Posted on 05/16/2006 4:59:04 PM PDT by veronica
The minute the Pentagon released images of the Sept. 11 attack on its building, the message boards at ABCNEWS.com lit up with conspiracy theories.
Some blame it on an inside job by members of the Bush administration to benefit their business interests. Some say it was planned by neoconservatives to advance their worldview. Others don't know what happened but doubt the official story put forward by the government.
The world of conspiracy theories surrounding the Sept. 11 attacks is vast, and more than four years after the worst terrorist incident on U.S. soil, countless scenarios are put forth on the Internet, in academic forums and on talk radio each day. Some are of the "MIHOP" variety, which claim people in power made it happen on purpose, while others are of the "LIHOP" kind — they let it happen on purpose.
With Tuesday's release of video footage of American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon building, an attack that killed 184 people on Sept. 11, questions rage again.
"It doesn't clarify anything — I don't see a plane in that image," said Michael Berger, spokesman for 911Truth.org. "In fact, I thought that was underwhelming."
Berger said 911Truth.org "would like to see various conspiracy theories laid to rest as well" and does not believe the government has addressed "inherent contradictions" in evidence and testimony surrounding the events of that day.
"We would like to know what happened," he said. "Four-and-a-half years later, we still don't have definitive proof that a plane hit that building."
Berger said the group "has never said one way or another what happened at the Pentagon," but it did support the Freedom of Information Act requests that led to the Pentagon releasing the footage.
But 911Truth.org does believe Sept. 11 has been used as the "justification for broader policies," both foreign and domestic, he said.
Barrie Zwicker, a Canadian investigative reporter, documentary filmmaker and author of the upcoming book "Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-Up of 9/11," said the video does not answer the question of how any aerial vehicle — "a 757 or a missile or a fighter equipped with a missile or a fighter alone or a blimp or a Cessna" — could make it to the "central headquarters of the greatest military power that ever existed."
"Even if it was a model airplane, for God's sake," Zwicker said.
He also questioned the timing of the video's release.
"For them to be releasing this video so late, why so late and why now?" he said.
I'm flattered.
There's an amazing book about it, Refined by Fire, by Brian Birdwell, who was in the Pentagon and only about 15 to 20 yards away. Burns consumed 60 percent of his body, with almost 40 percent of them third-degree. Amazing man and story. It's an inexpensive paper back, probably about 10 bucks.
Ah, that's the trick. Bush hid it somewhere.
Seriously, DU is totally berserk. I can't believe that people would be so nuts as to be spending time and effort trying to figure out how the government blew up the pentagon. They are crazy over there.
The one person that said he had friends that saw it, got attacked.
These people must never, never come to power. They can't even add up 2 and 2.
Thanks for that info.
Oh, but you know Brian Birdwell probably just faked the burns and made up the stories just to sell a book. /sarcasm
But we saw this. On TV. Live. Yet...the kooks persist.
I was going to post something like that but I couldn't bring myself to it (and no I'm not faulting you for writing it).
Here's a web site about Brian and the book. http://www.facethefire.org/refined/
Why don't they just lay off the crackpipe and tinfoil hat wearing.
What? I get to be first! The Joooz did it!
Sounds like some of those on FR ... sad to say.
It's kind of humorous reading a bunch of idiots theorize on a plane crash when it's likely that none of them even completed college.
Oh please. Some of the biggest loons completed collage. College has nothing to do with being a loon...unless it makes more of them due to the looney professors.
Thanks for the link...much appreciated.
Damn you!!! You swore a vow of secrecy. The Illuminati will seek their vengeance on you!
I AM the Illuminati !!!
I'm running the whole show from my computer. Everything else you may have heard about this group is rubbish.
(Don't tell anybody.)
Well, I guess they'd be all weirded out at how easy it used to be to get close to the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court, too.
Still not all that hard. What about the nut jobs who jump over the fence at the White House all the time?
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