and Ill ask the same question, if it wasnt a plane, then why did they even bother. They destroyed the WTC, they didnt have to attack the pentagon, that was just an "extra", why go through all that trouble with the WTC and then shoot the Pentagon with a missile?
Well, going by one theory, which i'm not advocating, merely using to answer your question, The Pentagon was hit to reinforce the idea that America was weak. The American people needed the extra security & in addition the government would need detailed information on every person in the country, to keep them safe. Or to spy on them. The theory also goes... A few of the top people, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, were warned in the weeks leading upto 9/11, that The USA & several key points of interest, were the target of very real & plausible terrorist attack, that was labelled as "imminent". (This is actually a fact & came from foreign sources, who were tracking certain groups of Al-Quaeda, but lost these potential terrorists) The theory continues, that the top table decided, to "allow" the attacks to happen. Collateral damage was justified as the rewards would have been for the greater good. I.e. Stellar Wind & the sequential phone tapping that has happened, can be justified in the name of defence (even though Stellar Wind was stopped in 2004(?) due to it still being highly illegal, even in the name of defence. But lets not forget the PSP, The Presidents Surveillance Programme, which to this day still remains totally classified & undisclosed. Well, apart from one bit. The only information we know about the PSP, is it gives the powers-that-be, the permission, for warrantless wiretapping, on internationals who they believe to be related in someway to al-qaeda. It also allowed the growth of The National Defence Programmes, The Patriot Act was born & so were the Department of Homeland Security. Oh and oil. America wanted the oil in the Middle East aswell. That's the theory anyway. Again, I'm not saying I agree with it totally, but lets be honest, it with the shroud of lies, contradictions & anomalies with the official story, who knows what to believe? You believe the official story because the media told you so?
Getting back to The Pentagon, why the actual attack on It? to implement maximum fear factor? The Trade Tower attacks were bad enough, and would have instilled fear, but for one of the most powerful nations on the planet, to have its infamous, military building attacked, would certainly be cause for more alarm & panic. Manhattan wouldnt have been subject to the same "no fly zone" restrictions that The Pentagon would have, which makes it even more impressive/scary, that these ragtag bag of religion of peace, Stone Age animals, led by a cave dweller, could penetrate the United States' main military headquarters so easily.
So, to carry on with the conspiracy angle, which again, im not advocating, supposedly the top table, "allowed" the attacks on the WTC's & the pentagon. OR decided to actually get involved themselves, just in case there were a few Americans left unsure, they would smash a missile into one of the most safest buildings in the Northern Hemisphere, tipping every last person into a state of vulnerability & desperation.
Again, I'm not selling that Theroy, so you haven't got to necessarily buy it. I'm just offering you a theory that has been bandied about for some time. It sounds like the plot of a straight to DVD, Steven Seagal movie, I know. But that's not enough to disprove it as total crap. The fact is, IMO, the official story doesn't make sense, so anything's plausible atm.
There may well be plenty of gaps in the information that you quote, and there will always be holes in which to exploit with conspiracies, but it doesnt answer the basic question why they bothered. No one remembers 9/11 for the Pentagon, it had far less impact.
The Pentagon attack, to some, may not be as memorable, but thats because the images & videos of the WTC attacks are still ingrained in our minds & will probably never go. If there were more footage shown of the actual Pentagon attack, then that would also be fully embedded in your subconcious, I have no doubt. Hopefully my reply above answers this in more detail.
You can keep throwing up information but no one seems to answer that question, or where the actual plane went.
Because no-one truly knows. The transponder on AA77 was switched off & the plane was therefore untraceable. They found the plane's black boxes, which showed the flight path it took (which is what I was asking London Blue about, as many veteran pilots believe the manoeuvres were impossible to someone of Hani Hanjour's abilities). Unfortunately the cockpit voice recorder was too badly damaged to be of any relevant use. But they did manage to recover a chair from the cockpit. Oh and a hijackers driving license, which was located in a pile of rubble.
So to answer your question, I really don't know, but I know I'm sceptical of the official story, due to its highly implausible "facts" & the secrecy that surrounds it. Which story is more believable? That a man with not a lot of flight history, who cannot pass a basic control test, pulls off 2 manouvers that many ex-pilots have said they would struggle to do, manages to fly for nearly 40mins unchallenged into one of the most protected airspaces on the planet, and ploughs into the most famous military headquarters on the planet. OR the Americans fired one of their own missiles, at their own property, for their own gain. Both sound like absolute crap tbh, so I refuse to believe one more than the other, just because the media & powers-that-be, said I should.
Just because the way they dealt with the investigation may have been flawed, or even manipulated via politics, doesnt mean that the fundamental cause of 9/11 wasnt just what it was, a terrorist attack using planes.
Ill leave it at that as we are certainly off topic and this could be a thread on its own!
Im not disputing that. I'm saying I believe there's more to it than what we know. We'll probably never know, but I for oneX would welcome an independent investigation, if only to silence the conspiracy rumours for good.
Jam, you should open a new thread and put all of this in there.