Robert Smith - The Planner

After the towers had collapsed, a man in the street was able to describe the collapse sequence of the twin towers exactly as described by the official story, despite the intellectual dispute of the tower collapses since and the multiple reports from Policemen and Firemen and news reporters at the scene describing secondary explosions. Jerome Hauer also dismissed the reported explosions in the towers on TV on the day of 9/11. 189

The Bush Administration even had its own grieving victim, TV personality and political pundit, Barbara Olson, who was on Flight 77. She had apparently phoned husband Ted Olson, United States Solicitor General, on maybe her cell phone or a seat back airfone, (that information changed daily after the crash), to give the story of box-cutter wielding hijackers. 190

Many stories in the newspapers described calls from victims from cell phones including stories of people in the toilets or displaying caller-id phone numbers from cell phones, in other words, definitely not from airfones. However, slowly the official story claimed the calls were from airfones. Texas-based Verizon, who ran the airfone company, announced that all airfone calls on 9/11 were to be “free”, thus relieving them of the duty to demonstrate that any calls took place that day or distributing any confirming evidence one way or the other.

American Airlines stated their capacity for a Boeing 767-223ER was 165. AA Flight 11 had 76 passengers, 11 crew members, and the 5 hijackers. United Airlines flight 175, a Boeing 767–222 with the same capacity, had 51 passengers, 9 crew and 5 hijackers. American flight 77, a Boeing 757 with capacity of 188, carried 53 passengers, 6 crew, and 5 hijackers. United flight 93, another Boeing 757, carried 33 passengers, 7 crew and the 4 hijackers.

The load factors for these aircraft were pretty low compared to the industry average for the period: 49 % for AA flight 11, 33 % for UAL flight 175, 32 % for AA 77, and 20 % for UAL 93. But if you remove the hijackers from the total, the load factors were lower still 46 % for AA flight 11, 30 % for UAL flight 175, 29 % for AA flight 77, and just 18 % for UAL flight 93. The low load factor for UA Flight 93 may be more understandable when it was revealed in 2004 that UA flight 93 was not a regular, scheduled flight, but had been newly inserted into the system. While there had been a few flights of UA93 for a few days previously, 9/11 was the first-ever Tuesday flight for the by United Airlines Newark to San Francisco route.

Truly the most baffling aspect of 9/11 is the collapse of WTC7.

On the late night BBC 24 hour news channel, the BBC were broadcasting a live report from New York. It was 5.15pm local time, New York, and 11.15pm in London. The BBC’s Jane Standley was reporting the destruction of the Solomon Bothers Building, WTC7. “New York is still completely unable to take on what has happened to them today…” she said. However, what she probably did not know was immediately behind her, in clear view in the distance, the WTC7 was still standing. Then two minutes before the tower actually collapsed, the live TV picture went black. The BBC news anchor, Phil Hayton, in London was in mid-sentence, “Everyone here are just flabbergasted. It almost seems just too far-fetched. I was wondering what it felt for you in New York. Ah… We seem to having some technical difficulties there.” 191

“Far-fetched”, indeed. But many other people assumed that WTC7 would come down.

“Keep your eyes on this,” said a building worker to a camera crew, “It’s coming down shortly.”

Others claim that they were kept away from the building and heard a countdown over the radio, “Three… Two… One.” 192

And then WTC7 collapsed straight down, symmetrically, in 7 seconds.

Other news channels also reported the collapse of the building, most implying that it had previously collapsed at the same time as the one the twin towers. Unlike the BBC where news coverage was cut just before collapse event, Fox News reported WTC7’s destruction immediately as the live picture of the WTC7 collapse occurred. The newscasters appeared shocked and embarrassed by the live collapsed and invented a reason for the collapse 193, which has since proven to be false according to FEMA and NIST reports.

The CBS TV anchor stated, “The third time today, a skyscraper collapses. Extraordinary. It reminds me of those old hotels knocked down in Las Vegas…”

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The President had flown in Air Force to Offutt Air Force Base, in Nebraska, where coincidently William Buffet, one the world’s richest men, had invited the WTC CEOs for a “charity” golf tournament. 194

Air Force One took off without fighter escort 195. Maybe because after the “Angel is Next” warning the POTUS was not sure who to trust. 196

At Offutt AFB, the President was advised that the attacked “smelled like Al Qaeda” 197 198. Which was fortunate, since the order to invade Afghanistan was signed the previous day. 199 200

Later that night, the President’s brother and Florida State Governor, Jeb Bush, escorted by Police and Specials Forces, raided the Florida flight school where the Rainbow Actors had been receiving flight training. They took away cabinets holding the flight school records in the back of a Hercules C-130 that had landed on the flight school runway. Fortunately, again, Jeb had changed the rules and regulations associated with such property seizure, just a few days before. 201

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Planner had driven all night and arrived at Katherine’s door in the early morning. She opened the door, held her face and bent over. When Planner came forward she rose up and started beating him on the chest. Planner held his face away and took the punishment. When Katherine started to slacken off in tears, Planner reached out to comfort her. They sank to the ground together in each others arms.

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On a computer screen, a graphic designer edited a picture of the WTC Towers and removed 47 of the interior columns, and replaces it with a single thin pole. 202This was part of a disinformation campaign to disseminate the view that the Twin Towers were poorly designed and frail. The documentary “How the Towers Fell” was compelling but failed to mention WTC7, molten steel or much about the tower’s inner core. 203

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The day after 9/11, the EPA, by orders from the White House, announced that the air at Ground Zero was safe to breathe. By 2006, 70 % of the 40,000 ground zero workers had developed respiratory problems, and hundreds of them have developed cancer.

Molten metal was found under the North Tower, South Tower and WTC7. The Ground Zero pile was dangerously hot for over 3 months despite constant application of water.

FEMA and NIST conducted investigations into the tower “collapses” but failed to follow any forensic method. 204Indeed, the majority of the steel was shipped off to China for scrap with indecent haste. The ground zero dust was not investigated by FEMA or NIST. Other organisations and researchers believe the Ground Zero dust holds critical evidence on the towers’ destruction. 205

Some of the crucial evidence can be easily seen in photographs of the ground zero clean up. The outer columns standing for up to ten stories while nothing remaining of the inner, stronger, columns; nothing except for a few stubs of diagonally cut columns, the tell-tale sign of controlled demolition. 206

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The news channels carried the official story night and day. On September 16th, President Bush declared the attack was from Osama Bin Laden and started a “crusade” to “rid the world of evil-doers”.

The Afghanistan Taliban discussed how to hand over Bin Laden, but the United States refused to negotiate and launched, their pre-planned invasion 207, Operation Enduring Freedom, on October 7th.