TOO MANY SUSPICIOUS ANOMALIES ABOUT 9/11
TOO MANY SUSPICIOUS ANOMALIES ABOUT 9/11 (THIRD REVISION,6/24/09)
By Robert Halfhill
There are many unanswered questions about the official conspiracy theory that an
Islamic terrorist organization, headquartered in Afghanistan, sent 19 men with box
cutters to infiltrate the United states to hijack four planes and wreak appalling
destruction by crashing them into buildings.
The first question about the official story is that since the World Trade Center had
already been attacked by terrorists once before in 1993, and it remained the one place
where a successful terrorist act would make the greatest impression, why was there no
attempt to guard the WTC or prepare defenses? I remember thinking in 1993 that the
terrorists had to only be successful once while we had to be successful every time.
Second, the U.S. government received at least eleven warnings from foreign
intelligence services about Al Qaida's plan for a big attack on the United States before
they struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Again, why were no counter measures
prepared?
Third, the Minneapolis FBI tried to obtain approval from the FISA Court to look at
Zacarias Moussaoui's computer after he was arrested for being in the country illegally.
But as Minneapolis FBI agent Coleen Rowley testified to a Senate hearing, the National
FBI Office even rewrote the Minneapolis Office's request to FISA so it failed to be
approved.
Fourth, the Phoenix FBI Office had noticed the large number of Middle Eastern men
enrolling for flight training. Someone from the Phoenix Office pointed out to the
National Office that a plane could be used as a weapon.
Fifth, there is the mind boggling incompetence of both the civilian air traffic
control systems and the military North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). The
civilian air traffic control system's radar can detect a plane going off course
immediately, as soon as it deviates from its flight plan. Boston Air Traffic Control
detected American Airlines Flight 11 going off course as soon as it deviated from its
flight plan at 8:14 A.M. on September 11, 2001. But it did not notify several other air
traffic control centers until 8:25 A.M., eleven minutes later. And it did not notify
NORAD until 8:40 A.M. The two F-15 Eagles that were eventually scrambled from Otis Air
National Guard Base in Falmouth, Massachusetts, which was 153 miles northwest of the
World Trade Center and which had a top speed of over 1875 miles per hour, could have
reached the WTC in seven minutes with more than enough time to intercept AA 11 if the
F-15's had been in the air soon after 8:14 A.M or even 8:25 A.M. However, 11 hit the
North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 A.M. If NORAD had been informed and had
the F-15's in the air soon after AA 11 was detected going off course at 8:14 A.M., there
would have been far more than enough time to intercept it.
At 8:41:32 A.M., there was a suspicious radio transmission from United Airlines Flight
175 which sounded something like "everyone stay in your seats." Boston Air
Traffic Control informed NORAD that UA 175 had been hijacked at 8:43 and there would have
been more than enough time for the two F-15"s, which were air borne by 8:52 A.M. to
intercept UA 175 before it hit the South Tower at 9:02:54 A.M. That is there would have
been more than enough time if the two F-15's had not been flying at only 23.9% of their
top speed!
AA 77 hit the Pentagon at 9:37 A.M. At their top speed, the two F-15's could have
intercepted AA 77 twenty-four minutes before it hit the Pentagon.
At 9:55 A.M., United Airlines Flight 93 went of course near Cleveland and began a 135
degree turn over Ohio and Northern Kentucky. It crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania
at 10:06:05 A.M.
If the police officer pursuing fleeing criminals drove her or his squad car at only
23.9 percent of the car's top speed, the most probable conclusion would be that the
officer intended to let the criminals escape. Human stupidity can account for a lot and
even mount to civil or even criminal negligence. But when there is a series of one
incredible, mind boggling stupidity after another, there has to be a malign intent to
bring about the opposite of what officials are supposedly trying to achieve, in this case
to ensure that the hijackers succeed. But there's more!
Six, why did the government officials ship most of the steel from the World Trade
Center out of the country, even though it is a felony to remove evidence from a crime
scene. In the October 6, 2005 issue of NEW CIVIL ENGINEER, Dave Parker writes in
"WTC Investigators Resist Call For Collapse Visualization" that nearly all the
WTC steel was shipped out to Asia and melted down for recycling.
Seven, Why did the Bush Administration fight against having public hearings on 9/11
for nearly 18 months although public hearings on Pearl Harbor were held within weeks
after the event? 9/11 hearings were not held until the relatives of those killed at the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon exerted enough lobbying pressure to force the
hearings to be held, and even then, only one-tenth of the questions they submitted were
answered. And eight, why did the government not even allow the visitors to the site of
the World Trade Center to even take photographs of the ruins and why did the government
confiscate photos and videos of the attack on the Pentagon? Could both seven and eight
be part of an attempt to hide evidence of government complicity?
In his editorial, "Selling out the Investigation," in the January, 2002 FIRE
ENGINEERING, William Manning wrote that "Fire Engineering has good reason to believe
that the 'official investigation' blessed by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
... is a half baked farce that may already have been commandeered by political forces
whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure."
Manning also criticized the investigation in another editorial, "The Twisted Brush
of 9/11 Politics" in the September, 2004 FIRE ENGINEERING.
Robert Berhinig, P.E. states in "Protecting the Foundation of Fire-Safety,"
in the July/August, 2002 IAEI (International Association of Electrical Inspectors, the
definitive magazine for electrical inspectors) that "the FEMA report states further
that until the attack on the WTC, no protected steel framed buildings had been known to
collapse as a result of a fire." Yet on 9/11, after steel framed buildings had been
around for over a hundred years, since the late 1800's, three protected steel framed
buildings, WTC 1, 2, and 7, had collapsed, supposedly because of fire.
Three of the experts who testified before the House Committee On Science May 1, 2002
Hearing On the Collapse of the World Trade Center said the there had NEVER BEFORE been a
collapse of a protected, steel framed building because of fire. Dr. W. Gene Corley,
American Society of Civil Engineers and Chair of the Building Performance Assesment Team
reviewing the WTC disaster said on page 76 of the hearing record that "prior to
these events, no protected steel frame structure, the most common form of large
commercial construction in the United States, has ever experienced a fire-induced
collapse." Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr., Director of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology said on page 103, "The Twin Towers and WTC 7 are the only
known cases of total structural collapse where fire played a significant role." So
we have here an admission by a spokesperson for NIST that allegedly accounted for the
collapses that fire had never before brought about such a collapse of a protected, steel
framed building. And Dr. Jonathan Barnett, Professor of Fire Safety Studies at the
Worcester Polytechnic Institute said on page 133, "Up until 9/11, we never had a
collapse of a protected steel building." On page 163 he said, "This was the
first time we had the collapse of a protected steel structure." Dr. Bement said on
page 169, "... there have been instances where buildings have had major fires that
have burned to completion without the buildings collapsing." And on page 172, Dr.
Barnett said of the partial collapse of WTC 5, "But building 5 was a normal building
and it had a fire and it had a major collapse. This has never happened before."
The August 25, 2007 issue of SCIENCE NEWS had an article about the
collapse of the World Trade Center on pages 122 - 24 entitled FIRE INSIDE: STRUCTURAL
DESIGN WITH FIRE SAFETY IN MIND by Carolyn Berry. The paragraph in the first column on
page 124 is particularly significant in evaluating the NIST computer simulation of the
collapse of WTC 7:"The NIST simulation, like all models of building failures to
date, couldn't follow the 9/11 collapses through to the end. No computer is yet powerful
enough to follow the chaotic sequence of events that ensues when components break apart
and a building falls, but this is where research is headed."
In other words, the much vaunted NIST simulation which purported to dispose of the
arguments of we conspiracy theorists didn't actually demonstrate how fire caused the
buildings to collapse; they just waved their hands when the computing power currently
available had took them as far as it could and said: "This is far enough; the
buildings collapsed somewhere about here." Of course we all know we have accounted
for how the buildings probably collapsed once we have gone this far. It HAS to be the
probable explanation because the only alternative explanation is those NUTTY, WACKO
CONSPIRACY THEORIES! We know a priori that that CAN'T be true!
I might as well add the statement in the same SCIENCE NEWS article of Allen Hay, chief
fire safety officer of the New York City Fire Department, about WTC 7. "We just
expected it to burn out -- we didn't expect it to fall down." "It's the only
building I know in New York City to ever collapse (strictly) from fire."
But I want to return to the repeated Congressional testimony that a protected, steel
framed building have NEVER BEFORE collapsed because of fire. And never afterwards
either. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, we have a purported fact about the behavior of
protected, steel framed buildings in fire that dare not be true again!
There are many other suspicious anomalies about 9/11. Only a few are, nine, all three
World Trade Center buildings collapsed at nearly free fall speed,i.e. almost as fast as
it would take an object dropped from one of the WTC building's roof to reach the ground.
The resistance of the massive steel columns and concrete would have slowed the fall
considerably if it had been a matter of the floors pancaking and falling on the floors
below. And ten, fire would have unlikely to have been equally intense at every point in
the buildings so that every point failed simultaneously and they fell onto the surface
area they stood on, i.e. on to their footprint. Eleventh, although fire had never caused
the girders in protected steel framed buildings to become ductile or loose sufficient
strength to result in a building collapse, pools of molten steel remained at the bottom
of the wreckage for 100 days.
Although molten metal at ground zero was a constant feature of media accounts in the
days following 9/11, there have since been widespread denials of the presence of molten
metal in the ruins of the World Trade Center. Or if the presence of molten metal is
admitted, it is claimed that the metal was molten aluminium from the planes, although the
press accounts at the time specifically said it was molten steel and pictures of the WTC
ruins show the metal as bright red, characteristic of molten steel, whereas molten
aluminium has a silvery color. Some have even proclaimed that the TV pictures of ground
zero were taken in different wave lengths of light to explain away why the molten
aluminium looked like molten steel. However since the television pictures we normally see
all show objects as being the same color we normally see them, it is difficult to
understand why the video photos of the World Trade Center alone were photographed at a
different wavelength than the wave length normally used by TV cameras. This seems
particularly difficult since all the other objects we see in photos of ground zero have
the same colors we normally see such objects as having. The extent to which ad hoc
hypotheses are resorted to to explain away pictures of molten steel is mind boggling!
And when what was widely reported in the press and accepted as true is denied a few
months later by seemingly intelligent people as well as by self professed experts, it
reminds us of George Orwell's 1984 in which once the official news accounts changed,
people would forget the previous news accounts!
So it is instructive to consider an official report of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology in which they cite numerous first hand reports of molten steel
in the ruins of the World Trade Center while resorting to irrelevancy after irrelevancy
and ad hominem after ad hominem in an attempt to discredit these first hand reports. The
NIST report is in ordinary type while my interpolated comments are in capital letters for
ease of distinguishing fron the text of the NIST report.
Molten Metal
Workers Reported Molten Metal in Ground Zero Rubble Reports of molten metal in the
foundations of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers are frequently noted in
literature of proponents of theories that the buildings were destroyed through controlled
demolition. The most widely publicized report is one by American Free Press reporter
Christopher Bollyn citing principals of two of the companies contracted to clean up
Ground Zero. The president of Tully Construction of Flushing, NY, said he saw pools of
"literally molten steel" at Ground Zero. Bollyn also cites Mark Loizeaux,
president of Controlled Demolition Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, MD, as having seen molten steel
in the bottoms of elevator shafts "three, four, and five weeks" after the
attack.
Although reports of molten steel are consistent with the persistent heat at Ground
Zero in the months following the attack, we find the American Free Press report suspect
for two reasons. First, Tully Construction was one of four companies awarded contracts by
New York City's Department of Design and Construction to dispose of the rubble at Ground
Zero, and CDI was subcontracted by Tully and was instrumental in devising a plan to
recycle the steel. The involvement of Steve Tully and Mark Loizeaux in the destruction of
the evidence of the unprecedented collapses would seem to disqualify them as objective
reporters of evidence.
RH - WHEN THE FEMA REPORT SAYS STEVE TULLY AND MARK LOIZEAUX WERE INVOLVED "IN
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EVIDENCE," IT IGNORES THE FACT THAT IT SAID IN THE
IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING SENTENCE THAT TULLY WAS HIRED BY THE CITY OF NEW YORK TO DISPOSE OF
THE EVIDENCE. (TULLY HIRED LOIZEAUX AS A SUBCONTRACTOR.) ALTHOUGH NEW YORK HIRING THEM
TO DISPOSE OF THE EVIDENCE CASTS SUSPICION ON THE NEW YORK CITY GOVERNMENT, AND THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR ALLOWING NEW YORK TO DISPOSE OF THE EVIDENCE, HOW COULD THIS BE
USED TO DISCREDIT TULLY AND LOIZEAUX WHEN THE VERY GOVERNMENT OF WHICH FEMA IS A PART
ALLOWED A SUBORDINATE GOVERNMENT, THAT OF NEW YORK CITY, TO HIRE THEM TO DISPOSE OF THE
EVIDENCE?
SECONDLY, WE HAVE AN ADMISSION BY FEMA THAT THE EVIDENCE WAS DISPOSED OF AND THAT
THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG IN DISPOSING THE EVIDENCE.
THIRD, THE ONLY WAY THEY HAVE OF DISCREDITING TULLY AND LOIZEAUX'S FIRST HAND REPORT
IS NOT TO PRODUCE EVIDENCE THAT THEIR REPORT WAS MISTAKEN BUT TO RESORT TO AN AD HOMINEM.
EVEN IF THEY HAD DISPOSED OF THE EVIDENCE WITHOUT BEING HIRED BY NEW YORK, THAT IS NO
REASON TO ASSUME THEY WERE NOT TELLING THE TRUTH IN THEIR FIRST HAND REPORT.
INSTEAD OF TRYING TO DECIDE WHETHER PREVIOUS WRONG BEHAVIOR INFLUENCES THE TRUTH OF
FACTUAL TESTIMONY, OR WHETHER ALLEGATIONS THAT THEY MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE, FALSIFIED THEIR
FACTUAL TESTIMONY AND THUS INVALIDATED THEIR ARGUMENTS, WHY NOT JUST CUT TO THE CHASE AND
CONCENTRATE ON THE CREDIBILITY OF THE FACTUAL TESTIMONY OR THE VALIDITY OF THE ARGUMENTS?
Interestingly, CDI was also hired to bury the rubble of the Murrah Building in the
wake of the Oklahoma City Bombing. That Loizeaux stood trial on charges of illegal
campaign contributions casts further doubt on his credibility. 1
R.H. - WHAT IS THE RELEVANCE OF LOIZEAUX'S COMPANY, CDI, BEING HIRED TO DISPOSE OF THE
RUBBLE OF THE MURRAH BUILDING IN OKLAHOMA CITY TO WHETHER HIS TESTIMONY ABOUT THE WORLD
TRADE CENTER WAS TRUTHFUL?
POINTING OUT LOIZEAUX'S STANDING TRIAL ON CHARGES OF ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS IS
ANOTHER AD HOMINEM. THE FEMA REPORT DOESN'T EVEN SAY WHETHER HE WAS CONVICTED, BUT EVEN
IF HE HAD BEEN, IT WOULD NOT PROVE HE WAS NOT BEING TRUTHFUL IN HIS TESTIMONY ABOUT
MOLTEN STEEL AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER.
FEMA'S STOOPING TO THESE SHODDY AD HOMINEM TACTICS, A FALLACY THAT WAS DISCUSSED IN
THE ELEMENTARY LOGIC COURSE I TOOK AS A COLLEGE SOPHOMORE, RAISES ADDITIONAL SUSPICIONS
ABOUT FEMA'S REPORT. WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO HIDE IF THEY HAVE TO RESORT TO SUCH
DESPICABLE AD HOMINEMS?
A second reason to doubt this molten steel report is the fact that it has been used by
Bollyn and others to support the dubious theory that the collapses were caused by bombs
in the Towers' basements.
R.H. - YOU DO NOT ASSUME THE THEORY IS WRONG, I.E.. "DUBIOUS," AND THEN
ARGUE THAT THE FACTUAL REPORTS ARE THEREFORE FALSE. YOU FIRST HAVE TO PRODUCE
INDEPENDENT EVIDENCE THAT THE FACTUAL REPORTS ARE FALSE. THE TRUTH OF A THEORY IS
DETERMINED BY THE TRUTH OF THE FACTUAL STATEMENTS CITED AS EVIDENCE FOR IT; YOU CAN'T USE
THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE THEORY IS TRUE OR FALSE TO DEDUCE THE TRUTH OR FALSITY OF THE
STATEMENTS OF FACT CITED AS PART OF THE EVIDENCE FOR IT.
Corroborating Reports
There are reports of molten steel beyond those cited by American Free Press. Most of
these have come to light as a result of a research paper by Professor Steven E Jones,
which has stimulated interest in the subject of molten steel at Ground Zero. *
A report by Waste Age describes New York Sanitation Department workers moving
"everything from molten steel beams to human remains." 2
A report on the Government Computer News website quotes Greg Fuchek, vice president of
sales for LinksPoint Inc. as stating: In the first few weeks, sometimes when a worker
would pull a steel beam from the wreckage, the end of the beam would be dripping molten
steel 3
A Messenger-Inquirer report recounts the experiences of Bronx firefighter
"Toolie" O'Toole, who stated that some of the beams lifted from deep within the
catacombs of Ground Zero by cranes were "dripping from the molten steel." 4
A transcription of an audio interview of Ground Zero chaplain Herb Trimpe contains the
following passage: When I was there, of course, the remnants of the towers were still
standing. It looked like an enormous junkyard. A scrap metal yard, very similar to that.
Except this was still burning. There was still fire. On the cold days, even in January,
there was a noticeable difference between the temperature in the middle of the site than
there was when you walked two blocks over on Broadway. You could actually feel the heat.
It took me a long time to realize it and I found myself actually one day wanting to
get back. Why? Because I felt more comfortable. I realized it was actually warmer on
site. The fires burned, up to 2,000 degrees, underground for quite awhile before they
actually got down to those areas and they cooled off.
I talked to many contractors and they said they actually saw molten metal trapped,
beams had just totally had been melted because of the heat. So this was the kind of heat
that was going on when those airplanes hit the upper floors. It was just demolishing
heat.
A report in the Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine about recovery work in late
October quotes Alison Geyh, Ph.D., as stating: Fires are still actively burning and the
smoke is very intense. In some pockets now being uncovered, they are finding molten
steel. 6
A publication by the National Environmental Health Association quotes Ron Burger, a
public health advisor at the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, who arrived at Ground Zero on the evening of September
12th. Burger stated: Feeling the heat, seeing the molten steel, the layers upon layers of
ash, like lava, it reminded me of Mt. St. Helen’s and the thousands who fled that
disaster. 7
An article in The Newsletter of the Structural Engineers Association of Utah
describing an speaking appearance by Leslie Robertson (structural engineer responsible
for the design of the World Trade Center) contains this passage: As of 21 days after the
attack, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running. 8
A member of the New York Air National Guard's 109th Air Wing was at Ground Zero from
September 22 to October 6. He kept a journal on which an article containing the following
passage is based. Smoke constantly poured from the peaks. One fireman told us that there
was still molten steel at the heart of the towers' remains. Firemen sprayed water to cool
the debris down but the heat remained intense enough at the surface to melt their boots.
9
The book American Ground, which contains detailed descriptions of conditions at Ground
Zero, contains this passage: ... or, in the early days, the streams of molten metal that
leaked from the hot cores and flowed down broken walls inside the foundation hole. 10
A review of of the documentary Collateral Damage in the New York Post describes
firemen at Ground Zero recalling "heat so intense they encountered rivers of molten
steel." 11
This construction photograph shows the foundation of South Tower in the foreground,
with the foundation of the North Tower in the left background. The foundations were seven
stories deep.
R.H. - HERE WE HAVE 11 INDEPENDENT REPORTS CITED BY FEMA OF MOLTEN STEEL IN THE RUINS
OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, EVEN IF THE AD HOMINEMS FEMA RESORTED TO IN AN ATTEMPT TO
DISCREDIT TULLY AND LOIZEAUX'S TESTIMONY WERE VALID ARGUMENTS, THIS WOULD DO NOTHING TO
DISCREDIT THESE ELEVEN INDEPENDENT TESTIMONIES ABOUT MOLTEN STEEL AT GROUND ZERO.
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* Most of the press reports compiled here were gathered by other researchers, including
Matthew Everett, the author of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and 9/11: A Scandal Beyond What Has
Been Seen Before; David Ray Griffin; and the author of posts such as this on
georgewashington.blogspot.com.
R.H. - AGAIN IT IS AN AD HOMINEM TO ASSUME THAT SINCE THESE FACTUAL REPORTS ARE CITED
BY PEOPLE THAT THE FEMA REPORT CLAIMS TO BE DISCREDIBLE, IT PROVES THE FACTUAL REPORTS
ARE NOT CREDIBLE, EVEN IF FEMA HAD PROVED THAT THE CITERS ARE DISCREDIBLE, WHICH IT HAS
NOT.
I HAVE PREVIOUSLY EXPLAINED WHY YOU CANNOT ASSUME A THEORY IS FALSE AND USE THAT
ASSUMED FALSITY TO ASSUME THE FACTUAL REPORTS CITED AS PART OF THE THEORY'S EVIDENCE ARE
FALSE AND THAT THE ARGUMENTS CITED TO SUPPORT THE THEORY ARE INVALID.
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References
1. Fire Power: It Took Three Lawyers to Stop the Destruction of CDI Inc., The Daily
Record, 10/7/00
2. D-Day: NY Sanitation Workers' Challenge of a Lifetime, WasteAge.com, 4/1/02 [cached]
3. Handheld app eased recovery tasks, GCN.com, 9/11/02 [cached]
4. Recovery worker reflects on months spent at Ground Zero, Messenger-Inquirer.com,
6/29/02 [cached]
5. The Chaplain's Tale, RecordOnline.com, [cached]
6. Mobilizing Public Health, Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine, [cached]
7. The scene at Ground Zero, NEHA.org, [cached]
8. WTC a Structural Success, SEAU News, , page 3
9. Ground Zero, 12/01 [cached]
10. American Ground, , page 32
11. Unflinching Look Among the Ruins, NYPost.com, 3/3/04
page last modified: 2006-12-28
END OF NIST REPORT
And twelve, although an ordinary building collapse would produce chunks of broken
concrete, the steel, concrete and asbestos in the three World Trade Center buildings was
mostly converted to a fine dust which flowed out from the WTC through the streets of
Manhattan in the manner of the pyroclastic flows produced from volcanoes. And thirteen,
although the buildings were not even observed to move at all when the planes crashed into
them, nearby geological observatories detected seismic tremblors as if there had been
massive explosions at ground level when the buildings collapsed. And while WTC 7 had not
even been struck by a plane, all the phenomena previously mentioned accompanied its
collapse also. And fourteen, while the Environmental Protection Agency said that the air
around the World Trade Center was safe to breathe after 9/11, we now know that our
government lied yet again because of all the deaths from asbestosis and other respiratory
diseases among both the humans and dogs who were involved in the WTC cleanup. And
fifteen, while it is standard procedure for the secret service to hustle the President
away from the scene immediately whenever there is a hint of danger, George Bush remained
in the Florida elementary school reading "The Pet Goat" for nearly half an
hour, even though there was supposedly no assurance that there would not be an attempt to
crash a plane into the school.
And although the Bush Administration attempted to ship all the steel from the World
Trade Center to China and Korea, some of the steel girders were saved by 9/11
investigators. And the massive amounts of metal in the dust which surged out from the
WTC collapse provided additional metal for investigators to study. Brigham Young
University Professor of Physics, Steven E. Jones obtained some of the metal containing
dust after he had published his first paper about 9/11 online in November, 2005.
Janette Mackinlay had returned to her apartment on the fourth floor of 113 Cedar Street,
which was about 100 meters, or 328 feet, away from the South Tower, about a week after
her apartment had been flooded with dust, to clean up. She had saved some of the dust in
a plastic bag and mailed some of it to Jones after he published his first paper online.
Later, he traveled to MacKinlay's new residence in California and obtained a second
sample of WTC dust in the presence of other scientists.
In his subsequent online paper, "Revisiting 9/11, 2001 -- Applying the Scientific
Method," Professor Jones reported that the dust contained clear traces of thermate.
Thermate is an explosive used to melt and cut steel in controlled building demolitions.
It is a well mixed powder of iron, aluminum and sulfur. The sulfur lowers the melting
point of iron, or steel, and cuts right through it. Sometimes other metallic powders are
mixed in to fine tune the characteristics of the explosives. Doctor Jones found all of
these substances in the dust.
And recently, Jones and others have found microscopic particles of unignited thermate
in the World Trade Center dust.
David Heller, who has degrees in physics and engineering, makes many of the same
points Dr. Jones made in Heller's article, "TAKING A CLOSE LOOK; HARD SCIENCE AND
THE COLLAPSE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER," in the June 18, 2007 GARLIC AND GRASS.
After he states that the collapse of all three World Trade Center buildings was a
controlled demolition brought about by pre-planted thermate explosives, he states that it
would seem impossible for Al Qaida to preplant the explosives, especially since WTC 7
housed the offices of the FBI, CIA, and OEM(Office of Emergency Management). But he says
that recently he learned that President George Bush's brother, Marvin Bush, is a part
owner of the company that provides security for not only the World Trade Center
buildings but also both United and American Airlines, the two airlines whose planes were
hijacked on 9/11. He also pointed out that the owner of the World Trade Center, Larry
Silverstein, had received a $3.55 billion insurance settlement after 9/11 and was suing
for an additional $3.55 billion on the grounds that the airplane crashes into the Twin
Towers constituted two separate incidents.
However, regardless of Silverstein's motives, it is unlikely that he could have played
a major role in planting the explosives in the building containing the offices of the
FBI, CIA and OEM. Only the United States government could have carried that off and
Silverstein, at most, could have played no more than a subsidiary role.
The final step in a criminal investigation is asking who had the motive to do the
crime. Whose poll numbers shot up into the stratosphere after 9/11 and who gained the
popular support to enable the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, abolish habaeus corpus
and, at least, the de jure power to lock anyone up for life without a trial or even
telling them why they were being imprisoned? Only the neo cons and the Bush
Administration, although Bush may be only a front man and Dick Cheney the real power
behind the throne. It was the neo con Project for a New American Century who proposed
that the U.S. seize the lands where the world's dwindling supply of oil is located and
who were quoted in NEWSWEEK as saying that the American people may need a new Pearl
Harbor to wake them up.
But if enough people realize in time just how bad our government is, we can counter
them before it is too late.
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By Robert Halfhill
There are many unanswered questions about the official conspiracy theory that an
Islamic terrorist organization, headquartered in Afghanistan, sent 19 men with box
cutters to infiltrate the United states to hijack four planes and wreak appalling
destruction by crashing them into buildings.
The first question about the official story is that since the World Trade Center had
already been attacked by terrorists once before in 1993, and it remained the one place
where a successful terrorist act would make the greatest impression, why was there no
attempt to guard the WTC or prepare defenses? I remember thinking in 1993 that the
terrorists had to only be successful once while we had to be successful every time.
Second, the U.S. government received at least eleven warnings from foreign
intelligence services about Al Qaida's plan for a big attack on the United States before
they struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Again, why were no counter measures
prepared?
Third, the Minneapolis FBI tried to obtain approval from the FISA Court to look at
Zacarias Moussaoui's computer after he was arrested for being in the country illegally.
But as Minneapolis FBI agent Coleen Rowley testified to a Senate hearing, the National
FBI Office even rewrote the Minneapolis Office's request to FISA so it failed to be
approved.
Fourth, the Phoenix FBI Office had noticed the large number of Middle Eastern men
enrolling for flight training. Someone from the Phoenix Office pointed out to the
National Office that a plane could be used as a weapon.
Fifth, there is the mind boggling incompetence of both the civilian air traffic
control systems and the military North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). The
civilian air traffic control system's radar can detect a plane going off course
immediately, as soon as it deviates from its flight plan. Boston Air Traffic Control
detected American Airlines Flight 11 going off course as soon as it deviated from its
flight plan at 8:14 A.M. on September 11, 2001. But it did not notify several other air
traffic control centers until 8:25 A.M., eleven minutes later. And it did not notify
NORAD until 8:40 A.M. The two F-15 Eagles that were eventually scrambled from Otis Air
National Guard Base in Falmouth, Massachusetts, which was 153 miles northwest of the
World Trade Center and which had a top speed of over 1875 miles per hour, could have
reached the WTC in seven minutes with more than enough time to intercept AA 11 if the
F-15's had been in the air soon after 8:14 A.M or even 8:25 A.M. However, 11 hit the
North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 A.M. If NORAD had been informed and had
the F-15's in the air soon after AA 11 was detected going off course at 8:14 A.M., there
would have been far more than enough time to intercept it.
At 8:41:32 A.M., there was a suspicious radio transmission from United Airlines Flight
175 which sounded something like "everyone stay in your seats." Boston Air
Traffic Control informed NORAD that UA 175 had been hijacked at 8:43 and there would have
been more than enough time for the two F-15"s, which were air borne by 8:52 A.M. to
intercept UA 175 before it hit the South Tower at 9:02:54 A.M. That is there would have
been more than enough time if the two F-15's had not been flying at only 23.9% of their
top speed!
AA 77 hit the Pentagon at 9:37 A.M. At their top speed, the two F-15's could have
intercepted AA 77 twenty-four minutes before it hit the Pentagon.
At 9:55 A.M., United Airlines Flight 93 went of course near Cleveland and began a 135
degree turn over Ohio and Northern Kentucky. It crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania
at 10:06:05 A.M.
If the police officer pursuing fleeing criminals drove her or his squad car at only
23.9 percent of the car's top speed, the most probable conclusion would be that the
officer intended to let the criminals escape. Human stupidity can account for a lot and
even mount to civil or even criminal negligence. But when there is a series of one
incredible, mind boggling stupidity after another, there has to be a malign intent to
bring about the opposite of what officials are supposedly trying to achieve, in this case
to ensure that the hijackers succeed. But there's more!
Six, why did the government officials ship most of the steel from the World Trade
Center out of the country, even though it is a felony to remove evidence from a crime
scene. In the October 6, 2005 issue of NEW CIVIL ENGINEER, Dave Parker writes in
"WTC Investigators Resist Call For Collapse Visualization" that nearly all the
WTC steel was shipped out to Asia and melted down for recycling.
Seven, Why did the Bush Administration fight against having public hearings on 9/11
for nearly 18 months although public hearings on Pearl Harbor were held within weeks
after the event? 9/11 hearings were not held until the relatives of those killed at the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon exerted enough lobbying pressure to force the
hearings to be held, and even then, only one-tenth of the questions they submitted were
answered. And eight, why did the government not even allow the visitors to the site of
the World Trade Center to even take photographs of the ruins and why did the government
confiscate photos and videos of the attack on the Pentagon? Could both seven and eight
be part of an attempt to hide evidence of government complicity?
In his editorial, "Selling out the Investigation," in the January, 2002 FIRE
ENGINEERING, William Manning wrote that "Fire Engineering has good reason to believe
that the 'official investigation' blessed by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
... is a half baked farce that may already have been commandeered by political forces
whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure."
Manning also criticized the investigation in another editorial, "The Twisted Brush
of 9/11 Politics" in the September, 2004 FIRE ENGINEERING.
Robert Berhinig, P.E. states in "Protecting the Foundation of Fire-Safety,"
in the July/August, 2002 IAEI (International Association of Electrical Inspectors, the
definitive magazine for electrical inspectors) that "the FEMA report states further
that until the attack on the WTC, no protected steel framed buildings had been known to
collapse as a result of a fire." Yet on 9/11, after steel framed buildings had been
around for over a hundred years, since the late 1800's, three protected steel framed
buildings, WTC 1, 2, and 7, had collapsed, supposedly because of fire.
Three of the experts who testified before the House Committee On Science May 1, 2002
Hearing On the Collapse of the World Trade Center said the there had NEVER BEFORE been a
collapse of a protected, steel framed building because of fire. Dr. W. Gene Corley,
American Society of Civil Engineers and Chair of the Building Performance Assesment Team
reviewing the WTC disaster said on page 76 of the hearing record that "prior to
these events, no protected steel frame structure, the most common form of large
commercial construction in the United States, has ever experienced a fire-induced
collapse." Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr., Director of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology said on page 103, "The Twin Towers and WTC 7 are the only
known cases of total structural collapse where fire played a significant role." So
we have here an admission by a spokesperson for NIST that allegedly accounted for the
collapses that fire had never before brought about such a collapse of a protected, steel
framed building. And Dr. Jonathan Barnett, Professor of Fire Safety Studies at the
Worcester Polytechnic Institute said on page 133, "Up until 9/11, we never had a
collapse of a protected steel building." On page 163 he said, "This was the
first time we had the collapse of a protected steel structure." Dr. Bement said on
page 169, "... there have been instances where buildings have had major fires that
have burned to completion without the buildings collapsing." And on page 172, Dr.
Barnett said of the partial collapse of WTC 5, "But building 5 was a normal building
and it had a fire and it had a major collapse. This has never happened before."
The August 25, 2007 issue of SCIENCE NEWS had an article about the
collapse of the World Trade Center on pages 122 - 24 entitled FIRE INSIDE: STRUCTURAL
DESIGN WITH FIRE SAFETY IN MIND by Carolyn Berry. The paragraph in the first column on
page 124 is particularly significant in evaluating the NIST computer simulation of the
collapse of WTC 7:"The NIST simulation, like all models of building failures to
date, couldn't follow the 9/11 collapses through to the end. No computer is yet powerful
enough to follow the chaotic sequence of events that ensues when components break apart
and a building falls, but this is where research is headed."
In other words, the much vaunted NIST simulation which purported to dispose of the
arguments of we conspiracy theorists didn't actually demonstrate how fire caused the
buildings to collapse; they just waved their hands when the computing power currently
available had took them as far as it could and said: "This is far enough; the
buildings collapsed somewhere about here." Of course we all know we have accounted
for how the buildings probably collapsed once we have gone this far. It HAS to be the
probable explanation because the only alternative explanation is those NUTTY, WACKO
CONSPIRACY THEORIES! We know a priori that that CAN'T be true!
I might as well add the statement in the same SCIENCE NEWS article of Allen Hay, chief
fire safety officer of the New York City Fire Department, about WTC 7. "We just
expected it to burn out -- we didn't expect it to fall down." "It's the only
building I know in New York City to ever collapse (strictly) from fire."
But I want to return to the repeated Congressional testimony that a protected, steel
framed building have NEVER BEFORE collapsed because of fire. And never afterwards
either. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, we have a purported fact about the behavior of
protected, steel framed buildings in fire that dare not be true again!
There are many other suspicious anomalies about 9/11. Only a few are, nine, all three
World Trade Center buildings collapsed at nearly free fall speed,i.e. almost as fast as
it would take an object dropped from one of the WTC building's roof to reach the ground.
The resistance of the massive steel columns and concrete would have slowed the fall
considerably if it had been a matter of the floors pancaking and falling on the floors
below. And ten, fire would have unlikely to have been equally intense at every point in
the buildings so that every point failed simultaneously and they fell onto the surface
area they stood on, i.e. on to their footprint. Eleventh, although fire had never caused
the girders in protected steel framed buildings to become ductile or loose sufficient
strength to result in a building collapse, pools of molten steel remained at the bottom
of the wreckage for 100 days.
Although molten metal at ground zero was a constant feature of media accounts in the
days following 9/11, there have since been widespread denials of the presence of molten
metal in the ruins of the World Trade Center. Or if the presence of molten metal is
admitted, it is claimed that the metal was molten aluminium from the planes, although the
press accounts at the time specifically said it was molten steel and pictures of the WTC
ruins show the metal as bright red, characteristic of molten steel, whereas molten
aluminium has a silvery color. Some have even proclaimed that the TV pictures of ground
zero were taken in different wave lengths of light to explain away why the molten
aluminium looked like molten steel. However since the television pictures we normally see
all show objects as being the same color we normally see them, it is difficult to
understand why the video photos of the World Trade Center alone were photographed at a
different wavelength than the wave length normally used by TV cameras. This seems
particularly difficult since all the other objects we see in photos of ground zero have
the same colors we normally see such objects as having. The extent to which ad hoc
hypotheses are resorted to to explain away pictures of molten steel is mind boggling!
And when what was widely reported in the press and accepted as true is denied a few
months later by seemingly intelligent people as well as by self professed experts, it
reminds us of George Orwell's 1984 in which once the official news accounts changed,
people would forget the previous news accounts!
So it is instructive to consider an official report of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology in which they cite numerous first hand reports of molten steel
in the ruins of the World Trade Center while resorting to irrelevancy after irrelevancy
and ad hominem after ad hominem in an attempt to discredit these first hand reports. The
NIST report is in ordinary type while my interpolated comments are in capital letters for
ease of distinguishing fron the text of the NIST report.
Molten Metal
Workers Reported Molten Metal in Ground Zero Rubble Reports of molten metal in the
foundations of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers are frequently noted in
literature of proponents of theories that the buildings were destroyed through controlled
demolition. The most widely publicized report is one by American Free Press reporter
Christopher Bollyn citing principals of two of the companies contracted to clean up
Ground Zero. The president of Tully Construction of Flushing, NY, said he saw pools of
"literally molten steel" at Ground Zero. Bollyn also cites Mark Loizeaux,
president of Controlled Demolition Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, MD, as having seen molten steel
in the bottoms of elevator shafts "three, four, and five weeks" after the
attack.
Although reports of molten steel are consistent with the persistent heat at Ground
Zero in the months following the attack, we find the American Free Press report suspect
for two reasons. First, Tully Construction was one of four companies awarded contracts by
New York City's Department of Design and Construction to dispose of the rubble at Ground
Zero, and CDI was subcontracted by Tully and was instrumental in devising a plan to
recycle the steel. The involvement of Steve Tully and Mark Loizeaux in the destruction of
the evidence of the unprecedented collapses would seem to disqualify them as objective
reporters of evidence.
RH - WHEN THE FEMA REPORT SAYS STEVE TULLY AND MARK LOIZEAUX WERE INVOLVED "IN
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EVIDENCE," IT IGNORES THE FACT THAT IT SAID IN THE
IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING SENTENCE THAT TULLY WAS HIRED BY THE CITY OF NEW YORK TO DISPOSE OF
THE EVIDENCE. (TULLY HIRED LOIZEAUX AS A SUBCONTRACTOR.) ALTHOUGH NEW YORK HIRING THEM
TO DISPOSE OF THE EVIDENCE CASTS SUSPICION ON THE NEW YORK CITY GOVERNMENT, AND THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR ALLOWING NEW YORK TO DISPOSE OF THE EVIDENCE, HOW COULD THIS BE
USED TO DISCREDIT TULLY AND LOIZEAUX WHEN THE VERY GOVERNMENT OF WHICH FEMA IS A PART
ALLOWED A SUBORDINATE GOVERNMENT, THAT OF NEW YORK CITY, TO HIRE THEM TO DISPOSE OF THE
EVIDENCE?
SECONDLY, WE HAVE AN ADMISSION BY FEMA THAT THE EVIDENCE WAS DISPOSED OF AND THAT
THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG IN DISPOSING THE EVIDENCE.
THIRD, THE ONLY WAY THEY HAVE OF DISCREDITING TULLY AND LOIZEAUX'S FIRST HAND REPORT
IS NOT TO PRODUCE EVIDENCE THAT THEIR REPORT WAS MISTAKEN BUT TO RESORT TO AN AD HOMINEM.
EVEN IF THEY HAD DISPOSED OF THE EVIDENCE WITHOUT BEING HIRED BY NEW YORK, THAT IS NO
REASON TO ASSUME THEY WERE NOT TELLING THE TRUTH IN THEIR FIRST HAND REPORT.
INSTEAD OF TRYING TO DECIDE WHETHER PREVIOUS WRONG BEHAVIOR INFLUENCES THE TRUTH OF
FACTUAL TESTIMONY, OR WHETHER ALLEGATIONS THAT THEY MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE, FALSIFIED THEIR
FACTUAL TESTIMONY AND THUS INVALIDATED THEIR ARGUMENTS, WHY NOT JUST CUT TO THE CHASE AND
CONCENTRATE ON THE CREDIBILITY OF THE FACTUAL TESTIMONY OR THE VALIDITY OF THE ARGUMENTS?
Interestingly, CDI was also hired to bury the rubble of the Murrah Building in the
wake of the Oklahoma City Bombing. That Loizeaux stood trial on charges of illegal
campaign contributions casts further doubt on his credibility. 1
R.H. - WHAT IS THE RELEVANCE OF LOIZEAUX'S COMPANY, CDI, BEING HIRED TO DISPOSE OF THE
RUBBLE OF THE MURRAH BUILDING IN OKLAHOMA CITY TO WHETHER HIS TESTIMONY ABOUT THE WORLD
TRADE CENTER WAS TRUTHFUL?
POINTING OUT LOIZEAUX'S STANDING TRIAL ON CHARGES OF ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS IS
ANOTHER AD HOMINEM. THE FEMA REPORT DOESN'T EVEN SAY WHETHER HE WAS CONVICTED, BUT EVEN
IF HE HAD BEEN, IT WOULD NOT PROVE HE WAS NOT BEING TRUTHFUL IN HIS TESTIMONY ABOUT
MOLTEN STEEL AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER.
FEMA'S STOOPING TO THESE SHODDY AD HOMINEM TACTICS, A FALLACY THAT WAS DISCUSSED IN
THE ELEMENTARY LOGIC COURSE I TOOK AS A COLLEGE SOPHOMORE, RAISES ADDITIONAL SUSPICIONS
ABOUT FEMA'S REPORT. WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO HIDE IF THEY HAVE TO RESORT TO SUCH
DESPICABLE AD HOMINEMS?
A second reason to doubt this molten steel report is the fact that it has been used by
Bollyn and others to support the dubious theory that the collapses were caused by bombs
in the Towers' basements.
R.H. - YOU DO NOT ASSUME THE THEORY IS WRONG, I.E.. "DUBIOUS," AND THEN
ARGUE THAT THE FACTUAL REPORTS ARE THEREFORE FALSE. YOU FIRST HAVE TO PRODUCE
INDEPENDENT EVIDENCE THAT THE FACTUAL REPORTS ARE FALSE. THE TRUTH OF A THEORY IS
DETERMINED BY THE TRUTH OF THE FACTUAL STATEMENTS CITED AS EVIDENCE FOR IT; YOU CAN'T USE
THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE THEORY IS TRUE OR FALSE TO DEDUCE THE TRUTH OR FALSITY OF THE
STATEMENTS OF FACT CITED AS PART OF THE EVIDENCE FOR IT.
Corroborating Reports
There are reports of molten steel beyond those cited by American Free Press. Most of
these have come to light as a result of a research paper by Professor Steven E Jones,
which has stimulated interest in the subject of molten steel at Ground Zero. *
A report by Waste Age describes New York Sanitation Department workers moving
"everything from molten steel beams to human remains." 2
A report on the Government Computer News website quotes Greg Fuchek, vice president of
sales for LinksPoint Inc. as stating: In the first few weeks, sometimes when a worker
would pull a steel beam from the wreckage, the end of the beam would be dripping molten
steel 3
A Messenger-Inquirer report recounts the experiences of Bronx firefighter
"Toolie" O'Toole, who stated that some of the beams lifted from deep within the
catacombs of Ground Zero by cranes were "dripping from the molten steel." 4
A transcription of an audio interview of Ground Zero chaplain Herb Trimpe contains the
following passage: When I was there, of course, the remnants of the towers were still
standing. It looked like an enormous junkyard. A scrap metal yard, very similar to that.
Except this was still burning. There was still fire. On the cold days, even in January,
there was a noticeable difference between the temperature in the middle of the site than
there was when you walked two blocks over on Broadway. You could actually feel the heat.
It took me a long time to realize it and I found myself actually one day wanting to
get back. Why? Because I felt more comfortable. I realized it was actually warmer on
site. The fires burned, up to 2,000 degrees, underground for quite awhile before they
actually got down to those areas and they cooled off.
I talked to many contractors and they said they actually saw molten metal trapped,
beams had just totally had been melted because of the heat. So this was the kind of heat
that was going on when those airplanes hit the upper floors. It was just demolishing
heat.
A report in the Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine about recovery work in late
October quotes Alison Geyh, Ph.D., as stating: Fires are still actively burning and the
smoke is very intense. In some pockets now being uncovered, they are finding molten
steel. 6
A publication by the National Environmental Health Association quotes Ron Burger, a
public health advisor at the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, who arrived at Ground Zero on the evening of September
12th. Burger stated: Feeling the heat, seeing the molten steel, the layers upon layers of
ash, like lava, it reminded me of Mt. St. Helen’s and the thousands who fled that
disaster. 7
An article in The Newsletter of the Structural Engineers Association of Utah
describing an speaking appearance by Leslie Robertson (structural engineer responsible
for the design of the World Trade Center) contains this passage: As of 21 days after the
attack, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running. 8
A member of the New York Air National Guard's 109th Air Wing was at Ground Zero from
September 22 to October 6. He kept a journal on which an article containing the following
passage is based. Smoke constantly poured from the peaks. One fireman told us that there
was still molten steel at the heart of the towers' remains. Firemen sprayed water to cool
the debris down but the heat remained intense enough at the surface to melt their boots.
9
The book American Ground, which contains detailed descriptions of conditions at Ground
Zero, contains this passage: ... or, in the early days, the streams of molten metal that
leaked from the hot cores and flowed down broken walls inside the foundation hole. 10
A review of of the documentary Collateral Damage in the New York Post describes
firemen at Ground Zero recalling "heat so intense they encountered rivers of molten
steel." 11
This construction photograph shows the foundation of South Tower in the foreground,
with the foundation of the North Tower in the left background. The foundations were seven
stories deep.
R.H. - HERE WE HAVE 11 INDEPENDENT REPORTS CITED BY FEMA OF MOLTEN STEEL IN THE RUINS
OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, EVEN IF THE AD HOMINEMS FEMA RESORTED TO IN AN ATTEMPT TO
DISCREDIT TULLY AND LOIZEAUX'S TESTIMONY WERE VALID ARGUMENTS, THIS WOULD DO NOTHING TO
DISCREDIT THESE ELEVEN INDEPENDENT TESTIMONIES ABOUT MOLTEN STEEL AT GROUND ZERO.
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* Most of the press reports compiled here were gathered by other researchers, including
Matthew Everett, the author of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and 9/11: A Scandal Beyond What Has
Been Seen Before; David Ray Griffin; and the author of posts such as this on
georgewashington.blogspot.com.
R.H. - AGAIN IT IS AN AD HOMINEM TO ASSUME THAT SINCE THESE FACTUAL REPORTS ARE CITED
BY PEOPLE THAT THE FEMA REPORT CLAIMS TO BE DISCREDIBLE, IT PROVES THE FACTUAL REPORTS
ARE NOT CREDIBLE, EVEN IF FEMA HAD PROVED THAT THE CITERS ARE DISCREDIBLE, WHICH IT HAS
NOT.
I HAVE PREVIOUSLY EXPLAINED WHY YOU CANNOT ASSUME A THEORY IS FALSE AND USE THAT
ASSUMED FALSITY TO ASSUME THE FACTUAL REPORTS CITED AS PART OF THE THEORY'S EVIDENCE ARE
FALSE AND THAT THE ARGUMENTS CITED TO SUPPORT THE THEORY ARE INVALID.
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References
1. Fire Power: It Took Three Lawyers to Stop the Destruction of CDI Inc., The Daily
Record, 10/7/00
2. D-Day: NY Sanitation Workers' Challenge of a Lifetime, WasteAge.com, 4/1/02 [cached]
3. Handheld app eased recovery tasks, GCN.com, 9/11/02 [cached]
4. Recovery worker reflects on months spent at Ground Zero, Messenger-Inquirer.com,
6/29/02 [cached]
5. The Chaplain's Tale, RecordOnline.com, [cached]
6. Mobilizing Public Health, Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine, [cached]
7. The scene at Ground Zero, NEHA.org, [cached]
8. WTC a Structural Success, SEAU News, , page 3
9. Ground Zero, 12/01 [cached]
10. American Ground, , page 32
11. Unflinching Look Among the Ruins, NYPost.com, 3/3/04
page last modified: 2006-12-28
END OF NIST REPORT
And twelve, although an ordinary building collapse would produce chunks of broken
concrete, the steel, concrete and asbestos in the three World Trade Center buildings was
mostly converted to a fine dust which flowed out from the WTC through the streets of
Manhattan in the manner of the pyroclastic flows produced from volcanoes. And thirteen,
although the buildings were not even observed to move at all when the planes crashed into
them, nearby geological observatories detected seismic tremblors as if there had been
massive explosions at ground level when the buildings collapsed. And while WTC 7 had not
even been struck by a plane, all the phenomena previously mentioned accompanied its
collapse also. And fourteen, while the Environmental Protection Agency said that the air
around the World Trade Center was safe to breathe after 9/11, we now know that our
government lied yet again because of all the deaths from asbestosis and other respiratory
diseases among both the humans and dogs who were involved in the WTC cleanup. And
fifteen, while it is standard procedure for the secret service to hustle the President
away from the scene immediately whenever there is a hint of danger, George Bush remained
in the Florida elementary school reading "The Pet Goat" for nearly half an
hour, even though there was supposedly no assurance that there would not be an attempt to
crash a plane into the school.
And although the Bush Administration attempted to ship all the steel from the World
Trade Center to China and Korea, some of the steel girders were saved by 9/11
investigators. And the massive amounts of metal in the dust which surged out from the
WTC collapse provided additional metal for investigators to study. Brigham Young
University Professor of Physics, Steven E. Jones obtained some of the metal containing
dust after he had published his first paper about 9/11 online in November, 2005.
Janette Mackinlay had returned to her apartment on the fourth floor of 113 Cedar Street,
which was about 100 meters, or 328 feet, away from the South Tower, about a week after
her apartment had been flooded with dust, to clean up. She had saved some of the dust in
a plastic bag and mailed some of it to Jones after he published his first paper online.
Later, he traveled to MacKinlay's new residence in California and obtained a second
sample of WTC dust in the presence of other scientists.
In his subsequent online paper, "Revisiting 9/11, 2001 -- Applying the Scientific
Method," Professor Jones reported that the dust contained clear traces of thermate.
Thermate is an explosive used to melt and cut steel in controlled building demolitions.
It is a well mixed powder of iron, aluminum and sulfur. The sulfur lowers the melting
point of iron, or steel, and cuts right through it. Sometimes other metallic powders are
mixed in to fine tune the characteristics of the explosives. Doctor Jones found all of
these substances in the dust.
And recently, Jones and others have found microscopic particles of unignited thermate
in the World Trade Center dust.
David Heller, who has degrees in physics and engineering, makes many of the same
points Dr. Jones made in Heller's article, "TAKING A CLOSE LOOK; HARD SCIENCE AND
THE COLLAPSE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER," in the June 18, 2007 GARLIC AND GRASS.
After he states that the collapse of all three World Trade Center buildings was a
controlled demolition brought about by pre-planted thermate explosives, he states that it
would seem impossible for Al Qaida to preplant the explosives, especially since WTC 7
housed the offices of the FBI, CIA, and OEM(Office of Emergency Management). But he says
that recently he learned that President George Bush's brother, Marvin Bush, is a part
owner of the company that provides security for not only the World Trade Center
buildings but also both United and American Airlines, the two airlines whose planes were
hijacked on 9/11. He also pointed out that the owner of the World Trade Center, Larry
Silverstein, had received a $3.55 billion insurance settlement after 9/11 and was suing
for an additional $3.55 billion on the grounds that the airplane crashes into the Twin
Towers constituted two separate incidents.
However, regardless of Silverstein's motives, it is unlikely that he could have played
a major role in planting the explosives in the building containing the offices of the
FBI, CIA and OEM. Only the United States government could have carried that off and
Silverstein, at most, could have played no more than a subsidiary role.
The final step in a criminal investigation is asking who had the motive to do the
crime. Whose poll numbers shot up into the stratosphere after 9/11 and who gained the
popular support to enable the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, abolish habaeus corpus
and, at least, the de jure power to lock anyone up for life without a trial or even
telling them why they were being imprisoned? Only the neo cons and the Bush
Administration, although Bush may be only a front man and Dick Cheney the real power
behind the throne. It was the neo con Project for a New American Century who proposed
that the U.S. seize the lands where the world's dwindling supply of oil is located and
who were quoted in NEWSWEEK as saying that the American people may need a new Pearl
Harbor to wake them up.
But if enough people realize in time just how bad our government is, we can counter
them before it is too late.
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