Selected Anomalies in the Official Account of 9/11/01

 

Many researchers have compiled lists of problems with the official account of the 9/11 attack. One example is the 9/11 Anomalies page on this website. The summary assembles some of the more glaring anomalies, making no attempt to be comprehensive.

 

 

Indications of Foreknowledge

• Pre-attack put option surges anticipated post-attack stock declines:
• Put/call ratios on American Airlines and United Airlines stock increased five-fold and twenty-fold.
• High officials avoided the attack targets:
• John Ashcroft stopped flying commercial.
• Salman Rushdie, Willie Brown, and Pentagon officials were warned not to fly on the eve of the attack.
• On 9/11/01 Warren Buffett, an investor in unmanned aerial vehicle maker MITRE, hosted a breakfast meeting of WTC CEOs at Offutt AFB, where President Bush later landed that day.
• The World Trade Center and Pentagon were anticipated terrorist targets:
• War game scenarios targeted the WTC and Pentagon.
• The use of jetliners as weapons was anticipated.

Military's Non-Response

• The official story posits a long series of improbable failures:
• The official timelines blame the FAA for inexplicably long delays in notifying the military, after originally claiming to have been notified sooner but without specific locations.
• Jets were not scrambled from nearest bases.
• Jets in the air were not vectored to intercept jetliners.
• According to NORAD and 9/11 Commission timelines, military jets flew at small fractions of their top speeds.
• Claims that hijacked jetliners couldn't be tracked contrasts with ability of the FAA to land over 4000 aircraft at different destinations in two hours.
• At least four simultaneous war game exercises were being conducted on 9/11/01:
• The NRO exercise involved a plane-crash-into-building scenario.
• Operations Vigilant Warrior and Vigilant Guardian used scenarios involving hijacked passenger planes.
• After presiding over the worst air defense failure in US history, the commander of NORAD, head of the Joint Chiefs, and Secretary of Defense were awarded with promotions and budget increases.

Pentagon Attack Anomalies

• The Pentagon was left undefended until after being hit at 9:38:
• The Pentagon should be the best-defended building in the world.
• The Pentagon was hit more than 80 minutes into the attack.
• It is 10 miles from Andrews Air Force Base.
• Cheney watched the attack plane approach from 50 miles out.
• The attack targeted Wedge 1 of Pentagon's west wing:
• Wedge 1 was sparsely occupied, nearing completion of renovation.
• Wedge 1 was the only one that had blast-hardened walls.
• The top brass was in the opposite side of the Pentagon.
• The alleged suicide pilots lacked the requisite piloting skills:
• The attack maneuver required extreme piloting skill.
• None of the alleged hijackers had flown jets.
• Hani Hanjour, alleged pilot of Flight 77, was a notoriously bad pilot.

 

Total Collapse of WTC Building 7

• Is the only case of total collapse of large steel-framed high-rise building blamed on fire.
• The collapse had all of the features of a controlled demolition implosion:
• It fell straight down with precise radial symmetry.
• Its rapid fall was within 10 percent of gravitational free-fall speed.
• It collapsed into a tidy rubble pile mostly within the block that the building occupied.

 

Total Destruction of the Twin Towers

• Symmetry and thoroughness of destruction rules out natural processes.
• Dozens of firefighters described explosions and likened the falls of the Towers to controlled demolitions.
• Destruction exhibited main features of controlled demolitions:
• The destruction was total, leaving no parts of the Towers intact.
• The falls began precipitously after loud explosions were heard.
• Energetic jets of gas and dust emerged from the facade.
• Destruction was more thorough than conventional demolitions:
• The explosions of Towers were up to 800 feet in diameter.
• The rubble was shards of metal and dust.
• More than 1000 bodies were "vaporized".
• Extreme temperatures persisted in the rubble for three months.
• Dust contains residues of explosives:
• Abundant minute iron-rich spheroids match the structure and chemical composition of thermite by-products.
• Chips consistently found in samples are a nano-engineered thermitic material the the physical structure, chemical composition, and thermal behavior of a high-tech pyrotechnic with high explosive power.

Suppression and Destruction of Evidence

• The World Trade Center steel was systematically destroyed:
• Controlled Demolition Inc's plan for recycling steel was submitted 11 days after the attack, and approved.
• Most of the steel was shipped to Asia for recycling.
• Investigators were barred from the crime scene, and saw little of the steel.
• Scores of videos from around Pentagon were confiscated and never released.
• The NTSB was not allowed to investigate crashes.

 

Overt Omissions in Official Reports

• The 9/11 Commission made hundreds of glaring omissions:
• The Report makes no mention of Building 7.
• It called the structural cores of Twin Towers "hollow steel shaft[s]."
• It did not mention the privatization of the World Trade Center six weeks before the attack.
• NIST avoided the core issue of the 'collapses':
• It did not consider events beyond when the Towers were "poised for collapse."
• It did not demonstrate that computer models predicted "collapse initiation."
• NIST disingenuously evaded calls to test for explosive residues.