e. The Pentagon

September 11, 2001, 8:51 a.m.:

American Airlines Flight 77, originating from Washington Dulles International Airport and headed to Los Angeles International Airport, is hijacked without incident and makes an unauthorized turn to the south three minutes later. No mayday, no hijack code, no sign of struggle. Flight 77 will fly all the way back from the Kentucky-Ohio border for another 43 minutes before crashing into the Pentagon without any military interception at 9:37 a.m.

Now….the Pentagon is one of the most heavily guarded and watched sites on the planet. With radar systems capable of tracking objects right down to sea level, it is unbelievable that a rogue Boeing 757 could hit the Pentagon without warning after 2 planes already had hit the World Trade Center. That is, until you start to figure in things like Dick Cheney’s comments in the basement of the White House as the “plane” was approaching the Pentagon. The FBI arrives within minutes of the impact and the site is declared a federal crime scene, becoming their exclusive responsibility. FBI agents immediately confiscate security camera tapes from surrounding private businesses, including a Citgo gas station and the Sheraton National Hotel, among many others. Now why would they do that unless those tapes showed something the rest of the world wasn’t meant to see? Video that would contradict the official line of a passenger airliner slamming into the Pentagon possibly?

Eyewitness accounts of the object that struck the Pentagon range from “it was a missile” to “it looked like a small commuter plane” to “a huge passenger jet crashed there”, so who’s to say what exactly hit the Pentagon. The one way to know for sure would be to release footage of the crash taken from the dozens of security cameras that ring the Pentagon and from Virginia Department of Transportation ("VDOT") and/or the VDOT "Smart Traffic Center" surveillance videos from the day and time of the attack. Well, you know what? Those good people working for the feds did release some footage, including the Citgo gas station tape and a video taken from a security camera from the Doubletree Inn which was also in viewing distance of the Pentagon. The tape from the Citgo shows mostly the inside of the gas station, and the camera footage of the Citgo camera that would’ve shown the plane hitting the Pentagon is conspicuously absent. The film from the Doubletree Inn only shows the explosion in a grainy image and is of no use to anyone in clearing anything up. The only other “video release” so far by the feds are some still-frame shots taken from a security camera at the entrance to the Pentagon grounds, which shows an unidentifiable object entering the camera frame in one still image, and then exploding into a fireball in the next one. The FBI has in its possession a total of 85 security tapes gathered (taken) from both public and private entities. According to an affidavit by Jacqueline Maguire, Special Agent Counterterrorism Division of the FBI, “fifty-six (56) of

these videotapes did not show either the Pentagon building, the Pentagon crash site, or the impact of Flight 77 into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.”

Maguire goes on to explain that “I personally viewed the remaining twenty-nine (29) videotapes.” Yet she concluded that there was “nothing of interest” for the public to gain from having access to those tapes.

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The reason they have not shown these tapes of a jet hitting is quite simple: they don’t have them. I don’t believe the feds have a single tape of Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon. I’m going to lay out the evidence for the cover up at the Pentagon now, and quite the cover up it was.

Before plowing into the Pentagon building, the Boeing 757 allegedly performed a death-defying 270degree turn at the speed of approximately 500 miles per hour. Experienced flight personnel, however, say that that is impossible.

“That is a really difficult maneuver,” commented Robin Hordon, a flight controller for 11 years at Boston Center. “And what I will say to you is that an experienced pilot with thousands of hours

probably would have to take between 10 and 20 attempts… before they would be able to pull off that maneuver.”

“A 757 is not designed to do that,” Hordon continued. “The 757 is designed to be a cruise ship

in the sky. It’s not acrobatic. So you just can’t do that with one of those big airplanes.”

“The speed, the maneuverability, the way that it turned,” commented Danielle O’Brien, air traffic controller from Dulles airport, “we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic

controllers, that that was a military plane.”

Then there is the assertion of the official story that the aircraft was flying at 6 meters above the ground at 530 miles per hour for a half mile before hitting its target.

This is literally an impossibility. A huge plane can’t go that fast down that low. The air is too dense at such low altitudes and the plane would instantly crash at that level.

“I challenge any pilot,” says Nila Sagadevan, a pilot and aeronautical engineer, “give him a

Boeing 757 and tell him to do 400 knots 20 feet above the ground for half a mile. You can’t do it. It’s aerodynamically impossible.”

So given the extreme unlikelihood that even a seasoned, professional pilot would be able to pull off such a maneuver, how could Hani Hanjour, who could not even negotiate a tiny Cessna 172, be the man who performed these next-to-impossible acrobatic flying maneuvers in a hulking passenger airliner before zeroing in on the Pentagon for a direct hit?

“I’m still to this day amazed that he could have flown into the Pentagon,” said one of Hanjour’s past flight instructors in an interview with The New York Times. “He could not fly at all.”

“His instructor described him as a terrible pilot,” admitted the 9/11 Commission report, quoting an FBI memorandum. Another flight instructor went so far as to call Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz AlOmari, the alleged hijackers of Flight 11, “dumb and dumber in an airplane.”

“For a guy to just jump into the cockpit and fly like an ace is impossible,” says Capt. Russ Wittenberg, U.S. Air Force, in an interview with Lewis News. “There is not one chance in a

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So, whenever an airplane crashes, we are all familiar with footage of physical wreckage, including engines, seats, luggage, and wheel assemblies. But there is something peculiar about the crash of Flight 77 into the Pentagon: there is practically no sign of a wrecked aircraft after the crash. All that remained of Flight 77 were about a dozen small pieces scattered about the front of the Pentagon, most of which could be lifted by hand.

CNN anchor Jamie McIntyre was at the Pentagon after the crash:

“From my close-up inspection, there’s no evidence of a plane having crashed anywhere near

the Pentagon,” he commented live from the scene. “The only pieces left that you can see are

small enough that you can pick up in your hand. There are no large tail sections, wing sections, a fuselage, nothing like that anywhere around which would indicate that the entire plane crashed into the side of the Pentagon.”

There was also a firsthand report from a fighter pilot who was ordered to fly over the Pentagon after the “crash” by Major General Larry Arnold, the commander of NORAD, the agency that is charged with protecting the airspace over North America.

According to Barbara Honegger, the senior journalist with the U.S. Department of Defense, the pilot made an overpass of the crash zone and reported back to command center that “there was no

evidence, zero evidence, of an impact of a plane at the Pentagon.”

As questions over the whereabouts of the debris from the mysteriously disappearing aircraft began to mount, the Department of the Defense began to support the theory that Flight 77 simply “vaporized” due to the speed that it was traveling.

The engines of a Boeing 757-200 are about 9 feet long and composed of titanium, the strongest metal on Earth. So why was there no evidence of these engines slamming against the wall of the Pentagon? The two big holes that we would expect to see from these massive engines simply are not there. There should have been a line of complete destruction before the collapse of the building’s external wall. It just wasn’t there, it didn’t exist. Where the wings of the aircraft allegedly should have struck the building, there are unbroken windows clearly visible.

Point of fact: Only a small hole, 16 feet (5 meters) in diameter, was visible in the side of the Pentagon 45 minutes before the outer wall collapsed, and this is the only hole. The footage of this was shown once, live, and never broadcast again because this is an impossibility if a huge airliner really hit the Pentagon. The titanium engines surely would have made their own holes, even if the wings did not enter and disintegrated against the concrete facade upon impact. There was only a single 16-foot hole.

If there was only one 16 foot hole, then that means the rest of the “plane” should have been in thousands of pieces on the lawn directly in front of the Pentagon. There was in fact hardly anything.

As of the publication of this book, you can still view pictures and video on the internet of the side of the Pentagon immediately after the impact and view the size of the hole and lack of airplane debris for yourself.

“I look at the hole in the Pentagon,” said Maj. General Albert Stubblebine, whose former job was to measure pieces of Soviet equipment taken from photographs during the Cold War, “and I look at the

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“With all the evidence readily available at the Pentagon crash site,” concludes Col. George Nelson, an aircraft accident investigator with the US Air Force, “any unbiased, rational investigator

could only conclude that a Boeing 757 did not fly into the Pentagon.”

According to the 9/11 Commission, the ensuing fire from the impact was hot enough to incinerate the titanium components of the airplane, while leaving the DNA evidence intact enough for the feds to not only ID all of the passengers, but the hijackers too, including two of the hijackers who came back from the dead and are alive today. Do you believe this? I sure don’t. Whatever it was that hit the Pentagon on 9/11, it slammed through 6 massive walls amounting to

over 9 feet of rebar-reinforced concrete before exiting into the center courtyard, leaving a nearly perfect circular exit hole deep inside the military complex that measured approximately 12 feet across.

So if Flight 77 didn’t hit the Pentagon, what did? And what happened to the passengers who were allegedly on Flight 77? We honestly don’t know the answer to either of those questions. Judging from the damage to the Pentagon, some people in the 9/11 Truth movement believe it was a bunkerbuster-type missile in order to be able to go through concrete like that. And the passengers? If the proponents of the Great Plan aren’t opposed to killing millions of other humans as they’ve done throughout history and in New York on 9/11, they sure wouldn’t be opposed to “disposing” of a small handful of people who were unfortunately in the wrong place at the wrong time.

This is only speculation on my part, trying to imagine what really happened on that fateful day.

All I know for certain is that we need a new and independent investigation. That is the only way to put this event to bed with full closure, and the ones who were really responsible can be dealt with appropriately.

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