Citizen Grand Jury & Radioactivity at Pentagon
October 29, 2004
LOS ANGELES, California - A citizens' grand jury has voted to indict the highest
officials of the U.S. government for complicity in the events of 9-11 after
considering evidence presented by five researchers.
The 6-hour presentation, Solving the 9-11 Crime - A Citizens' Grand Jury, was
organized by Lynn Pentz of www.911truthla.us and held at the Bob Hope Patriotic
Hall in Los Angeles during the evening of Saturday, Oct. 23. After discussion
of the legal basis for the grand jury it was decided to enlarge the original
grand jury to 23 in order to comply with California law.
The grand jury heard five researchers: Webster Tarpley, Barbara Honegger, Don
Paul, Jim Hoffman, and this writer, present evidence. Some of the photographic
evidence that I presented to the citizen's grand jury had never been seen
before.
Jim Hoffman supported the government's version of events regarding the Pentagon
attack arguing that because some eyewitnesses claim to have seen a 757 hit the
building, any discussion of evidence that contradicts that version "discredits"
independent 9-11 research as a whole. The naysayers notwithstanding, after
hearing the researchers and viewing the evidence the jury voted to indict
President George W. Bush and other high officials of a number of charges of
complicity in the 9-11 attacks and other offenses related to actions taken by
the administration in their "war on terror."
MYSTERIES AT THE PENTAGON
From the Pentagon, I showed photos of the extensive decontamination procedures
that were carried out on workers at the site. The full body suits, respirators,
disposable boots, and scrub downs seen at the Pentagon indicate that the Dept.
of Defense, which supervised the work at the Pentagon, was aware of the danger
of an unusual contaminant at the site, such as depleted uranium.
I also presented official FEMA photographs from the Pentagon showing the
unexplained presence of pieces of a small jet engine, roughly three feet in
diameter. Since these photographs were first published in my articles last year
no one has proven that they are part of a Boeing 757, the kind of aircraft that
supposedly hit the Pentagon. While some readers claimed that the small turbine
wheel seen in the photo could have come from the auxiliary power unit (APU) in a
757, an engineer with the Arizona-based manufacturer of the APU confirmed to me
that the piece was "no part of an APU."
The fact that the 3-foot turbine was found next to insulation and parts of the
housing that match its diameter suggests that the part came from a small jet
engine of similar size. This piece of evidence could prove that a jet engine
with an opening diameter of between 3 and 4 feet struck the Pentagon. The
opening diameter of a 757's jet engine is about 9 feet.
EVIDENCE OF A GLOBAL HAWK
When my articles about this mystery part were first published with photos of
these unexplained pieces, more than one year ago, I raised the question whether
they could be from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), such as the Global Hawk.
Identifying the piece in the photo would prove what kind of aircraft hit the
building.
The Global Hawk is a singe-engine drone that uses a Rolls Royce Allison engine
hand-built in Indianapolis, Indiana. The AE3007H engine has a diameter of 43.5
inches. Because the Global Hawk is a surveillance drone, the engine is
contained in a heavily insulated housing to be extremely quiet. This corresponds
with eyewitness reports. I asked eyewitness Steve Riskus, who said he was
within 100 feet of the aircraft, what he heard. Riskus said he "did not recall
hearing anything." If a 757 or jet fighter flew at high speed 100 feet from an
eyewitness, the sound would be deafening.
The fact that no evidence of a 757 has been seen at the Pentagon crash site, and
the discovery of parts from a much smaller engine, strongly suggest that what
struck the Pentagon was not a Boeing 757.
The extensive decontamination procedures followed at the Pentagon indicate
concern that the site was contaminated by something like depleted uranium (DU).
Boeing recently informed me that their 757 and 767 aircraft do not contain DU
counter weights. So what was the reason for this concern?
DU MISSILES AT THE WTC?
With no evidence of a Boeing 757 hitting the Pentagon available to the public,
some 9-11 researchers claim a DU tipped missile, launched by an armed UAV, like
the Global Hawk, struck the Pentagon. The Global Hawk followed the missile into
the building and was destroyed leaving behind only its most durable parts, such
as the engine parts and parts of its landing gear.
Because DU is extremely dense, a wide variety of missiles in the U.S. arsenal
are tipped with DU rods to penetrate the armored steel of military vehicles and
buildings. Because uranium is a spontaneous pyrophoric material, it ignites in
air and generates extremely intense heat when it strikes its target. This is
what causes the bright flash seen when a DU missile impacts upon its target.
The white flash seen in videos of the two planes striking the twin towers is
exactly the kind of flash that occurs when a missile with a DU penetrator
strikes. If DU penetrators caused the flashes seen on videos of the planes
smashing into the towers, where did the uranium rods go?
I have located several photos that show a pyrophoric object burning white-hot
passing through the initial explosion in the South Tower. This object, displays
all the characteristics of a burning DU penetrator. The photo of the
conflagration that occurred immediately after the crash of the plane into the
South Tower shows two fast moving objects that passed through the tower far
ahead of the inferno. One appears as a black dot leaving a trail of white smoke;
the second appears to be a dark rod burning with a white flame followed by a
trail of black smoke.
The second object displays the characteristics of a burning DU penetrator. I
sent enlarged photos of the object to Marion Fulk, a retired chemical physicist
from the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and asked him if this object could be
DU. "Yes, it is possible," Fulk said. Asked about the dark smoke trailing
behind the nearly pure white flame, Fulk said, "It could be uranium oxide."
"Let's assume it is uranium," Fulk added. "It's burning near the surface and
it's pretty hot." It is a small object with great mass and has huge momentum
behind it, Fulk said. "It's way out ahead of the explosion and nothing stopped
it."
If the object is a DU penetrator, that would explain its intense heat, radiation
expert Leuren Moret said. The pyrophoric DU would have already been burning
before it hit the tower. The burning uranium would have acted to ignite the fuel
in the aircraft causing the tremendous explosions seen in both towers. As it
passed through the building some of the penetrator's kinetic energy would have
been converted to heat energy.
The difference between the orange colors of the flames coming from the explosion
in the tower and the white flame of the small dense object are indicative of "a
huge temperature difference," Moret said. The white flame coming off of the
uranium suggests it is burning at a very high temperature although it is not
possible to determine the exact temperature from the photograph, according to
Fulk and Moret.
The gap between the burning object and its dark smoke trail is because the vapor
coming off of the burning object is very hot and has to cool in order to
condense and form the visible dark colored uranium oxides, Moret said.