A 911 Whistleblower Examines the Official Conspiracy Theory

1、A 9/11 Whistleblower Examines the Official Conspiracy TheoryKevin Ryan,Member of Scholars for 911 TruthScholars For 911 TruthA non-partisan association of faculty, students, and scholars, in fields as diverse as history, science, military affairs, psychology, and philosophy, dedicated to exposing fa

2、lsehoods and to revealing truths behind 9/11. Founded ByJames H. Fetzer, University of MinnesotaSteven Jones, Brigham Young UniversityUnderstanding the Official Conspiracy Theory (OCT) is important because1. It is being used to redefine our futures2. It is falseThese two facts taken together should

3、be very important to all Americans How is the OCT Redefining our Futures? Cost of 9/11 Wars So far in just Afghanistan and IraqOver 2600 Americans killed and approximately 17,000 woundedOver 30,000 civilians (including children) killed and uncounted thousands of other military dead$300 billion and c

4、ountingRedefining our valuesIndefinite imprisonment without chargesTortureThe Patriot Act and spying on AmericansHow is the OCT redefining our future?All federal programs outside of Defense and Homeland Security have become low prioritiesPublic perception affected on every levelSkyrocketing national

5、 debt$5.7 trillion and falling in September 2000$8.3 trillion now and rising rapidlyThe next terrorist attack and the next warSuspension of the Constitution?Iran?Meanwhile were wasting precious time and resources that could be used to pursueNew solutions for the end of cheap oil Global oil productio

6、n has peakedUS natural gas production has peakedOil and gas are so important that the peaks will have vast implications for world politics, lifestyles, agriculture and economic stabilityNew ways of dealing with moneyOur industrial societies and our financial systems were built on the assumption of c

7、ontinual growth growth based on ever more readily available cheap fossil fuels New solutions for environmental problemsGlobal warming has accelerated in the past two decades. There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities Nation

8、al Academy of SciencesHigher temperatures threaten dangerous consequences: drought, disease, floods, lost eco-systems National Resource Defense CouncilThe Official Conspiracy Theory( = The War on Terror)The 9/11 Commission ReportMission: To provide the fullest possible account of the events surround

9、ing 9/11The NIST World Trade Center ReportMission: To explain why and how three World Trade Center skyscrapers (WTC1, WTC2 and WTC7) collapsedWhich story carries more weight?Afghanistan War and Iraq War20,000 Americans killed or wounded30,000 civilians killed, how many wounded?TortureSkyrocketing na

10、tional debtLoss of rights and Constitution threatenedLost opportunity to pursue real problemsThe 9/11 Commission Report The NIST WTC ReportThe OCT as presented by the 9/11 Commission Report (911CR)Nineteen fanatically religious Arab Muslims totally outfoxed and overpowered the entire US military and

11、 intelligence apparatus, as well as the security systems of several airports, and then performing expert aerial maneuvers, flew several hijacked aircraft into buildings and crashed another in Pennsylvania.These terrorists were acting on the behalf of Osama Bin Laden, and no other foreign or domestic

12、 agencies, because they “hate America”.They were able to accomplish this because of “deep institutional failings” within the US government.Nineteen fanatically religious Muslims?At least six of them were reported to be alive after 9/11/01Some of them were anything but devout Muslims as they were kno

13、wn to enjoy alcohol, drugs, gambling and lap dancesThey left some suspicious cluesSeymour Hersh in the New Yorker - “A former high-level intelligence official told me whatever trail was left was left deliberately” Still Alive?Waleed al-Shehri was interviewed by a London newspaper then, as reported b

14、y AP, spoke on 9/22/01 to US embassy in MoroccoAhmed al-Nami told British newspaper Telegraph that “I have never even heard of Pennsylvania”Saaed al-Ghandi was interviewed by several newspapers and reported by the BBC to have been in Tunis for 10 months including 9/11Mohan al-Shehri, Salem al-Hazmi

15、and Abdulaziz al-Omari were all reported alive and well in Saudi Arabia by the Saudi embassy in Washington. Al-Omari visited the US Consulate in Jeddah to demand an explanationtotally outfoxed and overpowered the entire US military and intelligence apparatus?AG John Ashcroft, SF mayor Willie Brown,

16、and several Pentagon officials were warned not to fly on or about 9/11Attorney David Schippers attempted to share exact details with John Ashcroft, as provided to him by FBI agents, weeks before the attacksProfits from very unusual stock trades on AA, UA and MDSW point to insider knowledgeThe Secret

17、 Service appeared to know that the President was not a targetOther FBI WhistleblowersColeen RowleyIn August 2001, Rowleys Minneapolis FBI Office requested permission to search the computer of Zacarias Moussaoui because they believed he might “fly something into the WTC.” This request was not only de

18、nied, but FBI HQ changed the evidence file, downplaying Moussaouis connection to Al Queda. A congressional report later said FBI HQs new file on Moussaoui was “patently false”Rowley wrote a memo blasting FBI HQThe 911 Commission did not interview her, and called the dispute a simple “difference of o

19、pinion”Moussaoui is now the governments only convict for the crimes, and may be put to death for “failure to act” Other FBI WhistleblowersSibel EdmondsAccused FBI of intentionally failing to translate documents relating to certain foreign governmentsFired for writing a letter about this to the DOJ,

20、and later gagged by Ashcroft court orderHas since stated she has considerable evidence of deep wrongdoing within the US government and has suggested they knew details of the 9/11 attacksNone of her 3 and a half hour testimony to the 9/11 Commission was included in the 9/11 Commission reportWar games

21、?Apparently five war game drills were in progress on 9/11/01Some involved hijacked airliners, insertion of fake radar blips and pulling fighter jets away from the northeast USSome were “l(fā)ive-fly” exercises, where actual aircraft were simulating hijacked airliners as the real attacks occurredNORAD, F

22、AA and others affectedtotally outfoxed and overpowered the entire US military and intelligence apparatus?The militarys story changed several times9/11 to 9/14/01 no jets scrambled until after buildings hit9/18/01 jets scrambled but too far awayJuly 2004 jets scrambled late due to FAA failures, but w

23、ent in wrong direction and at fraction of speedas well as the security systems of several airports?Directors of the company Stratesec, responsible for security at UA, Dulles airport and the WTC, included Wirt Walker (CEO) and Marvin BushThere were no Arabs on the flight manifests that were released.

24、 Airlines have since refused to release passenger lists.then performing expert aerial maneuvers, flew several hijacked planes into buildings?Hitting a specific building at 500 mph is not easyBut “Aviation sources”, as reported by the Washington Post, said the plane that hit the Pentagon “was flown w

25、ith extraordinary skill”The 911CR said Hani Hanjour, flying the Pentagon plane, was a “terrible pilot” but was also “the operations most experienced pilot”Hanjours pilot application was rejected several times, and instructors refused to go up with him again No 757 wreckage at the Pentagon?No 757 wre

26、ckage in photos, inside or outside of the buildingEngine may have been from a missileDonald Rumsfeld said that a missile damaged the buildingDamage to building is questionableFBI refuses to release the videos they confiscated from area camerasand crashed one in Pennsylvania?Did it crash or was it sh

27、ot down?Aircraft debris spread over 8 mile distanceUSA Today, Washington Post, ABC News and CBS News all reported that shoot down order was given approximately 20 minutes before crash Major Daniel Nash, one of the F15 pilots sent to NYC, said he was told a military F16 had shot down an airliner in P

28、ennsylvaniaReports from people on the ground suggested the plane was brought down by a military missileThe OCT per the 911CRThese terrorists were acting on behalf of Osama Bin Laden (OBL)?Video confession appears to be a fakeOBL was known to be a CIA asset during the Russian/Afghanistan warIn July o

29、f 2001, OBL was treated in an American hospital in Dubai (UAE) and visited there by a CIA operativeand no other foreign or domestic agencies?Foreign agents celebrating near WTCEvidence of Saudi fundingEvidence of involvement by Pakistans ISIPNAC (Cheney, Lehman, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc.) called for

30、 a “New Pearl Harbor” in 2000US had plans to invade both Afghanistan (reported by BBC) and Iraq (per Paul ONeill) before 9/11The OCT per the 911CRThey were able to accomplish this because of “deep institutional failings” within the US government?No one was held accountableMany were promotedWe had no

31、 clue, yet full story was available within days (all hijackers identified in detail by 9/14)Recommendations were not implementedThe Official Conspiracy Theory, as presented by the 9/11 Commission report, isfalse because the report does not, by a long shot, provide the fullest possible account of the

32、 events surrounding 9/11false because it omits or distorts many of the most important facts, apparently in an attempt to support pre-determined conclusionsfalse because the recommendations have not been taken seriouslyInterested in why this story is false?Ask Lee Hamilton, Vice Chairman of the 9/11

33、CommissionIn this room on March 27thAsk your government representatives or your local mediaVisit and sign petitionNow which one weighs more?Afghanistan War and Iraq War20,000 Americans killed or wounded30,000 civilians killed, how many wounded?TortureSkyrocketing national debtLoss of rights and Cons

34、titution threatenedLost opportunity to pursue real problemsThe NIST WTC ReportThe OCT part II Collapse of the WTC buildingsThree “investigations”ASCE - led by Gene CorleyNo access to samples or blueprintsNot allowed to solicit help from publicFEMA - report released May 2002Some good information, but

35、 no answers (e.g. 4,000 gallons of jet fuel gone in 5 minutes)NIST - report released September 20058 media/public meetings info trickled out10,000 pages, 42 companion reports$20 million WTC7 not includedImportant preliminary considerationsNo tall steel-frame buildings have ever collapsed from fire,

36、but on 9/11, were told there were threeSteel evidence destroyed despite outraged cries from public and fire expertsLike the 911CR, a full investigation was not considered until 9/11 families demanded itApparent conflicts of interest on NIST TeamCharles Thornton Tomasettis partnerSOM Larry Silverstei

37、n insisted they design the new WTC7 building and Freedom TowerMost, if not all, contractors involved depended on good government relationsImportant preliminary considerationsJanuary 2002Bill Manning, editor of Fire Engineering magazine, said the “official investigationis a half-baked farce that may

38、already have been commandeered by political forces whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure.”Dick Cheney called Senate leader Tom Daschle and asked him to “l(fā)imit the scope and overall review of what happened on 9/11”, claiming resources would be pulled from the Wa

39、r on Terrorism. President Bush met with Daschle privately and asked him to limit the investigation. The NISTs WTC teamStarted with pre-determined conclusionsShankar Nair - Already there is near-consensus as to the sequence of events that led to the collapse of the World Trade Center.”- Chicago Tribu

40、ne September 19, 2001Charles Thornton - Karl, we all knowwhat caused the collapse. - talking to Karl Koch shortly after the attacks.And worked toward “l(fā)eading hypotheses”Progression of theories supporting fire-based failureTowering InfernoNuclear meltdown temperatures, everything meltedColumn failur

41、eColumns buckled outwardPancake TheoryFloors collapsed like records on a spindleNISTs new theorySagging floors pulled exterior columns inward (column failure)Early theories Towering InfernoMelting steel ?Henry Koffman, USC ”The bottom line, in my opinion, is that the intense heat from the jet fuel f

42、ires melted the steel infrastructure.”Hyman Brown of Colorado - ”Steel melts, and 24,000 gallons of aviation fluid melted the steel. Nothing is designed or will be designed to withstand that fire. James Glanz of NY Times the steel turned to “l(fā)icorice”Chris Wise, “structural engineer”, as reported by

43、 BBC “the columns would have melted, the floors would have melted.”Early theories Towering InfernoExaggeration of fires, temperatures and column damageEduardo Kausel, in 2001 Scientific American article “No building has or will resist this kind of fire.”2002 A&E / History Channel video “Anatomy of S

44、eptember 11th” reported temperatures of 2500 F2002 NOVA video “How the Towers Fell” said two-thirds of WTC1 columns severed, and temperatures at 2000 FUS News and World Report “weakened by the nearly 2000 degree heat, the remaining columns buckle.”But later, NIST tests indicated much lower steel tem

45、peratures (500 F)Wheres the fire?Windsor building, Madrid, February 2005 Twin towers shortly after WTC2 hitWho would design a building for plane crashes but forget the jet fuel fires?Eduardo Kausel of MIT The WTC buildings were designed to withstand Boeing 707 impacts but were “never designed for th

46、e massive explosions nor the intense jet fuel fires that came next a key design omission.”Loring Knoblauch, CEO of UL agreed, writing to me the jet fuel fires were not “reasonably foreseeable.”But would real structural engineers do this?Not this guy.John Skilling, the engineer responsible for design

47、ing the WTC towers, had this to say in 1993 when asked if he considered plane crashes in his design.“Our analysis indicated the biggest problem would be the fact that all the fuel would dump into the building. But the building structure would still be there.”Early theories Pancake TheoryKarl Koch -

48、“I could see it in my minds eye: The fire burned until the steel was weakened and the floors above collapsed, starting a chain reaction of gravity, floor falling upon floor upon floor, clunk clunk clunk, the load gaining weight and momentum by the nanosecond, unstoppable. Once enough floors collapse

49、d, the exterior walls and the core columns were no longer laterally supported and folded in.” FEMA report “a pancake-type of collapse of successive floors”Pancake theory collapsedAugust 2004 floor model tests by Underwriters Laboratories No floor collapse = no pancaking“The results established that

50、this type of assembly was capable of sustaining a large gravity load, without collapsing, for a substantial period of time relative to the duration of the fires in any given location on September 11th.” NIST reportOriginal design claims“The World Trade Center towers would have an inherent capacity t

51、o resist unforeseen calamities.” For the perimeter columns (83% of total columns), “l(fā)ive loads on these columns can be increased more than 2,000% before failure occurs.”O(jiān)ne “could cut away all the first story columns on one side of the building, and partway from the corners of the perpendicular side

52、s, and the building could still withstand design live loads and a 100 mph wind from any direction.”All quotes from Engineering News-Record, 1964 NISTs explanation of Why and How the WTC towers collapsed1. The aircraft severed “a number of columns”2. Loads were redistributed (from -20% to +25%)3. Ins

53、ulation (fireproofing) was damaged4. Some floors began to sag5. Sagging floors pulled exterior columns inward causing them to buckle6. Instability spread around entire building7. “Global collapse ensued”1. How many columns were severed?NIST now admits only a small percentage of columns were severed1

54、4% in WTC115% in WTC2But since one “could cut away all the first story columns on one side of the building, and partway from the corners of the perpendicular sides, and the building could still withstand design live loads and a 100 mph wind from any direction”, we know the buildings could withstand

55、25% column loss without a problem.2. How much load was re-distributed?NIST says loads on some columns were decreased (as much as 20%) and on others loads were increased (up to 25%).But again, since the original design claims were that, “l(fā)ive loads on these perimeter columns can be increased more tha

56、n 2,000% before failure occurs”, these columns should have supported the extra load and much, much more.3. Insulation (fireproofing) damaged?NIST reports “The towers would not have collapsed under the combined effects of aircraft impact and the subsequent multi-floor fires if the insulation had not

57、been widely dislodged or had been only minimally dislodged by aircraft impact.”NIST then goes on to say “dislodgement of thermal insulation from structural members could have occurred.”3. Was the insulation (fireproofing) “widely dislodged”?How?NIST devotes one sentence to the testing that was done

58、to prove insulation loss, saying “an array of 0.3 inch diameter pellets moving at 350 mph” was able to strip insulation from some truss bars.Forget the floors, what about the columns?3. Was the insulation (fireproofing) “widely dislodged”?Exactly how did a Boeing 767 transform into an array of 0.3 i

59、nch pellets that could widely dislodge so much fireproofing from so many steel columns?NIST estimates accelerations required to dislodge insulation would be 20 to 730 g, and that the aircraft impacted at about 100 g. What were the forces involved, and how did these change as the debris scattered? Ho

60、w about angles of impact?4. Some floors began to sag?Only very slight sagging is visible in NIST photos from UL tests (and no collapse)How does sagging so dramatically change the force applied to columns at floor connections?NIST says shear force was 14,000 psi in some places, but the heat-treated p