On September 11, 2977 people died - 246 in four planes, 2606 in the towers of the World Trade Center, 125 in the Pentagon building.

It is unrealistic to tell about everyone in the format of a live journal - in a bookPortraits 9/11/01 , containing an official list and brief information about most of the dead, about seven hundred pages. You have to choose, and for a blog onRussianlanguage choice is obvious.

Memorial in Brooklyn

In 2005 in Asser Levy Park (Brooklyn)A memorial was erected dedicated to those who died on September 11th.

Names are engraved on the memorial plate, and the list is preceded by the words:

In memory of those who died as a result of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, people of different ages, nationalities and religions...

They are united by the fact that they all come from the former USSR, orRussians American way.

In total, there are 18 people on the list, but"our"more died that day. I could only find information on 26, some of them very briefly.

portraits

The portraits are grouped according to the companies in which the deceased worked or where they went on business.

Windows on the World North Tower, floors 106, 107

September 11 restaurant complex Windows on the World (Windows to the world) was preparing to receive, in addition to regular customers, participants in a conference organized by a large publishing and financial company Risk Waters.

At the time of the impact, there were 73 restaurant workers, 92 conference attendees, 4 construction contractors and 3 patrons in the restaurant.
They all died.

Valery Tsoi, Jeanette's father:
On August 23, 2001, we saw our daughter Jeanette in the USA.
At that time, she applied for a lottery in which a green card was played. And just like that, she won. In January I received a visa, and in August they went to America with the whole family.
In New York, she was offered a job as a translator at the head office. She was in seventh heaven with happiness. She was supposed to return to work on September 17th. But she was asked to leave a week earlier.
If she had walked her vacation to the end, she probably would. would have survived. But they asked - and she left.
On September 10, she returned to work. The tragedy happened on the 11th.

Gennady Boyarsky was one of 11 employeesAmerican Expresswho worked as consultants inMarsh & McLennan.

Aon Corporation South Tower, floors 92, 98-105

Tatyana ended up in America, working as a guide for a Russian travel company. She was very enterprising - in addition to working in very different places (from a Medicaid office to a computer school), her business list included buying, renovating and reselling houses in suburban New York.

After being made redundant by a Connecticut company, she quickly landed a job at Regus when the company opened an office on the 93rd floor of the South Tower.

The last words her relatives heard from her was a record on the answering machine asking her not to worry about her, as the plane crashed into another skyscraper.

The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York divided the history of the United States of America into before and after. Three thousand people who died as a result of the explosion of the Twin Towers is an irreparable loss for the American people. Question: "Who blew up the towers?" remains open to many to this day. Too many logical inconsistencies in the official version of the investigation.

Mission Possible?

According to the official version, the twin towers were destroyed due to the explosions of the planes that rammed the buildings. The fire that broke out during the attack weakened the metal structures, and the building collapsed. Then the same thing happened to another skyscraper.

Ordinary people are still perplexed: how could people from Arab countries, whose names were previously known to the special services, come to the United States, undergo training in piloting passenger Boeings, carry dummies of firearms on board aircraft, capture several aircraft at the same time and with an enviable Accurately ram several buildings?

This whole operation looks incredible, but, nevertheless, it is theoretically feasible. Much more complex questions of the commission involved in the investigation are asked by experts who have in their hands the results of analyzes obtained after examining the wreckage of the twin towers. At the site of the tragedy, traces of explosives and thermite were found - a substance that reaches a temperature of 1500 degrees when burned. But let's talk about everything in order. Consider the main conspiracy theories of explosions.

Less than a month after the attack, the US army invaded Afghanistan, destroying the hotbeds of terrorism, and at the same time writing off their debts, destabilizing the situation in the region and laundering multibillion-dollar investments in the military industry, in which, as it became known during the election campaign, Hillary Clinton, the Washington "hawks" have not only state, but also personal interests.

The terrorist act untied the hands of the US intelligence services, which received the right to listen to other people's conversations and read other people's letters, not only on their own territory, but in any corner of the world. Even the leaders of the G7 countries have no right to their little secrets from Washington. This was clearly shown by the phone tapping scandal. Angela Merkel.

There are many supporters of the idea that America's intelligence agencies at least knew about the preparation of terrorist attacks, and most likely played a key role in the preparation. Only with the support of "Big Brother" could Islamic radicals involved in al-Qaeda ties be able to enter the United States, receive first-class flight training, be on board aircraft with items that look like firearms, hijack aircraft and accurately direct them to predetermined goals.

Like a house of cards

Looking at the collapse of the twin towers, experts agree that it is very similar to a controlled explosion. Such explosions are used when it is required to demolish a large building in a densely populated area of ​​the city. Explosive engineers, having studied the design of the structure, calculate the power of each charge placed in the base of the supporting structures. As a result, the demolished object should fold like a house of cards, so that each wall rushes inward.

During such events, just in case, the inhabitants of nearby houses are evacuated. If there is a mistake in the calculations or some charges do not work, the building, instead of folding inward, may fall on its side, and then the destruction will be much more than planned. Looking at the video, it's hard not to be surprised at how neatly and how quickly the towers fold. It looks like real professional explosives experts worked on this.

Well, what about the planes? After all, they were seen by thousands of people, and they are captured on the set. Supporters of the controlled explosion theory are sure that the planes were needed for a beautiful picture and so that the inhabitants would not have questions: how could a bunch of terrorists bring tons of explosives into two carefully guarded buildings in the center of New York and set the charges in such a way that they collapsed fully?

As for the plane that hit the Pentagon building, it may not have been at all. The footage, taken immediately after the attack, shows the destruction, but there are no details of the Boeing. The plane could explode, but it could not dissolve. Large pieces of the fuselage and engines should be visible. In addition, the damage to the building is too minor for an incursion by a large passenger airliner. They are more reminiscent of the consequences of a cruise missile hit, and terrorists simply could not have such missiles.

Who shot down the fourth plane?

There was also a fourth hijacked airliner, which the terrorists planned to aim either at the White House, or at the Capitol. But he did not reach his goal. According to the official version, the passengers entered into a fight with the terrorists, and as a result of a fight that ensued on board the aircraft, the liner crashed to the ground. Some conspiracy theorists believe that the US military shot down the plane. This theory is supported by the fact that the debris was scattered at a great distance from each other. But several passengers managed to call their loved ones before the crash, even records of these conversations have been preserved, confirming the official version.

small atomic bomb

There are so many different opinions about the tragedy of September 11 that among them there are even completely fantastic and incredible ones. For example, in all seriousness they say that a small atomic bomb was detonated under every building. Allegedly, the New York authorities set a condition for the developers who planned to build the Shopping Center - to provide for the possibility of dismantling the building. After all, it is clear that sooner or later it will become unusable, and demolishing such a huge structure for those times, as it seemed then, will be much more difficult than building it. And for the subsequent dismantling, allegedly the builders laid a nuclear charge under each building. But this theory is easily refuted by critics. At the site of a nuclear explosion, even a small one, there should be an increased level of radiation. But he was not observed.

She's also a victim

According to the official version of the American government, the most painful thing is the question of the third tower that collapsed during the terrorist attack. This skyscraper was called the Seventh Tower of the World Trade Center. This building was not hit by a plane, however, it collapsed overnight, like two twin towers.

According to the official theory, the cause of the collapse was a fire spread from neighboring towers. Allegedly, the communications through which water was supplied to the building to automatically extinguish the fire were destroyed, the fire engulfed the building, the structures could not stand it and collapsed.

Half of the Americans surveyed several years ago did not even know that three buildings were destroyed during the events of 2001 in New York. Many of those who know do not believe that the 47-story building could have collapsed instantly in a fire. In the United States, activists have repeatedly demanded a new investigation into the case and the publication of the results of the investigation, but the authorities did not hear them or simply did not want to hear them.

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” when the first official version of everything that happened was ready and the perpetrators 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 left their cars near the airports, in which they found the Koran and instructions in Arabic “How to fly an airplane”, and miraculously preserved passports of “terrorists” were found in the wreckage of the 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. 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 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 planes, since its structure resembled a frequent 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 space 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 the TV news broadcast, which 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 Yanbu, Saudi Arabia: "I've never been to the US and haven't been out of 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 despite the obvious falsification with the names of "terrorists", the same 19 original names appear in the official report of the Keane Commission.

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 file says that bin Laden is left-handed, but the video shows him writing something with his right hand. In addition, he has a gold ring on his finger, 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, you can see 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've 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 but 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 went there 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 statement itself 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.

“Dear fellow citizens, today our way of life, our freedom is under attack,” for many Americans, these words of President George W. Bush meant that their lives would never be the same. On September 11, 2001, the United States was hit by the deadliest terrorist attack in history: 19 al-Qaeda fighters hijacked four passenger planes, turning them into powerful weapons. Two airliners crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one crashed into the Pentagon building, another crashed in Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people died as a result. Lenta.ru figured out how America has changed 15 years after the terrible attack and why its consequences are felt to this day.

“Something is wrong… We are in a sharp decline. I see water, I see houses. We're flying low, very low, too low. Oh God, we're flying too low. Oh God," American Airlines Flight 11 flight attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney didn't have time to finish her sentence as the plane rammed the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

Audio recordings of the last words of passengers doomed to death, photographs of skyscrapers on fire and people jumping out of them shocked American society. Citizens demanded the immediate punishment of those who dared to attack the United States, the authorities wanted the same.

Washington goes to war

The intention to strike a crushing blow against terrorism was expressed by George W. Bush in his very first speech on September 11, 2001. “America, along with its friends, allies, unites with everyone who wants peace and security throughout the earth. Together we will win the war against terrorism,” he assured the Americans. His approval rating soared to 90 percent, and Bush took decisive action.

Within three days, Congress gave the president the power to use the US military to retaliate against all those who "planned, approved, carried out, or assisted in carrying out" the 9/11 attacks and those who provided safe haven to terrorists.

On September 20, Bush issued an ultimatum to the Afghan authorities, demanding that the leader of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, who was hiding in the territory of this state, and all those involved in the attacks be handed over. Kabul asked for proof of bin Laden's guilt, promising to try him in an Islamic court. Evidence was not provided. And the founder of Al-Qaeda himself denied involvement in the attack (Osama admitted that it was he who planned the attack only in 2004).

On October 7, US Air Force aircraft launched the first strikes against Afghan targets, starting the longest war in US history. In November, Kabul was taken, the Taliban were pushed back into the mountains. But this campaign was only partially successful: bin Laden was never captured.

The world community had no doubts about the justification for the invasion of Afghanistan. Bush's decision was supported by many leaders, including Vladimir Putin. But the US president's intention to send troops to Iraq was condemned even by US allies in NATO. Nevertheless, in 2003, American soldiers entered the territory of this state and, almost without resistance, overthrew the regime of Saddam Hussein. Further events did not develop at all as planned in Washington. Many world leaders, as well as pundits, have warned that the removal of Hussein would throw Iraq into chaos and turn it into an Islamist foothold - and that is exactly what happened.

After the whole world was surrounded by footage depicting the abuse of captured Afghans and Iraqis in the Bagram and Abu Ghraib prisons, the attitude towards the Americans, who had not been particularly loved in the Middle East before, deteriorated catastrophically. Many Muslims began to perceive them as new crusaders, enemies of Islam. The ranks of the jihadists grew rapidly. One of the consequences of Bush Jr.'s ill-advised decision to attack Iraq is the rise of the most notorious terrorist group in modern times: the Islamic State (IS).

The current American leader, Barack Obama, even during the first election campaign, promised to return military personnel home. But he fulfilled his promise only partially: in July 2016, he was forced to leave almost eight and a half thousand soldiers in Afghanistan to help local security forces. Troops were withdrawn from Iraq, but this allowed IS jihadists to capture almost half of the country.

“There are more suicide attacks against Americans and their allies in Afghanistan, Iraq and other Muslim countries every month than in the entire period of world history before 2001. Between 1980 and 2003, there were 343 self-blasts worldwide, and at least 10 percent of these attacks were inspired by anti-Americanism. Since 2004, there have already been more than two thousand of them - and nine out of ten are directed against the Americans and their allies, ”wrote Robert Pape, an American political scientist and professor at the University of Chicago, in 2010 in Foreign Policy magazine.

On September 11, 2001, three planes controlled by terrorists crashed into the skyscrapers of the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York and into the Pentagon building. The fourth crashed in Pennsylvania. As a result of the attacks, those who were in the buildings and in the hijacked aircraft were killed. In addition, the disaster claimed the lives of firefighters and police, thanks to the efforts of which about 30,000 people were saved. Over 55,000 people worked at the WTC on weekdays, and the daily number of visitors and tourists reached 150,000. On July 15, 2002, work was officially completed to search for the remains of the victims of the attacks.

On August 20, 2002, the first official list of those who died in New York as a result of the collapse of the World Trade Center was published. It includes 2819 people from 80 countries of the world, including three Russians. The two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center skyscrapers killed a total of 157 people. 343 firefighters died. Identified by relatives or by DNA analysis of 1102 people. According to statistics, out of ten people who died in New York, eight were men, the average age of the dead was forty years. Mostly these were employees engaged in mental work: from software developers to bank employees and employees of insurance companies. Many were at the peak of their careers. About ten people were executives, founders or presidents of companies. At least 59 people have served as vice presidents. Of the identified victims, fifteen were under the age of twenty-one, including three three-year-old children.

As a result of the terrorist attack in Washington, when the plane crashed into the Pentagon building, 184 people were killed: 120 employees and 64 passengers and crew members. 44 people died on a plane that was hijacked by terrorists, but, before reaching Washington, crashed in Pennsylvania. The total number of deaths was more than three thousand people, about six thousand were injured. On September 12, 2001, US President George W. Bush delivered a televised address to the nation in connection with the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. He stated that he ordered the use of "all intelligence and law enforcement resources" of the United States to find and punish the organizers of the attacks. The head of the White House said that the perpetrators of the attacks carried out "an act of mass murder." According to him, the terrorists sought to create chaos in America, but they failed to do so.

On September 15, the President of the United States, in a weekly radio address to the country, said that the United States plans to launch a "comprehensive offensive" against terrorism. The US is planning a "wide and long campaign to defend our country and destroy the evil of terrorism." George W. Bush warned Americans that they will need patience because the coming "conflict will not be short" and decisiveness because "the conflict will not be easy." Bush called the actions of the terrorists "barbaric." He stated that the US will work with other countries of the world, including Russia, India, Pakistan, to punish the perpetrators and organizers of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.