cc: City Paper (letters)

Dear Russ Smith:

In your recent essay ("No Thanks for the Memories"; City Paper, 9/13/06) about the five-year anniversary of 9/11 you write:

In my office at home in Baltimore there are two pictures hanging on a wall, both taken from the roof of our old penthouse. One is of my then-8-year-old son (August '01) swinging a bat, with the Trade Center in the background; the other is of a plane stuck in one of the towers on Sept. 11. (Russ Smith)

Now, I have examined a great deal of 9/11 documentation. I've never seen a picture of either Flight 11 sticking out of the North Tower, or Flight 175 sticking out of the South Tower. In fact, I'm the author of the theory that the TV networks aired fake video of animated CGI planes striking the WTC. Indeed, planes have enough difficulty just avoiding large birds. The suggestion that a real Boeing 767 hit either the North or South Towers on 9/11 would be laughable if it weren't the pretext for a cold-blooded massacre.

So, if the photograph of a plane sticking out of the WTC has been published elsewhere can you tell us more information about it (so we can look at it)? Did you shoot the photo yourself? If so, is it possible for you to post a thumbnail of it here (on Baltimore Indymedia)?


thanks,

Scott Loughrey
Baltimore