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In the United States, al-Qaeda suicide bombers hijacked four passenger planes, flying two of them at the symbol of downtown New York, the World Trade Center Tower, and the other two at the Pentagon and, presumably, White House or the Capitol. All aircraft, except the last one, reached their targets. The fourth hijacked plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

New York District Judge George Daniels ruled in absentia, ordering Iran to pay $7.5 billion to the families and other members of those who died at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The judge determined that the Iranian authorities must pay another three billion to insurers who covered property damage and other material losses. Earlier, Judge Daniels ruled that Tehran could not prove its non-involvement in assisting the organizers of the attack, and therefore the Iranian authorities bear a share of responsibility for the damage caused during it.

On the site of the destroyed Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2011 was the World Trade Center Memorial. It consists of two square pools-fountains, located right at the bases of the former twin towers, along the inner walls of which water streams cascade down, leaving into square holes located at the bottom of each of the pools.

The names of the 2,983 victims of the attacks (including the six who died in the 1993 World Trade Center attack) are carved on the bronze slabs that line the parapets of both fountains.

The new World Trade Center complex was opened. It is the fourth tallest skyscraper in the world - its height is 541 meters. Construction began in April 2006 at the corner of a 65,000 square meters where the twin towers of the ruined shopping center used to stand.

Celebrated in the United States as Patriot Day, since 2009, after the approval of Act 111-13 of the General Law of the United States, this date is also referred to as the nationwide Day of Service and Remembrance.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources

It has been 16 years since the terrible fall of the Twin Towers in America on September 11, 2001. But memories of that day still haunt millions of Americans. The fates of many people have been changed forever.

How many people died?

In addition to American citizens, representatives of other countries were also among the dead. Among the dead were 96 citizens from the former Soviet Union. At the end of the search and rescue operations, experts stated that approximately 10,000 fragments of human bones and tissues were found at the site of the fall of buildings, which significantly increases the initial statistics of the incident. Fragments were found much later, in 2006, when Deutsche Bank was reconstructed. Average age The death toll was 40 years.

Course of events

On September 9, terrorists hijacked four planes and were able to send two of them to the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, and one to orient to the Pentagon. The remaining plane crashed in Pennsylvania after the passengers were able to overcome the hijackers.

The day that began with a clear blue sky ended in a twisting mass of smoldering charcoal from twisted metal where the huge buildings of the mall once stood. As a result of this incident, 2977 people died.

People's memory

The tragedy of 9/11 happened almost two decades ago. A quarter of Americans are too young to remember this disturbing event. “I have three children who do not remember the incident at all, since they have not yet been born. But we certainly do not want to forget, even when we live and face new challenges,” says one of the Americans.

Thus, in memory of that day, 23 images hang here, which serve as a reminder of what no American should forget. The tragedy has taken on a massive scale. Witnesses to what happened can tell a lot.

The twin towers of the World Trade Center were symbols for New Yorkers. For decades, people looked up to them, and the structures were unshakable. It was a reassuring sight. According to the memoirs of the American, he visited the towers many times and looked at them many times. On the morning of September 11, he had just finished voting in Brooklyn when he looked up and saw that one of the towers was on fire. Just a few minutes later, the second plane crashed into another tower. Something was wrong.

When President George W. Bush was informed of the tragic incident, he was at a school function at the time. The expression on his face, captured in the photograph, expresses almost all emotions. At that time, none of the members of the government knew what serious consequences this terrorist attack had for the country.

major fire

The impact of the two fire jets was devastating. It broke the steel structure of the towers and contributed to the fires that eventually led to the destruction of the buildings. Combat aircraft took to the skies. Every non-military flight in US airspace was ordered to land.

Thousands of people were in a real trap on the upper floors of the towers. Many died instantly when the planes crashed into buildings, and more more people died when fires broke out and the towers began to collapse. Some citizens jumped out of windows to avoid fire and smoke. A total of 2,606 people died in the towers.

The weather was wonderful, the sky was bright blue. The wind carried a massive plume of smoke over the city and New York Harbor. “Manhattan looked like it had exploded 10 megatons,” wrote British writer Martin Amis later.

Terrible outcome

The structure of the towers was so damaged that their collapse was an inevitable consequence of the impact. At that time, however, no one expected such a terrible outcome. People on the streets around the World Trade Center were running in panic. Buildings began to sink one by one and fill the streets with rubble and dust.

Fires burned for hours and smoldered for days in a mass of twisting steel and rubble. Lower Manhattan, below 14th Street, will later be closed to non-rescue traffic.

The area around the World Trade Center was the scene of total devastation. Smoke and dust hung in the air. Countless cars, trucks and rescue vehicles were destroyed.

Destroyed tower structure

A sense of tragedy was everywhere. The New York City Fire Department lost its chaplain, Reverend Michael, who was killed by falling debris.

Little remains of the elegant facades of the Twin Towers, which Japanese architect Minoru Yamasaki designed to include narrow window openings and soaring arches.

The two 110-story towers dominating the city were compressed into a twisted mass of molten metal. Welders spent months cutting away the steel so that the damaged structure could be dismantled.

rescue work

Members of the New York City Fire Department rushed to the scene and suffered incredibly high casualties among their workers in an attempt to rescue people from the burning towers. As a result, 343 members of the brigade died during the extinguishing operation. Strong men could not stand it, tears were constantly flowing down their cheeks.

In the following days, rescuers arrived in New York from neighboring cities and states. The sight of bodies in the wreckage led to indescribable horror. A contrasting sign of inflexibility was the moment when American flags were raised over the site of the tragedy.

Close people posted photos of missing friends and family members in the desperate hope that they might be alive.

The tragedy brought everyone together

A city held together is something that many Americans have never seen. Citizens lined the streets to cheer the National Guard and rescuers as they arrived in Manhattan on a mission that became known as Ground Zero.

The Americans were seized with a thirst for revenge. Soon national troops were stationed in Afghanistan.

These attacks were not limited to New York. The Pentagon also received a powerful blow that killed 125 people.

The view of the Pentagon was also terrifying, but the military headquarters building itself did not collapse.

A new tower has risen to Ground Zero along with the memorial. This gave many Americans a sense of pride at the time of its discovery. But this is not enough to make people forget this terrible day, on which many lives were cut short. America itself at this moment has changed radically.

The new architecture of lower Manhattan towers proudly over New York City. Here is the famous Oculus, from where you can once again look at the vast expanse of the city from above.

commemorative memorial

In memory of the huge losses during the terrorist attacks of 2001 in New York, a museum was opened, the exposition of which is constantly expanding. According to American media reports, the memorial was visited by more than 900 thousand people.

Here you can see fragments of the frame of steel skyscrapers, a mangled firefighters car that participated in putting out the fire, many photographs depicting those who died on that ill-fated day, and amazing videos.

Viewers can also see the jacket of a fighter who took part in the elimination of the largest terrorist Osama bin Laden, and a symbolic coin that belonged to a CIA officer who tracked down a dangerous terrorist.

The exhibits displayed at the memorial provide citizens with the opportunity to pay tribute to the courage of the many people who sacrificed their lives for their country.

Original taken from mgsupgs in History of the Twin Towers

Original taken from igornasa to the World Trade Center - from foundation to Ground Zero
Story WTC (World Trade Center) started in 1946.

It was the first year after the war - Europe lay in ruins, Japan was moving away from the consequences of the atomic bombing, China was in anticipation of civil war. The only country that managed with little blood, with a mighty blow, were the USA - on very a short time the world has become Pax Americana.

Pax americana and sovietica

The dollar was recognized as an international means of payment, the Marshall Plan began to be implemented, the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank and, of course, the UN were created.
The UN headquarters is located in cosmopolitan New York.

In 1946, the New York city fathers, anticipating the heyday of international trade in the post-war world, proposed to build in Lower Manhattan a "world shopping center".

The idea turned out to be premature. The Soviet Union, having the strongest land army, acquired atomic bomb. Over Europe, the Soviets lowered the iron curtain, while in Asia, having made friends forever with China, they unleashed the Korean War.

world out pax americana turned into Pax americana et sovietica (the American world and the Soviet world)

The Cold War was not very conducive to the flourishing of international trade - the Americans returned to the idea of ​​building the World Trade Center only in the late fifties. The word "worldwide" now referred exclusively to the capitalist world.

The center was supposed to be built in Lower Manhattan, which was in deep crisis. After 1929, not a single new skyscraper was built here, and the area itself gradually turned into a ghost town. The Rockefeller brothers, David and Nelson, managed to stop this process.

Rockefellers. "Baron", philanthropist, politician, banker

(Golden calf)

The brothers belonged to not the last dynasty in the capitalist world - their grandfather was the same Robber Baron (robber baron) John Rockefeller Sr., who is Standard Oil, and his father is a philanthropist John Rockefeller Jr.(Rockefeller Center).

John Rockefeller Sr.

John Rockefeller Jr. and his sons - David, Nelson, Winthrop, Lawrence and John Rockefeller III, awaiting the arrival of the coffin with the body of John Rockefeller Sr. (1937)

If the founder of the dynasty, the first "dollar" billionaire in the world, forever left the stigma of a robber baron, then his heirs became famous as philanthropists and politicians - money does not smell.
The most notable figures of the five brothers were Nelson and David.

Save Lower Manhattan!

Nelson Rockefeller, vice president in the administration of Gerald Ford, served 14 years as Governor of New York State.
David Rockefeller since 1961 he has been president of the Chase Manhattan Bank.
It was with the construction of the 60-story skyscraper Chase Manhattan Bank that the revival of Lower Manhattan as a business center began.
In 1960, the "Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association", led by David Rockefeller, developed a plan to create World Trade Center- a complex of office buildings and hotels. With the support of New York State Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the plan began to materialize.
Such a grandiose project could only be mastered by Port Authority- a powerful organization responsible for the infrastructure inside the ring with a radius of 40 km and the center - the Statue of Liberty.

Through hardship to the stars

1 - original location for WTC, 2 - WTC

As a result, the state of New Jersey received railroad upgrades, and the state of New York and the Port Authority profited from the operation of the terminal of this road, which was planned to be built under the World Trade Center.
Contradictions were resolved in the corridors of power, only the last battle took place on the square - with the owners of small shops located on the site of the future World Trade Center. They were mostly electronics stores - that's what the place was called Radio Row(Radio series).
Businessmen, behind whom loomed the owners of the Empire State Building, who did not want the appearance of such a competitor, staged demonstrations and tried to act through the courts.

All their efforts were in vain - on March 21, 1966, the first of the red-brick buildings of Radio Row was demolished.
What did they plan to build under such a loud name - the World Center?
Back in 1962, a little-known architect from Detroit, a 49-year-old Japanese American, won a competition in which architects of the first rank participated. Minoru Yamasaki.

Quiet Japanese American

The biography of Minoru Yamasaki is a classic illustration of American success.
Born in Seattle to Japanese immigrant parents (his father worked in a local shoe factory and his mother was a pianist), he was exposed early to the racism then so prevalent in those areas. To earn money for his college education, he traveled to Alaska, where he worked 14-hour days on fishing boats.

Minoru Yamasaki shows the place under the World Trade Center on the layout of Lower Manhattan

two one hundred and ten

Yamasaki was given the modest task of designing a building with five times the office space of the Empire State Building. Having gone through dozens of options - a lone skyscraper with 150 floors, four skyscrapers, a complex of low buildings and others, the architect settled on two identical skyscrapers-parallelepipeds with a square section.

Italian influence is evident in the works of the American architect of Japanese origin.
The shape and arrangement of skyscrapers - like the towers of the medieval Italian city of San Gimignano

Twin towers of San Gimignano

Twin Towers of the World Trade Center

Gothic arches - like the Doge's Palace in Venice

Doge's Palace

World Trade Center Plaza

The original skyscrapers had 80 floors, making them shorter than the Empire State Building.

Guy Tozzoli, in charge of the project from the organization Port Authority, stated:
Pit, the president is going to put a man on the moon. I want our skyscrapers to be the tallest in the world

Yamasaki added 30 floors each. Now the 110-story skyscrapers have bypassed the Empire State Building... and started their second high-altitude race. As is known, first high-altitude race ended in 1931, and the winner, the Empire State Building, remained the most tall building peace. The second race is still going on:

World Trade Center (1973)
Sears Tower (1974)
Petronas Towers (1998)
Taipei 101 (2004)
Shanghai World Financial Center (2008)
New WTC-1 (2013, under construction)
Burj Khalifa (2010)

On August 6, 1966, twenty years after the concept of the complex was born, the construction of the World Trade Center began.

Construction of the century

The construction of a skyscraper is an extraordinary task in itself, but the construction of the World Trade Center was unprecedented in scale and complexity.
The problems started from the foundation. The skyscraper must stand on bedrock(hard rock). It turned out to be more than 20 meters before her in the place chosen for the Center. Just digging was dangerous because of the proximity of ocean waters, so before digging began, an underground "wall" was built around the entire perimeter of the future construction site. The structure was named bathtub (trough).

Bathtub (indicated by arrows). Tunnels: 1 - in New Jersey, 2 - from New Jersey

And what was to be done with so much excavated land? New York remembered its Dutch roots - the inhabitants of the Netherlands (Lower Lands) were famous for their ability to win space from the sea. The Dutch colonists brought this know-how to the New World, and the British took advantage of their knowledge - over the centuries of colonization, the outlines of Manhattan have changed a lot.

These changes are demonstrated by a photograph from the 30s - elevated metro line runs along the border New Amsterdam

1 - a place under the World Trade Center, 2 - the area of ​​the future embankment

WTC towers and embankment under construction

Later, a residential complex was built on the embankment. Battery Park City and World Financial Center. The four squat skyscrapers of the Financial Center, similar to the Teletubbies, delight the eye with a variety of tops - an Egyptian pyramid, a Mayan pyramid, a dome and a mastaba

Blue dots - the outlines of Manhattan in the year of its "purchase" from the Indians (1626),
gray area - man-made areas.

Depths bathtub enough for seven underground floors, over which the construction of 110-story towers began.
Cranes ordered from Australia were used in the construction Kangaroo capable of self-growing

The unusual design of the WTC skyscrapers is demonstrated by a unique photograph, which, like an x-ray, shows the "skeleton" of the North Tower.

The weight of the skyscraper was carried by two groups of columns - the central and the outer.

Stairs and elevators were located in the center, and the space between the central and outer columns was intended for offices. This design gave future tenants the freedom to redevelop offices.

Typical skyscrapers of that time had facades made entirely of glass, while Twins had windows in the back, behind the columns.
At night, the windows were clearly visible.

during the day skyscrapers became blind monoliths

This is how skyscrapers looked at the end of construction, in 1970.

The last floor of the North Tower was built at the end of 1970, the South Tower - in the middle of 1971. The opening of the Center took place April 4, 1973.
The twins seemed to be the legs of a huge tuning fork upon completion of construction.

The opportunity to see them in full growth disappeared after the construction of the World Financial Center in 1988.

The cost of construction went over 1.5 billion dollars, 7.5 thousand people built the World Trade Center, 8 people died.

Perpendicular city

As is customary, the United States is divided into areas that are assigned postal codes ( zip code).

It is unusual to assign an index to a single building. In New York City, 44 skyscrapers are large enough to have their own zip code. For example, the Empire State Building zip code is 10118 , Chrysler Building - 10174 , Seagram Building - 10152 .

The WTC index was the numbers 10048 .

The World Trade Center was a real city - in the buildings of the complex on a weekday there were up to 50 thousand employees and from 50 to 100 thousand visitors. This made it the sixth most populous "city" in the state of New York.

The WTC is six buildings that fit in the Plaza (square) of 16 acres, and one building is outside the square.

1 WTC - North Tower
2 WTC - South Tower
3 WTC - Marriot Hotel
4 WTC - commodity exchange
5 WTC - Dean Witter Building
6 WTC - US Customs
7 WTC - Salomon Brothers Bank

Often the whole complex was simply called the Twins - the rest of the buildings faded next to the 110-story towers:

Height of the North Tower (without antenna) - 417 meters
The height of the South Tower is 415 meters
Antenna height - 104 meters

The delivery of people and goods was carried out by elevators - there were 103 of them in each tower (97 passenger and 6 freight). Express elevators stopped only on the 44th, 78th and top floors (the so-called skylobbies- heavenly vestibules). For intermediate floors, it was necessary to transfer to local elevators.

In the center of the Plaza was a fountain with a rotating sphere

Under the plaza there was a mall, below the mall there was an underground garage for 2000 cars. At the level of the seventh floor there was a railway tunnel.

Endure - fall in love

The initial reaction of New Yorkers and guests of the capital of the world to Yamasaki's creation was very cool:

The twins are the boxes that the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building were delivered in.
(New York folklore)

The most ruthless critics were professionals:

Ada Huxtable , architectural critic:
The towers are bare technology, the lobbies are tearful sentimentality, the New York influence is pure fantasy... Twenty-two inch (56 cm) windows are so narrow that one of the marvelous possibilities afforded by high-rise buildings, the breathtaking view from above, is completely absent. ... Towers are great buildings, but they are not great architecture.

Paul Goldberger , architectural critic:
It [Center] is big. It is larger than any building. He showed once again that a person can adapt to anything ... His influence on the city, whether it concerns the skyline, the downtown environment and real estate prices, cannot be overestimated. But the Center's buildings themselves are so boring and banal that they wouldn't even be worth building for a bank in Omaha.

In the end, the Twins repeated the fate of the Eiffel Tower - they got used to them, then they stopped noticing, then they began to be proud.
Filmed against the backdrop of the World Trade Center:

The Statue of Liberty

Church of St. Nicholas

If someone wanted to see Manhattan without the World Trade Center, he had to climb
to the upper floors of the Twins - the only place where they could not be seen.

It was possible to survey "the whole of New York"
- from the windows of the Windows on the World restaurant, located on the 106/107 floors of the North Tower

from the Observation Deck, located on the 107th floor of the South Tower

from the platform on the roof of the South Tower (110th floor)

The Gemini soon began to attract adventurers.
The "sky walk" of the French tightrope walker became a sensation.

Philippe Petit Big Show

When I see three oranges I have to juggle; when I see two towers I have to walk between them
(F. Petit)

At six o'clock on the evening of August 6, 1974, Philippe Petit, a self-taught tightrope walker, climbed onto the roof of the South Tower. He was not alone - several people participated in the "conspiracy". Pretending to be messengers, they carried the necessary equipment to the roofs of the towers - a steel rope, a collapsible pole, a bow and an arrow. It took all night to transfer and secure the rope.

At seven o'clock in the morning, Philippe Petit stepped onto a rickety "bridge" stretched at a height of 415 meters, one inch (2.5 cm) wide and 40 meters long.

Far below, people hurrying to work stopped and looked in disbelief at a small human figure strolling between giant towers at an unimaginable height.

The first ten viewers were soon joined by thousands. A few minutes after the "performance" began, the police arrived on the roof of the South Tower.

Sergeant Charles Daniels testifies:

When police officer Meyers and I went out on the roof, we found this "dancer" halfway up the tower - it would not be enough to call him just a tightrope walker. When he saw us, he smiled and started dancing. When he knelt down, we retreated, worried that our presence would affect his concentration. We called everyone to silence. The tightrope walker lay down on the rope, then sat down, dangling his legs - it was incredible ...

Standing up, he began to dance again, laughing and approaching us... When he approached the tower, we demanded that he get off the rope onto the roof, but he turned and walked back... He began to jump, completely tearing his legs off the rope We are all petrified...

Petit himself recalls:

In 45 minutes I made 8 transitions. During one of them, I lay down on a rope, looked into the sky and saw a seagull above me. I could see her - she had red eyes. I was reminded of the myth of Prometheus. The bird circled in the sky and looked at the alien intruding into its space - who I was here, at this height ...

When Petit returned to the roof, he was immediately arrested.

He was charged with a lot: penetration into private territory, disobedience to the police, dangerous behavior for others, and even public speaking without permission.

Of course, later all charges were dropped, Philippe Petit was only obliged to speak to a children's audience in Central Park.
Philippe Petit was followed by representatives of other genres.

Brave heroes of very small stature

If at Vladimir Mayakovsky the unemployed rushed off the Brooklyn Bridge, then one modern disadvantaged chose the World Trade Center. Not intending to take his own life, he wanted to draw attention to the plight of the unemployed.

He landed safely, becoming one of the forerunners BASE jumping (Building, Antenna, Span, Earth)- an extreme activity in which daredevils jump with a parachute from buildings, antennas, bridges and cliffs.
WTC won not only from above, but also from below.

George Willig, "man-fly", on May 26, 1977, climbed the South Tower, spending 3.5 hours on it. For disturbing the peace, he was fined $1.36 - a cent for every foot he crossed.

Various performances were staged on the stage called the World Trade Center.
In 1995, the match for the title of world chess champion (according to the PCA) between Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand was held here.

Such a platform could not be neglected by Hollywood. In the 1976 remake of King Kong, the final scene takes place not on the Empire State Building, but on the roof of the World Trade Center.

The film, as you know, does not end with a happy ending for King Kong - mortally wounded, he falls from the roof of the South Tower into the plaza of the complex.

First blood

Wards of Omar Abdel-Rahman (the Blind Sheikh) hoped that the North Tower would collapse on the South, but the Twins resisted.

6 people were killed, about a thousand were wounded. As a result of the explosion, the skyscrapers were de-energized, the elevators stopped, the warning system stopped working. The firemen's portable radios did not function well, and the 911 system was overloaded.

The foot evacuation by stairs took more than 4 hours. A small group of people were taken by helicopters from the South Tower, and one person even from the hard-to-reach roof of the North Tower.

Helipad on the roof of the North Tower; police helicopter

These operations have given people the false belief that rooftop helicopter rescues are part of the rescue plans.

The attack demonstrated the poor readiness of the World Trade Center for such catastrophic events and forced them to take action.
Alas, as the events of 2001 showed, these measures turned out to be half-measures.

11 September

The first ramming occurred at 8:46 am, the second tower collapsed at 10:28 am.
The World Trade Center, which took seven years to build and stood for thirty years, was destroyed in 102 minutes.

Completely destroyed
1 - 1 WTC
2 - 2 WTC
3 - 7 WTC
4 - North Bridge
5 - Church of St. Nicholas
Partially collapsed
6 - Marriot Hotel
7 - 4 WTC
8 - 5 WTC
9 - 6 WTC
Significantly damaged
10 - building at 30 West Broadway
11 - Verizon Telephone Company Building
12 - 3 World Financial Center
13 - Winter Garden
14 - building at 90 West Street
15 - Bankers Trust building
Facade damaged
16 - One Liberty Plaza
17 - building at 22 Cortlandt Street
18 - Millennium Hilton Hotel
19-Federal Office Building
20 - 2 World Financial Center
21 - 1 World Financial Center

The next day

When the ruins of the World Trade Center were removed, a practically intact wall emerged from the ground. bathtub

The place was named ground zero - this is how, since the time of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they have called a point on the surface of the earth, located directly under the center of an air nuclear explosion ...

World Trade Center (1966-2001)

Ten years ago, 19 men trained by Al Qaeda launched a coordinated terrorist attack on the United States of America. It took several years to develop the attack plan. The terrorists simultaneously hijacked 4 large passenger aircraft with the intention of destroying the most famous US landmarks with their help, while taking as much as possible more lives. Three planes reached their targets, the fourth crashed on a field in Pennsylvania. In one day, these acts of mass murder killed about 3,000 people from 57 countries. Of these, more than 400 dead were firefighters, policemen and ambulance crews. This event received the most coverage in the history of the media, and even ten years later, it's hard to look at these pictures. The attacks and the response to them have largely shaped the world we live in today, and that's why it's important to look at these pictures and remember what happened that day. This post is the second of three dedicated to the September 11 attacks.

1. View of the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan covered in clouds of smoke and dust from Jersey City, New Jersey, September 15, 2001. (AP Photo/Dan Loh)

2. Smoke pours from a hole in the wall and from the upper floors of the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York, after a collision with American Airlines Flight 11. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

3. Flight 175 of United Airlines a second before the collision with the south tower of the World Trade Center. The north tower is already on fire. (Reuters/Sean Adair)

4. An explosion in the south tower during a collision with United Airlines Flight 175 in New York, September 11, 2001. The plane crashed into a building at a speed of 945 km/h. (Reuters/Sean Adair)

5. Collision of the aircraft with the south tower of the World Trade Center. There were 56 passengers on board (including 5 hijackers). (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

6. The explosion of 3800 liters of fuel remaining on board the aircraft during a collision with the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York. (AP Photo/Ernesto Mora)

7. Two women, holding on to each other, look at the WTC buildings burning after the terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Ernesto Mora)

8. The burning twin towers are visible behind the Empire State Building. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)

9. A cloud of smoke from the WTC buildings in lower Manhattan. A USGS satellite image flying over the area around 9:30 am on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. (AP Photo/USGS)

10. People hanging from the windows of the north tower of the World Trade Center after the attack. (Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images)

11. A man jumps to his death from the north tower of the World Trade Center filled with smoke and flames. (Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images)

12. A man jumps from the upper floors of the burning north tower of the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

13. A man jumps from the north tower of the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

14. Security camera at the Pentagon captured the explosion caused by a collision with a hijacked American Airlines plane with 58 passengers and 6 crew members on board, September 11, 2001. (AP Photo)

15. Flame and smoke escape from the Pentagon building after the explosion. (AP Photo/Will Morris)

17. Medics provide assistance to the victims near the Pentagon, after a hijacked airliner crashed into the southwest corner of the building. (Reuters/U.S. Navy Photo/Journalist 1st Class Mark D. Faram)

19. Smoke pours from the towers of the World Trade Center after two hijacked planes crashed into them during a terrorist attack on New York. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

20. At 9:59 am on September 11, 2001, 56 minutes after the collision, the south tower of the World Trade Center begins to collapse. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova)

21. The south tower of the World Trade Center is collapsing, and the debris is burying nearby streets. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

22. Police officers and pedestrians run for cover during a terrorist attack in New York. (Doug Kanter/AFP/Getty Images)

23. People covered with dust walk through the rubble near the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova)

24. Maru Stahl from Somerset, Pennsylvania, shows a picture he took of the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93. The plane crashed near Shanksville, and Stahl, hearing the explosion, went to the crash site and took a picture before rescuers cordoned off the area. The plane crashed in Pennsylvania shortly after the New York attacks. (Reuters/Jason Cohn)

25. Aerial photograph of the crash site of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, taken by the FBI on September 12, 2001. The Boeing 757 was flying from Newark, New Jersey to San Francisco when it made a sharp turn near Cleveland and crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. 44 people died. This aircraft was one of four that were part of the 9/11 attack plan, and the only one that did not reach its target. (AP Photo/FBI)

26. Firefighters and rescuers investigate the crash site of Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Tribune-Democrat/David Lloyd)

27. At 10:28 am on September 11, 2001, 102 minutes after the plane collided with her, the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York collapses. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)

28. The collapse of the WTC tower on September 11, 2001 in New York. (Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images)

29. A photo of the New York City Police Department shows how ash and smoke are carried over Manhattan during the collapse of the north tower of the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/NYPD, Det. Greg Semendinger)

30. Dust, smoke and debris fill the air during the fall of the WTC tower on September 11, 2001 in New York. (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

31. Dust, smoke and ash shroud neighboring buildings after the fall of both WTC towers on September 11, 2001 in New York. (AP Photo/NYPD, Det. Greg Semendinger)

32. People leave the collapsed towers, fleeing the smoke and dust. As a result of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 in New York, both 110-story towers of the World Trade Center collapsed. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)

33. The north tower of the World Trade Center turns into a cloud of dust and debris half an hour after the fall of the south tower on September 11, 2001. Photo taken from Jersey City, New Jersey, across the Hudson River. (Reuters/Ray Stubblebine)

34. People make their way through the rubble near the ruins of the World Trade Center September 11, 2001 in New York. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova)

35. A priest helps people after the fall of the WTC towers in New York on September 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova)

36. People cover their faces from the dust, crossing the Brooklyn Bridge to get away from the cloud of dust and smoke that covered Manhattan after the attacks. (AP Photo/Daniel Shanken)

37. People on the street next to the twin towers September 11, 2001. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

38. A sheriff's assistant assists a woman who was injured during the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samiolava)

39. A man sobs as he watches the fall of the WTC tower in New York on September 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Shawn Baldwin)

40. A firefighter rests on a bench in lower Manhattan while working on the site of the fall of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Matt Moyer)

41. Construction debris and ashes from the fall of the WTC towers as a result of a terrorist attack fill the streets of Manhattan, turning the view of the city into a picture of the Apocalypse. Buildings collapsed, burying thousands of people under the rubble. (AP Photo/Boudicon One)

42. A fireman calls for help from rescuers to dismantle the wreckage of the World Trade Center. The picture was taken on September 15, 2001. (Reuters/U.S. Navy/Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres)

43. The chassis of one of the hijacked aircraft lies on the street next to the destroyed buildings of the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2001. (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

44. Firefighters in search of survivors under the rubble of the Twin Towers after the September 11, 2001 attacks. (AP Photo/Matt Moyer)

45. Light barely breaks through the clouds of smoke and ash at the site of the collapse of the WTC towers. (AP Photo/Baldwin)

46. ​​New York firefighters put out the building 7 of the World Trade Center, destroyed along with the twin towers during the September 11, 2001 attacks. (Reuters/Mike Segar)

47. A group of firefighters near the ruins of the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2001. (Reuters/Peter Morgan)

48. Debris covers the rails in the tunnel of the New York subway on lines 1 and 9 of Cortland Street station under the WTC. The damage was so severe that more than one mile of the tunnel had to be repaired, according to New York city transport officials. (AP Photo/New York City Transit)

49. Rescuers conduct a search and rescue operation, descending under the rubble of the World Trade Center on Friday, September 14, 2001. (Reuters/U.S. Navy/Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jim Watson)

50. A man stands in the ruins of the WTC towers and tries to call the survivors, asks if anyone needs help. (Doug Kanter/AFP/Getty Images)

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The eleventh day of September 2001 went down in history as a global tragedy that dealt a crushing blow to the faith of the citizens of the democratic community in their own security and inviolability. September 11, 2001 terrorist attack claimed the lives of 2 thousand 752 people

The most important signs of the work of demolition workers in the World Trade Center

The rapid and strictly vertical collapse of skyscrapers (this happens during the point mining of a building for demolition), despite the fact that the “twins” collapsed vertically, the third building was also completely razed to the ground - WTC # 7, which was not rammed by aircraft, all structures were destroyed almost " crumbled” (this effect is achieved only with professional explosive dismantling), experts heard on the recordings the sounds of several explosions seconds before the collapse, which came from the first floors, filmed on many amateur videos, wisps of smoke and flashes almost forty floors below the level where the planes crashed , numerous fragments of glass, steel and human remains found in a very large radius, including on the roofs of houses, many vertical load-bearing beams were diagonally cut (this preparatory procedure is also typical for dismantling), the remains of burning Thermate, a substance commonly used for military purposes for thermal cutting of steel (discovered at the site of fished by independent experts), numerous traces of steel supporting structures melted to a lava-like state. The burning continued even on the fifth or sixth day and was recorded on NASA aerial photographs (aircraft kerosene is not capable of creating such high temperatures - a minimum of 1500oC is required!).

The names of specialists who disagree with the official version of the White House are impressive - leading scientists in the field of history, defense, psychology, philosophy and applied sciences. The conducted studies confirm the opinion that the World Trade Center buildings in New York were destroyed by controlled explosions, and the version of the authorities about the Pentagon attack does not stand up to scrutiny. Scientists are convinced that the government not only allowed the September 11 attacks, but staged them for political purposes.


The names of people who made sensational accusations are striking:
Robert M. Bowman - Former Project Manager for Star Wars, USAF Space Defense Program (101 sorties).

Fred Burks is an interpreter for many American presidents and people familiar with American political cuisine firsthand.

Lloyd de Moos is director of the Institute for Psychohistory, president of the International Psychohistorical Association, and editor of the Journal of Psychohistory.

Eric Douglas - New York architect, chairman of an independent commission of the committee to review projects for the restoration of the World Trade Center.

James Fetzer is a renowned scientist, professor at McKnight University (Minnesota), former US Marine Corps officer, author and editor of more than 20 academic publications, co-founder of the S9 / 11T group.

Robert Fritzius - electronics engineer, radar and telecommunications specialist.

Daniel Ganser - historian, representative of the University of Basel (Switzerland).

Michael Gass - explosives specialist (US Air Force), sapper, author of the development of demining techniques.

Kenyon Gibson is a former naval intelligence officer and the author of a number of books on the events of 9/11.

Rich Hellner - air traffic control, dispatcher.

Don Jacobs is a former Dean of the School of Education and Professor of Education at Northern Arizona University.

Andrew Johnson is a physicist, computer scientist, and software developer.

Stephen Jones is a professor of physics, co-founder of the S9/11T group, and creator of the site.

Peter Kirsch is a renowned pathologist.

Wayne Madsen - investigative journalist, former employee intelligence services.

Richard McGinn is Professor of Linguistics, Ohio University.

Morgan Reynolds is an economics professor, chief economist for the Department of Labor during the George W. Bush administration, and director of the National Center for Policy Analysis' Criminal Justice Center.

E. Martin Shotz - historian, psychiatrist, mathematician.

Glenn Stanish - pilot, head of the Airline Pilots Association.

Andreas von Bülow - ex-deputy minister of foreign affairs of Germany, head of the German intelligence services, member of parliament for 25 years.

Jonathan Wilson - Criminologist, University of Winnipeg (Canada).

This is not a complete list, allowing you to get an idea of ​​the level of professionalism of the people who made accusations against the American government. What gives them the right to question the official version of the White House? The answer to this question can be found on the website www.st911.org where 20 reasons for distrusting President Bush are published.

The commission of inquiry into the events of September 11 refused to study a huge number of testimonies and evidence. Even the former director of the FBI stated that the mentioned commission is silent real events.
The recording of the interrogations of dispatchers who were on duty on September 11 was deliberately destroyed - the cassettes were broken by hand, the film was torn into small fragments, and its fragments were thrown into various bins.
Congressional investigators found that an FBI informant provided housing for two plane hijackers in 2000. When the commission wanted to interrogate this citizen, the FBI not only refused to comply with this request, but also hid the informant. According to some reports, the FBI took such steps after receiving appropriate instructions from the White House.
A retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and former Star Wars Project Manager recently issued the following statement: “If our government had done nothing that day, only enforced the normal procedure for such cases, the Twin Towers would have stood still and thousands of dead Americans would be alive. Our government's actions are treason!"


Recently declassified documents show that in the 1960s the US High Command developed a plan to blow up US aircraft and carry out terrorist acts against US citizens on American soil.

The US Defense Department, which is responsible for the safety of citizens, has been conducting exercises for many years, practicing the version of using kamikaze aircraft against the buildings of the World Trade Center and other American skyscrapers. " Various types aircraft for civil and military purposes were used in the course of practicing actions in case of a possible attack by terrorists. In other words, the Pentagon used REAL-EXISTING AIRCRAFT to simulate an attack on high-rise buildings, including the twin towers. Why the department "turned out to be unprepared" remains a question.
In addition, the military worked out options for similar attacks on the Pentagon.
On the morning of 9/11, US defense and intelligence agencies were conducting counter-terrorism military exercises using REAL planes and fake "radar tags" to mislead air traffic controllers.
It was on the morning of September 11 that the government carried out maneuvers simulating an air attack by terrorists on the World Trade Center.
Despite government claims of ignorance of the terrorist aircraft, the US Secretary of Transportation, testifying to the commission, claimed that Vice President Cheney personally monitored the pilots of the ill-fated Flight 77 many miles before the vehicle approached the Pentagon.
The third building of the World Trade Center (structure number 7) collapsed on September 11, despite the fact that it was not hit by terrorist aircraft. It collapsed as if it had no walls or ceilings. Before the tragedy, only small local fires were noted in the building. It is the only steel frame building in the world to be destroyed by fire, which by definition cannot happen.
According to a number of FBI officials, the WTC buildings collapsed as a result of the explosion of bombs planted inside it.
Broadcaster MSNBC claims that police officers believed that one of the explosions at the World Trade Center could have been triggered by a truck filled with explosives and located inside the building. In their opinion, explosive devices could be placed both in the building itself and in its immediate vicinity.
According to the head of security fire service New York City, the explosions may have been caused by "bombs" and "secondary devices". Firefighters believe there were bombs in the building.
According to a spokesman for the National Demolition Association, the collapse of the twin towers resembled "a classically planned demolition of a building."
Eyewitnesses of the explosion claim that the explosions occurred much BELOW the area hit by the planes. Moreover, they happened BEFORE the first plane crashed into the building.
According to the testimony of a certain police officer, devastating explosions on the upper floors occurred at intervals of 15 minutes. The building collapsed after that.

The scientists managed to collect and systematize dozens of facts that were "ignored" by the authorities, distorted their essence or (which is especially scary) did not find a place on the pages of official reports. Every aspect of the official version is questionable by an inquisitive and literate reader who wants to know the truth about what happened.

Attack or controlled bombing?


According to representatives of science, "fire (fire) could not lead to the destruction of the steel structures of the building." Supporters of the official (government) version of the tragic events hush up this fact. Moreover, according to a report signed by the Directorate of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (2005), the steel structures of the buildings collapsed allegedly as a result of fires. At the same time, no such fact is known to science.

Interestingly, the turrets were designed with aerial attack in mind and were built with a design strength to withstand a collision with such a colossus as the Boeing 767.

"They were designed to withstand all sorts of impacts, including tornadoes, bombings or collisions with huge airliners," says Hyman Brown, Project Manager for the construction of the Twin Towers (2001).

The theory about the destruction of the building as a result of a fire and the melting of load-bearing steel structures is also absurd. According to experts, the destruction of skyscrapers resembles a "controlled detonation" when a certain amount of explosives is placed in the supporting structures and fires in the right sequence.

In the course of a controlled detonation, the destruction of the building occurs suddenly - at first there is nothing, but the next moment the structure falls apart. The steel structure at high temperature cannot suddenly break. This happens gradually - horizontal beams begin to sag, and then vertical steel columns are deformed.

But the video filming, which captured the destruction of the towers, did not record such processes even on the floors located above the hole left by the aircraft. In addition, the art of controlled detonation of a high-rise building is to ensure that the exploded skyscraper does not scatter in all directions, but "sags" in such a way that the debris remains exclusively at the site of construction. This is what happened with the towers.

According to Marc Loisier, president of the largest controlled demolition company, such an explosion "must be completely planned, and the explosives must be placed in a certain order." All 110 floors of the twin towers collapsed very neatly. In an unplanned explosion, construction debris would have covered the entire area, but this did not happen.

In a controlled detonation, the remains of a building descend to the surface at the speed of free fall, which does not happen in a random catastrophe. To do this, demolitionists first lay explosives under the support systems of the lower floors, so the upper ones go down, practically without encountering resistance.

According to the commission's report, the south tower collapsed in 10 seconds, which corresponds to a controlled detonation. Moreover, this technique allows you to "cut" the supporting steel structures into pieces of a certain length, which was recorded in New York. The huge dust cloud that formed at the site of the towers after the explosion also serves as circumstantial evidence of a controlled explosion. Colonel of the US Corps of Engineers John O'Dowd came to this conclusion. "It seemed that the air at the site of the WTC explosion was saturated with cement dust."

Another proof of a planned explosion is a huge amount of molten steel at the site of the collapse of the towers. So, Peter Tully, chief construction company Tully Construction and Marc Loisier reported "lakes of molten steel" found at the site of collapsed buildings in underground elevator shafts. Meanwhile, the collision of an aircraft with a building and the subsequent ignition of aviation fuel could not lead to the formation of temperatures at which steel structures begin to melt. The mystery of the explosion of the twin towers, according to scientists, still remains unsolved. But what about the government? It is inactive, refusing to divulge information that contradicts the official theory.

Shortly after the events of 9/11, over 500 New York City fire and emergency personnel gave oral testimony, in one way or another pointing to some of the inconsistencies noted during the aftermath of the terrorist attack. The City of New York has done everything to keep these facts from being publicized or denied.

It was not until August 2005 that The New York Times and a group of relatives of the victims succeeded, after a lengthy trial and a series of appeals, in forcing the mayor's office to publish the above-mentioned testimonies of direct witnesses to the destruction of the World Trade Center.

The words of the witnesses refute government theories, proving that the events of 9/11 are a well-planned act of intimidation.

Unfortunately, American officials are unwilling to conduct an independent investigation, establish the truth and punish those responsible. Why is this happening? To whom and why is it beneficial? These questions remain unanswered for the time being, but the public is not satisfied with the Bush administration's position, and the S9/11T group does not intend to stop its activities. Soon we will have new details that reveal the essence of these tragic events and the hypocrisy of officials. If the claims of American scientists turn out to be true, "controlled undermining" may well lead to an uncontrolled reaction of society - not only American, but also world. And then the authors of the largest hoax in the history of mankind may not be in trouble, writes Konstantin VASILKEVICH

THE BEHAVIOR OF THE US SPECIAL SERVICES INDISPUTABLE PROVES THAT THE SEPTEMBER 11 Terror Attacks in the USA IS THEIR WORK.

In their haste to blame the Muslims for this, in their haste to strike at Afghanistan, they made the investigation against the special services themselves impossible.

“The US government announced the creation of a new structure in the system of its special services (numbering 170,000 people with an annual budget of 37 billion dollars), designed to coordinate the efforts of various departments, as well as for the extrajudicial physical destruction of terrorists around the world, that is, to kill people, objectionable to the "world behind the scenes" (the CIA used to hide such operations, now it does not need it: it is enough to declare someone a "terrorist"). This was a new step in the global war "against terrorism", declared after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which untied the US hands for the forceful subjugation of the entire planet. Already then, in many democratic countries, laws were passed to facilitate surveillance, preventive arrests, electronic wiretapping, the abolition of the secrecy of bank deposits; measures of political censorship were introduced in the democratic media, up to the closure of sites on the Internet that "spread hate propaganda". That is, the extrajudicial repressions of the special services against their own citizens were significantly expanded.” "TOMORROW", N30, 2002"

The BUSH administration used the Boeing attack as an excuse to invade Iraq and Afghanistan in order to realize its dream of world hegemony under the banner of fighting terrorism.