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Radiation Expert Claims High-Radiation Readings Near Pentagon After 9/11 Indicate Depleted Uranium Used; High-Ranking Army Officer Claims Missile Used at Pentagon, Not Commercial Airliner
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Two high profile radiation experts concur Pentagon strike involved use of a missile. Also Geiger counter readings right after the attack shows high levels of radiation 12 miles away from Pentagon crash site.
August 18, 2005
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Regarding the missile theory, it is also backed up by retired Army Maj. Doug Rokke, a PhD educational physics and former top military expert banished from the Pentagon after the military failed to follow regulations regarding the use, clean up and medical treatment regarding the use of depleted uranium.
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“When you look at the whole thing, especially the crash site void of airplane parts, the size of the hole left in the building and the fact the projectile’s impact penetrated numerous concrete walls, it looks like the work of a missile,” said Maj. Rokke from his Rantoul, IL home this week. “And when you look at the damage, it was obviously a missile. Also, if you look at the WTC and the disturbing flash hitting the tower right before the impact of the airplane, it also looks like a missile was used.”
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“Dr. Sherman was downwind from the Pentagon on 9/11 and her Geiger counter readings show an extremely high reading, a reading of more than eight to ten times higher than normal,” said Moret, also an expert in the cause and effects of depleted uranium.
“Dr. Sherman, who is well-respected radiation expert herself, then went about contacting the proper authorities in order to try and alert emergency responders of the radiation risk at the Pentagon crash site. And we have also kept photos of the Geiger counter readings in order to verify what Dr. Sherman found 12 miles away.”
After notifying the Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency (NIRS), experts from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the FBI were alerted and according to Moret, radiation experts later confirmed high radiation levels at the Pentagon crash site possibly from the presence from depleted uranium or other unknown causes.
But what disturbed Moret most has been the Bush administration’s lack of concern and its failure to mount a thorough investigation into what really caused the high radiation levels, saying perhaps the findings might reveal something contrary to the official story that a jetliner rammed through 12 Pentagon walls of solid concrete.
www.arcticbeacon.com...
Defense Secretary: "Lots of Warnings" Prior to 9/11
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Rumsfeld is apparently shaken by this young reporter's forthrightness. First, he admits what few else dare:
"There were lots of warnings."
Immediately after this sentence, though, the Secretary starts to qualify it. He subtly plays the "we didn't connect the dots"
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And here's something to kick around. Still answering this question, Rumsfeld goes on to make a strange statement:
Rumsfeld: Well, I was sitting here and the building was struck, and you could feel the impact of it very clearly, and I don't know what made me do anything I did, to be honest with you. I just do it instinctive. I looked out the window, saw nothing here, and then went down the hall until the smoke was too bad, then to a stairwell down and went outside and saw what had happened. Asked a person who'd seen it, and he told me that a plane had flown into it.
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"It is a truth that a terrorist can attack any time, any place, using any technique and it's physically impossible to defend at every time and every place against every conceivable technique. Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filed with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center. The only way to deal with this problem is by taking the battle to the terrorists, wherever they are, and dealing with them."
"Missile"? What missile would that be? Did he let something slip? Or was this just a gaffe? A bad choice of words? A transcription error? Until we know for sure, it deserves scrutiny.
Originally posted by Britguy
Isn't DU used as ballast in some airliners? I'm sure I read this somewhere so I'll look for a link.
Depleted uranium is also used in a number of civilian applications, generally where a high density weight is needed.
Such applications include sailboat keels, as counterweights and sinker bars in oil drills, gyroscope rotors, and in other places where there is a need to place a weight that occupies as little space as possible. Tungsten could be used instead, but it is much more expensive.
Aircraft may also contain depleted uranium counterweights (a Boeing 747 may contain 400–1,500kg). However there is some controversy about its use in this application because of concern about the uranium entering the environment should the aircraft crash, since the metal can oxidise to a fine powder in a fire. This was highlighted by the collision of two Boeing 747s at Tenerife Airport in 1977 when the resulting fire consumed 3000kg of the material. (Another well-known crash with DU release was the Bijlmermeer disaster in 1992 in Amsterdam.) Consequently its use has been phased out in many newer aircraft, for example both Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas discontinued using DU counterweights in the 1980s.
Originally posted by AgentSmith
I didn't realise DU shells or even fireballs made pretty fireballs like that. Did they pile up drums of gasoline in the building in preperation?
I can even remember seeing a program on the making of a Royal Navy recruitment video when I was a kid and even on that the said "we have to exaggerate the explosions using drums of petrol because it just isn't that exciting in real life".
Consequently its use has been phased out in many newer aircraft, for example both Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas discontinued using DU counterweights in the 1980s.
Originally posted by Nventual
Did any officers or workers die when the Pentagon got hit? I always wondered that.
Originally posted by ABC_123
bsbray...I didn't see any mention on that page about uranium or radiation. Perhaps on the same site you meant this page?
Originally posted by NinjaCodeMonkey
I think they rigged one of those unmanned planes with a bunker buster. There is no way a standard plane can fly through 12 reinforced concrete walls, it is absolutely impossible. If it could then we wouldn't need bunker busters.
To which post are you referring? The 9/11 Research Site link I posted was in response to someone asking if anyone died from the Pentagon during the attack.
Originally posted by ABC_123
Well that Wikopedia write-up was a nice trip back in time, very imformative...but, I doubt the airplanes used in the hijackings were made back in the early 80's; but feel free to find proof they were.
So, if there was no uranium used to build the attack planes, that only leaves one question, where did the uranium come from? Let's not speculate here by saying "Oh maybe it came from here or maybe there". Unless you worked at the Pentagon that day in some capacity or have a link to prove otherwise, opinions don't count. Why did the geiger counters register 12 miles away?