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One cannot "pull" or demolish a building in real time.  Qualified demolitions experts would need to install numerous cutter charges according to a complicated firing pattern, so as to bring the building straight down in its tracks. The simple act of “pulling” a building places the date of the inception of the whole drama well before 9/11 and leaves out the ad hoc work of nineteen hijackers with box cutters and plastic knives.


In “pulling” the building, the conspirators destroyed thousands of Securities and Exchange Commission case files on corporate fraud, including those related to Enron, Worldcom, and the California electricity swindle. They also destroyed the local offices of the Secret Service, CIA and FBI. One investigative documentary speculated that Building 7 was “the hub for the 9/11 plan.” (13)  


Mayor Rudy Giuliani had his emergency bunker in Building 7, but he chose not to go near his command center that day, preferring to remain downtown. (14)  At 4:57 p.m., the BBC mistakenly announced the fall of Building 7, which can be seen still standing behind the reporter as she speaks. The building itself did not fall until 5:20 p.m. (15) It appears that someone in the know mistakenly sent out the press release prematurely, evidence of prior knowledge.


Moving to the Pentagon, two possible scenarios are extant.  One is that the incoming object was an A3 Skywarrior drone, launched from the U.S.S. George Washington, with no passengers and a load of napalm, remotely controlled by a carrier-launched helicopter seen circling the building that day. This version lines up with certain pieces of wreckage (cockpit window, engine rotor) found at the site and fits with BBC news footage and the sole released surveillance camera footage. 


Jon Carlson and Karl Schwarz have also mapped the plane’s contours to the pattern of damage.  (16)  This account takes in the testimony of a witness who saw the incoming plane and described it as an 8-20 passenger “corporate jet” with no markings on the side. (17)  While the plane was not a corporate jet, this testimony does lend support to the plane version.  Admittedly it is hard to imagine a plane penetrating three layers of the Pentagon unless it was specially built or reinforced for the mission.


The second version, as Mary Sunshine notes, is that it was a DU-hardened cruise missile.  Donald Rumsfeld himself suggested that a missile crashed into the Pentagon in a subsequent magazine interview. (18) 


Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski worked at the Pentagon and went outside on 9/11 to look at the damage. What she saw shocked her.  There was no wreckage. There was an entry hole only 20 feet wide.  No adjacent windows were smashed.  The lawn was not damaged or scorched. She thought the scene consistent with a missile attack, but not with an airplane crash.  (19)  


Whatever hit the Pentagon struck the exact area that housed the budget oversight group, one day after Donald Rumsfeld had said that $2.3 trillion had gone missing from the Pentagon’s budget. (20)  Again the napalm exhausted itself in perhaps seconds, perhaps minutes and no extensive fire resulted, although a passenger jet about to fly over the Atlantic would be loaded with fuel, the explosion of which would be expected to cause a widespread disaster. (21)


Instead we find very limited damage. No bodies, luggage, seats, tail, wings, or engines from a Boeing 757 were ever located and no conclusive footage from the 80 or so cameras focused around the area was ever released. Again, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Flight 175 was not scheduled to fly that day.  (22) No criminal or National Transportation Safety Board investigation was ever launched. (23) 


Whatever constituted Flight 93 appears to have been either blown up in the air or hit by a missile. (24) Again, as with the Pentagon, there were no bodies, luggage, seats, tail, wings, or engines visible at the crash site. No firm indication exists that an airplane was involved at all. Of Flight 93, Somerset County coroner Wally Miller sai: "I stopped being coronoer after abot 20 minutes because there were no bodies there." (25)


Given that cellphones did not operate above 8,000 feet in the air in 2001 and Flight 93 would have been flying at around 32,000 feet, cruising altitude for a jetliner, the cell phone calls alleged to have occurred that day could not have been made. (26)  The two Airfone calls released to the public each contain irregularities which call their authenticity into question. (27) 


The only theory that I am aware of that explains what may have happened to the passengers is that of the video Loose Change.  Remember that no bodies were seen to be recovered from the planes that hit the Pentagon, Pennsylvania, or the World Trade Center. (28) However, a plane identified as Flight 93 was reported by local TV station WCPO to have landed at Cleveland Hopkins Airport on Sept. 11:  



Plane Lands in Cleveland; Bomb Feared Aboard  A Boeing 767 out of Boston made an emergency landing Tuesday at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport due to concerns that it may have a bomb aboard, said Mayor Michael R. White.

White said the plane had been moved to a secure area of the airport and was evacuated.

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