Who really blew up the twin towers in New York? Skyscrapers in America on September 11th.

September 11 is a day of mourning in the United States of America, when 2,977 people were killed and 24 went missing as a result of four terrorist attacks at once, the responsibility of which is assigned to al-Qaeda. Most of the dead were civilians.
Al-Qaeda is one of the largest terrorist organizations of the Wahhabi branch of Islam.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, nineteen people from a terrorist group hijacked four passenger planes with people on board, two of which were sent to the north and south towers of the World Trade Center, located in the South part of Manhattan in New York. The third plane was sent by terrorists to the Pentagon building, located near Washington, where the US Department of Defense is located, and the fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania when the passengers and crew of the plane tried to take control of the plane.
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Construction on the site of the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York, USA, seven years after the terrorist attack.

Workers take pictures of the flag, which is installed at the site of the memorial and museum, seven years after the terrible tragedy that occurred on September 11, 2001.

Construction workers at the site of the destroyed Twin Towers on September 2, 2008 in New York City.

The World Trade Center opened on April 4, 1973 in New York (USA) and consisted of seven buildings, two of which stood out for their size - these are the north and south towers, each with 110 floors. These towers were attacked by al-Qaeda. The rest of the buildings were seriously damaged by the collapse of the twin towers.

Photo taken by the International Space Station on September 11, 2001. A column of smoke rises from Manhattan, New York, to a height of 250 km.

A man stands on the ruins of the recently collapsed World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 in New York City.

Top view of the falling twin towers.

The streets of Manhattan after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Thousands of tons of toxic debris (carcinogens) formed in the air as a result of the collapse of the towers. This led to an increase in the incidence, especially among those who helped clear the rubble and search for victims - people were directly exposed to harmful fumes. In this regard, in 2007, several people died of cancer, some died of lung failure. Their names are also immortalized on a memorial plaque.

Firefighters make their way through the wreckage of the twin towers, which were destroyed as a result of a major terrorist attack committed on September 11, 2001, USA.

An aerial view (from 3300 feet) of where the Trade Center stood 12 days ago.

This is what the crash site looked like 7 years later.

View of the part of Manhattan where the Twin Towers collapsed on September 11, 2001.

Construction of the Freedom Tower on the site of the International Trade Center, September 5, 2008.

Workers install rebar for further concrete pouring at the construction site of the Freedom Tower, New York.

A large banner hangs in front of the Freedom Tower under construction. It depicts a 1,776-foot-tall tower and listed building, a planned development in Manhattan, USA, with 500 people working on it.

On the tenth anniversary of the attacks, a national memorial was opened - two pools on the site of two destroyed twin towers. The museum, located under the pools, is scheduled to open in September 2013.

Construction of the Freedom Tower in New York.

After the terrorist attacks, a large-scale operation to search for survivors began, which continued around the clock for a whole week. It took a lot of time to sort out the rubble, in which smoldering continued for 99 days. Complete clearing of the territory from the destroyed buildings was completed only by March 2002. Several funds have been set up to help the victims and the families of the victims, where they provided not only psychological, but also financial assistance.

The stairs are the only surviving part of the Mall, which helped save many people from the collapsing building. It will be placed in a national memorial, in a museum.

On August 24, 2008, a cross was erected made from the steel of the north tower of the Trade Center. It was installed in memory of the dead firefighters and volunteers who are directly involved in extinguishing fires and clearing rubble.

Memorial at General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport near Boston, Massachusetts. Established in memory of the dead crew and passengers.

Flight attendants at a memorial at the international airport in memory of those who died on September 11, 2001. They miraculously didn't board one of those American airliners...

Every year on September 11, two blue beams of light rush into the sky from the site of the tragedy - in memory of those who died on that fateful day.

The once unforgettable and at one time very popular Karl Marx, predicting the imminent death of capitalism, argued that, and this is none other than the proletariat. Since then, a lot of time has passed and life has flowed in a slightly different scenario. The proletariat calmed down, acquired petty-bourgeois tricks, and in some places even became capitalism's best friend, ready to break anyone for its sake. Straight to Confucius. "You can't defeat the enemy - become his best friend".

But, a holy place is never empty. And now, at the turn of the century, it appeared in the abyss. Not capitalism, not an oligarchy, but the entire Western world en masse, with all its European values and traditions. Completely. To the abyss. How unworthy to exist.

Of course, it is still too early to panic, especially since panic does not lead to anything good, but -. Anyone who once at least somehow taught history remembers how it all began in Russia. At first there were terrorist attacks against generals, ministers and members of the royal family, and in 1917 the communists revealed their doctrine of socio-economic development to the broad masses of the people.

Of course, there is not much in common between the communists, but the goals and methods are somewhat similar.

The September 11 attacks - the beginning of the Third World War?

attacks are different. But - a series September 11, 2001 attacks- these are terrorist attacks of a special kind, a kind of reduced model of the war of the worlds, Western and otherwise, carefully grown and released into free swimming, like a genie released from a bottle.

In the morning 11 September 4 groups of terrorists, totaling 19 people, captured 4 Boeing 767-200 passenger aircraft flying from Boston, Washington and Newark, which were then used to strike ground targets. Two planes crashed into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, and a third crashed into the Pentagon building in Washington. As for the fourth hijacked aircraft, the target of the terrorists who hijacked it was the Capitol or the White House.

Flight 11 american airlines took off from Boston, crashed into the north side of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, in the time period from 8:46:26 before 8:46:40 local time, approximately at the level of 94-98 floors.

Flight 175 american airlines took off from Boston, crashed into the south side of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, 9:02:59 , approximately at the level of 78-85 floors.

Flight 77 american airlines flew out of Washington, crashed into the Pentagon in 9:37:46 .

Flight 93 american airlines flew out of Newark 10:03:11 fell on a field in Pennsylvania about 240 km north of Washington.

Tuesday was chosen for the attack is by no means accidental. According to statistics, it is on Tuesday that the least number of passengers fly by planes, and the aforementioned planes on that ill-fated day were not even half full.

The planes were hijacked by residents of Arab countries, most of them from Saudi Arabia. There were five terrorists on flights 11, 175, 77, and four on flight 93, apparently because at the very last moment the fifth member of their group was not allowed into the United States for fear that he would become an illegal migrant (the guy intended to enter the country having 2800 dollars and not having a return ticket on hand).

One terrorist in each group had flight training from one of the flight schools, where the Arab guys attracted attention by learning only how to fly an aircraft in the air, ignoring the classes in which they taught how to take off and land. At the same time, other terrorists were rehearsing the capture of the aircraft with its subsequent retention.

The capture of aircraft took place according to the same scheme. The terrorists waited for the plane to gain altitude and the flight attendants to start delivering food, after which they broke into the cockpit, where they changed the pilot to their own. At the same time, they used edged weapons (, office knives for cutting paper), several flight attendants, at least one passenger and at least one pilot (John Ogonowski, captain of the aircraft, flight 11) were immediately killed during the capture.

It is worth noting that, apart from John Ogonowski, the pilots were left alive, apparently in order to, if necessary, be involved in the management of the liner. Threatening with an explosive device, as well as cold steel, the hijackers drove passengers into the tail section of the aircraft. It is not difficult to guess (and the flight recorders confirm this) that panic arose among the passengers, in a sense, a friend and ally of the terrorists.

And the terrorists changed course and some time later rammed pre-allocated buildings.

September 11, Flight 93 - how it was

About flight 93 I would like to write in more detail. For me, it is interesting, first of all, in the context of the relationship between people and non-humans, who play with other people's lives for the sake of only them understandable "higher interests". This plane did not reach the goal, which was either the White House or Congress, because the passengers and flight attendants prevented the terrorists.

On board the aircraft were two pilots, five flight attendants and 37 passengers, four of whom were hijackers. Ziyad Jarrah from Lebanon, the leader of the group, who had previously received flight training, and his three Saudi Arabian accomplices. Consider the chronology of events.

Flight 93 was scheduled to board at 08:00 and depart at 08:01. However, due to the heavy load of the airport, the flight was delayed until 08:42 . Who knows, perhaps in this way life gave people (people, not creatures) a chance for salvation, but it was not destined to take advantage of it.

By this time, Flight 011 had already been hijacked, and after another 4 minutes crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Flight 175 was just in the process of being hijacked, flight 75 will be hijacked in 9 minutes.

On these three flights, no more than half an hour passed from the moment of takeoff to the beginning of the capture. For some reason, the terrorists waited 46 minutes on Flight 93.

AT 09:02 Flight 175 rammed the South Tower of the World Trade Center, and it became clear that all these events (2 air rams and the hijacking of Flight 75) were nothing more than a terrorist attack. Controllers began to send warnings to all aircraft in the air. At 09:24, the pilots received a message - " Beware of cockpit intrusion - two planes crashed into the World Trade Center» At 09:26, the FAC sent a reply: « Ed, confirm the last message. Jason»

AT 09:27:25 the crew responded to the dispatcher's usual call and the seizure began immediately.

AT 09:28:17 crew crew sent a distress signal Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!". The sounds of fighting could be heard in the cockpit. After 35 seconds, the distress signal was retransmitted. Someone in the cockpit was shouting: Mayday! Get out of here! Get out of here!»

AT 09:31:57 Jarrah, the leader of the terrorist group and "part-time" suicide pilot, announced: " Ladies and gentlemen, this is the commanding officer. Stay where you are and don't get up. We have a bomb on board, so sit down.»

Probably realizing that the aircraft was coming under the control of terrorists, the captain changed the communication settings in such a way that the dispatchers heard Jarrah's announcement.

The dispatcher asked, "Who's calling Cleveland?" There was no answer. For some time in the cockpit there was a struggle between the terrorists and one of the flight attendants. Against the background of the sounds of the struggle on the flight recorder, you can hear the terrorists ordering someone: "Sit" "Don't move" "Shut up" "Lie down." Judging by the voice, some woman tried to resist, but she was either killed or rendered harmless in some other way. Someone said in Arabic: “It's all right. I finished".

AT 09:39:11 Jarrah made the announcement again, which was also heard by the controllers: "" The captain of the ship is speaking. Stay where you are. There's a bomb on board and we're going back to the airport to make our demands. Please don't make noise».

Passengers and flight attendants began calling families, friends, and the police to inform them of the incident. Starting at 09:30, 35 calls were made by "aerophone" and two calls from mobile phones. Ten passengers and two flight attendants managed to get through. They were informed about the attacks, and people in trouble realized that they were also in the clutches of suicide bombers.

This is how a person is arranged, in him faith in the best is indestructible, in the sense, in the lesser of two evils. A person believes in what he really wants to believe, and sometimes his brain clings to this belief for a long time. "Everything will be fine". “Now they will put forward their demands, and negotiations will begin with them.” "Help will come, of course." "The Lord will not leave us in trouble."

In order to be saved, one had to act, but even in this case, the chances of success were not very great. However, the worst thing in such a situation is to play by the rules of the terrorists. What to do, in life sometimes you have to choose not between “good” and “bad”, but between “bad” and “even worse”.

AT 09:45:25 someone in Arabic ordered to return the pilot, and at 09:48:38 someone already in English ordered (obviously, the pilot) to take a course.

AT 09:53:20 someone in Arabic someone suggested to scare everyone using .

Approximately at 09:57 the passengers decided to storm the cabin. The terrorists became suspicious.

AT 09:58:33 someone in Arabic said "Go, guys", after which he began to cry out to Allah. ("Alla Akbar"). The sounds of a struggle could be heard outside the door.

AT 09:58:55 someone shouted in English: “In the cockpit!”.

Jarrah banked the plane to the right, then to the left, in 09:58:57 he shouted in Arabic: “They are climbing over here. Don't let them! Don't let them! Hold on! AT 09:59:52 The suicide pilot started throwing the plane up and down. AT 10:00:03 he stabilized the plane and after 5 seconds asked: “Well, is that all? Shall we get it? To which the other terrorist replied: Not yet. As everyone enters, then we will finish". Apparently he hoped to reach the goal. I am more than sure that, going into action, the terrorists first used drugs.

AT 10:00:25 behind the door someone shouted: Everyone in the cockpit! Otherwise we will all die!". Passengers used a delivery cart as a ram. Jarrah again threw the plane up and down, after which at 10:01:08 he asked: “Well, what, down?”, To which he received the answer: “Yes, down.”

Passengers continued to storm the cabin. AT 10:02:18 someone shouted in Arabic: “Down! Way down". Behind the door was heard in English: “We are falling. Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!”

Now panic reigned in the cockpit. AT 10:02:33 someone shouted in Arabic: “Hey! Hey! Give me! Give me! Give me! Give me!"

FROM 10:03:02 – 10:03:09 but in the cockpit one could hear the repeatedly repeated “Allah Akbar!”

This phrase was the last recorded by the flight recorder.

The committee's conclusion states that " the hijackers retained control of the plane, but decided that in a few seconds the passengers would break into the cockpit”, but some relatives of the victims believe that the passengers managed to break into the cabin and even kill one terrorist.

The exact time of the fall varies from 10:03 before 10:10 , at a speed of 906 km per hour, in an inverted position at an angle of 40 degrees, the plane crashed into the ground. All 44 people on board were killed. At the site of the fall, a funnel formed about twelve meters in diameter and about three meters deep.

The damage caused by the September 11 attacks is irreparable

The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed at 9:56 am, the North Tower collapsed at 10:28 am. The people who remained on the upper floors died. Only 18 people managed to get out of the hit zone in the South Tower and escape. 1366 people died on the upper floors of the North Tower, more than 600 in the South Tower.

At least 200 from the top floors of the towers jumped down, preferring to crash to their deaths than to die from the smoke. Some tried to climb onto the rooftops of the towers, hoping to be evacuated by helicopters, but the doors to the roof were locked and the fire and smoke made it impossible to use the helicopters.

In total, 2977 people became victims of the tragic events (19 terrorists are not included here): 246 passengers and crew members, 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 died, including 96 citizens and immigrants from the countries of the former Soviet Union. 24 people remain on the list of missing persons.

The Western world was shocked. At the same time, joyful carnivals swept through a number of Arab countries.

There are different opinions regarding the events of 9/11. Up to the point that the attacks were set up by the US government or intelligence agencies, that the Pentagon and the World Trade Center buildings were rammed not by planes at all, but by. What was originally laid in the buildings, and, moreover, in the most vulnerable places. That the planes, in fact, were controlled from the ground, and the hysterical Arabs were used as a distraction.

It is possible that our entire world is controlled from a single center. The only question is who controls it. And, it is very likely that this is not God at all.

On September 11, 2001, in the United States, al-Qaeda suicide bombers hijacked four passenger planes - the towers of the World Trade Center, and two others - to the Pentagon and, presumably, to the White House or the Capitol. All aircraft, except the last one, reached their targets. The fourth hijacked plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

The victims of the September 11 attacks, including 343 firefighters and 60 police officers. Not only US citizens were killed, but 92 other states. In New York, 2,753 people were killed, in the Pentagon - 184 people, 40 people crashed in Pennsylvania.

19 terrorists were also killed in the attacks, 15 of them were citizens of Saudi Arabia, two of the United Arab Emirates, one of Egypt and one of Lebanon.

At 8:46 a.m. (hereinafter local time), an American Airlines Boeing 767 flying from Boston to Los Angeles crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) on Manhattan Island in New York between the 93rd and 99th floors. On board were 81 passengers (including five terrorists) and 11 crew members.

At 9:03 a.m., a United Airlines Boeing 767 flying from Boston to Los Angeles crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center between the 77th and 85th floors. There were 56 passengers and nine crew members on board.

At 9:37 a.m., an American Airlines Boeing 757 flying from Washington to Los Angeles crashed into the Pentagon. There were 58 passengers and six crew members on board.

At 10:03 a.m., a United Airlines Boeing 757 flying from Newark, New Jersey to San Francisco, crashed into a field in southwestern Pennsylvania, near the city of Shanksville, 200 kilometers from Washington. There were 37 passengers and seven crew members on board.

As a result of a severe fire, the South Tower collapsed at 9.59, and the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed at 10.28.

At 18.16, the 47-storey building of the World Trade Center complex, located in close proximity to the WTC towers, collapsed. The fire started in it.

The exact amount of damage caused by the September 11 attacks is not known. In September 2006, US President George W. Bush announced that the damage from the September 11, 2001 attacks amounted to the lowest estimate for the United States.

On November 27, 2002, an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks (the 9/11 commission) was established in the United States. In 2004, she published the final report on the investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy. One of the main conclusions of the 600-page document was the recognition that the perpetrators of the attacks took advantage of the work of the US government and intelligence agencies.

Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan origin, is the only person convicted in the case of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. He was arrested in August 2001 after graduating from flight school in Oklahoma and training in a Boeing 747 simulator in Minnesota. In April 2005, Moussaoui was found guilty of intent to commit a terrorist attack, which was supposed to be the fifth in a series of tragic events on September 11, 2001. On the personal instructions of Osama bin Laden, he was supposed to hijack the plane and go to ram the White House in Washington - about this terrorist.

In May 2006, by decision of the federal court of the city of Alexandria (Virginia), where the trial took place, Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced.

Six others suspected of involvement in the attacks were arrested in 2002 and 2003, they spent several years in prisons of the CIA, and in 2006 at the American base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

In February 2008, the US Department of Defense committed murder and war crimes as part of its investigation into the September 11 attacks.

The accusations were made against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who according to the 9/11 commission report is a central figure in the preparation of terrorist attacks in the United States; a native of Yemen, Ramzi Binalshiba (another spelling of Ramzi bin al-Sheba), who provided organizational support to the terrorists and transferred money to them; Mohammed al-Qahtani, who, according to investigators, on September 11, 2001, was supposed to become another, the 20th hijacker of four American aircraft; as well as Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Mustafa Ahmed Khawsawi (another spelling of Mustafa Ahmad Hausawi) and Waleed bin Attash.

Hearings in the case of those accused of involvement in organizing a terrorist act.

In March 2016, New York District Judge George Daniels issued an absentee judgment ordering Iran to pay $7.5 billion to the relatives and other members of those who died at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The judge determined that the Iranian authorities must pay another three billion to insurers who covered property damage and other material losses. Earlier, Judge Daniels ruled that Tehran could not prove its non-participation in assisting the organizers of the terrorist attack, in connection with which the Iranian authorities for the damage caused during it.

In September 2016, the US Congress passed a law allowing the heirs of the victims of the September 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia, whose citizens were most of the terrorists who carried out the attacks. Already in early October 2016, an American woman who lost her husband during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack filed the first lawsuit against Saudi Arabia. In March 2017, relatives of the victims in the United States. In April, it became known that more than two dozen US insurance companies filed a lawsuit against two Saudi Arabian banks and companies associated with the Osama bin Laden family, as well as against several charities, totaling at least $ 4.2 billion in connection with the attacks.

TBILISI, Sep 11 - Sputnik. The largest terrorist act in the history of mankind was committed in the United States exactly fifteen years ago.

On September 11, 2001, in the United States, al-Qaeda suicide bombers hijacked four passenger planes, sending two of them at the symbol of business New York - the tower of the World Trade Center, and the other two at the Pentagon and, presumably, at the White House or the Capitol. All aircraft, except the last one, reached their targets. The fourth hijacked plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

19 terrorists were also killed in the attacks, 15 of them were citizens of Saudi Arabia, two of the United Arab Emirates, one of Egypt and one of Lebanon.

Chronology

At 8:46 am (hereinafter local time), an American Airlines Boeing 767 flying from Boston to Los Angeles crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) on Manhattan Island in New York between the 93rd and 99th floors. On board were 81 passengers (including five terrorists) and 11 crew members.

At 9:37 a.m., an American Airlines Boeing 757 flying from Washington to Los Angeles crashed into the Pentagon. There were 58 passengers and six crew members on board.

At 10:03 a.m., a United Airlines Boeing 757 flying from Newark, New Jersey to San Francisco, crashed into a field in southwestern Pennsylvania, near Shanksville, 200 kilometers from Washington. There were 37 passengers and seven crew members on board.

As a result of a severe fire, the South Tower collapsed at 9:59, and at 10:28 the North Tower of the WTC.

At 18:16, the 47-storey building of the World Trade Center complex, located in close proximity to the WTC towers, collapsed.

The exact amount of damage caused by the September 11 attacks is not known. In September 2006, US President George W. Bush announced that the damage from the September 11, 2001 attacks for the United States amounted to the lowest estimate of $ 500 billion.

Investigation and search for those responsible

On November 27, 2002, an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks (the 9/11 commission) was established in the United States. On July 22, 2004, the commission published the final report on the investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy. One of the main conclusions of the 600-page document was the recognition that the perpetrators of the attacks took advantage of "deep administrative failures" in the work of the US government.

The only defendant in the United States in the case of the attacks is a French citizen of Moroccan origin Zacarias Moussaoui. He was arrested in August 2001 after graduating from flight school in Oklahoma and training on a Boeing 747 simulator in Minnesota. In April 2005, Moussaoui was found guilty of intent to commit a terrorist attack, which was supposed to be the fifth in a series of tragic events on September 11, 2001. On the personal instructions of Osama bin Laden, he was to hijack the plane and go to ram the White House in Washington - the terrorist himself stated this at the trial. In May 2006, by decision of the federal court of the city of Alexandria (Virginia), where the trial took place, Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Six others suspected of involvement in the attacks were arrested in 2002 and 2003, they spent several years in CIA prisons, and in 2006 they were taken to a camp at the American base in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

In February 2008, the US Department of Defense charged six prisoners with murder and war crimes as part of its investigation into the September 11 attacks.

The charges were brought against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who, according to the 9/11 Commission report, is a central figure in the preparation of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States; a native of Yemen, Ramzi Binalshiba (another spelling of Ramzi bin al-Sheba), who provided organizational support to the terrorists and transferred money to them; Mohammed al-Qahtani, who, according to investigators, on September 11, 2001, was supposed to become another, the 20th hijacker of four American aircraft; as well as Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Mustafa Ahmed Khawsawi (another spelling of Mustafa Ahmad Hausawi) and Waleed bin Attash.

In May 2008, the Pentagon dropped the charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani.

After President Barack Obama in January 2009 ordered the suspension of all activities of the military prosecutor's office at Guantanamo Bay and promised to close the facility, the military department had to drop the charges. However, this promise of the president remained unfulfilled.

Having received no support in Congress, the head of state in early March 2011 ordered the resumption of military trials against suspected terrorists held in Guantanamo Bay prison.

In early April 2011, US Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed that defendant Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other defendants in the 9/11 case would not appear before a US civilian court, but before a special military commission at Guantanamo Bay.

On May 31, 2011, the US Military Attorney's Office again charged five suspects, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, with involvement in the September 11, 2001 attacks.

On May 5, 2012, a military tribunal filed formal charges against five suspects of involvement in organizing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack in the United States. They are accused of organizing a conspiracy, attacking civilians, intentionally causing physical harm, murder, violating the laws of war, causing destruction, hijacking and terrorism.

All five defendants refused to answer whether they plead guilty.

In July 2014, a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay ruled that the trial of one of the five accused of involvement in the terrorist attack, Ramzi Binalshiba, should be held separately due to the conclusion of military doctors that he had a "serious mental illness."

Hearings on the case of those accused of involvement in the organization of the terrorist act continue.

Iran's responsibility

In March 2016, New York District Judge George Daniels issued an absentee judgment ordering Iran to pay $7.5 billion to the relatives and other members of those who died at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The judge determined that the Iranian authorities must pay another three billion to insurers who covered property damage and other material losses. Earlier, Judge Daniels ruled that Tehran was unable to prove its non-involvement in assisting the organizers of the attack, and therefore the Iranian authorities bear a share of responsibility for the damage caused during it.

Memorial and new World Trade Center

On September 11, 2011, the World Trade Center Memorial was opened on the site of the destroyed Twin Towers in New York. It consists of two square pools-fountains, located right at the bases of the former twin towers, along the inner walls of which water streams cascade down, leaving into square holes located at the bottom of each of the pools. The names of the 2,983 victims of the attacks (including the six who died in the 1993 World Trade Center attack) are carved on the bronze slabs that line the parapets of both fountains.

Site of the World Trade Center bombing in New York. Archive photo

In November 2014, the new World Trade Center complex was opened. It is the fourth tallest skyscraper in the world - its height is 541 meters. Construction began in April 2006 on the corner of a 65,000-square-meter site where the twin towers of the demolished mall used to stand.

Since 2002, September 11 has been celebrated in the United States as Patriot Day, since 2009, after the approval of Act 111-13 of the US General Law, this date is also referred to as the nationwide Day of Service and Remembrance.

The official version is an official lie!

US Army Sergeant Donald Buswell was disciplined "for using a government-owned email address to send messages hostile to the United States." The veteran of the Iraqi campaign had the imprudence to doubt the official version of the events of September 11, 2001. In particular, he wrote to the editors of the information resource 911truth.org: “It is worth weighing all the circumstances, and it becomes clear that a few Arabs sitting in caves with mobile phones could not organize this.” Literally, the name of the site, which became fatal for Donald, is translated as "September 11 - the truth"

New Pearl Harbor

Americans trust their government. But not all. America's dissidents have more than enough reason to doubt that they are always being told the truth. The assassination of President Kennedy is still a mystery with many unknowns. The counting of votes in the last presidential elections is shrouded in fog ... And the biggest American disaster - Pearl Harbor? Then, in December 1941, the Japanese seemed to be invited to attack the main US naval base. It was necessary to get a reason for war, regardless of the number of their own victims. The tragedy of September 11, 2001, similar in scale, also raised a lot of questions.

Four passenger Boeings were hijacked within an hour by 19 Arab terrorists armed with cardboard cutters. The suicide pilots took control of the planes and changed course for New York and Washington. Two Boeings were sent to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. A fire broke out in the skyscrapers, causing their complete destruction. The third Boeing crashed into the Pentagon. Passengers on the fourth plane fought the hijackers, causing the plane to crash in Pennsylvania. It was an attack on America, planned by Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, an international terrorist organization composed mostly of Arabs.

This is the generally accepted version of events. It finally took shape within a few days after the disaster, becoming official.

Calls from hijacked planes are fake

There were 256 people in four Boeings. A total of 13 calls were made from the aircraft. In the reports on the investigation of events there is a detailed description of the Arab hijackers, a minute-by-minute description of their actions. In the absence of surviving passengers, their "witness testimony" was the recording of telephone conversations, on which the official version largely rests. During the investigation of the tragedy, they were reproduced in front of relatives, who, in the interests of the investigation, were forbidden to transmit the content of the conversations. However, there was a leak to the press, and Newsweek magazine told what the doomed were talking about ...

Among the callers was the wife of US Deputy Attorney General Ted Olson, lawyer Barbara Olson. She called him twice from a plane the terrorists were using to attack the Pentagon. Only passenger Melissa Bowie managed to contact ground services - she got through to the dispatcher. The call lasted 4 minutes 2 seconds and ended halfway through the phrase.

Following Newsweek, the conversations were quoted by many publications. The last words of the flight attendant just before the plane turned into a fireball after colliding with a skyscraper: "God, God ... I see buildings ... Water." Or a very simple phrase: “Hi, mom, this is Mark Bingham” ...

It is strange here not even that a person introduces himself to his mother by his first and last name, but that he was able to get through at all. At the start of the decade, the chance of a successful cell phone connection from a jet airliner flying at normal cruising speed and altitude was about 1 in 100. The chance of two connections was 1 in 10,000. The chance of thirteen was negligible.

As the plane descends, it seems to be easier to get through on a mobile phone. However, other factors come into play. At a lower altitude, a jet aircraft leaves the limits of one cell within 1-8 seconds. During this time, the phone manages to establish contact with it, but it is already in the zone of another cell ...

These data are confirmed experimentally thanks to the professor of two universities at once A. Dewdney. He approached the study of the issue in a scientific way. He assembled a group of researchers and flew three times during 2003 on rented planes to check how communication is carried out from different phones (in the third experiment, let's say, five handsets were involved - three Motorolas (i95cl, StarTac, Timeport 8767), as well as "Audiovox-8300" and "Nokia-6310i" Dewdney called his research "Project Achilles" - clearly meaning that the invincible ancient Greek hero had one weak spot.

Only in 2004-2005, a number of companies began to develop equipment to ensure stable mobile communications in airliners - Boeings and Airbuses.

The most "slippery" questions

The American intelligence services had at least 12 intelligence reports about the possible use of liners as weapons. Buildings were known to be attacked, and the WTC is the first thing that comes to mind. Information came from 1994 to August 2001, when it became known about the plan of Osama bin Laden to send a plane to the US Embassy in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Why was nothing done?

What kind of fire broke out in the White House just between the strikes of the first and second planes? Footage of the fire was broadcast by ABC, and then information about it completely disappeared. Why? And what is the probability that such an emergency at the presidential residence could happen in this particular time period?

The hijackers underwent aerobatic training, but the instructors considered them incapable of flying even light single-engine aircraft. About one of the terrorist pilots in the flight school there was a note: "he cannot fly on his own." But the Arabs took control, having received the necessary knowledge and skills from training courses and textbooks, skillfully flew to the targets and clearly hit them. Why were they able to do this? The wingspan of the Boeing 767-300 is 47 meters, and the width of the tower is 63. The difference, as it is not difficult to calculate, is only 15 meters. Just snipers, not kamikaze! These aces acted with such inhuman precision, as if they were guided by a radio beacon. In the case of a Boeing 757-200 that crashed into the Pentagon, the arithmetic is as follows: the height of the building is 24 meters, and the height of the aircraft itself is more than 13. And this colossus enters the ram strictly horizontally, creeping above the ground in the city limits, and strikes the US military building is exactly at the height between the first and second floors.

However, the damage to the Pentagon is not severe enough to be the result of a collision with a 115-ton aircraft flying at a speed of 400 to 700 kilometers per hour. On the site in front of the wall, not only was there no debris, but on the grass there were traces of burning from the fuel from the aircraft tanks. The surviving photos do not show wings - only a neat hole in the wall. Why? The explosion fell exactly on that sector of the Pentagon, which was under repair. The Office for Combating Terrorism has already been evicted from there, the Command Center of the Marine Fleet has not yet been moved in. Among the 125 dead at the Pentagon, there is only one general, and most of them are civilian specialists.

Fragments of a liner that crashed in Pennsylvania were found 8 miles from the crash site, and local residents reported burning debris falling from the sky. How could this be, if the fourth "Boeing" was killed, falling to the ground?

Finally, also on September 11, there was a military putsch in Chile - 28 years before the American tragedy. And 11 years before her, and also on September 11, George W. Bush, speaking to Congress, first uttered the phrase: "The New World Order." But that's just a coincidence.

Works used: J. McMichael, "Muslims repeal the laws of physics" (2001), A.K. Dewdney, Project Achilles Paper (2003), Michel Chosudowski, Additional Questions to the Official Version: Cell Phone Conversations on 9/11 (Center for Globalization Studies, 2004), prof. Stephen Jones "Why did the WTC buildings really collapse?" (2006), etc. All of these materials - and dozens of others - can be found at Serendipity.li (1100 pages and 8400 internal links). top war

Andrey Nazarov