Official version The September 11 attacks, which killed almost 3,000 people, destroyed three skyscrapers in Manhattan, including the two famous twin towers, as well as part of the Pentagon, and gave a new direction to world history, is striking in its absurdity.
It turns out that in a country obsessed with security, where there are about 20 special services - about one for each of the 19 Middle Eastern terrorists involved in the attacks, they were able to do what they allegedly did. Namely, having only the basics of flight training, to ram the targets, almost synchronously captured before this by airliners, beyond the strength of even experienced pilots, acting under the leadership of the bearded terrorist Osama bin Laden, who was hiding in a cave in Afghanistan. All this, like all other points of the official version, which we will consider in more detail below, is completely contrary to common sense.
Official version
This is the official version. Since it is widely known, we will dwell on it only briefly. Terrorists from the al-Qaeda group banned in Russia and other countries of the world, many of whom were known to the CIA, mostly Saudi nationals, legally entered the United States. They easily hijacked four passenger airliners, two of which were sent to the towers of the World shopping center(WTC), one - into the Pentagon building, and another crashed under strange circumstances in Pennsylvania. In the latter case, the passengers allegedly resisted by "democratically voting" to rebuff the hijackers. At the same time, the WTC-7 tower mysteriously collapsed in Manhattan, into which no one crashed, and which the BBC television broadcaster brought down live 20 minutes before it happened. When correspondent Jane Standley was broadcasting about this and the victims of the new terrorist attack, the WTC-7 still loomed behind her, and the caption at the bottom of the screen already read: "The 47-story Salomon Brothers building next to the World Trade Center also collapsed." Anyone can check out this amazing report on YouTube...
The hitch came out: the BBC reported the collapse of WTC-7 20 minutes before it happened. Photo: FA Bobo/PIXSELL/PA Images/TASS
The mass of inconsistencies and lies associated with the 9/11 attacks leave Americans with very little choice. The dilemma here is simple. On the one hand, it is required, turning off your mind, to believe in the official version or pretend that you believe it, if you are a "patriot" of your country and do not want damage to its reputation, exposure of its leadership, without whose sanction such large-scale terrorist attacks would simply be impossible. It is very difficult to live with this awareness, and it is beyond the strength of the conformist majority. The second position is available only to a minority who are not afraid to go crazy in the face of the truth and scorn accusations of "conspiracy theories." This position, which is held by many Americans and not only, requires the recognition that bin Laden and his people are nothing more than decorations, since terrorist attacks of this magnitude could only be organized by the American intelligence services themselves with the assistance of politicians and the media.
But we are not Americans. We are patriots of Russia, not the United States, and therefore our hands are untied. Since the official American version is completely unsatisfactory and does not explain anything, let's turn to the "conspiracy theorists". If we dismiss fantastic versions, like a mini-nuclear explosion under the twin towers, launched, probably at the suggestion of the American authorities, in order to compromise all the others, then the following picture emerges.
Performers
Terrorists from Al-Qaeda, many of whom were known to the CIA, legally entered the United States, went to the attacks, taking their passports with them. Only a few of them had the skills to fly light aircraft. Under no circumstances could they replace the pilots of civil airliners, especially at high speed "get" into the twin towers hidden in urban areas - among other skyscrapers, fly at a height of several meters on the ground, without damaging anything along the route, and ram the Pentagon.
The American authorities immediately began to blame the Al-Qaeda leader for what had happened, although it was obvious that this was a surprise for Osama bin Laden, he did not immediately allow himself to be persuaded to take responsibility for this and his semi-virtual group. And it can be understood: it is impossible for a person in their right mind to believe in the official version. Therefore, bin Laden dragged on for a long time and took responsibility for the September 11 attacks only on October 29, 2004.
What really happened? In fact, most likely, the American intelligence services deliberately allowed terrorists into the country, who probably really plotted terrorist attacks using aircraft. They were needed as cover. The fact that the terrorists went on the planes leaving their passports in the cars most likely indicates that they were training to see how they would do better when they learned how to fly the planes. Or the planes that rammed the Pentagon and the twin towers ... there was none at all, and, therefore, all this passport history.
Aircraft
Indeed, was it a boy? Witnesses to the attacks in New York on the morning of 9/11 give conflicting accounts of what hit the Twin Towers. Some say they saw or heard noise from small planes, some believe they saw rockets, others - large airliners. The latter probably evaluate their experience retrospectively, having watched well-known footage many times on TV. Meanwhile, as it has been proven, large planes simply could not hit the WTC skyscrapers without colliding with a couple of other skyscrapers along the way. From the air and at the speed with which they were supposed to fly, even very experienced pilots could not accurately “hit” the targets. A legitimate question also arises, where did the wreckage of the planes go - the engine of one of them, which was later "found" in the wreckage of one of the collapsed buildings, turned out to be from a plane of a different type than the one that allegedly rammed it. As for the Pentagon, as independent researchers have found, the area of damage in the wing of the building, where the Boeing allegedly landed, is noticeably smaller than its wingspan. The penetration area is not as deep as it should be. There was no tail unit left from the plane, no corpses and suitcases of passengers ... Evaporated?
Also striking are the famous shots of an aluminum airliner, which is barely able to withstand a bird strike, enters like a knife through butter into the steel structure of the WTC buildings, so that the tip of its nose is even shown on the other side of the skyscraper! Calls from airliners, allegedly made by their passengers from their own mobile phones, were also completely unthinkable. At the height with which they were made, it was technically impossible ...
What really happened? It is quite obvious that no airliners crashed into the twin towers in New York and into the Pentagon building near Washington. Most likely, it was about cruise missiles that could avoid obstacles, which were assisted by "beacons" installed on buildings. Everything else is a crude imitation.
The most interesting question here, to which there is no unequivocal answer yet, is where did the people who supposedly were on the planes go? In fact, there were not so many of them, since, as the “conspiracy theorists” established, at least two of the aircraft allegedly taking part in the terrorist attacks were already decommissioned at that time, and could not be operated on September 11th. But where did those who were not originally "dead souls" go? They were killed, they underwent plastic surgery and moved to the other end of the country or abroad? Who knows.
Building
With the Pentagon, everything is clear - everything was organized there by the military and special services themselves, no civilian firefighters were even allowed to go there. Whether there was one cruise missile there or whether it was "helped" with the help of charges installed in the wing of the building being repaired, is not so important. The consequences of the incident were quickly eliminated, no one took dirty linen out of the hut - the military people are serious, they know how to keep their mouths shut.
The main intrigue is with New York skyscrapers. They seem to have collapsed before our eyes, live. But this should not have been - they were built taking into account the fact that they could withstand exactly what supposedly happened to them. Instead, the "twins" collapsed, sinking inward at the speed of free fall, as if someone had "chopped" all the supporting structures at once.
The current President of the United States, Donald Trump, himself a construction magnate, "in hot pursuit" did not believe that the planes could bring down the twin towers. Photo: www.globallookpress.com
What really happened? The Association of American Engineers and even future US President Donald Trump, himself a construction magnate, have long argued that the buildings should not have perished, they should have survived the impact of the plane. Trump thought so "in hot pursuit" - now, of course, he pretends that this is a terrorist attack. But engineers with professional knowledge capable of revealing deceit only strengthened their opinion. In addition, in 2009, an international group of researchers published an article in the journal Open Chemical Physics on the results of a chemical analysis of the WTC debris, where fragments of thermite, a super-combustible substance that burns through steel, were found. Its melting point is about 1500 degrees, while the combustion temperature of aviation fuel is only about 1000 degrees ... Only in this case, as the official version says, the death of buildings as a result of "weakening of the steel frame during the fire, combined with damage caused by exposure to aircraft."
The "controlled demolition" that actually took place was caused by a series of explosions at the key, most vulnerable points of skyscrapers, as a result of which they "formed" in clouds of dust, which always happens in such cases. Firefighters and other nearby people heard these explosions. There are records of voices standing in a cordon near the WTC-7 building that this skyscraper will soon be blown up. True, this case was delayed a little, which is why the BBC reported this earlier than necessary. There is footage on YouTube of this building collapsing - a typical directional explosion.
There is also plenty of other evidence that this is a deliberate provocation organized by the American authorities themselves. Even if there were ten times less evidence, this would be enough for an unambiguous verdict of an unbiased court: guilty. Let us mention in passing only one of them - not a single "bump" was killed during the terrorist attacks in New York. The victims of the attacks are mainly maintenance workers, service employees, firefighters, who, by the way, began to be brought to the US financial capital a few days before the attacks from other parts of the country ... There is evidence that important meetings in the area of future attacks were canceled in advance, some valuable employees unexpectedly offered not to go to work on September 11 ...
Media involvement
It is clear that such a grandiose hoax would not have been possible without the involvement and involvement of the leading American federal television channels in it. According to independent researchers, they received blanks with the image of future terrorist attacks in New York in advance, which they processed each in their own style. And planes crashing into skyscrapers, according to a physicist from the University of Cambridge, John Wyndham, is the most common hologram. That is why they entered, without collapsing like a knife through butter, into skyscrapers made of heavy-duty steel, and even in one case pierced the building with their nose. It seems that the media worked out technologies for creating artificial reality - the same thing that America is struggling with today, like a fly entangled in a web.
Photo: www.globallookpress.com
Why and who needed it?
The answer to the question why this was necessary lies on the surface. The September 11 attacks became the "new Pearl Harbor" for the US ruling circles, which they had long dreamed of. They buried international law and instead of the self-disbanded USSR created a new enemy for Washington in the person of "international terrorism", which was allowed to be fought all over the world. Already on October 7, 2001, the Americans invaded Afghanistan in order to "punish the terrorists", having achieved on the wave of international sympathy for the victims of the tragedy, in particular, Russia's consent to organizing its military bases on the territory under this sauce. former USSR- in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. And with a very long range. In March 2003, the US attacked Iraq, plunging the entire region into chaos, giving birth to ISIS, banned in Russia. Then there was Libya, an attempt to overwhelm Egypt, Syria ... To "fight terror" in various countries The Pentagon has received nearly $6 trillion in the past 16 years since the tragedy, and the US military-industrial complex has found a new meaning for existence. The Americans then wrote off Russia. After all, if they had waited a bit, then perhaps the "terrorists" would not have had to blow up the New York skyscrapers.
However, this prohibitively cynical action, for which none of the special services, by the way, was punished, although it seemed to be a terrible failure, also had serious domestic political goals. In October 2001, the so-called Patriot act was adopted with a bang - a carefully and pre-designed federal law that significantly expanded the rights of special services for electronic surveillance and surveillance of Americans. A prison appeared in Guantanamo, and America itself finally turned into a police state in which "Big Brother" breathes down the back of every citizen.
The most cynical thing, however, is that some gentlemen actually made a lot of money on the September 11 tragedy, and they obviously acted on the assumption that there would be terrorist attacks, and very soon.
What an amazing coincidence: in July 2004, New York businessman Larry Silverstein became the tenant - for 99 years - of all seven WTC buildings. The contract amounted to 3.2 billion dollars, of which he managed to pay only 14 million, and ultimately earned more than 8 billion dollars. How did he do it? The main insured moment in the policies was the case of a terrorist act. He did not keep himself waiting long.
Provocations, provocations...
If we have not convinced anyone who is really responsible for the September 11 attacks, we note in conclusion that provocation has historically been the main instrument of US policy. This is the famous Boston Tea Party, and the explosion of the battleship "Maine" in the harbor of Havana, and the same Pearl Harbor, and the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin ... This list goes on and on, as well as the list of large-scale hoaxes in which the Americans managed to convince millions, even billions of people. The most striking of these was the US space program before the advent of the "shuttles", primarily the staging of landing on the moon. Remembering the memory of the innocent victims of the September 11 attacks, people have no right to forget how and why it was done. And that something like this can happen again, since no one is punished for it.
On September 11, 2001, a series of terrorist attacks were carried out in the United States, which resulted in the death of 2977 people. According to the official version, the devastating attacks were carried out by members of the al-Qaeda* group, but there are facts that can refute the generally accepted point of view.
Fast Version
This is the official version of what happened. Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, four passenger Boeings were hijacked mid-air by Arab terrorists. The hijackers were armed only with clerical knives and gas cartridges. Two aircraft attacked the twin towers of the World Trade Center, located in the southern part of Manhattan, the third plane was sent to the Pentagon building, the fourth did not reach the Capitol and crashed in the middle of a field in Pennsylvania.
This version was formed just a few days after the tragedy, and the American government has not changed it again. Such hasty conclusions suggest that Washington was preparing for this in advance.
We have already encountered a situation where the White House "knew for sure" that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction, Muammar Gaddafi was sponsoring international terrorism, and Bashar al-Assad was using chemical weapons.
None of these allegations have ever been substantiated. However, these suspicions have become a pretext for the US-sanctioned use of military forces in Iraq, Libya and Syria. It is expected that after the events of September 11, the Americans stepped up military operations in Afghanistan.
Immediately after the explosions, the head of Al Qaeda * Osama bin Laden declared his non-involvement in the attacks. Unusual behavior for a man who has always been happy to take responsibility for the terrorist attacks he was involved in. Later, bin Laden nevertheless admitted his involvement in the events of September 11, however, according to some, this was a person only similar to the leader of Al Qaeda *.
Strange destruction
Probably, not everyone knows that during the attack on New York, three buildings of the World Trade Center (WTC) collapsed. In addition to the well-known twin towers No. 1 and No. 2, there was also a skyscraper No. 7. The government commission set up to investigate the events of September 11 preferred to keep silent about this fact. House number 7 is a 47-story high-rise, noticeably inferior to its twin brothers in growth.
In particular, it housed the New York branch of the CIA headquarters. This building avoided being hit by an aircraft, but by 5 pm it collapsed in the same way as the twin towers.
According to authorities, the cause of the collapse of the building was burning fragments that fell on it from collapsing skyscrapers, as well as the ensuing fire. However, WTC buildings numbered 3, 4, 5 and 6 were much closer to the towers, and they all survived. Maybe the fall of the 7th house had another reason?
As for the twin towers, researchers are still concerned about a curious question: why did not only the upper floors of the building collapse, but also the lower ones? The official version is inexorable: when the building was destroyed, the top carried away the rest of it.
However, here too there is a problem. Parts of the tower structure did not fall in different directions, but formed right under the base, like a house of cards.
The designers of the World Trade Center unanimously declare that when building skyscrapers, the possible hit of an aircraft was taken into account, as is the case with all skyscrapers. If a catastrophic scenario does occur, then, they say, it cannot lead to devastating consequences of this magnitude.
The footage of the disaster clearly shows that the planes crash into buildings in completely different ways: the liner “entered” the northern tower right in the center, the southern one at an acute angle, cutting off the edge of the skyscraper. At the same time, the destruction of the towers was surprisingly uniform and symmetrical, as in a prepared explosion. And then a strange thing happens: the south tower, less affected by the explosion, collapses first, and only half an hour later the north tower falls, where the consequences of the disaster should have been more impressive.
Experts analyzed the video of the collapse of the towers and almost unanimously stated that this is how the industrial demolition of buildings takes place. Indeed, if you carefully look at the slow-motion footage of the disaster, you can see how explosive waves run through the entire height of the building at equal distances - as if a pre-laid charge had detonated.
Here are two more facts that will make you think. Shortly before the attack, the floors into which the planes subsequently flew were closed for repairs. And a few weeks before the tragedy, the owner of the twin towers, Larry Silverstein, insured them for $ 3 billion, and insurance against terrorist attacks was prescribed as a separate item.
Electoral fire
According to the official conclusions, hundreds of thousands of tons of steel structures melted in a monstrous fire, and hundreds of tons of concrete were erased into dust.
Is it possible that ignited aviation kerosene, the combustion temperature of which is less than 1000 ° C, caused hardened steel to “tremble”, which melts at no less than 2000 ° C. At the same time, there was a critical loss of strength of 50 massive load-bearing beams at once, which is possible only if the fuel is evenly spilled over all areas of the floor.
As a result of the explosions, charred and unrecognizable body particles remained from the passengers of both Boeings. Meanwhile, the passport of Mohammed Atta, one of the hijackers, which became one of the main pieces of evidence in favor of the guilt of al-Qaeda *, turned out to be completely unscathed. According to the commission, the document miraculously survived a powerful explosion, fell out of the plane and landed safely near the building.
The US government was in such a hurry to come to the right conclusion that it was not even going to pay attention to such incidents. Further more.
The Commission of Inquiry announced the identification of some of the passengers and crew members of the aircraft by the "remains of DNA." And this is after the fire actually completely destroyed the hull of the liner, made of resistant to high temperatures aviation aluminium.
It is curious that despite the “remnants of DNA” preserved in a fantastic way, the black boxes were recognized as completely destroyed by fire. Looking at this, it only remains to believe that the fire acted selectively, completely not guided by the laws of the physical world.
No trace
The third hijacked Boeing, flying American Airlines Flight 77, crashed into the Pentagon, according to official figures. In order to inflict the most sensitive damage to the building and people, the terrorists sent the liner along the lowest possible trajectory. It is known that the height of the Boeing 757 is 13 meters, the Pentagon - 24 meters.
Based on this, the final kilometers of the flight of the liner had to pass at a height of only a few meters above the ground, which is an almost impossible task for pilots who have just completed express courses.
Moreover, such a maneuver was absolutely unjustified, since, according to many experts, it would not lead to such damage as when falling at an angle. In this case, it would be difficult even for an inexperienced pilot to miss, given the impressive area of \u200b\u200bthe Pentagon - 117,363 sq.m. It turns out that the terrorists, who carefully planned the attack, chose a more complicated and less effective path.
However, the main incident is ahead. Independent researchers who studied photographs of the disaster were alerted by the fact that the Boeing did not leave traces of the wings when it hit the building. Their fragments were not found nearby either. Moreover, even inside the destroyed section of the building there were no hints of aircraft fragments. According to official conclusions, they were all destroyed by a powerful explosion and fire, which is very doubtful.
All of these facts suggest another reason for the destruction in the Pentagon - a planned explosion. But if we assume that the Boeing 757 did not crash into the Pentagon, where did the car itself disappear with the passengers and crew of this ill-fated flight?
As for the fourth "Boeing", which did not reach the Capitol and crashed in the fields of Pennsylvania, it is the least of all questions. However, there are still inconsistencies. Authorities claim the ground impact was the cause of the deaths, but no significant number of aircraft fragments have been found at the alleged crash site. Eyewitnesses say that the wreckage was scattered for many kilometers. According to the assumption of researchers who do not share the official point of view, the liner could have been hit in the air by a rocket fired from a fighter.
The official version reads: passengers, by contacting mobile phones with family, learned that two planes had already crashed into buildings in Manhattan and decided to prevent the plans of the hijackers. It was as a result of the struggle ensued on board that the plane went off course and went into a steep dive. However, experts argue that the ability to use cellular communication in flight appeared only in 2005.
Avoid inconsistencies
Everything in this story is alarming, including the behavior of top American officials. For example, President George W. Bush for a long time ignored the invitation to speak before Congress, but when he agreed to a meeting, he set conditions that seemed to be incomprehensible at first glance. He insisted on limiting the conversation in time - no more than an hour and the obligatory invitation to the event of Vice President Dick Cheney. At the request of the head of the White House, only two people were to be present from the commission investigating the tragedy.
After a long debate, it was still possible to agree on the participation of 10 members of the commission and remove the time limit. During the meeting, everyone expected to hear from the president exhaustive, and most importantly, reliable information about what had happened, but everything turned out to be much more complicated. Bush did not allow the meeting to be videotaped, audiotaped, or even transcribed. In addition, Bush and Cheney refused to take an oath that could assure listeners of the veracity of what was said.
In April 2004, the performance finally took place. However, to this day it is not known what Bush and Cheney said to the congressmen. Many draw attention to the absurdity of this situation. It looks like this if one witness agreed to speak in court only in the presence of another witness. Why is this needed? Probably in order to avoid inconsistency in testifying.
Every year, the belief grows stronger in the world that the attacks were planned by the US intelligence agencies in order to justify the actions of the US military in the Middle East. But it is premature to draw final conclusions. So far, we can say with certainty only the following: if the US authorities did not stage the attacks themselves, then at least they did not interfere with their planning.
* Al-Qaeda is a terrorist group, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation
It's been 17 years since that day, with Nine-Eleven, when New York collapsed three skyscrapers. No, I'm not wrong. Not two, but three, but for some reason they prefer not to remember the third. And when a third plane crashed into the Pentagon wing being repaired, and in a strange way almost self-destructed, and another one crashed in the desert. And this is not all the mysteries of the tragedy that happened.
So, on the morning of September 11, 2001, four Boeing planes (two in Boston, alone in Washington and another one in Newark), after which the first two planes crashed into the New York skyscrapers WTC-1 and WTC-2, the third hit the Pentagon wall, and the fourth crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The two towers of the World Trade Center, attacked by planes, suddenly completely collapsed in a very strange way within an hour and a half, neatly folding inward. Also, for some reason, the neighboring skyscraper WTC 7 completely and neatly collapsed, although no planes hit it.
It's only been a few days after the “acts of terrorism”, how the first official version of everything that happened was prepared and the perpetrators were named. Guilty was immediately called Osama bin Laden, who led this action from Afghanistan, and, of course, his brainchild Al-Qaeda. Names were also immediately named all 19 hijackers who abandoned their cars near airports, in which they found the Koran and instructions in Arabic “How to fly an airplane”, and miraculously found passports of “terrorists” in the wreckage of the planes. It followed from this that it was urgent to start bomb Afghanistan and invade Iraq.
In the fall of 2002, a special commission was created under the loud name "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States". It was chaired by the former Governor of New Jersey Thomas Keen(Thomas Kean). The commission included former employees CIA, FBI, Department of Justice and other government agencies. Supervised all actions and the course of the investigation Philip Zelikov(Philip Zelikow), a member of the administration of President Bush Jr., who also worked under Bush Sr.
The official version mentioned above took its final form on July 22, 2004, when the above-mentioned commission consisting of 83 people completed the report on 585 pages. The Keene Commission report confirmed the above version, which even now remains the only and irrefutable one.
And now let's give some facts showing how the US intelligence services are able to "investigate" and get the necessary and obviously announced results.
Cell Phones
The official report claims that all information from the Boeing that crashed into the WTC skyscraper was transmitted to the ground via mobile phones. In particular, the flight attendant Betty Ong(Betty Ong) talked for 23 minutes and the flight attendant Madeleine Sweeney(Madeline Sweeney) - 25 minutes. Last words Sweeney were: “I see water! I see buildings! .
The fact is that when the phone enters the broadcast area of the base station, or "cell", the so-called "greeting" occurs, which in 2001 took at least eight seconds. The "welcome" system was not designed for driving at a speed of 700 km / h and is possible at a maximum speed of 150 km / h. And only in 2004, Qualcomm, together with American Airlines, developed a system that, using satellite, provides calls to cell phones from the aircraft on which it is installed. dedicated mobile base station. On July 15, 2004, a test run of the system was made, after which it began to function.
Cheating with speed
The official report of the Keene Commission provides a diagram of the alleged movement of Flight 175, which crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center, according to which the plane overcame the final straight section from the city of Trenton to New York in four minutes.
Boeing traffic to New York
And now the fact: The distance between Trenton and New York in a straight line is 85 kilometers. For good measure, you can even consider it equal to 80. According to official data, the plane covered this distance in 4 minutes. Let's find the average speed of the liner in this section: V = 80 km / 4 min = 20 km/min = 1200 km/h. We get sound speed.
Of course, the Boeing 767 was not supersonic. IN technical specifications The Boeing 767-200 is said to have a maximum cruising speed at 12 km altitude of 915 km/h. And this is only at an altitude of 12,000 meters, where the air density is five times lower than at sea level, and the liner flew into the building at an altitude of several hundred meters. The same technical specifications say that the maximum allowable speed of the Boeing-767-200 (the so-called Vne - Velocity Never Exceed), exceeding which the plane just starts to break down, is 0.86 the speed of sound, that is, about 1000 km/h. Therefore, even if the plane still managed to develop the speed of sound, it would have crumbled long before Manhattan. That is, the official investigation invites everyone to believe that it is impossible purely physical. So, another lie of the official investigation.
"Twins" could not collapse on their own
According to the official report, the 100-story skyscraper WTC-1 completely collapsed 1 hour 42 minutes after the plane hit, and its twin WTC-2 - 56 minutes later. The reason, of course, is indicated as follows - the impact and the subsequent fire that occurred after the Boeings hit the buildings.
But here some more surprising facts appear.
It turns out that the Twins were designed in such a way that, in addition to the wind load, they could withstand the frontal impact of the Boeing 707, the largest passenger airliner in those years. Early 1970s Leslie Robertson, who built the buildings, calculated the effect of the collision of the Boeing 707 with the WTC tower. He reported the results to the newspaper. New York Times, claiming that the towers will withstand the impact of a liner flying at a speed of 960 km / h, that is, having taken the impact of the liner, the skyscraper will remain standing without undergoing serious structural damage. In other words, the central frame and the remaining standing perimeter will withstand the additional load resulting from the absence of the demolished part of the supporting structures. It was with such a margin of safety that the "twins" were built.
Frank DeMartini(Frank DeMartini), one of the project managers for the construction of the World Trade Center, confirms this idea: the building is designed in such a way as to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707 with maximum takeoff weight. It was the largest aircraft of that time. I'm sure the building would have withstood even a few hits from planes, because its structure resembled a fine mosquito net, and the plane is like a pencil that pierces this net and does not affect the structure of the rest of it.
The fire also could not destroy the skyscrapers. Here is evidence that the official report is lying again:
So, the WTC-1 building withstood the first blow. However, in the next hour and a half, something happened as a result of the fire, which provoked the collapse of the tower. By the way, this first and only a case in world history when a skyscraper actually turns into a pile of ruins as a result of an hour and a half fire - this is according to the official version.
In the mid-1990s, two British firms - British Steel and Building Research Establishment - conducted a series of experiments in the city of Cardington to determine the effect of fires on steel-framed structures. On the experimental model of an eight-story building, the steel structures did not have fire protection. Despite the fact that the temperature of the steel beams reached 900 °C (!) with a critically permissible maximum of 600 °C, in none of the six experiments did failure occur, although certain deformations did occur.
In August 2005 John Hall(John R. Hall Jr.) of the National Fire Protection Association of the United States, published the analytical work "Fires in high-rise buildings." In particular, it provides statistics according to which, in 2002 alone, 7,300 fires occurred in high-rise buildings, many of which were very intense and lasted for many hours, having managed to absorb at the same time more than one floor. Despite casualties and significant damage, none of these fires resulted in collapses.
If that's not enough, here are a few more specific examples of some of the worst fires in recent decades:
On February 23, 1991, a fire broke out in the 38-story One Meridian Plaza building in Philadelphia. The fire started on the 22nd floor, engulfed 8 floors and lasted 18 hours. As a result of this fire, a lot of glass was broken, granite cracked and load-bearing walls sank. Nevertheless, the building survived and not a single part of it collapsed.
On May 4, 1988, the 62-story First Interstate Bank building in Los Angeles caught fire. The fire lasted 3.5 hours, 4.5 floors burned out - from the 12th to the 16th. But the load-bearing structures survived completely, and secondary structures and several floors between floors received only minor damage. The building survived.
On August 5, 1970, the 50-story building 1 New York Plaza exploded and started a fire that lasted six hours. There were no collapses.
On October 17, 2004, a skyscraper in the Venezuelan city of Caracas caught fire. The fire broke out at the level of the 34th floor, covered 26 (!) floors and lasted 17 hours. The building survived.
And, finally, a fire in that same New York World Trade Center. On February 13, 1975, a fire broke out in the north tower on the 11th floor, as a result of which 65% of the floor burned out completely. In addition, the fire spread down to the 9th and up to the 16th floors, without affecting, however, office rooms and limited to shafts inside the central frame. The fire lasted three hours, and despite its much higher intensity than September 11, 2001, the structure of the building was not damaged. Not only the central frame remained absolutely unscathed, inside which the fire mainly spread, but also all the interfloor ceilings.
WTC fire in 1975
And the 47-storey "WTC 7" collapsed by itself ... by accident.
The official report claims that the WTC-7 "collapsed" due to the weakening of the supporting structures, despite the fact that no aircraft hit it.
As it turned out, very few knew about the demolition of building No. 7 of the World Trade Center. Its destruction somehow passed unnoticed against the background of the rest of the events of that day. In this 47-story skyscraper, which also bore the name Salomon Brothers(Salomon Brothers), housed the offices of the FBI, the Department of Defense, the IRS 1RS (according to the Online Journal, with a huge amount of compromising evidence, including the infamous Enron), US counterintelligence, the stock exchange (with evidence of stock fraud), as well as various financial institutions. Its collapse occurred at approximately 17:20 New York time, and several rather curious incidents are associated with it at once.
FEMA claims this building has collapsed for the same reasons as the "twins" - due to the weakening of the supporting structures. But why? The plane did not hit him. Fires did not rage in it - only in three places there were small local fires: on the seventh, twelfth and twenty-ninth floors. If we recall the scheme of the entire World Trade Center, then building No. 7 is the most remote from the "epicenter", separated from the main complex by a street. Where is his injury from? The report is silent on this.
Such a small fire allegedly caused the complete destruction of the WTC-7 building
And the most “truthful” in the world, the BBC even reported the collapse of the WTC-7 in advance.
Indeed, the reportage of the British television channel BBC BBC (BBC) looks unique. In a TV news broadcast that aired at 10:00 London time, that is, at 17:00 New York time, the presenter told viewers that the WTC-7 building in New York had collapsed. But there were still 20 minutes before it collapsed.. Moreover, the correspondent of the TV channel Jane Standley(Jane Standley) in her live report from New York talked about the collapse of the WTC-7, while standing in front of it. A rare photo shows just this moment - the WTC-7 building is indicated by arrows. The caption at the bottom of the screen reads: "The 47-story Salomon Brothers building next to the World Trade Center also collapsed."
BBC talks about the destruction of WTC 7
However, at some point, apparently, the TV people realized what had happened, and at 17:14 the picture of the broadcast from New York was suddenly distorted by interference, and after a few seconds it completely disappeared.
How else to explain this incredible "glitch" if not the presence of a pre-written script? Is it possible that the building was planned to be demolished a little earlier, but London simply did not have time to bring information about the delay in this mise-en-scene of the performance, and the British continued to follow the script. So they got the press release before all this happened? But from whom and how?
Of course, such an incident caused a lot of questions to the BBC channel. However, the head of the news department Richard Porter(Richard Porter) explained this mysterious story: “We are not part of a conspiracy. No one told us what to talk about and what to do on 9/11. No one told us in advance that the building was about to fall. We haven't received a press release or a script for what's to come."
It turns out that if no one told them anything in advance, it means that they themselves, on their own initiative, told about the collapse of the building, which will happen in 20 minutes. But we read further: "We do not have the original recording of the reports from September 11 - not because of a conspiracy, but because of confusion." A news recording of one of the most important days in the history of the channel turned out to be all of a sudden lost.
Dead "terrorists" turned out to be alive
Official list of "hijackers"
The list was accompanied by the following comment: “The FBI has absolute confidence in the accuracy of the identification of the nineteen hijackers responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In addition, the 9/11 investigations were scrutinized by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States, and jointly by the Senate and House of Representatives. None of these checks raised the slightest doubt about the identity of the nineteen hijackers."
On September 23, 2001, the British news agency BBC unexpectedly reported that Walid al-Shehri, a Saudi national and named hijacker of Flight AA11, is now alive, well and doing well in Casablanca, Morocco. Embassy Saudi Arabia confirmed that he studied at flight school in Daytona Beach, Florida. He left the US in September 2000 and works for Royal Air Morocco. This is further confirmed by the Associated Press, according to which Walid al-Shehri appeared at the American embassy in Morocco: “The FBI released his photograph, which was circulated in newspapers and television news around the world. This same Mr. al-Shehri showed up in Morocco, thus proving that he was not a member of the suicide pilot team. So, minus one.
Wail al-Shehri(AA11) is also alive and well. He is a pilot and his father is a Saudi Arabian diplomat in Bombay. The Los Angeles Times, in an article dated September 21, 2001, reports that the head of the information center of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in the United States, Gaafar Allaghani, confirmed that he personally spoke to both father and son. So minus two.
Abdulaziz al-Omari(АА11) lost his passport while studying in Denver, which he reported to the police at the time. He now works as an engineer at Saudi Telecom. The Telegraph on September 23, 2001 quoted him as saying: “I couldn't believe it when I saw myself on the FBI list. They showed my name, my photo and my date of birth, but I'm not a suicide bomber. I'm here. I'm alive. I have no idea how to fly a plane. I had nothing to do with any of this." So minus three.
Said al-Ghamdi(UA93), a Saudi Airlines pilot, was in Tunisia during the events of 9/11, where he was taking an Airbus 320 flight course with 22 other pilots. The Telegraph quotes him as saying: “The FBI has provided no evidence of my involvement in the attacks. You have no idea what it's like to be labeled a dead terrorist when I'm alive and innocent." Total, minus four.
Ahmed al-Nami(UA93) works as an office manager for Saudi Airlines in Riyadh: “As you can see, I'm alive. I was shocked to see my name on the [terrorist] lists. I've never heard of Pennsylvania, where I happen to have hijacked a plane." Total minus five.
Salem al-Hamzi(AA77) works at a chemical plant in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia: “I have never been to the US and have not left Saudi Arabia for the past two years.” Total, minus six.
Khalid al-Midhar(AA77) - programmer in Mecca, Saudi Arabia: "I like to think that this is some kind of mistake." According to the Chicago Tribune, he was watching TV when his friends started calling him and asking if he was alive. Total, minus seven.
An event that changed people's lives
It would not be an exaggeration to say that this day has become the most unusual on the planet in the 21st century. Then the inhabitants of all countries of the world clung their eyes to the screens of their TVs, "stuck" on the Internet. And there, on the screens, something completely unimaginable was happening, reminiscent of frames from a fantastic action movie. Huge passenger liners crashed into the skyscrapers of New York, tall buildings folded like toy houses, drowning in clouds of dust, reminiscent of a volcanic eruption. And - people: endless crowds of screaming, running through the streets, or frozen in the distance with a mobile phone to their ear ...
Alas, it was not a film, but almost a live report from the scene of an event that would later rightly be called the largest act of terrorism in the history of mankind. Events wearing and quite official name: "The attack of September 11, 2001 in New York."
September 11, 2001 attack - how it happened
It is difficult to describe what happened, if only because the narrator inevitably slides into emotions, into personal assessments, and even into his own memories. Moreover, until now, after many years, certain mysteries, unexplored moments, and inconsistency of interpretations remain in the picture of a grandiose terrorist attack. However, the essence of what happened is as follows.
A group of Islamic terrorists seized four passenger liner, filled with people and performing scheduled flights. Further investigation revealed that there were a total of 19 attackers, all belonging to the same organization, al-Qaeda. In each of the planes there was at least one person who had undergone special training and was able to operate a passenger ship.
The terrorists sent two planes to tall buildings - the South and North towers of the World Trade Center, which were the pride of Manhattan and towered in its southern part. The planes crashed into these skyscrapers in turn, with an interval of about 16 minutes. As a result of the disaster, the buildings caught fire, and subsequently completely collapsed, burying a huge number of people under them. Naturally, all the passengers on the planes also died.
The third plane crashed into the Pentagon, and the fourth crashed in Pennsylvania, crashing into a field. As the investigation showed, his goal, apparently, was the building of the US Congress, but the terrorists failed to carry out their plan: a fight broke out on board with the crew and passengers, which eventually led to the crash of the plane. Naturally, everyone on the third and fourth ship also died.
The Pentagon building after a collision with a plane
At the moment, it is stated that as a result of these sad events, 2977 people died, not counting the 19 attackers. Also, 23 people are still listed among the missing without a trace.
That's what it looks like short description this extraordinary event, but for a more accurate picture, it must be supplemented with some important facts.
September 11, 2001 terrorist attack - additional facts
All the hijacked flights followed their schedules to distant California, that is, they had a lot of fuel on board, because the hijackings took place shortly after the departures. The plane flew into the North Tower at about the 95th floor, and into the South Tower at about the 80th floor. It is impossible to say more precisely, since in both cases they were Boeings, very large aircraft, and the contact area was more than one floor.
A terrible fire and the destruction caused by the disaster led to the collapse of giant buildings. First fell south tower, after it, about half an hour later - North (the fire in the building raged for 102 minutes). The third building, also part of the World Trade Center complex, fell in the late afternoon. It was too close to the attacked towers and could not withstand the temperature and mechanical stress that fell on its walls. In addition, the accumulated gas from the destroyed communications exploded inside the building.
Some time passed between the hijacking of the aircraft and their crash, during which many passengers managed to mobile communications connect with your family and friends. Someone said goodbye to life, someone tried to contact the special services. Many records of these negotiations have been preserved: emotional, deep, filled with fear and grief, but also with love for loved ones.
In some cases, passengers and crew tried to resist the terrorists. One of the aircraft, as already mentioned, as a result of such heroic actions did not reach its target. In the Boeing that crashed into the North Tower, at least one passenger and crew commander died before the collision; this is proved by the corollary.
Crash site of the 4th aircraft in Pennsylvania
In the first hours after the terrorist attack, the life of the United States changed beyond recognition. No aircraft received permission to enter the country and land on its airfields. Passenger flights within the state were canceled, all foreign flights went to land in Canada and Mexico. Hundreds of fighters were lifted into the air, which patrolled the sky around all major cities.
New York played a special role. Thousands of firefighters, paramedics and rescue workers worked in Manhattan. All city police officers were involved, colleagues from other regions urgently arrived to help them. The destroyed twin towers left behind giant rubble, burning in which lasted about 100 days, while many harmful chemicals were released into the air.
Subsequently, US intelligence agencies found out that of the 19 terrorists, the majority (15 people) had the citizenship of Saudi Arabia, the rest were citizens of the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Lebanon. They were not typical shahid fanatics: they all had a good education and a well-established philosophy of life.
Consequences of the attack
Grandiose terrorist act 9/11 had an impact befitting its magnitude. They manifested themselves in various spheres of life, and all over the world. Here are just a few of them.
Material
In addition to the completely destroyed three skyscrapers of the World Trade Center, several more nearby buildings were significantly damaged, or even destroyed, including one church. Lost archives, works of art, countless documents. The southern part of Manhattan has weakened its business importance for many years. A lot of damage was done to the Pentagon building.
Political
The US government and Congress created a special commission known as the "9/11 Commission". She worked for two years, and came to the conclusion that the main organizer and culprit of the attack was the Islamic fundamentalist organization Al-Qaeda, which spent about half a billion dollars on the plot. The origin of these funds remains a mystery to this day.
The organization was led by Saudi Osama bin Laden. The basis of her ideology was hatred of Israel and the United States. In the years that followed, America, along with its allies, launched an unprecedented struggle against the fundamentalists, primarily al-Qaeda. Its leader was destroyed in Afghanistan by an American special detachment in May 2011.
All the leading countries of the world have revised their views on terrorism, realizing its global danger. Almost everywhere, security measures have been tightened significantly, especially on aircraft.
We can talk about the economic consequences of the event, and about its military significance, about the impact on geopolitics. But perhaps the main thing to note is the change, so to speak, in the modern philosophy of life. After such terrible events, all people, without exception, became acutely aware of what, in fact, a fragile world we live in. In this world, even the most powerful country is vulnerable, and danger lies in wait for a person not only in warring states. The terrorist attack in New York showed that the boundaries between enemies and friends have become illusory, and the brutality of wars does not necessarily manifest itself only on the fronts of local conflicts.
Beautiful temporary memorials have been erected on the site of the former twin towers; permanent monuments are under construction. The American nation celebrates this mournful date as the Day of Service and Remembrance. And in New York there is a high monument by Zurab Tsereteli - "Tear of Sorrow". Inside the broken bronze slab is a huge steel blob. This is a symbol of grief not only for the people who died in the terrorist attack. And maybe not even that much. This tear symbolizes the common pain of humanity, which after September 11 became in many ways different, not so carefree and happy.
