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Originally Posted by MediaGuy
and just asking what could have made three buildings drop symmetrically, explosively, against the laws of physics, from fire for the first time in history all on the same day,
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It wasn't "just fire". A massive plane with tons of jet fuel took out most of the support. The fire just weakened it.
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and why the most responsive military apparatus this side of Israel could have missed out four times in one day,
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Our military - the Air Force really - wasn't even told about this until AFTER it was all over.
In September 2001, NORAD generals said they learned of the hijackings in time to scramble fighter jets. Later, the U.S. government released tapes claiming to show the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) did not tell the military about the hijackings until three of the four planes had crashed, a fact that would indicate that the FAA repeatedly lied to other U.S. government agencies.
Phil Molé of Skeptic magazine has explained that it is neither quick nor easy to locate and intercept a plane behaving erratically, and that the hijackers turned off or disabled the onboard radar transponders. Without these transponder signals to identify the airplanes, the hijacked airplanes would have been only blips among 4,500 other blips on NORAD?S radar screens, making them very difficult to track.
According to Popular Mechanics, only 14 fighter jets were on alert in the contiguous 48 states on 9/11. There was no automated method for the civilian air traffic controllers to alert NORAD. A passenger airline had not been hijacked in the U.S. since 1979.[82] "They had to pick up the phone and literally dial us," says Maj. Douglas Martin, public affairs officer for NORAD. According to Popular Mechanics, only one civilian plane was intercepted in the decade prior to 9/11, which took one hour and 22 minutes.
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source: wikipedia)
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Originally Posted by MediaGuy
[*]and why so much testimony was dismissed from the 9/11 commission report,
You don't have to be a kook to ask simple questions.
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I read the 9/11 Commision Report; I still have it. The 9/11 Commision interviewed 1200 people in ten countries and reviewed millions of documents. Sorry Charlie, but you can't fit that all into a little book.
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and why the evidence was destroyed,
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What are they supposed to do, store all of the evidence until the end of time? How much evidence do you think they had? Millions and millions of tons?
That's pretty silly to expect anyone to try to keep all of that.
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and why the story of United 93 was fabricated,
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What was fabricated?
Out of all of the flights to say that something was fabricated, you pick the one flight that we had the most communication with after it was hijacked and before it crashed. We have multiple calls from that plane telling us they were hijacked. Was that fabricated?