Newest entries:
WTC ATTACK...
Bombs, other explosions
9/11 - Edmund McNally phoned his wife from 97th floor of WTC 2 following the plane crash, says he heard explosions below him. (NY Times)
9/11 - Firefighter Louie Cacchioli in elevator going to 24th floor hears a bomb go off and thinks bombs were set in the building. (People)
9/11 - Kim White from 80th floor of WTC 1 hears an explosion near the 74th floor. (People|2)
9/11 - EMT Joseph Lovero reports hearing 'additional explosions' to dispatcher. (WNBC)
9/11 - Tom Elliott on 67th floor floor in WTC 2 felt explosion below him as plane hit, firemen going up told him of an explosion near 60th floor. (CS
Monitor)
9/11 - Witnesses reported hearing another explosion just before WTC 1 collapse, police said it looked almost like a 'planned implosion' designed to
'catch bystanders watching from the street.' (Guardian)
9/11 - Third explosion reported at WTC 2 (TCM News), there are reports that a part of the second tower has collapsed after the new explosion. (TCM
News)
WTC 7
9/11 - Firefighter Scott Holowach says he and his crew were just 'hanging out' until tower WTC 7 came down and went right to work put the 7's fires
out. (NY Times)
9/11 - Paramedic Steven Pilla says he and his crew didn't do any further because they were 'waiting' for WTC 7 to come down. (NY Times)
9/11 - Firefighter Lt William Ryan says he and his crew were told WTC 7 was going to collapse 'around 3 pm' and 'fell back' until it came down.
(NY Times)
9/11 - Firefighter Frank Sweeney says he and his crew were sent back down near the WTC 7 and 'stood and waited' for it to come down. (NY Times)
PENNSYLVANIA CRASH...
9/11 - Witness at Flight 93 crash scene says there was nothing that could 'distinguish that a plane had crashed there.' (FOX video)
COVER-UP...
Jan '02 - Fire Engineering says official WTC investigation is a 'half-baked farce' that may already have been 'commandeered by political forces'
whose primary interests lie 'far afield of full disclosure.' (Fire Engineering)
June '04 - 9/11 tapes reveal ground personnel covered-up attack response, kept things 'hush-hush.' (New York Observer)
July '04 - Almost 3 years after 9/11, technology only now exists to enable cell phones to work on airplanes at flying altitudes. (USA Today, New York
Press)
MOTIVES...
1997 - CFR & Trilateral Comm member Zbigniew Brzezinski publishes a book urging the US to control the world's natural resources to maintain global
domination despite public's uneasiness about US projecting external power and cautions it will become more difficult to get consensus on foreign
policy with an increasingly diverse US society unless public perceives a massive direct external threat. (Brzezinski: 'Grand Chessboard'), Sept 14 -
Council on Foreign Relation member Gary Hart says 9/11 attacks is chance for Bush to carry out a "new world order." (CFR)
Military budget increase:
* Sept '00 - PNAC calls to increase US defense budget, but says won't happen absent a catastrophic event like a "new Pearl Harbor." (ABC, PNAC)
* Sept 5, '01 - Rumsfeld asks Senate to approve new '02 defense budget which has largest spending increase since the mid 80's. (DoD)
* FY 2002 budget request is a $37.8 billion, or 11.5% increase from '01 request. (DoD)
* FY 2003 budget request is a $40.1 billion, or 10.9% increase from '02 request. (DoD)
Afghanistan
War in Afghanistan would have been politically impossible pre-9/11. (USA Today)
PATSIES, OPERATIVES...
Sept 16 - OBL denies 9/11 involvement in press release (Guardian), Sept 28 - OBL denies 9/11 involvement in 'Ummat' Paki newspaper, suggests Jews or
US secret services behind attacks (Khilafah), Nov 7 - OBL denies 9/11 involvement in 'The Dawn' Paki newspaper. (Islam Online)
Framing
Sept 10 - Flight 93 hijacker Ziad Jarrah reportedly sends farewell letter and flight training documents to girlfriend of 5 years in Germany, but
allegedly wrote address wrong and letter comes back and is passed to FBI; relatives say letter was fabricated to frame him. (BBC)
Sept 10 - Atta and two Arab men allegedly spew anti-American sentiments and leave a Quran and business card behind. (USA Today)
9/11 - Alleged Flight 11 hijackers Atta and Al-Omari caught on Portland, ME airport security video (ABC-AU, USA Today), Father says it's not Atta on
security video. (PittsburgLive)
9/11 - Atta was only passenger among 81 people aboard Flight 11 whose luggage didn't make the flight and where found with incriminated evidence. (USA
Today, WorldNetDaily)
9/11 - Press reports a group with 'Palestine' in the name claimed responsibility for attacks (CNN video), caught Israeli spy who was filming WTC
burning says 'We are not your problem, Palestinians are the problem' (ABC), video shows Palestinians rejoicing over news of attacks (CNN Video,
Israel Insider, LA Times), Palestinian celebrations were staged (Der Spiegel), '02 - Palestinian says Mossad sought to induce him to set up fake al
Qaeda cell in Gaza and declare responsibility for various bombings. (Arabia Online)
Sept 28 - FBI claims to find Arabic written letter in Atta's suitcase and additional copies at Flight 93 crash site and in car registered to Flight
77 hijacker at Dulles parking lot. (FBI, PBS)
killtown.911review.org...