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U.S. Releases 9/11 Pentagon Video

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Posted on May 16, 2006
Pentagon Burning on 9/11
From the BBC

The Pentagon burns after American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into it on Sept. 11, 2001.

Bowing to a Freedom of Information request, the U.S. government has released a video of what is apparently (thanks, reader Lorenzo) American Airlines Flight 77 slamming into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. The group that made the FOIA request did so to dispel conspiracy theories.

BBC:

The US justice department has released the first video of the plane crashing into the Pentagon on 11 September 2001.

American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the US military headquarters, killing 184 people, after it was hijacked as part of an al-Qaeda plot.

The release of the video, taken from a Pentagon security camera, comes after a Freedom of Information Act request by legal watchdog Judicial Watch.

The group said it hoped to dispel conspiracy theories about the crash.

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By Erik, May 20, 2006 at 3:25 pm #
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The original request was for 85 videos. The prima facie case for investigating official complicity is overwhelming and doesn’t rely on determining what hit the Pentagon.

http://www.911truth.org

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By alain vanhorne, May 17, 2006 at 7:19 pm #
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After reading the previous comments I would like to say that I am not crazy and neither are you. If the pentagon really wanted to dispell the romours they would release the video confiscated within minutes of the attack across the street at the hotel roofcam, the gas station, and the many cameras on the turnpike witch would have shown the low flying plane. No, you’re not crazy, 9/11 was an inside job. This has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt first in the documentary “Martial Law” by Alex Jones at prisonplanet.com and more recently in “Loose Change 9/11”, the most downloaded video on the internet. Did you see a 757? I sure as hell did not see a 757 yet that is what the mainstream media is telling us we saw. The only conspiracy theory is the official story that has holes in it you could drive a 757 through. The FDNY have been gagged since 9/11. Not one interview with one single firefighter. Why doesn’t any one explain that one.

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By DanInAlabama, May 17, 2006 at 2:24 pm #
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Comment #9718 by rex on 5/17 at 10:14 am

Why does nobody broadcast the BBC video of Flight 77
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Do you have a link to this video? If so please provide it. Thanks.

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Sorry to post twice about this, but the Pentagon issue is not the best way to approach this subject. WTC7, to me, is the smoking gun.

The Pentagon issue, if at some point they produce a video clearing showing Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon, could be a way to discredit everyone who questions the official 9/11 theory.

There are now pictures (after 4 1/2 years they turn up?) of landing gear etc… from a large plane found in the debris of the Pentagon.

9/11 was, IMO, the New Pearl Harbor PNAC wanted. The people behind 9/11 know how to run False Flag operations. Disinformation and deception are their game.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/170506rea llylook.htm

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By jf, May 17, 2006 at 1:13 pm #
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What we have here is a lot on energy expended to “prove” a pre-conceived theory (the official conspiracy theory). What we don’t have is any explanation for the hundreds of anomalies, both scientific and statistical, that surround the events of 911. It is truly amazing how hard people work to try to prove how the implausible could have happened simply because they can’t bring themselves to accept what may have really occurred.

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By Phil, May 17, 2006 at 10:50 am #
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This surveillance video of the Pentagon attack on 9/11 should put all conspiracy theories about the missing Boeing and the mismatch of the damage to the size and type of impact to rest.

Now if they also released the video about Osama sitting in a cave in Afghanistan calling on the genie to suspend the laws of physics just for one day please, and make the Twin Towers collapse at free fall speed against the increasing resistance of the mass below…

That would definitely make those pesky physics professors, MIT engineers, architects, material scientists and explosives experts finally stay quiet and stop talking nonsense that “the planes alone could not have caused the collapse”, as they like to assert at conspiratorial websites, such as http://www.physics911.net and http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org.

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By diabloJesus, May 17, 2006 at 10:42 am #
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Mainstream media portrays anyone asking legitimate questions about what happened on September eleventh as crazy or unpatriotic when in fact we all must always continue to ask questions to find answers beyond the Government’s official story.

Whenever presented with any kind of information, we must keep an open mind while still being critical at the same time.

It is my opinion, after viewing the video; that it is difficult to determine whether it was a Boeing 757 that stuck the Pentagon.

“The emotional power of the images” has a great psychical affect in the minds of the viewers.

Anyone who has ever taking a marketing class will know that fear and anxiety are the best tools to persuade.

Through the media, the Bush administration has done exactly this.

Fear is an illusion.

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By naomi, May 17, 2006 at 10:30 am #
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This has done nothing to dispel anything.  It just brings more questions.  I mean, when watching the WTC being destroyed in a controlled demolision, the government is saying “who are you going to believe us or your lying eyes”....
There are too many REAL questions that are not being answered, to dispel anything. 

They still are not forthcoming with anything that will pass the “laugh test”.  It is heartening, though in one sense.  For them to even deign to release this silly photo, means that the word is getting out and people aren’t taking the BS anymore.  They believe their “lying eyes”

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By rex, May 17, 2006 at 9:14 am #
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Why does nobody broadcast the BBC video of Flight 77
that shows the plane from below as it dives toward the Pentagon?
There were several frames clearly showing a plane that
appears to be smaller than a 757 and have wings swept back
at a greater angle. This has proportions similar to an A-3 Skyraider high wing jet bomber which was designed for
fast manuvering to deliver bombs aganinst Soviet targets.
The one new frame released yesterday purports to show the
“nose cone” of a 757 but it has a shadow right where the
overhead wing of an A-3 would cast it behind the cockpit.

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By Hilding Lindquist, May 17, 2006 at 7:42 am #
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The Shrine of the Immaculate Evaporation:

In the wake of the total disappearance of two nine-foot diameter titanium alloy engines along with the rest of the American Airlines Flight 77 Boeing 757 that crashed into the Pentagon, ministers, priests, and even rabbis (in democratically appropriate alphabetical order) are calling for the creation of The Shrine for the Immaculate Evaporation at the Pentagon. “God has created a holy place,” one priest solemnly stated. “Material objects vanished into thin air.”

“Events are occurring that can only be explained as acts of Almighty God,” a minister said in confirmation of this holiest of events. The rabbi mentioned something about a similar place in the Tabernacle in Jerusalem.

“God is at work here. There is no other explanation,” a White House spokesperson intoned.

“The maximum flame temperature increase for burning hydrocarbons (jet fuel) in air is, thus, about 1,000°C—hardly sufficient to melt steel at 1,500°C. “
http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0112/Eagar/Eagar- 0112.html

Let alone a titanium alloy ...

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By scott, May 17, 2006 at 6:44 am #
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I watched that video, and I did not see anything that looked like an airplane hit the Pentagon. Not even remotely.

It’s funny, because wherever I watched it, the announcer mentioned thatthe video was put out to dispel conspiracy theories like the Pentagon was hit by a missile.

All I could think of was, “that sure looks more like a missile hit than a plane crash!”

Isn;t there something about the theory of unintendended consequences? I mean, that video will do nothing but heighten or confirm one’s suspicion concerning the event.

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By Deborah, May 17, 2006 at 4:23 am #
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where are all the black boxes........

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By Steve, May 17, 2006 at 1:07 am #
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That thing is a cruise missile. As someone said before, a 757 is much longer and taller. Also it (a 757) would have to have been traveling at thousands of miles an hour to pass by that quickly.
It’s so obvious. And then there’s the white ‘flash’ as the warhead explodes after the missle hits and enters the building, did you notice?

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By Doug, May 16, 2006 at 8:41 pm #
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“hoped to dispel conspiracy theories about the crash”
I don’t think they are going to be able to dispel much with this video. Like the images released last year (direct cuts from this video) shows absolutely nothing that resembles a plane. Oh sure there is a dramatic explosion but if anyone claims they see a Boeing 757 they are out right lieing and should be investigated as traitors and accomplicies to whom ever carried out the attacks of that day. 
That goes for the corporate media dogs as well who have given us absolutely nothing along the lines of real coverage for any important issue since the stolen election of 2000.

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By Don Fahrney, May 16, 2006 at 8:16 pm #
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Hey, my 20/20 did not see anything that looked like something Boeing might have turned out when there not hobnobing with the elite at the White House.

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By jae, May 16, 2006 at 6:28 pm #
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Unless one is quite blind or quite stupid, this ‘new’ film makes it easy to see the tiny item that hit the Pentagon....it’s not a 757.  I’ve been on a 757 and they’re pretty big.

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By beardedfish, May 16, 2006 at 6:24 pm #
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I would like to see the camera footage from the gas station across the street.  Wider angle, so we would see the plane in more frames.  Though I am no conspiracy theorist, I believe this “video,” more like a rapid slide show, neither proves nor disproves the conspiracy theorists or the official stance.  After all the lies and half truths we have been fed over the decades I am not inclined to automatically believe our government.

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By YOURACONSPIRACYTHEORY, May 16, 2006 at 6:07 pm #
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To those that doubt the government: You really are mad. The government is secretive!Yeah right! The government lies! (Look at the E.P.A. press releases changed by the white house to say everything was O.K. regarding the quality of air)You don’t say! The government would manipulate and fake a terror event in order to garner support for Iraq.You are absolutely nuts!(Precedent: Operation Northwoods, U.S. plans fake terror attacks to obtain support for a war with Cuba, INCLUDING STAGING A FAKE FLIGHT AND CRASHING A DRONE PLANE)

What really happened, you crazy stupid tinhat wearers, is that:

1. The F.B.I was mistakenly stonewalled into investigating Al-Qaeda
2. Our government officials, including General Hayden, who received the “match is on tomorrow” email on September 10th, were just dumb and happened to ignore all the intelligence warnings from other countries as well as people in our own government
3. 2 planes knocked down three buildings in a manner that symmetrically collapsed, although suffering asymmetric damage, much like a controlled demolition, (but it wasn’t), although it’s never happened before to a steel building.
4. Flight 93 was bought down in a Hollywood fashion with people calling family members from plane phones and cell phones (Because all though cell phones don’t usually work in flight, flight 93 was just at the right spot for them to work.)The subsequent plane crash disentigrated the plane into only small pieces over many miles. Where’s the plane, you ask? It doesn’t matter. I like the Hollywood version
5. A 757 was flown parallel and inches above the ground, mr. Hanni Honjour was very lucky indeed! (Because it wasn’t skill, as the record has shown)This caused the plane to also basically disintegrate, minus some scattered pieces and one engine.

Man you people are crazy to believe other wise!
P.S.
As far as PNAC goes, saying in September of 2000 that they needed to overthrow Iraq, Iran, and increase defense spending to unprecedented amounts, and that the process to this would be slow, unless a “NEW PEARL HARBOR” would happen, had no relation whatsoever to the New Pearl Harbor, us overthrowing Iraq, and currently Sabre Rattling with Iran.
There is also NO precedent that someone would stage a fake terror attack on their own people (Reichstag Fire), create a fake enemy to gain massive political capital(Hitler with the Jews), and spy on it’s people to know where the “undesirables” where. (JUST LIKE HITLER DID)

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By Nuggets, May 16, 2006 at 6:07 pm #
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Where’s the plane in the video? Why is FBI still holding additional videos from surrounding buildings? Why isn’t the Govt releasing all information about the crash?

http://www.Flight77.info says it will continue FOIA requests for all audio and video recordings. What is the Govt hiding?

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By Hilding Lindquist, May 16, 2006 at 5:00 pm #
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I think if we get too far into conspiracy theories, we just weird people out.

We should simply ask for an explanation of what happened to the two titanium alloy engines NINE FEET in diameter that were attached to the plane!

I mean, MY GOD, somebody should be able to tell us what happened to them ... or explain why they aren’t asking what happened to ‘em.

JUST TELL US WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE TWO GOD DAMN ENGINES, FOR CHRISSAKES! Is that asking too much of our vaunted sleuths?

Then we the people can decide where to go next ... what thread to pull on ... what questions to ask.

But if nobody can explain what happened to those TWO GOD DAMN NINE FEET IN DIAMETER TITANIUM ALLOY ENGINES, FOR CRISSAKES ... then we got trouble, right there in River City (on the Potomac) ... and that starts with “T” which rhymes with “B” and that stands for “Bush” ... as in “the Bush Family” ... going back a ways.

I mean, it’s a fact. The engines are missing. And no one has come up with a satsfactory reason as to why they are missing from the crash site ... a jet fuel fire isn’t hot enough to even melt ‘em let alone evaporate ‘em.

I think we the people should keep pulling on this thread until we find out where it leads or what our pulling unravels.

http://www.seeloosechange.com

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By DanInAlabama, May 16, 2006 at 1:50 pm #
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This video shows nothing that would prove or disprove that that blurry object is flight 77, so I don’t see how it will dispel conspiracy theories at all. Did flight 77 hit the Pentagon? I my guess is yes, but again this video proves nothing.

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By MattNet, May 16, 2006 at 12:05 pm #
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Nothing new here.  The crucial frames still do not show a plane!  I swear, does anyone see a plane here?  Look at what they released… more smoke, no more evidence of a plane.

9/11 was an inside job and we prove it at http://9eleven.info

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