Posted on 07/12/2006 2:09:00 PM PDT by Jean S
Edited on 07/12/2006 2:14:17 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
PM examines the evidence and consults the experts to refute the most persistent conspiracy theories of September 11.
Conspiracy theorists claim this photo "proves" the 9/11 attacks were a U.S. military operation. PHOTOGRAPH BY ROB HOWARD |
For background on this investigative feature, please click here.
FROM THE MOMENT the first airplane crashed into the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, the world has asked one simple and compelling question: How could it happen?
Three and a half years later, not everyone is convinced we know the truth. Go to Google.com, type in the search phrase "World Trade Center conspiracy" and you'll get links to an estimated 628,000 Web sites. More than 3000 books on 9/11 have been published; many of them reject the official consensus that hijackers associated with Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda flew passenger planes into U.S. landmarks.
Healthy skepticism, it seems, has curdled into paranoia. Wild conspiracy tales are peddled daily on the Internet, talk radio and in other media. Blurry photos, quotes taken out of context and sketchy eyewitness accounts have inspired a slew of elaborate theories: The Pentagon was struck by a missile; the World Trade Center was razed by demolition-style bombs; Flight 93 was shot down by a mysterious white jet. As outlandish as these claims may sound, they are increasingly accepted abroad and among extremists here in the United States.
To investigate 16 of the most prevalent claims made by conspiracy theorists, POPULAR MECHANICS assembled a team of nine researchers and reporters who, together with PM editors, consulted more than 70 professionals in fields that form the core content of this magazine, including aviation, engineering and the military.
In the end, we were able to debunk each of these assertions with hard evidence and a healthy dose of common sense. We learned that a few theories are based on something as innocent as a reporting error on that chaotic day. Others are the byproducts of cynical imaginations that aim to inject suspicion and animosity into public debate. Only by confronting such poisonous claims with irrefutable facts can we understand what really happened on a day that is forever seared into world history.--THE EDITORS
(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...
Obviously Popular Mechanics is a tool of the Bush-Cheney-Illuminati-Skull&Bones-CFR-Bilderberger conspiracy
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Ping.
It's like that moonbat on the DU with his cement blocks, chicken wire and kerosene. That's sooooo funny.
i don't understand these conspiracies about 911. They seem simplistically stupid.
You mean that Keven barrett nutjob.
The moonbats at DU are deeply saddened that Popular Mechanics has been co-opted by the bushco
Thanks for setting this up to spread the word. :) DH & I faithfully read PopSci & PopMech each month. We love 'em.
In all the four thousand times this article has been posted I have never been able to see the evidence in the photo of the plane about to crash into the tower. I guess you have to want to see something.
Yep. I have family in Madison. They are more moderate republicans and they are outraged by this tool teaching at UW. The left is running out the conspiracies again to shore up the base again. All else has failed.
islam is to blame for September 11th. We need another crusade...
That didn't even happen. Fighters were still some minutes away when the United 93 crashed. Obvioulsy, the passengers had regained control of the cockpit, but whoever took over in the controls either did not have the skill to fly it, or the momentum of the dive made a crash inevitable.
About 6 months ago there was a post on FR showing that the plane was inverted (Up side down) and heading down very close to the ground when they got the controls. you would have to be the best top notch pilot to get out of that one.
Bump for later
Now we see TG a few minutes later, still intact.
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