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9/11 See other 9/11 Articles Title: U.S. Government admits nose cone of Flight 77 SURVIVED Pentagon crash! 19 April 2009 Did a Plane Hit the Pentagon? In 2002, French conspiracy theorist Thierry Meyssan wrote a book suggesting that a cruise missile instead of a plane hit the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Mr. Meyssan believes the attack on the Pentagon was masterminded not by al Qaida, but “from inside the American state apparatus.” (9/11: The Big Lie, page 139) Mr. Meyssan’s claims suffer from numerous obvious flaws. He ignores or dismisses the facts that: • many eyewitnesses saw a plane crash into the Pentagon; • the passenger and crew remains from American Airlines flight 77 were recovered at the Pentagon crash site; • eyewitness reports and photographs show plane debris at the Pentagon crash site; • passengers on American Airlines flight 77 made phone calls, reporting their aircraft had been hijacked; and • senior al Qaida leaders have admitted they conducted the September 11 attacks. Mr. Meyssan’s book, L’Effroyable Imposture [The Horrifying Fraud] is available in 19 languages — French, English, Spanish, German, Russian, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Korean, Greek, Portugese, Romanian, Czech, Estonian, Croatian, Albanian, Serbian — and is being translated into four more — Chinese, Slovenian, Japanese, and Dutch. The book was published in English as 9/11: The Big Lie. The book was severely criticized in the French press as soon as it appeared. The French newspaper Liberation called the book “The Frightening Confidence Trick … a tissue of wild and irresponsible allegations, entirely without foundation.” Nevertheless, the book was an instant bestseller in France, selling more than 200,000 copies. Numerous Eyewitness Accounts Mr. Meyssan suggests that a cruise missile with a depleted uranium warhead, not a plane, struck the Pentagon on September 11. But he never traveled to the United States to conduct research or interviewed any of the many eyewitnesses to the attack on the Pentagon. He ignores or dismisses the many eyewitness accounts — some of which specifically identified the plane as having American Airlines markings, as a Boeing 757, and as a plane with passengers onboard, visible through windows. See excerpts from some of the eyewitness accounts at the end of this document. Passenger and Crew Remains Recovered at Pentagon Crash Site In addition to the numerous eyewitness accounts, the remains of the passengers and crew on board American Airlines flight 77 were recovered from the Pentagon crash site. A team of more than 100 forensic specialists and others identified 184 of the 189 people who died in the Pentagon attack (125 from the Pentagon and 64 onboard American Airlines flight 77). All but one of the passengers on board American Airlines flight 77 was positively identified as a match with DNA samples provided by the families of the crash victims. These positive forensic identifications provide irrefutable proof that American Airlines flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on September 11. In addition, rescue and recovery personnel at the Pentagon reported seeing the bodies of airline passengers. The September 14, 2001, edition of USA Today reported, “When [Army Sergeant Mark] Williams discovered the scorched bodies of several airline passengers, they were still strapped in their seats.” Plane Debris Found at Pentagon Crash Site People who went to the Pentagon crash site reported seeing parts of an airplane, including the nose cone, landing gear, an airplane tire, the fuselage, an intact cockpit seat, and the tail number of the airplane, as reported in an e-mail to a conspiracy theory Web site that debunks the conspiracy theory claims. The e-mail also contains photographs of airplane landing gear, tires, and fuselage fragments, which were taken at the Pentagon crash site. Moreover, the “black boxes” — the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder — for American Airlines flight 77 were found at the Pentagon crash site. For more photographs of debris from the airliner, including the crumpled "C" from "American Airlines," see portions 4:57 to 6:00 of the "911 Case Study: Pentagon Flight 77" video. Passengers Report Hijackings Mr. Meyssan’s book also ignores the fact that several passengers from American Airlines flight 77 made phone calls reporting that their plane had been hijacked. At 9:12 am, approximately 10 minutes after the American Airlines flight 77 had been hijacked, passenger Renee May called her mother, Nancy May, to report that the plane had been hijacked and that the passengers had been herded to the back of the plane. Minutes later, passenger Barbara Olson called her husband Ted Olson, the solicitor general of the United States, also reporting that the flight had been hijacked, and that the hijackers had knives and box cutters. Al Qaida Admits it Conducted September 11 Attacks Finally, high-ranking al Qaida members involved in the September 11 attacks, including Osama bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and Ramzi bin al Shibh, have openly admitted that they planned and executed the attacks. As Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told Al Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda in April 2002, with reference to the September 11 attacks, “I am the head of the al Qaida military committee and Ramzi is the coordinator of the Holy Tuesday operation. And, yes, we did it.” (Yosri Fouda and Nick Fielding, Masterminds of Terror, page 38) Mr. Meyssan provides no explanation for what he believes happened to American Airlines flight 77. If the plane did not crash into the Pentagon, as he claims, where did the plane and all its passengers go? He has no explanation for this question. Thus, there are: • numerous eyewitness accounts of an American Airlines passenger plane crashing into the Pentagon; • phone calls from passengers on American Airlines flight 77 reporting that it had been hijacked; • eyewitness accounts of airplane parts and the bodies of airline passengers still strapped in their seats found at the Pentagon crash site, as well as photographs of airplane parts; • the remains of bodies recovered at the Pentagon crash site positively identified as matching those of the passengers and crew on American Airlines flight 77; • acknowledgements by high-ranking al Qaida members that they carried out the September 11 attacks. In light of these facts, there is no doubt that American Airlines flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on September 11. Eyewitness Accounts of Pentagon Attack Following are some of the numerous eyewitness accounts of the Pentagon crash: • Richard Benedetto: “It was an American Airlines airplane, I could see it very clearly.” • Omar Campo, a Salvadorean: “It was a passenger plane. I think an American Airways plane. I was cutting grass and it came in screaming over my head.” • Joseph Candelario: “I noticed a large aircraft flying low towards the White House. This aircraft then made a sharp turn and flew towards the Pentagon and seconds later crashed into it.” • James Cissell: “I saw this plane coming in and it was low — and getting lower. … Then I saw the faces of some of the passengers on board.” • Dennis Clem: “There was a commercial airliner that said American Airliners over the side of it flying at just above treetop height at full speed headed for the Pentagon.” • Michael Dobbs: “It was an American airlines airliner. I was looking out the window and saw it come right over the Navy annex at a slow angle.” • Penny Elgas: “… the plane was directly over the cars in front of my car …. I remember recognizing it as an American Airlines plane — I could see the windows and the color stripes.” • Cheryl Hammond: “We saw the big American Airlines plane and started running.” • Joe Harrington: “… one of my guys pointed to an American Airlines airplane 20 feet high over Washington Blvd.” • Albert Hemphill: “The aircraft, look[ed] to be either a 757 or Airbus.” • Terrance Kean: “I saw this very, very large passenger jet. It just plowed right into the side of the Pentagon.” • William Lagasse: “It was close enough that I could see the windows and the blinds had been pulled down. I read American Airlines on it. … I saw the aircraft above my head about 80 feet above the ground.” • Robert Leonard: “I … saw a large commercial aircraft aiming for the Pentagon.” • Lincoln Liebner: “I saw this large American Airlines passenger jet coming in fast and low.” • Elaine McCusker: “I saw a very low-flying American Airlines plane that seemed to be accelerating.” • Mitch Mitchell: “I … saw, coming straight down the road at us, a huge jet plane clearly with American Airlines written on it …. It crossed about 100 feet in front of us and at about 20 feet altitude and we watched it go in. It struck the Pentagon.” • Terry Morin: “The plane had a silver body with red and blue stripes down the fuselage. I believed at the time that it belonged to American Airlines.” • Christopher Munsey: “I couldn’t believe what I was now seeing to my right: a silver, twin-engine American Airlines jetliner gliding almost noiselessly over the Navy Annex, fast, low and straight toward the Pentagon ….” • Vin Narayanan: “I looked up to my left and saw an American Airlines jet flying right at me. The jet roared over my head, clearing my car by about 25 feet.” • John O’Keefe: “I don’t know whether I saw or heard it first — this silver plane; I immediately recognized it as an American Airlines jet ….” • Steve Riskus: “I was close enough (about 100 feet or so) that I could see the ‘American Airlines’ logo on the tail as it headed towards the building . … I clearly saw the ‘AA’ logo with the eagle in the middle.” • James Ryan: “I see an American Airlines plane, silver plane, I could see AA on the tail. … The plane was low enough that I could see the windows of the plane. I could see every detail of the plane. In my head I have ingrained forever this image of every detail of that plane. It was a silver plane, American Airlines plane, and I recognized it immediately as a passenger plane.” • Joel Sucherman: “… looking straight ahead there was a jet, what looked to be an American Airlines jet, probably a 757, and it came screaming across the highway … [and] hit the west side of the Pentagon.” • Donald “Tim” Timmerman, a pilot: “I live on the 16th floor, overlooking the Pentagon … and so I have quite a panorama. … It was a Boeing 757, American Airlines, no question.” • Mike Walter: “I saw this plane, this jet, an American Airlines jet, coming. … It went right there and slammed right into the Pentagon. I saw the big ‘AA’ on the side.” • Ian Wyatt: “I duck, I look up, it looks like a silver American Airlines, twin-engine plane and then boom.” Finally, The 9/11 Commission Report (chapter one, pages 25-26) states that on September 11, air traffic controllers at Washington’s Reagan National Airport instructed a C-130H cargo plane that had just taken off from the airport to try to follow the plane that had been spotted on radar as heading toward Washington. According to the report, “The C-130H pilot spotted it, identified it as a Boeing 757, attempted to follow its path, and at 9:38, seconds after impact, reported to the control tower: ‘looks like that aircraft crashed into the Pentagon, sir.’” In sum, many people on nearby roads or in nearby buildings saw a large passenger plane hit the Pentagon and, as the above eyewitness testimonies demonstrate, numerous people specifically identified it as an American Airlines plane.
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#1. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
I doubt any of these people actually exist. Several of the "eyewitnesses" report seeing the plane 20-25 feet above the ground. I am pretty sure the plane can not sustain flight that low to the ground. Also, the shock wave of the plane flying that low would have gouged a huge canyon in the ground as it flew, if it possible for the plane to maintain a 20 foot altitude. Also, I have seen several pictures of the crash site minutes after it happened, and unbroken windows and the point of impact can be seen, with only one broken window visible. Also, the lawn is untouched, not strewn with debris, like these people are claiming.
Unworthy of comment.
• Dennis Clem: “There was a commercial airliner that said American Airliners over the side of it flying at just above treetop height at full speed headed for the Pentagon.” So let me get this straight. A plane at "full speed" and another "witness" was able to see their faces? Holy shitfuck. That is some eyesight Mr Clem has! He's just AMAZING! I am pretty sure the plane can not sustain flight that low to the ground. They can't. Remember the pilots were barely able to walk and chew gum at the same time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_in_aircraft Here's a old favorite of mine: killtown.911review.org/pentalawn.html .
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files Live free or A 757 cannot fly that low for sustained flight except on take-off and landing. Sustained flight at that altitude, based on analyses I've read by Aeronautics people, is virtually impossible as the lift from the ground effect of the compressed air under the wings hitting the groud would create too much lift to keep it at that altitude thus forcing it up, and wingtip vortices would make the plane unstable. It is doubtful that a master pilot, let alone a known incompetent pilot as the alleged Flight 77 Pilot was known to be, could follow that flightpath - particularly at 500 knots. The witnesses may well have seen something painted in AA colors, but the likelihood of it being a 757 is vanishingly small. Of course there is the "David Copperfield - the hand is quicker than the eye" theory that the plane did make a pass over the building while something else came in underneath to create the explosion and damage.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
Remember the nose cone went through an open window and not the three foot thick, steel reinforced concrete walls. Yep, walls. Those windows must have lined up perfectly 'cause nose cones are not very tough, generally. You are right, Lod. We should boycott this one.
Even the FBI has stated that this never happened in official legal documents to the court. Yeah, not worthy of comment. See the following video for discussion and a real education on the facts: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25365.htm Is the War in Afghanistan Justified by 9/11? By David Ray Griffin
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