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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. Terrorists simultaneously hijacked 4 large passenger aircraft with the intention of destroying the most famous US landmarks with their help, while taking as many lives as possible. 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 it is therefore important to look at these photographs 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, headed 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)

Prior to September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center ensemble included seven buildings. The World Trade Center was built in New York in 1973 according to the architectural ideas of Minoru Yamasaki. The impressive center of the complex was two skyscrapers each with 110 floors - the South (415 m high) and the North (417 m).

At the time of completion of construction, they occupied the first place in the world in terms of height. For almost three decades, the twin towers towered over Manhattan, symbolizing the financial power of the United States, but on September 11, 2001, attacks by terrorist fanatics caused the destruction of skyscrapers.

The north tower was rammed by a plane hijacked by a group of terrorists at 8:46 a.m., the devastating blow fell on the north side of the building between the 93rd and 99th floors. There was a strong fire, which cut off the exit paths for people who were above. After 102 minutes of burning, the skyscraper collapsed. The second plane collided with the South Tower 17 minutes after the previous attack, hitting between the 77th and 85th floors. The collision of the plane with the building had to be in the space closer to the corner, so one stairwell remained intact - this helped many people to escape.

The structures of the South Tower were badly damaged by fire and collision, so it collapsed 29 minutes earlier than the North. Flying fragments of the twin towers and the resulting fire caused the collapse at 17:20 of another building of the complex - WTC-7. The remaining four buildings were so severely damaged that it was decided to demolish them. As a result of the terrorist attack, 2,752 people died, including the crews and passengers of the aircraft hijacked by the terrorists.

Documentary video: see how it really happened.

After the disaster, a museum and a National Memorial were built on the site of the collapse of the World Trade Center, which is two square pools on the site of the destroyed twin towers. Another World Trade Center is being built around the memorial, the center of which will be the new Freedom Tower. The height of the building, together with the spire, reaches 541 m - it will be the third tallest in the world and the first in the Western Hemisphere. The architects report that the Freedom Tower is a very reliable skyscraper: its foundation was reinforced with steel beams, and the first floors were built as a reinforced concrete base without windows.

This is how the Tribute in the Light memorial looked from the side, September 6, 2011. (Photo by Mark Lennihan | AP). Two pillars of light, each 1500 meters high, shoot out from the very place where the WTC towers stood.

2 swimming pools located exactly on the site of the former "twin towers". The underground museum is located directly below the memorial.

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 - for a very short time the world became 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 rise of international trade in the post-war world, proposed the construction of a "World Trade Center" in Lower Manhattan.

The idea turned out to be premature. The Soviet Union, having the strongest land army, acquired an 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 immigrants (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 parts. 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 completed in 1931, and the winner, the Empire State Building, remained the tallest building in the world for 40 years. 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 of things: 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)

The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York divided the history of the United States of America into before and after. Three thousand people who died as a result of the explosion of the Twin Towers is an irreparable loss for the American people. Question: "Who blew up the towers?" remains open to many to this day. Too many logical inconsistencies in the official version of the investigation.

Mission Possible?

According to the official version, the twin towers were destroyed due to the explosions of the planes that rammed the buildings. The fire that broke out during the attack weakened the metal structures, and the building collapsed. Then the same thing happened to another skyscraper.

Ordinary people are still perplexed: how could people from Arab countries, whose names were previously known to the special services, come to the United States, undergo training in piloting passenger Boeings, carry dummies of firearms on board aircraft, capture several aircraft at the same time and with an enviable Accurately ram several buildings?

This whole operation looks incredible, but, nevertheless, it is theoretically feasible. Much more complex questions of the commission involved in the investigation are asked by experts who have obtained the results of analyzes obtained after examining the wreckage of the twin towers. At the site of the tragedy, traces of explosives and thermite were found - a substance that reaches a temperature of 1500 degrees when burned. But let's talk about everything in order. Consider the main conspiracy theories of explosions.

Less than a month after the attack, the US army invaded Afghanistan, destroying the hotbeds of terrorism, and at the same time writing off their debts, destabilizing the situation in the region and laundering multibillion-dollar investments in the military industry, in which, as it became known during the election campaign, Hillary Clinton, the Washington "hawks" have not only state, but also personal interests.

The terrorist act untied the hands of the US intelligence services, which received the right to listen to other people's conversations and read other people's letters, not only on their own territory, but in any corner of the world. Even the leaders of the G7 countries have no right to their little secrets from Washington. This was clearly shown by the phone tapping scandal. Angela Merkel.

There are many supporters of the idea that America's intelligence agencies at least knew about the preparation of terrorist attacks, and most likely played a key role in the preparation. Only with the support of "Big Brother" could Islamic radicals involved in al-Qaeda ties be able to enter the United States, receive first-class flight training, be on board aircraft with items that look like firearms, hijack aircraft and accurately direct them to predetermined goals.

Like a house of cards

Looking at the collapse of the twin towers, experts agree that it is very similar to a controlled explosion. Such explosions are used when it is required to demolish a large building in a densely populated area of ​​the city. Explosive engineers, having studied the design of the structure, calculate the power of each charge placed in the base of the supporting structures. As a result, the demolished object should fold like a house of cards, so that each wall rushes inward.

During such events, just in case, the inhabitants of nearby houses are evacuated. If there is a mistake in the calculations or some charges do not work, the building, instead of folding inward, may fall on its side, and then the destruction will be much more than planned. Looking at the video, it's hard not to be surprised at how neatly and how quickly the towers fold. It looks like real professional explosives experts worked on this.

Well, what about the planes? After all, they were seen by thousands of people, and they are captured on the set. Supporters of the controlled explosion theory are sure that the planes were needed for a beautiful picture and so that the inhabitants would not have questions: how could a bunch of terrorists bring tons of explosives into two carefully guarded buildings in the center of New York and set the charges in such a way that they collapsed fully?

As for the plane that hit the Pentagon building, it may not have been at all. The footage, taken immediately after the attack, shows the destruction, but there are no details of the Boeing. The plane could explode, but it could not dissolve. Large pieces of the fuselage and engines should be visible. In addition, the damage to the building is too minor for an incursion by a large passenger airliner. They are more reminiscent of the consequences of a cruise missile hit, and terrorists simply could not have such missiles.

Who shot down the fourth plane?

There was also a fourth hijacked airliner, which the terrorists planned to aim either at the White House, or at the Capitol. But he did not reach his goal. According to the official version, the passengers entered into a fight with the terrorists, and as a result of a fight that ensued on board the aircraft, the liner crashed to the ground. Some conspiracy theorists believe that the US military shot down the plane. This theory is supported by the fact that the debris was scattered at a great distance from each other. But several passengers managed to call their loved ones before the crash, even records of these conversations have been preserved, confirming the official version.

small atomic bomb

There are so many different opinions about the tragedy of September 11 that among them there are even completely fantastic and incredible ones. For example, in all seriousness they say that a small atomic bomb was detonated under every building. Allegedly, the New York authorities set a condition for the developers who planned to build the Shopping Center - to provide for the possibility of dismantling the building. After all, it is clear that sooner or later it will become unusable, and demolishing such a huge structure for those times, as it seemed then, will be much more difficult than building it. And for the subsequent dismantling, allegedly the builders laid a nuclear charge under each building. But this theory is easily refuted by critics. At the site of a nuclear explosion, even a small one, there should be an increased level of radiation. But he was not observed.

She's also a victim

According to the official version of the American government, the most painful thing is the question of the third tower that collapsed during the terrorist attack. This skyscraper was called the Seventh Tower of the World Trade Center. This building was not hit by a plane, however, it collapsed overnight, like two twin towers.

According to the official theory, the cause of the collapse was a fire spread from neighboring towers. Allegedly, the communications through which water was supplied to the building to automatically extinguish the fire were destroyed, the fire engulfed the building, the structures could not stand it and collapsed.

Half of the Americans surveyed several years ago did not even know that three buildings were destroyed during the events of 2001 in New York. Many of those who know do not believe that the 47-story building could have collapsed instantly in a fire. In the United States, activists have repeatedly demanded a new investigation into the case and the publication of the results of the investigation, but the authorities did not hear them or simply did not want to hear them.

It was with this aircraft that the investigation subsequently had the most problems, since its fragments and the remains of passengers were not found, and the hole in the wall was much smaller than the wingspan of this aircraft.

These are far from the only oddities associated with the collapse of the twin towers.

The official death toll is 2,843. There is colossal destruction in New York, but in the midst of this destruction, a completely intact car is found, in which the Koran and the passports of the hijackers are intact and clean. I immediately recall the phrase of the protagonist of the film "Beware of the Car" Detochkin: "The beer has just been brought, but the roach has just been caught."

As early as September 11, President Bush declared that this was an act of Arab terrorists. CIA Chief George Tenet announced the interception of al-Qaeda communications on September 11th. Suddenly it turned out that everything was intercepted, but nothing could be prevented!

The investigation revealed a lot of inconsistencies with the official version. For example, for 40 minutes after the hijacking, there was no communication between the Federal Aviation Administration and the North American Aerospace Defense Command. Journalists noted the confusion in the testimony of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld. The authorities admitted that they had been warned by the security services about the impending attack, but nothing was done. Also on September 11, ironically, military exercises were held, during which an imitation of the hijacking of aircraft was planned. In Gilbert Chesterton's story "The Broken Sword" to the question: "Where does a smart person hide a pebble?" - Father Brown answers: "Among the pebbles on the seashore." What better cover could there be than a drill?

Nevertheless, despite all this confusion, the Keane-Zelikov commission came to an absolutely ironclad conclusion - this is a terrorist attack for which al-Qaeda is to blame. The Commission was unable to answer a number of questions. Why did the towers fall straight? Why did firefighters hear explosions inside the towers?..

There are some other oddities. For example, a representative of the FEMA organization - the American analogue of our Ministry of Emergency Situations - Tom Kenny, in an interview on September 12, said that the rescue team arrived in New York on Monday, September 10, so that on the 11th in the morning the rescuers could immediately start work. Mayor Giuliani also said that on September 10, rescuers were stationed at berth 92, which became the command center for the rescue operation after the explosion. The question is - is this a thorough preparation for an unexpected terrorist attack ?!

The September 24, 2001 NewsWeek magazine wrote that on September 10, a group of Pentagon officers canceled their flights for the next morning. And in February 2002, it became known that a group of businessmen who usually held their meetings in the shopping center in the towers, held them on September 11 at an air force base in Nebraska.

According to Viktor Fridman, the author of a very interesting study of the terrorist attack, in the first days of September, purposeful activity reigned on the stock exchange. In his opinion, some people were well aware of future explosions, because the ratio of put options to calls options was such that some people made $ 10-15 billion at once. And the owner of the towers, Israel's great friend Larry Silverstein, received $5 billion in insurance.

There was evidence even before the attack. One of the startling events happened in June 2001, when ufologist William Cooper, famed author of Pale Horse, announced that there would be major terrorist attacks in the United States in September, or at the latest in October, and the blame for them would be placed on a man named Osama bin Laden. This man had unique information, so it is not surprising that in late 2001, Cooper was shot dead by the police, accusing him of first resisting the police and then trying to escape. The police were not told that Cooper is a disabled Vietnam veteran, and instead of one of his legs he has a prosthesis - you can’t run. To finish the police theme: according to eyewitnesses, after the first tower collapsed, the police were urgently sent to the second, who began to drive people away from the tower (“and the roach had just been caught”).

Also, unconditional evidence is the fact that already in July 2001, at negotiations with Pakistan, the Americans frankly stated that in October they would seize Afghanistan. In September, even before the bombings, the UK conducted the most significant concentration of naval forces off the coast of Pakistan in the annual Essential Harvest maneuvers. At the same time, NATO maneuvers in Egypt end with the fact that 40,000 soldiers are transferred to Pakistan.

Americans generally have a wonderful tradition - to resolve geopolitical problems to create situations similar to September 11th. For example, on February 15, 1898, on a roadstead in Havana, an explosion occurred on the American battleship Maine. Armadillo crew: 266 people, of which 260 are black and 6 are white officers. There is evidence that when the explosion occurred, there were no white officers on the ship. The Americans blamed the Spanish for the death of their ship, which was the reason for the American-Spanish war. As a result, Cuba became an American semi-colony.

The next number in the American crossbow program is the incident with the Lusitania liner. Although the Lusitania was sunk on May 7, 1915, and the United States entered World War I on April 2, 1917, nevertheless, it was the sinking of this ship that became a turning point in creating a warlike mood among the Americans. This interesting historical event should be told in more detail. Although the Lusitania was a passenger ship with 1,200 people on board (of which 195 were Americans), it transported - in violation of all wartime rules - 6 million ammunition for the Entente countries, paid for by the house of Morgan. The Germans, having learned about this, made an advance payment to fifty American newspapers and asked to publish an announcement stating that they did not recommend American citizens to sail on the Lusitania, since the ship was carrying ammunition and, according to wartime rules, automatically became a target. But only one American newspaper in Des Moines, Iowa, published the announcement, 49 other newspapers abstained because the US State Department advised them to wait until the circumstances were clarified. The circumstances, of course, were not clarified, and the Lusitania set sail. She crossed the Atlantic, since the Germans did not drown her, entered the English Channel and began to wait for the Juno pilot ship. After a long wait, the captain of the Lusitania suddenly received a message that the First Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill, had sent the pilot ship Juno very far away, and they would have to wait a long time. The Germans watching the ship understand that they can’t wait any longer and need to sink the liner, because 6 million ammunition is very serious. The order to "destroy" is given. The British intercept this order, but take absolutely no action. The Lusitania is safely sunk, which becomes one of the belli incidents for the US entry into the war.

It is impossible not to recall the events of December 7, 1941, when 3.5 hundred Japanese aircraft hit the American base at Pearl Harbor, destroyed 200 aircraft and 4 battleships, including the battleship Arizona, killing more than 2 thousand Americans. As a result, the United States had a reason to declare war on Japan. Since then, American researchers have done much to clarify this situation. It has now been virtually proven that a little over a year before the events at Pearl Harbor, the Americans broke the Japanese codes. This suggests that they were well aware of Japan's plans. However, Roosevelt did not lift a finger, because he needed an excuse for America to enter the war.

Speaking of Roosevelt, it would not be superfluous to mention the following: the "Roosevelt's New Deal solved all the problems of the USA" scheme is just a myth. Yes, he solved some problems, but he also created new problems. These problems were so serious that in the mid-1930s, Roosevelt had a very dangerous rival on the American political scene - the governor of Louisiana, Hugh Long. It was Hugh Long who became the prototype of the protagonist of the novel by Robert Penn Warren "All the King's Men" by Willie Stark. Hugh Long was a left-wing populist who created property redistribution societies across America. By 1935, 8 million people signed up for them. In 1935, Hugh Long is killed, as it should be - a loner. This tracing paper is known to us from the history of the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, Martin Luther King, Lincoln. By the end of the 1930s, America faced a choice: either serious social reforms, which, however, could lead to upheavals, or a world war (by the way, Roosevelt began to use the term "world war" six months earlier than Hitler).

Undoubtedly, Pearl Harbor solved the problem of declaring war on Japan - after all, Roosevelt went to the polls with a firm promise not to let America be drawn into the war. At the same time, both he and the forces that stood behind him understood perfectly well that in order to become the hegemon of the world capitalist system, America must enter the war, or rather, force majeure circumstances are needed that will force the United States to start a "retaliatory war." By the irony of history, one of the last commissions that dealt with the problem of Pearl Harbor in America ended its work precisely on September 11, 2001. The experts concluded that the Japanese torpedoes were too outdated and weak to penetrate the armor of the Arizona. Something else has happened. Most likely, there was an explosion on the Arizona itself. But since the towers exploded on September 11, the events at Pearl Harbor - "things of bygone days" - almost no one cared.

In the list of American belly incidents, one can also recall the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, which became the reason for the US entry into the Vietnam War. The Americans shouted to the whole world that the North Vietnamese had fired on them in neutral waters. Then it turned out that the sailors of the DRV opened fire on a ship that had invaded the territorial waters of their country, but this was later, when the United States had already used this incident provoked by them to start hostilities.

As we can see, the Americans have a very rich history of crossbows. Anyone who wants to know the true story can easily find it. Those who do not want to will sincerely believe that al-Qaeda and a man named bin Laden are behind the explosions.

A lot has already been written about this character, but it’s worth talking about him briefly, because this figure clearly shows how overt and even more covert American politics are structured.

Bin Laden was born in 1957. In December 1979, at the suggestion of his patron, Prince Turki al-Faisal, who had headed the Saudi intelligence services for more than 20 years, bin Laden began to manage the financial side of the secret CIA operations in Afghanistan. He managed with the help of systematized information, a matrix, which in Arabic is called "al-Qaeda" (translated as "database"). Subsequently, that ghostly organization (many researchers do not believe in its existence) began to be called that, on which the Americans blamed for the explosion of the twin towers.

After the end of the war in Afghanistan, the Islamists split into those who believed that America was the enemy, and those who believed that America should be friends and contact. Bin Laden ended up in the camp of Hassan al-Turabi, the leader of the anti-Americanists. In 1996, Osama declares jihad against the US and Israel. In 1998, after the terrorist attacks in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, where almost 300 people were killed and 4,500 people were injured, the US blamed bin Laden for everything and put him on the wanted list. Then they begin to hang all the terrorist attacks on him, including the events of September 11th. In 2011, we were told that Osama had been killed in a special operation. According to very authoritative people from Western intelligence services, bin Laden was not alive after 2007. Speaking about the massacre of the 11th year, I would like to draw attention to the mores of the modern American elite. The media showed how the first persons of the state gathered at the White House at the TV screen to watch a show about how a person would be killed. Only "Wow!" did not say, as in the case of Gaddafi, otherwise identical picture - the joyful contemplation of the bloody murder. By the way, all the American special forces who participated in this operation, after 1.5 or 2 months, while performing the task, were ambushed under rather strange circumstances, and almost all were killed. Either they were really removed to hide the ends in the water, or they simply hid them in this way from possible revenge.

What is also surprising in the history of "Terrorist No. 1" is that the bin Laden family had a privileged position and long-standing ties to both the Bush family and the Saud family. One example is enough. In 1979, the Islamists staged an explosion, seizing a mosque in Mecca. Pilgrims were shot, the mosque was seized. The trucks and the plan of the mosque were delivered to the terrorists by one of bin Laden's older brothers. All participants in this attack were captured and executed. Except for the one who provided them with trucks, because he is from the bin Laden family. As a matter of fact, Bushes, Sauds, bin Ladens are one economic cell. It is significant that the finances of the bin Laden group in America were in charge of CarlyleGroup, which occupied 11th place in the American military-industrial complex. The group was created in 1987 and included such people as former CIA chief Frank Carlucci, former British Prime Minister Major, George W. Bush. Bush Jr. himself repeatedly crossed paths with representatives of the bin Laden family. In particular, when he made money from illegal economic operations at HarkenEnergyCorporation, he borrowed a very large amount from one of bin Laden's older brothers and could not repay it. This older brother later died on a plane while flying over US territory. Some journalists believe that this could have been done on the orders of the father of the unfortunate debtor - then President Bush Sr.

Let's go back to September 2001. Events immediately after the attack developed at a frantic pace. Already on September 12, Congress issued Resolution No. 1368 “The US Right to Self-Defense”, in fact, the right to aggression is legalized. On September 13, in order to warm up the population, the White House is evacuated - supposedly the danger of explosions remains. On September 14, Congress authorizes Bush to "recourse to the use of any force against any country, organization, or individual that prepared, carried out, or facilitated the September 11 attacks." On October 7, Bush announces that he has ordered attacks on terrorist and Taliban camps in Afghanistan. Thus begins the American military operation "Unshakable Freedom".

Interestingly, in a memo to the US Army Institute of Strategic Studies, a senior American analyst, Wong, states: “Current public support for military action is comparable in level to that which followed the attack at Pearl Harbor. Americans claim today that they consider military action appropriate, that they are in favor of a long war, and that they have the will to endure all the negative consequences of the war.

Even earlier, on September 11, Henry Kissinger wrote: “The government should be entrusted with the mission of providing a systematic response that would lead, we hope, to the same result that followed the attack on us at Pearl Harbor - to the destruction of the system responsible for this attack. This system is a network of terrorist organizations that hide in the capitals of certain states.”

What is very revealing and symbolic, both Kissinger and Wong remember Pearl Harbor. Kissinger must know that Pearl Harbor is a provocation. It equalizes Pearl Harbor and 9/11, and thus indirectly lets it out. Isn't it strange that already on September 11 he knows which terrorists did this and links them to Baghdad and Kabul.

In September 2000, the US government unveiled a blueprint for the "new American century" - "Rebuilding America's Defense". Among its authors are Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush (brother of Bush Jr.), Donald Rumsfeld. The project says: “The process of transformation (of the world. - A.F.), even if it brings revolutionary changes, is likely to be long, unless some catastrophic and accelerating event happens, like a new Pearl Harbor” (sub. me.-AF) And again - Pearl Harbor as a model, as an approach. People who know perfectly well what Pearl Harbor was say that they need a new Pearl Harbor. Around the same time, at the beginning of the 17th century, Ivan Bolotnikov, already surrounded by the troops of Vasily Shuisky, sent letters around the country with a request to announce some new Dmitry. He knows that Dmitry is a false prince ...

In 2003, the US-British aggression against Iraq begins. And if Afghanistan is geopolitics and drugs, then Iraq is geopolitics, oil and a course towards reshaping the Arab world, towards creating a patchwork quilt called the “Greater Middle East” in the interests of American TNCs. It must be said that drug trafficking and the interests of clans that control drugs play a very large role in all changes in the Middle East, from the American aggression against Afghanistan to the so-called "Arab Spring". Before the American invasion, the Taliban reduced heroin production in Afghanistan, and after the invasion, it increased dramatically. The US invasion of Iraq provided the US military establishment with a very substantial source of income. And not only the American, but also the British establishment, since the zone of heroin production in Afghanistan, as one of the American generals let slip, is the zone of responsibility of MI6. In general, according to analysts involved in drug trafficking, 90% of drug trafficking production is under the control of three special services: MI6, CIA and Mossad, and 10% is in the hands of various mafia structures. Today Blair is free to repent and say that the introduction of troops into Iraq was a mistake, but the deed has been done, and no one has answered for it.

From a series of Freudian slips: In September 2002, the Bush administration released a document called the US National Security Strategy. There is simply a wonderful phrase in it: "The events of September 11 opened up new gigantic opportunities for us." The amazing thing is that the US is openly talking about its plans and capabilities, while the world media is silent!

When the Soviet Union shot down an invading South Korean Boeing, the world press went wild. She denigrated the Soviet Union for nothing. I will not discuss here and now the question of whether the USSR really shot down a passenger Boeing or some other Boeing, and the passenger landed in Okinawa, taking a 25-year non-disclosure subscription from the South Koreans, which ended in 2008 . Let me remember something else: five years later, in 1988, an American aircraft carrier shot down an Iranian Boeing over the territory of the Persian Gulf (not over the territory of the United States!) 300 people died. Ronald Reagan said that it was a pity that people died, but the captain of the aircraft carrier, although he was mistaken, acted absolutely correctly, because he considered that the plane was a threat. The world media did not criticize either Reagan or the United States - it is understandable: it is one thing when the USSR knocks something down, this is unacceptable; it's another matter when a "democratic and free state of the USA" does the same - it's acceptable.

The fact that September 11 allowed the Americans to solve a number of foreign policy tasks is one side of the matter, the external one. Equally important is the inside. One cannot but agree with those journalists-analysts who believe that the September 11 attacks were a prologue to the change of the US political regime. No, the facade has remained the same, but there have been dramatic changes within the country. The executive branch has created new structures to extend to domestic politics the methods that the CIA and the military used outside the country in the 1990s and earlier. America has de facto become a military empire. This is very well told in the trilogy of Chalmers Johnson "Blowback" ("Return"), "The sorrows of empire" ("Sorrows of the empire") and "Nemesis" ("Nemesis"). In a strange way, only the last part of the trilogy was translated into Russian. Chalmers Johnson - famous analyst, CIA man. At the end of the 1990s, he, concerned about what was happening in the US, wrote this trilogy, in which he showed that during the Clinton presidency, very important changes took place in the US behind the Monicalevian smiling businesslike facade. According to Chalmers Johnson, the military has de facto taken control of the United States. And the events of September 11 allowed this de facto to turn into de jure. How?

On October 8, 2001, the Office of Homeland Security was established in the United States. It was led by Tim Ridge. This event marked the beginning of a profound reform of the American state apparatus. This Bureau has become equivalent to the National Security Council, and, in fact, has become something similar to the Bureau of Military Mobilization during the Second World War. Adopted on October 26, 2001, the "Patriotic Act" ("Patriotic Act") dramatically expanded the powers of the investigating authorities, strengthened control over the American population, favoring police arbitrariness. Thus, in the name of terror in the United States, a police state was institutionalized and legalized.

In November 2002, under the guise of protecting against terrorism, Bush signed the enactment of the Total Information Awareness program. This program allows the US government, without any restrictions, to collect any information about everyone who interests it in all the world's databases. Admiral John Poindexter was put in charge of this program. In Russian they say about such people: "there is no place to put brands." This man was implicated in the Irangate scandal that flared up in 1986-1987 during the Iran-Iraq war in connection with the secret importation of weapons to Iran from countries such as Israel and the United States .... The investigation lasted a very long time, and only in 1999 he received 18 months in prison for destroying documents that testified to his guilt.

In addition to this "Total Information Awareness", the Americans launched another information control program - "The Matrix" (what's the name!). Under the guise of collecting anti-terrorism information, this program collects information about all US citizens and their addictions. No wonder many analysts say that if in the 1990s the United States turned from a republic into a military empire, then after the events of September 11, they are rapidly turning into a new Reich, into a fascist state. In "The Rise of the Fascist American Theocratic State," published in February 2002, journalists John Stanton and Wayne Madsen write: , died. And while democracy was breathing its last breath, the fascist and theocratic American state was born.”

As the British say: “Every acquisition is loss and every loss is an acquisition” (“Every acquisition is a loss, and every loss is an acquisition”). Russians say differently: "Don't be dashing while it's quiet." American neocons during the Bush presidency have awakened forces in the Middle East that are now beyond their control. America is overextended. Americans need to leave the Middle East in their old capacity and come in in some other capacity. For the shift change period, they need controlled chaos, which is now being created by the Islamists, whom R. Labevière called "the watchdogs of American-style globalization." As is often the case in history, a certain event, solving short-term measures, creates medium-term problems. To solve medium-term problems, medium-term measures are needed, and they give rise to long-term systemic problems that cannot be solved without changing the system. Today it is clear: the situation in the Middle East is out of American control, the chaos is becoming uncontrollable and is turning against the "lords of chaosogens" who have stumbled in Syria, more precisely, in the position of Russia (as well as China, Iran and some other forces). In this situation, a nervous breakdown of the outgoing hegemon cannot be ruled out, especially if a woman becomes president, who in the States was nicknamed "Killary Clinton" (to kill - to kill). American journalists count about 400 strange deaths for the Clinton couple. If so, then we have just the second edition of Bonnie and Clyde, only not the cinematic one. It must be remembered that people who are not inclined to restrain nervous impulses, whether in everyday life or foreign policy, understand the language of force well. Then they keep their promises. Gaddafi believed, not having the strength - and paid the price. Regarding such characters, who are now often called "partners", Shakespeare's Hamlet at one time spoke as follows: "... whom I believe as two vipers" ("whom I will trust as I will adders' fanged"). This is how we should believe in the reset proposals and much more.

... As for the events of September 11, then most likely we will never know the whole truth about them. Yes, in fact, all the detailed truth at the moment is not required. Almost everything was clear from the very beginning - there is a wonderful clarifying question: cui bono? (who benefits?). I think that now that America is in a much worse position than at the end of the 20th century, we should again expect war. CIA ready. The only thing is that, unlike the Mossad and MI6, they work very rudely, clumsily, with the help of white threads. But this is what their media are needed for, or rather, SMRAD (Means of mass advertising, agitation and disinformation), which these white threads paint over with black. US journalists have succeeded so much that even a significant part of their professorship - the country's intellectual elite - believes that bin Laden blew up the September 11 towers. In such cases, I answer them: “But Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald. Moreover, he acted, of course, alone - as earlier Booth, who killed Lincoln, and Sirhan Sirhan, who shot Robert Kennedy. The investigation is over - forget it. But we will hardly forget the events of September 11, since it was with this provocation that it seems that the last desperate offensive of the most aggressive segment of the Anglo-American elite, seeking to save itself at the cost of most of humanity, began.