9/11 – A Cheap Magic Trick

This Skilcraft electric wall clock, which hung in the Pentagon helipad fire station, was knocked to the ground by the impact of the explosion at the Pentagon.

by Barbara Honegger

The San Francisco Chronicle commemorated the 100th anniversary of California’s Great 1906 Earthuake with a series of front-page articles featuring a single icon—a charred clock frozen in time at 5:12 a.m. — the exact moment that “The Big One” hit.1

A century after that devastating event, this stopped-clock image serves as boththe ultimate evidence and historic symbol that “captures it all.”

Today, 100 years later, a series of Pentagon clocks frozen in time at the exact moment of the violent event there on the morning of September 11, 2001 also “capture it all” and are the ultimate evidence shattering the Official Lie of what happened that terrible morning – and who was really responsible.

The Pentagon was first attacked shortly after 9:30 a.m. – well before 9:37:46, when the Official Lie says a plane hit the building from the outside.

The Pentagon was first attacked much earlier than the 9/11 Commission and official cover story claim. The Pentagon and mainstream media first reported 9:43 as the time of alleged Flight 77 impact (some reports, reportedly also quoting official sources, were as late as 9:48 and 9:47). Over time, the time given by officials for the claimed outside impact on the building moved earlier and earlier, finally down to 9:37 (as of the time of this writing), but has never come close to the actual time of the first violent event at the Pentagon—shortly after 9:30 a.m. Clearly, if the official story that Flight 77 hit the Pentagon at almost 9:38 were true, Flight 77 could not have been the source of massive damage to the west side of the building which occurred between five and right minutes earlier.

Converging Lines of Evidence of a 9:30-to- 9:32 a.m. Violent Event at the Pentagon on September 11, well before the Official Story says anything hit the building:

Multiple standard-issue, battery- and/or electric-operated wall clocks on the walls of the area of the Pentagon attacked on 9/11—including one in the heliport just outside the west wedge—were stopped between 9:30 and 9:32-1/2 by a violent event, almost certainly a bomb or bombs inside the building and/or in a truck or construction trailer parked right outside the west face. The first Associated Press report, in fact, stated that the Pentagon had been damaged by a “booby trapped truck.” The Navy posted the stopped heliport clock on an official website and another of the stopped clocks was in the 9/11 display at the Smithsonian Institution.2 These are just some of the west-section Pentagon clocks – as well as an inside-the-building victim’s wrist watch (see below) – that were stopped between 9:30 and 9:32-1/2 on September 11.

April Gallop, an Army employee with a Top Secret clearance, was at her desk in the Army administrative offices in the west section of the Pentagon on 9/11, the area of the building most heavily destroyed and with the most casualties, when what she said sounded and felt “like a bomb” went off. “Being in the Army with the training I had, I know what a bomb sounds and acts like, especially the aftermath, and it sounded and acted like a bomb,” Gallop told the author in an under-oath videotaped interview.2A “There was no plane or plane parts inside the building, and no smell of jet fuel.” In those two hours of under-oath videotaped testimony, Gallop states that the explosion went off at the precise instant she hit the ‘power on’ button on her computer in the Army administrative area, to which she had just returned that morning after months of pregnancy and childbirth leave, and that the explosion stopped her wrist watch just after 9:30 a.m. 2B She has kept the stopped wrist watch in a safe deposit box as evidence of the exact moment of the initial explosion.

The FAA’s [Federal Aviation Administration] Timeline document “Executive Summary—Chronology of a Multiple Hijacking Crisis––September 11, 2001” includes: “0932: ATC (Air Traffic Control) AEA reports aircraft crashes into west side of Pentagon.”3 The time is the critical fact here, not the claimed cause, which was taken from the official story and not the result of any ATC eyewitnesses.

Denmark’s soon-to-be Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller was in a building in Washington, D.C. on 9/11 from which he looked out, heard an explosion and saw the smoke first rise from the Pentagon. He immediately looked at his wrist watch, which read 9:32 am. He gave radio interviews in Denmark the next morning in which he stated that the Pentagon had been attacked at 9:32.4.

On August 27, 2002, then White House Counsel and now Attorney General Alberto Gonzales gave an audiotaped Secretary of the Navy lecture at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., a DoD educational institution, in which he clearly and explicitly states that “The Pentagon was attacked at 9:32”. A tape of this segment of his talk was played at the 9/11 Emergency Truth Convergence at American University in Washington, D.C. in
July 2005, and is on the public record.

The Pentagon was attacked by bomb(s) between 9:30 and 9:32 a.m., possibly followed by an impact from an airborne object significantly smaller than Flight 77, a Boeing 757.

We have already seen that Army employee April Gallop, whose watch was stopped by the violent event at the Pentagon shortly after 9:30, says that her military training and experience led her to immediately determine the source of the initial explosion was a bomb.

I have interviewed an Army auditor from Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey, who was on temporary duty assignment at the Pentagon before, on and after 9/11. He was in the Army financial management spaces only minutes before the Pentagon explosion on the morning of 9/11. He had just returned to his temporary office on the ground floor of the adjacent south side of the Pentagon by the cafeteria when he heard an explosion and felt the building shake.

Immediately afterwards, he said, hundreds of panicked Pentagon personnel ran by him down the corridor just outside his office and out the South Entrance, yelling “Bombs!” and “A bomb went off!” The witness has requested that his name not be used in this summary, but is willing to testify to a grand jury or independent official investigation.

This Army financial management/audit area is part of, or contiguous to, the Army personnel offices, which was one of two main west section offices heavily destroyed in the Pentagon attack, the other being the Naval Command Center. The day before 9/11, September 10, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld held a press conference at which he acknowledged that the Pentagon was “missing”—could not account for and needed to “find”—$2.3 Trillion
dollars (other reports said $2.6 Trillion). Were the auditors who could “follow the money,” and the computers whose data could help them do it, intentionally targeted? It is worth noting that the Pentagon’s top financial officer at the time, Dov Zakheim, who also acknowledged the “missing” trillions, had a company that specializes in aircraft remotecontrol technology. As remnants found in the Pentagon wreckage have been identified as the front-hub assembly of the front compressor of a JT8D turbojet engine used in the A-3 Sky Warrior jet fighter,5 and as Air Force A-3 Sky Warriors—normally piloted planes—were secretly retrofitted to be remote-controlled drones and fitted with missiles in a highly compartmented operation at an airport near Ft. Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport in Colorado in the months before 9/11,6 the question further arises as to whether Pentagon auditors and their computerized data were intentionally targeted on 9/11.

The witness has requested that his name not be used in this summary, but is willing to testify to a grand jury or independent official investigation. This Army financial management/audit area is part of, or contiguous to, the Army personnel offices, which was one of two main west section offices heavily destroyed in the Pentagon attack, the other being the Naval Command Center. The day before 9/11, September 10, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld held a press conference at which he acknowledged that the Pentagon was “missing”—could not account for and needed to “find”—$2.3 Trillion dollars (other reports said $2.6 Trillion). Were the auditors who could “follow the money,” and the computers whose data could help them do it, intentionally targeted? It is worth noting that the Pentagon’s top financial officer at the time, Dov Zakheim, who also acknowledged the “missing” trillions, had a company that specializes in aircraft remotecontrol technology. As remnants found in the Pentagon wreckage have been identified as the front-hub assembly of the front compressor of a JT8D turbojet engine used in the A-3 Sky Warrior jet fighter,5 and as Air Force A-3 Sky Warriors—normally piloted planes—were secretly retrofitted to be remote-controlled drones and fitted with missiles in a highly compartmented operation at an airport near Ft. Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport in Colorado in the months before 9/11,6 the question further arises as to whether Pentagon auditors and their computerized data were intentionally targeted on 9/11.

Click here for the rest of THE PENTAGON ATTACK PAPERS.

Aaron Dykes / JonesReport | June 26, 2007

Mineta says Vice President Cheney was “absolutely” already there when he arrived at approximately 9:25 a.m. in the PEOC (Presidential Emergency Operations Center) bunker on the morning of 9/11.

Mineta seemed shocked to learn that the 9/11 Commission Report claimed Cheney had not arrived there until 9:58– after the Pentagon had been hit, a report that Mineta definitively contradicted.

Norman Mineta revealed that Lynn Cheney was also in the PEOC bunker already at the time of his arrival, along with a number of other staff.

Mineta is on video testifying before the 9/11 Commission, though it was omitted in their final report. He told Lee Hamilton:

“During the time that the airplane was coming into the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President…the plane is 50 miles out…the plane is 30 miles out….and when it got down to the plane is 10 miles out, the young man also said to the vice president “do the orders still stand?” And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said “Of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary!?

Mineta confirmed his statements with reporters, saying “When I overheard something about ‘the orders still stand’ and so, what I thought of was that they had already made the decision to shoot something down.”

Norman Mineta made it clear to reporters– who verified his quotes in written text alongside him– that Mineta was indeed talking about a stand down order not to shoot down hijacked aircraft headed for the Pentagon.

Click to read the rest of the article Norman Mineta Confirms That Dick Cheney Ordered Stand Down on 9/11.

August 30th, 2009

Witness flight path vs official flight path

Researchers present new eyewitness testimony which they say proves the government’s story to be a “monstrous lie”

A three year independent investigation into the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon has yielded new eyewitness evidence which, according to the Southern California-based researchers who conducted the investigation, “conclusively (and unfortunately) establishes as a historical fact that the violence which took place in Arlington that day was not the result of a surprise attack by suicide hijackers, but rather a military black operation involving a carefully planned and skillfully executed deception.”

They have compiled the most pertinent testimony into an 81 minute video presentation entitled National Security Alert, which has earned the respect and praise of a growing number of distinguished academics, journalists, writers, entertainers, pilots, and military personnel.

The investigation involved multiple trips to the scene of the crime in Arlington, Virginia, close scrutiny of all official and unofficial data related to the event, and, most importantly, first-person interviews with dozens of eyewitnesses, many of which were conducted and filmed in the exact locations from which they witnessed the plane that allegedly struck the building that day. It was primarily conducted by two men named Craig Ranke and Aldo Marquis, also known as Citizen Investigation Team, or CIT.

NATIONAL SECURITY ALERT – SENSITIVE INFORMATION from Citizen Investigation Team on Vimeo.

Click to read the rest of the article Independent Investigation Into Pentagon Attack Yields Alarming Information.

By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Apr 29, 2010

(WMR) — Multiple U.S. intelligence sources have reported to WMR that a super-classified network with only some 70 terminals in select U.S. government locations handled the parallel command-and-control activities that permitted the 9/11 terrorist attacks to be successful.

The “above top secret” network bears the acronym “PDAS.” WMR has not yet discovered what the acronym stands for, however, the system is limited to only a few hundred people with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Special Access Program (SAP) need-to-know access, in addition to the president and vice president.

On September 11, 2001, PDAS was used to convey the information from the Air Force Chief of Staff to the White House, CIA, and other select agencies that the Air Force had successfully intercepted and downed a target over Pennsylvania. It is believed that the “target” in question was United flight 93, although there is no confirmation that the aircraft was in fact the one downed by Air Force interceptors.

The Air Force Chief of Staff on 9/11 was General John Jumper, who had become the top Air Force commander on September 6, 2001, just five days before the 9/11 attacks.

There is also reason to believe that the PDAS terminal at the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) at the White House was used to coordinate the activities related to the aerial attack on the Pentagon. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta claimed Vice President Dick Cheney was present at the PEOC at 9:25 am on the morning of 9/11, before the alleged impact of American Airlines flight 77 on the building.

Mineta testified before the 9/11 Commission that Cheney was aware of special orders concerning a plane heading toward Washington. Mineta said: “During the time that the airplane was coming into the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the vice president . . . the plane is 50 miles out . . . the plane is 30 miles out. . . . and when it got down to the plane is 10 miles out, the young man also said to the vice president ‘do the orders still stand?’ And the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said, ‘Of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary?’”

Read more about super-classified network that served as command and control for the 9/11 attack.

On 9/11 we were led to believe that American Airlines Flight 77 was hijacked by terrorists and flown into the Pentagon. This was said to have occurred at approximately 9:43 am.

What makes this story impossible to believe are the following facts:

The Department of Defense was aware that there had been multiple hijackings that morning and that two planes had already been flown into the World Trade Center Towers – one at 8:45 am and the other at 9:03 am. Yet the DOD took no measures to protect the Pentagon or Washington DC from attack.

The Pentagon also has its own defenses, including its own anti-aircraft batteries, but none of them was activated that morning.

Andrews Air Force Base is only 10 minutes from the Pentagon with fighter jets at the ready 24/7, but none of them was scrambled to protect the Pentagon or any part of Washington DC.

According to testimony given to Congress by Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, Dick Cheney was monitoring the plane headed for the Pentagon yet he gave no orders to intercept it.

The Pentagon had been rehearsing just such a scenario for at least a year prior to 9/11, but no defensive measures were taken once they were aware that hijackings had taken place.

The purported hijacker of Flight 77, Hani Hanjour, was a terrible pilot who could barely fly a single engine Cessna. Yet he is credited with being able to do amazing acrobatics with a Boeing jet before hitting the Pentagon at ground level without so much as scraping the lawn.

Aside from all these impossibilities, there are more definitive problems that cannot be explained away by the government. Pilots for 9/11 Truth obtained the black box data for Flight 77 and did their own analysis. Their findings were that:

a. The NTSB Flight Path Animation approach path and altitude did not support official events.

b. All Altitude data showed the aircraft at least 300 feet too high to have struck the light poles.

c. The rate of descent data was in direct conflict with the aircraft being able to impact the light poles and be captured in the Dept of Defense “5 Frames” video of an object traveling nearly parallel with the Pentagon lawn.

d. The record of data stops at least one second prior to official impact time.

e. If data trends were continued, the aircraft altitude would have been at least 100 feet too high to have hit the Pentagon.

Click here to read the analysis by Pilots for 9/11 Truth.

So what really caused the damage at the Pentagon? Were explosives placed inside the Pentagon that went off a few seconds before the plane approached the Pentagon? Did the plane then fly into the smoke and over the building thus creating the illusion that the plane had hit the building? At the same time was a missile or a drone used to create the desired external damage to the building?

We still don’t know definitively what hit the Pentagon but we do know that the official story is bunk.

Size of a real jet engine

Engine parts at the Pentagon

(PilotsFor911Truth.org) – Newly decoded data provided by an independent researcher and computer programmer from Australia exposes alarming evidence that the reported hijacking aboard American Airlines Flight 77 could not have occurred.

A data parameter labeled “FLT DECK DOOR”, cross checks with previously decoded data obtained by Pilots For 9/11 Truth from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) through the Freedom Of Information Act.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 departed Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles at 8:20 am Eastern Time. According to reports and data, a hijacking took place between 08:50:54 and 08:54:11[1] in which the hijackers allegedly crashed the aircraft into the Pentagon at 09:37:45. Reported by CNN, according to Ted Olson, wife Barbara Olson had called him from the reported flight stating, “…all passengers and flight personnel, including the pilots, were herded to the back of the plane by armed hijackers…”[2].

However, according to Flight Data provided by the NTSB, the Flight Deck Door was never opened in flight. How were the hijackers able to gain access to the cockpit, remove the pilots, and navigate the aircraft to the Pentagon if the Flight Deck Door remained closed?[3]

Click on link to read the full article on why the Pentagon aircraft hijack was impossible.

April Gallop is a young mother and former career Army Officer who worked in that section of the Pentagon that was destroyed on 9/11.

On the morning of 9/11 Gallop went to work as usual. Her desk was roughly 40 feet from the point where the plane allegedly hit the outside wall. Her supervisor wanted her to start work immediately so instead of dropping her baby off at childcare she placed his carrier next to her desk.

As she sat down there was an explosion, then another; walls collapsed and the ceiling fell in. Hit in the head, she was still able to grab her baby and make her way towards the daylight showing through a blasted opening in the outside wall. There was no airplane wreckage and no burning airplane fuel anywhere; only rubble and dust. She now believes that a bomb went off inside the building.

Later, while recuperating in the hospital, she was visited by government agents who tried to persuade her of what she had heard, seen and felt on 9/11. Despite their promptings, Gallop remained steadfast in describing what she and her child experienced that day.

As a result of the injuries she and her child suffered on 9/11 and her own questions about the ‘official theory’ of what happened at the Pentagon, she filed a lawsuit against Cheney, Rumsfeld, Myers and other officials for their possible role in the attack and failure to evacuate the Pentagon. The lawsuit cites Flight Data Recorder Analysis undertaken by Pilots for 9/11 Truth and other information. You can read the entire lawsuit by clicking on the link.http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=15787

Retired Major General Albert “Bert” N. Stubblebine III is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (West Point, class of 52) who enjoyed a distinguished 32 year career in the U.S. Army. He retired as the Commanding General of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) in 1984. Prior to this assignment he commanded the US Army Electronics Research and Development Command (ERADCOM).

He has come out publicly and stated that the official 9/11 story is a fraud and that something other than a passenger jet hit the Pentagon. Click to watch a video of his remarks.

Norman Mineta testified before the 9/11 commission that Dick Cheney was in a secure bunker on 9/11. (Click on video below) Cheney monitored whatever was headed for the Pentagon when it was 50 miles out. He never called for air cover from Andrews Air Force Base – a base less than 10 miles away. He never activated the antiaircraft guns that surround the Pentagon. Cheney, Bush, and their friends in the oil business and at Halliburton cleaned up in Iraq. No bid contracts. Unlimited access to Iraqi oil. Plenty of money to go around for everyone in on this ‘mob hit’.

If you still believe the official story about 9/11, you need to watch this video.