WHEN? When did it take place? When did they come to know?
The whole drama on 11th of September started early in the morning when the alleged ’19 hijackers’ boarded their respective planes at around 8 o’clock. Here is the timeline of the incidents based on official sources:
Tuesday, 11th of September, 2001
08:46 – American Airlines Flight 11 is flown into the north tower of the World Trade Centre with a speed of around 800 km/h between the floors 94 and 98 of the 110 storey building. The flight took off from Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts at 07:59 and was bound for Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.
09:02 – United Airlines Flight 175 is crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Centre with a speed of around 950 km/h between the floors 78 and 84. The flight lifted off from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, at 08:14 and was bound for Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.
09:37 – American Airlines Flight 77 is flown into the newly refurbished and unoccupied western flank of Pentagon. The aircraft left the runway of Dulles International Airport, about 50 km from Washington D.C. at 08:20 and was bound for LA International Airport in Los Angeles, California.
09:54 – The south tower of WTC collapses after standing the impact of the Flight 175 for 56 minutes and 10 seconds.
10:03 – United Airlines Flight 93 ploughs into the fields in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The Boeing 757 airliner left Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey at 08:42 for San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California.
10:28 – The north tower of WTC follows the suit and crumbles after standing the impact of Flight 11 for 1 hour 42 minutes and 5 seconds.
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS:
- When did President Bush come to know about the hijackings?
- Did the US air force fighter planes try to intercept the hijacked airliners? If they did so, when did they scramble? If not, why was there a major defense collapse?
WHERE? Where did it take place?
The terrorist attacks took place on the 11th of September, 2001 in World Trade Centre in New York, Pentagon in Virginia and Shanksville in Pennsylvania. The hijackings took place in the busiest airspace on the planet which is the north-eastern corner of the United States of America.
Manhattan in New York, where the attacks took place, is within striking range from Otis Air base which is located in Massachusetts state. There is an Air Defense Intercept Zone just off shore for the entire Atlantic Coast which is constantly patrolled. Some reports suggest US military was involved in war games on the east coast that day.
WHO? Who did it? Who was involved?
This is the most frequently asked question regarding the 9/11 attacks. We all have some idea about the people who were involved in this outrageous act of terrorism. Most of the people believe that 19 hijackers affiliated to al-Qaeda carried out these attacks that claimed the lives of around 3,000 civilians and left thousands of others injured. The economic damage these attacks wrecked stands in billions of dollars. Some people, and I must point out here that this is a substantial minority, believe that these attacks were not carried out single-handedly by al-Qaeda but also had some ‘inside’ support that led to the incidents that took place on 11th of September 2001.
Let’s contrast the official and conspiracy theorist versions of ‘WHO’ was involved in the attacks. First, let’s read an excerpt from the 9/11 Commission Report that highlights the perpetrators of the attacks. On page 2 of the executive summary it says: “This immeasurable pain was inflicted by 19 young Arabs acting at the behest of Islamist extremists headquartered in distant Afghanistan. Some had been in the United States for more than a year, mixing with the rest of the population. Though four had training as pilots, most were not well-educated. Most spoke English poorly, some hardly at all. In groups of four or five, carrying with them only small knives, box cutters, and cans of Mace or pepper spray, they had hijacked the four planes and turned them into deadly guided missiles.”
Great piece of writing. Would say the most ‘compact’ and ‘precise’ article written on 9/11 this year. Keep it up!
Thanx Jason. Your comments are well-appreciated. I tried my best to come up with the original guidelines of journalism to rescue this very important event in history that seems to be lost in haze of uncertainty and uneven arguments.
‘So-called conspiracy theorists’, guess those might be ‘concerned citizens’ who are labeled with libel?
I’ll second Bourne; in these ‘irrational times’ it is truly striking to see such amount of sanity in single article.
I’m pleased to see our ‘universally common organon’ in terminology you’ve deployed.
Thanks, keep it up indeed.
It is really disturbing to see that people’s legitimate concerns are condemned as ‘conspiracy theories’ and are not considered worth discussing by the mainstream media. 9/11 blindness has gone to such extreme that it has even changed the melting point of steel! I know this incident has provoked wars and clashes between civilisations but it has also become a consensus point where rationale minds converge and challenge the wisdom of the so-called ‘defenders of truth and freedom’. I hope that in the long term, people across the globe will remember this incident that brought them closer together in the history of the mankind.
I feel, commenting on this article would give a benefit of the doubt to the already accountable Zionist regime….everyone from Africa to America knows who did it and what was the motive….its so laughable to even imagine Atta training on a light 2 seated plane maneuvering a jumbo 757 into a needle in a hay stack (flying at 10,000m), the first USAF jets scrambling 172 min after the hijacking call, and not from anywhere near…but from Langley…and to add up more spice in this drama….none of the surveillance tapes ever came ON AIR around the heavily fortified Pentagon. To Summarize all….the Zionists were looking for an Excuse (9/11) to create a Stable (Afghanistan) to rein the untamed forces. (Nuclear Pakistan, Going to be Nuclear Iran and other middle-eastern powers).
Pretty good work Moign
Thanx Admkhan. Seems the jigsaw puzzle is fitting in quite nicely. I do agree with most of the things you mentioned. 9/11 conspiracy was hatched to give new dimension to Washington’s hegemony and a boost to its waning influence. It’s a shame that Pakistan was made to pay a hefty price by all the parties involved in the conflicts be it USA, Taliban, al-Qaeda or Zionists.
Great article Moign. I am becoming irritated by the legion of incurious souls who either pedal the ‘conspiracy kooks’ line or lap it up along with their reality tv! The huge problem those seeking to expose the truth of 9/11 have is the sheer enormity of the events leading up to the day and the tragic events themselves. Even talking to my father, an avowed anti-authoritarian socialist, about the alternative conspiracy evidence led him to state his feeling that it was just to much to comprehend and that he prefered not to think about it! Just as you have done in the article we must keep asking the questions. Two additional issues, in my view, which need much more research (another story for you Moign) are the question of who Omar Sheihk really worked for and if he did indeed send $100k to Mohammed Atta at the behest of ISI Director General. Also, who were the beneficiaries of the ‘put-options’ (bets that the stock value would fall) placed on United Airlinesand American Airlines immediately prior to 9/11? It is simply not sufficient to state, as the 9/11 Commision did, that ‘no beneficiary of the accrued profits of these deals had any connections to Bin Laden or Al-Qaeda’. Who were these individuals and companies and what did they know?
Thanks for your valuable comments and hints for more stories. In this article, I purely analysed the events that took place just on the day (9/11) itself. Whatever happened before or after is another chapter riddled with mysteries, lies, contradictions etc. that need to be scrutinsed. The role of other intelligence agencies/countries/individuals/organisations remains very dubious and highly suspicious to say the least. From Pakistan to Israel and Russia to India, intelligence agencies were playing some part and their strings are attached to this incident. And let’s not forget the ‘great’ job done by American agencies in the first place!
I have tried to FOIA the FBI investigation which reportedly led to the revelation that Omar Saeed Sheikh sent $100,000 to Mohammed Atta at the behest of Mahmoud Ahmed, but they stonewalled me.
That’s interesting Jeremy. But what was the point of using proxies when inside job could have been more easier? What did the FBI reply to your request?
The FBI managed to block my FOIA request in an interesting way. They replied to say that information about the investigation into Daniel Pearl is still under investigation and so exempt from FOIA requests. But I hadn’t requested files from that investigation. Are the two cases connected somehow, perhaps linked through Omar Saeed Sheikh? In any case, they then responded a second time to say that inquiry had been opened by mistake, and that it was now closed. But they canceled my FOIA inquiry along with it. I could try again, but just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
It’s the greatest cover up of all times I reckon. Interesting to see a nexus of US-Israeli-Pakistani intelligence agencies that led to the most controversial incident of 21st century.
The conspiracy theories are wrong.
Please download my report on 9/11 which firmly debunks all of them in a scant 80 pages. http://www.septemberclues.info/vicsims/9-11-9%20the%20Vicsim%20Report.pdf
Thanks for the link my friend. Where did you get all these ideas from?
myself
Nice one!
The truth of the official 9/11 story is a conditional of a conjunction, thus,
If (A + B + … ) then X
where
A = Osama bin Laden is an enemy of the US
B = bin Laden conspired with 19 hijackers to attack the US
… = other statements which comprise the official story
X = the official 9/11 story is true
If any one of the premises A, B or … is false, the entire conjunction is false and the conclusion X is false.
The following abbreviation of evidence falsifies premise A:
1. Two months before September 11 Osama bin Laden flew to Dubai for 10 days for treatment at the American hospital, where he was visited by the local CIA agent, according to the French newspaper Le Figaro. (Guardian 11/1/01)
2. On September 10, 2001, bin Laden received kidney dialysis at a Pakistani military hospital in Rawalpindi. (CBS News, 1/28/02)
3. The Taliban agreed to give up bin Laden to the U.S. only to be rebuffed by the State Department. (Village Voice 1/2/02)
4. The US combat commander in Afghanistan said Thursday that apprehending Osama bin Laden isn’t one of the missions of Operation Enduring Storm. (USA Today 11/23/01)
5. CIA Commander: U.S. Let bin Laden Slip Away (Newsweek 8/15/05)
Therefore, it is demonstrated that Osama bin Laden was a protected asset, not an enemy. Therefore the official 9/11 story is falsified.
Great algebraic formula for the so-called ‘conspiracy theorists’. Thanks for your contribution Joe S. You’ve asked very important questions that add up to the ‘unanswered questions list of 9/11’.
Here’s what I hate – every single year they just keep on sucking over the same pictures and videos 1000x over on every single channel, in every single newspaper/magazine etc – yet nothing new ever comes out.
I really wonder just how many more years they’re gonna be putting up this charade for… I for one am getting quite annoyed by all this crap honestly.
And the real kicker of all of this is that the facts will NEVER come out, no matter how much the people whine, no matter how much the journalists investigate, no matter what happens.
The only way that the truth behind all of this can come out is if there is a complete refresh of the government, and I mean COMPLETE, with completely new people for every single position, people who have no interest in preserving old bullshit, and have no stake in it at all.
The only way that something like that would happen is well, only if there is an uprising and a revolution – and well all know perfectly well that that won’t ever happen – or at least not any time soon.
‘Never say never again’. I understand your frustration, but these things take time. We cannot really determine how much damage is this damage control doing, to illustrate, we have all seen the effect of the treason on American nation and we all know the strength of American patriotic spirit. The more administrate oppresses the greater is the chance of open and violent revolt. First incidents had already occurred, so I’d estimate that we are actually ahead of the schedule. One can say with some certainty that we have ‘damn if you do, damn if you don’t’, or rather win, win situation at hand. I’d prefer law and order approach, but hey, they have their think-tanks and strategies, and the current strategy is to postpone the inevitable. Mass murdering and lying administrate is currently doing its best to ensure the media that it is reformed (have you noticed how UBL spoke about this reformation?), it suggest that ‘if the truth comes out’, chaos will ensue. This is the last lie they’ll ever make, there is a fundamental flaw in the economy which will bring this administrate down even if people are kept at bay. Those folks are like junkies, they cannot think soberly anymore and all they ask for is one last shot. Let them have it…
Michael, your words remind me of the mindset that people have usually before the break of the revolution. I have not travelled in time but I’m sure this is exactly what people would have said before…let’s say the French revolution. The dynamics of revolution are completely independent of any man-made laws. We all will see a ‘true change’…let’s hope very soon!
Minute apart, I find it lovely.
You know, there is some divinity in it all; it is the catalyst of change some people sought, and it is the change they’ll receive.
Totally agree with you Dawn. The truth is already there….just that we need the pair of eyes to see them and a healthy mind to understand it…
Another question I have is how it could possibly be a “mistake” that the CIA was tracking two known al-Qaeda operatives known to have applied for visas to enter the U.S. and then allowed them to do so without so much as notifying the Immigration department, the State Department, or the FBI. Then there is the extraordinary coincidence that the two terrorists, who lived in the U.S. under their real names (they were even listed in the phonebook), happened to rent from an FBI informant who the 9/11 Commission never bothered to talk to.
What about all the simulations and exercises planned for or going on that day?
People who reject the “conspiracy theories” are themselves “coincidence theorists”. You can only explain away so much by “coincidence” before it just gets ridiculously implausible.
I personally know a few religious figures who were busy celebrating the 9/11 attacks in New York soon after they happened. Later they were nabbed by the authorities on their alleged links with al-Qaeda. CIA and al-Qaeda go hand in hand yet many people in the Middle East and South Asia refuse to realise it. What amazed me was the strange traditions presented by such fanatics who claim the Holy Quran and Hadith predicted 9/11 attacks. What apparently damaged the Muslim world is hailed by such fanatics as signs of success…Just ridiculous to say the least….
Mr. Khawaja –
There are quite a few things you left out, the most important of single item falls under “when”:
5:20pm – WTC 7, a 47-storey steel-framed building which only had a few small fires burning in it, falls symmetrically to the ground in 6.5 seconds (free-fall speed) and neatly into its own footprint. Eyewitnesses report massive explosions taking place in the building hours before it fell as well as additional explosions just before it is totally demolished. One volunteer medic at the site reports hearing a countdown over an emergency workers radio just before the building imploded. The 9/11 Commission fails to mention this building in its report and a later government report by NIST concedes that the “collapse” of the Twin Towers had nothing to do with this $850 million highly secure building’s destruction and asserts that normal office fires brought the building down (something that has never happened before or since). The building, sometimes referred to as the Salomon Brothers Building, housed the largest CIA field office outside of Langley, FBI offices, Secret Service offices and offices of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission where over 3,000 case files are destroyed. The files include criminal investigations into Enron, WorldCom, Arbusto Energy and Harken Energy. The latter two companies were connected to both George W. Bush and the bin Laden family and George H.W. Bush interfered with the initial investigations into the insider trading and other criminal irregularities when he was president.
It’s also worth noting here that an international team of scientists analysed multiple dust samples taken from the WTC site and found both exploded and unexploded traces of a high-tech military-grade explosive called nanothermite in said samples. Their findings have been published in a mainstream peer-reviewed scientific journal.
Your timeline could also reflect Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta’s sworn testimony before the 9/11 Commission regarding VP Cheney’s clear failure to order the interception of AA77, even thought the VP was given regular updates on its approach toward Washington D.C. Even though Sec. Mineta’s account was corroborated by other credible witnesses the 9/11 Commission makes no mention of it in their final report.
FTR, I consider myself a conspiracy analyst and any reasonable analysis of the government’s 9/11 conspiracy theory shows that it is demonstrably false. Not even the FBI lists Osama bin Laden as wanted for the crimes of 9/11.
Thanks Mr. Khawaja, LeftWright seems to be piling on “when” I’ll try some “who”.
First person accounts are most accurate close to time of event. William “Willy” Rodriguez, “The Last Man Out,” describes “explosions” in the basement before first impact of aircraft. Along w/100s of first responders reporting secondary explosions before “collapse”. Why didn’t the 911 Commission investigate?
Alleged hijackers could not have entered U.S. w/out being vetted by CIA according to diplomatic station chief in Raidja, Saudi Arabia
Trans. Sec. Mineta seems to feel the order was to shoot down UA93 when it is more likely a NO shoot down order on AA77 so the device (Raytheon “Predator” firing cruise missile) that entered Capt. Deconte’s (XO Amalgam Virgo exercise) office while he was getting authorization to engage said device took out the accounting division. This was a public private venture.This covers up Def. Sec. Donald “Rummy” Rumpsfelds admission to AEI on 9/10/01 that $3.2trillion was lost or stolen from DOD. Yes that’s TRILLION and you wonder how will we pay for health care?
Money makes strange bedfellows and it’s all about the money. Freedom & democracy are the Pablum you feed the people before you rip off their tax dollars. Thanks again, cheers.
Great job Trex. The Who’s of 9/11 are very important to investigate but it seems they’ll take the truth to their graves…
Money + power is an explosive mix. The obsession to achieve them results in catastrophes of historic proportions..
Dear LeftWright,
Your feedback, contribution and suggestions are extremely valuable and based on facts. In this article, I tried to focus just on the very events of 9/11, nothing before or after. However, the WTC Tower 7 and other additions are very interesting and raise a plethora of questions and doubts. The criminal silence prevails so does the excruciating ignorance….
This convoluted slice of history could easily send a sensitive soul to the madhouse. Science doesn’t come to the rescue. No point raised since that fateful day has been resolved, not one inconsistency ironed out. Horror on horror, there were victims, there were innocents in Afghanistan and Iraq. There were men tortured to confess to someone else’s crimes. Horrible beyond all power to comprehend.
For the CIA it’s TORTURE for TORTURES sake.
It really is one of the biggest disasters humanity has ever encountered. A disaster that will pile up horrors, tears, blood and insanity. I see no difference between the tears shed by women in Iraq, Afghanistan or US and UK for their husbands, sons and brothers. Too bad we don’t often see beyond the borders of nationalism, race, religion or ethnicity…
Excellent piece of work. I would like to add some more “give-and-take” here. There are many bizarre conspiracy theories floating around about 9/11. Some things are so disturbing that they are almost impossible to believe. How could someone have placed anonymous put options on American Airlines and United Airlines just prior to the attacks and why no one has investigated this suspicious deal? The Building 7 actually collapsed on the day of the attacks and why the owner of the building allowed the building to be pulled down (intentionally demolished) hours after the Twin Towers fell? The challenges to the official stories may be too devastating to be processed by the average American who has spent a lifetime believing in the system. Many people can deal with the minor violations that are part of the political scene, but cannot possibly fathom a government that might be complicit in an attack on its own people. They are not unlike the parents who eventually come to terms with a child’s shoplifting spree. The same parents would do anything to deny far more serious accusations……
Great examples presented here. One of the most important lesson American nation can take from 9/11 is how to improve their attitude towards the world. Americans need worldwide support as much as the world needs their support and positive attitude. The 9/11 incident and the ones followed it have made this great country on the planet more unstable than ever. Nothing has been won since then…everything is at stake and being lost…I’m afraid to say….
Moign Khawaja,
I do not believe in the conspiracy theories but I wanted to commend you on your last statement on 9/19 at 12:12 am. Regardless of what happend and who did it your 100% correct on the attitude America needs to take towards the world. For to long the neocons and the Political islamists have been using this event to justify their ends moving us towards the ‘clash of civilizations.’ The good news is they are in the minority but the bad news is on either side these parties hold way to much power. Hopefully sanity will prevail and many will realize the attitude towards each other needs to be towards finding solutions not differences. You don’t win by drawing lines in the sand but by honest dialogue. If only these people could take to heart the workds of King, Ghandi, and especially Mandela.
@ Bill Davit
The difference between neocons and neo-Islamists is dangerously thin. But share the hatred towards each other and would like to dominate the world with their rigorous ideas. These ideas, they say, can only be imposed with force, consequently allowing the use of violence. The parties that gained power from 9/11 and related incidents are the US-backed governments and al-Qaeda. Common people like you and me are made to live in a world of terror, suspicion and misunderstanding…
Moign,
Couldn’t agree more. We have all seen the effects the neocons had on the US and the political Islamists, such as the Iranian regime, have had on the common citizen. The good news is we have tools like the Internet and no secrect is left undiscovered for to long. I am not a fan of many of Obama’s policies but I voted for him for one reason. That reason being reconciliation with the rest of the world. The US economy will recover as it always had but the same could not be said for our standing in the rest of the world. I believe Obama gives our nation the best chance to remerge as a champion of liberty and freedom like we used to be. Once we gain that political capital back Obama can then go about promoting democracy across the world and especially in the Middle East. Once that is well under way I would love for him to go rap the Muslim Brotherhood and Saudi Wahhabis on the nose and get them to stop preaching their intolerant segregated view of the Kafir vs. the best of peoples. It is no mystery that the majority of the seperatist movements today have a Salafi ideology often funded by the two aforementioned organizations. The Neocons often looked the other way in the past because it helped them with their agendas. The Saudis are the best example of someone who happens to be our “friend” but in reality are the fountain head of the nastiest ideologies across the globe. Hopefully their oil will dry up soon then they can realize what it really takes to build a true functioning state!
I’ll agree with you again Bill. But its nice that the oil doesn’t runs out and a truly welfare government assumes its control and uses it to finance poor countries across the Muslim world. This in turn will alienate the people from extremism and sense of deprivation and create a new commonwealth of nations. These Salafis, as you mentioned, prey on poor, frustrated youth who have no clear goal of life. Once they’ll be given some power and shown a way, I’m damn sure that extremism will die its natural death and birth of a new civilisation.
Operation Northwoods: military plan from the ’60s to stage false-flag attacks against targets in the US and at the US Guantanamo Bay base to create a pretext for war against Cuba. Included hijacking of passenger planes.
Never “officially” accepted or executed, but we all know the CIA often works in an un-official capacity.
Who benefits? A bunch of ragtag extremists hiding in caves, armed with Cold War era weapons, whose best case scenario in a conflict with the US would be a draw, war by attrition as in Vietnam? Or would it be elements of the military-industrial complex and intelligence agencies like the CIA who receive what eventually amounts to trillions in funding? Without some looming, ambiguous threat on the horizon (such as communism during the Cold War), neither has a job.
Just my 2 cents.
Absolutely right! I further your observations.
For those not aware of it, check out http://historycommons.org and the movie spawned from that website called 9/11: Press for Truth. To me, those are the most potent resources and best formatted resources to get more people to examine the vast open sources that reveal many clues to circumstances long before 9/11, during, and thereafter up to now.
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