brianv wrote:I wont speak for Simon on the "missile theory", but I personally find that particlular hangout less credible than airplanes.
Missiles Miss! And what? Land in a kid's school in Manhattan? Hundreds of really dead and wounded children? Where were the missiles fired from? Nimitz or some shit? "Made in the USA" stamped all over the remains. Nah. Can't blame AQ on that one!
RE-THINKING THE MISSILE THEORYDear Brianv,
I think I've made it clear time and again that I've now distanced myself from my old
JASSM / AGM 158 missile speculation (as presented in September Clues - 2008). Btw, "JASSM" stands for "Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile" - it can be launched from various military aircrafts. I'll now expound what made me speculate about this possibility - but don't get me wrong, I now strongly lean towards the notion that
NO airborne object ever (was needed to) hit either tower. However, I'd like to illustrate what sort of logic made me nurture the thought that a precision missile - such as the Lockheed Martin JASSM/ AGM 158 - could have been employed (for the WTC2 event only):
- The AGM 158 silhouette closely resembles that of a Boeing 767 (even though much smaller - so, ok... that would have been a problem: people would have witnessed a "small plane"). Its stated cruise speed - 550mph - was pretty much the same as the official speeds reported for "FLIGHT 175"(and at the time, I was still playing with the idea that "FLIGHT 175" had been overlaid onto REAL images of the NY skyline - just like Ace Baker still keeps peddling... )
- The thing is, I found many witnesses reporting a 'small plane' (or even 'a missile') striking WTC2. Therefore, if an AGM 158 had been used, I thought this would have helped explain those contradictory witness reports. Today though, I'm quite happy to throw these witness reports into the same dustbin as the media people's "eyewitness reports of a large passenger airliner". The "small plane" meme was probably just meant to muddy the waters - and provide fodder for conspiracy theorists...
- I still believe though (well, probably only to 'justify' my old, 2008 thought processes) that the chances of such a precision missile MISSING the WTC2 is close to
NIL - considering the large, static target (on a clear and almost windless morning - on 'friendly' home turf) and not even having to rely on (fallible) GPS guidance - but simply on a foolproof, homing device pre-placed in WTC2. If the US military apparatus couldn't guarantee a 100% success-rate for such a billion dollar toy - I'd really feel sorry for the Pentagon!...
This said, I now believe that NO AIRBORNE OBJECT striking either WTC 1 or 2 was necessary to pull off the 9/11 hoax. The perps were smart enough to plan it this way:
- "FLIGHT 11" strikes WTC1 - at 8:46AM : no one was expecting it - so New Yorkers who wonder why they never heard/or saw it would just assume that they missed it altogether.
- "FLIGHT 175" strikes WTC2 - at 9:02AM . The area south of WTC2 (Battery Park etc...) was by then completely evacuated. Access to the public into that southernmost piece of Manhattan was strictly denied that morning. Anyone standing north of the WTC (wondering why they never saw "FLIGHT 175") would just assume that they missed it altogether -
"since it came in from South"...Hope this clarifies my stand on my old 'AGM missile on WTC2' theory - a honest error of judgment of my early days of 9/11 research which, unfortunately, keeps haunting me. Hopefully, I will find the time and patience to produce a new, updated version of September Clues - minus my ill-considered missile thesis.