[Watch Enver Masud rebut The 9/11 Commission Report in a
television interview broadcast to Sub-Saharan Africa.]
There is little if any hard evidence available to the public, that
American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 flying from Washington Dulles
International Airport, crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
At the Dept. of Defense (DoD) News Briefing on September 12, 2001, the words "American
Airlines," "Flight 77," "Boeing," "Dulles," and "passengers" were not
mentioned.
Standing in front of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, Jamie McIntyre, CNN's senior Pentagon correspondent since November 1992,
reported: "From my close up inspection there's no evidence of a plane
having crashed anywhere near the Pentagon. . . . . The only pieces left that
you can see are small enough that you could pick up in your hand. There are
no large tail sections, wing sections, fuselage - nothing like that anywhere
around which would indicate that the entire plane crashed into the side of
the Pentagon. . . . It wasn't till about 45 minutes later . . . that all of
the floors collapsed."
Arlington County Fire Chief Ed Plaugher, incident commander at the
Pentagon on September 11, corroborates Jamie McIntyre's report. At the
September 12, 2001, DoD briefing, when asked: "Is there anything left of
the aircraft at all?" said: "there are some small pieces of aircraft
... there's no fuselage sections and that sort of thing."
Victoria Clarke, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs -
"presenter" of the DoD briefing, did not contradict Chief Plaugher.
Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski,
who from her fifth-floor, B-ring office at the Pentagon, witnessed "an
unforgettable fireball, 20 to 30 feet in diameter," was called for
stretcher duty as she and others "stared in disbelief at a smoking gash
in the Pentagon . . . But no person or thing emerged from that side of the
Pentagon. We heard that survivors and injured folks were being recued from
the inside, . . . and out the River exit into ambulances."
There was, writes Kwiatkowski, "a strange absence of airliner
debris, there was no sign of the kind of damage to the Pentagon structure
one would expect from the impact of a large airliner. This visible evidence
or lack thereof may also have been apparent to the secretary of defense, who
in an unfortunate slip of the tongue referred to the aircraft that slammed
into the Pentagon as a 'missile'."
Publicly available photos support Jamie McIntyre's, Ed Plaugher's, and Karen
Kwiatkowski's statements.
The hole in the Pentagon wall - prior to the collapse of the roof - appears
much too small to accomodate a Boeing 757. If only the fusealge penetrated
the Pentagon, then the wings would have remained outside. But no large
debris - anything resembling the Boeing
757 wings and fuselage - is visible on the Pentagon lawn, and the lawn
itself shows no sign that a Boeing 757 skidded across it or struck it.
The engines of the Boeing 757 would have survived the impact and heat. An engine from a
plane that struck the World Trade Center was shown on network television,
and so was an engine from American Airlines Flight 587 which crashed shortly
after takeoff from New York on November 12, 2001.
One photo from the Pentagon crash site shows what could be an
engine part about 30 inches in diameter outside the Pentagon. Another photo
shows what could be an engine part (its size is difficult to determine)
inside the Pentagon. Were these parts, and another piece of debris on the Pentagon lawn traced to
Flight 77?
According to George Nelson, Colonel, USAF (ret.), serial numbers on
aircraft parts could confirm the plane's identity. But the FBI has refused to make
that evidence available to the public.
Another question put to Chief Plaugher at the briefing was: "Chief, there
are small pieces of the plane virtually all over, out over the highway, tiny
pieces. Would you say the plane exploded, virtually exploded on impact due
to the fuel..." Plaugher responded: "I'd rather not comment on that."
How did "small pieces of the plane" end up "out over the highway" when the
plane is reported to have disintegrated inside the Pentagon after it crossed
the highway? If it disintegrated outside the Pentagon why is there nothing
that looks like a Boeing 757 on the Pentagon lawn? If it disintegrated
either inside or outside the Pentagon what caused the hole
in C-ring?
When asked, "Have you removed the bodies?" Chief Plaugher replied,
"We have no information on any type of casualty or body counts at this
time."
National news media, particularly Jamie McIntyre, failed to follow up on
Chief Plaugher's comment that "there's no fuselage sections and that sort of
thing" when dozens of onlookers, relatives, and firefighters were
interviewed on network television about the planes that crashed into the
World Trade Center.
Photos
and videos of the Pentagon reveal yet more curious sights: trees, light poles and a
steel structure in front of the damaged area still intact after a Boeing 757
is alleged to have flown through there; office furniture and a computer
monitor which survived the fire that is alleged to have vaporized the Boeing
757, but left human bodies in good enough condition to be indentified; "50 FBI officers" walking
"shoulder-to-shoulder across the south grounds of the Pentagon, picking up
debris and stuffing it into brown bags".
The Pentagon crash may be the only commercial airline crash in modern
history in which most of the available evidence has been withheld from the
public. What is available looks remarkably different from other crash
sites. Reporters on the scene were "handcuffed and dragged away".
Many eyewitnesses reported seeing a large plane hit the
Pentagon. Others reported seeing a commuter plane (Could this have been a
cruise missile?). But their accounts are contradicted by CNN's Jamie
McIntyre, and the statements of Fire Chief Plaugher and Col. Kwiatowski, who
were in a better position to observe the evidence, and whose credentials may
be verified.
Then there's the testimony of Norman Y. Mineta, Former Secretary of Transportation, that Vice President Richard
B. Cheney may have given a do not shoot order
to facilitate an attack on the Pentagon.
Five
video frames initially released by the Pentagon raised more questions
than they answered - no Boeing 757 was visible. Videos
released on May 16, 2006, pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request
by Judicial Watch, are as inconclusive as the first five frames.
Further doubt has been cast on the official account of Flight 77 by an
organization of pilots. They claim
that "video captured by the parking gate cam is in direct conflict with the
Aircraft Flight Data Recorder data released by the NTSB."
The 9/11 Commission Report animation (July 2004) shows an aircraft flying
south of the Navy Annex. The video captured by Pentagon security cameras
shows an object flying level before striking the Pentagon. The NTSB
animation (January 2002), according to the pilots' organization, shows an
aircraft flying north of the Navy Annex, not levelling off, and being too
high to have hit the Pentagon.
And there are unresolved issues regarding the complex maneuver executed by
the alleged pilot of Flight 77, and the identities of the alleged hijackers.
CBS News reported: "Radar shows Flight 77 did a downward
spiral, turning almost a complete circle and dropping the last 7,000 feet in
two-and-a-half minutes. The steep turn was so smooth, the sources say, it's
clear there was no fight for control going on. And the complex maneuver
suggests the hijackers had better flying skills than many investigators
first believed. The jetliner disappeared from radar at 9:37 and less than a
minute later it clipped the tops of street lights and plowed into the
Pentagon at 460 mph."
Hani Hanjour's reported lack of flying
skills makes it highly unlikely that he could fly a Boeing 757 in a spiral
turn from 7000 feet, level off at an estimated 350 mph south of the Navy
Annex (over a hill which slopes down toward Route 27 after
which there's about 150 yards available to level off), and strike the first
floor of the Pentagon - each floor is about 15.5 feet
tall. The New York Times reported that Hani Hanjour "could not fly at all."
The names of the alleged hijackers do not appear on Associated Press' September
17, 2001 "partiallist of victims" on the hijacked flights - the final list has not
been made public. Hani Hanjour's "name was not on the American Airlines
manifest for the flight because he may not have had a ticket" reported the
Washington Post.
On September 23, 2001 the BBC reported that four of the hijack "suspects" - Waleed
Al Shehri, Abdulaziz Al Omari, Saeed Alghamdi, and possibly Khalid Al Midhar
were - alive,
and that FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged "that the identity of
several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt."
The FBI's "Most Wanted
Terrorists" web page does not state that Bin Laden was responsible for
the attacks on September 11.
In a speech at the Commonwealth Club on April 19, 2002, FBI Director Mueller
said : "In our investigation, we have not uncovered a single piece of
paper - either here in the United States, or in the treasure trove of
information that has turned up in Afghanistan and elsewhere - that mentioned
any aspect of the September 11 plot."
Just prior to September 11, 2001, a congressional committee was
investigating unaccounted funds at the DoD - $2.3 trillion in FY 1999,
and $1.1 trillion in FY 2000. The section of the Pentagon destroyed housed
records of DoD spending, and the personnel for monitoring that spending.
After September 11, 2001 about 5,000
foreign nationals were detained, and denied basic constitutional rights, in
the name of "wartime" expediency.
On March 4, 2004, a German court "overturned the world's only conviction" in connection
with the September 11 attack on America "because the U.S. withheld crucial
evidence.
[After analysis of the passenger
lists of the four hijacked flights and other immigration documents,
investigators identified Salem Al-Hazmi and Abdulaziz Al-Omari as two of the
terrorists.
The real Salem Al-Hazmi, however, is alive and indignant in Saudi Arabia,
and not one of the people who perished in the American Airlines flight that
crashed on the Pentagon.--Nick Hopkins, "False
identities mislead FBI," Guardian, September 21, 2001]
[. . . the Pentagon was hit by hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 . . .
all 64
people aboard the airliner were killed--"The 9/11 Commission
Report", July 22, 2004, p314]
[In all my years of direct and indirect participation, I never witnessed nor
even heard of an aircraft loss, where the wreckage was accessible, that
prevented investigators from finding enough hard evidence to positively
identify the make, model, and specific registration number of the aircraft -
and in most cases the precise cause of the accident. This is because every
military and civilian passenger-carrying aircraft have many parts that are
identified for safety of flight. That is, if any of the parts were to fail
at any time during a flight, the failure would likely result in the
catastrophic loss of aircraft and passengers. Consequently, these parts are
individually controlled by a distinctive serial number and tracked by a
records section of the maintenance operation and by another section called
plans and scheduling. . . .
The government alleges that four wide-body airliners crashed on the morning
of September 11 2001, resulting in the deaths of more than 3,000 human
beings, yet not one piece of hard aircraft evidence has been produced in an
attempt to positively identify any of the four aircraft. On the contrary, it
seems only that all potential evidence was deliberately kept hidden from
public view. The hard evidence would have included hundreds of critical
time-change aircraft items--George Nelson Colonel, USAF (ret.), "911 and the Precautionary
Principle: Aircraft Parts as a Clue to their Identity," Physics911.net,
April 23, 2005]
[The U.S. Department of Justice has yet to respond to an October 24, 2005
appeal, filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), for 85 videotapes
of the September 11, 2001 crash of Flight 77 into the Pentagon.--FOIA request for videotapes of 9/11 Pentagon crash
stalled, 9/11 Special Interest Group, January 1, 2006]
["I could see parts of the airplane that crashed into the building, very
small pieces of the plane on the heliport outside the building. The biggest
piece I saw was about three feet long, it was silver and had been painted
green and red, but I could not see any identifying markings on the plane. I
also saw a large piece of shattered glass. It appeared to be a cockpit
windshield or other window from the plane."--Jamie McIntyre, "Debris," Pentagon
Research]
[Then I picked it up as it struck very low into the Pentagon. The wings
folded back and it was like watching someone slam an empty aluminum can into
a wall. The jet folded up like an accordion. . . . I knew it was a big
commercial airline. I saw the AA on the side so I knew it was an American
Airlines passenger jet.--Mike Walter, "Debris," Pentagon
Research]
[She said Hanjour, a Saudi who is believed to have piloted the American
Airlines plane that crashed into the Pentagon, was a poor pilot who spoke
limited English.--Jerry Markon and William Branigin, "FAA Reportedly Dismissed
Moussaoui Concern," Washington Post, March 22, 2006]
[We have determined based on the Flight Data Recorder information that has
been analyzed thus far provided by the NTSB, that it is impossible for this
aircraft to have struck down the light poles.--" Flight Data
Recorder Analysis - Last Second of Data - 09:37:44,"
pilotsfor911truth.org, August 20, 2006]
[Clearly, if the official story that Flight 77 hit the Pentagon at 9:37 were
true, Flight 77 could not have been the source of massive damage to the west
side of the building a minimum of five minutes earlier at 9:32. . . .
The Pentagon was attacked by bomb(s) at or around 9:32 am, possibly followed
by an impact from an airborne object significantly smaller than Flight 77,
a Boeing 757. . . .
(NORAD) Gen. Larry Arnold, revealed that he ordered one of his jets to fly
down low over the Pentagon shortly after the attack that morning, and that
his pilot reported back that there was no evidence that a plane had hit the
building. The fighter jet - not flight 77 - is almost certainly the plane
seen on the Dulles airport Air Traffic Controller's screen making a steep,
high-speed 270-degree descent before disappearing from the radar.--Barbara
Honegger, "The
Pentagon Attack Papers," Appendix: Jim Marrs, "The Terror Conspiracy: Deception, 9/11 and the Loss of
Liberty," The Disinformation Company, September 1, 2006]
[In reality, a clueless non-pilot would encounter almost insurmountable
difficulties in attempting to navigate and fly a 200,000-lb airliner into a
building located on the ground, 7 miles below and hundreds of miles away and
out of sight, and in an unknown direction, while flying at over 500 MPH - and
all this under extremely stressful circumstances.--Joel Harel, "The Impossibility of
Flying Heavy Aircraft Without Training," physics911.net]
