The American Empire and 9/11 - Journal of 9/11 Studies

Fourth, there is considerable evidence that theaircraft that struck the Pentagon was not even a Boeing 757.Unlike the strikes on the Twin Towers, the Pentagon strikedid not create a detectable seismic signal. 44 Also,according to photographs and eyewitnesses, the kind ofdamage and debris that would have been produced by theimpact of a Boeing 757 was not produced by the strike on thePentagon.With regard to the debris, the eyewitnesses includeKaren Kwiatkowski, who was then an Air Force LieutenantColonel employed at the Pentagon. She writes of “a strangelack of visible debris on the Pentagon lawn, where I stoodonly moments after the impact. . . . I saw nothing of anysignificance at the point of impact---no airplane metal orcargo debris.” 45 Another eyewitness was CNN’s JamieMcIntyre, who said during a live report from the Pentagon on9/11: “The only pieces left that you can see are smallenough that you pick up in your hand.” 46The lack of the expected debris inside the Pentagon hasbeen reported by April Gallop, who, along with her twomonth-oldson, was seriously injured. She says:I was located at the E ring. . . . [W]e had to escapethe building before the floors . . . collapsed on us.And I don't recall at any time seeing any plane debris.. . . If I wasn't informed [at the hospital that it was44 Won-Young Kim and Gerald R. Baum, “Seismic Observations duringSeptember 11, 2001, Terrorist Attack”(http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/publications/download/911pentagon.pdf).45 Karen Kwiatkowski, “Assessing the Official 9/11 Conspiracy Theory,”in Griffin and Scott, eds., 9/11 and American Empire. See also “TheMissing Wings” (http://www.physics911.net/missingwings.htm), in which A.K. Dewdney and G. W. Longspaugh argue that the absence of wing debrisalone is sufficient to disprove the claim that the aircraft was a hugeairliner.46 Text and video available at http://www.globalconspiracies.com/cnn_reported_no_plane_hit_pentagon.htm.15