http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3671092a10,00.html
US releases new 9/11 video
17 May 2006
WASHINGTON: Video images of a hijacked airliner slamming into the Pentagon taken by two security cameras on September 11 were released for the first time by the US government today.
The video, released by the government in conjunction with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Judicial Watch legal activist group, was a longer, more complete version of still-frame images that were leaked to the news media in 2002.
The front of the hijacked Boeing 757 can be seen entering one video frame, with a massive explosion and orange fireball erupting upon impact with the Pentagon, followed by a plume of smoke.
US authorities have said five al Qaeda hijackers seized control of American Airlines Flight 77, a flight from Washington Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia bound for Los Angeles, and flew it into the Pentagon.
Killed in the crash were 125 people inside the Pentagon, 59 passengers and crew members and the five hijackers.
It was one of four commercial planes hijacked that day. Others crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City and in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. About 3,000 people were killed in the 2001 attacks.
Judicial Watch said the Pentagon told the group it would release the images "now that the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui is over."
Judicial Watch said the government previously had refused to release the video because it was "part of an ongoing investigation" involving Moussaoui, sentenced this month to life in prison for conspiracy in the September 11 attacks.
"We fought hard to obtain this video because we felt that it was very important to complete the public record with respect to the terrorist attacks of September 11," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.
"Finally, we hope that this video will put to rest the conspiracy theories involving American Airlines Flight 77."
Various claims have circulated that a commercial jet did not strike the Pentagon, but rather a missile or something else.
I have a few issues with the story above and at the risk of going against popular opinion I'm going to voice them here.
- This is not the 'first time' these images have been released. I have had a copy of this piece of footage as part of my own 9/11 research for a year and a half. It has been distributed in several DVD's on the subject.
- I can't see anything in the released video that could be positively identified as an plane, let alone a 757. Is it just me or is it just a white blur in one frame that could be anything white coloured moving fast? How do these pictures prove it was flight 77?
- I don't know much about the pentagon but I'd be willing to bet these weren't the only two cameras rolling in and around the Pentagon that day. And what happened to the footage from the buildings across the road? The footage from at least two other buildings that was confiscated shortly after attack? Surely they show something more?
I don't think this will "put to rest" any "conspiracy theories".
http://letsroll911.org/
(p.s. I know this is an incredibly emotive issue and I'm sure some of you will have something to comment here. Before you do I ask just one thing. If you intend to use the term "conspiracy theory" look up the meaning of those words in a dictionary first and acknowledge that that term describes the official 9/11 story just as well as any other.)
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