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Old 16-May-2006, 04:25 PM
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In response to an FOIA request, the Pentagon today will be releasing separate videos from surveillance cameras that is expected to show American Airlines flight 77 impacting the Pentagon. The release is scheduled for 1PM EDT.

A reporter for FNC who was allowed to screen the video pre-release stated that the video "clearly shows" the nose of AA77 striking the facility.
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Apparently the footage will be from two different cameras, one or both operating at 2fps and both of which captured the impact.
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Any idea where we'll be able to access the video via the web?
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Any idea where we'll be able to access the video via the web?
I wonder the same thing

Bout time they do this to shut up all of the Woo-Woo's.
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Brumsen, I feel very safe in asserting that you and many other conspiracists will claim the videos are fakes. (I write this at 12:35 pm Eastern Daylight Time.) Does this make me a mindless, rabid debunker or government stooge? Or am I simply making a prediction based on numerous observations of conspiracists?
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See, there you go SpitfireIX, being a realist again! ;-)
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Brumsen, I feel very safe in asserting that you and many other conspiracists will claim the videos are fakes. (I write this at 12:35 pm Eastern Daylight Time.) Does this make me a mindless, rabid debunker or government stooge? Or am I simply making a prediction based on numerous observations of conspiracists?
This is very similar to the situation that will inevitably arise when the Apollo landing site images that show hardware are finally obtained.
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I would not be suprised if DOD or DOJ hosts it, since it will be in the public domain after release. Presumably some news sites will have it as featured video as well.

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I wonder the same thing. 'Bout time they do this to shut up all of the Woo-Woo's.
I'm not a woo-woo (nor have I played one on television, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, ... ), but even I have to ask this one simple question:

WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG?

I mean it has been four years plus eight months, two election years (2002 and 2004), two wars, etc. and they are FINALLY releasing these pictures NOW?

This should have been released at least four years ago. The woo-woos will have a field day for just this reason!
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I wonder the same thing

Bout time they do this to shut up all of the Woo-Woo's.
Optimist.

And Celestial Mechanic, the reasons the video might not've been released are plentiful. Maybe it took this long to obtain permission from the owners of the cameras, who are the only ones with the copyright and therefore the right to release it into the public domain.
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I'm not a woo-woo (nor have I played one on television, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, ... ), but even I have to ask this one simple question:

WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG?

I mean it has been four years plus eight months, two election years (2002 and 2004), two wars, etc. and they are FINALLY releasing these pictures NOW?

This should have been released at least four years ago. The woo-woos will have a field day for just this reason!
I think a lot of it is that the woos think that TPTB should be taking them seriously and giving them exactly what they ask for no matter what because they play some important watchdog role. I've found that even the kookiest ones think they are of the utmost importance and should be paid the most serious attention.

In the real world, however, the evidence that a passenger jet hit the Pentagon is overwhelming; what difference really does an additional couple snippets of grainy video matter?
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Any idea where we'll be able to access the video via the web?
Allegedly it is posted here, but the website is being hammered at this moment:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/
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I'm not a woo-woo (nor have I played one on television, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, ... ), but even I have to ask this one simple question:

WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG?

I mean it has been four years plus eight months, two election years (2002 and 2004), two wars, etc. and they are FINALLY releasing these pictures NOW?

This should have been released at least four years ago. The woo-woos will have a field day for just this reason!
As I and others have mentioned before, the tapes were evidence in an ongoing criminal investigation. Now that the trial of Zacharias Moussaoui has ended, the video can be released.
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Dead Linky Or their server has blown up...lol
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The video should be aired any minute now according to FNC.
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This page has still images that are completely worthless:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4987716.stm


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WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG?
There are two optons:
1. It's just like 911 calls or black box recordings. They don't normally release that stuff because it's just so traumatic for everyone involved. Note that in the case of the 9/11 911 recordings, they have released the operator's side of the recordings, but they edited out what the passengers said. This sort of thing is normal. I'm sure that there are hundreds of people out there right now who had loved one's die in the pentagon or aboard the AA77 who are now looking at pictures of the exact moment their loved one died and feeling pretty bad about it. And for what? How does this video help us?

2. the powers that be don't like it when you use size=5 so they held on to the video just to make you angry.
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Video is playing on Fox News.

Frankly it sucks...sun glare, and the plane is just going to fast...
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The real speed video does indeed suck with great velocity. Apparently there is a nose cone visible in one of those frames. I did not see it.
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Brumsen, I feel very safe in asserting that you and many other conspiracists will claim the videos are fakes. (I write this at 12:35 pm Eastern Daylight Time.) Does this make me a mindless, rabid debunker or government stooge? Or am I simply making a prediction based on numerous observations of conspiracists?
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CNN reports that the release of the footage was delayed until the conclusion of Z. Moussaoi's trial, suggesting it was or might have been evidence in that trial. This has been one of the reasons commonly speculated for having withheld the footage, and is generally consistent with jurisprudential practice.
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