9/11 - this is how the catastrophe of September 11, 2001 is called in the American tradition. The largest terrorist attack in history claimed nearly three thousand lives. The investigation by the official commission lasted from 2002 to 2004, with 28 pages of the report classified until now. All sorts of speculation began almost immediately: they say, in fact, the twin towers were blown up by the American special services …
1. The siloviki knew a lot. Or all?
So, the militants of the al-Qaeda organization, banned in many countries, legally arrived in the United States and hijacked four passenger planes. Two of which were sent to the towers of the World Trade Center (WTC), one to the building of the Pentagon (US Department of Defense), and another, having made strange maneuvers, crashed in Pennsylvania. Further investigation showed that the CIA had long known about the involvement of many of these people in terrorism, but did not pass the information to the border service, thanks to which the jihadists entered the New World without hindrance.
Founder of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda (banned in Russia) Osama bin Laden in his video dated October 29, 2004, announced his involvement in the incident. The founder of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda (banned in the Russian Federation) Osama bin Laden in his video of October 29, 2004, announced his involvement in the incident.
And less than a month after the tragedy, on October 7, 2001, the Americans invaded Afghanistan to "punish the terrorists." In March 2003, they entered Iraq, also explaining this by the need for protection from an "external threat" - this time in the form of the never-found "chemical weapon of Saddam Hussein." NATO contingents remain in both countries to this day, but the chaos in the Middle East has only intensified, and terrorist attacks are still raging around the world … But over these 16 years, the Pentagon has spent almost $ 6 trillion on military needs, a considerable part of which has gone through the pockets of loved ones to the military-industrial complex of the "Washington hawks" (those who are now supporting Hillary Clinton in the struggle for the presidency). So, according to the conspiracy theorists,The American security officials really could have had a motive to prepare a terrorist attack, or at least not to prevent it.
2. Explosives?
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The main argument of the theory of "controlled demolition" is the videos themselves with burning towers, where it is clearly seen that the "twins" are crumbling, settling inward with the speed of free fall, as if someone had "cut down" all the supporting structures at once.
The World Trade Center is in flames.
In 2009, an international group of researchers published in the scientific journal "Open Chemical Physics" an article on the results of a chemical analysis of the debris of the WTC, where fragments of termite, a combustible substance capable of burning steel, were identified. As you know, its melting point is about 1500 degrees, while the combustion temperature of aviation fuel under normal conditions is only about 1000 degrees …
At the same time, the report of the official commission does not even claim that the metal structures were melted. According to officials, the cause of the collapse was "the weakening of the building's steel frame during the fire, combined with damage caused by the impact of aircraft." True, for some reason the 9/11 Commission did not conduct its own analysis of the same wreckage for the presence of any explosives.
3. An underground nuclear explosion?
This "conspiracy theory" is based on the legend that in the 60s, when the WTC was created, the New York authorities gave permission to build only if the developer, along with the project, also proposed a satisfactory way to demolish the building, which might be required in the future for the needs of the city. And since there was no experience in dismantling skyscrapers then (and even now), the architects allegedly foresaw the possibility of destroying each tower with the help of an underground explosion of a small nuclear bomb planted exactly under the building.
September 2016, a relative of a terrorist attack victim mourns her loss at a memorial site in New York.
And 40 years later, the American special services, according to the conspiracy lovers, did just that, as if they detonated a portable warhead at a depth of 50-100 meters under the World Trade Center. By the way, in the first hours after 9/11, officials and the media called the site of the tragedy “ground zero”. One of the meanings of this English term is "the epicenter of a nuclear explosion" … This theory is opposed by the absence of obvious signs of radiation pollution.
For several years now, two powerful searchlights have pierced the night sky on the site of the Twin Towers.
4. Who damaged the Pentagon building?
According to the official version, the jihadists sent the third plane to the building of the US Department of Defense. But six months later, French political activist Thierry Meyssan wrote the book "9/11: A Monstrous Deception." Where he turned to the facts: the length of the Boeing-757 is 50 meters, the wingspan is 38 meters. And the width of the hole in the wall of the Pentagon is 20 meters, despite the fact that the collision occurred at an angle. How is this possible? According to Meyssan, in fact, the US military hit its own headquarters with a guided missile. The fuselage of the alleged "Boeing" after the fire disappeared to no one knows where (apart from the small debris scattered in front of the Pentagon).
Destruction of the Pentagon building after it was rammed by one of the airliners hijacked by terrorists.
The weak point of this version is the testimony of witnesses who personally witnessed the fall of the ill-fated flight, as well as the fragments of the bodies of passengers and "black boxes" of the airliner found at the crash site.
5. Was the fourth airliner shot down by the US Air Force?
Among the hijacked airliners was a Boeing 757 en route from Newark to San Francisco. Threatening with dummy weapons, the terrorists sat at the controls and turned the ship, wishing to ram the White House or the Capitol. The passengers, together with the crew members, tried to recapture the plane - this became known from the phone calls from the board. Struggle broke out in the cockpit, but the miracle, as in Hollywood films, did not happen: the Boeing, having lost control, collapsed.
However, independent researchers drew attention to a large area of debris dispersion: heavy engine parts were found three miles away, and light pieces of luggage were found eight miles from the main crash site. Perhaps the ship began to fall apart while still in the air, for example, after being hit by an air-to-air missile from a US Air Force fighter. At that time, the WTC towers were already on fire, so, according to the conspiracy theorists, the military chose to destroy the captured aircraft with 44 passengers, rather than allow another "air ram" with much greater casualties. And "the calls of passengers to their relatives", they say, are falsified.
September 11, 2001. In a moment, the second plane will crash into the twin tower of the World Trade Center.
The weakness of this theory is that the flight recorder data has been preserved, according to which the passengers did indeed attack the jihadists, and the calls were made on the onboard satellite phone.
OPINION
"America is acutely aware of its vulnerability"
Gevorg Mirzayan, American political scientist, associate professor of the Department of Political Science of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation:
The Americans have historically considered their country a kind of "big island", invulnerable to any external invasion. Therefore, the September terrorist attacks came as a grave shock to the nation. After that, the pendulum naturally swung in the other direction - and Washington began to conduct its foreign policy excessively tough. An equally drastic “tightening of the screws” followed in internal affairs: in October 2001, the so-called “Patriot Act” was adopted - a federal law that significantly expanded the rights of special services to electronically monitor and monitor citizens.
EDVARD CHESNOKOV