On September 11, 2001, a terrible terrorist attack took place in the United States, which claimed the lives of 2,977 people. Planes hijacked by militants crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Today, at the crash site, there is a commemorative memorial with the names of the victims of the tragedy.
9/11 - this is the name of the most daring and large-scale terrorist attack in the United States on September 11, 2001. The crime took place in the heart of New York. As a result, 2,977 people died. Four hijacked passenger airliners were used as attack weapons. The first two planes collided with the twin towers of the World Trade Center. One was directed at the Pentagon building. And the 4th crashed 80 miles from Pittsburgh.
After 18 years, society does not have an unambiguous opinion on the fact of what happened. Conspiracy theorists and skeptics accuse the US authorities of the tragedy, providing weighty arguments. In society, the number of people who do not trust the official version of the investigation of the terrorist attack is growing. Let's remember the black day of the calendar for America 9/11, how the events took place and what interesting facts there are in this case.
How it happened: a chronology of events
The crime was committed by 19 people. All of them come from the Middle East, officially residing in the United States. According to statements by the US authorities, it was a cell of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group. Until 2011, Osama bin Laden headed the criminal community. He took responsibility for the attack on the US. Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda cell radicals split into groups and took seats on commercial passenger planes:
- Boeing-767 flight AA11 Boston-Los Angeles: 81 passengers, 11 crew members;
- Boeing-767 flight UA175 "Boston - Los Angeles": 56 passengers, 9 crew members;
- Boeing-757 flight AA77 "Washington - Los Angeles": 58 passengers, 6 crew members;
- Boeing-757 flight UA93 Newark-San Francisco: 38 passengers, 7 crew members.
Flight AA11
The first airliner took off at 7:59 am. He was supposed to follow the course Boston - Los Angeles. But 46 minutes later, the Boeing crashed into the North Tower skyscraper. The ramming happened at 8:45. The speed of the liner was 490 miles (789 km) per hour. The ship was captured by 5 terrorists. The ram hit the tower area, between the 93rd and 99th floors. Passengers, crew members and several hundred office workers were killed instantly.
The plane was in the air for 46 minutes, and its tanks were full of unused kerosene, designed for 6 hours of flight. There was an explosion. The temperature at the epicenter of the collision reached 825 °C (max t of kerosene combustion).
The force of fire was looking for a way out, burning through the interfloor space, penetrating into the elevator shafts where people moved. The fire erupted from the shafts in the foyer of the building, where the shock wave killed many more people. Almost 1,000 people were cut off from the exit between the surviving 100th and 107th floors. At 10:29 a.m., the North Tower collapsed.
According to the official version, the twin towers collapsed due to melted supporting pillars. This version is disputed by conspiracy theorists, because the melting point of steel is 1,538 °C. They believe that the skyscrapers collapsed due to a directed explosion.
Flight UA175
The second ship took off at 8:14 and lay down on the same course Boston - Los Angeles. There were 5 terrorists on board. The plane made a maneuver over New Jersey, changed the air corridor and headed for Manhattan (New York). After 18 minutes of flight, local time at 9:03, the Boeing crashed into the South Tower. The speed of the aircraft was 590 miles (950 km) per hour. By this time, reporters from various TV channels had deployed headquarters at the World Trade Center. Therefore, the collision was broadcast live. It became obvious that both disasters were not accidental, and this is a terrorist attack. At 9:59 a.m., the South Tower collapsed.
Fig. 1 Second before the collision of the second hijacked Boeing with the South Tower
Flight AA77
The third airliner took off from Dulles Airport at 8:20 am on the Washington-Los Angeles route. There were 5 terrorists on the plane. They took over the aircraft 31 minutes later and directed it south. The hijackers turned off the onboard transponder in order to exclude the possibility of tracking the liner from the ground. At 9:24 a.m., the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) notifies the US Air Force of a possible hijacking. However, the military hesitated.
14 minutes after the FAA alert, at 9:38 a.m., a passenger Boeing with 172 passengers (excluding terrorists) and 6 crew members dived into the western part of the Pentagon complex in Washington. No one survived the crash. 125 people died in the building.
Fig.2. After the Boeing crash on the Pentagon building Flight UA93
The fourth airliner took off at 8:41. The Newark-San Francisco flight was delayed by 40 minutes due to heavy airline traffic. On board, 4 terrorists were preparing to capture. At 9:28, the criminals hardly subdued the liner. The pilots already knew about the attack on the twin towers and resisted. According to the materials of the investigation, this plane was supposed to attack the Capitol - the building of the US Congress. But, the terrorist pilot Jarrah headed for the White House.
On board, the crew continued to fight the terrorists. The plane was winding and was poorly controlled (according to radar maps). As a result, the aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania at 10:03, at a distance of 130 kilometers from Pittsburgh. Black box records indicate that the airliner was deliberately dived by criminals, as crew members and passengers dominated the fight for the aircraft.
There were 4 terrorists on the last plane, as the 5th accomplice, Mohammed al-Qahtani, did not check in for the flight. Information about 4 hijacked airliners was taken more seriously by the US Air Force. F-16s were sent to search for the Boeing 757, which had been patrolling the sky since 8:46 in the morning. However, the technicians did not have time to arm the fighters with ammunition.
With no lethal weapons available, pilot Lt. Heather Penny was ordered to ram Flight UA93. But the passenger ship crashed before it could be found. And this despite the fact that the head of the operations department of the US aviation service Ben Sliney at 9:26 gave the order to land all 4,300 civilian aircraft plying the country's air lines.
The consequences of the attack and the number of victims
6 hours 52 minutes after the collapse of the North Tower, at exactly 5:20 pm, the 52-storey building of the 7th WTC building collapsed. It was next door to the Twin Towers. And at 6:16 p.m., the 47-story building of the World Trade Center complex, located in close proximity to the World Trade Center, was formed.
Collapsing skyscrapers destroyed 1,337 vehicles at ground zero, including 91 New York City Fire Department vehicles. Estimated damage from the 9/11 terrorist attack, voiced by US President George W. Bush. in 2006, is $500 billion.
On September 11, 2001, 2,977 people died at the hands of al-Qaeda radicals. Among them: 343 rescue workers and 60 police officers. The largest number of victims was in the twin towers, 2,152 people. 125 people died at the Pentagon. After clearing the rubble, about 1,600 victims of the terrorist attack were found and identified. Nearly 6,000 were injured. Managed to save 30,000 people.
Fig.3 Analysis of rubble at the site of the collapse of the twin towers Investigations, accusations, sentences
On November 27, 2002, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States was created. It was led by Thomas Kean, the then-governor of New Jersey. On July 22, 2004, the agency submitted a report on the results of the investigation. According to the official version, the invaders were al-Qaeda fighters. They were armed with penknives. The reason for what happened is the personal hostility towards America of the leader of the terrorist cell. The case materials fit on 600 pages. The CIA arrested 7 people involved in the preparation of the attack:
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - ringleader and organizer;
- Ramzi Binalshib - material support of the terrorist cell;
- Zacarias Moussaoui - organization assistant from France;
- Mohammed al-Qahtani - 20th terrorist hijacker not to check-in for flight UA93;
- Ali Abdul Aziz Ali - the ringleader's nephew;
- Mustafa Ahmed Khavsavi - assistant leader;
- Walid bin Attash - assistant leader.
During the investigation, the commission found 4 surviving passports of suicide bombers: Satam al-Suqami (flight AA11), Saeed al-Ghamdi and Ziad Jarrah (flight UA93), Abdulaziz Alomari - whose passport was found in the lost luggage, although the terrorist himself was on flight AA11 .
All suspects were found and arrested in the period 2002-2003. While awaiting trial, the criminals were held in CIA prisons. In 2006, the terrorists were transferred to a special camp "Guantanamo" at the American military base in Cuba. In the winter of 2008, all those under investigation were charged with mass murder and war crimes. The prisoners pleaded not guilty. Each of the criminals has already been sentenced to several life terms. Military courts continue to this day.
World Trade Center Memorial
On the site of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York on the anniversary of September 11, 2011, the "National September 11 Memorial" was opened. The memorial site consists of two giant granite pools, in the center of each of which there is an abyss that absorbs a waterfall. The pools are located in the pits of the twin towers. Leaving water into the abyss symbolizes the transience of people's lives, which can be interrupted in an instant.
Fig. 4 "Memorial 9/11" USA New York On the parapets of the pools along the perimeter, commemorative bronze plaques with the names of the dead workers of the World Trade Center were installed. Surnames are not ordered alphabetically, but are arranged in the order of "significant neighborhood": in which tower the person worked, his professional relationships and workspace. It took 2 years to develop the project. The winner was announced during the competition. A special fund was opened, which collected $ 350 million by 2008.
On May 21, 2014, the "9/11 Museum" was opened, dedicated to the victims of the September 11 attacks. It is located in the New World Trade Center, built nearby. There are mock-ups of the twin towers, many items, damaged fire and medical vehicles, clothes, personal belongings of employees and companies. Initially, the entrance of visitors was strictly controlled. Since May 2014, the 9/11 Memorial has been open to the public daily and free of charge from 7:30 am to 9:00 pm.
Video taken by eyewitnesses and tourists seconds before the collision of planes with the twin towers and subsequent events:
14 years ago, on September 11, terrorists sent two airliners into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York. This catastrophe claimed the lives of almost three thousand people and probably changed both US policy and the course of our history. But when we think about it, we don’t think about politics, but involuntarily cast a glance out the window, thinking: what will I do if my office is now shuddering from a blow, a fire breaks out and water pours out of broken pipes?
Therefore, we have collected the stories of five people who survived in the very center of hell. They are still tormented by nightmares and guilt towards those who survived, although they have nothing to blame themselves for.
Fred Eichler
Fred, a 54-year-old insurance agent, arrived at his office on the 83rd floor of the North Tower at 8:15 am on September 11, 2001. At 8:40 a.m. Fred went to the bathroom, but on the way he met four colleagues and they stopped to chat. Dumbfounded, they watched through the window as the plane flies towards their building. At 8:46 a.m., it crashed into a skyscraper, destroying everything in its path. The shock wave scattered Fred and his colleagues across the floor. After recovering, the man called 911 and then phoned home to talk to his wife, daughters and parents. He was sure he would never see them again.
Fred entered the meeting room and was joined by three strangers.
One of them, a lawyer named Jonathan Judd, 37, sobbed: “My wife just had a baby. I will never see them again." Fred hugged him and said, "We'll get out."
The floor was gradually covered with smoke, streams of water from broken pipes rushed along the corridors and stairs. The crowd stuffed the gap under the door with wet rugs and towels, trying to stop the smoke. After conferring, they decided not to open the windows, fearing that the air would fan the flames.
At 09:02 and 54 seconds, the second blow was heard: the plane crashed into the neighboring South Tower. Fred and his group decided to try to climb the fire escape. But when they got to the door, the lights went out in the building. They returned to the meeting room and hid under the tables. They were lucky. Just a floor above, the smoke and heat were so intense that people suffocated or were thrown out of windows.
At 9.30 Fred saw the light of a flashlight. A fireman arrived on their floor. He saved the found people, but he himself died. The fireman led the survivors to the stairs and advised them to turn right on the 78th floor and go down the other one. On the 20th floor, they heard a new bang sound. The whole building shuddered, a gust of wind filling the air with ash that creaked between teeth. It was the collapse of the South Tower. North began to tremble. Elevators fell into openings, stairs swayed. When Fred got to the first floor, the only way out was through broken glass. On the street, he asked someone for a phone and dialed his wife's number. She screamed into the phone: “Run, run, run!” Firemen and police shouted the same thing. A few minutes later, the North Tower collapsed.
Janice Brooks
Janice Brooks, 42, personal assistant, was resting after a 20-minute run along the boardwalk. She was sitting at her desk on the 84th floor of the South Tower when she heard a strange, dull sound. Outside the office window, papers flew in all directions. Someone shouted: “Run!” Janice decided to first ask permission from her boss, who had gone to London. Another colleague, who had already learned the news on TV, answered the phone.
Janice said, "Rob, there's something going on here, but we're fine and we're about to go out."
The man yelled back, “Something is going on!? *** hell, Janice, you got hit by a plane. You *** from there!”
Janice rushed down the stairs with the others. They descended 12 floors when a message was broadcast over the speakerphone that the tower was stable and everyone should return to their seats. Janice began to rise and lagged behind her colleagues. When she finally reached the door, the building was rocked by an impact that destroyed floors 78 through 84. Torn apart aluminum panels and steel furniture flew in all directions like red-hot shrapnel. When Janice and the people who had gathered with her on the landing were able to open the door, bloodied victims fell out to meet them. One woman's arm was cut off, a man's chest was studded with glass fragments, another woman, with a bloodied face, repeated that she could not see anything.
It was impossible to go down: the fire escape collapsed. In the smoke, the survivors miraculously found a door to another, the only surviving staircase. Janice had long since kicked off her high heeled shoes and could feel the shards of Coke bottles from an exploding machine digging into her feet. It was only in the ground floor foyer, littered with bodies and rubble, that she more or less realized what had happened. The policeman took her and the others outside and said, “Just don't look up. Bow your head and run."
Frank Razzano
On the morning of September 11, famed American lawyer Frank Razzano was asleep in his suite on the 19th floor of the Marriott Hotel, one of 10 buildings destroyed by the collapse of the Twin Towers. He was awakened by the sound of the first blow, saw papers flying outside the window, and went back to bed. A few minutes later there was a second blow. The plane crashed into the South Tower, which overlooked Frank's windows. Razzano turned on the TV and heard the news. He still thought that there was nothing to worry about, because all the problems of the floors were 60 higher. The firemen will come and everything will be all right.
Frank took a shower, dressed, packed his things and suddenly felt as if the hotel was being fired from heavy artillery: it was the South Tower that began to fall apart. Through the window, the lawyer saw mountains of concrete and steel falling from the sky, as if in slow motion. He ran off to the opposite side of the room and pressed himself against the wall.
Only two thoughts remained in his mind: he would not see his daughter's wedding and how good it would be for his death to be quick and painless.
Suddenly, the rumbling stopped. Razzano looked out into the corridor and shouted: "Is anyone alive?" Someone said, "Come here." The fireman directed Razzano to the stairs. Falling, the tower broke through the hotel in the middle, but the far staircase remained intact. Razzano followed it to the third floor, and there, together with a group of people, climbed through a gap in the wall to the second floor. A few minutes later, the North Tower collapsed, filling up the remains of the hotel. Only the southern edge of several lower floors remained intact. That's where Razzano was. But then he and his companions had nothing to breathe. The air seemed to consist of nothing but dirt and dust. People, coughing, fell to the ground and suffocated. Still, the dust settled, and people managed to find another gap in the wall and, using the carpet path, go down to the mountain of debris. There, the police helped Razzano to get to the doctors - he received a skull injury (where exactly - Razzano did not remember).
Pascal Bazzeli
Pascal Baszeli with family
Pascal, a 43-year-old structural engineer, was in the elevator of the North Tower when the first impact was heard. The elevator stopped at the 44th floor, and Pascal saw people panicking, but decided to go up to his office on the 64th floor anyway. He called his pregnant wife and asked her to turn on the TV and find out what was wrong. When she told him what was going on, Buzzeli and his colleagues surrounded the television in the office themselves and saw the plane fly into the nearby tower. They rushed to the stairs and managed to get down to the 22nd floor when the building began to fall.
Buzzeli turned out to be an incredibly lucky man - curled up, he rolled down the wreckage 15 floors down like a surfer on a huge wave or like an action hero and, most amazingly, survived.
On the way down, Bazzeli lost consciousness and woke up three hours later on the ruins of the seventh floor. Flying from such a height cost him only a broken leg. All his colleagues died. Pascal did not dare to tell anyone about his fantastic luck for a long time, but there were witnesses to his flight.
Ron DiFrancesco
Ron DiFrancesco (second from right) with his family
At the time of the first encounter, the 37-year-old broker was on the 84th floor of his office in the South Tower. He saw smoke and went to the fire exit. At this time, the second plane crashed into the South Tower between the 77th and 85th floors. DiFrancesco was slammed into the wall by the shockwave, but he remained conscious and rushed down the fire escape. On the way, he met a group of people who told him that it was better to run upstairs, because a fire was breaking out below. While they were arguing, there was a cry for help. DiFrancesco and his colleague ran towards the sound, but Ron began to choke on the smoke and was forced to turn.
Ron went up the stairs again in search of fresh air, but the doors to the next landing were blocked. DiFrancesco went back down. He reached the platform in the strike zone and lay down on the floor, among other people who were out of breath. He began to panic.
A voice told him to get up and move on. Ron put his head in his hands, broke through the wall of fire and ran down the stairs. DiFrancesco is believed to be the last person to escape from the South Tower before it collapsed. And, most likely, he is one of only four people who were able to get out of the collision zone at all.
Finally, Ron reached the first floor, where a guard directed him to the exit. As Ron approached the door, there was a monstrous noise - it was a building falling. The man turned around and saw a red-hot wall of fire rushing towards him. Two days later, he woke up in the hospital with burns all over his body, cuts to his head, and a broken spine.
Text: Elizaveta Ponomareva
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Two of them were sent to the skyscrapers of the World Trade Center in New York, another plane flew into the Pentagon building.
The fourth one crashed in Pennsylvania. As a result of the terrorist attack, many people died, most of them during the fall of the towers of the World Trade Center. A total of 2,977 people died, including passengers and crew members of the hijacked aircraft, people in or near collapsed buildings, and more than 400 rescue workers. Another 6,000 people were injured.
People who were inside the buildings at the time of the collision tried to escape by any means. They even jumped out of windows
The fall of the shopping center towers
People jumped right out the windows
Approximately 3 thousand people died
Approximately 6,000 more people were injured
This is one of the bloodiest crimes against humanity in modern history. Not only US citizens, but also foreigners suffered from the terrorist attack. Among the dead were 372 foreigners, of which 12 were Ukrainians by origin. Rescuers spent 100 days extinguishing all areas of fires.
Every year, New Yorkers relive the smallest details of that day. In the United States, commemorative ceremonies and races, minutes of silence and other events in memory of the dead are held on this day.
I remember standing here looking at the fire after the collision. And suddenly the south tower began to fall on us and move in a huge cloud of dust,
- recalls one of the eyewitnesses of the tragedy.
The Ukrainian diplomat Aleksey Kuropyatnik also recalls the events of 17 years ago. Then in 2001 he was at the Ukrainian embassy in Washington.
The Pentagon is just across the river. And we even have windows, not that they were broken, but we felt that there was a big explosion,
- said the expert of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs Alexei Kuropyatnik.
The September 11 attacks forced the United States to tighten security measures in the country. In addition to domestic security, the events of September 11 significantly affected US foreign policy. In particular, the United States, under the pretext of fighting terrorism, opened an armed confrontation in the countries of the Middle East - Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia.
Video about the September 11 attack: Channel 24 expresses condolences to the families of the dead and injured
Ten years ago, 19 men trained by al-Qaeda carried out a coordinated terrorist attack on the United States of America. It took several years to develop the attack plan. Terrorists simultaneously hijacked 4 large passenger aircraft with the intention of destroying the most famous US landmarks with their help, while taking as many lives as possible. Three planes reached their targets, the fourth crashed on a field in Pennsylvania. In one day, these acts of mass murder killed about 3,000 people from 57 countries. Of these, more than 400 dead were firefighters, policemen and ambulance crews. This event received the most coverage in the history of the media, and even ten years later, it's hard to look at these pictures. The attacks and the response to them have largely shaped the world we live in today, and that's why it's important to look at these pictures and remember what happened that day. This post is the second of three dedicated to the September 11 attacks.
(Total 50 photos)
1. View of and covered in clouds of smoke and dust from Jersey City, New Jersey, September 15, 2001. (AP Photo/Dan Loh)
2. Smoke pours from a hole in the wall and from the upper floors of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in after the American Airlines Flight 11 collided with it. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
3. Flight 175 of United Airlines a second before the collision with the south tower of the World Trade Center. The north tower is already on fire. (Reuters/Sean Adair)
4. An explosion in the south tower during a collision with United Airlines Flight 175 in New York, September 11, 2001. The plane crashed into a building at a speed of 945 km/h. (Reuters/Sean Adair)
5. Collision of the aircraft with the south tower of the World Trade Center. There were 56 passengers on board (including 5 hijackers). (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
6. The explosion of 3800 liters of fuel remaining on board the aircraft during a collision with the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York. (AP Photo/Ernesto Mora)
7. Two women, holding each other, look at the World Trade Center buildings burning after the terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Ernesto Mora)
8. The burning twin towers are visible behind the Empire State Building. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)
9. A cloud of smoke from the WTC buildings in lower Manhattan. A USGS satellite image flying over the area around 9:30 am on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. (AP Photo/USGS)
10. People hanging from the windows of the north tower of the World Trade Center after the attack. (Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images)
11. A man jumps to his death from the north tower of the World Trade Center filled with smoke and flames. (Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images)
12. A man jumps from the upper floors of the burning north tower of the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
13. A man jumps from the north tower of the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
14. Security camera at the Pentagon captured the explosion caused by a collision with a hijacked American Airlines plane with 58 passengers and 6 crew members on board, September 11, 2001. (AP Photo)
15. Flame and smoke escape from the Pentagon building after the explosion. (AP Photo/Will Morris)
17. Medics provide assistance to the victims near the Pentagon, after a hijacked airliner crashed into the southwest corner of the building. (Reuters/U.S. Navy Photo/Journalist 1st Class Mark D. Faram)
19. Smoke pours from the towers of the World Trade Center after two hijacked planes crashed into them during a terrorist attack on New York. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
20. At 9:59 am on September 11, 2001, 56 minutes after the collision, the south tower of the World Trade Center begins to collapse. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova)
21. The south tower of the World Trade Center is collapsing, and the debris is burying nearby streets. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
22. Police officers and pedestrians run for cover during a terrorist attack in New York. (Doug Kanter/AFP/Getty Images)
23. People covered with dust walk through the rubble near the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova)
24. Maru Stahl from Somerset, Pennsylvania, shows a picture he took of the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93. The plane crashed near Shanksville, and Stahl, hearing the explosion, headed to the crash site and took a picture before rescuers cordoned off the area. The plane crashed in Pennsylvania shortly after the New York attacks. (Reuters/Jason Cohn)
25. Aerial photograph of the crash site of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, taken by the FBI on September 12, 2001. The Boeing 757 was flying from Newark, New Jersey to when it made a sharp turn near Cleveland and crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. 44 people died. This aircraft was one of four that were part of the 9/11 attack plan, and the only one that did not reach its target. (AP Photo/FBI)
26. Firefighters and rescuers investigate the crash site of Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Tribune-Democrat/David Lloyd)
27. At 10:28 am on September 11, 2001, 102 minutes after the plane collided with her, the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York collapses. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)
28. The collapse of the WTC tower on September 11, 2001 in New York. (Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images)
29. A photo of the New York City Police Department shows how ash and smoke are carried over Manhattan during the collapse of the north tower of the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/NYPD, Det. Greg Semendinger)
30. Dust, smoke and debris fill the air during the fall of the WTC tower on September 11, 2001 in New York. (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)
31. Dust, smoke and ash shroud neighboring buildings after the fall of both WTC towers on September 11, 2001 in New York. (AP Photo/NYPD, Det. Greg Semendinger)
32. People leave the collapsed towers, fleeing the smoke and dust. As a result of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 in New York, both 110-story towers of the World Trade Center collapsed. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)
33. The north tower of the World Trade Center turns into a cloud of dust and debris half an hour after the fall of the south tower on September 11, 2001. Photo taken from Jersey City, New Jersey, across the Hudson River. (Reuters/Ray Stubblebine)
34. People make their way through the rubble near the ruins of the World Trade Center September 11, 2001 in New York. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova)
35. A priest helps people after the fall of the WTC towers in New York on September 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova)
36. People cover their faces from the dust, crossing the Brooklyn Bridge to get away from the cloud of dust and smoke that covered Manhattan after the attacks. (AP Photo/Daniel Shanken)
37. People on the street next to the twin towers September 11, 2001. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
38. A sheriff's assistant assists a woman who was injured during the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samiolava) 
41. Construction debris and ashes from the fall of the WTC towers as a result of a terrorist attack fill the streets of Manhattan, turning the view of the city into a picture of the Apocalypse. Buildings collapsed, burying thousands of people under the rubble. (AP Photo/Boudicon One)
42. A fireman calls for help from rescuers to dismantle the wreckage of the World Trade Center. The picture was taken on September 15, 2001. (Reuters/U.S. Navy/Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres)
43. The chassis of one of the hijacked aircraft lies on the street next to the destroyed buildings of the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2001. (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)
44. Firefighters in search of survivors under the rubble of the Twin Towers after the September 11, 2001 attacks. (AP Photo/Matt Moyer)
45. Light barely breaks through the clouds of smoke and ash at the site of the collapse of the WTC towers. (AP Photo/Baldwin)
46. New York firefighters put out the building 7 of the World Trade Center, destroyed along with the twin towers during the September 11, 2001 attacks. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
47. A group of firefighters near the ruins of the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2001. (Reuters/Peter Morgan)
48. Debris covers the rails in the tunnel of the New York subway on lines 1 and 9 of Cortland Street station under the WTC. The damage was so severe that more than one mile of the tunnel had to be repaired, according to New York City transit officials. (AP Photo/New York City Transit)
49. Rescuers conduct a search and rescue operation, descending under the rubble of the World Trade Center on Friday, September 14, 2001. (Reuters/U.S. Navy/Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jim Watson)
50. A man stands in the ruins of the WTC towers and tries to call the survivors, asks if anyone needs help. (Doug Kanter/AFP/Getty Images)
On that day, two Boeing 747 passenger planes, in front of millions of television viewers, crashed into two skyscrapers of a shopping center with a short interval, and after a while these towers folded like houses of cards and collapsed. Against this background, the fact of the destruction of a third smaller high-rise building standing next to them, which no plane crashed into, but also only a mountain of debris remained from it, remained almost unnoticed.
How many people died there, no one really knows. The episode with the collapse of this building was not shown on television, but its debris did show some television programs. It can be assumed that another passenger liner that crashed in Pennsylvania was intended for him, but did not reach its target.
Despite this, the third skyscraper was blown up under the guise of a disaster with the twin towers. The mass media tried to "forget" the destruction of this building and not advertise it against the background of the general tragedy. Therefore, it is not surprising that the answers of New Yorkers to the question about the third destroyed building were discouraging, almost none of the respondents could give any intelligible answer about this.
This is how the information war is waged, the necessary information is literally hammered into the heads of the townsfolk, and "inconvenient" facts are hushed up or distorted. The more monstrous the lie, the more difficult it is to refute.
The American media had the same attitude towards the supposedly plane attack on the Pentagon building, the consequences of which were shown only from afar. And, nevertheless, many paid attention to the fact that there were no fragments of any aircraft (chassis, aircraft tail, etc.) at the site of destruction. Moreover, only that part of the building suffered from this blow, where by chance (!?) Repairs were carried out and there were no people.
Some analysts speculate that this strike was caused by ... an American cruise missile, the size of the destruction corresponds to the power of its charge, and there is practically no debris left from it.
Another moment of this catastrophe strikes. Her episodes were professionally filmed from the most spectacular angles. It seems that someone placed the cameras in the most important places in advance and directly supervised the shooting.
The events of September 11 immediately raised many questions from various specialists: professional pilots, civil engineers, specialists in the investigation of aviation accidents, explosives.
In particular, many pilots noted that it was simply impossible to bring huge liners to individual objects, even very large ones, with such accuracy in a big city without automatic guidance devices and accurate navigation equipment. Moreover, these aircraft were allegedly piloted by people who had completed only short-term courses in driving small aircraft, and not such giants as the Boeing 747, in the cockpit of which there is a huge number of instruments.
Civil engineers and designers of these buildings noted that high-rise buildings had a large margin of safety and could withstand the impact of more than one aircraft of this type. Indeed, the buildings did not even stagger from the impact of the aircraft and stood still for almost an hour.
Special attention should be paid to the assessments of explosives specialists. They believe that the destruction of the towers (and even more so the third skyscraper) was carried out using industrial demolition technologies.
Now even Russian television shows, for comparison, episodes of industrial explosion of large buildings against the backdrop of collapsing twin towers. There are no differences in the form of destruction. And this means that these skyscrapers were mined in advance, long before September 11th. Aircraft were used only as a cover to undermine them.
Within a few days after the disaster (what a speed!?), American intelligence agencies arrested 18 people who were accused of preparing and participating in a terrorist act. Of these, 14 were citizens of Saudi Arabia. But the US made the Iraqis and their leader Saddam Hussein the first scapegoat. This act of terrorism was the reason for the attack on Iraq, and later on Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria has become another victim. In fact, the US administration used this catastrophe (and most likely orchestrated it) to launch a struggle for world domination.
This event also has a financial background, which not everyone can see, since information about this side of the matter rarely becomes a topic for discussion in the open press.
For example, the owner of these skyscrapers insured both buildings for an astronomical sum of $3.6 billion. At the same time, a case of a terrorist act was provided for in a separate line. Since the attack took place against both buildings at the same time, the owner tried to present it as two separate cases and tried to steal double the amount from the insurance company - 7.2 billion dollars. There were no fools there, and, in the end, the parties agreed on the amount of 4.6 billion dollars.
The fate of 3,800 gold bars with a total weight of 12 tons and a value of $100 million, as well as silver for $120.7 million, has become a mystery.
After clearing the rubble, neither gold nor silver was found there. There is no doubt that the owners took care to take them out before the terrorist attack. And this indicates that the preparation for it for some was not so much a big secret.
But the most important developments on the financial front began on September 17, when Wall Street suffered its biggest 685-point drop in stock prices, causing a number of large companies to go bankrupt.
Under these conditions, oil prices rose sharply, many investors began to invest in shares of oil companies and fields, mainly owned by Saudi Arabia. It turns out that it was not in vain that the citizens of this country took such an active part in the preparation of the terrorist attack. We can say that a golden rain fell on the heads of the Arab sheikhs. At the same time, investors from the United States received their share, and not a small one, by investing in these sectors of Saudi Arabia shortly before the tragic events. “To whom is war, and to whom is mother dear,” says the proverb.
So it turns out that the events of September 11 can be viewed as a brilliant scam in which the political ambitions of the American administration to conquer world domination, as well as the interests of American financial oligarchs and Arab sheikhs, intertwined.
