March 7, 2005 (updated 02/13/09)
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What Really Happened on September 11 at the Pentagon

by Enver Masud

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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, American Airlines, Flight 77, Boeing 757, and Dulles were not even mentioned.

CNN's senior Pentagon correspondent at the Pentagon

Just minutes after the attack, standing in front of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, Jamie McIntyre, CNN's senior Pentagon correspondent since November 1992, reported to Judy Woodruff:

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."

In response to another question: "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: "You know, I'd rather not comment on that."

Victoria Clarke, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs - "presenter" of the DoD briefing, did not contradict Chief Plaugher.

Evidence that a Boeing 757 struck the Pentagon?

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'.

Barbara Honegger, military affairs journalist and former White House policy analyst, writes NORAD's

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.

Publicly available photos support these statements by Jamie McIntyre, Ed Plaugher, Karen Kwiatkowski, and Barbara Honegger.

Questions about what hit the Pentagon on September 11, continued to be raised at the Dept. of Defense News Briefing on September 15, 2001.

One thing that's confusing - if it came in the way you described, at an angle, why then are not the wings outside? I mean, the wings would have shorn off. The tail would have shorn off. And yet there's apparently no evidence of the aircraft outside the E ring.

Hole reported made by a Boeing 757

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 front end penetrated the Pentagon, then the wings, a portion of the fuselage, and tail would have remained outside. But no large debris - anything resembling the Boeing 757 wings, fuselage, or tail - 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?

What made this 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.

Light poles and highway sign in or below reported flight-path

Photos and videos of the Pentagon reveal yet more curious sights: a trailer, light poles, and a highway sign 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; two men in white shirts and ties rushing to pick up pieces of whatever struck the Pentagon; "50 FBI officers" walking "shoulder-to-shoulder across the south grounds of the Pentagon, picking up debris and stuffing it into brown bags."

These FBI officers did not follow standard NTSB procedures. This NTSB checklist is designed to lead investigators through the steps required for a major aircraft accident investigation.

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 denied access, and "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?). However, their accounts are contradicted by more credible witnesses -- CNN's Jamie McIntyre, Fire Chief Plaugher, and Col. Kwiatowski.

Then there's the May 23, 2003 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.

In response to a question by the Vice-Chairman of Commission, Mr. Mineta states:

There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, "The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out." And when it got down to, "The plane is 10 miles out," the young man also said to the vice president, "Do the orders still stand?" And the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said, "Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?"

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 Pilots for 9/11 Truth. 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.

The Citizen Investigation Team has tracked down credible eyewitnesses, and some remarkable photos, that corroborate the findings of Pilots for 9/11 Truth, and undermine the official explanation.

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 [sic].

Reported flight-path of Boeing 757

The New York Times reported that Hani Hanjour "could not fly at all."

His reported lack of flying skills makes it highly unlikely that he could fly a Boeing 757 in a spiral turn from 7000 feet, over a communications tower on the downslope south of the Navy Annex, over a highway sign on Route 27, over light poles on the off ramp, level off at an estimated 350 mph [sic] in the remaining 150 yards - "the top of the fuselage of the aircraft no more than 20 ft above the ground" (Pentagon Building Performance Report, p14), and strike the first floor of the 5-story, 71 feet tall Pentagon.

Light poles in flight-path of Boeing 757

The names of the alleged hijackers do not appear on Associated Press' September 17, 2001 "partial list of victims" on the hijacked flights. 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. At the Zacarias Moussaoui trial in July of 2006 the prosecution presented new passenger lists.

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. The section of the Pentagon destroyed is said to have 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.

9/11 Facts, History — Not Propaganda

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VIDEO: "I don't know exactly what hit it, but I do know, from the photographs that I have analyzed and looked at very, very carefully, it was not an airplane." -- Major General Albert Stubblebine

Enver Masud, "Deadly Deception, Pretexts for War," The Wisdom Fund, July 30, 2001

VIDEO: "Rumsfeld Admits to Unaccounted, Missing 2.3 Trillion Dollars," CBS News, September 10, 2001 -- original removed see this

[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]

[Captain Defina drove onto the heliport and directed Foam Unit 331 to set up there, where Fort Myer Rescue Engine 161 had established a hydrant water supply. The only other firefighting apparatus he saw on the west side was Arlington County's Engine and Truck 105 on the far north end.--Stephen Murphy, "ARFF Crews Respond to the Front Line at Pentagon," NFPA Journal, November 1, 2001]

VIDEO: 9/11 Pentagon Strike, 2001

Enver Masud, "What Really Happened on September 11 Remains a Mystery," The Wisdom Fund, April 27, 2002

"New simulation shows 9/11 plane crash with scientific detail," Purdue News, September, 2002

[An examination of the area encompassed by extending the line of travel of the aircraft to the face of the building shows that there are no discrete marks on the building corresponding to the positions of the outer third of the right wing. The size and position of the actual opening in the facade of the building (from column line 8 to column line 18) indicate that no portion of the outer two-thirds of the right wing and no portion of the outer one-third of the left wing actually entered the building. (page 35)

The height of the damage to the facade of the building was much less than the height of the aircraft's tail. At approximately 45 ft, the tail height was nearly as tall as the first four floors of the building. Obvious visible damage extended only over the lowest two floors, to approximately 25 ft above grade. (page 36)

Most likely, the wings of the aircraft were severed as the aircraft penetrated the facade of the building. Even if portions of the wings remained intact after passing through the plane of the facade, the structural damage pattern indicates that the wings were severed before the aircraft penetrated more than a few dozen feet into the building. (page 39)--Paul F. Mlaker, et al, "Pentagon Building Performance Report," NIST, January 2003]

Carol Valentine, "9-11 PENTAGON FIRE COVER-UP," January 16, 2004

Michel Chossudovsky, "'Revealing the Lies' on 9/11 Destroys the Truth," Centre for Research on Globalisation, May 27, 2004

[. . . 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]

Enver Masud, "Why No Arab Names on Passenger Lists?", July 26, 2004

Sami Yli-Karjanmaa, "The ASCE's Pentagon Building Performance Report: Arrogant Deception Or an Attempt to Expose a Cover-up," bibliotecapleyades.net, September 5, 2004

Enver Masud, "New 'Prime Suspect in the Mass Murders of 9/11'," The Wisdom Fund, September 8, 2004

Sandro Cruz, "Spanish Reporters Affirm no Aircraft Crashed into the Pentagon," voltairenet.org, September 13, 2004

David Ray Griffin, "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions," Olive Branch Press (November 30, 2004)

A. K. Dewdney and G. W. Longspaugh, "The Missing Wings," physics911.net, December 19, 2004

Enver Masud, "9/11: An Open Letter to The Washington Post," The Wisdom Fund, March 3, 2005

Enver Masud, "9/11: An Open Letter to The New York Times," The Wisdom Fund, March 4, 2005

Enver Masud, "9/11: An Open Letter to the Los Angeles Times," The Wisdom Fund, March 7, 2005

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, "The War On Truth: 9/11, Disinformation And The Anatomy Of Terrorism," Olive Branch Press (April 15, 2005)

[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]

C-SPAN AUDIO / VIDEO / VIDEO: David Ray Griffin, "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions," Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, April 28, 2005

Michael Shermer, Fahrenheit 2777: 9/11 has generated the mother of all conspiracy theories, Scientific American, May 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.

The existence of the videotapes "in the possession of the FBI [was] described in the declaration of Special Agent ("SA") Jacqueline Maguire dated September 7, 2005, in the lawsuit captioned Bingham v. United States Department of Justice," according to Scott A. Hodes, Attorney at Law.--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]

[The physical and eyewitness evidence are thus mutually corroborating--Jim Hoffman, "The Pentagon Attack: What the Physical Evidence Shows," 911research, March 28, 2006]

VIDEO: Pierre-Henri Bunel, New official 9/11 video: The Pentagon Magic Plane, Global Research, May 19, 2006

Dan Eggen, "9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon," Washington Post, August 2, 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. . . . Multiple standard-issue, battery-operated wall clocks . . . stopped between 9:31 and 9:32-1/2 on September 11. . . .

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. . . .

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. . . .

Only a military aircraft, not a civilian plane flown by al Qaeda, would have given off the "Friendly" signal needed to disable the Pentagon's anti-aircraft missile batteries as it approached the building.--Barbara Honegger, "The Pentagon Attack Papers," physics911.net, September 6, 2006]

[Note: Exhibits P200023 through P200041 are photographs of "of the Pentagon after Flight 77 crashed into the building". Photographs that tell a different story are not included.--"United States v. Zacarias Moussaoui, Criminal No. 01-455-A, Prosecution Trial Exhibits," uscourts.gov, 2006]

VIDEO: "OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF 9/11 FLIGHT CONTRADICTED BY GOVERNMENT'S OWN DATA," pilotsfor911truth.org, March 26, 2007

Jerry Mazza, "Following Zakheim And The Pentagon Trillions To Israel And 911," rense.com, March 28, 2007

John C. Ekonomou, "Mineta, Cheney and 'the orders still stand' controversy," journalof911studies.com, May 1, 2007

"In pictures: Brazil plane crash," The Wisdom Fund, July 18, 2007

Paul Joseph Watson, "9/11 First Responder Heard WTC 7 Demolition Countdown," Prison Planet, September 13, 2007

Aidan Monaghan, "FBI Refuses To Confirm Identities Of 4 Aircraft Used During 9/11 Attacks," 911blogger.com, October 3, 2007

PHOTOS: "Airbus A340-642X Crash," Toulouse, France, 15th November, 2007

"Documenting the legal process to obtain confiscated videos showing Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon on 9/11," flight77.info, 2007

[The most serious official contradiction of Ted Olson's story came in 2006 at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker. The evidence presented to this trial by the FBI included a report on phone calls from all four 9/11 flights. In its report on American Flight 77, the FBI report attributed only one call to Barbara Olson and it was an "unconnected call," which (of course) lasted "0 seconds." According to the FBI, therefore, Ted Olson did not receive a single call from his wife using either a cell phone or an onboard phone.--David Ray Griffin, "Ted Olson's Report of Phone Calls from Barbara Olson on 9/11: Three Official Denials," Global Research, April 1, 2008]

Craig Ranke and Rob Balsamo, "The Lack of Foundation Damage at the Pentagon is Irreconcilable with the Official Reports and Data," opednews.com, April 23, 2008

FREE BOOK: Enver Masud, "9/11 Unveiled," The Wisdom Fund (September 11, 2008)

VIDEO: Physically and aerodynamically, Arlington's unique topography and obstacles along American 77 "final leg" to the Pentagon, make this approach completely impossible--Rob Balsamo, "Arlington Topography, Obstacles Make American 77 Final Leg Impossible," Pilots For 9/11 Truth, September 12, 2008

VIDEO: "G-FORCES: 9/11 ATTACK ON THE PENTAGON," Pilots For 9/11 Truth, September 15, 2008

[April Gallop's . . . desk was roughly 40 feet from the point where the plane allegedly hit the outside wall. As she sat down to work there was an explosion, then another; walls collapsed and the ceiling fell in. Hit in the head, she was able to grab the baby and make her way towards the daylight showing through a blasted opening in the outside wall. There was no airplane wreckage and no burning airplane fuel anywhere; only rubble and dust. . . .

Defendant Rumsfeld in particular has been deceptive from the start, as where, on September 13, he reported on Good Morning, America that the plane "...went in through three rings (of the Pentagon). I'm told the nose is - is still in there, very close to the inner courtyard, about one ring away"--"UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK," rawstory.com, December 17, 2008]

Anonymous, "Flight 77 path and lightpole struck," flickcabin.com, December 20, 2008

[Pentagon police officers SGT William Lagasse and SGT Chadwick Brooks say plane flew North of CITGO gas station . . . Pentagon police officer Roosevelt Roberts Jr. saw the plane flying away from the building immediately after the event.--VIDEO: "The North Side Flyover," Citizen Investigation Team, 2008]

VIDEO: "Cab Driver LLoyde England's Virtual Confession," Citizen Investigation Team, 2008

What caused the debris in the foreground?

Enver Masud, "When Did Fort Meyer Fire Department Foam Unit 161 Arrive at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001?," The Wisdom Fund, January 1, 2009

VIDEO: "9/11: ATTACK ON THE PENTAGON," Pilots For 9/11 Truth, January 4, 2009

[ . . . the 13 witnesses deliver a devastating blow to the official story about the Pentagon attack. Five 40-foot, 247-pound light poles were knocked down that day. If the plane flew north of the Citgo station, it could not have knocked down those poles. The west side of the Pentagon was damaged as if it were hit by a plane heading north, with the zone of destruction angling north. If the plane flew to the north of the Citgo station before hitting the Pentagon, it would not have caused this kind of damage.--Sheila Casey, "Eyewitnesses Contradict Pentagon 9/11 Story," Rock Creek Free Press, April 2009]

"U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics: Last Known Flights Of 9/11 Planes Took Place Nine Months Before 9/11; None For AA 77," 911blogger.com, June 23, 2009

VIDEO: "Eyewitness: How Accurate Is Visual Memory," CBS 60 Minutes, July 12, 2009

Enver Masud, "Flight 77: FBI exhibit contradicts Solicitor General's account of Barbara Olson's phone calls on 9/11," 911sig.blogspot.com, November 17, 2009

[ . . . two F-16s were always maintained on alert at Andrews and armed, that is, until September 11, 2001.

Also in response to the Cessna crash, White House Secret Service personnel armed with portable surface-to-air missile launchers were placed on the roof of the presidential mansion.

On that particular morning, an exercise was being conducted that resulted in the two stand-by F-16s being flown without their heat-seeking missiles.--"Two F-16s on alert to counter attacks on Washington ordered to stand down on 9/11," waynemadsenreport.com, November 25, 2009]

Rob Balsamo, "Flight Deck Door Closed For Entire Flight," pilotsfor911truth.org, November 27, 2009

Rob Balsamo, "NORTH APPROACH IMPACT ANALYSIS," pilotsfor911truth.org, January 2, 2010

"9-11 Coordinated By Cheney," waynemadsenreport.com, April 30, 2010

Enver Masud, "Pentagon Transcripts, Official Records Belie 'The 9/11 Commission Report'," The Wisdom Fund, September 10, 2010

[Bush reveals that he gave the order for any further suspected hijacked planes to be shot down after the first aircraft were flown into the World Trade Centre--James Meikle, "George Bush thought 9/11 plane had been shot down on his orders," Guardian, October 29, 2010]

"Instructor/Airshow Pilot Questions 911 Scenario," December 23, 2010

[Flight Data Recorder Expert Dennis Cimino has confirmed that the data being provided through the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is missing crucial information, which according to Dennis, should be present and link the data to a specific aircraft and fleet. . . . The data also exceeds the design limitations and capabilities of a standard 757 by a wide margin.--Rob Balsamo, "Flight Data Expert Confirmation: No Evidence Linking FDR Data to American 77," pilotsfor911truth.org, January 20, 2011]

Rob Balsamo, "Aircraft Departure Gate Positional Data Conflicts With Government Story," pilotsfor911truth.org, February 28, 2011

Rob Balsamo, "Overwhelming Evidence Pentagon Aircraft Data Is Not From An American Airlines 757," pilotsfor911truth.org, March 3, 2011

March 25, 2011

Webster Griffin Tarpley, "The Forty-Six Exercises and Drills of 9/11," truthjihad.com, August 20, 2011

[The 3 exit holes are perfectly round and look more like a punch out hole made from a shape charge. There is a V shaped symbol with a line through it which is an international rescue symbol for dead victims removed. This tells rescue workers that all victims have been removed. There were 3 C ring exit holes.--"Barbara Honegger And The Pentagon Attack Papers in 2 Minutes," vidrebel.wordpress.com, September 11, 2011]

MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION: Enver Masud, "9/11: The Pentagon," 9/11 Vancouver Hearings, June 15, 2012

VIDEO: Dennis Cimino, "911 Pentagon Flight Recorder Fraud Revealed," 9/11 Vancouver Hearings, June 18, 2012

Enver Masud, "9/11: Evidence of Complicity and Cover-up at the Pentagon," The Wisdom Fund, July 12, 2012

FILM: Massimo Mazzucco, "September 11 - The New Pearl Harbor," luogocomune.net, 2013 [Missing black boxes at 1.20.15]

VIDEO: "9/11 Aircraft - Why Fly So Fast?," pilotsfor911truth.org, June 9, 2014

"American Airlines Flight 77 Hijack Impossible, FLIGHT DECK DOOR CLOSED FOR ENTIRE FLIGHT," pilotsfor911truth.org, June 23, 2014

DISSENTING VIEW: "Bringing Closure to the 9/11 Pentagon Debate," foreignpolicyjournal.com, October 7, 2016

Abhimanyu Ghoshal, "Eerie tech promises to copy anyone's voice from just 1 minute of audio," thenextweb.com, April 24, 2017

[The assertion by Scientists for 9/11 Truth that Sandia National Laboratories' F-4 Phantom jet test represents what happened at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 is utter nonsense--Enver Masud, "Bringing Closure to the 9/11 Pentagon Debate? Evidence Contradicts Scientists for 9/11 Truth," The Wisdom Fund, August 30, 2017]

Jack White's 9/11 Photo Studies