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9/11: Debunking The Myths

PM examines the evidence and consults the experts to refute the most persistent conspiracy theories of September 11.

 

Published in the March, 2005 issue.

 

 

 

 

 

FALSE WITNESS: Conspiracy theorists claim this photo "proves" the 9/11 attacks were a U.S. military operation. PHOTOGRAPH BY ROB HOWARD

 

 

For background on this investigative feature, please click here.

 

FROM THE MOMENT the first airplane crashed into the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, the world has asked one simple and compelling question: How could it happen?

 

Three and a half years later, not everyone is convinced we know the truth. Go to Google.com, type in the search phrase "World Trade Center conspiracy" and you'll get links to an estimated 628,000 Web sites. More than 3000 books on 9/11 have been published; many of them reject the official consensus that hijackers associated with Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda flew passenger planes into U.S. landmarks.

 

Healthy skepticism, it seems, has curdled into paranoia. Wild conspiracy tales are peddled daily on the Internet, talk radio and in other media. Blurry photos, quotes taken out of context and sketchy eyewitness accounts have inspired a slew of elaborate theories: The Pentagon was struck by a missile; the World Trade Center was razed by demolition-style bombs; Flight 93 was shot down by a mysterious white jet. As outlandish as these claims may sound, they are increasingly accepted abroad and among extremists here in the United States.

 

 

 

 

THE PLANES

The widely accepted account that hijackers commandeered and crashed the four 9/11 planes is supported by reams of evidence, from cockpit recordings to forensics to the fact that crews and passengers never returned home. Nonetheless, conspiracy theorists seize on a handful of "facts" to argue a very different scenario: The jets that struck New York and Washington, D.C., weren't commercial planes, they say, but something else, perhaps refueling tankers or guided missiles. And the lack of military intervention? Theorists claim it proves the U.S. government instigated the assault or allowed it to occur in order to advance oil interests or a war agenda.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where's The Pod?

CLAIM: Photographs and video footage shot just before United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) show an object underneath the fuselage at the base of the right wing. The film "911 In Plane Site" and the Web site LetsRoll911.org claim that no such object is found on a stock Boeing 767. They speculate that this "military pod" is a missile, a bomb or a piece of equipment on an air-refueling tanker. LetsRoll911.org points to this as evidence that the attacks were an "inside job" sanctioned by "President George Bush, who planned and engineered 9/11."

 

FACT: One of the clearest, most widely seen pictures of the doomed jet's undercarriage was taken by photographer Rob Howard and published in New York magazine and elsewhere (opening page). PM sent a digital scan of the original photo to Ronald Greeley, director of the Space Photography Laboratory at Arizona State University. Greeley is an expert at analyzing images to determine the shape and features of geological formations based on shadow and light effects. After studying the high-resolution image and comparing it to photos of a Boeing 767-200ER's undercarriage, Greeley dismissed the notion that the Howard photo reveals a "pod." In fact, the photo reveals only the Boeing's right fairing, a pronounced bulge that contains the landing gear. He concludes that sunlight glinting off the fairing gave it an exaggerated look. "Such a glint causes a blossoming (enlargement) on film," he writes in an e-mail to PM, "which tends to be amplified in digital versions of images--the pixels are saturated and tend to 'spill over' to adjacent pixels." When asked about pods attached to civilian aircraft, Fred E. Culick, professor of aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology, gave a blunter response: "That's bull. They're really stretching."

^^ thats the Conspiracy Theory right there....

 

The whole 'Pod' suggestion isn't accepted to be true now.....not since some new footage was found well over 2 Years ago.

 

...their labeling of detailed research as "Wild conspiracy tales" and people like me "extremists" is verging on slanderous to my character.

I really don't think that the administration has got any way out of this.

its sheding the light what some people believe to be true but isnt....call it what you may

 

they do..seeing as how all these false theories are proven to be wrong and the story told by the gov amd believed by many americans has time and time again been proved right...the simpe fact in all of this is these theories are wrong and proven so

its sheding the light what some people believe to be true but isnt....call it what you may

 

they do..seeing as how all these false theories are proven to be wrong and the story told by the gov amd believed by many americans has time and time again been proved right...the simpe fact in all of this is these theories are wrong and proven so

 

Ok, tell me some aspects of the conspiricies which you don't believe and I'll give you the evidence to support my answers....ok. And not about the POD as we have decided that it isn't as likely to be true.

the question is...... who and what do we believe to be real?? What is real?? Are we all living in the Matrix??? Seriously...... whats real?

there are alot of 9/11 threads here haha

But only one is right!

But only one is right!

 

 

you're kidding, right?

do you even have to ask. i think the evidence speaks for itself.

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He's probably not....I looked at his interests....

 

Interests:

sports, music, politcs, messing with people, pranks, fishing, shooting,

 

sounds about right....from experience.

ahhhh fair enough! lol I'm off to bed!! :kiss: Gareth x

He's probably not....I looked at his interests....

 

Interests:

sports, music, politcs, messing with people, pranks, fishing, shooting,

 

sounds about right....from experience.

 

 

yeah because evidence and reason are pranks and messing with people, while conspiracey theorie based on wild thoughts and shady evidence is not....nice one. one side is based on facts and reason while the other is based on questioning everything too the extreme. one uses logic the other uses insanity

you make me dizzy..... :dizzy:

touche.

:rolleyes:

touche to that aswell.

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