Contrary Eyewitness Testimony
Summary
1. Flight 77 and the Pentagon
a. Lt. Col. Karen U. Kwiatkowski
b. April Gallop
c. Don Perkal
d. Robert Andrews
e. Army auditor
f. Air Force Account
g. Jamie McIntyre
2. WTC
Flight 77 and the Pentagon
Lt. Col. Karen U. Kwiatkowski, former Air Force staff member of the Director of the National Security Agency and eyewitness to Pentagon crash:
“There was a dearth of visible debris on the relatively unmarked [Pentagon] lawn, where I stood only minutes after the impact. Beyond this strange absence of airliner debris, there was no sign of the kind of damage to the Pentagon structure one would expect from the impact of a large airliner… I saw nothing of significance at the point of impact - no airplane metal or cargo debris was blowing on the lawn in front of the damaged building as smoke billowed from within the Pentagon. ... all of us staring at the Pentagon that morning were indeed looking for such debris, but what we expected to see was not evident…The same is true with regard to the kind of damage we expected. ... But I did not see this kind of damage. Rather, the facade had a rather small hole, no larger than 20 feet in diameter. Although this facade later collapsed, it remained standing for 30 or 40 minutes, with the roof line remaining relatively straight… The scene, in short, was not what I would have expected from a strike by a large jetliner.”[1]
April Gallop, an Army employee with a Top Secret clearance:
She was at her desk in the Army administrative offices in the west section of the Pentagon on 9/11, the area of the building most heavily destroyed, when what she said sounded and felt “like a bomb” went off. “Being in the Army with the training I had, I know what a bomb sounds and acts like, especially the aftermath, and it sounded and acted like a bomb. There was no plane or plane parts inside the building, and no smell of jet fuel.”[2]
Pentagon eyewitness Don Perkal to MSNBC: “Even before stepping outside, I could smell the cordite. I knew explosives had gone off somewhere.” Also eyewitness account of AmTrak electrical engineer Samuel Danner who was at the site and said he smelled cordite.[3]
The then Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations on 9/11, Robert Andrews —
He was the top civilian official in charge of special operations under Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, as well as a former Green Beret whose office was on the second floor of the south section of the Pentagon, adjacent to the west section. While drawing the path that he took that morning on a sketch of the Pentagon, he revealed the following: When he and his aide entered the corridor on the inside ring of the west section, “we had to walk over dead bodies” to get to the inner courtyard. Note: This is two rings further in towards the center from the inner most hole made by whatever allegedly impacted the Pentagon that morning.
He was in the Army financial management spaces only minutes before the Pentagon explosion on the morning of 9/11. He had just returned to his temporary office on the ground floor of the adjacent south side of the Pentagon by the cafeteria when he heard an explosion and felt the building shake. Immediately afterwards, he said, hundreds of panicked Pentagon personnel ran by him down the corridor just outside his office and out the South Entrance, yelling “Bombs!” and “A bomb went off!”[4]
In the Air Force’s own account of the events of 9/11, "Air War Over America":
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) general who finally ordered interceptor jets scrambled on 9/11, although too late, Gen. Larry Arnold, revealed that he ordered one of his jets to fly down low over the Pentagon shortly after the attack there that morning, and that this pilot reported back that there was no evidence that a plane had hit the building.
"From my close-up inspection, there's no evidence of a plane having crashed anywhere near the Pentagon. The only site is the actual side of the building that's crashed in. And as I said, the only pieces left that you can see are small enough that you pick up in your hand. There are no large tail sections, wing sections, fuselage, nothing like that anywhere around which would indicate that the entire plane crashed into the side of the Pentagon and then caused the side to collapse...”[5].
Survivor eyewitnesses from inside the west section of the Pentagon reported that the blast caused its windows first to expand outwards, and then inwards.[6] This is NOT consistent with a plane crash, but rather an internal explosion.
William Rodriguez, WTC Janitor
WTC janitor William “Willy” Rodriguez, the last non-emergency response person to leave the WTC alive on 9/11, has testified that he was in the first basement level of the WTC when an immense explosion went off below him in the yet deeper subbasement level(s) of the building a few seconds before the plane hit the tower high above. In videotaped testimony, he states:
“All of a sudden we hear ‘Boom!’ in the basement. I thought it was a generator that blew up, and I said to myself, ‘Oh, my God, I think it was a generator. And I was going to verbalize it, and when I finished saying that in my mind I heard (another, second) ‘Boom!’ right on the top (above), pretty far away. And so it was a difference (in space and time) between coming from the basement and coming from the top…and a person comes running into the office (in the first basement level, from a deeper basement level) saying ‘Explosion!’…and he said ‘(it was from) The elevators!’ And there were many (deep basement WTC1) explosions.”
References
[1] http://patriotsquestion911.com
[2] http://physics911.net/pdf/honegger.pdf
[3] American Free Press, July 7, 2006, reporting based on audio report by Republic Broadcasting Network, summary at http://www.total911.info/2006/07/pentagon-eyewitness-ids-global-hawk.html
[4] http://physics911.net/pdf/honegger.pdf
[5] CNN Live Broadcast, see at: http://thewebfairy.com/911/pentagon/index.html
[6] “9/11 -- Coup Against America: The Pentagon Analysis” (2006), Pete Tiradera