Just The Facts Please

[loki]

I'm creating this sticky in the hope of combining as much factual evidence as possible regarding the events surrounding September 11th 2001. If you have credible research or evidence that you've come across, then please post these here, and i will try to include them in this first post. Please remember that key word; credible.

Anyway my first inclusion into this will be the television archive of the day. This includes most if not all of the television broadcasts from the major networks; ABC, BBC, CNN, CBS, FOX and NBC. From what i can gather, this resource has tried to gather everything from around 8:30 on the morning of the 11th until around 8:00pm on September the 13th.

This resource is crucial in our future understanding of the events, and IMO is a vital tool any future investigations/research.

http://www.archive.org/details/sept_11_tv_archive

[loki]

September 11th 2001

6:47 a.m. WTC 7's building fire alarm system was placed on TEST for a period of 8 hours beginning at 6:47:03 am, causing all alarms to be ignored.

8:48 a.m.
First news reports that American Airlines Flight 11 has crashed into One World Trade Center (north tower).

8:51 a.m. ABC News first statement of "Some sort of explosion at the World Trade Center.

9:03 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into Two World Trade Center (south tower).

9:17 a.m. FAA closes NYC area airports.

9:21 a.m. NYC Port Authority closes all bridges and tunnels in NYC.

9:24 a.m. President Bush calls crashes "an apparent attack on our country".

9:32 a.m. New York Stock Exchange closed.

9:40 a.m. FAA orders all commercial flights grounded.

9:43 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon. (Note: other sources cite the crash at 9:37 and 9:45)

9:45 a.m. White House evacuated.

9:54 a.m. Mystery Plane Incident - CNN correspondent John King, who was standing near the White House, reported that about ten minutes earlier (hence, around 9:44 a.m.), there was "a white jet circling overhead."

9:59 a.m. Two World Trade Center (south tower) collapses. (note: other souces cite the collapse at 10:03, 10:05, & 10:06)

10:00 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. (note: the crash happened slightly after 10 am, perhaps as late as 10:10 according to other sources)

10:10 a.m. Portion of the Pentagon collapses.

10:13 a.m. United Nations building evacuates.

10:22 a.m. State and Justice Departments, and World Bank, evacuated in Washington DC.

10:24 a.m. FAA reroutes inbound transatlantic flights to land in Canada.

10:28 a.m. One World Trade Center (north tower) collapses.

10:45 a.m. All federal office buildings in Washington DC evacuated.

10:48 a.m. Police confirm Pennsylvania plane crash.

10:53 a.m. New York's primary elections postponed.

10:54 a.m. Israel evacuates diplomatic missions.

10:57 a.m. NY Gov. Pataki announces closure of all state government offices.

11:02 a.m. Mayor Giuliani urges New Yorkers to stay at home and orders an evacuation of the area south of Canal Street

12:04 p.m. Los Angeles International Airport evacuated.

12:15 p.m. San Francisco International Airport evacuated.

12:15 p.m.
US closes some Canada and Mexico border crossings.

1:02 p.m. NY Mayor Giuliani evacuates Manhattan south of Canal Street.

1:04 p.m. President Bush says: "Make no mistake, the United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts." (note: other sources cite this at 12:36)

1:27 p.m. Washington DC declares state of emergency in the city.

2:30 p.m. FAA announces suspension of US commercial air traffic until noon EST Wednesday 9/12/01.

4:00 p.m. CNN National Security Correspondent David Ensor reports there are indications that Osama bin Laden is involved in attacks.

4:10 p.m. Seven World Trade Center reported to be on fire.

4:25 p.m. American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, and New York Stock Exchange announce they will be closed Wednesday, 9/12.

4:45 p.m. City of New York announces that 200 firefighters and 78 police officers are missing.(Note: according to other sources, at 7:45 pm the New York Police department announced that at least 78 police officers were missing and that as many as half (200) of the first firefighters at the scene had been killed.)

5:16 p.m. Steve Evans a BBC reporter, reporting from New York who claims to have been at the WTC site at the time of the attacks claims that from "9:15 am" onwards he witnessed up to 5 explosions.

5:20 p.m. Seven World Trade Center building collapses.

5:30 p.m. Explosions reported in Kabul, Afghanistan. (note: other sources cite this for 6 pm)

6:40 p.m. Press conference by US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from the Pentagon.

6:45 p.m. President Bush arrives at the White House. (note: other sources say he arrived at 6:54)

8:30 p.m. President Bush addresses the nation.

Search warrants obtained for homes and post office boxes in Florida.

[loki]

September 12th 2001

5:20 a.m.
Pope John Paul II condemns attacks.

8:45 a.m. European stock markets observe silence for one minute in remembrance

10:00 a.m. Congress reconvenes.

10:30 a.m. NY City Mayor Giuliani warns that death toll will be in the thousands.

10:50 a.m. President Bush calls attacks "act of war".

10:54 a.m. CNN reports that two phone calls from al Qaeda members referring to attacks have been intercepted.

11:20 a.m. FAA will not allow air travel to resume at noon.

1:00 p.m. FBI takes several people in Boston and Florida into custody for questioning.

1:20 p.m. Taliban officials ask the US to not attack Afghanistan.

2:15 p.m. Morgan Stanley says "vast majority" of its World Trade Center employees are safe.

2:20 p.m. FAA allows planes diverted on Tuesday to finish their flights.

2:57 p.m. White House claims to have credible information that Air Force One and White House were targets.

3:40 p.m. US Attorney General Ashcroft says 3-6 hijackers per plane, armed with knives and box cutters, some terrorists trained as pilots in the US, and calls investigation most massive in US history.

4:00 p.m. NATO announces will back US military action, says "when one member is attacked, then all members are attacked".

5:20 p.m. Rescue workers evacuated from World Trade Center area due to partial collapse of One Liberty Plaza, Nasdaq's new headquarters.

5:45 p.m. Relatives of Pennsylvania crash victim Jeremy Glick say he called them from the plane and said people on the flight we're going to attempt to stop the hijackers.

6:00 p.m. President Bush visits Pentagon, thanks rescue workers.

6:00 p.m. G7 issue statement promising to support banks experiencing high withdrawal demands.

7:00 p.m. Congress holds prayer vigil in Capitol Rotunda.

[loki]

September 13th 2001

Most New York City schools reopen.

Most US airports reopen.

FBI serves search warrants to major Internet service providers in order to get information about an e-mail address believed connected to the attacks.

Colin Powell acknowledges that Osama bin Laden is a leading suspect.

Bomb threat forces evacuation of Congress.

Pakistani leader promises full cooperation.

Germans detain two in Hamburg.

Three men detained in Boston and later released.

Black box from Pennsylvania flight found.

Rome police investigating stolen American Airlines uniforms and pilot's key card.

Eight people arrested at John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia airports.

[loki]

The chronologies above have been taken directly from the television archive page i gave you in the original post. Any evidence you gather and post here (if credible ) will eventually be written into the above chronologies, and a link will b posted to your submissions. Please keep your posts clean and healthy, as all moderation policies will be strictly adhered to.

What i'm hoping to achieve with this is to fill out the above chronologies with links to the appropriate or original evidence, ie who first reported it etc........

[Nostalgia]

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[Mick]

This is a great thread loki, show em how it's done man.

[loki]

I stumbled across an article about Larry Silverstein and WTC 7 over at whatreallyhappened.com, which definitely makes for interesting reading.
I cannot verify the veracity of all of the claims in this article, but one interesting quote helps me in filling out the days events, as its a precise time of something happening on the day. It involves fire alarm testing in WTC 7.

The building fire alarm system was placed on TEST for a period of 8 h beginning at
6:47:03 a.m. on September 11, 2001. Ordinarily, this is requested when maintenance or other testing is
being performed on the system, so that any alarms that are received from the system are considered the
result of the maintenance or testing and are ignored. NIST was told by the monitoring company that for
systems placed in the TEST condition, alarm signals are not shown on the operator’s display, but records
of the alarm are recorded into the history file.

This quote is taken directly from an investigative report done by NIST, which can be found here:
http://wtc.nist.gov/progress_report_june04/chapter1.pdf.

If anyones interested here's NIST's main page:

http://www.nist.gov/

and wikipedia's understanding of who they are:

Originally Posted by wikipedia

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), known between 1901 and 1988 as the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), is a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce. The institute's mission is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve quality of life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...and_Technology

For future research, here's NIST's publicly accessible body of investigative research and reports regarding the collapses of all 3 buildings, funded and approved by the federal government:

NIST and the World Trade Center

Originally Posted by NIST, from the above link

The collapse of New York City’s World Trade Center structures following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was the worst building disaster in recorded history, killing some 2,800 people. More than 350 fire and emergency responders were among those killed, the largest loss of life for this group in a single incident.

In response to the WTC tragedy, the National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a 3-year building and fire safety investigation to study the factors contributing to the probable cause (or causes) of post-impact collapse of the WTC Towers (WTC 1 and 2) and WTC 7; expanded its research in areas of high-priority need such as prevention of progressive collapse, fire resistance design and retrofit of structures, and fire resistive coatings for structural steel; and is reaching out to the building and fire safety communities to pave the way for timely, expedited considerations of recommendations stemming from the investigation.

So far this is the earliest of the days events that occurred on September 11 2001, that i have found. Although to be fair this is early days, with regards to this thread.

I wonder how much this contributed to the chaos surrounding the events of that day, and the eventual collapse/demolition? of WTC 7.

Thankyou to the guys over at whatrealyhappened.com for this article.

[Nostalgia]

I came across this on my travels across the internet Loki and I thought you might find it handy, apparently it is a fairly recently released downloadable version of the official FBI timeline.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/fbi911timeline

Zip file http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/s...11timeline.zip
12.5 mb

[Nostalgia]

The passport of Satam Al-Suqami.

Satam Al Suqami’s remarkably undamaged passport.
High resolution. http://www.debunk911myths.org/topics...8/WT00001B.jpg 1534 KB

In the FBI timeline we find this:


The BBC reported this:

Rescue workers sifting through the tons of rubble earlier discovered a passport belonging to one of the suspected hijackers a few blocks from where the World Trade Center's twin towers once stood.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1546927.stm

TVNZ Reported this:

A passport belonging to one of the hijackers who took part in this week's terrorist attacks has been recovered several blocks from the World Trade Centre building where the plane crashed, New York police said.

"The passport we found from one of the hijackers was found several blocks away," from the crash scene Deputy chief Barry Mawn told a news conference.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425822/56945

And ABC reported this:

FBI Combs Area

Investigators discovered the passport of Satam al Suqami, one of the terrorists aboard American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to hit the World Trade Center.
http://web.archive.org/web/200109162...ry_010916.html