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Aug 23, 2017 14:49:37   #
Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
 
Jean Deaux wrote:
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I'll match my education with yours, any day so get off the poorly educated slant. Perhaps you just ignored the testimony of the retired Admiral that fought any thought of a conspiracy until he began to investigate. He is now a strong supporter of the conspiracy theory. Had you read my opinion above you should have found that there are many, many highly qualified experts that do not believe the government nonsense. I believe your opinion is set in cement and nothing will ever change your point of view. Stay submerged in stubborn ignorance of the actual cause as explained to you by your government gurus. There is not a thread of evidence, it is a cable.
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I read your opinion. I have also read or watched the opinions of your so-called experts.

FYI: Again, I repeat, "government gurus" ARE NOT my primary sources for the history and science of the 9/11 tragedy.

123,000 members of ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers), 80,000 members of AIA (American Institute of Architects), 120,000 members of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), 370,000 members of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), 40,000 members of AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers), 35,000 members of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) completely reject the 9/11 conspiracy theory.

Debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

Popular Mechanics consulted more than 300 experts and organizations in its investigation into 9/11 conspiracy theories. The following were particularly helpful.

Air Crash Analysis: Cleveland Center regional air traffic control

Bill Crowley special agent, FBI

Ron Dokell president, Demolition Consultants

Richard Gazarik staff writer, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Yates Gladwell pilot, VF Corp.

Michael K. Hynes, Ed.D., ATP, CFI, A&P/IA president, Hynes Aviation Services; expert, aviation crashes

Ed Jacoby Jr. director, New York State Emergency Management Office (Ret.); chairman, New York State Disaster Preparedness Commission (Ret.)

Johnstown-Cambria County Airport Authority

Cindi Lash staff writer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Matthew McCormick manager, survival factors division, National T***sportation Safety Board (Ret.)

Wallace Miller coroner, Somerset County, PA

Robert Nagan meteorological technician, Climate Services Branch, National Climatic Data Center

Dave Newell director, aviation and travel, VF Corp.

James O’Toole politics editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pennsylvania State Police Public Information Office

Jeff Pillets senior writer, The Record, Hackensack, NJ

Jeff Rienbold director, Flight 93 National Memorial, National Park Service

Dennis Roddy staff writer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Master Sgt. David Somdahl public affairs officer, 119th Wing, North Dakota Air National Guard

Mark Stahl photographer; eyewitness, United Airlines Flight 93 crash scene

Air Defense Lt. Col. Skip Aldous (Ret.) squadron commander, U.S. Air Force

Tech. Sgt. Laura Bosco public affairs officer, Tyndall Air Force Base

Boston Center regional air traffic control

Laura Brown spokeswoman, Federal Aviation Administration

Todd Curtis, Ph.D. founder, Airsafe.com; president, Airsafe.com Foundation

Keith Halloway public affairs officer, National T***sportation Safety Board

Ted Lopatkiewicz director, public affairs, National T***sportation Safety Board

Maj. Douglas Martin public affairs officer, North American Aerospace Defense Command

Lt. Herbert McConnell public affairs officer, Andrews AFB

Michael Perini public affairs officer, North American Aerospace Defense Command

John Pike director, GlobalSecurity.org

Hank Price spokesman, Federal Aviation Administration

Warren Robak RAND Corp.

Bill Shumann spokesman, Federal Aviation Administration

Louis Walsh public affairs officer, Eglin AFB

Chris Yates aviation security editor, analyst, Jane’s T***sport Aviation

Fred E.C. Culick, Ph.D., S.B., S.M. professor of aeronautics, California Institute of Technology

Robert Everdeen public affairs, Northrop Grumman

Clint Oster professor of public and environmental affairs, Indiana University; aviation safety expert

Capt. Bill Scott (Ret. USAF) Rocky Mountain bureau chief, Aviation Week

Bill Uher News Media Office, NASA Langley Research Center

Col. Ed Walby (Ret. USAF) director, business development, HALE Systems Enterprise, Unmanned Systems, Northrop Grumman

Image Analysis William F. Baker member, FEMA Probe Team; partner, Skidmore, Owings, Merrill

W. Gene Corley, Ph.D., P.E., S.E. senior vice president, CTL Group; director, FEMA Probe Team

Bill Daly senior vice president, Control Risks Group

Steve Douglass image analysis consultant, Aviation Week

Thomas R. Edwards, Ph.D. founder, TREC; video forensics expert.

Ronald Greeley, Ph.D. professor of geology, Arizona State University

Rob Howard freelance photographer; WTC eyewitness

Robert L. Parker, Ph.D. professor of geophysics, University of California, San Diego

Structural Engineering / Building Collapse Farid Alfawakhiri, Ph.D. senior engineer, American Institute of Steel Construction

David Biggs, P.E. structural engineer, Ryan-Biggs Associates; member, ASCE team for FEMA report

Robert Clarke structural engineer, Controlled Demolitions Group Ltd.

Glenn Corbett technical editor, Fire Engineering; member, NIST advisory committee

Vincent Dunn deputy fire chief (Ret.), FDNY; author, The Collapse Of Burning Buildings: A Guide To Fireground Safety

John Fisher, Ph.D. professor of civil engineering, Lehigh University; professor emeritus, Center for Advanced Technology; member, FEMA Probe Team

Ken Hays executive vice president, Masonry Arts

Christoph Hoffmann, Ph.D. professor of computer science, Purdue University; project director, September 11 Pentagon Attack Simulations Using LS-Dyna, Purdue University

Allyn E. Kilsheimer, P.E. CEO, KCE Structural Engineers PC; chief structural engineer, Phoenix project; expert in blast recovery, concrete structures, emergency response

Won-Young Kim, Ph.D. seismologist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

William Koplitz photo desk manager, FEMA

John Labriola freelance photographer, WTC survivor

Arthur Lerner-Lam, Ph.D. seismologist; director, Earth Institute, Center for Hazards and Risk Research, Columbia University

James Quintiere, Ph.D. professor of engineering, University of Maryland member, NIST advisory committee

Steve Riskus freelance photographer; eyewitness, Pentagon crash

Van Romero, Ph.D. vice president, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Christine Shaffer spokesperson, Viracon

Mete Sozen, Ph.D., S.E. Kettelhut Distinguished Professor of Structural Engineering, Purdue University; member, Pentagon Building Performance Report; project conception, September 11 Pentagon Attack Simulations Using LS-Dyna, Purdue University

Shyam Sunder, Sc.D. acting deputy director, lead investigator, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Mary Tobin science writer, media relations, Earth Institute, Columbia University

Forman Williams, Ph.D. professor of engineering, physics, combustion, University of California, San Diego; member, advisory committee, National Institute of Standards and Technology

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Aug 23, 2017 14:50:43   #
whole2th
 
Jean Deaux wrote:
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Something about hook line and sinker and you took it all. Very convenient explanation but the fact remains, out of 85 cameras, none came up with any definitive evidence. Why not look at the hole in the building and try to explain how a large, soft bodied airliner made a hole so small? Where were the scoops which would have had to have been made in the lawn by an air liner flying so low as to make the hole in the wall? How did the soft nose on the "airplane" penetrate 7 walls in the building? It couldn't but a missile with a hardened nose could. Where was all the wreckage from an airliner: landing gear, engines, fuselage and wing bits, seats, passenger body parts, luggage, black boxes, etc? Why was it that the only aircraft part found was an engine turbine wheel that originated in the engine of a USAF AGM 86D cruise missile? Better go back and rethink your theory based on hard evidence rather than a wispy, out of focus image on a photo. But that is up to you. Sometimes after you have grasped a straw, it is hard to let go.
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Blade Runner works on behalf of the real perpetrators of 9-11 and fully realizes his role in the cover-up. Review of the last almost 100 pages will show unmistakable patterns complicity in the cover-up.

https://blogfactory.co.uk/2017/07/31/russia-presents-evidence-against-us-uk-and-israel-as-being-the-actual-911-terrorist/
https://blogfactory.co.uk/2017/07/31/russia-presen...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSq5LStzgLs&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSq5LStzgLs&featur...

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Aug 23, 2017 15:00:52   #
Jean Deaux
 
Blade_Runner wrote:
Somebody unscrewed your skull cap and poured in a load of bulls**t. You're so full of conspiratorial pablum it's a wonder you can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Science, real science, empirical science, applied by professionals with integrity never found a thread of evidence that explosives had been used anywhere in the WTC. World Trade Center - Evidence Based Research
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Your final paragraph is a complete fabrication and if you're not completely aware of that, then you are a dupe, totally and completely. Real science has proven that the building could not have been brought down by an airliner will full tanks of JP4. In the first place, JP4 burns at over 1000 degrees F to cool to melt steel. It would be like trying to melt a railroad rail with a kitchen match. It's not possible! It has been proven that the only devices that could have sheered the steel beams would have had to have been either thermite or thermate or nukes. And where did that come from. It was hand placed, for several weeks along with the cable, timers and switches that were required to bring the buildings down into their own footprints, by explosives experts furnished by the CIA and the Mossad. That is how the massive beams were sheared with mathematical precision to obtain the desired results. It is also the reason that the basements contained molten steel for up to six weeks after the explosions.
And how did building 7 come down 6 hours after the towers? They weren't hit by anything, yet it came down in exactly the same fashion as the towers. And what happened to the tons of bullion that disappeared from the CEMEX vaults in the basement below building 7? Rant on about your "real experts" but the facts remain, that the whole disaster was a false f**g event designed to enrage Americans against the Saudi's, the better to foment war in the middle East. By the way, 9 of the 19 accused Saudis are alive and well and working abroad currently. Better go back to the drawing board, Orville, your version of 9-11 isn't flying.

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Aug 23, 2017 15:08:58   #
payne1000
 
Blade_Runner wrote:
I read your opinion. I have also read or watched the opinions of your so-called experts.

FYI: Again, I repeat, "government gurus" ARE NOT my primary sources for the history and science of the 9/11 tragedy.

123,000 members of ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers), 80,000 members of AIA (American Institute of Architects), 120,000 members of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), 370,000 members of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), 40,000 members of AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers), 35,000 members of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) completely reject the 9/11 conspiracy theory.

Debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

Popular Mechanics consulted more than 300 experts and organizations in its investigation into 9/11 conspiracy theories. The following were particularly helpful.

Air Crash Analysis: Cleveland Center regional air traffic control

Bill Crowley special agent, FBI

Ron Dokell president, Demolition Consultants

Richard Gazarik staff writer, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Yates Gladwell pilot, VF Corp.

Michael K. Hynes, Ed.D., ATP, CFI, A&P/IA president, Hynes Aviation Services; expert, aviation crashes

Ed Jacoby Jr. director, New York State Emergency Management Office (Ret.); chairman, New York State Disaster Preparedness Commission (Ret.)

Johnstown-Cambria County Airport Authority

Cindi Lash staff writer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Matthew McCormick manager, survival factors division, National T***sportation Safety Board (Ret.)

Wallace Miller coroner, Somerset County, PA

Robert Nagan meteorological technician, Climate Services Branch, National Climatic Data Center

Dave Newell director, aviation and travel, VF Corp.

James O’Toole politics editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pennsylvania State Police Public Information Office

Jeff Pillets senior writer, The Record, Hackensack, NJ

Jeff Rienbold director, Flight 93 National Memorial, National Park Service

Dennis Roddy staff writer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Master Sgt. David Somdahl public affairs officer, 119th Wing, North Dakota Air National Guard

Mark Stahl photographer; eyewitness, United Airlines Flight 93 crash scene

Air Defense Lt. Col. Skip Aldous (Ret.) squadron commander, U.S. Air Force

Tech. Sgt. Laura Bosco public affairs officer, Tyndall Air Force Base

Boston Center regional air traffic control

Laura Brown spokeswoman, Federal Aviation Administration

Todd Curtis, Ph.D. founder, Airsafe.com; president, Airsafe.com Foundation

Keith Halloway public affairs officer, National T***sportation Safety Board

Ted Lopatkiewicz director, public affairs, National T***sportation Safety Board

Maj. Douglas Martin public affairs officer, North American Aerospace Defense Command

Lt. Herbert McConnell public affairs officer, Andrews AFB

Michael Perini public affairs officer, North American Aerospace Defense Command

John Pike director, GlobalSecurity.org

Hank Price spokesman, Federal Aviation Administration

Warren Robak RAND Corp.

Bill Shumann spokesman, Federal Aviation Administration

Louis Walsh public affairs officer, Eglin AFB

Chris Yates aviation security editor, analyst, Jane’s T***sport Aviation

Fred E.C. Culick, Ph.D., S.B., S.M. professor of aeronautics, California Institute of Technology

Robert Everdeen public affairs, Northrop Grumman

Clint Oster professor of public and environmental affairs, Indiana University; aviation safety expert

Capt. Bill Scott (Ret. USAF) Rocky Mountain bureau chief, Aviation Week

Bill Uher News Media Office, NASA Langley Research Center

Col. Ed Walby (Ret. USAF) director, business development, HALE Systems Enterprise, Unmanned Systems, Northrop Grumman

Image Analysis William F. Baker member, FEMA Probe Team; partner, Skidmore, Owings, Merrill

W. Gene Corley, Ph.D., P.E., S.E. senior vice president, CTL Group; director, FEMA Probe Team

Bill Daly senior vice president, Control Risks Group

Steve Douglass image analysis consultant, Aviation Week

Thomas R. Edwards, Ph.D. founder, TREC; video forensics expert.

Ronald Greeley, Ph.D. professor of geology, Arizona State University

Rob Howard freelance photographer; WTC eyewitness

Robert L. Parker, Ph.D. professor of geophysics, University of California, San Diego

Structural Engineering / Building Collapse Farid Alfawakhiri, Ph.D. senior engineer, American Institute of Steel Construction

David Biggs, P.E. structural engineer, Ryan-Biggs Associates; member, ASCE team for FEMA report

Robert Clarke structural engineer, Controlled Demolitions Group Ltd.

Glenn Corbett technical editor, Fire Engineering; member, NIST advisory committee

Vincent Dunn deputy fire chief (Ret.), FDNY; author, The Collapse Of Burning Buildings: A Guide To Fireground Safety

John Fisher, Ph.D. professor of civil engineering, Lehigh University; professor emeritus, Center for Advanced Technology; member, FEMA Probe Team

Ken Hays executive vice president, Masonry Arts

Christoph Hoffmann, Ph.D. professor of computer science, Purdue University; project director, September 11 Pentagon Attack Simulations Using LS-Dyna, Purdue University

Allyn E. Kilsheimer, P.E. CEO, KCE Structural Engineers PC; chief structural engineer, Phoenix project; expert in blast recovery, concrete structures, emergency response

Won-Young Kim, Ph.D. seismologist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

William Koplitz photo desk manager, FEMA

John Labriola freelance photographer, WTC survivor

Arthur Lerner-Lam, Ph.D. seismologist; director, Earth Institute, Center for Hazards and Risk Research, Columbia University

James Quintiere, Ph.D. professor of engineering, University of Maryland member, NIST advisory committee

Steve Riskus freelance photographer; eyewitness, Pentagon crash

Van Romero, Ph.D. vice president, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Christine Shaffer spokesperson, Viracon

Mete Sozen, Ph.D., S.E. Kettelhut Distinguished Professor of Structural Engineering, Purdue University; member, Pentagon Building Performance Report; project conception, September 11 Pentagon Attack Simulations Using LS-Dyna, Purdue University

Shyam Sunder, Sc.D. acting deputy director, lead investigator, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Mary Tobin science writer, media relations, Earth Institute, Columbia University

Forman Williams, Ph.D. professor of engineering, physics, combustion, University of California, San Diego; member, advisory committee, National Institute of Standards and Technology
I read your opinion. I have also read or watched t... (show quote)


You list some names of those who support the official story but you don't provide testimony of what they said.

Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski was at the Pentagon on 9/11 and her testimony completely contradicts the lies you are attempting to sell.

"It is as a scientist that I have the most trouble with the official government conspiracy theory, mainly because it does not satisfy the rules of probability or physics. The collapses of the World Trade Center buildings clearly violate the laws of probability and physics. ...

There was a dearth of visible debris on the relatively unmarked (Pentagon) lawn, where I stood only minutes after the impact. Beyond this strange absence of airliner debris, there was no sign of the kind of damage to the Pentagon structure one would expect from the impact of a large airliner. This visible evidence or lack thereof may also have been apparent to the secretary of defense (Donald Rumsfeld), who in an unfortunate slip of the tongue referred to the aircraft that slammed into the Pentagon as a "missile". ...

I saw nothing of significance at the point of impact - no airplane metal or cargo debris was blowing on the lawn in front of the damaged building as smoke billowed from within the Pentagon. ... all of us staring at the Pentagon that morning were indeed looking for such debris, but what we expected to see was not evident.

The same is true with regard to the kind of damage we expected. ... But I did not see this kind of damage. Rather, the facade had a rather small hole, no larger than 20 feet in diameter. Although this facade later collapsed, it remained standing for 30 or 40 minutes, with the roof line remaining relatively straight.

The scene, in short, was not what I would have expected from a strike by a large jetliner. It was, however, exactly what one would expect if a missile had struck the Pentagon. ..."

http://patriotsquestion911.com/

Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski
Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski...

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Aug 23, 2017 15:18:35   #
Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
 
A FURY FOR GOD: The Islamist Attack on America

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

The Evolution of Al Qaeda and the Intertwining Paths Leading to 9/11

“The Looming Tower,” the title of Lawrence Wright’s remarkable new book about Al Qaeda and 9/11, refers not only to the doomed towers of the World Trade Center, but also to a passage in the Koran, which Osama bin Laden quoted several times in a speech exhorting the 19 hijackers to become martyrs to their cause: “Wherever you are, death will find you/even in the looming tower.”

Mr. Wright’s book, based on more than 500 interviews — ranging from Mr. bin Laden’s best friend in college, Jamal Khalifa, to Yosri Fouda, a reporter for Al Jazeera, to Richard A. Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief — gives the reader a searing view of the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, a view that is at once wrenchingly intimate and boldly sweeping in its historical perspective.

Though the broad outlines of his story have been recounted many, many times before, Mr. Wright fleshes out the narrative with myriad new details and a keen ability to situate the events he describes in a larger cultural and political context. And by focusing on the lives and careers of several key players on the “road to 9/11” — namely, Mr. bin Laden; his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri; the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal; and the F.B.I.’s former counterterrorism chief, John O’Neill — he has succeeded in writing a narrative history that possesses all the immediacy and emotional power of a novel, an account that indelibly illustrates how the political and the personal, the public and the private were often inextricably intertwined.

Mr. Wright’s book suggests that “the charisma and vision of a few individuals shaped the nature” of the contest between Islam and the West. While “the tectonic plates of history were certainly shifting,” promoting a period of conflict between those two cultures, he contends, the emergence of Al Qaeda “depended on a unique conjunction of personalities” — most notably, Mr. Zawahri, who promoted the apocalyptic notion that only violence could change history, and Mr. bin Laden, whose global vision and leadership “held together an organization that had been bankrupted and thrown into exile.”

The book also suggests that the events of Sept. 11 were not inevitable. Rather, bad luck, the confluence of particular decisions and chance encounters, dithering on the part of United States officials and a series of absurd turf wars between the C.I.A. and F.B.I. all contributed to Al Qaeda’s success in pulling off its nefarious plans that sunny September day.


The Plot Against America
When Mohamed Atta and his four Saudi confederates commandeered a Boeing 767 and steered it into the north tower of the World Trade Center, they began a story that still consumes us nearly five years on, and one that seems, on bad days, to promise war without end.

But the events of Sept. 11, 2001, were in many ways less the start of a tale than the end of one, or at least the climax of one, begun many years before in many different precincts: in the middle-class suburbs of Cairo, in the mosques of Hamburg, in Jidda, in Islamabad, in the quiet university town of Greeley, Colo.

In its simplest terms, this is the story of how a small group of men, with a frightening mix of delusion and calculation, rose from a tormented civilization to mount a catastrophic assault on the world’s mightiest power, and how another group of men and women, convinced that such an attack was on the way, tried desperately to stop it.

What a story it is. And what a riveting tale Lawrence Wright fashions in this marvelous book. “The Looming Tower” is not just a detailed, heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11, written with style and verve, and carried along by villains and heroes that only a crime novelist could dream up. It’s an education, too — though you’d never know it — a thoughtful examination of the world that produced the men who brought us 9/11, and of their progeny who bedevil us today. The portrait of John O’Neill, the driven, demon-ridden F.B.I. agent who worked so frantically to stop Osama bin Laden, only to perish in the attack on the World Trade Center, is worth the price of the book alone. “The Looming Tower” is a thriller. And it’s a tragedy, too.

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Aug 23, 2017 15:18:54   #
payne1000
 
April Gallop was in the area of the Pentagon where the missile struck.
Listen to what she experienced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOGBGLIYiSg

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Aug 23, 2017 15:21:44   #
Jean Deaux
 
Blade_Runner wrote:
Yeah, you are a self-exalted saint, aren't you? Your holier-than-thou attitude and stilted speech is a symptom exhibited through a person's communication of a thought disorder in schizophrenia indicated by speech content that is inappropriately pompous, legalistic, philosophical, or quaint. This element of cognitive disorder is also exhibited as a symptom in the narcissistic personality disorder.



I had no idea we were in the company of such genius. Not only a self avowed expert on explosives but apparently a psychiatrist wanna be. Must be hard to be surrounded by ignorant scientists, genuine explosives experts and know nothing narcissistic bumpkins. More's the pity. You do better on the handle of a gob sailor, you can rant to your hearts delight and nobody really cares, just get that deck scrubbed. Continue with your delusions of grandeur, you're ignored and basically irrelevant. Be careful you don't fall out of your hammock and bang your head again.

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Aug 23, 2017 15:31:53   #
Jean Deaux
 
whole2th wrote:
Blade Runner works on behalf of the real perpetrators of 9-11 and fully realizes his role in the cover-up. Review of the last almost 100 pages will show unmistakable patterns complicity in the cover-up.
:


I have come to the same conclusion, he is obviously tied to a preconceived scheme and will not be deterred by reason or proof of any other solution. His responses are almost entirely mockery and sarcasm, neither of which is very convincing in a debate. I'll be happy to let him sit in the corner and babble to his hearts delight trying to convince others of his brilliance.

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Aug 23, 2017 15:32:32   #
payne1000
 
Blade_Runner wrote:
A FURY FOR GOD: The Islamist Attack on America

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

The Evolution of Al Qaeda and the Intertwining Paths Leading to 9/11

“The Looming Tower,” the title of Lawrence Wright’s remarkable new book about Al Qaeda and 9/11, refers not only to the doomed towers of the World Trade Center, but also to a passage in the Koran, which Osama bin Laden quoted several times in a speech exhorting the 19 hijackers to become martyrs to their cause: “Wherever you are, death will find you/even in the looming tower.”

Mr. Wright’s book, based on more than 500 interviews — ranging from Mr. bin Laden’s best friend in college, Jamal Khalifa, to Yosri Fouda, a reporter for Al Jazeera, to Richard A. Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief — gives the reader a searing view of the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, a view that is at once wrenchingly intimate and boldly sweeping in its historical perspective.

Though the broad outlines of his story have been recounted many, many times before, Mr. Wright fleshes out the narrative with myriad new details and a keen ability to situate the events he describes in a larger cultural and political context. And by focusing on the lives and careers of several key players on the “road to 9/11” — namely, Mr. bin Laden; his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri; the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal; and the F.B.I.’s former counterterrorism chief, John O’Neill — he has succeeded in writing a narrative history that possesses all the immediacy and emotional power of a novel, an account that indelibly illustrates how the political and the personal, the public and the private were often inextricably intertwined.

Mr. Wright’s book suggests that “the charisma and vision of a few individuals shaped the nature” of the contest between Islam and the West. While “the tectonic plates of history were certainly shifting,” promoting a period of conflict between those two cultures, he contends, the emergence of Al Qaeda “depended on a unique conjunction of personalities” — most notably, Mr. Zawahri, who promoted the apocalyptic notion that only violence could change history, and Mr. bin Laden, whose global vision and leadership “held together an organization that had been bankrupted and thrown into exile.”

The book also suggests that the events of Sept. 11 were not inevitable. Rather, bad luck, the confluence of particular decisions and chance encounters, dithering on the part of United States officials and a series of absurd turf wars between the C.I.A. and F.B.I. all contributed to Al Qaeda’s success in pulling off its nefarious plans that sunny September day.


The Plot Against America
When Mohamed Atta and his four Saudi confederates commandeered a Boeing 767 and steered it into the north tower of the World Trade Center, they began a story that still consumes us nearly five years on, and one that seems, on bad days, to promise war without end.

But the events of Sept. 11, 2001, were in many ways less the start of a tale than the end of one, or at least the climax of one, begun many years before in many different precincts: in the middle-class suburbs of Cairo, in the mosques of Hamburg, in Jidda, in Islamabad, in the quiet university town of Greeley, Colo.

In its simplest terms, this is the story of how a small group of men, with a frightening mix of delusion and calculation, rose from a tormented civilization to mount a catastrophic assault on the world’s mightiest power, and how another group of men and women, convinced that such an attack was on the way, tried desperately to stop it.

What a story it is. And what a riveting tale Lawrence Wright fashions in this marvelous book. “The Looming Tower” is not just a detailed, heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11, written with style and verve, and carried along by villains and heroes that only a crime novelist could dream up. It’s an education, too — though you’d never know it — a thoughtful examination of the world that produced the men who brought us 9/11, and of their progeny who bedevil us today. The portrait of John O’Neill, the driven, demon-ridden F.B.I. agent who worked so frantically to stop Osama bin Laden, only to perish in the attack on the World Trade Center, is worth the price of the book alone. “The Looming Tower” is a thriller. And it’s a tragedy, too.
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Before Lawrence Wright decided to write his fictitious tome, did he check to see if the alleged hijackers got on the airliners on 9/11?
Since none of the alleged hijackers showed up on the airport security videos on 9/11, it's obvious they never got on the planes.
Another fact which might have tipped him off that Muslims didn't do 9/11 is the fact that the FBI didn't even list 9/11 as one of the crimes Bin Laden was wanted for.
The airliners were drones, flown from a remote location.



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Aug 23, 2017 15:47:52   #
Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
 
Jean Deaux wrote:
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I have come to the same conclusion, he is obviously tied to a preconceived scheme and will not be deterred by reason or proof of any other solution. His responses are almost entirely mockery and sarcasm, neither of which is very convincing in a debate. I'll be happy to let him sit in the corner and babble to his hearts delight trying to convince others of his brilliance.



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Aug 23, 2017 15:49:46   #
Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
 
payne1000 wrote:
April Gallop was in the area of the Pentagon where the missile struck.
Listen to what she experienced: https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOGBGLIYiSg
What kind of missile was it? From where was it launched? Who launched it? Why was it never tracked by any radar?

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Aug 23, 2017 15:53:34   #
Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
 
Jean Deaux wrote:
I had no idea we were in the company of such genius. Not only a self avowed expert on explosives but apparently a psychiatrist wanna be. Must be hard to be surrounded by ignorant scientists, genuine explosives experts and know nothing narcissistic bumpkins. More's the pity. You do better on the handle of a gob sailor, you can rant to your hearts delight and nobody really cares, just get that deck scrubbed. Continue with your delusions of grandeur, you're ignored and basically irrelevant. Be careful you don't fall out of your hammock and bang your head again.
I had no idea we were in the company of such geniu... (show quote)



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Aug 23, 2017 15:56:36   #
Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
 
payne1000 wrote:
Before Lawrence Wright decided to write his fictitious tome, did he check to see if the alleged hijackers got on the airliners on 9/11?
Since none of the alleged hijackers showed up on the airport security videos on 9/11, it's obvious they never got on the planes.
Another fact which might have tipped him off that Muslims didn't do 9/11 is the fact that the FBI didn't even list 9/11 as one of the crimes Bin Laden was wanted for.
The airliners were drones, flown from a remote location.
Either read The Looming Tower or continue to make a fool of yourself. You've done a good job of that so far.

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Aug 23, 2017 17:10:19   #
payne1000
 
Blade_Runner wrote:
What kind of missile was it? From where was it launched? Who launched it? Why was it never tracked by any radar?


The comparison photo shows the type missile likely used.
The missile could have been launched from any remote location.
Agents of the military launched the missile.
It was tracked on radar: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/911stand.html





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