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Incidently, Post the link to the source material you are quoting. Ne a man for once.
All the source material I’m quoting is here:
http://www.archives.gov/legislative/...t-sept2005.pdf
Which is what my first post was about and what we are supposed to be debating yes/no???

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Firstly are you saying here that ATC in its entirity is complicit in the conspiracy?
No, all you need is a small number of key individuals at the top to prevent an interception.

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Secondly, why should it have started the process of contacting the military. For any reason, it might have been a malfunctioning radio? Oh thats right, lets contact NORAD, scramble 2 planes because a radio is in the wrong frequeuncy

Or the ATC could have contacts the AA Flight dispatcher to send a digital message to Flight 11 at 8:23 AM, saying "Good Morning ATC looking for you on 135.32"

Then 2 minutes later, ATC is finally aware that all is not well with Flight 11 when a foreigner voice came over the radio "We have some planes, just stay quiet and you will be okay. We are returning to the airport".

No... Of course ATC should have been aware at 8:14 Flight 11 was Hijacked.
There’s no report of any correspondence between Boston and AA prior to the call by AA at 8:29, that’s 15 minutes after the first loss of contact and 7 minutes after the reported hijacking by Ong.

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A ha. When did the AA System Operating Control contact ATC? So are American Airlines in on the conspiracy.
I already answered this, they didn’t contact them until 8:29, a full 7 minutes after they knew the plane was hijacked and they called to ask about the status of Flight 11 and not to report the hijacking. How would they know that Boston knew about the hijacking at 8:25 if they hadn’t bothered to tell them?
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Funnily enough, just because a plane doesn't respond to radio hails or acknowledge an instruction to climb from 29 k to 35 k feet - doesn't immedialtey make the plane hijacked.
No it doesn’t, but it does indicate there’s a problem. Furthermore the transponder was switched off at 8:21 adding to the seriousness of the situation.

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Unbelivable? Why exactly?

Incidently I fail to see how its relevant. Care to explain what it mattered WHAT American Airlines System Operations Control did after 8:25 when Boston ATC (a seperate entity) first became aware of a possible Hijacking?

Shocker... Chaotic situation involving hundreds of people means that the decision and information processing cycles slow down.
It’s an unbelievable report because they knew the plane was hijacked at 8:22, yet we have this report at 8:33:

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American headquarters now suspected that Flight 11 had been hijacked.8
And this report at 8:36:

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8:36 A.M. Marquis received Gonzalez's report about the hijacker she referred to as "Tom al Sukani" (i.e., Satam al Suqami), who had been seated in 10B.85 He then initiated action to "lockout" American Airlines Flight 11. This procedure is standard for airlines in safety and security incidents
It’s probably not relevant to what Boston ATC did after 8:25 but it does show what a fantasy story the whole report is and that's why I referred to it.

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Doesn't matter - ATC (you know, the guys who actually are in charge of the skies) didn't think the plane was Hijacked until 8:25.

They lost radio contact at 8:14, transponder at 8:21 and SOC knew there was a hijacking at 8:22 but apparently didn’t bother telling anyone until the call at 8:29

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So basically only 12 minutes after ATC had indications of the plane actually being hijacked and not suffering a radio malfunction?

Secondly, can you care to name the first time a kamikaze hujacking took place, and which flight was affected?
you are doing what the whole report is trying to do, stretch out the timeline to justify no interception. Talking about a kamikaze hijacking is irrelevant to this, are you suggesting there’s a different procedure for suspected kamikaze hijackings?

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What you have failed Lthse, is highlight any area in which the Military or ATC did not follow procedure. I have, and these were attempts to shorten the response time, which in the case of NORAD would have resulted in a longer response time...

Lets not try to cherry pick the evidence shall we?

Try again...
There’s no cherry picking of evidence, the first report to the military was at 8:37, and we are lead to believe that this was a shortcut. Why weren’t the military notified at 8:22 when SOC acknowledged the hijacking, or at 8:21 when the transponder was switched off or at 8:25 when Boston knew it was a hijacking?

Or what about this report at 8:32:

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8:32 A.M. The Herndon Command Center notified the Operations Center at FAA headquarters in Washington, D.C., of the possible hijacking of Flight 11, and was told that FAA security personnel at headquarters had just begun discussing the hijacking on a conference call with the agency’s New England regional office.
Why didn't the FAA notify the military?

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8:37:52 A.M. Boston Center called
the North American Aerospace
Defense Command's (NORAD)
Northeast Air Defense Sector
(NEADS) and notified NEADS
about the suspected hijacking of
Flightl 1.88 The United States'
military defense of its homeland on
9/11 began with this call. Indeed,
this was the first notification
received by the military - at any
level
- that Flight 11 had been
hijacked.
I have shown from the report itself that nobody in the military, at any level, was notified of the hijacking until 8:37. SOC knew at 8:22, Boston knew there was serious problem from 8:21, the FAA knew prior to 8:32 yet nobody contacted the military. The whole report is a farce.
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Give me a reputable source for this or get back under your bridge. I love you tin foil guys.
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Provide a source? This is all common knowledge in the public domain...it's like someone saying that this country has been ruined under FF, and another person saying "I don't believe you, can you provide a source for that."

An initial 3 million dollars was spent on the 9/11 commission and a further 11 million was requested and 9 million was granted giving a total of 12 million dollars.

This for the biggest act of crime in US history.

Do you know how much the Irish government spend on the John Carty / Justic Barr Commission? 20 million euro, nearly twice what was spent on the 9/11 commission. Do you really think the 9/11 commission was a thorough investigation then?
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Do you really think the 9/11 commission was a thorough investigation then?

No, it wasn't. But only in so far as it didn't investigate every crackpot conspiracy theory from thousands of crackpot bloggers and posters.
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No, it wasn't. But only in so far as it didn't investigate every crackpot conspiracy theory from thousands of crackpot bloggers and posters.
Over 200 people were killed at the pentagon...yet not a single verifiable piece of a boeing 757 was found...even though they could claim to identify victims by finger prints...

The American people and people like you are dumb for accepting the explanation that the wreckage vapourised. That's the real crackpot theory, that a plane vapourised and only naive fools would believe this happens.

It's easy to write off someone who questions the official account as a crackpot, it's the lazy unintelligent approach and demands no use of the brain.

Litterly thousands of expert aviators, physicists, scientists, professional engineers and arachitects of the highest professional rank have question the 9/11 official narrative. Yet you have Joe Soap posters as on here who think they know more than these experts.

Of course middle America accepts the government account. Middle America is easily deceived and not very sophisticated similar to some posters on here. They accept everything you tell them just as in Ireland people accepted everything FF told them.
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start at 47 seconds in for details.
<sigh> You morons just don't give up, do you?

The 'Hijackers are alive' crap is just that - crap. Suspects for the hijackings were named by the FBI based on the passenger (and to a lesser extent, investigative) information at the time of the flights. Passenger information provided by the hijackers in booking tickets, renting premises, renting cars, hotel rooms &c &c.

Yet somehow you, Dylan Avery, Alex Jones and the rest of the wet pants brigade think that there is some HUGE CONSPIRACY because, horror of horrors - Some of These Identities Were Fake

By the way, some of the names cited by the Grand High Tin Hat - you may as well state in hushed tones that Sean McCarthy is alive and well in Cork, or that there is, to this day, a Stephen Jones or an Alec Williams alive and well in the Vallllleys of South Wales. The presence of common given names in these terrorist lists is evidence of incompetence and futility, not of Conspiracy.
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Give me a reputable source for this or get back under your bridge.
LOL I suspose you think the mainstream media is a reputable source?

FYI According to intelligence insiders the BBC centre is London is known to them colloquially as "b_lls&*t house". As for the bridge business it's already occupied by your own sort according internet lore anyhow.

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I love you tin foil guys.
not as much as the mass murderers of 9/11, Iraq Gaza etc love self destroying sheep like you i'd dare guess. You make it so easy for them to continue to stage more attacks invasions, attacks of privacy and restrictions freedom. You are tyrants' Facilitators

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The 'Hijackers are alive' crap is just that - crap. Suspects for the hijackings were named by the FBI based on the passenger (and to a lesser extent, investigative) information at the time of the flights. Passenger information provided by the hijackers in booking tickets, renting premises, renting cars, hotel rooms &c &c
Oh Yeah, a likely story! You better inform the FBI since they still have the original names on their website. Nothing strange about that or for it is more a case for all your arrogance you just haven’t thought about it nor about the fact that none of the mainstream media has bothered to amend their lists either.
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Default Thermite material discovered in 9 11 dust

Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe


Thermite material from a highly energetic pyrotechnic or explosive material has been found in dust from destroyed 9 11 Trade Center

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We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center. Examination of four of these samples, collected from separate sites, is reported in this paper. These red/gray chips show marked similarities in all four samples. One sample was collected by a Manhattan resident about ten minutes after the collapse of the second WTC Tower, two the next day, and a fourth about a week later. The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The red material contains grains approximately 100 nm across which are largely iron oxide, while aluminum is contained in tiny plate-like structures. Separation of components using methyl ethyl ketone demonstrated that elemental aluminum is present. The iron oxide and aluminum are intimately mixed in the red material. When ignited in a DSC device the chips exhibit large but narrow exotherms occurring at approximately 430 °C, far below the normal ignition temperature for conventional thermite. Numerous iron-rich spheres are clearly observed in the residue following the ignition of these peculiar red/gray chips. The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic.
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John Quinterre said that NIST agreed to consider other collapse scenarios but in their final report none of these scenarios were touched on. In other words to put it into plain English for you, NIST decided on how the towers collapsed in advance and then set about finding evidence to support this. They did not have an open mind as to the collapse, the first rule of investigation is an open mind and follow all lines of enquiry.
Right.. and what does Quintierre think happened? Incidently - Whilst there may be issues with NISTs investigations, which are indeed picked up on from various structural engineering entities through the world, not one of the papers submitted for peer review makes the case that it was anything else than a collapse due to anything other than controlled demolition.

Care to explain that?

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I repeat the fires in the twin towers were no more than office fires. I only relayed what the NIST report said and hence you are actually accusing the NIST authors of 'clear sophistry'.
No more than 'office fires'. Well according to Quintierre - NIST could have under-estimated the fireloads in that building by up to a factor of 3...

Incidenty, 'no more than office fires'. What 'exactly' is that supposed to mean? Do you actually work? What is an office full of? Its full of highly combustible materials in the form of paper, and highly energy dense materials in the form of Hydrocarbon dervied products (i.e.) Plastics, which will be in everything from the computer to the chair that an office worker sits on, to wood of the work desks.

So what exactly do you mean 'no more than office fires'.

Hmmmm

Vulcan Solutions - Cardington Fire Test Comparisons

Care to answer what the standard fire loads which were used in these tests, what they were representative of and what temperatures they reached?

Well I'll do it for you...

[img]http://www.vulcan-solutions.com/images/card_demo_before_s.gif[/img

Typical fire load.

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The maximum temperatures recorded were 1213°C (atmosphere) and 1150°C (steel beams).
Would you say thats a typical office fire?

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You see Conor you tie yourself up in knots and you don't seem to know how to argue properly. When someone presents for example an excerpt from the NIST report you reject it immediately....it's laughable really the holes you dig for yourself.
You're confusing me... Where?

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I am getting tired arguing with you, I will however continue to post information for the benefit of others. AS for you, you admit yourself you are a neo-con and neo-cons are proven liars so I don't expect less from you.
Arguing implies that you actually answer other peoples points And questions. You don't, you haven't.

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For the benefit of others, only a couple of the outer steel columns suffered any significant heat problems on 9/11. That leaves over 200 outer steal columns suffering no heat problems and the inner columns suffering no heat damage.
Actualy thats not proven at all. You make a great case about how NIST didn't bother to examine any of the structural steel and now you claim that they examined all the structural steel in the outer steel columns in the crash areas affected.

Whats it too be?

But it would be a good idea to try and tie this in with what NIST's Hypothesis is. Do they say that the WTC collapsed due to a weakening in the outer structural steel? I don't think so - so yet nother strawman from yourself.

Reference please.

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The building was 95% or higher intact and NIST has been widely discredited by fire experts.
What exactly does it matter that the building was 95% intact.

Incidently, which Fire experts have widely discredited NIST? Apart from Quintierre, who thinks that there is another 'equally valid' explanation for the collapse, that NIST could have under estimated the fire loads in the building by a factor of 3.

And Quintierre's Hypothesis? That the buildings collapsed due to the effects exerted on the building by fire...

Can you point out why the building being in total 95% intact, how that would have prevented a top down collapse?

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Indeed most of the official 9/11 story has been widely discredited by professors of physics
By a professor of Physics, whose specialises in Cold Fusion. The University which he was at until until he 'published' his paper, Structural Engineering (You know, the structural engineering being the most relevant area here) department quite quickly distanced themselves from his conclusions.

Oh and then Professor Stephen Jones makes a complete mockery out of his paper by submitting his paper for peer review, not in a structural engineering Journal or even an engineering journal at all, but instead thought that his article would have a better time in peer review by submitting it to a Political Science Journal...

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professors of fire science,
John Quinterre (which you referenced above, again... Padding much?),. who thinks he has an 'equally valid' hypothesis and still does not think the buildings collapsed due to explosives...

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experts in demolition and explosives,
Danny Jowenko, who incidently DOES NOT think that 1 & 2 WTC were subject to a controlled demolition, which somewhat contradicts you does it not?

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experts in aeronautical flying,
In aeronautical flying... wow. I'll think you'll find that a few hundred pilots out of a few million does not a consensus make...

Whose one argument is this...

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I find it hard to believe Capt. Burlingame gave up his ship to Hani Hanjour pointing a boxcutter at him. Pilots know The Common Strategy prior to 9/11. Capt. Burlingame would have taken them where they wanted to go, but only after seeing more than a "boxcutter" or knife. Why was Capt. Burlingame, a retired Military Officer with training in anti-terrorism, reported to have given up his airplane to 5 foot nothing. 100 and nothing Hani Hanjour holding a "boxcutter". (Exaggeration added for size of Hani, he was tiny, lets just put it that way).
lets forget that the Hijackers had already killed one person, stabbed another and had a pilot in their ranks so the chances of Charles Burlingame doing what exactly, is what exactly?

So, they've convinced me....

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experts in building design, including steel building design
Richard Gage, who is an Architect. What do they do? And why exactly do they need a structural engineer on their design team?

Incidenty, what Sky scrapers has Richard Gage worked on?

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and remember those who designed the twin towers were foremost experts in the field and designed it to take a hit from multiple airliners, and many many more experts.
The foremost experts in their field...

Thats not a fallacy at all is it?

I'm sure the Hindenberg was designed by the foremost experts.
The Titanic. Hell, its not like having a Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Any engineering or science subject has ever precluded from anybody actually making mistakes.

Can you point to a building which is constructed using the same techniques as 1 & 2 WTC since there construction? Whats that? No you can't? Why is that?

Just because it was 'designed' to be something, doesn't neccessarily mean it was in reality.

Simplest terms. Formula one. Each team designs its cars to be the fastest. Yet only one is. Each one is only designed by the foremost experts in their fields, driven by the most talented drivers in the world.

Could you point out why Toyota have not won a F1 Construtors championship, despite having the largest budget, the best parent company and arguably some of the best engineers in the world?

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Conor is an expert in, from what I can gather fridges! When your fridge fails, go to Conor. When a building fails, would you still go to Conor, or take the word of independent experts, as I do.
And what do we have in you?? We have an 'expert' in nothing. And you might go to experts... but hell, we've never actually get to debte with these experts, just some short statements from yester year.

Or the experts which you claim to support your positions... don't.

Or 'experts' whose primary reason for doubting 9/11 is that a white man wouldn't let himself be bossed around by an arab with a boxcutter.

All of which is demonstrated above.

So you ignore NIST (experts), you ignore John Quinterre (your expert), you ignore Danny Jowenko (you're expert, whose views on 7 WTC are disputable, but since he's YOUR expert, directly contradicts you on 1 & 2 WTC.)

You ignore that not one structural engineering entity from Universities to consultancies have ever submitted a paper for peer review claiming that the WTC werent not the subject of fire induced collapsed.

Well done you.

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Well done you . An entire post without calling someone a name . Youve gone up in my estimation . Now that wasnt so hard was it ?

* edit "You're an idiot..." says Conor

Aw cmon Conor ! Im tryin to help u here . You couldnt even let my post be true for 10 seconds !
Ahhh Nothing to say Stewie?

Oh thats right, because you're a moron, who apart from snide comments, can't even beat little old me in an argument.

Go and have a ******************** somewhere.
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