The fall of the twin towers on September 11th. Who really blew up the twin towers in New York? The consequences of the attack and the number of victims

It's been 17 years since that day, with Nine-Eleven, when three skyscrapers collapsed in New York. 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, one in Washington and another in Newark) were hijacked by some unknown persons, after which the first two planes crashed into the New York skyscrapers WTC-1 and WTC-2, the third hit the wall of the Pentagon, 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.

Only a few days passed after the "acts of terrorism" as the first official version of everything that happened and the performers were named. Osama bin Laden, who led this action from Afghanistan, and, of course, his offspring al-Qaeda, were immediately blamed. Also, the names of all 19 hijackers were immediately named, who abandoned their cars near the airports, in which they found the Koran and instructions on Arabic“How to fly an airplane”, and miraculously preserved passports of “terrorists” were found in the wreckage of aircraft. It followed from this that it was urgent to start bombing Afghanistan and invading 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 former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean. The commission included former employees of the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Justice and other government agencies. Philip Zelikow, a member of the administration of President Bush Jr., who also worked under Bush Sr., led all the actions and the course of the investigation.

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, flight attendant Betty Ong (Betty Ong) talked for 23 minutes, and flight attendant Madeline Sweeney (Madeline Sweeney) - 25 minutes. Sweeney's last words were: "I see water! I see buildings! .

And now the fact that the authors of the official report "forgot" about. In 2001, cell phone calls from an aircraft flying at over 700 km/h were not possible.

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 an aircraft on which a special mobile base station is installed. 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 Keane 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 the speed of sound.

Of course, the Boeing 767 was not supersonic. V 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 aircraft will simply begin to collapse, 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. In the early 1970s, Leslie Robertson, who built the buildings, calculated the effect of a Boeing 707 colliding with the WTC tower. He reported the results to the New York Times, arguing that the towers would withstand the impact of an airliner flying at a speed of 960 km / h, that is, having taken the impact of the liner, the skyscraper would 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, one of the leaders of the WTC project, confirms this idea: the building is designed to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707 with maximum takeoff weight. It was the largest aircraft of that time. I am sure that the building would have withstood even a few blows from aircraft, since 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 is the first and only 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 R. Hall Jr. of the National Fire Protection Association of the United States published the analytical paper "Fires in Tall 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 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, but did not affect the office premises and was 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. This 47-story skyscraper, also called Salomon Brothers, housed the offices of the FBI, the Department of Defense, the 1RS tax service (according to the Online Journal, with a huge amount of compromising evidence, including the infamous Enron), counterintelligence United States, the stock exchange (with evidence of stock fraud), and 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 that this building 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 WTC, then building No. 7 is the most remote from the "epicenter", separated from the main complex by another 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 channel Jane Standley (Jane Standley), in her live report from New York, talked about the collapse of the WTC-7, being at the same time against its background. A rare photograph just depicts 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 they simply did not have time to bring information to London 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, head of news Richard Porter put it this way: “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 don't have the original recording of the 9/11 reports - 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 was suddenly 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 BBC news agency unexpectedly reported that Walid al-Shehri, a Saudi citizen and named hijacker of Flight AA11, is now alive, well and doing well in Casablanca, Morocco. The Saudi Embassy confirmed that he attended 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 Gaafar Allaghani, the head of the information center of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in the United States, confirmed that he personally spoke to both father and son. So minus two.

Abdulaziz al-Omari (AA11) 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 the city of Yanbu, Saudi Arabia: "I've never been to the US and haven't left Saudi Arabia for the last 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.

According to the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in the United States, Mohand al-Shehri (UA175) and Satam al-Sukami (AA11) are also alive and well. In total, minus nine.

And only on September 23, 2001, the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, stated: "There are doubts about the identities of some of the hijackers. There is no legal evidence confirming the identities of the hijackers."
But for all the obvious falsification of the names of "terrorists", the official report of the "Keene commission" contains all the same 19 original names.

Fake Bin Laden

And since now there is no evidence of the involvement of the "hijackers" in the attacks, it means that Al-Qaeda seems to have nothing to do with it, and there is no need to bomb Afghanistan.

But within a few days of the fall of the skyscrapers, a video of Osama bin Laden's confession dated December 14, 2001 "suddenly" appears at the disposal of the United States. She was allegedly found in a house in Jalalabad. And it is this record that forms the basis of the final conclusion of the official commission - the 9/11 attacks were carried out by Osama bin Laden and, of course, Al-Qaeda.

But what immediately attracts attention is that this video is of very low quality. And the man himself, who, according to the FBI, is bin Laden, does not look like him at all, and this is clearly visible even despite the poor quality. It is more dense, it has a different shape of the nose, lips, eyebrows and cheekbones. The FBI dossier says bin Laden is left-handed, and the video shows him recording something. right hand. In addition, on his finger it is distinguishable Golden ring, and Islam, as you know, forbids a man to wear gold jewelry, and there is not a word about this in the dossier on bin Laden.

Two Bin Ladens

The photo shows two bin Ladens: on the left is an impersonator from the Jalalabad video, on the right is the real one. Even with the naked eye, it can be seen that the frame from the video and the photo are two completely different people, and the only similarities between them are a beard and a turban. And again, the fantastic arrogance of the American intelligence services, which did not even bother with such a "trifle" as the use of someone even slightly like the real bin Laden, is striking.

In the end, realizing that bin Laden was also a blunder, the head of the FBI investigation department, Rex Tomb, admitted: “The September 11 attacks do not appear in the Osama bin Laden dossier, since there is no evidence of his involvement in the events of September 11.” .

On March 29, 2006, Vice President Richard Cheney also split: “We have never claimed that Osama bin Laden had anything to do with the events of 9/11. We never had conclusive evidence."

However, in the official report of the Keene Commission, Osama bin Laden remained the main character, and the main material evidence is the already refuted video fake.

How evidence was destroyed

The steel left after the destruction of the frames of the WTC towers was hastily sent for processing, not even allowing investigators to access it. More than 185 thousand tons of steel were eliminated from the "epicenter". Firefighters reported to the US Congress that about 80% (!) of the steel fragments were removed, and the investigators could not even demand that the remains be kept for analysis. In particular, the Chinese corporation Shanghai Baosteel Group purchased fifty thousand tons of steel from the collapse of the World Trade Center in the form of scrap at a price of $120 per ton. Thousands of tons of steel were sent for processing to India.

Such actions caused a wave of indignation among independent researchers and the families of the victims, but the newly minted mayor of New York, Mike Bloomberg, who replaced Rudolph Giuliani from this post in late 2001, replied that there were other ways to investigate the tragedy. 11 September. He also remarked that "simply looking at a piece of metal won't tell you anything."

Despite the protests of everyone who wanted to look at these "pieces of metal", the export of scrap was in full swing. The official reason for such a rush was that it was "completely useless rubbish that only gets in the way." Apparently, this "garbage" was so "useless" that its removal was carried out under the strictest control, and the trucks that took out the steel fragments from the "epicenter" area were equipped with expensive tracking devices so that, God forbid, this completely useless garbage did not turn out to be anywhere but smelting furnaces. The steel was removed from the “crime scene” at such a high speed that even a specially created government commission BPAT (Building Performance Assessment Team - Commission for Evaluating the Structural Characteristics of a Building), having only had the opportunity to look at the remains, had no right to either study these very remains or familiarize themselves with building plans. Which, in fact, calls into question the very meaning of the creation of this commission.

Fire Engineering Magazine Editor-in-Chief Bill Manning, on behalf of the firefighters, expressed dissatisfaction with the actions of government organizations to destroy evidence and completely exclude independent researchers from studying them: “We have reason to believe that “official investigations” ... are not nothing more than a blatant farce imposed on us by political forces whose main interests, to put it mildly, are very far from revealing the truth ... The destruction of evidence must stop immediately.”

Manning also emphasized that the destruction of this steel is illegal: "according to the national fire investigation standard, all evidence of any fires in buildings over 10 stories must be preserved, and there are no exceptions to this rule."

And on September 26, 2001, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani banned all video and photography in the "epicenter" area. One photographer, who chose not to be named, had his digital camera images erased by police and threatened with arrest if he showed up again, but he was able to recover the erased images using PhotoRescue software.

As a result, everything that could shed light on the “9/11 terrorist attack” was very quickly destroyed and not a single expert could get acquainted with the “material evidence”.

Consequences of the attacks

Less than two weeks after September 11, a very interesting piece of legislation (the so-called Patriot Act) was presented to Congress for approval, and in just a month it became law. And in early October 2001, the American invasion of Afghanistan began. This is an unprecedented pace of decision-making, preparation for their implementation and actual implementation. But the essence of these very measures raises a large number of questions.

Consideration of the so-called anti-terrorism bill, called the Patriot Act, began on September 24, 2001. This draft law turned out to be very remarkable both in terms of content and methods of its implementation.

First, it came to Congress for consideration by bypassing the channels prescribed by law, that is, without its preliminary discussion under the authority of the Office of Administration and Budget.

Secondly, then Attorney General John Ashcroft demanded that Congress pass it within one week and no change. Despite such strict and specific instructions, the controversial document still caused some discussion - to the obvious displeasure of the minister. Realizing that it would not be so easy to “push through” the bill, Ashcroft, at a joint meeting with the heads of the Senate and the House of Representatives, warned that new terrorist attacks were surely coming, and Congress would be to blame if the law was not passed immediately. It was clear blackmail, and the very statement seemed absurd, but the Congress was not ready to withstand such pressure from the minister.

Just in case, in order to finally “push” the passage of this act, two especially stubborn congressmen - Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, who actively opposed, received envelopes with anthrax spores in the mail ...

Republican Congressman Ron Paul told the Washington Times in an interview that not a single congressman was even allowed to read the act. However, on October 12, it was approved by both houses of Congress, and on October 26, 2001, President Bush put his signature on the document, thereby giving the Patriot Act the status of law.

What is the meaning of the Patriot Act? Firstly, this act gives the right to federal employees to search homes, workplaces, computers and private property of citizens either without notifying them at all, or with post factum notification when the search has already been carried out.

Secondly, the CIA received an unlimited opportunity, without a court order, to establish surveillance of its citizens, if this is done "for intelligence purposes." This includes wiretapping and tracking the user's Internet activity. Incidentally, up to this point, the CIA's mission had been to carry out intelligence activities exclusively with respect to foreign "elements."

Thirdly, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have the right to request medical, financial and academic records and government archives for any person, only by presenting a warrant, which the court is required to issue if it is required for an investigation in order to protect against "international terrorism". At the same time, sufficient grounds for a search are not even required, and the organization to which the warrant is presented does not have the right to tell anyone that the FBI has requested this data. Including the one whose data was requested!

Fourthly, freedom of speech is de facto limited, because any careless phrase can now be regarded as a terrorist plot. According to this act, domestic terrorism includes "actions that are exchanged as attempts, through threats or violence, to influence the political course of the state." As you can see, the concept of "domestic terrorism" is defined so vaguely that almost any political or other activist group (Greenpeace, for example) can fall under this definition. And anyone who disagrees with the actions of the government is also not immune from this. In addition to these acts, there were several more directives of a similar nature.

P.S. And this is only a small part of the “evidence” found in the “most credible” official investigation into the 9/11 tragedy. But even this, in my opinion, is quite enough to understand by what methods the United States is moving towards its goals, having destroyed more than three thousand Americans. In continuation of the investigation, I will talk about the mysterious plane that crashed into the Pentagon and mysteriously disappeared, and about the other, no less mysterious planes of that terrible day - September 11, 2001.

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. And 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 body of the liner, made of aircraft-grade aluminum resistant to high temperatures.

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 says that the passengers, having contacted their relatives by mobile phones, 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 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

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Since 2002, September 11 has been celebrated in the American calendars as Patriot Day. Since 2009, this date has also been named a nationwide Day of Service and Remembrance.

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In 2011, the World Trade Center Memorial appeared on the site of the destroyed buildings in New York: it is presented in the form of two square fountain pools located right at the bases of the former twin towers. The names of the victims of the terrorist attacks are carved on bronze slabs at the base of the structures' parapets.

On the eve of the 15th anniversary of the attacks, the Washington sociological center conducted a survey that found that over 90% of respondents clearly remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news about the attack on the World Trade Center.

In addition, almost half of Americans do not feel safe and believe that the ability of terrorists to carry out a new major attack on US soil only increases every year.

Tenet also tried to convince the public that thanks to his actions, "major attacks planned by al-Qaeda" (banned on the territory of the Russian Federation) in 1999 and 2000 were prevented. However, he could not provide any details on special operations.

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The CIA also cites Tenet's own overly harsh reaction to the release of this report, which he called "nonsense" and "a mistake."

“Your analysis unfairly and inaccurately depicts my actions, as well as the heroic work of the men and women of the intelligence establishment. It is simply unfair to judge my work without having a full understanding of all the facts. I did everything I could to report, warn and take measures to prevent terrorist attacks, ”the former CIA director said in 2005.

In particular, the document states that Tenet recognized the need for a "comprehensive and interagency plan" to combat al-Qaeda (banned on the territory of the Russian Federation). However, he did nothing for this. “He bears full responsibility for the fact that such a strategic plan was never created, despite his clear position,” the document says.

The CIA oversight service also prepared a report on the 2001 tragedy - it contained criticism of the Director of Central Intelligence and the head of the CIA, George Tenet, who held this post from 1997 to 2004.

"Gazeta.Ru" publishes the last words of the passengers who found themselves in four passenger planes, which were destined to serve as a tool in the hands of Arab terrorists. You can listen to the words that convey the full depth of fear and despair in the face of an impending tragedy.

“This date completely changed life in the United States and its largest metropolis, dispelled American ideas about the safe world in which they live,” said Joe Daniels, director of the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum.

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All these manifestations of "arrogance of power" caused rejection and protests both in America itself and beyond its borders. According to international polls, anti-American sentiments were growing in the world.

Domestic and foreign policy propaganda in the United States also intensified. America showed particular disregard for the norms of international law by creating a concentration camp at its military base in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba - a kind of legal vacuum - for the detention and processing of people captured during anti-terrorist operations in Afghanistan and other places.

The prisoners of this "zone" are not, in fact, US prisoners of war and do not have any official legal status. In this regard, the authorities came to the possibility of keeping them behind bars almost indefinitely.

The atmosphere in the country gradually heated up - the States were more like a besieged fortress. Whistleblowing was encouraged, but at the same time leaks of official information and, in general, any deviation from the “patriotic consensus” were punished. It was possible to lose a job for one recognition of the courage of the terrorists.

After the events of September 11, 2001, the Republican administration of George W. Bush declared a "war on terror." In this regard, Congress adopted a whole package of "emergency" laws, which, among other things, significantly expanded the powers of the special services. Now they have the opportunity to conduct "interrogations with passion", bordering on torture, as well as to closely monitor not only foreigners, but also the citizens of the country. In addition, the United States increasingly closed the borders, tightened the immigration and visa regime.

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However, Saudi Arabia responded by filing a federal court in Manhattan with a demand to dismiss 25 lawsuits, as the plaintiffs have no evidence of Riyadh's involvement in the 9/11 attack.

Later, dozens of insurance companies also filed lawsuits against two banks in Saudi Arabia, as well as firms associated with the Osama bin Laden family. The total amount of the claim was more than $4 billion.

In September 2016, the US Congress passed a law that allowed the heirs of the victims of the September 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia, since most of the terrorists were citizens of this country. A month later, the first lawsuit was filed by an American woman who lost her husband during a terrorist attack. In the spring of 2017, a class action lawsuit was also filed by the remaining relatives of the victims.

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In particular, in May 2012, at the Guantanamo base, a trial began on the ideological inspirer and main organizer of the terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was detained in 2003 in Pakistan. He has not yet been sentenced.

In 2002 and 2003, police arrested six more people suspected of involvement in the attacks. After several years spent in CIA prisons, they were taken to a camp at an American base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Five of the suspects were only charged in May 2011. To date, hearings on the case of the 2001 attacks are ongoing.

Later, the identities of all suicide bombers were established - they turned out to be citizens of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon. At the same time, the men were legally in the United States. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden also released a video message in which he admitted that he directly led the actions of 19 terrorists.

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In November 2002, a special independent commission was set up in the United States to investigate the September 11 attacks. Two years later, experts published the final report on the investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy - in total it took 600 pages.

The exact figure of the damage caused by the September 11, 2001 attacks is still unknown. In September 2006 - five years after the tragedy - the head of the White House, George W. Bush, announced that at the lowest estimate it was $ 500 billion.

Those who lived through September 11, 2001 in the United States will never be able to erase the events of those days from their memory.

“The fact that the towers could collapse seemed unimaginable. If you are an American, grew up here, and even if you are a foreigner who watched films about the United States, then they were a symbol for you, something like the Taj Mahal or even something more. They seemed to last forever,” emphasizes Jonathan Wachtel.

The men spent almost 20 hours under the rubble - firefighters got to McLaughlin only on the morning of September 12. In the hospital, the doctors practically signed their own impotence - the injuries of the injured sergeant were too serious. John was later put in a coma for 6 weeks and underwent about 30 surgeries, including skin grafts on his legs. After several years of therapy, he was still able to return to normal life.

John McLaughlin was the last person to be pulled from the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center.

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Sergeant John McLaughlin was at the scene of the tragedy of his own free will - having learned about what had happened, he went to help. They were on the basement floor connecting the buildings of the World Trade Center complex when the South Tower collapsed. The police were under the rubble.

“At first I thought I was dead. I didn't feel anything: I didn't see, I didn't smell, I didn't hear. There was a ringing silence around, ”recalls John McLaughlin.

The mortal danger also threatened the rescuers - many of them risked their lives to bring people out.

“Looking over my left shoulder, I managed to see a huge cloud of dust and a piece of falling concrete. The wreckage flew right in my direction, from the side it looked like a block of ice falling from a glacier is falling on you. I froze, anticipating the end, and then I saw a fire truck. I decided to hide under it, not having the slightest confidence that it would save me. I just wanted to escape the wreckage and acted unconsciously,” says police sergeant Dennis Frederick. Later, he learned that many of his colleagues died when a building collapsed on another staircase.

The lucky ones were also among those who were in the Pentagon on the fateful day. One of them was John Yates, the security manager.

“The room was just black and everything I touched burned my hands. I crawled on all fours and realized that I was moving in the right direction when it became lighter. Once in the yard, I realized that I was badly burned, because I looked at my hands and saw how the skin was peeling off them. I remember sitting on the grass and the doctor cut off my clothes. At the time of the explosion, five people were standing next to me. Only I survived, ”recalls the man.

People in the South Tower were making their way up flights of stairs completely littered with chunks of concrete, exploding soda cans, and ruptured pipes.

“All you could hear was people coughing and moaning. One of the women suffered from asthma and had to stop to catch her breath. The lady with the cut arm walked with difficulty, her leg was bleeding. Each time she stepped on the floor, she left a bloody imprint. I tried to contain my panic, and my inner voice told me: “Calm down,” says an employee of Euro Brokers, located within the walls of the south tower. She and all her companions managed to get out into the street.

On the 40th floor, Michael and his colleagues, descending down, met firefighters. They advised to keep moving. Having overcome the level of the 20th floor, Wright got to the site of the South Tower, where he realized the gravity of what was happening: there were corpses everywhere, dozens of bodies.

The building began to collapse when Wright and his colleagues were at the escalator at one of the exits from the building. The air instantly turned black with clouds of dust. Michael was led outside by a firefighter who knew the way through the surviving bookstore building.

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“The thought of the unreality of what was happening helped to keep calm on the stairs, it seemed that the building could not collapse. As we climbed a few floors, we relaxed a bit. We understood that something bad had happened, but when the fire remained thirty floors above, it was no longer so disturbing, ”recalls Wright.

However, there were those who managed to survive. So, 30-year-old Michael Wright at the time of the attack was on the 81st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. According to the man, at a certain moment the building shuddered - he looked out of the toilet and saw a fire. There was also a huge crack on the floor of the corridor, the hall near the elevator was completely destroyed, there was smoke everywhere.

2977 people became victims of terrorist attacks: 246 passengers and crew members of aircraft, 2606 people in New York, in the WTC buildings and on the ground, 125 in the Pentagon building. Citizens of the United States and 91 other states were killed.

The rescue also killed 341 firefighters and 2 paramedics, 60 police officers and eight ambulance workers.

On the day of the tragedy, Alexander Bratersky was in New York, now he is a political observer for Gazeta.Ru. He witnessed what was happening in the city during those terrible hours. “On September 11, 2001, I was in the USA as part of the accompanying Tatu group, which received an MTV award on September 9,” ​​says Alexander Bratersky. - Early in the morning I was riding the subway when, together with other passengers, I saw a fire in one of the skyscrapers. We were dropped off the car - we learned from the police that the plane crashed into the tower. We immediately thought it was a terrorist act. I rushed to call on a street payphone to go on the air of Nashe Radio, where I then worked.

The Gazeta.Ru observer recalls that panic reigned around. “Many cried, the police shouted: “North!”, urging people to go to New Jersey in organized transport. Hearing that I speak Russian, a girl grabbed my hand - she was confused. It turned out that the girl came from Ukraine. She was crying, so I took her to a cafe where people sat in complete silence and watched the towers fall on TV.”

When asked about the number of victims, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani replies: "More than you can bear." At the same time, the mayor of Washington declares a state of emergency - the National Guard arrives in the city.

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American Airlines confirms the loss of two aircraft. Within an hour, United Airlines also reports the loss of two of its aircraft.

Media reports about the cancellation of the election of the mayor of New York in connection with the tragic events.

According to CNN, mass evacuations have begun in Washington and New York. Minutes later, the mayor of New York also orders the evacuation of Lower Manhattan.

“I saw bloody people coming out of the towers. It was like a movie. Everything seemed somehow unreal. I distinctly remember the firefighters coming in with their gear, looking up and shaking their heads before they did. Probably, many of them died later, ”says an eyewitness to the events, Fox News producer Jonathan Wachtel.

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The north tower of the World Trade Center is completely destroyed - 1 hour and 41 minutes have passed since Flight 11 hit it. None of those on the upper floors survive. The Marriott Hotel, whose building was located between the two towers, was also completely destroyed. The destruction of the second tower, like the first, was shown live.

As President George W. Bush later noted, he took the third attack as a declaration of war. Immediately after that, he flew out of Florida.

“It cleared up in my head: what happened with the first plane could still be an accident, with the second - definitely an attack, but with the third - already a declaration of war,” the president wrote in his memoirs.

A wing of the Pentagon building collapses.

United Airlines Flight 93 crashes 129km southeast of Pittsburgh in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Presumably, his target was the Capitol building or The White house. However, the passengers of the liner intervened in the matter - having received reports of two other hijacked aircraft, they forcibly tried to regain control over the board. Realizing that they could not withstand the pressure of people, the terrorists sent the liner into the ground.

The South Tower of the World Trade Center is completely destroyed. It's been 55 minutes since Flight 175 hit it. Lower Manhattan is completely covered by huge clouds of dust.

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A riot of passengers begins on flight 93. According to the crew of a passing aircraft, the liner “shakes its wings” - at this time, a struggle takes place in the cockpit between passengers and hijackers.

The FAA command center requests the headquarters of the aviation administration demanding military intervention in the situation with Flight 93. However, the US Federal Aviation Administration does not make a decision until the plane crashes.

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After the news that Flight 77 was deployed towards Washington, the Secret Service decides to evacuate the Vice President from the White House.

Fred Eichler, unconscious after the explosion, opens his eyes from the light of a flashlight. A firefighter climbed onto the floor - he managed to save the people found, but he himself later died. When Fred got out into the street, he called his wife and heard her voice: "Run, run, run!". He ran - a few minutes later the North Tower collapsed.

The hijackers begin storming the cockpit of Flight 93 and seize control of the aircraft. Controllers in Cleveland receive a radio transmission from the ship: “Sit in your seats. We have a bomb."

Flight 93 receives a text alert from a United Airlines controller: "Beware of cockpit intrusion - two planes crashed into the World Trade Center."

The Federal Aviation Administration is banning all aircraft destined for or passing through New York, Boston, and Washington airspace. The ban applies to the entire country.

US President George W. Bush was attacked in Florida. He is in one of the schools in the city of Sarasota for a reading lesson. The head of state reads "Baby Goat" to the children, but the lesson is interrupted.

When the President was already sitting in the classroom, Chief of Staff Andy Card approached him and whispered in his ear that another plane had crashed into the second building. “America is under attack,” Chief of Staff Andy Card says in the president’s ear.

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At about 959 km/h, Flight 175 crashes into south side south tower of the World Trade Center between floors 78 and 85. Parts of the aircraft pierce through the building and fly out of the east and north sides, some of them fell to the ground six blocks from the building. Interruptions begin in the work of television stations, as studios, transmitters and antenna equipment were located on the south tower.

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Flight 175 takes a direction to New York. From the board, one of the passengers, Peter Henson, was able to get through to his father:

"It's bad, father. The flight attendants are injured. They (the hijackers) seem to have knives and gas. They say they have a bomb. The situation on the plane is very bad. Passengers are in a panic, some feel bad. The plane makes sudden movements. I don't think it's the pilot who is flying the plane. I think we are going down. I think we're heading to Chicago or somewhere and we're going to hit a building." The call is interrupted by a woman's scream.

Terrorists hijack Flight 77. The plane's transponder turns off, it is out of radar view. Invisible to the controllers, the liner turns east. After that, Flight 77 continues to fly in the direction of Washington for another 36 minutes without being displayed anywhere.

The flight attendant of Flight 175 contacts the United Airlines office in San Francisco. According to him, the plane was hijacked, both pilots were killed, and the flight attendant was injured. In addition, the thieves took control of the aircraft.

At least 100 people (in some sources there is a figure of 250 people), caught in a terrorist attack on the upper floors, jump out of the windows. A significant part of the floor on one of the floors of the north tower has collapsed - this made people think that the building might collapse.

One man, firefighter Daniel Sur, who was standing on the ground, dies when a man who jumped out of a window falls right on top of him.

At approximately 790 km/h, Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center between the 93rd and 99th floors. The plane almost completely goes inside the building, breaks through the building to the middle and cuts all three stairwells, covering them with debris. 80 tons of aviation kerosene, mixed with the remains of the aircraft and the wreckage of the building, create a huge fire.

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Insurance agent Fred Eichler, 54, arrived at his office on the 83rd floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center and at that time went to the restroom, where he met colleagues and stopped to chat. As they talk, they see a plane flying straight at them. Literally a few minutes later, the men were sharply thrown back by an explosive wave for several tens of meters.

Flight attendant Amy Sweeney, who was on board Flight 11, called the American Airlines office in Boston.

"Something is wrong. We're going down fast. I see water. I see buildings. We are flying very, very low. We're flying too low." After a few seconds, she slowly says, "Oh God." The call is interrupted by loud steady noise.

Flight 175 is hijacked. The flight attendant contacts the United Airlines office in San Francisco: he reports that both pilots were killed, the flight attendant was injured, and it is likely that the abductors are flying the plane.

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From international airport Newark takes off Boeing 757, owned by United Airlines. The 37 passengers aboard Flight 93 are bound for San Francisco after a 40-minute delay. There are four hijackers on board.

The Boston center contacts the US National Guard Otis Air Force Base and reports the hijacking of Flight 11. A few minutes later, the controller also receives a message from the pilot of Flight 175, which had previously taken off from Logan: the crew saw the hijacked flight 16 km from their side.

“... we heard a strange transmission at the moment when we took off from Boston. It was heard how someone pressed the microphone button and said - "everyone remains in their places," the pilots report.

Flight 11 transponder turns off, but the aircraft remains on the surveillance radar screens as a mark without additional information. After that, it makes a 100-degree turn to the south and heads straight for New York.

Suddenly, a radio transmission breaks through to the dispatchers: “We have several planes. Be quiet and everything will be fine. We're going back to the airport." These words are addressed to people in the cabin - the terrorist simply mixed up the buttons.

Another American Airlines Boeing 757 takes off from Washington Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles. Flight 77 has 58 passengers and six crew members. And again, five hijackers on board.

Flight 11 flight attendant Betty Ong dials into the American Airlines office.

“The cockpit is not responding, someone was injured in business class, I think they used tear gas, we can’t breathe, I don’t know, it looks like we were captured,” the girl says, adding that two were injured flight attendants.

United Airlines Flight 175, another fully fueled Boeing 767, is also leaving Logan Airport for Los Angeles. There are 56 passengers and nine crew members on board. And five hijackers.

Flight 11 contacts the control center for the last time air traffic in Boston. Within a few minutes, the flight ceases to follow the instructions of the dispatcher and does not gain the required height of 10.7 thousand meters.

American Airlines Flight 11 (Boeing 767) has a 14-minute delay. All five hijackers are on board among other passengers.

Five terrorists are boarding the plane - their faces do not yet cause any negative emotions in the rest of the passengers. Mohammed Atta, along with Abdulaziz al-Omari, are the first of the five to enter the plane.

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American Airlines Flight 11 prepares for departure at Boston Logan Airport. According to the schedule, he should fly to Los Angeles. There are 86 passengers on board.

On September 4, 2001, the national security advisers of the George W. Bush administration approved the draft version of the plan to combat al-Qaeda (banned on the territory of the Russian Federation). The plan was to be submitted on 10 September. But the President of the United States was away - and did not see him.

In the Memorandum, the US President was reminded that since 1997, Osama bin Laden has been openly talking about his intention to hit the United States. What's more, in 1997 and 1998, he spoke on television that his supporters were ready to follow the example of Ramzi Yousef, who in 1993 left a truck filled with explosives in the underground garage of one of the towers of the World Trade Center. Then six people died and about a thousand were injured.

September 11, 2001 was a special day in the history of the United States: until that moment, the country had not been subjected to a massive attack on its continental territory. However, two dozen terrorists were enough to carry out the largest act of terrorism in history, causing significant damage to downtown New York and ruining the lives of three thousand people. The content of that tragic day was five events, in which three buildings and four aircraft were involved.

Event 1

The main event is the death of the two twin towers of the World Trade Center (each 110 floors high), which occurred sequentially at 9 hours 59 minutes local time (south tower) and at 10 hours 28 minutes (north tower). The collapse of the Twin Towers was the result of a battering ram by two captured suicide bombers. passenger aircraft. The collisions led to a strong fire and damage to the supporting structures of the towers, which together led to a chain reaction - the upper floors (those that were above the collision site) collapsed on the lower ones, they could not withstand the load and the buildings collapsed entirely. There is a popular alternative theory according to which the collapse of the towers only as a result of a collision with aircraft was impossible, and there was a pre-planned undermining of buildings from the inside.

Event 2

American Airlines Flight 11 is the first plane hijacked by terrorists on the morning of 9/11. The plane was heading from Boston to Los Angeles and was hijacked at 8:14 am. By the way, it later turned out that the terrorists' luggage was additionally checked during landing, but no suspicious items were found. After the hijacking, the terrorists announced to the passengers that the plane had been hijacked and was returning to the airport to make some demands. U.S. authorities received word of the hijacking, but the radar transponder was disabled on board, so it was not known exactly where Flight 11 was heading. 8 hours 46 minutes crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Until the second attack, this incident was considered an aviation accident.

Event 3

United Airlines Flight 175 was also en route from Boston to Los Angeles and was hijacked between 8:42 a.m. and 8:46 a.m. The terrorists killed the commander and co-pilot and abruptly changed course. This was noticed by controllers who tried to contact the aircraft, but no one answered them. On the way to the World Trade Center, the plane almost collided twice in the air with other planes - this was only avoided thanks to a preliminary warning from the air traffic control service about the “out of control aircraft”. In order to hit the south tower, the terrorists made a sharp turn at the very last moment. The collision itself took place at 9:30 am and was practically shown live to the whole world (the first such precedent in history) - a television broadcast began in connection with the incident with the north tower. There were 65 people on board the plane, including the terrorists.

Event 4

American Airlines Flight 77 was en route from Washington to Los Angeles and was hijacked by five terrorists about half an hour after takeoff. At 9:37 a.m., he purposefully crashed into the Pentagon building, located in Arlington, a suburb of Washington. A total of 189 people died - 64 people on board the aircraft, 125 of those who were in the US War Department building. There is a version according to which the Pentagon was a backup target for terrorists and was chosen for attack only after the terrorist who was flying the plane could not find the visual coordinates of the main target - the White House.

Event 5

United Airlines Flight 93 was the last of the planes hijacked by the terrorists. The terrorists established control over it at 9:28 am and turned the plane from its previous course to San Francisco in reverse side, on Washington. However, the passengers of the plane managed to contact their relatives by phone, who informed them about the fate of other hijacked planes (by that time, collisions with the twin towers and the Pentagon had already occurred). In this situation, the hostages tried to regain control of the plane, which, according to investigators, was supposed to hit either the Capitol or the White House. As a result of the struggle between the terrorists and the hostages, Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania with 37 passengers (including four terrorists) and crew members on board.

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 several 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 “terrorist” passports 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 Keane). The commission included former employees of the CIA, the FBI, the 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. Sweeney's last words 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 Keane 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. The technical characteristics of the Boeing 767-200 say that its maximum cruising speed at an altitude of 12 km is 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 New York Times, arguing that the towers would withstand the impact of an airliner flying at a speed of 960 km / h, that is, having taken the impact of the liner, the skyscraper would 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 WTC, 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 am sure that the building would have withstood even a few hits from planes, since 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 effects 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, but did not affect the office premises and was 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 1RS tax office (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 they simply did not have time to bring information to London 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 this way: “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. The Saudi Embassy confirmed that he attended 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 Gaafar Allaghani, the head of the information center of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in the United States, 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.