3.2.1 Coincidences and Luck

As well as requiring belief in remarkable incompetence at many levels of many different organizations - such as the FAA, NORAD, CIA, FBI, the White House and the Pentagon - believing in the mainstream account of 9/11 also requires belief in an extraordinary number of coincidences, and an extraordinary amount of 'luck' on the part of the hijackers and other individuals. The mainstream media did not question the likelihood of events such as the following:

• On the morning of 9/11, there were at least four war-games in progress. Among the events being simulated were a Russian air attack over Alaska, live-fly hijackings, and a plane being crashed into a building.
  
• The hijackers were lucky that they were able to enter the country, plan and prepare for the attack, and board the airplanes without being stopped. Once in the airplanes, they were able to successfully hijack 4 out of 4 planes, and in 3 cases were able to keep control of them for long enough to reach and hit their targets, without being shot down, either by NORAD or the Pentagon anti-aircraft missile defense system.
• Luckily for Pentagon staff, Flight 77 hit the only side of the building that was virtually empty due to its almost-completed renovation work. Most of those killed were civilians finishing off the renovations, which involved strengthening the walls and windows to make them more blast resistant. Top Pentagon officials such as Donald Rumsfeld were, fortunately for them, in their offices on the other side of the building. No questions were asked about why these terrorists decided to hit the side that would do the least damage and cause the fewest casualties.
• al Qaeda were lucky that, after crashing planes into them, both Twin Towers completely collapsed soon after, giving their attack a much greater impact and killing far more people, even though the Towers had been designed to withstand multiple plane impacts and much more intense fires, and no steel skyscraper in history had ever completely collapsed before (except due to controlled demolition).
• al Qaeda were lucky that Building 7 also completely collapsed, as collateral damage. Corporations, such as Enron, which were being investigated for fraud at the time, were lucky that files relating to their fraud case were destroyed in Building 7's collapse.
  
• FEMA, who controlled the Ground Zero site, were lucky that a war game due to take place on September 12 involved the simulation of a biochemical attack in Lower Manhattan; they had a nearby command post ready-to-go and were ready to cope with the release of tons of asbestos.
• The "single US-based investor" who had purchased a large amount of put options in United Airlines, and investors responsible for the unusually high put option sales in American Airlines, Morgan Stanley and other companies, were lucky that 9/11 occurred just after they had bought the options. Stocks in these companies plummeted after the attacks and billions were made from these lucky "innocuous" trades.
• The FBI were lucky that a passport belonging to one of the hijackers of Flight 11 fell through the fireball of the impact to land on the street below, where it was handed to police. They were also lucky to find that Mohammad Atta's bags had been left at the airport; they found among other things a Boeing manual, details of the attack plans, and his will. A videotape of Bin Laden admitting responsibility for the attacks was fortunately 'found' soon after the invasion of Afghanistan.
• On September 10, Donald Rumsfeld announced that the Pentagon could not account for $2.3trillion (25%) of its budget; he was lucky the issue was quickly forgotten and military budgets were multiplied with virtually no dissent from Congress.
• The many neoconservatives that were appointed to posts in the Bush Administration earlier that year were lucky that they got the "new Pearl Harbor" they desired, as well as direct justification for their invasion of Afghanistan, already planned for October.
  
• The American people were lucky that the terrorists chose to fly two of the planes almost directly over Indian Point Nuclear Power Station on their way to New York; millions would have been killed, and the area decimated for decades, if they had chosen to hit Indian Point instead.

As well as not questioning these strange facts, other anomalies were simply accepted, such as:

• The choices of the attackers: why did they chose to hijack planes that took off from airports distant from their targets? Why did they wait so long before taking control of the planes, increasing their chances of being shot down? Why did they choose to hit the World Trade Center so early in the day, before many workers had arrived? Why they choose to hit the worst possible side of the Pentagon? Why had they left such an obvious paper trail behind them? In the days prior to the attacks, why had they behaved like anything-but Islamic fanatics willing to carry out a suicide attack?
  
• The Towers were burning with thick black smoke, indicating a poor mix of fuel and oxygen and therefore relatively cold fires. But experts told us that the fires melted the steel? The building was reduced to dust and a pile of shredded steel - from pancaking? The collapses were unprecedented, and skyscrapers have survived much hotter, bigger and longer lasting fires - yet the collapses were soon being described as 'inevitable'?
• Even though eyewitnesses reported seeing multiple pieces of Flight 93 falling, and debris was found miles away, and an engine was found 1500 yards away, the event was confidently reported as a crash following an attempted cockpit invasion by the passengers.
• The hijackers were described as poor pilots, yet the maneuver performed by Flight 77 required expert piloting skills.
• Several of the named hijackers were found still alive following the attacks, but the official list was never revised, and the reasons for ignoring this apparent anomaly were never explained.
• From the 2800 people killed in the Towers, 20,000 body parts were found, and there are still over 1000 people for whom no body parts have been identified, despite DNA identification procedures that could identify individuals from tiny fragments. Yet we were told they were crushed by pancaking floors?

While these facts are anomalies and coincidences to believers in the official theory, they are all easily explained by the theory that 9/11 was an inside job.

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