9/11 102 minutes that changed the world

History Channel’s excellent series of first person accounts from people who were at the scene on 9/11.

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9/11 Scientific Simulations of how the Twin Towers and Pentagon collapsed

Researchers at Purdue University created a simulation that uses scientific principles to show what happened when a commercial airliner crashed into the World Trade Center’s North Tower.

The simulation could be used to better understand which elements in the building’s structural core were affected, how they responded to the initial shock of the aircraft collision, and how the tower later collapsed from the ensuing fire fed by an estimated 10,000 gallons of jet fuel, said Mete Sozen, the Kettelhut Distinguished Professor of Structural Engineering in Purdue’s School of Civil Engineering. PURDUE

Purdue University independent analysis of the plane being crashed into the Pentagon.

Debunking stupid conspiracy theories: Credible eyewitnesses, including pilots, who saw the plane hit the Pentagon.

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9/11 HERO: The man in the red bandana

Welles Crowther was 24-years-old on September 11, 2001, working as an equities trader at Sandler, O’Neill and Partners on the 104th floor of the South Tower. A volunteer firefighter, Welles gave a call to his mom after the first plane hit to let her know he was ok at 9:12 a.m. He would never speak to her again.

The Blaze  Welles’ mother Allison said she knew that her son was lost the moment she watched the South Tower collapsed, and with no signs of him at the end of September 2001, the family held a memorial service in Welles’ honor at Grace Episcopal Church in Nyack, N.Y. where over 1,000 people came to pay respects.

Welles’ remains were recovered on March 19, 2002 along with NYFD firefighters and emergency services personnel who had been operating a NYFD Command Center in the lobby of the South Tower. Welles wore the number 19 at Boston College.

“We were just ready to accept we would never hear anything” about what happened to Welles during his last hour, said Alison to Fox News at the family home in Upper Nyack for a September 2002 story. Fox News reports that in the months following 9/11, Allison meticulously combed over every news video or article on the attack, hoping to see a glimpse of her son for any further information of what happened to him.

Then, on May 26, The New York Times published witness accounts of the last 102 minutes before the Twin Towers fell, featuring Judy Wein and Ling Young’s story of the man in the red bandanna.

“A mysterious man appeared at one point, his mouth and nose covered with a red handkerchief. He was looking for a fire extinguisher. As Judy Wein recalls, he pointed to the stairs and made an announcement that saved lives: Anyone who can walk, get up and walk now. Anyone who can perhaps help others, find someone who needs help and then head down.

In groups of two and three, the survivors struggled to the stairs. A few flights down, they propped up debris blocking their way, leaving a small passageway to slip through.

A few minutes behind this group was Ling Young, who also survived the impact in the sky lobby. She, too, said she had been steered by the man in the red bandanna, hearing him call out: ‘This way to the stairs.’ He trailed her down the stairs. Ms. Young said she soon noticed that he was carrying a woman on his back. Once they reached clearer air, he put her down and went back up.”

Knowing that her son always carried a red bandanna in his back right pocket, Welles’ mother believed that the description in the New York Times of the mysterious man with the red handkerchief was her son. After receiving a letter from Allison with a photo of Welles, Judy and Ling confirmed that Allison had finally found out what her son did in the last hour of his life. Wearing the red bandanna, a childhood habit, Welles’ saved at least 18 lives acting as a firefighter, not an equities trader in the final hour of his life.

“If he hadn’t come back, I wouldn’t have made it,” said Wein to CNN. “People can live 100 years and not have the compassion, the wherewithal to do what he did.”

9/11 MUSLIM HIJACKERS: Inside the Hamburg Cell

Fascinating look into the minds, motives, and detailed preparations of the Muslim men who carried out the worst attack in American history.

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FBI releases photo of Muslim man wanted for latest 9/11 threats

This is believed to be one of the Muslim men counter terrorism chiefs say are plotting a terrorist attack in America on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11. An image of American-born 22-year-old Jude Kenan Mohammad has been posted on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.

UK DAILY MAIL  He has been linked to what officials have called a credible but unconfirmed al-Qaeda threat to set off a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington.

The Wall Street Journal reported Mohammad is among three al-Qaeda leaders that investigators believe pose a particular threat because they have lived in the U.S.

Should that mission prove impossible, the attackers have been told to simply cause as much destruction as they can.

Mohammad, who was born in Florida, dropped out of North Carolina’s Fuquay-Varina High School in 2006 and left the U.S. two years later to visit Pakistan, his father’s homeland.

A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted him and seven other men in 2009 on charges that they conspired to carry out terrorist activities around the world. Two of the men have pleaded guilty, and the trial of four others is set for September 19 in New Bern.

Federal authorities have never arrested Mohammad in the case, saying that they believe he has been in Pakistan since the indictment was issued.

Frank Perry, a former FBI agent in Charlotte, said: ‘They were far along in their planning and he’s not here, so perhaps he’s done more planning since then. ‘If he’s a so-called leader, it could be a leader for a particular operation. It could be a leader of a particular cell.’ Word that al-Qaida had dispatched would-be attackers reached U.S. officials this week.

A CIA informant who has proven reliable in the past approached intelligence officials overseas to say that the men had been ordered by  al-Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahri to mark Sunday’s 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by doing harm on U.S. soil.

The informant says the would-be attackers are of Arab descent and may speak Arabic as well as English. Counterterrorism officials were looking for certain names associated with the threat, but it was unclear whether the names were real or fake.

However, a source told the New York Post: ‘It does feel more operational than most of the others we’ve had that have been more aspirational.’ The information, which came from chatter picked up overseas by the CIA, said the attack would occur on the 10th, 11th or 12th, another source told the paper.

Federal officials said yesterday that three individuals – one believed to be a U.S. citizen – entered the country last month by air with ‘intent’ to carry out a terrorist plot against Washington, D.C. or New York.

Police sources told reporters the individuals are believed to have come to the U.S. via Afghanistan or Pakistan with at lease one stop in another country, possibly Iran.

New World Trade Center buiding under construction at Gound Zero

9/11 Preview. A film about the families and survivors you haven’t seen before

The day America was Forever Changed — 9/11/2011.

ACLJ Jay Sekulow and ACLJ Films brings you a compelling story of the most deadly attack on American soil — told from the perspective of those who sacrificed the most — the heroes who survived 9/11 and the families who lost loved ones when the Word Trade Center became Ground Zero.

Be sure to check back on 9/11 (starting late in the day on 9/10 for the complete tribute to 9/11)

Newly released 9/11 tapes show desperate search for hijacked planes

“We have a problem here. We have hijacked aircraft headed towards New York and we need you guys to, we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up here to help us out,” a worker at Boston Center’s Traffic Management Unit said at 8:37 a.m., according to the recordings. No planes had struck any targets yet.

ABC NEWS For the first time, the full audio recordings of communications between military and civilian air traffic controllers as they were dealing with the hijackings on Sept. 11, 2001, have been made public. The multimedia document, published by the Rutgers Law Review, provides a rare real-time look at how government agencies were responding as the hijacking of the four planes was unfolding.

The official on the other end of the line, unaware they were minutes away from witnessing firsthand the worst terror attack in U.S. history, asked if it was all a test. Another portion showed the abject horror from officials as they witnessed United Flight 175 slamming into the World Trade Center.

The 9/11 Commission staff had started compiling the recordings and transcripts into the multimedia document released today but had not completed it in time to be released with the 9/11 Commission report.

According to the New York Times, which first reported on the release of these recordings, one key tape remains unreleased: the recording from the last half hour in the cockpit of United Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania instead of its intended target in Washington DC. Though it was played at the trial for one of the plotters, the families of the passengers who took on the hijackers requested the audio not be made public.

9/11 SILENT NIGHT

Somehow I never came across this until now. Glad I finally did.

DENIED! Muslims’ application for $5 million in taxpayer funds for the Ground Zero Victory Mosque

The jihadist-linked developers of the Park51 (Ground Zero Victory Mosque) Islamic center had the cojones to ask for federal post-9/11 recovery money to get their project off the ground. Fortunately, they failed.

DNA Park51′s request for funding sparked controversy among those who did not want to see an Islamic center so close to the site of the 9/11 attacks. It appears that Park51 did not meet the eligibility requirements because the organization has not yet received its nonprofit certification.(That’s the only reason? Disgraceful)

Park51  recently applied for a $5 million grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., which has distributed over $2 billion in federal funds since 9/11. The grant would have partly gone toward Islamic programs at the planned $100 million mosque and community center two blocks north of the World Trade Center site, including domestic violence prevention, Arabic and other foreign language classes.

The Park51 center “is desperately needed in Lower Manhattan,” said the developers. “This is why (Muslim) community leaders and the Muslim asskissing mayor of NYC  universally support this project.”(The only reason it is needed is to gloat over the successful attack on NYC and plan for the next one)

Mayor Dhimmi Bloomberg tells us to STOP calling the Ground Zero site, “Ground Zero”

Does that mean we should stop calling the Pearl Harbor Memorial, “Pearl Harbor,” too?

REUTERS  More pandering to Muslim ‘sensitivities, no doubt, New York City’s pathetic excuse for a major, Michael Bloomberg, says, “People should stop calling the site of the September 11 attacks “Ground Zero,”  urging Americans to move past a term long linked with the World Trade Center’s twin towers destruction.

“We will never forget the devastation of the area that came to be known as ground zero. Never. But the time has come to call those 16 acres what they are: The World Trade Center and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum,” Bloomberg said in a speech on the rebuilding of lower Manhattan.

Ground Zero originated as a term to describe the site of a nuclear explosion and later was used to refer to the point of any dramatic or violent event. New Yorkers started calling the World Trade Center site Ground Zero shortly after suicide hijackers destroyed the twin towers and killed nearly 3,000 people.

Never forget, it was Michael Bloomberg who spearheaded the push for the GROUND ZERO VICTORY MOSQUE as documents below confirm.

BIG GOVERNMENT -  In July 2010, Mayor Bloomberg outrageously told reporters it was “un-American” to investigate the individuals behind the Ground Zero Mosque. Now we know why he wanted no one to look into the controversy.

Judicial Watch just obtained a new batch of documents from New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s office that show his office was instrumental in helping radical anti-American Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, his wife Daisy Khan and their partner Sharif el-Gamal obtain approval for a 13-story massive mosque and “community center” to be built in the shadow of Ground Zero, the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

• A May 10, 2010, email from Daisy Khan, listed as Executive Director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, to Fatima Shama, Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs: “Is there a good time to chat tomorrow. We need some guidance on how to tackle the opposition.”
• A letter supporting the Ground Zero Mosque drafted by Nazi Parvizi, Commissioner of the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit, to Julie Menin, Chairman of Manhattan’s Community Board 1, which had considered a resolution supporting the mosque. Parvizi crafted the letter for Daisy Khan’s signature, asking the board to temporarily withdraw the mosque resolution due to public outrage over the project. Parvizi described the purpose of the letter in a May 15, 2010, email: “What the letter will do, I hope, is get the media’s attention off everyone’s backs and give you guys time to regroup on your strategy as discussed…”
• A legal review of the Menin letter sent to the Mayor’s office by Rauf on May 15, 2010. The letter contemplates the impact that withdrawing the Community Board 1 resolution could have on the effort to de-designate the mosque site as a historical landmark at a June 22, 2010 Landmark Commission meeting, thus allowing the project to move forward:
  

  “The Borough President (and Councilmember Chin) have a firm policy at speaking up at public agencies only after the community board has taken a position on an item. So withdrawing the resolution may affect their thinking about how helpful they can be on June 22. That in itself may not be fatal to getting [the site] de-designated but I do know that [Landmark Commission] Chairman Tierney was looking forward to having the ‘political cover’ their support would bring him.” The Landmark Commission ultimately decided to de-designate the property.

• A May 7, 2010, congratulations email from Shama to Rauf, Khan and el-Gamal after the Community Board 1 finance subcommittee expressed support for the Ground Zero Mosque project: “Again-congratulations!!! This is very exciting for all of you and the community at large! Daisy, as always – you were AMAZING last night – thank you!”
• A May 7, 2010, email from Khan to Rauf, el-Gamal and Shama after the finance subcommittee vote: “Just spoke with Commissioner Nazli Parvizi. She will call Julie Mennon [sic] to thank them for passing the resolution and ask how she can assist.”
• A January 2010 email exchange documenting Shama’s successful attempt to expedite a temporary public assembly permit so supporters of the Ground Zero Mosque could conduct prayers at the site.
• A series of email exchanges regarding a September 18, 2009, meeting between Shama, Rauf, el-Gamal, Khan and others from the Ground Zero Mosque project. A September 22, 2009, follow-up email summarized the meeting: “It was wonderful to be with everyone…on Friday night…Fatima mentioned that there are a number of concrete next steps that need to be undertaken re: the Cordoba House. In terms of a point person and centralized contact, please advise Fatima as to whom she should be in direct contact with on these and all other Cordoba House matters moving forward.”
• An April 22, 2010, email from Khan to Shama asking Shama to sign a letter of support for the Ground Zero Mosque project. “We have been honored to have developed a relationship with you over the last years…we consider you amongst our closest allies and friends.” The email included a draft letter for Shama to sign.

On August 9, 2010, Judicial Watch filed Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests with the Mayor’s office, seeking contacts between city officials and Rauf and controversial Muslim organizations. (Click here to review these so-called “mainstream” Muslim organizations.)

After we received no response from Mayor Bloomberg’s office to our request and a subsequent administrative appeal, we filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court on November 4, 2010 to compel the Mayor’s office to comply with the open records requests. Our petition apparently got their attention.

Now there is no doubt. Mayor Bloomberg’s office was working hand-in-glove with the Muslim activists driving the unpopular Ground Zero mosque project. Now we know what the Mayor was trying to hide and why his office did not bother to comply with the Freedom of Information Law. But it shouldn’t have taken a lawsuit to get the details. New Yorkers want honesty and transparency from their Mayor, not obfuscation. They deserve to know the truth about this mosque.

And just to give you a sense of the close “allies and friends” of Mayor Bloomberg’s staff…

Feisal Abdul Rauf is well known for making a number of radical and controversial statements regarding Islamic extremism, particularly the terrorist attacks of 9/11. For example, during a 60 Minutes interview about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Rauf said: “I wouldn’t say that the United States deserved what happened. But the United States’ policies were an accessory to the crime that happened…we have been an accessory to a lot of innocent lives dying in the world. In fact, in the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden is made in the USA.”

Now Rauf wants to build a Muslim complex adjacent to the spot where Muslim radicals murdered 3,000 innocents. And thanks to Mayor Bloomberg and his staff, it looks like he may get his wish.

Hey Bloomberg, “the microphone will not melt if you include clergy in the 9/11 memorial”

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani essentially tells Dhimmi Bloomberg that he is being an ass.

I wonder what he thinks of Obama/Bloomberg’s policy of excluding first responders?

Rudy slams Obama for his politically correct Islamo-pandering national security policies. “If you refuse to identify your enemy, you can’t defeat your enemy.”

Run, Rudy, run. There’s still time.

Next to Allen West (who is not running), Rudy Giuliani would be my first choice for President.

Rudy: “If we have to worry about spending too much money on defense, we have a security problem.”

It’s September 10, 2001……

A symbol is a promise. Until it isn’t.

“I know he’s innocent,” says mother of 20th 9/11 hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui

“So what if my son said, ‘Death to Jews, Death to Americans’ during his trial. He didn’t kill anyone.” “Poor me, my life has been Hell since 9/11.”

SEPTEMBER 11th: A Day of Evil

On September 11, 2001, EVIL men, following an EVIL leader, believing in an EVIL god committed an act of  unprecedented EVIL.

In memory of the day, my good friend Tom Trento from The United West presents a powerful and poetic look at what happens when EVIL men go unrestrained by good men. The lesson is simple, history repeats itself, so…WILL THE GOOD MEN PLEASE STEP FORWARD?

Apparently, the video above was inspired, in part, by this one.

Mayor 'dhimmi' Bloomberg says, "We can honor 9/11 First Responders at some other place and time"

The mayor who said WE ARE ALL MUSLIMS and lights up the Empire State Building in Islamic green for Ramadan, still won’t change his mind about including FDNY and NYPD first responders at the 10th Anniversary Ceremony for 9/11.

CNN When debris rained from the sky in lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001, the first responders to the terrorist attack did not turn away. They rushed to the World Trade Center buildings while the world around them crumbled.

Yet now, after all the wreckage has been cleared and the rebuilding has begun, their path is again blocked — not by flying chunks of smoldering rubble, but by space constraints. The first responders are not invited to this year’s September 11 memorial ceremony at ground zero, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office confirmed again.

It’s a painful insult for many of the approximately 3,000 men and women who risked their lives, limbs and lungs on that monumental day, puncturing another hole in a still searing wound.

How many of these 9/11 terrorists families will be there?

Only 3 weeks have passed since the first responders got cancer excluded from the financial package, but this was not enough for Bloomberg apparently. The first responders that carried their own and other people’s family members from Ground Zero have been excluded from the 10th 9/11 ceremony Bloomberg “officially confirmed” only a few days ago.

In a statement, Bloomberg spokesman Andrew Brent said the commemoration ceremony is for the victims’ families. (So I guess that will that include the families of the 19 9/11 terrorists too?)

“While we are again focused on accommodating victims’ family members, given the space constraints, we’re working to find ways to recognize and honor first responders, and other groups, at different places and times,” Brent said.

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