9/11 Misdirection (Part One)

"Sleight of Hand": Tricks or feats performed by jugglers or magicians so quickly that their manner of execution cannot be observed. -The American Heritage Dictionary

So many events happened simultaneously on September 11, 2001, that most everyone was overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the day and wanted deperately to believe what we were told by the news and the government.

On the morning of 9/11, according to the official account, American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower of the WTC at 8:46 A.M. (EST). At 9:03 A.M., United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower. At 9:45 A.M., American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon.

At 10:05 A.M., after burning for just 1 hour and 2 minutes, the South Tower, which was hit second, collapsed in 15 seconds into it's own footprint in a cloud of powdered concrete. At 10:10 A.M., United Airlines Flight 93 crashes into woods in Pennsylvania. At 10:28 A.M., the North Tower collapses in 15 seconds straight down at nearly freefall speed.

In addition to this dizzying array of events, at 5:20 P.M. (EST), WTC7, the Soloman Brothers Building collapses mysteriously in 6.5 seconds into a neat pile after small fires are seen burning throughout the day. This makes the third steel framed building in history to collapse "due to fire" in history.

But too many things happened that it becomes unbelieveable that 19 terrorists simply snuck into the country, hijacked airliners and changed America forever. The lingering questions and lack of official response and investigation just leads to speculation and independent tests and investigations.

The official story would be much more easy to accept without the multitude of anomalies that occured, such as Norad standing down, steel skyscrapers imploding and turning into dust and WTC7 collapsing without being struck by a plane. Other buildings much closer to the Twin Towers suffered much heavier damage and did not collapse.

Add to that, the lack of bodies, physical evidence such as seats or engines at the Pentagon or in Pennsylvania missing entirely, and the Patriot Act, a massive document that mysteriously appeared immediately after the attacks and was signed into law without legislators even being allowed to read it.

Since that time, the United States has invaded two sovereign nations, displaced a legitimate (though terrible) leader, and established military bases and oil pipelines in regions that were previously inaccessable to U.S interests.

The monumental Twin Towers were not the flimsy structures that they have been made out to be since 9/11.

The towers were made of 47 massive rectangular core columns that extended from the bedrock foundation to the roof which in turn were encased in concrete cores and contained primarily the elevators and stairs.

Reports that came out after the attacks omitted the core columns or claimed as in the FEMA report, that the cores were "hollow steel shafts", blatantly disregarding photos, blueprints, worker testimony and documentary evidence from the construction that started in 1966 and was completed at the dedication on April 4, 1973.

These enormous reinforced steel columns and beams could not possible have failed due to a hydrocarbon fire due to jet fuel which burns at a maximum of 1796° F (according to Wikipedia). Steel melts at 2500° F and Iron melts at 2750° F.

The official reports stated that the towers burned with the heat of a nuclear power plant, but the smoke that emanated from both buildings was black, indicating an oxygen poor fire that was struggling. Also arguing against such heats are the numerous photos of people in the holes left by the planes waving flags to attract attention.

From Wikipedia:

"Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of aluminum powder and a metal oxide which produces an aluminothermic reaction know as a thermite reaction. It is not explosive, but can create short bursts of extremely high temperatures focused on a very small target for a short period of time."

"Thermate is a variation of thermite and is an incendiary pyrotechnic composition that can generate short bursts of exceedingly high temperatures focused on a smal area for a short period of time. Like thermite, thermate is used for precision cutting of metal or welding, as it allows extreme temperatures to be precisely applied to a small location, such as a line being cut through metal." Sulphur is a major component of thermate and Sulphur allows Thermate to reduce the melting point of steel by almost 50%, allowing WTC columns to be cut "like a hot knife through butter", according to Dr. Steven Jones and Dr. Webster Tarpley.

Molten steel around 2000°F were found at Ground Zero and under WTC7 for more than 6 weeks after the collapse that contained high levels of sulphur. This temperature is more than 500°F hotter than jet fuel can burn.

"These incredibly hot areas were found at the bottoms of the elevator shafts of the main towers, down seven basement levels. The molten steel was found 'three, four, five weeks later, when the rubble was being removed"

Controlled Demolitions, Inc., has been contracted before by the government to clean up the Murrah Building bombing in Oklahoma City and have recently revolutionized the demolitions world by patenting new kinds of explosive charges using thermate and other secret blends of high powered explosives such as RDX and chemicals to create shaped cutter charges that are set at a diagonal angle to leave manageable sized pieces that can be put directly onto flatbed trucks and shipped away.

This is exactly what happened to the debris from Ground Zero. The conveniently small pieces were able to be loaded directly onto waiting trucks and hauled to facilities that sold the steel to China as scrap before any investigation could be done on the material.

There is a substantial amount of evidence of the use of explosives, particularly controlled demolition charges, from both World Trade Center Towers as well as WTC7. Since controlled demolitions take months to prepare, it should be mentioned that in the weeks leading up to September 11, the WTC Towers were subjected to late night power-down exercises and unusual teams of maintainance workers were seen on floors that were closed for repair.

Dozens of police, firefighters, news reporters and civilian eyewitnesses describe "secondary explosions" in the basements of both Towers, and intermittently throughout the morning and then in rapid sequence as the collapse was initiated. Firefighters reported "heavy duty explosions" and newcasters spoke of "massive explosions" on camera with police officers.

Many videos from news sources show "squibs" blowing jets of compressed gases out of the sides of the Towers as the collapse begins and WTC7 shows windows being blown out of multiple floors and sides at it begins to implode.

Although most of the steel from the WTC sites was hauled away immediately under tight security to be sold as "scrap" to China and other nations, some of the steel was able to be tested and shows evidence of thermite.

Photos show massive explosions ejecting material up and out as the Towers collapse, indicating that huge amounts of high powered explosives like RDX were needed to crack the enormous core columns and cause the Towers to collapse at nearly freefall speed. The 110 story South Tower came down in about 14 seconds, the North Tower in about 15 seconds, and WTC7 fell 47 stories in 4 seconds.

Add to that the pyroclastic flow, which is a cloud of hot gases that hug the ground and travel at speeds of more than 50 MPH. Pyroclastic flows are a typical feature of volcanic eruptions, nuclear detonations and controlled demolitions. The WTC dust cloud was made of a huge variety of materials including asbestos and toxic metals from computers, but was consisted primarily of pulverized concrete that surrounded the steel cores in columns that held stairways and elevators.

The 3 buildings that "collapsed" on September 11, 2001 are the ONLY steel-framed skyscrapers in history to collapse as a result of fire. This has never happened before or since 9/11. Jet fuel only burns at 1796°F (under ideal conditions) and unprotected steel (WTC steel was protected) doesn't melt until 2500°F. The fires were black, indicating they were oxygen starved when collapse was initiated.

"I remember getting a call from the, uh, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, "You know, we've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is, is pull it." And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse. "

-Larry Silverstein (Leaseholder of WTC Complex) on "America Rebuilds" PBS, 09/10/02

PULL: Industry term for controlled demolition.

One of the biggest smoking guns of 9/11 is WTC7, which although no plane hit it and it was damaged by debris only slightly, collapsed at freefall speed in 6.5 seconds at 5:20 PM EST. Small fires had burned on several floors throughout the day, and explosions were heard many times before the collapse.

Tenents of this building included the IRS, Secret Service, CIA, and the Office of Emergency Management which was Rudy Giuliani's command center for just such and event.

The leaseholder of the entire WTC complex was Larry Silverstein, who just weeks before the attacks was leased the whole site for $3.2 billion. He immediately sought an insurance policy for $3.5 billion on the property. After the Septemeber 11 attacks, Silverstein attempted to double the policy payout to $7 billion, by claiming that the attacks constituted two separate incidents and therefore should be awarded twice the value of the policy. After a lawsuit, he was ultimately awarded a payout of $5 billion for both attacks.

Interestingly, BBC News reported that Building 7 had collapsed a full 20 minutes before the event. Reporter Jane Standley spoke about the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building (WTC7) while it was visible behind her, still standing. The BBC ended the feed 6 minutes before the collapse and later claimed they made a mistake.

From BBC World, Sept 11, 2001, 4:57 PM (Collapse occured at 5:20 PM EST)

"Now more on the latest building collapse in New York, you might have heard a few minutes ago, we're talking about the Salomon Brothers Building collapsing, and indeed it has. Apparently that's only a few hundred yards away from where the World Trade Center Towers were. And it seems this is not the result of a new attack, it was because the building had been weakened during this mornings attacks."

President Bush has made several interesting admissions or accidental flubs when discussing 9/11. He seems to get flustered when asked direct questions that take him away from his prepared comments and says things that are later corrected by the White House.

These include admissions that he saw the first plane strike the North Tower on at least two occasions even though the only footage known to exist was the Naudet Brothers clip that was not released until the next day.

This video clip shows President Bush discussing "operatives" who planted explosives in the Towers to ensure that those above the crash zone could not escape. A chilling revelation.

First Time:

QUESTION: ... how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?

BUSH: Well... (APPLAUSE) Thank you, Jordan. Well, Jordan, you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida, and my chief of staff, Andy Card - actually I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works, and I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower - the TV was obviously on, and I use to fly myself, and I said, "There's one terrible pilot." And I said, "It must have been a horrible accident.", but I was whisked off there - I didn't have much time to think about it, and I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my chief who was sitting over here walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower, America's under attack."

Second Time:

"I was sitting there, and my Chief of Staff -- well, first of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first building. There was a TV set on..." [whitehouse.gov]

What did President Bush see? And how did he see it?

Why was no attempt made by Secret Service agents to rush the President away to safety for 5 minutes?

Why was he allowed to just sit there reading "My Pet Goat"?

Although this in itself proves nothing, it's just another odd facet of 9/11. We have all seen video of various Presidents and officials being whisked away by a crowd of Secret Service agents.

Did someone know that he was not in danger in Florida? Or was President Bush simply neglected by his protective handlers?