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None dare...
None dare ... call it conspiracy (because maybe this really is a hoax)
"It" being whether the real story of the 9/11 Pentagon crash has been revealed.
Actually there are lots of people who would call it conspiracy, but not me yet...
Usually my response to conspiracy theories is skeptical, from the standpoint that keeping things secret is pretty hard when there are lots of people involved. Nonetheless, a few weeks ago I promised myself to scour the web for images of the Pentagon on 9/11, to see if I could find any showing aircraft debris consistent with a 757 crash.
Try this to begin with. I kept the sound down when watching it - apparently there is a rocking sound track, though
Here is some of what else I found.
Links offering more or less support or skepticism to the theory that a missile struck the pentagon that day: asile, cnn, freedomfiles, oilempire, montalk.
This note about a famous person on AA 77 (discredited in other sources)
And some specific photos, including from defenselink, some clearly enhanced, but it is hard to see a 757 in any of them:
defenselink.mil,
fema.gov/kids,
apfn.org/.../77_wedge.htm,
apfn.org/.../pentagonxox30.jpg,
apfn.org/.../pentagon-9-11.jpg,
army.mil/.../firetruck.html,
army.mil/.../trucks.html,
army.mil/.../cars-damaged.html,
army.mil/.../evacuate.html (appears from perspective of the approaching aircraft, but the intervening light poles remain standing)
and then ...
This from Reuters: "The video, which Al Jazeera said it received at its Islamabad office on Friday, even came replete with an English-language translation for its full 18 minutes. The Arabic broadcaster only aired about five minutes of the tape. A State Department official said Washington had asked Qatar's government to stop Al Jazeera airing the tape. A spokesman for the channel said the tape was too newsworthy to ignore, but declined to say what was in the 13 minutes it did not air."
Missing 13 minutes? Excerpts from the speech are here, but where is the entire transcript?
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update (14 April, 2007 21:55:00 PDT)
I have come to a revised perspective on this topic, based on further reading, namely a perspective more inclined to believe the standard model for the disaster of 9/11/2001, in regard to the collapse of WTC 7 and the Pentagon attack.
[Not that I'm staying awake at night pondering these points. I just came upon the following and remembered having written about this way back, so I figured I should allow myself some personal revisionism]
First, WTC7. Not mentioned below, but separately discussed, has been the question of what explained WTC7 collapsing, when it was not struck in the attack, and video of the North side showed no reason for it to fall. I found the following through a couple other links, which shows the damage to WTC 7 being very severe on the south side (the side facing WTC 1 and 2 - photos on the link below are from the north side), and that "pull" remarks are all about pulling people out of the area because it looked like it would collapse.
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This entry was posted on October 29th, 2004 at 21:24:00 by Adumbrator and is filed under News, Culture, skepticism.
