9/11 was an inside job and the official 9/11 Commission Report does not explain what really happened

I suppose I'll address Pro's R5 comments since that seems to be the best way to do this... Shoulda gone out Californ-e-way for internet over break... B - Hijackers 1. I did indeed address this point, showing the image of the hijacker's passport found at the WTC site. Another passport fragment was found at the Pentagon, and there are numerous paper-trail documents involved in tracing the funding of the attacks, as outlined below. 2. You mean convictions like: Yahya Goba, Shafal Mosed, Yasein Taher, Taysal Galab, Mukhtar al-Bakri, Sahim Alwan, Jeffrey Battle, Patrice Ford, Ahmed Bilal, Muhammad Bilal, October Lewis, Mike Hawash, Masoud Ahmad Khan, Seifullah Chapman, Yong Ki Kwon, Donald Surratt, Hammad Abdur-Raheem, James Ujaama, and Iyman Faris? C - Osama Bin Laden 1. Basic googling shows Mustafa Mohamed Ahmad, a financier for bin Laden, owned several of the accounts the hijackers were financed from. Furthermore, we have the previous assertions of bin Laden's involvement from the people wo planned 9/11. 2. According to SourceWatch, the Carlyle Group is some 16.6 BILLION in debt. Massive profits indeed. 3. The bin Laden family is one of the most influential Saudi Families - they have all SORTS of business dealings. This isn't unusual at all. Furthermore, the meeting was on 9/10, NOT 9/11. (http://en.wikipedia.org...). D - Pentagon 1. Pro never introduced any sort of evidence for the vaporization of this 12 tons of steel and titanium... which is interesting, because the Pentagon is made of concrete, wood, slate, and limestone... not titanium. 2. The FBI only confiscated 3 videos - the gas station, the hotel roof, and the camera overseeing I-395. The Citgo camera (gas station) is UNDER the canopy of the pumps - you can see the flash in the video released in September 2006. The Doubletree Hotel roof video released on 12/7/06 shows the explosion, but is of such poor quality one would not be able to see the plane (http://www.debunk911myths.org...). The VDOT cameras on I-395 do not refresh fast enough to catch the plane (http://www.trafficland.com...). 3. You mean light poles like these ones: http://www.geoffmetcalf.com... ?? H - The 9/11 Commission The government DID trace the source of funding - to one of bin Laden's financiers, as stated above. G - NORAD 1. Of course someone planned the military exercises!! How else would the exercises get started?? My opponent contends without evidence that the planners of these exercises had inside information despite the fact that I presented evidence showing that the presence of the military exercises IMPROVED response time on 9/11 and that these exercises are yearly events. **************************************** All of Pro's outstanding contentions in his summary of the points have been refuted. He has no points to stand on to back up his assertions, as has been clearly evidenced if you read my rebuttals. **************************************** To address R4: A - Warnings 1, 2. This meeting took place on July 10, 2001. I wouldn't call something that happened more than 2 months later to be the "imminent" threat they describe. Oh, and their meeting was about how to secure funds to search for and neutralize Bin Laden, not that there was going to be a hijacking attack. B - Hijackers The Saudi government initially denied that the hijackers were Saudi, presenting many pieces of misinformation. I'm curious what samples from relatives would do if the bodies were completely destroyed in the explosions? And why would the FBI need samples to prove what they already know? It's like getting your calculator to check 2+2... Oh, and the passenger manifest from Flight 77 with "no Arab names" ?? Those are taken from CNN's reports of the victims, NOT the actual passenger manifests. CNN did not include the hijackers as "victims" because they simply weren't "victims" in the common sense of the word. There is extensive proof of the fact that the hijackers were Arab men... passports, videos from airport security, passenger manifests (like Flight 11, showing the hijackers: http://911myths.com...) and even the CONFESSIONS of the planners!! Again - read this: http://www.911myths.com... - it explains IN DETAIL about the "alive" (read: dead) hijackers. C - Bin Laden Tape 1. Terrorists do not "always claim responsibility." This is quite simply false. Furthermore, the Bin Laden never denied involvement - the TALIBAN, who has a very strong incentive to not get turned to dust by Navy bombers, denied involvement (http://www.911myths.com...). 2. Bin Laden has been wanted for many, many other things besides 9/11. The FBI's page on him lists what he was first wanted for, not what his most notorious crime was. Al Capone was wanted for tax evasion, not organized crime. Bin Laden's poster was created in 1999... Why would it list something from 2001 as his primary crime?? D. Pentagon In a piece of laughable evidence, my opponent posts 1 picture of the passenger cabin of an AA plane and concludes there is no green paint anywhere in the plane. Really?? Why would they cover the Pentagon yard with sand? Easy - as I explained before, sand and gravel is needed to support large construction equipment. The breach in the Pentagon wall left it vulnerable, and they would want to start reconstruction as soon as possible. In the pictures I provided, you can see the hole and pitting that matches the impact from a shattered airframe, and in the second, you can easily see aluminum (not paper) all over the Pentagon lawn. Most people don't realize that aluminum planes shatter when they hit concrete and THEN puncture it, not blow right through in their exact shape. E. Shanksville My opponent calls my two pictures "not really that convincing" despite the fact that they are almost identical. Interesting... F. Pancake Once again, I must remind my opponent that only a few floors pancaked before the weight of the upper 30-some floors began to simply crush the building in a more "conventional" collapse. My opponent also doesn't seem to understand that pulverized material from a pancaking floor still adds weight to the floors below it... G. NORAD The odds of it being scheduled for one day are EXACTLY the same as for the next. So, in effect, it's no more unusual that the war games took place on 9/11 than on 2/12. What's unusual is the terrorist attack, not the war games. So unless my opponent thinks terrorist attacks are a normal event, there is nothing unusual about the coincidence of war games & a terrorist attack - it's not a miracle of statistics - it's a coincidence. No jets were scrambled because the government thought the two jets in the towers were all of the planes. After they grounded all planes and there were still some flying (Pentagon) THEN they scrambled jets to force all planes down. And my opponent's time is incorrect - "Fighter Scramble Order (Otis Air National Guard Base, Falmouth, Mass. Two F-15s )0846" - 8:46 AM - not 9:38... H. WTC7 If you actually watch videos of the collapse, it is OBVIOUS that it was much slower than free fall. As I have stated before, WTC7 suffered EXTENSIVE structural damage. An excellent overview - http://www.911myths.com... I. Online Petition 33,469 people is .0001 percent of the US population. OF COURSE there are that many people that want answers! ******************************************** My apologies again for missing the 4th round. I believe I have accurately and concisely presented rebuttals to my opponent's points... he has no argument to stand on. Vote CON. NEGATED.