The John Birch Society & 9-11 Disinfo
May 6, 2005
The New American,
mouthpiece for the John Birch Society, is trying to bolster the official version
of the 9-11 attacks by ignoring crucial evidence and unfairly attacking
independent researchers.
The
government's refusal to release evidence, "even to congressional committees,"
has invited and "even incited" public suspicion about the events of 9-11,
William F. Jasper, senior editor of the New American, wrote in the
conservative magazine's May 2 cover story "9-11 Conspiracy Fact & Fiction."
Jasper laments the government's continuing "pattern of secrecy and cover-up,"
but rather than criticize the government for withholding evidence, Jasper
attacks independent 9-11 researchers who make use of the available evidence.
"Our objective," Jasper wrote, "is to expose a few of the hoaxes." The only
"hoaxes" the New American wants to expose appear to be any explanation
that differs from the official version, put forth by the same government that
refuses to release crucial evidence, such as the confiscated videos from the
Pentagon attack.
"The official version of the Pentagon attack has been the main target of the
critics," Jasper writes. Jasper tries to defend three points on which the
official version has been criticized: the small hole in the building in relation
to a 757, the lack of aircraft debris, and the difficulty of the flying
maneuver.
Two
critics of the official version that Jasper names are Eric Hufschmid, author of
the book Painful Questions, and Dave vonKleist, producer of the video In
Plane Site. Both vonKleist and Hufschmid have presented photographic evidence
showing a turbine wheel from a jet engine - much smaller than a 757's - found at
the Pentagon, an object I have investigated. A new video on 9-11, Loose
Change, by Dylan Avery features my research on the unexplained engine part
and shows two other parts found at the Pentagon, which it claims are not from a
757.
"If
they could prove it, they would," Col. George Nelson (USAF, retired) said about
the government's failure to produce one piece of trackable aircraft debris from
the 9-11 crash sites, "but they can't. It is impossible for all of the time
change parts that have these serial numbers that are trackable to be totally
destroyed," Nelson, a 30-year career aircraft maintenance officer, said. "I
have never in my career ever seen a landing gear that was completely destroyed,"
Nelson said. "That landing gear is indestructible."
Loose Change
also has an interview with the head of the flight school at the
"Jasper is trying to distract the public," Hufschmid said. "It is important for
the public to see the evidence. People around the world are questioning the
official explanation of the September 11th attack. Anger towards the American
government is increasing, but the public is not going to understand what is
happening unless they look at the material that started this controversy."
PARTIN'S THEORY
Jasper relies on comments provided by Brig. Gen. Benton K. Partin (USAF,
retired) to try and prove that a Boeing 757 crashed into the ground floor of the
Pentagon at 530 mph.
Partin, former director of the U.S. Air Force Armaments Technology Laboratory,
says much of the aluminum-bodied aircraft vaporized on impact causing the white
explosion at the Pentagon. The brief white flashes seen as the planes struck the
twin towers were caused by the same phenomenon, Partin said.
"When you slam an aluminum aircraft at high velocity into a concrete structure,
it's going to do exactly what we saw happen at the Pentagon on 9-11," Partin
said. "If you look at the frontal mass cross-section of the plane, you see a
cylinder of aluminum skin with stringers. When it impacts with the exterior wall
at 700-800 feet per second, much of the kinetic energy of the plane converts to
thermal energy, and much of the aluminum converts to vapor, burning to aluminum
oxide. That's why on the still photos from [the] Pentagon surveillance camera,
you first see the frame with that brilliant white luminescent flash just before
the frame of the orange fireball, the jet fuel burning. The aluminum cylinder -
the plane fuselage - is acting like a shaped charge penetrating a steel plate.
It keeps penetrating until it is consumed," Partin said. "The Boeing 757 is over
150 feet long, so it's going to penetrate quite a ways before it's spent. The
wings have a much lower mass cross-section and are loaded with fuel besides, so
there is little left of them except small bits and pieces."
According to Partin, the airplane's aluminum fuselage was traveling faster than
a pistol bullet as it pierced the limestone clad exterior and bored through nine
feet of reinforced concrete in the three outer rings of the Pentagon ending at
the 12-foot hole in the inner wall of the "C" ring. "Like a cookie cutter
through dough," Partin said.
The
same phenomenon caused the flashes seen at the twin towers in the videos, Partin
said: "When the noses of the aircraft hit the buildings, you have a bright
aluminum flash, the same as we saw at the Pentagon. That's obvious to anyone
familiar with physics, chemistry, and what happens when aluminum hits a
structure at a high rate of speed."
The
white explosion seen at the Pentagon and the flashes seen as the planes struck
the towers are very different. The white flash at the Pentagon is the initial
blast of an explosion that turns orange, while the tower flashes are very brief
and occur a fraction of a second before the planes impact each tower. Critics,
such as vonKleist, say the white flashes are evidence of missiles striking the
buildings. In Plane Site focuses on a structural anomaly on the bottom of
the aircraft striking the
A
white object is seen being emitted from the bottom of the plane as it nears the
tower. This object creates a white flash as it impacts the wall, slightly to the
right of the aircraft fuselage. These missiles are thought to be depleted
uranium penetrators used to ignite the conflagrations. This could explain the
extensive decontamination done on the workers at the Pentagon site.
About Partin's theory that parts of the aluminum aircraft vaporized on impact
while the thin-skinned fuselage bored through nine feet of reinforced concrete,
Paul F. Mlakar, technical director of the Pentagon Building Performance Report
sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), said, "I'm a little
skeptical."
Mlakar, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, thinks the 12-foot hole in the
"C" ring was caused by an "avalanche of debris." That's where the black box was
found, Mlakar said. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), who
received the black box, told Mlakar the plane was traveling 460 knots, or 530
mph. The NTSB refuses to say anything about the black boxes saying it has turned
over all data to the FBI.
"757s don't go that fast. The airplane will just not do that," Russ Wittenberg,
a retired pilot with United and Pan Am airlines, said. "Its exceeding its air
speed and mach speed limitations. The airplane just won't perform those
maneuvers. The mach limit for a 757 is about 360 knots at 23,000 feet,"
"The fuselage of a 757 did not open that 16-foot hole,"
"Boeing's not going to say," Boeing spokesperson Liz Verdier responded when
asked about the 757's mach limit, "What does it matter?" she said, "How fast it
was going is immaterial."
Asked about Partin's theory that an aluminum-bodied aircraft both vaporized on
impact and penetrated more than 9 feet of reinforced concrete, Marion Fulk, a
retired chemical physicist and depleted uranium expert, told me: "I think what
he's saying is nonsense. The titanium engines would be more likely to penetrate
than the fuselage."