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The 911 Report: A Graphic Adaptation

This is a comic book version of the 911 Commission Report. No joke. It takes the narrative of the official National Commission Report and transforms it into a page-turning thriller. It's a very fast read. Their visual timeline of the four hijacked flights is scarily clarifying. The artists do a marvelous job of weaving the many threads that lead up to the event of 911. In fact before reading this I had not appreciated how interconnected the many previous encounters with the jihad network were. This graphic book also reveals in simple pictures how seriously the government bungled many early clues, how sadly it bungled its real-time response to the events and how it continues to bungle the complexity of this new world. The comic does all this while remaining faithful to the the Commission's text, yet underscoring its clarity by telling the story in pictures. It's a showcase for the power of the cartoon media. Highly recommended.

-- KK

The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
Sid Jacobson, Ernie Colon
2006, 144 pages
$12
Available from Amazon

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#1 | Sun, 11-29-09 12:47
Steve Tiffany

I haven't checked out the comic book version, but the original 9-11 Commission Report managed in its 600+ pages to omit any mention of the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. The TV networks stopped showing its dramatic collapse almost immediately after it happened, in contrast to the endlessly repeated shots of planes hitting the Twin Towers. From the beginning, there has been an effort to redirect the public's attention away from the third building, and this book would seem to be part of that deception.

No plane hit WTC 7. It was a 47-story steel-framed highrise, about a football field away from the Towers, and it had been somewhat damaged by falling debris and office fires when, at 5:21 on the afternoon of 9-11, it collapsed straight down into its own footprint about as quickly as if it were falling through air.

This is very suspicious, because no steel-framed highrise anywhere in the world has ever collapsed from fire, before or after 9-11, and some of them have burned down to the bare steel. Tall buildings that collapse in earthquakes still look more or less like buildings, just warped and crumpled onto one side. WTC 7 turned into a pile of rubble. It takes professional demolition experts weeks of preparation to make a building fall straight down into a pile of rubble, but that's exactly what WTC 7 did. The NIST report blamed fire, but they made a point of not even looking at the controlled-demolition hypothesis. Instead they started with the desired conclusion and worked backward, pushing the computer simulations to extremes until they got a result consistent with the official story.

Like all falling objects, collapsing structures follow the path of least resistance. When professionally-placed demolition charges destroy all columns of a highrise simultaneously, falling straight down suddenly becomes the path of least resistance. Without such charges, the structure either doesn't fall or it falls to one side. WTC 7 fell straight down, about as fast as a brick falling through air. In the absence of demolition charges, this would be a complete violation of the laws of physics. It would be impossible.

The Twin Towers themselves also fell at near-free-fall speeds. Some people think all three buildings were wired for demolition, and that United 93, the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania, was supposed to hit WTC 7 so its collapse would not appear so inexplicable. It's certainly an interesting theory. I don't know what the truth is, only that the official narrative doesn't add up.

But here's a question. If you accept that WTC 7 had to be a controlled demolition, couldn't it still have been carried out by Al Qaeda? That's extremely unlikely, because they lacked the resources and skilled personnel needed to meticulously wire a 47-story Manhattan highrise for demolition, particularly right under the nose of the CIA, Secret Service, and Department of Defense, all of which had offices in WTC 7. The building also housed offices of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a lot of evidence collected against alleged corporate criminals of that era was destroyed in the collapse. Besides, even if they'd had the means, Al Qaeda was interested in destroying an American icon. The Twin Towers were the icon. Building 7 was just a nearby office building from an iconic perspective, and would have been symbolically redundant and therefore pointless as an Al Qaeda target.

Lies are lies no matter how beautifully illustrated. If you prefer honest attempts at uncovering the truth, I'd recommend David Ray Griffin's book 'The New Pearl Harbor' or the movie '9-11 Mysteries.' If you have a couple minutes, watch the video "This is an Orange" on YouTube. It eloquently makes the case for believing your own eyes rather than official stories that can't be true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv7BImVvEyk

 

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