SOTT on TV - Part II of On the Edge
Presenter: Welcome back to On the Edge! Tonight we're talking about 9/11 In Plane Site, the film. We've got the director and producer on the line from America, William Lewis, we've got Joe Quinn, editor of Signs of the Times – I'll get it right one day! - S O T T dot net - and co-author of 9/11 The Ultimate Truth, in the studio. And we've also got Simon Davies, a former investment banker who knows 'that thing' from the inside and co-author of From Belfast to Baghdad, a book which is coming out about false-flag operations.
Just before the break we were talking about false-flag operations, so I think we'll go back to you William, if you like, to give us a bit more of – I'm sorry, Simon – to give us a bit more about...
Simon: You were asking about the hole. Not only do we have a very small hole that was completely inconsistent with the [series?] of a 757, but we have the Pentagon which has to be the one of the most highly protected buildings in the world. Not only does it have incredible surveillance, but it also has incredibly sophisticated air-defense systems...
Presenter: So you mean they would have fired a missile at it?..
Simon: Yeh, they'd have shot it down. Somebody had to stop that happening. Now, it either was deliberately overridden or the system regarded whatever was coming in as a friendly, a friendly object, and that had to have been programmed into it. So that's the key point, that all the systems didn't work. The other thing is; this building has incredible surveillance. Every corridor, every wall, every roof, every thing of the Pentagon is under camera, surveillance.
Presenter: So if they wanted to, they could show us film of the plane in slow-mo penetrating these nine feet of steel-reinforced concrete... and not burning any books or anything!
Simon: Exactly. And the wings folding up and the engines tucking themselves away and the luggage just evaporating, and all those things would have had to have happened.
Presenter: Right... Well, let's go to clip number two 'cause we're still on the Pentagon for another little bit, then we're gonna go on to New York. I've already got a couple of questions about New York, but if you save questions on New York until a little bit later, right now if we could go to clip 2 that'd be great...
[9/11 In Plane Site]
Video narrator: But shortly after the release of the article From Deception to Revelation, we were sent some photographs that were taken apparently right after the attack and before the outer wall had collapsed.
When examining these photographs, we can clearly see that the area in question had not yet collapsed. In fact, there is very little evidence of a hole big enough to accommodate a 757. The hole that we do see is approximately 14 to 15 feet across.
Question: how does a 757 fit into a 15-foot hole, and leave no damage or wreckage on the outside of the Pentagon? These are questions that deserve serious scrutiny. Let's take a look at some of the photographs that were taken before the outer wall of the Pentagon collapsed.
[20 min] In this first photograph we can see the fire-fighters pulling the hoses away from the fire-trucks. In the foreground we can see wire-spools that were left in the front lawn of the Pentagon – after all, this section of the Pentagon was under renovation. We'll use these wire-spools as reference points. Also to the right of those wire-spools and on the face of the Pentagon we can see that some concrete facing has broken away. We'll also use this as a reference point as we examine these photographs. Now, to the left of that area where the facing has broken off, we can clearly see that the Pentagon has not yet collapsed. There are some flaming areas and that area appears to be the only section where there is a hole approximately 14 to 16 feet.
Question: How does a 757 fit into a 16 foot hole and leave no wreckage on the front of the building? We can also see that the roof of the building does show fatigue, but has not yet collapsed.
[21 min] In this photograph an astonished onlooker sees exactly what we're seeing. The Pentagon had not yet collapsed; and again, there is no sign of any wreckage whatsoever. No tail, no fuselage, no wings, no wheels, no engines, no seats, no luggage, nothing on the outside of the Pentagon. The Pentagon roof line is clearly visible, and again it is under fatigue, but it has not yet collapsed.
[21 min, 30 sec] As we examine this next photograph, let's take a good close look at the lower left corner; you'll see Engine 331 from the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority. We contacted the fire chief from this engine company. Chief Plower agreed to come on our radio show along with two of his fire fighters. But one hour before air-time, they cancelled. We were told that the two fire-fighters had been placed on indefinite leave. When we look at this photograph we can see that the fire-retardant foam is being sprayed on the front of the Pentagon; and again, the area in question has not yet collapsed.
[22 min] You can see, right in the centre of the photograph, a big area where some of the concrete facing has broken away. It appears that this is the only major hole in the front of the Pentagon. Again, is this hole big enough to accommodate a 757? And where is the wreckage?
[22 min, 30] In this photograph we again see Engine 331 and fire-retardant foam being sprayed onto the Pentagon. Note clearly, in the centre of the photograph, we see the upper floors of the Pentagon again, yet to collapse. But also notice that there does not appear to be any damage to these upper floors.
[Back to studio]
Presenter: Right, William, no doubt you've heard that. I've got some questions here which I think I'll put to you, if you don't mind. One of them is: “If it was a 757 that hit the Pentagon, why only show a few frames of footage and why confiscate CCTV videos from gas stations and hotels?” I've also got another [text message] here that says there's a clip on YouTube of a camera on the Hilton Hotel which shows it wasn't a plane. Uhm, I'm not familiar with that; are you familiar with that, William?
Lewis: No, I don't think so! Y'know I'm not familiar with that exact footage unless it was sneaked [?] out of the FBI [inaudible] I believe 84 videos at this point that they will not release because it's a matter of national security. It's funny that they can put one out every once in a while whenever they need to disprove whatever the conspiracy theorists are saying at the time! But to be quite honest with you, it would really quiet the whole 9/11 'Truth Movement', y'know if they would just release the videotape and just tell us that it was a Boeing 757. But I don't think they can because I think you and I both know it wasn't a Boeing 757 that hit the Pentagon.
Presenter: Well, I've gotta say, it does seem rather unlikely given what we've just seen. So, who can call the American government, if you like, to account? Who can say, in America, “let us see those clips”? Why is nothing happening? That's what I don't understand.
Lewis: This all goes back to the President. You will remember that it was at his request that the networks began to stop showing all of the footage of the collapse of the buildings and anything that would remind him of 9/11. But they only bring those up when they need to get re-elected. You'll notice that they ... all you could see at the Republican National Convention was nothing but images that reminded people of September 11th! So they bring it up when it's convenient for them. But won't they release [?] this information, this is what this boils down to. They have 84 video in their possession that they won't let us see: they keep telling us to swallow the official story – we keep poking holes in the official story – so somewhere along the line, it's gotta break. To be quite honest with you, they don't have to do anything and I don't think anything will ever actually be done. We may never get a real investigation.
Presenter: Doesn't the power rest with the people?
Lewis: [Laughs] [Inaudible] ...but they used September 11th to systematically remove one right, one liberty after another. You go back to the USA Patriot Act that they passed right after this; it violates our first amendment, our fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth and thirteenth amendments... why [inaudible] one bill that no one read and was switched [?] at the last minute??
Presenter: Well that's powerful stuff. William, we're gonna switch now to clips from your movie which are about New York – otherwise we're not gonna have much time to show them. So if we can roll clip number 5 please?..
[9/11 In Plane Sight]
Video Narrator: In the September 24th 2001 edition of People magazine, on page 34 there was an interview with Louis Cattiori, a 51-year-old fire-fighter assigned with Engine 47 of Harlem-New York and he had this to say:
“We were the first ones in the second tower after the plane struck. I was taking fire-fighters up in the elevator to the 24th floor to get in position to evacuate workers. On the last trip up, a bomb went off. We think there was bombs set in the building.”
Well Louis Cattiori isn't the only fire-fighter that claims that there were bombs or explosives going off in or around the WTC:
[Video cuts to fire-fighters sharing observations]
Fire-fighter 1: ...we made it at least two blocks and we saw... floor-by-floor, it started poppin' out...
Fire-fighter 2: It was as if they had detonators, as if they had planned it to take down a building – boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
Fire-fighter 1: All the way...
[Back to studio]
Presenter: Joe, talk to me about this.
Joe: Yeh... the holes in the US Government's 9/11 conspiracy theory, because that's what it is...
Presenter: It's not a conspiracy theory!
Joe: Well they have a conspiracy theory...
Presenter: It's not the conspiracy theorists who have [inaudible]
Joe: Well, there are two 9/11 conspiracy theories...
Presenter: Ok, right...
Joe: ...a 'conspiracy' being a group of people conspired together to carry out the 9/11 attacks...
Presenter: 19 people with box-cutters!
Joe: The government conspiracy theory is that. And the alternative conspiracy theory is that it was the US government themselves, or a faction therein. So there are so many holes in the evidence for their conspiracy theory that it's just laughable. A much better, more believable, with more evidence to back it up, is the alternative 9/11 conspiracy theory. Which is, that it was the US government themselves.
Presenter: Which you see in this movie...
Joe: Yeh, exactly, I mean there is so much documented evidence that there were bombs going off in the World Trade Center towers before where the planes hit, above where the planes hit, below where the planes hit. It seems beyond doubt that those towers were demolished.
Presenter: They fell in ten seconds. Is that possible? With aviation fuel as the only propellant, if you like!
Joe: Well, logically, no! It seems that the only way they could have fallen in more or less free-fall speed was if they were brought down, if all of the resistance below was immediately removed by explosives. And also there's World Trade Center 7
Presenter: Right, World Trade Center 7...
Joe: ... wasn't hit by any plane, was a 46-storey building, had a few isolated fires and just 9 hours after the attacks decided to do the same thing, maybe in solidarity with the two towers, it just decided to collapse all by itself aswell!
Presenter: We've got a clip about that! Can we show number 6 please?
[9/11 In Plane Site]
Video Narrator: Let's go to a clip of Larry Silverstein, he was the lease-owner of the WTC, as he gave an interview on PBS...
[embedded clip of PBS interview]
Larry Silverstein: I remember getting a call from the uhm, from the fire department commander telling me that they were not sure that they were gonna be able to contain the fire. I said, y'know we've had such terrible loss of life, I think the smartest thing to do is just pull it. Uh, and they made that decision to pull, and we watched the building collapse.
Video Narrator: Now, we've just heard Larry Silverstein making an admission that when it came to Building 7, the decision was made to 'pull it', a term that is used by demolition experts in bringing a building down.
[Back to studio]
Presenter: Well Joe, there's your building 7!...
Joe: It is! The official 9/11 Commission Report... well, it ignored World Trade Center 7 actually. It didn't really address why it fell, or that it fell at all, but as we've seen in the film, Larry Silverstein knew, or knows, why it fell. It was deliberately brought down with explosives and ehm, what can you say about it?!
Simon: Interestingly, the BBC announced its collapse 25 minutes before it actually happened.
Joe: If you check on YouTube, there's a video of a BBC presenter saying, “We've just heard that World Trade Center 7 has collapsed,” and in the background World Trade Center 7 is still standing!
Presenter: So it looks like the press release went out a bit early!
Simon: Yeh, they were in a rush!
Presenter: We're getting quite a lot of texts here. “I don't believe a plane hit the Pentagon, but why kill their own people to blame the Muslims, who I am not a supporter of same...” Sorry, that doesn't make an awful lot of sense to me! But I take your point. So, why?
Simon: First of all; who did they kill? It's very interesting who they did kill in the Pentagon. They killed people in the Office of Naval Intelligence and in the Office of Defense Accounting. Defense Accounting announced, in fact Donald Rumsfeld announced, the day before 9/11, that there was a $2.3 Trillion hole in the Pentagon's budget.
Presenter: Just $2.3 Trillion?!
Simon: Just $2.3 Trillion. Nowadays, of course, that's just one bank rescue!
Presenter: It isn't that big, is it?
Simon: No it isn't that big, but it was a lot of money in those days! Also, the Office of Naval Intelligence has historically been the most powerful organisation In the United States and is basically a known enemy of the Neo-Cons and their faction within the CIA.
Presenter: It's in-fighting.
Joe: But the obvious reason why they would kill their own people is to garner public support, public outcry, public anguish that could then be used to back a war against Muslims as your viewer asked. But not so much against Muslims, but against the fact that a lot of Muslims live on land that the US government is kind of partial to acquiring for itself.
Presenter: For strategic reasons.
Joe: ...for strategic reasons and [makes universal 'money' sign]
Presenter: [Breaks off to provide instructions for viewers to send in text messages] We're gonna go and see another clip now... ah, I've only got three seconds, so we're not gonna see another clip – before the break, that is – uhm, William, can you give us a bit of insight into Building 7? There have been people saying that it was brought down by the flames or fires that were burning as a result of the World Trade Center; is that possible?
Lewis: [laughs] Well, if it were possible, then it's never happened before, except for Tower 1 and Tower 2 that fell earlier in the day!..
Presenter: Ok, William, I'm gonna break with you now, we're going for another break. Once again, if you'd like to text in your messages, do it soon! See you after the break.
[Commercial Break]
***End Part II**