Reply #143: Problems with the OV of Pentagon and WTC

[petgoat]

Pentagon

1. Why no air defense?
2. How did a lousy pilot like Hani Hanjour pull off a 270 degree turn diving 7000 feet to hit a
low building.
3. Why did the hijackers select the unoccupied wing of the Pentagon (where construction equipment
was conspicuous) so that they killed 100 civilian construction workers and only 25 Pentagon personnel?
4. Norm Mineta said he saw Cheney in the White House bunker at 9:25 discussing the approach of
an aircraft Mineta assumed was flight 77. Mineta's timeline is corroborated by Richard Clark.
The 9/11 Commission insists that Cheney didn't get there until 9:58, though Cheney told Meet the Press
that he got there much earlier.
5. F-16s that were scrambled from Langley might have reached Washington in time to stop flight 77, except they flew straight out to sea instead. The 9/11 Commission purports to explain this fact
by telling us they were launched not to meet the flight 77 threat, but in response to false reports
from the FAA that flight 11 was still in the air and headed for DC from the north. NORAD had said nothing about this phantom flight 11 during the three years it put out its timeline of events,
and the 9/11 Commission can not identify the FAA person who made this report.
6. John Judge reports that he was told by a Pentagon employee that there were SAM missiles defending
the building.

WTC

1. What brought down building 7? FDNY brass said structural damage, but their reports are mutually
contradictory and apparently FEMA didn't regard them as credible when it made its report. FEMA couldn't explain the collapse mechanism, but said fire brought WTC7 down. Of course, the photos only
show very wimpy fires. NIST seems to lean toward structural damage, but they have not delivered their
final report which was due in December, and I understand they are going to outsource the project.
2. How did jet fuel or a gravity driven collapse turn the concrete to dust?
3. How do asymmetric fires and asymmetric structural damage cause a symmetrical collapse?
4. Why did the tower hit second fall first? Firemen radioing from the impact zone saw only a couple of isolated fires. Brian Clark walked down right through the impact floors and saw only a few flames.
He stopped at 31 to make phone calls, and at the street he said "no way" could the towers fall. The
fires in the south tower were going out when it fell.
5. Most of the jet fuel burned up in the fireballs outside the building. NIST says the jet fuel
all burned off in ten minutes. NIST has not one piece of core steel showing heating above 250 degrees
Centigrade.
6. Most structural engineers were surprised when the towers fell.
7. The molten metal was observed in the basement soon after the collapse, so the theory that the
steel melted in some kind of charcoal cooker doesn't wash.
8. The FEMA/ASCE and NIST investigations have been shoddy. That the steel was recycled over the objections of family members, firemen, and Fire Engineering magazine is peculiar. That the blueprints
remain a secret is peculiar.
9. The FEMA/ASCE Appendix C report found that its steel samples from both the WTC towers and WTC7 had been evaporated by a sulfidation attack that remains unexplained to this day except by Dr. Jones's
thermate hypothesis.
10. Numerous witnesses reported explosions in the towers, including flashes of light from lower
floors.
11. The counterargument that wiring the building with miles of detonation cord and thousands of explosive charges makes controlled demolition impractical is easily refuted by postulating use of
radio-controlled charges, which could have been easily planted among the core columns in the elevator
shafts after midnight using the elevator cars as movable staging. Dr. Van Romero, an explosives
expert, said that a few charges in key places could have brought the towers down.