A trove of aerial photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center was widely released this week, offering a rare and chilling view from the heavens of the burning twin towers and the apocalyptic shroud of smoke and dust that settled over the city.
Glenn Corbett, a fire science expert who sat on an advisory committee during the NIST probe, said the photos did not yield any new information for investigators. “I don’t see anything here that’s new,” he said. “These are common photos. … It just reinforces things we know, that debris spread over a large area and the resultant dispersion of toxins and human remains.”
(via Nation & World | Chilling aerial photos of 9/11 attack released | Seattle Times Newspaper
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A trove of aerial photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center was widely released this week, offering a rare and chilling view from the heavens of the burning twin towers and the apocalyptic shroud of smoke and dust that settled over the city.

Glenn Corbett, a fire science expert who sat on an advisory committee during the NIST probe, said the photos did not yield any new information for investigators. “I don’t see anything here that’s new,” he said. “These are common photos. … It just reinforces things we know, that debris spread over a large area and the resultant dispersion of toxins and human remains.”

(via Nation & World | Chilling aerial photos of 9/11 attack released | Seattle Times Newspaper

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via www.businesspundit.com
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Feith’s book, War and Decision, released last month, provides excerpts of the paper Rumsfeld sent to President George W Bush on September 30, 2001, calling for the administration to focus not on taking down Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network but on the aim of establishing “new regimes” in a series of states…

All I’m asking is whether the U.S. refusal to accept the Taliban’s offer to hand over Bin Laden should be viewed as similar to its refusal to accept Saddam’s offer to go into exile for $1 billion dollars. In other words, we should ask whether the U.S. was hell-bent on going to war against Afghanistan and Saddam, without - contrary to official statements - really caring about the bad guys.

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Washington’s Blog

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After watching Screw Loose Change, I delved into the world of 9/11 Truth debunking. Among my favorites are the Screw Loose Change Blog and 9/11 Myths Finally, someone was answered all these pertinent questions with something that was a bit foreign to me… facts agreed upon by the experts.

There are no facts in the 9/11 Truth Movement. Just a lot of theories, which eventually break down to “hey, we’re just asking questions” if someone questions the validity of such. No structural, civil, or any engineers agree with the truthers. Yet, most of my friends will try to explain the hard physics involved in structural collapses. None of these people are engineers, physicists, or even in a scientific field, for that matter. Someone’s supposed to take their word over an expert’s?

The truthers will just tell you that all the experts are “in on it.” Yeah, sure. Every engineer in the world is complicit in the government’s murder of 3,000 people.

And so are the firemen, who apparently ordered Larry Silverstein to “pull” Building 7. The truthers’ misrepresentation of Silverstein’s quote is one of the most popular “facts” to spit out, but in doing so, you are effectively in agreement that firefighters were not only involved in the controlled demolition of WTC7, but they are also aiding and abetting in the government’s cover-up.

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Confessions of an Ex-Truther: Letter of Resignation (Scroll Down for Newer Posts)

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“The Truthers ignore facts which don’t fit into their beliefs”

The Truthers start with the assumption that the official story is wrong, and grab for any inconsistency in the official story as evidence that they are right. But the sensible way to investigate any incident is to examine the evidence and see where it leads.

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“The Truthers ignore facts which don’t fit into their beliefs” - Debatt | svt.se

L’extrême gauche se cherche une bonne raison de continuer à détester de toutes ses forces les Etats-Unis, malgré le 11 septembre

(Extrait de la conclusion du livre de Fiammetta Venner, L’effroyable imposteur - Quelques vérités sur Thierry Meyssan, Grasset, 2005.)

Et l’extrême gauche ? Elle se cherche une bonne raison de continuer à détester de toutes ses forces les Etats-Unis, malgré le 11 septembre.

Comme si compatir au sort de l’Amérique supposait de ne plus la critiquer. Comme si reconnaître les torts du djihad islamiste revenait à louer la politique américaine. Ne caricaturons pas. Beaucoup de militants d’extrême gauche pensent que l’on doit combattre l’intégrisme, y compris musulman, même si l’on désapprouve la politique étrangère américaine.

On peut détester Ben Laden et penser que la “croisade contre l’axe du mal” n’est pas la meilleure des réponses, mais favorise au contraire un “Choc des civilisations” dont les extrémismes tirent profit. On peut haïr Saddam Hussein et penser que la guerre en Irak fut surtout guidée par des intérêts économiques, au risque de favoriser une zone de conflit dont se régalent les djihadistes. On peut tenir des positions équilibrées et non manichéennes, même en période de passion. Surtout en période de passion, où savoir refuser la logique des camps, toujours propice à la confrontation, devient un devoir.

Mais reconnaissons-le, tous n’ont pas ce désir d’équilibre dans leurs engagements. Certains préféreront toujours la passion, mortifère mais révolutionnaire, à la raison, qu’ils méprisent comme le signe d’une mollesse réformiste. […]

En terminant ce livre sur [les] traces [de Thierry Meyssan], je reste impressionnée de voir à quel point cet homme a su utiliser toutes les failles, saisir toutes les occasions, pour détourner un genre aussi noble que la presse engagée au service de sa propre gloire, au mépris de toutes les règles, celle de la vérité et surtout celle de la responsabilité.

Faire ce portrait, c’était avant tout faire le procès de cette tentation conspirationniste qui empoisonne l’esprit critique et la pédagogie, deux valeurs dont le devoir d’informer ne saurait se passer. Malgré tout, malgré Meyssan, je crois toujours à la noblesse et surtout à la nécessité de la presse engagée. A condition qu’elle sache elle-même tirer la sonnette d’alarme lorsqu’on la prend en otage.