Not long ago, I read The Pentagon: A History: the untold story of the wartime race to build the Pentagon--and to restore it sixty years later by Steve Vogel. In addition to being interesting in and of itself, it gave a detailed account of what happened on 9/11 which included eyewitness statements.

When the plane hit the building, its nose suddenly came to a complete stop. The rest of it was still traveling a couple hundred miles an hour. Essentially, the fuselage turned itself inside out, leaving almost no debris outside the building. A number of reliable sources did report the finding of DNA traces that matched people who had been on the passenger list.

Fortunately for the bu...

Not long ago, I read The Pentagon: A History: the untold story of the wartime race to build the Pentagon--and to restore it sixty years later by Steve Vogel. In addition to being interesting in and of itself, it gave a detailed account of what happened on 9/11 which included eyewitness statements.

When the plane hit the building, its nose suddenly came to a complete stop. The rest of it was still traveling a couple hundred miles an hour. Essentially, the fuselage turned itself inside out, leaving almost no debris outside the building. A number of reliable sources did report the finding of DNA traces that matched people who had been on the passenger list.

Fortunately for the building's employees, the section that was hit had recently been renovated and had not been fully re-occupied.

Personally, I'm willing to believe that the neo-cons knew more about the attacks then they let on, and that they could have prevented them, but I'm not willing to go so far as to say they took an active hand. Either one would be a heinous crime - hard to say which is worse.