tons of concrete were rubbed into dust.
Is it possible that the ignited aviation kerosene, the combustion temperature of which is less than 1000 ° C, made the hardened steel “tremble”, which melts at no less than 2000 ° C. At the same time, there was a critical loss of strength of 50 massive load-bearing beams at once, which is possible only if the fuel is evenly spread over all floor areas.
As a result of the explosions, charred and unidentifiable body particles were left from the passengers of both Boeings. Meanwhile, the passport of Mohammed Atta, one of the hijackers of the plane, which became one of the main pieces of evidence in favor of the guilt of Al Qaeda *, was completely unharmed. According to the commission, the document miraculously survived a powerful explosion, fell out of the plane and landed safely near the building.
The US government was in such a hurry to come to the right conclusion that it was not even going to pay attention to such incidents. Further more.
The Investigative Commission announced the identification of some of the passengers and crew members of the aircraft by "DNA remnants." And this is after the fire practically completely destroyed the hull of the liner, made of high-temperature resistant aircraft aluminum.
It is curious that despite the fantastically preserved "remnants of DNA", the black boxes were declared completely destroyed by fire. Looking at this, the only thing left to do is to believe that the fire acted selectively, completely not being guided by the laws of the physical world.
No trace
The third hijacked Boeing, flying American Airlines Flight 77, crashed into the Pentagon building, according to official figures. In order to inflict the most sensitive damage to the building and people, the terrorists sent the liner along the lowest possible trajectory. It is known that the height of the Boeing 757 is 13 meters, the Pentagon - 24 meters.
Based on this, the final kilometers of the liner flight had to pass at an altitude of only a few meters above the ground, which is an almost impossible task for pilots who have just completed express courses.
Moreover, such a maneuver was absolutely unjustified, since, in the opinion of many experts, it would not have led to such damage as in a fall at an angle. It would be difficult even for an inexperienced pilot to miss in this case, given the impressive area of the Pentagon - 117 363 sq. M. It turns out that the terrorists, who carefully planned the terrorist attack, chose a more complicated and less effective path.
However, the main incident lies ahead. Independent researchers studying photographs of the crash were alarmed by the fact that the Boeing, when it hit a building, did not leave traces of its wings. No debris was found nearby. Moreover, there were no hints of aircraft fragments inside the destroyed section of the building. According to official findings, they were all destroyed. powerful explosion and fire, which is very doubtful.
All of the above facts suggest another reason for the destruction at the Pentagon - a planned explosion. But if we assume that the Boeing 757 did not crash into the Pentagon, where did the car itself with the passengers and crew of this ill-fated flight disappear?
As for the fourth Boeing, which did not reach the Capitol and fell in the fields of Pennsylvania, there are fewer questions for him. However, there are still inconsistencies. The authorities claim that the death was caused by the impact on the ground, but they failed to find any significant number of aircraft fragments at the alleged crash site. Eyewitnesses say the debris was scattered for miles. According to researchers who do not share the official point of view, the liner could have been hit in the air by a missile launched from a fighter jet.
The official version says: passengers, having contacted their relatives by mobile phones, learned that two planes had already crashed into buildings in Manhattan and decided to prevent the hijackers' plans. It was as a result of the struggle that ensued on board that the plane went off course and went into a steep dive. However, experts say that the ability to use cellular communication appeared in flight only since 2005.
Avoid misunderstandings
Everything in this story is alarming, including the behavior of top American officials. Thus, President George W. Bush long ignored the invitation to address the Congress, but when he agreed to the meeting, he put forward conditions that at first glance defy logical explanation. He insisted on limiting the conversation in time - no more than an hour and a mandatory invitation to the event, Vice President Dick Cheney. At the request of the head of the White House from the commission investigating the tragedy, only two people were to be present.
After a lengthy debate, it was still possible to agree on the participation of 10 members of the commission and remove the time limit. During the meeting, everyone expected to hear from the president exhaustive, and most importantly, reliable information about what had happened, but everything turned out to be much more complicated. Bush refused to allow video footage, audio recording, or even transcription of the meeting. In addition, Bush and Cheney refused to take an oath to reassure listeners of the truth of what was said.
In April 2004, the performance finally took place. However, to this day it is not known what Bush and Cheney said to the Congressmen. Many people pay attention to the absurdity of this situation. It looks as if one witness agreed to appear in court only in the presence of another witness. Why is this needed? Probably in order to avoid inconsistency in the testimony.
Every year there is a growing conviction in the world that the terrorist attacks were planned by the US special services to justify the actions of the American military in the Middle East. But it is too early to draw final conclusions. So far, we can only say with certainty the following: if the US authorities did not organize the attacks themselves, then at least they did not interfere with their planning.
* Al-Qaeda is a terrorist group banned on the territory of the Russian Federation
The September 11, 2001 (or 9/11) attacks are a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States by an Islamic terrorist group Al-qaeda in New York and Washington DC. They took place on Tuesday 11 September 2001.
Four terrorist groups, each with a trained pilot, hijacked passenger planes and sent them towards targets - the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed in a deserted area in Pennsylvania before reaching Washington. The US government said the organizers of the attack belonged to the al-Qaeda group. During these attacks, about 3,000 people died. Most of them were citizens of the United States, but about 300 were from the UK, India, Canada and other countries.
Planes that became instruments of terrorist attacks
The first of four aircraft hijacked was American Airlines Flight 11 (Boeing 767-200ER). He made daily flights between Boston and Los Angeles. When hijacked at 7:59 am on September 11, 2001, there were 81 passengers on board (out of 158 seats). Forty-seven minutes later, this plane crashed into the North Tower of New York's World Trade Center at 94-98 floors, at 440 mph, carrying 9,717 gallons of jet fuel. (A US gallon is equal to 3.78541178 liters.)
The second was United Airlines Flight 175, also a Boeing 767-200ER, also flying from Boston to Los Angeles. It took off at 8:14 am on September 11 and carried 56 passengers (out of 168 seats). Captured by terrorists, it crashed into the South Tower of the mall at 9:03 am, at 540 mph, with 9.118 gallons of fuel in its tanks.
The third terrorists hijacked American Airlines Flight 77, Boeing 757-200. It flew from Washington to Los Angeles at 8:20 am on September 11, 2001. The plane was two-thirds empty (58 passengers out of 176). It crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37 am at 530 mph with 4,000 gallons of fuel in its tanks.
The fourth aircraft used by terrorists was United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757-200. He was captured 42 minutes after his 8am flight from Newark to San Francisco. There were only 37 passengers on board and just over 7,000 gallons of fuel. It crashed at 560 mph in an empty field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:03 am.
Victims and destruction
All 246 people on four planes, as well as 19 hijackers, were killed in the attacks. Both of the attacked World Trade Center towers caught fire. The South Tower (WTC-2) burned for 56 minutes until it fell and collapsed. The North Tower (WTC-1) burned for 102 minutes, then it also fell. During the collapse, parts of the towers fell into other neighboring buildings. Due to this damage, the third tower, No. 7, of the World Trade Center (WTC-7) fell at 5:20 pm. Many other buildings nearby were so badly damaged that they had to be demolished later. 2602 people died at the World Trade Center.
The plane crashed into the Pentagon from the west side. He damaged three of the five "rings" that make up the Pentagon. At the same time, 125 people died at the Pentagon.
The United States government paid the families of the victims of the attacks an average of $ 1.8 million.
A total of 2996 people died from the events of September 11, 2001, including firefighters and police officers who tried to save other people.
It is believed to be the first major foreign terrorist attack on the United States. In 1941, when Japanese aircraft attacked a US naval base in Pearl Harbor Hawaii was not yet part of the United States. There have been several major attacks against American targets in the past, but most of them have taken place outside the United States (for example, in a Lebanese Marine camp).
When investigating the causes of the attacks, "conspiracy theories" were also put forward, according to which some people in the US government knew about the impending attacks in advance or even organized them.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the President of the United States Bush declared the so-called "war on terrorism". It expressed itself first in the strengthening of security measures within the United States, and then in real wars on the territory Afghanistan and Iraq... Regimes were overthrown during these wars Taliban and Saddam Hussein... In May 2011, US special forces killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
Al-Qaeda and Taliban groups are recognized as terrorist in the Russian Federation and are prohibited by law.
The chronology of the events of September 11, 2001 states that the events at the Pentagon occurred between the attacks on the Twin Towers and their collapse, namely:
8:46 - hit on the north tower of the WTC,
9:03 am - strike on the south tower of the WTC,
09:37 - strike at the Pentagon,
9:42 am - ABC report on the White House fire (in the EOP building),
9:59 am - collapse of the WTC south tower,
10:10 - collapse of part of the Pentagon buildings,
10:28 am - collapse of the north tower of the WTC,
10:37 am - Flight 93 crashed over Pennsylvania,
17:20 - collapse of the WTC7 building,
6:00 pm - CNN and BBC report on bombings and shootings in Kabul,
19:30 - US government denies involvement in the Kabul bombings and
20:30 - Appoints Osama bin Laden guilty.
For those who have joined us just now, let me remind you that it is night in Kabul; who, why and in what way is smashing government buildings there, and remained unclear. But the attention of the whole world is riveted on the events in New York and Washington.
The official version of events says that the attack on the Pentagon was carried out by a Boeing-757-200 passenger plane belonging to American Airlines; about now such.
At 8:20, he flew from Dulles Airport on the Washington-Los Angeles route (Flight 77), and at 8:50 he was allegedly captured in the air by terrorists who threatened either with paper cutters or being on board bombs.
Immediately thereafter, the aircraft allegedly made a U-turn over Ohio to return to Washington for an attack on the Pentagon. But since by that time the plane's transponder (an answering machine for communicating with radars) was turned off, air traffic controllers lost it, therefore, 36 minutes, unnoticed by anyone, flight 77 allegedly flew towards Washington.
At 9:32 am control dispatchers air traffic At Dulles Airport, a large, unidentified plane is noticed, and at 9:34 am the command arrives to evacuate the White House. At 9:35 am, Vice President Dick Cheney, according to him, is picked up by big fellows from the secret service and literally forcibly carried away into an underground tunnel.
But this strange large, incredibly fast and maneuverable aircraft, later identified as Flight 77, changes direction and crashes into the Pentagon building, and it is precisely into the wing where the repairs are being carried out and there are practically no personnel.
The deaths as a result of this event are considered 64 passengers of flight 77 and 125 people in the Pentagon building.
For further narration, we need to briefly outline some technical data.
The Boeing-757 aircraft has the following characteristics:
Fuselage width (diameter) - 3.7 m;
Height (including the rear vertical tail) - 13.56 m;
Fuselage length - 47 m;
Wingspan - 38 m;
Gross take-off weight - up to 123 tons;
Empty aircraft weight - 58 tons;
The power plant is two turbofan engines under the wings weighing 5 tons each.
In general, this is a large passenger plane. If it flies past you at a distance of up to several kilometers, it is impossible to confuse it with anything else, except perhaps with another make or model of an aircraft.
The Pentagon is the main headquarters of the US military and the largest administrative building in the world. Located in the suburbs of Washington, on the banks of the Potomac River. Pentagon building is a huge equilateral pentagon, the side length of which is 281 m, and the height (five above-ground floors) is 23.5 m.
A simple geometric calculation shows that the ratio of the horizontal and vertical dimensions of this structure is 1: 18.4.
Pentagon building represents five separate concentric pentagonal structures with transitions in the corners, which merge into larger structures on some inner edges. But since the attack fell in the "classic" place of this complex, we are interested in what is the internal structure of these rings.
The dates of the construction of the Pentagon, falling on the years of the Second World War, mark only the first stage of the creation of this superstructure. During the Cold War, this complex of buildings at least twice underwent major modernization and strengthening, which were also designed to counteract damaging factors. nuclear explosions in case of war with the USSR.
In this photos the side section of the first outer ring is clearly visible. This five-story building consists of small rooms separated by very thick brick walls and reinforced concrete floors.
If the Los Angeles Times is not lying, the Pentagon was reinforced with "a grid of steel columns and crossbars to withstand bomb explosions" in the course of its modernization. Apparently, I mean such columns.
And now, the official version claims that a Boeing-757 passenger plane,
hitting into the lower part of the outer ring, pierced through the three Pentagon rings, making in ring C
that's it outlet, wherein
practically without damaging the facade and leaving neither inside the building nor outside a single fragment of an aircraft or human bodies.
I don’t know about you, dear reader, but this version reminds me only of the stories of Baron Munchausen.
Naturally, such an absurd story about the events at the Pentagon immediately provoked a flurry of objections from skeptics and a whole army of independent researchers. All their arguments against the official version can be boiled down to three main considerations.
Firstly What will poor America do if it is suddenly attacked by some probable adversary whose missiles and planes are not equipped with transponders with answering machines tuned to the FAA radar system? And after all, no one will give 36 minutes of time to swing and search for each such threat ... In other words, the "loss" of a huge plane in the air east coast The United States during the 2001 crisis seems incredible.
Secondly, impossible from an aerobatic point of view is the method of hitting the Pentagon building with a hypothetical passenger aircraft. An airplane of the Boeing-757 type could not have reached the target with such accuracy and speed (about 900 km / h) at almost zero altitude in conditions big city... In short, passenger planes do not fly like that in principle, and even more so, piloted by some inept terrorists.
And finally third, an airplane with duralumin alloys and with a carbon fiber front fairing of the fuselage does not pierce through three huge buildings made of reinforced concrete and brick. Moreover, the weapon that could do this does not exist in nature. Damn any building to hell is it please but cut right through the three most powerful buildings, simultaneously causing a huge fire- this is not about our modern weapons ...
These three main considerations have given rise to many books, articles, films from hundreds and thousands of independent researchers and organizations. Their argumentation looks logical, complete and comprehensive.
As in the case assassination of President Kennedy, in the story of the attack on the Pentagon, there is a number of conflicting testimonies that, with all the desire, cannot be entered into a single logical hypothesis, remaining within the framework of the concepts of traditional physics.
So, for example, the first media reports about the explosions at the Pentagon were accompanied by so different assumptions that it was time to suspect that different witnesses saw different events.
In contrast to the version that the plane hit the Pentagon (which was not announced immediately, but later became the main, official), in the first minutes after the attack, there was information that the attack was carried out by either a helicopter, or a cruise missile, not either a truck filled with explosives, or some explosions just happened in the Pentagon (in the form of a "brazen attack" according to US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld).
In any case, none of the witnesses in the first minutes after the explosion claimed about the plane. To top it all off, there was serious panic on S. Washington Blvd when, just before the explosion something knocked down several lamp posts flying over the heads of the dumbfounded drivers so low that, according to some witnesses, even cut off the antenna on the jeep.
I do not accept the irony of some researchers that the lamp posts were later pulled out and thrown onto the roadway to create an actual base for the airplane version, for the simple reason that in this case there should have been a large army of witnesses of how and when was done. But there are no such facts. After all, while the Pentagon was burning, heads turned in that direction automatically.
In addition, the highway was not blocked for traffic, but only a ban was announced on the shooting of the burning Pentagon, allegedly in order to preserve military secrets. The most resourceful witnesses just captured these fallen pillars, including in the background the almost intact burning facade of the Pentagon building, on the mobile phones and cameras immediately after the disaster.
After these pillars on the way to the front of the Pentagon, our object managed to destroy and at the same time set fire to transformer box behind a small mesh fence.
Honest researchers rightly point out that after such two additional collisions - with poles and a transformer - any aircraft, even a special cruise missile for fighting bunkers, must completely or partially destroy their aerodynamic planes, while losing at least part of their speed or height, which was already almost zero.
And further, at this zero height, the object was able to pierce through the three rings of the Pentagon at an angle of approximately 60 degrees relative to the plane of the facade, making rings C in the wall that's it outlet.
Along the way inside the rings E, D and C this object managed to make
here such destruction,
and then - disappear in the courtyard between rings C and B.
I consider the surviving glass on the windows to be a very indicative fact for my hypothesis. inner wall ring C, a couple of meters from which something pierced a thick brick wall reinforced with reinforced concrete, the reinforcement from which sticks out in the done hole.
There is another such moment in the official chronology of events.
At 10:10, i.e. at the same time with collapse of part of the outer ring The Pentagon, the eastern sector of the US air defense prohibits its fighters from opening fire.
An interesting fact is the impressions of Dallas airport dispatchers, who, after the appearance of a large unidentified tag on their radar screens, first decided that “ this is one of those guys sent to guard our president", Referring to a military fighter or interceptor.
But then, by the size of the mark, they identified the object as a large passenger plane, which, however, cannot fly at such a high speed at such a low altitude, and also lay such sharp turns. They were confused ...
These are the basic facts. Now let's give the floor to David McGowan for the right questions:
« So what hit the Pentagon that morning? Was American Airlines Flight 77, missing on radar screens for half an hour and unnoticed by America's state-of-the-art air defense system, unexpectedly and inexplicably appeared in the skies over Washington?
Did he then actually perform a high-speed maneuver, usually beyond the capabilities of a Boeing 757 (according to some eyewitnesses), and began to enter the Pentagon at high speed and at such a ridiculously low altitude that he cut off the car antenna?
Did he neatly unscrew five sturdy steel lampposts and smash one of his wings into a large generator and still maintain a straight and perfectly stable approach to the Pentagon like an arrow?
And did it really then crash into the Pentagon with such tremendous force that it was able to punch through more than 300 feet (91 meters - sludge .NET ) reinforced concrete obstacles at an angle? And did all this so that no one filmed a single frame on film or videotape?
Or something else crashed into the Pentagon? Can we say with certainty that something actually crashed into the Pentagon? Was everything perpetrated by explosives placed inside and possibly outside the building? If so, what turned out those lamp posts?
Can we hope to find answers to all the outstanding questions surrounding the attack on the Pentagon? Or was this barrier erected in such a way that it was impossible to take it? "
