According to Jim Marrs, the US response to the 9/11 hijacking
was a bit slow. He says it took too long for the military to respond after the
planes went off course, that part is true. But if you look at things from a practical
standpoint, the disappearing planes
wouldn’t have come to anyone’s attention. The terrorists weren’t stupid; they
hijacked planes from four different airlines at different airports. They knew
that four planes going off course at the same time would not have caused a red
alert.
Marrs also brings up the issue of how the building collapsed
so easily, but it’s been proven countless times that the steel structure was
heat-sensitive. It’s true that the building’s steel girders were fireproofed
with cement (which fell off from the impact of the plane) but why blame the architect?
There was no reason to expect a huge fire in World Trade Center, certainly not
a hot enough fire to weaken the structure. It was rare for a plane to crash
into a building, and there wasn’t any flammable material inside.
I’ll give the author credit for writing an entertaining
book. It was fun to read, but didn’t have any information I hadn’t already
seen. There isn’t any investigative journalism here, because all of the
information is readily available on the web. Nonetheless, the author successfully
uses the information to illustrate the possible conspiracies behind 9/11.
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