Iroquois wrote:From 8bitagent...A final point, one I've been wanting to get off my chest for ages. The use of the midnight oil lamp icon on one of the "serious" (ahem") troof sites makes me cringe. It is just so cheesy and utterly naff. No wonder we get laughed at.[\quote]
I've always been bothered by it too. I was certainly happier once Fetzer and his ilk finally got weird enough for Jones and Hoffman to take off.
My theory is that the Atta and at least some of the named hijackers were involved in the attacks, though their piloting skills were not critical. Their primary purpose, perhaps, was to install the hardware needed to remotely operate the planes.
See: http://rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?t=11090
It seems quite possible* to me that they did not realize the true nature of the operation, that they even believed it to be a component in a drill.
As opposed to why they didn't hit a more strategic, rather than theatrical target, like a power plant, I question the placement of the impacts in the towers and the timing of the attacks. Why, for instance, didn't they hit them lower so that more people would be trapped above the fires and, as some of the pro progressive collapse theorists would argue, there would be far more weight above the impact points thus hastening and helping to further ensure the collapses? (I am not actually arguing that the last bit is a solid theory, just that it would better fit the OCT for that reason.) And, why not wait until a few hours later when there would be far more people inside the Towers and surrounding buildings?
* Possible, that is, only if many things did not happen as reported, like the assassination of Daniel Lewin as well as the cell/air phone calls. It is also possible that they knew the attacks were not merely drills but did not know they were doomed to die.
Well just look where the planes hit. WTC 1: ALL of Marsch and Mclenan, only business to be directly hit.
WTC 2: mere feet above the big sprinkler system/control room.
Remember that Muslim extremists found in Tennesse and Memphis had had sprinkler access and passes to such places days before 9/11. I suspect the sprinklers were sabotaged.
While electronic hijacking *is* plausible, I think its more likely Atta's handlers gave them all coordinates to punch in, corresponding with A-Y Asma beacons placed in the offices where the planes hit.
Also someone needs to question whoever called in that fake gas leak to the Naudet firefighter crew...just a little too convenient.
Flight 11 was to trigger, Flight 175 was the big hollywood fireball meant to be seen by millions on live tv.
The official story says not all the hijackers knew it was a suicide mission.
The kid who was always with Atta clearly had no clue what was going on, he had made plans for AFTER 9/11. MUCH like the 7/7 bombers did.
The all too convenient rosetta stone duffle bags/rented car of Atta was too much. As was Atta barely making his Logan flight from Portland Maine.
