What a terrorist attack was September 11. Who really blew up the Twin Towers in New York? Like a house of cards

An event that changed people's lives

It will not be an exaggeration to say that this day has become the most unusual day on the planet in the 21st century. Then the inhabitants of all countries of the world stared at their TV screens, "stuck" on the Internet. And there, on the screens, something completely unimaginable was happening, reminiscent of shots from a fantastic action movie. Huge passenger liners crashed into the skyscrapers of New York, tall buildings folded like toy houses, drowning in clouds of dust, reminiscent of a volcanic eruption. And - people: endless crowds of screaming, running through the streets, or frozen in the distance with a mobile phone near their ear ...

Alas, this was not a film, but almost a direct report from the scene, which would later rightfully be called the largest act of terrorism in the history of mankind. Events wearing and quite official name: "The September 11, 2001 terrorist attack in New York."

The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 - how it happened

It is difficult to describe what happened, if only because the narrator inevitably slips into emotions, into personal assessments, and even into his own memories. Moreover, until now, after many years, certain mysteries, unexplored moments, and contradictory interpretations remain in the picture of a grand terrorist attack. Nevertheless, the essence of what happened is as follows.

A group of Islamic terrorists hijacked four passenger liners that morning, full of people and performing scheduled flights. Further investigation revealed that there were a total of 19 attackers, all from the same organization, Al-Qaeda. Each of the aircraft carried at least one person who had undergone special training and knew how to operate a passenger ship.

The terrorists sent two planes to the tall buildings - the South and North towers of the World Trade Center, which were the pride of Manhattan and towered in its southern part. The planes crashed into these skyscrapers one by one, with an interval of about 16 minutes. As a result of the disaster, the buildings caught fire, and subsequently completely collapsed, burying a huge number of people under them. Naturally, all the passengers on the planes were also killed.

The third plane crashed into the Pentagon building, and the fourth crashed in Pennsylvania, crashing into a field. As the investigation showed, its purpose, most likely, was the building of the US Congress, but the terrorists failed to carry out their plans: a fight with the crew and passengers began on board, which eventually led to the crash of the plane. Naturally, everyone on the third and fourth ships also died.

The Pentagon building after a collision with an aircraft

At the moment, it is stated that as a result of these sad events, 2,977 people died, not counting the 19 attackers. Also, 23 people are still listed among the missing.

This is how it looks short description this extraordinary event, but for a more accurate picture it must be supplemented with some important facts.

September 11, 2001 terrorist attack - additional facts

All the hijacked flights followed their schedules to distant California, that is, they had a lot of fuel on board, because the hijackings took place shortly after the departures. The plane flew into the North Tower at about the 95th floor, and into the South Tower at about the 80th. It is impossible to say more precisely, since in both cases they were Boeings, very large aircraft, and the contact area was more than one floor.

The terrible fire and destruction caused by the catastrophe led to the collapse of giant buildings. The South Tower fell first, followed by the North Tower, about half an hour later (the fire in the building raged for 102 minutes). The third building, also part of the World shopping center, fell in the late afternoon. It was too close to the towers that were attacked, and could not withstand the thermal and mechanical influences that fell on its walls. In addition, the accumulated gas from the destroyed communications exploded inside the building.

Some time passed between the hijacking of the aircraft and their crash, during which many passengers had time to mobile communications connect with your loved ones and friends. Someone said goodbye to life, someone tried to contact the special services. Many records of these negotiations have been preserved: emotional, deep, filled with fear and grief, but also with love for loved ones.

In some cases, passengers and crew tried to resist the terrorists. One of the planes, as already mentioned, as a result of such heroic actions did not reach its target. In a Boeing that crashed into the North Tower, at least one passenger and a crew commander died before the collision; this is proved by the investigation.

Pennsylvania Aircraft 4 Crash Site

In the first hours after the terrorist attack, the life of the United States changed beyond recognition. No planes received permission to enter the country and land at its airfields. Passenger flights within the state were canceled, all foreign aircraft left for landing in Canada and Mexico. Hundreds of fighters were launched into the air and patrolled the skies around all major cities.

A special role was assigned to New York. Thousands of firefighters, medics and rescuers worked in Manhattan. All city police officers were involved, colleagues from other regions urgently arrived to help them. The destroyed twin towers left behind giant rubble, burning in which lasted about 100 days, while many harmful chemicals were released into the air.

Subsequently, the US intelligence services found out that of the 19 terrorists, the majority (15 people) had citizenship Saudi Arabia, the rest were citizens of the UAE, Egypt and Lebanon. They were not typical shahid fanatics: they all had a good education and an established philosophy of life.

Consequences of the terrorist attack

The massive terrorist attack of 11 September had consequences commensurate with its scale. They manifested themselves in various spheres of life, and all over the world. Here are just a few of them.

Material

In addition to the completely destroyed three of the WTC skyscrapers, several other nearby buildings, including one church, were significantly damaged, or even destroyed. Lost archives, works of art, countless documents. South Manhattan has weakened its business importance for many years. The Pentagon building suffered a lot of damage.

Political

The US government and Congress have created a special commission known as the 9/11 Commission. She worked for two years, and came to the conclusion that the main organizer and culprit of the attack was the Islamic fundamentalist organization Al-Qaeda, which spent about half a billion dollars on the conspiracy. The origin of these funds remains a mystery to this day.

The organization was headed by the Saudi Osama bin Laden. The basis of her ideology was hatred of Israel and the United States. In subsequent years, America, together with its allies, launched an unprecedented struggle against fundamentalists, primarily Al-Qaeda. Its leader was killed in Afghanistan by an American special unit in May 2011.

All the leading countries of the world have reconsidered their views on terrorism, realizing its global danger. Security measures have been significantly tightened almost everywhere, especially on aircraft.

We can talk about the economic consequences of the event, and about its military significance, about the impact on geopolitics. But perhaps the main thing to note is the change, so to speak, in the modern philosophy of life. After such terrible events, all people, without exception, acutely realized in what, in essence, a fragile world we live. In this world, even the most powerful country is vulnerable, and the danger lies in wait for a person not only in the belligerent states. The terrorist attack in New York showed that the boundaries between enemies and friends have become ghostly, and the brutality of wars does not necessarily manifest itself only on the fronts of local conflicts.

Beautiful temporary memorials have been erected on the site of the former twin towers; permanent monuments are under construction. The American nation celebrates the mournful date as the Day of Service and Remembrance. And in New York there is a high monument by Zurab Tsereteli - "Tear of Sorrow". Inside the shattered bronze slab is a huge steel drop. This is a symbol of sorrow not only for the people killed in the terrorist attack. And maybe not even that much. This tear symbolizes the common pain of humanity, which after September 11 has become in many ways different, not so carefree and happy.

Ten years ago, a tragedy struck New York City that forever changed the lives of millions of people around the world. All these ten years, we have learned more and more details about the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, but no one dares to say that it became clear to the end, what and why happened in the morning of that autumn day v largest city USA.
We decided to acquaint our readers with an article published on the website of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, which contains facts that make it possible to better understand and more sharply feel the horror of the tragedy, the symbol of which has become the two digits 9/11.

1. The number of children who lost their parents as a result of the tragic events of September 11 was 3051. 17 children were born later to women who lost their husbands during the terrorist attack. Nine months after the terrorist attack, the birth rate in New York was higher than a year earlier, by 20%.

2. According to research, alcohol consumption in New York in the weeks after the terrorist attack was 25% higher than a year earlier. Tobacco use increased by 10%, marijuana by 3.2%, and attendance at churches and synagogues by 20%.

3. The total value of the works of art lost as a result of the terrorist attack exceeds $ 100 million. Among the lost masterpieces - a series of paintings Entablature by Roy Lichtenstein (Roy Lichtenstein), works by Pablo Picasso and David Hockney (David Hockney), many other author's items, interior elements, etc.

4. One of the unknown heroes of this day was the guide dog, the Labrador Roselle, who led her blind owner Michael Hingson from the 78th floor North tower to his friend's house. The dog died recently.

5. It took firefighters 100 days to extinguish all the fires caused by the attack on the World Trade Center (WTC).

6. The parents of 22-year-old Lisa Ann Frost, who flew United Flight 175, waited almost a year before rescuers sifting through the wreckage at the crash site could find anything that belonged to their daughter. Only 291 bodies were found undivided into fragments.

7. In total, the workers had to sift more than 1 million tons of structural debris and debris in search of remains and objects belonging to the victims of the terrorist attack. They found 437 watches and 144 wedding rings.

8. Three hours before the attack on the World Trade Center, at Princeton University, a system called the Generator of Random Events issued a message about an imminent catastrophic event.

9. The section of the Pentagon building, which was hit by the hijacked plane by terrorists, was reconstructed shortly before the attack, during which the walls and windows of the mission were specially fortified. Some windows near the impact zone remained intact.

10. The four most popular queries in the Google search engine in the week of the attack were as follows (in descending order): Nostradamus, CNN, The World Trade Center, Osama bin Laden.

11. The 2001 bestselling novel in America was Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne, written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.

12. When the leader of the terrorist group, Mohamed Atta, passed control at the Boston airport on the morning of September 11, the security information system reacted to his name and the terrorist's luggage did not get on the plane.

13. Hundreds of monuments, flagpoles and crucifixes around the world are made of metal taken from the scene of the attack. In particular, a monument was made from the metal of the North Tower in the city of Padua, in Italy.

14. The personnel of the US airspace defense system (NORAD - the North American Aerospace Defense Command), a week before the attack, conducted an exercise in which officers practiced the situation of the seizure of four aircraft by terrorists. Another round of training was scheduled for the morning of September 11th.

15. Six months before the terrorist attack, a 99-year lease for the WTC building was bought for $ 3.2 billion by the developer Larry Silverstein. He is currently rebuilding an office and shopping center next to the memorial and museum.

16. In the beginning current year the number of victims of the terrorist attack on September 11 increased by one and reached 2,753 people. A medical center in New York concluded that Jerry Borg, an accountant and part-time actor, died in late 2010 from a lung disease caused by dust from the ruins of the World Trade Center.

17. Five terrorists were living and preparing to hijack aircraft, just before the attack, in a motel located near the US National Security Agency (National Security Agency).

18. The black boxes of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon building were found on September 12, 2001. As US Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld later said, the voice recording data from one of these boxes could not be read. It is believed that this is the only case in 40 years when no information could be found on a recording device from the nose of an aircraft.

19. During the collapse of the WTC towers, a store selling the Koran and a Muslim prayer room were destroyed.

20. John Patrick O'Neill, FBI special agent who investigated the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 and al-Qaeda, left the service due to disagreements with his superiors. He later became the head of the WTC security service, where he died on September 11, 2001.

21. Scientists have used the three-day US air ban after 9/11 to study the impact of jet aircraft on climate. They found that during these three days it was slightly warmer during the day and somewhat colder than usual at night. The researchers saw the reason for this in the tracks that jet engines leave in the atmosphere, which are actually artificial clouds. During intense flights, these tracks reflect part of the sunlight during the day, and, on the contrary, retain heat at night.

Terrorist attack of 11 September 2001- a chain of disasters that caused massive loss of life in New York, Washington and southwestern Pennsylvania as a result of the hijacking of passenger planes and their ramming of the buildings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. As a result of the terrorist act, not counting 19 terrorists, 2,973 people died, including 246 of those who flew by airplanes, 2,602 in the World Trade Center towers (of which 343 are firemen and 60 police officers) and 125 in the Pentagon; in addition, 24 people are reported missing.

Terrorists
According to the official version, preparations for the terrorist attacks began in 1996. The terrorists were trained to fly at a flight school in Florida. Then, on September 11, 2001, 19 suicide bombers (kamikaze), armed with paper cutters, captured 4 American passenger aircraft domestic airlines and sent them to ram the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. Directly headed by the terrorists Mohammed Atta (1968-2001) - the leader of the Hamburg branch of Al-Qaeda. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed planned the attacks, and the organizer was the head of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.

Chronicle of events
The first Boeing 767 (American Airlines Flight 11, Boston-Los Angeles) crashed into the North Tower at 8:45 am local time. Onboard there were 81 passengers (5 of them terrorists) and 11 crew members. The plane struck between the 93rd and 99th floors, killing hundreds of people, the airplane's ignited fuel raised the temperature to 1000 degrees Celsius. The column of flame was so powerful that when the fire rushed down the elevator shafts, people were burnt even in the building's foyer. About a thousand people were trapped between the 100th and 107th floors. At 10:29 am, the burning North Tower collapsed.

A second Boeing 767 (United Airlines Flight 175, Boston-Los Angeles) crashed into the South Tower at floors 77-81 at 9:03 am local time. Onboard there were 56 passengers (including 5 terrorists) and 9 crew members. At 9:59 am, the building collapsed in flames.

A third Boeing 757-200 (American Airlines Flight 77, Washington-Los Angeles) crashed into the Pentagon at 9:40 am local time. Killed 184 people: 59 passengers (including 5 terrorists) and 6 crew members aboard the Boeing 757, and 125 military personnel and civilians inside the building.

The fourth Boeing 757 (United Airlines Flight 93, Newark - San Francisco) crashed in Pennsylvania in a forest 125 kilometers southeast of Pittsburgh. Onboard there were 37 passengers (including 4 terrorists) and 7 crew members. Recordings of the black box and passenger and crew communications with the ground show that the terrorists dived into the ground when resisting passengers attempted to break into the cockpit.

Media reported that some passengers and crew members were able to make mobile phone calls from the hijacked aircraft. These passengers reported multiple hijackers aboard each of the flights. The FBI later identified 19 of them, four on Flight 93, and five each on the remaining flights. However, the credibility of the calls is disputed, since the possibility of making a call in such circumstances is questionable. Many critics stated that the calls were fabricated by the FBI (the son's call to his mother, which begins with the phrase: “Mom, it's me, John Smith,” is especially distrustful, since the son would hardly have addressed his mother by mentioning his last name).

None of those aboard the hijacked planes survived. The death toll, according to official figures, was 2,973, including 247 on board aircraft (excluding 19 terrorists), 2,602 in New York in towers and on the ground, and 125 in the Pentagon. The dead included 343 New York City firefighters, 23 New York City Police Department officers and 37 Port Police Officers. In addition, 24 people are still missing.

In addition to the 110-story Twin Towers, five other WTC buildings (including WTC Building 7), the Marriott Hotel, four subway stations, and the Greek Orthodox Church St. Nicholas, were destroyed or badly damaged. In total, 25 buildings were damaged in Manhattan, all 7 buildings of the World Trade Center had to be razed to the ground. Later, the Deutsche Bank Building, which stood opposite the WTC, also had to be destroyed, due to an unusable, toxic environment inside the office tower.

Effects
As a result of the attack, both skyscrapers, adjacent buildings, as well as one wing of the Pentagon were destroyed; about three thousand people died.
It marked the beginning of a new era, when full-scale wars can go on not only between states, but also between states and international groupings that do not have a state structure and state responsibility.
The New York Stock Exchange was closed for two days.

The surrounding area, including the famous Wall Street, was buried in ash.
Government offices were evacuated.
The US President has declared martial law.
This event was the reason for the US war with Afghanistan and later with Iraq.

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It has been 17 years since that very day, since Nine-Eleven, when three skyscrapers collapsed in New York. No, I was not mistaken. Not two, but three, but for some reason they prefer not to remember the third. And when the third plane crashed into the repaired wing of the Pentagon, and in a strange way almost self-destructed, and another one fell in the desert. And these are not all the mysteries of the tragedy that happened.

So, on the morning of September 11, 2001, some unknown persons hijacked four Boeing aircraft (two in Boston, one in Washington, and another in Newark), after which the first two planes crashed into the New York skyscrapers WTC-1 and WTC-2, the third hit the wall of the Pentagon; and the fourth crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Two towers of the World Trade Center, attacked by planes, suddenly completely collapsed in a very strange way, neatly folded inward within an hour and a half. For some reason, the neighboring skyscraper WTC 7 also collapsed completely and neatly, although no planes hit it.

It was only a few days after the "terrorist attacks" that the first official version of all that happened and the performers were named. Osama bin Laden, who led this action from Afghanistan, and, of course, his brainchild of al-Qaeda, was immediately named to blame. Also, the names of all 19 hijackers were immediately named, who abandoned their cars near the airports, in which they found the Koran and instructions in Arabic "How to fly an airplane", and miraculously found the surviving passports of "terrorists" in the wreckage of the aircraft. From this it followed that an urgent need to start bombing Afghanistan and invading Iraq.

In the fall of 2002, a special commission was created under the loud name "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States." It was chaired by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean. The commission included former employees of the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice and other government agencies. All actions and the course of the investigation were supervised by Philip Zelikow, a member of the administration of President Bush Jr., who also worked under Bush Sr.

The final form of the official version, indicated above, was adopted on July 22, 2004, when the above-mentioned commission of 83 people completed the report on 585 pages. The report of the Keene Commission confirmed the above version, which still remains the only and irrefutable.

And now we will cite some facts showing how the US special services are able to "investigate" and obtain the necessary and deliberately announced results.

Cell Phones

The official report states that all information from the Boeing that crashed into the WTC skyscraper was transmitted to the ground by mobile phones... In particular, flight attendant Betty Ong spoke for 23 minutes and flight attendant Madeline Sweeney for 25 minutes. Sweeney's last words were: “I see water! I see buildings! " ...

And now the fact, which the authors of the official report "forgot" about. In 2001, cell phone calls from an airplane flying at speeds exceeding 700 km / h were not possible.

The fact is that when the phone enters the broadcasting area of ​​the base station, or "cell", a so-called "greeting" occurs, which in 2001 took at least eight seconds. The welcome system was not designed for movement at a speed of 700 km / h and is possible at a maximum speed of 150 km / h. And only in 2004, Qualcomm, together with American Airlines, developed a system that, using a satellite, provides calls to cell phones from an aircraft on which a special mobile base station is installed. On July 15, 2004, a trial launch of the system was made, after which it began to function.

Cheating at speed

An official report from the Keane Commission provides a diagram of the alleged movement of Flight 175, which crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center, according to which the plane covered the final stretch from Trenton to New York in four minutes.

Boeing traffic to New York

Now for the fact: The straight-line distance between Trenton and New York is 85 kilometers. For even counting, you can even consider it equal to 80. According to official data, the plane covered this distance in 4 minutes. Find average speed liner on this section: V = 80 km / 4 min = 20 km / min = 1200 km / h. We get the speed of sound.

Of course, the Boeing 767 was not supersonic. V technical characteristics The Boeing 767-200 is said to have a maximum cruising speed of 915 km / h at an altitude of 12 km. And this is only at an altitude of 12,000 meters, where the air density is five times lower than at sea level, and the liner flew into the building at a height of several hundred meters. The same technical specifications say that the maximum permissible speed of the Boeing-767-200 (the so-called Vne - Velocity Never Exceed), exceeding which the plane will simply begin to collapse, is 0.86 the speed of sound, that is, about 1000 km / h. Therefore, even if the plane still managed to develop the speed of sound, it would crumble long before Manhattan. That is, the official investigation invites everyone to believe in something that is impossible purely physically. So, one more lie of the official investigation.

"Gemini" could not collapse on their own

According to the official report, the one hundred and ten-story skyscraper WTC-1 completely collapsed after 1 hour and 42 minutes after the plane hit, and its twin, WTC-2, after 56 minutes. The reason, of course, is indicated as follows - the impact and subsequent fire that occurred after the Boeing hit the buildings.

But this is where some more surprising facts appear.

It turns out that the Gemini were designed so that, in addition to the wind load, they could withstand the frontal impact of the Boeing-707, the largest passenger airliner in those years. In the early 1970s, Leslie Robertson, who built the buildings, calculated the effect of a Boeing 707 collision with the WTC tower. He reported the results to the New York Times, claiming that the towers will withstand the impact of the liner flying at a speed of 960 km / h, that is, having taken the hit of the liner, the skyscraper will remain standing without serious structural damage. In other words, the central frame and the remaining perimeter to stand will withstand the additional load resulting from the absence of the demolished part of the supporting structures. It was with such a margin of safety that the "twins" were built.

Frank DeMartini, one of the leaders of the WTC project, confirms this idea: the building was designed in such a way to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707 with a maximum take-off weight. It was the largest aircraft of the time. I am sure that the building would have withstood even a few aircraft hits, since its structure resembled a dense mosquito net, and an airplane is like a pencil that pierces this mesh and does not affect the structure of the rest of it.

The fire also could not destroy the skyscrapers. Here's evidence that the official report is lying again:

So, the WTC-1 building withstood the first blow. Nevertheless, in the next hour and a half, something happened as a result of the fire, provoking the collapse of the tower. By the way, this is the first and only case in world history when a skyscraper actually turns into a heap of ruins as a result of an hour and a half fire - if you believe the official version.

In the mid-1990s, two British firms, British Steel and the Building Research Establishment, conducted a series of experiments in Cardington to determine the effects of fires on steel-framed structures. On the experimental model of the eight-story building, the steel structures did not have fire protection. Despite the fact that the temperature of the steel beams reached 900 ° C (!) With a critical maximum of 600 ° C, no failure occurred in any of the six experiments, although certain deformations did occur.

In August 2005, John R. Hall Jr. of the US National Fire Fighting Association published the analytical work Fires in Tall Buildings. In particular, it provides statistics, according to which in 2002 alone, 7,300 fires occurred in high-rise buildings, many of which were very intense and lasted for many hours, having managed to absorb more than one floor. Despite the casualties and significant damage, none of these fires resulted in collapses.

If that's not enough, here are some more specific examples of the most severe fires in recent decades:

On February 23, 1991, a fire broke out in the 38-story One Meridian Plaza building in Philadelphia. The fire started on the 22nd floor, covered 8 floors and lasted 18 hours. As a result of this fire, a lot of glass was broken, granite cracked and load-bearing walls sagged. Nevertheless, the building survived and not a single part of it collapsed.

On May 4, 1988, the 62-story First Interstate Bank building in Los Angeles caught fire. The fire lasted 3.5 hours, 4.5 floors burned out - from the 12th to the 16th. But the supporting structures survived completely, and the secondary structures and several interfloor floors received only minor damage. The building survived.

On August 5, 1970, an explosion occurred in the 50-story building 1 New York Plaza and a fire broke out that lasted six hours. There were no collapses.

On October 17, 2004, a skyscraper caught fire in the Venezuelan city of Caracas. The fire broke out at the 34th floor, covered 26 (!) Floors and lasted 17 hours. The building survived.

And, finally, a fire in that very New York World Trade Center. On February 13, 1975, a fire broke out in the north tower on the 11th floor, as a result of which 65% of the floor was completely burnt out. In addition, the fire spread down to the 9th and up to the 16th floors, without affecting, however, the office space and confined to the shafts inside the central frame. The fire continued for three hours, and, despite its much higher intensity than on September 11, 2001, the structure of the building was not damaged. Not only the central frame, inside of which the fire mainly spread, but also all interfloor ceilings, remained completely unscathed.

1975 World Trade Center fire

And the 47-storey "WTC 7" collapsed by itself ... by accident.

The official report states that WTC-7 "collapsed" due to weakening of the supporting structures, despite the fact that no aircraft hit it.

As it turned out, very few people knew about the demolition of the 7th WTC building. Its destruction was somehow imperceptible against the background of the rest of the events of that day. This 47-story skyscraper, also called Salomon Brothers, housed the offices of the FBI, the Department of Defense, the 1RS tax service (according to the Online Journal, with a huge amount of compromising evidence, including the infamous Enron), counterintelligence The United States, the stock exchange (with evidence of stock exchange fraud), and various financial institutions. Its collapse occurred at about 17:20 New York time, and several rather curious incidents are associated with it.

FEMA claims that this building collapsed for the same reasons as the "twins" - due to the weakening of the load-bearing structures. But why? The plane did not hit it. Fires did not rage in it - only in three places there were small local fires: on the seventh, twelfth and twenty-ninth floors. If we recall the scheme of the entire World Trade Center, then building No. 7 is the most distant from the "epicenter", separated from the main complex by a street as well. Where did the damage come from? The report is silent about this.

Such a small fire allegedly resulted in the complete destruction of the WTC-7 building.

And the most "truthful" in the world, the BBC even announced the collapse of the WTC-7 in advance.

Indeed, the report of the British television channel BBC (BBC) looks unique. In a TV news program that aired at 10:00 London time, that is, 17:00 New York time, the presenter told viewers that the WTC-7 building in New York had collapsed. But there were still 20 minutes left before it collapsed. Moreover, TV reporter Jane Standley in her live report from New York talked about the collapse of WTC-7, while being in its background. A rare photograph shows this moment - the building of WTC-7 is indicated by arrows. The caption at the bottom of the screen reads: "The 47-story Salomon Brothers building near the World Trade Center also collapsed."

Air Force talks about the destruction of WTC 7

However, at some point, apparently, the TV people realized what had happened, and at 17:14 the picture of the broadcast from New York was suddenly distorted by interference, and after a few seconds it completely disappeared.

How else to explain this incredible "blooper", if not the presence of a pre-written script? Is it possible that the building was planned to be demolished a little earlier, but London simply did not have time to inform about the delay in this mise-en-scene of the performance, and the British continued to follow the script. So they got the press release before all this happened? But from whom and how?

Of course, such an incident caused a lot of questions to the BBC TV channel. However, news head Richard Porter explained this mysterious story: “We are not part of a conspiracy. Nobody told us what to talk about or what to do on 9/11. Nobody informed us in advance that the building should fall. We have not received a press release or a script for what is to happen. "

It turns out that if no one told them anything in advance, it means that they themselves, on their own initiative, told about the collapse of the building, which will happen in 20 minutes. But we read further: "We have not preserved the original recording of the reports from September 11 - not because of a conspiracy, but because of confusion." The news record of one of the most important days in the history of the TV channel was suddenly lost.

The dead "terrorists" were alive

Official list of "hijackers"

The list was accompanied by the following comment: “The FBI is absolutely confident in the accuracy of the identification of the nineteen hijackers responsible for the 9/11 attacks. In addition, the 9/11 investigations were scrutinized by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks against the United States and jointly by the Senate and House of Representatives. None of these checks raised the slightest doubt about the identities of the nineteen hijackers. "

On September 23, 2001, the British BBC News Agency unexpectedly reported that Walid al-Shehri, a Saudi Arabian and named hijacker of AA11 flight, is currently alive, well and doing great in Casablanca, Morocco. The Saudi Arabian Embassy has confirmed that he attended a flight school in Daytona Beach, Florida. He left the United States in September 2000 and works for Royal Air Morocco. This is further confirmed by the Associated Press, according to which Walid al-Shehri appeared at the American Embassy in Morocco: “The FBI released a photograph of him, which was disseminated in newspapers and television news around the world. This same Mr. al-Shehri showed up in Morocco, thus proving that he was not a member of the suicide pilot team. Total, minus one.

Veil al-Shehri (AA11) is also alive and well. He works as a pilot and his father is a Saudi Arabian diplomat in Bombay. The Los Angeles Times, in an article on September 21, 2001, reports that the head of the information center of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in the United States, Gaafar Allagani, confirmed that he personally spoke with both father and son. Total, minus two.

Abdulaziz al-Omari (AA11), while studying in Denver, lost his passport, which he once reported to the police. He currently works as an engineer for Saudi Telecom. The Telegraph newspaper quoted him on September 23, 2001: “I couldn't believe when I saw myself on the FBI lists. They showed my name, my photo and my date of birth, but I'm not a suicide bomber. I'm here. I'm alive. I have no idea how to fly the plane. I had nothing to do with all this. " Total, minus three.

Said al-Ghamdi (UA93), a Saudi Airways pilot, was in Tunisia during the 9/11 events, where he was training with 22 other pilots to fly an Airbus-320. The Telegraph quoted him as saying: “The FBI did not provide any evidence of my involvement in the attacks. You have no idea what it is like to be called a dead terrorist when I am alive and innocent. " Total, minus four.

Ahmed al-Nami (UA93) works as Clerk for Saudi Airlines in Riyadh: “As you can see, I am alive. I was shocked to see my name on the [terrorist] lists. I've never heard of Pennsylvania, where it turns out I hijacked a plane. " Total, minus five.

Salem al-Hamzi (AA77) works at a chemical plant in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia: "I have never been to the United States, and in the last two years I have not left Saudi Arabia." Total, minus six.

Khalid al-Midhar (AA77) - programmer in Mecca, Saudi Arabia: "I would like to think that this is some kind of mistake." According to the Chicago Tribune, he was watching TV when his friends started calling him and asking if he was alive. Total, minus seven.

Mohand al-Shehri (UA175) and Satam al-Sukami (AA11) are also alive and well, minus nine, according to the Saudi Arabian Embassy in the United States.

And only on September 23, 2001, the head of the FBI Robert Mueller said: "There are doubts about the identity of some of the hijackers. There is no legal evidence confirming the identity of the hijackers."
But for all the obviousness of outright falsification with the names of "terrorists", the same 19 original names appear in the official report of the "Keane Commission".

Fake bin Laden

And since now there is no evidence of the involvement of the "hijackers" in the terrorist attacks, it means that al-Qaeda seems to have nothing to do with it, and there is no need to bomb Afghanistan.

But within a few days after the fall of skyscrapers, a video of Osama bin Laden's confession of December 14, 2001, "suddenly" appears at the disposal of the United States. She was allegedly found in a house in Jalalabad. And it is this record that forms the basis of the final conclusion of the official commission - the 9/11 attacks were carried out by Osama bin Laden and, of course, Al-Qaeda.

But what immediately attracts attention is that this video is of very low quality. And the man himself, who, according to the FBI, is bin Laden, is completely different from him, and this is clearly visible even despite the poor quality. It is more dense, it has a different shape of the nose, lips, eyebrows and cheekbones. The FBI dossier says that bin Laden is left-handed, and on the video he records something with his right hand. In addition, on his finger is discernible gold ring, and Islam, as you know, forbids a man to wear gold jewelry, and there is not a word about this in bin Laden's dossier.

Two "bin Laden"

The photo shows two bin Ladens: on the left - a simulator from a Jalalabad video, on the right - a real one. Even with the naked eye, you can see that in the frame from the video and in the photo there are two completely different people, and the only similarities between them are a beard and a turban. And again, the fantastic arrogance of the American special services is striking, which did not even bother with such a "trifle" as the use of someone even a little like the real bin Laden.

As a result, realizing that bin Laden was also punctured, the head of the FBI Investigation Department, Rex Tomb, admitted: "The September 11 attacks do not appear in Osama bin Laden's dossier, since there is no evidence of his involvement in the September 11 events." ...

On March 29, 2006, Vice-President Richard Cheney also “split”: “We have never argued that Osama bin Laden had anything to do with 9/11. We never had convincing evidence. "

However, in the official report of the Keene Commission, Osama bin Laden remained the protagonist, and the main material evidence is the already refuted video forgery.

How the evidence was destroyed

The steel that remained after the destruction of the WTC towers was hastily sent for processing, not even allowing investigators to access it. More than 185 thousand tons of steel were liquidated from the epicenter. Firefighters reported to the US Congress that about 80% (!) Of the steel debris had been removed, and the investigators could not even demand that the remains be preserved for analysis. In particular, the Chinese corporation Shanghai Baosteel Group purchased fifty thousand tons of steel from the collapse of the WTC in the form of scrap at a price of $ 120 per ton. Thousands of tons of steel were sent for processing to India as well.

Such actions caused a wave of indignation among independent researchers and families of the victims, but the newly minted Mayor of New York Mike Bloomberg, who succeeded Rudolph Giuliani in this post at the end of 2001, responded that there are other ways to investigate the tragedy. 11 September. He also remarked that "just looking at a piece of metal won't tell you anything."

Despite the protests of all those wishing to look at these "pieces of metal", the removal of scrap was in full swing. The official reason for this rush was that it was "completely useless garbage that only gets in the way." Apparently, this "garbage" was so "useless" that its removal took place under the strictest control, and the trucks that transported steel debris from the "epicenter" area were equipped with expensive tracking devices so that, God forbid, this completely useless garbage would not turn out to be anywhere other than smelting furnaces. Steel was removed from the "crime scene" at such a high speed that even a specially created government commission VRAT (Building Performance Assessment Team), having the opportunity to just look at the remains, had no right either to study these very remains, or to get acquainted with drawings of buildings. Which, in fact, calls into question the very meaning of the creation of this commission.

Bill Manning, editor-in-chief of Fire Engineering Magazine, on behalf of the firefighters, expressed dissatisfaction with the actions of government organizations to destroy the evidence and completely bar the independent researchers from studying it: “We have reason to believe that the 'official investigations' ... are not more than a blatant farce imposed on us by political forces whose main interests, to put it mildly, are very far from revealing the truth ... The destruction of evidence must stop immediately. "

Manning also stressed that the destruction of this steel is illegal: "According to the national fire investigation standard, all evidence for any fire in buildings over 10 stories high must be preserved, and there are no exceptions to this rule."

On September 26, 2001, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani banned all video and photography in the "epicenter" area. One photographer, who chose not to be named, was erased by his digital camera and threatened with arrest if he reappeared, but was able to recover the erased images using PhotoRescue.

As a result, everything that could shed light on the 9/11 terrorist attack was quickly destroyed and not a single expert was able to get acquainted with the “material evidence”.

Consequences of "terrorist attacks"

Less than two weeks after 9/11, a very interesting piece of legislation (the so-called Patriot Act) was presented to Congress for approval, which turned into law in just a month. And in early October 2001, the American invasion of Afghanistan began. This is an unprecedented pace of decision-making, preparation for their implementation and the actual implementation. But the essence of these very measures raises a large number of questions.

Consideration of the so-called anti-terrorism bill, called the Patriot Act, Congress began on September 24, 2001. This bill in general turned out to be very remarkable both in content and in the methods of its implementation.

First, it got to Congress for consideration, bypassing the channels prescribed by law, that is, without preliminary discussion under the supervision of the Administrative and Budgetary Office.

Second, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft demanded that Congress pass it within one week and without change. Despite such strict and specific instructions, the controversial document nevertheless caused some discussion - to the obvious displeasure of the minister. Realizing that it would not be easy to "push through" the bill, Ashcroft warned in a joint meeting with the heads of the Senate and House of Representatives that more terrorist attacks were likely to come, and Congress would be to blame if the law was not passed immediately. It was clear blackmail, and the statement itself seemed absurd, but Congress was not ready to withstand such pressure from the minister.

Just in case, in order to finally "push" the adoption of this act, two particularly stubborn congressmen - Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, who actively opposed, received envelopes in the mail with anthrax disputes ...

Republican Congressman Ron Paul told the Washington Times that no Congressman was even allowed to read the act. Nevertheless, on October 12, it was approved by both houses of Congress, and on October 26, 2001, President Bush put his signature on the document, thereby giving the Patriot Act the status of law.

What is the meaning of the Patriot Act? Firstly, this act gives federal employees the right to search homes, workplaces, computers and private property of citizens either without notifying them at all, or with post facto notification when the search has already been carried out.

Secondly, the CIA received an unlimited opportunity, without a court decision, to establish surveillance of its citizens, if this is done "for intelligence purposes." This includes wiretapping and tracking the user's Internet activity. Incidentally, up to this point, the CIA's purpose was to conduct intelligence activities exclusively against foreign "elements."

Third, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have the right to demand medical, financial and academic records and state archives for any person, only by presenting a warrant that the court must issue if it is required for an investigation to protect against "international terrorism." At the same time, a sufficient reason for the search is not even required, and the organization to which the order was presented has no right to tell anyone that the FBI has requested these data. Including the one whose data was requested!

Fourth, freedom of speech is de facto limited, because any careless phrase can now be regarded as a terrorist conspiracy. According to this act, domestic terrorism includes "actions that are exchanged as attempts to influence the political course of the state with the help of threats or violence." As you can see, the concept of "domestic terrorism" is defined so vaguely that almost any political or other activist group (the same Greenpeace, for example) can fall under this definition. And anyone who disagrees with the actions of the government is also not immune from this. In addition to these acts, several more directives of a similar orientation appeared.

P.S. And this is just a small part of the "evidence" found in the "most reliable" official investigation of the 9/11 tragedy. But this, in my opinion, is quite enough to understand by what methods the United States is moving towards its goals, destroying more than three thousand Americans. In the continuation of the investigation, I will tell you about the mysterious plane that crashed into the Pentagon and disappeared in a strange way, and about the rest, no less mysterious planes of that terrible day - September 11, 2001.

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Since 2002, September 11 in the United States has been marked in the American calendars as Patriot Day. Since 2009, this date has also been designated a nationwide Day of Service and Remembrance.

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In 2011, the World Trade Center Memorial was built on the site of destroyed buildings in New York: it is represented in the form of two square fountain pools located right in the foundations of the former twin towers. The names of the victims of the terrorist attacks are carved on bronze slabs at the base of the structures' parapets.

On the eve of the 15th anniversary of the attacks, the Washington Sociology Center conducted a survey that found that over 90% of respondents have a strong memory of where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news of the attack on the World Trade Center.

In addition, almost half of Americans do not feel safe and believe that the ability of terrorists to conduct a new major attack on US soil is only increasing every year.

Tenet also tried to convince the public that thanks to his actions, "major attacks planned by Al-Qaeda (banned on the territory of the Russian Federation) in 1999 and 2000 were prevented." However, he could not give any details on the special operations.

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The CIA also cites an overly harsh reaction from Tenet himself to the publication of this report, which he called "nonsense" and "error."

“Your analysis unfairly and inaccurately shows my actions, as well as the heroic work of the men and women of the intelligence department. It is simply unfair to judge my work without having a complete understanding of all the facts. I did everything I could to report, warn and take measures to prevent terrorist attacks, ”the former CIA director said in 2005.

In particular, the document states that Tenet recognized the need for a "comprehensive and interdepartmental plan" to combat al-Qaeda (banned on the territory of the Russian Federation). However, he did nothing for this. “It bears full responsibility for the fact that such a strategic plan has never been created, despite its clear position,” the document says.

The CIA's oversight service also prepared a report on the 2001 tragedy, which criticized the director of Central Intelligence and the head of the US CIA, George Tenet, who held this post from 1997 to 2004.

Gazeta.Ru publishes the last words of passengers caught in four passenger aircraft, which were destined to serve as a tool in the hands of Arab terrorists. You can listen to words that convey the depth of fear and despair in the face of impending tragedy.

“This date completely changed life in the United States and its largest metropolis, dispelled the idea of ​​a safe world in which Americans live,” stressed Joe Daniels, director of the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum.

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All these manifestations of "arrogance of power" provoked rejection and protests both in America itself and abroad. According to international polls, anti-American sentiment was growing in the world.

Domestic and foreign policy propaganda in the United States has also intensified. America has shown particular disregard for the norms of international law by creating a concentration camp at its military base in Guantanamo, Cuba - a kind of legal vacuum - to contain and process people captured during anti-terrorist operations in Afghanistan and other places.

The prisoners of this "zone" are essentially not US prisoners of war and do not have any official legal status. In this regard, the authorities came to the possibility of keeping them behind bars almost indefinitely.

The atmosphere in the country was gradually heating up - the States were more like a besieged fortress. Denunciation was encouraged, but at the same time leaks of official information and, in general, any deviation from the "patriotic consensus" were punished. One could lose a job for one admission of the terrorists' courage.

After the events of September 11, 2001, the Republican administration of George W. Bush declared a "war on terror." In this regard, the Congress adopted a whole package of "emergency" laws, which, among other things, significantly expanded the powers of the special services. Now they have the opportunity to conduct "interrogation with partiality", bordering on torture, as well as closely monitor not only foreigners, but also the citizens of the country. In addition, the United States increasingly closed borders, tightened immigration and visa regimes.

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However, Saudi Arabia responded by appealing to a federal court in Manhattan with a demand to dismiss 25 claims, since the plaintiffs have no evidence of Riyadh's involvement in the 9/11 attack.

Later, dozens of insurance companies also went to court with claims against two banks in Saudi Arabia, as well as firms associated with the family of Osama bin Laden. The total amount of the claim was more than $ 4 billion.

In September 2016, the US Congress passed legislation allowing the heirs of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia, since most of the terrorists were citizens of that country. A month later, the first lawsuit was filed by an American woman who lost her husband during a terrorist attack. In the spring of 2017, the rest of the victims' relatives also filed a class action lawsuit.

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In particular, in May 2012, at the Guantanamo base, a trial began over the ideological mastermind and the main organizer of the terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was detained in 2003 in Pakistan. He has not yet been sentenced.

In 2002 and 2003, police arrested six more people suspected of involvement in the attacks. After several years in CIA prisons, they were taken to a camp at an American base in Guantanamo, Cuba. Charges were brought against five of the suspects only in May 2011. To date, hearings on the 2001 terrorist attacks are ongoing.

Later, the identities of all the suicide bombers were identified - they turned out to be citizens of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon. At the same time, the men were in the United States legally. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden also released a video message in which he admitted that he directly directed the actions of 19 terrorists.

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In November 2002, a special independent commission was established in the United States to investigate the September 11 attacks. Two years later, experts published the final report on the investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy - in total, it took 600 pages.

The exact figure of the damage caused by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is still unknown. In September 2006 - five years after the tragedy - the head of the White House, George W. Bush, announced that at the lowest estimate he was $ 500 billion.

Those who survived September 11, 2001 in the United States will never be able to erase the events of those days from their memory.

“It seemed inconceivable that the towers could collapse. If you are an American, grew up here, and even if you are a foreigner who watched films about the United States, then they were a symbol for you, something like the Taj Mahal or even something more. They seemed to be eternal, ”emphasizes Jonathan Wachtel.

The men spent almost 20 hours under the rubble - firefighters only reached McLaughlin on the morning of September 12. In the hospital, the doctors practically signed for their own impotence - the injuries of the injured sergeant were too serious. Later, John was put into a coma for 6 weeks and had about 30 surgeries, including skin grafts on his legs. After several years of therapy, he was still able to return to normal life.

John McLaughlin was the last to be pulled from the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center.

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Sergeant John McLaughlin was at the scene of the tragedy of his own free will - having learned about the incident, he went to help. They were on the basement floor of the WTC complex when the South Tower collapsed. The police were under the rubble.

“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.

Rescuers were also in mortal danger - many of them risked their lives to get people out.

“Looking back over my left shoulder, I managed to see a huge cloud of dust and a piece of falling concrete. The debris flew right in my direction, from the side it looked as if a block of ice was falling on you, breaking off from a glacier. I froze, anticipating the end, and then I saw a fire truck. I decided to hide under it, not having the slightest certainty that it would save me. I just wanted to escape the rubble and acted unconsciously, ”says Police Sergeant Dennis Frederick. He later learned that many of his colleagues died when a building collapsed on another staircase.

The lucky ones were also among those who were in the Pentagon on the fateful day. One of them turned out to be John Yates, the security manager.

“The room was just black, and everything I touched burned my hands. I crawled on all fours and realized that I was moving in the right direction when it got brighter. Once in the yard, I realized that I was badly burned, because I looked at my hands and saw how the skin was peeling off them. I remember sitting on the grass and the doctor cutting off my clothes. At the time of the explosion, five people were standing next to me. Only I survived, ”the man recalls.

People in the South Tower made their way up flights of stairs completely heaped up with chunks of concrete, exploding soda cans and broken pipes.

“I could only hear people coughing and moaning. One of the women suffered from asthma and had to stop to catch her breath. The lady with the cut arm was walking with difficulty, her leg was bleeding. Stepping on the floor, every time she left a bloody imprint. I tried to contain my panic, and my inner voice told me: “Calm down,” says an employee of the Euro Brokers company, located within the walls of the south tower. She and all her companions managed to get out into the street.

On the 40th floor, Michael and his colleagues, who were going downstairs, met firefighters. They advised to keep moving. Having overcome the level of the 20th floor, Wright found himself on the site of the South Tower, where he realized the seriousness of what was happening: there were corpses everywhere, dozens of bodies.

The building began to collapse when Wright and his colleagues were at the escalator at one of the exits of the building. The air was instantly blackened by clouds of dust. Michael was led outside by a firefighter who knew the way through the surviving bookstore building.

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“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.

However, there were also those who managed to survive. Thus, 30-year-old Michael Wright at the time of the terrorist attack was on the 81st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. According to the man, at some point the building shook - he looked out of the toilet and saw the fire. There was also a huge crack along the floor of the corridor, the hall near the elevator was completely destroyed, there was smoke everywhere.

2977 people became victims of terrorist attacks: 246 passengers and aircraft crew members, 2606 people - in New York, in the buildings of the World Trade Center and on the ground, 125 - in the Pentagon building. Citizens of the United States and 91 other states were killed.

The rescue operations also killed 341 firefighters and 2 paramedics, 60 police officers and eight ambulance personnel.

On the day of the tragedy, Alexander Bratersky was in New York, now he is a political columnist for Gazeta.Ru. He witnessed what was happening in the city during these terrible hours. “On September 11, 2001, I was in the United States as part of the accompanying group Tatu, which received an MTV award on September 9,” ​​says Alexander Bratersky. - Early in the morning I was on the subway when, together with other passengers, I saw a fire in one of the skyscrapers. We were dropped out of the carriage - we learned from the police that the plane had crashed into the tower. We immediately thought it was a terrorist act. I rushed to call on the street payphone to go on the air of Nashe Radio, where I worked then. "

The Gazeta.Ru observer recalls that panic reigned around. “Many cried, the police shouted 'North!', Urging people to go to New Jersey in organized transport. Hearing that I speak Russian, a girl grabbed my hand - she was confused. It turned out that the girl came from Ukraine. She was crying, so I took her to a cafe: there were people sitting in complete silence and watching on TV how the towers were falling. "

When asked about the number of victims, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani replies: "More than you can bear." At the same time, the mayor of Washington declares a state of emergency - the National Guard arrives in the city.

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American Airlines confirms the loss of two planes. Within an hour, United Airlines also reported the loss of two of its airliners.

The media reported on the cancellation of the mayoral elections in New York due to the tragic events.

According to CNN, mass evacuations have begun in Washington DC and New York. A few minutes later, the mayor of New York also orders the evacuation of Lower Manhattan.

“I saw bloody people coming out of the towers. It was like a movie. Everything seemed somehow unreal. I distinctly remember the firefighters who went inside with their equipment, as before that they looked up and shook their heads. Probably, many of them died later, ”says eyewitness to the events, Fox News producer Jonathan Wachtel.

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The North Tower of the World Trade Center is completely destroyed - 1 hour 41 minutes have passed since Flight 11 hit it. None of those trapped on the upper floors survive. The Marriott Hotel, whose building was located between two towers, was also completely destroyed. The destruction of the second tower, like the first, was shown live.

As the head of state, George W. Bush, later noted, he perceived the third attack as a declaration of war. Immediately after that, he flew out of Florida.

“It became clear in my head: what happened with the first plane could still be an accident, with the second - definitely an attack, but with the third - already a declaration of war,” the president wrote in his memoirs.

A wing of the Pentagon building collapses.

United Airlines flight 93 falls 129 kilometers southeast of Pittsburgh in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Presumably, his target was the Capitol Building or the White House. However, the passengers of the liner intervened in the matter - having received reports of two other hijacked planes, they forcibly tried to regain control of the board. Realizing that they could not withstand the pressure of people, the terrorists sent the liner into the ground.

The south tower of the World Trade Center is completely destroyed. 55 minutes have passed since Flight 175 hit it. Lower Manhattan is completely covered by huge clouds of dust.

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The riot of passengers on flight 93 begins. According to the testimony of the crew of the plane flying by, the liner "flaps its wings" - at this time, a fight between passengers and hijackers takes place in the cockpit.

The FAA Command Center is requesting aviation administration headquarters to intervene militarily in the Flight 93 situation. However, the FAA has not made a decision until the plane crashes.

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Following reports that Flight 77 was deployed towards Washington, the Secret Service decided to evacuate the Vice President from the White House.

Fred Eichler, unconscious after the explosion, opens his eyes from the light of a flashlight. A firefighter climbed onto the floor - he managed to save the people found, but he himself later died. When Fred got out into the street, he called his wife and heard her voice: "Run, run, run!" He ran - in a few minutes the North Tower collapsed.

The hijackers begin storming the cockpit of Flight 93 and seize control of the plane. Dispatchers in Cleveland receive a radio broadcast from the liner: “Sit in your seats. We have a bomb. "

Flight 93 receives a text warning from a United Airlines dispatcher: "Beware of cockpit intrusion - two planes crashed into the World Trade Center."

The Federal Aviation Administration prohibits departures from all aircraft bound for or through New York, Boston and Washington. The ban applies to the entire country.

US President George W. Bush was found in Florida. He is in a school in Sarasota for a reading lesson. The head of state reads "Baby Goat" to the children, but the lesson is interrupted.

When the president was already sitting in the classroom, the head of the administration Andy Card approached him and whispered in his ear that another plane had crashed into the second building. "America has been attacked," Chief of Staff Andy Card says in the president's ear.

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At about 959 km / h, Flight 175 crashes into the south side of the south tower of the World Trade Center between floors 78 and 85. Parts of the plane pierce the building and fly out from the east and north sides, some of them crashing to the ground six blocks from the building. Interruptions to the work of television stations begin, as studios, transmitters and antenna equipment were located on the south tower.

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Flight 175 heads to New York. One of the passengers, Peter Henson, was able to reach his father from the plane:

“Everything is bad, father. The flight attendants are injured. They (the hijackers) seem to have knives and gas. They say they have a bomb. The situation on the plane is very bad. Passengers are in a panic, some feel bad. The plane makes sudden movements. I don't think the pilot is flying the plane. I think we are going down. I think we're heading to Chicago or somewhere else and crash into a building. " The call is interrupted by a woman's scream.

Terrorists hijack Flight 77. The plane's responder shuts down and is out of radar. Invisible to dispatchers, the liner turns east. After that, flight 77 continues to fly towards Washington for another 36 minutes, without being displayed anywhere.

The United Airlines office in San Francisco is contacted by the flight attendant of Flight 175. According to him, the plane was hijacked, both pilots were killed, the flight attendant was injured. In addition, the kidnappers took control of the plane.

At least 100 people (in some sources there is a figure of 250 people), caught in a terrorist attack on the upper floors, I jump out of the windows. A large part of the floor on one of the floors of the north tower collapsed - this made people think that the building could collapse.

One man - firefighter Daniel Sur, who was standing on the ground - is killed by the fact that a person who jumped out of a window falls right on him.

At approximately 790 km / h, Flight 11 crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center between the 93rd and 99th floors. The plane almost entirely goes inside the building, pierces the building to the middle and cuts all three stairwells, filling them with debris. 80 tons of aviation kerosene, mixed with the remains of the aircraft and the wreckage of the building, create a huge fire.

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Insurance agent Fred Eichler, 54, walked into his office on the 83rd floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center and at that time went to the restroom, where he met colleagues and stopped for a chat. As they talk, they see a plane rushing straight towards them. Just a few minutes later, the men were abruptly thrown away by a blast wave for several tens of meters.

The American Airlines office in Boston received a call from flight attendant Amy Sweeney on Flight 11.

"Something is wrong. We are sinking rapidly. I see water. I see buildings. We're going very, very low. We're flying too low. " After a few seconds, she slowly says, "Oh my God." The call is interrupted by loud, persistent noise.

Flight 175 is hijacked. The flight attendant contacted the United Airlines office in San Francisco: he said that both pilots were killed, the flight attendant was injured, and the kidnappers were probably flying the plane.

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From international airport United Airlines' Boeing 757 departs Newark. The 37 passengers on Flight 93 head to San Francisco after a 40-minute delay. There are four hijackers aboard.

Boston Center contacts Otis Air Force Base of the US National Guard and reports the hijacking of Flight 11. A few minutes later, the controller also receives a message from the pilot of Flight 175, who had previously departed from Logan: the crew saw the hijacked flight 16 km from their side.

“… We heard a strange transmission at the moment when we were leaving Boston. Someone could be heard pressing the microphone button and saying, "Everyone stays where they are," the pilots reported.

Flight 11's radio is turned off, but the plane remains on surveillance radar screens as a no additional information... It then makes a 100-degree turn south and heads straight for New York.

Suddenly, a radio transmission breaks through to the dispatchers: “We have several planes. Be quiet and everything will be fine. We are going back to the airport. " These words are addressed to the people on the plane - the terrorist simply confused the buttons.

Another American Airlines Boeing 757 departs from Washington Dulles International Airport for Los Angeles. Flight 77 has 58 passengers and six crew members. And again, five hijackers aboard.

Betty Ong, a flight attendant on Flight 11, calls the American Airlines office on the board.

“The cockpit is not responding, someone is injured in business class, I think they used tear gas, we cannot breathe, I don’t know, it looks like we are captured,” the girl says, adding that two stewardesses.

United Airlines Flight 175, another fully fueled Boeing 767, also departs Logan Airport towards Los Angeles. Onboard there are 56 passengers and nine crew members. And five hijackers.

Flight 11 makes its last contact with the Boston air traffic control center. Within a few minutes, the flight ceases to follow the dispatcher's instructions and does not gain the required altitude of 10.7 thousand meters.

American Airlines flight 11 (Boeing 767) departs with a 14-minute delay. All five hijackers are on board among other passengers.

Five terrorists are boarding the plane - their faces have not yet evoked any negative emotions in the rest of the passengers. The first of the five to enter the plane are Mohammed Atta, along with Abdulaziz al-Omari.

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American Airlines Flight 11 is preparing to take off at Boston's Logan Airport. According to the schedule, he should fly to Los Angeles. There are 86 passengers on board.

On September 4, 2001, the national security advisers of the George W. Bush administration approved a draft version of the plan to combat Al-Qaeda (banned on the territory of the Russian Federation). The plan was to be presented on September 10. But the President of the United States was away - and did not see him.

In the Memorandum, the US President was reminded that since 1997, Osama bin Laden has openly spoken about his intention to strike the United States. Moreover, in 1997 and 1998, he said on television that his supporters were ready to follow the example of Ramzi Yousef, who in 1993 left a truck filled with explosives in the underground garage of one of the World Trade Center towers. Then six people died and about a thousand were injured.