Scott Loughrey reviews "911 Theory"

posted by ewing2001 on Saturday October 11, @12:29PM

A Review of 911 Theory

Media-Criticism.com 0ctober 8th, 2003

The established left media was severely damaged by September 11, 2001. A number of leading progressive thinkers have completely abandoned their former probity on this subject, weakening the global effort to change the momentum the Republican right has had since that day.

In response, many people on the Internet (including the author) are forming loose associations of 911 researchers. We are trying to tell progressives what the “Left Gatekeepers” won’t hint at; i.e., 9/11/01 was an unbelievably cruel hoax.

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...The official story is also being continuously reinforced by “resistance radio”; a.k.a., Pacifica’s Democracy Now! Sure, they have aired a couple of valuable programs about the air quality of Ground Zero, which were well-investigated by Amy Goodman’s co-host Juan Gonzalez.

However, Democracy Now continues to repeat that 19 hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center. They also will not have on any guest who significantly questions the official facts of that day. Democracy Now’s idea of a “debate” on the subject is to host two book-hawking “experts” (Peter Lance and Richard Miniter), both of whom promote the idea that Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda were involved in 9/11/01, which was an “intelligence failure” for the CIA.

Counterpunch’s efforts have been mixed. They have published some columns by people like Wayne Madsen and an early one by yours truly that have questioned what happened on 9/11/01. However, they remain a disappointment to many in the 911 Truth Movement because of how infrequently they delve into this topic.

Thankfully, there is Global Research, by Professor Michel Chossudovsky. It remains relatively fearless, publishing an enormous amount of material which is invaluable to progressives. While most of the Left Gatekeepers continue to keep their collective heads in the sand Chossudovsky is still fighting great battles and approaching the subject with intellectual honesty.

... The North Tower (WTC 1) collapses at 10:28 a.m., becoming the second steel building in history to collapse from a fire. As with the South Tower before, the North Tower disintegrates into extremely fine dust in about the same time it takes for steel to fall from the top from gravity. As the dust settles an eerie glow briefly sets in. Later, authorities will find Mohammed Atta’s intact passport from the wreckage, a survivor of both the fires and the implosion. That sure was lucky.

Just before the North Tower collapsed there remained a solitary spire from the core. It remains eerily standing for a few seconds before it, too, disintegrates into dust. The spire is significant because it indicates highly unusual failure in the North Tower that is not consistent with a gravitational collapse.

Prior to their respective collapses the two towers had fires which were burning black, indicating they were oxygen-deprived. FEMA will later produce a report referring to both towers indicating temperatures from the respective fires reach 800 degrees Celsius. Oddly, steel buildings are very difficult to heat. Also, steel melts at much higher temperatures than that. In addition, steel buildings have experienced much more severe fires than the Twin towers experienced without collapsing.

One might think that if two very tall buildings collapsed from gravity after being hit by planes that eventually the fires would be out. However, the rubble burned for weeks, even though rescue personnel sprayed water on it. In fact, a thermal map of Ground Zero made by a NASA airplane indicates that parts of the rubble remained hot enough to melt aluminum five days after the towers had fallen. Exactly what the source of this heat is remains a mystery.

In addition, not only were we told that the North and South towers were destroyed from the plane crashes but WTC 3, 4, 5 and 6 were all extremely damaged. Building 6 actually explodes when UA 175 is seen striking the South Tower. This explosion creates a massive hole in the middle of it and was definitely not caused by a plane hitting the nearby South tower.

At 5:20 p.m. WTC 7 collapses, becoming the third and last steel building to ever collapse from a fire. Debris from the North Tower had hit it. A fire broke out localized in the offices of the Security Exchange Commission. This fire had burned all day from an unknown fuel. In the evening this fire causes simultaneous failures in both the penthouse and lower floors which cause it to collapse in its footprint.

Almost immediately after the plane identified as UA 175 hits the South Tower the public is informed that Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda were responsible for the day’s attacks. However, what is never mentioned is that the CIA has a documented history of cooperation with Al Qaeda which continued up to the year 2000, according to Professor Michel Chossoduvsky’s research.

Chossoduvsky also points out that on the morning of September 11, the two men later made chairmen of the Joint Inquiry on 9/11, Sen. Bob Graham and Rep Porter Goss are having breakfast with Pakistan’s General Ahmad. (Arizona Senator John Kyl joins them.) Early reports in 2001 will later state the FBI’s belief that Ahmad is the "money-man" behind the 9/11 hijackers.

The Washington Post quietly mentions that “Ahmed ran a spy agency notoriously close to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban (Washington Post, May 18, 2002.).” Shortly after the Washington Post’s article appears (in its Style section which contains light-fare) the mysterious breakfast meeting is never mentioned again by the mainstream media. It is another story which disappears down the memory hole.

Many members of the established left maintain that “intelligence failures” by the CIA caused September 11 to happen. What they won’t report is that the CIA was very busy that day. The Company was actually implementing a pre-planned simulation of planes flying into buildings to test the emergency issues involved. What a coincidence.

The destruction of the World Trade Center was possibly the largest crime scene in history, with three tall buildings having completely collapsed in their own footprints. However, what isn’t widely known is that New York City officials swiftly sold the debris from Ground Zero for scrap. Eric Hufschmid opens his must-read book Painful Questions with a discussion of how the evidence from the most infamous crime scene ever was swiftly and deliberately carted away before being properly investigated. People were actually threatened with arrest if they attempted to photograph the rubble as government officials carted it away.

Topics for Further Research

If you’ve read this far you’ve got the makings of becoming a 911 researcher. Eric Hufschmid’s “Painful Questions” should be read by all who want to know more about September 11.

...I don’t fully accept all of his conclusions. However, it shatters the “pancake theory”; i.e., the official explanation of why the twin towers collapsed. For more information on why the pancake model is faulty look mid-way on this page.

A scientist/physician nicknamed Plague Puppy has built on Hufschmid’s research and is investigating the true causes of the collapses of the WTC. Plague Puppy argues very cleverly that some sort of “black technology” was used to bring down the WTC towers. At this writing the exact nature of this technology is unresolved.

Central to the alternative theories of what really happened on 9/11/01 is A.K. Dewdney’s brilliant thesis, Operation Pearl. Dewdney’s explanation that Flight 93 was deliberately shot down while carrying all of the crew of UA 175, AA 11 and AA 77 is chilling. It also has a strong ring of truth.

We’ll close with a new theory. A lot of attention is being given by 911 researchers to the alleged stand down of US Air Force jets that day. The quite rational argument is that standard operating procedure is for the USAF to scramble jets to intercept airlines off course. Then they issue a Friend or Foe challenge.

However, this author believes the stand-down is a red-herring. My argument is that neither Flights 11 nor 175 actually crashed in New York City on September 11. The plethora of visual anomalies with the footage of UA 175 crashing into the South Tower indicates it was a hoax that was accomplished through video manipulation. In this scenario, neither the North or South Towers or the Pentagon was actually hit by a plane.

Full article at Media-Criticism.com. Article was also mirrored at Baltimore Indymedia

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