-->9/11: 80 Minutes of Unilateral Disarmament

Strong evidence contradicts virtually all of the official account, opaque as it is, but here’s my top six:

Fact: Authorities abstained from standard operating procedures to respond to hijackings for a crucial 80 minutes.
Fact: Collapses of the World Trade Center Towers and WTC 7 building could not have been caused by the two airliner crashes and subsequent jet fuel fires, leaving demolition (controlled explosions) as the best explanation. Further, government officials prevented a forensic examination of the debris, especially the steel, suggesting a cover-up.
Fact: Photographic evidence shows that the hole in the Pentagon façade was 18 feet in diameter, tops, and there is no evidence of wreckage from a Boeing 757. A large plane like the Boeing 757, as asserted by government, could not fit in such a hole, and related physical evidence and eyewitness testimony suggests a much smaller aircraft like a guided missile caused the death and destruction at the Pentagon.
Fact: Passenger cell phone conversations, crash site debris and government deletion of the last three minutes of the cockpit voice tape suggest authorities ordered Flight 93 shot down over Pennsylvania after learning that passengers were gaining control and might return with live hijackers.
Fact: Not one employee at the FAA, Defense, WMCC, NORAD or any other culpable civilian or military branch of government has been reprimanded or dismissed for incompetence. The official fable is that indecisive employees, both civilian and military, stood around and dithered, wondering what to do, thereby creating an unprecedented systemic failure. Remember Payne Stewart, professional golf champion? The Air Force went up to check his fatal Lear jet flight on 25 October 1999. Routine. Turning off a transponder is illegal, much less calls from flight attendants at 8:21 a.m. confirming the hijack of Flight 11, fully 25 minutes before that first collision with a WTC Tower at 8:46 a.m., plenty of time to intercept it far from New York City.
Fact: High officials in the Bush government openly expressed their wish for a"new Pearl Harbor" because of all the benefits it would bring, and got their wish within 12 months.

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