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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 07:45 PM
Original message
It was NOT Flight 77
This thread is a continuation of another less-appropriately-named thread which is located at
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=8105&mesg_id=8105


For those who came in late:
Dick Eastman has just challenged the orginal poster, crispy.

101. let crispy himself rebut this reply from eastman
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=8105&mesg_id=8591&page=
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 08:22 PM
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1. Wow, Dick Eastman is back
Let me get some popcorn, don't start the show without me. :)
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-25-04 09:52 PM
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2. To Whom It May Concern
If you go to the first post and push the snooze button you find that posts written by you-know-who will completely vanish from your screen.
Occasionally, you may see the word IGNORED but that is the only way you will have of knowing that so-and-so is still posting.

Try it,
you'll like it.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-04 06:42 PM
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3. Some advice
It's always good to face your fears.
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 07:35 PM
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17. SWEET! thanks, Skinner
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dick_eastman Donating Member (39 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 06:30 AM
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197. speaking of "ignoring" -- the 9-11 Commission needs to read this thread!
:kick:

The 9-11 has pushed the "snooze" button rather than take up any of the Pentagon evicence. Yet, without 9-11 Investigators' Input the Commissions conclusions are uninformed opinion at best


The Commission -- originally planned to be headed by Henry Kissinger who once said, "It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true." -- has never acknowledged publically the existence of citizens with photographic evidence they claim establishes that 9-11 to have been frame-up.

Al Falzenberg has been the gatekeeper and triage of all information directed to the Committee -- note the Jewish name and realize that the Bush administration would not select one of the 45 percent of Jews who oppose the current wars of conquest against Moslem nations -- must be held accountable for active obstruction of justice, for assisting in a coverup of evidence that fingers the true perpetrators.

The Commission, I conclude, and I am confident future impartial history will bear me out, has had only two objectives from the beginning:

1. To consumate the cover-up; and

2. To provide contrived rationale for consolidation of police power into a Stalinist "NVKD"-type police state, unanswerable to anyone, the operations and objectives of which are unknown to anyone, and the control of which remains in the hands of America's power-elite Oligarcy, the proven perpetrators of 9-11.

Dick Eastman
223 S. 64th Ave.
Yakima, Washington 98908

---

Are you also uninformed about the evidence proving 9-11 was a frame-up? Here is the critical information needed to derive an informed opinion of what really happened on September 11, 2001:

Consider what citizen investigators have uncovered regarding the alleged "attack" on the Pentagon:


1. Pentagon security camera shows
a. Too short a plane
b. Smoke trail of a missile being fired
c. White-hot flash explosion consistent with a missile warhead

2. Photos show wrong crash imprint in the wall

3. Photos show and wrong flash-powder burn darkening the wall

4. Downed lampposts and witnesses each identified a different
approach path to the Pentagon, the Boeing's and the killer jet's

5. Wrong kind of debris

6. Single piece of right kind of debris shown to have been
found on the opposite side of the approach path from
the side of the plane where that particular piece had
to have come from.

7. Witnesses also

a. heard a missile

b. heard a sonic boom prior to blast

c. smelled burning chordite after the blast

d. saw a radar blip behaving like a jet-fighter blip

8. No photos of wreckage from inside consistent with the crash

9. Evidence of only one engine and one seat , a pilots seat.

10. A distraction plane, ur engine plane making dives over D.C.
both photographed, videotaped and shown on BBC, and
reported (erroneously) by many wintesses as the actual plane
"diving at an irrecoverable angle)

11. The attack was made almost horizontally into the first-floor
level -- consistent with a countour-hugging jet-fighter attack

12. Normal rescuers were prevented from entering the building
while only certain people, including Rumsfeld himself, conducted
(screened) victims from the building

13. Rumsfeld had recently been given exclusive power to
OK air interceptions -- and yet he was in his office the whole
time the twin towers were hit, and when the Pentagon was
hit he went to oversee "rescue" instead of going to the situation
room where his interception authority could be given -- he
arrived at the situation room at about the time the Pennsylvania
plane (backup for the Pentagon) was finally shot down.

14. The various drills and practices for an air attack on the Pentagon
including some kind of simulation on 9-11-01 itself, coupled with
denials that such an attack had been considered possible.

15. Impossible stories by, for example, John Judge (regarding
his amazing stewardess friend who claims to have seen the
Boeing inside the hole, recognized the plane as the one she
always flew, recongized her stewardess friend as a victim by
a photo of her severed arm with the matching "friendship
bracelett" they both wore; that she was passing out
doughnuts and coffee to the rescue workers with the salvation
army when the salvation army was nowhere in evidence at the
scene -- John Judge who is a professional JFK conspiracy
theory debunker and discloses that this same stewardess
friend is also a JFK theory investigator, the same
John Judge who launched the phony "People's Investigation
of 9-11 with a press conference by stating that the Pentagon
attack is not something responsible investigators should bother
investigating etc. since we "know" the Boeing hit the Pentagon
and don't want to be a laughing stock etc. -- the People's
investigation that never once reviewed any of the evidence
packages I posted to them -- the same John Judge who to this
day refuses to debate Dick Eastman on any internet forum and
whom all -- dare I use the term -- "responsible" 9-11
investigators think is a John Judge who is working for the
coverup, for obstruction of justice, and because he does
it so badly is himself become one of the proofs of the
frameup along with the known-only-to-himself flight attendant
who works one of the flights that most definitely had to
have been regularly monitored by US intelligence operatives,
probably flight attendents, and this one just happened not
to take Flight 77 that day by happenstance etc. -- so how
about it, John?

16. The deaths of only the CIA's indepdendent intelligence
revivals , the Offices of Naval Intelligence personel, and
auditors of defense spending contracts etc. alone moved
into the "newly renovated" section that was hit -- on the side
where most of the witnesses would be the Arlington Cemetery
dead or people involved with driving their cars. Naval
Intelligence would have independently investigated 9-11
had they lived -- the investigator that no official
has yet conducted -- Wolfowitz sure bin Laden had done
it and ready with the solution of invading Afganistan on
the very first day -- even as they were allegedly taken
by complete suprise only a few hours before that determination.


See the evidence photos and witness testimony confirming all of the above and further analysis in support of these conclusions by respected men of science here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5

and here

http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/Eastman/m18h05.html

Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
Vote for democratic peace and freedom or don't vote at all.

p.s.



Let me add this from a letter from Gerard Holmgren:

".... The following compilation presents documents and research from various sources demonstrating that the events of Sept 11 were planned and carried out by the US govt and its agencies. ...

"1) "Let it happen on purpose" evidence (LIHOP).

"This presents research which takes as its founding assumption that we are basically being told the truth about which planes were hijacked, where they went and who hijacked them, and goes on to
demonstrate that even if this were true, then the govt and its agencies must have known about it beforehand, and must have taken active steps to deliberately allow it to happen.

"2) "Totally self inflicted" evidence (TSI).

"This section demonstrates that the LIHOP evidence only scratches the surface, and that the govt claims about which planes were hijacked, were they went and who hijacked them is total fiction, and that the govt and its agencies must have organized the entire event.

READ HOLMGRENS REPORT:
911 Closeup
http://911closeup.com/index.shtml?ID=50

Part 2:
http://911closeup.com/index.shtml?ID=51



Although the govt claimed to be completely taken by surprise, it somehow had no trouble in naming the alleged perpetrator - Osama Bin Laden - within hours, and immediately threatened to invade Afghanistan. What they negelcted to mention was that the decision to invade Afghanistan had already been made by July 2001, and the specific war plans arrived on Bush's desk on sept 9. It a common myth that Bin Laden has claimed responsibility for the attacks but this simply isn't true. He's vigorously denied any involvement and according to some reports has condemned the attacks as un-Islamic.

The myth of his confession is based entirely upon a video tape produced by the Pentagon which claims to show the bearded fiend laughing about how many innocent people he's killed. This tape is almost certainly a fake, and thePentagon's translation has been attacked by independent translators as misleading and incomplete. In response, the Pentagon effectively admitted as much, saying "it is not a verbatim translation of every word spoken at the meeeting, but it does convey the messages and the information flow." The Dept of defense defended the translation thus." The translation is what it is .We never said it was a literal translation." Incriminating as all of this is, it only scratches the surface. The FBI managed to name the 19 Arabs involved within a few days, and their names, faces and biographies were promptly splashed across the mainstream media.

Supposedly, thier passports and suicide notes were found at the crash scenes in spite of fiery crashes which completely incinerated the planes - including the normally indestructible flight recorder boxes, and all the occupants. In another miraculous stroke of good luck for the evidence hunters, the luggage of alleged ringleader, Mahommed Atta, was somehow left behind at Logan airport and just happened to contain instructions to his fellow conspiritors. And it seems that they learned how to fly the giant Boeings at the last minute by reading flight manuals on the way to the airport - because they conveniently left the manuals - in Arabic of course - in the cars they had rented. How emabarrassing for the FBI when the alleged hijackers started turning up alive, protesting their innocence! And even more embarrassing when the passanger lists provided by the airlines to CNN did not contain a single Arabic name.

And none of the names on the passenger lists are alleged to be aliases for any of the Arabs. How did they get on the flights without being on the passenger lists, and if they were using false names, how were these traced to their real ID's and why have none of the other names on the lists ever been identified as hijackers aliases ? 19 obvioulsy Arabic men got on to planes with non Arabic false ID, with a 100% success rate? And why is there no airport security footage of them?

Gerard Holmgren
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 09:04 AM
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198. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. Thank you, Dick Eastman.
Details add credibility, and you've just added a whole bunch of important evidentiary details that add up to more than a powerful indictment of U.S. Government complicity in 9-11; you've given any objective "jury member" no option but to vote "Guilty, as charged."

Fine work.
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-29-04 12:48 AM
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4. Here's what we know about AA77
AA77 was lost from radar. NORAD has stated that AA77 "reappeared" on radar. Well, it must first be lost from radar before it can reappear. NORAD had a target that they thought might be AA77 but they were never sure that the UFO that "reappeared" on radar was indeed AA77.

The light poles that fell over near the pentagon are inconclusive of evidence of anything. Some claim that a large passenger jet contacted the poles. But when ya think about it, any contact at 400 mph+ would have shattered the poles and moved them much further than they moved. The poles simply laid down. Why, no one knows. But it sure as hell was not from contact by AA77.

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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-29-04 03:39 PM
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5. Maybe it wasn't flight 77. Maybe it was
Rodan getting back at America for nuking Japan



It's about the right wingspan.
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-29-04 04:51 PM
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6. Mr. Magoo?
AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77
American Airlines Flight 77, from Washington to Los Angeles, crashed into the Pentagon with 64 people aboard.

CREW
Charles Burlingame of Herndon, Virginia, was the plane's captain. He is survived by a wife, a daughter and a grandson. He had more than 20 years of experience flying with American Airlines and was a former U.S. Navy pilot.
David Charlebois, who lived in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood, was the first officer on the flight. "He was handsome and happy and very centered," his neighbor Travis White, told The Washington Post. "His life was the kind of life I wanted to have some day."
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/AA77.victims.html

The FAA maintains a database of certified airmen.
Let us see what that FAA database has to say about the pilot and copilot of Flight 77:
Page last updated July 30, 2002
http://162.58.35.241/aadatabase/login.asp

Charles Frank Burlingame III
Med First 3/2001 Must wear corrective lenses
DOI 9/11/1996 ATP multi engine land:
A/B 727 A/B757 A/B767
DOI 9/11/1996 Flight engineer turbojet powered
OBTAINED TWO CERTIFICATES ON THE SAME DAY
DID HE TRANSFER FOREIGN CREDENTIALS?

David Michael Charlebois
1448 Swann St NW
Washington, DC 20009-3904
Med First 11/2000 Must wear corrective lenses
DOI 6/28/1999 ATP multi engine: Commercial privileges, single engine land
A/B 757 A/B 767 A/CE500 A/HS125
757 CIR APPCH VMC ONLY
767 CIR APPCH VMC ONLY
DOI 5/28/1991 Flight instructor airplane single and multi engine instrument airplane
Valid only when accompanied by Pilot cert no
Expires 31 May 1993
DOI 10/23/1989 Flight engineer turbojet powered
DOI 11/14/1985 Mechanic
MED CERT EXPIRED BEFORE 9:11.

Oh dear,
I suppose both pilots must have lost their glasses in the struggle.
As for that downward circular spiral and those hairpin bends over DC, perhaps Mr. Charlebois was trying out his circular approaches.

But what DID happen to N644AA
which was a Boeing 757-223 with the serial number 24602?
Well, let us see what the FAA has to say.
http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=644AA

So,
according to the FAA,
the registration of this plane was cancelled on 1/14/2002.
But that cannot be correct.

Sec. 47.41 - Duration and return of Certificate.
(a) Each Certificate of Aircraft Registration issued by the FAA under this subpart is effective, unless suspended or revoked, until the date upon which --
(2) The registration is canceled at the written request of the holder of the certificate;
(3) The aircraft is totally destroyed or scrapped;
(b) The Certificate of Aircraft Registration, with the reverse side completed, must be returned to the FAA Aircraft Registry --
(3) Upon the termination of the registration, by the holder of the Certificate of Aircraft Registration in all other cases mentioned in paragraph (a) of this section.
http://www.risingup.com/fars/info/part47-41-FAR.shtml

So what does THAT mean?
N644AA was hale and hearty up until 1/14/2002.
THAT is what the FAA is telling us.
And they know all about the events of September 11, 2001

Who here dares to go and accuse the FAA of lying?
Who here thinks that they know more than the FAA?
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-29-04 04:54 PM
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7. "The poles simply laid down."
Let's see: choosing between a idea that anthropomorphizes light poles or the established fact of AA77 knocking them down.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-29-04 07:29 PM
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 11:55 AM
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9. It starts with one fear
Edited on Mon Mar-01-04 11:56 AM by DulceDecorum
and ends with another.

I see that Boloboffin has successfully managed to overcome his hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
and use the word "anthropomorphizes" in a sentence.

Bolo,
I take it that you are speaking
pro-pseudo-contra-neo-anti-disestablishment-arian-alistically,
since the poles,
being inanimate,
did not collapse from Boeingophobia.

Since there does indeed exist photographic evidence of the poles STILL standing AFTER the "crash"
your argument is moot.



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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 05:35 AM
Response to Reply #9
10. I'm afraid
that you have once again spoken something that you cannot prove, Dulce.

Since there does indeed exist photographic evidence of the poles STILL standing AFTER the "crash"
your argument is moot.


This is not true. There is no photographic evidence, whatsoever, of the light poles in question still standing after the crash.

Why do you continue to put this falsehoods into your posts, Dulce?
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 11:25 AM
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11. Face your fears boldly, bolo
There is no photographic evidence whatsoever of AA FL 77 striking any of the light poles near the Pentagon.

Maybe the reason DD posts what DD posts is because DD believes what DD is posting, is the truth. Isn't that YOUR reason, too?
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 01:14 PM
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12. Abe switching the subject again.
Please note the clever subterfuge:

Dulce says: Since there does indeed exist photographic evidence of the poles STILL standing AFTER the "crash"
your argument is moot.


The photographic evidence of five light poles that were not standing after the crash is completely avoided by Dulce. It is, indeed, the actual reason for the first, quite appropriately named subject: It Was Flight 77

http://www.geocities.com/someguyyoudontknow33/

Why is Dulce not considering the real evidence?

Abe then amends the subject: There is no photographic evidence whatsoever of AA FL 77 striking any of the light poles near the Pentagon.

How slippery is one statement allowed to be?

Does Abe mean there is no picture of AA in mid strike of any light posts? Technically, he's correct, but that's not what we were talking about.

There is, however, photographic evidence of five poles that were knocked down. These five poles are spaced out in such a way consistent with the wingspan of a 757, and a 757 crashed very nearby. You may have heard of it - Flight 77. Recognizing that Flight 77 hit those five light poles on its path into the Pentagon is the only rational option here.

http://www.geocities.com/someguyyoudontknow33/

Why does Abe change the subject when faced with incontrovertible evidence? Why does Dulce avoid the evidence to make utterly false statements?

Why is the word "disinformation" the first to their lips when speaking of their debate opponents?
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 02:03 PM
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13. Incontrovertible evidence? "debate opponents?
bolo: I'll address the implications of your self-description as a "debate opponent" in another message. I don't have time to, right now.

You made the statement that "a 757 crashed very nearby". Please provide incontrovertible evidence of that claim.

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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 02:55 PM
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 11:27 PM
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18. bolo: what is it that you are here to debate?
I'd be very interested in knowing that.

I'm also very interested in hearing what you are trying to claim happened at the Pentagon. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I get it that your argument is that AA FL 77 crashed into the Pentagon.

If that's your argument, then what proof would you offer in support of that contention?

We can start with the light poles if you want to. You claim that the downed light poles are incontrovertible evidence that FL 77 crashed at the Pentagon. WRONG. They don't prove any such thing. The downed light poles are only incontrovertible evidence that they aren't standing. They don't prove anything. Their location doesn't prove anything, either.

Do you have any direct evidence that AA FL 77 crashed into the Pentagon? If so, what is it? You're making a claim; now provide the proof.

Do you claim that Barbara Olson called her husband from FL 77? If so, do you have any proof of that?

What else you got?

This will be fun.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 03:31 PM
Response to Reply #18
21. Have you been paying attention?
This has all been presented before.

People watched Flight 77 crash into the Pentagon. Their testimony has been posted here over and over again.

The pieces of Flight 77 were recovered from the ruin of Wedge A, along with the mortal remains of its passengers. Evidence of this has been posted here over and over again.

The light poles were knocked down by an aircraft with a wingspan as wide as Flight 77. Go to Crispy's site - he proves it beyond a reasonable doubt.

Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. This is a historical fact, well attested and beyond reasonable debate.

I suggest the writings of David Hume to evaluate theories to the contrary. Which would be the greater miracle, Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon, or the aerobatic feat of Boeing/jet/missile/C170 with absolutely no eyewitness mentioning any detail of the four aircraft hypothesis whatsoever? Whichever is the greater miracle, you must discard.

Au revoir.
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 09:00 PM
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36. Yes, I'VE been paying attention, not allegiance.
"People watched Flight 77 crash into the Pentagon. Their testimony has been posted here over and over again."

The eyewitness accounts are conflicting, vague, and as usual with eyewitness accounts of unexpected events that are done in a flash of the eyes...wholly unreliable. They're worthless as proof.

"The pieces of Flight 77 were recovered from the ruin of Wedge A, along with the mortal remains of its passengers. Evidence of this has been posted here over and over again."

The "pieces" of FL 77 "recovered" haven't been proven to be from FL 77 and could easily have been planted. The pieces prove nothing.

There is no proof that the "mortal remains" of its passengers were recovered from the Pentagon.

bolo: If you have any credible evidence to prove your claims, where
is it? I suggest that you are smart enough to realize that you aren't fooling anyone; but go ahead and try again. This really IS fun.
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dick_eastman Donating Member (39 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 01:31 AM
Response to Reply #18
179. Abe Linkman's questions for "bolo" debated by Leonard Spencer and Eastman

:kick:

Greetings Democratic Underground Community.


Sufficient hard evidence or not? The questions Abe Linkman asks of Bolo are similar to those Leonard Spencer and I have recently debated.

So tell me, DU discussants, what is the truth?

-----------

Dick Eastman responds to Leonard Spencer's rebuttal of Spencer's failed job of undermining the small-plane evidence


A Discussion of Serendipity posting of Leonard Spencer's article "The Attack on the Pentagon"
http://serendipity.ptpi.net/wot/pentagon/spencer05.htm

(I had accused Spencer of doing a hatchet job on the small-plane evidence and implications.)

Leonard Spencer:

I didn't set out to do a hatchet job on the small plane theory, only to collect together what I felt was the best evidence lying around and see where it led me. At some point however I was bound to get to the vexed issue of what it was that actually hit the Pentagon and, to my mind, the evidence simply didn't point to a small plane. I didn't consider it my job to present the small plane theory in the best or most coherent way; I'm happy to leave that to those whose reading of the evidence leads them to favour this interpretation.

Dick Eastman:

A crime has been committed with tens of thousands of lives and the freedoms of more than one nation at stake. If a small plane fired one or more missiles into the Pentagon ahead of its own crash penetration as the Boeing overflew the crash and landed at the airport one mile beyond -- then the implications change the entire world.

The investigators who have concluded the preceding from the evidence have painstakingly set out the proofs for people to examine and confirm so that public opinion can build for stopping the criminals who are still active and dangerous from doing more damage to the human race. The proofs are multiple and each is sufficient to discredit the Boeing thesis. Now, Leonard, when someone puts up a website representing itself as a theory or solution to the case and presents evidence in support of its view as you have done, and when in making this presentation you present your findings as definitive conclusions as you did, then you have, in so doing, conveyed to the reader that you have taken into account all of the arguments of the reigning explanation -- you represented the small-plane theory as being based on certain facts when it was not based on those facts and furthermore you omitted the proofs that did exist. You did have an obligation not to misrepresent the position you were attacking. You failed in that obligation. You also had an obligation to be rather complete when listing the reasons, i.e., the lines of proof based on evidence, supporting the view that you claimed to have refuted. This also you did not do.

Leonard Spencer:

I find his contention that 'the small-plane thesis takes the witnesses more seriously than the official story or any of the wannabe theories' puzzling.

Dick Eastman:

No puzzle. A witness heard a missile. A witness heard a sonic boom. A witness saw a radar blip behaving like a jet. Witnesses saw the Boeing on an approach to the Pentagon that was too far North to have hit the southwest-most lamppost that was downed, ie.e, seeing it come over the Sharaton, the Annex and the Citgo gas station. Sgt. Lagasse, pumping gas saw the Boeing pass overand to the north so that he could see the windows of the starboard side. Riskus claimed that the Boeing passed close to him (he said 100 feet) and that it appeared to go straight in. Every one of these statements is compatible with the small plane thesis and incompatible with the official version. There are other examples as well.

Leonard Spencer:

While accepting that the small plane thesis allows additionally for the
presence of a Boeing jet (and I certainly make no attempt to 'conceal' this)

Dick Eastman:

Omission is concealment, Leonard. And you clearly attempted to discredit the small-plane thesis by saying "witnesses saw a Boeing", did you not? You left the trusting reader with the impression that the view that you were refuting held that there was no Boeing present.

Leonard Spencer:

I just cannot find a single eyewitness report that supports this idea.

Dick Eastman:

What idea? The idea that the plane they saw was a Boeing? Or the idea that a small camoflaged jet fighter, flying low to the ground (20 feet of the ground) at nearly 700 mph, could be missed when all eyes are rivited on the big shiny Boeing 757 at 80 feet, out of the flight path, coming over buildings towards the Pentagon when everyone's mind is full of the two airliners that have struck the World Trade Center? Killer jet was on-stage for less than four seconds. Most of the grandstand seats were occupied by the dead of Arlington National Cemetery, the rest of the people were driving their cars. And 30 seconds after the crash and overfly a C-130 passed through the smoke over the crash. It is no surprise that no one saw the attacker. No witness would have been able to take it in. And we also have the witnesses who did see a flash close to the ground which they interpreted as the Boeing hitting the lawn and bouncing -- their minds not being able to take in what they actually saw.

Leonard Spencer:

The great majority of witnesses report seeing a large or medium sized passenger jet; just three report seeing a small plane.

Dick Eastman:

This is what one would expect given the way it happened. Hijacked crashbombing airliners are in their minds, and an airliner is what they see coming at the Pentagon. Remember, these are people suddenly taken out of their context and shown something very vast. The blurr of the killer jet would easily be ignored as a shadow -- if you see someone jumping off a building, while the person is dropping you are not going to notice even someone naked walk up and stand beside you. Undetection is the whole point of low-to-the-ground contour-hugging fighter-missile attacks.

Leonard Spencer:

Not a single eyewitness speaks of seeing both, though there is one hearsay account to that effect.

Dick Eastman:

Yes, and Gerard Holmgren has found that a great many witness accounts of the event, are, upon examination, the reporter putting into his/her own over-assuming words the context in which the remarks are made. Most direct quotes say "the plane", but many reporters go beyond their collected data and refer to the airliner. BUT this is not an argument I make -- just a comment to your remark. ALL THAT IS RELEVANT ABOUT THE WITNESSES SEEING THE BOING IS WHERE THEY LOCATE IT -- THE PATH OF APPROACH TO THE CRASH COORDINATES.


Leonard Spencer:

I find his remark that 'it is the witnesses who place the Boeing coming over the Sheraton Hotel, over the Naval Annex and over the CItgo gas station, that establishes that the Boeing they saw was not the plane that knocked down the southmost damaged lamppost on Washington Bvld', equally puzzling. According to my map the route thus described is entirely consistent with the damage to this lamp post.

Dick Eastman:

Then why, since you were putting up a website on the subject, didn't you ask someone who has analyzed the photos -- at least to find out what photo and map evidence were used to derive the conclusion.

I show photos from the gas station where Lagasse was pumping gas. We see straight ahead the smoke pouring from the Pentagon. We see to the right (south) the Washington Blvd. overpass where the famous black taxi was hit by the falling first pole. And that pole had been standing at the southwest corner of that overpass. Well to the right of the path of the Boeing (i.e., to the south of the path) as it went over the gas station on its way to overfly the wall that was hit. What's more is the fact that Sgt. Lagasse clearly states that as he was pumping gas and the Boeing went by him nearly overhead -- and the off-wing blew him into his car he told the network reporter -- he actually saw the starboard side of the plane above him -- seeing the windows of the right side -- which means that the plane was north of him -- and, as the photos of these locations clearly demonstrate -- the Boeing could not have hit that pole -- the pole had to have been brought down by something other than the Boeing. There is no reason to puzzle over that, once you have taken the responsiblity to check out the evidence supporting the thesis you are claiming to have refuted.


Leonard Spencer:

On the matter of those lamp posts, I'm probably not as aware of the history of this discussion as Eastman seems to think. Has the lamp post evidence been discredited?

Dick Eastman:

The lampposts were knocked down. Originally, Ron Harvey appeared on the discussion scene showing the lampposts, how this Englishman in London got the data on the lampposts ahead of every American is a mystery to me -- but also claiming that people saw the Boeing knocking down the lampposts. The lamppost data forced everyone to revise their notions of the angle at which the killer jet attacked. But Harvey was caught telling people that Riskus saw the lampposts being knocked down -- in fact I at one point conceded the point and admitted I must be wrong -- UNTIL IT OCCURED TO ME TO CHECK WITH RISKUS HIMSELF, RATHER THAN TAKE RON HARVERY'S WORD FOR IT. Riskus did not see the poles being hit by the Boeing or by anything else. And the Taxi driver, Michael England, also did not see a plane hitting the first pole, the pole which penetrated his windshield and which he carreid along a bit as he was headed south on Washington Blvd. (Only after bringing his car to a stop did he look out his window and see, to his left (east) the Boeing headed for the Pentagon -- and he did not see it crash, and he did state, to Mark Bilk, that from where he saw it and when he saw it, the Boeing could indeed have lifted to clear the roof of the building -- along a path where it might have hit the 4th and 5th poles that were knocked down.



Leonard Spencer:

I didn't know that. His argument about air turbulence bringing the posts down, rather than the wings of a larger plane, is interesting and I hadn't thought of it before. I'm sure he's right that the
posts are designed to minimise injuries to motorists who crash into them. On the other hand they're probably not so flimsy that they collapse in gale-force winds otherwise they'd be injuring pedestrians instead. A problem with the air turbulence idea is that one of the lamp posts en route remained standing, for some reason unaffected by the turbulence that Eastman believes brought down its neighbours. This is easier to explain if the posts were in fact brought down by a plane's wings and the plane rolled slightly at this point, so missing this particular post.

Dick Eastman:

The turbulence coming off the wing can actually be a tiny cyclone moving faster than the jet itself -- no pole is contructed to withstand that kind of speed if it should strike. But another thing about the cyclone is that its movement is not linear, not predictable. And it slows down rapidly -- unlike cyclones sustained by continuous energy feeding by a complexity of wind, hot and cold air , the coriolis effect and so forth -- although you are aware of the stories of houses in mid-west tornadoes being spared while all the houses surrounding it are destroyed. The movement is erratic.

I grant you that it is "easier to explain" the lampposts being downed by saying the plane hit them. But is it a better explanation -- wouldn't those posts have flown a heck of a lot further than they did and shown a lot more damage to their shafts?

But you are not trying to explain the down posts, you are making the claim that only a plane the size of the Boeing could explain these downed poles -- when that is not the case. You needed to show that the poles had to have been brought down by the Boeing -- that the killer jet could not have brought down pole number one (the southwest most pole) and other poles which you have not done.

Turbulence could have knocked down poles. And the Boeing could have knocked down one, two or three of the northern downed poles while the figher jet, one way or another, brought down one or more poles south.


Leonard Spencer:

Eastman then changes his mind on the lamp posts and contends that 'downed poles 3, 4, and/or 5 may have been brought down by the Boeing 757 as it proceeded to overfly the crash location on its way to Reagan National Airport'. I find this astonishing. Is he really suggesting that a Boeing 757, flying at over 450 mph and only a few feet above the ground, was capable of ascending so rapidly at this point that it could avoid hitting the Pentagon, by now only a couple of hundred metres in front of it? And what about those eyewitnesses, whose accounts he claims to hold in such high
regard? Where are the accounts that tell of the plane suddenly flying up and over the Pentagon, rather than into it? I certainly haven't seen them. You'd think someone would have noticed.

Dick Eastman:

"You'd think" doesn't cut it here.

I have presented evidence that the Pentagon was hit by a jet fighter and one or more missiles. The security camera shows the fin of the killer jet, the trailing smoke of the missile being fired in right relation to the tail fin. The plane is shown in two ways (comparison with the 71' height of the Pentagon and the too-long-to-fit-the-picture proportion between the size of a Boeing 757 tail fin and the length of its fuselage) -- the plane that is shown is too short to be a Boeing 757 and it is firing a missile (as further atested by the 120 ft. high bright white hot flash explosion that lights up the surroundings, that leaves powder burns on the side of the building, that is consistent with a warhead explosion -- (and did I mention the witness who smelled burned chordite?) -- and we have additionally, the many proofs derived from the photos of the Pentagon wall after the attack and before its collapse 19 minutes later. These photos show that the plane entered the first floor, that its tail fin took out the pillar between two windows on the second floor (pillar #14) -- that where a Boeing starboard engine would have had to have penetrated (between columns #16 and 18) there is interor structure, interior wall, still standing proving that no starboard wing engine of an airliner entered there. Yet there is room for an F-16 or comparable aircraft to have made that damage -- provided we allow for a missile that seems to have entered the second floor to the right of pillar 18 as well.

The Boeing was never down to ground level. Washington Blvd. where the poles are is elevated above the Pentagon, which sits in the floodplane of the Potomac, at the base of the Arlington Cemetery hill where the hotel, and Naval Annex stand. The Boeing flew 80 feet over the Annex which is itself a five story building on a hill above the Pentagon. Had the Boeing been that low people would have remarked on it -- and they would not have been reporting a dive and a "bounce." The Boeing overflew eighty or more feet abvove the ground -- the wall being 71 feet hight -- was covered by the flash of the missile warhead explosion (doubtless there for that purpose)

You are the only one to find the overflight and landing at Reagan National astonishing -- most people when they learn the proximity and location of the airport seem to dispel all remaining doubt as to what happened to the Boeing. Furthermore, the first telephoned in reports were of an airliner crashing on the 14th street bridge, the bridge that is beyond the crash and just north of the airport -- others reported a crash at the southmost end of the runway of Reagan.



Leonard Spencer:

In response to my point that a fighter jet is no more capable than a
passenger jet of flying through a doorway without damaging the door frames,
or of crashing into the Pentagon without leaving any wreckage, Eastman
finally gets round to citing the evidence that he believes actually supports
the small plane hypothesis.

Dick Eastman:

But the "doorframes" were damaged within the compass of where an F-16 or comparable jet fighter went through -
the hole at pillar 14 (where the nose hit) on the first-floor level does accomodate the entire F-16 jet -- and the jet did not hit anything because the missile blasted away the outside wall at that point, leaving the tail fin to collide with the pillar between windows on the second floor -- disintegrating in the process -- certainly not being recongnizabel afterwards -- which is a far different problem than an entire Boeing 757 which would have had to have had the engines go through the first floor and the fuselage throught the second and the tail fin through the third, which pillar wasn't even scratched, nor windows broken on the third floor. (And don't forget the engine that broke out in the C-ring.


Leonard Spencer:

He says:

'The small-plane finding is based on the security camera video, the
witnesses who heard a jet fighter, the witness who heard a sonic boom, the
performance of the radar blip, the need of a platform from which to fire the
missiles...'

Dick Eastman:

Hell, no. This is not all -- I merely am giving you some examples to show that the small-plane finding is based on other lines of evidence than those you were addressing. How misleading of you to you take this little off the cuff list of points as doing adequate justice to the many pieces of evidence pointing to a jet figher attack and the jetliner overflight.

The evidence can be examined by the reader by going here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5

And notice that Leonard has not referenced this site -- he has merely attempted to answer me on the fly, glib and dishonest and still misrepresenting conclusive evidence more imposing than he would care for you to know.


Leonard Spencer:

Let's take them one by one. The security camera footage actually shows only
a tail-fin, which could be that of a small plane but could equally belong to
a missile.

Dick Eastman:

1) The tail-fins of most air to ground missiles, are about the height of your computer tower. Missiles to not have the standard aircraft near parallelogram trapeziod shape: [] 2) The smoke trail left by the missile is too low with respect to the position of the tail fin, for it to be coming from that aircraft -- because -- if the missile was symmetrical in its fin configuration -- i.e., so that it looked like this from the rear: + -- then the bottom fin would be plowing through the lawn. HOWEVER -- IF YOU HAVE READ MY ACCOUNTS I AM OPEN TO THE IDEA OF A CRUISE MISSILE BEING THE "KILLER JET" AS LONG AS IT IS CAPABLE OF FIRING ANOTHER MISSILE AHEAD OF ITS OWN CRASH. There are a host of reasons why the F-16 would be the better choice -- but I have repeadedly said for over a year that the killer jet could have been a custom made attack platform -- but the tail fin and the smoke trail bespeak a fighter jet --


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5

Leonard Spencer:

he witnesses who heard a jet fighter did not actually see one,
they only heard an engine.

Dick Eastman:

Yes, that's what I said. Military man in the Pentagon heard a jet fighter. Don't witnesses ears count in your kind of analysis. I mentioned it because it is positive support -- THIS WITNESS HEARING A JET IS NOT ONE OF MY PROOFS -- IT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE SMALL-PLANE THESIS, IT DOES NOT PROVE IT -- MY OTHER EVIDENCE (SEE URL) DOES THAT -- EVIDENCE I HAVE DISCUSSED ABOVE AND OTHER EVIDENCE.

Leonard Spencer:

The sonic boom indicated only the plane's speed, not its size.

Dick Eastman:

But the airliner that wintesses saw was going much slower, "as though coming in for a landing." Nothing could be making a sonic boom near the Pentagon except a military jet fighter, most likely an F-16. The boom definitely is not consistent with the plane the passengers were watching, i.e., with the Boeing.



Leonad Spencer:

The radar blip indicated its speed and manoeuvrability, again
not its size.

Dick Eastman:

Yes, Leonard, it had the speed of an F-16, the maneuverability of an F-16. Those are the significant data. The blip cannot tell the size -- that is a datum we must forego -- but the other two data are signficant and they say fighter jet.


Leonard Spencer:

And missiles can be fired from planes of any size and can also fly independently. None of this therefore constitutes solid proof of a small plane, though admittedly the radar blip is suggestive of one.

Dick Eastman:

"None of this constituties solid proof" and non-of it was claimed to constitute solid proof, or even deemed relevant, except as a report from the air-traffic controllers of aircraft behavior consistent with a "small aircraft" and inconsistent with a Boeing 757.

I do not think that the perpetrators would have risked something so unusual and "tell-tale" as firing a missile from some location remote from the Pentagon. A missile fired from a plane is a visible event. A missile fired from a nearby truck also has it risks. A missile coming in on its own from a great distance -- a missile with a tail fin like a plane, is possible. But the best missile of this type to use would be a remote-controlled F-16 -- which is my thesis and what I have said all along -- the best documented presentation of a position in internet history.


Leonard:

He then adds:

'the flash-powder proximity warhead that left powder burns on the outside of
the building, the warhead that brought down the first floor outer wall over
thirty feet on either side of column 14 -- and the penetrating warhead that
entered on the second floor to the right of the killer jet entry point.'

Dick:

Yes, it is all shown. Civil Engineers diagrams. Photos of the wall damage. All of it right here in proof #2:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5


Leonard Spencer:

These unsubstantiated assertions about warheads do not constitute proof of a
small plane.


Dick Eastman:

I have offered a range of possibilities -- the F-16 being the most likely given what is known, but also admitting the possibility of other fighter aircraft, of a missile-firing cruise missile, of a specially designed aircraft specific to this operation. All of them together are given the general name "small-plane" explanations, to distinguish them from the ruled-out Big-Boeing-did-it explanation. Leonard is simply, without compelling reason, saying that he has ruled out the jet fighter explanation, but has not given one reason to back this decision on his part -- he has given nothing that is incompatible with the jet fighter explanation -- nor has he undermined the various evidence that makes this the most likely among "small plane" choices. Leonard has just wasted more of my time and your time -- and created more division for the coverup to point to as they say "See, not two 9-11 investigators can agree on what happened."

But most serious of all is this: Anyone reading Leonard's hatchet job on the "small plane" thesis would walk away convinced by Leonard, because of the straw-man version he has presented, and that deceived person would never suspect the multiple lines of evidence each independenly proving that the Boeing did not crash into the Pentagon, that the Boeing overflew the building, and that several other things were going on ancillary to the operation, both before, during and after the intial explosion-crash event that eliminate any innocent explanation, that rules out the official story, that deiscredits the coverup, that proves Pentagon-leadership complicity in the 9-11 frameup operation.

Leonard Spencer:

It's not that I necessarily disagree, it's just that evidence of missiles does not constitute evidence of a small plane.

Dick Eastman:

See what I say about size and relative position of tail fin with respect to smoke trail, above.

Leonard Spencer:

And he never does get round to explaining how a fighter jet could fly through that doorway
without damaging the doorframes or leaving its wreckage on the lawn.

Dick Eastman:

There is no "doorway." The missile brought down the outer wall on the first floor, which had been a row of windows -- and with the wall section destoyed the jet fighter flew directly into the building -- only its tail fin hitting on the second floor -- where it pushed out column #14.


Leonard Spencer:

He merely asserts that 'the F-16 entered the first floor unobstructed'. Really?
How did it manage that then?

Dick Eastman:

That was one of the functions of the missile. (And there likely was a second missile the funcion of which was to kill specific personel in Naval Intelliegnce targeted by Rumsfeld, Wolfowtiz, Perle, Kissinger, Meyers etc.)

Leonard Spencer:

When he says 'For Leonard Spencer to say that no one saw F-16 debris INSIDE THE BUILDING' Eastman is actually on the verge of making a good point.

Dick Eastman:

I'm content to leave it to the readers of this exchange to determine whose points are valid and who is simply blowing smoke all around the issue for reasons becoming more and more obvious. (I am accusing you of not wasting our time and deflecting our focus out of stupidity, but for a definite nonlaudatory purpose. Otherwise there is not point for your frivolous attack and your rotten attitude.

Leonard Spencer:
He's right; I indeed don't know what wreckage was really found in the Pentagon. But when he concludes from this that it 'reveals a lot about Leonard Spencer and his very obviously dishonest grasping for straws to make a counter argument where no counter argument is possible', I can't help wondering who is really grasping for straws here. The point is that if an F-16 deposited
its wreckage in the Pentagon then it had to get into the Pentagon in the first place. There is no entry hole of sufficient size to support this.

Dick Eastman:

The hole, after the bottom floor wall was taken down by the missile -- see evidence of how pillar #15 was blasted away, with the steel reinforcement rods still in hanging there -- the hole of sufficient size was there before the fighter reached the wall.




When Eastman concludes that I wrote my article to garner 'all of the
prestige for research' and 'to discredit the hard evidence', I can only
suggest he's getting slightly carried away. I certainly deserve no prestige
for what is, as I have already conceded, a largely derivative piece of work
(and yes, I should have been more careful in citing my sources). Whether or
not I discredit the hard evidence I leave to others to judge, though I'm not
quite sure what hard evidence Eastman has in mind. He says also that my
alternative theory 'has no basis whatsoever'. In a sense that's true. The
theory is only conjecture, because there is no photograph or video footage
of the plane to corroborate it, but this of course applies to all the
hypotheses out there, including Mr Eastman's.


Dick Eastman:

Here we see that Spencers goal is to deny the hard evidence exists -- the hard evidence proving that the Boeing did not hit the wall, that another smaller aircraft with the tail fin of an airplane and that fired a missile from a postion relative to the fin that fits a missile launching from under the attacking aircraft's wing.

Leonard has floated a deliberately weaker theory, concealed the completeness and abundance of the various lines of proof of the small-plane finding -- all for the purpose of leaving with the reader the definite impression that the quality of evidence is much inferior than what it really in fact is.

Leonard Spencer:

I must confess that I too find my theory unsatisfactory and only half-plausible and say as much in the article. I nonetheless feel, perhaps wrongly, that it goes some way towards reconciling all the available evidence in a way that some other theories, including Mr Eastman's, do not.

Dick Eastman:

There it is! Spencer now says, truthfully, that his theory isn't much, and adds, very untruthfully, that his theory is the best thought out theory possible and better than all those that have been offered, including every variant of the "small plane thesis."

Leonard Spencer has moved up from his old role as tomato thrower -- to the status of a very shifty trial lawyer skilled in discrediting honest people by careful crafting of oblique allusion, misrepresentation, insinuation -- hoping to convince those to lazy to check the evidence themselves -- which, although the evidence is there to see by simple direct inspection, still requires some thinking and effort -- and so Spencer hinges his hope of keeping down the only evidence that can stop the oligarchy.


Leonard Spencer:

He believes my article is a 'SOPHISTICATED DISINFORMATION-OP' and that my motive is to discredit other 9-11 investigators. It's not. It's just yet another attempt to make some sense out of what is pretty skimpy and confusing evidence.

Dick Eastman:

Not to sophisticated, because it is so easily dispensed with, Leonard.

There are five distinct proofs that the Boeing was not the plane, and more proofs that an operation was underway. You, Leonard Spencer, I accuse of withholding the real small-plane evidence as you did you hatchet job on the straw man. You never wrote to me about the theory you were bent on discrediting, not as you were preparing your material nor after you put it out. And it never appeared in any of the forums where I am known to subscribe -- and I would never have seen your bogus send-up of the small plane thesis, had not Peter Meyer and John Kaminsky sent me the URL.

In other words, I caught you -- doing the same kind of decitful coverup dirtywork that I early caught Sarah Roberts and John Judge doing.

Let it be known to all reading this -- the proof of the guilt of the Bush Administration is the evidence from the attack on the Pentagon -- the various evidence that all points to a smaller aircraft and a missile being involved in the crash and deaths and the Boeing overflying the crash and landing at Reagan National Airport just six seconds beyond.


I can't help wondering whether what really irks Eastman is that I've strayed onto his patch and should have stuck with the New York planes where I belong. If this is the case I can only suggest that he calms down a bit and allows others to have their say. We are, after all, on the same side in all this. We both know that 9-11 was an inside job and that the future of humanity is at risk if people don't wake up to the fact. Does it really matter how big the damned plane was?

Dick Eastman:

Does it matter how big the plane was? Answer: Yes. It matters that the plane could not have been as big as a Boeing. IT matters that the plane behaved as a jet fighter on radar, that it sounded like a jet fighter to one military ear. That a missile was also heard and a sonic boom. It matters that the actual picture of the attack shows a plane that is too short to have been the Boeing -- that it shows the missile trial.

BECAUSE -- SAVING THIS FOR LAST -- THE MISSILE WAS NOT FIRED FROM THE PLANE JUST BEFORE IMPACT -- THEN HOW COME THE MISSILE SMOKE WAS NOT SEEN WAY BACK WHERE THE LAMPPOSTS WERE -- OR ANYPLACE WHERE WITNESSES SAID THEY SAW PLANES APPROACHING -- WHY WAS THE MISSILE TRAIL ONLY AT THE CRASH POINT -- ONLY POSSIBLE ANSWER: BECAUSE THE MISSILE WAS FIRED FROM RIGHT THERE AS THE PLANE WAS HEADING IN.

Regards

Leonard Spencer


Sincerly,

Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5



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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 11:54 AM
Response to Reply #179
182. I vote...
That neither of you have the truth.

Spencer's article repeats some of the grosser errors that have been corrected around here. It perpetuates the small hole myth so decisively refuted by Anablep, lo these many years ago. It discounts eyewitness testimony because - why not? It talks about the famously mangled scrap of plane left on the Pentagon lawn as being "pristine". It repeats the idiocy about "other offices left untouched" that also has been refuted here. It seems to conclude that three missiles hit the Pentagon while the aerial ballet was going on - and that's what Eastman is dogging Spencer about.

Eastman believes that a small plane hit the Pentagon. Spencer believes that it was three missiles. That's the bone of contention - the area of discussion. For Eastman, Spencer's stubborn belief in a hypothesis not from the mind of Eastman is evidence that Spencer is a disinformation agent. Dick Eastman has also advanced the idea that Hillary Clinton had Nicole Brown Simpson murdered to distract from her testimony before Congress. Why Dick Eastman hates Hillary like this and continues to post on a Democratic website, I'll never know.

This happened over a busy highway in the middle of severe gridlock. People saw what happened. The evidence was there. Two Flight 77 deniers batting each other around on how they twist the details isn't discussion worth reading.
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 12:11 PM
Response to Reply #179
183. Thank you, Dick Eastman.
Your arguments are always well-reasoned, reasonable, consistent with known facts, free of hidden agendas, gentlemanly, and demonstrate an enormous command of details combined with a hefty dose of courage.

Your detractors traffic in non sequiturs, barely touch any of the evidence-supported facts you raise, and offer only vague, generalized countervailing, predictablly slavish devotion to a "theory of the case" that only a disinfo agent could love.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 04:15 PM
Response to Reply #13
15. What evidence would you believe?
Even if we showed you a serial number, you'd likely say it was planted.
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 07:34 PM
Response to Reply #15
16. Yeah....serial number!!
Good idea Trogl.... show us a serial number!!

Question: Who is we? Do "we" have any real evidence of anything, anything at all you can share?
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 11:41 PM
Response to Reply #15
19. Re: serial numbers
Boeing Serial 21873 Issued 1/18/1984 Valid
Boeing Serial 22332 Issued 1/6/2000 Cancelled 1/14/2002
Boeing Serial 24602 Issued 5/8/1991 Cancelled 1/14/2002
Boeing Serial 28142 Issued 7/1/1996 Valid
http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/acmain.htm

Serial 21873 aka N612UA or Flight 175
Serial 22332 aka N334AA or Flight 11
Serial 24602 aka N644AA or Flight 77
Serial 28142 aka N591UA or Flight 93

We don't think these were planted.
What do YOU think?
Can you hazard a guess as to
HOW those planes ALL appear to have survived September 11, 2001?

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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 09:11 AM
Response to Reply #19
20. Gosh its all so clear now
Everyone in the entire world is in on this conspiracy except us. It all makes sense now.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 04:20 PM
Response to Reply #19
23. Tail numbers are recycled
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 06:27 PM
Response to Reply #23
27. Those ones weren't.
Go to the FAA database and type in the N-number 665UA.
http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/acmain.htm

665UA is an example of an N-number which has been recycled.
Compare this record to ANY of the 9:11 planes.

Conclusion:
The 9:11 planes' N-numbers have NEVER been recycled.
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 03:59 PM
Response to Reply #12
22. Re: avoiding the MUSH
Boloboffin,
you have YET
- and I asked about a year ago -
to show me any mush.

You have completely and totally avoided
showing me, or anyone else any mush
because there was NONE.
EVER.

Boloboffin,
you are attempting to defend the assertions of crispy who came up with the page you are referring to.
Crispy HIMSELF
cannot defend the assertions he makes.

Have you seen his reply to Eastman?
crispy is trounced
and no-one here is about to buy any of his organic fertilizer.
Mind you, crispy is the one who invited the attention of Eastman:

Seeking out and individually debunking each and every fallacious or illogical claim posited by those who maintain that the Pentagon was hit by something other than a Boeing 757-200 requires more effort than I want to devote to such an already apparently bogus scenario. However, if concerned individuals would like me to refute some specific argument made by the "no-Boeing" crowd, or believe that the evidence presented thus far does not adequately demonstrate the infeasibility of the "no-Boeing" scenario, they may reach me at this email address. In that event, I will update this page with the argument (possibly including the email as well) alongside its refutation.
http://www.geocities.com/someguyyoudontknow33/

but that was before he ran away and left you holding the can.

You are simply trying to direct traffic to that website
so as to convince someone somewhere of something.
Furthermore,
any sane sensible person,
looking at the photographs which crispy has chosen to make available on that page, can see the discrepancy for themselves.

Now,
Bolobofffin,
you have accused me of making entirely false statements.
State the "falsehood" and disprove it
HERE AND NOW.

And please do not attempt to pull a crispy:




Pictures like the one above have been touted as photographic evidence no Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon, because of the absence of a discernible, plane-sized impact hole. One cannot be seen only because the stream of water obscures the hole.
http://www.geocities.com/someguyyoudontknow33/

We can all see the truck and we all know that such trucks can just about drive UNDERNEATH a standing Boeing.
We can all see the man standing next to the truck and we all know that he cannot be much more than six feet tall.
And if one looks closely one can easily determine, from studying the windows, where the ground floor leaves off and the next floor begins.

We know that the Boeing did NOT appreciably damage the ground floor slab of the Pentagon since:

Faccina Construction, the general constructor for concrete repairs, made using (Ardex) K-15 a requirement in the bidding process.
http://www.ardex.com/main-news-020718.htm

3.01 PREPARATION
A. All subfloors must be sound, solid, clean, and primed:
1. All concrete subfloors must be of adequate strength, clean, and free of all oil, grease, dirt, curing compounds and any substance that might act as a bondbreaker before priming. Mechanically clean if necessary using shot blasting or other. Acid etching and the use of sweeping compounds and solvents are not acceptable.
http://www.ardex.com/prod-k15-spec.htm

Therefore,
unless Rick Moranis was standing out with the ray gun,
honey, we do not know WHO shrunk the plane.
And we are all much better off checking out
the work of some guy we DO know.
http://757.batcave.net/specs.html
http://911index.batcave.net/911.html
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 06:17 PM
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 06:35 PM
Response to Reply #25
28. Spinning away
You know very what what I have been talking about for all this time, you BOLOboffin.

I want to see photographic evidence of ANY mush on the Penta-grounds on September 11, 2001.
We were told that those people died there and we want to see SOME, ANY, evidence to back up that claim.
If they died elsewhere, then that is another matter altogether.

For all we know, the families may have been duped about the remains.
Ever heard of the TriState Crematory?


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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 07:32 PM
Response to Reply #25
32. The subject is Crispy's website:
And it sucks.

This site
http://757.batcave.net/specs.html
addresses the Penta-poles in a sensible, logical and factual manner.

At crispy's site we find statements such as this:

Pictures like the one above have been touted as photographic evidence no Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon, BECAUSE OF THE ABSENCE OF A DISCERNIBLE, PLANE-SIZED IMPACT HOLE. One cannot be seen only because the stream of water obscures the hole.
http://www.geocities.com/someguyyoudontknow33

Perhaps Mr Chavez can inform us of a term that adequately describes
the size and function of said hole.

crispy repeats the claims of Sarah Roberts and Ron Harvey but with a shred more shame.
He himself
admits to the world,
that the photo that
he himself
has chosen to post up on his site
proclaims
THE ABSENCE OF A DISCERNIBLE, PLANE-SIZED IMPACT HOLE.
I call that a crispy crunchy TKO.

Furthermore,
neither crispy nor Boloboffin and company
DARE
to address the fact that FAA database lists BOTH United Airlines planes as continuing to have valid registrations.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 05:59 PM
Response to Original message
24. So where did Flight 77 go, exactly? The passengers?
And don't tell me they were on Flight 93. The workers at the site would have found too many body parts.

Does anybody realize how farfetched this whole "replacement" theory is and how many possible failure points that plan would have had? I'm not saying that there isn't some sort of coverup going on, but some of these theories are a huge stretch...
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 06:19 PM
Response to Reply #24
26. You will never get an answer here, Mercutio.
The Flight 77 deniers have ruled that question out of bounds. It is not for them to say where it went, since they are convinced they know where it didn't go. People who begin to think about your question soon realize the error of the Flight 77 deniers' logic, and that doesn't sell any conspiracy books.
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 07:03 PM
Response to Reply #26
30. Wherdy go?
Is a question I often ask of Flight 77.

When we find the plane, N644AA,
whose registration was arbitrarily cancelled on 1/14/2002,
then perhaps we can check the carpeting for bloodstains.
At present,
the only thing we can say for certain is that it rather does appear,
that the FAA is ALSO claiming that Flight 77 SURVIVED the events of 9:11.

The data from the FAA bolsters this statement from
Brig. Gen. Arthur F. "Chip" Diehl III.
http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5226

We went to see firsthand the damage, the aftermath of this tragedy. No one could believe the catastrophic damage to the Pentagon -- it was horrible. A whole "wedge" had collapsed; the aircraft had penetrated about three of the five "rings" of the building. There wasn't a single piece of the jet to be seen anywhere.
Everyone prayed and prayed. We wanted to start digging and help the search for survivors.
http://www.af.mil/news/Sep2001/n20010917_4040.asp

You have previously disparaged this man, Boloboffin.
Tell me, does the National Guard have YOUR dental records?
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 06:44 PM
Response to Reply #24
29. Were there ANY
passengers or crew aboard ANY of those flights in the first place?

A good investigator will check EVERY SINGLE POINT OF THE STORY.

When we look at the BTS database for the departure times of those flights,
the story already begins to crumble.

When we check the FAA database for the low down on the aircraft,
the story is ripped asunder.

When we check the victims against the Social Security Death index,
TWO YEARS AFTER THE EVENT,
we find the overwhelming majority of them,
passengers and office workers,
absent.

When we tell you to go have a look for yourself,
then we are accused of being conspiracy theorists.

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mn9driver Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 07:19 PM
Response to Reply #24
31. My top ten list.
It's important to refuse to understand...

1. The way the ATC system works.
2. The way the FAA medical certification system works.
4. The way airline training works.
5. The way N number registration works.
6. The way airplanes work.
7. The way NTSB aircraft mishap investigation works.
8. The way FBI criminal investigation works.
9. The way the air defense system works.
10. The way physics works.

...in order to write the posts and put forth the "theories" that appear in many of these threads. It gets to be so that it's no fun to refute anymore, because the information never goes in.

You can lead a :tinfoilhat: to water, but you can't make him drink.
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 07:36 PM
Response to Reply #31
34. I know, mn9driver, I KNOW
We have been walking you to the creek for weeks....
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seatnineb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 12:32 PM
Response to Reply #31
38. Mn9driver I could not agree more
....I mean to refute how these instititutional pillars work is utter fallacy ........so for the record lets put these conspiracy nuts in their place ...show em’ how “far out” they really are .......

1)The way the ATC system works:
Well at 8:24:38 AM the hijackers did their level best to inform the “beleagured and shocked” ATC’S that a hijack was officially underway.......”stay quiet.. we have more planes” and “Dont try to make any stupid moves and nobody will get hurt(apart from flight attedants guarding cockpit doors)”......

And what was the ATC’s response to this .......”uh ....who trying to call me here” and “AA11 is that you trying to call?”.
oh dear THIS ATC fell slightly short(for the ensueing 10 crucial minutes to be exact) of notifying his supervisor who would have notified the F.A.A regional operation centre who in turn would have informed NORAD....according to the pre-9/11 rules.
It took this ATC nearly 20 minutes in total (8:14 to 8:33) to decipher that this was a hijack situation......what would he have done if Atta or Alomari had not “enlightened” him with their all too generic arab accents?...
”uh.....AA11..he’s just nordo..thanks”?

The proverbial “ATCS expect transponder failures to occur during flight” does not defend this particular ATC’S behavior.


2)The way the F.A.A medical certification system works.:
Hardly coincidental that a pilot like Charlebois who casually and prophetically relinquishes his 1st class ATP flying priviledges should come face to face with a hijacker called Hanjour who walzed through customs with boxcutters and razor blades in his pockets because the security officer who was body searching him got distracted by a pretty girl who happened to be walking nearby..........
Looks like higher forces were protecting both of these 2 (very lucky to be flying)characters.

3)Whoops..seems you forgot how to count......you really are proving your expertise here.........hell.. we all make mistakes.....and on that pertinant note lets continue...
.

4)The way airline training works:
Well it would seem Airforce pilots Oganowski,Saracini and Homer;Navy pilots Burlingham and McGuiness and Marine co-pilot Horrocks did their military trained best NOT to punch in the 4-digit hijack code despite all the commotion in their respective cabins behind them......I mean how much time did they need?
I think the ATC’s ,the F.A.A and NORAD would have appreciated it if they had or is that asking too much ?.
Hell ....Counter terrorist expert Danny Lewin broke rule #1 of a hijacking situation(ALWAYS COOPERATE WITH HIJACKERS) by diving straight in(trying to save uncooperative flight attendants) simultaneously and ironically buying even more time for Oganowski and McGuiness in the “locked” cockpit to send that goddam hijack code.

5)The way N number registration works:
I think it is fare to say that DulceDecorum has already kicked your pretentiouse ass enough times on this subject.

6)The way airplanes work:
I hope the in- flight entertainment system or anything else does not play up on one of your flights because according to your observations you would not know which circuit breaker to pull despite the fact that each circuit breaker is explicitly labeled with whatever function it is meant to cut out.

7)The way the N.T.S.B aircraft mishap investigation works:
Indeed it would be very informative to learn how this most qualified of aircraft crash entities works but hey this is 9/11 and the N.T.S.B has been usurped by the distinctly underqualified(in aircraft crashes---save for TWA 800) F.B.I so lets concentrate on them instead..........next........


8)The way FBI criminal investigation works:
Well what is there left to say about an organization that desperately needed an executive priviledge invoked by President Bush himself to save them from a congressional investigation...I am refering explicitly to the Boston F.B.I ...the same Boston F.B.I that deduced from Madeline Sweeneys phone call the events on those planes and the rest as they say is history.......

9)The way the air defence works: ...........or should work........
F16’S AND F15’s sent to intercept that are travelling at only 23% or lower of their maximum speeds?.............I know its wrong but this is the official story of 9/11 here.........where every rule or regulation seems to be bent or twisted..... .


10)The way physics work:
If you look at the photo(taken by Brian Manning) which occupies pages 18 and 19 in the book A NATION CHALLENGED you will see a woman who is ALIVE and standing on or just behind the shattered remains of the exterior vertical steel colums of the North tower AT THE POINT OF THE PLANES IMPACT .She does not appear to be even burnt.
The question is how could anyone BE ALIVE in a location were temperatures /have exceeded/ are supposed to have exceeded / or are on the way to exceed 1100Degrees centigrade.Do you not even have it in your conscience to ask if this woman’s life could have been saved..............

"You can only lead a ? to water but you can’t make him drink it"..............yeah ..especially when it is putrid.............



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mn9driver Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 03:05 PM
Response to Reply #38
39. Hi there, Welcome to DU. Nice to meet you, too.
Obviously you know nothing at all about the subjects I listed. It also appears that you are uninterested in learning about them. I've posted on most, if not all of these topics and the information I put out is accurate.

Sorry, but that is reality.

Whether you want to believe it is not something I care much about.
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seatnineb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-14-04 04:16 PM
Response to Reply #39
43. Its been a pleasure mn9driver

Cheers Mn9Driver......
Sorry about the delay in getting back to you.

By summarily dismissing me last week you were unwittingly dismissing the official story.
It now means:

That you do have a problem with an ATC WHO FLOUTS THE MOST BASIC CRISIS PROTOCOLS.

That you do have a problem with security officers who get distracted by pretty girls while body searching fully armed individuals at airport custom check points.

That you do have a problem with pilots who do not "squawk" the 4-digit code despite having enough time to do so.

That you do have a problem with yourself for not knowing which circuit breaker to pull if the in-flight phone system overheats.

That you do have a problem with the F.B.I for supressing the influence of N.T.S.B workers within its investigation.

That you do have a problem with an organization(Boston F.B.I) that is so corrupt that President Bush has to protect it from a congressional investigation himself.

That you do have a problem with f-16's and f-15's that are travelling at only 300 to 400mph on average when they HAVE TO DEFEND the nation.

That you do have a problem with a woman who is alive in an area were the temperature is well on the way to being high enough to make steel buckle.

By the way it was really nice meeting you too.
Thanks........
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mn9driver Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-14-04 11:36 PM
Response to Reply #43
45. So what took so long?
Surely you didn't actually have to do any research to come up with this:

"...By summarily dismissing me last week you were unwittingly dismissing the official story.
It now means:...blah,...blah blah...etc...."


Oh, no! My overlords will punish me severely for unwittingly dismissing the official story! And I "have a problem with... etc, etc,etc", too--multiple times, even.

What an astonishing capacity you have to draw conclusions from nothing. It explains much about how you construct your theories.

Please, don't let my periodic injections of facts get in your way.

Carry on.
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seatnineb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:38 PM
Response to Reply #45
55. http://www.911-strike.com/demolition_explosive.htm
MnDriver wrote.........
"Please dont let my periodic injections of facts get in your way"
.......
or should that be sulking injections of petulance and denial.

What is it mn9Driver ........is the reality set forth by such bastions of the official story like George Bush,Vincent Cannistraro,Madeline Sweeney and Brian Manning just too much for your "factual" stomach to bear?.......it's their "theories" I was quoting .....its their "conclusions"
you can't handle without embarassing yourself......
Hence the sulking.....fair enough.......

After all it was you your very self who said it best .."When truth and fiction are posted together in the same thread folks who are actually interested in learning something can usually tell the difference"
Funny how you fall outside of this category.
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mn9driver Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 05:35 PM
Response to Reply #55
59. Very nice.
Such reasoned discourse:
"...or should that be sulking injections of petulance and denial.

What is it mn9Driver ........is the reality set forth by such bastions of the official story like George Bush,Vincent Cannistraro,Madeline Sweeney and Brian Manning just too much for your "factual" stomach to bear?.......it's their "theories" I was quoting .....its their "conclusions"
you can't handle without embarassing yourself......
Hence the sulking.....fair enough.......

After all it was you your very self who said it best .."When truth and fiction are posted together in the same thread folks who are actually interested in learning something can usually tell the difference"
Funny how you fall outside of this category...."
I think we're done here. Questions and debate are fine,as is vigorous refutation. Gratuitous and pointless invective is not.

Bye bye.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 06:37 AM
Response to Reply #43
46. You mean the so-called picture of the woman standing in the hole?
That you do have a problem with a woman who is alive in an area were the temperature is well on the way to being high enough to make steel buckle.

It's a twisted piece of metal.
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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 07:34 AM
Response to Reply #46
47. twisted piece of metal
I know this picture from Eric Hufschmids DVD "Painful deceptions".
If it had only been the woman(?)I would probably agree that it could well be a twisted piece of metal or something.
But on the DVD Hufscmid has it enhanced and points out : If you look further to the left and one floor up, you´ll see a man standing there. And seeing that part enhanced doesn´t leave much doubt. Would have liked to see this image on the net. The part where the woman(?)is standing enhanced, and the part where the man is standing likewise.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 08:02 AM
Response to Reply #47
48. "enhanced"
You mean photoshopped.
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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 09:17 AM
Response to Reply #48
49. enlarged
Sorry about that. It should be "enlarged".
Seriously, if you saw these two parts of the pic enlarged, it would convince you.
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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 01:45 PM
Response to Reply #49
51. URL
Enlarged pic of the woman can be found at: http://www.911-strike.com/demolition_explosive.htm

( And, like I said, it´s when you see the enlargement of the part of the floor above, where a man is standing, that you realize that there is no doubt ; it is a man and a woman in that pic. )
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 03:15 PM
Response to Reply #51
52. And after you check out the picture -
You can buy the video and the book at the special already-low price of $34!

I wonder if Democratic Underground has a policy about unsolicited ads...
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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:30 PM
Response to Reply #52
53. I`ll try sending
an e-mail to Jerry Russell, and argue that he should also put in this pic on his site. It really ought to be put online.

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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:31 PM
Response to Reply #52
54. Which has been "photo-shopped"
you can see why DU does not have such a policy.



After all,
we have enough difficulty keeping up with the fake firemen
and the fake journalists
and the fake intelligence reports
and the fake yellowcake
and the fake election results
and the fake himself.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:41 PM
Response to Reply #54
56. So DU doesn't have a policy on unsolicited 9/11 spam ads
Maybe we should get one.

If as rigidly enforced as Dulce's policy on ignoring simple questions, we might weed out the 9/11 profiteers and get some honest discussion going on.

Just to recap the questions, Dulce:

1. Did six million Jews die in the Holocaust? Y or N

2. Will you endorse John Kerry for President? Y or N


Your refusal to answer two simple questions is thought-provoking.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 04:50 PM
Response to Reply #54
57. Oh, Dulce...
*sigh*

It seems there is a rule about unsolicited advertisments.

Do not use our message board for personal fundraising, for-profit advertising, or selling products or services.

So when you said this:

you can see why DU does not have such a policy.

It was another falsehood from your keyboard.
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 11:55 AM
Response to Reply #57
65. If you REALLY believed
that someone REALLY was trying to sell something on DU,
you would have alerted the mods.

You are just using this as an excuse to heap abuse upon DulceDecorum.
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seatnineb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 05:16 PM
Response to Reply #52
58. Bolo.............


Your holy bible contains a huge but different photogragh of the same poor woman in a slightly different position(with her hand raised above her head).
Its in a :
"A Nation Challenged"
"A visual History of 9/11 and its aftermath"
"The NewYork Times"
Pages 18 and 19.


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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 10:09 PM
Response to Reply #58
62. ?????
My holy bible? What on earth are you blabbering about?
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seatnineb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 12:33 PM
Response to Reply #62
68. O.K Bolo

I will try again............

A different photo of the same poor woman standing at the point of the planes impact in the north tower can be seen in:

A NATION CHALLENGED
A VISUAL HISTORY OF 9/11 AND ITS AFTERMATH
THE NEW YORK TIMES

The photo is taken by Brian Manning and is huge....it occupies 2 pages(18 + 19).
Surely you can't dispute the authenticity of one of the arch instigators OF THE OFFICIAL STORY AS THE NEW YORK TIMES.

Surely you would not accuse such a venerable source as the THE NEW YORK TIMES of ENHANCING and MANIPULATING such evidence.....
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 12:14 PM
Response to Reply #52
66. Bolo is the one asking people to buy
the video and the book.

Boloboffin states:
And after you check out the picture -
You can buy the video and the book at the special already-low price of $34!
I wonder if Democratic Underground has a policy about unsolicited ads...

Namely, the ad Boloboffin just came up with.

Note the clever way in which the discussion is now moved from the actual contents of the photo,
into a direct personal attack on the person who introduced it into the discussion thus refuting a key argument advanced by Bolo & Co.

This is a classic Number Four Truth Suppression gambit:

Knock down straw men. Deal only with the weakest aspect of the weakest charges. Even better, create your own straw men. Make up wild rumors and give them lead play when you appear to debunk all the charges, real and fanciful alike.

which has been coupled with a Number Six.

Impugn motives. Attempt to marginalize the critics by suggesting strongly that they are not really interested in the truth but are simply pursuing a partisan political agenda or are out to make money (compared to over-compensated adherents to the government line who, presumably, are not).
http://www.thebird.org/host/dcdave/article3/991228.html
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 12:23 PM
Response to Reply #66
67. I bought the one about the incubators
I bought the video they produced about the incubators in the hospital in Kuwait City. It was only later that I discovered it was actually produced by a PR firm and was never intended to be anyhing more than propaganda.

Come to think of it, it DOES seem like there are some people here who are in the "truth suppression" business. And I thought they were just promoting and defending the Official Conspiracy Theory.

I don't have any idea who "they" are. Does anyone here know?
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 06:20 PM
Response to Reply #51
60. Strange looking woman

  • Her head is under her arm.
  • Her right knee is about six inches above her angle
  • Her left leg is considerably shorter than her right
  • The measurement from her belly button to her neck is about nine inches
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 06:46 PM
Response to Reply #60
61. Not to mention
Edited on Mon Mar-15-04 06:47 PM by LARED
that her hair is a lovely color of reddish gold in a picture almost completely devoid of color.

Also I saw that image about a year ago right on this board. I copied it, enlarged it, cropped out the so called women and tried different filters and I could get nothing that looked like that image.

As far as I'm concerned that image is without question enhanced not just enlarged.

Is it possible a women could have survived and looked out the opening? Sure it's possible, and so what. Even if true it proves nothing.
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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 07:22 AM
Response to Reply #61
63. search
Edited on Tue Mar-16-04 08:21 AM by k-robjoe
I did a googlesearch trying to find the pic on D.U. that you mention, but could not find it.
And so it´s very frustrating to see your allegation that the pic has been "doctored".
(The red color of her hair stands out because it´s the only color around, it´s all grey and black around her.)
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 07:40 AM
Response to Reply #63
64. I have the image at home
I will try to upload it and post later.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 06:58 PM
Response to Reply #63
77. Here's the piture
This one was copied from this forum about a year ago.



This one is from 911-strike



It's my opinion that the second one is "enhanced."

But even if it is a women, so what?
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 12:24 AM
Response to Reply #77
81. Ah, the joys of photoshopping
You can't see the "man" in the upper picture at all. The picture is "enlarged" and suddenly there he is.

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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 08:34 AM
Response to Reply #81
82. THIS IS NOT THE PIC
Edited on Wed Mar-17-04 09:22 AM by k-robjoe
I´ve been talking about.
I have the pic on my PC now, but I don´t know how to get it online and posted here. If anyone can help me out, please send me a message with your e-mail adress, and I´ll send it over.
And LARED and TrogL, I´ll mail you the pic, just give me your adress.
This is a misunderstanding. I can see how you must suspect from this pic that somebodys trying to deceive you, but this is not the case!

On edit : I don´t see how LARED could really think that it is the same picture, but doctored. See post below.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 08:37 PM
Response to Reply #82
106. [email protected]
It's in my profile.
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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 09:13 PM
Response to Reply #106
108. Great
Great TrogL. Sending pic right now.

What I said about your attitude, I now retract.
(I don´t want to get into the debate of what to make out of it, not just now - middle of the night - anyway.)
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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 05:31 AM
Response to Reply #108
121. ONLINE
Thanks a million Hannu and Brad !!

The pic is now online at : http://members.surfeu.fi/11syyskuu/holewtc.htm and

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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 09:16 AM
Response to Reply #121
122. Definitely photoshopped


The man's not in the original photo:



Nice try. Thanks for playing.
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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 10:39 AM
Response to Reply #122
123. It´s two different pics
Edited on Thu Mar-18-04 10:54 AM by k-robjoe
Not the same pic.
Look at the small fire between column five and six from the left, in the upper pic. It´s not there in the lower.
(Probably difference in angle, more than in time.)
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 11:38 AM
Response to Reply #123
124. Some "investigators"...
inexplicably seem to automatically assume the worst about people seeking the truth of what really happened on 9-11. Kinda makes you wonder about the definition of "investigator", doesn't it? Even in the broadest sense of the word, I don't think it includes "Official Story Conspiracy" apologists, but apparently it does...at least for some people.

Thanks for your posts and your sincerity.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 04:25 AM
Response to Reply #124
127. We assume they are deluded or misinformed
You assume we are Republicans.
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Bob Stanford Donating Member (23 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 02:23 PM
Response to Reply #123
173. NO, Not different pics!
Edited on Sun Mar-28-04 02:32 PM by Bob Stanford
It is the same pic; in the lower one you can see the small fire (between column five and six from the left in the upper pic), but it is not as visible as in the upper pic, hence theese are lightened up.

@boloboffin: is the "original" pic really original? I am not sure. But it would be worth to find out, because proofing that the pic with the "man" is a fake would be sensational...

Bob Stanford
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 12:15 AM
Response to Reply #173
174. "lightened up"
You cannot "lighten up" a digital image. To do so you use algorythms against the original image. This can often lead to bizarre video artifacts. People with overly active imagintions, wierd delusions or just too much time on their hands "interpret" these.
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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 09:52 AM
Response to Reply #173
175. Have a look at
the two pics second and third from the bottom (on the left hand side)at this site :
http://www.81x.com/wtcwall/damage

Seems to me that you can see the exact spot where the woman is standing in the two pics we´ve been discussing, and the woman is not there. Not yet there.

If it was a twisted piece of metal, it would be there. So is the woman put in in both pics? And what then about the pic Seat9B mentioned? ( post#68 )

(Seems highly implausible that you can "lighten up" such a dark pic, and get that result. Two different cameras.)
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Bob Stanford Donating Member (23 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 10:29 AM
Response to Reply #175
176. That´s not the point, k-robjoe
... of course your NEW pics were made from another angle, so they do not help.

What I was saying is that all the pics in bolos post (#122) are from the SAME picture, and I guess you are wrong with your post #123.

But I would like to ask bolo for the ORIGINAL pic, just to find out WHICH of the pics is faked.

Bob Stanford
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 01:11 PM
Response to Reply #176
177. I don't have the original picture.
However I do think that k-robjoe's photos do help. The third from the bottom on the left doesn't show the area we're talking about, but the second one does. There clearly is no "woman" at this spot.

However, this doesn't prove the woman was there or not. If the "woman" is just a optical illusion, based on debris shapes that form the appearance of a woman, then k-robjoe's photo might show an angle at which the debris is not even visible (a full-on shot versus a side angle, where a thin piece of metal might disappear in the photograph).

K-robjoe's picture also makes clear that the background of the "woman" is a large chunk of floor from the upper story. It's draped down, and could be providing a area of shelter for humans from the fires above. So it's conceivable that a survivor might have stepped up and been photographed in the position we're looking at.

None of this proves that the fires couldn't have brought down the towers, which is the main point behind the push to see the woman there. The page k-robjoe provided has lots of pictures, and some are quite revealing as to the extent of the fires at various times during the conflagration. Note especially the third photo from the bottom on the right. It's right beside the pictures we're looking at. There's an entire floor on fire, with glimpses of the nasty fires below that floor, and a roaring section in a corner ten stories above the floor that's completely engulfed.

Note the lack of people in that picture.
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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 01:20 PM
Response to Reply #176
178. "do not help"
Edited on Mon Mar-29-04 01:51 PM by k-robjoe
> ... of course your NEW pics were made from another angle, so they do not help.

They are from a different angle, and they DO help, in the sense that people (who are not desperately unvilling to see it) can put two and two together and realize that it really is a woman in those pics.



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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 08:15 AM
Response to Reply #178
180. Site
Brad had a look at this yesterday, and put together two pages with pics. Seems to me that this settles the issue ; noone has been faking pics, and it is a woman. And on the floor above, a man.

www.wtcperson.batcave.net
www.wtcperson.batcave.net/compare.html

Brad, thanks!
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 11:32 AM
Response to Reply #180
181. Settles nothing
Your links say absolutely nothing about a man in the pictures. It's interesting that you would say so.

I do appreciate the enlargement of the second shot, the one where the woman is clearly not there. It shows a piece of debris sticking up that could be the lower half of the "woman" in the first picture.

http://www.wtcperson.batcave.net/

Fourth picture down. The enlargement shows seven support "ribs" of the WTC exterior. The first two stick high up, though they're severed. The next two are chopped off below the floor level. The next one (number five) sticks up and meets a triangular piece of debris that reaches back to the left, forming a black triangle.

Between ribs four and five, there's a piece of debris sticking up into this black triangle. It's not as tall as the ribs around it, but it's there. It's consistent with the "legs" of the "woman". The top half slants down to the right. There's a gash from the bottom that doesn't reach the top. It's the same color as the bottom half of the "woman". And the left top corner of the debris is much higher than the slant - there's a point there, which the bottom half of the "woman" also demonstrates.

So the bottom half of the woman is actually a piece of debris. The top half, then, is some other artifact or debris that's been interpreted as a woman. This is the same logic that sees the face of Satan in the smoke that billowed from the WTC towers. Looks good from one angle, but another angle exposes the illusion.
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seatnineb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 03:33 AM
Response to Reply #181
184. How about marrying those straws instead of clutching at them!
Edited on Wed Mar-31-04 03:34 AM by seatnineb
Despite asking you twice, you never did answer this question....
The picture in the book:

New York Times
A Nation challenged
A Visual History Of 9/11 And Its Aftermath

Introduction By Harold Raines
Photographs Edited By Nancie Lee and Lonnie Schlein
Text Edited By Mitchel Levitas
Additional Texts By Dan Barry,Celestine Bohlen,John F Burns
And N.R Kleinfield
Designed By Toshiya Masuda

Published By Jonathan Cape
London


THERE IS A DIFFERENT PICTURE(pages 18+19) OF THE SAME UNFORTUNATE WOMAN.....
On this occasion her right arm is raised above her head.......
Say goodbye to your polymobile debris observation...

And just for good measure the the caption next to the photo says.....
"A woman looks out from the North Tower after it was hit"
Photo taken by Brian Manning.....

Remember just because it does not exist on the internet(to the best of my knowledge) does not mean that it does not exist at all.

This book is the winner of an unprecedented 6 Pullitzer Prizes!

Looks like you have been betrayed by the very source(s) that you cling onto to maintain your mainstream stance....

Consider this photo an amazing own goal by and for the arrogant flag bearers of the official story.....

P.S
Keep up the good work K-RobJoe....

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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 07:33 AM
Response to Reply #184
185. Piece of work
The book's at my local library branch - I'm getting it today.

I still don't understand what is to be proven if the woman is there. At that point in time, the blaze wasn't enough to threaten her at that particular spot in the WTC. But the towers were rather large buildings (unless that's the next item on Dulce's agenda of deconstruction). You can't use this glimpse of a moment of time to prove that the fires weren't hot enough to deform load-bearing structural steel.

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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 12:45 PM
Response to Reply #184
186. Goodbye, polymobile debris observation
For what it's worth...I hate being betrayed by the sources I cling to.

Just got back from the local branch. They don't have the regular edition that you're using (it's heading for the hold shelf as we speak, though) - they do have a young reader's edition. Since I'm busy apologizing, I include that fact for your mockery, gratis.

It doesn't have the Brian Manning picture on pages 18-19, however. There is a Brian Manning picture of the North Tower impact area on page 17. It's small (about 3x4 inches), and shows the entire entry wound inflicted by Flight 11. But in the area we are looking at, there's a person who's in a different stance than the woman we've been viewing. It's taken at a different time, and I have no problem saying that there's a woman in that spot now.

So this proves... what exactly?

The picture that I'm looking at wouldn't be very well described with the caption you give: "A woman looks out from the North Tower after it was hit" The woman is barely visible, and the picture is being used to show how the gravity load was redistributed around the gaping hole. Is your picture an enlargement of this one? Does your picture show the entire entry hole, or is it cropped to show the woman more clearly?

I bring this up, because the wide angle that I'm seeing here reveal several blazing fires in the North Tower. The most prominent fires are two stories that are the second and third floors above the one where the woman stands. The fires are raging in that area. There's also a fire clearly visible in the floor below the woman. to her right and our left. It hasn't spread below her yet - there appears to be a debris pile blocking the fire from spreading to that area.

And the only reason I've heard for discussing whether the woman was there at all is to show that the fires couldn't have been hot enough to damage the structural steel. Clearly, where the woman is standing, the fires aren't raging. But they do burn fiercely in other parts of the building. There's no damage left to do to that section of the building, anyway - the plane crash took care of the structure there.

What does the woman's presence there prove?

Does it prove that I don't accept what some posters here say at face value? I didn't think that was a big mystery.

Does it prove that the fires weren't hot enough to damage the structural steel? Not hardly.

What does it prove?
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 03:44 PM
Response to Reply #186
190. Post the picture
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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-05-04 01:28 PM
Response to Reply #190
192. The picture
that seatnineb has been telling us about is now online at :
http://members.surfeu.fi/11syyskuu/holewtc.htm (second pic)

(I got it from seatnineb, and Hannu helped get it online.)
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-05-04 02:38 PM
Response to Reply #192
193. And it proves...?
Edited on Mon Apr-05-04 02:38 PM by boloboffin
I'm looking at the full picture in the Young Reader's Edition of the book that this new picture came from.

There's a person there.

And...?
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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 08:45 AM
Response to Reply #77
83. THIS IS NOT
the same picture. And I wrote you a private message, saying that from what you tell it can´t be the same picture. Don´t know if you didn´t see it, or just ignored it.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:57 AM
Response to Reply #83
90. I saw it
I just thought it was easier to post the image in the forum.

Let me ask a question; if there is a woman in the image, how does that indicate something a mystery?
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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 12:27 PM
Response to Reply #90
92. mystery
Edited on Wed Mar-17-04 12:32 PM by k-robjoe
> if there is a woman in the image, how does that indicate something a mystery?

In my view, it does not indicate a mystery.(just tells us that this woman and this man were there, so the temperature was "surviveable".) The mystery to me right now is the attitude I see here. It´s like the truth about this doesn´t matter shit. Like this is just a wargame of some sort.

On edit : I´ll be off for the day, and there has not been any contacts to help get the pic online.(Nor to see it.)

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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 12:38 PM
Response to Reply #92
93. Survivable?
What do you mean by that?

The 911-strike web page you linked to indicates this women's (if she exists)image indicates that

that the fires at the WTC were not hot enough to have substantially weakened the steel structure. This argument is also strongly suggested by the image below (from Eric Hufschmid's video "Painful Deceptions") which shows a woman looking out from the hole in the North Tower.

If that what yo mean by surviable, then you are grasping at straws. If you mean some people survived the impacts area and you find that surprising, I am gong to say again, so what? It's well documented that some people near the impact zones escaped.
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 01:19 PM
Response to Reply #93
94. In other words, "it was just starting to heat up", right?
Another way to try & undermine the theory about the high temperatures up there would be to suggest that the photo must have been taken after the fire had burned out.

Take your pick. The woman was lucky & able to survive because:

A.) The fire hadn't gotten hot enough yet to consume her.

B.) The photo was taken after the fire had burned out.

Wow! It's not hard to undermine somebody else's facts. What's hard is putting out a theory of your own. Much easier to just say the bush liars aren't...and then take pot shots whenever someone advances a more plausible scenario.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 06:13 PM
Response to Reply #94
100. Here's a larger picture.
I'm fascinated about your theories.

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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 07:23 PM
Response to Reply #100
101. How did those two people survive the inferno?
Don't some of you Administration apologists claim the temperature up there was at least 2,000 F?
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 09:37 PM
Response to Reply #101
109. What inferno?
Assuming that is a women (very doubtful) it's obvious there's no inferno.

What's your point?
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 09:47 PM
Response to Reply #109
110. Apologists for the Official Conspiracy said the WTC collapsed..
because of the extreme heat. Haven't YOU said that, too?
If not, what IS your theory? Are you now acknowledging what the Fireman said about the fires?

P.S. I agree with you...I think that's really Osama, not a woman.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 10:49 PM
Response to Reply #110
111. You are aware
each floor was 40,000 square feet with a few hundred offices?

Heat certainly played a role in the failure. In a normal office fire temperatures can be well above the temperature that significantly decreases structural steels yield strength.
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:30 PM
Response to Reply #111
113. And THAT'S why the buildings collapsed?
Well, thanks. That certainly clarifies YOUR position, I guess.
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impe Donating Member (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 02:18 PM
Response to Reply #92
97. Don't take it to heart


they can't stand the Truth. A picture is worth a 1000 words and this destroys the towering inferno/pulvarized melting metal argument put forth by the caveman theorists.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 07:49 PM
Response to Reply #97
102. Ahem.
When was this picture taken? Anyone got an approximate time stamp?
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 07:55 PM
Response to Reply #102
103. Be a good sport, "bolo". Tell us how you'll spin it...in either case.
Since the building collapsed so quickly, how about picking some time frames yourself and then give a plausible-sounding explanation for why the two folks weren't incinerated...regardless of WHAT time the photo was taken.

C'mon, be a good sport.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 08:00 PM
Response to Reply #103
104. North Tower took a hour and a half to collaspe.
The NIST report states that the North fire went up and down in severity, as I understand it. The picture, if it is of a human being, was taken at a low point in the fire.

Anybody got a time stamp on the picture?
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 10:51 PM
Response to Reply #97
112. That picture
tells me lots more than words can ever state. The one thing it doesn't say anything about is if there's a women standing there.
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:31 PM
Response to Reply #112
114. Why, that's no lady.
That's Osama.
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-15-04 10:26 AM
Response to Reply #48
50. Photoshop this:
For months, senior officials believed that firefighters had gone no higher than about the 50th floor in each tower, well below most damage. The transmissions from Chief Palmer and others reveal a startling achievement: firefighters in the south tower actually reached a floor struck by the second hijacked airplane. Once they got there, they had a coherent plan for putting out the fires they could see and helping victims who survived.

About 14 or 15 minutes before the south tower collapsed, a group of people who had survived the plane's impact began their descent from the 78th floor. As they departed, Chief Palmer sent word to Chief Edward Geraghty that a group of 10 people, with a number of injuries, were heading to an elevator on the 41st floor. That elevator was the only one working after the plane hit. On its last trip down, however, the car became stuck in the shaft. Inside the elevator was a firefighter from Ladder 15, who reported that he was trying to break open the walls. It is not clear whether the group of 10 had reached that elevator before it left the 41st floor but those who listened to the tape said it was most unlikely that they had enough time to escape, by the elevator or by stairs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/04/nyregion/04WTC.html


9:52 a.m.

Battalion Seven Chief: "Battalion Seven to Battalion Seven Alpha." "Freddie, come on over. Freddie, come on over by us."
Battalion Seven Chief:

"Battalion Seven ... Ladder 15, we've got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able to knock it down with two lines. Radio that, 78th floor numerous 10-45 Code Ones."

Ladder 15: "What stair are you in, Orio?"
Battalion Seven Aide: "Seven Alpha to lobby command post."
Ladder Fifteen: "Fifteen to Battalion Seven."
Battalion Seven Chief: "... Ladder 15."
Ladder 15: "Chief, what stair you in?"
Battalion Seven Chief: "South stairway Adam, South Tower."
Ladder 15: "Floor 78?"
Battalion Seven Chief: "Ten-four, numerous civilians, we gonna need two engines up here."
Ladder 15: "Alright ten-four, we're on our way."
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/firefighter-tape-excerpts.htm
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 11:24 PM
Response to Reply #38
40. One small issue with #6...
http://webpages.charter.net/flyian/757-767/mainpage.htm

You don't have experience with this cockpit. Despite breakers being marked, find me....well, anything quickly.
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 11:39 PM
Response to Reply #40
42. WHAT!!
Are you trying to say that a pilot
- such as those who are pontificating here -
who has been flying for as long
as we are assured the original FAA certified pilots had been flying,
would NOT know which breaker to pull?

DAMN.
Next time I fly,
I want someone who has been certified by something OTHER than the FAA.

Yo Hani, wait up.....

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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 03:29 PM
Response to Reply #42
70. I wasn't talking about the original pilots. I was speaking of terrorists
without a good deal of experience of 757/767 cockpits.
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:37 AM
Response to Reply #70
88. I would STILL
rather fly with Hani than with you.

The man had very little training, was without a good deal of experience of 757/767 cockpits, and had therefore about the circuit breakers.

However,
NONE OF THAT prevented Mr. Hani Hanjour
from performing some seriously acrobatic flying maneuvers
and damaging the black boxes so badly that hardly anything could be retrieved from them.

Although investigators look for an entire black box, sometimes the only parts of the device that survive are the recorder's crash-survivable memory units (CSMU).
The CSMU is almost indestructible. It is housed within a stainless-steel shell that contains titanium or aluminum and a high-temperature insulation of dry silica material.
It is designed to withstand heat of up to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit for one hour, salt water for at least 30 days, immersion in a variety of liquids such as jet fuel and lubricants, and an impact of 3,400 Gs. By comparison, astronauts are typically exposed to up to six Gs during a shuttle takeoff.
http://www.techtv.com/news/story/0,24195,3347804,00.html

Go Hani Go!!
Three thousand and four hundred times the force of gravity!!
Two thousand degrees Fahrenheit for one hour!!
And those little piddly weaklings
that NASA allows to pass as astronauts
only have to endure six piddly little Gs
on their piddly little I-can-stand-six-Gs-so-I-think-I-am-tough shuttle.
Girly men.
Barbie plane.
Look at all the money that NASA has been wasting all these years when a man like Hani Hanjour can fly an ordinary civilian Boeing 757 in such a manner as to total the 3,400G-proof black box stored in the tail of the plane.
If we had given him a military jet,
and proper training,
our talented aviator Hani Hanjour
could have flown into Heaven itself
and returned with Jesus as his copilot.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 12:13 PM
Response to Reply #88
91. Wise, because I'm not a pilot. I'm an ATC.
I'm not sure what you're trying to get across with your post, but I don't even enjoy flight sims. Your average 15-year-old is a better pilot than I.

Hell, my bumper sticker even attests to my lack of prowess as a pilot: "God was my copilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him"....

I have way too many issues to raise with your post to list. Please pick what you feel are the "strong" points. If they have anything to do with ATC, I'll attempt to rebut.
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seatnineb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-14-04 04:19 PM
Response to Reply #40
44. Hello MercutioATC
If you only have a small issue with #6 of post 38 it means:

That you do NOT have a problem with an ATC WHO FLOUTS THE MOST BASIC CRISIS PROTOCOLS.

That you do NOT have a problem with security officers who get distracted by pretty girls while body searching fully armed individuals at airport custom check points.

That you do NOT have a problem with pilots who do not "squawk" the 4-digit code despite having enough time to do so.

That you do NOT have a problem with yourself FOR NOT KNOWING THAT CIRCUIT BREAKERS ARE AT THE BACK OF A COCKPIT!....but you are an ATC after all ......

That you do NOT have a problem with the F.B.I for supressing the influence of N.T.S.B workers within its investigation.

That you do NOT have a problem with an organization(Boston F.B.I) that is so corrupt that President Bush has to protect it from a congressional investigation himself.

That you do NOT have a problem with f-16's and f-15's that are travelling at only 300 to 400mph on average when they HAVE TO DEFEND the nation.

That you do NOT have a problem with a woman who is alive in an area were the temperature is well on the way to being high enough to make steel buckle.

Dont worry MercutioATC ............... you are with the majority of people who unfortunately think this same way.......the question is for how long?.......


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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 03:47 PM
Response to Reply #44
71. O/K....the issues in the order you raised them:
1) I've explained this issue ad nauseum. If you're insisting that ATC's initial reaction to lost transponders/lost voice communications was unusual, you simply don't understand the mindset under which we operated prior to 9/11.

2) Of course i have a problem with this but, again, hindsight is 20/20. We'd never had this issue before and security procedures were routine actions. We had no historical reason to suspect that 9/11 would be any different than any other day. People DO get distracted.

3) Squawking hijack would probably not be my first priority if armed terrorists were charging my seat. Most people would reflexively try to defend themselves first. They're highly skilled and trained, but pilots are human.

4) Frankly, I DON'T have a problem with not knowing where system controls are on a 757/767. That's not my job. I will, however, edit my previous statement and call them "controls" and not "breakers". Frankly, I don't see what difference it makes to my argument.

5) I have no direct knowledge of the F.B.I. influencing N.T.S.B. workers, but I have heard of cases in which the N.T.S.B.s official position disagreed with some of its investigator's conclusions.

6) That's more of a position statement that a specific charge and I don't recall addressing any similar issue.

7) Internal military procedures are outside the scope of my knowledge base, but I have seen fighters on intercept in the past. I have never seen a fighter break Mach 1 (depending on altitude, 600-700 knots).

8) I have no idea what you're talking about with a woman alive where steel was buckling.

Again (and again and again and again), I'm not arguing that the official story is 100% accurate. I AM saying that several of the issues that some people use to support their conspiracy theories just don't hold water if you have an inside knowledge of how the system works (or worked).
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 04:28 PM
Response to Reply #71
73. Care to name some of them?
You said that you aren't arguing that the official story is 100& accurate. So, is it 98% percent accurate? 97%? 99%? 10% What?

You also said: "I AM saying that several of the issues that some people use to support their conspiracy theories just don't hold water if you have an inside knowledge of how the system works (or worked)."

Which "issues" are you referring to?
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 04:34 PM
Response to Reply #73
74. Christ! AGAIN?Just search my past posts in this forum, you'll find plenty
Hell, you've responded to a few of them yourself.

If you're seriously unable to find any, I'll help you out with a few links...just let me know.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 05:54 PM
Response to Reply #74
75. Make him do the work
It's one of their tactics, claiming the field by exhaustion.

You debunk all their arguments spread over four or five threads.
They start a fresh thread with all the exact same arguments and then expect you to do the work debunking them all over again.

I had to keep a database of old posts on the Wellstone threads just to keep it all straight.
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 07:07 PM
Response to Reply #75
78. Since the alleged ATC can't answer, how about YOU?
Isn't one of YOUR tactics to give DUers the benefit of the truth as you see it? Since MercutioATC can't/won't respond substantively, how about helping him out. Re-read my message, and YOU respond. Maybe he'll jump in if you say something that he disagrees with.

Otherwise, I can only conclude that he was "signifying"...AGAIN!
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 12:16 AM
Response to Reply #78
79. What message?
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 12:19 AM
Response to Reply #79
80. "signifying"
Is this another word you're trying to coin?
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 08:59 AM
Response to Reply #80
84. Not TRYING TO; it's done. Deal with it.
Glad you like it.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 08:41 PM
Response to Reply #84
107. Ever read any Lewis Caroll?
That's "glory" for you.
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 09:00 AM
Response to Reply #79
85. #73
Don't you read these things before you decide to chime in?
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 09:39 AM
Response to Reply #78
86. "can't/won't respond"??? I've answered these questions repeatedly.
In English, even. If there's a language barrier we're dealing with, please let me know. If not, please explain why, If you search my 911 forum posts, you're unable to find examples of flaws in arguments that weaken theories.

I'm interested in hearing exactly why you're having difficulties here. You don't have to agree with me, obviously, but you should at least be able to fing my posts...
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-04 10:43 PM
Response to Reply #38
41. 10 out of 10, not bad, seatnineb, damn good in fact
Even Merc gives ya 9 out of 10!

I especially liked the ex-military pilots not going for the hi-jack code. #4 IIRC. Hmmm, why would they have forgotten that bit of training? Could it be they ..... aw hell, that would be some "Whacky" theory to try and explain that one away, eh?

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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 03:50 PM
Response to Reply #41
72. I don't give him 9 out of 10...I just chose to respond to #6.
I disagree with some of the other conclusions too, but they're mostly issues I've dealt with before.
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YearOfTheLLama Donating Member (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 07:35 PM
Response to Original message
33. Nice name
"Dulce et Decorum est pro patriae mortere" -- It is sweet and fitting to die for the fatherland. Are you a veteran?
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 07:39 PM
Response to Reply #33
35. Let's put it this way,
I ain't dead yet.
Nuff said.
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crispy Donating Member (148 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 10:28 PM
Response to Original message
37. At Dulce Decorum's request....
... my response to Eastman

You assume the “photographs” are authentic, presumably because they support your case. You assume that if one accepts that a Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon, one must also believe in the authenticity of the photos. This is not true.

Note that no single witness mentioned a white trail of smoke following the plane.

I could go through your yahoo sites and point out every fallacious claim you make, but I’m not going to do that. What I will do is attack key pillars of your theory to demonstrate that it is not possible.

You posit that the “killer jet” was what knocked down the light poles. Because your beloved F-16 does not have a wingspan of 90 feet, you invent some “intense cyclonic turbulence that comes off the tips of the wings of high speed jets and can easily bring down lampposts or cause planes that are caught in the wash to become upset and even crash”. Even disregarding the fact that your pseudo-science is complete bullshit, every one of the light poles was severed or otherwise damaged by a physical object. Look at the photos.

You cannot truly demonstrate that there were two planes, the Boeing and an F-16. It can’t be done without distorting the evidence. Try to prove me wrong.

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dick_eastman Donating Member (39 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 09:01 PM
Response to Reply #37
149. Thank you Dulce. (crispy-eastman)

:kick:

Greetings, fellow Democrats seeking nothing less than the whole truth truth about 9-11 and everything else going on today.

I looked at some of the discussion here and some of it has gone well beyond my own research in many areas -- however a proof is a proof and I still have them and Crispy thinks he has refuted them.

So let's see.

Crispy:

... my response to Eastman

You assume the “photographs” are authentic, presumably because they support your case. You assume that if one accepts that a Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon, one must also believe in the authenticity of the photos. This is not true.

Dick:

That is not a presumption that would have occured to me. I concluded the photos are IMPORTANT because they make a case, in fact several cases, each of which I have presented for everyone's inspection. All photos were looked at, some showed things ruling out the the-Boeing-did-it story. I have spoken to witnesses and communicated (and shared the communication) with two of the witnesses who took the pictures -- each of which was believing the official story at the time I interviewed them (Riskus and Faram)-- and may still believe it for all I know.

Crispy:

Note that no single witness mentioned a white trail of smoke following the plane.

Dick:

It has been noted. While they did not see the smoke they did look at it and report what their mind could offer to explain it -- the "saw" the plane "crash into the lawn" and "bounce" from the lawn into the building. Clearly the missile fired under the wing of the killer jet left the smoke and flame exhaust that people interpreted as the bounce. We know there was no bounce, because the lawn was actually untouched and the killer jet obviously entered straight into the first floor, the engine punching finally punching through out of the "c" ring, still at the first-floor level.

The witnesses were watching the Boeing as it approached Building, they did not even notice the much faster, smaller, lower, darker aircraft against the visual "noise" of the ground environment until the flash. The flash was observed through the trees, by a man in Arlington Cemetery for a funeral.

Crispy:

I could go through your yahoo sites and point out every fallacious claim you make, but I’m not going to do that. What I will do is attack key pillars of your theory to demonstrate that it is not possible.

Dick:

That's awful kind of you, Crispy. Let's get started.

Crispy:

You posit that the “killer jet” was what knocked down the light poles.

Dick:

The Boeing on the path observed by the Witnesses watching it came nowhere near the first pole that was hit, as I show. I allow that poles 3, 4 and 5, as numbered from southwest to northeast could have been hit by the Boeing. The path of the killer jet is known exactly by the line of physical damage (the holes in each of two walls) -- but all that is known of the Boeing's path is that it came over the Sheraton, directly over the Annex, and over the Annex and slightly north of Sgt. William Lagasse who was pumping gas and saw the starboard side (right side) of the Boeing as it crossed from west to east to overfly the west wall. Steve Riskus puts it even further North, but I cannot accept his claim to have seen cross Washington Blvd. in front of him (where he was north of it as it did so in his southbound car)-- in response to my second written query he states that the Boeing appeared to go straight in, btw. The other witness accounts seem to select Lagasse over Riskus as the best indicator of how far north was the path of the eastbound jetliner.

Crispy:

Because your beloved F-16 does not have a wingspan of 90 feet, you invent some “intense cyclonic turbulence that comes off the tips of the wings of high speed jets and can easily bring down lampposts or cause planes that are caught in the wash to become upset and even crash”.

Dick:

Yes, that is one of my lousy rushed sentences, but it's accurate. The power of off wing turbulence has been researched carefully. Even airliners that get too close to parking lots when landing can blow down lamp posts. But the power of the cyclone of the wing of a fighter jet at near Mach 1 speed in the thick soup of the lower atmosphere is truly terrifric. An pilot was telling me how F-16's flying low over the desert in New Mexico can stir up thick clouds of sand two-hundred feet high when flying at 20 feet. Nothing invented -- although I must admit that this is information I had to research when I was first confronted with distances between lampposts that were clipped or downed. No one has challenged that this is possible, or that this has occasionally happens at airports and near airports. Remember, the flight that went down in Queens a month after 9-11, the aeronautics board investigators attributed the crash to residual cyclonic off-wing turbulence from the JAL flight that had taken off ahead of the Airbuss the crashed -- they used the turbulence to explain the tail fin of the flight being ripped off. Now THEY were stretching -- I am not.

So what am I saying:

First: powerful air turbulence coming off the wing of a jet fighter like the F-16 when flying close to the ground at near Mach 1 speed is sufficient to bring down lamp posts -- and the force increases with speed exponentially, whereas it increases with size only arithmetically. Four of the poles were snapped at the bolts at the base, what would be expected when hurricane force is applied at the top of what becomes then a very long lever working against the bolts. Furthermore, street lampposts are made to give way easily to prevent traffic fatalities in car accidents.

And Second: While the path of the killer jet in its last moments is well known, the final locus of points passed by the Boeing are not known -- the three most northward poles are very near where the Boeing's path in its final seconds coverged in a "v" with the known vector of the killer jet. Downed poles 3, 4, and/or 5 may have been brought down by the Boeing 757 as it proceeded to overfly the crash location on its way to Reagan National Airport one mile beyond. IMPORTANT: The downed poles, for the reasons given here, fail to refute the small-plane thesis

Crispy:

Even disregarding the fact that your pseudo-science is complete bullshit, every one of the light poles was severed or otherwise damaged by a physical object. Look at the photos.

Dick:

Not true. Only two poles were unequivocally clipped, seemingly shaved. The others are, given what known extant photos reveal, no less consistent with air-turbulence downings. But it is simply wrong -- poor research or worse -- to make the false claim that the poles were "severed" or show indications of specific-location impact with a physical object. The photos can be seen along with an in- depth discussion

http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/Eastman/m7b3.html

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pentagonconspiracy/message/1

Crispy:

You cannot truly demonstrate that there were two planes, the Boeing and an F-16. It can’t be done without distorting the evidence. Try to prove me wrong.

Dick:

Really and truly I can, honest! I've done it. And so has Professor A.K.Dewdney who edited the brain twisters for Scientific American for eleven years and has his own articles on the "small-plane" theory. (I still have to hear back from Marilyn vos Savant who has the very same evidence you are brushing off so casually. I promise to let you know what Marilyn, the woman in the Guinness book of Records for the highest IQ in the world, has to say about it -- who knows, she may agree with you -- but she hasn't yet and I don't expect she will.)

By the way, Crispy -- do you yourself reject the security camera video pictures, taken from the Defense Department's security camera and given to the Defense Departments chosen subcontractor for "preparation" and then the Pentagon endorsed the result when it was released to answer the French "no plane" thesis. If so, why do you think the Pentagon would put out a fake video of the attack on the Pentagon? (My own view is that they washed out some of the Boeing that was showing -- but THAT is only a theory, and I choose not to mix it with the ESTABLISHED FINDINGS.

Look at some of these, fellow anti-Bush believers in Democracy, if you have lingering doubts.

Hee are key link pages:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pentagonconspiracy/message/9

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pentagonconspiracy/message/5

Dick Eastman
223 S. 64th Ave.
Yakima, Washington
:kick:
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 09:36 PM
Response to Reply #149
150. Thanks, Mr. Eastman
Your calm approach and logical reasoning is a breath of fresh air. Your conclusions probably cause shivers in the Official Story Apologists. Hurry back, every chance you get.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-04 05:14 AM
Response to Reply #150
153. Ladies and gentleman....Elton John.
There's a calm surrender
To the rush of day
When the heat of the rolling world
Can be turned away

An enchanted moment,
And it sees me through
It's enough for this restless warrior
Just to be with you

And can you feel the love tonight
It is where we are
It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer
That we've got this far
And can you feel the love tonight
How it's laid to rest?
It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
believe the very best.

There's a time for everyone
If they only learn
That the twisting kaleidoscope
Moves us all in turn

There's a rhyme and reason
To the wild outdoors
When the heart of this starcrossed voyager
Beats in time with yours

And can you feel the love tonight
It is where we are
It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer
That we've got this far
And can you feel the love tonight
How it's laid to rest?
It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
believe the very best.

It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
believe the very best.
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mn9driver Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 11:18 PM
Response to Reply #149
151. This is silly. Your analysis of wake turbulence
versus jet blast at low versus high speeds is absurd.

..."First: powerful air turbulence coming off the wing of a jet fighter like the F-16 when flying close to the ground at near Mach 1 speed is sufficient to bring down lamp posts -- and the force increases with speed exponentially, whereas it increases with size only arithmetically..."


Got an aerodynamics text reference for that? This is crap. The strength of a wake rotor is increased by aircraft size and wing angle of attack. In other words, a large, heavy, slow, nose high aircraft generates maximum wake.

A small, high speed aircraft isn't gonna generate that much wake-very little AOA. Your tales of high speed, low altitude "rooster tails" of sand in the desert are fantasy. Been there, done that and your description is false.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-04 10:35 AM
Response to Reply #149
155. You've GOT to be kidding
the[sic] "saw" the plane "crash into the lawn" and "bounce" from the lawn into the building. Clearly the missile fired under the wing of the killer jet left the smoke and flame exhaust that people interpreted as the bounce

I've seen no reports of a "bounce" leaving behind "smoke and flames". And stop calling me "Clearly".

I have spoken to witnesses and communicated (and shared the communication) with two of the witnesses who took the pictures...

But we're not accepting eyewitness testimony any more. Abe Linkman said so.

The witnesses were watching the Boeing as it approached Building, they did not even notice the much faster, smaller, lower, darker aircraft against the visual "noise" of the ground environment until the flash

Of course not. It was right in front of their eyes. They couldn't possibly see it. The only eyewitness testimony we're allowing is holograms.

But the power of the cyclone of the wing of a fighter jet at near Mach 1 speed in the thick soup of the lower atmosphere is truly terrifric[sic&393

Ever been to an airshow? Jets go by approaching supersonic speeds with hardly a whisper of a breeze. If jets were kicking up that much turbulance, they'd never be able to fly. Oh, I forgot, we no longer believe in physics.

And so has Professor A.K.Dewdney ... Marilyn vos Savant

Name dropping is not logic.

Hmmm... seems there's some question of Marlyn's ethics.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-04 12:26 PM
Response to Reply #155
156. Unfortunately
He is not kidding.
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crispy Donating Member (148 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 10:42 PM
Response to Reply #149
169. For now
I'll post a point-by-point response in a couple days.

May all be advised that I am about to begin writing a lengthy article in which I offer a comprehensive view of the evolution of alternative Pentagon crash theories and also conclusively refute Dewdney, Eastman, and everyone else. It will be a debate-ender (for those who still have some shreds of rationality, at least).

But I will continue the debate with Eastman here, for jollies.
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crispy Donating Member (148 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-03-04 12:49 AM
Response to Reply #149
191. Response
When I wrote…
> You assume the “photographs” are authentic, presumably because they support your case. You assume that if one accepts that a Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon, one must also believe in the authenticity of the photos. This is not true.

…I was referring to the alleged Pentagon security camera “photographs”, not to photographs of the crash scene.


> While they did not see the smoke they did look at it and report what their mind could offer to explain it -- the "saw" the plane "crash into the lawn" and "bounce" from the lawn into the building.

Who are “they”? The only witness I can think of who mentioned a “bounce” was Timmerman, who you yourself discredit. On the other hand, two other (and reliable) witnesses, Steve Riskus and Mike Walter, say specifically that the plane did *not* bounce.


> The witnesses were watching the Boeing as it approached Building, they did not even notice the much faster, smaller, lower, darker aircraft against the visual "noise" of the ground environment until the flash.

Huh? No one whose eyes were on the Boeing noticed an F-16 flying at, as you put it, “near Mach 1 speed in the thick soup of the lower atmosphere”?

For your scenario to have been correct, people whose eyes were on the Boeing 757 would have to NOT NOTICE a second plane enter their field of vision. EVERY witness who mentioned seeing two planes was referring to the C-130. NOT ONE witness described seeing anything that would even suggest what you are positing. If you think otherwise, I challenge you to support your conclusion with the exact testimony you are referring to, so we all can see your reasoning.


> I allow that poles 3, 4 and 5, as numbered from southwest to northeast could have been hit by the Boeing.



Look at that image. I thought you said the Boeing came from the west or northwest? If the Boeing took out poles 3, 4, and 5, it would have been almost right over your “killer jet”. I somehow—SOMEHOW—don’t think ANYONE is so stupid as to stage an operation like what you are suggesting.


> Steve Riskus puts it even further North

Did you account for the error you originally made with regard to Riskus’ testimony?
“Witness Steve Riskus was headed north on the turnpike” you said. Your “DIAGRAMATIC STATEMENT OF THIS CONCLUSION” has northwest and southwest in the wrong places; thus everything after that with regard to directions is messed up. The plane that hit the Pentagon came from the southwest, not the northwest. Riskus was traveling southbound. Go watch his interview with Digipresse. In your scenario, he would have seen the killer jet. In the real scenario, he saw Flight 77 knock down light poles before crashing into the Pentagon.


> near Mach 1 speed

What do you mean “near”? Mach 1 is 761.5 mph at sea level. How would someone not notice a jet flying at “near Mach 1 speed”?

I do not think the security camera “photographs” are authentic. I know you can’t really acknowledge this as a possibility, because without them you have almost nothing to base your case on. Not one witness saw the trail of smoke which appeared in all five frames.

I reiterate – you can’t prove that there were two planes. Your yahoo sites are riddled with errors; I’ve pointed out one, if you’d like me to point out more just link to one of your sites and I’ll go through it.
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 02:21 PM
Response to Original message
69. Eyewitness testimony: SPOT THE DIFFERENCE.
It is nice to see a collection of eyewitness links.
Unfortunately, these eyewitnesses do not say the same thing.
And some of them say the darndest things....


1. Joel Sucherman, USAToday Editor
USAToday.com Editor Joel Sucherman saw it all: an American Airlines jetliner fly LEFT TO RIGHT across his field of vision as he commuted to work Tuesday morning. It was highly unusual. The large plane was 20 feet off the ground and a mere 50 to 75 yards from his windshield. Two seconds later and before he could see if the landing gear was down or any of the horror-struck faces inside, the plane slammed into the west wall of the Pentagon 100 yards away.
- "Journalist Witnesses Pentagon Crash." eWeek.com, 13 Sep 2001

2. Father Stephen McGraw
Father Stephen McGraw was driving to a graveside service at Arlington National Cemetery the morning of Sept. 11, when he mistakenly took the Pentagon exit onto Washington Boulevard, putting him in a position to witness American Airlines Flight 77 crash into the Pentagon. 'I was in the left hand lane with my windows closed. I did not hear anything at all until the plane was just right above our cars.' McGraw estimates that the plane passed about 20 feet over his car, as he waited in the left hand lane of the road, on the side closest to the Pentagon. 'THE PLANE CLIPPED THE TOP OF A LIGHT POLE JUST BEFORE IT GOT TO US, INJURING A TAXI DRIVER, WHOSE TAXI WAS JUST A FEW FEET AWAY FROM MY CAR.
http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Pentagon_crash_eyewitness_comforted_victims.html

3. John O'Keefe
Northern Virginia resident John O'Keefe was one of the commuters who witnessed the attack on the Pentagon. 'I was going up 395, up Washington Blvd., listening to the the news, to WTOP, and from my left side-I don't know whether I saw or heard it first- I saw a silver plane I immediately recognized it as an American Airlines jet,' said the 25-year-old O'Keefe, managing editor of Influence, an American Lawyer Media publication about LOBBYING. 'It came swooping in over the highway, over my LEFT shoulder, straight across where my car was heading. I'd just heard them saying on the radio that National Airport was closing, and I thought, "That's not going to make it to National Airport." And then I realized where I was, and that it was going to hit the Pentagon. There was a BURST OF ORANGE FLAME that shot out that I could see through the highway overpass. Then it was just black. JUST BLACK THICK SMOKE.'
- "Terrorist 'Situation'." American Lawyer Media, 11 Sep 2001

4. Steve Anderson, USAToday Director of Communications
"I witnessed the jet hit the Pentagon on September 11. FROM MY OFFICE ON THE 19th FLOOR OF THE USA TODAY BUILDING IN ARLINGTON VIRGINIA, I have a view of Arlington Cemetery, Crystal City, the Pentagon, National Airport and the Potomac River. ... Shortly after watching the second tragedy, I heard jet engines pass our building, which, being so close to the airport is very common. But I thought the airport was closed. I figured it was a plane coming in for landing. A few moments later, AS I WAS LOOKING DOWN AT MY DESK, THE PLANE CAUGHT MY EYE. It didn't register at first. I thought to myself that I couldn't believe the pilot was flying so low. Then it dawned on me what was about to happen. I watched in horror as the plane flew at treetop level, banked slightly to the left, DRUG ITS WING ALONG THE GROUND and slammed into the west wall of the Pentagon exploding into a GIANT ORANGE FIREBALL. THEN BLACK SMOKE. THEN WHITE SMOKE."
http://www.jmu.edu/alumni/tragedy_response/read_messages.html

5. Steve Rickus
" . . . I saw the plane hit the building. IT DID NOT HIT THE GROUND FIRST. . . It did not hit the roof first. . . It hit dead center on the edge. . . I was close enough (about 100 feet or so) that I could see the "American Airlines" logo on the tail as it headed towards the building. . . It was not completely level, but it was not going straight down, kind of like it was landing with no gear down. . . It knocked over a few light poles on its way. . . I DID NOT SEE ANY SMOKE OR DEBRIS COMING FROM THE PLANE. I clearly saw the "AA" logo with the eagle in the middle. . . I don't really remember the engine configuration, but it did have those turbine engines on the wing. . . and yes, it did impact the Pentagon. . . THERE WAS NONE OF THIS HITTING-THE-GROUND FIRST CRAP I KEEP HEARING . . . It was definitely an American Airlines jet. . . There is no doubt about that. . . When I got to work I checked it out."

6. Bouchoux, Donald R.
Donald R. Bouchoux, 53, a retired Naval officer, a Great Falls resident, a Vietnam veteran and former commanding officer of a Navy fighter squadron, was driving west from Tysons Corner to the Pentagon for a 10am meeting. He wrote: "At 9:40 a.m. I was driving down Washington Boulevard (Route 27) along the side of the Pentagon when the aircraft crossed about 200 yards in front of me and impacted the side of the building. THERE WAS AN ENORMOUS FIREBALL, FOLLOWED ABOUT TWO SECONDS LATER BY DEBRIS RAINING DOWN. THE CAR MOVED ABOUT A FOOT TO THE RIGHT WHEN THE SHOCK WAVE HIT. I had what must have been an emergency oxygen bottle from the airplane go flying down across the front of my Explorer and then a second piece of jagged metal come down on the right side of the car.

7. Deb & Jeff Anlauf
she heard a "loud roar . . . Suddenly I saw this plane right outside my window. . . . You felt like you could touch it; it was that close.
"Then it shot straight across from where we are and flew right into the Pentagon. It was just this huge fireball that crashed into the wall (of the Pentagon). WHEN IT HIT, THE WHOLE HOTEL SHOOK."

8. Mickey Bell
The jet came in from the south and banked left as it entered the building, narrowly missing the Singleton Electric trailer and the on-site foreman, Mickey Bell. . . .
Bell who had been less than 100 feet from the initial impact of the plane, was nearly struck by one of the plane's wings as it sped by him. . . .
The full impact of the closeness of the crash wasn't realized until coworkers noticed damage to Bell's work vehicle. He had plastic and rivets from an airplane imbedded in its sheet metal, but Bell had no idea what had happened.
(AND HAD NO PLASTIC OR RIVETS IMBEDDED IN HIS FLESH.)

9. Penny Elgas
"I HAD AN EARLY APPOINTMENT on September 11th, SO I DROVE TO WORK LATER THAN USUAL. I work at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation near the White House. I headed north on 1-395 to DC from my home in Springfield, Virginia and I entered the highway a little after 9am so that I could take the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) express lane. " (SHE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN DRIVING ALONE.)
"Traffic was at a standstill. I heard a rumble, looked out my driver's side window and realized that I was looking at the nose of an airplane coming straight at us from over the road (Columbia Pike) that runs perpendicular to the road I was on. THE PLANE JUST APPEARED THERE- very low in the air, to the side of (and not much above) the CITGO gas station . . .
". . . I SAW THE PLANE COMING IN SLOW MOTION TOWARD MY CAR and then it banked in the slightest turn in front of me, toward the heliport. In the nano-second that the plane was directly over the cars in front of my car, the plane seemed to be not more than 80 feet off the ground and about 4-5 car lengths in front of me. It was far enough in front of me that I saw the end of the wing closest to me and the underside of the other wing as that other wing rocked slightly toward the ground. I remember recognizing it as an American Airlines plane -- I could see the windows and the color stripes. And I remember thinking that it was just like planes in which I had flown many times . . .
". . . At the second that I saw the plane, my visual senses took over completely and I DID NOT HEAR OR FEEL ANYTHING -- NOT THE ROAR OF THE PLANE, OR WIND FORCE, OR IMPACT SOUNDS.
"The plane seemed to be floating as if it were a paper glider and I watched in horror as it gently rocked and slowly glided straight into the Pentagon. At the point where the fuselage hit the wall, IT SEEMED TO SIMPLY MELT INTO THE BUILDING. I saw a smoke ring surround the fuselage as it made contact with the wall. It appeared as a smoke ring that encircled the fuselage at the point of contact and it seemed to be several feet thick. I later realized that it was probably the rubble of churning bits of the plane and concrete. The churning smoke ring started at the top of the fuselage and simultaneously wrapped down both the right and left sides of the fuselage to the underside, where the coiling rings crossed over each other and then coiled back up to the top. Then it started over again -- only this next time, I also saw fire, glowing fire in the smoke ring. At that point, THE WINGS DISAPPEARED INTO THE PENTAGON. AND THEN I SAW AN EXPLOSION AND WATCHED THE TAIL OF THE PLANE SLIP INTO THE BUILDING. It was here that I closed my eyes for a moment and when I looked back, the entire area was awash in THICK BLACK SMOKE."
http://americanhistory.si.edu/september11/collection/supporting.asp?ID=30

For more tests of your powers of observation, check out:

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/F77pentagon.html

http://americanhistory.si.edu/september11 /

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic...

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blflight77w.htm

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ericbart/witness.html
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 05:57 PM
Response to Reply #69
76. Please respond to this issue in the eyewitness testimony thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x9377

This thread is close to that mythical 100 posts per thread limit that Dulce rigidly enforces anyway. Let's keep the threads separate, so that the discussion on separate issues can be kept together...that would be orderly and non-disruptive.
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 10:50 AM
Response to Reply #76
87. Those who do not believe that Flight 77
crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001,

(The owners, and the title-holder (Wilmington Trust), as well as the operators (American Airlines) and the FAA have declared that the registration of N644AA was cancelled since it was apparently destroyed on 1/14/2002, which "LIE" can be verified at http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=644AA
and this FAA-verified fact directly contradicts the theory that this plane acting as Flight 77 is the one that failed to create a hole of sufficient size within the west wall of the Pentagon on 9/11/2001.)

should consider their option to stay put.

Those who believe that Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon
and who consider the work of some guy they do not know,
coupled with statements taken from those who claim to have witnessed said event, as meeting their standards of proof,
are welcome to leave now,
per Boloboffin's request:
Let's keep the threads separate, so that the discussion on separate issues can be kept together...that would be orderly and non-disruptive.

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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:53 AM
Response to Reply #87
89. I know this can be complicated
but the link states the registration was canceled 01/14/2002. The reason the was deregistered was because it was destroyed. There is nothing it to indicate it was destoyed on 01/14/02.
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 01:37 PM
Response to Reply #89
95. .....until you read Post #6
Sec. 47.41 - Duration and return of Certificate.
(a) Each Certificate of Aircraft Registration issued by the FAA under this subpart is effective, unless suspended or revoked, until THE DATE UPON WHICH --
(2) The registration is canceled at the written request of the holder of the certificate;
(3) THE AIRCRAFT IS TOTALLY DESTROYED OR SCRAPPED;
(b) The Certificate of Aircraft Registration, with the reverse side completed, must be returned to the FAA Aircraft Registry --
(3) Upon the termination of the registration, by the holder of the Certificate of Aircraft Registration in all other cases mentioned in paragraph (a) of this section.
http://www.risingup.com/fars/info/part47-41-FAR.shtml

Think of it like a death certificate.
Who cares when it was issued?
We just want to know WHEN the guy DIED.

Or in this case, when the plane became defunct.

The owners/operators told the FAA that
N644AA which was a Boeing 757-223 with the serial number 24602
was destroyed on 1/14/2004.
End of story.
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mn9driver Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 05:18 PM
Response to Reply #95
98. Once again an unjustified conclusion is reached.
"...The owners/operators told the FAA that
N644AA which was a Boeing 757-223 with the serial number 24602
was destroyed on 1/14/2004.
End of story..."


No.

That is when the registration was cancelled. Read a little further down FAR 47.41 and you find this:
"...(b) The Certificate of Aircraft Registration, with the reverse side completed, must be returned to the FAA Aircraft Registry--
(1) In case of registration under the laws of a foreign country, by the person who was the owner of the aircraft before foreign registration;
(2) Within 60 days after the death of the holder of the certificate, by the administrator or executor of his estate, or by his heir-at-law if no administrator or executor has been or is to be appointed; or
(3) Upon the termination of the registration, by the holder of the Certificate of Aircraft Registration in all other cases mentioned in paragraph (a) of this section.
The registration isn't cancelled by news reports, or phone calls. It is cancelled ...(3) Upon the termination of the registration, by the holder of the Certificate of Aircraft Registration in all other cases mentioned in paragraph (a) of this section...

If the certificate isn't returned, the registration isn't cancelled. The date of cancellation reflects the date the FAA recieves "...The Certificate of Aircraft Registration, with the reverse side completed..."

Of course, the FAA has an "Ask the FAA" link right there on their website. They would very likely answer any questions you have about N numbers and 9/11 aircraft.

http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgFAR.nsf/0/CF24A6671F6471F686256959004AE37D?OpenDocument

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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:58 PM
Response to Reply #98
115. The holder of the registration
is a Trustee.
The actual owner of the AA planes is probably some foreigner or some foreign corporation which is complying with the Jones Act by surrendering the title to a US entity.
http://www.seafarers.org/log/2004/032004/president.xml

In the case of Flight 77, N644AA was deregistered at the behest of the Wilmington Trust Company acting on the behalf of their trustee.
In the case of Flight 11, N334AA was deregistered at the behest of the First Union National Bank acting on the behalf of their trustee.

BOTH of these INDEPENDENT titleholders have listed 1/14/2002 as the day upon which their respective registrations became invalid.
Some coincidence.
mn9driver has pointed out an interesting fact.
if indeed the title became invalid SOLELY BECAUSE of the demise of the owner of the plane, then EVEN THOSE TWO PLANES are still viable.
I rather doubt that scenario myself,
since the date in question,
mn9driver,
is NOT the date upon which the FAA receives said returned certificate,
but rather THE DATE UPON WHICH THE TERMINAL EVENT OCCURRED.

(a) Each Certificate of Aircraft Registration issued by the FAA under this subpart is effective, unless suspended or revoked, UNTIL THE DATE UPON WHICH--
(1) Subject to the Convention on the International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft when applicable, the aircraft is registered under the laws of a foreign country;
(2) The registration is canceled at the written request of the holder of the certificate;
(3) THE AIRCRAFT IS TOTALLY DESTROYED OR SCRAPPED;
http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgFAR.nsf/0/CF24A6671F6471F686256959004AE37D?OpenDocument

I take that to mean that BOTH aircraft each had a Certificate of Aircraft Registration issued by the FAA under this subpart which was effective, until BOTH aircraft were totally destroyed on 1/14/2002.

The aircraft owned and operated by United Airlines CONTINUE to be registered. This causes many to assume that the planes are still capable of flight.

Here are the links to the FAA website,
concerning the registrations of the four planes.

FLIGHT 77:
http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=644AA&cmndfind.x=20&cmndfind.y=14
FLIGHT 11;
http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=334AA&cmndfind.x=16&cmndfind.y=12
FLIGHT 93:
http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=591UA&cmndfind.x=18&cmndfind.y=13
FLIGHT 175:
http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=612UA&cmndfind.x=14&cmndfind.y=16
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mn9driver Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 01:23 AM
Response to Reply #115
117. I knew I could count on you, DD.
Edited on Thu Mar-18-04 01:28 AM by mn9driver
"...since the date in question,
mn9driver,
is NOT the date upon which the FAA receives said returned certificate,
but rather THE DATE UPON WHICH THE TERMINAL EVENT OCCURRED...."



So if the cancellation date must be the same as the date of destruction, then the AA 587 Rockaway crash didn't happen on November 12, 2001. Look-the FAA says it happened on April 26, 2002!

Dang! I wonder what it was that fell out of the sky on November 12? Must have been a hologram.

Serial Number 420 Type Registration Corporation
Manufacturer Name AIRBUS INDUSTRIE Certificate Issue Date 07/13/1988
Model A300B4-605R Mode S Code 50122723
Year Manufacturer 1988 Cancel Date 04/26/2002
Reason for Cancellation Cancelled Exported To

Then there was Alaska 261. Evidently it didn't crash into the Pacific Ocean off near LA on January 31, 2000 because its' registration wasn't cancelled until August 31, 2000. Who knew?

Serial Number 53077 Type Registration Corporation
Manufacturer Name MCDONNELL DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT CO Certificate Issue Date 06/11/1992
Model MD 83 Mode S Code 53263534
Year Manufacturer None Cancel Date 08/31/2000
Reason for Cancellation Destroyed Exported To

Just one more example of this fascinating phenomenom; TWA 800 secretly flew to France on July 17, 1996. The crash was faked in a plot to make the Clinton administration look bad! We know this because its' registration wasn't cancelled until March 10, 1997---after the political damage had been done!! This is incredible!

Serial Number 20083 Type Registration Corporation
Manufacturer Name BOEING Certificate Issue Date 04/07/1986
Model 747-131 Mode S Code 53165775
Year Manufacturer None Cancel Date 03/10/1997
Reason for Cancellation Destroyed Exported To

So many conclusions we can draw here. Thanks, DD. I wonder where they hide all these airplanes that haven't really been destroyed?


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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 03:32 AM
Response to Reply #117
119. And the FAA.
mn9driver says:
I wonder where they hide all these airplanes that haven't really been destroyed?

You know,
I have been wondering about that.
Where did they get that mercenary plane that was impounded in Zimbabwe?
http://allafrica.com/stories/200403160915.html
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/002678.html

The aircraft, a Boeing 727-100 that once belonged to the US Air Force, bears the registration number N4610, which the US Federal Aviation Authority says is allocated to a Kansas-based company called Dodson Aviation Inc.
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimes/newsst/newsst1078837868.asp

Sources say all the equipment found on the aircraft was bought from Denel, a South African arms supplier.
It is unclear if this was a "sting" or of ZDI doing, but the group were told to fly into Zimbabwe and collect weapons on their way to Equatorial Guinea.
http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/plane9.1521.html

Tuesday March 09, 2004 11:58
The plane's origins continued to perplex.
SABC radio reported it was registered to a South African company, Zimbabwe claimed it was US-registered.
This was denied by the US State Department, but a South African aviation expert said the aircraft's registration number, N4610, was definitely American.
An initial check of US Federal Aviation Administration records showed N4610 to be registered to Kansas-based Dodson Aviation Inc., but a Dodson official said it sold the plane about a week ago to an
African company called Logo Ltd.
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimes/newsst/newsst1078826292.asp

March 9, 2004
Last night Robert Dodson, owner of Dodson Aviation, confirmed that his company had bought the aircraft from the US Air Force in 1985.
But he said he had sold it just last week to Logo Limited, a South African company.
Dodson said it was legal for the new owners of the aircraft to keep the US registration for up to six months before changing to a South African registration number.
No record of Logo Limited could be found by this morning.
http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=129&fArticleId=369542

Here is the FAA N-number record.
http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=4610&cmndfind.x=16&cmndfind.y=17
Rather unusual wouldn't you say.
The Registration Certificate
for Boeing 727 Serial Number 18811 was issued on 5/22/2002
The Registration Certificate
for Boeing 727 Serial Number 18811 was cancelled on 3/12/2004.

Now the interesting thing
(and perhaps mn9driver can help us out here)
is that the registration was cancelled on 3/12/2004
BUT
the plane was impounded in Harare, Zimbabwe on Sunday, March 7, 2002
which is 5 whole days BEFORE the registration for that plane changed hands.

A Rantoul, Kan., firm says it faxed to the AMERICAN EMBASSY in South Africa on Wednesday sale documents for an airliner seized by Zimbabwe authorities claiming it ferried mercenaries.
<snip>
A tail number from the plane suggested that it was registered in the United States to Dodson Aviation in Rantoul. The company, however, said the federal registry is lagging behind its sale of the Boeing 727-100 turbo jet.
Company director Robert Dodson Sr. said the sale was completed March 1, after weeks of negotiations with Logo Logistics Co., a firm he believed to be a South African diamond mining company.
“There didn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary about the deal,” Dodson said. “They negotiated very hard to get a cheap price. … Actually, we didn't make any money on the deal.”
The embassy staff contacted Dodson Aviation on Tuesday, and the requested records were sent Wednesday.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Paul Turk said there were no restrictions on who could purchase an airliner. It is normal for evidence of sales to take up to a month to show up in FAA records, he said.
The company contracted a crew to make the flight to South Africa. Dodson said the crew handed over the plane to officials who signed for it in the name of Logo Logistics late Friday or early Saturday.
Sunday night at Harare International Airport in Zimbabwe, the government impounded the aircraft and jailed its occupants.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/8156036.htm%3FERIGHTS%3D-5333743506631812729kansascity::stinkybottom@mailinator.com&KRD_RM%3D1iiqpnnlinlmhhhhhhhhhikjkp%257Cstinky%257CY&is_rd%3DY

mn9driver,
this is the part where we need your assistance.
WHAT THE HECK WAS GOING ON WITH THE FAA ON 1/14/2002?

The (ZIMBABWE) plane was then sold by US Air Force on January 11, 2002 to Dodson International Parts, and then to Dodson Aviation on January 14, 2002.
http://www.theindependent.co.zw/news/2004/March/Friday12/2266.html

1/14/2002 is the SAME DAY
that FAA cancelled the registration of the two 9:11 AA planes.
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mn9driver Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 12:24 PM
Response to Reply #119
125. Quick! Look behind you!
Oh, never mind.

"...mn9driver,
this is the part where we need your assistance.
WHAT THE HECK WAS GOING ON WITH THE FAA ON 1/14/2002?..."


Here's my best guess:
January 14th 2002 started out like any other January day here at the FAA. Gray. Dreary. Monday. The cherry blossoms were still weeks away and the holiday cheer had worn off. None of us at the aircraft records section had any inkling of what was about to happen. But that's life.

I remember it like it was yesterday. The envelopes came in. Changes. To aircraft registrations. I looked around furtively to see if anyone else had noticed, but they were all at the other end of the office singing "Happy Birthday" to Mrs. O'Grady. She was easy on the eyes. Too easy, if you ask me. The other guys were distractable and she was just the distraction I needed. It gave me time to do what I had to do.

I recorded the changes. All of them-even the ones that came in on Friday and didn't get done because of happy hour at the Ritz bar-but that's another story. It was done. I did it, and I'd do it again. It's my job. I'm a Clerk For The FAA.
Of course, this assumes that your quoted news articles are accurate---since they contradict each other it's hard to tell.

Who bought it in 1985? Dodson or Boeing?
Did Dodson buy it again? In 2002? or 2004?
Was the airplane impounded in 2002? 2004?

According to your sources: all of the above.

An interesting transaction: looks to me like an SA mercenary operation gone bad. If you want to be an SA mercenary, you can buy your own airplane just like the one they had. Here's a link:

http://www.aerobuysell.com/2343-2SC.htm

This is a nice plane, but it's overpriced. You could offer $700K and they would be real interested. Of course, you could find a real rough one for $250K and hope that three engines is enough.

Anything else you'd like me to clear up? Like maybe something having to do with 9/11?
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 12:33 PM
Response to Reply #125
126. Mrs. O'Grady
sounds very shady. Are you sure she's not a BFEE plant? :)
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 03:09 PM
Response to Reply #125
128. I knew you would have something
Edited on Fri Mar-19-04 03:44 PM by DulceDecorum
smart to say.

If those planes were switched over from civilian to MILITARY use, then there will be NO RECORD of them on the FAA civil aviation database.
And THAT is the law.

Maybe that's wherdy went.
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seatnineb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 03:37 AM
Response to Reply #125
129. How about clearing up this 9/11 paradox?
Mn9Driver........

I would like to coax you and MercutioATC out of your
respective “avionic industry cocoons” and let you both consider this.....


The paradox of the hijackers:

According to the mainstream story .....

They obviously believed passiontely(fanatically) in their cause(Muslim liberation/domination ect ect) if they were willing to DIE AND SIMULTANEOUSLY KILL for it.....right?

BUT then why would they martyr themselves for a cause(Islamic nation/Al-quaida) that as a consequence of their death(9/11) would be destroyed or irrevocably damaged(Afganistan,Iraq) after their death ?.........then surely THAT CAUSE WOULD NOT BE WORTH DYING(AND KILLING) FOR..

Remember the hijackers KNEW WHAT THEY WERE UP AGAINST...

For in Ramzi Binalshibs own words:

“We are going into a battle..a very unconventional battle against the MOST POWERFUL FORCE ON EARTH.You are facing them on their own soil,among their forces and soldiers with a small group of 19”



THE BUSH JUNTA,MAINSTREAM STORY BELIEVERS AND AL-QUAIDA ALL HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON..........
THEY ALL BELIEVE IN AND BACK UP THE PARADOX OF THE OFFICIAL STORY.


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mn9driver Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 10:14 AM
Response to Reply #129
130. Like others on this board
you apparently suspect that I am some sort of "plant", here only to cause trouble for those who don't toe the "official" line:
"...THE BUSH JUNTA,MAINSTREAM STORY BELIEVERS AND AL-QUAIDA ALL HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON..........
THEY ALL BELIEVE IN AND BACK UP THE PARADOX OF THE OFFICIAL STORY..."
Actually, no. I point out factual errors that touch on my area of expertise: Aviation. If the hijackers had commandeered an ocean liner or a train, I wouldn't have much to say about the technical aspects of those industries.

You ask:
"...BUT then why would they martyr themselves for a cause(Islamic nation/Al-quaida) that as a consequence of their death(9/11) would be destroyed or irrevocably damaged(Afganistan,Iraq) after their death ?.........then surely THAT CAUSE WOULD NOT BE WORTH DYING(AND KILLING) FOR..."
Good question. The whole idea of suicide terrorism seems paradoxical to me, as it implies a belief in an afterlife where one would be compensated for such "heroic" acts. The concept itself is irrational, and yet these things continue to happen with distressing regularity. In answer to your question: Beats the hell out of me. Last time I checked there was no invisible cloud being offering me squat for blowing myself and others to smithereens.

Maybe someone specializing in abnormal psychology could give you a better answer.
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 11:08 AM
Response to Reply #130
131. Factual "errors" that just happen to undermine the debunkers.
Seems odd to me that the folks who "only want to use their superior knowledge of a subject" to correct "errors"...only seem to find "problems" with minor aspects of those who are pointing out the total absurdity of the ridiculous "Caveman & Cavemen Did It" Official Conspiracy Theory.

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mn9driver Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 12:27 PM
Response to Reply #131
132. Which is it, Abe?
Do the
"..."Factual "errors"... just happen to undermine the debunkers..."?
Or am I just pecking at
"...minor aspects of those who are pointing out the total absurdity of the ridiculous "Caveman & Cavemen Did It" Official Conspiracy Theory..."?
Either the errors matter or they don't. Either way, what do you care? As you frequently point out, the "Official Conspiracy Theory" is just so completely and totally ridiculous that no reasonable person could possibly believe any of it; the implication is that anyone who doesn't totally agree with you must be insane, stupid or a "plant". I'm interested in as factual an account of the events of 9/11 as possible; aren't you?

Does accuracy count? Does accuracy matter? I think it does. When people buttress their 9/11 theories with "evidence" that is badly interpreted or just plain inaccurate, I believe I help by pointing out the errors. What should happen then, but rarely does on this board, is that:

1.The theorist takes the new information and modifies his theory, or

2.Deletes the inaccurate "evidence" from his list of supporting facts while keeping his theory intact, or

3.Refutes the corrective information with a reasoned rebuttal, using his own amplifying supporting facts and documentation as required.

Impugning the motives of other posters does not count as "reasoned rebuttal". Dismissing contrary evidence simply because it doesn't fit your current theory is poor methodology. Blogs are good places for unrebutted theorizing. Message boards are not, so I guess you'll just have to live with having me here.

Sorry about that.
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 12:46 PM
Response to Reply #132
133. I'm sure Sen. Wellstone would want you to speak the truth; so...
tell us what YOU think happened on 9-11. I'm not suggesting that you're one of those disinfo agents who poses as a liberal Democrat and uses photos of heroes as part of a charade; I'm just saying that surely YOUR hero Senator Wellstone would want you to speak your mind about the truth. So, WHAT is it? YOU tell me YOUR 9-11 theory. Then, you can go back to only taking pot shots at others.
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mn9driver Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 03:03 PM
Response to Reply #133
134. I forgot to mention that changing the subject, while commonly
used as a debating technique on this board, is not a valid rebuttal, or response, either. Since you brought up my avatar though:

Paul Wellstone was a hero to me. I volunteered for him on his campaigns and even though I was just one of hundreds if not thousands, of volunteers, he recognized me and knew my name and my wife and kids' names too. He was amazing; a giant in a small package. Losing him was a terrible thing for everyone in Minnesota and in this country. He, Sheila and Marcia are buried right down the street from me; they just put in a temporary headstone on Wednesday.

Paul was always action oriented. Sitting at a keyboard having a debate of this nature would not have been his style.

My personal theory? Perhaps on another thread, not 130 posts down this one. As a preview I will say that no missiles, remote control, poison gas, fake wreckage or secret demolition are included.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 04:13 PM
Response to Reply #134
136. I take it you've seen my work
I can't believe Abe is bringing up the Wellstone thing again.

I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt he isn't.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 04:12 PM
Response to Reply #131
135. and we've already pointed out that's "straw man"
Ever notice when a conspiracy theorist gets cornered, he reverts to logical fallacy.

Pity, really.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 06:21 PM
Response to Reply #129
137. No paradox
The hijackers went to their deaths believing that they were kicking off a war that would irrevokably ignite religious conflicts into a global war. They believed that the actions of the US and other countries would cause the Muslim world to unite behind a charismatic leader, and that Allah would then grant them the ultimate victory.

Fortunately, their opinions were not the opinions of Muslims worldwide.

“We are going into a battle..a very unconventional battle against the MOST POWERFUL FORCE ON EARTH.

However, the fanatics believed that the most powerful force in the Universe was on their side. That's why they hijacked those planes and flew them into the buildings.

No paradox - just a gross error of judgment on the part of the hijackers.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 08:31 PM
Response to Reply #137
138. Bingo
The hijackers went to their deaths believing that they were kicking off a war that would irrevokably ignite religious conflicts into a global war. They believed that the actions of the US and other countries would cause the Muslim world to unite behind a charismatic leader, and that Allah would then grant them the ultimate victory.

You win the prize. An all expense trip on the fabulous Magellanites cruise to the edge.
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 09:01 PM
Response to Reply #137
139. "bolo" - OFFICIAL 911 "Hijackers" Mind Reader
Or, did you interview the "hijackers"?
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mn9driver Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 09:55 AM
Response to Reply #139
141. So now we castigate posters for merely answering the question posed?
I quote from seatineb's post:
"...BUT then why would they martyr themselves for a cause(Islamic nation/Al-quaida) that as a consequence of their death(9/11) would be destroyed or irrevocably damaged(Afganistan,Iraq) after their death ?.........then surely THAT CAUSE WOULD NOT BE WORTH DYING(AND KILLING) FOR...
How would you propose answering this without speculating on the thought processes of the hijackers? If you disagree with the speculation; fine. But as written, your post appears to be pointless harassment.
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seatnineb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 08:43 AM
Response to Reply #137
140. Some gross error(Yours as much as the hijackers...)
Edited on Sun Mar-21-04 08:44 AM by seatnineb
That the hijackers should believe in something as “intangible” as the most powerful force in the universe being on their side happily stands side by side with the just as “intangible” idea of having the pychological composure and the physiological capability to fly planes into buildings..........
Add to this the equally innate “intangible” belief that their cause would prosper as a result of their actions.

Compare this to the very “tangible” raw military power of The United States Of America................

Winners of 2 world wars....
Winners(statistically if not morally) of the war(genocide) in Vietnam...
Winners(economically,morally and pychologically) of the Cold War.......
Winners of the Gulf War
Winners of the Afgan War(2001) *
Winners of Gulf War II *

* These are 2 defeats for the very cause that the hijackers martyered themselves for....

And if I gave you the choice of picking between:

1)The most powerful force on earth.....

and

2)The most powerful force in the universe???????????????.....

Who would you choose?



As for Muslim unity.........well there has been plenty of that over the years
And who benefited as a result of these Inter- Muslim conflicts.....

The Iran – Iraq war(In which Sauudi Arabia helped Iraq)-The U.S benefited
The Iraq - Kuwait invasion......The U.S benefited
The Gulf war(In which Saudi Arabia helped the U.S against Iraq....)The U.S Benefited
Muslim Yasser Arafat welcoming Boris Yeltzin whilst Yeltzin was simultaneously committng genocide in Muslim Chechnia....
The Northern Alliance - Taliban conflict....the U.S benefited.
Pakistan – Taliban - the U.S benefited
The Muslim P alestinians – Muslim Ottoman Turks(in the 1st world war)The U.S benefited
The conflict in Aceh(Indonesia)
And you believe flying 4 planes into buildings against the most powerful force on earth is actually going to unite the Muslim world.......

No wonder you believe the Bush Junta/ Al-Quiada version of events.
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mn9driver Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 10:08 AM
Response to Reply #140
142. What does this mean?
From your post:
"...And you believe flying 4 planes into buildings against the most powerful force on earth is actually going to unite the Muslim world.......

No wonder you believe the Bush Junta/ Al-Quiada version of events..."
However, bb wrote:
"...the fanatics believed ..."
Do you believe that bb is speaking for himself as a fanatic in the third person? Or is there a language issue here that we are unaware of?
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 10:18 AM
Response to Reply #140
143. The most powerful force in the whatever.
The most powerful force on Earth: The United States.

The most powerful force in the Universe: God.

My assumption that religious fanatics believe God to be on their side isn't the stretch of rationality that some are making it out to be. In fact, it's standard issue for religious fanatics. Anyone who has lived around fundamentalists knows what I'm saying.

I absolutely agree that the hijackers were whacked in the head for flying those planes into those buildings. It's silly to use their insanity as an argument that they couldn't have done it, though.

And you believe flying 4 planes into buildings against the most powerful force on earth is actually going to unite the Muslim world.......

Not by itself. It was the expected response of the United States and her allies (most crucially Israel) that was hoped to precipitate such a union. I thought I had made that clear.
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seatnineb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 01:18 PM
Response to Reply #143
145. You are wrong....
Edited on Mon Mar-22-04 01:20 PM by seatnineb
Your argument does not wash Bolo..and you know it...

The hijackers represented Al-Quaida who were hosted by the Taliban...

Right?

So why would Muslims unite to save a regime(Taliban) that was so hated within its own borders(hence the civil war) let alone in the wider Islamic world....

Who was going to save the Taliban when the U.S retaliated for 9/11?
Their friends Pakistan...who incidentally were/are friends of the U.S?
Those Pashtun demonstrations in Pakistan were easily quelled...

Or maybe the back stabbing,opressive Saudi Monarchy would come to the rescue.....who paradoxically recognized the Taliban prior to 9/11...also fine friends of the U.S....

Maybe the military might of the UAE.would save the day.... another country to officially recognize the Taliban before 9/11...also buddies of our darling U.S



Looks like the paradox just got bigger........
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 01:58 PM
Response to Reply #145
146. You're clumping all Muslims together
The Taliban is hated by moderate Muslims. The hard-cores will do anything to keep any Fundamentalist regime in power.
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seatnineb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 05:06 PM
Response to Reply #146
147. Perfect!

Looks like the paradox has you spellbound TROGL...

TROGL wrote....
"The hard-cores will do anything to keep any Fundamentalist regime in power."

Quite true...quite true....these hard cores (the 19 hijackers) have kept the Bush administration in power........

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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-04 02:14 AM
Response to Reply #147
152. probably as an unintended side effect
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 07:31 PM
Response to Reply #145
148. I'm not saying the hijackers' thinking made sense to anyone else.
Edited on Mon Mar-22-04 07:32 PM by boloboffin
Religious fanatics can be quite dense when it comes to their belief system.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 01:46 PM
Response to Reply #148
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-04 01:51 AM
Response to Reply #140
144. Then please explain the psychology of suicide bombers
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-04 01:08 PM
Response to Reply #129
157. So I suppose the PLO isn't really suicide-bombing Israel?
This is the way they strike because they have no other avenue. They're outclassed by Israel in terms of population, economy, and military might. Israel WILL retaliate, much as we did in Afghanistan and Iraq. Are the bombings, therefore, not really happening because the Palestinians should see that they'll eventually bring about their own ruin by continuing the suicide attacks?

You raise an interesting point, but I think it's easy to suffer from a tendency to think like a Westerner from an immature society. If people reacted logically to force, Vietnam would have taken a couple of years and would be a Democracy.

Actually, I believe that two basic issues are involved in 9/11:

1) Religion. The secular validity of a war against the U.S. may be questionable, but religion was certainly used as a catalyst to fuel anti-American sentiment among extremist groups in the Middle East.

2) Power. OBL gained a great deal of power by "leading" the fight against the U.S. By our standards, he's a fugitive hiding in caves. By his and his followers, he's a great leader and when we kill him, he'll be a martyr.

...I think you'll find at least one of the big three (money, religion or power) involved in nearly any conflict, from a schoolyard brawl to WWII.

It's easy to slip into an "American" way of thinking (Western thoughts from an immature society). When we're dealing with the people most like us (Western Europe) that thinking rarely works. It's even farther off base with Middle Eastern or Asian dealings.

Yes, it may not make sense to you or me, but these people aren't dying for 76 virgins (regardless of how the Western world tries to trivialize the issue) they're dying for a cause. Were our roles reversed, I believe we'd be acting in much the same manner.


***DISCLAIMER FOR ABE***

This is an opinion that is NOT based on my aviation experience (you seem to get upset when I express opinions).
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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 12:14 PM
Response to Reply #157
163. palestinians
Edited on Thu Mar-25-04 12:28 PM by k-robjoe
> They're outclassed by Israel in terms of population,(...)

I just have to add something that is pretty important. The palestinians have more children. ( Like 5:2 or something )

And this is important to know, to understand how it can be that any Israeli grassroot attempt to intermingle peacefully with the palestinians will not get support from the government. In fact, it will in many cases be sabotaged. (By not allowing meetings to take place etc.)
The situation is that Sharon -and so many like him- knows that should the Israelis and the Palestinians really get to intermingle peacefully, with crossed(?) marriages etc. it would not take many decades before the Israeli (jewish) identity would be "phased out".
While the Palestinians (most) don´t mind peaceful intermingling.
They don´t have anything to fear from it.

(A paranthesis about the killing of Yassin. It seems that the Israelis could easily have sent a sniper to take out Yassin, but they chose a missile, killing seven(?). It goes to show that Sharon wants to have war, tries his best to provoke war. (Within the limits of what world oppinion can take) )
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k-robjoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 10:15 AM
Response to Reply #163
170. site
This site is really worth having a look at: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

The thought that they could have sent a sniper to take out Yassin made me reflect : What if they had?
And I´m thinking that the (psychological) message of it would have been different. Actually, if he had been taken out by a sniper, the image you´d get in your mind, is that of one person shooting another person.
With a missile it´s different: you kind of get the feeling that it´s not one person shooting another person, but more like, a state getting rid of a monster.
That´s the feeling you get (Probably influenced by seeing action movies). Even if the "monster" is an old crippled man in a wheelchair.
Paradoxically, the cowardize of it would be more glaring if they had sent a sniper to do it!

(And ofcourse, the result is that Hamas grows stronger and more fanatic. Yassin was a moerate leader compared to Rantissi. And Sharon knew this.)
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seatnineb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:23 PM
Response to Reply #157
164. Just what i was waiting for....
To quote MercutioATC....

"So I suppose the PLO isn't really suicide-bombing Israel?"

Looks like you are finally seeing the light Mercutio.........

When the Zionists bombed the King David Hotel in the fifties which other nationality of workers(employed by the British) apart from the British suffered in this attack.....

When there is a "Suicide attack" who suffers...
Sharon or an innocent israely?

When hijackers fly planes into buildings...who suffers...
Bush or an innocent American?

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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 05:23 PM
Response to Reply #164
166. Ummm...
"Just what i was waiting for...."
Posted by seatnineb


To quote MercutioATC....

"So I suppose the PLO isn't really suicide-bombing Israel?"

Looks like you are finally seeing the light Mercutio.........

When the Zionists bombed the King David Hotel in the fifties which other nationality of workers(employed by the British) apart from the British suffered in this attack.....

When there is a "Suicide attack" who suffers...
Sharon or an innocent israely?

When hijackers fly planes into buildings...who suffers...
Bush or an innocent American?


Are you suggesting that Israel is bombing its own citizens and blaming the Palestinians? Are you actually suggesting that?
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 06:37 PM
Response to Reply #166
167. This should be a fascinating answer
If you ever get one -- which I doubt. It is amazing how certain types of revisionists seem to be attracted to 9/11.

But I guess once you believe Zionist are blowing up Israeli citizens in order to blame the Palestinians you can easily believe our government killed American citizens to blame radical Islamists.

Did you ever notice who these same folks seem to believe radical Islamists are some sort of Hollywood creation as well?
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 06:49 PM
Response to Reply #164
168. Gee, not the answer I expected, but I guess I should have known...
I guess you also know that the reason the Desert Storm ground war only took 100 hours is that we used the alien technology we have hangared at Area 51 (and, of course "Bat Boy" of Weekly World News fame helped, too).

I really don't know why I bother sometimes...
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seatnineb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 01:29 PM
Response to Reply #157
187. The effect of Bin Laden and suicide bombers....
MercutioATC wrote
“ Power. OBL gained a great deal of power by "leading" the fight against the U.S. By our standards, he's a fugitive hiding in caves. By his and his followers, he's a great leader and when we kill him, he'll be a martyr. “

I disagree.....
Judge Bin Laden by his actions...not by his words......
The contradictory riddled official story tells us that Bin Laden was against the Saudi Royal family...........
But the Saudi Royal family(strong friends of the U.S) recognised the Taliban who were simultaneously giving sanctuary to this very same Bin Laden...........
Dont bother to try and explain your way out of this....you cant...it is a paradox....

But the result of this paradox is that many innocent people are suffering.

It is a question of WHAT TYPE OF PEOPLE Bin Laden has fought against/ killed......

The paradox can only be unravelled if you consider this............
Every action that Osama Bin Laden has ever taken has directly favoured one U.S political administration or another.......
Notice how I said administration(ultimately a collection of individuals).........
Notice how THE INDIVIDUALS that pull the strings on either side of this particular confrontation NEVER suffer....
Dont shed too many tears for Saddam,Binalshib,Sheik Mohammed and their ilk.......
It is not a question of Arabs of this nature being involved in the worlds ills......
It is a question OF HOW they are involved....


Who really suffers are the pawns inbetween....civillians and soldiers alike ....on either side ......
...
We could start with the Afgan war against the Soviets...........
Who did that favour..?
The poor Afgans.?...I dont think so......
I am sure Bin Laden would be indebted to the University of Nebraska/Ohama for pummeling $50 million dollars (1984-1994) into producing books and pamphlets extolling the virtues(vices) of Wahhibi style Islam.....which were then distributed in the madrasses in Pakistan where the Taliban first came into being....
An operation that transcended 3 succesive U.S administrations...
And helped to keep Afganistan a barren ,civil war strewn land.........

The U.S embassy in Nairobi(1998) bombings killed 230 innocent Kenyans and a handful of Americans......
And the predictable U.S retaliation for this.....
The bombing of both Afganistan and Sudan......by the Clinton administration....
Conclusion: who sufferd most.....in this tragic charade...Kenyans,Afgans,Sudanese and American servicemen/diplomats....?
Or Bin laden,Clinton and their cohorts............?

Even the U.S.S Cole attack(2000)
Who suffered.?
The low ranking sailors/servicemen working below deck....
Or George Tenet,Louis Free and the intelligence and military hierarchy...?.......
A 9/11 style ambiguity surrounds this attack aswell as invistigators could not determine whether the ship was docked or was in the process of docking when the “explosion” occured.....

And the pattern continues......


That is why more innocent Kenyans,Indonesians,Morrocans,Tunisians,Afgans,
Saudies,Turks and Iraqies are being massacred in cold blood in Mombassa,Bali,Casablanca,Tunis,Riad,Istanbul and Bagdad...
And as ever who benefits from this genocide? :
Well that would have to be the Pro U.S goverment blood sucking Saudi Royal family and the pro U.S administration Morrocan,Indonesian,Afgan,Turkish and Kenyan goverments.....

Bin Laden harms the very people he claims to protect and fight for.........
And amplifies the power of those he claims to oppose...

If you really believe in suicide bombings then you should study the conviently forgotten TAMIL TIGERS..
Read about Sri Lankan history and what gave rise to the conflict and then:

Look at the victims of the Tamil Tigers attacks and ask yourself the question......
Who benefited as a result of these attacks...
Even if you disagree with the methadology and ethics of these attacks(as I do)....

You actually said that “This is the way they(Palestinians) strike because they have no other avenue”....This statement would be more applicable to the Tamil Tigers....
With one difference.....the Tamil Tigers hit their enemy(Sri Lankan Goverment) head on..........

Remember it is not a question of killing someone/anyone in a suicide attack...........
It is a question of WHO you kill...........

Palestinians “suicide bombers” killing innocent Israely civillians DOES NOT hurt either the Israely Military or the Israely Goverment .....the very same Israely Military and Goverment that will retaliate heavily against ordinary palestinians for these suicdide attacks.....

Tamil Tiger Suicide Bombers killing Sri Lankan Goverment and Military officials on the other hand .....................I ‘ll let you work that one out for yourself.........





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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-31-04 01:46 PM
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-06-04 09:59 AM
Response to Reply #117
194. The same place they hid ONE TRILLION DOLLARS
mn9driver says:
So many conclusions we can draw here. Thanks, DD. I wonder where they hide all these airplanes that haven't really been destroyed?

DulceDecorum answers:

WHAT HAPPENED TO $1 TRILLION?
Though Defense has long been notorious for waste, recent government reports suggest the Pentagon's money management woes have reached astronomical proportions. A study by the Defense Department's inspector general found that the Pentagon couldn't properly account for more than a trillion dollars in monies spent. A GAO report found Defense inventory systems so lax that the U.S. Army lost track of 56 airplanes, 32 tanks, and 36 Javelin missile command launch-units.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3435.htm

mn9driver is demanding that DulceDecorum account for
FOUR missing planes which DulceDecorum had NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH
but mn9driver is SILENT
about the loss of 56 airplanes which loss is, at the very least, 14 times worse.

WHO KNOWS where THOSE planes are and what THEY have been doing?

mn9driver, say what you will,
the date on the cancellation certificate on the registration on each of the two American Airlines planes,
remains the date UPON WHICH THE AIRCRAFT WAS DESTROYED and not any other date you care to name.
Go have another look at that FEDERAL LAW.

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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 05:55 PM
Response to Reply #95
99. Death Certificate?
Think of it like a death certificate.
Who cares when it was issued?
We just want to know WHEN the guy DIED.


Except on a death certificate there is also a date stating when it was issued. So based on your logic the dead guy ain't really dead until the death certiciate is issued.

DD, get real.
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 12:20 AM
Response to Reply #99
116. That is NOT
what I said.

I said:
Think of it like a death certificate.
Who cares when it was issued?
We just want to know WHEN the guy DIED.

There is NOTHING in there about not being really dead until the death certificate is issued.
Death certificates are usually issued sometime after the event.
Weeks later, if there is a question on the cause of death.
WHO CARES WHEN IT WAS ISSUED?

And when it comes to Registration Certificates NOT being returned,
why isn't that exactly what has happened in the case of the two United planes?
And the entire United Airlines fleet?
THAT is why the FAA thinks that the planes are still viable and lists their registrations as being valid.
FLIGHT 93:
http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=591UA&cmndfind.x=18&cmndfind.y=13
FLIGHT 175:
http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=612UA&cmndfind.x=14&cmndfind.y=16

Look closely LARED.

Sec. 47.41
Duration and return of Certificate
(a) Each Certificate of Aircraft Registration issued by the FAA under this subpart is effective, unless suspended or revoked, until the date upon which--
(1) Subject to the Convention on the International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft when applicable, the aircraft is registered under the laws of a foreign country;
(2) The registration is canceled at the written request of the holder of the certificate;
(3) The aircraft is totally destroyed or scrapped;
http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgFAR.nsf/0/CF24A6671F6471F686256959004AE37D?OpenDocument

Now look go to the FAA website and pull up the record for Flight 77 which had the tail-number N644AA.

Certificate Issue Date: 1/6/2000
Cancel Date: 1/14/2002
Reason for Cancellation: Destroyed
http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=644AA&cmndfind.x=20&cmndfind.y=14

Just for you I will excerpt the relevant information.

Sec. 47.41
Duration and return of Certificate
(a) Each Certificate of Aircraft Registration issued by the FAA under this subpart is effective, unless suspended or revoked, UNTIL THE DATE UPON WHICH--
(3) THE AIRCRAFT IS TOTALLY DESTROYED OR SCRAPPED;
http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgFAR.nsf/0/CF24A6671F6471F686256959004AE37D?OpenDocument
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 01:53 AM
Response to Reply #116
118. Please see post #117.
Your FAA argument is rebutted in a most effective and devastating fashion.

Next!
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 05:04 AM
Response to Reply #118
120. The FAA
decides what to put up on their website without consulting DulceDecorum.

DulceDecorum is simply informing you of the contents of
Federal Aviation Regulation
Sec. 47.41
Duration and return of Certificate.
a) Each Certificate of Aircraft Registration issued by the FAA under this subpart is effective, unless suspended or revoked, UNTIL THE DATE UPON WHICH--
(1) Subject to the Convention on the International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft when applicable, the aircraft is registered under the laws of a foreign country;
(2) The registration is canceled at the written request of the holder of the certificate;
(3) THE AIRCRAFT IS TOTALLY DESTROYED OR SCRAPPED;
http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgFAR.nsf/0/CF24A6671F6471F686256959004AE37D?OpenDocument

DulceDecorum is simply drawing your attention
to the information the FAA has posted regarding the fate of:
FLIGHT 77:
http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=644AA&cmndfind.x=20&cmndfind.y=14
FLIGHT 11;
http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=334AA&cmndfind.x=16&cmndfind.y=12
FLIGHT 93:
http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=591UA&cmndfind.x=18&cmndfind.y=13
FLIGHT 175:
http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=612UA&cmndfind.x=14&cmndfind.y=16

Now, the interesting thing is this:
according to
Sec. 47.41
Duration and return of Certificate.
a) Each Certificate of Aircraft Registration issued by the FAA under this subpart is effective, unless suspended or revoked, UNTIL THE DATE UPON WHICH--
(1) Subject to the Convention on the International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft when applicable, THE AIRCRAFT IS REGISTERED UNDER THE LAWS OF A FOREIGN COUNTRY;
http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgFAR.nsf/0/CF24A6671F6471F686256959004AE37D?OpenDocument

BOLOboffin,
surely you must have heard about a plane that was impounded in Zimbabwe.
According to press reports, the Boeing 727-35 Serial Number 18811 had the tail-number N4610.
Here is what the FAA has to say about that N-number.
http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=4610&cmndfind.x=16&cmndfind.y=17

BOLOboffin, you appear to be adamant that the cancel date refers to the day upon which the FAA received the paperwork.
Very well then, I will allow that to slide for the present.
Your theory then leads us to the conclusion that the FAA received the news N4610 had been registered under the laws of a foreign country on 3/12/2004 which is twelve days after Robert Dodson claims to have sold the plane to Logo Logistics.

On Tuesday South Africa's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said the cargo plane was not registered in South Africa.
"Our investigation shows that this aircraft is not registered or even provisionally registered in South Africa. The "N" indicates that this is a US-registered aircraft," said CAA spokesperson Moses Seate.
Newly purchased
Logo Logistics said the aircraft was leased from an asset management company Systems Design.
"It is newly purchased, so it's still on the US register. There is no other link with the US."
The CAA also confirmed that the Boeing 727-100 departed from Polokwane International Airport on Sunday. Whether it flew directly to Zimbabwe was not known, the agency said.
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1495847,00.html

Ooops.
And since we are going by the date upon which the FAA actually receives the paperwork,
(confirming the new registration per the Convention on the International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft)
and NOT the day upon which the sale transaction actually occurred, then doesn't that leave Dodson Aviation holding the bag?

The sale allegedly took place on 3/1/2004.
The plane was delivered by 3/6/2004.
The FAA lists N4610 as having been exported to South Africa on 3/12/2004 which date,
according to your assertions,
is the date upon which the FAA received or finished processing the paperwork concerning that transaction.
So that means that the FAA agrees with the South African Civil Aviation Authority that the plane was still owned by Dodson Aviation on 3/8/2004 which was when it was impounded with a bunch of mercenary cut-throats on their way to conduct a coup d'etat.

If they were following MY INTERPRETATION of Sec. 47.41
then perhaps Dodson could attempt to wiggle out by virtue of the alleged 3/1/2004 sale date, but even then, Sec 47.41 and the date given by the FAA website still nail them.
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 02:07 PM
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96. Rumsfeld, Oct 12, 2001: "the missile to damage this building..."
Though I'm unpersuaded it was anything but Flight 77, I find this an odd choice of words for Rumsfeld:

"It is a truth that a terrorist can attack any time, any place, using any technique and it's physically impossible to defend at every time and every place against every conceivable technique. Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filed with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center."
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2001/t11182001_t1012pm.html
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 08:36 PM
Response to Reply #96
105. They've been using variations of that phrase
for awhile.

"Using aircraft as missiles."
"Using aircraft as flying bombs".

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misspatriot9 Donating Member (3 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-04 07:14 AM
Response to Reply #105
154. I Don't know about you, but....


This doesn't look like a 150ft long metallic (read: reflective) Boeing 757 commercial passenger jet to me...



Just enlarged and brightened up version of this one here that came from the Pentagon's own "security cam"...which, might I add, doubtfully captures live video at a rate of 1 frame per second, and I haven't seen a video camera yet that jumps frame speeds backwards, you know, frame 1-2 = 1 second, frame 2-3 = 2 seconds, frame 3-4 = 1 second, etc. But then given the "security" of what was supposed to be our national defense - not to mention the defense of the Pentagon itself, and the failure to dispatch the jets to shoot down known hijacked jets...well, maybe they just couldn't afford a better quality camera than a 1 frame per second job.

Hell, my cheapo Kodak EZ webcam captures at at least 25fps...and talk about grainy quality pics...man....

The Pentagon's own defense link site has a few links to photo slide shows provided by the renovation "experts" along with briefing hearings and in one of their own photos they tell you it's the "hallway" that the nosecone of the jet (however in another version elsewhere by some military guy keeping a journal of the clean up, he claims it was an engine - but hey...that was a pretty confusing day, eh?) allegedly plowed thru to punch out the hole in the exterior wall of the C ring that's not even 8x8 diameter, that does show a concentrated smoke stain at the upper rim of the hole, albeit without any plane parts that should be there, as such is the claim that it DIDN'T disintegrate during the hottest part of the crash (front of the Pentagon) where the worst of the fires were, but alas, after it had penetrated 6 steel-granite reinforced walls, where it miraculously disappeared...but not, of course, before burning most intensely at the TOP of the impact hole, as opposed to, oh I dunno, the whole hole...given that it was supposedly an infernal event which caused it to disintegrate,leaving no identifiable wreckage, etc....*yawning again*....

...oh, and did I mention that their own diagrams and explanations was that the jet came in at a 45 degree angle from the right and plowed diagonally thru the walls, yet the photo of the hallway the nosecone plowed thru is a straight on shot, the corridor is maybe 6 or so feet wide, NONE of the wallas are like TAKEN OUT, so apparently whoever made this Boeing likewise made the magic JFk bullet because the nose cone couldn't have still been on the jet, (and where that kinda velocity and momentum came from is beyond me) and changed its entire trajectory to a head on course when the rest of the jet was going diagonally, at that 45 degree angle mindya, and NOT take out the walls.

Oh well, here it is...




I thought somebody said it before but it bears repeating...apparently the laws of physics cease to exist at the Pentagon...but hey, if yall wanna say it was a Boeing, I guess I'll live. But for those whose eyesight is still functional and connected to active, firing brain cells, I'll step off with these last two and maybe one of the Pro Bush (read: lying, murdering traitors who should be executed for this crime against humanity, etc.) brigade can tell me what that thing is that's NOT the tail of a Boeing sticking out the fireball of whatever hit the Pentagon. Thankya.



This is the tail fin of a Boeing 757 commercial passenger jet.



THIS AINT. Sorry.


New girl...but had to chime in.


PS: re the above pics of the girl and man in the hole - I swiped the pics, ran them thru my graphics program and brightened them up and the "man" isn't in the last pic up there at all. The woman is in all of them, but when I cropped the guy part out and enlarged it, it didn't quite look like a man. The way it appears above seems like a headless man with a beer gut, without a shirt, wearing bluejeans. In the cropped, brightened version there is something there and it's behind some beam or brick of the wall so it's not photoshopped, it's most likely an illusion - because the halves between the "beergut" and "jeans" is definitely not connected.

At any rate, I agree with the assertion that if the jet's impact "incinerated" everything and everyone, then no woman would be standing in that hole, and if a woman is standing in that hole then the claim the beams melted is crap.

Thanks for letting me rant for a minute.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-04 02:19 PM
Response to Reply #154
158. Bollocks. It's Flight 77.
And it's even more clear from the gamma-enhanced photograph.



The lines drawn in the top bit of picture misrepresent the size and shape of the plane. The red lines incorporate part of a background tree into the sillouette of the jet. They also

But look at the larger picture. Right above the cabinet (and cropped out of the top picture) you can see a blur of bright red - the same color red used by American Airlines in their logo. Further to the left, look around the left corner of the cabinet. You can see a silver dome that's darker on the bottom half. That dome isn't present in the next picture. It's the nose of the large American Airlines jet.

The jet isn't on a ninety degree angle from the camera view. It's moving closer towards the camera while cutting across the field of view. That means the plane's length looks shorter in this picture. But it's there. I'd say that relative to the camera view, the plane is moving at an eighty degree angle, tail fin further back than nose.

Thanks for providing this picture that corroborates what the eyewitnesses report: a large American Airlines jet crashed into the Pentagon.
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misspatriot9 Donating Member (3 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-04 07:15 PM
Response to Reply #158
160. Yeah well
I didn't use photoshop thanks.

The lines drawn in the top bit of picture misrepresent the size and shape of the plane. The red lines incorporate part of a background tree into the sillouette of the jet.

1. No it doesn't. It's the same backdrop shown in all of the frames and the ONLY object that's there in the first one and not in the rest is outlined in red and

2. No it doesn't incorporate any part of the horizon. I've got the outlines of the remaining frames if you need to see them to grasp what is (and is not) being shown. If you actually watch the animation, the horizon remains, and just the object outlined "moves" in from the right and is not in any other frame.



But look at the larger picture. Right above the cabinet (and cropped out of the top picture) you can see a blur of bright red - the same color red used by American Airlines in their logo.


I think you're hallucinating! There's no blur of red anywhere in the object coming in from the right, nor is anything cropped out. The section of the plane pic was cropped out well above the artifacts in the photo - in the sky. The closest thing to a blur of red at all is the orange of the cones sitting on the ground beside the cabinet. If you could point out where it is you see the red logo I'd sure love to see it.


Further to the left, look around the left corner of the cabinet. You can see a silver dome that's darker on the bottom half. That dome isn't present in the next picture. It's the nose of the large American Airlines jet.


There's nothing to the immediate left of the cabinet but green of the grass...and the darker stuff is further back and part of the backdrop-horizon. I see no silver dome. Please be sure and point that out as well.


The jet isn't on a ninety degree angle from the camera view. It's moving closer towards the camera while cutting across the field of view. That means the plane's length looks shorter in this picture. But it's there. I'd say that relative to the camera view, the plane is moving at an eighty degree angle, tail fin further back than nose.

How ya figure? Definitely enlarge the plane pic and please point out where it is you seem to imagine this clear Boeing and its red blur of a logo.



Thanks for providing this picture that corroborates what the eyewitnesses report: a large American Airlines jet crashed into the Pentagon.


I didn't... but if you can, I'm sure many many people would love to see it.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-04 03:04 PM
Response to Reply #154
159. Isn't photoshop fun to play with
You just keep fiddling around with it until you get the picture you want.

Remind me to show you my picture of 3 UFO's chasing Air Force One.
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misspatriot9 Donating Member (3 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-04 07:17 PM
Response to Reply #159
161. No need
So I take it this is the pissy rude forum eh? Figures.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 04:51 PM
Response to Reply #161
165. Pretty much, yeah. You can always alert
if you think something's over the top.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 11:42 AM
Response to Reply #159
162. ...and here it is!!
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-11-04 06:59 AM
Response to Reply #159
195. please point out the differences
between these images and the official ones, those from the pentagon security cam that were also shown by the tv networks.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 01:51 PM
Response to Reply #154
172. In reference to the tail photo comparison:
Edited on Fri Mar-26-04 01:52 PM by MercutioATC
Take your pictire of the AAL tail. Zoom in. Rotate the image on its horizontal axis 45 degrees (rotate the nose to the right). Rotate the new image 45 degrees toward you (as if it was banking left).

The pentagon image shows a piece sticking up (the vertical stabilizer), a piece going straight back (the tail) and a piece angling off toward the bottom of the frame (the horizontal stabilizer which is no longer horizontal because the aircraft is banked left).

Seems not to be a stretch to me...looks like the tail on a lot of aircraft, including a 757.
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-11-04 07:11 AM
Response to Reply #172
196. except that it's way to small
the top of the tail of an airliner would be nearly at the level of the roof of the pentagon.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 01:53 AM
Response to Reply #196
199. No, it isn't. The Pentagon is taller by quite a bit.
Don't know where you're getting your measurements, but the Pentagon would be 20-30 feet taller than the tail would.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 01:44 PM
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171. I find it hard to believe they'd say "missile" if they really used one.
Their spin has been to show how the terrorists turned civilian aircraft (civilian transportation) into "missiles" (military hardware) in an attempt to cause more fear among the American people.

If they'd have used a missile and were trying to hide that fact, I doubt Rummy would use the word "missile".
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