In a
preview of
Webster Tarpley's
upcoming book, Synthetic Terror, Made in USA, we
see that Tarpley is indicating that planes struck both the North and South Towers of the
WTC on 9/11/01. Here are some excerpts:
Louie Cacchioli, aged 51, was a firefighter attached to Engine Company 47,
based uptown in Harlem. 'We were the first ones in the second tower after
the plane struck,' Cacchioli recounted later. Teresa Veliz was a manager for a software development firm. She
was on the 47th floor of the North Tower when American 11 struck.
"'My opinion is, based on the videotapes, that after the airplanes
hit the World Trade Center there were some explosive devices inside the
buildings that causd the towers to collapse," [Van Romero, vice
president for research at New Mexico Institute of Mining and
Technology]. An extremely serious aspect of the botched
investigation of the World Trade Center events involved the issue of the
four black boxes from the two planes (American 11 and United 175) - a
cockpit voice recorder and a flight data reporter from each plane. The
official version, as codified by the 9/11 commission, claims that not
one of these black boxes was ever found. But a New York City firefighter named
Nicholas De Masi claimed that he escorted FBI agents into the WTC ruins and
helped them to find and recover three of the four missing black boxes. DeMasi's
account is supported by the WTC volunteer Mike Bellone, who said that
he had seen at least one black box being taken from the wreckage. The
three black boxes were removed from the wreckage with the help of DeMasi's
all terrain vehicle, according to this account. Then the three black boxes
were taken away from the FBI and have never been heard of again. The
black boxes of the two planes that apparently hit the WTC are the only
cases in which black boxes from jetliners have not been recovered.
DeMasi wrote about this experience in his book Ground Zero: Behind the Scenes,
which was published by Trauma Recovery and Assistance for Children
(TRAC Team) in 2003. Here DeMasi recals: 'There were a total of four
black boxes. We found three.'"
This author has little respect for Webster Tarpley's foray into what
Webfairy appropriately terms the "911 Half Truth Movement." For Tarpley to
ignore so much circumstantial evidence that no plane struck the WTC tarnishes
the respect he has earned with much of his other writing.
In the first place, Tarpley is ignoring the witnesses who never saw a plane strike
either the North or South Towers even though they were watching the WTC. (I'm
not mentioning these witnesses to protect their privacy.)
Second, Tarpley is ignoring this author's research and commentary, as well as the
prodigious research and analyses of Webfairy and
Gerard Holmgren.
Third, Tarpley is ignoring the widely reported story that a supervisor destroyed
the air traffic control tapes recorded on 9/11. If there were really hijackers
flying planes why were these tapes destroyed?
Fourth, Tarpley cites Ground Zero: Behind the Scenes for confirmation
that there were black boxes recovered from the demolished WTC complex. However, the
same resource fails to include any photographs of any plane parts supposedly found
afterwards. In addition, Behind the Scenes fails to
corroborate Tarpley's belief that the Towers fell from controlled demolitions. It
also fails to mention that anyone who photographed the rubble after 9/11/01 was
threatened with arrest, and their documentation destroyed by the authorities
on the scene. Also, Behind the Scenes fails to adequately
describe World Trade Center Seven's state before it suddenly collapsed
around 5:25 p.m. on 9/11/01. Finally, the last page of
Behind the Scenes contains a photograph of US Marines
posing in a field with the handwritten caption "We're coming Motherf*$**rs" above it. Clearly,
this photograph is included for propaganda purposes on behalf of the military
aggression which followed the events of 9/11/01. Exactly why Tarpley puts
so much trust behind the recollections of witnesses cited in
Ground Zero: Behind the Scenes is not clear.
Sadly, Webster Tarpley is promoting the official story that
planes struck the WTC. In doing this he is sacrificing his famous reputation for
probity.
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