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BBC World footage from 9/11 announcing WTC7 collapse 23 mins before the event

Chris | 28.02.2007 23:41 | Terror War | Sheffield | World

Attached is the footage from BBC World from September 11th 2001 covering the time running up to the collapse of World Trade Centre Building 7 (which was also knows as the Salomon Brothers Building) at 5:20pm.


On 22nd February 2007, an extensive archive of television broadcast footage covering the 9/11 attacks was discovered on the Internet Archive, and this was reported on 911 Blogger.

One activist then discovered that BBC World reported that WTC7 collapsed 23 mins before it happened and they produced the attached video.

The response from the BBC includes the statment, "We didn't get told in advance that buildings were going to fall down. We didn't receive press releases or scripts in advance of events happening." So where did they get the news from that the building had come down, when it was still standing and can clearly be seen behind the reporter?

There are 4 other articles on the BBC World footage on Indymedia:

See also the 11th September 2001, Five Years On feature article which has a write up about WTC7 and links to the collapse videos.

Two other sources of information about Building 7 are WTC7.net and 11syyskuu.

Chris

Additions

FOI and investigation

01.03.2007 19:59

Journalists have failed to inform the public in an impartial and unbiased manner in many instances before. News corporations will not bite the hand that feeds, which is why we - the docile consuming public - are never informed that the real cause of global warming and climatic change are corporations. Corporations spend budgets larger than the GDP of many developing world countries trying to brainwash us - docile, consuming - viewers to buy and to consume. News corporations have a vested interest in advertising revenue and so won't bite the hand that feeds. That is already a conspiracy. Look at any article hosted by the fabulous MediaLens group ( http://www.medialens.org) and sign up for their email alerts. Now they do journalism, as do a number of the non-mainstream (i.e. non-corporate) outlets, and you will quickly see just how much of a symbiotic relationship news corporations and production/consumption corporations share. Both are parasitic however, and we, the - docile and consuming - viewing public are that parasite's host. Time to take the tick off our blood supply and break out of the hypnosis they have successfully lulled us into.

Perhaps this footage will be that leverage, maybe now people will wake from their stupor and realise that the news, as the corporate spokesperson for the government interests, is merely yet another tool of propaganda designed to make us stupid.

For the BBC Head of News to post a blog like the above offering by Mr Porter is really taking the p*ss. I don't like being the butt of Mr Porter's attempt at levity: Many decent people died that day and given that 911 was the pre-text to launch what was probably a pre-ordained attack plan against Iraq, many people have died and are still being killed as a direct consequence of 911. More specifically, they are dying as a direct result of what the governments of the UK and USA try to convince us happened.
And the news media are merely regurgitating uncritically the official narrative. Doesn't that make the BBC and its corporate cohorts at the least ethically responsible for allowing the Iraqi genocide to take place and for continuing. Isn't that a violation of the threadbare ethical percepts taught at journalism school? The BBC and its cohorts have failed humanity by simply regurgitating the official line, never calling it into account. And then the BBC's "documentary" on the "conspiracy" theories about 911 is just about the cherry on the top of this massive and unrelenting insult that masquerades as "news".

Two things should happen here:
1. Ofcom needs to be retained to look into this news broadcast for truth and impartiality and/or an independent investigation by a regulatory body needs to be convened - and have teeth (for a change)
2. An FOI request needs to be sent to request public disclosure of the sources of that feed (where did the teleprompt writers get their leads from?), the broadcast footage itself including the period after the feed was pulled/dropped; along with all email correspondence for the whole of the day of 911 and for two weeks later received by senior corporate executives, news writers, news readers, control room operators, and teleprompters.
3. The BBC should, under threat of having its license revoked and the public TV license fee cancelled UNLESS the BBC can offer a satisfactory account for this debacle.

grumpy old man


Follow up

03.03.2007 20:41

The Internet Archive has posted information about their source for the footage from BBC World, some technicial information and a streaming version:

BBC TV: BBC Sept. 11, 2001 4:54 pm - 5:36 pm (September 11, 2001)
 http://www.archive.org/details/bbc200109111654-1736

The head of BBC World has posted a follow up on his blog:

Part of the conspiracy? (2)
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/03/part_of_the_conspiracy_2.html

Chris


Updated video

04.03.2007 20:20

911 Blogger has an article about an updated version of this video:

 http://911blogger.com/node/6651

The video itself is available here:

 http://www.911podcasts.com/files/video/wtc7-20min-warning-onbbc.avi

Chris


See also

04.03.2007 23:52

The is a write up of this at 911Truth.org:

Clairvoyant Collapse

BBC World News announced WTC 7 had collapsed, well in advance of the actual event. Discovery by blogger prompts controversy. Angered counter-attack from BBC avoids issue: What was the source of the information? New 3-minute video compilation of the key points from the BBC broadcast, demonstrating foreknowledge of WTC 7 collapse. Read more for complete coverage of the last three days… (2/28)

 http://911truth.org/article.php?story=20070228173157804

DOWNLOAD VIDEO – FREE DISTRIBUTION
 http://www.911truth.org/911truthmedia/Video/BBC-WTC7.wmv

Chris


Comments

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clairvoyant auntie

01.03.2007 12:43

mighty impressive! I may even buy a license

solly
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I'm happy to see

01.03.2007 12:50

Indymedia have promoted this.The bbc need to be forced to deal with this in the open.

James Jones


Alternative explanation

01.03.2007 14:47

What evidence does anyone have that the footage in background is really live and not on a half-hour delay?

Can someone please deal with that before we get into fantasyland? No, too late.

a bit silly


My car

01.03.2007 15:31

suddenly burst into flames at 5.23 last night.Fortunetly i was able to notify my insurance company at 5pm.They say there is something suspicious about my claim.I don't understand it.

all above board


oi! my car!

01.03.2007 18:10

...that's blatantly NOT a fucking answer. What reason do I have to believe some anonymous video on the internet regarding the timing of events 6 years ago. Which funnily enough no-one noticed until a month ago.

a bit less silly than you


dumbo

01.03.2007 18:39

left of screen it says LIVE.and the bbc don't refute it.

open your eyes


A "bit silly" is Really Silly

01.03.2007 20:18

"What evidence does anyone have that the footage in background is really live and not on a half-hour delay?"

It's a window! It's not a blue screen, the presenter is sat with a big window behind her and she turns to point things out behind her and the camera zooms in, also the BBC haven't tried to claim it's a blue screen.

In additon even if it was "time delayed footage" what difference would it make -- they announced the collapse 23 mins before it happened!

When those who are desperate to believe the official fantasy tale start making up things like this to ensure that they can continue to live in their illusion bubble it's rather telling... what lenghts are you going to go to next to ensure that your faith in the Imperial mass murderers running the USA isn't undermined?

lol


erm

01.03.2007 23:59

Well, if it's a window, and she's turning round and looking at it, then she can see it hasn't collapsed - so why should she say it has?

viewer


Google video on BBC power of future predictions is back on.

02.03.2007 00:10

I have located this video of the BBC fuck up at google video.

 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4859769454181174338

Puting KGB
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Red Herring

02.03.2007 01:45

This conspiracy theory rubbish is actually a CIA funded sideshow.

Seb Patel


@ Seb Patel

02.03.2007 07:21

That might wash EXCEPT the Head of News for the BBC does not dispute this, and claims to have lost the tapes so the story cannot be refuted nor examined. Unless Seb, he too is part of the CIA operation? That is as bad as the 911 theories themselves.

Scarlett O'Hara


Reply to viewer

02.03.2007 19:40

"Well, if it's a window, and she's turning round and looking at it, then she can see it hasn't collapsed - so why should she say it has?"

Because she clearly didn't know which building it was, how many people would have recognised it on the day?

People only know it from any angle now because they have seen so many vids and stills of it because it's such an unexplained mystery...

reviewer


A real Cock Up on London and New York

03.03.2007 10:24

Fighting for the Republic again the London bitch.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28pceQai32M

Fuck Bush
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No more Stonewalling from the BBC re WTC 7

08.03.2007 20:31

To: The British Broadcasting Corporation

So Mr. Richard Porter of the BBC wants the whole 'BBC Reported Building 7 Collapse 20 Minutes Before It Fell' scandal (and believe me, it IS a scandal even if you don't see it on the evening news) to just go away. The BBC is under the impression that knocking down a couple of straw-men and proclaiming 'nothing to see here folks' is going make us all just forget the monumental 'cock up' which is the BBCs attempt at damage control. The BBC is also under the impression that it is only a few 'lone nuts' out there hammering the YouTube and Google Video counts and that this story is going to lose all it's steam by next week.

Well Mr. Richard Porter. This is where you are so very wrong...

We the Undersigned formally demand the following information from the BBC.

1. Who was the source who told your station that the Salomon Building had collapsed?

2. Who from the BBC ordered YouTube and GoogleVideo to immediately start pulling the videos from their sites the day this story broke?

3. Who from the BBC ordered Archive.Org to block and then remove their copies of the footage which (until this story broke) were freely available online?

4. Who is responsible for and what were the circumstances surrounding the 'cock-up' which led to the loss of BBC World News' 9/11 footage?

5. Who cut reporter Jane Standley's live feed from NYC at 5:18pm (EST) on 11/09/01?

Until you answer these 5 questions IN FULL, you can expect the BBC's phones to be ringing daily with people asking these 5 questions over and over until they are answered.

Take a good look at the number of signatures here Mr Porter. These are the people who are demanding these answers and these are the people who WON'T go away.

Welcome to the Digital Age Mr. Richard Porter. You're either a news outlet or a supermarket tabloid. Which is it?

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

The Undersigned
- Homepage: http://www.petitiononline.com/wtc7bbc/petition.html


simple truth

27.03.2007 07:11

Jane Stanley is asked "what more can you tell us about the Soloman Brothers Building and its colapse?". World Trade Center 7 is in clear view out the window behind her. Video does not lie.

fact


Link between WTC7 Demolition Preview Scandal and BBC Correspondent Abduction

10.04.2007 08:32

Do you know these two incidents form a ring?
 http://exodus.exblog.jp/5474652/
The reason why the Call for Lifesaving Petition of the BBC Gaza correspondent is abruptly closed

exod-US
mail e-mail: babalabo@kta.bigllobe.ne.jp
- Homepage: http://exodus.exblog.jp


Link between WTC7 Demolition Preview Scandal and BBC Correspondent Abduction

10.04.2007 08:59

Do you know these two incidents form a ring?
 http://exodus.exblog.jp/5474652/
The reason why the Call for Lifesaving Petition of the BBC Gaza correspondent is abruptly closed

exod-US
mail e-mail: babalabo@kta.bigllobe.ne.jp
- Homepage: http://exodus.exblog.jp


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