9/11 questions explored in new documentary
Steve Hammons
April 02, 2006
FILM REVIEW
"Loose Change-2nd Edition"
Produced by Korey Rowe and directed by Dylan Avery, the documentary Loose Change-2nd Edition explores many troubling questions about the 9/11 attacks using scientific analyses, eyewitness accounts, historical facts, television news footage and many other resources.
The gut-wrenching television news coverage from that day is combined with detailed examination of hard data, theories and apparently unusual circumstances. It is a fast-paced yet steady presentation of objective analysis and uncomfortable possibilities.
Rowe and Avery cover many of the discrepancies in the preliminary explanations about what actually occurred on 9/11 in regard to the World Trade Center attacks, the Pentagon attack and the crash of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania.
They also look at important background information regarding motive and opportunity of possible perpetrators, as well as who might have benefited from the attacks.
This documentary goes beyond the theory that the attacks by 19 hijackers might have been allowed to happen through incompetence or to achieve some desired outcome in manipulating the American and international public and media.
Loose Change-2nd Edition clearly tries to make the case that the attacks were something quite different: They were part of a complex plan organized from within.
WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACKS
By looking in depth at the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and Building 7, the documentary uses scientific analyses of why it is unlikely that the impact of the aircraft and heat of the fires caused the buildings' collapse.
In short, that heat from the fires and trauma from the impact of the aircraft could not have brought down these buildings.
Based on witness accounts, including those of FDNY firefighters and TV news reporters, this documentary indicates that the buildings were brought down by pre-planted explosives, set to create a controlled demolition. Audio of firefighters' radio transmissions that report multiple secondary explosions are included.
Unusual activities at the WTC prior to 9/11 include the disarming of security cameras and the removal of bomb-sniffing dogs, according to sources used in the documentary.
Other factors are explored, including information about the planes' "black boxes," explosions in the basement levels of the buildings and other unusual aspects of the attack on and collapse of the WTC buildings.
PENTAGON ATTACK
Covering familiar ground on one point, the documentary indicates that a passenger jetliner did not hit the Pentagon. Rather, they suggest the attack may have involved a military-type aircraft and a cruise missile, not a Boeing 757.
Surveillance video cameras in the area were confiscated and the video has never been released.
Air traffic controllers reportedly thought the aircraft was a military plane based on its speed and maneuvers.
The type of damage done to the Pentagon also appears inconsistent with a 757 crash. The lack of aircraft parts on the scene is another anomaly. Parts that were found do not match those of a 757, according to data presented in the documentary.
It reports that witnesses smelled cordite, an explosive. The fireball upon impact resembled and explosion from cordite, not jet fuel.
FLIGHT 93
Witness testimony from the area near Shanksville, Pennsylvia, is presented that describes a white military-type jet near the site of the crash of Flight 93.
Other theories about that crash and a mysterious small white jet have speculated that Flight 93 was shot down.
However, this documentary makes the claim that the flight actually did land in Cleveland, where the passengers disembarked due to a "bomb threat" and were taken to a facility nearby.
CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Rowe and Avery have put together one of many conspiracy scenarios that have been suggested about the events of 9/11. They don't try to answer every single question, and they raise many new ones. For the questions they do try to answer specifically though, the information presented does make the viewer think and wonder.
Their use of a wide range of video, audio and print resources as well as visual and computer-generated representations, help the viewer grasp many of the complex factors being examined.
Loose Change-2nd Edition is available for viewing on the Web and on DVD. It is a work worth seeing and hearing that makes us wonder about what occurred on 9/11 and if we have been told all the facts.
Of greater concern, it makes us consider our roles as Americans, patriots and human beings in a very difficult time in the life of our nation.
AUTHOR NOTE TO READERS: Please visit my Joint Recon Study Group blog.
"Loose Change-2nd Edition"
Produced by Korey Rowe and directed by Dylan Avery, the documentary Loose Change-2nd Edition explores many troubling questions about the 9/11 attacks using scientific analyses, eyewitness accounts, historical facts, television news footage and many other resources.
The gut-wrenching television news coverage from that day is combined with detailed examination of hard data, theories and apparently unusual circumstances. It is a fast-paced yet steady presentation of objective analysis and uncomfortable possibilities.
Rowe and Avery cover many of the discrepancies in the preliminary explanations about what actually occurred on 9/11 in regard to the World Trade Center attacks, the Pentagon attack and the crash of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania.
They also look at important background information regarding motive and opportunity of possible perpetrators, as well as who might have benefited from the attacks.
This documentary goes beyond the theory that the attacks by 19 hijackers might have been allowed to happen through incompetence or to achieve some desired outcome in manipulating the American and international public and media.
Loose Change-2nd Edition clearly tries to make the case that the attacks were something quite different: They were part of a complex plan organized from within.
WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACKS
By looking in depth at the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and Building 7, the documentary uses scientific analyses of why it is unlikely that the impact of the aircraft and heat of the fires caused the buildings' collapse.
In short, that heat from the fires and trauma from the impact of the aircraft could not have brought down these buildings.
Based on witness accounts, including those of FDNY firefighters and TV news reporters, this documentary indicates that the buildings were brought down by pre-planted explosives, set to create a controlled demolition. Audio of firefighters' radio transmissions that report multiple secondary explosions are included.
Unusual activities at the WTC prior to 9/11 include the disarming of security cameras and the removal of bomb-sniffing dogs, according to sources used in the documentary.
Other factors are explored, including information about the planes' "black boxes," explosions in the basement levels of the buildings and other unusual aspects of the attack on and collapse of the WTC buildings.
PENTAGON ATTACK
Covering familiar ground on one point, the documentary indicates that a passenger jetliner did not hit the Pentagon. Rather, they suggest the attack may have involved a military-type aircraft and a cruise missile, not a Boeing 757.
Surveillance video cameras in the area were confiscated and the video has never been released.
Air traffic controllers reportedly thought the aircraft was a military plane based on its speed and maneuvers.
The type of damage done to the Pentagon also appears inconsistent with a 757 crash. The lack of aircraft parts on the scene is another anomaly. Parts that were found do not match those of a 757, according to data presented in the documentary.
It reports that witnesses smelled cordite, an explosive. The fireball upon impact resembled and explosion from cordite, not jet fuel.
FLIGHT 93
Witness testimony from the area near Shanksville, Pennsylvia, is presented that describes a white military-type jet near the site of the crash of Flight 93.
Other theories about that crash and a mysterious small white jet have speculated that Flight 93 was shot down.
However, this documentary makes the claim that the flight actually did land in Cleveland, where the passengers disembarked due to a "bomb threat" and were taken to a facility nearby.
CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Rowe and Avery have put together one of many conspiracy scenarios that have been suggested about the events of 9/11. They don't try to answer every single question, and they raise many new ones. For the questions they do try to answer specifically though, the information presented does make the viewer think and wonder.
Their use of a wide range of video, audio and print resources as well as visual and computer-generated representations, help the viewer grasp many of the complex factors being examined.
Loose Change-2nd Edition is available for viewing on the Web and on DVD. It is a work worth seeing and hearing that makes us wonder about what occurred on 9/11 and if we have been told all the facts.
Of greater concern, it makes us consider our roles as Americans, patriots and human beings in a very difficult time in the life of our nation.
AUTHOR NOTE TO READERS: Please visit my Joint Recon Study Group blog.
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