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Was 9/11 An Inside Job

1) The FEMA metallurgy report.

The analysis performed on the WTC steel by Professor Jonathan Barnett proves that it was attacked by some form of munition, since it was riddled with holes and had been severely eroded/melted by something containing high concentrations of sulfur.

"The severe corrosion and subsequent erosion of samples 1 and 2 are a very unusual event. No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified."




"A one-inch column has been reduced to half-inch thickness. Its edges--which are curled like a paper scroll--have been thinned to almost razor sharpness. Gaping holes--some larger than a silver dollar--let light shine through a formerly solid steel flange. This Swiss cheese appearance shocked all of the fire-wise professors, who expected to see distortion and bending--but not holes."




2) The hijackers' VISA applications should have been rejected by the state department.


Investigating the attacks, political journal National Review obtained copies of the VISA applications for 15 of the 19 named hijackers, and in the process found that all 15 should have been refused entry.



"A new report accuses the State Department of staggering lapses in its visa program that gave Sept. 11 hijackers entry into the United States.

The political journal National Review obtained the visa applications for 15 of the 19 hijackers — and evidence that all of them should have been denied entry to the country."





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3) Niaz Naik's admission.

The former Pakistani foreign secretary claims he was told by top-level American officials at a UN meeting in July 2001, that military action would be taken against Afghanistan by October.

"Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1550366.stm

4) Military grade munitions.

Professor Niels Harrit published a peer-reviewed article in 2009 proving the existence of high-energy thermite residue in four out of four WTC samples.

http://benthamopen.com/tocpj/articles/V002/7TOCPJ.pdf

5) The bin Laden "confession tape" is a demonstrable fraud.

"Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University's religious studies' department and the foremost Bin Laden expert, argues that the increasingly secular language in the video and audio tapes of Osama (his earliest ones are littered with references to God and the Prophet Mohammed) are inconsistent with his strict Islamic religion, Wahhabism.

He notes that, on one video, Bin Laden wears golden rings on his fingers, an adornment banned among Wahhabi followers."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212851/Has-Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-seven-years--U-S-Britain-covering-continue-war-terror.html

Many thanks to whoever posted this rather sardonic entry to Urban Dictionary:-

Urban dictionary: Magic Video Tape.

This is the VHS tape that was miraculously found by US troops in Afghanistan which contained an alleged confession by Osama bin Laden to be the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. He previously denied involvement so it was fortuitous that this tape was found in a country the size of Texas. The man in the video tape does not really look like bin Laden but the media has failed to point this out.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=magic+video+tape

6) Israeli intelligence were literally caught celebrating.

Bizarre, but true. Also bizarre is that they were arrested, passed to the FBI, interrogated for several months, failed and/or refused multiple lie detector tests, then were spontaneously released by Michael Chertoff.

"THERE was ruin and terror in Manhattan, but, over the Hudson River in New Jersey, a handful of men were dancing.

As the World Trade Centre burned and crumpled, the five men celebrated and filmed the worst atrocity ever committed on American soil as it played out before their eyes.

Who do you think they were? Palestinians? Saudis? Iraqis, even? Al-Qaeda, surely? Wrong on all counts. They were Israelis - and at least two of them were Israeli intelligence agents, working for Mossad, the equivalent of MI6 or the CIA."

http://www.heraldscotland.com/five-israelis-were-seen-filming-as-jet-l iners-ploughed-into-the-twin-towers-on-september-11-2001-1.829220

7) Basic Newtonian mechanics.

Gravity gets stronger the closer to the ground you get, which necessarily means resistance to gravity also gets stronger the closer to the ground you get. This explains why, when we want stuff to fall down vertically, we attack it at the bottom and not the top. Flying a plane into the 93rd floor of a 110 floor building cannot and will not cause the entire structure to fall down vertically, simply because the 17 floors directly above point of impact are still at rest on a force fully capable of resisting their own weight. A local failure at point of impact should have resulted in the damaged chunk sliding off the building and falling to the path of least resistance. In sum, the only way to reconcile physics with what actually happened to the WTC buildings is explosives.

8) Dick Cheney likely gave a direct order not to shoot down flight 77.

The testimony of Norman Mineta before the 9/11 commission seems to suggest Cheney was kept aware of the path of flight 77 as it approached the Pentagon, and that he repeated an order not to shoot it down.

MR. HAMILTON: We thank you for that. I wanted to focus just a moment on the Presidential Emergency Operating Center. You were there for a good part of the day. I think you were there with the vice president. And when you had that order given, I think it was by the president, that authorized the shooting down of commercial aircraft that were suspected to be controlled by terrorists, were you there when that order was given?

MR. MINETA: No, I was not. I was made aware of it during the time that the airplane coming into the Pentagon. There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, "The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out." And when it got down to, "The plane is 10 miles out," the young man also said to the vice president, "Do the orders still stand?" And the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said, "Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary!!?

http://911research.wtc7.net/disinfo/alibis/cheney.html

9) Who gained?

Massive corporate contracts in a region which for the last 60 years had been pretty much off-limits to America because of the Cold War and the counter-influence of the Soviet Union.

Most of Israel's enemies taken out of action and replaced with pro-US governments.

PNAC gets its "New Pearl Harbor" event.

A global narrative of terrorism, at a price of invasive domestic security to keep the people in line and aggressive foreign policy to export American culture.

Iran gets strangled as its anti-American allies in the region are slowly picked off one by one. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya. Suddenly it is not Israel which is isolated and without support in the region: it is Iran.

10) Many strange deaths.

I'll just give a single example, but there are many others (Danny Jowenko, Barry Jennings etc...):-

"A pilot who wrote a conspiracy theory book about 9/11 is dead after he shot his two teenage children and family dog before turning the gun on himself.

Micalia Phillips, 14, and her 17-year-old brother Alex, were also found dead at the home inside the gated Forrest Meadows community.

The former airline pilot's controversial conspiracy book The Big Bamboozle: 9/11 and the War on Terror was released last year.

While he was writing it, Marshall believed that his life was in danger because of the allegations involved.

According to Santa Barbara View, during the editing and pre-marketing process of Marshall’s book, he expressed some degree of paranoia because the nonfiction work accused the George W. Bush administration of being in cahoots with the Saudi intelligence community in training the hijackers who died in the planes used in the attacks."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2275258/Phillip-Marshall-Forme r-airline-pilot-conspiracy-theorist-shot-dead-teenage-children-dog-tur ning-gun-himself.html

Now here it gets particularly interesting.

Investigative Reporter Finds Holes In Official Finding Of Murder-Suicide In California Death of 9/11 Author.

The 9/11 author who was found dead in his California home earlier this month was right-handed, but authorities determined that he shot himself in the left side of the head, a prominent investigative journalist reports.

The bodies of Phillip Marshall, his two children, and the family dog were found on February 2, and officials quickly determined it was a murder-suicide. But the Washington, D.C.-based Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) has found evidence that contradicts the official finding. WMR reports that Marshall might have possessed something in his Murphys, California, home that prompted someone to commit murder. Also, the community in Calaveras County is pushing for the sheriff's office to conduct a more thorough investigation.

http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/investigative-reporter-fi nds-holes-in.html

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