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 shopping center located in southern Manhattan, the third plane was directed to the Pentagon building, the 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 accusations 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 committed with his participation. Later, bin Laden nevertheless admitted to 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 at number 7 is a 47-storey high-rise, noticeably inferior to its twin brothers in height.
It, in particular, 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 as a result 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-rises, 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 disaster should have been more impressive.
Experts analyzed the video of the collapse of the towers and almost unanimously stated that this is how the 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 been 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 the fire. Looking at this, it remains only 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, 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 is 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 if it fell 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 make it to 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 reads: passengers contacting mobile phones with relatives, 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, 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, at first glance, conditions that 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 did not allow video filming, 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
On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda suicide bombers in the United States seized four passenger aircraft, - the towers of the World Trade Center, and the other two - on the Pentagon and, presumably, on the White House or the Capitol. All planes, except 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 floors 93 and 99. 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 the strongest fire at 9.59, the South Tower collapsed, and at 10.28 - the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
At 6:16 pm, the 47-storey building of the World Trade Center complex collapsed, which was 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 estimate 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 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 be 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.
The charges were brought against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who, according to the report of the 9/11 commission, 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 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 decision 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 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 in connection with the attacks.
It has been 16 years since that day, since Nine-Eleven, when three skyscrapers collapsed in New York... No, I was not mistaken. Not two, but three, but for some reason they prefer not to remember the third. And when the third plane crashed into the repaired wing of the Pentagon, and in a strange way almost self-destructed and another one fell in the desert. And these are far from all the mysteries of the tragedy that happened.
So, on the morning of September 11, 2001, some unknown persons hijacked four Boeing aircraft (two in Boston, one in Washington, and another in Newark), after which the first two planes crashed into the New York skyscrapers WTC-1 and WTC-2, the third hit the wall of the Pentagon; and the fourth crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Two towers of the World Trade Center, attacked by planes, suddenly completely collapsed in a very strange way, neatly folded inward within an hour and a half. Also for some reason completely and neatly the neighboring skyscraper WTC 7 also collapsed although no planes hit it.
It took only a few days after the "terrorist attacks" when the first official version of what had happened was ready and the executors were named. Osama bin Laden, who led this action from Afghanistan, and, of course, his brainchild of al-Qaeda, was immediately named to blame. Also, the names of all 19 hijackers, who abandoned their cars near the airports, in which they found the Koran and instructions in Arabic "How to fly an airplane", and in the wreckage of the aircraft found miraculously preserved passports of "terrorists". From this it followed that an urgent need to start bombing Afghanistan and invading Iraq.
In the fall of 2002, a special commission was created under the loud name "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States." It was chaired by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean. The commission included former employees of the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice and other government agencies. All actions and the course of the investigation were led by Philip Zelikow, a member of the administration of President Bush Jr., who also worked under Bush Sr.
The final form of the official version, indicated above, was adopted on July 22, 2004, when the above-mentioned commission of 83 people completed the report on 585 pages. The report of the Keene Commission confirmed the above version, which still remains the only and irrefutable.
Now let's bring some facts showing how the US special services are able to "investigate" and get the necessary and deliberately announced results.
Cell Phones
The official report claims that all the information from the Boeing that crashed into the WTC skyscraper was transmitted to the ground by mobile phones. In particular, flight attendant Betty Ong spoke for 23 minutes and flight attendant Madeline Sweeney for 25 minutes. Sweeney's last words were: “I see water! I see buildings! " ...
The fact is that when the phone enters the broadcasting area of the base station, or "cell", a so-called "greeting" occurs, which in 2001 took at least eight seconds. The welcome system was not designed for movement at a speed of 700 km / h and is possible at a maximum speed of 150 km / h. And only in 2004, Qualcomm, together with American Airlines, developed a system that, using a satellite, provides calls to cell phones from an aircraft on which a special mobile base station is installed. On July 15, 2004, a trial launch of the system was made, after which it began to function.
Cheating at speed
The Keane Commission's official report provides a diagram of the alleged movement of Flight 175, which crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center, according to which the plane covered the final straight section from Trenton to New York in four minutes.
Now for the fact: The straight line distance between Trenton and New York is 85 kilometers. For even counting, you can even consider it equal to 80. According to official data, the plane covered this distance in 4 minutes. Let's find the average speed of the liner in this section: V = 80 km / 4 min = 20 km / min = 1200 km / h. We get the speed of sound.
Of course, the Boeing 767 was not supersonic. V technical characteristics The Boeing 767-200 is said to have a maximum cruising speed of 915 km / h at an altitude of 12 km. And this is only at an altitude of 12,000 meters, where the air density is five times lower than at sea level, and the liner flew into the building at a height of several hundred meters. The same technical specifications say that the maximum permissible speed of the Boeing-767-200 (the so-called Vne - Velocity Never Exceed), exceeding which the plane will simply begin to collapse, is 0.86 the speed of sound, that is, about 1000 km / h. Therefore, even if the plane still managed to develop the speed of sound, it would crumble long before Manhattan. That is, the official investigation invites everyone to believe into something that is impossible purely physically... So, one more lie of the official investigation.
"Gemini" could not collapse on their own
According to the official report, the one hundred and ten-story skyscraper WTC-1 completely collapsed after 1 hour and 42 minutes after the plane hit, and its twin, WTC-2, after 56 minutes. The reason, of course, is indicated as follows - the impact and subsequent fire that occurred after the Boeing hit the buildings.
But this is where some more surprising facts appear.
It turns out that the "Gemini" were designed so that, in addition to the wind load, they could withstand Boeing 707 frontal impact, the largest passenger airliner in those years. In the early 1970s, Leslie Robertson, who built the buildings, calculated the effect of a Boeing 707 collision with the WTC tower. He reported the results to the New York Times, claiming that the towers will withstand the impact of the liner flying at a speed of 960 km / h, that is, having taken the hit of the liner, the skyscraper will remain standing without serious structural damage. In other words, the central frame and the remaining perimeter to stand will withstand the additional load resulting from the absence of the demolished part of the supporting structures. It was with such a margin of safety that the "twins" were built.
Frank DeMartini, one of the leaders of the WTC project, confirms this idea: the building was designed in such a way to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707 with a maximum take-off weight. It was the largest aircraft of the time. I am sure that the building would have withstood even a few aircraft hits, since its structure resembled a dense mosquito net, and an airplane is like a pencil that pierces this mesh and does not affect the structure of the rest of it.
The fire also could not destroy the skyscrapers.... Here's evidence that the official report is lying again:
So, the WTC-1 building withstood the first blow. Nevertheless, in the next hour and a half, something happened as a result of the fire, provoking the collapse of the tower. By the way, this is the first and only case in world history when a skyscraper actually turns into a heap of ruins as a result of an hour and a half fire - if you believe the official version.
In the mid-1990s, two British firms, British Steel and the Building Research Establishment, conducted a series of experiments in Cardington to investigate the effects of fires on steel-framed structures. On the experimental model of the eight-story building, the steel structures did not have fire protection. Despite the fact that the temperature of the steel beams reached 900 ° C (!) With a critical maximum of 600 ° C, no failure occurred in any of the six experiments, although certain deformations did occur.
In August 2005, John R. Hall Jr. of the US National Fire Fighting Association published the analytical work Fires in Tall Buildings. In particular, it provides statistics according to which 7300 fires occurred in high-rise buildings in 2002 alone, many of which were very intense and lasted for many hours, having managed to absorb more than one floor. Despite the casualties and significant damage, none of these fires resulted in collapses.
If that's not enough, here are some more specific examples of the most severe fires in recent decades:
On February 23, 1991, a fire broke out in the 38-story One Meridian Plaza building in Philadelphia. The fire started on the 22nd floor, covered 8 floors and lasted 18 hours. As a result of this fire, a lot of glass was broken, granite cracked and load-bearing walls sagged. Nevertheless, the building survived and not a single part of it collapsed.
On May 4, 1988, the 62-story First Interstate Bank building in Los Angeles caught fire. The fire lasted 3.5 hours, 4.5 floors burned out - from the 12th to the 16th. But the supporting structures survived completely, and the secondary structures and several interfloor floors received only minor damage. The building survived.
On August 5, 1970, an explosion occurred in the 50-story building 1 New York Plaza and a fire broke out that lasted six hours. There were no collapses.
On October 17, 2004, a skyscraper caught fire in the Venezuelan city of Caracas. The fire broke out at the 34th floor, covered 26 (!) Floors and lasted 17 hours. The building survived.
And, finally, a fire in that very New York World Trade Center. February 13, 1975 years in the north tower on the 11th floor there was a fire, as a result of which 65% of the floor burned out completely... In addition, the fire spread down to the 9th and up to the 16th floors, however, without affecting the office space and confined to the shafts inside the central frame. The fire continued for three hours, and, despite its much higher intensity than on September 11, 2001, the structure of the building was not damaged. Not only the central frame, inside which the fire mainly spread, but also all the interfloor ceilings, remained completely unscathed.
1975 World Trade Center fire
And the 47-storey "WTC 7" collapsed by itself ... by accident.
The official report states that WTC-7 "collapsed" due to weakening of the supporting structures, despite the fact that no aircraft hit it.
On the demolition of the building No. 7 of the WTC, as it turned out, very few knew at all. Its destruction was somehow imperceptible against the background of the rest of the events of that day. This 47-story skyscraper, also called Salomon Brothers, housed the offices of the FBI, the Department of Defense, the 1RS tax service (according to the Online Journal, with a huge amount of dirt, including the infamous Enron), counterintelligence The United States, the stock exchange (with evidence of stock exchange fraud), and various financial institutions. Its collapse occurred at approximately 17:20 New York time, and several rather curious incidents are associated with it.
FEMA claims that this building collapsed for the same reasons as the "twins" - due to the weakening of the load-bearing structures. But why? The plane did not hit it. Fires did not rage in it - only in three places there were small local fires: on the seventh, twelfth and twenty-ninth floors. If we recall the scheme of the entire World Trade Center, then building No. 7 is the most distant from the "epicenter", separated from the main complex by a street as well. Where did the damage come from? The report is silent about this.
Such a small fire allegedly resulted in the complete destruction of the WTC-7 building.
And the most "truthful" in the world the BBC even reported about the collapse of WTC-7 in advance.
Indeed, the report of the British television channel BBC (BBC) looks unique. In a TV news program that aired at 10:00 London time, that is, 17:00 New York time, the presenter told viewers that the WTC-7 building in New York had collapsed. But there were still 20 minutes left before it collapsed.... Moreover, TV correspondent Jane Standley in her live report from New York talked about the collapse of WTC-7, while being in its background. A rare photograph depicts this moment - the WTC-7 building is indicated by arrows. The caption at the bottom of the screen reads: "The 47-story Salomon Brothers building near the World Trade Center also collapsed."
Air Force talks about the destruction of WTC 7
However, at some point, apparently, the TV people realized what had happened, and at 17:14 the picture of the broadcast from New York was suddenly distorted by interference, and after a few seconds it completely disappeared.
How else to explain this incredible "blooper", if not the presence pre-written script? Is it possible that the building was planned to be demolished a little earlier, but they simply did not have time to inform London about the delay in this mise-en-scene of the performance, and the British continued to follow the script. So they got the press release before all this happened? But from whom and how?
Of course, such an incident caused a lot of questions to the BBC TV channel. However, news head Richard Porter explained this mysterious story: « We are not part of a conspiracy. Nobody told us what to talk about or what to do on 9/11. Nobody informed us in advance that the building should fall. We have not received a press release or a script for what is to happen.».
It turns out that if no one told them anything in advance, it means that they themselves, on their own initiative, told about the collapse of the building, which will happen in 20 minutes. But we read further: "We have not preserved the original recording of the reports from September 11 - not because of a conspiracy, but because of confusion." The news record of one of the most important days in the history of the TV channel was suddenly lost.
The dead "terrorists" were alive
Official list of "hijackers"
The list was accompanied by the following comment: “The FBI is absolutely confident in the accuracy of the identification of the nineteen hijackers responsible for the 9/11 attacks. In addition, the 9/11 investigations were scrutinized by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks against the United States and jointly by the Senate and House of Representatives. None of these checks raised the slightest doubt about the identities of the nineteen hijackers. "
On 23 September 2001, the British BBC news agency unexpectedly reported that Walid al-Shehri, a Saudi Arabian national and named hijacker of AA11 flight, currently alive, well and doing great in Casablanca, Morocco... The Saudi Arabian Embassy has confirmed that he attended a flight school in Daytona Beach, Florida. He left the United States in September 2000 and works for Royal Air Morocco. This is further confirmed by the Associated Press, according to which Walid al-Shehri appeared at the American Embassy in Morocco: “The FBI released a photograph of him, which was disseminated in newspapers and television news around the world. This same Mr. al-Shehri showed up in Morocco, thus proving that he was not a member of the suicide pilot team. Total minus one.
Veil al-Shehri (AA11) is also alive and well. He works as a pilot and his father is a Saudi Arabian diplomat in Bombay. The Los Angeles Times, in an article on September 21, 2001, reports that the head of the information center of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in the United States, Gaafar Allagani, confirmed that he personally spoke with both father and son. Total minus two.
Abdulaziz al-Omari (AA11), while studying in Denver, lost his passport, which he once reported to the police. He currently works as an engineer for Saudi Telecom. The Telegraph on September 23, 2001 quoted him: “I couldn't believe when I saw myself on the FBI lists. They showed my name, my photo and my date of birth, but I'm not a suicide bomber. I'm here. I'm alive. I have no idea how to fly the plane. I had nothing to do with all this. " Total minus three.
Said al-Ghamdi (UA93), a Saudi Airways pilot, was in Tunisia during the 9/11 events, where he was training with 22 other pilots to fly an Airbus-320. The Telegraph quoted him as saying: “The FBI did not provide any evidence of my involvement in the attacks. You have no idea what it is like to be called a dead terrorist when I am alive and innocent. " Total minus four.
Ahmed al-Nami (UA93) works as Clerk for Saudi Airlines in Riyadh: “As you can see, I am alive. I was shocked to see my name on the [terrorist] lists. I've never heard of Pennsylvania, where I happened to hijack a plane. " Total minus five.
Salem al-Hamzi (AA77) works at a chemical plant in the city of Yanbu, Saudi Arabia: "I have never been to the United States, and in the last two years I have not left Saudi Arabia." Total minus six.
Khalid al-Midhar (AA77) - programmer in Mecca, Saudi Arabia: "I would like to think that this is some kind of mistake." According to the Chicago Tribune, he was watching TV when his friends started calling him and asking if he was alive. Total minus seven.
P.S. And this is just a small part of the "evidence" found in the "most reliable" official investigation of the 9/11 tragedy. But this, in my opinion, is quite enough to understand by what methods the United States is moving towards its goals, having killed more than three thousand Americans. In the continuation of the investigation, I will tell you about a mysterious plane that crashed into the Pentagon and disappeared in a strange way, and about the rest, no less mysterious planes of that terrible day - September 11, 2001.
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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. They took place on Tuesday 11 September 2001.
Four groups of terrorists, each with a trained pilot, hijacked passenger planes and sent them to 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 that the organizers of the attack belong 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 the 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 the New York 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 terrorist 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 have been 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 before, but most of them took place outside the United States (for example, in a Lebanese Marines 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 inside 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.
Today marks the 16th anniversary of the most terrible and daring terrorist attack in the history of the United States and the whole world. Mourning ceremonies will be held in the United States on Monday to commemorate the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. Six minutes of silence will be announced on this day.
Fighters of the terrorist organization "Al-Qaeda" hijacked four passenger planes and sent two of them to the towers of the World Trade Center, two others to the Pentagon, as well as the White House or the Capitol. All planes, except the last one, reached their targets. The fourth hijacked plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The terrorist attack killed 2,977 people, including 343 firefighters and 60 police officers. In addition to the Americans, citizens of another 92 states were killed. 2753 lives were claimed by the attack in New York, 184 in the Pentagon and 40 in Pennsylvania.
There are also 19 terrorists who died in the attacks, 15 of them were citizens of Saudi Arabia, two were from the United Arab Emirates, as well as from Egypt and Lebanon.
The exact figure of the damage caused by the terrorist attacks is still unknown. In September 2006, the then head of the White House, George W. Bush, announced that the damage from the September 11, 2001 attacks amounted to $ 500 billion for the United States at the lowest estimate.
In November 2002, a special independent commission was created in America to investigate the September 11 attacks. Two years later, she published the final report on the investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy, which contained 600 pages. Experts admitted that suicide bombers took advantage of serious "administrative failures" in the work of the US authorities and intelligence.
The only person convicted of the terrorist attacks in the United States was Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan origin. He was arrested in August 2001 after graduating from flight school in Oklahoma and training on a Boeing 747 simulator in Minnesota. In the spring of 2005, the court found Moussaoui guilty of intending to commit a terrorist attack, which on that tragic day was supposed to be the fifth in a row. The Frenchman admitted that on the personal instructions of Osama bin Laden, he was supposed to hijack the plane and send it to the White House. In May 2006, Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison by a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.
In 2002 and 2003, the police arrested six other people suspected of involvement in the attacks. They spent several years in CIA prisons, and in 2006 were taken to a camp at an American base in Guantanamo, Cuba. In early 2008, the US Department of Defense indicted six inmates on murder and war crimes charges as part of an investigation into the 9/11 attacks.
The investigation brought charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who, according to the authorities, was the central figure in the preparation of the attacks. Organizational support for the terrorists was provided by Ramzi Binalshiba (Ramzi bin al-Sheba) from Yemen. Mohammed al-Qahtani, according to the investigation, on September 11, 2001 was supposed to become the 20th hijacker of four American planes. Mustafa Ahmed Hawsavi, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Walid bin Attash were also accused of preparing the attack. In 2008, the charges against al-Qahtani were dropped.
In January 2009, the new US President, Barack Obama, pledged to close, ordering the suspension of the military prosecutor's office. The military department had to drop terrorist charges. Nevertheless, as you know, Obama's promise remained unfulfilled - Congress did not approve of his plans. Therefore, in the spring of 2011, he ordered the reopening of military courts against the terrorists held at Guantanamo.
In May 2011, the US military prosecutor's office again brought charges of involvement in organizing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on five suspects, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. A year later, a military tribunal officially charged them with organizing a conspiracy, attacking civilians, deliberately causing physical damage, murder, violation of the laws of war, causing destruction, hijacking an aircraft and terrorism. All five remained silent at the trial.
In July 2014, a military court at Guantánamo concluded that the trial of Ramzi Binalshibh should be conducted separately - military doctors discovered that the Yemeni had a "serious mental illness." To date, hearings on the case of those accused of involvement in organizing the terrorist attack are continuing.
Last spring, New York federal district judge George Daniels issued a court ruling in absentia, according to which Tehran must pay $ 7.5 billion to relatives and other representatives of persons who died at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon building. The judge also determined that the authorities of the Islamic Republic must pay another three billion to insurers who covered property damage. Earlier, the judge ruled that since Tehran could not prove its innocence in providing assistance to the organizers of the terrorist attack, therefore, the authorities of this country bear a share of responsibility for the damage caused.
The US Congress in September 2016 passed a law that allows the heirs of the victims of the 9/11 attacks to sue - most of the terrorists were holders of passports of this particular country. In early October last year, an American woman who lost her husband in a terrorist attack filed her first lawsuit against Saudi Arabia, and in the spring of this year, relatives of the victims in the United States filed a class action suit against Riyadh. Later, dozens of insurance companies filed a lawsuit against two banks in the kingdom, as well as firms associated with the family of Osama bin Laden - the amount of the claim amounted to more than $ 4 billion. Saudi Arabia, in turn, appealed to the federal court in Manhattan to dismiss 25 claims. According to the authorities, the plaintiffs have no evidence of the involvement of Riyadh or related organizations in the 9/11 attack.
In 2011, on the site of the destroyed twin towers in New York, the World Trade Center Memorial was built, which consists of two square fountain pools located right in the foundations of the former twin towers. By interior walls These pools cascade streams of water that go into square holes located at the bottom of the fountains. The names of 2,983 victims of the terrorist attacks are carved on bronze slabs that lined the parapets of the structures.
Since 2002, September 11 in the United States has been celebrated as Patriot Day; since 2009, this date has also been referred to as the nationwide Day of Service and Remembrance.
