Steven E. Jones, a physicist at Brigham Young University, hypothesized that prepositioned thermite charges, used with barium nitrate, brought the buildings down. A thermite explosion generates temperatures around 2500 degrees and molten metal. It gives off white smoke with little odor. However, it burns slowly and does not go off in dramatic explosions. For that reason, those who think that some other explosive might have a point. There was visual evidence of molten iron falling from the eastern edge of the South Tower just before it went down. Three FEMA scientists, Jonathan Barnett, Ronald R. Biederman, and R. D. Sisson, Jr. , theorized that thermite, with sulfur and an eutectic alloy, would account for the ability to cut through steel so quickly. They were not encouraged to test their theory.
In April 2009, Scholars for Truth and Justice announced that studies had been made of fragments from the 9/11 debris that revealed that traces of thermite were present. The chief investigator was a Danish physicist. Red/gray bilayered chips were analyzed with x-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS) and scanning electron microscope (SEM ). The report stated, that the red “ portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic." The material was weapons grade, and it did not contain the required markers that would make it possible to trace it to its place of origin. The tested material came from four separate and unrelated samples taken after the explosions. All samples had thermite. The problem will be that these were not “official samples,” so questions can be raised about thains of custody, and there can be no perfect answers to these objections. A great deal of time will be spent picking away the four sources, but little or no time will be invested into examining who could have planted thermite in these buildings.
In 1999 and 2000, there were construction upgrades to the towers. In WT 1, 18 floors were upgraded and fireproofed, and in WT 2, 13 were upgraded. The width of these floors came out twice what was specified in the blueprints. Oddly, these were the first floors to collapse in both buildings, and this has led some to believe that explosives were inbedded in them.
Sherman Skolnick believed that a somewhat different explosive was used, but the new thermite finding may to eliminate his theory. He knew that the government has a new sub atomic explosive called “ blue lightening, ” but we do not know if it included thermite. Skolnick reported that it was used on retreating Iraqis in 1991, and he suspected it was used in the Oklahoma City bombing. He learned of this from Michael Riconosciuto, a known weapons expert and inventor. Riconosciuto helped develop it for Wackenhut Corporation. It is a electro-hydrodynamic gaseous fuel bomb that has an enormous blast. He claimed it was used to incinerate and blast away thousands of Iraqi troops in 1991. When it is used there is a residue of tritium. ( I know some are critical of Riconosciuto, but I’ve researched everything he man ever said, and found only a few comments on other things that could not be supported. He was a very, very odd genius.) But even without Riconoscuito, there was some evidence of this sub nuclear explosive.
Gasoline fires yield black smoke. On September 27, New York fire officials ordered 2000 gallons of Pyrocool FEF, a chemical that has two agents to fight ultraviolet radiation. Thermite gives off ultraviolet radiation. Some of the core columns showed sharp cuts, suggesting a thermite blast. Some other high energy explosive could have been used. Globules containing iron, aluminum, and sulfur were found. The iron and aluminum were to be expected, but the sulfur points to termite.
Albert Turri, Deputy Fire Chief for Public Safety told NBC on 9/11 that he believed that one of the towers war brought down by explosives. The Fire Department interviewed many of the firefighters who worked that tragic day and the interviews were released in 2005. There were many references to controlled demolition. In 2003, a fireman said he was present when FBI men found three of the four black boxes from the two planes, and another emergency worker confirmed this report. The official story is that all four transponders were never found.
Some believe that the three buildings came down as a result of controlled nuclear blasts. They make this suggestion because there has been a high incident of non-Hodgkin lymphoma among residents of the area around the site. This kind of cancer occurs around leaking nuclear reactors and where high energy releases have occurred. Some think it is a form of tritium or “Blue Lightning,” which was allegedly used on fleeing Iraqi troops in the First and Second Gulf War. It has a shorter half-life than plutonium.
Three blocks away, the Woolworth building developed a roof fire that day.
For some reason, FEMA forbade private photographers from taking pictures in southern Manhattan for several weeks after the blasts.
The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory is located is located 25 miles north of the towers. They registered a slight seismic activity when the planes hit the buildings. When the South Tower collapsed in registered 2.1 seismic activity and 2.3 when the North Tower came down. Cell phones in the vicinity went dead briefly. These are characteristics of micronukes, which were about the size of coffee cans back in the 1960s. The South Tower went down first, and oddly there were some indications that the fires were beginning to go out on its upper floors.
One of the odd things about the WTC attacks was that the planes flew into computer rooms. We’re talking about rooms with large computers and things that looked like large batteries. . The plane that hit the North Tower honed in on the 95th and 96th floors. The 81st floor of the South Tower was hit. That was one of three floors leased by Fuji Bank. It was full of battery-like devices, same as the 95th floor of the other building. No one says the large battery -like things on the 81st floor were ever turned on. No one ever worked there. Some think they contained thermite, but there is no proof other than the color of smoke when the area exploded. It is believed that Blue Lightening used in the First gulf War on the Baghdad airport and on fleeing Iraqi troops.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
WTC & 9/11: Part Three
The concrete did not behave as concrete has in the past. Under great stress it crumbles and breaks. It has not been known to be pulverized until now. But the pictures show the buildings giving off massive clouds of very fine dust. 425,000 yards of cubic concrete when into each building. Almost all of it was reduced to dust. The pull of gravity would have broken most of the concrete into fairly small pieces, but it would not have reduced the concrete to tiny pieces of dust. It has been estimated that ten times the energy generated by gravitational pull would have been necessary to create the enormous dust cloud from the North Tower. Another strange thing is that that cloud was emitted in the first second or two of the North Tower’s collapse—before much momentum was gained. At that point, concrete slabs would be hitting one another at the momentum of 30 miles per hour at best. It should be noted that the first dust clouds came from far above the plane impact zones. According to the official theory, laid out in Popular Mechanics, the pan caking should have begun with the first floor above the impact zone. Yet, observers noticed that the collapse of the South Tower began well below the impact zone.
The dust or powder appeared within ten seconds of the collapse. No one has proven it was produced by mechanical means. That leaves the possibility of explosives.
Aside from the three WTC buildings, no other buildings framed with structural steel have ever, anywhere, come completely down as a result of fire. . Why did it happen this time? Frank Di Martini, an engineer at the WTC, said the buildings were designed to withstand airplanes crashing into them.
The melting point of steel is 2700 degrees. A jet fuel fire cannot exceed 1800 degrees. The fires dispersed fairly quickly and were not intense at any given spots for very long. Experts think that at some places it as 1300 degrees for a period. Sophisticated advocates of the official “pancake” theory avoid saying the steel melted. Rather, it buckled and somehow always buckled in directions to facilitate a perfect pancake- like effect
Even if this were true, one would expect something other than what resulted, piles of debris a few stories high. Even if the jet fuel fires somehow defied the laws of physics and got up to 2700 degrees, they would not explain the molten steel found in the pits. Burning steel does not bend or break, it runs like a very thick syrup. In the basement of each building there was molten metal that had to be created by something other than burning airplane gasoline. Molten steel is found at demolition sites at points were explosives were used to cut steel. Peter Tully, head of one of the clean-up firms, talked about seeing large pools of molten steel. An engineer said that 21 days after the attack, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running.
In all three buildings concrete was pulverized and steel beams were thrust out horizontally. The energy created by gravity was not enough to accomplish this. Moreover, photographs of the falling buildings show many metal projectiles going out horizontally at great force. This suggests detonations and explosions. According to the pan -caking advocates, the weight of one concrete floor falling onto another will pulverize concrete and send steel beams out horizontally. However, they do not provide a satisfactory explanation of how gravitational energy, which is vertical, could eject beams substantial distances. The horizontal ejection of steel beams is also a characteristic of demolitions. In the World Trade Center, some beams were ejected 500 feet.
ABC News reported a week later that the temperature at the core or pit of the two buildings was 2000 degrees Fahrenheit on September 18. . Six weeks later, the firemen thought the temperature at the core was about 1500 degrees. In perfect conditions, jet fuel can burn at 1520 degrees. That is not enough to melt steel. The pictures of the burning towers show heavy black smoke, indicating that the fires were oxygen deprived. That means that the gasoline was burning at considerably less than 1500 degrees. Yet, weeks after the attack, molten steel was found in the three buildings. So called “meteorites” were also found, fusions of steel and concrete. Months later, in February, 2002, a crane removed a beam that had dripping molten steel. There was something far more powerful than imperfectly burning aviation fuel.
One sign of controlled demolitions is that the buildings come straight down. To achieve this result, the demolition has to be very thoroughly planned. On 9/11 the buildings in the World Trade Complex came down with this kind of precision, but we are asked to believe this occurred purely by happenstance. The two largest buildings, each 110 stories, came down in a way that perfectly mimicked controlled demolitions.
Buildings brought down by demolition come down at almost free fall speed because the support structures on the lower floors had been taken out first, eliminating resistance to what was coming down from above. If the official “pancake” theory were true, the lower floors would have been there in some form or other to complicate and slow the fall of the higher floors, most effected by damage from fire and plane crashes.
FEMA scientists observed that the transmission tower atop the World Trade Tower shifted and began to move downward before there was any observable movement in the building below it. If the core columns were somehow cut first, this makes sense. This cannot be explained according to the pancake theory.
The top block of thirty-four floors on the top of the South Tower behaved strangely. They tipped and rotated toward the part of the building damaged by the plane. That part is not odd. But then the rotation stopped and they went straight down. According to the law of the conservation of angular momentum they should have kept going and ended up well outside the footprint of the building. The law continues that the angular motion would stop only if the object was acted upon by some torque. Then it gets stranger still; it then became powder in mid air, creating a huge white cloud.
If no explosives were used, neither tower should have come down in a pancake like manner. The South Tower should have toppled toward the corner where it was hit.
The dust or powder appeared within ten seconds of the collapse. No one has proven it was produced by mechanical means. That leaves the possibility of explosives.
Aside from the three WTC buildings, no other buildings framed with structural steel have ever, anywhere, come completely down as a result of fire. . Why did it happen this time? Frank Di Martini, an engineer at the WTC, said the buildings were designed to withstand airplanes crashing into them.
The melting point of steel is 2700 degrees. A jet fuel fire cannot exceed 1800 degrees. The fires dispersed fairly quickly and were not intense at any given spots for very long. Experts think that at some places it as 1300 degrees for a period. Sophisticated advocates of the official “pancake” theory avoid saying the steel melted. Rather, it buckled and somehow always buckled in directions to facilitate a perfect pancake- like effect
Even if this were true, one would expect something other than what resulted, piles of debris a few stories high. Even if the jet fuel fires somehow defied the laws of physics and got up to 2700 degrees, they would not explain the molten steel found in the pits. Burning steel does not bend or break, it runs like a very thick syrup. In the basement of each building there was molten metal that had to be created by something other than burning airplane gasoline. Molten steel is found at demolition sites at points were explosives were used to cut steel. Peter Tully, head of one of the clean-up firms, talked about seeing large pools of molten steel. An engineer said that 21 days after the attack, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running.
In all three buildings concrete was pulverized and steel beams were thrust out horizontally. The energy created by gravity was not enough to accomplish this. Moreover, photographs of the falling buildings show many metal projectiles going out horizontally at great force. This suggests detonations and explosions. According to the pan -caking advocates, the weight of one concrete floor falling onto another will pulverize concrete and send steel beams out horizontally. However, they do not provide a satisfactory explanation of how gravitational energy, which is vertical, could eject beams substantial distances. The horizontal ejection of steel beams is also a characteristic of demolitions. In the World Trade Center, some beams were ejected 500 feet.
ABC News reported a week later that the temperature at the core or pit of the two buildings was 2000 degrees Fahrenheit on September 18. . Six weeks later, the firemen thought the temperature at the core was about 1500 degrees. In perfect conditions, jet fuel can burn at 1520 degrees. That is not enough to melt steel. The pictures of the burning towers show heavy black smoke, indicating that the fires were oxygen deprived. That means that the gasoline was burning at considerably less than 1500 degrees. Yet, weeks after the attack, molten steel was found in the three buildings. So called “meteorites” were also found, fusions of steel and concrete. Months later, in February, 2002, a crane removed a beam that had dripping molten steel. There was something far more powerful than imperfectly burning aviation fuel.
One sign of controlled demolitions is that the buildings come straight down. To achieve this result, the demolition has to be very thoroughly planned. On 9/11 the buildings in the World Trade Complex came down with this kind of precision, but we are asked to believe this occurred purely by happenstance. The two largest buildings, each 110 stories, came down in a way that perfectly mimicked controlled demolitions.
Buildings brought down by demolition come down at almost free fall speed because the support structures on the lower floors had been taken out first, eliminating resistance to what was coming down from above. If the official “pancake” theory were true, the lower floors would have been there in some form or other to complicate and slow the fall of the higher floors, most effected by damage from fire and plane crashes.
FEMA scientists observed that the transmission tower atop the World Trade Tower shifted and began to move downward before there was any observable movement in the building below it. If the core columns were somehow cut first, this makes sense. This cannot be explained according to the pancake theory.
The top block of thirty-four floors on the top of the South Tower behaved strangely. They tipped and rotated toward the part of the building damaged by the plane. That part is not odd. But then the rotation stopped and they went straight down. According to the law of the conservation of angular momentum they should have kept going and ended up well outside the footprint of the building. The law continues that the angular motion would stop only if the object was acted upon by some torque. Then it gets stranger still; it then became powder in mid air, creating a huge white cloud.
If no explosives were used, neither tower should have come down in a pancake like manner. The South Tower should have toppled toward the corner where it was hit.
Monday, May 10, 2010
The WTC& 9/11: Part Two
100 New York firemen have said that they heard explosions and saw flashes. A court ordered 10,000 pages of oral history released in 2005. Adjunct Fire Lieutenant Paul Isaac said: "There were definitely bombs in those buildings..." Isaac added: "...many other firemen know there were bombs in the buildings, but they're afraid for their jobs to admit it because the 'higher-ups' forbid discussion of this fact” He continued, "It's amazing how many people are afraid to talk for fear of retaliation or losing their jobs," regarding the FBI gag order placed on law enforcement and fire department officials, preventing them from openly talking about any inside knowledge of 9-11.Battalion Chief Brian Dixon recalled, “the lowest floor of fire in the south tower actually looked like someone had planted explosives around it because . . . everything blew out on the one floor"
Here are the words of Lou Cacchioli , another fireman
...there were bombs...elevator doors completely blown out... we heard this huge explosion that sounded like a bomb... another huge explosion like the first one hits.... Oh. My God, these bastards put bombs in here like they did in 1993! Then as soon as we get in the stairwell, I hear another huge explosion like the other two. Then I heard bang, bang, bang - huge bangs... .
William "Willy" Rodriguez, a janitor in the WTC1, said he escaped from the basement after hearing a huge explosion go off several subbasements below him. He said he heard the explosion just before the plane hit.
In one short period everything we knew about steel and concrete was demolished, perhaps because the terrorists were such marvelous scientists. Expert after expert expressed their astonishment and then quickly agreed with the official theory—which were brand new. It was that the fires made pancake-line inevitable. There could have been as much as 24,000 gallons of jet fuel burning in each building. The basic claim of the official theory is that nothing could withstand being melted by such intense heat. The problem is that the maximum temperature the fire could have been at was about 1100 degrees below the level at which steel begins to melt. Another problem with the conventional view is that the fireballs were gone after about ten minutes. How long did maximum temperatures prevail?
Steel-framed buildings had never come down like this before. To wonder if there were other explanations rendered one an outrageous conspiracy theorist. The problem was, however, that the towers were designed to withstand the kind of impact that 767s would bring. A WTC design engineer, Hyman Brown, said: “They were over-designed to withstand almost anything, including hurricanes, . . . bombings and an airplane hitting [them]” Maybe the designers miscalculated stress equations. Even so, would the buildings have come down so neatly? Even the studies that support the official theory do not claim that the core columns were subjected to intense heat. In each core, there were 47 massive steel columns. Maybe some of the peripheral columns were subjected to such heat that they began to buckle. This is a theory—certainly not a scientific fact. There is some evidence that some of the core columns may have buckled. That could not have happened unless they were somehow taken out from below.
In addition, each floor in these 110 floor buildings were supported by a total of 287 columns. Each was supposed to be crushed instantly as the buildings went down in symmetrical fashion. Each building had a steel support network of 100,000 tons or more. They collapsed as though the steel were not there.
The pancake theory does not account for the fact that existing steel beams and other structures on the floors below the collapsing floors should have slowed up or impeded the serial collapsing of the floors. The resistance should have been greater because there were these support structures in place. After the first floors collapsed there should have been a loss of momentum and energy. That is to say there should have been a decrease in gravitational acceleration, but there was not. To collapse at free fall speed, the floors below the falling ones had to be removed, as well as their supporting structures. It is an application of the theory of the Conservation of Momentum. “Free fall” means falling through thin air.
Three large buildings in the World Trade Center collapsed, two in a matter of ten to fifteen seconds. Before this, modern building built around steel beams had ever collapsed completely .To fall at that rate, it would have been necessary to remove the floors as objects of resistance. If each floor offered just a second of resistance, the time would have been 37.5 + 10
There were two major explanations for why the steel skeleton of the buildings collapsed. (1) They were secured by single bolt connections that popped, and (2) the intense fire caused by burning fuel caused them to melt. An MIT team said that the single bolt connections did not secure the floor trusses. Assuming all the bolts could be melted, they would have to be melted at exactly the same time for the buildings to come down like decks of cards, as they did.
In the middle of each tower, were many steel beams clustered together around many elevator shafts. The Kean Commission Report inadvertently said the core simply was hollow except for elevators and stairwells. This gave the wrong impression, as there were many steel pillars in the middle, comprising 47 huge pillars. These inner cores were rectangular. This is what has been called the “tube within a tube” design. Even in high winds, the top sways less than three feet. When the buildings went up in the seventies, the rule was that a structure should handle three times the maximum load that could be placed upon it.
The buildings were surrounded by 240 interlinked “box” or outer columns. The official theory is that they could not have impeded the collapse the least little bit. Therer was no forensic testing and the metal was swiftly hauled away.
Pictures of the South Tower show that the upper floors broke off as a unit and somehow slid right down where the rest of the rectangular core should have been, unless it had all melted at once. Two people who were in the area of the South Tower were 78th –80th floor area the plane hit did not see a roaring inferno. They saw flames licking up but not fireballs.
Here are the words of Lou Cacchioli , another fireman
...there were bombs...elevator doors completely blown out... we heard this huge explosion that sounded like a bomb... another huge explosion like the first one hits.... Oh. My God, these bastards put bombs in here like they did in 1993! Then as soon as we get in the stairwell, I hear another huge explosion like the other two. Then I heard bang, bang, bang - huge bangs... .
William "Willy" Rodriguez, a janitor in the WTC1, said he escaped from the basement after hearing a huge explosion go off several subbasements below him. He said he heard the explosion just before the plane hit.
In one short period everything we knew about steel and concrete was demolished, perhaps because the terrorists were such marvelous scientists. Expert after expert expressed their astonishment and then quickly agreed with the official theory—which were brand new. It was that the fires made pancake-line inevitable. There could have been as much as 24,000 gallons of jet fuel burning in each building. The basic claim of the official theory is that nothing could withstand being melted by such intense heat. The problem is that the maximum temperature the fire could have been at was about 1100 degrees below the level at which steel begins to melt. Another problem with the conventional view is that the fireballs were gone after about ten minutes. How long did maximum temperatures prevail?
Steel-framed buildings had never come down like this before. To wonder if there were other explanations rendered one an outrageous conspiracy theorist. The problem was, however, that the towers were designed to withstand the kind of impact that 767s would bring. A WTC design engineer, Hyman Brown, said: “They were over-designed to withstand almost anything, including hurricanes, . . . bombings and an airplane hitting [them]” Maybe the designers miscalculated stress equations. Even so, would the buildings have come down so neatly? Even the studies that support the official theory do not claim that the core columns were subjected to intense heat. In each core, there were 47 massive steel columns. Maybe some of the peripheral columns were subjected to such heat that they began to buckle. This is a theory—certainly not a scientific fact. There is some evidence that some of the core columns may have buckled. That could not have happened unless they were somehow taken out from below.
In addition, each floor in these 110 floor buildings were supported by a total of 287 columns. Each was supposed to be crushed instantly as the buildings went down in symmetrical fashion. Each building had a steel support network of 100,000 tons or more. They collapsed as though the steel were not there.
The pancake theory does not account for the fact that existing steel beams and other structures on the floors below the collapsing floors should have slowed up or impeded the serial collapsing of the floors. The resistance should have been greater because there were these support structures in place. After the first floors collapsed there should have been a loss of momentum and energy. That is to say there should have been a decrease in gravitational acceleration, but there was not. To collapse at free fall speed, the floors below the falling ones had to be removed, as well as their supporting structures. It is an application of the theory of the Conservation of Momentum. “Free fall” means falling through thin air.
Three large buildings in the World Trade Center collapsed, two in a matter of ten to fifteen seconds. Before this, modern building built around steel beams had ever collapsed completely .To fall at that rate, it would have been necessary to remove the floors as objects of resistance. If each floor offered just a second of resistance, the time would have been 37.5 + 10
There were two major explanations for why the steel skeleton of the buildings collapsed. (1) They were secured by single bolt connections that popped, and (2) the intense fire caused by burning fuel caused them to melt. An MIT team said that the single bolt connections did not secure the floor trusses. Assuming all the bolts could be melted, they would have to be melted at exactly the same time for the buildings to come down like decks of cards, as they did.
In the middle of each tower, were many steel beams clustered together around many elevator shafts. The Kean Commission Report inadvertently said the core simply was hollow except for elevators and stairwells. This gave the wrong impression, as there were many steel pillars in the middle, comprising 47 huge pillars. These inner cores were rectangular. This is what has been called the “tube within a tube” design. Even in high winds, the top sways less than three feet. When the buildings went up in the seventies, the rule was that a structure should handle three times the maximum load that could be placed upon it.
The buildings were surrounded by 240 interlinked “box” or outer columns. The official theory is that they could not have impeded the collapse the least little bit. Therer was no forensic testing and the metal was swiftly hauled away.
Pictures of the South Tower show that the upper floors broke off as a unit and somehow slid right down where the rest of the rectangular core should have been, unless it had all melted at once. Two people who were in the area of the South Tower were 78th –80th floor area the plane hit did not see a roaring inferno. They saw flames licking up but not fireballs.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
WTC&9/11: Part One
The WTC
In 1971, The American Society of Civil Engineers gave an award for excellence to the people who built the World Trade Towers. They noted the unusual strength of the buildings and said that "the World Trade Center towers would have an inherent capacity to resist unforeseen calamities." With the collapse of those towers, we are now hearing how poorly they were built from people who depend upon government contracts to make a living. We were told that the gasoline burned so hot that the steel in the towers turned to licorice. The number of gallons involved were greatly inflated. In 2004, Underwriters Laboratories tested the pancake theory with a model and found that nothing collapsed, but the National Institute of Standards and Technology repeated its defense of the pancake theory in 2005. Some believe that if the pancake theory had any validity, it would have resulted in the 47 interconnected towers in the core still standing with the rest of the buildings gone.
Here is information on the exterior walls of the World Trade Center. Keep in mind that there was a powerfully built inner core in each building.
The North Tower was struck at 8:45 and the South Tower at 9:03. The South Tower was hit near a corner, which should mean that less damage was done. Yet it fell before the North Tower, which sustained more damage. Captain Gregory M. Zeigler, Ph.D., a former intelligence officer said:
I knew from September 18, 2001, that the official story about 9/11 was false. That was when I realized that the perpetrators had made a colossal blunder in collapsing the South Tower first, rather than the North Tower, which had been hit more directly and earlier.
Until now, no one has ever been able to get jet fuel to melt steel and concrete. The picture of the first tower, when the second was struck , showed that the flames had died down quite a bit. Yet the North Tower collapsed at 10:29. There was no prior indication of lower floor stress or damage. There were no lower floor fires, blow outs, or broken glass. There were few signs of stress on the lower floors of the South Tower. Most of the fuel was expended when the planes hit their targets, with much of it spilled outside the buildings. The 911 Commission flatly stated that the cores of the towers were hollow. This simply is not true. This construction picture shows that the core was made of steel. The pancake theory of how they collapsed is also based on the misinformation about a hollow core.
Both buildings were built with the assistance of computers to provide greatest possible protection against stress. When the hollow shell/pancake theory was demolished, it was replaced by the theory that the building was inadequately fire proofed, thus allowing the fire to spread and consume everything. Some experts think such buildings could only be taken down with pre-planted explosives.
There was less fuel in the second plane, but the South Tower went down in 47 minutes. There was about 200,000 tons of steel in each building. The accounts of people hearing great explosions and seeing flashes that day are numerous. The New York Fire Department took 500 interviews, but the Bloomberg administration refused to release any of them until 2005 when litigation forced some releases.
In 1971, The American Society of Civil Engineers gave an award for excellence to the people who built the World Trade Towers. They noted the unusual strength of the buildings and said that "the World Trade Center towers would have an inherent capacity to resist unforeseen calamities." With the collapse of those towers, we are now hearing how poorly they were built from people who depend upon government contracts to make a living. We were told that the gasoline burned so hot that the steel in the towers turned to licorice. The number of gallons involved were greatly inflated. In 2004, Underwriters Laboratories tested the pancake theory with a model and found that nothing collapsed, but the National Institute of Standards and Technology repeated its defense of the pancake theory in 2005. Some believe that if the pancake theory had any validity, it would have resulted in the 47 interconnected towers in the core still standing with the rest of the buildings gone.
Here is information on the exterior walls of the World Trade Center. Keep in mind that there was a powerfully built inner core in each building.
The North Tower was struck at 8:45 and the South Tower at 9:03. The South Tower was hit near a corner, which should mean that less damage was done. Yet it fell before the North Tower, which sustained more damage. Captain Gregory M. Zeigler, Ph.D., a former intelligence officer said:
I knew from September 18, 2001, that the official story about 9/11 was false. That was when I realized that the perpetrators had made a colossal blunder in collapsing the South Tower first, rather than the North Tower, which had been hit more directly and earlier.
Until now, no one has ever been able to get jet fuel to melt steel and concrete. The picture of the first tower, when the second was struck , showed that the flames had died down quite a bit. Yet the North Tower collapsed at 10:29. There was no prior indication of lower floor stress or damage. There were no lower floor fires, blow outs, or broken glass. There were few signs of stress on the lower floors of the South Tower. Most of the fuel was expended when the planes hit their targets, with much of it spilled outside the buildings. The 911 Commission flatly stated that the cores of the towers were hollow. This simply is not true. This construction picture shows that the core was made of steel. The pancake theory of how they collapsed is also based on the misinformation about a hollow core.
Both buildings were built with the assistance of computers to provide greatest possible protection against stress. When the hollow shell/pancake theory was demolished, it was replaced by the theory that the building was inadequately fire proofed, thus allowing the fire to spread and consume everything. Some experts think such buildings could only be taken down with pre-planted explosives.
There was less fuel in the second plane, but the South Tower went down in 47 minutes. There was about 200,000 tons of steel in each building. The accounts of people hearing great explosions and seeing flashes that day are numerous. The New York Fire Department took 500 interviews, but the Bloomberg administration refused to release any of them until 2005 when litigation forced some releases.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
NORAD and 9/11
Robin Hordon, an experienced air traffic controller bluntly claimed, “There is absolutely no way that four large commercial airliners could have flown around off course for 30 to 60 minutes on 9/11 without being intercepted and shot completely out of the sky by our jet fighters unless very highly placed people in our government and our military wanted it to happen.”
There were two jets that made it to New York just as the first hijacked plane went into the Twin Towers. They had expended a great deal of fuel getting there and needed to be refueled. There seems to have been no effort to assess the extent to which the exercises planned for that day made response difficult. There was no plan in place to deal with an air attack on the United States. Time elapsed as the traffic controllers verified that they were dealing with a hijacking, then hijackings. Northeast Air Defense Sector of NORAD was aware of a likely hijacking of Flight 11 at 8:20. Boston lost valuable time trying to get help from Atlanta, which was no longer involved in plans for tracking efforts. Then a decision had to be made to contact NORAD, and within NORAD, there had to be conversations between at least three levels of authority. It is clear that they had trouble trying to round up F-16s and even had to seek them in Toledo, Ohio.
North American Aerospace Defense Command Air Force Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart told the 9/11 commission that NORAD could have shot down the hijacked planes had it been notified by NORAD. What either the FAA or NORAD actually did is unclear. There was a standing policy that jets already in the air routinely escort commercial liners that lose radio or transponder contact with control towers. Between September 2000 and June 2001, military aircraft had dealt with civilian breaches of flying regulations 67 times. On June 1, 2001, the Pentagon established new orders for how this was to be done , and the Secretary of Defense was even inserted in the process. There was a long standing policy of shooting down hijacked planes and those thought to be hijacked. This protocol ended the shoot-down policy and replaced it with a stand down policy that could be changed in each instance by the President, Vice Prewsident or Secretary of Defense.
One Boston Center controller said that FAA notified NORAD after it first lost communications with the first plane to be hijacked. A few minutes were lost before the FAA notified NORAD, and the information then went up three levels, one at a time. Sorting through all sorts of contradictory testimony, the 9/11 Commission investigators thought that NORAD learned about the hijacking just 9 minutes before Flight 77 ( N644AA) hit the Pentagon. One would wonder if any military people were looking at their screens or listening to the radio or tv.
Attempting to find out why NORAD did not respond effectively is nearly impossible. It is likely that the FAA was using Ptech software. To interact with the Air Force. For two years personnel from Ptech and their Ptech software had been in the basement of the FAA looking into how well the FAA and Air Force communicate with one another. An accused Al Qaeda bagman was associated with that firm. Later, when the FBI sought to probe the matter, Justice Criminal Division head Michael Chertoff intervened to derail the probe .
At one point in its deliberations, the official 9/11 commission was so alarmed by the many contradictions in the Defense Departments explanations that it considered asking the department of Justice to investigate (Post, Aug 2, 2006). In the end it simply referred its concerns to the Department’s inspector general. So many stories were floated that it is hard to keep them straight. First it was said that no planes went up until after the Pentagon was hit. The next claim was they were scrambled sooner but it was too late.
Major General Larry K. Arnold , who ran NORAD’s responses to the attacks, appears to have misled the commission. He said that NORAD learned about the lost American Airlines Flight 77, which hit the Pentgon, at 9:24, and added that it was distracted then because it was concerned with United Flight 93, which would eventually go down in Pennsylvania. Arnold said that he and “my own staff, we were orbiting over Washington D.C., by this time, and I was personally anxious to see what 93 was going to do, and our intent was to intercept it.” The fact was that NORAD command knew nothing about United 93 until after it had crashed.
When NORAD turned over information to the commission, it neglected to provide any tapes from traffic monitoring stations. When the commission’s investigators learned that those tapes existed, NORAD and the DOD at first refused to turn them over. For a time the staff director , who had friends at the Pentagon, seemed to support issuing a subpoena while also appearing to maneuver to derail that process. Eventually, the commission had to issue the subpoenas, but valuable months of research were lost.
On Tim Russert’s “Meet the Press,” Vice President Cheney said that the FAA had an open line with the White House as soon as the first plane struck. ( at about 8:46) IF the FAA was in communication with the White House by then, it clearly had time and capability to be in touch with NORAD by then. By 9:15, Richard Clarke was holding a teleconference with the Pentagon and FAA. Yet we hear that planes still could not be scrambled because there was no way for the FAA and the military to communicate.
Early in the Bush administration, in May 2001, Vice President Cheney was assigned oversight of NORAD and control of all drills and war games. Some involved simulated airline hijackings, and the games involved placing false blims on controllers’ radar screens. At the time of the attacks, Cheney was controlling the war games in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. He was most probably working through a very top secret computer network called PDAS ( the meaning of which is unkinown). About a hundred people have access to it, and it is reached from about sventy terminals. There were only eight fighters available to the NY-DC area, and the blips seemed to paralyze an effective response. Many planes had been diverted to Alaska and Canada. Only one exercise was mentioned in the 9/11 Commission report footnote.
On 9/11 NORAD, along with elements under Central Command, was training on how to deal with planes crashing into important buildings. NORAD was simulating multiple hijackings on 9/11 Radar screens were showing up to 22 hijacked airliners. This was one of five or six training exercises were going on that day. In Operation Northern Vigilance ( Vigilant Guardian), jets were moved from the east coast to Canada and Alaska. One was the annual testing of Global Guardian, the system that coordinates use of the nuclear arsenal. In the Global Guardian of 1999, the system reacted to airplanes being used to crash into the World Trade Center—something the Bush administration claimed had been unthinkable. In March, a military paper reported it had been scheduled for October 2001. In Tripod II, a biowarfare exercise, FEMA staff were prepositioned in New York City on September 10. In another, F-16s were simulating bombing runs near Atlantic City.
Some might find the fact that multiple war games and disaster drills were planned for that day a “bizarre coincidence.” One of the people coordinating these activities was John Fulton of the Reconnaissance Office. His expertise was in satellite data and very sophisticated global positioning systems, or the’smart GPS.” Another figure with similar expertise was Under Secretary of the Air Force Peter B. Teets, who could report directly to the Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence.
According to Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, Vice President Richard Cheney was already in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. They knew a hijacked plane was approaching Washington, and someone was announcing that it was 50 miles out, then 30, and then. Cheney was operating a command, control, and communications center that could override the National Military Command Center (NMCC) and the White House situation room.
On a television interview, Cheney said that through a standing arrangement the Secret Service had open lines with the FAA immediately after the World Trade Center was hit. This means that Cheney would have known about the strike almost immediately. NORAD claimed it had no knowledge of the hits for some time—something that is very hard to believe. 10. A young man asked Cheney “do the orders still stand?’ and Cheney whipped his neck around and said “Of course, the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary?” There is no way to determine what this meant. Did it mean should the training exercises continue? Was there a standing order that the plane should not be shut down? Mineta’s testimony about what went on in that room was not included in the 9/11 Commission report, which said that Cheney was rushed to the PEOC when after the attacks began. After the Pentagon was hit, Cheney was moved to another bunker.
Perhaps the exercises occupied so many jets that nothing could be done about the hijackers. Some argue that the multiple (9) war games occurring at once created so much confusion that NORAD could not respond to a real threat. In fact, the US has intercept procedures that work flawlessly about 100 times a year. The evidence seems to indicate that NORAD stood down that day for exercises. Why couldn’t the exercises have been interrupted to intercept these planes. If the US intercept procedures had been in place only a few years, it might be understandable why a complete and unalterable stand down was needed. One of the exercises was Vigilant Guardian,” which should have had the effect of shortening response times, as the planes and pilots were on the ready.
There is some confusion about whether Andrews Air Force Base was capable of defending Washington on September 11. Normally two units of fighter jets --the 121st Fighter Squadron and the 321st Marine Fighter Attack Squadron . The day after the attack, the Base removed those two units from its web site, only to subsequently restore them.
Some airplane parts were found near the World Trade Center. Those parts are numbered and time-tracked, so it would be possible to prove once and for all that they came off the planes said to have hit the towers. That would dispose of some of the outrageous theories that some sort of constructs, looking like Boeings, hit the towers. But if the FBI released that information, it would also have to be as precise about material found at the Pentagon. For whatever reason, full data on parts at the three locations has not been released.
There were two jets that made it to New York just as the first hijacked plane went into the Twin Towers. They had expended a great deal of fuel getting there and needed to be refueled. There seems to have been no effort to assess the extent to which the exercises planned for that day made response difficult. There was no plan in place to deal with an air attack on the United States. Time elapsed as the traffic controllers verified that they were dealing with a hijacking, then hijackings. Northeast Air Defense Sector of NORAD was aware of a likely hijacking of Flight 11 at 8:20. Boston lost valuable time trying to get help from Atlanta, which was no longer involved in plans for tracking efforts. Then a decision had to be made to contact NORAD, and within NORAD, there had to be conversations between at least three levels of authority. It is clear that they had trouble trying to round up F-16s and even had to seek them in Toledo, Ohio.
North American Aerospace Defense Command Air Force Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart told the 9/11 commission that NORAD could have shot down the hijacked planes had it been notified by NORAD. What either the FAA or NORAD actually did is unclear. There was a standing policy that jets already in the air routinely escort commercial liners that lose radio or transponder contact with control towers. Between September 2000 and June 2001, military aircraft had dealt with civilian breaches of flying regulations 67 times. On June 1, 2001, the Pentagon established new orders for how this was to be done , and the Secretary of Defense was even inserted in the process. There was a long standing policy of shooting down hijacked planes and those thought to be hijacked. This protocol ended the shoot-down policy and replaced it with a stand down policy that could be changed in each instance by the President, Vice Prewsident or Secretary of Defense.
One Boston Center controller said that FAA notified NORAD after it first lost communications with the first plane to be hijacked. A few minutes were lost before the FAA notified NORAD, and the information then went up three levels, one at a time. Sorting through all sorts of contradictory testimony, the 9/11 Commission investigators thought that NORAD learned about the hijacking just 9 minutes before Flight 77 ( N644AA) hit the Pentagon. One would wonder if any military people were looking at their screens or listening to the radio or tv.
Attempting to find out why NORAD did not respond effectively is nearly impossible. It is likely that the FAA was using Ptech software. To interact with the Air Force. For two years personnel from Ptech and their Ptech software had been in the basement of the FAA looking into how well the FAA and Air Force communicate with one another. An accused Al Qaeda bagman was associated with that firm. Later, when the FBI sought to probe the matter, Justice Criminal Division head Michael Chertoff intervened to derail the probe .
At one point in its deliberations, the official 9/11 commission was so alarmed by the many contradictions in the Defense Departments explanations that it considered asking the department of Justice to investigate (Post, Aug 2, 2006). In the end it simply referred its concerns to the Department’s inspector general. So many stories were floated that it is hard to keep them straight. First it was said that no planes went up until after the Pentagon was hit. The next claim was they were scrambled sooner but it was too late.
Major General Larry K. Arnold , who ran NORAD’s responses to the attacks, appears to have misled the commission. He said that NORAD learned about the lost American Airlines Flight 77, which hit the Pentgon, at 9:24, and added that it was distracted then because it was concerned with United Flight 93, which would eventually go down in Pennsylvania. Arnold said that he and “my own staff, we were orbiting over Washington D.C., by this time, and I was personally anxious to see what 93 was going to do, and our intent was to intercept it.” The fact was that NORAD command knew nothing about United 93 until after it had crashed.
When NORAD turned over information to the commission, it neglected to provide any tapes from traffic monitoring stations. When the commission’s investigators learned that those tapes existed, NORAD and the DOD at first refused to turn them over. For a time the staff director , who had friends at the Pentagon, seemed to support issuing a subpoena while also appearing to maneuver to derail that process. Eventually, the commission had to issue the subpoenas, but valuable months of research were lost.
On Tim Russert’s “Meet the Press,” Vice President Cheney said that the FAA had an open line with the White House as soon as the first plane struck. ( at about 8:46) IF the FAA was in communication with the White House by then, it clearly had time and capability to be in touch with NORAD by then. By 9:15, Richard Clarke was holding a teleconference with the Pentagon and FAA. Yet we hear that planes still could not be scrambled because there was no way for the FAA and the military to communicate.
Early in the Bush administration, in May 2001, Vice President Cheney was assigned oversight of NORAD and control of all drills and war games. Some involved simulated airline hijackings, and the games involved placing false blims on controllers’ radar screens. At the time of the attacks, Cheney was controlling the war games in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. He was most probably working through a very top secret computer network called PDAS ( the meaning of which is unkinown). About a hundred people have access to it, and it is reached from about sventy terminals. There were only eight fighters available to the NY-DC area, and the blips seemed to paralyze an effective response. Many planes had been diverted to Alaska and Canada. Only one exercise was mentioned in the 9/11 Commission report footnote.
On 9/11 NORAD, along with elements under Central Command, was training on how to deal with planes crashing into important buildings. NORAD was simulating multiple hijackings on 9/11 Radar screens were showing up to 22 hijacked airliners. This was one of five or six training exercises were going on that day. In Operation Northern Vigilance ( Vigilant Guardian), jets were moved from the east coast to Canada and Alaska. One was the annual testing of Global Guardian, the system that coordinates use of the nuclear arsenal. In the Global Guardian of 1999, the system reacted to airplanes being used to crash into the World Trade Center—something the Bush administration claimed had been unthinkable. In March, a military paper reported it had been scheduled for October 2001. In Tripod II, a biowarfare exercise, FEMA staff were prepositioned in New York City on September 10. In another, F-16s were simulating bombing runs near Atlantic City.
Some might find the fact that multiple war games and disaster drills were planned for that day a “bizarre coincidence.” One of the people coordinating these activities was John Fulton of the Reconnaissance Office. His expertise was in satellite data and very sophisticated global positioning systems, or the’smart GPS.” Another figure with similar expertise was Under Secretary of the Air Force Peter B. Teets, who could report directly to the Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence.
According to Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, Vice President Richard Cheney was already in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. They knew a hijacked plane was approaching Washington, and someone was announcing that it was 50 miles out, then 30, and then. Cheney was operating a command, control, and communications center that could override the National Military Command Center (NMCC) and the White House situation room.
On a television interview, Cheney said that through a standing arrangement the Secret Service had open lines with the FAA immediately after the World Trade Center was hit. This means that Cheney would have known about the strike almost immediately. NORAD claimed it had no knowledge of the hits for some time—something that is very hard to believe. 10. A young man asked Cheney “do the orders still stand?’ and Cheney whipped his neck around and said “Of course, the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary?” There is no way to determine what this meant. Did it mean should the training exercises continue? Was there a standing order that the plane should not be shut down? Mineta’s testimony about what went on in that room was not included in the 9/11 Commission report, which said that Cheney was rushed to the PEOC when after the attacks began. After the Pentagon was hit, Cheney was moved to another bunker.
Perhaps the exercises occupied so many jets that nothing could be done about the hijackers. Some argue that the multiple (9) war games occurring at once created so much confusion that NORAD could not respond to a real threat. In fact, the US has intercept procedures that work flawlessly about 100 times a year. The evidence seems to indicate that NORAD stood down that day for exercises. Why couldn’t the exercises have been interrupted to intercept these planes. If the US intercept procedures had been in place only a few years, it might be understandable why a complete and unalterable stand down was needed. One of the exercises was Vigilant Guardian,” which should have had the effect of shortening response times, as the planes and pilots were on the ready.
There is some confusion about whether Andrews Air Force Base was capable of defending Washington on September 11. Normally two units of fighter jets --the 121st Fighter Squadron and the 321st Marine Fighter Attack Squadron . The day after the attack, the Base removed those two units from its web site, only to subsequently restore them.
Some airplane parts were found near the World Trade Center. Those parts are numbered and time-tracked, so it would be possible to prove once and for all that they came off the planes said to have hit the towers. That would dispose of some of the outrageous theories that some sort of constructs, looking like Boeings, hit the towers. But if the FBI released that information, it would also have to be as precise about material found at the Pentagon. For whatever reason, full data on parts at the three locations has not been released.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Insider Trading before 9/11?
After 9/11 it turned out there extraordinarily suspicious stock transactions in airline stock in Chicago, and far more elsewhere. It was limited to two airlines. Some of them were traced back to Deutschbank and a man working for it who had once occupied a high CIA post. An examination of trades for the ten trading days before the event showed an extraordinarily large number of put options on firms that would be crippled: American Airlines, United Airlines, Morgan Stanley, and Dean Witter, the last two occupying 22 stories in the WTC. Trading in the Chicago Exchange on the two airlines hit record levels.
Dylan Ratigan of Bloomberg Business News said, "This is the worst case of insider trading ever." According to Herzliyah, the Interdisciplinary Policy Institute located in Israel, the Chicago Board of Trade on September 6 and 7 had the purchases of 4744 United Air Lines put options a and only 396 call options. These Israeli analysts think the illegal profits worldwide were in the neighborhood of $12 million dollars. Other put the potential profits in the tens of millions. CBS News put the number at $100,000,000. Either way, this means that individual intelligence agents were making the investments, not their agencies. On the other hand, Andreas Von Bulow, a former German parliament member who had experience overseeing the intelligence services, thought the profits could have run into the billions. That would mean that security services were involved. There is also speculation that Al Qaeda could have made some of the investments. A “put” is a promise to sell the stock at some future date. In these cases, people are selling at the current price, but selling short, meaning they do not have the stock on hand. “Call” options are another matter. There also was unusual trade in “call options” in stocks that could profit by a national security disaster, especially one that could result in deployment of the military.
On September 10, there were 4516 put options on American Air Lines –actually AMR, its parent-- and 748 call options on various markets. That was 85% of the whole day’s options activities. . The put contracts could be leveraged up to 450,000 shares. The volume of puts on the two airlines in New York was far greater. The level of trade on these two airlines was up 1200%. On September 29, the San Francisco Chronicle noted that $2.5 million worth of these profits had not been claimed.
Similar unusual trade patters occurred in the stocks of European reinsurance companies, such as AXA and RE of Germany and Switzerland, firms that were indirectly covering the airlines. Barons reported that 2500 puts were purchased through Deutsch Bank and split into 500 pieces and then multiply processed through exchanges around the world.
We know that Al Qaeda had $1,000,000 in ten accounts at Deutsch Bank. If this was the extent of Al Qaeda funds there, it would be hard to sustain the theory that it partly paid for its operation by selling short the two airlines. Another problem is that a terrorist operation of the scope of 9/11 would require a great deal of expensive preparatory activity.
Some theorize that Deutsch Bank itself could have been involved in the speculation to shore up weak divisions. Those who argue this note that its Bankers Trust division in the United States had been speculating with unclaimed accounts funds in the 1990s and that the parent bank and BT has strong ties to the intelligence community. They add to this the then recent conviction of former Deutsch Bank trader Kevin Iungram, who was convicted of money laundering in connection with his illicit arms trade deals with Pakistan and perhaps Al Qaeda.
The SEC report showed that a group of Israeli investors were selling short 38 stocks that would likely fall as a result of such an attack. But the great volume of short selling came from other places. European and Israeli investigators found that the UAL put options were largely held by Deutsche Bank-A.B. Brown. Until 1998, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard , the third in command at the CIA ran A.B. Brown. Krongard was also tied to Blackwater, a firm that is playing a major role in buying up distressed assets in 2009 through a program devised by Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, a former Blackwater man.
Before Krongard, other CIA officials were go
ing back and forth between the agency and big investment banks. John Deutsch, former head of the agency, serves on the board of Citigroup or Citibanc. Nora Slatkin , James Wolsey’s Number Three is also with Citigroup and Maurice "Hank" Greenburg, then head of AIG, was almost appointed by Clinton to head the CIA. We don’t know what the CIA does with t hese banks, but the relationship is clear. The Church Committee in 1976 revealled that there are CIA owned companies, proprietaries, whose stock is traded on Wall Street. Another way to look at this is to note that CIA people are well enough embedded in the Wall Street community that they must have known about the unusual activity in airline stock. We also know that PROMIS software has long been used to monitor such unusual trading. A CIA official said the agency did not monitor transactions within the United States because that would be illegal. He said he could not say whether it monitored foreign transactions. It is known that major intelligence agencies use a government operation called ECHELON to have sister agencies do their domestic spying for them. A Toronto police officer told the Sun on November 1, 2001 that PROMIS could be used to pull up transactions by by a person’s name On October 17, 2001 Department of Justice and FBI spokespersons said that they had discontinued using PROMIS software. This is particularly interesting because their lawyers have repeatedly stated in court that they had never used PROMIS.
All major markets have computerized market surveillance systems that would immediately find and report unusual spikes and trading and put out their findings through what is called “blue sheeting.” This means that the investigators at the BCOT and elsewhere have long known exactly who engaged in the unusual trade. The only people who do do not know is the general public. The FBI, probably using this data, investrigated the suspicious trade patterns and found that no one taking out put options had any inside knowledge.
In July and August of 2001, there was an extraordinary surge in currency component of M1, the money supply outside the banks. The surge was $5 billion more than likely surges for a two month period. This could mean that some people withdrew money out of frear that some catastrophe would endanger their investments. This was the third largest surge since 1947. Perhaps some of this money was being moved by terrorists. Footnote 28 of the 9/11 Commission staff report on terrorist financing says that the National Money-laundering Strategy Report of 2001 does not mention terrorist money-laundering. In fact, the subject comes up 17 times in that 50 page document. This assertion se3ems to support the low budget terrorism story line and the notion that small transactions cannot be monitored.
On September 17, 2002, CBS’s “Sixty Minutes reported that several people close to George W. Bush sold their airline stock days before 9/11. The story was not followed-up in the mainstream press.
There is one final consideration that may or may not have relevance to putting together the big picture. Senator Carl Levin, in a Februrary 1, 2001 minority report, has shown that about $300 billion in drug revenue goes through the US banking system every year.
Dylan Ratigan of Bloomberg Business News said, "This is the worst case of insider trading ever." According to Herzliyah, the Interdisciplinary Policy Institute located in Israel, the Chicago Board of Trade on September 6 and 7 had the purchases of 4744 United Air Lines put options a and only 396 call options. These Israeli analysts think the illegal profits worldwide were in the neighborhood of $12 million dollars. Other put the potential profits in the tens of millions. CBS News put the number at $100,000,000. Either way, this means that individual intelligence agents were making the investments, not their agencies. On the other hand, Andreas Von Bulow, a former German parliament member who had experience overseeing the intelligence services, thought the profits could have run into the billions. That would mean that security services were involved. There is also speculation that Al Qaeda could have made some of the investments. A “put” is a promise to sell the stock at some future date. In these cases, people are selling at the current price, but selling short, meaning they do not have the stock on hand. “Call” options are another matter. There also was unusual trade in “call options” in stocks that could profit by a national security disaster, especially one that could result in deployment of the military.
On September 10, there were 4516 put options on American Air Lines –actually AMR, its parent-- and 748 call options on various markets. That was 85% of the whole day’s options activities. . The put contracts could be leveraged up to 450,000 shares. The volume of puts on the two airlines in New York was far greater. The level of trade on these two airlines was up 1200%. On September 29, the San Francisco Chronicle noted that $2.5 million worth of these profits had not been claimed.
Similar unusual trade patters occurred in the stocks of European reinsurance companies, such as AXA and RE of Germany and Switzerland, firms that were indirectly covering the airlines. Barons reported that 2500 puts were purchased through Deutsch Bank and split into 500 pieces and then multiply processed through exchanges around the world.
We know that Al Qaeda had $1,000,000 in ten accounts at Deutsch Bank. If this was the extent of Al Qaeda funds there, it would be hard to sustain the theory that it partly paid for its operation by selling short the two airlines. Another problem is that a terrorist operation of the scope of 9/11 would require a great deal of expensive preparatory activity.
Some theorize that Deutsch Bank itself could have been involved in the speculation to shore up weak divisions. Those who argue this note that its Bankers Trust division in the United States had been speculating with unclaimed accounts funds in the 1990s and that the parent bank and BT has strong ties to the intelligence community. They add to this the then recent conviction of former Deutsch Bank trader Kevin Iungram, who was convicted of money laundering in connection with his illicit arms trade deals with Pakistan and perhaps Al Qaeda.
The SEC report showed that a group of Israeli investors were selling short 38 stocks that would likely fall as a result of such an attack. But the great volume of short selling came from other places. European and Israeli investigators found that the UAL put options were largely held by Deutsche Bank-A.B. Brown. Until 1998, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard , the third in command at the CIA ran A.B. Brown. Krongard was also tied to Blackwater, a firm that is playing a major role in buying up distressed assets in 2009 through a program devised by Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, a former Blackwater man.
Before Krongard, other CIA officials were go
ing back and forth between the agency and big investment banks. John Deutsch, former head of the agency, serves on the board of Citigroup or Citibanc. Nora Slatkin , James Wolsey’s Number Three is also with Citigroup and Maurice "Hank" Greenburg, then head of AIG, was almost appointed by Clinton to head the CIA. We don’t know what the CIA does with t hese banks, but the relationship is clear. The Church Committee in 1976 revealled that there are CIA owned companies, proprietaries, whose stock is traded on Wall Street. Another way to look at this is to note that CIA people are well enough embedded in the Wall Street community that they must have known about the unusual activity in airline stock. We also know that PROMIS software has long been used to monitor such unusual trading. A CIA official said the agency did not monitor transactions within the United States because that would be illegal. He said he could not say whether it monitored foreign transactions. It is known that major intelligence agencies use a government operation called ECHELON to have sister agencies do their domestic spying for them. A Toronto police officer told the Sun on November 1, 2001 that PROMIS could be used to pull up transactions by by a person’s name On October 17, 2001 Department of Justice and FBI spokespersons said that they had discontinued using PROMIS software. This is particularly interesting because their lawyers have repeatedly stated in court that they had never used PROMIS.
All major markets have computerized market surveillance systems that would immediately find and report unusual spikes and trading and put out their findings through what is called “blue sheeting.” This means that the investigators at the BCOT and elsewhere have long known exactly who engaged in the unusual trade. The only people who do do not know is the general public. The FBI, probably using this data, investrigated the suspicious trade patterns and found that no one taking out put options had any inside knowledge.
In July and August of 2001, there was an extraordinary surge in currency component of M1, the money supply outside the banks. The surge was $5 billion more than likely surges for a two month period. This could mean that some people withdrew money out of frear that some catastrophe would endanger their investments. This was the third largest surge since 1947. Perhaps some of this money was being moved by terrorists. Footnote 28 of the 9/11 Commission staff report on terrorist financing says that the National Money-laundering Strategy Report of 2001 does not mention terrorist money-laundering. In fact, the subject comes up 17 times in that 50 page document. This assertion se3ems to support the low budget terrorism story line and the notion that small transactions cannot be monitored.
On September 17, 2002, CBS’s “Sixty Minutes reported that several people close to George W. Bush sold their airline stock days before 9/11. The story was not followed-up in the mainstream press.
There is one final consideration that may or may not have relevance to putting together the big picture. Senator Carl Levin, in a Februrary 1, 2001 minority report, has shown that about $300 billion in drug revenue goes through the US banking system every year.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Why Question the Official 9/11 Story: Part Four
There are other details that need to be cleared up. The report says that two of the hijkackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, landed in Los Angeles and eventually made their way to San Diego, where they happened to be locate in an apartment on Mt. Ada Road. It adds that there are no people suspected of helping the hijackers. By comparing the report with an FBI timeline that was later released, it becomes clear that they went directly to the apartment after arriving in the US and tht the apartment was owned by Omar al-Bayoumi ,an employee of a Saudi contractor. In the official story, they ran into Bayoumi in a restaurant some time after coming to San Diego. Now it looks like there was at least a support network of one. The misleading words in the report are probably excusable as the writers wanted to minimize the hijackers ties with Saudi Arabia, America’s close ally. Bayoumi entered the US in 1996 as a student and was on the payroll of a Saudi aviation contractor, receiving $2,800 a month, but there is no evidence he did any work for the firm. In fact, he worked for Dalla Avco, which is tgied to the Saudi Defense ministry, which is run by Prince Bandar’s father, Prince Sultan. Bandar’s wife, it will be recalled, was sending cashiers checks from Riggs Bank to a woman who endorsed many of them to Bayoumi’s wife. After he returned to Saudi Arabia, 9/11 Commission Executive Director Philip Zelikow flew there to interview him.
Two aluminum planes crashed into the World Trade Towers and disappeared without a trace. Maybe this was possible, but someone in government should have offered a good scientific explanation.
On October 24, 2000, the Pentagon simulated a Boeing 757 crashing into that building in an operation called MASCAL.. Yet Condoleezza Rich claimed no one had ever considered such a possibility.
Two months before 9/11, George W. Bush pulled out of a Geno hotel because Al Qaeda was known to be targeting high rise hotels. He was attending a conference of industrialized nations. Later, Condi Rice said no one ever thought they would crash a plane into a building.
After the attack, FEMA spokesman Thomas Kennedy told Dan Rather that the National Urban Search and Rescue Team arrived in New York City on the evening of Monday, September 10, and went to work the next morning. He must have misspoken.
One of the oddities of 9/11 was that someone gave New York police commissioner Bernard Kerick Mohammed Atta’s virtually undamaged passport. It was found a few hours after the crashes in the debris. It was found two blocks from the fireball. Much later, it was reported that it was the passport of Satam al Suqami, not Atta. However, Atta left a car full of incriminating evidence at the Portland International Airport. At the same time, intelligence people talked about finding flight maps in Arabic. Later it turned out that such maps are only printed in English. It is hard to understand the FBI claim that it established the identities of the hijackers by using DNA found at Shanksville, the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.
The FBI released the text of Atta’s written advice to his colleagues. He told them to mention their families in their final prayer to Allah, something no Muslim would do. He also told them to say the Fajr, the first prayer of the day and then wrote it out for them, as though they would not know it!
The FBI quickly provided a full list of the hijackers, but eight months later it admitted it had no solid evidence tying those men to the crime. There were no Arab names on the flight manifests, and it eventually developed that at least three of the named criminals are still alive. ( Eight people in Saudi Arabia and Egypt said the names and pictures provided were of them.)( No revised list of hijackers has been issued. The government has released no security tape showing any of the named hijackers boarding a plane. Later, Robert Mueller said the FBI said lacked solid evidence linking the 19 to the crime. Their names do not appear on pathologists’ reports.
The body of a female flight attendant was found on a Manhattan street with her hands bound.
The BBC and Daily Telegraph have turned up as still alive four of the nineteen people identified by the FBI as hijackers.
The steel from the WTC was removed before it could be carefully studied and shipped to Asia or sold to scrap dealers. This was crime scene evidence that should have been preserved for a reasonable time. FEMA reported that some of the steel was badly corroded by sulfidation, which means explosives were probably involved. The New York Times said that this “perhaps the deepest mystery uncovered in the investigation”
Stratesec ( then Securacom) controlled security at the WTC. From 1993 to 2000, when it installed all sorts of new security equipment, Marvin Bush was on its board of directors, as was Bush’s cousin William Walker III. From 1999 to January 2002, cousin Wirt Walker III was CEO. On September 8-9, 2001 there was a 36 hour period when there was no electricity in the South Tower. No cameras would have been working. Cabling was being upgraded . The Monday after the attack, it was announced that security tapes and maintenance logs had been lost.
Russ Wittenberger, who has flown the planes used on 9/11 said: “I don't believe it's possible for... a so-called terrorist to train on a 172, then jump in a cockpit of a 757-767 class cockpit, and vertical navigate the aircraft, lateral navigate the aircraft, and fly the airplane at speeds exceeding it's design limit speed by well over 100 knots, make high-speed high-banked turns,.. pulling probably 5, 6, 7 G's... I couldn't do it and I'm absolutely positive they couldn't do it."
The official story is that the parts of the planes disintegrated into tiny bits in the World Trade Center buildings, yet some unburned parts of a plane’s exterior were found on top of World Trade Center building 5. Videos also show the plane being absorbed into the South Tower with no deceleration, which seems to defy basic physics. Even if, by some miracle, the buildings exterior dsid not slow down the plane, striking the inner core should have resulted in dramatic deceleration.
John Lear, perhaps the nation’s most skilled civilian pilot said that the pilots who hit the Twin Trade towers pulled off “a magnificent feat of airmanship.” He estimated that they would need 200 or 300 hours on a Boeing 757 simulator to accomplish this and a year’s excperience flying one of those big planes. There would have been a problem getting onto simulators. Air busses are largely used in the Middle East, so they would have to use the equipment of US airlines here. The trouble is that the simulators are booked around the clock for airline personnel. It is very doubtful if any could be booked by unauthorized individuals. As soon as they got into the cockpit, they would have to pull the transponder circuit breaker and disconnect the auto-pilot, turn t he plane and throttle forwar4d all the way on a math to Manhattan. Air traffic control said they were going 600 miles per hour 700 feet above the ground. Planes in air races only go 400 miles per hour. Lear had 19,000 hours of flying time and had flown in air races and thought the World Trade feats, on the first try, were probably beyond his capabilities.
An MSNBC report suggested that some of the hijackers learned their deadly skills at American bases. If so did they use simulators or fly the real planes, and how long?
Retired Firefighter Nicholas DeMasi found three of the four missing black boxes( actually bright orange). He was told to keep quiet about it. Mike Bellone said he found the fourth and was also told to say nothing. We are still told they were never found. According to another account, they were found at thje Fresh Kills landfill and taken by the FBI.
The mainstream press ignored their stories. In December, 2007, a Freedom of Information Act request for all information on these solid state flight recorders was rejected. What could there be in this information that could justify it not being made public if the official story is true?
Two aluminum planes crashed into the World Trade Towers and disappeared without a trace. Maybe this was possible, but someone in government should have offered a good scientific explanation.
On October 24, 2000, the Pentagon simulated a Boeing 757 crashing into that building in an operation called MASCAL.. Yet Condoleezza Rich claimed no one had ever considered such a possibility.
Two months before 9/11, George W. Bush pulled out of a Geno hotel because Al Qaeda was known to be targeting high rise hotels. He was attending a conference of industrialized nations. Later, Condi Rice said no one ever thought they would crash a plane into a building.
After the attack, FEMA spokesman Thomas Kennedy told Dan Rather that the National Urban Search and Rescue Team arrived in New York City on the evening of Monday, September 10, and went to work the next morning. He must have misspoken.
One of the oddities of 9/11 was that someone gave New York police commissioner Bernard Kerick Mohammed Atta’s virtually undamaged passport. It was found a few hours after the crashes in the debris. It was found two blocks from the fireball. Much later, it was reported that it was the passport of Satam al Suqami, not Atta. However, Atta left a car full of incriminating evidence at the Portland International Airport. At the same time, intelligence people talked about finding flight maps in Arabic. Later it turned out that such maps are only printed in English. It is hard to understand the FBI claim that it established the identities of the hijackers by using DNA found at Shanksville, the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.
The FBI released the text of Atta’s written advice to his colleagues. He told them to mention their families in their final prayer to Allah, something no Muslim would do. He also told them to say the Fajr, the first prayer of the day and then wrote it out for them, as though they would not know it!
The FBI quickly provided a full list of the hijackers, but eight months later it admitted it had no solid evidence tying those men to the crime. There were no Arab names on the flight manifests, and it eventually developed that at least three of the named criminals are still alive. ( Eight people in Saudi Arabia and Egypt said the names and pictures provided were of them.)( No revised list of hijackers has been issued. The government has released no security tape showing any of the named hijackers boarding a plane. Later, Robert Mueller said the FBI said lacked solid evidence linking the 19 to the crime. Their names do not appear on pathologists’ reports.
The body of a female flight attendant was found on a Manhattan street with her hands bound.
The BBC and Daily Telegraph have turned up as still alive four of the nineteen people identified by the FBI as hijackers.
The steel from the WTC was removed before it could be carefully studied and shipped to Asia or sold to scrap dealers. This was crime scene evidence that should have been preserved for a reasonable time. FEMA reported that some of the steel was badly corroded by sulfidation, which means explosives were probably involved. The New York Times said that this “perhaps the deepest mystery uncovered in the investigation”
Stratesec ( then Securacom) controlled security at the WTC. From 1993 to 2000, when it installed all sorts of new security equipment, Marvin Bush was on its board of directors, as was Bush’s cousin William Walker III. From 1999 to January 2002, cousin Wirt Walker III was CEO. On September 8-9, 2001 there was a 36 hour period when there was no electricity in the South Tower. No cameras would have been working. Cabling was being upgraded . The Monday after the attack, it was announced that security tapes and maintenance logs had been lost.
Russ Wittenberger, who has flown the planes used on 9/11 said: “I don't believe it's possible for... a so-called terrorist to train on a 172, then jump in a cockpit of a 757-767 class cockpit, and vertical navigate the aircraft, lateral navigate the aircraft, and fly the airplane at speeds exceeding it's design limit speed by well over 100 knots, make high-speed high-banked turns,.. pulling probably 5, 6, 7 G's... I couldn't do it and I'm absolutely positive they couldn't do it."
The official story is that the parts of the planes disintegrated into tiny bits in the World Trade Center buildings, yet some unburned parts of a plane’s exterior were found on top of World Trade Center building 5. Videos also show the plane being absorbed into the South Tower with no deceleration, which seems to defy basic physics. Even if, by some miracle, the buildings exterior dsid not slow down the plane, striking the inner core should have resulted in dramatic deceleration.
John Lear, perhaps the nation’s most skilled civilian pilot said that the pilots who hit the Twin Trade towers pulled off “a magnificent feat of airmanship.” He estimated that they would need 200 or 300 hours on a Boeing 757 simulator to accomplish this and a year’s excperience flying one of those big planes. There would have been a problem getting onto simulators. Air busses are largely used in the Middle East, so they would have to use the equipment of US airlines here. The trouble is that the simulators are booked around the clock for airline personnel. It is very doubtful if any could be booked by unauthorized individuals. As soon as they got into the cockpit, they would have to pull the transponder circuit breaker and disconnect the auto-pilot, turn t he plane and throttle forwar4d all the way on a math to Manhattan. Air traffic control said they were going 600 miles per hour 700 feet above the ground. Planes in air races only go 400 miles per hour. Lear had 19,000 hours of flying time and had flown in air races and thought the World Trade feats, on the first try, were probably beyond his capabilities.
An MSNBC report suggested that some of the hijackers learned their deadly skills at American bases. If so did they use simulators or fly the real planes, and how long?
Retired Firefighter Nicholas DeMasi found three of the four missing black boxes( actually bright orange). He was told to keep quiet about it. Mike Bellone said he found the fourth and was also told to say nothing. We are still told they were never found. According to another account, they were found at thje Fresh Kills landfill and taken by the FBI.
The mainstream press ignored their stories. In December, 2007, a Freedom of Information Act request for all information on these solid state flight recorders was rejected. What could there be in this information that could justify it not being made public if the official story is true?
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