Lately on another thread truthers were asked...
Why are you still completely unable to answer the question - "what exactly happened on 911?"
Here's my attempt at an answer, it's still sort of a rough draft, it may be expanded and/or modified. It might be nice if it was all hyperlinked.
WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED ON 911?
by Kalun Darwin
Probably just like the Kennedys we'll never know exactly what really happened on 911. The only ones that can completely answer the questions of an unsolved crime are the perpetrators. So as long as the perpetrators or their descendants remain in power they can't let the truth be known. All we can do is theorize, so here goes the story of the largest criminal inside job in the history of man.
First we'll establish the need of an enemy, real or perceived. The Russians were the perfect enemy for years, but they folded and ever since that time the US MIC has been looking for an enemy because if you don't have one there's nowhere to throw those $1MILLION dollar cruise missiles. And if you're not wasting missiles, you're not making money.
Now at the same time there's this search on for an "enemy" we have a two birds with one stone scenario coming to the fore. OIL. The world oil supply, at least discovery is peaking and will decline. Therefore to counter emerging developing nations like China we have to fight for control of that oil. So the MIC needs an enemy, and the US oil corps want to further control of oil reserves, because we are oil pigs. So find or create an enemy near the middle of the worlds largest oil reserves. Enter Al CIAduh and Arab "terrorists". It's the perfect multiple birds with one stone.
Looking back at recent history Americans have always been hesitant to go to war. There has to be a reason, there has to be an enemy at least perceived as real. The Death-Skull NeoCons who are all heavily tied to the two interests in question, MIC and OIL, are in need of, as Kissinger put it, "a new pearl harbor, even if we have to create one". To give a face to, and foment anger of, this new perceived enemy. The "new pearl harbor" reference is very telling because real history reveals that it was an intentionally provoked event and our defenses were stood down so it would be successful. The Gulf of Tonkin incident among many others is another example of false or exaggerated US historical events which led to war.
The MIC needs a new enemy and the OIL corps need oil located in the middle East. So how to frame some middle East Arab "terrorists" is the multi $TRILLION dollar question. And "terror" is the new perfect enemy because the easy target 3rd world countries the MIC pursues usually fold like houses of cards, they don't last. You need a flexible movable "enemy", one that transcends national boundaries. "Terror" is perfect because anywhere you need military intervention you can just claim "Al CIAduh is here!"
Back to hesitant Americans and the need for a cataclysmic catalyzing event to rouse the rabble into support of military tyranny. Enter the WTC. It's perfect. In the largest heart of America, New York City. The targets are also physically the largest and already historically known as "terror" targets. They symbolize to many the money, power, and success of America. There's other birds to stone as well. The towers themselves while admirable are in truth real estate dinosaurs. They contain asbestos, their entire aluminum facade is oxidizing because it contacts the steel, and they just aren't configured properly for office rental. They can't be demolished either because of the asbestos, they have to be dismantled which is magnitudes more expensive. In addition we have WTC-7 which houses the most evidence in any one central location to the ongoing persecutions of the largest crimes in the nation's history. Namely the CIA, FBI, SEC agencies and the crimes of Enron, Worldcom, the OIL corps in Iran, etc. etc. The NeoCon Death-Skulls also need a control headquarters to run the day's controlled demolition events from, WTC-7 is perfect for that as well.
The Pentagon is also chosen as a target. On 9-10 Sect of Defense and head Neo-Con Death-Skull Rummy announces publicly that $2.3 TRILLION has gone "missing" on the Pentagon's books, you just can't make this stuff up. Hopefully they moved all those cooked books to the wing that was destroyed, how convenient. Then with new world record chutzpah Death-Skull Rummy, on the evening of 911 no less, right after admitting to "losing" $TRILLIONS, goes before the Senate Armed Services Committee and berates them for inadequately funding the military. The $BILLIONS have been flowing to the MIC ever since.
The whole thing potentially starts years earlier with the Oklahoma City Federal Building. That was a test run with the exact same MO as 911, just on a smaller more manageable scale. The cultivated patsies, the public target with innocent victims, the delivery vehicle with the perceived attack medium, a truck bomb. The hidden pre-planted bombs within the building to achieve most of the actual destruction. The control of the crime scene after the attack. The procurement, removal, suppression, and destruction of all the evidence. The pursuit and prosecution of the designated patsies. The control of the media and public opinion during and after the event. Once this goes successfully you have some valuable lessons and experience, and it's on to the main event. You don't go straight to the majors and a world series, you start in the minors.
So break 911 down into it's base elements. Cultivated patsies, public target with innocent victims, public perceived weapon(s), hidden destruction mechanism, normal defense control and stand-down (additional element, not as important at OK city), control of crime scenes/evidence; acquisition-removal-destruction-suppression of evidence, identification-pursuit-prosecution of designated patsies, control of media and public opinion during and after the event.
THE CULTIVATED PATSIES
The cultivated patsies are 19 Arabs. Some or all of them are "Al CIAduh" because the MIC needs to put a name on the enemy. Among the 19 there are most likely several "double agents" because you can't depend on incompetent shoe bombers who can barely fly Cessnas to pull off the biggest inside job in history. They have to at least be guided and led by highly competent insiders. These patsies are in country for months before the event and they are so bumbly they have to be protected by high echelons at the FBI to keep rank and filers from apprehending and locking them up. If they were on the planes, the real Arabs may not have even been told the planes were going to be destroyed, they could have been on a "training" mission to ensure no-one would back out of a real suicide. Or just some random hijack event that didn't end with a crash. If indeed there was need to control the cockpits, the double agent leaders would have done the job. They would most likely have been Israeli Mossad due to their probable willingness to die for the cause of the Israeli state. As opposed to US agents which would be more problematic to find as willing suiciders for the cause of the MIC and OIL.
One other facet of the double agents as pilots would be the Neo-Con Death-Skull Silverstein and his ownership of boarding concessions at the departing airports. If the possible double agents needed guns to overpower the Vietnam Marine Vet airline pilots the guns could have been brought on board through these concessions. Another curious event that occurred during the early summer of 911 was the change in rules, taking away permission for guns to be carried on-board by airline pilots.
There's another theory or possibly combinations of two theories in regards to the hijackers and the piloting of the planes. There is remote control technology in existence, UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and ROV(Remotely Operated Vehicle) with "Global Hawk" flying just months before 911. Full size jets have been flown entirely by remote control, takeoff, full length flight, and landing with not a single person on board. It's interesting to note that one of the higher ups directly involved with this technology was on flight 11 that supposedly went into the Pentagon. It has also long been a design concept to configure passenger jets which are equipped with a mechanism to take control from the pilots and switch it over to remote control in case of hijackings. If these technologies were used you wouldn't need any patsy hijackers on-board, or competent suicidal double agent pilots. All you would need would be to configure the airliners with the technology, take control from the regular pilots, fly them into the targets, and then "name" the "hijackers" after the event.
The different combinations of these theories would be; Patsy hijackers with double agent pilots flying the planes, some unwitting patsies on board and then use remote control to hit the targets, no patsies and only double agent pilot(s) in the cockpits, or no hijackers at all and UAV flying the planes.
THE DESIGNATED TARGETS
The public target with innocent victims is the twin towers and Pentagon as already discussed. The 4th target was most likely the DC capitol building. They already controlled the White House so the only opposition after the fact could have been congress. The targets of the anthrax attacks being the congressional leaders of the opposition to the Patriot Act. It's easy to gain control of one office like the presidency but much harder to gain control of multi member bodies like congress.
THE OVERT "WEAPONS"
The "terrorist's" publicly perceived weapon of official record was the 4 passenger jets. Most likely equipped with ROV technology. The only major problem that occurred with the 4 planes was that 2 of them were delayed before take-off. Flight 77 that hit the Pentagon was delayed 10 minutes and flight 93 that was shot down over Shanksville PA was delayed 42 minutes. Consequently 77 appears suspicious in that it should have easily been intercepted given the mornings events at the WTC. It would have been way worse if 93 had hit the Capital building, making the defense stand-down totally obvious. Therefore it had to be shot down because if it had landed safely the passengers and crew would have told a far different story, probably one of a loss of cockpit control and a subsequent ROV.
THE HIDDEN DESTRUCTION MECHANISM
The hidden destruction mechanism was pre-placed hidden explosives and cutter charges in WTC 1, 2, and 7. The twin towers were top down un-conventional controlled demolitions. WTC 7 was more of an advanced technology but conventional bottom up demolition. The twin towers had to be rigged for demolition collapse because it was known beforehand that the plane strikes alone would not achieve that. First the towers were purposely designed to take a full size passenger plane strike and remain standing. Secondly it's a known fact that fires do not come close to collapsing steel frame buildings that are built with 5 to 10 times design redundancy strength factors.
The twin towers probably had cutter charges very near the impact points to initiate collapse. Maybe one or two floors above or below. You would only need a couple of floors to completely and suddenly collapse to start a complete gravity powered collapse. You would probably also need to use cutter charges at regular intervals on the core all the way to the basement because it's the primary support of the building. The cutter charges were most likely thermite or nano-thermite with wireless detonation controlled from WTC-7. Thermite was used much more than a conventional demolition to avoid the outward appearance of conventional demolition explosions. But explosives were also involved, numerous eyewitnesses including firefighters testify to multiple timed explosions during the collapse and huge explosions coming out of the basements beforehand.
The need to precisely target the buildings with the planes was a necessity due to the positioning of the pre-placed charges, this might favor the remote control piloting of the planes theory. If the planes were conventionally piloted it means they had to be covert ops, the training level of the supposed Arab pilots wasn't close to the necessary level of competence evidenced that day, especially at the Pentagon.
WTC-7 was a bottom up controlled demolition again relying heavily on thermite cutter charges because it could not have the outward appearance of conventional demolition explosions. It was bottom up because there was no large impact from which to start a supposed spontaneous collapse. Again WTC-7 was collapsed for 2 reasons, it contained case evidence to some of the largest ongoing criminal prosecutions in the nation, and it was the command center for the WTC attacks and demolitions.
It's also interesting to note that NeoCon Death-Skull "pull it" Silverstein closed the deal of the private ownership of the WTC complex just weeks before 911 (WTC 1-2, and 7). This was the first time in the WTC's 30 year history that ownership passed from government to private hands. He also locked in a lucrative insurance contract in case of terror attack. Funny how all 3 of his buildings collapsed in unprecedented fashion, AND the taxpayers picked up the clean-up bill, how convenient.
During the month prior to the attacks there were several complete power downs, which would have disabled security cameras and electric secured doors. In addition there was unusual "construction" happening on entire floors, and at times the normal bomb sniffing dogs were curiously absent.
Marvin Bush, the Death-Skull Bush boy's younger brother, was a principal in Securacom (Stratesec) that provided security for the WTC, United Airlines, and Dulles International. According to one of it's CEO's, Barry Daniel, the company had an ongoing contract to handle security at the WTC, "up to the day the buildings fell down."
THE DEFENSE STAND DOWN
In cases of in-flight emergencies like hijacks the FAA immediately requests a NORAD intercept. From Sept '00 to June '01 there were 67 of these requests, all of these requests resulted in a NORAD scramble and intercept. An average of more than 100 per year. The average time from scramble to intercept is normally less than 10 minutes. "Emergencies" are defined by things like; diversion from planned route, loss of radio contact, loss of transponder. Any one of these raises a red flag. All 4 of the planes on 911 had all 3 of these red flags. From the time the first plane was a confirmed hijack until flight 77 struck the Pentagon was over an hour. This is with Andrews AFB under 5 minutes away, the headquarters of Air Force one and defenses of the highest profile targets in the nation like the white house.
In addition not one of the 8 pilots and co-pilots activated any of the ELT's (emergency locater transmitter), where a 4 digit code signals a hijack in progress to controllers and activates additional locating devices besides the transponders. This might indicate ROV control because some of these systems are designed to de-activate the ELT's.
Just "coincidentally" on the very morning of 911 there were at least 10 and as many as 15 military exercises underway. Numerous fighters were in the air in other locations, seriously reducing the number available for scramble in the event of real trouble. At least one of these exercises involved hijacked planes crashing into buildings. At least one of these exercises had been re-scheduled from it's normal time later in the year to the day of 911, it has since been re-scheduled back to it's later date. The 911 Omission Report mentions several of these drills, but examines none of them in any detail. How easy would it be to confuse radar defenses that the real attacks were merely training exercises if there were at least 10 of them in progress?
The defense department's story of what happened on 911 has changed 3 times. The 3rd version is the 911 Omission Report. The most damning testimony was given by Norman Mineta, Obama's head of the CIA, who was Sect of Transportation at the time. Mineta testified he heard a young aid several times ask Chief Neo-con Death-Skull VP Cheney "does the order still stand?" Mineta said he thought this meant a shoot down order for Pentagon bound flight 77. But this totally doesn't fit with the Pentagon's explanation that they were uniformed about flight 77, since it was obvious that the secret service was tracking 77 given the aid was continually informed of it's progress. Cheney's order was a stand-down order.
Of course the 911 Ommission Report, being the sham that it is, makes absolutely no mention of Mineta's damning testimony, and no wonder since it was controlled by the Bush designate/insider Death-Skull Zelikow, and the final report vetted by the white house, as one of the conditions of the Death-Skull Bushies allowing any "investigation" at all.
THE CONTROL OF CRIME SCENES/EVIDENCE
The control of acquisition-removal-destruction-suppression of evidence at the WTC, the Pentagon, and Shanksville PA. One of the most blatantly obvious and most damning of circumstantial evidence is the suppression of hard evidence about 911. Starting with the WTC, where even minimal forensic investigations were delayed for weeks and removal of debris started within a couple of days. Where the NTSB always conducts a forensic investigation with any large plane crash, NONE of the 4 planes had ANY NTSB investigation. In other words, the experienced specialists who could have told us exactly what happened concerning the planes were not allowed to do their job. Where obviously there was evidence of explosions in the towers, including numerous firefighter eyewitnesses, exactly NONE of the WTC steel was forensically examined for explosive or cutter residues. Where almost in it's entirety the WTC steel was removed and disposed of or sent to re-cyclers. So even if you could excuse the lack of credible forensics how do you conduct a case where the evidence is removed before investigation and destroyed.
The Pentagon, probably one of the most heavily video surveilled locations on the planet, and ZERO video footage of any Boeing 757 hitting the building has ever been shown. Probably because not only does it show highly advanced flying skills which the alleged Al-CIAduh Arabs did not posses, in addition, if UAV technology was employed, it might show the plane to be flying with empty cockpits. So the lack of video, in addition to being a textbook case of disinformation, also is a necessity because surely it doesn't jive with the "official" story.
Another glaring example of lacking evidence is airport video of the 19 Arabs boarding the jets. Again airports being public areas with a very high level of video security. Potentially the "hijackers" should have been recorded at baggage check in, at the security gates, and at the boarding gates. An average estimate would be over 1 dozen cameras in total. 19 Arabs passing by a dozen cameras each and not one single frame of authentic 911 hijacker video has ever been presented. The 2nd biggest lack of evidence concerning the 19 Arab patsies is the lack of any hijacker names on the airline's released passenger lists. Normally the airlines release full manifests within hours of catastrophic crashes. None of the lists directly released by the airlines include any of the hijacker's names.
The Shanksville PA crash site also leaves more questions than answers. With the crash of an intact airliner the debris field is generally no more than about 20 square acres. The debris field in this case spreads over 6 square miles, only like what you would see with a plane that had been shot down and exploded in midair. The supposed impact site itself doesn't come close to showing the normal volume of debris of an intact crash and dozens of eye witnesses describe evidence of a midair explosion. A midair shoot-down would truly fit into the expected scenario. As already mentioned, since flight 93 was unexpectedly delayed for 42 minutes before takeoff, it couldn't get to target in time without dramatically exposing the necessary defense stand down. And it couldn't be allowed to land safely because then passenger and crew would testify to either false hijackers or a ROV takeover of the flight controls. In other words, dead people tell no tales.
IDENTIFICATION OF DESIGNATED PATSIES
The 19 Arab hijackers were ID'd within hours of the event, in spite of the head of the FBI's assertion that "we don't have any hard evidence linking the 19 to the events of 911". In addition 7 or 8 of the ID's were shown to belong to people still alive and living in other countries. In other words, many of the ID's were false. And none of them have been confirmed with hard evidence. In fact the FBI admitted at first that some of the names were suspected false ID's but they've backed down from that admission without changing any of the names. In addition as previously discussed there's ZERO video evidence of the 19 patsies boarding the planes.
Another glaring nugget of evidence is that Bin Laden's most wanted page on the FBI's site does not even list 911. And if you give even a small amount of scrutiny to the last 2 or 3 of the videos that "Bin Laden" supposedly released including his "911 confession video" they are obvious glaring fakes. In an attempt to cover up their illegitimacy the quality of focus and lighting is far below what Osama had provided up to that point, and even with the poor quality it's totally obvious the person in the videos is not Osama at all, but a poor look-a-like. It's gotten so bad that "Osama" has taken to releasing only audio recordings, and even those when independently studied are shown to be fakes.
CONTROL OF THE MEDIA
Control of the media and thus public opinion has long been a centerpiece of the military industrial complex's ongoing efforts to subjugate the masses, and 911 was of course no exception. George Orwell was indeed very prescient, control is achieved almost entirely with the television. Only 30 short years ago the majority of the media was owned by over 50 separate companies. Now that ownership, of 90 percent of the mainstream media including all TV, has been consolidated down to only 5 owners in the US. And those 5 owners are either part of the MIC or directly tied to it. In other words the people who directly profit from the wars brought about by the cataclysmic events of 911 are the very ones telling us "what really happened" on 911. 90 percent of the public gets their news from the TV, and the MIMC controls over 90 percent of that TV. This fits in with the common rule of disinfo, it only needs to convince about 90 percent of it's target audience.
Eisenhower warned us of the MIC, which now should more accurately be called the MIMC (Military Industrial Media Complex). The consolidated ownership is also an important point to realize, when only 5 corps control all media, anyone within the MIMC only needs to convince 5 CEO's that their story is the way to go. Otherwise when you have more than 50 owners like previously, it's a bit more like herding cats, and not near as expedient or certain.
A myriad of evidence of the official conspiracy theory or OCT being falsely pushed by the corp media is well documented. Mostly it shows up in the stories that only appeared one time on usually out of the way sources. Damning stories that were never repeated ever again in the mainstream. Things like the pursuit of insider trading, and the 7 alive hijacker ID's among many others. Nothing less is to be expected when the perpetrators control the reporting of what happened concerning the crime.
CONCLUSION
Anybody who is at all familiar, beyond a basic lay person's level, with aspects of architecture and engineering, or military defense and commercial flight looked at the events of 911 and, after the first shock wore off, saw that things were just not as officially described. Questioning knowledgeable individuals looked further for evidence that their eyes were not being deceived, and found on the powerful world wide web, extensive and detailed evidence that 911 is the biggest inside job in the history of man. Many of these individuals have gone on to document and expose what they've learned to the average person on an easily understandable level. The more you look, read, and observe, the more and more evident it becomes so glaringly obvious as to be absolutely and irrevocably irrefutable.
911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB