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While the world watched live images of the Twin Towers collapsing on the morning of September 11, 2001, almost no one asked the fundamental question, the one that should have stopped all news broadcasts: where did the matter go?
According to conventional physics and structural engineering, a 415-meter steel and concrete building that collapses should leave a mountain of debris at its base. Steel beams tens of meters long, huge concrete blocks, twisted structures should accumulate to form a hill of rubble several stories high. Instead, at Ground Zero, the debris was surprisingly scarce. Most of the mass of the towers seemed to have simply... disappeared.
The one who asked this question was Dr. Judy Wood, graduated in mechanical and materials engineering from Clemson University, with a PhD in materials science. For over a decade, Wood analyzed more than 40,000 photographs, hundreds of videos, dust samples, and seismic data related to 9/11. The result of her investigation is collected in the book "Where Did The Towers Go?", a work that shook the foundations of the official version.
Wood's conclusion is shocking: the towers did not collapse to the ground driven by gravity. They disintegrated in mid-air.
Wood coined a specific term to describe what happened: "dustification". According to her analyses, about 80-90% of the upper mass of the towers (the part hit by the planes and the section below down to the impact point) was transformed into a very fine dust before even touching the ground.
This is not simply debris shattered by the impact. The dust of Ground Zero was homogeneous, gray, composed predominantly of microspheres of silicate and iron.
If September 11, 1860, had marked the beginning of the siege on the Papal States, exactly ten years later, on September 11, 1870, history accelerated towards its epilogue. On that day, from his headquarters in Terni, General Raffaele Cadorna issued a message destined to go down in history: the Proclamation to the Romans.
It was not a simple military communiqué. It was a political act of immense significance. Cadorna, commander of the IV Army Corps of Italy, solemnly declared that the army of King Vittorio Emanuele II was not entering the Roman provinces as an enemy, but as a liberator. His task, he stated, was to guarantee order and the inviolability of the national soil, inviting the population to collaborate. In fact, it was the final ultimatum to Pius IX: the Kingdom of Italy was about to take what it considered its own by historical and geographical right: Rome.
That same September 11, Italian troops, numbering about 60,000 men, crossed the border near Orte and Civitavecchia. The resistance of the Papal State was symbolic: just over 13,000 soldiers, including the loyal Pontifical Zouaves commanded by the Swiss general Hermann Kanzler, could not stop the tricolor tide. The march towards the Capital was rapid and almost bloodless. Cities surrendered one after another: Viterbo, Civitavecchia, Frosinone.
Nine days after the Proclamation, on September 20, 1870, Italian bersaglieri opened a breach in the Aurelian Walls near Porta Pia. In a few hours, Rome was conquered. The temporal power of the Popes, lasting over a millennium, ceased to exist. Pius IX declared himself a "prisoner in the Vatican", giving rise to the so-called Roman Question, which would only be resolved with the Lateran Pacts of 1929.
Why did Cadorna choose precisely September 11 to issue the Proclamation and begin operations? Certainly, there were strategic reasons: the fall of the Second French Empire (which occurred on September 4, 1870, after the defeat at Sedan) had left the Pope without his powerful protector, Napoleon III. The path was clear.
However, for those who see a subtler plot in history, the recurrence of the date of September 11 (already used in 1860 for the invasion of the Marche) suggests a precise will. For the secular and Masonic forces of the Risorgimento, September 11 seemed to be the ill-fated date for the Papacy, the day destined to begin the work of secularizing Italy.
While the world remembers September 11, 2001, as the day the Twin Towers collapsed, few know that exactly 141 years earlier, another September 11th marked the beginning of a military operation that would forever change the political and religious geography of Italy. It was September 11, 1860.
On that day, General Manfredo Fanti, commander of the Sardinian army, received orders to cross the border of the Papal States. Piedmontese troops entered the Marche and Umbria regions, territories under the direct control of Pope Pius IX. It was not a formal declaration of war, but a calculated military invasion, officially justified as necessary to "restore order" and prevent Garibaldi's bands, who were moving up the peninsula after landing in Sicily, from attacking Rome and triggering an international crisis with France under Napoleon III, the Pontiff's protector.
Behind this move was the astute direction of Prime Minister Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour. The goal was twofold: on one hand, to stop Giuseppe Garibaldi (a known Freemason and charismatic figure of the Risorgimento) before he could march on Rome, risking war with France; on the other, to annex the central regions to the newborn Kingdom of Italy under the aegis of the House of Savoy, ensuring that national unity was a process "from above," controlled by the monarchy and not by popular revolution.
It is no secret that many protagonists of these events were linked to Freemasonry. Garibaldi was a high-degree Freemason, just as many generals and politicians of the time saw the end of the Pope's temporal power as a necessary step towards the secular modernity of the State. September 11, 1860, can be read, in this key, as the day when secular and Masonic forces officially began their "work" of dismantling papal power.
The invasion begun on September 11 culminated, seven days later, in the Battle of Castelfidardo (September 18, 1860). The papal army, composed largely of foreign volunteers (the famous "Pontifical Zouaves") and commanded by the French general Christophe de Lamoricière, was routed by the Piedmontese troops. Fanti's victory paved the way for the annexation of the Marche and Umbria and definitively isolated Rome, which remained the last bastion of the Pope's temporal power, protected only by the French garrison.
September 11th. For most of the world, this date immediately evokes images of the Twin Towers in flames, the collapse of the World Trade Center, and the beginning of the "War on Terror". But what if we told you that destiny wrote its script for this date long before 2001? What if September 11th is a temporal code that has marked the most crucial, and often darkest, moments of modern history?
This is not a simple coincidence. It is a red thread crossing centuries, linking the unification of Italy, the birth of the American military-industrial complex, South American coups, and the attack that changed the millennium.
It all begins on September 11, 1860. On this day, General Manfredo Fanti, commanding the Sardinian army, received orders to cross the border of the Papal States in the Marche region. It was the start of a military invasion that would lead, a few days later, to the Battle of Castelfidardo. The goal? To stop Garibaldi and ensure that Rome would not fall into the hands of revolutionaries, but would become part of the new Kingdom of Italy under Savoy control. It was the first act of force marking the beginning of the end of the Pope's temporal power.
Ten years later, on September 11, 1870, history accelerated. From his headquarters in Terni, General Raffaele Cadorna issued the famous Proclamation to the Romans. It was the ultimate ultimatum. Italian troops prepared to march on the Eternal City. Nine days later, on September 20, the Breach of Porta Pia would be opened. For the Vatican, that September 11th date remained etched as the beginning of humiliation: the day when the brute force of the Secular State began to dismantle their earthly kingdom.