Brookes student uncovers
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Foreword by ex: MI5 Counter-Terrorism Officer David Shayler:
Calum Douglas, a 1st year Motorsport engineering student at Brookes, has spent well-over 1,000 hours investigating the official account of the 9/11 attacks. He has spent the last year working with myself and others in the 9/11 Truth movement to expose the reality behind the 9/11 attack, including organising and hosting a talk by former MI5 officer Annie Machon, at the University. In the first of a series of in-depth articles, he will review new and exclusive information from the US government which undermines its evidence about Flight 77 and the attack on the Pentagon.
Calum is a brave and diligent researcher who everyone at Brookes should be proud of. His new research is to be included in the first British film about 9/11 which I am producing, called Short Changed, which is to come out this Autumn.
This original information is also now in the hands of the Loose Change production team who are filming Loose Change Final Cut, an expose of 9/11 which is due for worldwide cinematic release early next year. Those wishing to do further research should start with www.nineeleven.co.uk
-David Shayler-
The events of 9/11 were undisputedly the most pivotal historical events of our generation, not since the fall of the Berlin wall or the Cuban Missile Crisis has one incident re-shaped our lives in such a discernable fashion.
My research of 9/11 has lead me to interviewing two former MI5 officers; visiting MP’s, receiving exclusive data from Washington DC, talking to the BBC, and appearing live on a 9/11 talk panel on the SKY TV.
So what is all the fuss about?
In August this year, I made a ‘Freedom of Information Act’ request to the NTSB (National Transportation & Safety Board) in Washington DC regarding the official flight crash investigation data. Shortly after, I received the air accident documents I had asked for. The parcel also included a DVD showing a computer generated animation of the flight path of AA 77 -- which is claimed to have hit the Pentagon – allegedly generated from the ‘black box data recorder’ of the plane that hit the Pentagon on 9/11 itself.
In May 2006, the FBI officially released two CCTV tapes from the Pentagon after 5 years of requests and under threat of a court order from Judicial Watch. An object is visible for just two video frames, it is clearly flying in horizontally at virtually head height. Other still photos taken on the day show that the object in question knocked over lampposts on Interstate 395, the freeway or motorway running by the Pentagon (see pictures below).
Picture Below: CCTV frame released by FBI, the nose of something is just visible on the right half way up.
As I loaded the DVD from Washington DC I nearly missed what turned out to be proof of an attempt by the US government to release doctored data on 9/11. As I reviewed the DVD, the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end. As the plane passed over the motorway -- clearly visible in the animation -- its altimeter indicated 180 feet. The motorway light poles claimed to be knocked over by Flight 77 are less than 40 feet tall.
Picture Below: The last frame from my NTSB ‘black box’ animation.
Further enquiries established that the Pentagon was 40 feet above sea level, leaving a distance of 100 feet between Flight 77 and the tops of the lamp posts.
That means that this new official information allegedly based on the black box data – although other sources claim that the black box was not found --shows that the plane in question could not possibly have hit the downed lamp posts outside the Pentagon on 9/11.
In fact not only the altitude is erroneous; the planes heading was no-where near the heading required to hit the poles and does NOT line up with the puncture holes through three layers of the Pentagon; the flight path is angled no less than 21 degrees too far east. The picture below shows the path of the object that hit the building penetrating three layers of the building. Draw a line through the holes, it’s over 20 degrees different to the plane the black box data recorder came from.
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Pictures below: My AutoCAD regeneration of the Pentagon showing where the plane should have been and where the black box data recorder said it was. The red dots indicate the position of the damaged light poles. How does one go about understanding what could be going on here. In fact even if somehow the Altimeter reading |
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was being incorrectly interpreted by me the roof of the Pentagon (according to its own website) is 71 feet tall. The plane is quite obviously above the roof in the animation when it OUGHT to be ploughing through poles at less than 40 feet up. |
Not only that, but the flight-path calculated from plotting a line through the damaged poles does NOT even match to the path in the black box data.
Even a cursory glance at the image in the animation shows the very right side of the ‘shamrock’ shaped road loop (picture above left).
Picture above: A downed light pole, supposedly hit by Flight 77 flying in at 500+ MPH less than 30 feet above ground. The rough dimensions of the pole are clear from the cars behind.
Observing this problem one can draw immediately only three possible logical conclusions:
1: The black box data is correct and the CCTV images are “wrong”.
2: The CCTV images are correct and the black box data is “wrong”.
3: Both the CCTV images & the black box data are “wrong”.
Is there a simple explanation? The immediate answer is: ‘No’. The clear implication is that some – or all -- of this data has simply been made up for the purposes of shoring up the official account.
That said, what innocent explanations might there be? Perhaps the ‘black box’ data is not very accurate, intended only as a guide rather than an exact indication of Flight 77’s position. I find that very unlikely, the National Transportation Safety Board has been responsible for investigating every air accident in US territory, compiling reports of thousands of crashes over several decades.
The black box data is transformed into a computer animation using a purpose built software package that the box is simply plugged into. Why even bother constructing a model of the Pentagon and inserting an image to show the exact position of roads then not mention that the flight path data may be subject to inaccuracies? (See also the bold text in the Testimony of James W Angus below).
(Above: NTSB letter confirming accuracy of altitude data)
Indeed, this animation is part of the official “Flight Path Study” which comes from the Office of Research and Engineering, the result of analysis by professional flight crash engineers and aerospace engineers. When their findings bear little correlation to other established data, we have to ask serious questions.
To the casual observer this might seem much ado about nothing. However, other compelling evidence also demonstrates that the US government has been less than honest about Flight 77. The FBI currently ‘retains’ over 80 additional CCTV tapes from the area surrounding the Pentagon. We are also entitled to be suspicious because the CCTV images released (as discussed above) were of extremely poor quality; also as it took 5 years and court threats to have them released at all.
In fact, even the US Government appointees on the 9/11 Commission have similar suspicions based on the non-cooperation of NORAD, part of the US military’s Air Defence system. Under the headline ‘9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon’, the Washington Post reported:
“Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon’s initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission”
“Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-Member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation”
“We to this day don’t know why NORAD told us what they told us…it was just so far from the truth” –Thomas H. Kean, vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission
Washington Post, 2nd August 2006, Page A03
Just to add a little more intrigue, myself and other researchers are now in possession of the actual raw data dump from Flight 77’s black box data recorder. We are now working on getting a conversion from the original raw data file, one computer expert in our team has ascertained that there are possibly up to 48 hours of data in the file.
We need $5000 USD to get the file converted professionally; once this is done we will know where Flight 77 was for days prior to 9/11. Hence we will be able to wrap up one of the biggest controversies in the last century; the ‘Pentagon mystery’, conclusively.
In spite of repeated attempts to contact them, the NTSB have so far refused to make any comment or offer an explanation.
Like it or not the evidence suggests that an attempt has been made to mislead the public about the true nature of the 9/11 attacks. A fact that ought to be receiving the attention of all people who feel uncomfortable with the way our world is heading.
The 9/11 attacks shaped our world into one politically and militarily radically different than existed before September the 11th 2001. Muslims feel persecuted and the middle-east has been transformed into a US occupied, oil soaked war-zone. These transformations have been permitted by the peace loving citizens of the west because we believed; as we were told that we had been given the real truth behind who committed 9/11.
9/11 gave a far right wing militaristic US administration the mandate for two major wars and occupations, an increase of defence spending to half a trillion dollars annually (equal to Cold War levels) and almost complete control of the worlds remaining oil reserves.
The government claimed to have DNA identified the hijackers remains at the Pentagon yet when asked live on US radio where they got the original DNA from to cross reference from there was only awkward silence. The representative could not answer and claimed it was a childish question not worth answering.
The FBI do not even list Osama Bin Laden as being wanted for 9/11, he is; according to the FBI’s website wanted for numerous terrorist attacks including the 1993 world trade centre bombing. But not for 9/11.
Why?
On June 5, 2006, FBI spokesman, Chief of Investigative Publicity Rex Tomb said: “The FBI has no hard evidence connecting Usama Bin Laden to 9/11”.
Sound incredible? Well just type:
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm
Check for yourselves as I did.
Regardless of the implications; the fact is the available evidence suggests there was an awful lot more to 9/11 than 19 Arabs and a damp cave in Afghanistan.
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Calum Douglas