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Theresa
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 Sat May 20, 2006 10:32 pm First video of Pentagon 9/11 attack released |
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| Quote: | Watchdog group says video will end 'conspiracy theories'
Tuesday, May 16, 2006; Posted: 11:51 p.m. EDT (03:51 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Video showing a plane crashing into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, was released publicly for the first time Tuesday, a judicial watchdog group said.
The Justice Department has handed over tapes showing American Airlines Flight 77 striking the building outside Washington to Judicial Watch, a public interest group that requested the video, the group said.
The video is available on the group's Web site, according to a news release from Judicial Watch.
At least two tapes were released, from different security cameras. The two cameras, from the same Pentagon checkpoint, show the building from different angles. (Watch what the cameras caught as the plane slams into the Pentagon -- 2:21)
Previously released still photographs from those cameras show the Pentagon on fire, but no images of the Boeing 757 striking the building have ever been made public.
The video released Tuesday was the source of those still photos.
In one clip, a police car passes in front of the security camera before a ball of flame and smoke erupts from the Pentagon in the background.
"We fought hard to obtain this video because we felt that it was very important to complete the public record with respect to the terrorist attacks of September 11," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
"Finally, we hope that this video will put to rest the conspiracy theories involving American Airlines Flight 77. As always, our prayers remain with all those who suffered as a result of those murderous attacks."
The Pentagon attack killed 184 people: Fifty-three passengers and six crew members on board American Airlines Flight 77, and 125 military and civilian personnel inside the building.
Some conspiracy theorists have maintained the aircraft was shot down in flight, and that the Pentagon was struck by a missile. (Watch fireballs engulf ruined parts of the Pentagon -- 0:55)
Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request, but the government refused to release the video until after the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the convicted al Qaeda conspirator who was sentenced earlier this month to life in prison.
Sources said in 2002 that the FBI confiscated a hotel security camera video that showed the attack on the Pentagon. It's not known if that tape is being released.
Judicial Watch is "a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law," according to its Web site.
The group filed a lawsuit this year, arguing that there was "no legal basis" for the government's refusal to release the tape.
The video requested by Judicial Watch was taken from security cameras at the Pentagon, the Sheraton National Hotel, the Nexcomm/Citgo gas station, and Virginia Department of Transportation traffic cameras.
Jill Farrell, Judicial Watch's director of media affairs, said she would not know which video will be released "until we see it."
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I'm a little surprised no one posted this.
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Republican_Man
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| Sat May 20, 2006 10:47 pm |
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I could'a sworn I saw discussion on this already, as it's old news now, but I guess I was wrong.
Yeah, honestly? This doesn't show much more in my mind, though it does help to solidify some things.
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| Sun May 21, 2006 3:03 am |
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Wheres the video link?
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Theresa
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| Mon May 22, 2006 4:39 pm |
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I guess you could google it like I did? My comp is crap, and can't run videos, so I didn't even bother with trying to view it.
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This, SADLY, won't change anything. The conspirators are going to say "Why do you think they held it for so long? They tampered with it. It isn't real." blah blah blah.
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| Mon May 22, 2006 4:47 pm |
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Yeah, he's right, just like the hotells and other businesses near the WTC that had survalince cameras that cuaght what happend, they were confiscated and never mentioned again....
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I'm not one of those whaco conspirators but do believe there is more to 9/11 than what we all know and have been told.
I looked at those videos and there is no way I can spot a passenger airline in the fuzzy 2 frames. All you see is a thin long white streak. Surely knowing all the survellance cameras the pentagon have they have better footage?
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| PrankishSmart wrote: | I'm not one of those whaco conspirators but do believe there is more to 9/11 than what we all know and have been told.
I looked at those videos and there is no way I can spot a passenger airline in the fuzzy 2 frames. All you see is a thin long white streak. Surely knowing all the survellance cameras the pentagon have they have better footage? |
I have no doubt there are things we do not know. As for the cameras, for someplace like the Pentegon, you would think so...
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Things we don't know? Like what? Me? I believe we know everything there is to know, or almost that, about the incident. Anything we don't know belongs on the al-Queida planning side of things.
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| Republican_Man wrote: | | Things we don't know? Like what? Me? I believe we know everything there is to know, or almost that, about the incident. Anything we don't know belongs on the al-Queida planning side of things. |
You really don't think the government told us everything do you? I sure don't, it would surprise me if they have actually.
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Actually, yes, I do. What are you speculating? What exactly do you think we haven't been told? The truth about the Pentagon? Whether or not there were bombs in the WTC? Whether or not Flight 93 was actually shot out of the air? Tell me. And yes, I want specifics.
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| Republican_Man wrote: | | Actually, yes, I do. What are you speculating? What exactly do you think we haven't been told? The truth about the Pentagon? Whether or not there were bombs in the WTC? Whether or not Flight 93 was actually shot out of the air? Tell me. And yes, I want specifics. |
I don't know if it's anything along that lines, but I do know that there are things they haven't told us, there always is, no matter what the situation is
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