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Originally posted by mmiichael
Like the Gay references. A personl interest?
Documented thoroughly, some or all the hijackers took supplementary training on flight simulators in Pakistan in addition to receiving American pilot's licenses. Despite a handful of disclaimers, people who have flown airliners solidly agree the most difficult part of flying is the takeoff and landing. Once in mid-air it is mostly a matter of steering. The plane was maneuvered to hit it’s target in a way that required no unusual expertise.
During WWII hundreds of Japanese teenage boys were only ground trained on primitive manual flight simulators and managed to go up in Kamikaze aircraft and consistently hit much smaller moving ship targets in the Ocean. Worldwide millions of people fly airplanes. It's not Rocket Science.
No plausible scenario with any credible substantiation has been put forward other than what you and others like to call the Official Story.
Provide a different interpretation of these events, solid evidence, and you will have a receptive audience.
Crabbing about the lack of proof is a function of your unwillingness to seek it out and examine it. Labeling what you chose not to believe as part of the so-called Official Story does not change the facts as they stand.
Get it sweetheart?
Originally posted by jthomas
Originally posted by Karilla
reply to post by jthomas
Maybe you could do me a favour. I have trawled through lots of eyewitness testimony that is supposed to corroborate the plane hitting the building. Understandably, seeing a jet coming towards them, they all either covered their heads or ran away.
There were eyewitnesses all over that did not need to duck or otherwise avert their eyes.
I haven't found one person that actually saw the plane hit the building facade. If you could supply one, since you are obviously au fait with the supporting evidence, I would be grateful.
The testimony has been available. I have given you one source already. Here it is again:
wtc7lies.googlepages.com...
From the testimonies I have read it seems eminently possible that the plane could have flown over the building at not much more than roof height.
Then provide the positive evidence no one has ever done demonstrating a flyover occurred. Explain why their are NO eyewitness reports from any of the hundreds of people ALL around the Pentagon in a perfect position to see ANY flyover.
My own hunch (it is no more) is that it wasn't a missile that hit the building, but some kind of bomb slung underneath the plane that smashed the generator and detonated on contact with the building, sending the bulk of it's energy through the building to punch through the inner ring. Plane wreckage was then brought to the site by first responders or was to hand already.
That is just an appeal to ignorance and a fanciful hunch. Why not just stick to the actual evidence?
I'm sorry you think me ignorant to disbelieve the official version of events, but that is the case.
As long as you fool yourself that there is no evidence, ask the same questions that have been addressed and/or debunked for years, and believe that it's all some "story", you will remain stuck where you are.
You are perfectly capable of educating yourself on the evidence and questioning the validity of claims of 9/11 "Truthers."
Originally posted by GenRadek
So tezz, where is your proof that something else happened?
Originally posted by GenRadek
You crow and crow about how jthomas cant provide you pictures of passengers strapped to chairs in the debris, which was confirmed by two sources, who WERE there
The videos taken from the Pentagon area after the 9/11 attacks were mentioned in the Maguire declaration, where FBI Special Agent, Jacqueline Maguire responded (see below) to a request from Scott Bingham.
In Summary:
* She determined that the FBI had 85 videotaptes that might be relevant. Of those, 56 "of these videotapes did not show either the Pentagon building, the Pentagon crash site, or the impact of Flight 77 into the Pentagon on September 11."
* Of the 29 remaining videotapes, 16 "did not show the Pentagon crash site and did not show the impact of Flight 77 into the Pentagon."
* Of the 13 remaining tapes which showed the Pentagon crash site, 12 "only showed after the impact of Flight 77."
* The videotape taken from the Citgo gas station did not show the impact.
* No videotapes were located from the Sheraton Hotel, though she located a videotape from the Doubletree Hotel.
source
Originally posted by GenRadek
You crow and crow about how jthomas cant provide you pictures of passengers strapped to chairs in the debris, which was confirmed by two sources, who WERE there
Originally posted by Lillydale
reply to post by jthomas
Still waiting...
so far you cannot explain why there were no passengers bodies at the crash scene.
so far you cannot explain why no plane parts were ever identified.
so far you cannot explain where the wings went.
We actually did refute some of the crap on your list but I guess you did not feel like reading the posts you are trying to mock.
Whenever you have answers to these questions, we will be here, watching you get more and more sad with you attempts to toss the ball back in our court simply because you cannot do anything with it on yours.
As some one who worked at the Pentagon for six years right up to September of last year and experienced 9/11 first hand I'd like to interject a few thoughts.
...
3. Why isn't there more video? Without telling too much of what I know of Pentagon security, you would be suprised how few cameras there are outside the building. Humans actively patrolling a building's perimeter are a tad more effective than dozens of monitors which may or may not be watched at any given moment. Given the limited number of entrances to the facility (all highly controlled areas), cameras are generally only needed in high traffic areas like vehicle control points (such as the one this video came from). What about the surrounding buildings. I've been to the AFFEES gas station on the hill more than a hundred times and can honestly tell you I never noticed a camera pointed towards the Pentagon... that doesn't mean there isn't one, but the filling stations don't seem to be arrainged in such a way as to provide camera coverage of the pumps and the Pentagon.
As for the hotels and shops over in Pentagon row or Crystal City Mall? Why should their cameras capture the Pentagon? Commion sense, and practical security experience, would dictate that any cameras they had would necessarily be pointed at their own properties. I do know for a fact that there is a traffic camera on I-395 right next to the Pentagon, we would check it regularly towards the end of shifts to see how bad traffic was. As I recall you can see part of one of the parking lots, but like most cameras it is focused towards it's own purpose... namele monitoring traffic in I-395 for the local television stations and commuter websites.
The videos taken from the Pentagon area after the 9/11 attacks were mentioned in the Maguire declaration, where FBI Special Agent, Jacqueline Maguire responded (see below) to a request from Scott Bingham.
In Summary:
* She determined that the FBI had 85 videotaptes that might be relevant. Of those, 56 "of these videotapes did not show either the Pentagon building, the Pentagon crash site, or the impact of Flight 77 into the Pentagon on September 11."
* Of the 29 remaining videotapes, 16 "did not show the Pentagon crash site and did not show the impact of Flight 77 into the Pentagon."
* Of the 13 remaining tapes which showed the Pentagon crash site, 12 "only showed after the impact of Flight 77."
* The videotape taken from the Citgo gas station did not show the impact.
* No videotapes were located from the Sheraton Hotel, though she located a videotape from the Doubletree Hotel.
Originally posted by jthomas
Originally posted by Lillydale
reply to post by jthomas
Still waiting...
so far you cannot explain why there were no passengers bodies at the crash scene.
Demonstrate that you know no passenger bodies were at the scene.
so far you cannot explain why no plane parts were ever identified.
Demonstrate how you know AA77 was not identified.
so far you cannot explain where the wings went.
Demonstrate that the wings flew away from the wreckage.
We actually did refute some of the crap on your list but I guess you did not feel like reading the posts you are trying to mock.
No, it's never been refuted.
Whenever you have answers to these questions, we will be here, watching you get more and more sad with you attempts to toss the ball back in our court simply because you cannot do anything with it on yours.
We all know that the burden of proof is entirely on your shoulders and how frustrated you are to have to face that fact. You are the ones trying to convince everyone that there is no evidence that AA77 hit the Pentagon, after all.
Trying to ask the same debunked questions repeatedly instead of providing positive evidence for your claims is why you haven't accomplished a thing. You need to convince the entire world that AA77 did not hit the Pentagon. What is taking you so bloody long?
Now, stop evading your responsibilities, Lilydale, and give us those statements from the over 1,000 people who saw, handled, removed, and sorted the wreckage from inside the Pentagon.
Or tell us why you are so afraid of the evidence.
Originally posted by TheAntiHero420
reply to post by jthomas
Have you not looked at the photos posted by SPreston? There is 3 cameras that we can see that are obliously not meant to see the inside of the building. Explain why none of these captured the plane.
And your 85 Videos:
A list of all the videotapes is available, which shows many of these videotapes do not have footage of the Pentagon at all. Instead, many have footage of the WTC, some are security video tapes taken from a Kinko's in Florida, etc. Some that show the Pentagon were taken days after the attacks, and some in the evening of 9/11/2001.
The security camera footage taken from around the Pentagon included the Citgo, the Doubletree, and the Pentagon parking lot. There was also video from cameras at Reagan National Airport parking garage. Both video files show smoke in the distance coming from direction of Pentagon. Another video came from a DEA HQ security camera atop 700 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA. The camera was repositioned after attack to show post-crash footage of Pentagon.
Footage taken after the attack included home video filmed by a tourist traveling past Pentagon and then by AP photographer who borrowed the camera, and video taken by a NBC4 Washington reporter.
Flight77.info...
[edit on 9/13/2009 by TheAntiHero420]
Originally posted by jthomas
That's an appeal to incredulity.
The question is still on the table: why "should" those (or any) video cameras have caught a jet crashing into the Pentagon?
WHY can't any of you answer the question?
Originally posted by PsykoOps
I'd take this with a very large grain of salt. Eye witness testimony has been proven over and over again to be notoriously unreliable.
Originally posted by jthomas
Originally posted by Lillydale
reply to post by jthomas
Still waiting...
so far you cannot explain why there were no passengers bodies at the crash scene.
Demonstrate that you know no passenger bodies were at the scene.
Demonstrate that you know passenger bodies were at the scene.
so far you cannot explain why no plane parts were ever identified.
Demonstrate how you know AA77 was not identified.
This is easy. Demonstrate that it was. If it was, there would be records and it would be in the incident report. There are none and it is not. Prove me wrong.
The burden of proof lies in the makers of the claim.
Now, stop evading your responsibilities, Lilydale, and give us those statements from the over 1,000 people who saw, handled, removed, and sorted the wreckage from inside the Pentagon.
Or tell us why you are so afraid of the evidence.
What evidence?
I am still waiting for this evidence but you just got done writing that diatribe about how you do not need to provide any evidence so I think that pretty much sums out how things work in your head.
Originally posted by Lillydale
Originally posted by jthomas
That's an appeal to incredulity.
The question is still on the table: why "should" those (or any) video cameras have caught a jet crashing into the Pentagon?
WHY can't any of you answer the question?
What are you talking about?
This is the stupidest question on here and it has been answered. Why should video cameras capture what they are aimed at????? Do you know what video cameras are for? Do you know what they do? Why would they NOT capture the plane?