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The Problem With the Hijack Scenario

The most significant factor relating to the relevance of Saudi "financing" hinges on the question of the alleged "hijackers." If these alleged 19 hijacked and flew the jetliners in question, Saudi involvement might be argued to have some significance in that very limited aspect of 9/11. But there are a host of reasons for rejecting the entire hijack scenario that is key to the Official Conspiracy Theory:
  • The "hijackers'" publicly documented behavior was not that of devout Muslims [1]
  • There is no credible time-stamped video record of them boarding planes, much less arriving at the departing airports. [2]
  • The stories told about Muhammed Atta and whomever it was who allegedly accompanied him to Portland, Maine changed constantly. [3]
  • There is no original flight manifest showing Middle Eastern names. [4]
  • The FBI came up with a list of hijackers within just a few hours of the first 9/11 event, a number of whom they replaced with substitutes shortly afterwards. [5]
  • The transmission of cockpit comments of "hijackers" heard by the control towers could have been generated anywhere.
  • The simple button-press sequence ("squawk") signaling a hijacking was not executed on any of the four planes. [6]
  • The initially-alleged cellphone calls that reported hijackings in progress were proven in most cases to have been technically impossible; most were later changed to on-board phone calls, some from planes that didn't have on-board phones, and some calls (per the FBI) were never completed or didn't exist – particularly the only one referencing "box cutters." [7]
  • The conditions in the planes' passenger cabins that would have existed under the alleged flight behavior of the planes at the time of the calls were completely inconsistent with the background sounds on the calls and the behavior of the alleged callers [8].
  • With one exception, the alleged "pilots" had never flown a jet-liner; one had flown a simulator of a different plane with a completely different cockpit layout; the one who allegedly made the almost-impossible maneuver over the Pentagon had been declared by his instructors to be unable to even fly a single-engine plane. [9]
  • The claims of finding a "hijacker" passport unscathed on the ground in NYC, and undamaged red bandanas (indicative of the wrong Muslim sect, in any case) in Pennsylvania, given the alleged physical reality of those crashes, are absurd on their face. [10]
  • With respect to the question of how 9/11 could have happened without human hijackers, it is vital to note that as of 2001, the technology for complete remote takeover, isolation and control (takeoff, flying, landing) of commercial jetliners was well advanced and had been fully tested in the types of aircraft involved in 9/11, and the air traffic auto-pilot navigation lanes in the sky were precise to within a few feet. [11]
The list goes on. . . As one considers each piece of evidence, the chance that "hijackings" took place approaches zero. The real role of the alleged hijackers is not yet known -- those with documented flying lessons may very well have been unwitting patsies. In any case, the question of who might have been financing their stay in this country, Saudi or otherwise, is at best tangential to the larger picture of what really happened on 9/11. No matter what the motive, then, any attempt to persuade people that the final answer to the question of 9/11 perpetration lies in this direction can only be construed as dangerous misdirection. The real price already being paid by the 9/11 Truth Movement is the subversion of unwitting movement activists who help promote such meretricious campaign propaganda, thereby betraying the movement's hard-won, fact-based alternative perspective.

Notes:

  1. Hardly devout Muslims:
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  2. Video problems:
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  3. 9/11 Contradictions: Mohamed Atta's Mitsubishi and His Luggage; David Ray Griffin, Global Research, 9 May 2008
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/9-11-contradictions-mohamed-atta-s-mitsubishi-and-his-luggage/8937
  4. The FBI took control of the original flight manifests and still refuses to release them, while the airlines defer to the FBI. It has been said that the following versions had the hijackers removed to spare the feelings of the victims' relatives. The reader must draw his/her own conclusions. The following from CNN on 17 Sep 2001 were retrieved from Wayback Machine 11 Sep 2015 )
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  5. Not a shred of evidence that any 9/11 'hijackers' boarded any planes; Craig McKee, Truth and Shadows
    https://truthandshadows.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/hijackers-did-not-board-planes/
  6. Point Flt-1: A Claim Regarding Hijacked Passenger Jets; Consensus 911: The Best Evidence Panel
    http://www.consensus911.org/point-flt-1/
  7. Impossibility of phone calls:
    8.
  8. Methodical Illusion Series with Rebekah Roth; Wake Up To the Truth (BlogTalk Radio); 17 Nov 2014
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  9. Problematic pilots:
    10.
  10. Problematically convenient "evidence":
    11.
  11. Plausibility of 9/11 Aircraft Attacks Generated by GPS-Guided Aircraft Autopilot Systems; Aidan Monaghan (with extensive references), Oct 2008
    http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/2008/AutopilotSystemsMonaghan.pdf


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