As opposed to when? All the other days with multiple airline hijackings where the planes were flown into buildings rather than used for negotiations? They're 0 for 1.
You know just as well as I do that any time a plane deviates from it's flight plan, fighter jets are flown in to escort the aircraft and visually inspect to determine the situation. So your argument is null. The fact is, procedure wasn't followed that day, and that day Dick Cheney was in charge. Why, even after two planes hitting the WTC, would a plane be allowed to fly directly toward the Pentagon, circle overhead, and hit the CIA building without anybody blinking an eye until it was done?
Same reason people stayed in the South tower -- there were all kinds of conflicting reports as to what had happened.
So you are saying that it is completely normal for our President to ignore statements by his aides when he is told that his country is under attack. It is well known that at first he says something along the lines of, "well, that's a bad pilot." But he didn't stop his reading session until after both towers were hit, and had been burning for some time. I would hope that the leader of our country would be worried about the fact that a bunch of his people are in danger, no matter if it were a small single engine plane, or a 757.
Because he won the open, public bidding process that had been in the works for years beforehand.
Yes, he did win it fairly. BUT, if he was so worried about terrorism destroying his buildings, why would he take out an insurance policy covering terrorism but not acts of war? I realize this point doesn't prove much of anything at all...but it is still peculiar.
Part of a hedging strategy. It was a successful trade.
But why were the put options 4, 5, even 11 times their usual amount? Isn't that a bit odd considering there was a major impact to the airline industry in the week afterwards?! Over $2.5 million in profits of these put-options has yet to be claimed.
Of course they did! That's what the FBI does -- they seize evidence.
Sure, the FBI does just that. But why would they have anything to hide? If they are so sure that a 757 really did hit the Pentagon, all they would have to do would be to release just one of the three tapes confiscated. What "national security" are they protecting by keeping them?
It was gouged out on the south side by a big piece of the north tower (controlled demolition? Ask the guys who had to fix the Verizon building) and because Rudy Guiliani had, against the advice of every single person on planet earth, put a big honkin' fuel oil tank in the building. Also, it had no interior columns and the fireproofing was inferior to that of older buildings.
Do you really believe that a fire brought down that tower? Let's say that the fuel tank did explode, even though that conflicts reports that the fires weren't that bad at all. The fuel tank explodes, there is a fire. Why would the fire make the building collapse all at once? Why is there the distinctive "crimp" in the building, that is a tell-tale sign of controlled demolition? If fire damaged any part of the building, wouldn't that part of the building collapse first? I find it very hard to believe that every single support column broke at once, from a few scattered fires. We, as humans, have seen countless buildings burn for hours, even days, yet they still stand. But on this one day, bulldings that were designed to withstand this very incident, completly fell, symetrically, neatly, onto their own footprints. Buildings close the the two towers were damaged even more than WTC7, yet they stood until they were demolished in the cleanup effort.
Hope that helps.