The terrible tragedy that occurred on September 11, 2001 took the lives of a huge number of people. Killed 2973 people, and this, you see, a significant figure.
This was preceded by the hijacking of four aircraft bound for California and eastern part USA. The aircraft tanks were full, so we can say that they turned into guided missiles.
At 8:45 am, one of the planes, a Boeing 767, crashed into the North Tower. 92 on board (11 crew members, 5 terrorists and 76 passengers). The plane crashed into the gap between the 93rd and 99th floors. The fuel that ignited in the tank rushed down like a column of fire, killing even those people who were in the foyer. At 10:29 am, the burning building collapsed, burying a huge number of people with it. The number of the plane that crashed into the twin towers is AA11.
At 9:03 am, an aircraft also crashed into the South Tower; it was the second Boeing-767. The blow fell between the 77th and 81st floors. There were 65 people on board (5 terrorists, 9 crew members and 54 passengers). At 9:59 am local time, the burning building collapsed. The aircraft number is UA175.
There were two more planes. One of them hit the Pentagon at 9:40. 184 people died. And the last one fell in a Pennsylvania forest, not far from Pittsburgh. I managed to look at the recordings from the so-called "black box". It became clear that the terrorists dived down when the resisting passengers tried to break into the cockpit. There were 44 people on board.
According to journalists, some passengers were able to call their relatives from the hijacked planes. People reported terrorists: there were 4 people on one board, and 5 on the others. There is an opinion that this data was specially fabricated by the FBI, because there was one call that caused a lot of mistrust. The mother's son called and when she answered the phone, he said: "Mom, it's me, John Smith." Agree, it is unlikely that he actually began the conversation by introducing his last name.
Not a single person on board was able to survive. 274 people were killed on board the planes (terrorists are not counted), 2602 people in New York (both on the ground and in the towers), 125 people in the Pentagon.
The twin towers were not the only ones affected. Five more buildings were either destroyed or badly damaged. A total of 25 buildings were damaged, and 7 had to be demolished.
What are the consequences of this terrible tragedy? Two skyscrapers and the adjoining wing of the Pentagon were destroyed. About three thousand people died. The New York Stock Exchange was suspended for two days. The area adjacent to the site of the tragedy was completely covered with ash. The President announced the Terrorist Attack served the United States with Afghanistan, and then with Iraq.
The tragedy received the status of a national one, and the news about it flew through the whole world in a matter of seconds. It was not for nothing that these buildings were chosen by the terrorists, because the twin towers were the pride of the United States.
The towers were built in the 60s, at which time the prestige of America was shaken. It was decided to build something gigantic, grandiose, stunning to return people to optimism and faith in themselves and the future. Nobody imagined that the “project of the century” would turn into the main “tragedy of the century”.
The official version of the September 11 attacks, which led to the death of almost 3 thousand people, the destruction of three skyscrapers in Manhattan, including two famous twin towers, as well as part of the Pentagon, and gave a new direction to world history, is striking in its absurdity.
It turns out that in a country obsessed with security, where there are about 20 special services - about one for each of the 19 Middle Eastern terrorists involved in the terrorist attacks - they were able to do what they allegedly did. Namely, possessing only the basics of flight training, jewelery ram almost simultaneously the targets captured by the airliners that are beyond the strength of even experienced pilots, acting under the leadership of the bearded terrorist Osama bin Laden, who was hiding in a cave in Afghanistan. All this, like all the other points of the official version, which we will consider in more detail below, are completely contrary to common sense.
Official version
The official version is as follows. Since it is widely known, we will dwell on it only briefly. Terrorists from the Al-Qaeda group banned in Russia and other countries of the world, many of whom were known to the CIA, mainly Saudi citizens, entered the United States legally. They easily hijacked four passenger airliners, two of which were sent to the towers of the World shopping center(WTC), one in the Pentagon building, and another crashed under strange circumstances in Pennsylvania. In the latter case, the passengers allegedly resisted by "democratically voting" to repulse the hijackers. At the same time, the WTC-7 tower mysteriously collapsed in Manhattan, into which no one crashed, and which the BBC TV company on air had brought down 20 minutes before this happened. When reporter Jane Standley broadcast about this and the victims of the new terrorist attack, WTC-7 was still looming behind her, and the caption at the bottom of the screen already read: "The 47-story Salomon Brothers building near the World Trade Center also collapsed." Anyone can check out this amazing YouTube report ...
A discrepancy came out: the BBC reported the collapse of WTC-7 20 minutes before it happened. Photo: FA Bobo / PIXSELL / PA Images / TASS
The plethora of inconsistencies and lies surrounding the 9/11 attacks leave Americans with very little choice. The dilemma is simple. On the one hand, turning off your mind, you need to believe in the official version or pretend to believe, if you are a "patriot" of your country and do not want reputational damage to it, exposure of its leadership, without whose sanction such large-scale terrorist attacks would simply be impossible. It is very difficult to live with this awareness, and it is beyond the forces of the conformist majority. The second position is available only to a minority that is not afraid to go crazy in the face of the truth and despise accusations of "conspiracy". This position, which is adhered to by many Americans and not only, requires recognizing that bin Laden and his people are nothing more than decorations, since terrorist attacks of this magnitude could only have been organized by the American special services themselves with the assistance of politicians and the media.
But we are not Americans. We are patriots of Russia, not the United States, and therefore our hands are free. Since the official American version is completely unsatisfactory and does not explain anything, let us turn to the "conspiracy theorists." If we put aside the fantastic versions, such as a mini-nuclear explosion under the twin towers, launched, probably at the suggestion of the American authorities in order to compromise everyone else, then the following picture emerges.
Performers
Al-Qaeda terrorists, many of whom were known to the CIA, entered the United States legally and went to the terrorist attacks, taking their passports with them. Only a few of them had the skills to fly light aircraft. Under no circumstances could they replace the pilots of civil airliners, all the more so at great speed they could "get" into the twin towers hidden in urban buildings - among other skyscrapers - fly at a height of several meters on the ground without damaging anything along the route, and ram the Pentagon.
The American authorities immediately began to blame the al-Qaeda leader for the incident, although it was obvious that this was a surprise for Osama bin Laden, he did not immediately allow himself to be persuaded to take on himself and his semi-virtual grouping for this. And it can be understood: it is impossible for a person of sound mind to believe in the official version. Therefore, bin Laden delayed for a long time and took responsibility for the September 11 attacks only on October 29, 2004.
What really happened? In fact, most likely, the American special services deliberately allowed terrorists into the country, who, probably, really plotted terrorist attacks using airplanes. They were needed as a cover. The fact that the terrorists went to the airliners, leaving their passports in the cars, most likely indicates that they were conducting a training session, deciding to see how best to act when they learned to fly planes. Or there were no planes ramming the Pentagon and the twin towers ... there were no planes at all, and, therefore, there was no whole passport history.
Aircraft
Indeed, was there a boy? Eyewitnesses to the attacks in New York on the morning of 9/11 give conflicting accounts of what hit the Twin Towers. Some say they saw or heard noise from small planes passing by, some believe they saw rockets, others large airliners. The latter probably evaluate their experience retrospectively, having watched well-known footage on TV many times. Meanwhile, it has been proven that large planes simply could not hit the WTC skyscrapers without colliding with a couple of other skyscrapers along the way. From the air and at the speed with which they had to fly, even very experienced pilots could not accurately "hit" the targets. A legitimate question also arises: where did the wreckage of the planes go - the engine of one of them, which was then "found" in the wreckage of one of the collapsed buildings, turned out to be from an aircraft of a different type than the one that allegedly rammed it. As for the Pentagon, independent researchers have found that the area of damage in the wing of the building where the Boeing allegedly landed is noticeably smaller than its wingspan. The penetration area is not as deep as it should be. There was no tail unit left of the plane, no corpses and suitcases of passengers ... Evaporated?
Also striking is the famous footage of an airliner made of aluminum, which can hardly withstand a collision with a bird, goes like a knife in butter into the steel structure of the WTC buildings, so that the tip of its nose is even showing on the other side of the skyscraper! Calls from airliners allegedly made by their passengers from their own mobile phones were also completely unthinkable. At the height with which they were made, it was technically impossible ...
What really happened? It is clear that no airliners have crashed into the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon building near Washington. Most likely, it was a question of cruise missiles able to bend around obstacles, which were assisted by "beacons" installed on buildings. Everything else is a crude imitation.
The most interesting question here, to which there is still no definite answer, is - where did the people who were allegedly on the planes go? In fact, there were not so many of them, since, as the "conspiracy theorists" established, at least two of the planes allegedly taking part in the terrorist attacks were already decommissioned at that time, and could not be operated on September 11. But where did those who were not originally "dead souls" go? They were killed, they underwent plastic surgery and moved to the other end of the country or abroad? Who knows.
Building
With the Pentagon, everything is clear - everything was organized there by the military and special services themselves, no civilian firefighters were allowed there. Was there one cruise missile or it was "helped" with the help of charges installed in the renovated wing of the building, it is not so important. The consequences of the incident were quickly eliminated, nobody took out dirty linen in public - the military people are serious, they know how to keep their mouths shut.
The main intrigue is with New York skyscrapers. They seemed to be crumbling before our eyes, live. But this should not have happened - they were built taking into account in order to withstand exactly what allegedly happened to them. Instead, the "twins" collapsed, sinking inward with the speed of free fall, as if someone had "chopped down" all the supporting structures at once.
The current President of the United States, Donald Trump, himself a construction magnate, "in hot pursuit" did not believe that the planes could bring down the twin towers. Photo: www.globallookpress.com
What really happened? The Association of American Engineers and even future US President Donald Trump, himself a construction magnate, have long argued that buildings should not have died, they had to withstand an airplane hit. Trump thought so "in hot pursuit" - now, of course, he pretends that this is a terrorist attack. But engineers with professional knowledge capable of uncovering deception only strengthened their opinion. In addition, in 2009, an international group of researchers published an article in the journal Open Chemical Physics on the results of a chemical analysis of the WTC wreckage, where fragments of termite, a super-combustible substance that burns steel, were identified. Its melting point is about 1500 degrees, the combustion temperature of aviation fuel is only about 1000 degrees ... Only in this case, as the official version says, the death of buildings as a result of "weakening of the steel frame during a fire in combination with damage caused by exposure to aircraft ".
The "controlled demolition" that actually took place caused a series of explosions in key, most vulnerable points of the skyscrapers, as a result of which they "piled up" in clouds of dust, which always happens in such cases. Firefighters and others in the vicinity heard the explosions. There are records of the voices of those standing in the cordon outside the WTC-7 building that this skyscraper will soon be blown up. With this case, however, hesitated a little, so the BBC and reported this earlier than necessary. YouTube has footage of this building collapsing - a typical directional explosion.
There is also a mass of other evidence that this is a deliberate provocation organized by the American authorities themselves. Even if the evidence was ten times less, this would be enough for an unambiguous verdict of an impartial court: guilty. Let us note in passing only one of them - not a single "big bump" was killed during the terrorist attacks in New York. The victims of terrorist attacks are mainly technical services, service employees, firefighters, who, by the way, began to be brought to the financial capital of the United States a few days before the terrorist attacks from other parts of the country ... There is evidence that important meetings in the area of future terrorist attacks were canceled in advance, to some valuable employees unexpectedly offered not to go to work on September 11 ...
Media involvement
It is clear that such a grandiose hoax would have been impossible without the involvement and involvement of leading American federal television channels. According to independent researchers, they received in advance the blanks depicting future terrorist attacks in New York, which they each processed in their own style. And planes crashing into skyscrapers, according to physicist from Cambridge University John Wyndham, is the most common hologram. Therefore, they entered skyscrapers made of heavy-duty steel without collapsing like a knife into butter, and even in one case they pierced the building with their noses. It seems that the media were practicing technologies for creating an artificial reality - the very thing that America is struggling with today, like a fly entangled in a web.
Photo: www.globallookpress.com
Why and who needed it?
The answer to the question of why this was necessary lies on the surface. The September 11 attacks have become for the US ruling circles the "new Pearl Harbor" they have long dreamed of. They buried international law and instead of the self-dissolving USSR, they created a new enemy for Washington in the person of "international terrorism", which was allowed to fight all over the world. Already on October 7, 2001, the Americans invaded Afghanistan to "punish the terrorists", having achieved, on a wave of international sympathy for the victims of the tragedy, in particular, Russia's consent to organize its military bases on the territory under this sauce. the former USSR- in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. And with a very distant sight. In March 2003, the US attacked Iraq, plunging the entire region into chaos, spawning ISIS, which is banned in Russia. Then there was Libya, an attempt to overwhelm Egypt, Syria ... The Pentagon received almost $ 6 trillion for the "fight against terror" in various countries over the 16 years after the tragedy, and the US military-industrial complex acquired a new meaning for existence. The Americans then wrote off Russia. After all, if they had waited a little, then, perhaps, the "terrorists" would not have had to blow up New York skyscrapers.
However, this prohibitively cynical action, for which none of the special services, by the way, was punished, although it seemed to be a terrible failure, and serious internal political goals. In October 2001, the so-called Patriot Act was adopted with a bang - a thoroughly and previously worked out federal law that significantly expanded the rights of special services to electronically track and monitor Americans. A prison appeared in Guantanamo, and America itself finally turned into a police state, in which "Big Brother" breathes in the back of every citizen.
The most cynical thing, however, is that some gentlemen made huge amounts of money from the September 11 tragedy, and they obviously acted on the assumption that there would be terrorist attacks, and very soon.
What an amazing coincidence: in July 2004, New York businessman Larry Silverstein became a tenant - for 99 years - of all seven WTC buildings. The contract was worth $ 3.2 billion, of which he managed to pay only $ 14 million, and ultimately earned over $ 8 billion. How did he manage it? The main insurance point in the policies was the case of a terrorist attack. He did not keep himself waiting long.
Provocations, provocations ...
If we have not convinced someone who is actually responsible for the 9/11 attacks, we note in conclusion that provocation has historically been the main instrument of US policy. This is the famous Boston Tea Party, and the explosion of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana, and the same Pearl Harbor, and the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin ... billions of people. The most striking of these was the US space program before the appearance of the shuttles, above all the staged landing on the moon. Remembering the memory of the innocent victims of the September 11 attacks, people have no right to forget how and why this was done. And that something like this could happen again, since no one is punished for it.
September 11, 2016 marks the 15th anniversary of the unprecedented terrorist attacks in the United States. The tragedy claimed the lives of nearly three thousand people.
19 terrorists are Egyptians, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Lebanon - captured 4 passenger airliners. Two planes were sent to the skyscrapers of the World Trade Center in New York, the third airliner crashed into the Pentagon building. The fourth plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania - its passengers and crew tried to take control of the airliner from terrorists.
The victims of the terrorist attacks were 2,977 people from 92 countries: 246 passengers and aircraft crew members, 2,606 people - in New York, in the buildings of the World Trade Center and on the ground (of which 341 firefighters and 2 paramedics of the New York Fire Department, 60 police officers and 8 employees Ambulance), 125 people - in the Pentagon building.
As a result of the attacks, the 110-story twin towers collapsed. Clearing work for the World Trade Center lasted more than eight months. Burning and smoldering in the rubble at the site of the collapsed twin towers lasted 99 days before the fire was completely extinguished.
Chronicle of the tragedy 9/11
The moment of the collision of the first plane with the skyscraper of a shopping center. Video: Youtube
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Passers-by on the streets of New York point to the World Trade Center complex. September 11, 2001 
People look out of the windows of the North Tower. September 11, 2001 
The US President is introduced to schoolchildren, after which George W. Bush begins to read The Pet Goat to them. At this moment, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card approaches him and reports: “The second plane crashed into the second tower. America is under attack. " September 11, 2001 
People watch the collapse of one of the WTC towers. September 11, 2001 
Rescuers carry a mortally wounded man out of the destroyed WTC building. September 11, 2001 
Burning towers of the World Trade Center. September 11, 2001 
A helicopter hovers over the burning Pentagon after one of the hijacked planes crashed into the building. September 11, 2001 
A group of firefighters among the wreckage of the WTC complex. September 11, 2001 
The helicopter is circling near one of the WTC towers. September 11, 2001 
In the background is the smoldering World Trade Center building. September 11, 2001 
Medical staff at St. Vincent Hospital in New York await casualties. September 11, 2001 
A firefighter among the rubble at the foot of the destroyed World Trade Center complex. September 11, 2001 
The injured wing of the Pentagon. September 11, 2001 
A firefighter calls for help at the ruins of the World Trade Center. September 11, 2001 
Firefighters dismantle the rubble of the World Trade Center. September 11, 2001 
Carcasses of cars near the World Trade Center complex. September 11, 2001 
US President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney at the Presidential Command Center in emergency situations in Washington, September 11, 2001 
US President George W. Bush speaks on the rubble of the World Trade Center. September 14, 2001
Survivor stories
Fred Eichler
On September 11, 2001, 54-year-old insurance agent Fred Eichler arrived at his office on the 83rd floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8.15 a.m. At 8.40 Fred went to the restroom, but on the way he met four colleagues, and they stopped to chat. Through the window they saw a plane flying towards their building. At 8.46 the airliner crashed into a skyscraper, destroying everything in its path. The shock wave threw Fred and his colleagues several tens of meters away. After regaining consciousness, the man called 911, and then phoned home to speak with his wife, daughters and parents. He was sure he would never see them again.
Fred entered the meeting room and was joined by three strangers. The floor was gradually covered with smoke, streams of water from broken pipes rushed along the corridors and staircases. The crowd plugged the crack under the door with wet rugs and towels, trying to stop the smoke. After some consultation, they decided not to open the windows, fearing that the air would fan the flames.
At 09.02 a second blow was heard: the plane crashed into the neighboring South Tower. Fred and the others decided to try to get to the fire escape. But when they got to the door, the lights went out in the building. They returned to the meeting room and hid under the tables.
At 9.30 am, Fred saw the light of a flashlight. A firefighter got to their floor. He was able to save the found people, but he died. The rescuer took the survivors to the stairs and advised on the 78th floor to move to another staircase and go down it. On the 20th floor, they heard a new thumping sound. The whole building shook: it was the South Tower that collapsed. The north began to shake - the elevators fell into the shafts, the stairs swayed. When Fred got out on the street, he asked someone for a phone and dialed his wife's number. She shouted into the phone: "Run, run, run!" The firefighters and the police shouted the same thing. A few minutes later, the North Tower collapsed.
Michael Wright
Michael Wright, 30, was on the 81st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center when a plane crashed into the building.
At that moment, Michael was in the men's room, where a sign was being installed asking to keep the room clean. The building shook. When Wright looked out of the toilet into the corridor, he saw a fire and heard a woman scream - his colleague Alicia could not get out of a burning women's toilet. The men knocked down the door and were able to pull the woman out.
There was a huge crack in the floor of the corridor, the hall near the elevator was completely destroyed, there was smoke everywhere. Michael began to lead his colleagues to the stairs, people descended like in a fire drill - in two rows.
“The idea of the unreality of what was happening helped to keep calm on the stairs, it seemed that the building could not collapse. When we crossed several floors, we relaxed a bit. We knew that something bad had happened, but when the fire was thirty floors higher, it was no longer so worrisome, ”Wright recalls. According to him, some floors people passed quickly, some - within 10 minutes.
On the 40th floor, Michael and his colleagues met firefighters who advised them to continue going downstairs, assuring them that it was safe there. Having descended below the level of the 20th floor, Wright found himself on the site of the South Tower and realized the seriousness of what was happening: there were corpses everywhere, dozens of bodies.
When the building began to collapse, Wright and his colleagues were at the escalator at one of the exits of the building. A cloud of debris and dust rose, the air seemed to turn black. Michael tore off his shirt and covered his nose and mouth. Seeing no direction, he crawled, trying to find a way out.
Michael was lucky - he stumbled upon a firefighter who was able to take him out through the surviving bookstore building.
When he got to the phone, Michael called his wife Jenny.
“I said, 'Jenny, it's me.” A groan escaped the other end of the tube. I said: “I am alive. I'm alive. I love you. I love you". We cried and cried. Then the connection was cut off, ”says Michael Wright.
Frank Razzano
On the morning of September 11, famed American lawyer Frank Razzano was asleep in his room on the 19th floor of the Marriott Hotel, located at the foot of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. He woke up from the sound of the first blow, saw the papers flying outside the window and returned to bed. A few minutes later there was a second blow. The plane crashed into the South Tower, overlooking Frank's windows. Razzano turned on the TV and heard the news. He still thought there was nothing to worry about, because all the problems were 60 floors higher. The firemen will come and everything will be all right.
Frank showered, dressed, packed his things and suddenly felt as if the hotel was being fired upon from heavy artillery: the South Tower was beginning to fall apart. Through the window, the lawyer saw mountains of concrete and steel falling from the sky, as if in slow motion. He ran to the opposite side of the room and pressed himself against the wall.
Suddenly the rumble stopped. Razzano looked out into the corridor and shouted: "Is there anyone alive?" Someone replied, "Come here." The firefighter directed Razzano towards the stairs. Falling, the tower broke through the hotel in the middle, but the far staircase remained intact. Razzano followed it to the third floor, and there, together with a group of people, climbed through the opening in the wall to the second floor. A few minutes later, the North Tower collapsed and filled up the remains of the hotel. Several lower floors remained intact.
It was there that Razzano was located. There was nothing to breathe: the air seemed to consist of nothing but dirt and dust. People still managed to find an opening in the destroyed wall of the building, and with the help of a carpet walk down the mountain of rubble. There, the police helped Razzano to get to the doctors.
Pascal Buzzeli
43-year-old design engineer Pascal Buzzeli was in the North Tower elevator when the first strike rang out. The elevator stopped at the 44th floor, and Pascal saw people panicking, but decided to go up to his office on the 64th floor. He called his pregnant wife and asked her to turn on the TV and find out what was the matter. When she told him what was happening, Buzzeli and his colleagues themselves surrounded the TV in the office and saw the plane flying into a nearby tower. They rushed to the stairs and managed to descend to the 22nd floor when the building began to fall.
Buzzley turned out to be an incredibly lucky man - curled up in a ball, he rolled 15 floors down the rubble like a surfer on a huge wave and, most amazingly, survived with a broken leg. All of his colleagues were killed.
On the way down, Buzzeli passed out and came to himself three hours later on the ruins of the seventh floor.
Ron DiFrancesco
On the morning of September 11, 37-year-old broker Ron DiFrancesco was working from his office on the 84th floor in the South Tower. At this time, a plane crashed into the North Tower. Seeing the smoke, DiFrancesco decided to get out of the building and left the office. A few minutes after his departure, the plane crashed into the South Tower - between the 77th and 85th floors.
Going downstairs, DiFrancesco met a group of people who began to persuade him to go to the roof - they said that the fire below is too strong, and above there must be fresh air.
Ron tried to climb several floors higher, but all the doors were closed or blocked. The panic intensified, it became harder to breathe, and DiFrancesco finally decided to go downstairs. He got to the site in the impact zone and lay down on the floor, among other panting people. Panic began to seize him. But some voice in his head, Ron claims, ordered him to run downstairs. Covering his face with his hands, he fled to the first floor, where the guard sent him to another exit and, already running out of the door, DiFrancesco heard a deafening roar from above - the building began to collapse.
Seeing the explosion, the broker lost consciousness and woke up already in the hospital - with burns and a fractured spine.
According to official figures, he was the last person to leave the building before the collapse, and one of four surviving Americans who worked above the 81st floor, but were able to escape.
John McLaughlin, last rescued
When the plane crashed into the South Tower, Sergeant John McLaughlin was a few miles from the mall, patrolling a bus terminal in Manhattan. Like many, that day he went to the towers to help the victims.
Arriving at the scene of the tragedy and not yet knowing the extent of the damage to the WTC, McLaughlin assembled a team of four - three police officers Antonio Rodriguez, Chris Amoroso, Dominic Pezullo, and recruit Will Gimeno.
They were in the basement that connects the buildings of the WTC complex when the South Tower collapsed. The police were piled high with debris.
“At first I thought I was dead. I didn't feel anything: I didn't see, I didn't smell, I didn't hear. There was a ringing silence all around, ”recalls John McLaughlin.
Officers Amoroso and Rodriguez were killed immediately. McLaughlin and the other two of his team were trapped. Dominic Pezullo managed to free himself from the rubble and he tried to save his colleagues when the North Tower collapsed: he was mortally wounded by debris.
McLaughlin and Will Gimeno, lying under the rubble, heard the voices of rescuers and firefighters.
“I heard screams and screamed too, but it was useless. I said then: “I don’t think they will look for us. There's too much going on at the top. They're already busy, ”McLaughlin recalls.
He reached for the walkie-talkie and left a final message for his family, as well as for Will's wife, who was seven months pregnant.
“I think the moment Will asked to tell his wife to name their unborn daughter Olivia was the worst. I think that then we kind of resigned ourselves to the fact that we would die here, ”says the sergeant.
The men spent more than 10 hours under the rubble before help arrived. At about 11 pm, rescuers managed to get Jimeno out. Firefighters reached McLaughlin only on the morning of September 12 - he had to wait another 8 hours for his rescue.
The sergeant was sent to the hospital, where the doctors at first did not believe that he would survive - the injuries were very serious. Doctors put John into a coma for 6 weeks, he underwent about 30 operations, including skin grafts on his legs. After several years of therapy, he was able to return to normal life.
John McLaughlin was the last to be pulled from the rubble of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center that collapsed.
Causes and culprits of the tragedy
The al-Qaeda group claimed responsibility for the attack. The large-scale terrorist attack was a consequence of the declared jihad against Jews and Americans, the American policy of supporting Israel, aggression against Iraq, as well as the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia were also named as the reasons. Al-Qaeda accused America of “plundering” the region, oppressing people by supporting totalitarian regimes, and controlling the policies of the legitimate rulers of Arab countries.
All suicide bombers were identified - they were citizens of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Lebanon. It turned out that the men were in the United States legally, and some were trained in American flight schools. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden admitted in a video message that he directly directed the actions of 19 terrorists.
On May 2, 2011 in the north-west of Pakistan by the US special services "terrorist number one" was. The operation to destroy bin Laden was watched live by US President Barack Obama and his team.
US President Barack Obama and his team follow the operation to destroy Osama bin Laden. Photo: press service of the White House In May 2012, on the basis of Guantanamo, the trial of the ideological mastermind and the main organizer of the terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was detained in 2003 in Pakistan, began. The verdict is still pending.
The terrorist attack that changed the world
In October 2001, the United States and Great Britain launched a military operation in Afghanistan with the aim of destroying the bases of al-Qaeda and its head Osama bin Laden. The operation lasted 13 years - most of the US military and NATO forces left this country only at the end of 2014, but there are still about 8 thousand US military personnel in Afghanistan - to "maintain peace and order."
9/11 served as a pretext for another military conflict. A year after the terrorist attack on the United States, the US government accused Iraq and the Saddam Hussein regime of resuming the development of weapons of mass destruction and of collaborating with al-Qaeda. On February 5, 2003, US Secretary of State Colin Powell made his famous speech at a special meeting of the UN Security Council. In his speech, Powell said that Iraq is working on programs to develop biological and chemical weapons and has two of the three necessary components for the production of nuclear weapons.
In 2004, Powell admitted that the data he released was largely inaccurate and sometimes falsified. But it was too late - on March 20, 2003, the United States and its allies invaded Iraq in violation of the UN charter, and the war was already in full swing. Saddam Hussein was executed in 2006, but coalition forces left Iraq only in 2011.
These wars have become one of the reasons for the radicalization of Islamists in the Middle East. After the destruction of bin Laden, al-Qaeda has limited itself to the tactics of declarative statements, which, as a rule, are not associated with specific terrorist attacks. But one of the branches of the group, "Al-Qaeda in Iraq", over time turned into a terrorist organization "Islamic State". It was the Islamic State group that seized part of Libya, Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate on the occupied lands. And it is the "Islamic State" that is responsible for the high-profile terrorist attacks of recent years.
The material was prepared on the basis of open sources
The September 11, 2001 (or 9/11) attacks are a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States by an Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda in New York and Washington. They took place on Tuesday 11 September 2001.
Four terrorist groups, each with a trained pilot, took over passenger aircraft and sent them to their targets - the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed on deserted place in Pennsylvania before flying to Washington. The US government said that the organizers of the attack belong to the al-Qaeda group. During these attacks, about 3,000 people died. Most of them were citizens of the United States, but about 300 were from the UK, India, Canada and other countries.
Planes that became instruments of terrorist attacks
The first of the four aircraft hijacked was American Airlines Flight 11 (Boeing 767-200ER). He made daily flights between Boston and Los Angeles. When hijacked at 7:59 am on September 11, 2001, there were 81 passengers on board (out of 158 seats). Forty-seven minutes later, this plane crashed into the North Tower of the New York World Trade Center at 94-98 floors, at 440 mph, carrying 9,717 gallons of jet fuel. (A US gallon is equal to 3.78541178 liters.)
The second was United Airlines Flight 175, also a Boeing 767-200ER, also flying from Boston to Los Angeles. It took off at 8:14 am on September 11 and carried 56 passengers (out of 168 seats). Captured by terrorists, it crashed into the South Tower of the mall at 9:03 am, at 540 mph, with 9.118 gallons of fuel in its tanks.
The third terrorist hijacked American Airlines Flight 77, Boeing 757-200. It flew from Washington to Los Angeles at 8:20 am on September 11, 2001. The plane was two-thirds empty (58 passengers out of 176). It crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37 am at 530 mph with 4,000 gallons of fuel in its tanks.
The fourth aircraft used by terrorists was United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757-200. He was captured 42 minutes after his 8am flight from Newark to San Francisco. There were only 37 passengers on board and just over 7,000 gallons of fuel. It crashed at 560 mph in an empty field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:03 am.
Victims and destruction
All 246 people on four planes, as well as 19 hijackers, were killed in the attacks. Both of the attacked World Trade Center towers caught fire. The South Tower (WTC-2) burned for 56 minutes until it fell and collapsed. The North Tower (WTC-1) burned for 102 minutes, then it also fell. During the collapse, parts of the towers fell into other neighboring buildings. Due to this damage, the third tower, No. 7, of the World Trade Center (WTC-7) fell at 5:20 pm. Many other buildings nearby were so badly damaged that they had to be demolished later. 2602 people died at the World Trade Center.
The plane crashed into the Pentagon from the west side. He damaged three of the five "rings" that make up the Pentagon. At the same time, 125 people died at the Pentagon.
The United States government paid the families of the victims of the attacks an average of $ 1.8 million.
A total of 2996 people died from the events of September 11, 2001, including firefighters and police officers who tried to save other people.
It is believed to have been the first major foreign terrorist attack on the United States. In 1941, when Japanese aircraft attacked a US naval base in Pearl Harbor Hawaii was not yet part of the United States. There have been several major attacks against American targets before, but most of them took place outside the United States (for example, in a Lebanese Marines camp).
When investigating the causes of the attacks, "conspiracy theories" were also put forward, according to which some people in the US government knew about the impending attacks in advance or even organized them.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the President of the United States Bush declared the so-called "war on terrorism". It expressed itself first in the strengthening of security measures inside the United States, and then in real wars on the territory Afghanistan and Iraq... Regimes were overthrown during these wars Taliban and Saddam Hussein... In May 2011, US special forces killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
Al-Qaeda and Taliban groups are recognized as terrorist in the Russian Federation and are prohibited by law.
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Over 11 years after catastrophic destruction World Trade Center, the New York City government has finally puzzled itself with the question: what could have happened to 1116 a victim that disappeared in him?
Every time a building collapsed in history, all the bodies of the dead were removed from under the rubble more or less intact. The reason is that in crumbling buildings, human bodies are crushed, but do not disintegrate into tiny particles or disappear without a trace.
but September 11, 2001 the most famous “collapse of buildings” in history somehow led to the magical disappearance of more than 1,000 bodies of victims. Despite careful efforts to "sift and dig", not a piece of skin, not a fragment of a nail, not a bone fragment of any of these bodies was found.
But this secret is not the only one. Little remains of the 1,634 inhabitants of the World Trade Center who have not completely disappeared. Most of the human remains found and identified by DNA were in the form of tiny, atomized particles rather than whole bodies.
What happened to the nearly 3,000 human bodies annihilated during the ten-second disappearance of the 110-story Towers? Answer: the same as with office furniture, filing cabinets, telephones, computers and other contents of skyscrapers. Almost no remains of these objects were found.
They, like the bodies of people, somehow turned into a mixture of tiny fragments and less than 100 micron dust, carried to the sea and slowly settling in Atlantic Ocean... As one of the sifting diggers noted, the largest piece of office furnishings recovered from Epicenter was a tiny piece of a telephone keypad.
Today, more than 11 years later, the New York government is finally admitting the mystery exists. In a memo to the families of those killed in 9/11, New York official Casey Holloway announced that this Monday, April 1, the City's Chief Medical Examiner will begin sifting through the rubble of the World Trade Center structures at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island. for its export of 60 truck runs. According to a city spokesman, they hope to find the remains of at least some of the 1,116 victims.
Unfortunately, the chances of finding any significant new death toll seem slim. After all, the wreckage of the Twin Towers - which was less than 50 percent of the Towers by mass (what happened to the rest of that mass?) Had already been carefully sifted and dug over 10 years ago.
The city's decision to sift through the wreckage of buildings, beginning April 1, bears not a passing resemblance to George W. Bush's decision to kneel and knee to search under his desk for the missing Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Is this some kind of cruel April Fools' joke?
The absence of crushed but intact human bodies, office furniture and equipment, as well as 50 percent of the mass of the Towers suggests that the Twins did not collapse - they exploded. This may explain why the entire roof of the neighboring Deutsche Bank building, as it was discovered in 2006, is littered with the smallest fragments of human bones.
Could not a simple gravitational collapse, which was the basis for the conclusions of the official government report NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology; approx. Mixednews.ru), smashed human skeletons into fragments and lead to the deposition of these fragments all over the roof of a neighboring building.
Were the Twin Towers and the thousands of people in them blown to pieces by explosives? This is what many family members of 9/11 victims believe in. Robert McIlwain, whose son Bobby died at the Twin Towers on 9/11, said about half of the family members share the suspicion that the Towers were demolished in a false flag bombing. Famed 9/11 hero William Rodriguez, who has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people around the world, is another representative of 9/11 survivors who claim evidence of "controlled demolition" is an open secret.
Scientist Carl Sagan once remarked that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." But sometimes the lack of evidence is overwhelming evidence of guilt. The absence of intact bodies, office contents and half the mass of the Twin Towers is irrefutable proof that the Towers were demolished by the explosion.
The missing contents and mass of the Twin Towers is not the only mysterious "absence" associated with 9/11. Other notable "missing pieces" include:
▪ The absence of more than 80 video footage of the American government, which depicts the attack on the Pentagon, some of which were seized by FBI agents literally moments after the attack. Only a few footage has been released, and these footage only shows the explosion at the Pentagon, not the large airliner.
▪ The absence of 100 thousand kg of a passenger Boeing-757, which is believed to have crashed into the Pentagon. There is not a single tape of this 100-tonne airliner wreckage, or plane baggage and passenger remains, ever removed from any of the Pentagon's three widely spaced impact zones.
▪ The absence of 100,000 kg of the Boeing 757, which allegedly went into soft ground under a shallow crater 15 feet in diameter (4.6 m; approx.) In Shanksville, Pennsylvania. There is not a single evidence that at the alleged place of the fall from the ground, 100 tons of the wreckage of the liner were removed, along with what was left of passengers and baggage.
▪ Lack of official passenger lists, security camera footage, ticket stubs, airline testimony, or any other factual evidence that the 19 young Arabs accused of 9/11 were on airplanes at all.
▪ Lack of audio recordings of FAA (Federal Aviation Agency) personnel reporting to each other about their 9/11 experience. These records were taken by an FAA inspector, cut into small pieces, and then scattered across many widely spaced garbage cans so that they could never be collected and recovered.
▪ Lack of indestructible "black boxes" of planes that crashed into the Twin Towers. The US government claims that these flight recorders were never found, but early responses indicated that they were in place when the FBI agents found and retrieved them.
▪ The absence of the most important piece of evidence cited by the government - audio and video recordings of prolonged torture sessions and scripted confessions of mentally retarded “mastermind of 9/11” Abu Zubaydah and his “ally” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The CIA admits it illegally destroyed these tapes, anonymous second-hand reports of the 9/11 Commission cited as its only piece of evidence to support the 19 hijacker story.
Even plastic phones did not crumble into dust and melt, where did the bones and flesh of people go?
▪ The absence of any plausible and innocent explanation for the BBC's premature reporting of the collapse of Building 7 of the World Trade Center, Larry Silverstein's admission that he demolished WTC 7, and (of course) the clearly controlled nature of the demolition of that building.
In each of these cases - as with the 1,116 missing victims - the lack of evidence is irrefutable proof of guilt.
The US government now faces a complete lack of legitimacy.
