ShilohCat:
I looked at the CNN tape that shows a frame by frame view of the 757. In that series of clips, I pointed out that the 757 appears directly above the traffic control box to the right. Someone posted this series of photos.
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Look at the first still shot below the video. You will see the 757 to the right of the traffic control box. It is as clear as that day in September. While you watch the first still photo, look up at the video. You can see how the 757 moves through the video. There is one other thing to notice. Go back to my post about the CNN video and still photos. They show one frame when the 757 is directly above the traffic control box. When you view the rogers.com video and remember the CNN video you can picture the missing frame in your head. Together, they show a 757 with a tall vertical wind moving towards the Pentagon.
The vertical wings on the Boeing two-engined airliners have those tall vertical wings. They are distinctive and they are taller than a cruise missile is long.
I realize there are various accounts of that day and the attack on the Pentagon. I have posted several accounts here by a priest, etc. Each supports the series of photos we see.
I couldn't find the actual dimensions of a Pentagon side but I estimate they are from 500 to 1,000 feet. (That is based on my memory from walking that service road in the photo next to the Pentagon many times.) The photos you look at in the clips and video show the southwest side of the Pentagon. Imagine that edge of that wall being from 12 to 6 on a clock. The 757 that hit the plane in that photo approached the Pentagon from about 1 to 2 o'clock. It hit it at an angle. I don't think a 20 foot cruise missile could be seen from the distance of those two traffic contyrol boxes.
I don't know if there are any "official accounts" of what happened. There were simply too many witnesses that saw the plane hit the Pentagon.
Here is an article in today's Post about one of the individuals profiting from this tragedy.
Similar popular sentiment in France helped make a runaway bestseller of a book that claimed the Sept. 11 attacks were carried out not by al Qaeda, but by a right-wing cabal in the U.S. government. The book, published in English as "The Big Lie," was dismissed as crackpot speculation by even the most left-wing of French journalists. But when its author, Thierry Meyssan, expounded his thesis on a popular late-night television talk show, sales took off. The book sold 100,000 copies in 10 days, according to its publisher, Patrick Pasin of Carnot books, and has sold more than 500,000 copies in France and other countries. Meyssan, the proprietor of a small, activist left-wing Web site, has been hailed in France and in the Arab world as a courageous truth-teller up against the American leviathan.
While some observers here have attributed the popularity of "The Big Lie" to France's obsession with conspiracy theories, others see it as one barometer of just how far anti-Americanism has spread into the mainstream. Guillaume Dasquie, a French journalist who co-wrote a book, "The Horrifying Lie," that dismantled Meyssan's claims page by page, said he has seen a marketing study indicating that many of those who purchased Meyssan's book are newcomers to book buying.
"The idea of Americans as victims was too unsettling for many ordinary people," said Francois d'Alancon, chief foreign correspondent for La Croix, a Catholic newspaper. "It contradicted their normal view of the world. But with Meyssan's theory, the Americans are the villains again. They become the ones responsible for these terrible events. It's much more acceptable."
washingtonpost.com
I read one note here about a mysterious video taken by a gas station's security camera. According to the note, someone will not disclose the video. Unfortunately, there are no gas stations that could have taken such a video of the Pentagon.
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