Dramatic images of World Trade Centre collapse on 9/11 released for first time

Daily Mail UK ^ | 2-11-10 | Philip Delves Broughton

[afraidfortherepublic]

We have seen the Twin Towers collapse hundreds of times on TV. The steel and glass skyscrapers exploding like a bag of flour, the dust and smoke pluming out across Manhattan. But never like this, from above. Nine years after the defining moment of the 21st century, a stunning set of photographs taken by New York Police helicopters forces us to look afresh at a catastrophe we assumed we knew so well.

(Photos at link)

[afraidfortherepublic]

The photos are jaw-dropping.

[Rummyfan]

Thanks for the post.

[P.O.E.]

This one reminds me of what a beautiful, clear, September morning it started off as, only to be forever marred by the spreading cancerous, murderous Islamofascists.

[La Lydia]

Thanks. Just what I need is a little infuriation in the morning.

[agrace]

One of the brilliant comments below the photos -

I can't help but wonder if this kind of terrorism would exist if America didn't exist.

- Netti..., ...is the only straight in the village!, 11/2/2010 12:56

[maica]

That September morning was a most spectacularly beautiful day until the horror.

I wonder why it took a Freedom of Information request to get these photos from the NYPD?

[I Buried My Guns]

It is ignorant nd hatefule beliefs like that comment that make me wanna circle the wagons and leave the rest of backstabbing world to their own devices. Screw 'em, from now on I say we take care of our own.

Foreigners: We don't need them.

[Badabing Badablonde]

I was appalled at most of the comments. The claim that Al Quaeda means Database?......that Bin Laden was on the US CIA payroll until September 2001, that he was created so that the US could get USSR out of Afghanistan.....that our government would perpetrate this against our own people....Bush couldn’t even take a ride on a Segway without being crucified by the press, you think something like 9/11 would stay a secret?

[Never on my watch]

It is a shame that we get these photos through the British press. The article on foxnews.com had one small photo. I'm sure there is some coverage in the American press, but I like the way this article just puts the pictures front and center. Afterall, the pictures are the story.

[Never on my watch]

The article starts off: We have seen the Twin Towers collapse hundreds of times on TV.

Maybe in the immediate aftermath of the event. But not since then, unless you went out of your way to view the archive footage. I wonder why these pictures weren't released at the time we were going to war or at one of the many times in the last nine years when the the Libs wanted to undermine the war effort.

[A.A. Cunningham]

aerial photos

[Lockbox]

I want everyone to see these photos and think about if this fits the definition of a ‘crime’ when thousands were killed and millions effected.

[afraidfortherepublic]

A holocaust?

[afraidfortherepublic]

Sorry AA. I did a search on the title fo the thread. Nothing came up.

[A.A. Cunningham]

No need to apologize as my comment wasn’t intended for you and your post isn’t a duplicate.