Saturday, September 04, 2004

September 11, 2001: The Pentagon

There are many, many theories about what happened on September 11, 2001...



I have heard on a number of occasions, for example, that the damage caused at the Pentagon on that day did not resemble the damage that a Boeing 757 would or should have created -- that the damage was caused by a missile.

While I generally give pause and take a look at "conspiracy theories", I often find they don't hold much water. (One theory with regard to the World Trade Center attacks claims that one of the planes had been fitted with "pods" which were then exploded upon impact with the tower. The same website claims to have evidence that a missile was fired into the building just as the plane was about to crash into it. OilEmpire.us has compiled a number of these "bogus" theories.)

This morning, though, I bumped into a flash movie that deals with the Pentagon attack. While the presentation is somewhat compelling, what struck me as I watched it was that very little has really been said about the forensic evidence from that site. Where has the evidence been taken? Who is in charge of the investigation? Is there a public report extant about that milieu?

When commercial planes crash in this country, does not the NTSB recover as much evidence as possible and reconstruct the aircraft? Did they not have jurisdiction this case? Did they participate?

Has anyone published an account of What Happened?

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