Re: 911 - was it self inflicted?
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:40 pm
Who is to say that the "snopes" website isn't owned and operated by the CIA or similar to help refute anti-government "conspiracy" theories. (After all, the US government and military were happy to allow UFO stories as these were good cover for the testing of secret military weapons, such as the stealth fighter bomber and cruise missiles)
For example, in this page debunking the "it wasn't a 757 that hit the Pentagon" theories the snopes website says that when the first tower was hit, people at first thought it was a light aircraft because the size of the hole was so "small".
That is utter bollocks.
Look at photos of the Twin Towers after the attack and the "outline" of a plane is clear for all to see... fuselage AND wings.
People thought it was a light aircraft at first for various reasons, not least because the very idea of a commercial airliner hitting the tower was preposterous, and secondly because there were dozens of helicopter and light aircraft flights (many for tourist purposes) around Manhattan at the time, so the "obvious" thought was that one of them had crashed.
The simple fact is that the damage done to the Pentagon bears no resemblance to the sort of damage done to the Twin Towers, and two large commercial airliners (flights 77 and 93) supposedly left little or no debris at their crash sites.
Why were no bodies, or even parts of bodies, ever recovered from Flight 93? Even the Air India crash into the mid-Atlantic from a much higher altitude left greater wreckage and more bodies/body parts than Flights 77 and 93 put together!
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, and am more inclined towards "cock-up" theory. I too have flown extensively in the US and seen how lax security was on internal flights prior to 9/11.
HOWEVER... I personally wouldn't discount the theory that some people very high up in the US administration knew something was going to happen and CHOSE to allow it to happen knowing the power it would ultimately give them to do whatever they wanted.
For example, in this page debunking the "it wasn't a 757 that hit the Pentagon" theories the snopes website says that when the first tower was hit, people at first thought it was a light aircraft because the size of the hole was so "small".
That is utter bollocks.
Look at photos of the Twin Towers after the attack and the "outline" of a plane is clear for all to see... fuselage AND wings.
People thought it was a light aircraft at first for various reasons, not least because the very idea of a commercial airliner hitting the tower was preposterous, and secondly because there were dozens of helicopter and light aircraft flights (many for tourist purposes) around Manhattan at the time, so the "obvious" thought was that one of them had crashed.
The simple fact is that the damage done to the Pentagon bears no resemblance to the sort of damage done to the Twin Towers, and two large commercial airliners (flights 77 and 93) supposedly left little or no debris at their crash sites.
Why were no bodies, or even parts of bodies, ever recovered from Flight 93? Even the Air India crash into the mid-Atlantic from a much higher altitude left greater wreckage and more bodies/body parts than Flights 77 and 93 put together!
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, and am more inclined towards "cock-up" theory. I too have flown extensively in the US and seen how lax security was on internal flights prior to 9/11.
HOWEVER... I personally wouldn't discount the theory that some people very high up in the US administration knew something was going to happen and CHOSE to allow it to happen knowing the power it would ultimately give them to do whatever they wanted.