The Twin Towers
Certain people – physicists and demolition experts – are convinced that the twin towers contained demolition charges and were brought down as a professional demolition job. As incredible as this seems, I have read their arguments and watched the various videos and I must say that they truly have a case.
Their most important arguments are a) the speed at which the buildings fell, b) the fact that they fell straight down into their base footprint, and c) that the rubble was so efficiently broken down.
Based on the amount of time it took for each building to fall, it is evident from the laws of physics that floor by floor, section by section, the material was in free fall. The official explanation for what happened is that each building weakened at the point of the fire and then began to “pancake” down – each floor collapsing under the weight of all the material above it. However, the experts point out that this would have made the buildings collapse more slowly – much more slowly – as there would have been a brief delay as each floor was hit with the weight from above and needed to be set in motion. (Remember the law of inertia? An object at rest tends to stay at rest.)
This youtube video seems to contain the best collection of several individual videos showing the collapses of the north and south towers. I recommend watching just the second half of it if you need to save time. You can see for yourself how fast the buildings fell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_64RigP1Fk
The same experts point out that it doesn’t make sense for a building that is crashing down from structural failure to fall so efficiently straight down. Note that when the south tower began to fall, the upper section of the building (from the point of the fire on up) began to lean and in a short time was leaning at an angle greater than 20%. Yet it managed to fall the rest of the way to the ground without that angle increasing. One expert pointed out that that would only be possible if the support beneath that section entirely dropped away, as in an efficient demolition job (Jim Hoffman, mathematician/scientist). Otherwise, the angular momentum of the top section would have continued and that section would have fallen off to the side.
Finally, each of the twin towers contained 47 massive interior steel columns, interconnected and cross-braced. Many have noted that in the event of a structural collapse with pancaking floors, these steel columns would have been left standing. They should have been there, pointing all the way up to the original height of the buildings, or at least several hundred feet into the air. They would have still been there because there would have been no force to bend them or break them off in a pancake style collapse. Instead, we see the entire structures, steel columns and all, efficiently pulverized into a pile of rubble. Remarkably, the government’s 9/11 Commission Report denied the existence of these columns, stating instead that the towers were supported entirely by the external skeleton of the structure.
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Similarly, NOVA produced a documentary in which they mentioned that the twin towers had no interior columns, only exterior columns. This was false, as you can see in this photo of the building under construction:
The arguments for controlled demolition begin to make a compelling case. And there are other observations. For instance, many witnesses said they heard explosions going off prior to the start of collapse and as the buildings were collapsing. Another important point is that the rubble site was sealed off and no investigators were allowed to examine the material. This is highly unusual in any sort of catastrophe. The material was efficiently moved – the steel at least -- and was placed on ships and taken to China and India, where it was melted down. See further information about the bottle-up at:
911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/#ref1
911research.wtc7.net/wtc/groundzero/cleanup.html
I suggest opening the following link and spending some time reading. View these additional videos showing the buildings as they collapsed, read the eyewitness accounts, and read the analysis by many experts of what they think really happened to make the towers collapse. In at least one of the videos you can clearly see puffs of smoke (squibs) coming out horizontally from the building and progressing down the side of the building, ahead of the actual collapse wave. These are hallmarks of demolition charges going off.
911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/collapses/squibs.html
Watch this brief video of firemen talking about the explosions:
A Fire Fighters Last Words:
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The New York Times revealed the existence of a 78-minute audiotape of radio transmissions of the New York Fire Department (FDNY), which proves that at least two firefighters reached the 78th floor sky lobby of the South Tower.
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Battalion Seven Chief Palmer:
"Battalion Seven ... Ladder 15, we've got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able to knock it down with two lines. Radio that, 78th floor numerous 10-45 Code Ones."
That was seven minutes prior to the collapse.
Quoting an article dated July 12, 2005 by Dr. Reynolds:
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A major reason FDNY lost 343 firefighters that day, more than in the department’s previous history, was that departmental commanders never feared collapse and the fires were entirely manageable. Audio tapes show that Battalion Chief Orio J. Palmer was on floor 78, the lowest impact floor in the South Tower, at 9:52 a.m. and said, “We’ve got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able to knock it down with two lines” (p. 206). Then the entire building completely imploded minutes later. That’s part of the public record and highly incriminating.
So, apparently the fire was too hot for steel but not too hot for people? Hmm..
Larry Silverstein’s Role:
Let’s talk about Mr. Silverstein – whose business group was the lease holder of the World Trade Towers at the time and the owner of World Trade building 7. Quoting from one web site (link given a few paragraphs below),
Six months before the 9/11 attacks the World Trade Center was "privatized" by being leased to a private sector developer. The lease was purchased by the Silverstein Group for $3.2 billion. "This is a dream come true," Larry Silverstein said. "We will be in control of a prized asset, and we will seek to develop its potential, raising it to new heights."
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[Now] Silverstein is rebuilding, funded by the insurance coverage on the property which 'fortuitously' covered acts of t errorism. Even better, Silverstein filed TWO insurance claims for the maximum amount of the policy, based on the two, in Silverstein's view, separate attacks. The total potential payout is $7.1 billion, more than enough to build a fabulous new complex and leave a hefty profit for the Silverstein Group, including Larry Silverstein himself.
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As reported in The Washington Post, the insurance company, Swiss Re, has gone to court to argue that the 9/11 disaster was only one attack, not two and that therefore the insurance payout should be limited to $3.55 billion, still enough to rebuild the complex.
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However, a federal jury in December 2004 ruled that the assault on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center was in fact two occurrences for insurance purposes. The finding in U.S. District Court in Manhattan means leaseholder Larry Silverstein may collect up to $4.6 billion, according to reports. [Forbes.com 12/06/04]
The result of the court ruling: Silverstein makes a huge profit off the 9/11 attacks.
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You can read all about it, and how their owner the Port Authority considered the buildings white elephants, at the link below. The Port Authority treated the towers like an aging dinosaur, attempting on several occasions to get permits to demolish the building for liability reasons, but kept being turned down due to an asbestos problem. Reportedly, it would have cost $1.2B to properly remove the asbestos prior to demolition.
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It is important to note that Larry Silverstein took over as major leaseholder of the twin towers a mere two months prior to 9/11, in a deal that made no sense financially according to the New York Times.
Looks like we may have motive.
The Supposed Hijackers
About the supposed hijackers -- the famous "Arabian 19" -- several of them are still alive for some reason. A week after the FBI released it's list, the BBC found and interviewed one of the men on the list. He said, of course, that he was not involved in the events of 911. This BBC story was not picked up by the news companies in the US.
Here is the original BBC News article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1559151.stm
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From what I've read, the supposed hijackers had only recently been trained to fly Cessna's, nothing larger. If they indeed hijacked jetliners, it would have been the first time for them to sit in the cockpit of a big jet.
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It would be reasonable to expect that such a situation would would be overwhelming, especially considering the supercharged atmosphere of violence on the plane, and that the odds of finding NYC would be nearly impossible. It is possible to find many comments to that effect, posted on the internet by experienced pilots.
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So how did the planes make it to their targets? Remote control. Remote control has been functional in jetliners for many years. While it may be impossible to determine, for certain, that remote control was used, that is one possibility.
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The Strike on the Pentagon
Now let’s discuss flight 77 and the Pentagon. This story is just a side show compared to the three buildings in New York, but it is a story worth discussing.
Years ago (soon after 9-11), a friend and colleague brought to my attention a well-done web video produced by the APFN (American Patriot Friends Network), which challenged the notion that flight 77 (or any jet airliner) actually crashed into the Pentagon.
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More recently, the government released this photograph of the debris field and the side of the pentagon that was damaged:
The problem is --- where is the crashed plane? A large passenger jet creates a huge debris field when it crashes. There should be a million airplane parts. Where are the engines? Where is the fuselage? Are you going to tell me that this building swallowed the whole airplane? Or that it somehow melted into the ground?
Finally, the question still remains why the Pentagon would permit a plane to hit it. From Griffin’s book, The 9/11 Commission – Omissions and Distortions, the Pentagon is protected by five very sophisticated anti-missile batteries. They are set to fire automatically if the Pentagon is approached by any aircraft not sending out a “friendly” signal from its transponder – meaning any aircraft other than one belonging to the US military. And if not the anti-missile batteries, then fighters from nearby Dulles AFB should have been scrambled. Griffin points out that in order for the plane to approach the Pentagon from the west it would have had to perform extra maneuvers and circle around. Thus, it would have been on the Pentagon’s radar screens an extra amount of time.
Therefore, it strikes me as very significant that the Pentagon would allow a lumbering commercial jet airliner to crash into it. (Yes, I realize it was estimated to be traveling at 350 mph, but that is “lumbering” compared to other flying objects the Pentagon should be prepared to defend itself against.) Note that the Pentagon event happened 40 minutes after the 2nd NYC crash. The Pentagon would surely have been on high alert.
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For these reasons I must conclude that events at the Pentagon were just one more "act" in the choreographed drama of the day.
A final note from Leonard
That concludes the article. Thank you for "staying the course" on this topic. You are to be commended, as not many Americans can stand to read this much information in one sitting, especially when it is is a contrary point of view. That is, contrary to popular belief. It is important for you to know that, in putting together this article, I had to cut down tremendously, as the volume of further information pointing in the same direction is enormous. David Ray Griffin himself wrote 9 books on the topic! There are a great many more such books. Plus, the number of websites with sound information is tremendous.
We will conclude with this quotation:
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"The reason so many people doubt the 9/11 story is not because they have psychological needs for conspiracies, but because the 9/11 story is not believable."
-- Paul Craig Roberts
(Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.)
He can be reached at: paulcraigroberts@yahoo.com
And three famous quotes:
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The great masses of people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. – Adolf Hitler
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity. – Marshall McLuhan, media guru
All this was inspired by the principle -- which is quite true in itself -- that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper state of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily, and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes. – Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
Article by Leonard Yates (c) 2022
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