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The Crazy Canadian Donating Member (260 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:04 PM
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Video: Plane or missile hit the Pentagon?
http://www.freedomunderground.org/memoryhole/pentagon.php

Everyone has seen the planes that flew into the WTC, but what about the Pentagon?
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:05 PM
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1. It was a plane. This speculation is old and not credible.
Thanks for bringing it up YET AGAIN.
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masaka___ Donating Member (181 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:12 PM
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14. What's not credible about this?
Do you know where flight 77 is? I don't see a plane in the wreckage.
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:34 PM
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28. There were plenty of pieces of fuselage found.
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truthseeker1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:14 PM
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17. I believe this is a new clip though
If you're tired of the subject, why bother replying? Why not just skip the thread instead of trying to shut down discussion about it?
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:31 PM
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25. I object to it because it is a red herring.
The Bush administration definitely had foreknowledge of 9-11. They definitely protected their Saudi Buddies from any investigations. They definitely spirited the bin Ladens out of the country in the wake of the attacks.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Stories like this, and the ones about the "explosives planted in the WTC are either concocted by crackpots, or are psyops designed to make people like us look nuts, and to distract us from more feasible and logical scenarios.

The plane is gone. The people who were on it are gone. The people who did this would have no qualms about killing innocent people, so why use a missile when they could use a plane.

That's why I'm trying to "shut down discussion" about it. I suspect the motivations of people who REPEATEDLY post this stuff, no matter how many times and how may ways it's been debunked. Check snopes.
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tngledwebb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 12:07 PM
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50. Who are you to shut discussion down?
You might be wrong. Is that remotely possible, in your world view, hasn't that ever happened to you before?
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frankly_fedup2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:31 PM
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26. On place even posted a picture of a video with what looked . . .
like a missile coming out of the bottom of it just before hitting the WTC. This was the second plane.

Then I have also seen films of what looks like timed clasts from the corners of the WTC as it pancaked down. (I do not believe those two huge buildings that became so unstable they fell, would pancake on top of each other). The odds on that one seems a little odd to me.

The Pentagon is wierd to me. All those other businesses around and you know everywhere you go nowadays there are cameras everywhere, even at the stop lights. There were like 6 or 7 stop lights just around the Pentagon alone.

I find the conspiracy thing hard to believe, but the most important information (in my opinion), like the air traffic controllers, UNSCOM (is that right spelling and name?), and people around the Pentagon that owned stores were never interviewed. I just found that amazing . . . especially the air traffic controllers. Then all the little convienance stores around the Pentagone. One man said some Secret Service guys came in and IMMEDIATELY took the tape they had in the machine. There was no asking, they just took it. It's a shame he didn't have a backup running at the same time. Then maybe we would know the truth about it all. After all, none of the tree tops were damaged, none of the street lamps were knocked down, and this was done by a student pilot. Two many questions and still not enough answers.

Also, the plane in Pennsylvania. People reported seeing a small, white plane (Like a Leer jet (sp) chasing it or going towards it, then heard a crash. Several people reported this. Why did more than one person report the white plane? I don't know, but their testamony in the 9/11 report was missing as well.

Not long after that I remember seeing pictures of the unmanned planes that would fly over Afghanistan. They looked like little white Leer Jets? Coincidence . . . maybe? Will we ever know the truth . . . that would be a big NOPE.

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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:37 PM
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31. I must have been out of the loop...
...I've never seen or heard anything about this. The video is pretty compelling, though. If it's not a total fraud (there's that word again), it's pretty freaky and scary. I'd like to see the clips that haven't been released from the nearby buildings. If it is true, where is the plane and where are the passengers? It really doesn't make sense. I'd need to see and hear more before I stop believing the public story.
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:39 PM
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32. Debunked by snopes.
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truthseeker1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 04:08 PM
Response to Reply #32
36. Um....hardly
Snopes proves (or disproves) nothing.
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tngledwebb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 12:42 PM
Response to Reply #32
54. Snopes is crap.
But newbies should read up on the issue there and elsewhere- google killtown, say, and find out why for themselves. What say you, UK?
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mr_hat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:06 PM
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2. Howard Hughes personally built that missile.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:08 PM
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7. ...out of birch, not spruce as is generally thought.
:eyes:
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TO Kid Donating Member (565 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:41 PM
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34. Nope, it was David Rockefeller
Everyone knows that you can't run a good conspiracy without a Rockefeller in the loop.
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:07 PM
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3. babs olsen was flying it.
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Worst Username Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:08 PM
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4. I think it was elvis.
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:10 PM
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9. And Santa was the co-pilot.
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DireStrike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:08 PM
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5. As I always say when this is brought up...
Why bother? And what did they do with the plane and passengers that disappeared?
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:11 PM
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11. Then sent them to gitmo .
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:13 PM
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15. the passengers are on a deserted beach in the south seas
drinking margaritas and blue drinks. The plane is there with them. Where do you think they got the idea of "stranded" or whatever the name is of that really bad tv show that everyone but me is watching? By the way, this is supposed to be humor.
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:15 PM
Response to Reply #15
18. Do you mean : LOST ?
I think it's pretty good.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:20 PM
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22. that's the one
I don't watch much tv. Actually little commercial tv as I hate the commercials trying to convince me that my version of reality is totally wrong. I can only talk plants and peace and dance with my friends, not what the monster is on "Lost".
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nascarblue Donating Member (693 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:37 PM
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30. Why weren't the "terrorists" listed on the airlines logs?
Edited on Mon Dec-20-04 03:39 PM by nascarblue
Why were 4 of the 19 still alive? How come they couldn't get one single terrorist on airport cameras? How did they recover Mohammed Attas passport on the sidewalk of the WTC, but supposedly couldnt find the black boxes? How is it one of them died 2 years before? You don't find it odd that all 4 planes were simultaneously practically empty? Or that they transported all the bodies en masse out of state and then back again? That all the reports in the media were wrong in their tally's of all 4 planes on all the passenger lists? There is so much more. Check out this website. This guy has put 3 million of his own money airing commercials trying to get the public to wake up and demand a further investigation. What about Sibel Edmonds? What about the two firemen who have now come forward about the black boxes?

http://reopen911.org

http://reopen911.org/video/painful_deceptions-an_analysis_of_the_911_attack_part1.wmv
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alexisfree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:08 PM
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6. a very small control remote plane...
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Goathead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:09 PM
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8. I am going to start an Asteroid theory
Beginning... right... now...

Hey, did you hear there is a new theory that the Pentagon was hit by an asteroid? It is gaining a lot of credibility inside the Beltway.
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:12 PM
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13. Nah ! It was a flying saucer.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:11 PM
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10. Arrg! Not again!
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truthseeker1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:17 PM
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20. Link doesn't work (nt)
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:20 PM
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21. It worked just before I posted.
Looks like he's exceeded his bandwidth limits.

Bookmark it and try again later.
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truthseeker1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:12 PM
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12. Wow - excellent clip
FINALLY.....this is a great succinct summary of what several other documentaries and websites have been trying to say - the music is really great too...really grabs your attention.
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Bethany Rockafella Donating Member (916 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:13 PM
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16. To this day I can't believe no one has come up with a video
showing a plane slamming into the Pentagon. Whether it be an amateur video or a video from a nearby business.
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 05:24 PM
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42. There was a video
from the gas station across the street.

It was confiscated shortly afterwards, never returned and never shown to the public.

I wonder why.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 11:55 PM
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43. Really? You know what that tape showed?
If I had a security camera at a gas station, I'd point it at the counter or the pumps, not a building hundreds of yards away...


...but that's just me.
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 11:19 AM
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48. And, being a former cop, you certainly wouldn't release a tape that shows.
or might show a different version of what happened than the story the "authorities" claim, would you? No, you wouldn't release ANY of the tapes that might be incriminating. You'd come up with a diversionary excuse for not releasing them. You'd say something like you just did, and hope that your BS fools some people. Course, real cops wouldn't do anything like that, would they?
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:59 PM
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57. That's not proof of what the tape shows, Abe.
It's a supposition based on a pre-existing belief that authority always lies.

Often times it does, but that still doesn't prove that the tape showed anything.
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tngledwebb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 12:38 PM
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52. Well, it wasn't really as important as the WTC.
It ONLY the HQ of the most expensive and powerful military in the HISTORY OF THE FRIGGIN' WORLD!!!

Sorry, channeling Bill Hicks there for a sec...
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 02:48 AM
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58. all videos were confiscated
such as the one from the gass station and the hotel.
the security cam footage released/leaked by the pentagon is unofficial (not sourced); it may be disinformation.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:17 PM
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19. Deleted message
Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.
 
rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 02:53 AM
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59. aluminum melts easily, doesn't burn (try it)
why the heck would you even hang out in this forum if you're not interested in 9-11 conspirary?

according to the official story there's nothing to investigate - what would you expect to find in this forum regarding 9-11?
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nascarblue Donating Member (693 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:22 PM
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23. Its very obvious, the problem is why millions of people think this...
Edited on Mon Dec-20-04 03:31 PM by nascarblue
..yet the media won't cover it except to give it a two minute tin hat workover. Remember CNN a few months ago did a poll? they found out that 52% of Americans believed there was a cover up. Three days later they took it off their website.

This is the best documentary I've seen on it... It has 3 parts. go to reopen911.org for all the rest...

http://reopen911.org/video/painful_deceptions-an_analysis_of_the_911_attack_part1.wmv



" Oh Mortal Man, is there nothing you cannot be made to believe? " - Adam Weishaupt, Co-Founder of the New World Order

" The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie rather than a small one, especially if it is repeated over and over. " - Adolph Hitler

" The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous < and worldwide > he cannot believe it exists. " - J. Edgar Hoover, Former President of the United States


" The state... must see the sword as the main if not only instrument which to keep its morale high and retain its moral tension. Toward this end it MUST invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation and revenge... And above all, let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space. " - Diary of Moshe Sharett, Israel's first Foreign Minister from 1948-1956, and Prime Minister from 1954-1956

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truebrit71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:24 PM
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24. Seen it elsewhere...
..it never ceases to amaze me that there has been no other video showing the "plane" striking the Pentagon....Plenty of tape was confiscated, but none has "leaked" or offerd as conclusive proof...

There is something very fishy about the whole thing....
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:42 PM
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35. Why?
In New York, a much more populous city where the targets were much more visible from a distance, only 2 films of the first hit were turned up (and the second didn't even realize it for months, it was of such low quality).

DC has about 1/14th the population of NYC. Do the math. Why is it so unthinkable that no one happened to have a camera going in the right direction at the right time. (Wouldn't someone having one set up be MORE suspicious?).

But hey, all those people who didn't have a camera handy but saw a plane with their own eyeballs are just part of the cover-up, right?

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TO Kid Donating Member (565 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 04:34 PM
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37. Exactly
Hell, there was only one video of the Concorde crash, and unlike the Boeings people actually look at that plane wherever it goes.
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 05:05 PM
Response to Reply #35
41. Pentagon has security cameras everywhere
Im surprized that not one of them filmed this.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 09:00 AM
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47. One of them did...
...it's just that its poor quality won't satisfy everybody. (Not that a higher quality one would ever satisfy some...)
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tngledwebb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 05:43 AM
Response to Reply #47
60. Link? You saw P-GON videos where, when?
n/t
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:32 PM
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27. DEBUNKED. See Snopes.
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nascarblue Donating Member (693 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 04:49 PM
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38. LMAO! Have you read that debunk? Come on man.. thats ridiculous!
Compare it to the facts, only one out of all those questions did he possibly debunk and that is the sand on the grass theory he states. That is the worst debunk job I've ever seen. I was LMAO. Did you read the guys answer to what happened to the wings? "They folded and disappeared into the building and then blew up in the fire".:dunce: He also refuses to acknowlege the firefighters photos taken from the inside of the buildings E ring courtyard showing the very clean 12 foot high hole at the end of the crash. Yeah, a 30 foot high plane made a 12 foot hole! SOme debunk job!
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meisje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:35 PM
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29. Bored with Election Fraud?
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TO Kid Donating Member (565 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 03:40 PM
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33. DU needs a new graphic
We need a graphic that says, "Oh, not this shit again!"
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paulk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 04:58 PM
Response to Reply #33
39. this one works ok
:tinfoilhat:

then there's

:crazy:

and

:boring:

all appropriate


:)
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 11:56 PM
Response to Reply #39
44. This one works for me...
:eyes:
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tngledwebb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 05:46 AM
Response to Reply #39
61. You fall right into these 'smilie' labels yourself.
Didn't anyone ever point that out to you?
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tngledwebb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 12:40 PM
Response to Reply #33
53. For you....
and other OCT'ers, ok.
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 05:01 PM
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40. Great animation...
I don't know if it's true or not, but I agree that if it really WAS a 757, there's evidence there which simply doesn't add up.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 12:25 AM
Response to Reply #40
45. I agree...great piece of flash. It's still innacurate.
This got a lot of attention here about two months ago...
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 11:24 AM
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49. IInaccurate? Sure, according to a supporter of the "Cavemen Did It" story
You have to consider the source. Someone who works for the Gov't is going to support the Government. Just like cops who strictly observe the same rule the Mafia operates by, when it comes to crimes committed by cops: Code of Silence.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:58 PM
Response to Reply #49
56. There are plenty of rebuttals to this flash right here in this forum.
I'm sure that people can see the innacuracies for themselves.
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tngledwebb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 12:46 PM
Response to Reply #40
55. Google killtown. You have to see all the photos.
Takes time but will be revelatory.
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WoodrowFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 07:31 AM
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46. Hundreds of Eyewitnesses. Pay attention.
AND THE HUNDREDS OF WITNESSES WERE,WHAT? ALL HOLOGRAMS??

Some Links..


http://www.geocities.com/someguyyoudontknow33 /

http://www.criticalthrash.com/terror/crashthumbnails.ht ...

http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/pentagon/pentagon_20020316 ....

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pentagon.htm


Let’s sum up, shall we.
• Hundreds of eyewitnesses. I am friends with one and several DUers were eyewitnesses as well.
• Parts of the plane seen at the site by eyewitnesses, and photographed by the same.
• Body parts identified from the site as well as personal possessions.
• Black boxes recovered.
• Telephone poles knocked down by the plane.
• The hole fits a 757 and the wings damaged the façade of the building.

Frankly anyone who doubts Flt 77 hit the Pentagon is either VERY uninformed, easily duped by a slick film of lies, or left their “mind open” so far their brains fell out.


Eyewitness Accounts...

"USAToday.com Editor Joel Sucherman saw it all: an American Airlines jetliner fly left to right across his field of vision as he commuted to work Tuesday morning. It was highly unusual. The large plane was 20 feet off the ground and a mere 50 to 75 yards from his windshield. Two seconds later and before he could see if the landing gear was down or any of the horror-struck faces inside, the plane slammed into the west wall of the Pentagon 100 yards away. 'My first thought was he's not going to make it across the river to National Airport. But whoever was flying the plane made no attempt to change direction,' Sucherman said. 'It was coming in at a high rate of speed, but not at a steep angle—almost like a heat-seeking missile was locked onto its target and staying dead on course."
- "Journalist Witnesses Pentagon Crash." eWeek.com, 13 Sep 2001


"On a Metro train to National Airport, Allen Cleveland looked out the window to see a jet heading down toward the Pentagon. 'I thought, "There's no landing strip on that side of the subway tracks,"' he said. Before he could process that thought, he saw 'a huge mushroom cloud. The lady next to me was in absolute hysterics.'"
- "Our Plane Is Being Hijacked." Washington Post, 12 Sep 2001

"I was supposed to have been going to the Pentagon Tuesday morning at about 11:00am (EDT) and was getting ready, and thank goodness I wasn't going to be going until later. It was so shocking, I was listening to the news on what had happened in New York, and just happened to look out the window because I heard a low flying plane and then I saw it hit the Pentagon. It happened so fast... it was in the air one moment and in the building the next..."
- "U.S. Under Attack: Your Eyewitness Accounts." BBC News, 14 Sep 2001

"As I approached the Pentagon, which was still not quite in view, listening on the radio to the first reports about the World Trade Center disaster in New York, a jetliner, apparently at full throttle and not more than a couple of hundred yards above the ground, screamed overhead. ... Seconds before the Pentagon came into view a huge black cloud of smoke rose above the road ahead. I came around the bend and there was the Pentagon billowing smoke, flames and debris, blackened on one side and with a gaping hole where the airplane had hit it."
- "Eyewitness at the Pentagon." Human Events, 17 Sep 2001

"Frank Probst, an information management specialist for the Pentagon Renovation Program, left his office trailer near the Pentagon's south parking lot at 9:36 a.m. Sept. 11. Walking north beside Route 27, he suddenly saw a commercial airliner crest the hilltop Navy Annex. American Airlines Flight 77 reached him so fast and flew so low that Probst dropped to the ground, fearing he'd lose his head to its right engine."
- "A Defiant Recovery." The Retired Officer Magazine, January 2002

"'I mean it was like a cruise missile with wings, went right there and slammed into the Pentagon,' eyewitness Mike Walter said of the plane that hit the military complex. 'Huge explosion, great ball of fire, smoke started billowing out, and then it was just chaos on the highway as people either tried to move around the traffic and go down either forward or backwards,' he said."
- "Witnesses and Leaders on Terrorist Attacks." CNN, 11 Sep 2001

"'(The plane) was flying fast and low and the Pentagon was the obvious target,' said Fred Gaskins, who was driving to his job as a national editor at USA Today near the Pentagon when the plane passed about 150 feet overhead. 'It was flying very smoothly and calmly, without any hint that anything was wrong.'"
- "Bush Vows Retaliation for 'Evil Acts'." USA Today, 11 Sep 2001

"Aydan Kizildrgli, an English language student who is a native of Turkey, saw the jetliner bank slightly then strike a western wall of the huge five-sided building that is the headquarters of the nation's military. 'There was a big boom,' he said. 'Everybody was in shock. I turned around to the car behind me and yelled "Did you see that?" Nobody could believe it.'"
- "Bush Vows Retaliation for 'Evil Acts'." USA Today, 11 Sep 2001

'I saw the tail of a large airliner. ... It plowed right into the Pentagon," said an Associated Press Radio reporter who witnessed the crash. 'There is billowing black smoke.'"
- "America's Morning of Terror." ChannelOne.com, 2001

"Omar Campo, a Salvadorean, was cutting the grass on the other side of the road when the plane flew over his head. 'It was a passenger plane. I think an American Airways plane,' Mr Campo said. 'I was cutting the grass and it came in screaming over my head. I felt the impact. The whole ground shook and the whole area was full of fire. I could never imagine I would see anything like that here.'"
- "Pentagon Eyewitness Accounts." The Guardian, 12 Sep 2001

"Afework Hagos, a computer programmer, was on his way to work but stuck in a traffic jam near the Pentagon when the plane flew over. 'There was a huge screaming noise and I got out of the car as the plane came over. Everybody was running away in different directions. It was tilting its wings up and down like it was trying to balance. It hit some lampposts on the way in.'"
- "Pentagon Eyewitness Accounts." The Guardian, 12 Sep 2001

"A pilot who saw the impact, Tim Timmerman, said it had been an American Airways 757. "'It added power on its way in,' he said. 'The nose hit, and the wings came forward and it went up in a fireball.'"
- "Pentagon Eyewitness Accounts." The Guardian, 12 Sep 2001

"Steve Eiden, a truck driver, had picked up his cargo that Tuesday morning in Williamsburg, Va., and was en route to New York City and witnessed the aftermath. ... He took the Highway 95 loop in the area of the Pentagon and thought it odd to see a plane in restricted airspace, thinking to himself it was odd that it was flying so low. 'You could almost see the people in the windows,' he said as he watched the plane disappear behind a line of trees, followed by a tall plume of black smoke. Then he saw the Pentagon on fire, and an announcement came over the radio that the Pentagon had been hit."
- "Sept. 11, the Day America Changed." The Baxter Bulletin, 2001

"Traffic is normally slow right around the Pentagon as the road winds and we line up to cross the 14th Street bridge heading into the District of Columbia. I don’t know what made me look up, but I did and I saw a very low-flying American Airlines plane that seemed to be accelerating. My first thought was just 'No, no, no, no,' because it was obvious the plane was not heading to nearby Reagan National Airport. It was going to crash."
- "September 11 Remembered." University Week, 4 Oct 2001

Father Stephen McGraw was driving to a graveside service at Arlington National Cemetery the morning of Sept. 11, when he mistakenly took the Pentagon exit onto Washington Boulevard, putting him in a position to witness American Airlines Flight 77 crash into the Pentagon. 'I was in the left hand lane with my windows closed. I did not hear anything at all until the plane was just right above our cars.' McGraw estimates that the plane passed about 20 feet over his car, as he waited in the left hand lane of the road, on the side closest to the Pentagon. 'The plane clipped the top of a light pole just before it got to us, injuring a taxi driver, whose taxi was just a few feet away from my car. I saw it crash into the building,' he said. 'My only memories really were that it looked like a plane coming in for a landing. I mean in the sense that it was controlled and sort of straight. That was my impression,' he said. 'There was an explosion and a loud noise and I felt the impact. I remember seeing a fireball come out of two windows (of the Pentagon). I saw an explosion of fire billowing through those two windows.'"
- "Pentagon Crash Eyewitness Comforted Victims." MDW News Service, 28 Sep 2001

"I witnessed the jet hit the Pentagon on September 11. From my office on the 19th floor of the USA TODAY building in Arlington, Va., I have a view of Arlington Cemetery, Crystal City, the Pentagon, National Airport and the Potomac River. ... Shortly after watching the second tragedy, I heard jet engines pass our building, which, being so close to the airport is very common. But I thought the airport was closed. I figured it was a plane coming in for landing. A few moments later, as I was looking down at my desk, the plane caught my eye. It didn't register at first. I thought to myself that I couldn't believe the pilot was flying so low. Then it dawned on me what was about to happen. I watched in horror as the plane flew at treetop level, banked slightly to the left, drug it's wing along the ground and slammed into the west wall of the Pentagon exploding into a giant orange fireball. Then black smoke. Then white smoke."
- Steve Anderson, Director of Communications, USA Today

"Henry Ticknor, intern minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, Virginia, was driving to church that Tuesday morning when American Airlines Flight 77 came in fast and low over his car and struck the Pentagon. 'There was a puff of white smoke and then a huge billowing black cloud,' he said."
- "Hell on Earth." UU World, Jan/Feb 2002

"Northern Virginia resident John O'Keefe was one of the commuters who witnessed the attack on the Pentagon. 'I was going up 395, up Washington Blvd., listening to the the news, to WTOP, and from my left side-I don't know whether I saw or heard it first- I saw a silver plane I immediately recognized it as an American Airlines jet,' said the 25-year-old O'Keefe, managing editor of Influence, an American Lawyer Media publication about lobbying. 'It came swooping in over the highway, over my left shoulder, straight across where my car was heading. I'd just heard them saying on the radio that National Airport was closing, and I thought, "That's not going to make it to National Airport." And then I realized where I was, and that it was going to hit the Pentagon. There was a burst of orange flame that shot out that I could see through the highway overpass. Then it was just black. Just black, thick smoke.'"
- "Terrorist 'Situation'." American Lawyer Media, 11 Sep 2001
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