James Fetzer, a former Marine Corps officer and McKnight Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, founded Scholars for 9/11 Truth in December 2005 and invited Steven Jones, Ph.D., to join him as co-chair. Ironically, they split over Jones' commitment to nanothermite and his opposition to introducing alternative theories into 9/11 research. Those who view this conference will be well-positioned to decide which of them had it right.
Stephen Francis proposed the first Midwest 9/11 Truth Conference, which was held on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (22 September 2013) and, as the 15th observance of 9/11 approached, he and Jim Fetzer decided the time was right for a second. Here Stephen offers a meta-perspective placing the events of 9/11 within a broader cultural context that offers a broader point of view for understanding the events of that tragic and fateful day.
Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D., University of Michigan), received the Superior Civilian Service Award after more than five years of service at the US Army War College as Director of Studies, Strategic Studies Institute, and holder of the General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research. He has been among the most outspoken critics of 9/11 and has not hesitated to identify the interests and parties that were responsible for committing these atrocities upon the American people.
Dennis Cimono, who has extensive engineering and support experience with military electronics, predominantly US Navy Combat Systems, was the Navy’s top EMI troubleshooter before he went to work for Raytheon in the 1980s. He has collaborated with Jim Fetzer on many articles about “false ag” attacks. In this presentation, he and Jim discussed what did and did not happen at the Pentagon on 9/11.
Donald Fox has done extensive research on the role of mini-nukes by Dr. Ed Ward and on work by The Anonymous Physicist on the towers and has formulated an account of how it was done and why there is more to this story relative to very low-yield thermonuclear devices. In this presentation, he talks about the structure of the atom and the effects that result from fission and fusion events, with special concern for the correlations between the elements discovered in the US Geological Survey studies.
Charles Pegelow Part 1, P.E. (ret.) Civil/Structural Engineer has long believed that the key to understanding what happened in New York on 9/11 is accounting for between 70 and 90,000-tons of steel, which is missing and appears to have been vaporized. He believes that this was a nuclear event--probably 4th generation devices--which is substantiated by the US Geological Survey dust sample studies exposing nuclear elements. He also believes that A&E911 by now ought to have made progress beyond nano-thermite and WTC-7.
Charles Pegelow Part 2, P.E. (ret.) Civil/Structural Engineer has long believed that the key to understanding what happened in New York on 9/11 is accounting for between 70 and 90,000-tons of steel, which is missing and appears to have been vaporized. He believes that this was a nuclear event--probably 4th generation devices--which is substantiated by the US Geological Survey dust sample studies exposing nuclear elements. He also believes that A&E911 by now ought to have made progress beyond nano-thermite and WTC-7.
Dennis Cimono, who has extensive engineering and support experience with military electronics, predominantly US Navy Combat Systems, was the Navy’s top EMI troubleshooter before he went to work for Raytheon in the 1980s. He has collaborated with Jim Fetzer on many articles about “false ag” attacks. In this presentation, he and Jim discussed what did and did not happen at the Pentagon on 9/11.
Joe Olson, a licensed civil and structural engineer, reviews the evidence from the World Trade Center and explains how we know that the destruction of the Twin Towers was done using nuclear devices, which has been confirmed by the US Geological dust study evidence and by the epidemiological data of medical maladies suffered by first responders and residents in the vicinity of Ground Zero.
Nicholas Kollerstrom, an historian of science from the UK and the world's leading authority on the 7/7 London subway bombings (whose book, Terror on the Tube, is now in its 3rd edition), reviews some of the most striking on-the-scene indications of Israeli complicity in 9/11, including the arrest of the five "Dancing Israelis", who were held for 41 days and then released and allowed to return to Israel, where they went on Israeli television and explained that they had been there "to document the event".
Preston James, a social psychologist with a Ph.D. from a Big 10 university, discusses the complex moves that were made to cover up the complicity of Israel in planning and staging 9/11, where many false clues were planted to through off even serious and sincere investigators of the crime. He draws a number of parallels with the assassination of JFK, where it becomes apparent that the United States has had a succession of presidents who would never have occupied the office but for the death of JFK.
Mark Hightower, a chemical engineer, did pioneering work on nanothermite in 2011, including three chapters in AMERICA NUKED (2016), which demonstrate that nanothermite cannot possibly have been responsible on its own for the destruction of the Twin Towers. That is simply a myth. He and I did a radio interview on "The Real Deal" discussing these issues in even greater detail. One article he cites, "Nanothermite: If it doesn't fit, you must acquit!", can be found on-line here as well as in the book. It is disappointing that A&E911 has not been responsive to this evidence, which falsifies its preferred theory of how it was done.
Susan Lindauer, a former CIA asset who served as liaison between the CIA and Saddam Hussein, recounts her experiences with the agency and Saddam's desire to avoid war with the United States, where he offered to buy 1,000,000 cars a year for the next ten years--and, he aded, "If that is not enough, make it twenty!" Imagine where American would be economically if, instead of squandering four to five trillion in laying waste to the Middle East, we had used it to develop the US infrastructure.
Scott Bennett, a former Army intel and psyops officer, has become a whistleblower of the financial scams that have been perpetrated under the guise of 9/11. His short of being tried in a civilian court for an offense on a military base became the first installment in an extraordinary saga that led to his incarceration with one of the financial geniuses who was behind the scheme to make money for prominent figures in the government, including Hillary and the Clinton Foundation.
Chuck Boldwyn Part 1, a retired high-school math, physics and chemistry teacher, puts the combination of elements together that appear to have been used to destroy the World Trade Center, not just the Twin Towers but WTC-6 and WTC-7 as well, using nano-thermite combined with mini or micro nukes, which appear to have been refined from Davy Crockett recoilless rifles to propel nuclear
warheads, which were given to Israel by the US. refined and brought back for deployment on 9/11.
Chuck Boldwyn Part 2, a retired high-school math, physics and chemistry teacher, puts the combination of elements together that appear to have been used to destroy the World Trade Center, not just the Twin Towers but WTC-6 and WTC-7 as well, using nano-thermite combined with mini or micro nukes, which appear to have been refined from Davy Crockett recoilless rifles to propel nuclear
warheads, which were given to Israel by the US. refined and brought back for deployment on 9/11.
Cultural Marxism, Political Correctness & Multiculturalism
AngryHarry Cultural Marxism / Feminism McCarthyism
Corbett ReportMaurice Strong who became an international player for the UN global depopulation agenda. Disgraced kleptocrat Maurice Strong died late last year at the age of 86. He was shunned from polite society and forced into a life of exile in Beijing after his decades of business intrigues, crimes against humanity, and environmental destruction unraveled. His savagery culminated with an attempt to profit off of the death of starving Iraqi children. His funeral was a quiet affair, attended only by those few family members who could not find it in their heart to shun him completely. Former friends and business associates like Paul Martin, James Wolfensohn, Kofi Annan, Conrad Black, and Al Gore all avoided calls for comments on their disgraced friend’s passing.”
EnglishNews ,..This 20th century strain of Jewish Marxism, Christianity and Talmudic warfare was produced by the Frankfurt School a.k.a. the Institute for Social Research founded by and corrupted by Jewish Supremacists in Frankfurt, and later in New York where it was and still is responsible for all the anti-European psychology advertising approaches, Critical Theory, repressive tolerance, "diversity is our strength," and other insidious tactics, phrases, infiltration attempts, suppression phrases and strategies that are attempting to gradually strip away the cultural traditions, ethnic identity, national sovereignty, and historical memory of the ethnic European races, especially in Northern Europe and our off-continent homelands of Canada, America, Australia, NZ and elsewhere, relying on a bedrock of Christian tolerance and anti-natural philosophy to weaken their prey, allowing for the fundamental susceptibility to further defilement. .
FreeBritainSociety..The British Labour Party was organised in 1900 as the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) by Fabian Society leaders Bernard Shaw and Edward Pease, and had Fabian Socialist Ramsay MacDonald as General Secretary.An example of this is the promotion of collapse theology, the worse is better mentality, which effectively neutralises those who adhere to it from having a political influence, as they are manipulated into waiting for ‘shit to hit the fan’, which never occurs, until it is too late. Understanding the Jewish origin of these theories and distractions are essential for attaining a pure perspective. Disposing of the impurities promoted by the Fabian Jewish Supremacists and post-Frankfurt Jewish multi-racialists is essential for the survival of our folk.
Intrepid Report The European Union and its goal of a borderless Europe, the euro common currency, a common police force—EUROPOL—benefits only one major and influential group: the pedophile network that dominates the EU and individual member states like the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Sweden, and others. The Schengen system, which drops intra-European border controls, permits pedophiles, even those with prior criminal records, to travel unchallenged throughout the Schengen group of countries.
Irish Savant Shachar Zahavi of disaster relief organization IsraAid spoke with The Times of Israel in a brief conversation from Athens on Wednesday. IsraAid has been working with Syrian refugees in Jordan and Iraq/Kurdistan for several years and is currently setting up operations at a well-traveled entry point in GREECE.
McDonald, Kevin thesis Jewish neoconservatism.A deep concern with furthering specific Jewish interests, such as helping Israel or promoting immigration. Issues are framed in a rhetoric of universalism rather than Jewish particularism. Issues are framed in moral terms, and an attitude of moral superiority pervades the movement. Centered around charismatic leaders (Boas, Trotsky, Freud). Jews form a cohesive, mutually reinforcing core. Non-Jews appear in highly visible roles, often as spokespersons for the movement. A pronounced ingroup/outgroup atmosphere within the movement—dissenters are portrayed as the personification of evil and are expunged from the movement. The movement is irrational in the sense that it is fundamentally concerned with using available intellectual resources to advance a political cause. The movement is associated with the most prestigious academic institutions in the society. Access to prestigious and mainstream media sources, partly as a result of Jewish influence on the media. Active involvement of the wider Jewish community in supporting the movement.
RedGreenAlliance Cass Sunstein .Victory in the war of ideas often hinges more on the conditions of battle than on the quality of arguments. You know this instinctively if you’ve ever been shouted down, smeared, or ignored when you were simply trying to state a point. Truly civil public discourse becomes much harder when our dialogue is hijacked by thought policing—euphemistically referred to as “political correctness,” or PC
RobertsCourt Blog. Tavistock Tavistock, a progressive society, was founded in London in 1920; the Tavistock Clinic opened in 1920. It always had secret ties to British Freemasonry. Its aims include social control, information control; and control of the hidden information environment. Practically, his means it has control mechanisms in academia, multimedia, intelligence, and medicine especially pharmaceuticals. Tavistock is part of the global shadow government.
Smash MulticulturalismThe traditional definition of race and ethnicity is related to biological and sociological factors respectively. Race refers to a person’s physical characteristics, such as bone structure and skin, hair, or eye color. Ethnicity, however, refers to cultural factors, including nationality, int Alex Jones
SourceWatch Leo Strauss "For Strauss, "religion is the glue that holds society together", said Drury, who added that Irving Kristol, among other neo-conservatives, has argued that separating church and state was the biggest mistake made by the founders of the U.S. republic. "Secular society in their view is the worst possible thing", because it leads to individualism, liberalism and relativism ... precisely those traits that might encourage dissent, which in turn could dangerously weaken society's ability to cope with external threats. "You want a crowd that you can manipulate like putty," according to Drury"
ZionistReport t is entirely fitting that the European Central Bank (ECB) chief Mario Draghi has decided to convene the annual meeting of ECB bankers in the Portuguese city of Sintra. Draghi and his fellow bankers are trying to decide how to mitigate the effects of the Brexit vote by Britain to leave the European Union.
ArkansasFreedomSenator John Boozman has aided & abetted these 15 year wars from the first day he entered congress. He voted for the Patriot Acts twice that destroyed the 1st & 4th Amendments. His dossier only shows warmongering, Establishment compliance, & betrayal of middleclass Arkansans. Over the years he has lightly campaigned by claiming he is a “conservative”, would fight against illegal immigration, and would always serve the interests of fellow Arkansans—all lies. Boozman, unfortunately is just another dangerous, self-serving sycophant and a lackey for the Bush II crime family.
Breitbart.review Devil's Pleasure Palace.Are there dozens of gender and gay and black studies courses at Yale and only a few on the American founding? Cultural Marxists did that. Can professors be tried before secret Kangaroo courts? Cultural Marxists did that. Are high-powered corporate executives too frightened to refuse a gay rainbow sticker on their office door? Cultural Marxism at work. Are we as a society so unsure of ourselves that we cannot even think, let alone assert, that Western civilization is superior to any and all others? They did that, too. Gays in the military? Boys in dresses peeing in the girl’s room? You get the idea....
CigPapersFabian Society, a wolf in sheep's clothing .The Fabians originally were a faux elite group of pseudo-intellectuals who formed a semi-secret society for the purpose of bringing socialism to the world. Whereas Communists wanted to establish socialism through violence and revolution, the Fabians preferred to do it gradually through propaganda, infiltration and legislation. The word socialism was never to be used. Instead, they would always speak of benefits for the people such as pensions, welfare, medical care, higher wages, and better working conditions.
Confessions of the Illuminati.Author Leo Lyon Zagami uses the Illuminati’s internal documents and reveals confidential and top-secret events. His book contends that the presence of numerous Illuminati brotherhoods and secret societies—just as those inside the most prestigious U.S. universities such as Yale or Harvard—have always been guides to the occult. From the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO)’s infiltration of Freemasonry to the real Priory of Sion, this book exposes the hidden structure of the New World Order and the occult practices of the various groups involved with it, including their connections to the intelligence community and the infamous Ur-Lodges..
European Economics Blog.We need to understand why Western society and its cultural identity have so vastly degenerated and especially why family values have deteriorated so dramatically. A clearer understanding of the historical evolution of this age-old question and its far-reaching implications will provide valuable insights into the intellectual crisis of Western societies and the strategic suppression of dissent and independent thought. It will shed light on the origins on the intellectual bondage that we know today as Political Correctness.
Millenium Report.A Mossad unit consisting of six Egyptian and Yemeni-born Jews infiltrated “Al Qaeda” cells in Hamburg (the Atta-Mamoun Darkanzali cell), south Florida, and Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates in the months before 9/11. The Mossad not only infiltrated cells but began to run them.
NewsFollowUp False Flag attacks : Ambassador Chris Stevens, Benghazi 'al Qaeda' attack, 'October Surprise'. France Toulouse Jewish murders Iran nuclear scientists murdered by Israelr ... Western mercenaries conducted assassinations and false flag terror attacks in Jan 2013 report Lebanon's police intelligence chief, General Wissam al-Hassan.. .Underwear Bomber Israel security firm ICTS common thread to Shoe Bomber Shoe Bomber Israel security firm ICTS common thread to Underwear Bomber Bali Bombings, by Israel Hariri assassination by Israel 51 Documents Zionist Collaboration with the Zazis more Holocaust Minot Barksdale B-52 (Cheney, nuclear warheads transfer) 9/11 WTC, Pentagon, Flight 93, Building 7, Shanksville SweetLiberty.org Israel False Flag Black Ops..
NewEuroMed.Who created Communism? Karl_Marx_001Acc. to Fr. Engels, the Jewish Freemason Karl Marx Marx was hired by the League of Just Men to write the “Communist Manifesto”. This League was based on the League of Outlaws having its Root in the French Revolution Illumininatus, Babeuf. In fact, there was little difference between Babouvism and Bolshevism. The League of Just Men consisted of Rothschilds, Oppenheims and Oppenheimers, Nathan Rothschild financing Marx. The Communist Manifesto was to implement the 6 Commandments of Jesuit Adam Weishaupt and Mayer Amschel Rothschild – primarily to abolish nation state and Christianity. It did widely happen through revolutions and wars worldwide, killing millions of Christians..
Occidental Observer Intertwined Jewish power families are an important aspect of Jewish history, cementing business relationships by creating networks of close relatives who married only among themselves—e.g., the Court Jews of 17th- and 18th-century Europe (see here, pp 150-152). We see echoes of that in the contemporary world, as among the neocons.a talented, energetic [Jewish] family that is part of the Permanent Government of the United States. It doesn’t really matter who wins the Presidential election: some Kagan-Nuland will be doing something somewhere in your name and on your dime. The Kagan connection is via her husband, Robert Kagan. As noted by Your Lying Eyes, “Robert and brother Fred seem to have strategically implanted themselves in key policy-making positions within the Democratic and Republican party apparatus. Robert is embedded at Brookings, while Fred is ensconsed at AEI.”..
RightPediaFrankfurt School The creation of racism offences and hate speech laws. Continual change to create confusion (e,g., in school curricula). Masturbation propaganda in schools, combined with the homosexualization and transsexualism of children and their corruption by exposing them to child porn in the classroom. The systematic undermining of parental and teachers’ authority. Huge immigration to destroy national identity and foment future race wars. The systematic promotion of excessive drinking and recreational drugs. The systematic promotion of sexual deviance in society. An unreliable legal system with bias against the victims of crime. Dependency on state benefits. Control and dumbing down of media. (Six Jewish companies now control 96 percent of the world’s media. LD). Encouraging the breakdown of the family. All all-out attack on Christianity and the emptying of churches.
SalvoMag .Marcuse was a key intellectual in the movement, along with Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, Walter Benjamin, Leo Lowenthal, Wilhelm Reich, Georg Lukacs, and many others. These men were disillusioned with traditional Western society and values. Lukacs, who helped found the school, said that its purpose was to answer this question: "Who shall save us from Western Civilization?" Terror and civilization are inseparable," wrote Adorno and Horkheimer in The Dialectic of Enlightenment. The solution to terror was therefore simple: dismantle civilization. Marcuse expressed their goal like this: "One can rightfully speak of a cultural revolution, since the protest is directed toward the whole cultural establishment, including [the] morality of existing society." Lukacs saw "the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and only solution to the cultural contradictions of the epoch," and argued that "such a worldwide overturning of values cannot take place without the annihilation of the old values and the creation of new ones by the revolutionaries."
StarryNews..Why do they let them in? Why DID they let them in. So many years ago! Because the pedofile politicans, blackmailed by Mossad & CIA, are doing the Bankers’ bidding. And what is that? Destroy Europe as national entities to fit better into their One World Disorder! And so Merkel, and Hollande, Cameron, and all the others, supported the official version of 9-11, which was done by the Rockefellers, Mossad, and the CIA, to blame the Arabs, to blame the Muslims, and to take down 5-6 countries that were against Islamic radicals. Why?..
TelosPress Marcuse, whose research and philosophy only marginally addressed the “Jewish question,” never denied his Jewish origins, but at the same time he never used this objective fact as an exclusive or decisive argument to affect his views on various issues, not even regarding world-historical matters of particular relevance to the Jews. Even if generally, positively, Marcuse endeavored to constitute the Marxian Realm of Freedom, or at least strove to fathom scientifically why in the course of modern history, an authentic revolution for the liberation of man has failed repeatedly, his major, immediate, intellectual and socio-political concern was the struggle against the reemergence of an oppressive reign of horror, including a struggle against the possible recurrence of a genocide. Marcuse supported the existence of the State of Israel and its right to defend itself. The objective rationale for this was, ultimately, the Holocaust of European Jewry: namely, the perception of the State of Israel as a refuge and a shelter for Jews against persecutions and repression. But this position did not prevent him from strongly criticizing Israeli policy since the end of the Six-Day War (June 1967) for objecting to peace, as well as for its attitude toward the Palestinians in Israel and in the occupied territories as inferior, a policy that he understood an expression of “racist and nationalistic tendencies.” It was the policy of Israel’s governments and its possible consequences that he regarded as the greatest threat to the continued existence of the Jewish state.
Ledeen book War Against the Terror Masters: Ledeen: from his book: War Against the Terror Masters, "Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our own society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law. Our enemies have always hated this whirlwind of energy and creativity, which menaces their traditions (whatever they may be) and shames them for their inability to keep pace and Amazon book description The War Against the Terror Masters is a must-read guide to the terrorist crisis. Michael A. Ledeen explains in startling detail how and why the United States was so unprepared for the September 11th catastrophe; the nature of the terror network we are fighting--including the state sponsors of that network; the role of radical Islam; and the enemy collaboration of some of our traditional Middle Eastern "allies";--and, most convincingly, what we must do to win the war.
Mises InstituteThis is an excellent short video explaining the source and nature of Cultural Marxist movements like political correctness, modern feminism, pansexualism, multiculturalism, "whiteness studies," etc. For an in-depth critique of the thinkers whose writings shaped Cultural Marxism, see Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by the eminent British philosopher Roger Scruton. Scruton brilliantly exposes the pretensions, obscurities, and inanities of Sartre, Foucault, Galbraith, Marcuse, Lukacs, Habermas, Adorno, Rawls, Dworkin and others of their ilk. The book is not just a philosophical tract but a work in critical political economy and contains one of the most penetrating discussions of the Marxist labor theory of value
Silberman Robb report, Whitehouse, Commission on Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. andTEXT FILEJudge Lawrence Silberman is married to Ricky. Ricky Silberman and Barbara Ledeen and Barbara Olson cofounded Independent Women's Forum. IWF funding Richard Mellon Scaife, Koch Industries, affiliation with Citizens for a Sound Economy.
SPLCenter the book is an endless parade of classic far-right conspiracy theories and vicious, factually groundless fear mongering. From the idea that “cultural Marxism”is a force hellbent on ruining the world, to attacks on Obama as a “socialist”president, Savage covers the gamut of far-right conspiracy theories in fine fashion.Perhaps most notable among Savage’s claims is that the Obama administration is preparing to wage a “war on white people”that will give the government a pretext for imposing a dictatorship with global players, including the Roman Catholic Church and Pope Francis.
Weil, Felix founder of the Frankfurt School ... Rothschild funding?.
Wikipedia Frankurt School Conpiracy Theory Cultural Marxism The Frankfurt School (German: Frankfurter Schule) is a school of social theory and philosophy associated in part with the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Founded during the interwar period, the School consisted of dissidents who felt at home neither in the existent capitalist, fascist, nor communist systems that had formed at the time. Many of these theorists believed that traditional theory could not adequately explain the turbulent and unexpected development of capitalist societies in the twentieth century. Critical of both capitalism and Soviet socialism, their writings pointed to the possibility of an alternative path to social development
notes There are many shared aspects between the Fabian Society and the Frankfurt School: Both claim to promote socialism, the counter-ideology of capitalism Both have been and are funded by extremely wealthy people and groups who attained their affluence as capitalists Both promote the radical transformation of Western civilization through Socialist utopianism Both reject revolutionary Marxism and instead use and advocate "gradualism," a step-by-step long-term plan to change the character of the West through stealth and infiltration sourceEuroCanadian
WikipediaMaurice Strong.Strong was a longtime Foundation Director of the World Economic Forum, a senior advisor to the president of the World Bank, a member of the International Advisory of Toyota Motor Corporation, the Advisory Council for the Center for International Development at Harvard University, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the World Wildlife Fund, Resources for the Future and the Eisenhower Fellowships. His public service activities were carried out on a pro bono basis made possible by his business activities, which included being chairman of the International Advisory Group of CH2M Hill, Strovest Holdings, Technology Development Inc., Zenon Environmental, and most recently, Cosmos International and the China Carbon Corporation..
Smash Multiculturalism The goal is clear. Not only in the words of Jews themselves, but in the visual reality we see in European and Western nations every day. If you have ever asked yourself why your country is being destroyed then here is your answer. When we and others say that the engineering of Multicultural, Multiracial and Multifaith societies has been by design and has been no accident then this is why we say it. It isn’t about the economy, it isn’t about diversity, it isn’t about enrichment, it is about the weakening of the once European majority in the interests of one specific group. How do they achieve this? Despite being an extreme minority they achieve this very easily. They influence politicians by lobbying and providing campaign finance and who then proceed to do their bidding. They use academia to indoctrinate our youth into thinking they don’t exist as a group with interests. They use the media to attack and demonise any opposition to their agenda as ‘nazis’ and at the same time use the film industry to portray a narrative of WWII that fits their agenda. What they want is for the public to think that any identification with ones own racial group and the interests specific to them, will lead to the ‘gas chambers.’ ‘a tenacious minority will beat down the resistance of a disorganised majority,’ in other words they use a divide and conquer strategy to weaken us thereby strengthening their own position and dominance. They can operate more freely as a cohesive ethno-religious group when they live in a society with many different ethnic and religious groups and when they don’t stand out so easily as a corrosive force as they have done in the past. Essentially what we have is an alien element within society that uses our institutions against us for their own benefit. Everything that we see as an obvious negative in the West they describe as being progress, but progess for them not us. They are a criminal element, an enemy of our people and are determined to achieve the irreversible ruination of our nations and people.
Wikipedia Frankfurt School Academic Speak BS Although sometimes only loosely affiliated, Frankfurt School theorists spoke with a common paradigm in mind; they shared the Marxist Hegelian premises and were preoccupied with similar questions.[2] To fill in the perceived omissions of classical Marxism, they sought to draw answers from other schools of thought, hence using the insights of antipositivist sociology, psychoanalysis, existential philosophy, and other disciplines.[3] The school's main figures sought to learn from and synthesize the works of such varied thinkers as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Weber, and Lukács.[4] Following Marx, they were concerned with the conditions that allow for social change and the establishment of rational institutions.[5] Their emphasis on the "critical" component of theory was derived significantly from their attempt to overcome the limits of positivism, materialism, and determinism by returning to Kant's critical philosophy and its successors in German idealism, principally Hegel's philosophy, with its emphasis on dialectic and contradiction as inherent properties of human reality. Since the 1960s, Frankfurt School critical theory has increasingly been guided by Jürgen Habermas's work on communicative reason, linguistic intersubjectivity and what Habermas calls "the philosophical discourse of modernity".[6] Critical theorists such as Raymond Geuss and Nikolas Kompridis have voiced opposition to Habermas, claiming that he has undermined the aspirations for social change that originally gave purpose to critical theory's various projects—for example the problem of what reason should mean, the analysis and enlargement of "conditions of possibility" for social emancipation, and the critique of modern capitalism.
FreeBritainNow The British Labour Party was organised in 1900 as the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) by Fabian Society leaders Bernard Shaw and Edward Pease, and had Fabian Socialist Ramsay MacDonald as General Secretary (Pugh, p. 67). The LRC was renamed “The Labour Party” in 1906 and, under Fabian guidance and direction, it became the organisation it is today (Ratiu, 2012). By 1918, Labour had become Britain’s second-largest political organisation – replacing the Liberals – and in Pease’s own words, was “virtually, if not formally,” Fabian in its political policy (Pease, p. 73). .... The “Memorandum on War Aims” by Fabian Society co-founder Sidney Webb became the Labour Party’s policy statement. The pamphlet “Labour and the New Social Order,” also by Webb, was adopted as the Labour Party manifesto. “ Fabian Society has 7000 members 80 per cent (5600) of whom are members of the Labour Party, which includes hundreds of Members of Parliament, Prime Ministers, and other members of Labour governments. What is particularly significant is that this makes about 3 per cent in the general Labour Party membership (about 190,000 in 2010) but close to 100 per cent in the Labour leadership. For example, nearly the entire 1997 Labour Cabinet (including Prime Minister Blair) was composed of Fabians (“The Fabian Society: a brief history”). Moreover, all Labour Prime Ministers have been members of the Fabian Society as have all (or nearly all) Labour Party leaders and deputy leaders. This ought to persuade even die-hard sceptics of the obvious fact that the Labour Party is an organisation run by the Fabian Society. As pointed out by the Guardian – a left-wing paper with close links to the Labour Party and the Fabian Society – (Mandelson, 2005). In 2006 Tony Blair (a Fabian Society member) openly admitted that the values the early Fabians stood for would be “very recognisable” in today’s Labour Party (“A piece of Fabian history unveiled at LSE”). Fabians are routinely involved in Labour Party conferences such as in 2009; the current Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, launched his leadership bid at a Fabian Society conference, etc. What becomes evident from the above facts is that the Labour Party is an organisation created and controlled by the Fabian Society.
The Birth Of Cultural Marxism: How The "Frankfurt School" Changed America byTyler Durden
ZeroHedge The Birth Of Cultural Marxism: How The "Frankfurt School" Changed America Tyler Durden's picture by Tyler Durden Aug 12, 2016 9:00 PM 12 SHARES Submitted by David Galland via GarretGalland.com, The 1950s were a simple, romantic, and golden time in America. California beaches, suburbia, and style. Atlas Shrugged was published, NASA was formed, and Elvis rocked the nation. Every year from 1950–1959 saw over 4 million babies born. The nation stood atop the world in every field. It was an era of great economic prosperity in The Land of the Free. So, what happened to the American traits of confidence, pride, and accountability? The roots of Western cultural decay are very deep, having first sprouted a century ago. It began with a loose clan of ideologues inside Europe’s communist movement. Today, it is known as the Frankfurt School, and its ideals have perverted American society. When Outcomes Fail, Just Change the Theory Before WWI, Marxist theory held that if war broke out in Europe, the working classes would rise up against the bourgeoisie and create a communist revolution. Well, as is the case with much of Marxist theory, things didn’t go too well. When war broke out in 1914, instead of starting a revolution, the proletariat put on their uniforms and went off to war. After the war ended, Marxist theorists were left to ask, “What went wrong?” Two very prominent Marxists thinkers of the day were Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukács. Each man, on his own, concluded that the working class of Europe had been blinded by the success of Western democracy and capitalism. They reasoned that until both had been destroyed, a communist revolution was not possible. Gramsci and Lukács were both active in the Communist party, but their lives took very different paths. Gramsci was jailed by Mussolini in Italy where he died in 1937 due to poor health. In 1918, Lukács became minister of culture in Bolshevik Hungary. During this time, Lukács realized that if the family unit and sexual morals were eroded, society could be broken down. Lukács implemented a policy he titled “cultural terrorism,” which focused on these two objectives. A major part of the policy was to target children’s minds through lectures that encouraged them to deride and reject Christian ethics. In these lectures, graphic sexual matter was presented to children, and they were taught about loose sexual conduct. Here again, a Marxist theory had failed to take hold in the real world. The people were outraged at Lukács’ program, and he fled Hungary when Romania invaded in 1919. The Birth of Cultural Marxism All was quiet on the Marxist front until 1923 when the cultural terrorist turned up for a “Marxist study week” in Frankfurt, Germany. There, Lukács met a young, wealthy Marxist named Felix Weil. Until Lukács showed up, classical Marxist theory was based solely on the economic changes needed to overthrow class conflict. Weil was enthused by Lukács’ cultural angle on Marxism. Weil’s interest led him to fund a new Marxist think tank—the Institute for Social Research. It would later come to be known as simply The Frankfurt School. In 1930, the school changed course under new director Max Horkheimer. The team began mixing the ideas of Sigmund Freud with those of Marx, and cultural Marxism was born. In classical Marxism, the workers of the world were oppressed by the ruling classes. The new theory was that everyone in society was psychologically oppressed by the institutions of Western culture. The school concluded that this new focus would need new vanguards to spur the change. The workers were not able to rise up on their own. As fate would have it, the National Socialists came to power in Germany in 1933. It was a bad time and place to be a Jewish Marxist, as most of the school’s faculty was. So, the school moved to New York City, the bastion of Western culture at the time. Coming to America In 1934, the school was reborn at Columbia University. Its members began to exert their ideas on American culture. It was at Columbia University that the school honed the tool it would use to destroy Western culture: the printed word. The school published a lot of popular material. The first of these was Critical Theory. Critical Theory is a play on semantics. The theory was simple: criticize every pillar of Western culture—family, democracy, common law, freedom of speech, and others. The hope was that these pillars would crumble under the pressure. Next was a book Theodor Adorno co-authored, The Authoritarian Personality. It redefined traditional American views on gender roles and sexual mores as “prejudice.” Adorno compared them to the traditions that led to the rise of fascism in Europe. Is it just a coincidence that the go-to slur for the politically correct today is “fascist”? The school pushed its shift away from economics and toward Freud by publishing works on psychological repression. Their works split society into two main groups: the oppressors and the victims. They argued that history and reality were shaped by those groups who controlled traditional institutions. At the time, that was code for males of European descent. From there, they argued that the social roles of men and women were due to gender differences defined by the “oppressors.” In other words, gender did not exist in reality but was merely a “social construct.” A Coalition of Victims Adorno and Horkheimer returned to Germany when WWII ended. Herbert Marcuse, another member of the school, stayed in America. In 1955, he published Eros and Civilization. In the book, Marcuse argued that Western culture was inherently repressive because it gave up happiness for social progress. The book called for “polymorphous perversity,” a concept crafted by Freud. It posed the idea of sexual pleasure outside the traditional norms. Eros and Civilization would become very influential in shaping the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Marcuse would be the one to answer Horkheimer’s question from the 1930s: Who would replace the working class as the new vanguards of the Marxist revolution? Marcuse believed that it would be a victim coalition of minorities—blacks, women, and homosexuals. The social movements of the 1960s—black power, feminism, gay rights, sexual liberation—gave Marcuse a unique vehicle to release cultural Marxist ideas into the mainstream. Railing against all things “establishment,” The Frankfurt School’s ideals caught on like wildfire across American universities. Marcuse then published Repressive Tolerance in 1965 as the various social movements in America were in full swing. In it, he argued that tolerance of all values and ideas meant the repression of “correct” ideas. It was here that Marcuse coined the term “liberating tolerance.” It called for tolerance of any ideas coming from the left but intolerance of those from the right. One of the overarching themes of the Frankfurt School was total intolerance for any viewpoint but its own. That is also a basic trait of today’s political-correctness believers. To quote Max Horkheimer, “Logic is not independent of content.” Recalling the Words of Winston (Not That One) The Frankfurt School’s work has had a deep impact on American culture. It has recast the homogenous America of the 1950s into today’s divided, animosity-filled nation. In turn, this has contributed to the undeniable breakdown of the family unit, as well as identity politics, radical feminism, and racial polarization in America. It’s hard to decide if today’s culture is more like Orwell’s 1984 or Huxley’s Brave New World. Never one to buck a populist trend, the political establishment in America has fully embraced the ideas of the Frankfurt School and has pushed them on American society through public miseducation. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the beacons of progressivism, are both disciples of Saul Alinsky, a devoted cultural Marxist. And so we now live in a hyper-sensitive society in which social memes and feelings have overtaken biological and objective reality as the main determinants of right and wrong. Political correctness is a war on logic and reason. To quote Winston, the protagonist in Orwell’s dystopia, “Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2=4.” Today, America is not free.
The Frankfurt School ...................http://www.marxists.org/subject/frankfurt-school/index.htm
and “Critical Theory”
Index to the biographies and writings of members of the “Frankfurt School”, or Institute for Social Research, set up by a group of Marxist intellectuals in Germany in 1923, affiliated to the University of Frankfurt and independently of the Communist Party, which has been influential in the development of Marxist theory ever since.
The founding of the Institut marked the beginning of a current of “Marxism” divorced from the organised working class and Communist Parties, which over the decades merged with bourgeois ideology in academia.
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The Institut für Sozialforschung (Institut) was the creation of Felix Weil, who was able to use money from his father's grain business to finance the Institut. Weil was a young Marxist who had written his PhD on the practical problems of implementing socialism and was published by Karl Korsch.
With the hope of bringing different trends of Marxism together, Weil organised a week-long symposium (the Erste Marxistische Arbeitswoche) in 1922 attended by Georg Lukacs, Karl Korsch, Karl August Wittfogel, Friedrich Pollock and others. The event was so successful that Weil set about erecting a building and funding salaries for a permanent institute. Weil negotiated with the Ministry of Education that the Director of the Institut would be a full professor from the state system, so that the Institut would have the status of a University.
Weil himself was an orthodox Marxist, who saw Marxism as scientific; the role of the Institut would be social and historical research mainly on the workers' movement. Indeed, in its early years, the Institut did fairly orthodox historical research. However, one of Weil's central objectives was also cross-disciplinary research, something which the German University system made impossible.
Although Georg Lukacs and Karl Korsch both attended the Arbeitswoche which had included a study of Korsch's Marxism and Philosophy, both were too committed to political activity and Party membership to join the Institut, although Korsch participated in publishing ventures for a number of years.
The way Lukacs was obliged to repudiate his History and Class Consciousness, published in 1923 and probably a major inspiration for the work of the Frankfurt School, was an indicator for others that independence from the Communist Party was necessary for genuine theoretical work.
Friedrich Pollock was one of those who had been involved with the Institut from the beginning, and took over the role of Director on the death of Carl Grünberg. Pollock was content to concern himself with administrative matters, but he was also a life-long friend and associate of Max Horkheimer, who is probably the figure most identified as the leading representative of the Frankfurt School.
Max Horkheimer [Archive] later himself became Director of the Institut, and it was Horkheimer who guided the Institut into its innovative exploration of cultural aspects of the development of capitalism.
See Horkheimer’s opening address on becoming Director.
Karl August Wittfogel was a participant from the beginning, but was a Party member and had a more orthodox, “scientific” view of Marxism. It is Wittfogel who established the classic Marxist analysis of “Asiatic Despotism.”
Richard Sorge worked at the Instiut, but as it turned out was only there in his role as a Soviet spy.
David Ryazanov [Archive] was assigned to Germany to compile the writings of Marx and Engels and publish the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, and worked closely with the Institut.
In 1931/32 a number of psychoanalysts from the Frankfurt Institute of Psychoanalysis and others who were acquainted with members of the Institut began to work systematically with the Institut. These included Franz Borkenau, Erich Fromm, Wilhelm Reich, Karl Landauer and Heinrich Meng.
In joining what was predominantly a “Hegelian-materialist” current of Marxists, these psychologists gave the development of Marxist theory an entirely new direction, which has left its imprint on social theory ever since.
Erich Fromm [Archive] dealt with psychological aspects of social control, delusion and conformity and became one of the founders of “socialist humanism”.
Wilhelm Reich developed his own doctrine of sexual liberalism as an antidote to political conformism and social psychosis.
Other young German Communist intellectuals who were associated with the Institut, but after the Nazi takeover, wound up in the United States, were Kurt Lewin and Adolph Löwe.
They all went on to make significant contributions to social theory, though only distantly related to their initial Communist inspirations. Kurt Lewin for instance contributed to the emergence of group-dynamics and social action theory as specialised disciplines. Adolph Lowe made important contributions to the development of political economy.
Raymond Aron was a French journalist and sociologist.
Leo Lowenthal [Archive] was one of the early workers at the Institut
whose principal interest was in the sociology of literature.
Later he was joined by the Hegelian philosopher Herbert Marcuse [Archive] who was probably the only member of the Institut who achieved wide influence among political activists, in the 1960s.
When Hitler came to power, the Institut was closed down, and by various routes, most of the participants in the Institut regrouped themselves in New York, with a new Institute affiliated to Columbia University. They continued to publish in German, even though very few people would have been reading their work in that language. However, after the War, the Institut returned to Frankfurt.
Perhaps two of the most famous figures who were in the central core of the Institut were Theodor Adorno [Archive] and Walter Benjamin, both renowned for their studies of literature and mass culture which would become so influential from the 1960s on.
After the Institut re-established itself in Germany after the War, the main figure of the younger generation was Jürgen Habermas [Archive] who continued to develop the “critical theory” in the Hegelian tradition of Adorno and Marcuse. Habermas was instrumental in the 1960s in developing the theory of “networks,” but in later years Habermas has focussed on communicative ethics in the tradition of Immanuel Kant, and departed not only from the Marxist, but even the Hegelian tradition.
( A BRANCH established in NYC is extant and draws from students
from across the globe.
Its name is "The New School for Social Justice " and many of Folliewoods
brightest and outspoken stars were students there . To become a
successful therapist in NYC one MUST have a few courses from 'TNS'
in ones resume and the connections that go with that.
It shouldnt need to be pointed out the ONE connection among all the founders and administrators relative to the Marxist Theory and the New School.
At NYC Marxist School many teachers are also famous ones from 'TNS'
and do travel to many colleges and Universities giving lectures to
seduce people into the Marxist philosophy. I write from personal experience.
For any who really want to understand what is happening in
OUR world today and what more is planned it is a good start to
read comparisons of Marxist Socailism to National Socialism.
The differences are that between slavery and freedom . Progress and stagnation. )
Currently Axel Honneth represents the third generation, continuing the work of Jürgen Habermas, but with a partial return to Hegel, still quite remote from any reading of Karl Marx.
After the isolation and Stalinisation of the Soviet Union, and the consequent decline of the Communist Parties in the “West,” the possibilities for the fruitful development of Marxism as a revolutionary-critical theory in close connection with the practical-critical activity of the workers movement, became extremely restricted.
The current generation of Critical Theorists, unlike previous generations, is led by women, such as Nancy Fraser, Seyla Benhabib and Agnes Heller:
The intellectuals who founded the Frankfurt Institut deliberatively cut out a space for the development of Marxist theory, inside the “academy” and independently of all kinds of political party.
The result was a process in which Marxism merged with bourgeois ideology. A parallel process took place in post-World War Two France, also involving a merging with Freudian ideas. One of the results was undoubtedly an enrichment of bourgeois ideology. In this connection Paul Mattick's Marcuse: One Dimensional Man In Class Society (1972) is worth reading. But also, despite everything, the Frankfurt School makes an important critique of orthodox Marxism, and their work should be taken seriously.
Mark Dankof on Charlie Hebdo: It’s a Zionist Instrument Dedicated to Blasphemy and Subversion of Christian and Islamic Faiths Alike.
Seyed Muhammad Javad Mousavi of the Rasa News Agency of Iran interviewed Mark Dankof for his perspective on the Charlie Hebdo Affair. The Persian language version of the discussion may be accessed here.
1 – What do you think is the main purpose of continuously insulting the Prophet of Islam?
Mark Dankof: It is important to remember what Pat Buchanan told us all last week: The Charlie Hebdopublication in France was also insulting and blaspheming every version of orthodox Christianity when it depicted the God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, as being involved in an incestuous sexual relationship. Who has a vested interest in blaspheming both Christianity and Islam as part of a world-wide ideological and political game plan? Clearly, it is the global Zionist network which desires to assert the Talmudic doctrine of Jewish racial supremacy on a global basis, and to convince comatose Westerners that their primary enemy in the world is Islam, and not the Zionist hijacking of their own banking system, culture, government, media, and educational establishments. The Frankfurt School and its Institute of Social Research which destroyed the older Christian civilizations in the West in partnership with the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith (ADL) by subverting Europe and the United States with pornography, sexual perversion including the LGBT (Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transsexual) agenda, and the abortion/euthanasia industries, is working its demonic magic through all kinds of Jewish-funded media outlets and NGOs to solidify its hold on the Western world, even as it also seeks the subversion of the Islamic societies and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Eric Margolis concedes that the Charlie Hebdo publication is financed by Rothschild banking interests in France. Simply follow the trail of the money.
Pat Buchanan and Mark Dankof: Charlie Hebdo Depicts God the Father and God the Son, Jesus Christ, in an Incestuous Relationship.
Charlie Hebdo’s financiers and handlers clearly seek to falsely equate mainstream Sunni and Shia Islam with the Wahhabi and Takfiri fanatics comprising the ISIS and al-Qaeda organizations, and to discredit Islam generally in the West, even as orthodox Christianity is also lampooned. Both Islamic and Christian movements must be infiltrated from within with sexual decadence, paid intelligence assets, and internal disorder. The final strategy in the quest for Zionist global supremacy and the final victory of the so-called New World Order will involve the realization of the dream of launching the War of Civilizations envisioned by the Project for the New American Century and its bedfellows. This will necessitate pitting Sunni Islam and Shia Islam against one another as adversaries, and pitting what remains of a Christian remnant in the West against both Islam and Putin’s Russia. Divide and Conquer is the age-old methodology used by this evil monolith.
2 – Some analysts believe that the role of the western intelligence services such as MI6 and Mossad is undeniable regarding the Charlie Hebdo attacks. What’s your take on that? If there is a role, what are the possible reasons behind that?
Mark Dankof: While I cannot absolutely prove it, I agree with Ron Paul and Paul Craig Roberts that theCharlie Hebdo affair has all the earmarks of a False Flag operation conducted by the Israeli Mossad, the British MI6, and the American CIA. It is ludicrous to believe that the national security police states erected in Europe and the United States would be providing money, political, and logistical support to ISIS in a clear attempt to overthrow President Assad in Syria (a clear Zionist objective as a prelude to attacking Iran), and then would subsequently fail to effectively monitor the comings and goings of hundreds of these Wahhabic terror elements traveling with apparent impunity between Syria and both Europe and the United States. These travels are being allowed for a purpose, which is to deliberately enact incidents of this kind, diverting Western public attention from the Hidden Hand financing and directing these operations, as well as diverting public attention from ongoing Israeli atrocities in Palestine, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. Additionally, I believe France was being punished for its public deviations as of late from the wholesale support of the Zionist agenda demanded by the power elite in the West. I refer to the French Parliament’s recent pro-Palestinian vote (s) in public session, and President Hollande’s urging of a reassessment of the wisdom and utility of the economic sanctions being imposed on Putin’s Russia.
I believe there are additional cracks in the canvas being painted by the real perpetrators of this incident, including the convenient leaving behind of an Identification Card in a getaway car by the alleged assailants, and the equally convenient killing of the accused by the French police. Dead Men Tell No Tales. . . . Just ask Lee Harvey Oswald.
3 – In your opinion, what might be the possible reasons behind the Israeli Prime Minister’s attendance in Charlie Hebdo’s post-attack rally?
Mark Dankof: Netanyahu is a war criminal and murderer simply taking advantage of the Zionist controlled media in France specifically and the West generally. He obviously wants to justify his regime’s criminal policies in Palestine and Gaza by posing as a defender of human rights and freedom of expression in the West against “Islamic Jihadists“. It is the established Zionist strategy to make the aggressor and the criminal perpetrator appear as the aggrieved victim. This is especially outlandish, given the legal persecution and economic marginalization of scholars and political activists in the West who have criticized Israel, or who have questioned aspects of the establishment Zionist narrative on what happened in World War II and during the runup to the establishment of the Zionist state in 1948. What Dr. E. Michael Jones ofCulture Wars refers to as the “Jewish control of narrative” has served Netanyahu and his predecessors quite well, especially in the United States. How many Americans know about the Zionist bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946? The Lavon Affair in 1954? The dispute between JFK and Ben Gurion in 1963 over the Israeli nuclear weapons plant at Dimona in the Negev? The Meyer Lansky Jewish Crime Syndicate connection to the anti-Castro Cubans, to James Jesus Angleton of the CIA, and the Giancana-Trafficante-Marcello-Roselli led crime syndicates in the United States who were all provably involved in the JFK assassination? The NUMEC nuclear raw materials thefts in Pennsylvania in the United States for Israel’s weapons program? The Pollard-AIPAC-Ben Ami spy cases? And the Arnon Milchan financing of Oliver Stone’s JFK movie which diverted public attention from the Israeli connection to the events in Dallas in November of 1963? What about the Israeli role in 9-11 and the subsequent coverup of this fact by the Israeli citizens assigned to direct the official American governmental investigation of the event?
The Hidden Hand Behind the Mask of the Truth.
The Zionist-controlled Western media has perfected the Orwellian inversion of truth and falsehood, victim and perpetrator ongoingly. Look at Syria, where the existence of “Jihadic extremists” being decried in France and the West for involvement in the Charlie Hebdo affair are being simultaneously financed, trained, and introduced into that country by the United States, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, Turkey, and Jordan for the express purpose of overthrowing the Alawite regime of President Assad. Look at the criminals installed by coup d’etat last February by the United States, Israel, and the EU in the Ukrainian regime headquartered in Kiev, with all of the atrocities committed by this regime in the eastern part of that country since, including the shootdown of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 falsely attributed by Western media to Vladimir Putin or Russian ethnics under his control, and the horrific Odessa Trade Union building burning.
It is noteworthy that the mastermind of these crimes, Petro Poroshenko, joined Netanyahu in Paris for theCharlie Hebdo protests.
The Odessa Trade Union Fire: The Work of the Latest American-Installed “Government.”
These illegal actions continue the NATO encirclement of Putin’s Russia in complete contravention of George H. W. Bush’s explicit promises to Gorbachev and Shevardnadze after the end of the old Soviet Union. This coup d’etat is also another way of punishing Putin for effectively stymying (for now) American and Israeli plans to employ overt military force against Assad, even as Jewish and CIA financed NGOs in Russia are attempting to subvert Putin and Russian Orthodox Christian resurgence from within by employing the Frankfurt School types like Pussy Riot and Elton John to attack nationalistic culture and morality in that country. It is all a part of the playbook of the New World Order, as is the False Flag Charlie Hebdo incident and the Orwellian inversion of truth and falsehood, victim and perpetrator, that has predictably followed.
Vladimir Putin: Opposing the Subversion of Christian Culture in Russia and the Target of the Apostles of the Zionist New World Order.
4 – There is a campaign going on throughout Muslim countries named #WeLoveMuhammad. How effective do you see this campaign, especially regarding its reflection in western and US media outlets?
It will have no appreciable effect in the Western world and in the United States, where the Zionists have a lock on the control of narrative. Simply look at the way they have marginalized Christian anti-Zionist media critics and activists like me in America. Having successfully achieved that, what makes anyone believe an Islamic media and political movement will be any more effective in changing the political and media neighborhood in the West?
The 1950s were a simple, romantic, and golden time in America.
California beaches, suburbia, and style. Atlas Shrugged was published, NASA was formed, and Elvis rocked the nation. Every year from 1950–1959 saw over 4 million babies born. The nation stood atop the world in every field.
It was an era of great economic prosperity in The Land of the Free.
So, what happened to the American traits of confidence, pride, and accountability?
The roots of Western cultural decay are very deep, having first sprouted a century ago. It began with a loose clan of ideologues inside Europe’s communist movement. Today, it is known as the Frankfurt School, and its ideals have perverted American society.
When Outcomes Fail, Just Change the Theory
Before WWI, Marxist theory held that if war broke out in Europe, the working classes would rise up against the bourgeoisie and create a communist revolution.
Well, as is the case with much of Marxist theory, things didn’t go too well. When war broke out in 1914, instead of starting a revolution, the proletariat put on their uniforms and went off to war.
After the war ended, Marxist theorists were left to ask, “What went wrong?”
Two very prominent Marxists thinkers of the day were Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukács. Each man, on his own, concluded that the working class of Europe had been blinded by the success of Western democracy and capitalism. They reasoned that until both had been destroyed, a communist revolution was not possible.
Gramsci and Lukács were both active in the Communist party, but their lives took very different paths.
Gramsci was jailed by Mussolini in Italy where he died in 1937 due to poor health.
In 1918, Lukács became minister of culture in Bolshevik Hungary. During this time, Lukács realized that if the family unit and sexual morals were eroded, society could be broken down.
Lukács implemented a policy he titled “cultural terrorism,” which focused on these two objectives. A major part of the policy was to target children’s minds through lectures that encouraged them to deride and reject Christian ethics.
In these lectures, graphic sexual matter was presented to children, and they were taught about loose sexual conduct.
Here again, a Marxist theory had failed to take hold in the real world. The people were outraged at Lukács’ program, and he fled Hungary when Romania invaded in 1919.
The Birth of Cultural Marxism
All was quiet on the Marxist front until 1923 when the cultural terrorist turned up for a “Marxist study week” in Frankfurt, Germany. There, Lukács met a young, wealthy Marxist named Felix Weil.
Until Lukács showed up, classical Marxist theory was based solely on the economic changes needed to overthrow class conflict. Weil was enthused by Lukács’ cultural angle on Marxism.
Weil’s interest led him to fund a new Marxist think tank—the Institute for Social Research. It would later come to be known as simply The Frankfurt School.
In 1930, the school changed course under new director Max Horkheimer. The team began mixing the ideas of Sigmund Freud with those of Marx, and cultural Marxism was born.
In classical Marxism, the workers of the world were oppressed by the ruling classes. The new theory was that everyone in society was psychologically oppressed by the institutions of Western culture. The school concluded that this new focus would need new vanguards to spur the change. The workers were not able to rise up on their own.
As fate would have it, the National Socialists came to power in Germany in 1933. It was a bad time and place to be a Jewish Marxist, as most of the school’s faculty was. So, the school moved to New York City, the bastion of Western culture at the time.
Coming to America
In 1934, the school was reborn at Columbia University. Its members began to exert their ideas on American culture.
It was at Columbia University that the school honed the tool it would use to destroy Western culture: the printed word.
The school published a lot of popular material. The first of these was Critical Theory.
Critical Theory is a play on semantics. The theory was simple: criticize every pillar of Western culture—family, democracy, common law, freedom of speech, and others. The hope was that these pillars would crumble under the pressure.
Next was a book Theodor Adorno co-authored, The Authoritarian Personality. It redefined traditional American views on gender roles and sexual mores as “prejudice.” Adorno compared them to the traditions that led to the rise of fascism in Europe.
Is it just a coincidence that the go-to slur for the politically correct today is “fascist”?
The school pushed its shift away from economics and toward Freud by publishing works on psychological repression.
Their works split society into two main groups: the oppressors and the victims. They argued that history and reality were shaped by those groups who controlled traditional institutions. At the time, that was code for males of European descent.
From there, they argued that the social roles of men and women were due to gender differences defined by the “oppressors.” In other words, gender did not exist in reality but was merely a “social construct.”
A Coalition of Victims
Adorno and Horkheimer returned to Germany when WWII ended. Herbert Marcuse, another member of the school, stayed in America. In 1955, he published Eros and Civilization.
In the book, Marcuse argued that Western culture was inherently repressive because it gave up happiness for social progress.
The book called for “polymorphous perversity,” a concept crafted by Freud. It posed the idea of sexual pleasure outside the traditional norms. Eros and Civilization would become very influential in shaping the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Marcuse would be the one to answer Horkheimer’s question from the 1930s: Who would replace the working class as the new vanguards of the Marxist revolution?
Marcuse believed that it would be a victim coalition of minorities—blacks, women, and homosexuals.
The social movements of the 1960s—black power, feminism, gay rights, sexual liberation—gave Marcuse a unique vehicle to release cultural Marxist ideas into the mainstream. Railing against all things “establishment,” The Frankfurt School’s ideals caught on like wildfire across American universities.
Marcuse then published Repressive Tolerance in 1965 as the various social movements in America were in full swing. In it, he argued that tolerance of all values and ideas meant the repression of “correct” ideas.
It was here that Marcuse coined the term “liberating tolerance.” It called for tolerance of any ideas coming from the left but intolerance of those from the right. One of the overarching themes of the Frankfurt School was total intolerance for any viewpoint but its own. That is also a basic trait of today’s political-correctness believers.
To quote Max Horkheimer, “Logic is not independent of content.”
Recalling the Words of Winston (Not That One)
The Frankfurt School’s work has had a deep impact on American culture. It has recast the homogenous America of the 1950s into today’s divided, animosity-filled nation.
In turn, this has contributed to the undeniable breakdown of the family unit, as well as identity politics, radical feminism, and racial polarization in America.
It’s hard to decide if today’s culture is more like Orwell’s 1984 or Huxley’s Brave New World.
Never one to buck a populist trend, the political establishment in America has fully embraced the ideas of the Frankfurt School and has pushed them on American society through public miseducation.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the beacons of progressivism, are both disciples of Saul Alinsky, a devoted cultural Marxist.
And so we now live in a hyper-sensitive society in which social memes and feelings have overtaken biological and objective reality as the main determinants of right and wrong.
Political correctness is a war on logic and reason.
To quote Winston, the protagonist in Orwell’s dystopia, “Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2=4.”
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author and columnist. He has written for The Village Voice, The
Progressive, Counterpunch, Online Journal, CorpWatch, Multinational
Monitor, News Insider, In These Times, and The American Conservative.
His columns have appeared in The Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle,
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Madsen is the author of The Handbook of Personal Data Protection
(London: Macmillan, 1992), an acclaimed reference book on international
data protection law; Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999
(Edwin Mellen Press, 1999); co-author of America's Nightmare: The
Presidency of George Bush II (Dandelion, 2003); author of Jaded Tasks:
Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass Plates; Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a
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Madsen has been a regular contributor on RT and PressTV. He has been a
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Madsen has taken on Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity on their television
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Madsen has some twenty years experience in security issues. As a U.S.
Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security programs
for the U.S. Navy. He subsequently worked for the National Security
Agency, the Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State, RCA
Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation. Madsen was a Senior
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Madsen is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and
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James H. Fetzer, a former Marine Corps officer, is Distinguished
McKnight Professor Emeritus on the Duluth campus of the University of
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University in 1962, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant and
became an artillery officer who served in the Far East. After a
tour supervising recruit training in San Diego, he resigned his
commission as a Captain to begin work in the history and
philosophy of science at Indiana in 1966. He completed his graduate work
by earning his Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science from
Indiana in 1970.
He has taught at a wide range of institutions of higher
learning, including the Universities of Virginia (twice),
Cincinnati, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, New College of the University
of South Florida, and UMD, where he served from 1987 until his
retirement in 2006. His honors include a research fellowship from the
National Science Foundation and The Medal of the University of
Helsinki. He has published more than 100 articles and reviews and 20
books in the philosophy of science and on the theoretical
foundations of computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive
science. His biographical sketch has appeared in the Directory of
American Scholars, Who's Who in the Midwest, Who's Who in America,
and Who's Who in the World.
In 1992, he organized a
research group consisting of the most highly qualified experts to study
the death of JFK, which led to the publication of Assassination
Science (1998), Murder in Dealey Plaza (2000) and The Great Zapruder
Film Hoax (2003). He founded Scholars for 9/11 Truth in 2005 and
invited Steve Jones to serve as his co-chair. He organized the
first national conference for Scholars in Madison in 2007 and
published its first book, The 9/11 Conspiracy: The Scamming of
America (2007). He also organized Scholars' first international
conference in Vancouver in 2012.
He was the keynote speaker at The
American Scholars Conference hosted by Alex Jones in Los Angeles in
2006. That year, he also appeared on "Hannity & Colmes" (twice) and
later on "The O'Reilly Factor". He was flown to Athens to be the
featured speaker on 9/11 on a 3.5 hour television program broadcast
worldwide by satellite. He was flown to Buenos Aires to speak in 2008
and again in 2009, where he was the main speaker at The International
Symposium on 9/11 Truth and Justice. He organized another symposium in
London in 2010, "Debunking the "War on Terror'". He has been widely
interviewed on radio and television.
NewsFollowUp.com NFU (est. 2002) has a
monthly world-wide circulation of about 80,000 pages and will be
utilized to spread the word. NFU's
Alexa rank is 1.4 million out of
the tens of millions of websites they track. There are about 200 million
active websites.
No fees, no dues. If
any organization larger than NewsFollowUp.com would like to embrace this
concept and move it forward we would be glad to fold our efforts into
theirs. Central Illinois has a vibrant Progressive movement
that just needs the right event to highlight its effectiveness. We
hope this is it. Champaign-Urbana is a great midpoint between
Chicago, St. Louis and Indianapolis and has great conference facilities,
including the University of Illinois. Initiation date: Oct 4, 2012.
This effort will be shaped by all of its participants.
NewsFollowUp.com (about page)
(est. 2002) is an internet news research tool. We
have a definite Progressive stance. We provide links from many
sources about world political topics that allow the viewer to make
informed decisions. We are very anti-Zionist (not anti-Semitic),
believe there is very little difference between Obama and Romney, and
believe for example, that there are important links between the
assassination of JFK, the Iran Contra scandal and 9/11 that have been
shaping American politics for decades. NFU is about the same size
(Alexa) as these sites:
9/11 Scholars
1x, 911blogger 1/4x,
World911Truth 1x,
OccupyTogether 1/4x (the #2 Occupy site),
FirefightersFor911Truth2x.
9/11MissingLinks 1x,
UCIMC 1x, ...
9/11 Scholars
Exposing Falsehoods and Revealing Truths James
H. Fetzer Joel S. Hirschhorn Founder Co-Chair, For news, visit
Citizens For Legitimate Government and views, Mike Palecek's The New
American Dream
911Truth Accountable Democracy Conference, Accountable
Democracy is also sponsoring ADTV a TV programme making initiative.
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth Join other
AE911Truth activists at the United National Antiwar Coalition
Conference in Stamford, CT on March 23-25, 2012. Help us influence
the “working sessions” with statements of support and your votes to
include the 9/11 Truth issue in the coalition’s platform.
FirefightersFor911Truth
Eric Lawyer, founder of Firefighters for 911 Truth, who pointed out
the many ways in which long-established protocols for handling crime
scenes involving fire and building collapse were egregiously
violated, consistent with a cover-up.
GlobalResearch
MONTREAL CONFERENCE: Richard Gage on 9/11 Truth Part of the Canadian
Public Investigation of 9/11 ( April 7, 2012)
Infowars Join
WeAreChange for “Our Lives Post 9/11” – A Four Day 9/11 Truth
Conference and Charity Event in New York City - September 9th – 12th
2010 Speakers include Ray McGovern -former CIA analyst, George
Galloway – British politician, Richard Gage – AE 9/11 Truth, Cindy
Sheehan – Peace Activist, Cynthia McKinney – former U.S.
Congresswoman, Annie Machon – former MI5 agent, Mike Gravel – former
U.S Senator, and so many more! and
Infowars Japanese MP Yukihisa Fujita of the Democratic Party of
Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan
(national legislature), spoke at the 9/11 Truth conference in Sydney
today.
Meetup St Louis Don Stahl
We are residents of the Greater St. Louis Area (and other areas)
concerned about the many disturbing aspects of the 9/11 attacks and
interested in finding out more about those events. We share the St.
Louis Fusion Center's dedication to ". . . the collection, analysis
and dissemination of information used to detect, defend against, or
respond to acts of terrorism." We have many disagreements, but we
agree that 9/11 is worth inquiring into. We are inclusive as opposed
to exclusive. Generally, we believe that when an object moves under
the influence of gravity, the object goes down, not upwards and
outwards in an arc, as thirty-foot steel beams did when the Towers
"fell down."
video
MideastYouth Nakba Anniversary Message: On
this 64th anniversary of the Nakba we mourn the ethnic cleansing
that began in 1948 and that continues today with silent transfer,
home demolitions, land confiscation and more. But we also celebrate
an amazing resilience and success of the Palestinian endogenous
people against incredible odds:
PhilJayhan Who Really Controls The 9/11 Truth Conferences
...Not only should his (Jones) BYU connection be examined since the
LDS Church is a breeding ground for Vatican-led New World Order
minions, but the hierarchy of the Mormon Church needs to be fully
examined since it can be proved that it has been established and has
been in total control from the beginning by the Vatican and Jesuit
Order, who just happen to be the real spiritual controllers of the
New World Order,
PrisonPlanet 2006 The 9/11 American Scholars Symposium
concluded in Los Angeles Sunday and was extremely well received by
the thousand plus in attendance. A Reuters article summarizing the
event presented a reasonably balanced appraisal of the intentions
and scope of the conference, mirroring a burgeoning climate of
accurate 9/11 truth movement coverage. Charlie Sheen was at
the 9/11 L.A. Conference ... Publications such as
Turkey's Zaman Online, South Africa's Independent Online, Qatar's
Gulf News as well as Al Jazeera and Iran's Tehran Times all carried
different versions of the original Reuters piece.
TheIntelHub Sep 2010 Corporate News Runs 9/11 Truth, AE
911Truth Conference Presents Explosive Evidence
Gravel and Gage will host a central press conference at the National
Press Club in Washington, DC, presenting hard evidence that all
three WTC skyscrapers on September 11, 2001, in NYC were destroyed
by explosive controlled demolition.
Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice
and the Journal of
9/11 Studies Over 60 peer-reviewed articles and a similar
number of letters are available. The editors have also published
articles in mainstream scientific journals and offer links to those
papers from this site.
ScientistsFor911Truth In a Press Release dated June
5, 2012, the Consensus Panel announced new findings related to false
accounts by U.S. political and military leaders on 9/11. New
evidence shows that the September 11th activities of former
President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were falsely reported by official sources.
TruthAction 2010 WeAreChange conference: Glenn
Zarmanov, Founder of WeAreChange New Jersey & Jersey City for
9/11 Truth Erik-Anders Nilsson, Founder of Jersey City Peace
Movement & 9/11 First Responder, Detective John Caroll, JCPD
Officer & 9/11 First Responder, Michael Donly, Engineer for 9/11
Truth, Frank Agamemnon, 9/11 Truth Activist
TruthOut EXCLUSIVE: New Documents Claim Intelligence on Bin
Laden, al-Qaeda Targets Withheld From Congress' 9/11 Probe and
Inspector General Iron Manpdf TruthOut buys into bs
that bin Laden was killed in Pakistan in 2011. Obama bs.
Twilightpines the Madison Conference, 2007 ... Conference: The
Science and the Politics of 9/11: What's Controversial, What's Not.
Kevin Barrett, Jim Marrs, Judy Wood, Jerry Leaphart, Bob Fitrakis,
Morgan Reynolds, Dave von Kleist, Ace Baker, Leuren Moret, Alfred
Webre, Doug Rokke, and others Location, Madison, WI. Details on home
page.
YouTube
Yumi Kikuchi @ 9/11 Truth Conference in Osaka ... The
Corbett Report traveled to Osaka in western Japan on Nov. 1, 2008 to
attend the Osaka session of the 2nd 9/11 Truth International
Conference.
YouTube
The Truther Girls Meet Richard Gage and Dr. D.R. Griffin at Montreal
AE911Truth Conference Architects and Engineers for 9/11
truth gave a conference at UQAM in Montreal on May 3rd 2010.
Speakers were Richard Gage, founder of Architects and Engineers for
9/11 Truth and Dr. David Ray Griffin, theologian, author, and 2-time
nominee for the Nobel Peace prize. The speakers were introduced by
Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the Center for Research on
Globalization, who has authored several books including Seeds of
Destruction (which is about GMO food)
YouTube2003 9/11 (2003) Truth Conference - Social
Implications of 9/11 Presentations by Jim Garrison and Byron
Belistos.
Yumikikuchi blog, The Japanese version of ZERO will be shown at
the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Ebisu from Sept.
11th to the 24th.
Zero/GlobalPeace ZERO: An Investigation into 9/11, has one
central thesis - that the official version of the events surrounding
the attacks on 9/11 can not be true. Dissent is not terrorism
BYU
Not only should his (Jones) BYU connection be examined since the LDS
Church is a breeding ground for Vatican-led New World Order minions,
but the hierarchy of the Mormon Church needs to be fully examined
since it can be proved that it has been established and has been in
total control from the beginning by the Vatican and Jesuit Order,
who just happen to be the real spiritual controllers of the New
World Order,
CSICOP
mainstream consensus that the September 11, 2001, attacks were the
work of al-Qaeda terrorists using hijacked airplanes? Dylan
Avery and Jason Bermas, the creators of the low-budget documentary
film Loose Change, did much to give the 9/11 Truth movement
significant momentum in 2005 Steven Jones has written
several 9/11 Truth articles. His work with others (including chemist
Niels Harrit of Denmark) on detecting nanothermite in WTC dust is
frequently cited as “peer-reviewed research” that proves “inside
job” claims.
New York Times 500
Conspiracy Buffs Meet to Seek the Truth of 9/11 In the
ballroom foyer of the Embassy Suites Hotel, the two-day
International Education and Strategy Conference for 9/11 Truth was
off to a rollicking start. Michael Berger, press
director for 911Truth.org ... "History of
Government Sponsored Terrorism, Zogby International
found that 42 percent of all Americans believe the 9/11 Commission
"concealed or refused to investigate critical evidence" in the
attacks. Beneath the weekend's screenings and symposiums on
geopolitics and mass-hypnotic trance lies a tradition of questioning
concentrated power, both in public and in private hands, said Mark
Fenster, a law professor at the University of Florida and author of
"Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture."
Zionist / Israeli controlled
Popular MechanicsNew Documentary on 9/11
Myths to Feature Popular Mechanics Investigation .. History
Channel will premiere its 2-hour documentary, 9/11 Conspiracies:
Fact or Fiction. Read more: New Documentary on 9/11 Myths to
Feature Popular Mechanics Investigation - PM is a Zionist / Israeli
owned
PopularTechnology The Internet allows ignorance to blossom
as it has for the 9/11 Truth movement. To the naive their arguments
can seem compelling but when you actually analyze their claims with
hard science and facts, they completely fall apart.
"Aircraft hitting buildings should leave a cartoon cutout" (hollow
aluminum aircraft hitting high-strength, load-bearing perimeter
steel columns will leave no such shape) Peer reviewed
papers: Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? Science,
Engineering, and Speculation (PDF) (JOM Journal of the Minerals,
Metals and Materials Society, Volume 53, Number 12, pp. 8-11,
December 2001) - Thomas W. Eagar, Christopher Musso, Why Did
the World Trade Center Collapse? - Simple Analysis (PDF) (Journal of
Engineering Mechanics, Volume 128, Number 1, pp 2-6, January 2002) -
Zdenek P. Bazant, Yong Zhou, How did the WTC towers collapse:
a new theory (PDF) (Fire Safety Journal, Volume 38, Issue 6, pp.
501-533, October 2003) - A. S. Usmani, Y. C. Chung, J. L. Torero,
- Closure of "Mechanics of Progressive Collapse: Learning from World
Trade Center and Building Demolitions" (Journal of Engineering
Mechanics, Volume 134, Number 10, pp. 917-923, October 2008) - Zdene
P. Bazant, Mathieu Verdure
ScrewLooseChange
Sibel Edmonds and Bore-ass, this is probably over your
head (just like everything else) but the fact that someone may have
tried to cover up their own incompetence for failing to prevent a
crime DOESN'T mean they committed the crime. Only a conspriatorial
moron such as yourself would instantly make that leap.
Wikipedia 9/11 Truth
Adherents of the 9/11 Truth Movement claim that the accepted
mainstream explanation of the
September 11 attacksof 2001 contains significant
inconsistencies which suggest, at the least, acover-up,
and
at worst, complicity by insiders
Google video
Dr. William F. Pepper,
Keynote Address from the "9/11: Revealing the Truth / Reclaiming Our
Future" conference, held in Chicago, June 2-4th, 2006 Dr. William F.
Pepper, an international lawyer, was the attorney for James Earl
Ray, the supposed killer of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ray was
charged with King's murder, confessing to the assassination on March
10, 1969, (though he recanted this confession three days later) and
was sentenced to 99 years in prison. Dr. William F. Pepper is also
the lawyer who successfully acted for the family of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. in a 1999 Memphis Circuit Court trial. The trial,
Kings v. Jowers, etal, aka “the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Assassination Conspiracy Trial” resulted in this jury verdict; THE
COURT: In answer to the question did Loyd Jowers participate in a
conspiracy to do harm to Dr. Martin Luther King, your answer is yes.
Do you also find that others, including governmental agencies, were
parties to this conspiracy as alleged by the defendant? Your answer
to that one is also yes
Rense2012 9/11 Truth Conference
Opens In Tampa To Crowd Of 600 Mainstream Media Again Ignores Event
as Censorship Spreads Across Land Like Existed In Nazi Germany
The Asolo Theatre in Sarasoto 'at the last minute' backed out of its
deal with 9/11 truth organizers to rent out theatre for Sunday
night's scheduled performance. Organizer Jimmy Walter said it looks
like an act of outright censorship. By Greg Szymanski 12-8-5
Jimmy Walter, the millionaire philanthropist pushing the 9/11 truth
movement to the streets, said Wednesday the Asolo Theatre in
Sarasota, Florida, at "the last minute" backed out of its
pre-arranged deal to host a video presentation set for Sunday, the
last day of a five-day 9/11 truth conference starting in Tampa.
"They told us today they couldn't host our event, pulling out at the
last minute saying there existed technical difficulties," said
Walter in a phone conversation from his Tampa hotel, where he is
kicking-off the first night of his 9/11 truth conference called "The
New Pearl Harbor Confronting the Evidence" at the downtown Tampa
Theatre. "I found out another group is staging a play on the same
day so it looks to me like it's another case of outright censorship.
We are going to look into the matter thoroughly to find out what
really happened, but still will holding our Sunday video
presentation at the Beach Theatre in St. Pete Beach." Walter,
known for spending millions on trying to get out the "true 9/11
story" appeared on Greg Szymanski's radio show, "The Investigative
Journal" Wednesday, just hours prior to the opening night of his
truth conference, saying he was" shocked and appalled" by the last
minute cancellation of the Sunday night portion of his five-day
truth tour. "I decided on Tampa because it is my hometown and it's
harder for the media and others to ignore me here," said Walter.
"It's is also where Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf lives, a person who I
have openly called a traitor for his statements about Iraq. I have
openly challenged him to a face to face meeting, but I know he never
will do that." Walter's truth conference, presenting compelling
evidence 9/11 was an inside government job, opened to a crowd of
more than 500 to 600 Wednesday night in a theatre that seats 1,400,
a good turn-out considering the mainstream media blackout across the
country and the disinformation campaign spread by the Bush
administration, essentially keeping the American people in the dark
about the real 9/11 facts. And the media was again strangely
absent from the opening night 9/11 event, as several in attendance
reported no major newspapers or television stations covered the
event. One of the Wednesday night speaker's, Eric Hufschmid,
known for his book "Painful Questions" an Analysis of the September
11 th Attack, said prior to the conference he was hoping events like
the one being staged at the Tampa Theatre would "finally wake up a
sleeping public." "I think it's time for everyone to do their part
and at least listen and confront the evidence," said Hufschmid, who
was one of the first to call the American public's attention to the
technical impossibility of the WTC collapsing from only solely jet
fuel as the government contends. "There is just so much
disinformation out there, spread by the media and those actually
trying to disrupt the 9/11 truth movement. It's time for everyone to
unite and look at the real evidence and hold those involved in the
9/11 conspiracy accountable." Besides Hufschmid, Walter assembled
a group of speakers who at times held the audience spellbound,
leading some to tears, especially when WTC janitor and national
hero, William Rodriguez, spoke about how he heard explosions in the
North Tower basement prior to the airplane strike. Rodriguez, who
saved at least 15 lives before being the last man out of the North
Tower, reminded the audience how his statements about WTC basement
explosions "have been censored by the mainstream media" as well as
being completely omitted in the 9/11 Commission's final report.
The silencing of Rodriguez's testimony, as well as the testimony of
at least 20 other people who heard the same North Tower explosions,
is just another clear-cut example of how massive the 9/11 cover-up
has spread, leaving America essentially to hear only a bogus
government story lacking any semblance of credibility when, as
Walter says, "confronted with the real 9/11 evidence." Also
speaking at the five-day Florida event is Morgan Reynolds, the
former chief economist in the Bush I administration, who has
publicly called for a new 9/11 investigation, adding the evidence
points to a controlled demolition of the WTC. Reynolds is the
author of numerous books, primarily in economics, taxes and labor
issues, but last year shocked America, as being the first high-level
Bush official to publicly claim 9/11 appeared to be tied to elements
within the U.S. government. Besides Reynolds, popular radio hosts
Dave von Kleist and Joyce Riley, rounded out the speaking panel, von
Kleist known for his video "In Plane Site," which proved that the
damage incurred at the Pentagon could not have been caused by a 757.
Riley, on the other hand, has focused her research attention on
the illegal use of depleted uranium, producing a recent video called
"Beyond Treason," the story behind the cover-up and illegal weaponry
being used in the Iraq War. Heather LaMela, a Tampa resident in
the audience, said she always had her doubts about the 9/11
government story from the beginning, but had been kept in the dark
by the one-sided media coverage. "After listening to the speakers,
this confirmed my belief that there must have been some government
knowledge and involvement," said LaMela. "I just wished I would have
hears all this a lot sooner. I guess you can thank the media for
that." And regarding the purpose of the five-day 9/11 truth-out,
Walter, the event's organizer said: "When Vice President Dick
Cheney and twenty four Bush officials and friends signed a call in
2000 for a "New Pearl Harbor," as an excuse to invade Iraq; they
said it would take "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a
new Pearl Harbor, to convince the American People that we must
invade Iraq to project American military power. Time Magazine called
for "a unified Pearl Harbor, sort of purple American fury." He
added that he intends to use Tampa as a first-stop in his 9/11 truth
tour, planning in the future to organize other similar events in
cities across the country, emphasizing the following points: 1.
Why the Bush administration ignored warning signs about terrorist
attacks. 2. Why they leaked classified information to the media.
3. Why members of the administration lied under oath and obstructed
justice in an investigation about national security violations. 4.
Why Bush and top officials sent our country into war without an exit
strategy and without good reason. 5. Why the Republican
administration has created massive deficits, while cutting spending
on social programs and veteran benefits, and giving tax cuts to the
richest Americans. 6. Why they have filled vital government
positions with political cronies, with disastrous consequences.
Please go to www.arcticbeacon.com for more outstanding articles.
World911Truth Video List Tenth
Book By David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Explosive Evidence, Experts Speak
Out, 875,000+ Views for New 9/11 Mini-Documentary on Building 7,
Building 7 Collapse: NIST Reality Check, Support the Troops, Support
a New 9/11 Investigation, 75% of New Yorkers Never Saw Footage of
WTC Building 7, 9/11: New 15-Minute Documentary You Have To
See, New Poll: 48% of New Yorkers Support a New 9/11
Investigation into Building 7′s Collapse, “I Knew From Day One
This Was a Controlled Event” Controlled Demolition Expert Says, Face
to Face with Niels Harrit, Lawsuit Shows 9-11 Hijacker Was On
Boston-Bound Flight Before Attacks, UN Human Rights Official Claims
9-11 Was US Plot, 90 Percent of Germans Do Not Believe
Official 9-11 Story, Congress Passes Aid Package for 9-11
Responders, 9-11 Pentagon Episode: Conspiracy Theory With
Jesse Ventura, Iraq’s Secret War Files (WikiLeaks Special), Study
shows 92% of Afghans Never Heard of 9-11, INTERVIEW – UN
expert urges full U.S. torture investigation, U.S. Asked to Begin
Criminal Investigation Following Bush Publication, “BuildingWhat?”
Appears on Geraldo At Large on FOX News, Rachel Maddow Slams
George W. Bush Over 9-11 and Iraq, Noam Chomsky: No Evidence
that Al-Qaeda Carried Out the 9/11 Attacks, Colorado Democratic
Party Calls for Grand Jury Investigation of 9-11, EXPLOSIVE
INTERVIEW: Explosives found in World Trade Center Dust,
Interview with Jeff Farrer, Nanothermite Paper Scientist, CIA
hired Karzai brother before 9-11, Woodward says, Military Officer
and Former CIA: 9-11 Commission Was a Cover-up, Witnesses in
Defense Dept. Report Suggest Cover-Up of 9-11 Findings, House
Approves Zadroga 9-11 Health Bill, Americans seek probe into
9-11, World Trade Center Employee Discusses pre 9-11 Power
Downs, AE911Truth Shines 3rd Beam into NYC Skyline for Building 7,
Dennis Kucinich Calls for 9-11 Truth and Reconciliation, Nine
Years After 9-11, 900 First Responders Are Dead, NEW — U.S.
Military Officers for 9/11 Truth, 9/11: 9th Anniversary, NEW –
Actors and Artists for 9/11 Truth, New Book by David Ray Griffin:
Cognitive Infiltration, The Zapruder Film of 9/11 – Daniel
Sunjata, Biden to visit Ground Zero for 9/11 anniversary;
Obama to mark attacks at Pentagon, Documentary Film: September
11 Revisited – Were Explosives Used to Bring Down the Buildings?,
Documentary Film: Dust to Dust – The Health Effects of 9/11, Glenn
Beck: “I didn’t think I could hate victims faster than the 9-11
victims”, US Attempts To Extradite 9/11 FEMA Videographer From
Argentina, Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks to star in 9/11 drama,
Grayson slams mosque ‘distraction’: Talk about admin that ‘let’ 9/11
happen instead, Coast to Coast AM 9/11 debate with Richard Gage and
Dave Thomas, U.S. Government lied about molten steel found at Ground
Zero after 9/11, Obama comes out in favor of 9/11 health bill: Pres.
to sign Zadroga bill into law, “Building What?”: La Campagne la plus
importante jamais lancée pour la Vérité sur le 11 Septembre,
DEADLINE: 9/11 First Responders Urged To Register For Compensations,
Firefighters Run Cross-Country to Commemorate 9/11,
WeAreChange presents: Our Lives Post 9/11 Conference in NYC,
Obama Backs Mosque Near Ground Zero, It Fell in Silence: The
Collapse of World Trade Center 7, 9/11 museum going up in NYC
offers raw experience, “Building What?”: Most Important 9/11
Truth Campaign Ever, Historic 9/11 Truth Billboard in
California - Examine the Evidence, Ex-Malaysian premier says 9/11
inside job - Mahathir Mohamad - 9/11 staged event, Building 7 :
Mainstream Media Implodes on 9/11 - NASA engineering executive,
Wake Up the District Attorney With 1,000 Letters: WEEK 4 - Manhattan
district attorney, Outfoxed - No End in Sight - Iraq, Former
Utah Congressman Merrill Cook Supports 9/11 Investigation into
Building 7 and the FAA - Merril Cook, Former New Hampshire Governor
Supports New 9/11 Investigation - Walter R. Peterson, Jr.,
Former CIA Officials Admit To Faking Bin Laden Video, AE911truth
petition, AE911Truth Structural Engineer Dismantles the NIST
Analysis of WTC Building 7, Kagan Helped Shield Saudis From 9/11
Lawsuits, Richard Gage and David Ray Griffin in Montreal: Huge
Success!, Toronto Star Letters to the Editor re: Griffin and Gage,
Bombshell: Silverstein Wanted To Demolish Building 7 On 9/11,
Montreal 9/11 Conference: David Ray Griffin on McGill University
Radio CKUT 90.3 FM, Montreal 9/11 Conference Major Media
Breakthrough: Our Response to Journal Métro, Richard Gage and Erik
Lawyer to Speak in San Rafael and San Leandro, Izzy Award
Winner Jeremy Scahill: “We’re At a Ground Zero Moment to Save Real
Journalism”, Fabled Enemies - Jason Bermas, US Town
Passes Resolution for New 9/11 Investigation - Richmond New
Hampshire, Coleen Rowley: ABC News Reporter Does a Hatchet Job,
Twelve New England Towns Demand New 9/11 investigation,
WeAreChange Colorado Interviews KBDI Channel 12′s President/CEO Wick
Roland, “Al Qaeda Dead Since 2002″ Says Ex-Head of the French DGSE,
The ‘Jersey Girls’ Support AE911Truth, World911Truth Web Activists,
Congressman Jason Chaffetz Questions 9/11, Aerospace Engineers
Call for a New 9/11 Investigation, Response to Michael Shermer,
WeAreChange delivers Nano-Thermite paper to U.S. Congress
representatives, The 90-Minute Stand Down on 9/11: Why Was the
Secret Service’s Early Request for Fighter Jets Ignored?,
German Federal Judge Dieter Deiseroth: Numerous 9/11 Theories
Screaming For Investigation, Engineer Derek Johnson Fires
Torpedos at the 9-11 Official Story, Jesse Ventura’s
Conspiracy Theory Show Exposes ‘Found’ Black Boxes, Interview with
Former NASA Engineering Executive Dwain Deets, 3rd 9/11 Truth
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Story of 9/11, 9/11: Pentagon American 77 Hijack Impossible,
Richard Gage on New Zealand National Television, Confidential
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Architect Jan Utzon, 9/11 Debate with Kassovitz and Bigard,
French Journalists Interview Cynthia McKinney and Niels Harrit,
France 2 backs away from real debate, censors Niels Harrit and Éric
Laurent, Top 10 Connections Between NIST and Nanothermite,
Historic 9/11 Debate with Bigard, Laurent, Kassovitz and Harrit on
French TV, NYC CAN: The Turning Point, WeAreChangeLA
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Dwain Deets, The Hard Evidence Down Under Tour 2009 –
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With Charlie Sheen, Not In Our Son’s Name - Bob Mcllvaine, Loose
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Moral High Ground, AE911Truth Meets Congressman Kevin
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Videographer at Ground Zero Goes Public, 29 Structural & Civil
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Know, Martin Sheen, Woody Harrelson, Lt Colonel Anthony Shaffer,
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Carnaby, The Terror Within, Nada Prouty, International Spy Museum,
Washington D. C. national security whistleblower, On stage at
samuel goldwyn theatre speaking about Julia Davis with BJ Davis
national security lawyer mark zaid with a diplomatic immunity comic
at the international spy museum for an intelligence and spy comics
event entitled superman vs the KKK with mark zaids client sabrina
desousa who is featured in the comic along with zaid and president
obama. camp peary, barrett 50 caliber, AR 15, VIP, Oscars, 60
minutes' piece on Hank Crumpton and the National Clandestine
Service. Samuel goldwyn theatre, home of the oscars.\ A recent
comic i did for national security whistleblower craig sawyer, former
federal air marshall at the time of 911 who became a whistleblower
and he is also a former marine and navy seal DEVGRU. Also attached
is a picture of the old cinders comic. And also attached is a
political type cartoon i did about obama and the iranian sanctions
with a smurf parody theme thrown in. Also, i need someone to say
that i have been doing propaganda cartoons for syria and iran. I can
come out with the pictures later but just not now. If you can
comment about it i will be doing an interview soon within this month
and i can back up any claim while i am talking but will be doing an
interview on able danger and 911 and will talk about the COGs in the
interview and can talk openly about the comics then too.
and more from Alan Premel that we will use later: Amalgam Virgo,
AV01, Operation Mallgate, OM01, Greengate Mall, Greengate Mall PA,
Ardent Falcon, AF01, Vigilant Guardian, VG01, Vigilant warrior,
VW01, Global Guardian, GG01. 911 Saltlake city utah, 9.10.01
jacksonville florida, 9.10.01 atta. 9.10.01 hijacked flight
jacksonville to atlanta. COG, Continuity of Government. Presidential
Decision Directive, PDD COG, PDD Louis Freeh, Pier 93 NYC nerve
center, pier 93 911, pier 93 blue vests, COG 911 blue vests, atta
IHOP, Atta orlando IHOP, Atta carnaby premel IHOP, atta karam
motors, atta karam, atta karnabe, atta karnabe shipping. 911 turner
construction, 911 merritt and harris.
NewsFollowUp.com
and
FacebookWikipedia What are the
connections between the 'fiscal cliff' and the 9/11 truth movement?
Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire, sending us - the 2%
Social Security tax cut is allowed to expire, the
“sequestration” is allowed to trim discretionary spending,,
including defense, amounts to a fat corporate welfare program.
Wikipedia The United States fiscal cliff refers to the effect of
a series of enacted legislation which, if unchanged, will result in
tax increases, spending cuts, and a corresponding reduction
in the budget deficit at the end of 2012. These laws include tax
increases due to the expiration of the Tax
Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act
of 2010 and the spending reductions ("sequestrations") under
the Budget
Control Act of 2011. The Congressional
Budget Office reported an increased risk of recession during
2013 if the deficit is reduced suddenly, while indicating that lower
deficits and debt over time improve long-term economic growth
prospects. The deficit for 2013 is projected to be reduced by
roughly half, with the cumulative
deficit over the next ten years to be lowered by as much as $7.1
trillion or about 70%. The year-over-year changes for fiscal years
2012-2013 include a 19.63% increase in revenue and 0.25% reduction
in spending. Some major domestic programs, like Social Security,
federal pensions and veterans'
benefits, are exempted from the spending cuts. Spending for federal
agencies and cabinet
departments, including defense, would be reduced through budget
sequestration. The Budget Control Act of 2011 was passed under
the political environment of a partisan stalemate, in which
Democrats and Republicans could not agree on how to reduce the
deficit. It was thought that the blunt cuts of budget sequestration
and sharp revenue increases would be mutually undesirable to both
parties and provide an impetus and deadline to bring the sides
together to solve the deficit problem. The projected effects of
these changes have led to calls both inside and outside of Congress
to extend some or all of the tax cuts, and to replace the
across-the-board reductions with more targeted cutbacks. It has been
speculated that any change is unlikely to come until the period
roughly between the 2012
federal elections and the end of the year. Additionally, the
debate may be exacerbated by the expectation that the debt
ceiling is expected to be reached before the end of 2012, note
1] unless "extraordinary
measures" are used. Nearly all proposals to avoid the fiscal
cliff involve extending certain parts of the 2010 Tax Relief Act or
changing the 2011 Budget Control Act or both, thus making the
deficit larger by reducing taxes and/or increasing spending.
Fetzer, James, Ph.D. Sandy Hook The Sandy Hook
massacre appears to have been a psy op intended to strike fear in
the hearts of Americans by the sheer brutality of the massacre,
where the killing of children is a signature of terror ops conducted
by agents of Israel.
Global Research Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust
from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe Peer Review of
Jones 2006, 2009 thermite, superthermite, nanothermite.
TruthMove
open access journals, Steven Jones used Bentham Science to for
thermite claim. see Open Chemical Physics Journal,
Philip Davis, Cornel U, created nonsensical paper accepted for
publication through Bentham Science, which charges fees to the
authors and makes content available for free. He created a
completely nonsensical paper from SCIgen, the paper cited the Center
for Research in Applied Phrenology, CRAP. it was accepted and
published. fee was $800. and see
video,
Kevin Ryan and Frank Legge are also named in paper, and see James
Gourley.
AE911Truth
AE911Truth Delivers the Evidence to the Media: Press Conference -
National Press Club - Washington DC, The energetic material that was
found in the WTC dust by an international team of scientists (led by
Niels Harrit of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark) was
reported in the peer-reviewed Bentham Open Journal of Chemical
Physics. It consists of nano-engineered iron oxide and aluminum
particles 1000th the size of a human hair, embedded in another
substance consisting of carbon, oxygen, and silicon. The sizes of
the iron oxide particles are extremely uniform, and neither they nor
the ultra-fine-grain aluminum platelets could possibly have been
created by a natural process such as a gravitational collapse or the
impact of jetliners.
NewScientist
Jones spoof paper submitted to Bentham Science to test
outcome.
Heiwaco Help
Understanding the planned Destruction of the World Trade Center
Towers Debunking the "crush-down progressive collapse" Conspiracy
Theory of NIST by Anders
Björkman (also at EMI,
2013, Evanston, IL)
Wikipedia Bentham Science Publishers is a publishing company of
scientific, technical, and medical literature based at Sharjah (United
Arab Emirates).[1][2]Bentham
publishes more than 116 subscription-based academic
journals[2] and
over 230 open
access journals and e-books.[3]
Bentham Open journals claim to employ peer
review;[4] however,
some reports that a fake paper generated with SCIgen had
been accepted for publication, have cast doubt on this.[5][6][7] Furthermore,
the publisher is known for spamming scientists
with invitations to become a member of theeditorial
board of its journals.[8]
In 2007, the Bentham Open Science journal, The Open Chemical Physics
Journal, published a study contending dust from the World Trade
Center attacks contained "active nanothermite".[9] Following
publication, the journal's editor-in-chiefMarie-Paule
Pileni resigned stating, "They have printed the article without
my authorization… I have written to Bentham, that I withdraw myself
from all activities with them".[10]
In a review of Bentham Open for The
Charleston Advisor, Jeffrey Beall noted that "in many cases,
Bentham Open journals publish articles that no legitimate
peer-review journal would accept, and unconventional and
nonconformist ideas are being presented in some of them as
legitimate science." He concluded by stating that "the site has
exploited the Open Access model for its own financial motives and
flooded scholarly communication with a flurry of low quality and
questionable research."[11]
Wikipedia
A Nano-thermite or "super-thermite"[1] is
a metastable intermolecular composite (MICs) characterized by a
particle size of its main constituents, a metal and a metal oxide,
under 100Nanometers.
This allows for high and customizable reaction rates. Nano-thermites
contain an oxidizer and
a reducing
agent, which are intimately mixed on the nanometer scale. MICs,
including nano-thermitic materials, are a type of reactive
materials investigated for military use, as well as for general
applications involving propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics.
What distinguishes MICs from traditional thermites is
that the oxidizer and a reducing agent, normally iron
oxide and aluminium,
are in the form of extremely fine powders (nanoparticles).
This dramatically increases the reactivity relative
to micrometre-sized
powder thermite. As the mass transport mechanisms that slow down the
burning rates of traditional thermites are not so important at these
scales, the reactions become kinetically
controlled and proceed much more quickly.
Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory Jones, Steven The final class of energetic
material produced by sol-gel methods is energetic skeletal
materials. Basically, the sol-gel chemistry is used to create a
skeletal matrix, which is itself energetic. Satcher thinks that it
might also be possible to form a nanostructure made up of a
fuel-oxidizer skeleton with precise stoichiometry (the numerical
relationship of elements and compounds as reactants and products in
a chemical reaction). "This is something we are still looking into,"
he adds. In addition to providing materials that have high energy
density and are extremely powerful, sol-gel methodologies offer more
safe and stable processing. For instance, the materials can be cast
to shape or do not require the hazardous machining techniques
required by materials that cannot be cast.
9/11Scholars.ning Find and document peer reviewed
scientific research that demonstrates that a gas generating
nanothermite (GGNT) based upon iron (III) oxide (Fe2O3) and aluminum
(Al), where the gas generating chemical added to the nanothermite is
not itself a high explosive, can be made to be a high explosive with
at least a detonation velocity of 2000 m/s. The author of this paper
will donate $100 for every 1000 m/s of detonation velocity that can
be documented, the donation not to exceed $1,000. For example, if a
detonation velocity of 5500 m/s can be documented, then the donation
amount will be $550. Only one prize will be awarded in the form of a
donation to AE911Truth, and it will be awarded based upon the
highest detonation velocity that can be documented. Those submitting
entries grant the author the right to publish their entries. Entries
must be in the form of a brief (no longer than one page) write-up,
with the peer reviewed research cited, and at least scanned copies
(electronic pdf files) of the cover page(s) and pages relied upon of
the technical papers, if not a submittal of the entire paper(s).
Entries should be sent by email to [email protected] by
June 20, 2011. The award will be announced and paid by July 20,
2011.
Algoxy
To turn concrete into fine dust take immense pressures, such as what
typically comes with concrete in very close proximity to the center
of a blast. Very well contained explosions can create extremely high
pressures at slightly further distances from the detonations center,
which dramatically increases the quantity of super fine dust.
Thermite buring in the prescense of such an explosion will be
extinguished and rendered to particles of nanometer dimension. Nano
thermite or super thermite as presented lacks proper performance
specifications to suggest use of it at above ground levels for
demolition. Such materials are very useful IF they have such
specifications because engineered blasting can be accomplished a
with a high degree of precision. However, thermite is liquid when
burning. If burning and melting steel having lots of rust, such as
basement level column bases, when high explosives detonate in close
proximity, nano sized particles of thermite, with iron oxide could
easily be formed, and the thermite extinguished in the process.
Perhaps and explanation for what was found.
VeteransToday, Barium and Strontium: Neither of these elements
should ever appear in building debris in these quantities. The
levels never fall below 400ppm for Barium and they never drop below
700ppm for Strontium and reach over 3000ppm for both in the dust
sample taken at Broadway and John Streets. Thorium and Uranium:
These elements only exist in radioactive form. Thorium is a
radioactive element formed from Uranium by decay. It’s very rare and
should not be present in building rubble, ever. So once again we
have verifiable evidence that a nuclear fission event has taken
place. Lithium: With the presence of lithium we have compelling
evidence that this fission pathway of Uranium to Thorium and Helium,
with subsequent decay of the Helium into Lithium has taken place.
Lanthanum: Lanthanum is the next element in the disintegration
pathway of the element Barium. Yttrium: The next decay element after
Strontium, which further confirms the presence of Barium. Chromium:
The presence of Chromium is one more “tell tale” signature of a
nuclear detonation. Tritium: A very rare element and should not be
found at concentrations 55 times normal the basement of WTC-6 no
less than 11 days after 9/11, which is another “tell tale” sign of
nukes.
Wikipedia Bentham Science Publishers is a publishing
company of scientific, technical, and medical literature based at Sharjah (United
Arab Emirates).[1][2]Bentham
publishes more than 116 subscription-based academic journals[2] and
over 230 open
access journals and e-books.[3]
Bentham Open journals claim to employ peer review;[4] however,
some reports that a fake paper generated with SCIgen had
been accepted for publication, have cast doubt on this.[5][6][7] Furthermore,
the publisher is known for spamming scientists with invitations to
become a member of the editorial board of its journals.[8]
In 2007, the Bentham Open Science journal, The Open Chemical Physics
Journal, published a study contending dust from the World Trade
Center attacks contained "active nanothermite".[9] Following
publication, the journal's editor-in-chief Marie-Paule
Pileni resigned stating, "They have printed the article without
my authorization… I have written to Bentham, that I withdraw myself
from all activities with them".[10]
In a review of Bentham Open for The
Charleston Advisor, Jeffrey Beall noted that "in many cases,
Bentham Open journals publish articles that no legitimate
peer-review journal would accept, and unconventional and
nonconformist ideas are being presented in some of them as
legitimate science." He concluded by stating that "the site has
exploited the Open Access model for its own financial motives and
flooded scholarly communication with a flurry of low quality and
questionable research."[11]
TruthMarche Dick
Cheney (of all people) was awarded an “honorary doctorate” from BYU
and BYU President Cecil O. Samuelson. The background information
leading up to Cheney giving the commencement speech is perhaps
worthy of its own discussion, elsewhere, but those readers familiar
with Stephen Jones’ work on 9/11 may know some of these details.
And, while at this same commencement ceremony where Cheney was
lauded and applauded, J. Craig McIlroy, then president of the BYU
Alumni Association, offered the following words of praise on the
Rothschild family[9],
of all families:
Previous efforts
Join us for Groundbreaking 9/11 Anniversary Events in New York,
California and Maryland, September 8-12
9/11Truth
Five days of exciting and informative events are planned
across the country for the 9/11 anniversary this year, beginning in New
York City on September 8 and culminating at the University of Maryland
on September 12.
In addition, there will be 9/11 events happening throughout the
country, including local screenings of the new 1-hour version of our
groundbreaking documentary, 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak
Out, which has just been uploaded to YouTube!
One of these local screenings will be at the annual 9/11 Truth film
festival in Oakland, CA, organized by NCA911Truth.
The University of Maryland seems dedicated to also enlighten their
academic community about what really caused the destruction of the Twin
Towers and WTC Building 7, as they are bringing in AE911Truth founder
Richard Gage, AIA to speak to 200 students on Sept 12. See below for
more details.
These street actions, film festivals, and 9/11 symposiums will bring
AE911Truth together with 9/11 experts, government whistleblowers,
influential activists and media sources that are calling for a new 9/11
investigation. Join us and tell your friends!
New York City, September 8-11
The events in New York City begin with street actions at Ground Zero
on September 8, where activists will distribute DVDs, 9/11 Investigator
newspapers, WTC evidence cards, and other 9/11 Truth materials to the
public. See GroundZero911.com for details.
On September 9, Gage will be one of the featured speakers, along with
Experts Speak Out psychologist Robert Griffin, CIA whistleblower Susan
Lindauer, investigative reporter Wayne Madsen, broadcast journalist Joe
Calhoun, and activist Frank Morales, for How the World Changed After
9/11: A Symposium of Critical Thinkers, the third annual 9/11 Truth
conference in New York City.
AE911Truth will be delivering a new presentation at this event called
Finding the Hero Within: Lessons from a 9/11 Whistleblower. It will
accent the character development of the new “emerging patriot” who is
called upon to relentlessly pursue and speak the truth about 9/11.
“We are very excited to give the new talk that we will soon be
bringing to students around the country,” Gage said. “Thanks to a few of
our gracious donors, campus activities directors from coast to coast
will see the 10-minute preview of this new presentation at regional
college speaking conferences this fall, and we anticipate that they will
decide to bring our newly packaged and vital message to their
universities.”
Gage we will also be introducing and screening our 15-minute
documentary “Solving the Mystery” with Ed Asner starring in the
power-packed short about World Trade Center 7. This will occur at yet
another unique 3-day New York event in the history of 9/11 events,
“Pause / Press Play” at the Kraft Center. Other film makers and speakers
such as Penny Little, creator of “9/11 Dust: A Healing Journey”. The
event is all about healing from the tragic events of 9/11. To that end
we will be also screening the trailer of our new documentary 9/11:
Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out, which will be pre-viewed and
discussed in the topic “We Need the Truth in Order to Heal” on 9/10/12
at 4pm. We will be emphasizing what can be done in order to promote
long-lasting healing with this critical information.
New York City will also host the 1st annual Off the Radar Film
Festival, which runs from September 8-11 and culminates on the
anniversary with a screening of the Final Edition of our Experts Speak
Out at the Walker Stage. Gage will introduce the film and answer
questions from the audience following the showing of the film, as he has
throughout the recent 32-City World Premiere Tour of Experts Speak Out.
Date/Time City Event Venue September 8, noon-6 p.m. New York City, NY
Street Action at Ground Zero Corner of Vesey St and Church St September
9, 1-8 p.m. New York City, NY How the World Changed After 9/11: A
Syposium of Critical Thinkers Walker Stage September 10, 4 p.m. New York
City, NY Screening of Solving the Mystery of WTC 7 Kraft Center
September 11, 7 a.m.-noon New York City, NY Silent Vigil at Ground Zero
Corner of Vesey St and Church St September 11, 8 p.m New York City, NY
Off the Radar Film Festival: Screening of Experts Speak Out Walker Stage
September 11, 2-11p.m. Oakland, CA 9/11 Truth Film Festival Grand Lake
Theatre September 12, 7 p.m. College Park, MD Finding the Hero Within:
Lessons from a 911 Whistleblower University of Maryland, Nyumburu
Cultural Center The events in New York City are being organized by Mike
Figa, Les Jamison, Derek Brose of Houston Free Thinkers and other 9/11
Truth activists who are dedicated to educating others.
Mike Figa expects these anniversary activities to draw scores of
people. “The symposium will seek to go beyond 9/11 and look at the
larger picture,” he explained. “I feel that the general public is
getting more receptive to criticism of the official myth and less
reactionary toward the 9/11 Truth message. The more people reached with
these events, the better.”
More details about the anniversary events in New York City may be
found at GroundZero911.com.
Oakland, California, September 11
Supporters of AE911Truth on the West Coast are encouraged to attend
the 9/11 Truth Film Festival in Oakland, California, on September 11.
Experts Speak Out will make its Oakland debut at this festival, which
will be held at the Grand Lake Theatre from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. The event
also includes a panel headlined by 9/11 researcher Peter Dale Scott and
Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips of Project Censored. Bonnie Faulkner, who
hosts the KPFA radio show Guns and Butter, will serve as the emcee.
More information is available at SF911Truth.org.
College Park, Maryland, September 12
The University of Maryland will welcome Gage on September 12 for the
kickoff of the AE911Truth College Speaking Series at the Nyumburu
Cultural Center. Architecture professor Garth Rockcastle, FAIA, will
participate in a panel discussion as one of our featured skeptics to
question Gage following the presentation.
This event is being organized by undergraduate student Mo Farsh, the
leader of the United Youth Movement, an on-campus student group. “It is
important that we practice freedom of speech, regardless of the
controversy it might spark,” Farsh said. “We believe that it’s essential
to face the facts about 9/11 and decide for ourselves, and this event
makes that possible.”
More information on this event is also available on the AE911Truth
Events page.
or... New York City, September 8-11 2012
The events in New York City begin with street actions at Ground Zero
on September 8, where activists will distribute DVDs, 9/11 Investigator
newspapers, WTC evidence cards, and other 9/11 Truth materials to the
public. See GroundZero911.com for details.
On September 9, Gage will
be one of the featured speakers, along with Experts Speak Out
psychologist Robert Griffin, CIA whistleblower Susan Lindauer,
investigative reporter Wayne Madsen, broadcast journalist Joe Calhoun,
and activist Frank Morales, for How the World Changed After 9/11: A
Symposium of Critical Thinkers, the third annual 9/11 Truth conference
in New York City.
AE911Truth will be delivering a new presentation at this event called
Finding the Hero Within: Lessons from a 9/11 Whistleblower. It will
accent the character development of the new “emerging patriot” who is
called upon to relentlessly pursue and speak the truth about 9/11.
“We are very excited to give the new talk that we will soon be
bringing to students around the country,” Gage said. “Thanks to a few of
our gracious donors, campus activities directors from coast to coast
will see the 10-minute preview of this new presentation at regional
college speaking conferences this fall, and we anticipate that they will
decide to bring our newly packaged and vital message to their
universities.”
Gage we will also be introducing and screening our 15-minute
documentary “Solving the Mystery” with Ed Asner starring in the
power-packed short about World Trade Center 7. This will occur at yet
another unique 3-day New York event in the history of 9/11 events,
“Pause / Press Play” at the Kraft Center. Other film makers and speakers
such as Penny Little, creator of “9/11 Dust: A Healing Journey”. The
event is all about healing from the tragic events of 9/11. To that end
we will be also screening the trailer of our new documentary 9/11:
Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out, which will be pre-viewed and
discussed in the topic “We Need the Truth in Order to Heal” on 9/10/12
at 4pm. We will be emphasizing what can be done in order to promote
long-lasting healing with this critical information.
New York City will also host the 1st annual Off the Radar Film
Festival, which runs from September 8-11 and culminates on the
anniversary with a screening of the Final Edition of our Experts Speak
Out at the Walker Stage. Gage will introduce the film and answer
questions from the audience following the showing of the film, as he has
throughout the recent 32-City World Premiere Tour of Experts Speak Out.
Date/Time /City /Event /Venue
September 8 - Noon-6 p.m. New York City, NY Street Action at Ground
Zero Corner of Vesey St and Church S
September 9 -1-8 p.m. New York City, NY How the World Changed After
9/11: A Syposium of Critical Thinkers Walker Stage
September 10 – 4 p.m. New York City, NY Screening of Solving the
Mystery of WTC 7 Kraft Center
September 11 – 7 a.m.-noon New York City, NY Silent Vigil at Ground
Zero Corner of Vesey St and Church St
September 11 – 8 p.m New York City, NY Off the Radar Film Festival:
Screening of Experts Speak OutWalker Stage
September 11 – 2-11p.m. Oakland, CA 9/11 Truth Film Festival Grand
Lake Theatre
September 12 – 7 p.m. College Park, MD Finding the Hero Within:
Lessons from a 9/11 WhistleblowerUniversity of Maryland, Nyumburu
Cultural Center
The events in New York City are being organized by Mike Figa, Les
Jamison, Derek Brose of Houston Free Thinkers and other 9/11 Truth
activists who are dedicated to educating others.
Mike Figa expects these anniversary activities to draw scores of
people. “The symposium will seek to go beyond 9/11 and look at the
larger picture,” he explained. “I feel that the general public is
getting more receptive to criticism of the official myth and less
reactionary toward the 9/11 Truth message. The more people reached with
these events, the better.”
More details about the anniversary events in New York City may be
found at GroundZero911.com.
Oakland, California, September 11
Supporters of AE911Truth on the West Coast are encouraged to attend
the 9/11 Truth Film Festival in Oakland, California, on September 11.
Experts Speak Out will make its Oakland debut at this festival, which
will be held at the Grand Lake Theatre from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. The event
also includes a panel headlined by 9/11 researcher Peter Dale Scott and
Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips of Project Censored. Bonnie Faulkner, who
hosts the KPFA radio show Guns and Butter, will serve as the emcee.
More information is available at SF911Truth.org.
College Park, Maryland, September 12
The University of Maryland will welcome Gage on September 12 for the
kickoff of the AE911Truth College Speaking Series at the Nyumburu
Cultural Center. Architecture professor Garth Rockcastle, FAIA, will
participate in a panel discussion as one of our featured skeptics to
question Gage following the presentation.
This event is being organized by undergraduate student Mo Farsh, the
leader of the United Youth Movement, an on-campus student group. “It is
important that we practice freedom of speech, regardless of the
controversy it might spark,” Farsh said. “We believe that it’s essential
to face the facts about 9/11 and decide for ourselves, and this event
makes that possible.”
Other Illinois cities Aurora, Rockford, Joliet, Naperville,
Springfield, Peoria, Elgin, Waukegan, Cicero,
Danville, Charleston, Mattoon, Paris, Clinton, Bloomington, Quincy,
Monmouth, Arcola, Argenta, Decatur, Savoy, Rantoul, Buckley, Mt. Veron,
Zion, Mt. Zion, East St. Louis, Monticello, Gibson City, Paris.
Reinvestigate9/11 Latest 9/11 News Sept
2012: 9/11 Sceptics In the Mainstream as Evidence Mounts As the annual
9/11 remembrance draws to a close, the world is split on whether the
Afghan and Iraq invasions were justified, and also between those who
accept Washington's official 9/11 story and those who do not.
Sept11th 2012: 9/11 - Eleven Years On -Still No Answers 9/11, a world
changing event, resulting in wars abroad and erosion of civil liberties
at home. Sept 11, 2012 - "9/11: Are Our Universities Failing Us?"
University of Toronto Professors Richard B. Lee and Herb Jenkins, will
discuss their conclusions of expert witnesses who argued that the
official theory of 9/11 is false. The film "9/11 In The academic
Community " Aug 28th 2012 - Former Marine To Sue FBI over 9/11 Facebook
Posts Brandon Raub, 26, was detained for psychiatric evaluation by the
FBI after he questioned the official 9/11 account on FaceBook. more Aug
2012 - New York Times & CIA Collusion - 9/11 Implications more
Here's the Architects and Engineers Midwest Tour in
2011.....
Tour Dates, Locations, Times and Contact Info 1) Sunday, April 3rd,
2011 at 7:00 PM Ames City Auditorium 520 6th Street Ames, Iowa 50010
2) Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 7:00 pm North Central Technical College
1000 West Campus Dr. Wausau, WI 54401-1899 Local contact:
3) Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 7:00 pm University of Wisconsin -
Madison Room 1310 Sterling Hall Madison, Wisconsin 53706
4) Friday, April 8, 2011 at 7:00 pm Centennial Hall of the Milwaukee
Public Library 733 N. Eighth St. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233
5) Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 3:00 pm Hilton Garden Inn 1818 Maple
Ave. Chicago/Evanston, Illinois 60201
6) Monday, April 11, 2011 at 7:00 pm The Center for Visual &
Performing Arts 1040 Ridge Road Munster, Indiana 46321
7) Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 7:00 pm Lakeview Museum 1125 Lake Ave.
Peoria, Illinois 61614
8) Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 7:00 pm Continuing Education and
Conference Center University of Minnesota 1890 Buford Ave.
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota 55108
9) Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 7:00 pm Uptown Theatre- Valentine Room
3700 Broadway St. Kansas City, Missouri 64111
10) Monday, April 18, 2011 at 7:00 pm Lawrence Technological
University College of Architecture & Design 21000 West Ten Mile Road
Southfield, Michigan 48075
What do Assange,
Bradley Manning, Hasan (Ft. Hood shooter), Israeli Art Students,
Christmas underwear bomber (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab), Zacarias
Moussaoui (20th highjacker), Richard Reid (Shoe bomber) have in
common? FBI pre-knowledge.
911caper 9-11
Conspiracy Theorist Hits the Road… Infamous 9-11 conspiracy theorist David
Ray Griffin, whose books insist the Bush Administration and not al Qaeda
blew up the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, is launching a speaking
tour this week to help merge the “9-11 Truth Movement” with “more
traditional Peace and Anti-War groups” against the “illegal and immoral war”
in Afghanistan.
911Truth
Colorado Public Television to Premiere World
Trade Center Documentary 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out ...
Thank you! Richard Gage, AIA, for the Architects and Engineers for 9/11
Truth team, Fran Shure for the Colorado 9/11 Visibility team.
911
Working Group The
documents confirm assertion by Webster Tarpley in his book 9/11 Synthetic
Terror that the White House received a threat that "Angel is Next." (The Air
Force One code-name is redacted in the document). See link below:
Declassified 9/11 U.S. Secret Service FOIA Records Describing Activity of
President Bush & VP Cheney
pdf
AboveTopSecret
9/11, which was just a modified version of "Operation Northwoods".
AE911Truth
Sept 7, 2012 Architects & Engineers for
911 Truth (1700+ architects and engineers and 14000+ supporters)
... Groundbreaking 9/11 Anniversary Events in New York,
California and Maryland, September 8-12 ...
9/11: Explosive Evidence
– Experts Speak Out, which has just been uploaded to YouTube! see
NFU Flight 77Pentagon missile attack.
Bollyn
Olmert, How Ehud Barak pulled
off 911, Dov Zakheim, book: Solving 9-11: The Deception that Changed the
World,
BusinessInsider Aug 24, 2012 Former FBI Agent
Says The
CIA Failed To Act Before 9/11
Terrorist Attack ... Soufan was working for the FBI in
Yemen at the time of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. He was
looking for two of the hijackers in the Middle East but they were already in
America, something Soufan claims the CIA knew and failed to report.
Extrados
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud
Barak (L) talks with Minister of Pensioner Affairs Rafi Eitan as Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert (
Global Research
The Pentagon's "Second 911" "Another 9/11] attack could create both a
justification and an opportunity to retaliate against some known targets"
by Michel Chossudovsky
Jews Against Zionism
is a group for Jews and others opposed to the Zionist movement and ideology,
and to its impact on both Palestinians and Jews. This is not a religious
group, not a racist hate group, and not a conspiracy-theory group. JAZ is a
political group, committed to coexistence between Palestinians and Israeli
Jews.
Jones, Dr. Steven E.
Jones, WTC dust contained super-thermite nano-composite high explosive,
thermate, aluminum oxide, iron oxide, large amounts of molten iron found,
blue smoke,
Mearsheimer and Walt,
the Israeli Lobby, Iraq war initiated by Zionist neo-con Jews,
OpEdNews
The super-classified network that served as command and control for the 9/11
false flag attack on America
Pastore, Dr. Albert D.
Pastore, An Independent Ivestigation of the True Culprits Behind 911.
Pilots for 9/11 Truth Sept 10, 2012 ACARS CONFIRMED -
9/11 AIRCRAFT AIRBORNE LONG AFTER CRASH
Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) is a device
used to send messages to and from an aircraft. ... ACARS
Messages have been provided through the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA)
which demonstrate that the aircraft received messages through ground
stations located in Harrisburg, PA, and then later routed through a ground
station in Pittsburgh,
20 minutes after the aircraft
allegedly impacted the South Tower in New York.
more
PrsonPlanet
Further details on command and control system used to coordinate 9/11
incident
Rediscover911
ISRAEL---NOT MUSLIMS---DID 9/11 ! 9/11 WAS A MURDEROUS ISRAELI FALSE FLAG
OPERATION, WITH JEWISH AND GENTILE AMERICAN HELPERS (SAYANIM).
Republic Broadcast Network,
Israel did 9/11 The computerized national-security systems that should
have automatically scrambled jets in the event of a national emergency like
9/11 were running on Ptech software.
Smoke and Mirrors Blog
.. As long as certain
twisted souls feel the need to lie, cheat and murder to achieve their ends
some of us need to keep pointing it out...
Notes:
Mousaoui trial directly related ... 9/11 surveillance tapes at Pentagon not
made public because of this trial See
Flight77.info
for details on
FOIA
request for those tapes.
black boxes
and
WMR
Ventura, Jesse
Ventura
War Crimes
Complaint, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, evidence beyond a shadow of doubt, false
flag bombing by US.
WayneMadsenReport
Ergenekon investigation in Turkey now involves U.S. embassy in Ankara and
U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul. Ergenekon "deep state" conspiracy linked
to United States.
Notes:
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return of Palestinian refugees and dismantlement of the Zionist structure of
the state of Israel - and that this is impossible in the context of two
states and a re-partition of Palestine. We advocate the only approach which
can lead to peace with justice in the region: we call for a unitary, secular
and democratic Palestine, the return of Palestinian refugees, and full and
equal rights for Palestinians, Israeli Jews, and all other people living in
the whole of Palestine.
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Wikipedia
Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States
Central Intelligence Agency program to arm, train, and finance
the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
search terms: 1979-1989, Pakistan, Carter, Brzezinski, draw
Soviets in Vietnam-like war, Reagan, Chalie Wilson's war,
Pillsbury, stinger missiles, ISI, MI6, SAS, F-16 sold to
Pakistan, Hekmatyar, Bhutto, Zia, Peter Bergen, Bearden, Michael
Portillo,
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Appell
an den Generalstaatsanwalt Eric Holder; ein unabhängiges Gremium einzusetzen
um unmittelbar mit einer Untersuchung der schwerwiegendsten Verbrechen zu
beginnen, die von Ex-Präsidenten George W.Bush und Ex-Vizepräsidenten
Richard B. Cheney sowie anderen Amtsträgern ihrer Regierung begangen wurden.
Sowohl G.W. Bush als auch R.B. Cheney haben zugegeben die Anwendung von
Folter autorisiert zu haben
Berkowitz
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The new face of war:
how war will be fought in the 21st century By Bruce D. Berkowitz
Chile,
False Flag,
Pakistani, Mohammed Saif-ur-Rehman Khan, arrested, setup, framed, by
neo-Pinochet government of President Sebastian Pinera, Judge
Carolina Araya,
Cosiga,
highest ranking statesman to
accuse Mossad of false flag.
False Flag:
Buenos Aires, 1992, bombings of Israeli Embassy blamed on Iran and
Hezbollah, suicide truck driver, Argentine Supreme Court proved they could
not have done it. and 1994, false flag bombing of AMIA Jewish cultural
center in Buenos Aires, killed 85, again blamed on Iran and Hezbollah, but
evidence proved otherwise, ATF said no evidence.
Guardian
comment: While the leader of the Turkish 'Deep State', war criminal, General
Yasar Buyukanit, was out of the country visiting London (20th-24th Jan), 33
members of a shadowy, extreme right wing ultra nationalist group, named
Ergenekon were rounded up and detained (22nd Jan). They are now awaiting
charges of political murder, assassination, provocations and dirty 'Deep
State' activities.
Katyn Massacre, cover-up, 22,000 Polish nationals mass murdered by Soviet
NKVD, 1943, Western and Soviet let world believe it was Hitler, but in 1990
Soviet Union officially acknowledged the perpetration
Wikipedia
New Jersey News
Erichufschmid.net
Five men detained as suspected conspirators, terms: Bergen County,
Route 3, Rutherford, Liberty State Park, Sheraton, Hackensack River Bridge,
Israelis, FBI Newark Field Office, look for white Chevrolet van, men
celebrating WTC attack, bomb squad, Urban Moving Systems, West 50th
Street, Manhattan, Dominik Suter, Carroll, Roberson, confirmed all.
Goldstone Report,
Barak war crimes,
notes: Mohamed
Atta, Al Shehhi and Jarrah flight 11, 175 and 93 , passports obtained
through murders, Mossad. Egypt Air flight 990, dress rehearsal for
911, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, planner, stooge,
Palestine Telegraph
Palestine Telegraph revealed the truth behind David Cameron, Israel
jointly developed South Africa’s nuclear weapons:
PrisonPlanet Cheney Coordinated 9-11 WTC Terrorism Attack by WAYNE MADSEN
How Ehud Barak Pulled Off 9-11 by CHRISTOPHER BOLLYN 9-11 Pentagon Attack
Shows Official Monstrous Lie by PR LOG Decoding History:Was 9/11 A Directed
Energy Op? by NICO HAUPT 9-11 Conspiracy: Evidence Twin Towers Exploded by
YOU TUBE 9-11 Conspiracy:'Coincidences' or Synchronicities? by MICHAEL
GOODSPEED (THUNDERBOLTS.INFO) War on Terrorism is a total false flag
propaganda machine,
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Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Life Sciences, Services,
and Defense and Security. With over 200 years of combined investment and
operating experience, SCP supports its investment portfolio with a rich base
of strategic, operating and financial expertise and an extensive network to
access capital, recruit management, and facilitate favorable strategic
alliances.
Super-thermite,
chips discovered 911 New York site, by Dr. Steven E. Jones, World
Trade Center
Ariel Sharon
canceled his address to ISRAELI support groups in NEW YORK CITY just the day
before his scheduled 9-11 address. The 120 Israeli art student spy ring
active in the UNITED STATES before 911 had a group living on the same street
just 3 blocks form Mohammed Atta
False flag notes,
keywords, Ottoman Turks conquest of Constantinople, in Jewish quarter,
Zionist trickery to get America to join WW!, Balfour Declaration, Jewish
homeland in Palestine, Bernays propaganda campaign, dual loyalty, Rothschild
and clever trick to start market panic on Napoleon Waterloo win, Jewish
bombers dressed in Arab clothes entered the King David Hotel, killed 91,
blamed it on the Arabs, Pollard is a hero in Israel, Rosenbergs, Lavon
Affair exposed, Israel blamed Egypt for attack on USS Liberty, FBI
could have stopped 1993 WTC bombings,
ShiaChat
comment: AIPAC/pro-Zionist lobby groups are powerful and dictate U.S.
Foreign Policy. The Federal Reserve is a conglomerate group of
private banks. The CIA formed Al Qaeda and funded it against the
Soviets. Most of the U.S media is owned by just 5 corporations. Rupert
Murdoch is a Zionist Jew who owns FOX News!
Want to Know.info
Top Politicians, Economists, Other Leaders
State 9/11 Possibly an Inside JobJob list of Former Chief Economist under
President Bush, Morgan Reynolds; Assistant Secretary of Treasury under Pres.
Reagan, Paul Roberts; Head of Advanced Space Programs, Dept. of Defense, Dr.
Robert Bowman; UK Minister of Environment (1997 - 2003), Michael Meacher;
U.S. Senator Mark Dayton; U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney; Renowned
Theologian Prof. David Ray Griffin; Assistant Secretary of Housing For Pres.
Bush, Catherine Austin Fitts; 9/11 statement signed by 100 prominent
Americans, 40 9/11 family members
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lawsuits Ergenekon Affair. The word refers to a valley lost deep in the
Altai Mountains, supposedly the origin of the Turkish nation, who were
miraculously led out by a gray she-wolf. The story was for many years a
favorite of secular nationalists seeking to replace Islam with a patriotic
founding myth, axis of evil is propaganda, Obama is perpetuating the
Al-queda myth, Al-quida,
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London studio spinning 911 attacks, first to call "War on Terror"
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Where TRUE CONSERVATIVE 1% "family values" do not include hidden bigotry or
blatant social and environmental ignorance.... Assassination: A Game For
All.
Begin, Menachem
Begin, Irgun leader, PM of Likud, talked peace planned terror, 1982 invasion
of Lebanon, Moshe Dayan, FM, Mossad chief Isser Harel, started
planning 9/11. Wikipedia.
Clinton, Hillary,
criminal mafia-like boss.
DallasBlog,
underpants bomber, underware bomber, Nigerian Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab, Christmas Day, Dennis Blair fired,
Eitan, Rafi,
leads Gil, former Minister of Pensioner Affairs, see also Eichmann capture
by Mossad, vetoed capture of Mengele, Begin advisor, Aman, Shabak, resigned
because of Pollard affair, head of Chemicals company, ag projects in Cuba,
parents Zionist immigrant from Russia, moved up Haganah to Palmach,
fled Nazis, blew up British radar on Mt. Carmel, Yitzhak Rabin, prime
minister, had post in Shinbet, helped plan attack on Iraqi Osirak nuclear
reactor, head of Lekem, Thatcher used Eitan in Northern Ireland, GBM Grupo
BM, Reesimex, sculptor, Brown Company,
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Policy and Compliance, 5200 Army Pentagon, Room 1D245, Washington, DC
20310-5200
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of Log-On Software, Gil Migdan, Israeli marine, and see Joseph
Segev, and Amit Yoran, Pentagon software security,
Intrusion Detection Technologies,
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Fiscal Year (FY) 2006/2007 Budget Estimates Submission Procurement,
Defense-Wide
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Maurice, AIG, access to WTC, demolition charges,
Harel, Isser
Harel,
Haaretz
should have said "Israel helped South Africa develop ten battlefield nuclear
bombs"
more
Hellerstein, Alvin
K. Hellerstein: Orthodox Jew and devoted Zionist The same law that created
the 9-11 Victims Compensation Fund also stipulated that all 9-11 related
lawsuits would go through the U.S. District Court of Manhattan, where Alvin
K. Hellerstein, an orthodox Jew and devoted supporter of Israel has
prevented any case from going to trial.
Huntleigh-USA,
handled security at hijacker airports on 9/11,
ICTS, parent
company of Huntleigh, Altzmon, Olmert colleague,
IDF, Barak Chief
of Staff,
Israeli
Intelligence and Central Command
Israel Chemicals
Corporation
Kroll, aiport
security, 911, hijackers, relationship with Silverstein, see
Citizens Budget Commission, United Jewish Appeal Federation, largest
Jewish fund raiser,
Netanyahu,
Bibi
Odigo, Israeli
paging service warned of 911 attacks
PNAC, Project for
a New American Century, Clean Break, create larger military presence in
Mideast,
PTech, Michael
Goff, Arab, software, to fool NORAD, FAA, Amit Yoran, access to
code, remote control enabled, target WTC,
Security Growth
Partners, Elad Yoran, venture capital, see link between Kroll,
brothers Elad Yoran, Amit Yoran, Kroll reinstalled security in 1993
WTC,
TehranTimes
PDAS The super-classified
network that served as command and control for the 9/11 false flag attack on
America
Google
Joint Staff (TJS) supports the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS)
in his role as principal military adviser to the President, Secretary of
Defense and National Security Council. The Chairman relies on TJS to create
and promulgate guidance for
Mossad
Osama bin Laden,
worked for the CIA right up to 9/11.
Stome, Oliver Stone 9/11 Oliver Stone and Peter
Kuznick, co-authors/makers of the new book/Showtime documentary: "The Untold
History of the United States," laugh off 9/11 question during book signing
Q&A. Kuznick, a historian, makes a mockery of anyone even daring to question
the official story. So there you have it, even the people posing as those
digging up the real truths won't even touch it. Yet this one event led to
multiple wars, multiple military interventions, military contractors,
torture being accepted, drone use, the Patriot Act, the TSA, the NDAA, and
so much more...
Urban Moving
Systems, Israeli Art Students, prepared explosives, radiographic
controlled, from WTC7
US Army School of
Advanced Military Studies, Mossad tricks, Palestinian / Arab acts
Verint,
Washington Post
Sept 5, 2012
(The internet community won't let Charlie
Sheen abandon his 9/11 Truth stance ...see
NFU/ Charlie Sheen) and his
magic is renewed ...
WP
Charlie Sheen’s ‘Anger
Management’ picked up for 90 more episodes ... Anger
Management” is the highest rated new comedy series on cable this calendar
year, averaging 4.5 million viewers
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Lawrence Silverman, 911 Mastermind
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Eitan,
Wikipedia, Michael
Chertoff 911 Mastermind, Israelis arrested near the Holland Tunnel,
Zionist criminals,
WayneMadsenReport
April 26-28, 2010 --
The super-classified network that
served as command and control for the 9/11 false flag attack on America
publication date: Apr 25, 2010 April 26-28,
2010 -- The super-classified network that served as command and control for
the 9/11 false flag attack on America ....
Multiple U.S. intelligence sources have reported to WMR that a
super-classified network with only some 70 terminals in select U.S.
government locations handled the parallel command-and-control activities
that permitted the 9/11 terrorist attacks to be successful.
.... The "above top secret" network bears the
acronym "PDAS." WMR has not yet discovered what the acronym stands for,
however, its is limited to only a few hundred people with Sensitive
Compartmented Information (SCI) Special Access Program (SAP) need-to-know
access, in addition to the President and Vice President.
... On September 11, 2001, PDAS was used to convey the
information from the Air Force Chief of Staff to the White House, CIA, and
other select agencies that the Air Force had successfully intercepted and
downed a target over Pennsylvania. It is believed that the "target" in
question was United flight 93, although there is no confirmation that the
aircraft was in fact the one downed by Air Force interceptors.
... The Air Force Chief of Staff on 9/11 was General John
Jumper, who had become the top Air Force commander on September 6, 2001,
just five days before the 9/11 attacks. ...
There is also reason to believe that the PDAS terminal at the Presidential
Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) at the White House was used to coordinate
the activities related to the aerial attack on the Pentagon. Transportation
Secretary Norman Mineta claimed Vice President Dick Cheney was present at
the PEOC at 9:25 am on the morning of 9/11, before the alleged impact of
American Airlines flight 77 on the building. ...
Mineta testified before the 9/11 Commission that Cheney was aware of special
orders concerning a plane heading toward Washington. Mineta said: "During
the time that the airplane was coming into the Pentagon, there was a young
man who would come in and say to the Vice President…the plane is 50 miles
out…the plane is 30 miles out….and when it got down to the plane is 10 miles
out, the young man also said to the vice president 'do the orders still
stand?' And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said
“Of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary?"
... PDAS terminals are reportedly located at the White
House, on board Air Force One, the Pentagon, CIA headquarters, the National
Security Agency, the Boeing E-4 Advanced Airborne Command Post that was seen
flying over Washington, DC on 9/11 after the attacks, the Defense
Intelligence Agency at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, DC, and the
Raven Rock Mountain Complex in Pennsylvania where Cheney hid out after the
9/11 attacks. ... Mineta later followed up
with reporters and stated "When I overheard something about 'the orders
still stand' and so, what I thought of was that they had already made the
decision to shoot something down." ...
It now appears that PDAS was used by Cheney to implement on the morning of
9/11 a new policy issued on June 1, 2001 that provided for a "stand down"
protocol that replaced a long-standing shootdown order for hijacked and
suspected hijacked planes. The new order transferred the authority to shoot
down aircraft from Pentagon and NORAD military commanders to the President,
Vice President, or Secretary of Defense. MORE
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covert technical operations, Balkans, Rwanda, September 11, 2001
Extrados
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak (L) talks with Minister of Pensioner
Affairs Rafi Eitan as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (C) waits to start the
weekly cabinet meeting May 25, 2008 in Jerusalem. Eitan is wanted by the FBI
for his role as the spymaster of Jonathan Pollard. Olmert was in New York
City on 9-11. These three men know very well who was behind the terrorism of
9-11. ... IT IS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT
CERTAIN that 9-11 was a Mossad operation - period. - Dr. Alan Sabrosky,
former director of Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
.... Ehud Barak, Israel's defense minister, is currently in the
United States for a week of meetings and speeches. He is, in my opinion, the
key suspect of being the mastermind of the false-flag terror attacks of
9-11. To help understand how Barak pulled off 9-11 I am providing this brief
article to explain how I think he did it. It should be noted that Barak was
Israel's minister of defense during Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip in
2008-2009. Based on the findings of the U.N. Factfinding Report written by
Justice Richard Goldstone, Barak is responsible for a host of war crimes
committed during that assault. The United States and other states are
obliged to arrest Ehud Barak based on the findings of that report.
... Ehud Barak was prime minister of Israel from July 1999 until
March 7, 2001, when he was replaced by Ariel Sharon. I attended an event at
the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois where both Barak, then
prime minister, and Sharon were involved, shortly before the election that
brought Sharon to power. The fact that Barak and Sharon had travelled to
Chicago together illustrated the utter fakeness of their rivalry.
... Previous positions held by Barak include Head of
Defense Planning and Budgeting, Head of the Israeli Intelligence Community,
Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Minister of
the Interior in Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin's cabinet, Minister of Foreign
Affairs in the Shimon Peres cabinet, and Labor Party Chairman. If Israel is
involved in 9-11, as Dr. Alan Sabrosky says and which the evidence strongly
indicates, Barak certainly knows all about it. ...
When Sharon assumed power in March 2001, Barak came to America. He
supposedly came to the United States to work as a special advisor for
Electronic Data Systems and as a partner with SCP Partners, a private equity
company focused on "security-related" work - but this was only his cover.
His real assignment was to oversee the terror attacks of 9-11. As a partner
with SCP Partners Barak was well placed to supervise the false-flag terror
operation. The complex false-flag terror attacks of 9-11 required that the
mastermind of the operation be in the country to oversee the critical
details. ... One of the key aspects of
9-11 was the production and application of an advanced form of
super-thermite, an extremely powerful explosive produced using
nano-technology. In 2001, SCP Partners happened to have a suitable company
in their portfolio, a private company called Metallurg Holdings, Inc., which
has its office in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Today, SCP has another company called
Advanced Metallurgical Group, N.V. (AMG) in its portfolio. AMG and Metallurg
share the same address at 435 Devon Park Drive in Wayne. AMG has several
subsidiaries, one that specializes in the production of atomized aluminum (a
crucial component of super-thermite) and others which manufacture
specialized coatings of nano-composites. SCP Partners, which included Ehud
Barak from 2001 until 2007, clearly owns companies that are well suited to
making nano-composite explosives like the super-thermite used to pulverize
the World Trade Center on 9-11. ...
Chips of super-thermite found in the dust of the World Trade Center by Dr.
Steven E. Jones ... Rafi Eitan,
the octogenarian Mossadnik who ran a spy operation against the United States
using Jonathan Pollard, fled to Israel after Pollard was caught in 1985.
Eitan was then offered the position as head of state-owned Israel Chemicals
Corporation, which has production facilities in the United States. In 1978,
when Israeli intelligence began planning the false-flag terror operation of
9-11 (according to the comments of senior Mossadnik Isser Harel), Eitan
served as Menachem Begin's advisor on terrorism. This is the real reason
that Rafi Eitan remained in the Israeli security cabinet until 2009 - he is
one of the architects of 9-11. ...
Raphael Hantman a.k.a. Rafi Eitan ...
At SCP Partners Barak worked closely with another Mossadnik named Eitan -
Yaron I. Eitan. Although Yaron Eitan looks very much like Rafi Eitan, the
relationship between the two Eitans is not known. Rafi Eitan was actually
born Raphael Hantman and reportedly has three children named Yael, Sharon,
and Yuval. ... Yaron I. Eitan
Fox News
An investigation by the Fox News Specials Unit revealed that the commission
investigating the Sept. 11 attacks was likely never told by the FBI about an
arrest warrant filed and then dropped against American-born radical Muslim
cleric Anwar al-Awlaki – the spiritual guide to at least two of the
hijackers. Now, lawmakers on Capitol Hill want details on the handling of
the Awlaki case – particularly why information on the possible arrest was
never provided to the 9/11 Commission. The New Mexico-born cleric, now
working as a recruiter for Al Qaeda in Yemen, is believed to have been a
mentor for 9/11 hijackers during his time as an imam at mosques around San
Diego and Washington, D.C. Despite his possible role in the attacks and
inconsistencies in his passport, a warrant for al-Awlaki’s arrest was
dropped on Oct. 10, the same day he returned to the U.S. after a seven-month
stay in Yemen. Two senior investigators with the 9/11 Commission told Fox
News that they were actively considering whether Awlaki was part of a pre-
9/11 support cell in the U.S. for the hijackers. Asked if documents on the
decision by federal authorities to drop the charges should have been shared,
one of the investigators said yes, adding the decision to pull the warrant
on the same day Awlaki returned in October 2002 demanded further
investigation. There is no mention of the Awlaki arrest warrant in the 9/11
Commission report itself. There is a lengthy footnote about the cleric which
has one reference to an FBI internal memo that was circulated Oct. 8, 2002 –
just two days before the cleric’s return. Fox News sought those documents
through a Freedom of Information Act request in 2010. Twenty-seven pages
were produced for Fox News’ investigative team, but nearly all the text was
redacted – citing an executive order – that the material should remain
secret for national security reasons.
.... On Tuesday, FBI Director
Robert Mueller was on Capitol Hill, where he faced tough questions over the
documents from Rep. Frank Wolf, R- Va. “I wrote you concerning the Fox News
report about the bureau's October 2002 decision to release Anwar Awlaki from
custody upon his return to the U.S. despite an outstanding warrant for his
arrest at that time, “ Wolf said, adding that commission investigators had
also voiced their concern to Fox News. “Could you discuss why the
information was not shared with the 9/11 Commission and provide the
committee with a detailed accounting in the appropriate setting?” Mueller
said he remembered looking at the warrant, which originated out of Denver,
Colo., in the summer of 2002 a “couple of years ago,” adding “there was not
much more -- not much more and certainly at this time to be done.” The FBI
director did not elaborate. “If this was not provided to the 9/11
Commission, it was certainly not by intent,” Mueller said. “It may well have
been not in a file, one of the files that we provided to that 9/11
Commission. But I think you will find the 9/11 Commission was appreciative
of all the work that we had done to provide them, you know, just about
everything that we had in our files.” Mueller said he would get back to the
congressman who first wrote to the FBI in the summer of 2010 about Awlaki’s
mysterious return to the U.S. after the Fox News Special: The American
Terrorist was broadcast. “I would be happy to look into the matter. I can
tell you that we tried to provide everything that we had that would be
responsive to the interests of the 9/11 Commission at the time.” The Justice
Department has maintained that Awlaki’s re-entry to the U.S. was a string of
coincidences. The Department told Fox News in a statement last May that
there was not enough evidence to keep the warrant against Awlaki active. Two
current and former investigators familiar with the case have disputed that
claim. New details about the cleric’s American life and his connections to
the 9/11 hijackers will be part of an upcoming Fox News special. and
more
Wikipedia
Sayeret Matkal (Hebrew: סיירת מטכ"ל, translation: General Staff
Reconnaissance Unit) is an elite special forces unit of the Israel Defence
Forces (IDF). Its main roles are counter-terrorism, deep reconnaissance and
intelligence gathering, but the unit is first and foremost a field
intelligence-gathering unit, used to obtain strategic intelligence behind
enemy lines. Sayeret Matkal is also in charge of hostage rescue missions
outside Israeli borders. The unit is modeled on the British SAS, 1] and
organizationally reports to the Directorate of Military Intelligence. Its
IDF nickname is simply "The Unit". Borrowed from the SAS, the unit's motto
is "Who Dares Wins." ... The unit is best
known for Operation Thunderbolt, commonly known as Operation Entebbe, in
which it rescued more than 100 Air France airline passengers hijacked and
flown to Uganda by PLO militants, 2] and killed 52 enemy combatants while
losing only the assault element commander, Yonatan Netanyahu, and three
hostages. 3] ... Contents hide] 1
History 2 Recruitment and training 3 Notable (former) Sayeret Matkal figures
4 Known operations 5 The 2003 dissidents 6 See also 7 References
... History Sayeret Matkal was founded in 1957 by Avraham
Arnan (né Herling), a former yeshiva student and Palmach fighter, who served
as its first commander. Originally it was part of the Aman Unit 157, but
began to operate independently a year later as the General Staff's elite
special operations force, 4] modeled after the British Special Air Service.
Members of the unit were trained by Bedouin trackers on the finer points of
looking and thinking like an Arab. 5] Sayeret Matkal was also formed one
year after the IDF's first helicopter squadron became operational and close
co-operation between the two allowed Sayeret Matkal to deploy for longer and
deeper inside Arab territory than any unit before.
.... In 1959, a draftee named Ehud Barak was
accepted into Sayeret Matkal. He later succeeded the Unit 101 commando Lt.
Meir Har-Zion in becoming Israel's most decorated soldier. Whilst with
Sayeret Matkal, Ehud Barak participated in many operations, including
leading the Operation Isotope (airplane hostage rescue) in 1972 and leading
the 1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon. He later progressed in his military career
to become the IDF Chief of Staff in 1991 and retired after the end of his
tenure in 1995. In 1999 Ehud Barak became the 10th Prime Minister of Israel.
...
WMR
May 2010 Another confirmation of car
bombing at State Department on 9/11 ... Over
the past several years, WMR has reported on the mysterious car bombing that
took place on the morning of the 9/11 attacks. That morning, a car parked on
Virginia Avenue, aside the main State Department building, exploded. The car
bombing was also referenced in thousands of text messages from 9/11 that
were released last year. ... WMR has now
learned from a State Department source that residents of the State Plaza
Hotel, which lies across the street from the State Department and the
location where the car bomb went off on 9/11, were told to remain in their
rooms because, as the source put it, a "car exploded across the street."
... The car was immediately towed off by security officers after
the explosion before forensics teams could examine the car and the
surrounding area.
World Architecture News
NIST
did not even look for physical evidence of explosives. In fact NIST did not
look at the physical evidence at all, apart from a few selected samples of
the steel. The rest was destroyed. However, physical evidence did remain:
the dust. NIST did not look at the dust, but independent investigators did.
They discovered, along with the microspheres, tiny red-grey chips. They
examined samples of WTC dust from different parts of Manhattan. All
contained the red-gray chips. They found that the red layer consisted of
unignited nano-thermite. Ordinary thermite is an incendiary: it can burn
through heavy steel in seconds. The tiny particles in nano-thermite (1/1000
the thickness of a human hair) causes a much faster reaction so it can be
used as a high explosive. The discovery of nano-thermite in the WTC dust was
published in The Open Chemical Physics Journal in April 2009.
CIA
Threats of Federal Prosecution Delay 9/11 Documentary,
9/11: Press for
Truth.
CIA Threats of Federal
Prosecution Delay 9/11 Documentary ...
Wednesday, 14 September 2011, 12:30 pm Press Release: Kyle Hence Recent
threats by the CIA prompt two freelance journalists to delay an
investigative podcast naming CIA analysts complicit in obstruction of
key pre-9/11 intelligence. The podcast will present revelations from
former top US government personnel, including Richard Clarke, Pasquale
D’Amuro, Bob Baer, and Mark Rossini, who echo concerns of former 9/11
Commission Chair Thomas Kean. ... Austin, Texas (FF4)
September 12, 2011 – On Thursday, the CIA threatened the journalists
behind Who Is Rich Blee? with possible federal prosecution if their
investigative podcast reveals the names of two CIA analysts at the
center of a pattern of obstruction and mishandling of intelligence that
many feel would have stopped the 9/11 attacks. ...
Like FBI agent Ali Soufan and Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer before them, the
podcast team, including John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski, are being
subjected to intimidation and censorship by government officials over
blowing the whistle on the true story surrounding two alleged 9/11
hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar. ...
The podcast originally scheduled for September 11th release presents a
narrative of how three CIA analysts working under Richard Blee, the long
unknown former head of CIA’s Bin Laden Station, deliberately misled
their colleagues and withheld key intelligence from FBI and the White
House regarding the presence of two known Al-Qaeda operatives in the
U.S. ... Four government investigations
into CIA handling of pre-911 intelligence included personal details of
the two CIA analysts and their actions. Nowosielski and Duffy deduced
the identities of the two as yet unnamed CIA employees from internet
research based on details provided from these and other open sources.
When the producers used their full names in interviews, interviewees
offered no correction. The CIA response provided the final confirmation.
... In project updates posted at SecrecyKills.com the
producers announced the delay of the podcast and posted background of a
complicated case that involves dozens of violations of protocol,
intimidation, and incidents of obstruction by the CIA, with the two yet
named CIA analysts at the center of many of them. ...
Author and expert on the subject, Kevin Fenton, documents 35 such
incidents between January 2000 and September 11th in his book,
Disconnecting the Dots: How 9/11 Was Allowed to Happen.
... Pulitzer-prize winner Lawrence Wright, interviewed
for the podcast, told producers the actions of one of the unnamed CIA
analysts still employed at CIA amounts to obstruction of justice in the
FBI’s criminal investigation of the deaths of 17 seaman aboard the USS
Cole. ... The producers are not the first
subject to government censorship over this case. Last month The New York
Times reported on CIA efforts to censor an autobiography by Ali Soufan,
a front-line FBI counter-terrorism special agent. Prior to 9/11, Soufan
was interested in Mihdhar and Hazmi because of links to the bombing of
the USS Cole in Yemen. The CIA censored references to a passport photo
of Mihdhar the CIA had withheld from Soufan, despite three written
requests. ... Scott Shane of the New York
Times reports today that, "Mr. Soufan accuses C.I.A. officials of
deliberately withholding crucial documents and photographs of Qaeda
operatives from the F.B.I. before Sept. 11, 2001, despite three written
requests, and then later lying about it to the 9/11 Commission."
... Lt. Colonel Anthony Shaffer, interviewed for the
podcast, was himself intimidated, demoted and smeared by the Pentagon
after he came forward to the 9/11 Commission with details of how, on
three occasions, unnamed DoD officials prevented his Able Danger
operation from meeting with the FBI prior the attacks.
... In 2000 the Able Danger data-mining program placed
Mohammed Atta in a Brooklyn terrorist cell but had also placed Hazmi and
Mihdhar in a San Diego cell, the epicenter of intrigue around Alec
Station’s Rich Blee, Tom Wilshere and the two as yet unnamed
subordinates who themselves repeatedly withheld intelligence from the
FBI. Though Shaffer was interviewed by 9/11 Commission’s Director Philip
Zelikow and staffer Dieter Snell, the Commission left any mention of
Able Danger from its final report. ...
In the planned podcast, 9/11 Commission Chair Tom Kean is asked about a
scant footnote to Chapter 6 of the 9/11 Report referring to an
intelligence cable, seen by 50 at the CIA, but prevented from reaching
the FBI. For Kean the incident was not a case of bungling or intel
‘stovepiping’: “Oh, it wasn’t careless oversight. It was purposeful. No
question about that in mind. It was purposeful.” ...
Whereas Kean explains it as a penchant for secrecy, Richard Clarke, the
former head of counter-terrorism at the Bush White House, goes farther
suggesting malfeasance and the possibility of illegal CIA-led domestic
spying activity. Comments by Clarke released in a video in August led to
a formal statement from George Tenet, Cofer Black and Richard Blee, and
a response from the producers. ... “This
was perhaps the closest U.S. intelligence got to foiling the 9/11 plot,”
explains Nowosielski, “but instead of stopping the attack, the CIA
stopped intel on two high-value targets from getting to the right
people, repeatedly. And still the CIA protects the individuals
responsible by intimidating those who simply want to know the truth
behind a shocking and possibly criminal pattern of obstruction”
... In an email Thursday the CIA warned Nowosielski he could
be subject to prosecution under the Intelligence Identities Protection
Act, a law intended to apply to government employees who violate their
security clearance and never used to convict journalists.
... The producer’s online response: “The Society of
Professional Journalists' code of ethics states that ‘journalists should
be free of obligation to any interest other than the public's right to
know’ and should ‘be vigilant and courageous about holding those with
power accountable.’ The day that journalists' exposés of wrongdoing
within government agencies require the approval of those government
agencies before release, that is the day that transparency and
accountability are lost.” ... John Duffy
and Ray Nowosielski, both graduates of Chicago’s Columbia College Film
School, produced the critically acclaimed 2006 documentary "9/11: Press
for Truth."
Antiwar
"Edmonds draws a picture of a three-sided
alliance consisting of Turkish, Pakistani, and Israeli agents who
coordinated efforts to milk U.S. nuclear secrets and technology, funneling
the intelligence stream to the black market nuclear network set up by the
Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan. The multi-millionaire Pakistani nuclear
scientist then turned around and sold his nuclear assets to North Korea,
Libya, and Iran
Indybay
"The Next Stage of the 9/11 Truth Movement ... Reprint of
article which appeared in Global Outlook Issue #11, with updated text from
presentation at the 9/11 Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming the Future
Conference in Chicago June 2nd-4th." Charlie Sheen: "Stop the 9/11
Cover-up"
Information Liberation
WTC7, YouTube, CNN, BBC, report building collapse before it happens, no
steel skysraper has ever collapsed due to fire.
Boycott ABC, Boycott
NBC, Boycott CBS, Boycott Fox
KillTown
Office of Naval Intelligence, entire chain of command killed on 9/11,
ONI, budgets, auditors, monitoring war games, realized were a ruse to attack
New York City, exterminated. Naval operations officers, Navy
intelligence,
Did Ahmed Chalabi trick the
tricksters (GOP) and deliver a Shiite dominated Iraq government to Iran's
doorstep?
A
Times Online
(a Rupert Murdoch paper)
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"A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about
how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other
states to steal nuclear weapons secrets. ...
Sibel Edmonds,
a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI,
listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations
while based at the agency’s Washington field office
Antiwar
"Edmonds
draws a picture of a three-sided alliance consisting of Turkish,
Pakistani, and Israeli agents who coordinated efforts to milk
U.S. nuclear secrets and technology, funneling the intelligence
stream to the black market nuclear network set up by the
Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan. The multi-millionaire Pakistani
nuclear scientist then turned around and sold his nuclear assets
to North Korea, Libya, and Iran
WMR
August 31, 2005 -- A
convergence of investigations: AIPAC and ATC. As reported
previously on
WMR
, federal investigators are
poring over wiretap transcripts (Sibel
Edmonds) and other
intelligence that link the Larry Franklin/Rosen/Weissman AIPAC
investigation to the investigation of who in the White House
leaked the name of Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster
Jennings & Associates non-official cover company to journalists,
including Robert Novak.
A significant portion of
the US population is skeptical of the 'official' 9/11 Commission
report and believe that Bush is part of an 'inside' scheme.
Cheney's activities on
September 11, the war games, Saudi Arabia and Israel need to be
to be completely investigated.
Flight 77 Pentagon:
Office of Naval
Intelligence, entire chain of command killed on 9/11, ONI,
budgets, auditors, monitoring war games, realized were a ruse to
attack New York City, exterminated. Naval operations
officers, Navy intelligence,
Important members of the
neo-con / Israeli cabal that executed 9/11 have either
left the government or are stymied in any further actions. ex.
... the attack on Iran has somehow been stopped.
The main stream American
press is complicit in the 9/11 cover-up.
Will a new 'Democratic'
administration tackle a new investigation that gets to the real
truth?
PeterLance.com
Peter Lance 9/11, Al Queda, the mob, Fitzgerald, Bin Laden, Bush, Cheney
Kobi Alexander,
owners / developers, Odigo software, allows Israelis to communicate
instantly on 9/11. "buddy system" communicate to a large group of
people that share a trait, Hebrew language, thousands of Israelis
warned, 9/11.
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blatant social and environmental ignorance.... Assassination: A Game For
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the real majority, Scoop Jackson, Podheretz, Shachtman, Leo Strauss,
Trilling, Marxism resembles Straussianism, Kirkpatrick, Elliot Abrams,
Negroponte, permanent revolution, use force to redraw map of middle east,
imperialism, unconditional support of Israel,
Cheney, plant dirty
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notes: Military
lies: Flight 93 was shot down, search terms: NSA CRITIC, cleared users,
INTELINK, archive, Flash, Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (SCI),
messages: (CRITICS), 9/11, at odds with official account, Tom Ridge, "Two
F-16s scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base at likely 1336 Zulu]. Civilian
airline hijacked. Over state of Pennsylvania civilian airliner was
"intercepted". shot down. Rumsfeld quote: Christmas, Baghdad: "the
people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over
Pennsylvania.' source
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Wikipedia Paul
William Roberts in his Globe and Mail article of Saturday, February 26, 2005
wrote the following: Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his
death. He sounded scared. It wasn't always easy to understand what he said,
particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was something he
really wanted you to understand, you did. He'd been working on a story about
the World Trade Center attacks and had stumbled across what he felt was hard
evidence showing the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that
flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations. Now he
thought someone was out to stop him publishing it: "They're gonna make it
look like suicide," he said. "I know how these bastards think
Hunter S. Thompson
Global Research
Landmark Russian TV Debate on 9/11 Gen. Leonid Ivashov, Thierry Meysan,
Giuletto Chiesa join Russian Experts Washington DC , Sept. 9,
2008 – Thierry Meyssan reports from Moscow that he and other leading
international 9/11 truth experts have completed taping a television debate
which will be telecast on the first national program of Russian state
television this coming Friday, September 12. This no-holds barred,
free-wheeling debate, featuring strongly divergent opinions about what
really happened on and about September 11, 2001 , will be shown in
conjunction with the documentary film Zero, produced and directed by Chiesa
and Franco Fracassi of Telemaco Productions in Rome . Russians are thus
about to receive an unprecedented evening of 9/11 truth. ...
The telecast will go out in the middle of prime time. Among the
participants, General Leonid Ivashov was the commander of the Russian armed
forces on September 11, 2001 , and has been a leading critic of the US
official version. A leading strategic thinker for his country, Ivashov is
currently a fellow of the Strategic Culture Foundation (fondsk.ru) in Moscow
. Giulietto Chiesa is a member of the European Parliament in Brussels ,
representing the region around Asti in northwest Italy . Chiesa has been the
leading spokesman for 9/11 truth issues in the European Parliament, and has
been the prime mover behind the documentary film Zero, as well as the
collection of essays by the same name which has also attracted much
attention in Italy since being published in the late summer of 2007. Thierry
Meyssan, the founder and leader of the Voltaire Network in Paris , was one
of the first critics of the US official story about 9/11. He is the author
of several books, including 9/11: The Big Lie, and Pentagate. He also
organized the Axis for Peace conference in Brussels in November 2005.
Wikipedia
Sibel Edmonds: ".... on July 22, 2002,
Edmonds filed suit against the Department of Justice, the FBI, and several
high-level officials, alleging that she was wrongfully terminated from the
FBI in retaliation for reporting criminal activities committed by government
officials and employees. On October 18, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft
invoked the State Secrets Privilege in order to prevent disclosure of the
nature of Edmonds' work on the grounds that it would endanger national
security, and asked that the suit be dismissed. citation needed] ...
On August 15, 2002, a separate suit, Burnett v. Al Baraka Investment & Dev.
Corp., was filed by families of 600 victims of the September 11, 2001 (9/11)
attacks against Saudi banks, charity organizations, and companies. citation
needed] Edmonds was to file a deposition in this case regarding her claim
that FBI had foreknowledge of al-Qaeda's attacks against the World Trade
Center. citation needed] ... On December 11, 2003,
Attorney General Ashcroft, again invoking the State Secrets Privilege, filed
a motion calling for Edmonds' deposition to be suppressed and for the entire
case to be dismissed. The judge, seeking more information, ordered the
government to produce any unclassified material relating to the case. In
response, Ashcroft submitted further statements to justify the use of the
State Secrets Privilege, and on May 13, 2004, took the unprecedented step of
retroactively classifying as Top Secret all of the material and statements
that had been provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2002 relating to
Edmonds' own lawsuit, as well as the letters that had been sent by the
Senators and republished by POGO. citation needed]
Wikipedia
National Whistleblowers Coalition
Prison Planet
Japanese member of Parliament Yukihisa Fujita told the Alex Jones Show
yesterday that a potential new investigation of the 9/11 cover-up could be
led by global parliamentarians he has been in contact with, or even by the
United Nations itself. Fujita, an MP for the Japanese Democratic Party, and
a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature),
presented evidence which contradicted the official 9/11 story during a
widely publicized Japanese Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting in
January of this year. Following Fujita's presentation in the Japanese
Diet, he also took part in a 9/11 truth conference at the EU Parliament in
Brussels on February 26th which was hosted by Italian MEP Giullietto Chiesa
(both presentations can be viewed at the end of this article).
Online Journal
search Kroll Amec WTC: Democratic Underground Demopedia reports in Who
Killed John O’Neill that at the time of 9/11, AIG, the world’s largest
insurance company, and subsidiaries Marsh McLennan, ACE and Kroll, were run
by the Greenberg family. With Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member
Maurice “Hank” Greenberg as the AIG godfather, the Familia’s tentacles
curled around the heart of the tragedy. Hank’s son Jeffrey, a CFR
member as well, was chairman of Marsh & McLennan, situated on floors
throughout the North Tower of the World Trade Center as well as the top
floors of the South Tower. Marsh also had ties to the CIA. Son Evan
Greenberg, a CFR member, was CEO of ACE Limited, situated in Tower 7, which
also contained AIG subsidiary Kroll, closely related to the CIA, also with
an office in Tower 7. Tower 7 also contained offices of the FBI,
Department of Defense, IRS (which contained prodigious amounts of corporate
tax fraud corporate, including Enron’s), US Secret Service, Securities &
Exchange Commission (with more stock fraud records), and Citibank’s Salomon
Smith Barney, the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management and many other
financial institutions. Greenberg’s cousin, Alan “Ace” Greenberg, was former
CEO of Bear Sterns, where the Bush family, Cheney family George Schultz,
James Baker, et al, did business. It is the leading brokerage firm of the
great and all-powerful Bush Familia.
WMR has
received documents sent to one of the presidential campaigns from Leonard D.
Wallace, a former business associate of former Enron Vice Chairman J.
Clifford Baxter, that provides details of Al Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks
being financed through Citigroup / Citibank. The document states that
Baxter, who was to appear before a congressional committee to testify on
Enron's dubious business practices, died from a reported suicide on January
18, 2002. According to the document received from Baxter's associate, the
former Vice Chairman of Enron was planning to expose Citigroup's knowledge
of Saudi banks, some of which it had a financial stake, were funding the
terrorists who were responsible for carrying out the 9/11 attacks.
WayneMadsenReport
"BAE Systems part of effort to
cook bogus intelligence against Saddam Hussein" search terms: mobile
trailers designed to manufacture hydrogen for weather balloons, British
Ministry of Defence scientist David Kelly aware of this, 'suicided',
Southmoor, 2003, Norman Baker investigation confirmed, trailers,
Kuwait, other equipment moved into Iraq, BAE-Marconi, radar systems,
frame-up, laundered thru Ministry of Defense contracts, Abbey Wood, Bristol,
England ... phony contract to provide radar trailers to Tanzania, bribery
scandal, World Bank, Tony Blair. also Saudi, Al Yamamah BAE Systems arms
deal, Riggs Bank, Jonathan J. Bush, former Riggs executive, George W. Bush's
uncle, defense contracts grease, campaign contributions to Duncan Hunter,
Randy "Duke" Cunningham, US shipped VX nerve gas to Iraq 1988-89, in
violation of UN Security Council Resolution 598, Iraq / Iran war,
Mukhabarat, VX aerial bombs, parachute-born, pre-set height, Bilad, shipped
from US, canisters removed from Iraq by the British, Turkey, Valerie Plame,
CIA Counter-Proliferation Division, stopped shipment into Iraq, reason for
her outing ..." see WMR for connecting details.
Operation Gladio, stay-behind
operation,
Wikipedia
terms: Italy, NATO, Christian Democrats, counter Warsaw pact, CCWU,
SHAPE, years of lead, paramilitary, ODESSA ratlines, Rheinhard Gehlen, MSI,
internal subversion, Allen Dulles, CIA financing, founded by Aldo Moro,
SDRA8, TD BJD, LOK, I&O, ROC, Aginter, P26, AGAG, OWSGV, P2, false flag
operations, strategy of tension, carried out Operation Condor, DINA, Ezeiza
massacre, Montejurra massacre, Taksim Square massacre, collapse of the
Soviet Union, ... Order of the Solar Temple,
July 19, 2008
Indymedia
Venezuela: "Maj.Wm. B. Fox, Cpt.Eric H. May - 19.07.2008 07:34 An impressive
medley of military officers join Captain Eric H. May in alerting the public
to the danger of Bush administration foul play in the upcoming terror drills
Noble Resolve and Diablo Bravo. Intro: An impressive medley of military
officers join Captain Eric H. May in alerting the public to the danger of
Bush administration foul play in the upcoming terror drills Noble Resolve
and Diablo Bravo. SUMMER ALERT! Lt. Col. Guy S. Razer Maj.
William B. Fox Dr. James H. Fetzer Capt. Eric H. May SFC Donald S. Buswell
.... Neo-cons and their allies are pounding the
drums of war against Iran. Just after his White House meeting on June 4,
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that war with Iran was a done
deal: "George Bush understands the severity of the Iranian threat and the
need to vanquish it, and intends to act on that matter before the end of his
term in the White House." ...
Antiwar
In his July 14 article “Amber Alert! Get Ready for War”
Antiwar
Justin Raimondo states “The Israelis have already been using U.S. bases in
Iraq to train for the coming attack… Bush] is more determined than ever to
leave his lasting mark on the Middle East and the world.” In his July 15
article “A Phony Crisis – And A Real One”
Antiwar
Pat Buchanan writes: “Israel and its Fifth Column …seek to stampede us into
war with Iran.” In his article, “9/11 and the Neo-Con Agenda”
Digg
Dr. James H. Fetzer explained why the Bush Administration needs another
(self-inflicted) “false flag” attack to expand the failing war in the Middle
East. In “False Flag Prospects, 2008”
Lonestar Icon
Captain Eric H. May proved the connection between official terror drills and
the U.S. 9/11/2001 and UK 7/7/2005 terror attacks. As experienced military
professionals, it is our mission of conscience to publish alerts to the
American people whenever the danger of a false flag attack is high. We face
that danger now with several suspicious military exercises just ahead of us.
On July 22 Virginia will run a Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) scenario at
the Richmond International Airport. For two weeks we have tried to gather
particulars on the terror drill from the Virginia National Guard. The
command has been evasive, refusing us access to personnel involved in the
WMD-related activities. July 28-August 1, a wide array of U.S. military,
police, and disaster agencies will be running multiple terror and
catastrophe drills. The two main terror drills are “Noble Resolve” and
“Diablo Bravo.”
PakAlert
Warning: We’re in the false-flag red zone for 911-2B The Ft. Hood
probable false-flag attack (see Jerry Mazza’s article) seems to have been
timed to coincide with the decision to try (the individual claimed to be)
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9/11 patsy-in-chief. All of this appears to have
been orchestrated to evoke memories of 9/11 and reinforce the official
story–a necessary preliminary to any 911-2B. In other words, they may be
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WMR “Former CIA Osama Bin Laden unit chief Michael
Scheuer told Italy’s La
Repubblica that the
kidnaping of Abu Omar was
authorized by SISMI chief
Nicolo Pollari. A number of
SISMI agents and
assets have been tied to the group, including Francesco Pazienza, a
SISMI
agent, and Rocco Martino, who said he was the source of the faked Niger
yellowcake uranium documents that were laundered through Rome and used as
proof by the Bush White House that Saddam Hussein was shopping for uranium
in Niger. That charge prompted the CIA to send Ambasssador Joseph Wilson to
Niger resulting in a retaliatory exposure by the White House of the CIA’s
covert weapons of mass destruction counter-proliferation network.”
(Madsen)
BeforeItsNews American journalist and radio host Mark Dankof
Almost two weeks have passed since the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks,
and scholars, journalists and authors are still trying to figure out the
hidden realities behind the “most hideous terrorist attacks ever perpetrated
in American soil,” as described by Victor Argothy of the University of
Delware’s Disaster Research Center. ...
Israel’s involvement in the 9/11 attacks and the possibility that it might
have been a false flag operation with the objective of laying the groundwork
to attack Afghanistan, Iraq and other Muslim nations are among the most
popular theories which the members of 9/11 Truth Movement have proposed.
... Mark Dankof believes that they were the Israelis who
masterminded and perpetrated the 9/11 attacks, and believes that there’s
abundant evidence confirming this speculation. ... On the
11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, I conducted an in-depth
interview with Mark Dankof to examine his viewpoints regarding the events
that led to the collapsing of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the
traces of the footsteps of Israel in the attacks and the reasons why the
United States and Israel employed these attacks to launch an all-out war
against the Muslim world. What follows is the text of this interview.
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opportunity, network, Mark Glen, Ugly Truth, culture wars, Sungenis, Bollyn,
Solving 9/11, nineteen muslims still alive, bin Laden .. have never been
officially accused, no hard evidence, Cheney said " we never made the case",
Fact: The BBC reported on September 23, 2001 that most of the “nineteen
Muslims” are still alive. Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the
FBI noted that the reason bin Laden and the Taliban have never been
officially accused by the United States for orchestrating 9/11 is “because
the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.” Dick Cheney
stated in an interview with Tony Snow on March 26, 2006 that “We’ve never
made the case, or argued the case that somehow Osama bin Laden was directly
involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming.” Robert Muller
of the FBI admitted the same when he stated that, “In our investigation, we
have not uncovered a single piece of paper either here in the U. S. or in
the treasure trove of information that has turned up in Afghanistan and
elsewhere that mentioned any aspect of the September 11th plot.”
Chertoff, Odigo, Jews, Fact: Steel melts only at 2,777 degrees
Fahrenheit. Jet fuel burns no hotter than 1,517 degrees Fahrenheit. There
was nothing in the World Trade Center buildings, barring explosives and
thermite that could burn hotter than jet fuel. Strong circumstantial
evidence suggests that a sophisticated form of super-thermite had been
applied to large sections of the World Trade Center.
Fox News Spin Attack Ends With Red-Faced Anchors 9/11
truth scholar Fetzer anticipated slant of
Hannity and
Colmes spot
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison
Planet.com | July 11 2006
Fox News' tactic of mapping out a spin and attack policy
for guests whose stance they disagree with was spotlighted and deflated
recently by 9/11 truth scholar Jim Fetzer - who left Alan
Colmes and
Oliver North red-faced after he exposed them and Fox producers for not
having done their homework.
Fetzer called the appearance, "perhaps the most
interesting four and a half minutes of my life." Fetzer
described how in a pre-interview a Fox producer has insistently asked him
if he taught alternative theories behind 9/11 as a college course. Fetzer
was keen to stress that he taught a course on critical thinking but not a
course specific to 9/11. From this exchange Fetzer began to
understand the spin that Fox were preparing to put on the interview.
Fetzer was then told that Sean
Hannity had been replaced
by Colonel Oliver North for the show. "Because I'm a former
Marine Corps officer I thought this was probably a good thing - that the
Colonel and I would have a very cordial Marine to Marine
conversation," said Fetzer. "When I said this to my wife
she said 'don't kid yourself, they're going to be out to kill you'."
Fetzer was picked up by a Fox limo and only arrived at
the studio after the program had started. He insisted that a TV be turned
on in the make-up room to gage how they were going to pitch his
interview. "Five minutes before I go on I catch their drift
which is they're going to talk about a professor who is using his
classroom to teach conspiracy theories about 9/11 to our
children." "During that five minutes it occurred to me
that I was going to be able to explode this one way or another - that I
would talk about how they had 'Foxed their facts'," Fetzer told a
packed house at the L.A. 9/11 Symposium.
"What they were doing was saying I was teaching our
children - I was offering a course on 9/11 - and the way they were
defining it in terms of children and kids - this had to be a freshman
level or equivalent course." Fetzer was able to prepare to bite
back at the attack dogs by exposing the fact that Fox had not done its
homework and were simply preparing to savage Fetzer on an aspect of the
topic that they had completely dreamt up. "They were attacking
me for a non-existent course, said Fetzer." "There was no
course that satisfied the description they were trying to nail me for
having taught." Fetzer was able to embarrass Colmes and North
who cut the interview short because their attack strategy had clearly been
ripped out from underneath them.
"The first question out of Colmes mouth was 'is
this a required course?' - and I had to explain to him that he had his
facts Foxed," said Fetzer. "The fact is they had defined
the parameters - I knew they knew they had made a mistake but I wasn't
there to argue their case." North and Colmes quickly changed
their tone after they realized the 'evil professor teaching our children
horrible liberal lies' approach had failed.
"When they tried to put me on the spot after they
realized they had committed a mistake - when they tried to put me on the
spot about the society - I began to explain some of the findings - how the
towers had come down by controlled demolition - how the FBI was asserting
that they had no hard evidence tying Osama bin Laden to 9/11," said
Fetzer.
After Colmes asked if there was any hard evidence tying
any Bush administration members to 9/11, Fetzer related the story of
Norman Mineta who testified that Cheney's orders were to do nothing as
Flight 77 hurtled towards the Pentagon.
"This was when Ollie started getting a little
nervous and he asks how many there are in your organization - when he
heard there were 300 and 200 with research credentials - 85 actually
having academic affiliations - it took so much wind out of their sails
that they tried to cut it off as quickly as they could," said Fetzer.
Fetzer said it was interesting how the anchors were more concerned about
whether he was teaching the information to his students than inquiring
about the evidence behind 9/11 being an inside job.
The interview was quickly canned and - as with the much
vaunted Pentagon tape that was heralded to 'shut up 9/11 conspiracy
theorists for good' - an expected propaganda coup for Fox turned into a
red-faced debacle and a moral victory for the 9/11 truth movement.
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President Bush recently signed an executive order to freeze
the US financial assets of corporations doing business with Osama bin Laden. He
described the order as a "strike on the financial foundation of the global
terror network.” "If you do business with terrorists, if you support or succor them, you
will not do business with the United States," said President Bush. He didn’t say anything about doing business with a terrorist’s brother - or
his wealthy financier.
When President George W. Bush froze assets connected to Osama bin Laden, he didn’t
tell the American people that the terrorist mastermind’s late brother was an
investor in the president’s former oil business in Texas. He also hasn’t
leveled with the American public about his financial connections to a host of
shady Saudi characters involved in drug cartels, gun smuggling, and terrorist
networks.
Doing business with the enemy is nothing new to the Bush family. Much of the
Bush family wealth came from supplying needed raw materials and credit to Adolf
Hitler’s Third Reich. Several business operations managed by Prescott Bush -
the president’s grandfather - were seized by the US government during World
War II under the Trading with the Enemy Act.
On October 20, 1942, the federal government seized the Union Banking Corporation
in New York City as a front operation for the Nazis. Prescott Bush was a
director. Bush, E. Roland Harriman, two Bush associates, and three Nazi
executives owned the bank’s shares. Eight days later, the Roosevelt
administration seized two other corporations managed by Prescott Bush. The
Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment
Corporation, both managed by the Bush-Harriman bank, were accused by the US
federal government of being front organizations for Hitler’s Third Reich.
Again, on November 8, 1942, the federal government seized Nazi-controlled assets
of Silesian-American Corporation, another Bush-Harriman company doing business
with Hitler.
Doing business with the bin Laden empire, therefore, is only the latest
extension of the Bush family’s financial ties to unsavory individuals and
organizations. Now that thousands of American citizens have died in terrorist
attacks and the nation is going to war, the American people should know about
George W. Bush’s relationship with the family of Osama bin Laden.
Salem bin Laden, Osama’s older brother, was an investor in Arbusto Energy. -
the Texas oil company started by George W. Bush. Arbusto means “Bush” in
Spanish. Salem bin Laden died in an airplane crash in Texas in 1988.
Sheik Mohammed bin Laden, the family patriarch and founder of its construction
empire, also died in a plane crash. Upon his death in 1968, he left behind 57
sons and daughters - the offspring he sired with 12 wives in Saudi Arabia,
Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. About a dozen brothers manage Bin Laden Brothers
Construction - one of the largest construction firms in the Middle East.
Fresh out of Harvard Business School, young George W. Bush returned to Midland,
TX, in the late 1970s to follow his father’s footsteps in the oil business.
Beginning in 1978, he set up a series of limited partnerships - Arbusto ’78,
Arbusto ’79, and so on - to drill for oil.
One of President Bush’s earliest financial backers was James Bath, a Houston
aircraft broker. Bath served with President Bush in the Texas Air National
Guard. Bath has a mysterious connection to the Central Intelligence Agency.
According to a 1976 trust agreement, Salem bin Laden appointed James Bath as his
business representative in Houston. Revelation about Bath’s relationship with
the bin Laden financial empire and the CIA was made public in 1992 by Bill
White, a former real estate business partner with Bath. White informed federal
investigators in 1992 that Bath told him that he had assisted the CIA in a
liaison role since 1976 - the same year former President George Herbert Walker
Bush served as director of the CIA.
During a bitter legal fight between White and Bath, the real estate partner
disclosed that Bath managed a portfolio worth millions of dollars for Sheik
Khalid bin Mahfouz and other wealthy Saudis. Among the investments made by Bath
with Mahfouz’s money was the Houston Gulf Airport.
A powerful banker in Saudi Arabia, Mahfouz was one of the largest stockholders
in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. BCCI was a corrupt global
banking empire operating in 73 nations and was a major financial and political
force in Washington, Paris, Geneva, London, and Hong Kong. Despite the
appearance of a normal banking operation, BCCI was actually an international
crime syndicate providing “banking services” to the Medellin drug cartel,
Pamama dictator Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein, terrorist mastermind Abu
Nidal,
and Khun Sa, the heroin kingpin in Asia’s Golden Triangle.
The BCCI scandal implicated some of the biggest political names in Washington -
both Democrats and Republicans - during the first Bush White House. The bank was
accused of laundering money for drug cartels, smuggling weapons to terrorists,
and using Middle Eastern oil money to influence American politicians.
The chief of the Justice Department’s criminal division under former President
Bush was Robert Mueller. Because the major players came out of the scandal with
slaps on the wrists, many critics accused Mueller of botching the investigation.
Mr. Mueller was recently appointed by President George W. Bush as the new
Director of the FBI, replacing Louis Freeh who did nothing while William
Jefferson Clinton allowed the Red Chinese to loot our national security secrets.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a division of the Justice
Department, reviewed allegations by Bill White in 1992 that James Bath funneled
money from wealthy Middle Eastern businessmen to American companies to influence
the policies of the Reagan and Bush administrations. Robert Mueller, the new FBI
chief, was in a senior position at the Justice Department at the time of the
review.
White told a Texas court in 1992 that Bath and the Justice Department had “blackballed”
him professionally and financially because he refused to keep quiet about his
knowledge of an Arabic conspiracy to launder Middle Eastern money into the bank
accounts of American businesses and politicians.
In sworn depositions, Bath admitted he represented four wealthy Saudi Arabian
businessmen as a trustee. He also admitted he used his name on their investments
and received, in return, a five- percent stake in their business deals.
Indeed, Texas tax documents revealed that Bath owned five percent of Arbusto ’79
Ltd., and Arbusto ’80 Ltd. Bush Exploration Company controlled the limited
partnerships, the general partnership firm owned by young George W. Bush.
Although George W. Bush’s Texas oil ventures were financial failures, his
financial backers recovered their investments through a series of mergers and
stock swaps. He changed Arbusto’s name to Bush Exploration, then merged the
new firm into Spectrum 7 Energy Corporation in 1984.
The Bush-controlled oil business eventually ended up being folded into Harken
Energy Corp., a Dallas-based corporation. Mr. Bush joined Harken as a director
in 1986 and was given 212,000 shares of Harken stock. Bush used his White House
connections to land a lucrative contract for the obscure Harken Energy Corp.
with the Middle Eastern government of Bahrain. On June 20, 1990, George W. Bush
sold his Harken stock for $848,000 and paid off the loan he took out to buy his
small share in the Texas Rangers. The Bahrain deal was brokered by David
Edwards, a close pal to Bill Clinton and a former employee of Stephens Inc.
Shortly after Bush sold his stock, Harken’s fortunes nose-dived when Saddam
Hussein invaded Kuwait. Some critics claim young George was tipped off in
advance by his father about the soon-coming Gulf War.
George W. Bush, however, worked wonders for Harken Energy Corp. before the stock
collapsed. Using the Bush family name, he managed to bring much-needed capital
investment to the struggling firm. George W. Bush traveled to Little Rock, AR,
to attend a meeting with Jackson Stephens - a powerful Arkansas tycoon who
helped bankroll the state campaigns of young Bill Clinton. He first gained
political prominence as a fund-raiser for President Jimmy Carter. Stephens was
also deeply involved in the BCCI scandal by helping the corrupt bank take
control of First American Bank in Washington, DC.
Jack Stephens didn’t need an introduction to young George W. Bush. Mary Anne
Stephens, his wife, managed Vice President George Bush’s 1988 presidential
campaign in Arkansas. Stephens Inc., the well connected brokerage firm owned by
Jack Stephens, donated $100,000 to a Bush campaign fundraising dinner in 1991.
When George W. Bush won the contested Florida election in 2000, Jack Stephens
made a substantial contribution to the Bush inauguration. Recently, former
President Bush played golf on April 11, 2001, with Jack Stephens at the Jack
Stephens Youth Golf Academy in Little Rock. The former president told Stephens,
“Jack, we love you and we are very, very grateful for what you have done.”
Perhaps the former president was thanking him for the money Stephens provided
young George W. Bush. Stephens arranged for a $25 million investment from the
Union des Banques Suisses. The Swiss Bank held the minority interest in the
Banque de Commerce et de Placements, a Geneva-based subsidiary of BCCI.
Both Stephens and Abdullah Taha Bakhsh, a wealthy and well-connected Saudi real
estate investor, signed the financial transaction. The Geneva transaction was
paid through a joint venture between the Union Bank of Switzerland and its
Geneva branch of BCCI.
The BCCI connection, therefore, linked George W. Bush with Saudi banker Khaled
bin Mahfouz. Known in Arab circles as the “king’s treasurer,” Mahfouz held
a 20 percent take in BCCI between 1986 and 1990. Mahfouz is no stranger to the
Bush family. He was a big investor in the Carlyle Group, a defense-industry
investment group with deep connections to the Republican Party establishment.
Former President Bush is a former member of the company’s board of directors.
George W. Bush also held shares in Caterair, a Carlyle subsidiary. Sami Baarma,
a powerful player in the Mahfouz-owned Prime Commercial Bank of Pakistan, is a
member of the Carlyle Group’s international advisory board.
President Bush certainly is aware of that his former Saudi sugar daddy is still
financing Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network. USA Today newspaper reported in
1999 that a year after bin Laden’s attacks on US embassies in Africa, Khaled
bin Mahfouz and other wealthy Saudis were funneling tens of millions of dollars
each year into bin Laden’s bank accounts. Five top Saudi businessmen ordered
the National Commercial Bank to transfer personal funds and $3 million pilfered
from a Saudi pension fund to the Capitol Trust Bank in New York City. The money
was deposited into the Islamic Relief and Blessed Relief - Islamic charities
operating in the US and Great Britain as fronts for Osama bin Laden.
The Capitol Trust Bank is run by Mohammad Hussein al-Amoudi. His lawyer is
Democratic Party bigwig Vernon Jordan, close friend of former President Bill
Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
Abdullah Taha Bakhsh, the Arab who cosigned the $25 million cash infusion into
George W. Bush’s Harken Energy Corporation, appointed
Talat Othman to manage
his 17.6 percent share in Harken Energy Corp. Othman, a native Palestinian, is
president and CEO of Dearborn Financial Inc. - an investment firm in Arlington
Heights, IL.
Bakhsh also bought a 9.6 percent stake in Worthen Banking Corporation, the
Arkansas bank controlled by Jack Stephens. Abdullah Bakhsh’s share was the
identical percentage as the amount of shares sold by Mochtar Riady, the
godfather of the wealthy Indonesian family with close ties to the Chinese
communists, Bill Clinton and evangelist Pat Robertson. Bakhsh is represented by
Rogers & Wells, a well-connected Republican law firm in New York whose
partners include former Secretary of State William P. Rogers.
Independent investigator reporter David Twersky reported in the early 1990s that
Othman had a seat on Harken’s board of directors and met three times in the
White House with President George Herbert Walker Bush. Organized by Chief of
Staff John Sununu, Othman’s first meeting with President Bush at the White
House was in August 1990, just days after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.
There exist to this day an Arab-Texas connection. Khalid bin Mahfouz, financier
of both George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden, still maintains a palatial estate in
Houston, TX. Former President George Bush also lives in Houston. James Bath,
Texas political confidant of George W. Bush, managed to obtain a $1.4 million
loan from Mahfouz in 1990. Bath and Mahfouz, along with former Secretary of
Treasury John Connally, were also co-investors in Houston’s Main Bank. Bath
was also president of Skyway Aircraft Leasing Ltd, a Texas air charter company
registered in the Cayman Islands. According to published reports in the early
1990s, the real owner was bin Mahfouz. When Salem bin Laden, Osama’ brother,
died in 1988, his interest in the Houston Gulf Airport was transferred to bin
Mahfouz.
Since Osama bin Laden’s bloody attack on America on September 11, the federal
government has moved quickly to freeze bank accounts connected to Osama bin
Laden, Khalid bin Mahfouz, and a host of Islamic charities.
Perhaps federal agents should freeze the financial assets of the Bush family
too. It would not be the first time Bush-family assets were seized by the US
government for trading with the enemy. Hold on to your hats people. We've probably all seen the "nazi" part
before. Now it's time to focus on bin Mahfouz. bin Mahfouz was the owner of the
Saudi National Commerce Bank. He still is! The Saudis just happened to close his
account this past August, 2003. By all reports, nearly 80% of all
"terrorists funds" (please stop saying Al Qaeda) are funneled through
this bank and still are. This bank currently owns the Houston Gulf Airport. (See
"Gateway to Terror?")
Bush family’s dirty little secret: President’s oil companies funded by Bin Laden family and wealthy Saudis who
financed Osama bin Laden
By Rick Wiles
Copyright: American Freedom News September 2001 Original Link: http://www.americanfreedomnews.com/afn_articles/bushsecrets.htm
January
24, 2011 -- SPECIAL REPORT. British intelligence report: Mossad
ran 9/11 Arab "hijacker" terrorist operation
British
intelligence reported in February 2002 that the Israeli Mossad
ran the Arab hijacker cells that were later blamed by the U.S.
government's 9/11 Commission for carrying out the aerial attacks on
the World Trade Center and Pentagon. WMR
has received details of the British intelligence report, which, was
suppressed by the government of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair.
A Mossad
unit consisting of six Egyptian- and Yemeni-born Jews infiltrated
"Al Qaeda" cells in Hamburg (the Atta-Mamoun Darkanzali
cell), south Florida, and
Sharjah in the United Arab
Emirates in the months before 9/11. The Mossad
not only infiltrated cells but began to run them and give them
specific orders that would eventually culminate in their being on
board four regularly-scheduled flights originating in Boston,
Washington Dulles, and Newark, New Jersey on 9/11.
The Mossad
infiltration team comprised six Israelis, comprising two cells of
three agents, who all received special training at a Mossad
base in the Negev Desert in their future control and handling of the
"Al Qaeda" cells. One Mossad
cell traveled to Amsterdam
whereb they submitted to the
operational control of the
Mossad's Europe Station, which
operates from the El Al complex at Schiphol
International Airport. The three-man Mossad
unit then traveled to Hamburg where it made contact with Mohammed
Atta,
who believed they were sent by Osama Bin Laden. In fact, they were
sent by Ephraim Halevy,
the chief of Mossad.
The second three-man
Mossad
team flew to New York and then to southern Florida where they began
to direct the "Al Qaeda" cells operating from Hollywood, Miami, Vero
Beach, Delray Beach, and West Palm Beach. Israeli "art students,"
already under investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration
for casing the offices and homes of federal law enforcement
officers, had been living among and conducting surveillance of the
activities, including flight school training, of the future Arab
"hijacker" cells, particularly in Hollywood and Vero Beach.
In August 2001, the first Mossad
team flew with Atta
and other Hamburg "Al Qaeda" members to Boston. Logan International
Airport's security was contracted
to Huntleigh
USA, a firm owned by an Israeli airport security firm closely
connected to Mossad
-- International Consultants on Targeted Security - ICTS.
ICTS's
owners were politically connected to the Likud
Party, particularly the Netanyahu faction and then-Jerusalem mayor
and future Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
It was Olmert
who personally interceded with New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to
have released from prison five Urban Moving Systems employees,
identified by the CIA and FBI agents, as Mossad
agents. The Israelis were the only suspects arrested anywhere in the
United States on 9/11 who were thought to have been involved in the
9/11 attacks.
The two Mossad
teams sent regular coded reports on the progress of the 9/11
operation to Tel Aviv via the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC.
WMR
has learned from a Pentagon source that leading Americans tied to
the media effort to pin 9/11 on Arab hijackers, Osama Bin Laden, and
the Taliban were present in the Israeli embassy on September 10,
2001, to coordinate their media blitz for the subsequent days and
weeks following the attacks. It is more than likely that FBI
counter-intelligence agents who conduct surveillance of the Israeli
embassy have proof on the presence of the Americans present at the
embassy on September 10. Some of the Americans are well-known to
U.S. cable news television audiences.
In mid-August, the Mossad
team running the Hamburg cell in Boston reported to Tel Aviv that
the final plans for 9/11 were set. The Florida-based Mossad cell
reported that the documented "presence" of the Arab cell members at
Florida flight schools had been established.
The two Mossad cells
studiously avoided any mention of the World Trade Center or targets
in Washington, DC in their coded messages to Tel Aviv. Halevy
covered his tracks by reporting to the CIA of a "general threat" by
an attack by Arab terrorists on a nuclear plant somewhere on the
East Coast of the United States. CIA director George Tenet dismissed
the Halevy warning as "too non-specific." The FBI, under
soon-to-be-departed director Louis Freeh, received the
"non-specific" warning about an attack on a nuclear power plant and
sent out the information in its routine bulletins to field agents
but no high alert was ordered.
The lack of a paper trail
pointing to "Al Qaeda" as the masterminds on 9/11, which could then
be linked to Al Qaeda's Mossad handlers, threw off the FBI. On April
19, 2002, FBI director Robert Mueller, in a speech to San
Francisco's Commonwealth Club, stated: "In our investigation, we
have not uncovered a single piece of paper -- either here in the
United States, or in the treasure trove of information that has
turned up in Afghanistan and elsewhere -- that mentioned any aspect
of the September 11 plot."
The two Mossad "Al Qaeda"
infiltration and control teams had also helped set up safe houses
for the quick exfiltration of Mossad agents from the United States.
Last March, WMR reported: "WMR has learned from two El Al sources
who worked for the Israeli airline at New York’s John F. Kennedy
airport that on 9/11, hours after the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) grounded all civilian domestic and
international incoming and outgoing flights to and from the United
States, a full El Al Boeing 747 took off from JFK bound for Tel
Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport. The two El Al employee
sources are not Israeli nationals but legal immigrants from Ecuador
who were working in the United States for the airline. The flight
departed JFK at 4:11 pm and its departure was, according to the El
Al sources, authorized by the direct intervention of the U.S.
Department of Defense. U.S. military officials were on the scene at
JFK and were personally involved with the airport and air traffic
control authorities to clear the flight for take-off. According to
the 9/11 Commission report, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta
ordered all civilian flights to be grounded at 9:45 am on September
11." WMR has learned from British intelligence sources that the
six-man Mossad team was listed on the El Al flight manifest as El Al
employees.
WMR previously reported
that the Mossad cell operating in the Jersey City-Weehawken area of
New Jersey through Urban Moving Systems was suspected by some in the
FBI and CIA of being involved in moving explosives into the World
Trade Center as well as staging "false flag" demonstrations at at
least two locations in north Jersey: Liberty State Park and an
apartment complex in Jersey City as the first plane hit the World
Trade Center's North Tower. One team of Urban Moving Systems Mossad
agents was arrested later on September 11 and jailed for five months
at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Some of their
names turned up in a joint CIA-FBI database as known Mossad agents,
along with the owner of Urban Moving Systems, Dominik Suter, whose
name also appeared on a "Law Enforcement Sensitive" FBI 9/11
suspects list, along with the names of key "hijackers," including
Mohammed Atta and Hani Hanjour, as well as the so-called "20th
hijacker," Zacarias Moussaoui.
Suter was allowed to escape
the United States after the FBI made initial contact with him at the
Urban Moving Systems warehouse in Weehawken, New Jersey, following
the 9/11 attacks. Suter was later permitted to return to the United
States where he was involved in the aircraft parts supply business
in southern Florida, according to an informe3d source who contacted
WMR. Suter later filed for bankruptcy in Florida for Urban Moving
Systems and other businesses he operated: Suburban Moving & Storage
Inc.; Max Movers, Inc.; Invsupport; Woodflooring Warehouse Corp.;
One Stop Cleaning LLC; and City Carpet Upholstery, Inc. At the time
of the bankruptcy filing in Florida, Suter listed his address as
1867 Fox Court, Wellington, FL 33414, with a phone number of 561
204-2359.
From the list of creditors
it can be determined that Suter had been operating in the United
States since 1993, the year of the first attack on the World Trade
Center. In 1993, Suter began racking up American Express credit card
charges totaling $21,913.97. Suter also maintained credit card
accounts with HSBC Bank and Orchard Bank c/o HSBC Card Services of
Salinas, California, among other banks. Suter also did business with
the Jewish Community Center of Greater Palm Beach in Florida and
Ryder Trucks in Miami. Miami and southern Florida were major
operating areas for cells of Israeli Mossad agents masquerading as
"art students," who were living and working near some of the
identified future Arab "hijackers" in the months preceding 9/11.
ABC's 20/20 correspondent
John Miller ensured that the Israeli connection to "Al Qaeda's" Arab
hijackers was buried in an "investigation" of the movers' activities
on 9/11. Anchor Barbara Walters helped Miller in putting a lid on
the story about the movers and Suter aired on June 21, 2002. Miller
then went on to become the FBI public affairs spokesman to ensure
that Mueller and other FBI officials kept to the "Al Qaeda" script
as determined by the Bush administration and the future 9/11
Commission. But former CIA chief of counter-terrorism Vince
Cannistraro let slip to ABC an important clue to the operations of
the Mossad movers in New Jersey when he stated that the Mossad
agents "set up or exploited for the purpose of launching an
intelligence operation against radical Islamists in the area,
particularly in the New Jersey-New York area." The "intelligence
operation" turned out to have been the actual 9/11 attacks. And it
was no coincidence that it was ABC's John Miller who conducted a May
1998 rare interview of Osama Bin Laden at his camp in Afghanistan.
Bin Laden played his part well for future scenes in the fictional
"made-for-TV" drama known as 9/11.
WMR has also learned from
Italian intelligence sources that Mossad's running of "Al Qaeda"
operatives did not end with running the "hijacking" teams in the
United States and Hamburg. Other Arab "Al Qaeda" operatives, run by
Mossad, were infiltrated into Syria but arrested by Syrian
intelligence. Syria was unsuccessful in turning them to participate
in intelligence operations in Lebanon. Detailed information on Bin
Laden's support team was offered to the Bush administration, up to
days prior to 9/11, by Gutbi al-Mahdi, the head of the Sudanese
Mukhabarat intelligence service. The intelligence was rejected by
the Biush White House. It was later reported that Sudanese members
of "Al Qaeda's" support network were double agents for Mossad who
had also established close contacts with Yemeni President Ali
Abdullah Saleh and operated in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Eritrea, as
well as Sudan. The Mossad connection to Al Qaeda in Sudan was likely
known by the Sudanese Mukhabarat, a reason for the rejection of its
intelligence on "Al Qaeda" by the thoroughly-Mossad penetrated Bush
White House. Yemen had also identified "Al Qaeda" members who were
also Mossad agents. A former chief of Mossad revealed to this editor
in 2002 that Yemeni-born Mossad "deep insertion" commandos spotted
Bin Laden in the Hadhramaut region of eastern Yemen after his escape
from Tora Bora in Afghanistan, following the U.S. invasion.
French intelligence
determined that other Egyptian- and Yemeni-born Jewish Mossad agents
were infiltrated into Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates as radical
members of the Muslim Brotherhood. However, the "Muslim Brotherhood"
agents actually were involved in providing covert Israeli funding
for "Al Qaeda" activities. On February 21, 2006, WMR reported on the
U.S. Treasury Secretary's firing by President Bush over information
discovered on the shady "Al Qaeda" accounts in the United Arab
Emirates: "Banking insiders in Dubai report that in March 2002, U.S.
Secretary of Treasury Paul O’Neill visited Dubai and asked for
documents on a $109,500 money transfer from Dubai to a joint account
held by hijackers Mohammed Atta and Marwan al Shehhi at Sun Trust
Bank in Florida. O’Neill also asked UAE authorities to close down
accounts used by Al Qaeda . . . . The UAE complained about O’Neill’s
demands to the Bush administration. O’Neill’s pressure on the UAE
and Saudis contributed to Bush firing him as Treasury Secretary in
December 2002 " O'Neill may have also stumbled on the "Muslim
Brotherhood" Mossad operatives operating in the emirates who were
directing funds to "Al Qaeda."
After the collapse of the
Soviet Union and the rise to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan,
Sharjah's
ruler, Sultan bin Mohammed al-Qasimi,
who survived a palace coup attempt in 1987, opened his potentate to
Russian businessmen like Viktor Bout, as well as to financiers of
radical Muslim groups, including the Taliban and "Al Qaeda."
Moreover, this Israeli
support for "Al Qaeda" was fully known to Saudi intelligence, which
approved of it in order to avoid compromising Riyadh. The joint
Israeli-Saudi support for "Al Qaeda" was well-known to the Sharjah
and Ras
al Khaimah-based
aviation network of the now-imprisoned Russian, Viktor Bout, jailed
in New York on terrorism charges. The presence of Bout in New York,
a hotbed of Israeli intelligence control of U.S. federal
prosecutors, judges, as well as the news media, is no accident: Bout
knows enough about the Mossad
activities in Sharjah
in support of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, where Bout
also had aviation and logistics contracts, to expose Mossad
as the actual mastermind behind 9/11. Bout's aviation empire also
extended to Miami and Dallas, two areas that were nexuses for the
Mossad
control operations for the "Al Qaeda" flight training operations of
the Arab cell members in the months prior to 9/11.
Bout's path also crossed
with "Al Qaeda's" support network at the same bank in Sharjah,
HSBC.
Mossad's
phony Muslim Brotherhood members from Egypt and Yemen controlled
financing for "Al Qaeda" through the HSBC
accounts in Sharjah.
Mossad's Dominik Suter
also dealt with HSBC
in the United States. The FBI's chief counter-terrorism agent
investigating Al Qaeda, John O'Neill, became aware of the "unique"
funding mechanisms for Al Qaeda. It was no mistake that O'Neill was
given the job as director of security for the World Trade Center on
the eve of the attack. O'Neill perished in the collapse of the
complex.
Mossad
uses a number of Jews born in Arab countries to masquerade as Arabs.
They often carry forged or stolen passports from Arab countries or
nations in Europe that have large Arab immigrant populations,
particularly Germany, France, Britain, Denmark, Sweden, and the
Netherlands.
For
Mossad,
the successful 9/11 terrorist "false flag" operation was a success
beyond expectations. The Bush administration, backed by the Blair
government, attacked and occupied Iraq, deposing Saddam Hussein, and
turned up pressure on Israel's other adversaries, including Iran,
Syria, Pakistan, Hamas,
and Lebanese Hezbollah. The Israelis also saw the U.S., Britain, and
the UN begin to crack down on the Lebanese Shi'a
diamond business in Democratic Republic of Congo and West Africa,
and with it, the logistics support provided by Bout's aviation
companies, which resulted in a free hand for Tel Aviv to move in on
Lebanese diamond deals in central and west Africa.
Then-Israeli Finance
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu commented on the 9/11 attacks on U.S.
television shortly after they occurred. Netanyahu said: "It is very
good!" It now appears that Netanyahu, in his zeal, blew Mossad's
cover as the masterminds of 9/11.
Planning and Decision Aid System, Cheney,
false flag attack on America, September 9, 2001.
A great deal of
controversy has arisen about what was known about the movements and
location of Osama bin Laden in the wake of his killing by US Special
Forces on May 2 in Abbottabad,
Pakistan. Questions about what intelligence agencies knew or didn't
know about al-Qaeda activities go back some years, most prominently
in the controversy over the existence of a joint US Special Forces
Command and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
data mining effort known as "Able Danger 3]." What hasn't been
discussed is a September 2008 Department of Defense (DoD)
inspector general (IG)
report 4], summarizing an investigation made in response to an
accusation by a Joint Forces Intelligence Command (JFIC)
whistleblower, which indicated that a senior JFIC
commander had halted actions tracking Osama bin Laden prior to 9/11.
JFIC
is tasked with an intelligence mission in support of United States
Joint Force Command (USJFCOM).
The report, titled
"Review of Joint Forces Intelligence Command Response to 9/11
Commission," was declassified last year, in response to a Freedom of
Information Act request from Steven Aftergood
at the Federation of American Scientists.
The whistleblower,
who the IG
report identified as a former
JFIC employee represented only
by his codename "IRON MAN," claimed in letters written to both the
DoD
inspector general in May 2006 and, lacking any apparent action by
the IG,
to the Office of the National Director of Intelligence (ODNI)
in October 2007, that JFIC
had withheld operational information about al-Qaeda when queried in
March 2002 about its activities by the DIA
and higher command officials on behalf of the 9/11 Commission. The
ODNI
passed the complaint back to the IG,
who then opened an investigation under the auspices of the deputy
inspector general for intelligence. 5]
In a November 27, 2007,
letter 6] from Edward Maguire at the ODNI to Gen. Claude
Kicklighter at the
DoD's IG office,
Maquire identifies the
whistleblower as "a DIA employee in the Defense
HUMINT Management
Office, Policy and Plans Division," who was "personally involved in
JFIC intelligence activities related to al-Qa'ida and the 9/11
attacks and had first hand knowledge of circumstances surrounding
that alleged false reporting to the Secretary of Defense and
Congress."
Maguire also offered to
send classified material to the DoD IG that was in possession of the
Director of National Intelligence's (DNI) inspector general. He also
told Kicklighter that the
DNI had not performed even a preliminary
inquiry on the allegations.
The IG report, which does
not explain the 18-month delay in opening an investigation, cleared
JFIC of any wrongdoing and declared that the intelligence agency had
"provided a timely and accurate reply in response to the 9/11
Commission." In evident response, IRON MAN indicated to the
IG
investigating staff that "he had never seen the 9/11 Commission
questions or JFIC's response, but that Congress should have asked
for files concerning the tracking of Osama bin Laden."
According to the IG report,
the 9/11 Commission "had not requested the direct submission of any
files or requested information regarding the tracking of Osama bin
Laden." The report said the commission questions "were very
specific," and asked what the JFIC knew about "imminent attack" or
"hijackers involved" in the 9/11 terrorist attack.
Tracking Bin Laden had been
undertaken by a secret unit within the JFIC, the Asymmetric Threats
Division, formed in 1999 "to take a non-traditional approach to
analysis." Known by its DoD acronym, DO5, it was tasked with
providing "current intelligence briefings and produced the Worldwide
Terrorist Threat Summary in support of the USJFCOM Intelligence
staff J2]." Almost no public source material exists on DO5
activities, except what is in the IG report.
The IG report does not deny
the tracking of Bin Laden, but notes that the JFIC was to provide
general and direct intelligence support to USJFCOM and subordinate
joint forces commands and that it did not have a mission to track
Osama bin Laden or predict imminent targets of terrorism on US soil.
Nevertheless, DO5 was
involved in intelligence concerns domestically. It provided
assistance to the Joint Task Force - Civil Support (JTF-CS), which,
like DO5, was formed in 1999 and based out of Fort Monroe, Virginia.
The JTF-CS was tasked with assisting the DoD response to domestic
terror incidents, including 7] "managing the consequences of a
domestic chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield
explosive (CBRNE) situation." At one point, DO5 assisted the JTF-CS
by "establishing fictional terrorist organizations that would mimic
real world terrorist groups" that were utilized as part of JTF-CS
"exercises."
The obscurity of DO5's
mission was summed up by a former JFIC deputy director of
intelligence, who told investigators that DO5 had "no theater
specific mission." According to the answers the JFIC provided to the
9/11 Commission, the JFIC received over 2,200 messages daily "from
other agencies, JFCOM components, or services." It did "not conduct
any unilateral collection" of any intelligence domestically.
According to the narrative
in the IG report, a previous JFIC deputy director of intelligence
said that the JFIC commander, identified elsewhere in the report as
Capt. Janice Dundas, US Navy, "directed him to stop tracking Osama
bin Laden. The Commanding Officer stated that the tracking of Osama
bin Laden did not fall within JFIC's mission." At the same time,
JFIC analysis of purported Afghanistan "terrorist training camps"
was also curtailed, with an explanation that such activities were
outside the agency's Area of Operations and "that the issues where
sic] not in JFIC's swim lane."
According to the report,
the Asymmetric Threats Division was "realigned" in summer 2001 under
the "Intelligence Watch Center." The Intelligence Watch Center may
be the Combined Intelligence Watch Center associated 8] with NORAD,
which is an "indications and warning center for worldwide threats
from space, missile and strategic air activity, as well as
geopolitical unrest that could affect North America and US
forces/interests abroad." This would be consistent with the work DO5
did with the JTF-CS.
The order to stop tracking
Bin Laden, therefore, came sometime between the origin of DO5 in
1999 and its realignment just prior to, or right after 9/11. In
2005, the JFIC itself was renamed the Joint Transformation
Command-Intelligence, still subordinate to and serving USJFCOM.
Other Allegations
According to the IG report,
IRON MAN claimed that the JFIC had "original material created by DO5
relevant to al-Qa'ida," and that the JFIC had constructed "numerous
original reports." But the IG investigators found that interviews
with other JFIC personnel and a review of historical DO5 briefings
did not support these allegations. They claimed that DO5, which
"recruited JFIC personnel from the command based upon their
counterintelligence and counterterrorism expertise," merely
"monitored and compiled intelligence reporting" from other agencies.
IRON MAN told IG
investigators that he believed that his agency, JFIC, would deny the
existence of the Asymmetric Threat Division and its analyses. But
the IG report authors claimed, "JFIC correctly identified the DO5 in
its response to question 8" from the 9/11 Commission and explained,
in addition, that the JFIC noted that "D05's emphasis was on force
protection for the USJFCOM components."
But in the reply to
question 8 reproduced in the IG
report, there is no mention of either DO5 or the Asymmetric Threat
Division. The answer states, "JFIC's
Counter-terrorism focus has changed over the years," and that from
fall 1999 until September 11, 2001, the JFIC's
counterterrorism focus switched to "Asymmetric Threats OCONUS
outside the continental US] to include terrorism and CBRN
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear] issues," with the
aforementioned emphasis on
USJFCOM force protection.
Nowhere does it indicate the existence of DO5 and there is no reason
to believe that 9/11 Commission members were ever aware of its
existence. The JFIC
was never mentioned in the subsequent 9/11 Commission report.
In addition, IRON
MAN's
allegations also included charges that the JFIC
and specifically DO5, had developed information that the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon were the most likely domestic targets of an
al-Qaeda attack. The IG
report disputes this and claims, with less than definitive
assurance, "Evidence indicated that the JFIC
did not have knowledge regarding imminent domestic targets prior to
9/11 or specific 9/11 hijacker operations."
The IG
report indicated that IG
investigators spoke with a number of key ranking JFIC
personnel, as well as the previous USJFCOM
director of intelligence, the
JFIC Commanding Officer and
personnel from the Asymmetric Threat Division.
Earlier this year, a
blogger,
Susie Dow, who has been following 9] the story of Kirk von
Ackermann , a US Army contractor in Iraq who disappeared on the road
between Tikrit
and Kirkuk
in October 2003, asserted that von Ackermann had earlier belonged to
JFIC's
Asymmetric Threat Division. Von Ackermann's vehicle was found by the
side of the road with a computer and a briefcase containing $40,000
in cash. An Army Criminal Investigative Division investigation later
concluded that he was the victim of a probable kidnapping, while
rumors persisted that he was possibly going to blow the whistle on
DoD
corruption.
An associate of von
Ackermann, Ryan Manelick,
a former Air Force Intelligence officer, was shot and killed outside
a US military base near Baghdad two months later. Manelick
had earlier told various people that he was in fear for his life.
Both von Ackermann and Manelick
worked for the contractor Ultra Services, based in Turkey. No
particular link between von Ackermann or Manelick
and the IRON MAN allegations has ever been proposed.
Dow has written 10]
on the two contractors for the website e Pluribus Media. In a May 6
posting at her own web site, "The Missing Man," Dow noted the IG
report's conclusion: "The analysis completed by the Joint Forces
Intelligence Command, specifically the Asymmetric Threat Division,
was not applicable to the questions asked by the 9/11 Commission."
"Which leads me to believe
the 9/11 Commission did not ask the correct questions," Dow said.
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August 3-5, 2012 -- *****10
BELLS***** -- Federal judge's firm trained lead 9/11 hijacker
U.S. Judge for the the Middle
District of Alabama Mark Fuller, scheduled to re-sentence former
Alabama Governor Don Siegelman
on August 3 in Montgomery, was the previous owner of a firm that
trained accused 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta. The information on
Fuller's links to the 9/11 attack were uncovered by a former
Republican Party campaign aid in Alabama who spoke to WMR
on background.
WMR previously reported on Fuller's
financial dealings with Doss Aviation, which, among other government
business, had the contract to re-fuel Air Force One. Havong had
trained Atta, as well as Saudi, Iranian, and other Egyptian pilots
to fly aircraft, the Colorado Springs, Colorado-based Doss Aviation
was in a position to help carry out threats against Air Force One
that were received by the presidential airplane's pilot on 9/11,
specifically "Angel is next." Angel was the classified code word
used at the time to denote Air Force One.
Ironically, as we reported earlier:
"It is also noteworthy that the Doss Aviation active contract web
page has a photo of the World Trade Center shaded in the colors of
the U.S. flag. Fuller's firm has seen a growth in contracts and
profits since the 9/11 attacks and U.S. military action in Iraq and
Afghanistan."
On July 25, 2007, WMR reported:
"Information culled from Internet web archives of previous Doss
Aviation web pages indicate that the firm was involved in training
Saudi and Iranian pilots. Both Newsweek and Knight Ridder reported
that three to five of the 9/11 hijackers had attended military
training courses in the United States. They included Mohamed Atta
who attended the International Officers' School at Maxwell Air Force
Base in Alabama." WMR can now report that one of the pilots Doss
trained was Atta. The Egyptian-born pilot and accused Al Qaeda
terrorist cell leader was often seen at the officer's club at
Maxwell Air Force Base, where he was known as "Lieutenant Colonel"
or merely "Colonel" Mohammed Atta of the Egyptian Air Force.
In 2002, Air Force Lt. Col Steve
Butler, vice chancellor for student affairs at the Defense Language
Institute (DLI) in Monterey, California, stated in a letter to the
Monterey County Herald that "Bush knew about the impending attacks."
Butler was disciplined by the Air Force for his remarks. However,
the Air Force appears to have had a good reason to silence anyone
who was in a position to shine the light on Air Force culpability in
9/11 and Siegelman, a former Alabama Attorney General and later
governor during the 9/11 attack was worrisome to the 9/11 plotters.
Saeed Alghamdi,
one of the Saudi 9/11 hijackers, had reportedly attended classes at
DLI.
On July 27, 2007, WMR
reported, "Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Feaga,
the lead prosecutor in the Siegelman/(former
HealthSouth CEO Richard) Scrushy]
case, is a colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and is an assistant
to Staff Judge Advocate Brig. Gen. Richard C. Harding at Langley Air
Force Base, the principal legal adviser to the Air Combat Staff.
Feaga
and his boss Harding have jurisdiction over all legal matters at
Langley, including contracts awarded to Doss Aviation.
Federal Judge Mark Fuller, who tried
and convicted Siegelman
and Scrushy,
is a current principal of Doss Aviation, a major conflict of
interest for a sitting federal judge."
The Justice Department case against
Siegelman
and Scrushy
was not staged out of the Federal building in Montgomery but in a
40,000 square foot building at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base outside
of Montgomery. The use of a military base to carry out a civil
prosecution, especially against a former governor, was highly
unusual and virtually unprecedented and represented an ominous
incursion of the military into civilian law enforcement and the
justice system.
However, when Fuller's links to Doss
and that firm's training of at least one of the accused 9/11
hijackers is considered, the use of Maxwell, Atta's one-time duty
station, was not unusual and represented an attempt by Fuller and
top Justice Department officials to cover-up the Pentagon's role in
9/11.
Supreme Court Associate Justice
Elena Kagan, while Solicitor General under Attorney General Eric
Holder, did nothing to vacate or alleviate the politically-motivated
charges against Siegelman. In Holder and President Obama kept in
place as U.S. Attorney in Montgomery Leura Canary, the wife of
Alabama GOP grand mufti Bill Canary, a friend of Karl Rove.
It was only after Fuller's wife,
Lisa Boyd Fuller, became aware of an on-going affair between Fuller
and one of his deputy clerks, Kelli Gregg, that the judge's links to
Doss became a problem. Some five months before Mrs. Fuller filed
divorce papers against Fuller on May 10, 2012, Doss Aviation was
sold to J.F. Lehman & Company, which is owned by former Navy
Secretary and 9/11 Commission member John Lehman. The law firm that
worked out the details of the sale was Jones Day, a firm with close
ties to the Republican Party and the Central Intelligence Agency. By
divesting himself of Doss's assets, Fuller could escape his wife's
claims on Doss profits as shared marriage assets. Te sale of Doss to
Lehman would also protect the U.S. government's foreknowledge of the
events of 9/11.
Siegelman and his lawyers will argue
for leniency before Fuller in Montgomery. It is a mark of our
corrupt judicial system that it is Siegelman who is on trial and
Fuller who is the presiding judge. In a more perfect world and in a
more perfect union, it would be Judge Siegelman deciding the fate of
Mr. Fuller, a corrupt former Republican Party operative and aider
and abettor of terrorism.
WMR
Wife of 9/11 Commission co-chair killed by her own car
...August 14-15, 2012
On August 11, a month from the 11th anniversary
of the September 11, 2001, attacks, Nancy Hamilton, the 82-year old
wife of former U.S. Representative Lee Hamilton, the former chairman
of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the
co-chair of the 9/11 Commission that investigated the attacks, was
killed when her own vehicle ran her over in the parking lot of a
veterinarian's office.
Mrs. Hamilton, according to Bloomington Police,
did not have her vehicle's transmission in park when she exited the
car around 4:15 pm to retrieve her pet from the back. When Hamilton
went behind the vehicle, a later model Toyota Camry, the car backed
up and ran her over. The Monroe County medical examiner reported
that Mrs. Hamilton died from massive blunt force to her chest and
head. The police said the car knocked over Mrs. Hamilton and then
proceeded to roll over her. Mrs. Hamilton was transported from the
incident scene on the 4500 block of East Third Street and she died
hours later at IU Health-Bloomington Hospital.
It is unusual that the police waited two days to
report the seemingly bizarre incident involving Mrs. Hamilton and
her death, which was ultimately ruled an accident. The Associated
Press, NBC News, and local Indiana newspapers and radio and
television stations did not report the death of Mrs. Hamilton for
almost two full days. The police also made it known that Mrs.
Hamilton was alone at the time of the accident.
Although for over a decade, drivers have not been
able to remove the key from the ignition unless the transmission was
in park, Mrs. Hamilton exited the vehicle, walked behind it to
retrieve her pet from the back, and the vehicle went into reverse
and ran her over. The Bloomington police have made it clear that
they consider the case closed.
Newspaper and television network web site blogs
became inundated not with messages of remorse but a spate of
postings that criticized states for allowing the elderly to drive
and that Mrs. Hamilton deserved what she got under "Obamacare." Many
of the postings appeared to be automatically-generated from
government "sock puppet" software used heavily by the intelligence
services and military.
Friends of Mrs. Hamilton revealed that despite her
82 years of age, she maintained all her mental faculties, with one
stating Mrs. Hamilton was "sharp as a tack."
The method in which Mrs. Hamilton died was not the
first such bizarre death involving a driver-less vehicle and someone
close to the 9/11 investigation. This editor reported the following
on October 10, 2003: October 10 , 2003, 1200 PDT, -- WASHINGTON, At
around 9 PM on September 29, Fairfax County, Virginia police
responded to a 911 call describing an accident. However, they soon
discovered they were not dealing with a routine emergency but the
mysterious death of an employee of the 47-year old brother of
President George W. Bush, venture capitalist Marvin Bush. Sixty-two
year old Bertha Champagne, described as a long time "baby sitter"
for Marvin and Margaret Bush's two children, son Walker, 13, and
daughter Marshall, 17, was found crushed to death by her own vehicle
in a driveway in front of the Bush family home in the Alexandria
section of Fairfax County. Champagne reportedly lived at the Bush
family home.
Champagne had left the residence to retrieve
something from her car, which police say had somehow been "left in
gear."
On October 21, 2005, WMR was the first to report
on the contents of the police report on the Champagne death, a copy
of which we were able to obtain from the Fairfax County Police
Department. The police never officially released the report. The
report, written by Pfc C. E. Beech, stated: "September 09-29-03 at
approximately 2130 hours I was contacted by the on duty PSCC
supervisor to respond to 6202 Ft. Hunt Rd. for a single vehicle
fatality. While on scene I discovered a black Olds Bravada in the
tree line and two small blood pools in the drive way. There was also
blood and glass debris in the driveway. The operator of the vehicle
was transported by ground to Mt. Vernon Memorial Hospital and
identified as Bertha Champagne. Bertha was a maid for Marvin Bush
who resides at 6202 Ft. Hunt Rd. By the time I arrived on scene the
body was already transported to Mt. Vernon Hospital by ground.
During the course of my investigation I interviewed Marvin Bush.
Marvin stated that he arrived home at approximately 2045 hours. He
advised me that he had a brief conversation with with Bertha in the
kitchen. Bertha then tells Marvin that she wants to show him a video
tape of her and President Bush. She then leaves the residence to
take out the family dogs and retrieve the video tape. There are no
witnesses to the crash. There were no signs of any other type of
crime involved with this event. The victim had all her money in her
wallet and all her personal belongings such as jewelry and a watch
in her possession. According to the Medical Examiner, Bertha's
injuries were related to this crash. There were no blunt injuries or
injuries related to a robbery or a carjacking."
The official police announcement of Champagne's
death made no mention of Marvin Bush or a video tape: "A 62-year-old
Alexandria area woman died after being pinned between a rolling car
and a building. The crash happened on Monday, around 9 pm, near the
intersection of Fort Hunt Road and Edgehill Drive. Bertha Champagne
had gone outside to get something from a car in a driveway. The car,
which was left in gear, began to roll forward. Champagne was pinned
between the car and a small building next to the driveway. The car
continued to roll down the driveway, crossed Fort Hunt Road, and
came to rest in a wooded area. Champagne was taken to Inova Mount
Vernon Hospital where she was pronounced dead."
As in the case of Nancy Hamilton's Toyota Camry,
Champagne's 2000 Olds Bravada could not have easily slipped out of
gear with the keys removed from the ignition. For at least 15 years,
most cars' ignitions lock if the car's transmission is not placed in
park.
As WMR reported on October 21, 2005: "The police
report refers to Marvin Bush's occupation as 'sales.' In fact,
Marvin Bush served on the board of Securacom (renamed Stratesec).
Just a few weeks prior to Champagne's death, Securacom (which
provided security for Dulles International Airport and the World
Trade Center on 9-11) filed for bankruptcy. Bush also served on the
board of HCC Insurance Holdings, inc. (formerly Houston Casualty
Company), one of the re-insurers for the World Trade Center. Marvin
Bush is also a co-founder of Winston Partners Group, a financial
investment firm, along with A. Scott Andrews, a former chief
financial officer (until 1994) for Worldcom. Bush had also served on
the board of Fresh Del Monte Produce, Inc., a Palestinian-owned firm
with headquarters in the Cayman Islands and a U.S. office in Coral
Gables, Florida. In 2002, Bush left the board after it became the
subject of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation."
Bertha Champagne, as now reported from
Bloomington, Indiana, was not the only person with a link to the
events of 9/11 to die in a similar manner. Nancy Hamilton's husband,
Lee Hamilton, widely criticized for not fully investigating 9/11,
later revealed that the commission had been lied to by the CIA,
among others. In December 2007, Hamilton said, "Did they the CIA]
obstruct our inquiry? The answer is clearly yes." Hamilton also said
senior military officers, including those from the North American
Air Defense Command (NORAD), "misrepresented the facts" to the
Commission, and the Commission considered "recommending criminal
charges for such false statement."
In their book, Without Precedent: The Inside Story
of the 9/11 Commission, Hamilton and fellow 9/11 chair and former
New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean,wrote that the 9/11 Commission was
"set up to fail," reiterating that Pentagon and Federal Aviation
Aviation (FAA) officials repeatedly lied and that the commission
considered launching a separate investigation into obstruction of
justice by the the Bush administration." Lee Hamilton remains a
member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, a part of the
Department of Homeland Security.
With the chairmen of the 9/11 Commission
maintaining that the commission was "set up to fail," it is not a
leap to consider that two women who were only once removed from two
key players in the investigation of 9/11 -- Lee Hamilton and Marvin
Bush -- were "set up" to die.
WMRCleaning up the 9/11 evidence and clues in
Florida August 15-16, 2012 --
Venice, FL (WMR) -- It was not long after the
9/11 attacks that federal law enforcement began seizing crime scene
evidence in New York; Arlington, Virginia, and Shanksville,
Pennsylvania. Florida, where several of the alleged 9/11 hijackers
trained, has been no exception to the "clean-up" operations.
In Venice, where alleged hijackers Mohammed Atta,
Marwan al-Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah received flight training, Atta and
al-Shehhi at Huffman Aviation and Jarrah at Florida Flight Training
Center, both located at Venice Airport, what was once the talk of
the town is now hardly mentioned. Venice, which has a population
with an average age of 69, is back to being a sleepy retirement
community on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. Here, "911" is likely
to be a normal evening bedtime rather than a reference to an
infamous date in recent U.S. history.
The current residents of the Sandpiper Apartments
are, for the most part, unaware that their complex was the focus of
an investigation of lead hijacker Mohammed Atta, A local stripper,
Amanda Keller, claimed to have lived in an apartment at the complex
from March to April 2001. However, Keller later changed her story
and moved away from Venice. Keller can be forgiven for changing her
story. While the FBI maintains that Atta was only in Venice
attending flight school from July to December 2000 at Huffmann
Aviation, which is across the Airport Avenue East from the Sandpiper
Apartments, residents of Venice saw Atta in the town in the the
weeks leading up to 9/11. They recognized his face immediately after
it was aired on television following the attacks. From a pharmacist
where Atta had prescriptions filled, to a deli counter worker at
Publix who made Atta his sandwiches, the description was the same: a
rude and arrogant man with a glassy stare that indicated he had,
somehow, been in a mental institution or "brainwashed."
The apartment, center, upper floor, where Mohammed
Atta is said to have lived with Amanda Kelly in the weeks leading up
to 9/11.
Accompanying Atta in the weeks before 9/11 was his
father, reportedly a member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. One
Venice resident also claimed that when she was at Maxwell Air Force
Base in Alabama, she and her colleagues saw Mohammed Atta, who was
wearing the uniform of an Egyptian Air Force colonel.
How did the FBI react to eyewitness claims? They
told them they were mistaken. The man they thought was Atta was some
other arrogant and wealthy Arab who just happened to be in a
community of 10,000 mostly retired people for some unknown reason.
Local townspeople knew Atta was in their town six
weeks before 9/11. He had been seen having dinner with Rudi Dekkers,
the shady owner of Huffman Aviation. In 1999, Dekkers and his
partner, Wally Hilliard, bought Huffman Aviation. According to a
Venice CIA source, the choice of Dekkers to be involved in a U.S.
and foreign intelligence operation on the scale of 9/11 was unwise.
The source said that using a Dutchman in such an operation was
"untidy," referring to Dekkers's criminal past in the Netherlands
and the CIA's long history with Dutch operatives, who like to get
drunk and start talking.
For the 9/11 plotters, Venice was a weak link that
could have exposed the entire criminal conspiracy behind 9/11.
Atta's noticeable disagreeable public persona, coupled with
Dekkers's "untidiness," threatened to link the Venice flight
training operation to Governor Jeb Bush in Tallahassee and all the
way to the White House in Washington. Even the Venice police chief
posed a problem. He had often said that the police were ordered by
the city fathers of Venice never to question or interfere with the
operations at the tower-less airport, operations that included
Blackhawk helicopters swooping in for only a few seconds, sometimes
around 3:00 am, when they would pick up or discharge passengers. The
political leadership of Venice was beholden to the man who was
heavily invested in the town: Jackson Stephens, the billionaire
Little Rock, Arkansas tycoon who had helped bankroll the
presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Venice Municipal Airport was used by the military
during World War II as a base. But it was not just any regular base,
it was used by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the
forerunner of the CIA, to train Nationalist Chinese pilots to fight
against the Japanese. The operation was overseen by General Claire
Chennault, to founder of the Flying Tigers that assisted Chiang
Kai-shek's forces before and during America's entry into World War
II. Chennault was also a founder of the Civil Air Patrol, which is
headquartered at Maxwell Air Force Base. Chennault was a supporter
of the Louisiana Civil Air Patrol, which once counted James Bath,
George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard friend; Drug Enforcement
Administration informant and pilot Barry Seal; alleged John F.
Kennedy assassination conspirator David Ferrie; and accused Kennedy
assassin Lee Harvey Oswald as members.
Huffman Aviation, once the interest of the FBI,
with a new identity: Soncoast Air Center.
Today, Amanda Keller has moved away to start a new
life. Huffman Aviation was bought and now the building is called
"Suncoast Air Center." Huffman's original corporate records have
disappeared into an administrative "black hole." And Venice has
returned to a sleepy retirement community.
WMR
August 20-21, 2012, Key West, FL (WMR) -- Mohammed Atta's mysterious
passport
WMR's investigation of accused 9/11 hijacker
Mohammed Atta's whereabouts prior to the September 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks strongly indicate that he was sent to Key West,
Florida in order to provide a plausible cover story about his
passport that would be provided to the media following the attacks.
New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik
reported to CBS's News's Scott Pelley that "one of the hijackers'"
passports was found 3 to 4 blocks away from the debris from the
collapsed World Trade Center. It was later reported that the
passport was in pristine condition and managed to survive that way
in explosive temperatures that incinerated the hijacked American
Airlines Boeing 767's "black boxes" and melted steel in the World
Trade Center. It was also later reported that the pristine passport
belonged to another hijacker, Satam al-Suqumi, and was found by a
"pedestrian." It should be kept in mind that for weeks after 9/11,
only authorized individuals were permitted near "Ground Zero."
Unauthorized persons were not permitted to go south beyond 34th
Street.
It was also reported that a "Mohamed Atta" (there
are a number of transliterations of Arabic names into English and
Mohamed is often interchanged with Mohammed and Muhammad) traveled
on a novelty passport issued by the Conch Republic, a fantasy nation
that was established as a protest in 1982 by the Florida Keys to the
creation of a detached U.S. border station on U.S. Highway 1 in
Florida City, just south of Homestead, to check for illegal aliens
heading north from the Keys. The people of the Keys decided if they
were going to be treated like foreigners, they would secede from the
United States. The border check was finally removed but the Conch
Republic lived on, not so much as a political protest, but as a
humorous symbolic republic that worked in tandem with the Chamber of
Commerce of the Keys and the municipal government of Key West to
promote tourism and the uniqueness of the Florida Keys. The mayor of
Key West also serves as the "prime minister" of the Conch Republic.
But the humor of the Conch Republic and the
novelty passports it issues was seemingly lost on some individuals
who, in September 2000, began applying for the novelty passports
from locations in Pakistan, India, and the United Arab Emirates. The
sudden spate of such requests led officials of the Conch Republic to
notify the immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in Miami of
a potential problem with people who might be trying to enter the
United States illegally by using the novelty passports. The INS
never responded but the Conch Republic drafted a letter for the
record that such a report was made to the INS.
In February 2001, Mohamed Atta and his
stripper/lingerie model girlfriend, Amanda Keller, were spotted all
over Key West. They were seen at the Red Garter, a notorious Key
West strip club; the Hard Rock Cafe; and Sloppy Joe's, the name of
the haunt where novelist Ernest Hemingway drank and, on occasion,
pointed out to his friends the FBI agents who were in the bar
watching him.
But while Hemingway drew the interest of the FBI,
the bureau had no similar interest in Atta. It was while Atta and
Keller were at the Hard Rock Cafe that Atta left to pick up a
mysterious German-speaking man who arrived at Key West International
Airport. The German-speaking man stayed with Atta and his girlfriend
for a few days. After a few days, Atta, Keller, and the German left
Key West. There have been some reports that the German man was
Wolfgang Bohringer, a Swiss-German who tried to establish a flight
school in Kiribati in the South Pacific but was asked to leave by
that nation's president. Bohringer has been rumored to be a longtime
CIA asset from the shady ranks of the agency that have also
reportedly included Rudi Dekkers, the owner of Huffman Aviation, the
Venice, Florida flight school where Atta was enrolled.
After 9/11, two FBI agents arrived at the door of
the Conch Republic, located in a traditional Key West wood-frame
house on Simonton Street, a block away from the tourist shops and
bars on Duval Street. It was clear that the agents were there
because of what was allegedly "found" in the rubble in New York: a
passport issued in September 2000 to a Mohamed Atta, who applied for
it using a New York City mailing address. The FBI was told that the
Conch Republic was suspicious about some passport requests received
the previous year from the Middle East and Indian sub-continent and
that the information was conveyed to the INS without a response.
The Conch Republic voluntarily turned over to the
FBI agents bankers' boxes containing some 25,000 Conch Republic
passport applications, including addresses, telephone numbers,
copies of supporting identification documents, and even the DNA from
licked envelopes and postage stamps. It was from these files that an
application from a "Mohamed Atta" in New York was discovered, but
the FBI presumably already knew that from what was found in perfect
shape in the debris of the World Trade Center. Instead of keeping
the information about Atta secure, the FBI leaked the Conch Republic
passport application information to the Miami Herald. The paper
dispatched reporter Jennifer Babson to Key West to interview Conch
Republic Secretary General Peter Anderson. Babson asked Anderson why
Atta "had been using a Conch Republic passport to travel." In fact,
there was never any evidence that Atta had personally possessed such
a passport, let alone having traveled on one.
The Herald's FBI source or sources were not
truthful in what they passed on to the paper, information that was
repeated in Babson's October 3, 2001, article: the article states
that "Mohamed Atta" signed the Conch Republic's registration book at
their Key West headquarters (currently, visits to the headquarters
are by appointment and walk-ins are not permitted). However, the
Herald reported that agents were unable to find Atta's passport
application in the 25,000 files. WMR has been told that there was
such an application and it was mailed from New York City, where
there was never any record of the alleged hijacker Atta having
stayed.
There are strong suspicions by informed parties in
Key West that someone else applied for the Conch Republic passport
using the name Mohamed Atta and when the time was right, the
passport was dropped into the debris on Vesey Street near the Trade
Center site. In turn, the passport was handed to Kerik.
Kerik, who is presently serving a prison term
after a federal corruption conviction, has never revealed who gave
him the passport in question. Sources have told WMR that Kerik
expressed fear that he spoke too much about the details of 9/11, he
would be placed in the general prison population -- a virtual death
sentence for a police officer -- rather than in the minimum security
prison where he is now serving out his term.
Atta's only known passport was his Egyptian
passport, number 1617066, with a U.S. B1/B2 visa, number 34137932,
issued at the U.S. embassy in Berlin on May 18, 2000.
The visit by the two FBI agents, supervisory
resident agent Rae Bliss and her deputy Anthony Russo, to the Conch
Republic office on suspicion that Atta may have used a novelty
passport is not supported by the conclusions of the 9/11 Commission,
which stated: "The FBI and CIA have uncovered no evidence that Atta
held any fraudulent passports." WMR learned that FBI agent Bliss's
husband was, at the time of the investigation, a CIA officer
assigned to the Joint Task Force-Key West, a component of the U.S.
Southern Command in Miami. Bliss and her husband are now retired.
Mohamed or Mohammed Atta never traveled on this
passport, but someone claiming to be him, ordered it and tossed in
the debris of the World Trade Center.
Those familiar with Atta's Key West visit in
February 2001, said he possessed a number of passports and spoke a
number of languages, including Hebrew. In fact, WMR discovered that
in 2001, a number of Israel Defense Force reservists, operated many
of the small boutique shops in Key West, which sold everything from
skin lotions and children's toys to jewelry and kitschy souvenirs.
The IDF vendors, according to our sources, periodically flew back
and forth to Israel in the months leading up to 9/11.
WMR learned that the Conch Republic passport is
valued as more than a "toy" or "souvenir." A number of U.S.
military, intelligence agency employees, and State Department
personnel have ordered the passport in order to travel to countries
where showing a U.S. passport while inside the country could cause
problems. Some countries have actually stamped an entry visa in the
Conch Republic passport, which amuses Conch Republic officials,
since it is a de facto recognition by other governments of the
sovereignty of the Conch Republic.
Usually, visas are stamped after an official
passport is presented to an immigration officer, bit not all the
time. Official visas in Conch Repubic passports have been stamped by
immigration officers from Mexico, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the
Grenadines and Bequia, Turks and Caicos Islands, St. Eustatius, St.
Maarten, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, British
Virgin Islands, and --- the United States.
9/11 Truth Whistleblowers
Dr. Alan Sabrosky
Wikipedia ... has openly accused
Israel of orchestrating the attacks of September 11th, 2001.
Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D., University of Michigan],
1976]) citation needed], is a ten-year US Marine Corps
veteran and a 1986 graduate of the U. S. Army War College.
He is also a writer and consultant specializing in national
and international security affairs. In December 1988, he
received the Superior Civilian Service Award after more than
five years of service at the U.S. Army War College as
Director of Studies, Strategic Studies Institute, and holder
of the General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Chair of
Research. Dr. Sabrosky's teaching and research appointments
have included the United States Military Academy, the Center
for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Middlebury
College and Catholic University; while in government
service, he held concurrent adjunct professorships at
Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins University
School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Dr.
Sabrosky has lectured widely on defense and foreign affairs
in the United States and abroad. ...
A representative quote by Dr. Sabrosky is as follows - "What
we need to stand up and say is not only did Israel attack
the USS Liberty, they did 9/11. They did it. I have had long
conversations over the past two weeks with contacts at the
Army War College, at it's headquarters, Marine Corps and I
made it absolutely clear in both cases that it is 100
percent certain that 9/11 was a Mossad operation. Period."
In a later interview he stated: "Americans must understand
that they did it. And if they do, Israel is gonna disappear.
Israel will flat ass disappear from the face of this
earth." citation needed] Sabrosky has not brought any new
evidence (and does not consider that any more is necessary
or likely to be forthcoming, other than a possible
confession from one of the 9-11 organizers), but rather lent
his credentials, both of being part Jewish himself, and of
being a Professor and former Vietnam Marine veteran, to the
critics of the official US government position on 9-11, and
its justification for its wars. He has also provided a
comprehensive conceptual framework for evaluating 9-11 in
“Demystifying 9-11: Israel and the Tactics of Mistake
Susan Landauer
A 9/11 Truth
activist, CIA asset, and whistleblower with extensive
experience in the immoral sanctions and illegal invasion of
Iraq ...
Wikipedia Lindauer is the daughter of John Howard
Lindauer II, the newspaper publisher and former Republican
nominee for Governor of Alaska. Her mother was Jackie
Lindauer (1932–1992) who died of cancer in 1992. In 1995 her
father married Dorothy Oremus, a Chicago attorney who along
with other members of her family owned the largest cement
company in the Midwest. Lindauer is also a second cousin of
former White House Chief of Staff,
Andrew Card. ... She graduated from
Smith College in 1985. She earned a masters degree in public
policy from the London School of Economics. She worked as a
temporary reporter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for 13
weeks in 1987, and as an editorial writer at the The Everett
Herald in Everett, Washington in 1989. She then was a
reporter and researcher at U.S. News & World Report in 1990
and 1991. She then worked for Representative Peter DeFazio,
D-Oregon (1993) and then Representative Ron Wyden, D-Oregon
(1994) before joining the office of Senator Carol Moseley
Braun, D-Illinois, where she worked as a press secretary and
speech writer. On January 8, 2003, she delivered a
letter to Andrew Card. In her letter, she urged Card to
intercede with President George W. Bush to not invade Iraq,
and offered to act as a back channel in negotiations. Andrew
Card is her second cousin. Her first politically-related
contact with former Chief of Staff was around 2001. Lindauer
was arrested on March 11, 2004 in Takoma Park, Maryland and
charged with "acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign
government". The indictment alleged that she accepted
US$10,000 from the Iraqi Intelligence Service in 2002.
Lindauer denies receiving the money, but confirms taking a
trip to Baghdad, claiming it was on behalf of her work as a
U.S. asset. She was released on bond on March 13, 2004, to
attend an arraignment the following week. (She was
falsely accused of being mentally unstable, but has a mass
of records proving otherwise see
video
she is focused and articulate)
OpEdNews
Sibel Edmonds
JustaCitizen in
her new memoir, Sibel Edmonds�the most classified woman in
U.S. history takes us on a surreal journey that begins with
the secretive FBI and down the dark halls of a feckless
Congress to a stonewalling judiciary and finally, to the
national security whistleblowers movement she spearheaded.
Having lived under Middle East dictatorships, Edmonds knows
firsthand what can happen when government is allowed to
operate in secret. Hers is a sobering perspective that
combines painful experience with a rallying cry for the
public's right to know and to hold the lawbreakers
accountable. With U.S. citizens increasingly stripped of
their rights in a calibrated media blackout, Edmonds story
is a wake-up call for all Americans who, willingly or
unwillingly, traded liberty for illusive security in the
wake of 9/11.
Charlie Sheen
video and
DailyMail.uk Charlie Sheen has provoked outrage with
claims that the U.S. government was behind the September 11
terror attacks. Ahead of today's eighth anniversary of the
atrocities that killed 3,000, the Hollywood star has
insisted there was a cover-up. And he has appealed to
President Barack Obama to hold a new investigation into the
attacks on the World Trade Centre towers in New York and the
Pentagon in Washington DC. Enlarge Actor Charlie Sheen,
shown here with ex-wife Denise Richards in 2005, has
demanded Barack Obama open a new investigation into 9/11
Sheen, the highest-paid actor on U.S. TV, argues that 'the
official 9/11 story is a fraud' and says the commission set
up to investigate was a whitewash. He claims the attacks
simply served 'as the pretext for the systematic dismantling
of our Constitution and Bill of Rights'.
Frank Greg Ford -
was a member of the team that discovered the canisters at the Balad
airbase and he has stated a British team arrived to take
possession of the evidence and later destroyed it. Ford has
filed a law suit against the United States government for
the retaliation he experienced for his team's discovery.
Greg Palast
Wikipedia (born
June 26, 1952) is a New York Times-bestselling author and a
freelance journalist for the British Broadcasting
Corporation as well as the British newspaper The Observer.
His work frequently focuses on corporate malfeasance but has
also been known to work with labor unions and consumer
advocacy groups. Notably, he has claimed to have uncovered
evidence that Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Florida Secretary
of State Katherine Harris, and Florida Elections Unit Chief
Clay Roberts, along with the ChoicePoint corporation, rigged
the ballots during the US Presidential Election of 2000 and
again in 2004 when, he argued, the problems and machinations
from 2000 continued, and that challenger John Kerry actually
would have won if not for disproportional "spoilage" of
Democratic votes. 9/11
Video
Jesse Ventura
Wikipedia
(born July 15,
1951), better known as Jesse Ventura, is an American
politician, actor, author, veteran, and former professional
wrestler who served as the 38th Governor of Minnesota from
1999 to 2003. Ventura served as a Navy UDT member during the
Vietnam War. He later embarked on an 11-year professional
wrestling career from 1975 to 1986, taking up the stage name
Jesse "The Body" Ventura. Ventura first entered politics as
Mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota from 1991 to 1995. He ran
as the Reform Party candidate in the Minnesota gubernatorial
election of 1998, .... The campaign was successful, and
Ventura served from January 4, 1999, to January 6, 2003,
without running for a second term. After leaving office,
Ventura became a visiting fellow at Harvard University's
John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has also hosted a
number of TV shows and has written several political books.
Ventura currently lives in both Dellwood, Minnesota and Cabo
San Lucas, Mexico. ... Ventura
became critical of the War in Iraq, arguing that Iraq had no
involvement in the 9/11 attacks. ...
In April and May 2008, Jesse Ventura, in several radio
interviews for his new book, Don't Start the Revolution
Without Me, began to express concerns about what he
described as some of the unanswered questions of the
September 11 attacks. His remarks about the possibility that
the World Trade Center was demolished with explosives were
also repeated in newspaper and television stories following
some of the interviews. Ventura was interviewed on the Alex
Jones radio show on April 2, 2008 where he said that he felt
that many unanswered questions remain, and he believes that
World Trade Center Building 7, which was not struck by a
plane, collapsed on the afternoon of 9/11 in a manner which
resembled a controlled demolition Ventura stated: How could
this building just implode into its own footprint five hours
later? That's my first question. The 9/11 Commission
didn't even devote one page to that in their big volume of
investigation. ... Conspiracy Theory with
Jesse Ventura Main article: Conspiracy Theory with Jesse
Ventura In August 2009, it was announced that Ventura would
host TruTV's new show Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura.
"Ventura will hunt down answers, plunging viewers into a
world of secret meetings, midnight surveillance, shifty
characters and dark forces," truTV said in a statement. On
the program, which debuted on December 2, 2009, Ventura
travels the country, investigating cases and getting input
from believers and skeptics before passing judgment on a
theory's validity. According to TruTV, the first episode
drew 1.6 million viewers, a record for a new series on the
network. The second season of the series debuted in October
2010 and aired 8 episodes through December 2010.A third
season is in the process of being made and will air sometime
in 2012.
Michael Springman
OpEdNews How A Visa Bureau Chief In Saudi Arabia
Learned To Love Denying Visas To Terrorists ...
With an employment history of over twenty years with the
federal government,1 Springman joined the State Department
in 1986 and was assigned to the American Consulate in
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1987.2 His position was chief of the
visa bureau section there.3 Before leaving for Jeddah,
Springman was contacted by the American ambassador in Saudi
Arabia, Walter Cutler, who passed on to Springman rather
ominous forewarnings (or friendly advice not to rock the
boat) concerning his new position. Cutler, Springman says,
"kept talking about visa problems. And how I should do my
best to make sure that everything ran smoothly".4 This
conversation with Cutler would prove to be the initiation of
a fourteen year odyssey for Springman that culminated on
September 11, 2001. ... So
here we have an interesting scenario of young, out of work,
Muslim men with no visible skills traveling from other
Muslim countries to Saudi Arabia in order to obtain a visa
for entry into America rather than obtaining that visa in
their native country? Very curious, to say the least. Then
came September 11, 2001. ... Several
weeks after the 9/11 attacks it was reported in the press
that of the nineteen hijackers who commandeered aircraft on
the morning of September 11, 2001, fifteen had obtained
their visas at the American Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia.12 Springman was surprised to read this. He had
thought that the CIA operation in Jeddah had been closed
down long before the 9/11 attacks, considering he, "had
complained to the diplomatic security in Washington"had
complained to the General Accounting Office"had complained
to the State Department Inspector General's office, and"had
complained to the Bureau of Consular Affairs at the State
Department."13 It would seem that Langley takes little
notice of storm warnings emanating from Foggy Bottom.
more
BBC --The BBC blew the
whistle on it own involvement in 9/11 YouTube
BBC Reports Collapse of WTC Building 7 Early-- TWICE
The BBC reported that a number of the 9 11 'hijackers' were
still alive after 9 11. (BBC NEWS Middle East Hijack
'suspects' alive and well)
NewsWeek
AangirfanNewsweek revealed that five
of the alleged 9/11 hijackers received training at secure US
military bases. (MSNBC) "Terrorists in the September 11
attacks received training at secure US military bases, a
Defense Department spokesman admitted in an interview
Friday." Three days after the WTC disaster, Newsweek and the
Washington Post reported that 3 of the hijackers had listed
their address as the Naval Air Station in Pensacola,
Florida.
Steve Pieczenik 9/11 attacks were a Bush inside job ....
Steve Pieczenik is a critically acclaimed author of
psycho-political thrillers and the co-creator of the
best-selling Tom Clancy's Op-Center and Tom Clancy's Net
Force paperback series. Trained in psychiatry at Harvard
University and international relations at M.I.T., his novels
are based on over twenty years experience resolving
international crises and hostage situations for the
Department of State for four administrations. StevePieczenik.com
and ...
Recruited by Lawrence Eagleburger as Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Management, Pieczenik went on to
develop, "the basic tenets for psychological warfare,
counter terrorism, strategy and tactics for transcultural
negotiations for the US State Department, military and
intelligence communities and other agencies of the US
Government,” while also developing foundational strategies
for hostage rescue that were later employed around the
world. ... Pieczenik also served as a senior policy
planner under Secretaries Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance,
George Schultz and James Baker and worked on George W.
Bush’s election campaign against Al Gore.
Tony Shaffer
Wikipedia
(born 1962) is a
U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who gained fame for his claims
about mishandled intelligence before the September 11
attacks and for the censoring of his book, Operation Dark
Heart. Shaffer enlisted in the Ohio Army National Guard in
1980 and graduated from Officer Candidate School in 1982. He
received his B.A. in political science and environmental
studies from Wright State University in 1986 ...
Shaffer has alleged that the U.S. Defense Intelligence
Agency (DIA) failed to properly evaluate intelligence on
9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta. Shaffer's allegations
subsequently became known as the Able Danger controversy. In
October 2003, according to his later statement to Congress,
Shaffer told the 9/11 Commission staff director, Dr. Philip
D. Zelikow, that in 2000 a DIA data-mining program known as
Able Danger had uncovered two of the three terrorist cells
eventually implicated in the September 11 attacks. Shaffer
reportedly told Zelikow that DIA leadership declined to
share this information with the FBI because military lawyers
expressed concerns about the legality of doing so. Shaffer
also asserted that he briefed Director of Central
Intelligence George Tenet on three separate occasions
regarding his unit's activities. The 9/11 Commission Report
did not mention Shaffer's allegations, but in 2005 and 2006
the Chairman of the House Select Intelligence Committee,
Rep. Curt Weldon, publicized Shaffer's allegations in public
statements and hearings.
Paul Craig Roberts
Wikipedia
(born
April 3, 1939) is an American economist and a columnist for
Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as a
co-founder of Reaganomics. He is a former editor and
columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and
Scripps Howard News Service who has testified before
congressional committees on 30 occasions on issues of
economic policy. Roberts is a critic of Israel, calling Gaza
"the world's largest concentration camp" populated by people
who were "driven out of Palestine so that Israel could steal
their land." Roberts has been a critic of both Democratic
and Republican administrations. Although Roberts praised
Ronald Reagan, he has compared supporters of George W. Bush
to "brownshirts with the same low intelligence and morals as
Hitler's enthusiastic supporters." He has opposed the War on
Drugs and the War on Terror stating it has "made widows and
orphans of millions of Muslims" ... Of the 9/11
Commission Report he wrote in 2006, "One would think that if
the report could stand analysis, there would not be a taboo
against calling attention to the inadequacy of its
explanations." (see Criticisms of the 9/11 Commission
Report). He has reported what he says are findings by
experts that conclude there is a large energy deficit in the
official account of the collapse of the three WTC buildings,
and says that this deficit remains unexplained. Roberts
comments on the "scientific impossibility" of the official
explanation for the events on 9/11 and says those engineers
and physicists who accept this theory are wrong. On August
18, 2006, he wrote: I will begin by stating what we know to
be a solid incontrovertible scientific fact. We know that it
is strictly impossible for any building, much less steel
columned buildings, to “pancake” at free fall speed.
Therefore, it is a non-controversial fact that the official
explanation of the collapse of the WTC buildings is false...
Since the damning incontrovertible fact has not been
investigated, speculation and “conspiracy theories” have
filled the void..
Wayne Madsen
Wikipedia
(born April 25,
1954) is a Washington, D.C.-based investigative journalist,
author and columnist specializing in intelligence and
international affairs. He is the author of the blog Wayne
Madsen Report. In early 1982 he was stationed at the
Coos Head Naval Facility which had an allowance of twelve
officers, ninety-five enlisted and 15 civilians. According
to Madsen, while Operations Officer at Coos Head he was
involved in a sting operation conducted by the FBI and Naval
Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) which ultimately ended
in the arrest of his commanding officer for pedophilia on 11
September 1982 and he was awarded a Navy Achievement Medal
for his involvement and assistance in the investigation.
In 1984, Madsen was loaned to the National Security Agency
by the Navy. Between 1985 and 1989 Madsen held a
series of jobs, first working for RCA as a government
consultant on contracts for the National Security Agency (NSA).
Later he worked for the Navy's Naval Data Automation Command
as a civilian employee. After this Madsen briefly
established his own consulting firm, then worked for the
National Bureau of Standards, and later for the State
Department. In 1990 Madsen joined Computer Sciences
Corporation, working there from 1990 until 1997, 16] when he
joined the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) as a
senior fellow. In late January 2005 Madsen left EPIC.
In 2005 Madsen began working as a free-lance journalist. He
produces a blog called the Wayne Madsen Report. His articles
have appeared in publications such as CorpWatch,
CounterPunch, CovertAction Quarterly, In These Times,
Multinational Monitor, The American Conservative, The
Progressive and The Village Voice. His columns have appeared
in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Columbus Dispatch,
Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald and
the Sacramento Bee. He is a regular on WETA-TVs "White House
Chronicle".
Danny Jowenko
911BloggerDutch demolition expert Danny
Jowenko was killed a car accident in the Netherlands. He was
reportedly driving from church when he collided head-on with
a tree. There was also a dog in the car who survived.
Jowenko is best known in the 9/11 truth community for his
analysis of Building 7, which he concluded was a
professionally-engineered controlled demolition.
911Blogger
Colleen Rowley
Coleen RowleyFrom the time she was eleven
years old, Coleen was determined that she would one day
become an FBI agent. In January of 1981, she was appointed a
Special Agent with the FBI and initially served in the
Omaha, Nebraska and Jackson, Mississippi Divisions In 1984,
she was assigned to the New York Office where, for more than
6 years, she worked on Italian organized crime and Sicilian
heroin drug investigations. She had the opportunity to
further her language proficiency in Italian at the Defense
Language Institute in Monterey, California. She also served
three separate temporary duty assignments in the Paris,
France Embassy and the Montreal Consulate. ...
In 1990, Coleen was transferred to Minneapolis where she
assumed the duties of Principal Legal Advisor (which later
became "Chief Division Counsel"). Her responsibilities
entailed oversight of the Freedom of Information,
Forfeiture, Victim-Witness and Community Outreach Programs
as well as providing regular legal and ethics training to
FBI Agents of the Division and some outside police training.
... In May of 2002, Coleen brought some of
the pre 9/11 lapses in the investigation of Zacarias
Moussaoui to light. The 9/11 Commission subsequently
described Moussaoui as an “Al Qaeda mistake and missed
opportunity,” the investigation of whom may have led to the
center of the Al Qaeda plot if it had been pursued in a
timely and effective manner. ...
In June of 2002, Coleen testified to the Senate Judiciary
Committee about some of the endemic problems faced by the
FBI and the intelligence community.
Kurt Sonnenberg Ground Zero
video of thermite-cut beams
Paul Fetzer
Veterans Today I am the founder of Scholars for
9/11 Truth, a former Marine Corps officer, a magna cum laude
graduate of Princeton and a Ph.D. in the history and the
philosophy of science. I have done a great deal of research
on the assassination of JFK as well as on 9/11, where I
edited the first book from Scholars, THE 9/11 CONSPIRACY
(2007), organized and moderated its first conference, “The
Science and Politics of 9/11: What’s Controversial, What’s
Not”, and produced its first DVD. ... created "The Science
and Politics of 9/11" DVD I have participated in hundreds of
interviews about 9/11 on radio and television, including a
3.5 hour appearance on television in Athens in December
2006, which was broadcast worldwide by satellite, speaking
in New York in 2007 and in 2008, traveling to Buenos Aires
for 9/11 presentations in 2008 and 2009, and organizing a
London symposium on “Debunking the ‘War on Terror’” in
London in 2010.
Lee Hamilton
Wikipedia
(born April
20, 1931) is a former member of the United States House of
Representatives and currently a member of the U.S. Homeland
Security Advisory Council. A member of the Democratic Party,
Hamilton represented the 9th congressional district of
Indiana from 1965 to 1999. Following his departure from
Congress he has served on a number of governmental advisory
boards, most notably as the vice chairman of the 9/11
Commission. ...
He
was critical of the commission, saying it was "set up to
fail" .... On Saturday, August 11, 2012,
Hamilton's wife, 82-year-old Nancy Hamilton, died after
being run over by her own car, when she arrived at a
veterinary clinic where she was taking one of her pets. She
had not left the car in park when she got out and walked
behind the car to go around to the other side and let her
pet out, and it rolled backward and struck her, running her
over, causing blunt force trauma ...
suspicious?
Millions Worldwide Believe
9/11 Conspiracy Theories
Millions Worldwide Believe 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Monday, 27 Sep
2010 01:21 PM Article Font Size By: Arnaud De Borchgrave
No sooner did Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suggest from the
rostrum of the U.N. General Assembly that most of the world believes the
U.S. government was involved in a 9/11 conspiracy, than 32 nations
followed the U.S. delegation as it walked out.
These were members of NATO, the European Union (21 countries are
members of both), Australia, New Zealand, and Costa Rica.
More importantly, 167 nations didn't budge and went on listening to
the Iranian's incendiary speech.
We keep forgetting that countless millions in the world, including
millions of Americans, have swallowed the monumental canard that the
United States and Israel were part of a conspiracy designed to
legitimize the invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.
The first to finger the United States and Israel was Hamid Gul, two
weeks after 9/11, in an interview with this reporter in Islamabad.
Gul, a former head of Pakistani intelligence and notorious
anti-American, added the U.S. Air Force to the conspiracy mix. The
"evidence" he provided was that no U.S. fighter aircraft were scrambled
on 9/11 to intercept the passenger planes that had abandoned their
flight plans.
Gul, a friend of Osama bin Laden dating to the days when they were
allies against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, has yet to explain
what he was doing in Kabul with his Taliban friends for two weeks
immediately preceding 9/11.
More recently, in Cairo, two former Egyptian ambassadors to the
United States told me they believed there was a Mossad-CIA plot designed
to keep Israel and America in lockstep in a war on terror. They pointed
out that when President George W. Bush declared Global War in Terror,
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was the first to sign up.
For the two Egyptians, that validated their suspicions.
There were also bestselling books about the "fact certain conspiracy"
written in both French and German, by different authors, that each sold
a million copies in both countries.
For Gordon Duff, a Vietnam veteran and senior editor of "Veterans
Today" and frequent "self-hating American" guest on radio and TV
stations the world over, there is no doubt he is to the conspiracy
theory born.
"In America," he wrote last week, "groups have been popping up for
years, not 'fringe' types but military and professional organizations,
architects, engineers, pilots, intelligence officers. There is a vast
underground that is never reported, never spoken of in the news and
continually threatened. The FBI and Homeland Security have infiltrated
these groups, illegal surveillance has been on a massive scale and, as
the groups have grown and their reach has touched millions of Americans,
the government, in the usual whispers, is talking about mass arrests,
'unplugging' the Internet, all those things the militia movements of the
'90s said would happen."
Outside of the United States, Duff adds, not in the Middle East, but
Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the Far East, "finding people who
accept the Bush and Obama administration's 'party line' about 'box
cutters and hijackers' is difficult. No one wants to risk the public
scorn of seeming like an imbecile."
CIA Threats of Federal
Prosecution Delay 9/11 Documentary,
9/11: Press for Truth.
CIA Threats of Federal Prosecution Delay 9/11 Documentary
... Wednesday, 14 September 2011, 12:30 pm Press Release:
Kyle Hence Recent threats by the CIA prompt two freelance journalists to
delay an investigative podcast naming CIA analysts complicit in
obstruction of key pre-9/11 intelligence. The podcast will present
revelations from former top US government personnel, including Richard
Clarke, Pasquale D’Amuro, Bob Baer, and Mark Rossini, who echo concerns
of former 9/11 Commission Chair Thomas Kean. ... Austin,
Texas (FF4) September 12, 2011 – On Thursday, the CIA threatened the
journalists behind Who Is Rich Blee? with possible federal prosecution
if their investigative podcast reveals the names of two CIA analysts at
the center of a pattern of obstruction and mishandling of intelligence
that many feel would have stopped the 9/11 attacks.
... Like FBI agent Ali Soufan and Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer
before them, the podcast team, including John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski,
are being subjected to intimidation and censorship by government
officials over blowing the whistle on the true story surrounding two
alleged 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar.
... The podcast originally scheduled for September 11th
release presents a narrative of how three CIA analysts working under
Richard Blee, the long unknown former head of CIA’s Bin Laden Station,
deliberately misled their colleagues and withheld key intelligence from
FBI and the White House regarding the presence of two known Al-Qaeda
operatives in the U.S. ... Four government
investigations into CIA handling of pre-911 intelligence included
personal details of the two CIA analysts and their actions. Nowosielski
and Duffy deduced the identities of the two as yet unnamed CIA employees
from internet research based on details provided from these and other
open sources. When the producers used their full names in interviews,
interviewees offered no correction. The CIA response provided the final
confirmation. ... In project updates
posted at SecrecyKills.com the producers announced the delay of the
podcast and posted background of a complicated case that involves dozens
of violations of protocol, intimidation, and incidents of obstruction by
the CIA, with the two yet named CIA analysts at the center of many of
them. ... Author and expert on the
subject, Kevin Fenton, documents 35 such incidents between January 2000
and September 11th in his book, Disconnecting the Dots: How 9/11 Was
Allowed to Happen. ...
Pulitzer-prize winner Lawrence Wright, interviewed for the podcast, told
producers the actions of one of the unnamed CIA analysts still employed
at CIA amounts to obstruction of justice in the FBI’s criminal
investigation of the deaths of 17 seaman aboard the USS Cole.
... The producers are not the first subject to government
censorship over this case. Last month The New York Times reported on CIA
efforts to censor an autobiography by Ali Soufan, a front-line FBI
counter-terrorism special agent. Prior to 9/11, Soufan was interested in
Mihdhar and Hazmi because of links to the bombing of the USS Cole in
Yemen. The CIA censored references to a passport photo of Mihdhar the
CIA had withheld from Soufan, despite three written requests.
... Scott Shane of the New York Times reports today that,
"Mr. Soufan accuses C.I.A. officials of deliberately withholding crucial
documents and photographs of Qaeda operatives from the F.B.I. before
Sept. 11, 2001, despite three written requests, and then later lying
about it to the 9/11 Commission." ... Lt.
Colonel Anthony Shaffer, interviewed for the podcast, was himself
intimidated, demoted and smeared by the Pentagon after he came forward
to the 9/11 Commission with details of how, on three occasions, unnamed
DoD officials prevented his Able Danger operation from meeting with the
FBI prior the attacks. ... In 2000
the Able Danger data-mining program placed Mohammed Atta in a Brooklyn
terrorist cell but had also placed Hazmi and Mihdhar in a San Diego
cell, the epicenter of intrigue around Alec Station’s Rich Blee, Tom
Wilshere and the two as yet unnamed subordinates who themselves
repeatedly withheld intelligence from the FBI. Though Shaffer was
interviewed by 9/11 Commission’s Director Philip Zelikow and staffer
Dieter Snell, the Commission left any mention of Able Danger from its
final report. ... In the planned
podcast, 9/11 Commission Chair Tom Kean is asked about a scant footnote
to Chapter 6 of the 9/11 Report referring to an intelligence cable, seen
by 50 at the CIA, but prevented from reaching the FBI. For Kean the
incident was not a case of bungling or intel ‘stovepiping’: “Oh, it
wasn’t careless oversight. It was purposeful. No question about that in
mind. It was purposeful.” ... Whereas Kean
explains it as a penchant for secrecy, Richard Clarke, the former head
of counter-terrorism at the Bush White House, goes farther suggesting
malfeasance and the possibility of illegal CIA-led domestic spying
activity. Comments by Clarke released in a video in August led to a
formal statement from George Tenet, Cofer Black and Richard Blee, and a
response from the producers. ... “This was
perhaps the closest U.S. intelligence got to foiling the 9/11 plot,”
explains Nowosielski, “but instead of stopping the attack, the CIA
stopped intel on two high-value targets from getting to the right
people, repeatedly. And still the CIA protects the individuals
responsible by intimidating those who simply want to know the truth
behind a shocking and possibly criminal pattern of obstruction”
... In an email Thursday the CIA warned Nowosielski he could
be subject to prosecution under the Intelligence Identities Protection
Act, a law intended to apply to government employees who violate their
security clearance and never used to convict journalists.
... The producer’s online response: “The Society of
Professional Journalists' code of ethics states that ‘journalists should
be free of obligation to any interest other than the public's right to
know’ and should ‘be vigilant and courageous about holding those with
power accountable.’ The day that journalists' exposés of wrongdoing
within government agencies require the approval of those government
agencies before release, that is the day that transparency and
accountability are lost.” ... John Duffy
and Ray Nowosielski, both graduates of Chicago’s Columbia College Film
School, produced the critically acclaimed 2006 documentary "9/11: Press
for Truth."
Ari Fleischer Dan Bartlett ok Novak column Mission to Niger Novak
misspoke the first time we talked. Rove couldn't remember Rove second
source July 14th article. What did Rove tell Bush? Henry Waxman, security
breaches in Plame case with Sen. Byron Dorgon (D-N.D.) Cheney's stickin it
to the CIA. Novak word operative was journalistic miscue, skeptical. used
Valerie Plame and Valerie Wilson Timothy Phelps New York Times INR State
Department memo circulated on Bush Africa trip Time A war on Wilson by
Cooper Massimo Calabresi and John Dickerson. Quote government officials
Wilson's wife is a CIA official who monitors the proliferation of WMD
involved in decision to send Wilson to Niger. David Corn of the Nation
tells Wilson that leak is a crime. Rove said "I didn't know her
name" Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball articles. Andrea Mitchel
interview distorted by NBC, to push Wilson smear. Chris Mathews tells
Wilson that Karl Rove considered Plame 'fair game'. Consider Paul O'Neill,
Richard Clarke, Gen. Zinni, Gen Shinseki. Stephen Hadley offers to resign
on '16 words' Bush refuses resignation. Newsday reports Plame was
undercover until Novak outed her. CIA files crime report to DOJ. Bush
refuses Rice resignation. Letter to John Conyers. Two top Whitehouse
officials disclosed CIA identity. to at least six Washington journalists.
New York Times Douglas Jehl, study by the Defense Intelligence Agency
Chalabi intelligence was of little or no value. William Bowles. Attorney
General Alberto Gonzalez notified Andrew CArd of DOJ leak investigation at
8:00 PM, but waited 12 hours (next day) preserve documents. Shredding
party? Gonzalez was Whitehouse Council, Ashcroft was attorney general.
National Review, Clifford May. Phone logs, emails and Rep. Thomas M. Davis
II. Bush joked about leaks with African news session. Whitehouse
surrendered thousands of emails, call logs, and calendars. Notes say
Wilson was Kerry supporter, advisor. Oficials to sign waivers to overcome
reporter obstacles to revealing sources. Pincus Novak said 'no partisan
gunslinger' comment and "you know about it too". Was leak
retaliation. Bush said 'find out the truth'. Scott McClellan quote
"those individuals assured me they were not involved in this. And
that's where it stands" Bush: leaker may never be found'. Bush
threatened to withhold docs under executive privilege. McClellan spoke
about difference between unauthorized disclosure and 'setting the facts
straight'. Independent Media TV, Jason Leopold. Mike Allen and Dana
Priest: "Clearly, it was meant purely and simply for revenge".
Rove Newsweek 'far game' Chris Mathews, MSNBC. Hardball. Investigators are
studying Whitehouse reaction to Wilson's first public attack on Bush's
case about Iraq. Final deadline. Wall Street Journal article about Bureau
of Intelligence Research. John J. Kokal, Near East and South Asia division
found dead. Ashcroft briefings stopped. Fitzgerald appointed. Simone
Ledeen, daughter of Michael Ledeen goes to Bahgdad, CPA, Coalition
Provisional Authority, also brat pack, yellowcake. James Comey is
godfather. Aides sign waivers to journalistic privilege. Staff meet
informally about immunity. Mary matalin testifies. Pelosi Daschele,
Lieberman, Rockefeller ask for GAO investigation of covert status. Jim
Loebe knew. Cathie Martin (Cheney aid) interviewed, near combat
atmosphere. Grand Jury subpoenas Air Force One phone logs. What was
whitehouse PR strategy? Bush outside attorney James Sharp &
Associates, Ken Starr removed attorney-client privilege for government
lawyers in Clinton smear campaign. Glen Kessler discuss conversations.
Bush interviewed by Fitzgerald, Sharp present. Kerry dumps Sandy Berger
and Wilson from campaign. Federal Judge Thomas F. Hogan hold Time magazine
report Mathew Cooper in contempt of cout and orders him jailed for
refusing to reveal source of Plame leak. appeal goes to Supreme Court.
politics of truth, joe wilson. Judith miller receives subpoena. powell
testified. cooper testified about libby conversations. bush and dan rather
flap on military service in the news. bar lowered to committed a crime. LA
times doyle mcmanus "if rove is source #2, who is source #1. roy
kriger CIA agent fired because he spoke of informant saying iraq' uranium
enrichment program dead. Conyers and Slaughter call for investigation of
Jeff Gannon, James D. Guckert, as GOP fake journalist plant at whitehouse
briefings. free republic. Federal Judge rober sweet ruled miller not
required to reveal. in 2001 ARAMCO Cheney CEO signed $140 million
contract. Boston Globe. Brewster Jennings & Associates, BinLaden
group, Khalid bin Mahfouz, BCCI connections. Vincent Cannistraro said
forged niger yellowcake docs were made up in the U.S. mentioned Michael
ledeen. see downing street memo. downingstreetmemo.com. Supreme court
refuses miller cooper appeal. search jailhouse crock and miller as fake
martyr, obstructing justice for personal gain. Did rove break same law as
martha stewart? perjury. see Sen Lautenberg calendar. Miller is in
Alexandria Detention Center. Sen. Pat Roberts, Chairman of Senate
Intelligence Committee, will conduct hearings. What is the Federal Tort
Claim Act FTCA. Who is Karen Johnson? ask Karl Rove and Business Council,
Infrastructure Solutions. George Tennet, John McMclaughlin, Bill Harlow
and the stranger who approached Novak. Why did whitehouse shift blame to
the CIA for '16 words' in SOTU, State of the Union address speech. Bolton
neglected to tell congress about niger yellowcake. Wilson's op-ed piece
published. Oliver North and John Poindexter convictions overturned. Novak
challenges Harlow warning. Scooter Libby and Judith Miller convesations
hot. see columbia jouranlism review and vanity fair, wayne madsen report
on asher karni nuclear arms smuggler and district judge ricardo urbina on
nuclear triggers. ashcroft recused himself. what is hollinger
international, daved radler, lord conrad a. black, richart burt boy-toy.
What does miller have to do with tip-off of holy land foundation, global
relief foundation and benevolence international foundation. AIPAC
officials: Howard Kohr, Richard Fishman, Renee Rothstein, Raphael Danziger.
New Yorker, Seymour Hersch story on Bush plans to launch nuclear attack on
Iran summer of 2005. Cheney warns of Israeli preemptive strike on
Iran. Rosen's lawyer: Abbe Lowell. Perle (Defense Policy
Board)gives speech at AIPAC conference, calls for american military action
against iran. Iran has Shihab III intermediate range missile.
Franklin pleads innocent, Judje T.S. Ellis III. rove said he was
discouraging a reporter from writing a false story based on a false
premise. Frontpage mag interiviews Kenneth Timmerman. Naor
Gilon of Israeli embassy involved. Jack Abramoff indicted and Texans
for a Republican Majority. John N. Nassikas III, spy nest exposed.
and A.Q. Kahn. David Kelly is confidant of Judith Miller and
Pederson and Olivia Bosch at Royal Institute of international
affairs. Judge Ricardo Urbina and what did Thomas Dine
confirm. Patrick Dorton is AIPAC spokesperson. Harold Rhode is
source of plame leak and Jerry Hauer and cofer black. lawmakers
urged to support Iran Freedom and Support act and one of unnamed reporters
is Glenn Kessler by David Ignatius. USGO-1 is Kenneth Pollack and
Bob Dole is baffled. Iran 5 years away from nuclear weapons.
Miller and Zacarias Moussaoui together? Michael Ledeen is Rove's
brain. Ted Olson was Pollard's defense attorney. July 14th, 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 August September October November December 2003 2004 2001
That gathering involved some of the most
powerful names in the Jewish lobby in America, starting with Edgar
Bronfman, the chairman of the World Jewish Congress. Others included:
Charles Bronfman, Edgar's brother and a top executive of the family's
flagship Seagrams Corp.; Leslie Wexler of Limited, Inc.; Charles
Schusterman, chairman of Samson Investment Co. of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Harvey
"Bud" Meyerhoff, a fabulously wealthy and powerful Baltimore
real estate magnate; Laurence Tisch, chairman of Loews Corp.; Max Fisher,
the Detroit oil magnate and Republican Party powerhouse; bagel magnate Max
Lender; and Leonard Abramson, the founder of U.S. Healthcare
presents the 13 most
corrupt members of Congress: Rep. Roy
Blunt (R-MO) -- Rep. Randy Cunningham (R-CA)-- Rep. Tom Feeney(R-FL)--
Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA)-- Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO)-- Rep. Bob
Ney (R-OH)-- Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA)-- Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ)-- Rep.
Charles Taylor (R-NC)-- Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)-- Senator Rick Santorum
(R-PA)-- Senator Bill Frist (R-TN)-- Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT)
Aug 31, 05 Twenty Things We Know,
Independent TV USGO-1 Identified Middle East analyst: Kenneth Pollack,
National Security Council, Clinton administration. Sept 3, 05 Bob Dole
(baffled by Miller incarceration) visited Miller in jail, NYTimes copy.
Smokescreen on passing federal shield laws that would allow reporters to
protect their souces. Sept 5, 05 Rocky Mountain News, "Weapons of
Mass Delusion" Sept 6, 05 U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III set
this Sept 6 trial date for Larry Franklin, Sept 6, 05 IISS International
Institute for Strategic Studies, 'Strategic Dossier', entitled Iran's
Strategic Weapons Programmes - A Net Assessment. Iran 5 years away from
a nuclear weapon. Why go to the stake to defend a spin doctor planting
bile? Guardian Unlimited todo: Antiwar, In These Times, Is Iran Next?
Counterpunch Zvi Bar'el, Chalabi, Feith and Israel, Theater of the
Absurd Sept 8, 05 Yahoo News Plamegate will rise up in a few weeks. Is
she bargaining?....what about possible criminal contempt charges?
Huffington Post Sept 10, 05 The Alexandria facility where Miller is,
also housed Zacarias Moussaoui..(just one floor above Miller's cell) The
gas station tapes of the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11 are 'classified'
because of his trial. They would reveal the real truth about what
aircraft slammed into the Pentagon that day. see NewsFollowUp.com/flight77
missile? National Press Club, honors Judith Miller see Franklingate
links page see Pakistan Daily Times on Iran latest news...and Michael
Ledeen, Rove's brain, AEI, prominent proponent of a violent regime
change in Iran. Ledeen has close ties to all Plamegate players. and see
Ledeen's ties to the Niger forged docs that led to Iraq War. It's all
one story. Lies of Ommision Progress Sept 11, 05 Peace Page, 9/11 poem
by Kristy we should share the shame search terms: Texas Secretary of
State, Roger Williams, Bush campaign, Karl Rove, Elizabeth Reyes. Sept
12, 05 Iran Mania News One week to U.N. meetings on Iran. Cooperative
Research, neocon run-up to war, timeline see Ted Olson links to Jonathan
Pollard, Pentagon, Perle, Lehman, Feith.... Ted Olson's wife 'died' on
Flight 77, 9/11? Sept 14, 05 New 'Amdocs' page, information on Israeli
owned telephone billing co. and connections to 9/11, AIPAC, neocons,
Iraq war, Iran war mongering. Against Bombing old timeline, not updated,
but some interesting links, stories DNC Democratic National Committee,
Plamegate Rovegate, Treasongate, Leakgate page Crosswalk, conservative
publication, Democrats keep focus on Plamegate Sept 15, 05 Bush / Rice
failing in Iran war mongering efforts. India, China and Russia nix U.S.
and EU effort to get a majority of IAEA board to refer Iran to UN
Security Council for sanctions. India says the plan will backfire.
search:Ahmadinejad. NYT copy David Fiderer on the "Abort the Plame
Investigation Act" or H.R. 581. Feb 05. Bob Dole and the
Republicans smokescreen tactics are difficult to see ...will they work?
Framing the issue around source id privilege keeps the buzz off what
Miller is hiding...just what they want. also see CSM Holt wants docs,
Fitzgerald says will harm investigation see SpinWatch on indictment Sept
16, 05 Asia Times review of Bush whitewash book..by Craig Whitney. DOJ
won't turn over docs to Congress and While You Were atching Katrina
House Republicans derail probes of Plame affair Village Voice Sept 17,
05 Some Miller elite visitors: Bob Dole, John Bolton, Tom Brokaw,
Gonzalo Marroquin, Sept 18, 05 Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
old but relevant story, Israeli spies in America. Amdocs, Report of
Israeli Eavesdropping on White House Telephones Gets Varying Media
Treatment Sept 19, 05 This article climbing in the search engines:
Frontpage Mag calls Plamegate non-event, "endless spider-web of
lies by Joe Wilson", "The media has gone out of its way to
question the credibility of Karl Rove", "non-leak of Plame's
non-secret identity',....and on...and on. and NFU-Franklingate research
on Amdocs, 9/11, art students, Israeli spies Sept 20, 05 Yahoo article:
What Show Did You Watch During the War Daddy? Iraq War, lost and now a
civil war....north to south, oil. Sept 21, 05 Jurist article: David
Radler, former President and COO of Hollinger International and former
publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, will plead guilty to fraud charges.
Robert Novak is Sun-Times columnist. Aljazeera "Is it possible that
the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is assisting Israel
in betraying American spy networks in Iran in return for the Iranians to
offer the release of captured Israeli spies?" AEI search on
Jonathan Pollard results in "Web of Conspiracies" book by
Michael Rubin. search Kwiatkowski, OSP, Mondale. Sept 23, 05 Register:
More on Amdocs corporate espionage. And The Age Police question Amdocs
exec...at least 19 arrested for infiltrating competitors computers.
World Net Daily, Stephen Hadley mentioned, prior knowledge of 911
information on Atta in Rep. Weldon (Republican) Book "Countdown to
Terror" Shaffer stopped from testifying about Able Danger data
mining. Gonzales will name D. Kyle Sampson as chief of staff (DOJ) and
in related article KerrySharesOurValues on D. Kyle Sampson, Raul Yanes
..and (Ted Ullyot) All three have been lawyers in the White House
counsel's office under Gonzales. ... Ullyot (Ullyot stepped down) and
Yanes were the coordinators of the White House's response to the
investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
Gonzales and Ashcroft will recuse, but will these three also? Sampson,
Ullyot and Yanes have represented tobacco companies. search Kirkland
& Ellis or (Tobacco.org), Kenneth Starr. tobacco thread articles /
timeline Iraqwar.org on Israeli spying and Lowell Sun Online The
invasion of Iraq was the “greatest strategic disaster in United States
history,” a retired Army general said yesterday, strengthening an
effort in Congress to force an American withdrawal beginning next year.
Retired Army Lt. Gen. William Odom, a Vietnam veteran, said the invasion
of Iraq alienated America's Middle East allies, making it harder to
prosecute a war against terrorists Imam Intikab Habib's....was swept out
of his FDNY appointment....Over the weekend, the message was pounded in
by the New York and other media that those who question the Official
Conspiracy Theory.... 911Truth.org Sept 25, 05 search internet: Kurzberg
Shmuel Ellner Marmari Amdocs for supporting evidence on Amdocs links to
9/11 WTC or search amdocs fema israel or amdocs foxnews and Amdocs page
Sept 26, 05 New Franklingate / DOJ selected press releases page Sept 27,
05 Shalom Center, article from 2004: "Neo-Cons, AIPAC, Israel,
& Alleged Spying " Oct 28, 05 The federal grand jury delving
into the matter expires Oct. 28. .. prosecutors could pursue a criminal
contempt of court charge against Miller. Sept 28, 05 Conk Websearch,
Encyclopedia entry on AIPAC, supporters, critics and quotations. Fatma
Nevin Vargun, is a Kurdish women's rights activist. Libby poem in a
letter to Miller in jail: "You went into jail in the summer. It is
fall now. You will have stories to cover -- Iraqi elections and suicide
bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program. Out West,
where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in
clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work -- and
life. Until then, you will remain in my thoughts and prayers -- With
admiration, Scooter Libby." from Salon.com Sept 29, 05 Foxnews
"U.K.: Military Action against Iran, 'Inconceivable'. and "On
Saturday, the International Atomic Energy Agency passed a resolution
putting Iran on the verge of referral to the U.N. Security Council
unless Tehran eases suspicions about its nuclear activities"
"(Fitzgerald) was ready to extend her imprisonment for up to 18
months. ...on September 29, she walked out of prison ready to talk,
having secured a personal waiver of confidentiality from her own source,
Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of
staff." Guardian Sept 30, 05 Miller testified before the grand jury
about two conversations with Libby in July 2003 Red Nova "Quality
of Iran's Nuclear Fuel Sheds Doubt on Weapons Capabilities" Daily
Star "Britain rules out military action against Iran over nuclear
program Tehran to vote on scaling back cooperation with IAEA Forward
Steven Rosen (AIPAC) seeking dismissal on the grounds that the U.S.
government has refused to disclose key evidence. Franklin will plead
guilty, Harretz ....Miller released, will testify, and Red Nova coverage
Oct 1, 05 Miller testified,...Fitzgerald agreed to limit his questioning
to Libby contacts regarding Plame. Miller was his final witness...the
interview lasted 4 hours. Libby's attorney Joseph Tate puzzled at a
second request for a release...it had been a year since they believe
they gave her a waiver. Oct 2, 05 Net search terms: Judith Miller,
Stephen Hadley, Able Danger, missing chart Oct 3, 05 Weldon's Able
Danger hearings will backfire on GOP "...both Miller and Libby
collaborated for months on manufacturing the bogus WMD hoax.."
Ahmed Amr, Palestine Chronicle (copy), and Nile Media Oct 4, 05 Miller
still trying to limit issue to her conversations with Libby? NY Times
copy Oct 5, 05 Libby Lawyer says Miller in jail on her own accord, was
given waiver a year ago Washington Post see changes to Franklingate
AIPAC page World Peace Herald: Able Danger report expected soon. Oct 6,
05 San Francisco Chronicle, Jon Carrol, "Everyone pretty much knows
that the Judith Miller story doesn't add up, except for her employers at
the New York Times" Indictments Any time? Editor & Publisher
Oct 7, 05 Live Journal "U.S. Preparing for a Strike on
Iran.....Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector to Iraq
.......warned in apocalyptic terms in London"
Obviously anytime someone brings up "9/1l truth," a big red
flashing alarm goes off in the average person's mind.
"Conspiracy theorist!" "America hater!" These childish,
knee-jerk reactions are to be expected.
Over a decade of propaganda will do that. Instead of seeing the
unseen here, most Americans find comfort in the official story
that has been spoon fed to them by the U.S. government and their
lapdog corporate media since that horrific day in 2001. I don't
blame them. It's much easier to believe in Santa Clause and his
magical flying reindeer than it is understanding the factual
story behind old Saint Nick.
If the U.S. government and the mainstream media are correct in
their official story of 9/11, we have nothing to fear right?
Except for freedom-hating, box cutter-wielding terrorists of
course. But, if the official story of 9/11 is based on lies,
then why are we fighting this never-ending "War on Terror" in
the first place? If it can be scientifically proven that the
official story is inaccurate, then shouldn't the American people
demand a new investigation? There are a growing number of
so-called "9/11 truthers" around the world that are calling for
just that ... a new investigation into the happenings of Sept.
11.
Recently, a handful of hip hop artists including Lupe
Fiasco, Talib
Kweli, Fabolous,
the legendary Chuck
Dand Darryl
"D.M.C."
McDaniels have raised questions about the official story of
9/11. Lupe's Words
I Never Said featured the lyrics "9/11, building 7, did
they really pull it?" in reference to World Trade Center
leaseholder Larry Silverstein's PBS appearance in
which he described the WTC 7 collapse. These titans of hip hop
are on the opposite end of the spectrum compared to another
public figure who calls for a new investigation: Sarah Palin.
Mama Grizzly herself has said that she supports
a new investigation, but insists that she's not a "truther."
9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out, a
recently released documentary from the 1,700 + architects and
engineers for 9/11 Truth, was a viral hit on PBS earlier
this month. Over 40 high-rise architects, structural engineers,
demolition experts, and physicists give their expert opinions —
which happen to contradict the official story.
University of California, Berkley, -educated structural engineer
Kamal Obeid stated, "I have been a practicing engineer for the
last 30 years. Building 7, to me, is really what gives it away
... because that's a classic case of controlled demolition."
He is not the only expert in his field who has drawn this
conclusion. Counselors, therapists, and psychologists appear in
the film to describe the difficult yet vital responsibility of
coming to terms with the realities of these events. Most
importantly, the family members of the 9/11 victims, who are
still grieving their lost loved ones, give their pleas for a new
investigation.
The "smoking gun," as many of these experts call it, is World
Trade Center 7.
Building 7 was a 47-story high-rise over a football field away
from the North Tower. It was not hit by a plane. Yet, it was the
third modern steel frame skyscraper to fall rapidly and
symmetrically on 9/11.
The official NIST explanation for the collapse of WTC 7 was
"scattered office fires." Government engineers or engineers for 9/11
truth? You decide:
In fact, a few influential politicians have made interesting remarks
concering WTC 7. Senator John Kerry made comments suggesting
building 7 came down in a "controlled
fasion." When confronted on his controversial comment, Kerry
deined every suggesting that WTC 7 fell in that matter. Contrary to
the official NIST explanation, Chairman of the 9/11 Commission and
former Governor of New Jersey Thomas Kean claimed that "aftershocks"
were responsible for the collapse of building 7. Of course, the 9/11
Commission Report fails to mention the collapse of WTC 7.
With all the evidence and expert opinions pointing to a controlled
demoliton, the collapse of WTC 7 alone merits a new independent
investigation. Watch the full documentary to get the experts'
detailed analysis of all three buildings' collapses.
Armed with the research of these architects and engineers, President
of Italy's Supreme Court Ferdinando Imposimato has stated publicyin
writing that 9/11 was
just like the "strategy
of tension" carried out in Italy.
"The 9/11 attacks were a global state terror operation permitted by
the administration of the USA, which had foreknowledge of the
operation yet remained intentionally unresponsive in order to make
war against Afghanistan and Iraq," he says.
Judge Imposimato goes on detailing the scientific research of
Richard Gage and other architects and enginneers who point to
controlled demolitions. He also singles out specific individuals
involved in the intentional mishandling of intelligence leading up
to 9/11. Imposimato announced that he is going to recommend that the
International Criminal Court hold a criminal trial focusing on 9/11.
Since 9/11, America has taken a turn for the worst. Over 6,000 of
our troops have perished in the resulting wars. More troops are
dying from suicide than actual combat now. Countless innocents have
fell victim to America's global War on Terror. And we now accept the
fact that presidents can have secret kill lists to be used outside
the rule of law. Sacrificing our liberty for assumed security is
never a good idea. We have been conditioned to accept the rapidly
expanding police state: the TSA gropedowns, the massive surveillance
networks built to spy on the American people, NDAA, the PATRIOT Act,
and drone usage over American skies. The Department of Homeland
Security has even shifted it's Sauron-like gaze upon those who
choose todefend
liberty in the face of tyranny. Clearly, if all these "security"
measures are taking place as a result of the terrorist attacks of
9/11, then we should have 100% confidence in the official story ...
but as you can see, there are a growing number of highly credible
people who are demanding a new investigation.
• 38.
Report on Weidlinger Simulation
Leaked WTC Blueprints contain 3D simulations from the Weidlinger
report that contradict the NIST repoort of the Twin Tower's
destruction
The blueprints to the Twin Towers and
Building 7 remained off-limits to the public for more than five
years after the attack, despite the fact that the buildings were
built with public money and that the engineering drawings of
public buildings are supposed to be public information. 1
Incredibly, the team of engineers from the ASCE that conducted
the only investigation of the building "collapses" before Ground
Zero had been cleaned up lacked access to the buildings'
blueprints -- at least until they signed waivers that they would
not use the evidence in a lawsuit against the Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey. 2
Whistleblower Releases Blueprints
In March of 2007, an extensive set of detailed
architectural drawings of the World Trade Center became public
through the actions of a whistleblower. The 261 drawings
included detailed plans for the North Tower (WTC 1), the World
Trade Center foundation and basement, and the TV mast atop the
North Tower. The set of drawings does not include plans for the
other six buildings in the World Trade Center complex. However,
since the Twin Towers were of almost identical construction, it
is safe to assume that the structural details that the drawings
shown for the North Tower are largely applicable to the South
Tower.
The drawings contain a wealth of detail about
the buildings, including the dimensions of structural members
such as the core columns.
Most of the drawings can be viewed in this
multiresolution browser.
This 66th floor core plan included in the
detailed architectural drawings shows that most of the core
columns retained their full outside dimensions well above the
midpoints of the Towers. Of the sixteen columns bounding the
long faces of the core, thirteen have outside dimensions of
approximately 54 by 22 inches in this 66th floor section. In
late 2008 a second set of blueprints became public. This set,
which can be viewed by this multiresolution browser, details the
electrical architecture of the Twin Towers.
Official Reports Misrepresented the Towers'
Construction
Portion of photograph in the collection of the
Skyscraper Museum The detailed architectural drawings make clear
what official reports have apparently attempted to hide: that
the Twin Towers had massive core columns, and those columns ran
most of the height of each Tower before transitioning to columns
with smaller cross-sections.
Based on construction photographs exhibited in
the Skyscraper Museum and illustrations from the Engineering
News Record , 9-11 Research had established by mid-2005 that,
low in the Towers, the sixteen core columns that bounded the
long faces of the buildings' cores had dimensions of 54 by 22
inches. The detailed drawings show that these columns maintained
these dimensions through about the 66th floor.
Both of the government-sponsored engineering
studies of the Twin Towers' "collapses" -- FEMA's and NIST's --
are highly misleading about the core structures. Neither FEMA's
Study nor NIST's Report discloses dimensions for core columns --
dimensions that are clearly evident in the architectural
drawings. Both Reports use a variety of techniques seemingly
designed to minimize the strength of the cores or to conceal
their structural role entirely.
So effective was FEMA at concealing the nature
of the cores that the 9/11 Commission Report , citing the FEMA
Report, denied the very existence of the core columns.
FEMA's Building Performance Study
Figure 2-2 of of FEMA's Building Performance
Study, labeled "Representative structural framing plan, upper
floors", is one of five illustrations in the report that depict
core columns. Each of these illustrations depicts the core
columns at their minimum dimensions, and none depict them at
their typical dimensions. In May of 2005, the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) released its Building Performance
Study, of which Chapter 2, "WTC 1 and WTC 2", was devoted to
explaining the "collapse" of the Twin Towers. It advances the
"truss theory" or "pancake theory", in which the supposed
failure of floor-truss-to-column connections is the initiating
event in a series of chain reactions ending in total collapse.
Added commentary in our archived copy exposes many deceptive
techniques employed in the article. 3
Key elements of FEMA's theory depend on
misrepresentations of the Towers' construction made possible by
their vague descriptions. For example, to explain other collapse
of the core their Study states:
As the floors collapsed, this left tall
freestanding portions of the exterior wall and possibly central
core columns. As the unsupported height of these freestanding
exterior wall elements increased, they buckled at the bolted
column splice connections, and also collapsed. Contrary to the
FEMA's hedged assertion that the core columns were freestanding,
construction photographs clearly show that large horizontal
beams cross-connected the core columns in a three-dimensional
matrix of steel.
FEMA's report seems crafted to hide the
structural significance of the core columns, if not their very
existence. Examples of features of the Report that minimize or
conceal the core structures include:
Figure D-13 from FEMA's Study, bearing the
caption "WTC 1 or WTC 2 core column (C-74)", is the only
photograph in the Study that shows an identified core column The
absence of any illustrations showing core columns of typical
dimensions The repeated use of the term "service core" to
describe the cores, and avoidance of terminology describing
their structural role The use of illustrations that imply the
cores didn't exist, such as Figure 2-20 The only photograph of a
core column in the Report (Figure D-13) being of an atypical
column of very small dimensions The inclusion of only floor
plans that show core columns of very small dimensions with no
clarification that the core columns that ran most of the Towers'
heights were of much larger dimensions NIST's Final Report on
the Twin Towers
In 2005 NIST published its 'Final Report of
the National Construction Safety Team on the Collapses of the
World Trade Center Towers' -- a 280-page report that was
extremely vague in a number of respects, including any
description of the structural systems of the Towers. It contains
very little information about the core columns, the following
being one of the only passages describing them:
Figure 3-3 From NIST's Final Report
drastically misrepresents the dimensions of the core columns on
the 78th through the 83rd floors. The 47 columns in this
rectangular space were fabricated using primarily 36 ksi and 42
ksi steels and also decreased in size in the higher stories. The
four massive corner columns bore nearly one-fifth of the total
gravity load on the core columns. The passage implies that only
the corner columns were "massive" when, in fact, the sixteen
columns on the long faces of the cores shared the same
dimensions for most of each Tower's height.
Illustrations in the Report depict the core
columns at the North and South Tower crash zones as being the
same size, when in fact the core columns were much broader
around the 80th floor than around the 95th. NIST's failure to
highlight this difference is especially interesting in light of
its estimates of core column damage in the Towers. Those
esimates show 10 of the South Tower's core columns severed,
compared to only 6 of the North Tower's. How could the South
Tower's core have had more damage when its impact-level columns
were twice as large as the North Tower's and it sustained only a
glancing rather than a head-on impact? Was NIST struggling to
explain how the South Tower succumbed to "global collapse"
almost twice as quickly as the North Tower despite having much
smaller fires?
World Trade Center Master Plan
This illustration from 'Multi-Storey Buildings
in Steel' shows a structural system that matches the drawings in
the MASTER PLAN. Multi-Storey Buildings in Steel Prior to the
release of the detailed architectural drawings, 9-11 Research
published the MASTER PLAN, dated December 16, 1963. The MASTER
PLAN does not show structural details such as column dimensions,
and shows an arrangement of core columns that was later changed.
The obsolete core column arrangement indicated in the MASTER
PLAN has been reproduced in other publications such as the book
'Multi-Storey Buildings in Steel'. 4
29 Structural/Civil Engineers Cite Evidence
for Controlled Explosive Demolition in Destruction of All 3 WTC
High-Rises on 9/11 More than 700 architects and engineers have
joined call for new investigation, faulting official reports
Gregg Roberts and Staff The facts are in. The evidence is
conclusive. These experts lay it all out. For Some, the Doubts
Began Early “Something is wrong with this picture,” thought
Nathan Lomba, as he watched replays of the Twin Tower collapses
on television on September 11, 2001. A licensed structural
engineer trained in buildings’ responses to stress, Lomba saw
more on the screen than you or I. He puzzled, “How did the
structures collapse in near-symmetrical fashion when the damage
was clearly not symmetrical?” Lomba was hardly alone in his
discomfort. Most structural engineers were surprised when the
towers fell.1 In 2006, San Francisco Bay Area architect Richard
Gage, AIA, began raising technical questions among his
professional colleagues about the destruction of the Twin Towers
and 47-story WTC Building 7. Those who take time to look at the
facts overwhelm-ingly agree that vital questions remain
unanswered, Gage has found. Today more than 29 structural
engineers, experts in what can and cannot bring down buildings,
have joined almost 700 other Architects & Engineers for 9/11
Truth in signing the petition demanding a new investigation.2
They mainly kept their misgivings to themselves, though, as
Scientific American and the Journal of Engineering Mechanics,
BBC, the History Channel and government agencies such as FEMA
and NIST offered varying and often imaginative theories to
explain how fires brought the towers down. They cite a variety
of concerns about the “collapses” and the inadequacies of
official reports. Many, like Lomba, find the unnatural symmetry
of all three collapses suspicious. The rapidity of collapse –
acknowledged by the government as essentially free-fall
acceleration – was troubling, too. Some note that the fires were
weak; others ask how the tilting upper section of WTC 2
“straightened” itself. Everywhere you look, pieces of the puzzle
don’t fit what we’ve been told. New evidence mounting over the
years only validated initial discomfort: eyewitness testimony of
explosions, unexplained molten iron in the debris pile, and
chemical evidence of steel-cutting incendiaries – all omitted
from government reports. Many engineers attack implausibilities
in the Bažant pile driver model, the 2002 FEMA report and the
2005 NIST report, and also slipshod and dishonest methodology.
Finally, the collapse of WTC 7, not hit by any airplane,
mystified others. The repeated postponement of the government’s
report seemed to add fuel to the fire. Artificial Symmetry The
symmetry of collapse struck Paul Mason, a structural engineer in
Melbourne, Australia, and Dennis Kollar, P.E. (licensed
Professional Engineer in Wisconsin). Kollar was troubled by the
collapses’ “totality and uniformity” and the fact that the mass
of debris remained centered on the building core all the way
down. The towers should have fallen “with increasing
eccentricity as the collapse progressed,” writes Howard
Pasternack, P.E. These systematic collapses required that many
structural connections not only fail “nearly simultaneously,”
but also “in sequential order,” wrote Frank Cullinan, P.E., who
designs bridges in Northern California. That’s “impossible from
asymmetrical impact loading and ... small, short-duration
fires.” 2 Anders Björkman William Rice The engineers find it
difficult to believe the government’s claim scattered fires
brought about such an orderly collapse. Failure of heat-weakened
steel would show “large deflection, asymmetric and local
failure, and slow progress,” David Scott told colleagues at the
Institution of Structural Engineers in the UK. It’s “a gradual
process,” agreesAnders Björkman, and “cannot be simultaneous
everywhere.” A Swedish naval architect working in France,
Björkman maintains that failures “will always be local and
topple the mass above in the direction of the local collapse.”
William Rice, P.E., a Vermont structural engineer, expects
fire-induced failures to be “tilting, erratic and twisting.”
while Ronald Brookman, S.E., a licensed structural engineer from
Novato, California, figures on “a partial collapse to the side.”
Symmetrical collapse requires simultaneous failure of all
supporting columns, notes Charles Pegelow. “How could all 47
core columns fail at the same instant?” Pegelow has performed
design work on offshore oil rigs and tall buildings. His
opinion: “Fires could not do that.” Impossible Collapse
Acceleration The National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) characterized the Twin Towers’ collapse as “essentially
in free fall” (Section 6.14.4 of NIST NCSTAR 1).3 Brookman wrote
asking NIST investigators why debris fell “with little or no
resistance from the intact structure below.” Rice questions how
each tower “inexplicably collapsed upon itself, crushing all 287
massive columns on each floor while maintaining near-freefall
speed] as if the 80,000 tons of supporting structural steel
framework underneath didn’t exist.”4 Falling objects should take
“the path of least resistance,” notes Pasternack, while official
explanations claim that Tower debris took the path of greatest
resistance – through the strong, cross-braced core structure all
the way to the ground. The Twin Towers were overbuilt to prevent
office workers from getting seasick on windy days, says Kollar.
“There’s so much redundancy.... The building has to be stiff
enough so it doesn’t sway.” Perimeter columns designed to endure
hurricanes, Scott says, were loaded only to “about 10% of their
ultimate capacity” in the gentle breeze on 9/11.5 Gravity was “a
negligible part of the loading,” says Kollar, citing a claim by
the Towers’ engineers Worthington, Skilling, Helle & Jackson
that even with all the columns on one side cut, and several
around the two corners, the Tower would still withstand 100
mile-per-hour winds.6 The rapid breakup of this robust structure
appears to defy the laws of physics, engineers say. Forty-five
years of structural design experience inform the view of Claude
Briscoe, P.E., that the government’s collapse theories “seem to
defy the laws of mechanics, conservation of energy, and known
structural failure behavior.” In the official story, the kinetic
energy of the falling debris would have been largely absorbed by
the energy required to dismember the structure, bending and
twisting steel components, and pulverizing 220 acres of concrete
floors. To accomplish all this while achieving a nearly
free-fall-speed collapse is “simply not physically possible,”
says Mason. “There is not sufficient energy available.... For
this massively strong structure to just crumble away at
near-free-fall speed would have required immense amounts of
explosive energy.” Weak Fires Vs. Explosive Events Though four
official accounts blame fire for the destruction of all three
World Trade Center towers, the fires do not appear to have been
particularly severe. NIST states that the jet fuel burned off in
just ten minutes.7 “They also acknowledged that office furniture
burns for only 15 to 20 minutes in any one area” before it’s
consumed,8 Scott points out. “There’s ample evidence that the
steel temperatures got nowhere close to the “600+ degrees
Centigrade 1,200 Ron Brookman Charles Pegelow 3 degrees
Fahrenheit] required to cause failure.” We saw no “raging
infernos” on TV, David Huebner, P.E., points out. Sooty smoke
and dull red flames, Scott says, indicate “cool fires ...
fuel-starved fires.” Firemen at the 78th-floor impact zone
reported “only two small fires,” Scott adds, “not the
1000-degree-Centigrade inferno” government officials claim. New
York Fire Department (FDNY) personnel, trained to assess fires’
structural hazards, had no reason to expect total collapse,
Brookman writes. Scott notes that several steel-framed towers
have burned longer, hotter – and much more intensely without
collapse. “As engineers we know what fire can do to steel and
what it can’t.” “Over 100 recorded witnesses reported hearing
and seeing multiple explosions,” Rice wrote.9 Brookman cites
“numerous eyewitness accounts, including the FDNY oral
histories, of secondary explosions ... well below the impact
floors.” His letter to Congressional representatives describes
“explosive clouds of dust and debris moving horizontally and
vertically.” Brookman added: “That does not look anything like a
heat-induced, gravitational collapse mechanism.” Rice notes that
“perimeter columns weighing several tons each were ejected
laterally up to 600] feet.” His conclusion: “Not possible
without explosives.” Angular Momentum Arrested As the South
Tower began to fail, the top 25 stories tipped as a unit, photos
show. “The tilting block doesn’t look right,” Brookman said. It
should “continue to rotate and fall to the ground.” Edward Knesl
and Lomba say the same thing. The failure mode of such tall
structures should have been “a fall over to the side” (Knesl)
and “a toppling of the upper floors to one side ... not a
concentric, vertical collapse” (Lomba). “It looked like an
explosive event,” Brookman said. “ The upper section] began
tilting toward the damage zone, and then suddenly dropped
straight down and disintegrated in the process.” Building 7’s
Mystifying Implosion Baffling as the Towers’ “collapses” were,
even more perplexing was the destruction of World Trade Center
Building 7. “Unprecedented,” says Rice. “Unexplainable,” says
Huebner. “No plane hit this building,” points out Graham Inman,
a chartered engineer in London. Few Americans have given any
thought to the thirdWorld Trade Center high-rise destroyed on
September 11th, since it was not repeatedly televised. Kamal
Obeid, S.E., ponders it. “A localized failure in a steel-framed
building like WTC 7 cannot cause a catastrophic collapse like a
house of cards without a simultaneous and patterned loss of
several of its columns at key locations within the building.”
Videos show “simultaneous failure of all columns,” wrote Inman,
“rather than the expected] phased approach,” in which undamaged
columns would show resistance sequentially. Though the building
housed “offices of the CIA, the Secret Service, and the
Department of Defense, among others,” Rice notes, the 9/11
Commission left WTC 7’s collapse out of its report. FEMA’s 2002
inquiry blamed WTC 7’s collapse on fires, though it admits that
its “best hypothesis has only a low probability of occurrence.”
Rice notes that the media have “basically kept the collapse of
WTC Building #7 hidden from public view.” The Phantom Pile
Driver Two days after 9/11, Dr. Zdeněk Bažant offered a
rationale for the most catastrophic structural failure in
history. Seven years later, his thesis10 still underlies
official claims that total collapses were “inevitable.” Bažant’s
mathematical model of the The South Tower’s top tilted 22
degrees, then disappeared straight down into the rubble cloud.
Zdeněk Bažant Kamal Obeid WTC 7 came down in full free-fall for
2-1/4 seconds and very near free-fall overall. 4 upper floors’
transformation into a pile driver “block” free-falling one story
to hammer the entire tower into scrap metal and powder involves
“very misty allegations – actually inventions,” says Björkman.
His opinion derives from thirty-five years in ship surveying and
construction, design of tankers and seagoing ferries, and
practical observations of steel vessels after collisions. Never
before, Björkman notes, has “a smaller object (the light-weight,
upper, actually non-rigid, flexible steel structure consisting
of many smaller parts) destroyed the bigger and stronger other
object (the complex steel structure below) only with the
assistance of gravity.” Björkman scoffs at Bažant’s mythical
free-falling top block bringing 287 columns hammering down in
perfect array on the 287 columns below. Steel bends and mashes
in Björkman’s salty world, and “it is not certain that the
hammer even hits the nail.” Real-life columns miss, lodge in
horizontal structures, and punch holes in floors, creating
energy-absorbing frictions, deformed steel, local failures, and
“a soft collision (not impact!)” that tangles damaged floors in
a shuffled array – and stops well short of total collapse.
Videos show that Bažant’s alleged pile driver disintegrates
“within 3.5 seconds after the roof starts to fall.... before
global collapse starts!” Björkman challenges Dr. Bažant and his
followers to produce a “timetable, analysis, and explanation”
consistent with the video evidence. “And tell us ... what
happened to the upper block!” Molten Iron “Flowing Like Lava”
Steel starts melting at 2700° F, almost 1000° hotter than jet
fuel fires, notes Pegelow. “Why did the NIST investigation not
consider reports of molten steel in the wreckage?” he asks. FDNY
Captain Philip Ruvolo reported seeing in the basements “molten
steel ... like you were in a foundry, like lava.”11 Even Leslie
Robertson, one of the design engineers of the World Trade Center
and a supporter of the official collapse story, reportedly
acknowledged on October 5, 2001 that “twenty-one days after the
attack, molten steel was still running.”12 Richard Garlock, a
structural engineer in Robertson’s firm, said “Going below....
the debris past the columns was red-hot, molten, running.”13 Dr.
Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, another supporter of the official story
and the first structural engineer given access to the WTC steel,
told PBS, “I saw melting of girders in the]World Trade
Center.”14 Jet fuel can’t melt steel, “but thermite
explosives/incendiaries can ... create temperatures in excess of
4000 degrees Fahrenheit...” writes Rice, “instantly
melting/severing short segments of steel columns and beams.”
Chemical evidence of thermite found in the powdered debris by
physicist Dr. Steven Jones15 is cited by Rice, by Obeid, and by
Clark Townsend. Brookman challenges NIST to explain tiny
“iron-rich spheres found in the WTC dust,” which appear to be
solidified droplets of once-molten iron.16 Crucial Evidence
Survives Discredited 2002 FEMA Report The FEMA 403 report17 was
“incomplete at best and a cover-up at worst,” says structural
engineer <name redacted by request> of New Jersey, noting that a
metallurgical study in its Appendix C.2 found “evidence of a
severe high temperature corrosion attack on the steel ... with
subsequent intergranular melting” forming a “sulfur-rich liquid”
that “severely weaken ed]” the structural steel. FEMA scientists
later state in Appendix C.6 that “no clear explanation for the
source of the sulfur has been identified.” <redacted> finds that
unacceptable. “The report has uncovered an unexplainable
phenomenon within the context of the official story] that may
have led to the collapse of the 3 WTC buildings,” he writes,
“and has stated that further study is needed, but FEMA has not
Other Engineers Agree Not all the structural engineers who have
signed the petition at AE911Truth.org are quoted in this
article. But all of them support a new investigation, primarily
because of the evidence of controlled demolition presented on
our website. Capt. Philip Ruvolo Dr. Steven Jones 5 proceeded
with further research.” Evidence was not just ignored; it was
destroyed. Firemen rioted at Ground Zero,18 protesting the
desecration of the dead in a hasty “scoop and dump” clean-up of
the structural steel debris. “The destruction of the crime scene
evidence is inexcusable,” Huebner writes. Scott laments the
“masses of vital forensic evidence” lost, and Bill Manning,
Editor in Chief of Fire Engineering magazine, called FEMA’s
investigation “a half-baked farce.”19 Steel components were
stamped with identification numbers that would have aided their
reassembly for study, but that reassembly never took place.
Brookman asks, “Why was the steel ... not thoroughly examined by
fire-safety and structural experts before being shipped to Asia
for recycling?” Pegelow charges that “FEMA hampered and
distorted the investigation,” citing Dr. Abolhassan
Astaneh-Asl’s complaints in 2002 to the House Committee on
Science that FEMA held back essential engineering drawings and
videotapes and photographs. Such flawed methodology was
accompanied by inadequate theories that “cannot explain the loss
of the cores,” Scott points out. He says FEMA’s notion that
floor connections all failed simultaneously at the outer wall
and at the core is “not too plausible.” Bill Genitsaris,
structural engineer and builder based in Melbourne, believes
that a pancake-style collapse should have left supporting
columns standing. Such a collapse would have left at least
dozens of shattered floors in the building footprint below. Only
very small floor sections were found, and not many of them.
Deceptive presentation further damaged FEMA’s credibility. Tom
Lackey, who designs bridges for the Vermont Agency of
Transportation, cites the Minneapolis Bridge collapse study as
the “kind of analysis and straightforward explanation” the WTC
needs. FEMA’s reports stack up poorly. Some of its graphics
“omit the cores altogether,” says Scott, and some depict columns
half as wide and twice as far apart as they actually were. Scott
decries “attempts to distort important technical information.”
The Australians use more colorful terminology: Mason says we
have been “taken for suckers;” Genitsaris says we’ve been “stooged.”
Truncated and Fudged Computer Model Undermines NIST Report
(2005) NIST’s $20 million report is generally believed, by those
who haven’t read its 10,000 pages, to explain how fires and
plane impacts destroyed the WTC. “The report not only fails to
explain why and how the towers completely collapsed,” Brookman
points out, “but it states that the collapse became inevitable
without any further explanation.” He asks why NIST “considered
conservation of energy and momentum principles only up to the
moment prior to collapse.” NIST stopped its computerized models
before the onset of collapse,” Scott complains. “No work was
done to calculate what happened during the failure. Why are we
content with this?” Ron Brookman adds: “The complete collapse
mechanism ... cannot be ‘omitted for brevity’ in any
comprehensive analysis.” NIST’s claim that a kinetic “attack”
exceeded the building’s reserve strength is not supported by any
calculations or “by any evidence whatsoever or any serious
structural analysis,” states Anders Björkman. While NIST fails
to show essential work on central issues, its numerous volumes
are packed with distracting trivia. Huebner, whose twenty-five
years of A Note About 9/11 “Debunkers” It could be hoped that
the comments from the structural engineers quoted in this
article would silence the “debunkers” who dismissed our
arguments first because, allegedly, no engineers agreed with us.
That was never true to begin with. After AE911Truth was formed
and scores of engineers signed the petition, these debunkers
predictably moved the goalposts, saying we didn't have any
engineers who know anything about heavy steel structures such as
tall buildings. Since the 29 engineers interviewed for this
article do in fact possess that knowledge, the goalposts will no
doubt just be moved again. This kind of behavior should make
clear the nature of the game that is being played. One word for
it is sophistry. NIST’s Report on the Twin Towers WTC steel
sample after hot corrosion attack. FEMA, Appendix C 6 structural
engineering experience includes forensic investigation of
structural collapses, compares NIST’s effort to a “college paper
where you just keep adding stuffing] to make the paper longer.
Lots of pages of nothing! Definitely trying to cover up
something.” Brookman asked NIST investigators to explain the
“complete pulverization of building materials and contents” and
“visibly explosive clouds of dust, ash, and debris.” He received
no reply. “I believe in the laws of physics,” wrote Brookman,
“and rely on them every day.” NIST’s reports “seem to require
multiple leaps of faith in highly improbable events,” wrote
Pasternack. Computer models using NIST’s best estimates of
temperature and damage could not even generate a collapse, Scott
points out. They’d “simply adjust the input until the desired
outcome is achieved.” NIST probably overestimated core column
damage, Scott believes, almost certainly overestimated steel
temperatures, and definitely overestimated damage to fire
protection. So important an inquiry should “rely on logical
deduction, reason and first-principle analysis,” Scott says,
“not circular reasoning and adjusting models to get agreement
with a preconceived explanation.” 47-Story Building 7’s
Near-Freefall Collapse Defies NIST Report (2008) "We’ve had
trouble getting a handle on building No. 7,” NIST’s Dr. Shyam
Sunder acknowledged to New York Magazine over two years ago.
David Topete, S.E., asks why no other nearby buildings collapsed
when some were much more severely damaged by fire and Twin Tower
debris. NIST’s recent report blames one buckling column, number
79, for WTC 7’s global and near-symmetrical collapse, yet
characterizes WTC 7’s fires as “normal office fires” which only
burn twenty minutes in any given location before moving on.
Obeid rejects the suggestion that one failing column could pull
adjacent columns down. “It is not possible for a local failure
within the lower structure to spread horizontally,” he wrote
recently. “Such a failure would cause a break-away ... instead
of pulling the structure with it.” Even if NIST’s horizontal
progression were somehow triggered, Obeid says, “the building
would not have collapsed so neatly and symmetrically. All core
columns have to be severed at the same time to make such a
collapse.” Disturbing Questions That Must Be Answered To
preserve America’s “unprecedented freedoms,” Clayton Simmons
says, “we must pursue the truth.” He is troubled by “my
profession’s involvement in this apparent cover-up and the
media’s refusal to address important questions.” Scott too
expresses wonder that structural engineers’ response “has been
amazingly muted,” even “uninterested.” Rice found that
politicians also lacked interest. Many people “remain willfully
ignorant,” writes Genitsaris. “They believe that 9/11 does not
affect their lives ... regardless of the fact that our freedoms
are being taken from us.” Perhaps few are questioning, Brookman
says, because it’s “painful to look directly at the events and
consider the implications.” William Acri, P.E., believes that
the engineer’s oath “to hold public safety above all else”
demands that they raise questions. If three modern steel
high-rises really underwent total progressive collapse in less
than two hours of fire, merely because of the fires and some
damage to the fireproofing, “we need to understand WHY!” Scott
writes. If WTC 7 failed from a localized fire event, Inman asks,
why didn’t the owners and insurers sue the designers? “Either
the building design was criminally faulty, or other causes not
related to the structural design or fire” brought down WTC 7, he
says. Why Should Science-Based Forensic Evidence Be Taboo? From
all across America, and from Australia, Canada, the UK, and
France, the structural engineers we spoke with for this article
join more than 675 other Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
in calling for a new investigation into the catastrophic
destruction of the threeWorld Trade Center high-rises on
September 11. “The implications of the controlled David Topete 7
demolition hypothesis as outlined on the AE911Truth.org website
are staggering,” says founding member Richard Gage, AIA. “We
therefore invite all Americans to examine the science-based
forensic evidence very carefully and come to their own
conclusions.” Lomba’s conclusion, drawn from his initial
perceptions and validated by subsequent developments, is clear:
“Even if, for the sake of discussion, we accept the hypothesis
that the fire protection was damaged and the fires somehow
weakened the steel frames, that still does not explain the
relatively concentric nature of the failures.” Scott challenges
his fellow structural engineers: “The building performance on
9/11 matched controlled demolition. It does not match
fire-induced collapse. We have the expertise to discern this. Do
we have the courage to broadcast it?” References 1http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/dyk.html
2http://www.ae911truth.org/ 3http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1CollapseofTowers.pdf
4http://www.vermontguardian.com/commentary/032007/TwinTowers.shtml
5 “How Columns Will Be Designed for 110-Story
Buildings,”Engineering News-Record, April 2, 1964. 6 James Glanz
and Eric Lipton, City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World
Trade Center ( New York: Times Books, 2003) 7http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?sectionId=46&id=25807
8 http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1CollapseofTowers.pdf, p. 183.
9http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060118104223192
10http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/people/Bažant/PDFs/Papers/405.pdf
11http://la.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=9840845
12 http://www.seau.org/SEAUNews-2001-10.pdf 13http://www.pbs.org/americarebuilds/engineering/engineering_debris_06.html
14 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june07/overpass_05-10.html
15http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/200704/JonesWTC911SciMethod.pdf
16http://www.journalof911studies.com/articles/WTCHighTemp2.pdf
17 http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/fema403_ch1.pdf. 18 http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/attack/45256_zero03.shtml
19http://www.fireengineering.com/articles/article_display.html?id=131225
8 All the structural engineers below have signed the AE911Truth
petition. Not all of them were interviewed for this article.
Name Credentials / Education / Location Bio William W. Acri
P.Eng. Lic: 143016 BASc Toronto, ON – Canada Construction
Engineer, and Structural Consultant, in Toronto, Alberta, and
BC. I have used explosives on many road projects. Antonio Arthay
P.E., Lic: 57912, M.S., Structural Engineering, Illinois; West
Palm Beach, FL Licensed Structural Engineer with 15+ years of
experience in building design. Anders Björkman Naval architect &
Marine engineer *M.Sc. Beausoleil, Alpes Maritime – France 40
years of steel structural design, operations, damage analysis
and repairs (of ships) but the principles are same for other
structures, e.g. towers Jim Bomford P. Eng., B.A.Sc.
Engineering, UBC, Cowichan Bay, BC – Canada A civil engineer and
former structural engineer practising in the Province of BC for
thirty five years. Claude Robert Briscoe P.E. Lic: Civil
Engineer C17546 -- California BS Engineering, UCLA Santa Rosa,
CA 45+ years in civil and structural engineering design and
construction with project work in bridges, buildings,
foundations, earth retaining structures, roads, highways, and
various commercial, industrial and public works facilities.
Ronald H. Brookman Structural Engineer Lic: Structural Engineer
3653 CA Civil Engineer 44654 CA, B.S. & M.S. Engineering, U.C.
Davis Novato, CA Mr. Brookman is a licensed structural engineer
in the state of California. He obtained B.S. Civil Engineering
(1984) and M.S. Structural Engineering (1986) degrees from the
University of California at Davis, and has over 21 years
experience in structural analysis, design, evaluation and
rehabilitation of buildings in northern California. Frank J.
Cullinan P.E. Civil Engineer Lic: C 50794 CA B.S. Civil
Engineering Trinidad, CA My expertise is in structure
construction of bridges and to a lesser extent demolition of
bridges. 9 Name Credentials / Education / Location Bio Erwin De
Jong MSc Mechanical and Structural Engineering, Master, The
Hague, Zuid Holland – The Netherlands Master degree Mechanical
Engineering obtained at University of Twente (Netherlands)
Currently occupied in offshore (steel structure) and aerospace
engineering. <name redacted by request> <redacted> <redacted>
Rick Fowlkes P.E. Lic: 13162 AZ/ 35889 CA BSCE & MBA Mesa, AZ
Registered professional engineer - Arizona Structural - PE;
California - Civil-P.E. President of Fowlkes Enterprises, Inc.
since 1983 in Mesa, AZ. Republican Party candidate for Arizona
State Corporation Commissioner. Bill Genitsaris Consulting
Structural Engineer & Builder BA Engineering, Uni. of Melbourne
Melbourne, VIC – Australia Consulting Engineer with over 20
years experience in Civil and Structural Engineering. Worked in
the fields of structural engineering design, construction,
demolition, investigation of building movements and disputes.
Worked for many years as a senior consulting structural engineer
in the residential and commercial fields. In those years,
provided professional services from engineering design advise
for new and existing buildings, construction and demolition
advice/procedural recommendations, to remedial works
recommendations for buildings which are cracking/moving…. David
G. Huebner P.E. Lic: 6201036077 MI Professional Engineer BSCE
Auburn Hills, MI Since graduating college in 1982, I have worked
in the structural engineering field. In 2000, I started my own
consulting business as a structural engineer. I have experience
with wood, concrete, and steel design as well as some forensic
experience investigating collapses of structures. I also have
experience as a paid on call fire/rescue worker. Edward E. Knesl
P.E., S.E. Lic: C 22102 AZ, S 22172 AZ M.S. Engineering Phoenix,
AZ Full Master Degree study of Civil and Structural Engineering.
Thirty five years of experience domestic and overseas in
commercial and transportation projects : - Structural Design and
Analysis - Construction Administration and Management - Plan
Review - Special Inspection 10 Name Credentials / Education /
Location Bio Dennis J. Kollar P.E., Structural Engineer Lic:
34422-6 Professional Engineer exp 2008 B.S. + Graduate
Coursework West Bend, WI I began my career in the 1980's as a
Structurally Certified Welder and held various welding positions
in a shop fabrication environment. I received my B.S. in Civil
Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 1993
with an emphasis in Structural Engineering. I have several years
experience in Municipal Engineering and site design and 10+
Years experience in the structural design of residential,
commercial, industrial, and institutional structures of steel,
concrete, masonry and timber. Thomas H. Lackey P.E. Engineer Lic:
018-0005701 VT B.S.C.E., UVM 1985 Stowe, VT I began my career as
a Geodetic Surveyor in the US Army in Germany from 1979-1982. I
studied Civil Engineering at and graduated from the University
of Vermont with a BSCE from 1982-1985. I practiced as an EIT in
Alaska, New Hampshire and Vermont primarily in land development
from 1985-1989. I passed my P.E. exam and became licensed in
Vermont in 1989. I joined the Vermont Agency of Transportation
in 1989 where I have worked in the Structures Section since
1995. Nathan S. Lomba P.E., S.E., M.ASCE; 4132 C/S ID, C43284
CA; B.S.C.E., U. of Colorado; Eureka, CA Consulting
civil/structural engineer with over 22 years in private practice
(39 years total). Experience ranges from custom residential to
heavy industrial structures. Some major project involvements
include: Lead civil/structural engineer on a $700 million
project for the US Air Force; structural design engineer for a
41,000 sq. ft. Pulp Machine Building; and Resident Engineer on a
550 MW Natural-gas fired power plant. Idaho PE, 1980 Idaho SE,
1990 California PE, 1987 BSCE, 1976, University of Colorado,
Denver/Boulder, CO Professional Affiliations: Member, American
Concrete Institute (ACI) Member, American Society of Civil
Engineers (ASCE) Charter member, Structural Engineering
Instititute (SEI) Professional member, American Institute of
Steel Construction (AISC) Paul W. Mason Structural Engineer;
Engineers Australia Member #34040 (Also Association of
Professional Engineers, Scientists & Managers, Australia, member
# 222349); Melbourne, VIC – Australia 33 years experience
designing, constructing and maintaining major structures for
state government agency. 11 Name Credentials / Education /
Location Bio Travis McCoy Design Engineer, BS Civil Engineering,
Cincinnati, OH I received my BS in Civil and Environmental
Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2007. I am
currently working on my MS in Structural Engineering at the
University of Cincinnati as well as working for a local
structural engineering consulting firm. Dr. Robert T. Mote PhD,
Structural Engineer, Lic: APEGGA, B.Eng (Hons), Calgary, AB –
Canada +20 years experience in structural design. Special
interest in dynamic and explosion behaviour of structural
elements and foundations. Arthur Nelson P.E. Lic: MA PE 32785
M.Sc., Structural Eng, Northeastern Seekonk, MA Structural
engineer since 1986. Involved in design of hundreds of steel
structures though none have been involved in airplane
collisions. Kamal S. Obeid SE, PE Lic: Structural Engineer 2826
CA, Civil Engineer 35214 MSCE, UC Berkeley, Fremont, CA
Consulting structural engineer specializing in building and
other structures design and retrofit. California SE 1985
California PE 1982 MSCE 1980, UC Berkeley BSCE 1978, University
of Texas, Austin Howard Pasternack B.A.Sc., P.Eng. Lic: 90261421
B.A.Sc. Civil Eng., U. of Toronto Toronto, ON – Canada B.A.Sc.
Civil Engineering (specializing in Structural Engineering) 1986
Graduate work at U. of Alberta to 1989 Design, Analysis and
Inspection of Structures: Anrep Associates to 1990 Design,
Analysis and Inspection of Structures: Morrison Hershfield to
1993. Design, Analysis and Inspection of Structures: CanDesign
Engineering Services 1993-present. 12 Name Credentials /
Education / Location Bio Charles N. Pegelow PE, Civil Engineer.
lic Calif CE 26344 exp 2008 Houston, TX (none provided) William
Rice P.E. Lic: 018-0002991 VT MS Civil Engineering, Cornell
Univ. Randolph Center, VT I earned my BSCE degree from the
University of Massachusetts with a major in structures and later
an MS degree in civil engineering from Cornell University. After
graduation from UMass, I was employed in the field by two of the
nation’s largest building construction companies, first the
Austin Company (a design/build firm) and later the George A.
Fuller Construction Company. The construction of one of the
Austin Company building projects was the basis of my master's
thesis. I also taught building design and construction related
courses to civil engineering and architectural students at
Vermont Technical College for twenty years. Jérôme Royer
Engineer, Mechanical Engineering, Paris – France Degree in
mechanical/structural engineering and degree in engineering for
high energy physics experiments. Alaa Rustom Structural and
Geotechnical Civil Engineer, BSC Structural and Geotechnical
Civil En Ottawa, ON – Canada With over a year's experience in
the structural field, I am a new graduate of structural and
geotechnical Civil Engineering. I have just graduated from the
University of Ottawa, and pronounced an Obligated Engineer by
ward 12 on an obligation to work with the highest quality of
workmanship in my field. David Scott AMICE, CEng, MIStructE Beng
Auchterarder, Perthshire – Great Britain Consulting Structural
Engineer, with 20 years experience of building design and
founding director of a structural and architectural design
practice in Perthshire, Scotland. 13 Name Credentials /
Education / Location Bio Clayton J. Simmons P.E., Associate
Engineer Lic: 72749 (CE) CA B.S.C.E., Brigham Young University,
Santa Rosa, CA Mr. Simmons studied at Brigham Young University,
graduating with degrees in Russian and Civil & Environmental
Engineering with an emphasis in structures. He had the unique
privilege of being one of Dr. Steven Jones' physics students
prior to 9/11, learning from him the principles of conservation
of energy and momentum. Following his formal training, he
returned to his native Santa Rosa, California and has worked for
the past three years in the engineering profession, analyzing
and designing water-based infrastructure and residential
structures. David Topete S.E. Lic: S4793 CA C59280 CA B.S. Civil
Engineering, Santa Clara U San Francisco, CA After working as a
Junior Engineer, I returned to pursue a Master's degree (just
short). I have been a designer throughout my career, mainly
residential, commercial and light manufacturing facilities.
Clark W. Townsend Civil Engineer Lic: C47921 CA BSCE CSU-Fort
Collins, Colorado Sacramento, CA I received a BS in Civil
Engineering from a four year accredited university in 1986. I
became a licensed Civil Engineer in the State of California in
1991. I have worked in several fields of civil engineering
including structural
700 Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
PRESENT Evidence for the Explosive Demolition of World Trade
Center, Building 7 on 9/11 Richard Gage, AIA, Gregg Roberts, and
David Chandler 24 core columns - removed within a fraction of a
second – by !re?
NIST initially
denied the fact of free-fall in its final draft report released
in August 2008. In the technical briefing that followed, NIST’s
lead investigator, Shyam Sunder explained, “A free-fall time
would be an object that has no structural components below it.”
He claimed that WTC7 took 40% longer than “free-fall time” to
collapse, “and that is not at all unusual because there was
structural resistance that was provided in this particular case.
And you had a sequence of structural failures that had to take
place and everything was not instantaneous.” However, physics
instructor and AE911Truth associate David Chandler had used
network television videos to carefully measure the acceleration
of the building during its fall and shown conclusively that a
significant period of free-fall was an indisputable fact. He
publicly challenged NIST’s claims at the technical briefing.
Along with several others, he filed formal requests for
corrections during the public response period. In its final
report NIST reversed itself on its denial of free-fall, but it
couched its revised statement in deceptive language and failed
to address how free-fall could be compatible with its
fire-induced progressive collapse analysis. For the observed
straight-down collapse, a thick network of heavy steel columns
and beams, had to be forcibly removed and more than 400
structural steel connections had to fail per second, evenly all
across each of the eight floors involved. These failures had to
occur ahead of the collapsing section – NOT caused by it –
because a free-falling object cannot exert force on anything in
its path without slowing its own fall. Yet NIST’s admission of
the fact of free-fall, together with Shyam Sunder’s
acknowledgment of the simple meaning of that fact, led to no
reconsideration of its fire-induced, single-column-initiated,
progressive collapse hypothesis. Moreover, in what looks like an
attempt to bury the discussion, its change of stance on the
question of free-fall was omitted from the list of changes in
its final report. Symmetry The overall building mass fell
uniformly and with almost perfect symmetry through what should
have been the path of greatest resistance – 40,000 tons of
structural steel. This requires a precisely timed patterned
removal of critical columns – which office fires, a gradual
organic process, is not capable of. Only a carefully engineered
implosion could cause this 47-story building to collapse in on
itself – and land mostly within its own footprint. After all,
demolition companies are paid large sums to accomplish this
feat, and only a few can do it with tall buildings. Also, the
destruction was complete. The building had been built especially
strong so that alternate floors could be removed in case a
tenant needed an extra tall space. Yet its forty-seven stories
were reduced, in less than seven seconds, to about four stories
of debris – like a house of cards – with the virtually complete
dismemberment of the steel skeleton, including both braced and
welded moment-resisting (bendresistant) frames. Did the Dog Eat
Their Homework? NIST Withheld Crucial Evidence Had officials
taken all the relevant evidence into account and provided a
superficially coherent explanation, it would at least make sense
to entertain the idea that, 1) fire might have acted in ways
that it had never acted before, 2) modern structural steel might
have acted in ways that it had never acted before, and 3) that
this all just happened to occur on a day when terrorists did
something they had never done before. Yet, officials have not
taken all the relevant evidence into account and they have not
provided even a superficially coherent explanation. “A High
Temperature Corrosion Attack” and Molten Iron/Steel: Undeniable
Evidence of Thermitic Incendiaries Prior to the NIST
investigation, FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency,
had conducted a preliminary, cursory, underfunded investigation
and produced a Building Performance Assessment Report. In
Appendix C of that report, FEMA described steel samples from
Building 7 that had undergone a “high temperature corrosion
attack” that had turned a heavy steel flange “into Swiss
cheese.” They found “evidence of a severe high temperature
corrosion attack on the steel, including rapid oxidation and
sulfidation with subsequent intergranular melting….” FEMA’s
metallographic analysis showed that the steel had not only
melted but some of it had even “evaporated”. “A liquid eutectic
mixture containing primarily iron, oxygen, and sulfur formed
during this hot corrosion attack on the steel.”... “No clear
explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified.”
The New York Times called this “perhaps the deepest mystery
uncovered in the investigation.” What did NIST say about this
mystery described by FEMA? They did not mention it. Neither jet
fuel nor office fires can reach anywhere close to steel’s
melting point, much less its boiling point, even if those
critical temperatures had been lowered by the presence of free
sulfur. So what could have caused this “high temperature
corrosion attack”? Thermite is a mixture of powdered iron oxide
and elemental aluminum which, when ignited, Free-fall
acceleration through 40,000 tons of structural steel? WTC 7: In
free-fall acceleration - for 8 stories Total dismemberment of
steel structure – fell like a house of cards
reacts violently at 4000-4500° F. – well above iron’s melting
point of 2800° F, producing aluminum oxide and molten iron in a
very dangerous, volcaniceruption- like display. When free sulfur
is added to the mixture, the iron melts at a lower temperature.
Thermite with sulfur added is called thermate. Structural steel
in contact with ignited thermate also melts at a lower
temperature. Contrary to what NIST and others have claimed, the
sulfur could not have come from gypsum wallboard in which it is
an inert, chemically “locked” ingredient. (FEMA metallurgists
would have proposed that explanation themselves if it were
within the realm of possibility.) Still, additional evidence of
molten iron and/or steel abounds – for all three high-rises.
Photos and numerous credible witnesses (including first
responders and structural engineers) confirm the existence of
several tons of molten metal under the debris pile – described
by some fire fighters as “flowing like lava.” Photos clearly
reveal molten metal dripping out of the material held in the
jaws of “crab claw” excavators. Video taken of the South Tower
shortly before it came down shows a spout of molten metal
spewing from near the impact hole, brightly glowing
orange-yellow in daylight, unlike molten aluminum which appears
silvery under these conditions. It could only be molten iron or
steel. John Gross, lead engineer for NIST, publicly denied the
existence of molten metal despite the abundant evidence. Shyam
Sunder of NIST later acknowledged it but could not offer a
rational explanation for it. NIST’s afterthought Answers to
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) webpage attributes the spout’s
color to mixing of office contents with the aluminum – a
hypothetical phenomenon that physicist Steven Jones and
independently a NASA engineer have been unable to reproduce in
two laboratory experiments. Given the stakes, one might expect
NIST to have used some of the 20 million dollars allocated to
the WTC study to show us – not just speculate – that this
miraculous mixing of light, fluffy office materials with heavier
aluminum makes a poured stream of impure aluminum appear, in
bright sunlight, like the orange molten metal seen in the South
Tower videos. Hot Spots With Extreme Temperatures Measured by
USGS/NASA USGS used NASA thermal imaging of the surface of the
WTC rubble pile to document hot spots with extreme temperatures
of almost 1,400°F. These temperatures, too, are hotter than most
office fires produce. And there were no fires on the surface of
the WTC7 pile following the collapses. The detected surface
temperatures indicate much higher temperatures deep in the pile,
which persisted for several weeks despite the continuous
spraying of millions of gallons of water onto Ground Zero – so
much water that one worker described the result as “a giant
lake.” Thermite contains its own source of oxygen and burns just
as well under water. Molten Iron Droplets in the WTC Dust
Chemical and micrographic analysis of the dust that blanketed
Lower Manhattan after the destruction of each of the Twin Towers
revealed the presence of iron-rich “microspheres.” These
microspheres were found in separately collected samples of the
dust both near and far from Ground Zero, some of it collected
before cleanup operations had begun. Their shape indicates that
they were previously molten fragments that were pulled into
spherical form by surface tension into droplets which solidified
before hitting the ground. They are direct evidence that
temperatures exceeding the melting point of iron were present
during the buildings’ destruction. These microspheres could not
have been produced by friction or any other known process during
the Towers’ collapses. Furthermore, they lack the chromium
present in structural steel and contain manganese, an ingredient
of potassium permanganate, a common thermite additive.
Aluminothermic Nanocomposites – Unignited Nanothermite in the
WTC Dust An even more definitive discovery arose during a
scientific examination of the dust: red-gray chips. An
international team of chemists, physicists, and others confirmed
that the chemical makeup of the red layer O"ce !res don’t do
this to steel O"ce !res are not hot enough to create the molten
metal seen by dozens of witness Jet fuel and o"ce !res can’t
create molten iron Impossible temperatures on the surface of
Ground Zero a week after the collapses Billions of previously
molten iron spheres found in all WTC dust samples Demolition of
Building 7
of these chips,
their granular structure, and thermal behavior, were all
consistent with those of advanced thermitic explosives. Particle
sizes of less than a tenth of a micron in the red layer classify
this material as nanothermite. The significance of the extremely
small particle sizes is that the surface area is much greater
for a given volume of the components, so chemical reactions are
greatly accelerated. The team published its findings in The Open
Chemical Physics Journal in April 2009. Members of the team had
earlier asked that NIST test the dust for evidence of
explosives. NIST repeatedly refused to do so, even though such
testing is called for by NFPA 921, the National Fire Protection
Association guideline for fire and explosion investigations
throughout the United States. NIST did not see fit to even
discuss the issue of thermite or explosives in its formal
reports. In its FAQ, referring narrowly to tests for ordinary
thermite and thermate, they explained that “such tests would not
necessarily have been conclusive” because “The metal compounds
also would have been present in the construction materials
making up the WTC towers…” This is technically correct, and NFPA
921 does emphasize the need to make inferences cautiously:
“Presence of remains from the oxidizers does not in itself
constitute an intentionally set fire.” (section 22.2.4, 2008
edition). However, NFPA 921 does not provide any justification
for not performing tests, especially when there is evidence of
“high temperature accelerants (HTAs),” such as “melted steel”
(22.4.1) The guidelines refer to thermite specifically:
“Thermite mixtures also produce exceedingly hot fires. Such
accelerants generally leave residues that may be visually or
chemically identifiable.” Moreover, the team of scientists who
did look at the dust found an exotic, highly engineered form of
thermite, known as nanothermite, or superthermite. It doesn’t
just melt steel; it explodes. It can be chemically tuned to do
so with less noise than conventional explosives. And it cannot
be confused – even by overworked government engineers – with
structural steel, rust, primer paint, aluminum cladding, or
other “construction materials.” It contains ultra fine grain
particles of aluminum and iron oxide, 1000 times smaller than a
human hair, “intimately intermixed” and embedded in a matrix of
organic material. When it is heated slowly to about 430° C it
“goes off ” thermally, producing molten iron in spheroids
reminiscent of those found in the dust. Clearly the reaction,
triggered at only 430° C, releases enough energy to raise the
temperature beyond the melting point of iron (1538° C.). Look
Who’s Here Nanothermite could not have been made in a cave in
Afghanistan. It was developed in the 1990’s in US national
laboratories, and is produced by only a few defense contractors.
Some of those same contractors contributed personnel to the NIST
investigation of the destruction of the World Trade Center. Very
highly placed personnel, in fact, in positions of leadership at
NIST: Arden Bement, the metallurgist and expert on fuels and
materials who was nominated as director of NIST by President
George W. Bush in October 2001, was former deputy secretary of
defense, former director of DARPA’s office of materials science,
and former executive at TRW. Of course, DOD and DARPA are both
leaders in the production and use of nanothermites…. And
military and aerospace contractor TRW has had a long
collaboration with NASA laboratories in the development of
energetic materials that are components of advanced propellants,
like nanogelled explosive materials…. TRW Aeronautics also made
fireproof composites and high performance elastomer
formulations, and worked with NASA to make energetic aerogels…
Forman Williams, the lead engineer on NIST’s advisory committee,
and the most prominent engineering expert for Popular Mechanics,
is an expert on the deflagration of energetic materials and the
“ignition of porous energetic materials…. Nano-thermites are
porous energetic materials. Additionally, Williams’ research
partner, Stephen Margolis, has presented at conferences where
nano-energetics are the focus…. Some of Williams’ other
colleagues at the University of California San Diego, like David
J. Benson, are also experts on nano-thermite materials. (Kevin
Ryan, “The Top Ten Connections Between NIST and Nano-Thermites”,
July 2, 2008, Journal of 9/11 Studies,
http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/2008/
Ryan_NIST_and_Nano-1.pdf) How did people with such expertise
miss all the features of controlled demolition, and the
nanothermite in the dust? For them to avoid even discussing the
possibility in their 11,500 pages of “final” reports, and to
wave it away with a few sentences on their website, is an
outrage to science, at a minimum. What About the Twin Towers?
The collapses of the WTC Twin Towers represent the worst
structural failures in modern history. The official story
suggests that the jetliner impacts and resulting fires weakened
the structure, resulting in a gravitational collapse. The
evidence, most of which was omitted from the NIST report,
supports a different conclusion – one that points squarely to a
unique type of controlled demolition. A future Republic Magazine
article will reveal the surreal details of this additional
evidence in the explosive behavior of the building: 1. Rapid
onset of destruction Hundreds of Red/Grey chips of “Unignited
thermite” in every WTC Dust sample Nano-thermite particle sizes
are 1,000 times smaller than a human hair. This material is not
made in a cave in Afghanistan South Tower: A very explosive
event
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light heard and seen by over a hundred first responders before
“collapse” 3. Continuous acceleration of the building mass
straight down through the path of what was greatest resistance
4. Multi-ton steel sections ejected laterally 600 feet at 50 mph
5. Mid-air pulverization of 90,000 tons of concrete 6. Massive
volume of expanding pyroclastic-like clouds 7. 1,200 foot
diameter of improbably equal debris distribution 8. Isolated
explosive ejections 20-60 stories below demolition waves 9.
Total building destruction: dismemberment of steel frame 10. No
stack of floors found at the base of either tower If powerful
insiders had the foreknowledge and technology to rig Building 7
long in advance of the jetliner impacts, the same is true for
the Twin Towers. Every American must face his own conscience
squarely when confronted with the gruesome evidence of the
destruction of these high-rises on 9/11 – especially considering
the resulting death of over a million people in the wars that
followed, and the loss of many of our precious freedoms through
extremely rapid legislation. When you are ready to take action
here are a few ideas: a) Educate yourself and others. Send the
AE911Truth.org link to every architect and engineer that you can
find and everyone else that you know. b) Support AE911Truth.org.
Sign the petition, volunteer, and become a sustaining donor. c)
Write your local news media and congressional representatives
and send them the DVD 9/11: Blueprint for Truth. d) Demand a
new, independent investigation. Until the truth about 9/11 is
exposed, we are at grave risk for the next “9/11.” Act soon, for
we have been told by Dick Cheney, members of Congress, and the
media that it will be far worse than the first. Demolition of
Building 7
Scientists Discover Both Residues And
Unignited Fragments Of Nano-Engineered Thermitic Pyrotechnics In
Debris From the Twin Towers
by Jim Hoffman Version 1.00, April 3, 2009
Version 1.01, April 9, 2009 Version 1.02, October 23, 2009
Version 1.03, December 7, 2009 Introduction
The scientific paper Active Thermitic Material
Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
conclusively shows the presence of unignited aluminothermic
explosives in dust samples from the Twin Towers, whose chemical
signature matches previously documented aluminothermic residues
found in the same dust samples. The present review of the paper
and related research is intended to summarize those findings for
the non-technical reader. To that end, I first provide a short
introduction to the subject of aluminothermic explosives, then
outline the methods and results of analysis of the dust samples,
and finally explore the significance of these findings.
Contents
Introduction Contents Aluminothermics 101
Composition Reaction Rate Energy Density and Power Density
Energetic Nanocomposites Aluminothermics at the WTC
Aluminothermic Residues: Iron-Rich Spheroids Unignited
Aluminothermics: Bi-Layered Chips Provenance of the Samples
Physical Structure of the Chips Chemical Composition of the
Chips Thermal Behavior of the Chips Ignition Residue Analysis
Conclusions Discussion FAQ: Controlled Demolition With
Aluminothermics How Could Thermite, an Incendiary, Demolish the
Towers, When Buildings Are Normally Demolished Using
High-Explosive Cutter Charges? Why Weren't Demolition Charges
Triggered by the Plane Crashes or the Subsequent Fires? How
Could the Demolition Equipment Have Been Installed in the Twin
Towers Without Tenants Noticing? Glossary of Analytical Methods
References Aluminothermics 101
Image from AmazingRust.com of a simple
thermite reaction involving iron oxide and aluminum. This video
shows thermite melting through a car. Aluminothermic reactions
are a class of energy-releasing oxidation-reduction chemical
reactions in which elemental aluminum reduces a compound,
typically by stealing the oxygen from a metal oxide.
Aluminothermics range from low-tech preparations that take
seconds to react and therefore release nearly all their energy
as heat and light, to advanced engineered materials with
accelerated reaction rates that yield explosive powers similar
to conventional high explosives.
Backers of the official account of 9/11,
including NIST officials, have dismissed evidence that
aluminothermics were used to destroy the World Trade Center
skyscrapers, claiming that thermite's slow reaction rate makes
it an unsuitable tool for demolishing buildings. Despite
repeated requests by scientists and researchers to address the
potential role of advanced aluminothermic composites with high
explosive power, officials have refused to acknowledge such
materials.
Composition
2 Al + Fe2O3 → Al2O3 + 2 Fe The canonical
thermite reaction is simple, lacks the aromatic hydrocarbons and
nitrogen found in conventional high explosives, and is highly
exothermic. The most familiar aluminothermic material is
thermite, a mixture of a powdered metallic fuel such as
aluminum, and a powdered oxide of another metal such as iron or
copper. The thermite reaction involves the transfer of oxygen
from the oxidizer (metal oxide) to the fuel (metal).
Because oxygen atoms bind more tightly to
aluminum atoms than to iron or copper atoms, the reaction
releases large amounts of energy and is described as highly
exothermic. Whereas primitive thermite preparations release most
of their energy as heat, modern preparations, such as found in
munitions employed by the US military in recent decades, produce
a targeted mix of heat and pressure through an accelerated but
controlled reaction rate and the addition of pressure-generating
compounds such as hydrocarbons.
ABOVE: Relationship of particle size to
reaction rate in thermites BELOW: General relationship of
reaction rate to the form of energy released in compositions
that have the capacity to be high explosives Reaction Rate
The reaction rate of a thermitic material
determines how quickly its aluminum atoms find oxidizer
molecules to react with, and therefore how quickly the energy is
released. Whereas the energy density of an explosive is
determined by its chemistry, its power density is determined by
its reaction rate, which, in the case of a thermitic material,
is determined by its physical characteristics. Specifically, the
reaction rate increases with the fineness of the metal and oxide
powders and the uniformity with which they are mixed.
Because the particle sizes of the reactants
must be very small to attain rapid reaction rates, such
thermites are often referred to as nano-thermites. Such nano- or
"super-thermites" typically have particle diameters on the order
of a few hundred nanometers, requiring their synthesis by
special methods. The reaction rate in turn determines the
destructive character of the material. Whereas a cup of
conventional thermite will melt a hole clear through a car's
engine block, the same quantity of a nano-thermite composite
explosive will blow the car apart.
Nano-thermite composite explosives typically
embed the metal and oxide particles within a matrix containing
compounds of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and silicon. These
additional elements generate high gas pressures upon exposure to
the thermite reaction, which may be instrumental in imparting
high-explosive properties to such materials.
Energy Density and Power Density
material energy density by mass: MJ/KG by
volume: MJ/L aluminothermic incendiaries Thermite (Al + Fe2O3)
4.13 18.40 Copper Thermite (Al + CuO) 4.00 20.90 nitro-aromatic
explosives TNT (Trinitrotoluene) 4.61 6.92 In terms of energy
density, thermite is roughly comparable to TNT, packing slightly
less energy per unit of mass but about three times as much
energy per unit of volume. In terms of power density, thermitic
preparations range across a wide spectrum, whose upper end
appears to be comparable to conventional high explosives. 1]
2]
Because thermites have historically had much
lower power densities than conventional high explosives, they
are classified as incendiaries rather than explosives -- a
classification that has been exploited to conceal the use of
aluminothermics in the World Trade Center attack. Despite the
fact that high-tech aluminothermics have existed and been used
by the military since the mid-1990s or earlier, methods of
identifying explosive residues at crime scenes are frequently
limited to analysis of nitro-aromatic explosives. 3]
Energetic Nanocomposites
The term 'nano-thermite' applied to the
unignited thermitic material discovered in World Trade Center
dust is potentially misleading because it doesn't capture the
complexity and sophistication of this material or its known
analogs. Perhaps a better term is energetic nanocomposites, a
class of materials that has been used by the military for some
time in applications spanning propellants, armor-piercing
munitions, and reactive armor. In their diverse roles, energetic
nanocomposites fulfill a range of requirements including: "high
density, good mechanical properties, low sensitiveness, good
stability, low cost, ease of manufacturing, and environmental
acceptability." 4] To achieve these requirements, scientists
developing advanced aluminothermic materials have learned to
embed the fine powders in a carbon- and silicon-rich matrix.
Kevin Ryan explains:
The mixing of ultra fine grain (UFG) aluminum
and UFG metal oxides] is accomplished by adding these reactants
to a liquid solution where they form what are called "sols", and
then adding a gelling agent that captures these tiny reactive
combinations in their intimately mixed state (LLNL 2000). The
resulting "sol-gel" is then dried to form a porous reactive
material that can be ignited in a number of ways. 5]
Graphic from a DTIC (Defense Technical
Information Center) Review publication on advanced energetic
materials. Energetic materials such as aluminothermic sol-gels
have been an active area of research in the US national labs
since the mid-1990s or earlier, including under the auspices of
NIST itself -- a fact documented by Kevin Ryan in his
extensively footnoted article The Top Ten Connections Between
NIST and Nano-Thermites. Also called "metastable intermolecular
composites", "nano-structured energetic materials", or just
"nanoenergetics", these materials have been the subject of
numerous conferences, research papers, and patents in the past
two decades. 6] 7] 8] 9] 10] 11] It's also not difficult
to find recent published papers on methods of reliably igniting
such materials with minute low-power devices described as MEMS
(microelectromechanical systems) and manufactured much like
conventional integrated circuits. 12] 13] 14] 15] 16] 17]
18] It requires little imagination to grasp how such techniques
could be exploited to implement a covert, all-wireless
controlled demolition.
Aluminothermics at the WTC
The discovery of unexploded super-thermite in
the WTC dust augments a large body of evidence pointing to the
use of aluminothermic materials in the destruction of the
skyscrapers. The present review looks only at the evidence of
explosives found in the dust and debris expelled from the Twin
Towers.
Even before WTC dust was subjected to the kind
of microscopic scrutiny described in Active Thermitic Material
Discovered, several features of the dust analysis published by
the USGS pointed to the use of aluminothermics. For example, the
USGS data shows high levels of barium -- a fact that is
difficult to explain, barring pyrotechnics. The high levels of
iron and aluminum in the dust -- each ranging from 1.3 to 4.1
percent of the dust samples by weight -- also appears anomalous,
although prosaic sources of the metals can be imagined.
Aluminothermic Residues: Iron-Rich Spheroids
Micro-spheroidal particles in WTC dust
consisting mostly of iron were documented in at least two
scientific reports by 2005: a compilation of data by the USGS
and a report for the owners of a skyscraper adjacent to the
World Trade Center complex that sustained heavy damage in the
attack. 19]
Two images of iron-rich spheroids from the
USGS Particle Atlas of World Trade Center Dust. 20]
Illustration from a damage assessment report prepared for
Deutsche Bank, the owners of a skyscraper severely damaged by
projectiles from the South Tower. The report was commissioned,
in part, to determine the nature and extent of contamination of
the building, which is slated for demolition. Although it may be
overlooked, the significance of these nearly microscopic
iron-rich droplets is not difficult to grasp. Molten iron is one
of the two principal products of the thermite reaction, the
other being aluminum oxide, which tends to dissipate as an
aerosol. The molten iron condenses and solidifies into particles
whose size is a function of the thermite's reaction rate.
Fast-acting super-thermites produce tiny droplets that become
very nearly spherical due to surface tension.
The inescapable fact is that these spheroidal
droplets in the WTC dust look exactly like the products of the
combustion of nano-thermite explosives, and their discovery in
consistently substantial concentrations in diverse samples of
dust from the day of the attack weighs heavily against theories
that they were generated by something other than the Twin
Towers' destruction. Elemental analysis of these droplets
described below would show that they are dead ringers for known
aluminothermic residues.
In a 2007 paper, Steven Jones described the
importance of the iron-rich microspheres. 21]
Dr. Steven E. Jones describing molten metal
seen at Ground Zero. As usual, we search for possible prosaic
explanations for these metallic spherules in the WTC dust. The
most obvious possible source is the melting of large quantities
of steel in the buildings followed somehow by formation of tiny
droplets of molten steel. As discussed above, however, steel
melts at about 1538ºC (2800ºF) – and the temperatures in the
buildings were no where near sic] hot enough to melt steel, and
certainly not in large quantities required for the amounts seen
in the dust (and pouring out of the South Tower before
collapse). Furthermore, we have looked at the chemical
compositions of a number of iron-rich spherules as well as that
of steel, and the compositions are not the same at all. It
should not be surprising, however, as we analyze more spherules
to find some that are steel-like in composition, assuming that
thermite cutter-charges were in fact used to cut through steel.
We should then find both steel- and thermite-residue spherules.
Could these droplets be due to molten aluminum
alloy (from the jets) striking rusty steel and/or other office
materials to somehow generate the iron-rich spheres? We
performed experiments with molten aluminum poured onto rusty
steel, then onto crushed gypsum and concrete (on the rusty
steel) – and observed no formation of iron-rich droplets at all
nor any sign of vigorous chemical reactions. After addressing
arguments that the iron-rich droplets could have been produced
by the rubble pile or clean-up operation -- the dust samples
were collected too early and were too distant from the site to
have been thus contaminated -- Jones makes a rough estimate of
the total quantities of reactants involved in the attack based
on the fraction of the dust comprising the iron-rich spheres.
One can estimate the implied amount of
thermite needed to generate so many iron-rich spheres in the WTC
dust. In a sample of 32.1 grams of WTC dust, I observed with the
unaided eye two metallic-looking spheres, in addition to the
micron-sized spherules collected using a magnet. The mm-size
spheres proved to be iron-aluminum rich. The mass of these two
larger spheres (0.012g) found in this sample can be used to
provide a crude estimate of the fraction of iron-rich spheres in
the dust: 0.012g/32.1g = 0.04%. If the mass of the WTC dust was
about 30,000 tons, then the iron-rich spherule content would be
of the order of ten tons. This is a very rough estimate based on
one small sample, and is only provided to give an idea of the
amount of thermite-type reactants and products which may be
involved here. An investigation well beyond the scope of this
paper would look for purchases of aluminum and iron-oxide
powders (and sulfur) in multi-ton-quantities prior to 9/11/2001.
A paper published a year earlier than Active Thermitic Material
Discovered showed that metal-rich spheroids in WTC dust had
iron-to-oxygen ratios indicating abundant elemental iron, such
as found in thermite residues. It also pointed out several other
features of WTC remains that indicated exposure to temperatures
far above what could be produced by fires burning jet fuel and
office contents, including: iron-rich and silicate spherules,
volatilized lead, a molybdenum spherule, and materials with a
"Swiss-cheese appearance". 22] Molybdenum has a very high
melting point of 2617ºC.
Unignited Aluminothermics: Bi-Layered Chips
If finding aluminothermic residues in the form
of spheroidal micro-droplets was like finding fired bullets at a
crime scene, then the discoveries presented in Active Thermitic
Material Discovered are like finding the gun loaded with several
rounds of unspent ammunition that match the fired bullets.
Fig. 2 from Active Thermitic Material
Discovered showing chips from the four different dust samples.
Map of Lower Manhattan showing locations of
the four samples (blue points) and the Twin Towers (red points).
First described by Steven Jones in late 2007, distinctive chips
found in the dust samples had red and gray layers, were weakly
attracted to a magnet, and were composed mostly of iron, oxygen,
aluminum, silicon, and carbon. Jones and his colleagues
subsequently subjected the chips to detailed analysis using
scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy-dispersive
spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry
(DSC), and published their results in the Open Chemical Physics
Journal.
Provenance of the Samples
The paper's findings are based primarily on
the analysis of particles derived from four separate samples of
dust generated by the destruction of the Twin Towers, samples
whose provenance the paper describes in detail. Each of the
samples was collected by a different individual who has
described the time, place, and methods of collecting and storing
their sample. Each individual collected dust that had settled
directly after the fall of one of the Twin Towers, with the one
exception, Janette MacKinlay, who collected dust when allowed to
re-enter her apartment a week after it was carpeted with
shovel-fulls of dust and debris from the South Tower.
Physical Structure of the Chips
Chips having distinctive and similar physical
features were found in all four of the dust samples, ranging in
length from from about 0.2 to 3 mm. Each chip has stratified
layers of two types: a red layer and a lighter gray layer, where
each layer is between roughly 10 and 100 microns in thickness.
Despite their small size, the chips are readily visible in the
samples because of their flat shapes, distinctive color, and
layered structure. The chips are tough despite being as thin as
eggshells.
Portions of Fig. 4 and Fig. 5: Two scanning
electron microscope images of bi-layered chips. Magnification
reveals that the gray layers are composed of an opaque
homogeneous material, whereas the red layers have small
particles embedded in a matrix of slightly translucent material.
Fig. 9, showing a highly magnified view of the
red layer. Note the hexagonal plate-like particles, and the
smaller faceted particles, both lighter in color than the porous
matrix. At magnification of 50,000 the structure of the two
types of particles is clear: small bright particles having a
faceted shape and measuring about 100 nm in diameter, and larger
particles having a flat and often hexagonal shape and measuring
about 1000 nm across and 40 nm thick.
The particles are held in place and in close
proximity to each other by the porous matrix. Soaking the chips
in methyl ethyl ketone, a solvent that dissolves paint, caused
the red layer to swell while remaining intact.
Up to this point, I have reviewed only
characteristics of the chips revealed by macro- and micro-scopic
visual examination, but already the implications are stunning:
the chips are clearly a nano-engineered material with two types
of extremely small particles, each highly consistent in shape
and size, held in close stable proximity by a durable matrix
which is laminated to a hard homogeneous material. The student
of energetic materials will appreciate that this description
matches exactly that of a super-thermite in which the reactant
particles are suspended in a sol-gel matrix applied to a
substrate.
Chemical Composition of the Chips
Chemical analysis of the chips relied
primarily on performing elemental analysis of the materials and
their components using XEDS, and making inferences about the
materials' molecular composition based on the distributions of
elements in different structures. The paper first examines the
gray and red layers, and then zooms in on the components of the
red layers.
XEDS spectra of red and gray layers shows a
remarkable similarity across the different samples.
Fig. 7: "XEDS spectra obtained from the gray
layers from each of the four WTC dust samples ..." Fig. 6: "XEDS
spectra obtained from the red layers from each of the four WTC
dust samples ..." Whereas the gray layers contain mostly iron
and oxygen, the red layers have abundant aluminum as well, and
the three elements are in the ratio approximating that of Fe2O3
+ Al thermite. Thus, the red layers could be active thermitic
material, depending on their molecular composition. If active,
the material will have much of its aluminum in a metallic state,
unbound to oxygen or silicon.
The authors show that the aluminum is indeed
mostly in a pure metallic form, and that much of the oxygen is
bound to the iron. They ultimately show this conclusively
through elemental analysis of the components of the red layers:
the thin hexagonal plates, faceted grains, and embedding matrix
revealed by microscopic inspection.
Performing accurate elemental analysis of the
red layer components would require some ingenuity. Because the
XEDS machine steers an electron beam over a sample's surface to
gather information about its elemental composition, it can be
used to generate maps of the abundance of different elements
over the surface of the sample. However, the particles in the
red layer are slightly smaller than what can be resolved by
XEDS.
Fig. 10, showing the BSE image and
accompanying XEDS maps for Fe, Al, O, Si, and C of a portion of
an untreated red layer. Nonetheless, considering the XEDS maps
in conjunction with the much higher-resolution SEM images of the
corresponding portions of the sample makes clear that the
faceted grains are abundant in iron and oxygen and the thin
plates are abundant in aluminum. Also, although the distribution
of particles in the matrix is precisely homogeneous overall,
there are local clumps of grains and of plates, and when the
electron beam is focused on these clumps the XEDS detector
registers higher concentrations of the constituents of iron
oxide and of elemental aluminum, respectively.
To obtain more precise measurements of the
elemental compositions of the red layer components using XEDS,
those components somehow had to be separated, so that the
electron beam could be focused entirely on one component at a
time. Perhaps the porous matrix could be dissolved, allowing the
particles to be separated by centrifuging. Or better -- as the
investigators discovered serendipitously in an earlier
experiment to see if the chips dissolved in the paint-dissolving
solvent methyl ethyl keytone (MEK) -- the matrix could be
expanded by a factor of five while leaving the layer intact,
allowing in-situ examination. When the chips were soaked in MEK
with periodic agitation for 55 hours, the red layers swelled up
but remained intact and attached to their respective gray
layers, and the thin plates tended to migrate and aggregate.
Because of these structural changes produced by the MEK soaking,
it was possible to make much more accurate XEDS measurements of
the elemental compositions of the red layers' components.
Fig. 15, showing the BSE image and
accompanying XEDS maps of Fe, Al, O, Si, and C for a red-layer
sample soaked in MEK. XEDS maps of a soaked red layers show
correlations much more clearly than the untreated material. In
particular, oxygen is highly correlated, individually, to iron,
silicon, and carbon. Aluminum is inversely correlated to the
other elements.
Even more striking are the XEDS spectra found
by zooming in on areas having high concentrations of particular
elements. The three graphs below show the results of focusing
the electron beam on areas with: first, high silicon; second,
high aluminum; and third, high iron. The area of high silicon is
composed almost entirely of silicon and oxygen, the area of high
aluminum has aluminum far out of proportion with the other
elements, and the area of high iron is rich in oxygen, where the
oxygen and iron atoms are in the same 3-to-2 ratio as in the
thermite oxidizer Fe2O3.
A collage of Figs. 16, 17, and 18, whose
captions read, in the order of the back- to front-most graphs:
"XEDS spectrum from a silicon-rich region on the porous red
matrix of the MEK-treated red material" "XEDS spectrum obtained
at 10 kV from a probe of the region of high aluminum
concentration on the MEK-soaked red chip", and "XEDS spectrum
obtained from a probe of the region of high iron concentration
on the MEK-soaked red chip acquired with a 15 kV beam",
respectively. The authors draw the obvious conclusions from
their elemental analysis of components of the red layers: the
aluminum-rich particles are mostly elemental aluminum, with the
relatively small quantities of oxygen being accounted for by an
oxide layer on the particles' surfaces; the iron-rich particles
are primarily oxygen and iron, probably in the form of the
oxidizer Fe2O3 which matches the observed 3:2 ratio of oxygen to
iron atoms; and the matrix is composed almost entirely of
silicon, oxygen, and carbon, where most of the carbon was washed
away by the MEK. The matrix also may contain hydrogen, which is
not detected by XEDS analysis.
Given the data in Active Thermitic Material
Discovered I summarize the composition of the chips as follows:
gray layer: a hard homogeneous ceramic
composition: iron and oxygen red layer: an engineered
nano-composite substance, comprising: matrix: a nano-structured
semi-transparent porous material composition: silicon, oxygen,
and carbon particles: homogeneously embedded in the matrix and
consisting of: thin predominantly hexagonal plates dimensions:
~40nm thickness, ~1000nm diameter composition: mostly aluminum,
with small amounts of carbon and oxygen rhombic faceted grains
dimensions: ~100nm diameter composition: mostly iron and oxygen,
probably as Fe2O3, with small amounts of silicon, sulfur, and
carbon Thermal Behavior of the Chips
The structural and chemical analysis of the
chips shows that, in every relevant aspect, they fit the
description of an engineered thermitic nanocomposite. This
prompts the obvious question: do the chips have the thermal
characteristics of an explosive aluminothermic material?
Although it might be difficult or impossible
to measure the explosive power of the chips, given their minute
size, it is possible to measure their exothermic behavior and
thereby calculate their energy density using a differential
scanning calorimeter (DSC), a device that gradually increases
the temperature of a sample and records the amount of heat it
absorbs or emits as a function of temperature.
Fig. 19 compares the DSC traces of a chip from
each of the four samples. A DSC trace is an approximate graph of
energy density with respect to temperature, the height of the
trace indicating the rate at which the sample's material absorbs
or emits thermal energy. DSC traces of energetic materials such
as incendiaries and explosives have a characteristic shape that
remains near zero up to a certain temperature range -- the
ignition temperature -- and thereafter spikes sharply upward.
The energy density of the material can be estimated by
calculating the area under the curve.
Chips from each of the four samples, when
subjected to thermal analysis using the DSC, clearly show the
exothermic behavior of an energetic material. As seen in Fig.
19, the heights of the graphs vary significantly from one chip
to the next. The authors attribute this variation to the fact
that the chips had different ratios of active red material to
inert gray material.
Based on the DSC analysis, the authors
estimate the energy density of the four chips at 1.5, 3, 6, and
7.5 kJ/g, respectively. This compares with a maximum yield from
conventional thermite of slightly less than 4 kJ/g. In a final
section of the paper underscoring the need for further research
into the red-gray chips, the authors suggest a possible
explanation for the exceptional energy content of the red-layer
material: perhaps elements in the porous matrix, such as oxygen,
carbon, and hydrogen, contribute to the reaction.
Fig. 29, labeled "DSC trace of sample 1 (blue
line) compared with DSC of xerogel Fe2O3/UFG Al nanocomposite
(from Tillotson et al. 28]). Both DSC traces show completion of
reaction at temperatures below 560ºC". A comparison of DSC
traces of the red-gray chips to a published DSC trace from an
xerogel/nano-thermite energetic nanocomposite shows the chips to
be more energetic and to have a lower ignition temperature.
Ignition Residue Analysis
Because DSC processing causes the chips to
ignite, the investigators studied the residues and found, not
surprisingly, minute iron-rich spheroids, as well as
silicon-rich spheroids. When subjected to XEDS analysis, the
iron-rich spheroids showed iron far in excess of oxygen, as
expected in an aluminothermic residue.
The paper contains the following micrographs
and corresponding XEDS spectra of spheroids from three different
sources: residue from the ignition of commercial thermite,
residue from the ignition of the red-gray chips, and World Trade
Center dust.
Fig. 24: "Spheres formed during ignition of
commercial thermite, with corresponding typical XDS spectrum"
Fig. 25: "Spheres formed during ignition of
red/gray chip in DSC, with corresponding typical XEDS spectrum
..."
Fig. 27 and 28: "Spheres extracted from WTC
dust" and "XEDS spectrum from a sphere found in the WTC dust"
Conclusions
I hope that my review of Active Thermitic
Material Discovered, being summary and somewhat interpretive,
will serve as encouragement to read the paper itself, which, as
scientific papers go, is remarkably accessible. The paper's
conclusions -- a clear and cogent summary of the results -- are
reproduced here in their entirety:
We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips
in significant numbers in dust associated with the World Trade
Center destruction. We have applied SEM/XEDS and other methods
to characterize the small-scale structure and chemical signature
of these chips, especially of their red component. The red
material is most interesting and has the following
characteristics:
It is composed of intimately mixed aluminum,
iron, oxygen, silicon and carbon. Lesser amounts of other
potentially reactive elements are sometimes present, such as
potassium, sulfur, barium, lead and copper. 4,6] The primary
elements (Al, Fe, O, Si, C) are typically all present in
particles at the scale of tens to hundreds of nanometers, and
detailed XEDS mapping shows intimate mixing. On treatment with
methyl-ethyl ketone solvent, some segregation of components was
observed. Elemental aluminum became sufficiently concentrated to
be clearly identified in the pre-ignition material. Iron oxide
appears in faceted grains roughly 100 nm across whereas the
aluminum appears in plate-like structures. The small size of the
iron oxide particles qualifies the material to be characterized
as nano-thermite or super-thermite. Analysis shows that iron and
oxygen are present in a ratio consistent with Fe2O3. The red
material in all four WTC dust samples was similar in this way.
Iron oxide was found in the pre-ignition material whereas
elemental iron was not. From the presence of elemental aluminum
and iron oxide in the red material, we conclude that it contains
the ingredients of thermite. As measured using DSC, the material
ignites and reacts vigorously at a temperature of approximately
430ºC, with a rather narrow exotherm, matching fairly closely an
independent observation on a known super-thermite sample. The
low temperature of ignition and the presence of iron-oxide
grains less than 120 nm show that the material is not
conventional thermite (which ignites at temperatures above
900ºC) but very likely a form of super-thermite. After igniting
several red/gray chips in a differential scanning calorimeter
run to 700ºC, we found numerous iron-rich spheres and spheroids
in the residue, indicating that a very high-temperature reaction
had occurred, since the iron-rich product clearly must have been
molten to form these shapes. In several spheres, elemental iron
was verified since the iron content significantly exceeded the
oxygen content. We conclude that a high-temperature
reduction-oxidation reaction has occurred in the heated chips,
namely, the thermite reaction. The spheroids produced by the DSC
tests and by the flame test have an XEDS signature (Al, Fe, O,
Si, C) which is depleted in carbon and aluminum relative to the
original red material. This chemical signature strikingly
matches the chemical signature of the spheroids produced by
igniting commercial thermite, and of many of the micro-spheres
found in the WTC dust. 5] The presence of an organic substance
in the red material is expected for super-thermite formulations
in order to produce high gas pressures upon ignition and thus
make them explosive. The nature of this organic material in
these chips merits further exploration. We note that it is
likely also an energetic material, in that the total energy
release sometimes observed in DSC tests exceeds the theoretical
maximum energy of the classic thermite reaction. Discussion
The implications of the discovery of unspent
aluminothermic explosives and matching residues in World Trade
Center dust are staggering. There is no conceivable reason for
there to have been tons of high explosives in the Towers except
to demolish them, and demolition is blatantly incompatible with
the official 9/11 narrative that the skyscrapers collapsed as a
result of the jetliner impacts and fires.
The discovery of active thermitic materials
adds to a vast body of evidence that the total destruction of
the Towers were controlled demolitions, and to the subset of
that evidence indicating the use of aluminothermic materials to
implement those demolitions.
That discovery also undermines the oft-heard
claim that no explosives residues were found, a claim that was
never compelling, given the apparent lack of evidence that any
official agency looked for evidence of explosive residues of any
kind. Worse, the public record shows that NIST not only failed
to look for such evidence, it repeatedly evaded requests by
scientists and researchers to examine numerous facts indicating
explosives and incendiaries .
I expect that collapse theory defenders will
dismiss the discovery of active thermitic material in the same
way that they dismissed the thermite residues: by claiming that
the samples were contaminated and/or that there are other
explanations for the origin of these artifacts than pyrotechnics
in the WTC Towers. "Debunkers" have proposed that the iron-rich
spheres were fly ash residues embedded in the Towers' concrete,
ignoring that the iron constituents in fly ash are oxides rather
than elemental iron. How will they explain away the bi-layered
chips, whose red layers have iron oxide and elemental aluminum
in the ratio of Fe2O3 thermite as nano-sized particles of
uniform shape?
As the work of explaining away the direct
evidence of explosives becomes more daunting, we will probably
see even more reliance on the mainstay of arguments against
controlled demolition: those alleging that insurmountable
obstacles would face such a project. Three of the most salient
such workability arguments are:
That the surreptitious preparation of the Twin
Towers was too prone to exposure. That setting up the
demolitions to start from the Towers' crash zones was
technically unfeasible. That thermite is unsuitable as a tool of
controlled demolition. These arguments have taken on the
appearance of straw men with their continued repetition --
including by NIST itself -- after being publicly shown to be
based on false assumptions. The 9-11Research FAQ on Demolition
addressed the first two starting in 2004, and Steven Jones and
others addressed the third starting in 2006 by pointing out the
existence of explosive variants of thermite.
FAQ: Controlled Demolition With
Aluminothermics
With the publication of Active Thermitic
Material Discovered it becomes even easier to imagine plausible
scenarios that answer workability arguments. The characteristics
of super-thermites and the features of the thermitic fragments
described in the paper, combined with a survey of methods for
the programmable wireless detonation of energetic materials
available in 2001, provides straightforward answers to the most
frequently-heard questions about the implementation of
controlled demolition of the Twin Towers -- answers that
thoroughly undermine assertions that controlled demolitions
using aluminothermics was not feasible.
Following are the three arguments listed above
re-phrased as questions. I start with the last argument, which
is addressed in detail in the discussion section of Active
Thermitic Material Discovered.
How Could Thermite, an Incendiary, Demolish
the Towers, When Buildings Are Normally Demolished Using
High-Explosive Cutter Charges?
As is obvious from a review of the literature
on energetic materials, thermite-based pyrotechnics can be
engineered to have explosive power similar to conventional
high-explosives while providing greater energy density and much
greater stability. Thus, aluminothermic cutter charges similar
to the shaped charges used in commercial demolitions are
entirely feasible. However, a variety of forms of thermite might
be used to demolish a steel-framed skyscraper in a way that uses
no cutter charges at all, as in this Hypothetical Blasting
Scenario, which posits three types of aluminothermic
pyrotechnics: a thermate incendiary coating sprayed onto
steelwork, nano-thermite kicker charges placed near steelwork,
and thin-film nano-composite high-explosives distributed
throughout the building. The strategically applied incendiary
coatings, ignited several minutes before the building's
take-down, weaken the structure; but obvious failures start only
when the kicker charges break key supports, and the thin-film
high-explosives begin pulverizing the building from the initial
failure zone outward.
Why Weren't Demolition Charges Triggered by
the Plane Crashes or the Subsequent Fires?
Perhaps the plane crashes did trigger some of
the charges. If so, their blasts were lost in the jet-crash
fireballs, and their damage was insufficient to budge the
Towers' tops. Thermite incendiaries in the core ignited by the
crash would not be visible over the fires, unless dislodged to
the building's exterior, as apparently happened in the South
Tower. However, this probably wasn't an issue because, in
contrast to conventional explosives, thermite has a very high
ignition temperature -- above 900ºC. Thus, thermitic
incendiaries used around the crash zones could have been
designed to survive the fires. As for thermitic explosives, they
could have been designed to detonate only on exposure to the
very extreme conditions of temperature and pressure provided by
specialized detonators, and to deflagrate (merely burn) in
response to the kinds of pressures and temperatures produced by
the plane crashes and fires. As a fail-safe, the demolition
sequence could have been programmed to be triggered by premature
ignitions of pyrotechnics.
How Could the Demolition Equipment Have Been
Installed in the Twin Towers Without Tenants Noticing?
The simple answer is by disguising the
equipment as normal building components, so that not even the
workers installing the components are aware of the concealed
pyrotechnics. Three aspects of the Hypothetical Blasting
Scenario that facilitate this are: the stability and specificity
of ignition conditions achievable with aluminothermic
pyrotechnics, minimization of the required access to steelwork,
and the use of a completely wireless ignition control system.
Glossary of Analytical Methods
An electron microscope equipped with an EDAX
GENESIS 2000 X-Ray Microanalysis System.
EDS spectrum of a yellow paint sample, from
ModernMicroscopy.com. EDS spectra allow the easy identification
of the most abundant elements in a sample, while requiring some
analysis to estimate relative quantities. BSE: Backscattered
Electron imaging A method of SEM imaging based on the detection
of scattering of the electron beam.
DSC: Differential Scanning Calorimetry A
technique that determines the difference in the amount of heat
required to increase the temperature of an experimental sample
and reference. A differential scanning calorimeter outputs a DSC
trace which shows the relationship of heat flux to temperature,
and thereby exothermic or endothermic behavior of the sample.
23]
SEM: Scanning Electron Microscopy A type of
electron microscopy in which a beam of high-energy electrons
scans the surface to a sample to image its structure or
composition.
XEDS: X-ray Energy-Dispersive Spectroscopy A
technique for determining the elemental composition of a sample
using an instrument that analyzes the spectrum of emitted X-rays
from a sample as a beam of high energy electrons is directed
onto its surface. 24]
A single workstation may provide integrated
BSE and XEDS capabilities using SEM equipment fitted with
specialized BSE and XEDS detectors, where software controls the
electron beam, sample positioning, and detector parameters.
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Mysteries of the Twin Towers A Survey of
Available Evidence On the Collapse of the World Trade Center
Towers R. Herbst; BAAE, ME Rev. 12.0 February 2009 The WTC
Complex 1] Thanks to Eric Hufschmid, Dave McGowan, and the
webmaster of serendipity.li for explicit permission in the
posting of images. Thanks to Sami Yli-Karjanmaa for corrections
to the text in discussing his 9/11 activism. Special thanks to
Connie Eichenlaub for help in text editing up through version
11. Background According to media reports, American Airlines
Boeing 767 Flight 11 crashed between floors 94 and 98 of the
North Tower at 8:46 a.m. The North Tower collapsed at 10:29 a.m.
According to media reports, United Airlines Boeing 767 Flight
175 crashed between floors 78 and 85 of the South Tower at 9:03
a.m. The South Tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m. Crash and collapse
times are based on seismic data from the Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory in Palisades, New York. US Department of State times
were essentially identical, except time of collapse of the South
Tower was given as 10:05 a.m., rather than 9:59 a.m. According
to the State Department, 92 people were on board Flight 11, and
64 people were on board Flight 175. 2] Architect Minoru
Yamasaki was commissioned to design the World Trade Center with
the New York firm of Emery Roth and Sons. Structural engineers
John Skilling and Leslie Robertson of Worthington, Skilling,
Helle and Jackson (WSH&J), the Seattle based World Class
structural engineering Firm of Record, worked on the project.
This firm is responsible for the structural design of many major
modern structures, including Columbia Center in Seattle. 3]
Some sources have suggested the new “tubular” design of the WTC
Towers made them structurally suspect 4]. Others have suggested
the WTC towers were otherwise “vulnerable.” 5] However, their
“tubular” design creates a very strong and resilient structure,
and continues to be very successful. 6] The horrific “collapse”
of 1 and 2 World Trade Center, the “Twin Towers”, was the key
event of the attacks which has provided the Bush administration
almost limitless power to do as it pleases, merely by invoking
the phrase "Remember 9/11". That power was solidified by the
passage of S.J. Resolution 23 on September 14, 2001, authorizing
the President to "use all necessary and appropriate force
against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines
planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks
that occurred on September 11, 2001. 7] We now have perpetual
war, wiretapping, extraordinary rendition, torture, the “Unitary
Executive”, the Military Tribunal Act (which effectively creates
an American dictatorship), billions in profits for the military
industries, and world-wide angst. So, why did the towers
collapse? By now, six years later, we should have a definitive
answer, but we do not. We have the American Society of Civil
Engineers (ASCE) study, the Federal Emergency Management Agency
Building Performance Assessment (FEMA BPA), the Silverstein
reports, the 9/11 Commission Report; the National Institute of
Standards & Technology (NIST) reports, the so called “Purdue
Study,” and ARUP commentary. Although these reports vary in
details, and in some cases contradict one another, what we
finally have is the Official Story, quoted verbatim by the US
media: the impact of commercial aircraft and the ensuing fire
caused by aircraft fuel led to the collapse of WTC 1 and 2, the
North and South World Trade Center Towers, on September 11,
2001. The truth of the Official Story has never been proven but
has been implicitly assumed by all of the “Official”
investigation reports. David Ray Griffin’s book The 9/11
Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions discusses this
concept as applied to the 9/11 Commission Report. 8] This paper
does not presume to know what happened on 9/11. It merely
collects and organizes available information. Although some
analysis is provided, it is up to the reader to decide what it
means. Section 8 provides a brief list of relevant questions.
(Please note that a lot of information is provided in the end
notes, which appear in a separate file. Also note that
mainstream articles are disappearing from internet archives, so
links to original articles may not work. This is especially true
for the New York Times. In these cases, links to copies of the
articles are provided wherever possible. ) Similar studies on
9/11 aircraft may be available at
http://seattle911visibilityproject.org/911_aircraft.htm Contents
at a glance: 1.0 The Case for Controlled Demolition 1.1 First
experts suggest explosives were used. 1.2 Explosives Considered
1.2.1 Problems with the Dust 1.2.2 North Tower Antenna and
“upper block” 1.2.3 Symmetrical, quickly, completely 1.2.4
Sliced Steel 1.2.5 Squibs 1.2.6 Ejected material 1.2.7 Molten
metal in the Basements for weeks 1.2.8 Surface Hot Spots 1.2.9
Vaporized Steel 1.2.10 Massive Destruction 1.2.11 Afterglow
1.2.12 Vaporized Humans? 2.0 Eye and Ear Witness Reports 2.1
Suppression of Photographic Evidence? 2.2. Reports of
explosions. 2.2.1 Reports of explosions prior to aircraft impact
and/or emanating from lower floors 2.2.2 Reports of explosions
probably after aircraft impact but prior to collapse. 2.2.3
Unexpected Damage on the 22nd floor, lobby, and basement of N.
Tower probably after aircraft impact but prior to collapse 2.2.4
Reports of explosions and tower swaying at the time of collapse.
2.3 Reports of explosions by members of the NYC Fire Department
2.3.1 Attempt to Discredit NYFD? 2.3.2 Statements going directly
to the media 2.3.3 Real time audiotapes of communication between
rescue services during the attacks 2.3.4 Interviews and Oral
Histories taken after the attacks 3.0 How does the seismic data
fit in? 3.1 The Earthquakes 3.2 Is the seismic record consistent
with NIST conclusions? 3.3 Seismic activity at time of aircraft
impact 4.0 WTC Security 4.1 Insurance 4.2 Damage to FBI Offices
4.3 Anomalies leading up to the Day 4.4 Security firms 4.5 A
note on “Urban Renewal” of the Twin Towers 5.0 History and its
Revision 5.1 The History of Fire Induced Collapse of Steel
Buildings 5.2.0 The First Wave of Politically Correct
Revisionist Theories 5.2.1 Fire Theory 5.2.2 Steel Melted By
Heat 5.2.3 Steel Weakened By Heat 5.2.4 Refutation of Early Fire
and Heat Theories. 5.2.5 The Problem of a Completely Symmetrical
collapse 5.2.6 Pancake Theory 5.3.0 The FEMA Building
Performance Assessment (BPA) 5.3.1 Executive Summary 5.3.2
Deepest mystery makes Appendix C 5.3.3 Immediate Reaction to the
FEMA BPA Report 5.3.4 Structural Engineers 5.3.5 Firefighters
5.3.6 Congress 5.3.7 Media 5.4.0 The 9/11 Commission 5.4.1 The
9/11 Commission Report 5.4.2 9/11 Commission Makeup 5.4.3 9/11
Commission Behavior 5.5.0 The Silverstein Studies 5.6.0 The NIST
Investigation 5.6.1 Review of Documents: 5.6.1.1 Many relevant
documents not mentioned or missing 5.6.1.2 Original tower design
features and claims 5.6.2 Interviews 5.6.3 Lab Tests: Fire and
NIST 5.6.4 Analysis and Simulation 5.6.4.1 WTC tower structure
5.6.4.2 NIST Simulation of Aircraft Damage to Tower Structure.
5.6.4.3 Descending Block Scenario during “collapse initiation.”
5.6.4.4 Where is the momentum transfer analysis? 5.6.5 Steven
Jones on Kevin Ryan and NIST: 5.6.6 The Engineering Community
5.6.7 Purdue Study: A NIST prop? 5.6.8 Secrecy 5.6.9 The real
goal of the NIST “investigation” ? 5.6.10 Legal challenges filed
against NIST 5.6.11 More Scientists Architects and Engineers
question NIST Results 5.7.0 How do the Official Investigations
Compare? 5.7.1 A Continuity of Faces 5.7.2 North Tower Antenna
5.7.3 Amount of jet fuel burned within the WTC towers 5.7.4
References to explosives, explosive, or anomalous
characteristics 5.7.5 Aircraft Impact Damage 5.7.6 “Pancaking”,
“Progressive Collapse”; Mode of failure; New building codes 6.0
Bush Science 7.0 Alternative Theories 7.1 Steven Jones Thermite/Thermate
Alternative 7.2 Gordon Ross Four Phase Attack Alternative 8.0
Wrapping it up with a few questions 9.0 Fair Use Notice ATV
Units assist in cleanup September 11 2001 – June 12 2002 9] 1.0
The Case for Controlled Demolition 1.1 First experts suggest
explosives were used. On September 11, 2001, American explosives
expert Van Romero said: "My opinion is, based on the videotapes,
that after the airplanes hit the World Trade Center there were
some explosive devices inside the buildings that caused the
towers to collapse.” The Albuquerque Journal further noted: “The
detonation of bombs within the towers is consistent with a
common terrorist strategy,” Romero said. “One of the things
terrorist events are noted for is a diversionary attack and a
secondary device,” Romero said. “Attackers detonate an initial,
diversionary explosion that attracts emergency personnel to the
scene, then detonate a second explosion,” he said. Romero said
that if his scenario is correct, the diversionary attack would
have been the collision of the planes into the towers. 10] The
next day, Mark Taylor, demolition expert noted in New Scientist:
“it cascaded down like an implosion.” 11] Webster Tarpley notes
European expert sources who immediately suggested the
possibility of explosives in the towers. On Sept. 12, the Danish
"bomb expert" Mr. Bent Lund stated: "an estimated amount of
circa 1 tons of Extra high-explosives Bombs must have been
detonated inside the World Trade Center complex in order to make
the Towers collapse in the manner they did." 12] Jens Claus
Hansen, a high ranking officer of the Danish Military Academy,
on 9/11/01 stated in an interview: “Additional bombs must have
been placed inside the WTC towers--otherwise they would not have
collapsed as they actually did.” Former NATO General Keld
Hillingsoe in the same interview stated: “Additional bombs must
have been installed inside buildings.” On Sept 13, 2001, Hugo
Bachmann, Professor Emeritus of building dynamics and earth
quake engineering at the Swiss Eidgenossische Technische
Hochschule in Zurich saw two possible scenarios, and felt that
both should be investigated. The first was fire and its effects
on the steel supports; the second, an additional terrorist
action. The article quoted by Tarpley noted that Bachmann “could
imagine that the perpetrators had installed explosives on key
supports in a lower floor before the attack.” 13] 1.2
Explosives Considered Why would explosives experts say that
explosives were used? Eric Hufschmid, J. M. King, and more
recently Dr. Steven Jones, have noted that the explosives theory
explains very well the apparent removal of all structural
support and the neat demolition-like collapse of the towers.
14] Dr. Jones notes: “Unlike WTC7, the twin towers appear to
have been exploded ‘top-down’ rather than proceeding from the
bottom - which is unusual for controlled demolition but clearly
possible, depending on the order in which explosives are
detonated.” As first proposed by Eric Hufschmid in his book
Painful Questions, Jones notes that explosives may have been
placed on higher floors of the towers and exploded via radio
signals so as to have early explosions near the region where the
plane entered the tower: “Certainly this hypothesis ought to be
seriously considered in an independent investigation using all
available data.” 15] Although Van Romero later “changed his
mind”, he still admitted the collapses looked like demolitions
16] This is true in a number of ways. Dr. David Ray Griffin has
noted eleven characteristics of the WTC collapses consistent
with “Controlled Demolition”: 1) Sudden Onset; 2) Straight Down;
3) Almost Free-Fall Speed; 4) Total Collapse; 5) Sliced Steel;
6) Pulverization of Concrete and Other Materials; 7) Dust
Clouds; 8) Horizontal Ejections; 9) Demolition Rings; 10) Sounds
Produced by Explosions; 11) Molten Steel. 17] 1.2.1 Problems
with the Dust Concrete and all other non-metallic objects were
pulverized to dust. Rather than a piling up of shattered
concrete as we might expect from non-explosive-caused
progressive collapse ("official theory"), we find that most of
the Towers material (concrete, carpet, etc.) is converted to
flour-like powder WHILE the buildings are falling. 18] Danish
video expert Henrik Melvang claims his four hour video shows
five distinct "DUST CLOUDS" from Demolition Bombs exploding far
below the point of airplane impact within the WTC. 19] The
first event in the collapse of each building was a mushroom
cloud of dust above each building. Jeff King (2003), notes: " A
great amount of] very fine concrete dust is ejected from the top
of the building very early in the collapse. . . when] concrete
slabs would have been] bumping into each other at only] 20 or
30 mph.” As King points out, dust clouds were created far above
the impact zones. 20] What is the energy source needed to
produce this fine dust at the beginning of the collapses, before
gravity has a chance to do anything? 21] Using a photograph
from Chapter 5 of the FEMA Building Performance Assessment, Jim
Hoffman estimated that the dust cloud from the North Tower grew
to about 5 times the volume of the building within 30 seconds of
the start of the collapse. He then calculated the energy
required to allow the observed volume of expansion of dust, and
found that it exceeded energy available from gravitational
collapse by a factor of 10. 22] WTC Complex: From FEMA BPA 22]
This is in marked contrast to the official theory which,
according to Derrick Grimmer, proposes that 30% of the
gravitational collapse energy was necessary to create the
pyroclastic cloud of debris. 23] 1.2.2 North Tower Antenna
Video frames show that the North Tower antenna droops prior to
the adjacent columns prior to collapse. 24] A sinking antenna
suggests the building core failed, which is usually how
buildings are intentionally demolished. Frames 5,6,7:the white
portion of the antenna at the top of Frame 7 is a bit longer,
while the walls have not yet moved. This suggests the antenna,
and thus the building core, began to collapse first 24] 1.2.3
Symmetrical, quickly, completely The collapses progress rapidly,
at almost free fall speed, so they are completed in under 16
seconds 25]. The collapses proceed floor-by-floor in a nearly
perfectly balanced and symmetrical manner, with debris falling
largely within a symmetric boundary around the buildings’
footprints. 26] S. Tower “Collapse”: From Hufshmid 26] 1.2.4
Sliced Steel Griffin has noted that in controlled demolitions of
steel-frame buildings, explosives are used to slice the steel
columns and beams into pieces of desired lengths. 27]
Controlled Demolition Incorporated, the company selected to
remove the rubble from the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah
building in Oklahoma City, was also selected to cleanup rubble
from the WTC. CDI advertises its ability to demolish steel
columns into pieces matching the lifting capacity of available
equipment. Interestingly much of the WTC steel rubble could be
stacked conveniently on standard flatbed trailers. 28] Jones
notes that slicing of steel for demolition purposes is routinely
done by use of high temperature “cutter charges” made from
exothermic materials such as thermite, HMX, and RDX. 29] He
notes these “cutter-charges” are typically placed at about a 45
degree angle to the length of the vertical steel beams of a
building to be demolished. 30] Workers place cutter charges in
building demolition. Jones 30] He also notes several instances
of photographs of WTC wreckage showing truncated steel columns
very similar to what would be expected from the use of such
cutter charges. 31] Jones has also argued that WTC cleanup
crews used only oxy-acetylene torches, and did not use thermite.
Angle cut box columns: Jones/Hufschmid 31] 1.2.5 Squibs
Photographs show symmetrical “squibs” well below collapsing
floors. As opposed to the dust blown out of successive floors
below the collapse, these “squibs” are stationary and ere
eventually overtaken by the collapsing floors. Such squibs are
associated with controlled demolition. 32] Jets of Material
(squibs) From North Tower. Courtesy Eric Hufschmid 32] Griffin
notes still another common feature of collapses induced by
explosions are “demolition rings” in which series of small
explosions run rapidly around a building. 33] 1.2.6 Ejected
material Some material was ejected horizontally at high speeds.
Objects were thrown laterally several hundred feet. At bottom,
debris was scattered in 500 ft radius. Some clips show material
thrown upward, and building fragments were found imbedded in
surrounding buildings. 34] Debris ejected from S. Tower 600,000
lb. Steel beam imbedded in WFC 3 35] WTC steel imbedded in
adjacent building 34] Dr. Stephan Grossman has presented much
evidence documenting the incredible energy of the “collapses” as
well as the resulting destruction. He notes a steel beam
weighing 600,000 pounds (270 metric tons; about twice the weight
of a 767-200ER), which was thrown laterally for over 390 ft, to
imbed deeply into the World Financial Center 3. 35] 1.2.7
Surface Hot Spots Five days after the collapse, on September 16,
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) used an
Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) to
collect thermal data at the WTC site. The data revealed a number
of surface thermal hot spots in the region of collapse. Analysis
of the data indicated temperatures greater than 800 deg F in
these hot spots (some over 1300 deg. F). 36] From U. S.
Geological Survey Report see 36] 1.2.8 Molten metal in the
Basements for weeks The surface hot spots were indicative of
what was below the surface: Numerous confirmed references to
“molten steel” appear in the 9/11 WTC literature. According to
Mark Loizeaux, president of CDI, "pools of molten steel were
found” at the bottoms of the elevator shafts of the main towers
down seven basement] levels, "three, four, and five weeks
later, when the rubble was being removed." As has been noted,
construction steel has an extremely high melting point of about
2,800° Fahrenheit 1535° Celsius]. 37] Steven Jones cites
several confirmations of molten metal, including Dr Keith Eaton,
and Leslie Robertson, WTC structural engineer. 38] A video clip
provides eye-witness evidence regarding this metal at ground
zero. 39] The observer notes that the observed surface of this
metal is still reddishorange some six weeks after 9/11. 1.2.9
Vaporized Steel A February 2002 New York Times article noted
that pieces of steel were found that were "apparently melted and
vaporized not solely because of the heat of fires, but also
because of a corrosive contaminant that was somehow released in
the conflagrations. This Swiss cheese appearance shocked all of
the firewise professors, who expected to see distortion and
bending--but not holes." 40] This anomaly was cited in Appendix
C of the FEMA Report. 1.2.10 Massive Destruction On September 8,
2002 Colonel John O'Dowd of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
appeared on The History Channel. O'Dowd, who is no stranger to
disaster scenes, had never seen anything like the remains of the
twin towers. "At the World Trade Center sites," he said, "it
seemed like everything was pulverized." There was nothing
recognizable in the debris -- nothing to indicate that that
pulverized debris had been, just seconds earlier, a functioning
10,000,000-square-foot office building. O'Dowd had been present
at the scene of the partially collapsed Oklahoma City federal
building. Though the collapse of the Alfred P. Murrah building
was definitely facilitated by one or more powerful explosive
charges, the debris from that collapse was not pulverized to the
degree that it was at the site of the WTC towers, which
presumably was acted on only by gravity. 41] Dr Grossman
provides an image from CNN.com showing damage to dozens of
buildings around the WTC Complex. 42] One of the more unusual
artifacts to emerge from the rubble was an object which has come
to be known as "the meteorite" a combination of steel and
concrete fused by the heat into one single element. 43] 1.2.11
Afterglow Many videos show an afterglow or a “flare” at the end
of the collapses of both the North and South Towers.
911research.wtc7.net has several videos showing this effect.
44] Afterglow of WTC1 Collapse 44] 1.2.12 Vaporized Humans?
According to an Associate Press article of 1/15/02, Dr. Charles
Hirsch, chief medical examiner of the City of New York,
triggered an angry response when he told grieving relatives that
many bodies had been "vaporized." The goal of his office was to
identify at least 2000 of the 2823 victims. Dr. Michael Baden,
the state's chief forensic pathologist said that most bodies
should be identifiable because the fires ... did not reach the
3,200-degree 1760 deg C.], 30-minute level necessary to
incinerate a body. Dr. Cyril Wecht, a top forensic pathologist
in Pittsburgh said the combination of fire and compression from
tons of rubble could reduce a human body to a small amount of
tissue and bone. 45] After one year, Hirsch's office had
identified 1,401 victims. 46] Almost six years later, as of
April 2007, more than 1100 victims still do not have
identifiable remains. 47] After the Oklahoma City bombing, all
168 people killed were eventually identified. And the towers,
according to the official story, were acted upon by nothing more
than the effects of fire and gravity. 2.0 Eye and Ear Witness
Reports 2.1 Suppression of Photographic Evidence? Photographs at
Ground Zero were prohibited, ostensibly for “humanitarian”
reasons. Tarpley notes Rudolph Giuliani’s autobiography
Leadership, in which he states “I noticed a disturbing
phenomenon – hundreds of people carrying disposable cameras and
hand held video cameras. I understood the impulse…At the same
time, this was a crime scene and a dangerous one. I did not want
anyone to get hurt or to damage evidence as they scouted out the
best angle for their snapshots.” The result was his infamous
order that all photos were illegal around the complex. 48] 2.2.
Reports of explosions. The mainstream media generally did not
report explosions. Reports continue to surface however, and
there is now much photographic 49] and eye witness evidence
which suggests that explosions actually did occur within the
Twin Towers prior to their collapse. Steve Evans, BBC 59] Mike
Pecoraro, Engineer 54] W. Rodriguez/G. Bush 53] 2.2.1 Reports
of explosions prior to aircraft impact and/or emanating from
lower floors All damage in both towers was implicitly assumed in
the “Official Story” to have occurred only after, and because of
aircraft impact and fire. Not all reports support these views:
The Christian Science Monitor reported the experience of Tom
Elliott, who was at work in his office at the Aeon Corp., an
insurance brokerage firm, on the 103rd floor of the South tower.
Sometime after 8:30 a.m., a bright flash of light startled him,
and a rumble shook the structure. Flames appeared to be crawling
up the outside of the building, along with dark smoke and
debris, burning paper and ash. Elliott and two others headed
down the building stairwell. As they reached the 67th floor,
United Airlines Flight 175 slammed into the 78th floor of their
tower at 9:03 a.m. Although its spectacularly televised impact
was above Elliot, at first he and those around him thought an
explosion had come from below. An incredible sound – he calls it
an “exploding sound” – shook the building and a tornado of hot
air and smoke and ceiling tiles and bits of drywall came flying
up the stairwell. “In front of me, the wall split from the
bottom up.” 50] William Rodriguez, age 44, worked at the WTC
for 20 years in building maintenance. He was in an office on
sub-level (basement) 1 of the North Tower when it was hit by
flight 11. "When I heard the sound of the explosion, the floor
beneath my feet vibrated, the walls started cracking and
everything started shaking," said Rodriguez, who was huddled
together with at least 14 other people in the office. "Seconds
after …. I hear another explosion from way above," said
Rodriguez. "Although I was unaware at the time, this was the
airplane hitting the tower …" Rodriguez said Anthony Saltamachia,
supervisor for the American Maintenance Co., was one of the
people in the room who stands ready to verify his story.
Subsequently Rodriguez helped to save hundreds of people in the
North tower, by opening doors with a master key for fire
fighters before he was finally turned back at the 39th floor. He
also added that he heard a series of small explosions going off
between the 20th and 30th floors while making his way through
the stairwell to the top floors. Although initially considered
an official hero, he soon concluded that the explosions
occurring before flight 11 hit the tower proved the towers were
brought down by controlled demolition. In an effort to open a
fair and honest investigation as to why the WTC collapsed,
Rodriguez has approached and been ignored by government
officials, the 9/11 Commission, and the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST). As of 2005, he was being
represented by Attorney Phil Berg in a RICO law suit against GW
Bush and his administration. 51] Other independent reports
corroborate explosions emanating from the basement, but it is
not clear if these occurred prior to aircraft impact: Stationary
Engineer Mike Pecoraro, who was working in the subbasement level
of the North Tower, gives a harrowing eyewitness account of
numerous ground and subbasement level explosions in the on-line
publication Chiefengineer. For example, from D level: The two
decided to ascend the stairs to the C level, to a small machine
shop where Vito Deleo and David Williams were supposed to be
working. When the two arrived at the C level, they found the
machine shop gone. “There was nothing there but rubble” Mike
said. “We're talking about a 50 ton hydraulic press ? gone!” The
two made their way to the parking garage, but found that it,
too, was gone. “There were no walls, there was rubble on the
floor, and you can't see anything” he said. 52] Regardless of
time of occurrence, the notion that all lower floor damage was
caused by aircraft impact/fireballs is further refuted by
testimony from NYFD Lieutenant William Walsh, who stated that
North Tower elevators, which serviced the lower 30 floors, were
“blown off the hinges ” from below. Craig T. Furlong and Gordon
Ross, in a study of seismic activity, reasonably conclude
Lieutenant Walsh was referring to local elevators which serviced
floors 34 down to the lowest level of the building, Level B6 in
the basement. In other words, since these elevators did not go
above floor 34, they could not have been affected by aircraft
impact between floors 94-98. Furlong and Ross conclude that
explosions generating seismic activity did occur prior to
aircraft impact. 53] 2.2.2 Reports of explosions probably after
aircraft impact but prior to collapse. According to Scott
Forbes, a senior database administrator for Fiduciary Trust,
Inc., with offices in the former WTC, Fiduciary employees
trapped between the 90-97th floors of the South Tower told
family members (via cell-phone calls) that they were hearing
"bomb-like explosions" throughout the towers. Forbes, who had
helped prepare the South Tower for an unusual power outage the
weekend before 9/11 discussed under WTC Security ] had the day
off, and saw the towers collapse on TV. 54] Kim White, 32, an
employee on the 80th floor, reported hearing an explosion. "All
of a sudden the building shook, then it started to sway. We
didn't know what was going on ... We got down as far as the 74th
floor ... then there was another explosion." 55] Teresa Veliz,
who escaped from the 47th floor of the North Tower: noted : "The
flashlight led us into Borders bookstore, up an escalator and
out to Church Street. There were explosions going off
everywhere. I was convinced that there were bombs planted all
over the place and someone was sitting at a control panel
pushing detonator buttons. I was afraid to go down Church Street
toward Broadway, but I had to do it. I ended up on Vesey Street.
There was another explosion. And another. I didn't know where to
run." 56] On Sept. 11 the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC)
interviewed one of its New York-based reporters, Steve Evans: I
was on the ground floor … There was huge bang… But seconds
later, there were two or three similar huge explosions and the
building literally shook. At which point, people came - I nearly
said screaming, but they weren't screaming - it was a mild
panic… We all streamed out, some people running, some people
crying, nobody really screaming, across the road and you look up
and you can see the top of one of the towers, smoke billowing
out from it, the odd flame coming out of the top of these
towers. 57] 2.2.3. Unexpected Damage on the 22nd floor, lobby,
and basement of N. Tower probably after aircraft impact but
prior to collapse Members of the WTC security department dug
thru the debris of the security office on the 22nd floor prior
to collapse, to rescue several trapped employees. 58] The 22nd
floor was also affected by fire. On September 12, 2001, NY News
Day reported that officials had recently taken steps to secure
the towers against aerial attacks by installing bulletproof
windows and fireproof doors in the 22nd-floor computer command
center. "When the fire started, the room was sealed," said Hermina]
Jones, who was in the command center when explosions rocked the
building. "Flames were shooting off the walls....We started
putting wet towels under the doors. The Fire Department unsealed
the door and grabbed us by the hand and said, 'Run!' " 59]
According to Peter Wong, who was right under the elevator lobby
of WTC 1 between the two ID checkpoints: "I heard the sound of
broken glass, smelled burning gas what kind of gas??], a door
blown off about twenty feet in front of me, heat was coming my
way. I stepped back and hid myself at the middle elevator of the
Blue Cross/Blue Shield section when the strongest wave of
explosion passed by with chunks of glass and debris flying
around." 60] NY1.com reported the following: “Brian Reeves, a
34-year-old security guard, was nearly killed while making the
rounds in the lobby of 1 World Trade Center on September 11. He
started to run after hearing an explosion that he said sounded
like a missile, but he was knocked down by a fireball that
roared down the elevator shaft.” 61] It has not been determined
who verified the origin of the fireball. On March 11 2002, CBS
aired a film consisting largely of documentary footage on the
firefighters of the FDNY's Engine 7, Ladder 1, all of whom
survived the collapse of the towers. 62] The footage was taken
by a team of two French brothers, Jules and Gedeon Naudet, who
have now become suspect in helping to “stage” the photographic
capture of Flight 11 striking the North Tower as merely luck,
when they actually may have known what was going to happen. 63]
Jules Naudet reports that as he entered the North Tower lobby,
minutes after the first aircraft struck, he saw victims on fire,
a scene he found too horrific to film. 64] However, to their
surprise, the firefighters of engine 7 also found something else
completely unexpected: widespread damage to the entire lobby
area of the North tower. Over and over, these professional
firefighters expressed their complete puzzlement over the damage
in this area. According to a World Trade Center Task Force
deposition from the New York Times Archives, "The lobby looked
like the plane hit the lobby." 65] Fire officials were
"informed... by certain federal officials" that the lobby damage
occurred because ‘burning jet fuel’ had poured eighty stories
down the elevator shafts and then exploded in the lobby.”
Unexpected damage on the 22nd floor and basement of the N. Tower
prior to collapse was also attributed to this fireball. Phillip
Morelli, a 37-year-old Queens native, describes being thrown to
the ground by two explosions while in the fourth subbasement of
the North Tower. The first, which threw him to the ground and
seemed to coincide with the plane crash, was followed by a
larger blast that again threw him to the ground and this time
blew out walls. He then made his way to the South Tower and was
in the subbasement there when the second plane hit, again
associated with a powerful underground blast. 66] 2.2.4 Reports
of explosions and tower swaying at the time of collapse. Genelle
Guzman McMillan was the last person pulled alive from the
wreckage of the World Trade Center. She was discovered on Sept
12, 2001, 27 hours after the towers had fallen. With a group of
16, she was descending from the 64th floor of the North Tower.
On the 13th-floor landing, McMillan heard a rumble. "A big
explosion," she now calls it. "The wall I was facing just opened
up, and it threw me on the other side," she says. She was
struggling to reach a friend "when the rubble just kept coming
down....Everything just kept coming harder and harder," McMillan
says. 67] On viewing a September 11, 2001 Fox 5 News video,
Retired Colonel Donn De Grand Pre notes: "A few seconds after
10:00 a.m. we see a great white cloud of smoke and dust rising
from the base of the South] tower. The anchor gal exclaims
'There is an explosion at the base of the building… white smoke
from the bottom… something happened at the base of the building…
then, another explosion! …'" 68] Conor O'Clery stated on seeing
the South tower collapse: "I shifted my eyes upwards to the
first tower that had been hit and was still standing, and saw
that several more people had appeared in the upper stories where
they had smashed windows. The man with the white cloth was still
there, hanging precariously by one hand with his body out over
the abyss. I wondered why there was no attempt to rescue them by
helicopter as part of the roof of the 1350-foot building was
clear of smoke. But then the tower began to sway slightly and
two people fell in quick succession from the windows as if
unable to maintain their grip....Then the building collapsed
]." 69] 2.3 Reports of explosions by members of the NYC Fire
Department 2.3.1 Attempt to Discredit NYFD? According to Tarpley,
members of the NYFD were the greatest immediate threat to the
official myth of the cause of the collapse of the towers. For
this reason he argues, they were the target of psychological
warfare. Stories were circulated about looting by the NYFD which
supposedly had began to take place even before the towers had
collapsed. Giuliani tried to limit the number of firemen working
on the WTC rubble pile, who were trying to recover the bodies of
fallen firefighters before the rubble was removed . A
firefighter demonstration against his WTC policies degenerated
into a full scale riot between the firefighters and the police.
70] Several types of reports are available which give an
accounting by first responders to the 9/11 tragedy: 1)
Statements going directly to the media; 2) Real time audiotapes
of communication between rescue services during the attacks,
some of which have found their way to the media; and 3) oral
histories or interviews taken in interview format after the
attacks. 2.3.2 Statements going directly to the media In the
September 12, 2001 issue of People Weekly magazine, Louie
Cacchioli tells of his rescue work inside the South tower: "I
was taking firefighters up in the elevator to the twenty fourth
floor to get in a position to evacuate workers. On the last trip
up a bomb went off. We think there was bombs set in the
building." 71] Shortly after 9 o'clock Albert Turi the Chief
of Safety for the New York Fire Department] received word of the
possibility of a secondary device, that is another bomb going
off. He tried to get his men out as quickly as he could, but he
said there was another explosion which took place, and then an
hour after the first hit, the first crash that took place, he
said there was another explosion that took place in one of the
towers here, so obviously according to his theory he thinks that
there were actually devices that were planted in the building.
72] 2.3.3 Real time audiotapes of communication between rescue
services during the attacks According to the New York Times, the
City of New York held hundreds of documents and audio tapes
recording the response of emergency services to the September 11
attacks on the WTC, which it said should never be released to
the general public. The Bloomberg Administration, in response to
a lawsuit filed in State Supreme Court by the New York Times,
cited a number of reasons for keeping the documents secret.
These included citing its value in the government's case against
Zacarias Moussaoui, who is accused of being the ''20th
hijacker.” “The administration has argued that releasing these
materials would be an invasion of privacy for the families of
those who died at the trade center, and for the firefighters who
responded to the disaster scene.” Michael A. Cardozo, the city's
corporation counsel. Noted “both the oral histories and the
radio transmissions, especially the 911 calls, contain highly
personal and emotionally charged material. Victims were recorded
as they were experiencing life-threatening circumstances, in
some instances as they were dying.” In its suit, which was filed
in May, The Times rejected each of the city's claims, arguing
that much of the material reflected information and images that
had already been viewed by millions of people through news
accounts, documentaries and books. Included in the material the
administration said should never become public were the oral
histories given to Fire Department officials by firefighters and
chiefs after Sept. 11. Administration officials say that the
firefighters and chiefs were promised confidentiality when they
gave their accounts. A former senior official in the Fire
Department however, who spoke on the condition of anonymity,
advised the Times that the firefighters were, in fact, never
told that their remarks would be kept confidential. ''The
histories are more than for historical purposes,'' said the
former official,. ''They are of great value to understanding
what happened there. I tend to think that people should be able
to see them.'' 75] In response to a petition by the New York
Times, which had been trying to get copies of these materials,
New York State Supreme Court Justice Richard Braun ruled in
February 2003 that the city had not provided sufficient reason
for withholding these documents. The City of NY initially
appealed this ruling. 76] Meanwhile, the 911 Commission
subpoenaed the New York Tapes. (see section 5.4) The Bloomberg
Administration responded that the mayor was "dismayed" by the
subpoena and that “the city had offered to share material with
the commission after it was edited to remove the intensely
emotional statements of people who lost their lives or whose
lives were in jeopardy on Sept. 11.” The Commission noted that
"the city's failure to produce these important documents has
significantly impeded the commission's investigation," The
Mayor’s office also noted “It also is puzzling why the
commission is trying to distract the public by focusing on the
city's response as opposed to the question we all want answered
— how this savage terrorist attack was planned and executed
without any warning. “ 77] A "compromise" was reached. According
to the New York Times, In an abrupt reversal, the Bloomberg
Administration, announced it had agreed to release records of
emergency 911 calls and other materials sought by the
Commission. “Under the deal, the city secured the right to block
out information …” handed over to the Commission, but would
allow panel members on their premises to review the unedited
versions of those records. Notes could be taken. 78] In the
final court ruling, portions of the oral histories and tapes
containing the opinions and recommendations of the interviewees
and dispatchers will be redacted, "since such opinions and
recommendations are to be distinguished from factual material."
77] Apparently the New York Supreme Court, as well as the City
of New York, do not trust the opinions of those entrusted with
the safety of NYC citizens. The press will get only expressions
of personal feelings. This suppression of firefighter comments
was perhaps made more palatable by discrediting of members of
the NYFD. The decision to allow "redacted" versions to be
released could be appealed to the New York Court of Appeals, but
the New York Times has not indicated any plan to appeal. 78] In
an NBC exclusive: 911 Tapes Tell Horror Of 9/11 (Part 2) June
17, 2002 "Tapes Released For First Time," the quoted dialog
references explosions: "Official: Battalion 3 to dispatch, we've
just had another explosion. Official: Battalion 3 to dispatch,
we've had additional explosion. Dispatcher: Received battalion
command. Additional explosion." 79] Perhaps this is an
audiotape that was released before the decision was made to
suppress such communications. Interestingly, access to the
original "lost" audiotape of firefighters, showing they reached
the 78th floor of the South Tower was severely restricted by the
Justice Department. The relatives of the 16 firefighters whose
voices were identified on the tape were allowed to hear their
last words, but were first required to sign a statement prepared
by lawyers that they would not disclose what was said on the
tape. 80] Senior FDNY officials also heard the tape, but agreed
to keep its contents under wraps at the behest of federal
prosecutors in Virginia, who “planed to use a copy at the trial
of accused ‘20th hijacker’ Zacarias Moussaoui”. 81] 2.3.4.
Interviews and Oral Histories taken after the attacks Subsequent
to his comments regarding explosions to the press, Turi was
“interviewed”, providing the following clarification:.. And as
my eyes traveled up the building, and I was looking at the south
tower, somewhere about halfway up, my initial reaction was there
was a secondary explosion, and the entire floor area, a ring
right around the building blew out. I later realized that the
building had started to collapse already and this was the air
being compressed and that is the floor that let go. And as my
eyes traveled further up the building, I realized that this
building was collapsing and I turned around and most everybody
was ahead of me running for the garage…. The New York Times took
pains to make sure this “clarification” was posted on the
internet as “Turi’s Own Words.” 82] Very telling oral histories
were released in 2005, and reported by the New York Times. These
constitute about 12000 pages of testimony by 503 FDNY
firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics, collected from October 2001
through January 2002. For example, firefighter Edward Cachia
independently reported: “ We] thought there was like an internal
detonation, explosives, because it went in succession, boom,
boom, boom, boom, and then the tower came down...It actually
gave at a lower floor, not the floor where the plane hit.” 83]
Assistant fire commissioner Stephen Gregory provides additional
insights: When I looked in the direction of the Trade Center
before it came down, before No. 2 came down, I saw low-level
flashes. In my conversation with Lieutenant Evangelista, never
mentioning this to him, he questioned me and asked me if I saw
low-level flashes in front of the building, and I agreed with
him because I thought -- at that time I didn't know what it was.
I mean, it could have been as a result of the building
collapsing, things exploding, but I saw a flash flash flash and
then it looked like the building came down. Question: . Was that
on the lower level of the building or up where the fire was?
Answer: No, the lower level of the building. You know like when
they demolish a building, how when they blow up a building, when
it falls down? That's what I thought I saw. And I didn't broach
the topic to him, but he asked me. He said I don't know if I'm
crazy, but I just wanted to ask you because you were standing
right next to me... He said did you see any flashes? I said,
yes, well, I thought it was just me. He said no, I saw them,
too. 84] In January of 2006, an article entitled “Explosive
Testimony: Revelations about the Twin Towers in the 9/11 Oral
Histories” by David Ray Griffin, appeared. 85] Griffin
referenced roughly 31 witnesses to explosions. Graeme MacQueen
provided additional research to try to establish if other FDNY
witnesses to explosions could be found, and to see if there were
any witnesses whose testimony supported a nonexplosive collapse
of the Towers. 86] MacQueen concludes in his analysis that there
is little evidence of coercion of the interviewees by
interviewers. However, the oral histories show how many people
who originally thought they had witnessed critical explosions
later changed their minds (as did Albert Turi, whose accounts
appeared in the mainstream media soon after the attacks),
believing they were mistaken, often opting for a non-explosive
alternative such as “pancaking.” “We now have solid evidence
that, for the FDNY, non-explosive collapse is, indeed, a
revisionist theory.” Still, even after applying a fairly
stringent set of criterion for what constitutes expression of a
belief in the “explosive hypothesis (EH)” versus a
“non-explosive hypothesis”(NEH), he finds 118 out of 503
witnesses chose an EH, while only 10 chose an NEH. 87] These
insights may afford more credibility to an apparently
far-fetched story appearing much earlier. Auxiliary fireman Lt
Paul Isaac Jr., in an interview by Randy Lavello, also spoke of
bombs in the towers: “Many other firemen know there were bombs
in the buildings, but they’re afraid for their jobs to admit it
because the ‘higher-ups’ forbid discussion of this fact.” Isaac
further elaborated that former CIA director Robert Woolsey, as
the Fire Department’s Anti-terrorism Consultant, was sending a
gag order down the ranks. 88] Several DVDs show audio and video
of NYFD firefighters describing a series of explosions in the
towers: “floor by floor it starts poppin’ out…It was like … as
if they had detonated…Yeah detonated… As if they were planned to
take down the building Boom boom boom boom boom” 89] Louie
Cacchioli with life size photo in background 71] NYFD
firefighters: “boom boom boom boom boom ” 89] 3.0 How does the
seismic data fit in? 3.1 The Earthquakes Seismic waves from the
collapses of the towers were recorded by at least 13 of the 34
seismograph stations operated by Lamont-Doherty for Columbia
University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: LDEO] . The
closest station, at Palisades N.Y., 21 miles North of the WTC
complex, recorded minimal earth shaking, at the time of aircraft
impact, but recorded significant earthquake activity around the
time of each collapse. The Palisades seismic data recorded a 2.1
magnitude earthquake of 10-second duration during collapse of
the South Tower at 9:59:04 and a 2.3 quake during the 8-second
collapse of the North Tower at 10:28:31. 90] Traces showing
seismic activity: aircraft impact and tower collapse 91]
According to the often quoted American Free Press (AFP) , "A
huge seismic spike marked the moment the greatest energy went
into the ground… The strongest jolts were all registered at the
beginning of the collapses, well before the falling debris
struck the earth." 92] According to AFP, experts apparently
could not explain why the seismic waves peaked before the towers
hit the ground. Asked about these spikes seismologist Arthur
Lerner-Lam, director of Columbia University's Center for Hazards
and Risk Research told AFP, "This is an element of current
research and discussion. It is still being investigated." 93]
However, while AFP assumes seismic activity began before debris
hit the ground, in the form of explosions, LDEO, in its report :
“Seismic Waves Generated by Aircraft Impacts and Building
Collapses at WTC, N Y,” assumes the earthquakes were caused by
the tower collapses (i.e., material hitting the ground, over a
10 and 8 second period) and were considered small, the energy
being absorbed by the towers and neighboring structures. 94]
These times have apparently incorrectly been taken as the time
for collapse of the towers. Calculations done by Derrick P.
Grimmer, Ph.D. indicated that the seismic spikes of the WTC
events represented energies close to those of the energy of
collapses themselves, i.e., without explosions. 95] Jim Hoffman
writes: "There appears to be no basis for the claim that the
large spikes preceded the collapses, nor that the energy
indicated by those spikes was more than could be accounted for
by the approximately 110 megawatt-hours of gravitational energy
(equivalent to 2.9207 e8, or 292,070,000. foot pounds) stored in
the elevated mass of each tower." Further, Hoffman notes:
"Underground explosions would have produced strong P waves, but
the seismic stations registered only strong S waves. P waves
oscillate horizontally -- parallel to the direction of travel;
whereas S waves oscillate vertically -- perpendicular to the
direction of travel." 96] A problem with assessing the seismic
data is in coordinating the precise recorded time of the seismic
activity with the precise time of physical events at the World
Trade Center. As Hoffman notes, “While it's true that the
station recorded 2.1 and 2.3 magnitude quakes, Bollyn provides
no evidence that the spikes occurred at the beginning of each
‘collapse.’” On the other hand, reports of explosions and tower
swaying at the time of collapse seem to suggest the possibility
of some seismic activity prior to material hitting the ground.
Genelle Guzman McMillan heard "A big explosion" at the time of
collapse. see] The seismic activity at 9:59:04 may be compared
with the September 11, 2001 Fox 5 News video that Colonel Donn
De Grand Pre reported. see ] The concept of possible seismic
activity prior to collapsed material reaching the ground is also
suggested by the commentary of Conor O'Clery. see] 3.2 Is the
seismic record consistent with NIST conclusions? Although
Hoffman rejects the Hufschmid/AFP notion that the large spikes
provided evidence of controlled demolition, he argues that the
seismic data and LDEO interpretation is inconsistent with the
conclusions of the NIST WTC study. NIST concluded, as we will
see, that “Once the upper building section began to move
downwards, the weakened structure in the impact and fire zone
was not able to absorb the tremendous energy of the falling
building section and global collapse ensued”. Hoffman notes that
only small signals precede the larger signals, which according
to LDEO represent the main mass of debris hitting the ground.
Thus the time duration of the small signals must include the
instant when NIST’s alleged “huge mass” of the upper block
impacted the lower block. From this we must conclude that the
purported “tremendous energy of the falling building section”
did not even show up on the seismographs. 97] 3.3 Seismic
activity at time of aircraft impact Craig T. Furlong and Gordon
Ross also argue that seismic data is proof that 9/11 was “an
inside job.” They make the case that two seismic events occurred
immediately prior to aircraft impacts upon the Twin Towers. They
conclude these seismic events can only be explained by evidence
of basement explosions before the aircraft impacts, as
experienced by William Rodriquez and 36 others in WTC1. (There
were a total of fourteen people in the office, including
Rodriguez, at the time. There were an additional twenty-two
people on B2 sub-basement who also felt and heard that first
explosion.) Two separate precision data time sets recorded the
time of aircraft impact into the Towers. “Both data time sets
are based on UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, the world’s atomic
clock system) and the sources that determined these times were
prestigious, reliable and credible.” The authors note that these
two data sets record different impact times. The two data sets
are from LDEO and the 9/11 Commission. The 9/11 Commission’s
times are reported to be based on FAA radar data and air traffic
control software logic. 98] The authors state: “There is no
question: AA Flight 11 died exactly at 8:46:40 and UA Flight 175
at 9:03:11 UTC – 4 hrs].” Since the planes crashed at those
times, the authors ask: what caused the LDEO seismic activity 14
and 17 seconds earlier? “What caused those seismic spikes?”
Since Rodriguez and 36 others felt and heard an explosion prior
to aircraft impact of WTC1 , the authors argue the seismic
signals were due to the pre-impact explosions. The authors go on
to argue that the NIST derived times of aircraft impact appear
to have been “fudged,” supported by neither the NTSB nor radar
data. Interestingly, in 2005, NIST contracted for the services
of Dr. Won-Young Kim of LDEO to re-analyze the original seismic
data times originally issued in 2001. The new study added on 3
seconds to the original times of aircraft impact. The authors
ask why the fudging; why the re-analysis? 99] 4.0 WTC Security
4.1 Insurance Only three months before the attack, Silverstein
Properties and Westfield America signed a rental contract for
the WTC, agreeing to pay a total of 3.2 billion dollars in
leasing installments over 99 years to the Port Authorities.
100] According to The Financial Times Ltd., terms of the lease
allowed the new owners to walk away from their investment in the
event of "an act of terrorism." 101] Despite not being the
owner of the buildings, Silverstein demanded to be the sole
beneficiary of the insurance indemnity payments of more than 7
billion dollars. Steve Solomon, his spokesman, said: “The Port
Authorities agreed with Silverstein's demand." 102] 4.2 Damage
to FBI Offices Severe damage to the 22nd (security office) floor
of the North Tower has been previously noted. Dick Eastman of
Yakima Washington notes: “It is known that these floors
contained the New York FBI offices -- Peter Jennings actually
did a two-day network news story on the effects of the destroyed
evidence and files on American financial crime investigations
around the world.” Interestingly, the entire accumulation of
evidence and investigation briefs on two highly important cases
were being stored in the security (FBI) office. 103] 4.3
Anomalies leading up to the Day Ben Fountain, a financial
analyst who worked in the 47th floor of the South Tower, told
People Magazine that in the weeks before 9/11 there were
numerous unannounced and unusual drills where sections of both
the twin towers and building 7 were evacuated for quote
“security reasons.” 104] Victor Thorn of Wing TV has reported
the WTC 9-11 security concerns of Scott Forbes, a senior
database administrator for Fiduciary Trust, Inc., with offices
in the former WTC. Forbes reported that his company was notified
three weeks in advance that New York's Port Authority would take
out power in the South Tower from the 48th floor up on the
weekend prior to 9-11, ostensibly to implement a computer
cabling upgrade. Forbes noted that Fiduciary Trust was one of
the WTC's first occupants after it was erected, and that a
"power-down" had never been initiated prior to this occasion.
Forbes recalled the power was out approximately 36 hours between
early Saturday morning (September 8th) and mid-Sunday afternoon
(September 9th) As a result of the power outage, the WTC's
security cameras, ID systems, and elevators to the upper floors
were rendered inoperative. Forbes noted that many "engineers"
going in- and-out of the WTC had free access throughout the
building due to its inoperative security system. Forbes also
noted other security related anomalies: Video cameras positioned
atop the World Trade Center which were used to feed daily images
to local television stations were inexplicably inoperative that
morning. Also, a Fiduciary employee who was on one of the lower
floors and escaped immediately after the first (North) tower was
struck, reported that he was amazed by the large number of FBI
agents that were already on the streets surrounding the WTC
complex only minutes after the initial strike. Forbes said that
even though these disclosures could jeopardize his current
employment, he has stepped forward because, "I have mailed this
information to many people, including the 9/11 Commission, but
no one seems to be registering these facts." 105] Soon after
Forbes’ appearance on Wing TV, he was marginalized by 9/11 truth
debunkers because he seemed to vanish. Between 2005 and 2006 he
has been remotely interviewed at least three times from his home
in England. In a Killtown interview, Forbes observed that both
main stream and progressive media of other countries have been
much more interested in his story than in America. He also noted
that, being British, he was eventually interviewed by London
police, “but none of my American colleagues were contacted by
police or FBI or any agency. Kind of weird.” 106]. Most
recently, Forbes’ statements, which are reasoned and
dispassionate, have been used by 9/11 truth debunkers against
Ben Fountain 107]. Forbes also stated in an interview that 4-6
weeks before 9/11, there was lots of noise coming from floor 98,
above his office. Aeon was moved out, and the floor was vacant.
He heard what sounded like heavy machinery work going on;
drilling and hammering; like something very heavy being moved
and dumped, the force of which was enough to cause his office to
shake. On one occasion Forbes said he opened the door to the
98th floor to see what was going on, but the entire office space
was empty. This correlates with the experience of William
Rodriguez in the North Tower, who, as he was climbing stairs to
unlock doors on 9/11, “heard strange noises on the 34th floor.”
Rodriguez noted that there was “nothing on this floor”. No one
was supposed to be there, and you can’t even get there without a
special key. Rodriguez heard heavy equipment being moved around,
it sounded to him like dumpsters with metal wheels. Rodriguez
was afraid to open the door to floor 34 with his master key. The
week before 9/11, Forbes noticed lots of dust in the building
“The dust was incredible; it was filthy; dirty gray dust. 108]
Christopher Bollyn states that "The two airplanes that struck
the twin towers of the World Trade Center on 9/11 flew directly
into secure computer rooms in both buildings." While there may
have been a number of secure computer rooms distributed in the
towers, Bollyn goes on to describe a construction operation
where the 81st floor of the South Tower, in the range of floors
impacted by flight 175, was reinforced to hold very heavy
Uninterupted Power Supply batteries, which interestingly, were
apparently never turned on. Bollyn contacted a number of
companies involved in this construction and installation, all of
whom refused to comment. 109] A photo ID pass for Sept. 5 found
on one of the men charged with fraudulently obtaining a
Tennessee driver's license from a Memphis woman gave him access
to the six underground levels of WTC1. But which tenant hired
Sakher 'Rocky' Hammad, 24, to work on its sprinklers is lost,
said Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Alan
Hicks. Hammad told federal authorities that he was working on
the sprinklers six days before the twin towers were brought down
by terrorists, court testimony revealed. But Hicks said the Port
Authority, which owned the building, did its own sprinkler work,
and that any other work involving sprinklers would have been
arranged by an individual tenant. 110] According to a September
12, 2001 report by NY News Day, a WTC security detail had been
working 12-hour shifts prior to 9/11 because of numerous phone
threats. But on the Thursday before, "bombsniffing dogs were
abruptly removed." 111] 4.4 Security firms Ontrack/Convar, the
German company that was trying to recover data from WTC hard
drives in order to determine who was responsible for last minute
financial transactions on 9/11, was purchased after the fact by
none other than Kroll Inc. (Kroll O'Gara Eisenhardt) in June
2002. Kroll is a huge, multi-national security firm which has
strong ties to US intelligence. Coincidentally, one of their
upper echelon, Jerome Hauer, was responsible for brokering the
position of head of security for ex-FBI whistleblower John
O'Neill in the WTC. Mr. O'Neill died in the 9/11 attacks. 112]
A business entity now known as Stratesec, Inc. began performing
security work at the Center in 1993. In 1996, Stratesec, then
known as Securacom, was awarded an exclusive contract to provide
security for the World Trade Center complex. Stratesec/Securacom
also provided security for United Airlines and Dulles
International Airport. Sitting on Stratesec's board of
directors, from the time the company began working at the WTC,
was a major shareholder by the name of Marvin Bush. Marvin, like
Jeb and Neil, is a brother of George W. Bush. 113] 4.5 A note
on “Urban Renewal” of the Twin Towers A number of internet sites
portray the economic status of the late Twin Towers as
compromised. In particular, a frequently recurring phrase is
"the Twin Towers were always money-losers” 114] The highly
regarded 911 Mysteries DVD suggests in it’s chapter Urban
Renewal that WTC economic problems may have been a motive for
their intentional destruction. 115] An online
“911mysteriesguide” appears to show that 911 Mysteries DVD
definitely got it wrong , producing a number of authentic
looking references, including one contradicting the 911
Mysteries claim that quotes for a clean-up of the asbestos in
the towers would have cost more than a billion dollars. 116]
The guide concludes “we have shown that the World Trade Center
did not have tenancy problems; they did not have money problems;
and there is no reason to believe that asbestos problems were
not manageable. There was no motive for the Port Authority of
New York to destroy the World Trade Center as 9/11 Mysteries
suggests. “ 117] Further searching on the internet yields an
article on asbestos, noting an authentic sounding source stating
“, the Port Authority calculated that it would cost $1
billion...to remove the asbestos..." 118] The author of this
article correctly attributes this quotation to a November 30th,
2001 article, published in the “New York Psychogeographical
Association. " 911 Mysteries would appear then to be vindicated
in its pronouncement of definite WTC asbestos problems. However,
the URL for the New York Psychogeographical Association is www.notbored.org/the-nypa.html].
The website consists of a half dozen articles with names such as
No more fucking ugly buildings! And Mother Nature to 9-11
Mourners: Eat My Dust,. One article, which contained the
quotation of Note 5, entitled A new Garden of Eden, observes:
”Though this may be hard for some to believe, especially in
these sentimental times, the so-called Twin Towers at the World
Trade Center were hated by many New Yorkers, who before
September 11, 2001 would have been happy if the goddamned things
had never been built and after September 11th are glad that
they're gone. An entire neighborhood was emptied out and
destroyed to make way for them. Them -- not just one spectacular
tower, but two.” Looking further on the internet, one finds
“Team Twin Towers,” a group with a web site ostensibly dedicated
to valuing the former towers, and defending them from negative
accusations. They have provided arguments to counter statements
such as "The Twin Towers failed in their mission to revive Lower
Manhattan.", "The Twin Towers were only partially occupied. They
were money-losers.", "The Twin Towers were Ugly Banal Boxes",
and "The Twin Towers were poorly and negligently constructed.
They did not meet NYC fire codes." 119] It seems then, that the
question of the economic status of the late Twin Towers is
framed in a very polarized and controversial environment, in
which the Towers were loved by some and hated by others. What
then is the truth? 5.0 History and its Revision 5.1 The History
of Fire Induced Collapse of Steel Buildings There is none before
or after 9-11 Although the 911 Commission acknowledged that fire
chiefs on the scene thought the collapse of the Towers was
impossible, MacQueen emphasized the unanimity of the FDNY on
this issue. 120] "Fire has never caused a steel building to
collapse," writes Eric Hufschhmid, quoting Bill Manning of Fire
Engineering magazine. 121] The Towers had experienced fires
before. The Feb 14 1975 New York Times carried the headline
“Trade Center Hit by 6 Floor Fire.” A three alarm fire broke out
in the 11th floor offices of the BF Goodrich Company in the
North Tower of the World Trade Center just before midnight last
night, and spread through an inner service core to the Fourth
through fourteenth floors. “It was like fighting a blowtorch”
according to Capt. Harold Kull of Engine Co. 6…”Flames could be
seen pouring out of the 11th floor windows on the East side of
the building.” According to a second article, the fire burned
for three hours. 122] The 1991 Meridian Plaza fire in
Philadelphia burned for 19 hours but did not cause the building
to even crack. 123] The First Interstate Bank Building in Los
Angeles burned for more than 3 hours with bright intense flames.
There was no damage to the main structural members 124]. On
Sunday Feb. 13, 2005, CNN reported on a fire said to be the
worst in Madrid’s history, which burned for 2 days and gutted
the Windsor Building. Its structural core was weaker than that
of the WTC towers, and although several top floors collapsed
onto lower ones, the overall structure did not collapse. 125]
Madrid fire 125] On September 11, not one, but three structures
disintegrate to dust: WTC1, WTC2, and WTC7. Hufschmid reasonably
questions why Buildings 4 and 6, which were closer to the towers
than WTC7 did not collapse. Photographs of both buildings show
giant flames and glowing red interior, and WTC6 had massive
damage due to falling debris. 126] 5.2.0 The First Wave of
Politically Correct Revisionist Theories Revisionism seen in the
FDNY interviews appears to have been paralleled by a revision of
thinking by explosives experts. Within ten days of his first
remarks, Van Romero, who previously suggested explosives in the
Towers, changed his mind: "Certainly the fire is what caused the
building to fail.." 127] Van Romero was seeking Pentagon
research funding at the time of the attack. 128] Politically
correct revisionist theories soon blanketed the news media.
Because WTC 1 and 2 stood for approximately 1 ¾ hours and 1 hour
respectively after impact, we know they did not collapse because
of airplane impacts alone. So, the first Politically Correct
theory presumed that heat from the fires simply melted the
structural core, causing the collapse. 5.2.1 Steel Melted By
Heat Henry Koffman, director of the Construction Engineering and
Management Program at the University of Southern California
wrote that intense heat from the fires melted the steel, which
caused the collapse of the towers. 129] 5.2.2 Steel Weakened By
Heat Articles by Zdenek P. Bazant and Yong Zhou of Northwestern
University appeared in the on-line version of Journal of
Engineering Mechanics ASCE. 130] These articles purported to
address why the buildings collapsed. Bazant and Zhou suppose
that the steel in over half of the 287 columns of the crash zone
was exposed to sustained temperatures exceeding 800 Deg. C.
1472 Deg. F.]. At such temperatures, structural steel exhibits
significant viscoplastic deformation, which may result in a
buckling of columns. 5.2.3 Refutation of Early Fire and Heat
Theories. We might ask what supplied the fuel needed for
Bazant’s “sustained temperatures exceeding 800 Deg. C.”? Office
furniture? Computers? Printer paper? Well, OK, but the central
core, which he fails to even consider, had no office furniture,
and virtually no fuel, so how did it heat up enough in one hour
to collapse? How hot was the fire, and how much heat did it
produce? Charles Clifton is a technical expert in determining
the effects of severe fire and earthquake on steel framed
buildings. He believed that fire did not cause the towers to
collapse. 131] He has noted that regions of fire at 700 deg C
would be glowing red hot and visible from outside the building,
and that significant window breakage would have occurred. He
noted that neither of these conditions occurred in the towers
132] Professor Thomas Eager is professor of Materials
Engineering and Engineering Systems at MIT. The Minerals, Metals
& Materials Society published his analysis, which concluded that
the fire could not possibly have been hot enough to melt steel.
The analysis, which notes that steel melts at 1500 deg. C. 2732
deg. F.] and that jet fuel produces a maximum temperature of
1000 deg. C. 1832 Deg. F.], even when mixed in perfect
proportions, parallels the historically verified fact that fire
cannot melt steel. 133] Jim Hoffman notes that Corus
Construction performed extensive tests subjecting un-insulated
steelframe car parks to prolonged hydrocarbon-fueled fires. The
highest recorded steel temperatures were 360 Deg. C. 680 Deg.
F.] 134] This is substantiated by Jim McMichael, who wrote that
the maximum temperature achieved in fire testing of unprotected
steel supports in the U.K., Japan, the U.S. and Australia] was
also 360 degrees C (680 F), a long way from the first critical
threshold in structural steel, 550 Deg. C. 1022 Deg. F.]. The
reason? Unheated steel forms an effective heat sink: The massive
steel structures of the towers would form a vast heat sink:
Local heat from the Tower beams was continuously conducted from
the heated portions to the massive cooler portions below,
suggesting an even lower maximum temperature. 135] Woman in
break created by impacting aircraft in WTC1 136] The appearance
of several people in the fracture caused by airplane entry in
the North Tower suggests temperatures were not excessive in the
crash zone. 136] Brian Clark, an executive vice president at
Euro Brokers, a brokerage firm that had offices on the 84th
floor of the South Tower found little problem with heat while
traversing the impact floors. 137] On Aug. 2, 2002, discovery
of a "lost" audiotape was reported. This tape is important,
because it established that firefighters, including Chief Orio
Palmer, actually reached the crash zone on the 78th floor of the
South tower and apparently believed they were in control of the
situation. This further suggests that the crash zone was not a
raging inferno. 138] The same conclusion can be drawn from the
Discovery Channel documentary entitled "Collapse: How the Towers
Fell." According to the show's experts, although jet fuel might
optimally reach temperatures approaching 2000deg F, fully
one-half of Flight 11's] fuel burned outside of the tower.
This is consistent with sources which state that each aircraft
was carrying about 10,000 gallons of fuel 139], and with FEMA’s
estimate that about 4000 gallons of fuel burned within each
tower. 140] The remaining half, which ignited inside the tower,
burned up in about eight minutes. And that analysis was based on
the first crash (8:46 am), into the North tower. As can be
clearly seen in video footage, a much higher percentage of the
fuel burned outside the South Tower, in the second crash (9:03
am). As investigative journalist David McGowan notes, this
analysis argues against massive structural elements of the
towers reaching high temperatures 141] The FEMA BBA and NIST
assessments of fuel burned is discussed in section 5.7.0 “How do
the Official Investigations Compare?” South Tower Impact
Courtesy www.serendipity.li 142] 5.2.4 The Problem of a
Completely Symmetrical Collapse It is highly unlikely that
structural weakness resulting from the fire or heat would result
in a completely symmetrical collapse such as occurred.
Irregularity would have produced a collapse in which concrete
and steel girders would have rained down over a wide area, 143]
causing additional damage and fatalities. Dr. Steven Jones notes
the great difficulty of obtaining a completely symmetrical
collapse, even using controlled demolition. “This feat requires
such skill that only a handful of demolition companies in the
world will attempt it.” 144] All these observations would
appear to refute the notion that the total symmetrical collapses
were the result of structural weakening by heat and fire from
jet fuel, especially in the South Tower. Yet the South Tower
collapsed first, about 56 minutes after aircraft impact. Thus,
evolving theories attempted to account for the completely
symmetrical collapse. A special report by Thomas Eager and
Christopher Musso titled “Why Did the World Trade Center
Collapse? Science, Engineering, and Speculation” illustrates an
early attempt to explain a completely symmetrical collapse
without reference to explosives. Eager argues that although fire
did not melt the steel, fire is what brought the towers down.
The article correctly notes that only a small number of
perimeter columns were lost on airplane impact, and that the
loads were shifted to the remaining columns. The article also
correctly notes that the fire was fuel rich, producing a
diffused flame as could be seen by the thick black smoke. It
then notes that the steel was not likely to have experienced
temperatures above 750-800 deg C. The article points out that
although structural steel begins to soften at 425 Deg C, and
looses half its strength at 650 deg C, even a loss of half of
the steels strength is insufficient, by itself, to explain the
collapse. “Even with half its strength the steel could still
support two to three times the stresses imposed by a 650 deg C
fire.” The article finds the culprit in the distortion of the
steel due to the fact that the steel temperature was not
uniform. “A 150 deg C temperature difference from one location
to another will produce .. stresses. This produced distortions
in the slender structural steel which resulted in bucking
failures…Thus, the failure of the steel was due to the loss of
strength due to the temperature of the fire, and loss of
structural integrity due to distortion” Interestingly, although
the article mentions the building core in the very beginning of
the article as being designed to support the weight of the
tower, the core is never again mentioned; as if the towers were
supported only by the peripheral columns. The article describes
the construction as “egg-crate”, and emphasizes the notion that
the building was light weight, and about 95 % air, explaining
why the rubble after collapse was only a few stories high. The
authors fail to note the substantial mass of concrete which was
pulverized and distributed in a pyroclastic dust cloud over many
city blocks. The article then attempts to explain the “lack of
tipping” or “implosion” of the towers on collapse. The building
is 95% air, and hence can implode on itself; and because of its
near free fall speed of collapse, there was insufficient time
for portions to attain significant lateral velocity. “To
summarize, a 500,000 ton structure (that is 95% air) has too
much inertia to fall in any direction other than nearly straight
down.” So the authors argue that the towers fell straight down
because they were both too light and too heavy. They do not
question how the building, especially the central core, could
collapse at close to freefall speed. 145] 3.2.5 Pancake Theory
Fire Engineering Magazine concluded that a growing number of
fire protection engineers had concluded that "the structural
damage from the planes and the explosive ignition of jet fuel in
themselves were not enough to bring down the towers." These Fire
Engineering specialists adopted the notion of a failure of
lightweight trusses connecting building perimeter to
load-bearing central columns. 146] The concept of lightweight
trusses was very helpful for establishing the concept of
“Pancake Theory” which provided the final desired result of
“explaining” a completely symmetrical collapse without referring
to explosives. According to Bazant and Zhou, the "chain
reaction" resulting in complete floor by floor symmetrical
collapse of the North Tower was caused by the acceleration of
the mass of the building above the buckled columns downward. The
term "Pancake Theory" (as well as its variants, Zipper or
Domino) helped facilitate the credibility of the chain reaction
theory. David McGowan notes the discrepancy between the standard
media graphic portraying the tower structure, on the right
below, and an accurately scaled rendering of the 'footprint' of
one of the towers (image on left.) Needless to say, the thin
central core in the image on the right certainly would
facilitate acceptance of “Pancake Theory” by the public. 147]
Photos of actual tower construction, which confirm the accuracy
of the rendering on the left, below, show: 1) Floors are not
wide-open Spaces; the structural core occupied a significant
portion of each tower's footprint. 2) Lateral floor trusses
appear firmly anchored between perimeter and core columns,
allowing the buildings to take large lateral loading due to
wind. 148] Images Courtesy David McGowan 147] Actual
construction (image on left) depicted in graphics distributed by
the media (image on the right). The service core in construction
148] The "spire" in the above images is a portion of WTC 1's
disintegrating service core. If collapse was due to "pancaking"
of weak trusses, the 110 story sturdy service cores would still
be standing. 149] As McGowan notes, 'pancake theory,' at best,
“only offers an explanation how the floor and exterior wall
sections may have possibly collapsed. Even if such an unlikely
event had occurred, the end result would not have been a
60-foot-high mound of rubble, but rather two somewhat narrower,
110-story towers." 150] Derrick Grimmer asks, if a "pancaking"
effect caused the total building failure, why is it that no
video of either of the WTC collapses shows any sign of stutter
between floor collapses, which should have been very apparent
especially in the first few floors of collapse when the speed of
gravitational collapse was small. 151] 5.3.0 The FEMA Building
Performance Assessment (BPA) The American Society of Civil
Engineers (ASCE) began a preliminary study of the collapse of
the towers. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) soon
joined with ASCE to assemble a larger group of volunteer
investigators, which was called the Building Performance
Assessment Team (BPAT), and supplied $600,000 in funding. The
BPA Team consisted of specialists in tall building design, steel
and connection technology, fire and blast engineering, and
structural analysis. On May 1, 2002 FEMA released its report of
the WTC collapses, based on the conclusions reached by the BPA
Team. 152] 5.3.1 Executive Summary According to the Executive
Summary, the team "conducted field observations at the WTC site
and steel salvage yards, removed and tested samples of the
collapsed structures, viewed hundreds of hours of video and
thousands of still photographs, conducted interviews with
witnesses and persons involved in the design, construction, and
maintenance of each of the affected buildings, reviewed
construction documents, and conducted preliminary analyses of
the damage to the WTC towers.” The Executive Summary initially
states: "The structural damage sustained by each tower from the
impact, combined with the ensuing fires, resulted in the total
collapse of each building." 153] Yet then immediately it notes:
"With the information and time available, the sequence of events
leading to collapse of each tower could not be definitely
determined." 154] This is precisely the conclusion reached by
the 9/11 Commission/Report, noted by Griffin. Since planes and
fire by definition were the cause, no precise mechanism need be
determined with certainty. The report insults the integrity of
the original design of the towers, by a World Class structural
engineering firm, WSH&J, stating "Events of this type, resulting
in such substantial damage, are generally not considered in
building design, and the ability of these structures to
successfully withstand such damage is noteworthy." 155] In
Chapter 8, Observations, Findings, and Recommendations, the
floor trusses are made suspect, but we are cautioned not to
think of these design features as deficiencies. 156] 5.3.2
Deepest mystery makes Appendix C A tiny fraction of the steel
beams from the tower debris were inspected. Recommendations in
Appendix C of the FEMA WTC report noted: "The severe corrosion
and subsequent erosion of samples 1 and 2 are a very unusual
event. No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has
been identified… A detailed study into the mechanisms of this
phenomenon is needed." 157] A New York Times article noted that
pieces of steel were found that were "apparently melted and
vaporized not solely because of the heat of fires, but also
because of a corrosive contaminant that was somehow released in
the conflagrations." The New York Times called these findings
"perhaps the deepest mystery uncovered in the investigation."
158] Materials science professors Ronald R. Biederman and
Richard D. Sisson Jr. confirmed the presence of eutectic
formations by examining steel samples under optical and scanning
electron microscopes. A preliminary report was published in JOM,
the Journal of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. Remains
of WTC wide flange beam. FEMA BPA Appendix C 157] A eutectic
compound is a mixture of two or more substances that melts at
the lowest temperature of any mixture of its components.
Blacksmiths took advantage of this property by welding over
fires of sulfurrich charcoal, which lowers the melting point of
iron. In the World Trade Center fire, the presence of oxygen,
sulfur and heat caused iron oxide and iron sulfide to form at
the surface of structural steel members. This liquid slag
corroded through intergranular channels into the body of the
metal, causing severe erosion and a loss of structural
integrity. WTC 1, 2, and 7 all showed signs of this eutectic
reaction. The important questions, says Biederman, are how much
sulfur do you need, and where did it come from? Did the eutectic
mixture form before the buildings collapsed, or later, as the
remains smoldered on the ground. “We have no idea,” admits
Sisson. 159] "A one-inch column of steel has been reduced to
half-inch thickness. Its edges--which are curled like a paper
scroll—have been thinned to almost razor sharpness…Gaping
holes--some larger than a silver dollar--let light shine through
a formerly solid steel flange. This Swiss cheese appearance
shocked all of the fire-wise professors, who expected to see
distortion and bending--but not holes." 160] 5.3.3 Immediate
Reaction to the FEMA BPA Report 5.3.3.1 Structural Engineers On
Christmas Day, 2001 The New York Times reported that some of the
nation's leading structural engineers and fire-safety experts
believe the investigation into the collapse of the WTC was
inadequate, and were calling for a new, independent and
better-financed inquiry. Experts critical of the investigation
included some who actually took part in it. The team of 20 or so
investigators, who conducted their review between October 7-12,
had no subpoena power, inadequate financial and staff support,
and had been prevented from interviewing witnesses and
frequently prevented from examining the disaster site, and had
even been unable to obtain basic information such as detailed
blueprints of the buildings. 161] The Times account of the BPA
team activities contrasts sharply with the account provided in
the FEMA BPA Executive Summary. 5.3.3.2 Firefighters On January
4, 2002, an editorial in Fire Engineering, a trade magazine with
ties to the New York Fire Department, called the investigation
into the collapse of the WTC a "half-baked farce." The article
pointed out that the probe had not looked at all aspects of the
disaster and had limited access to documents and other evidence.
Bill Manning, editor of the magazine, noting that destruction of
evidence is illegal, demanded that the destruction and removal
of the steel columns must stop immediately. 162] The decision
of the City of New York to rapidly recycle the 300,000 tons of
steel columns, beams and trusses from the WTC in the days
immediately after 9/11 adversely affected the FEMA BPA inquiry.
163] 5.3.3.3 Congress Congressman Boehlert, Chairman of the
Science Committee of the House of representatives, testified "I
must say that the current investigation- some would argue that
'review' is the more appropriate wordseems to be shrouded in
excessive secrecy" and "…valuable evidence has been lost
irretrievably, and blueprints were unavailable for months."
164] Professor Glenn P. Corbett, John Jay College of Criminal
Justice testified before the Science Committee of the House of
Representatives on March 6: "The collapse of the World Trade
Center towers were the largest structural collapses in world
history. A disaster of such epic proportions demands that we
fully resource a comprehensive, detailed investigation. Instead,
we are staffing the BPAT with part-time engineers and scientists
on a shoestring budget." Corbett further noted "The steel holds
the primary key to understanding the chronology of events and
causal factors resulting in the collapse," and recommended an
investigative commission on the World Trade Center Disaster.
165] ASME representative Gene Corley testified before the
Science Committee of the House of Representatives on March 6:
"Resources allocated to support our BPA team's activities is
about 1 million. In our opinion, 40 million would be
sufficient." 166] The Science committee itself, in its March 6,
2002 report, called for a broader WTC investigation. Rep. Felix
Grucci (R-NY): "We need to continue to work together, to find
what answers we can, and attempt to piece together as much
information as possible on the cause of the collapse." 167] In
a letter to Mr. Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. Director, Office of
Management and Budget, the committee wrote: "There was unanimity
among the witnesses on the need for a comprehensive assessment
and research agenda to address evacuation procedures, emergency
response, and structural analysis of the site's buildings."
168] 5.3.3.4 Media Even the New York Times expressed dismay. On
the first anniversary of the attacks (subsequent to the FEMA BPA
study and final report), the Times wrote: "The public knows less
about the circumstances of 2,801 deaths at the foot of Manhattan
in broad daylight than people in 1912 knew within weeks about
the Titanic, which sank in the middle of an ocean in the dead of
night." 169] 5.4.0 The 9/11 Commission 5.4.1 The 9/11
Commission Report Chapter 9 of the 9/11 Commission Report,
“Heroism and Horror”, discusses the attacks on the World Trade
Center. A large part of Chapter 9 concerned the response of
emergency services at the WTC complex. The Commission’s Report
brings up none of the major issues discussed in the 9/11 truth
movement, which have been discussed in the previous pages.
Rather, the Commission’s Report cherry picks a few of the
details, without ever getting to any real issues. 170] As
MacQueen notes, the 911 Commission appears to have used the oral
histories in composing chapter 9 of their Report. He notes the
use of the histories to verify the condition of civilians, the
nature of rescue operations, and so on, but no reference is made
to the comments on explosions. 171] Chapter 9 takes up the
notion that severe damage to the 77th floor, 22nd (security
office) floor, the lobby, and B4 level of the North Tower was
due to a “fireball” from airplane impact. 172] Chapter 9 notes
that by 9:58 a.m., the battalion chief Orio Palmer] had reached
the 78th floor on stairwell A of the South Tower; he reported
that it looked open to the 79th floor, well into the impact
zone. 173] This is a reference to the so called “lost tape”
which verified that members of the fire department reached the
scene of the crash zone of the South tower, which was NOT a
blazing inferno, and thought they had things under control.
174] Chapter 9 notes that at 9:03 Flight 175 hit the South
tower, crashing thru the 77th to 85th floors. “The plane Banked
as it hit…, leaving portions of the building undamaged on impact
floors. As a consequence--and in contrast to—the…North Tower,
stairwell A initially remained passable from at least the 91st
floor down, and likely from top to bottom.” 175] Recall that
the stairwell was within the 47 steel core columns, which
suggests that the core area of the South tower was damaged less
than the North Tower. Yet the South Tower collapsed first, and
Chapter 9 notes: “the South tower collapsed in 10 seconds” and
“collapsed into itself” 176] yet does not question how this
could have been possible. Griffin notes that the Commission
Report even ignored the existence of the 47 steel core columns:
“The outside of each tower was covered by a frame of 14 inch
wide steel columns… These exterior walls bore most of the weight
of the building. The interior core of the buildings was a hollow
steel shaft, in which elevators and stairwells were grouped.”
177] Chapter 9 states “At 10:04, NYPD aviation reported that
the top 15 stories of the North tower ‘were glowing red’.” Yet
this is contradicted by photos 178] which shows the top floors
engulfed in smoke, with only one pocket of fire visible. The
floors of Buildings 5 and 6 on the other hand, were documented
by photographic evidence as glowing red hot, but did not
collapse. Griffin notes the statement made by former Mayor of
New York Rudolph Giuliani to the commission: “We were operating
out of there the Emergency Command Center on the 23rd floor of
WTC-7] when we were told that the World Trade Center was gonna
collapse, and it did collapse before we could get out of the
building.” 179] Griffin continues: “This is a remarkable
statement. There was no publicly available reason to believe
that the Twin Towers were going to collapse……The firemen going
up the stairs in the South Tower certainly did not think it was
about to collapse… Should the Commission not have asked Giuliani
some questions about this statement, such as: Who told him the
towers were about to collapse. The Commission’s report makes no
mention of Giuliani’s statement.” 180] This is all the more
interesting considering that EMT Richard Zarrillo, in a World
Trade Center Task Force interview given on Oct 25 2001, stated
that The Office of Emergency Management had prior knowledge of
the tower Collapses: “OEM says the buildings are going to
collapse; we need to get out” 181] 5.4.2 9/11 Commission Makeup
The 9/11 Commission Executive Director was Phillip Zelikow.
Former New Jersey governor Thomas Kean chaired the commission,
with Lee Hamilton as Vice Chair. Both Kean and Hamilton assert
in their book Without Precedent, that they were "SET UP TO
FAIL”, that being the name of the First chapter, and “We were
set up to fail” being the first sentence. 182] The authors
relate that the commission was starved of funds to do a proper
investigation. They also confirm that they were denied access to
the truth and misled by senior officials in the Pentagon and the
Federal Aviation Authority. 183] Some claim their book is a
“limited hangout.” 184] Phillip Zelikow was a member of the
Bush transition team from the Clinton to Bush administrations.
The transition involved downgrading the importance and
visibility of the Counter-Terrorism Security Group. It was
revealed on January 15, 2004 that both Zelikow and Jamie
Gorelick, a commission member, were both still so closely
involved in the events under investigation that they have been
interviewed as part of the inquiry. 185] As Executive Director,
Zelikow retained the power to hire all Commission staff and
coordinate the flow of Kean's investigation. He also had access
to all testimony-and managed all upcoming witnesses, document
requests and subpoenas. 186] Zelikow co-authored a 1998 Foreign
Affairs article on the likely political and cultural effects of
a massive Pearl Harbor style terrorist event such as the
destruction of the World Trade Center. In that article, Zelikow
noted that such a mythic event would split time into a before
and an after. The after, of course, was the “whole new world” of
post-9/11 terror hysteria. 187] All commission members had
potential conflicts of interest. 188] 5.4.3 9/11 Commission
member Behavior On March 21, 2004, victim family members
complained of Phillip Zelikow’s conflicts of interest in an Oct.
3 2003 letter to the Commission, but were rebuffed. 189] On
March 21, 2004, 9-11 Family Steering Committee and 9-11 Citizens
Watch demanded the resignation of Zelikow, but he was defended
by the commission. New York Times journalist Philip Shenon led
the NYT coverage of the commission's activities. In early 2008,
his book The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation,
revealed that among other things, Zelikow engaged in
"surreptitious" communications with presidential adviser Karl
Rove and other Bush administration officials during the
commission's 20-month investigation. 190] The 9/11 Commission
agreed to accept the redacted audiotapes of first responders
offered by the City of New York, referenced previously. See
Section 2.3.3] The result was the August “revealing” of these
sanitized tapes and oral histories used by the 9/11 Commission
191] At the last set of 9/11 Commission Hearings in New York
City, members of the NYFD, NYPD, and other emergency services
were criticized by Commissioner John Lehman, former Secretary of
the Navy. Tarpley suggests this was part of a programmatic
effort to discredit them; especially NYFD. 192] 5.5 The
Silverstein Studies A team of engineers from several firms
offered their own high tech analysis, intended as a follow-up to
the FEMA BPA. The firms were Weidlinger Associates Inc., LZA
Technology/Thornton-Tomasetti Group, ARUPFire, Hughes Associates
Inc., SafirRosetti, Hillman Environmental Group, and RWDI. This
study, completed in October 2002, was commissioned by
Silverstein Properties for its insurance claim on the WTC, and
was forwarded to NIST. Although this study concurred that the
plane crashes stripped fireproofing from columns in the debris
path (and therefore that fire is what caused the collapse), the
report also concluded that fire temperatures were lower than
typical "fully developed" office fires. While the FEMA report
cast suspicion on the floor trusses, the Silverstein report
exonerated the floor trusses, and noted the core columns had to
fail completely for the tower collapse. WTC 2, though hit by the
second hijacked plane after One WTC, fell first "primarily"
because the plane struck it at an off-center angle and caused
damage that compromised the corner of the core of the building,
concludes the report's authors, the New York City-based
leaseholder of the World Trade Center. 193] The study fails to
address the fact that the top floors of the building virtually
disappeared, or rather disintegrated, in mid-air. Interestingly,
Matthys Levy, of Weidlinger Associates Inc. is recorded on video
making the following statement: "If you've seen many of the
managed demolitions where they implode a building and they cause
it to essentially to fall vertically because they cause all of
the vertical columns to fail simultaneously, that's exactly what
it looked like and that's what happened." 194] 5.6.0 The NIST
Investigation The National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) WTC study began in 2002 as a result of lobbying by the
Skyscraper Safety Campaign, which was created by Monica
Gabrielle and Sally Regenhard, both of whom lost family members
on Sept. 11, 2001. 195] Although dealing with a great number of
safety related issues, NIST was specifically charged with the
task of determining how and why WTC 1, 2, and 7 collapsed. 196]
The 10,000 page final report for buildings 1 and 2 was published
three years later, in September 2005, by a staff of hundreds
with a budget of 17.5 million dollars. Information on the NIST
WTC study is available on the NIST website: www.nist.gov. 197]
The website avoids bringing up the primary purpose of the study,
and states that the NIST goal was “to recommend improvements in
the way people design, construct, maintain, and use buildings.”
The final report includes a vast amount of work on numerous
topics. For example the section headings of the reports include:
Design, Construction, and Maintenance of Structural and Life
Safety Systems; Baseline Structural Performance and Aircraft
Impact Damage Analysis; Mechanical and Metallurgical Analysis of
Structural Steel; Active Fire Protection Systems; Reconstruction
of the Fires in the World Trade Center Towers; Structural Fire
Response and Probable Collapse Sequence; Occupant Behavior,
Egress, and Emergency Communication; and The Emergency Response
Operations. These reports all contain good engineering work, but
little of it had anything directly to do with collapse analysis,
and even less had to do with selecting a cause of collapse. Only
a small part of Mechanical and Metallurgical Analysis of
Structural Steel and Structural Fire Response and Probable
Collapse Sequence had anything to do with determining “cause”.
Beyond that, as any engineer who has worked in industry knows,
what engineers do, and what the outside world sees, can be two
different things. Ultimate control is in the hands of those who
control the documentation and release process; i.e., management.
NIST is a government entity, being affiliated with the
Department of Commerce 198], so it is not “independent”. In
this case, “management “ means "Administration," since NIST's
bosses are directly appointed by George W Bush. Regarding the
cause of collapse of WTC 1 and 2, the Executive Summary of the
final report states: The Two aircraft hit the towers at high
speeds and did considerable damage to principle structural
components (core columns, floors, and perimeter columns) that
were directly impacted by the aircraft or associated debris.
However, the towers withstood the impacts and would have
remained standing were it not for the dislodged insulation
(fireproofing) and the subsequent multi-floor fires. The
robustness of the perimeter frame-tube system and the large size
of the buildings helped the towers withstand the impact. The
structural system redistributed loads from places of aircraft
impact, avoiding larger scale damage upon impact. The hat truss,
a feature atop each tower which was intended to support a
television antenna, prevented earlier collapse of the building
core. In each tower, a different combination of impact damage
and heat weakened structural components contributed to the
abrupt structural collapse. 199] According to the Executive
Summary, the WTC investigation included a review of thousands of
documents, 1200 first-person interviews with building occupants
and emergency responders, laboratory tests, and computer
simulations. 200] Kevin Ryan, former site manager of
Underwriter’s Labs, has discussed NIST performance on these
aspects of the investigation. 5.6.1 Review of Documents: 5.6.1.1
Many relevant documents not mentioned or missing. Ryan notes
that many relevant design claims were not mentioned. He also
notes that UL fire resistance data, as well as WSH&J (John
Skilling’s) fire resistance analysis came up missing. 201]
5.6.1.2 Original tower design features and claims Frank A.
Demartini, the Construction Manager of the World Trade Center,
stated in the History Channel's January 2001 film World Trade
Center: A Modern Marvel, that the building could withstand
“multiple” airplane hits. Demartini apparently died in the
September 11 attacks. 202] NIST notes that a document from the
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) indicated
that the impact of a Boeing 707 aircraft was analyzed during the
design stage of the WTC towers. Although NIST investigators were
“unable to locate any documentation of the criteria and method
used in the impact analysis,” the analysis concluded that such a
collision “would result in only local damage which could not
cause collapse or substantial damage to the building.…” 203]
Eduardo Kausel, Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, MIT, and a Scientific American contributor, notes
that the buildings may indeed have been designed for the impact
load caused by a 767, but believes the designers never
considered the fuel load and inferno that would surely ensue.
204] Eduardo Kausel 204] John Skilling 205] However, John
Skilling, partner in WSH&J, who died in 1998, stated in a 1993
interview with The Seattle Times: “Our analysis indicated the
biggest problem would be the fact that all the fuel (from the
airplane) would dump into the building. There would be a
horrendous fire. A lot of people would be killed.” But, he says,
“The building structure would still be there.” 205] Since, as
Kausel notes, the 707- 320 and 767-200ER both carry about the
same amount of fuel, one might reasonable conclude that the
buildings were indeed designed to accommodate fires from the
767-200 ER. Only floors 95-96 and 97 of WTC 1 sustained
significant damage. In these floors NIST indicates that only
about 9 of the 47 core columns were significantly damaged, and
about 15% of the 244 peripheral columns failed in the crash zone
of each tower. Yet according to the "premier construction
industry" publication, Engineering News-Record (ENR), over 25%
of the peripheral columns on the ground floor could be removed,
and the building could still withstand 100 mph winds from any
direction 206]. NIST notes that because of severed columns,
loads on adjacent columns, including the effects of the hat
trusses, increased by up to 25%. 207] This scenario appears to
conflict with the claim found in ENR that loads on perimeter
columns could be increased by a factor of 20 (2000 %) without
failing. 208] If the ENR claim were correct, even at half
strength, the load on the perimeter columns could be increased
by a factor of 10 before failing. 5.6.2 Interviews: Ryan notes
that NIST began planning for eyewitness interviews in April
2003, 7 months after the start of the investigation. By October,
NIST had still not conducted interviews, and had no access to
NYC interviews. By December 2003, NYC finally agreed to allow
NIST to access original interviews, but only in NYC offices.
209] MacQueen notes that NIST had the FDNY Oral Histories, and
praised the quality of judgments of the FDNY on the condition of
the buildings on 9/11, but never mentions the FDNY reports of
explosions. 210] 5.6.3 Lab Tests: Fire and NIST Although NIST
found “no significant steel temperatures over 625 deg. C”.
211], and the half strength critical temperature of steel is
650 deg. C., their report concludes column and floor assemblies
softened due to fire because fireproofing was “widely
dislodged,” and the floors began to sag in the impact zone,
which caused perimeter columns to buckle inwards, leading to
“collapse initiation” 212]. Kevin Ryan wrote to Frank Gayle,
who was heading the NIST Analysis of Structural Steel: Your
comments suggest that the exterior panel] steel was probably
exposed to temperatures of only about 500 degrees F. (250 C),
which is what one might expect from a thermodynamic analysis of
the situation…. yet]… this new summary report suggests that
much lower temperatures were able to not only soften the steel
in a matter of minutes, but lead to rapid structural collapse…
This story just does not add up. If steel from those buildings
did soften or melt, I’m sure we can all agree that this was
certainly not due to jet fuel fires of any kind, let alone
briefly burning fires in those towers. That fact should be of
great concern to all Americans.”… “There is no question that the
events of 9/11 are the emotional driving force behind the War on
Terror. And the issue of the WTC collapse is at the crux of the
story of 9/11. 213] Ryan noted in the letter that testing of
steel components of the WTC buildings was performed by UL in the
1960’s, and later pointed out that the tests “verified
conformance to code requirements for multiple hours of fire
resistance at much higher temperatures.” 214] According to an
article in the South Bend Tribune, Paul M. Baker, the company's
spokesman, sharply rebuked Ryan's statements, stating: "The
contents of the argument itself are spurious at best, and
frankly, they're just wrong." Ryan was fired for making his
statements. Kevin Ryan, former UL Site Manager 215] Frank
Gayle, NIST 216] According to the Tribune article, Ryan copied
his e-mail to David Ray Griffin, author of The New Pearl Harbor,
and to Catherine Austin Fitts, a board member of
911Truth.org.One day later, Griffin requested and received
permission to distribute Ryan's letter to other parties, and
permission was given. 217] As part of the investigation, NIST
contracted with Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to test floor
trusses like those in the WTC towers. All four test specimens
were subject to a standard fire test (ASTM E119) and sustained
the maximum design load (twice that on the WTC trusses) for two
hours “without collapsing….the empirical test] results
established that this type of assembly was capable of sustaining
a large gravity load, without collapsing, for a substantial
period of time relative to the duration of the fires in any
given location on September 11.” 218] The ASTM E119
time-temperature profile exposed the specimens to almost 1000
deg C. for over an hour. 219] 5.6.4 Analysis and Simulation
5.6.4.1 WTC tower structure Let us roughly characterize the
actual WTC tower structure. The 1375 ft. tall towers of 110 12.5
ft. floors consisted of a perimeter of 244 structural steel
columns forming a square plan, with horizontal bracing
(spandrels) and extremely rigid chamfered corners. The
peripheral steel columns from the 9th through the 106th floors
spanned three floors vertically, and were built into massive
steel wall sections measuring about 10 ft wide by 27.5 ft.
(three floors) tall, consisting of three 14 inch square hollow
box columns spaced three ft. four inches apart, and welded to
thick steel plate spandrels. The building core, of dimensions
79X139 ft., was a veritable forest of 47 columns, horizontal and
diagonal cross braced, which housed primarily elevator shafts.
The 47 core columns varied in thickness with floor height.
Individual core columns in the lower core measured 52 x 22 in.
(in plan), and were formed of 5 and 3 inch plate into almost
solid steel shafts that weighed up to 56 tons. 220] Other
sources, including FEMA, note the average core box column cross
section to be 12" wide x 36" deep x 2" thick, having a cross
sectional area of 176 square inches. The box cross section
construction changed to relatively light I-beam cross section
above the 85th floor. 221] Hufschmid indicates the perimeter
columns also decreased in thickness with increasing floor
height. 222] Each tower weighed 500,000 short tons or 454545
metric tons ( 1 metric ton=1.1 short ton). The intact 16 story
section above aircraft impact weighed 58,000 metric tons. Thus,
the upper 16 of the 110 floor system, or 14.5 % of the floors,
weighed only about 12.7 % of the total building weight, so the
majority of the mass per floor was in the lower floors. 223]
NIST analysis of building natural periods before and after
impact shows overall stiffness of the towers was not appreciably
affected by aircraft impact. 224] 5.6.4.2 NIST Simulation of
Aircraft Damage to Tower Structure. NIST performed detailed
aircraft impact damage estimate simulations. Four “global
simulations” were used to generate information about the state
of the structural components following aircraft impact. 225]
The global models extended from floor 91 for WTC1 and floor 77
for WTC2 to the top of each tower 226]. Two models were done
for each tower; one at an estimated minimum, the other at an
estimated maximum aircraft speed. The column damage for all
impacted floors was combined into a single image for each tower.
The cases, and column damage are noted in 227]. The NIST “worst
case” (ie max aircraft speed) damage assessment for WTC1 , was
Case B, with 6 columns severed and 3 with heavy damage. It is
instructive to compare this reasonable damage estimate with one
of the more “technical” 911 Truth debunking websites, which
suggests 20 core columns were “removed due to impact”: Composite
floor plan showing aircraft damage to North Tower, low and high
speed cases Figures 6-21 and 6-22 from NIST 228] Figure
purporting to show aircraft damage to WTC1 229] 5.6.4.3
Descending Block Scenario leading up to “collapse initiation.”
The NIST story has it that the floors of the upper descending
“block”, consisting of 15 floors with lighter supports, in the
North Tower, were able to “pile up” and out-crush the more
massive supports of the floors of the lower block, consisting of
85 floors. Richard Gage in his Blueprint for Truth presentations
includes real time videos clearly showing that The upper 15
floors of WTC1 disintegrate prior to the “collapse” of the lower
85 floors. 230]. This can be observed in successive frames from
the sequence shown in section 1.2.2, North Tower Antenna. Frames
9,10,11,12. Notice the top of the upper block is descending
rapidly, while the top of the lower block, although enveloped in
flame, appears to not have moved appreciably. 231] A well know
series of photos 1,2,3 of the South Tower shows the top 34
floors tipping and then disintegrating: 232] Steven Jones notes
the anomaly of the disintegration of the piece of the South
Tower, which was also alluded to by Hufschmid: “We observe that
approximately 34 upper floors begin to rotate as a block, to the
south and east. They begin to topple over, as favored by the
Second Law of Thermodynamics. The torque due to gravity on this
block is enormous, as is its angular momentum. But then--and
this I'm still puzzling over--this block turned mostly to powder
in mid-air!…Remarkable, amazing - and demanding scrutiny since
the US government-funded reports failed to analyze this
phenomenon.” 233] The top 34 floors begin to topple, so there
is no huge mass of material bearing down on the untoppled
floors. The toppling 34 floors are in free fall; no crushing
mass bearing down on them, so why did these floors disintegrate
into dust? This means that there was no “massive upper block”,
in either North or South Tower, to crush the lower floors. This
is consistent with Jim Hoffman’s observation that “the purported
‘tremendous energy of the falling building section’ (upper
block) did not even show up on the seismographs.” Brent
Blanchard, senior writer for Implosion-World.com, also states
that a review of all photographic images clearly shows about 95%
of falling debris being forced away from the footprint of the
structure. 234] There was no huge buildup of mass, either as a
single massive block or buildup of debris, onto the lower block.
Any suggestion of the descending block scenario, pancake or
progressive collapse is further contradicted by images showing
large intact portions of the towers, apparently hanging in thin
air above the “collapse” wave. A portion of one of the WTC
towers (center of image) seems to be hanging in mid-air 235]
Yet NIST states repeatedly that energy of the downward movement
of the building mass above the damaged columns exceeded the
strain energy that could have been absorbed by the lower floors,
so global collapse ensued 236] This is the essence of
“progressive collapse” theory, and it has been assumed, not
demonstrated, not proven. NIST only considers events from the
moment of aircraft impact until “collapse initiation.” 237]
Incredibly, “progressive collapse” of floors below aircraft
impact has been left out of the NIST collapse sequence computer
models! 238] Finnish 9/11 activist Sami Yli-Karjanmaa was among
the first critics of the NIST report. 239] He noted the
truncation of models to reduce model size and improve
computation time, failure to simulate the collapse, and the NIST
collapse mantra, "repeated 12 times in the project 6 report
dealing with the collapse sequence: 'The change in potential
energy due to downward movement of building mass above the
buckled columns exceeded the strain energy that could have been
absorbed by the structure. Global collapse then ensued.'"
5.6.4.4 Where is the momentum transfer analysis? It has already
been established that the “descending block” scenario was
fictitious; there were no descending upper blocks impacting
lower blocks. But for the sake of argument, suppose there had
been. Suppose an upper block had hit a lower block. Stress and
strain energy are in the domain of the theory of elasticity, yet
NIST provides no elasticity analysis to substantiate its
position. Fundamental to application of the theory of elasticity
to the WTC North Tower collapse is the fact that impact of the
theoretical “upper block” with the “lower block” will not just
stress the topmost floor of the lower block; rather, the stress
will be propagated rapidly downward and upward to the rest of
the floors. This propagation will absorb energy, and the
question is, as in the case of an elastic spring, how much
energy can the structure absorb without breaking. Manuel Garcia,
in an article for Counterpunch, says that he takes up the
analysis of the collapse of the towers “where NIST left off” in
describing the floor-by -floor collapse, but makes the same
assumption as NIST, that the energy of descending floors is more
than the structure can absorb. He does not consider the benefit
of elasticity is absorbing energy, but only looks at the
destructive aspects of the descending “wave train.” 240] Gordon
Ross has applied the theory of elasticity in a comprehensive way
to the descending block scenario to show that even had it
existed, the momentum of the upper impacting block would be
absorbed during the three percent elongation phase of the steel
columns of the very top floor, and therefore collapse would not
proceed. 241] The NIST mantra remains unproven. The NIST
investigation also omitted or distorted many other important
aspects of the collapses, including movement of the WTC1 antenna
before the adjacent façade, the pyroclastic dust clouds, and
pools of molten metal in the WTC basements weeks after the
attacks. 242] NIST failed to provide follow up study on an
unusual sulfur residue which was found during the FEMA BPA
study, and which FEMA recommended be investigated in future
studies. 243] 5.6.5 Steven Jones on Kevin Ryan and NIST: Jones
agrees with Kevin Ryan's objections regarding the NIST study.
244] Jones also challenges NIST's collapse theory: “NIST
maintains that all three building collapses were fire-initiated
despite contrary observations, particularly the fact that fire
endurance tests with actual models did not result in
collapse….The computerized models of the Towers in the NIST
study, which incorporate many features of the buildings and the
fires on 9-11-01, are less than convincing. 245] NIST
constructs a computer model--but realistic cases do not actually
lead to building collapse. So they "adjust" inputs until the
model finally shows collapse initiation for the most severe
cases. 246] NIST notes explicitly several times in its final
report that the computer simulation only proceeds until the
building is “poised for collapse.” Jones asks: What about the
subsequent complete, rapid and symmetrical collapse of the
buildings? What about the observed squibs? What about the
antenna dropping first in the North Tower? What about the molten
metal observed in the basement areas in large pools in both
Towers and WTC 7 as well …Well, some of us want to look at ALL
the data, without computer simulations that are "adjusted,"
perhaps to make them fit the desired outcome. 247] Ryan did his
own statistical analysis in a recent letter regarding the NIST
report, arguing that probabilities of collapse-initiation needed
to be calculated (Ryan, 2005). NIST nowhere provides such a
likelihood analysis for their non-explosive collapse model.
Ryan's analysis is that the probability that aircraft damage and
fires (the "official theory") could cause the Towers complete
collapse is less than one in a trillion (Ryan, 2005). “So where
does that leave us? I strongly agree with Kevin Ryan, ‘This
"official"] story just does not add up...” 248] 5.6.6 The
Engineering Community A lone scientist, Abdolhasan Astaneh Asl,
funded by the National Science foundation, got access to the
steel before the ASCE/FEMA team. Despite the fact that 40
percent of a steel beam was torn away, the column did not
collapse, an example of redundancy built into the 1970s-vintage
structure. With admiration, Asl said "The aircraft] impact did
nothing to this building." 249] The engineering community has
raised questions about the results of the NIST WTC
investigation. The popular British construction industry
magazine New Civil Engineer International (NCEI) notes:
Controversy still surrounds the exact collapse mechanism of the
Twin Towers, despite three years of detailed investigation by
the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) team.
Some engineers believe the collapse was influenced by factors
other than the fires caused by burning aviation fuel which
weakened vital structural steel elements. And they have accused
NIST of repeatedly changing its explanation of the collapse
mechanism….”In this latest version, the hat trusses on top of
the towers play a crucial role in the redistribution of stresses
after the impact,” one leading US structural engineer told NCE
in New York “In earlier versions they are hardly mentioned.”
250] Regarding the analysis used to bring the towers to the
point of being “poised for collapse,” NCEI notes: “NIST had
obviously devoted enormous resources to the development of the
impact and fire models…The software used has been pushed to new
limits, and there have been a lot of simplifications,
extrapolations and judgment calls.” The same article notes NIST
is “refusing to show computer visualizations of the collapse of
the Twin Towers despite calls from leading structural and fire
engineers…Visualizations of collapse mechanisms are routinely
used to validate the type of finite element analysis model used
by the investigators.” University of Manchester U.K.] professor
of structural engineering Colin Bailey said there was a lot to
be gained from visualizing the structural response. "NIST should
really show the visualizations; otherwise the opportunity to
correlate them back to the video evidence and identify any
errors in the modeling will be lost." 251] James Quintiere,
Ph.D., one of the world’s leading fire science researchers and
safety engineers, and former Chief of the Fire Science Division
of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
has called for an independent review of NIST’s investigation.
Alan Miller has written an excellent article on Quintiere’s
plea. Miller notes that Dr. Quintiere gave his presentation
“Questions on the WTC Investigations” twice at the 2007 World
Fire Safety Conference, June 4- 5, 2007. Although Quintiere
apparently does not consider controlled demolition a possible
collapse mechanism, his frustration and objections regarding the
NIST WTC study include those of 9/11 Truth researchers, as well
as the engineering community. Responding to a comment from a
NIST representative in the audience, Dr. Quintiere said, “I
found that throughout your whole investigation it was very
difficult to get a clear answer. And when anyone went to your
advisory panel meetings or hearings, where they were given five
minutes to make a statement; they could never ask any questions.
...” 252] Dr. Quintiere’s presentation at the World Fire Safety
Conference echoed his earlier statement to the U.S. House of
Representatives, Committee on Science, on October 26, 2005,
during a hearing on “The Investigation of the World Trade Center
Collapse: Findings, Recommendations, and Next Steps”, at which
he stated: “In my opinion, the WTC investigation by NIST falls
short of expectations by not definitively finding cause, by not
sufficiently linking recommendations of specificity to cause, by
not fully invoking all of their authority to seek facts in the
investigation, and by the guidance of government lawyers to
deter rather than develop fact finding." Dr. Quintiere noted
that a number of questions had been submitted to NIST which were
never acknowledged or answered. Those questions include the
following: "Why were not alternative collapse hypotheses
investigated and discussed as NIST had stated repeatedly that
they would do?" Noting destruction of the WTC steel, Quintiere
remarked that a careful reading of the NIST report shows that
they have no evidence that the temperatures they predict as
necessary for failure are corroborated by findings of the little
steel debris they have. "Why hasn't NIST declared that this
spoliation of the steel was a gross error? " NIST used computer
models that they said have never been used in such an
application before and are the state of the art. ...." But the
validation of these modeling results 253] is in question.
Others have computed aspects with different conclusions on the
cause mechanism of the collapse. Moreover, it is common in fire
investigation to compute a timeline and compare it to known
events. NIST has not done that. " "Testing by NIST has been
inconclusive. Although they have done fire tests of the scale of
several work stations, a replicate test of at least one] WTC
floor would have been of considerable value. Why was this not
done? ... " 254] 5.6.7 Purdue Study; A NIST Prop? The Purdue
University website, in an article dated September 11 2006,
announced the so-called “Purdue Study” 255]. An Associated
Press article appearing in the June 20 2007 online edition of
USA Today noted the two year study “supports a federal agency's
findings NIST] that the initial impact from the hijacked
airplanes stripped away crucial fireproofing material and that
the weakened towers collapsed under their own weight.” 256]
Scholars for 9/11 Truth , Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice,
and Prison planet, among others, have criticized this study.
Prison Planet observed that the study was funded by the National
Science Foundation, whose budget was doubled last year to $6.02
billion by the Bush administration. It’s director, Dr. Arden L.
Bement Jr., has worked for the Department of defense, where he
was Under Secretary for Research and Engineering, and DARPA.
257] Prison Planet also noted that structural engineer Mete
Sozen, the lead investigator in the Purdue study, was also on
the American Society of Civil Engineers research team that
confirmed the government's story about the OKC bombing in 1995,
despite the many inconsistencies and conflicting testimony.
258] Nick Irving’s paper, Purdue 9/11 Animation: Politics, not
Science, appeared on the Scholars for 9/11 Truth website dated
June 23 2007 259]. Kevin Ryan’s paper; An Open Letter to Purdue
President Cordova, has been posted by Scholars for 9/11 Truth
and Justice. 260] Ryan notes inattention to minor detail: In a
paper describing the study, 261] he notes that “Flight 77 “ and
“impact of Flight AA71” are referenced to aircraft impact of
WTC1. He notes a litany of technical discrepancies between the
NIST and Purdue studies; for example: NIST determined that the
center fuel tank of the aircraft was completely empty when it
struck WTC 1, but the Purdue animation shows the center tank to
be completely full. Although dubbed by some as a NIST study
“prop”, an August 2007 ENR article entitled Purdue Model of WTC
Impact Conflicts with Federal Study focuses on the differences.
262] See: How do the Studies compare. 5.6.8 Secrecy According
to the Nov. 12 2005 New York Times, NIST announced that its
construction advisory committee, a group of experts overseeing
the investigation, would meet for 10 hours on Nov. 22 at its
headquarters in Gaithersburg, Maryland, but that only the first
2 hours would be public. The remainder will be closed “because
of the agency's concerns that discussions about changes in
construction codes could prematurely influence the building
industry and the people who write the codes,” said Mat Heyman,
the institute's chief of staff. Monica Gabrielle, whose husband
Richard was killed when the South tower collapsed 57 minutes
after it was hit by one of the hijacked jets, vehemently
objected to the decision: ''You have one job, and one job only
-- to find out the truth of what happened to those buildings and
to report to the public about it,'' she said yesterday in an
interview. ''You don't owe industry, the Port Authority or
federal agencies anything. You owe it to the public--the truth,
no matter where it goes.''… ''There has been considerable
pressure on us to come out with our final recommendations,'' Mr.
Heyman said. 263] 5.6.9 The real goal of the NIST
“investigation As Ed Haas has pointed out, the real goal of the
NIST “investigation” appears to have been to protect the
government. Throughout the NIST reports Haas notes the following
language:“NIST found no corroborating evidence for alternative
hypotheses suggesting that the WTC towers were brought down by
controlled demolition using explosives planted prior to
September 11, 2001.” Haas also notes generous use of the
following disclaimer: “No part of any report resulting from a
NIST investigation into a structural failure or from an
investigation under the National Construction Safety Team Act
may be used in any suit or action for damages arising out of any
matter mentioned in such report (15 USC 281a; as amended by P.L.
1007-321).” 264] 5.6.10 Legal challenges filed against NIST
According to a notice on the Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice
website, dated April 14, 2007, 9/11 family members Bob McIlvaine
and Bill Doyle, physicist Steven E. Jones, former UL manager,
Kevin Ryan, architect Richard Gage, and the group Scholars for
9/11 Truth and Justice have also filed a Request for Correction
(RFC) with NIST. The Request asserts that the NIST Final Report
violates information quality standards, draws inferences that
are inconsistent with its own computer simulations and physical
tests, and exhibits a significant bias toward a preordained
conclusion while ignoring available evidence contrary to it. The
Request also says that if this bias is corrected, the NIST
simulation clearly indicates that the Towers should not have
collapsed due to plane damage and fire. The obvious alternative,
which the group says should have been studied by NIST, is
explosive demolition. 265] On September 27 2007, NIST finally
responded to the Jones RFC. 266] The NIST memorandum appears to
agree that the NCST Act requires NIST to “establish the likely
technical cause or causes of the building failure.“ On the fact
that temperatures reached by steel recovered by NIST directly
contradicted the temperatures calculated by the analytical
models, NIST states: “While NIST did not find evidence that any
of the recovered core columns experienced temperatures in excess
of 250 deg C., it is not possible to extrapolate from such a
small sample size to state that none of the core columns on the
fire effected floors reached temperatures in excess of 250 deg.
C.” 267] On the issue that NIST failed to take into account
interviews of emergency personnel that suggested the presence of
bombs in the towers. “NIST reviewed all of the interviews
conducted by the FDNY of firefighters (500 interviews) and in
addition conducted its own set of interviews with emergency
responders and building occupants. Taken as a whole, the
interviews did not support the contention that explosives played
a role in the collapse of the WTC Towers.” 268] On the issue of
failure to carry the analysis beyond the point of “initiation of
collapse”, NIST states that computer models were unable to
converge on a solution, but assumes the NIST collapse mantra:
“Once the collapse initiated, it is clear from the available
evidence that the building was unable to resist the falling mass
of the upper stories of the towers.“ 269] And to make sure we
did not miss it, the memorandum repeats: “Finally, NIST has
stated that it found no corroborating evidence to suggest that
explosives were used to bring down the buildings. NIST did not
conduct tests for explosive residue…” 270] In the midst of all
this, NIST admits “ we are unable to provide a full explanation
of the total collapse.” 271] All Requests for Correction were
denied, but it is believed Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice
will appeal this decision. 5.6.11 More Scientists Architects and
Engineers question NIST Results In September 2006, Alan Miller
began the website www.PatriotsQuestion911.com. 272] Initially
statements from very high profile persons critical of the
official story were posted, but the scope of the website quickly
expanded. As of February, 2009, over 160 Senior Military,
Intelligence Service, Law Enforcement, and Government Officials;
over 350 professors; over 230 9/11 Survivors and family members;
over 190 artists, entertainers and media professionals; over 170
pilots and aviation professionals; and over 660 engineers and
architects appear on this site questioning the official story.
Patrick Leahy, Vermont Senator and current Chair of the Senate
Judiciary Committee , as well as Eleanor Hill, Former Staff
Director of the Joint Intelligence Committee 911] Inquiry (JICI)
added their signatures on November 12, 2008 Richard Gage is a
degreed and licensed architect from the San Francisco Bay area
and a member of the American Institute of Architects. He has
over 20 years experience as an architect, including working with
numerous steel framed fire-proofed structures. In 2006, he
founded Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
(www.ae911truth.org), which as of February 2009 has garnered 607
professional signatures demanding of Congress a truly
independent investigation into the destruction of WTC1, WTC2,
and WTC7 on 9/11/01. "My objective is to make all architects and
engineers aware of the overwhelming evidence of controlled
demolition by explosives at all three WTC high-rise buildings."
273] In his excellent DVD 9/11: Blueprint for Truth, Gage
points out that fire creeps slowly from one location to another,
as successive areas are burned out, causing large visible slow
deformations and would result in asymmetrical collapse. In his
presentation, Gage goes clearly and carefully step by step
through the scientific method in arguing his case: Each claim is
tested. If it fails the test, it is rejected or reformulated. He
then summarizes a large number of features which support the
hypothesis of controlled demolition in a grided check list.
274] The relatively large number of engineers and architects on
the www.PatriotsQuestion911.com website may be due in part to
the existence of Richard Gage’s Architects and Engineers for
9/11 Truth. 5.7.0 How do the Official Investigations Compare?
5.7.1 A Continuity of Faces There does appear to be a certain
continuity of staffing of the several studies supporting the
Official Story: According to Kevin Ryan, 275] the American
Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Team that first looked into
the collapse of the Twin Towers was initially led by the same
team that looked into the Oklahoma City Murrah Building bombing.
Initial ASCE team leaders as of 9/14/01 included Gene Corley,
Sr. VP of CTL Engineering as chief lead, Charles Thornton, Paul
Mlakar, and Mete Sozen. Murrah building bombing report authors
were Gene Corley, Charles Thornton, Paul Mlakar, and Mete Sozen.
276] Corley “knew” once the jets hit the building that the WTC
would collapse as it did: “I just didn’t know when it was going
to happen,” said Corley. St. Petersburg Times] 277]
Interestingly, NYC put the firm of Thornton-Tomasetti in charge
of the WTC site. Richard Tomasetti (Thornton’s partner)
“cleared” the decision to recycle the steel, later saying had he
“known the direction that investigations into the disaster would
take, he would have adopted a different stance.” 278] The first
NIST meeting included comments from Gene Corley and Richard
Tomasetti. Charles Thornton was on the NIST related National
Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee. 279] FEMA authors
Therese McAllister, John Gross, Ronald Hamburger, William Baker,
Harold Nelson, and Ramon Gilsanz were co-authors for portions of
the NIST report. An internet search of Gene Corley, Charles H.
Thornton, Richard L. Tomasetti, Paul Mlakar, and Mete Sozen
produces mixed results. Although Corley and Mlakar could be seen
as having potential conflicts of interest due to their
association with the defense industry, Thornton is considered a
hero, having received the 2001 Engineering News-Record Award of
Excellence for being “the consummate mentor and role model.”
280] Kevin Ryan notes that Gene Corley, Charles Thornton, and
Richard Tomasetti, involved in the ASCE/FEMA studies, were also
involved in the studies to establish the Silverstein insurance
claim. Although both studies agreed that airplane impact and
fire were the cause of collapse, the Weidlinger - Silverstein
studies directly contradicted the FEMA report regarding the
floor trusses as a mechanism of collapse. 281] Were these
engineers unaware of this contradiction? 5.7.2 North Tower
Antenna The official FEMA 9-11 report admits a striking anomaly
regarding the North Tower collapse: “Review of videotape
recordings of the collapse taken from various angles indicates
that the transmission tower on top off the structure began to
move downward and laterally slightly before movement was evident
at the exterior wall. This suggests that collapse began with one
or more failures in the central core area of the building.” The
report notes this is consistent with other observations. 282] A
NY Times article also notes this behavior: “Videos of the north
tower's collapse appear to show that its television antenna
began to drop a fraction of a second before the rest of the
building. The observations suggest that the building's steel
core somehow gave way first.” 283] The NIST investigation also
noted that the collapse of the North Tower Antenna suggested
that the steel core gave way first, but later stated:
"Photographic and videographic records were reviewed to identify
structurally-related events. Where possible, all four faces of a
building were examined for a given event or time period to
provide complete understanding of the building response.
Observations from a single vantage point can be misleading and
may result in incorrect interpretation of events. For instance,
photographic and video records taken from due north of the WTC 1
collapse appeared to indicate that the antenna was sinking into
the roof (McAllister 2002). When records from east and west
vantage points were viewed, it was apparent that the building
section above the impact area tilted to the south as the
building collapsed." 284] This NIST statement cannot be
precisely accurate, because we know there had to be a component
of antenna motion downward as the structure collapsed. As Dr.
Jones notes, the proper technical approach would be to resolve
the southward and downward components of motion analytically, to
see the relative contribution . 285] NIST seems to have arrived
at its conclusion in disagreement with the FEMA Report, which
noted the observation of the sinking core was based on
“videotape recordings taken from various angles.” The NIST
conclusion is based on data which is apparently not available to
the public. 5.7.3 Amount of jet fuel burned within the WTC
towers According to the FEMA BPA, aircraft fuel capacity was
23,980 gallons; at time of impact, each jet had an estimated
10,000 gallons of fuel on board. 286] "Calculations indicate
that between 1000 and 3000 gallons of jet fuel were likely
consumed" in fireballs for each tower. The remainder flowed away
from the structures, or burned within them. Assuming half flowed
away, then approximately 4000 gallons remained on the impact
floors to be consumed in the fires that followed. The jet Fuel
would have been consumed within the first few minutes. 287] The
NIST Executive Summary states "About 10,000 gallons of jet fuel
were sprayed into multiple stories" 288] The more detailed
account states: "Upon aircraft impact, a significant fraction of
10,000 gallons of jet fuel ignited within the building." 289]
Apparently struggling for every gallon to be burned within the
towers, NIST finally concedes that somewhat less than 10,000
gallons of fuel actually burned in each tower: "The timing and
appearance of the fireballs indicated they were ignited within
the building. A calculation based on the oxygen contained within
the building on the floors into which the fuel tanks entered
indicated that up to 15% of the available jet fuel could have
burned inside the building in the immediate event...If roughly
another 15-20 % of the jet fuel burned outside the building, as
in WTC2, then about two thirds of the jet fuel remained inside
the building to burn later or just flow away from the fire
zones." 290] With WTC 2; we find classic NIST-ese. Is it a
highly detailed description of how much fuel burned in the
building, or obfuscation? 291] Mete Sozen, the Kettelhut
Distinguished Professor of Structural Engineering in Purdue's
School of Civil Engineering, and lead investigator for the
Purdue study, stated "the ensuing fire fed by an estimated
10,000 gallons of jet fuel". 292] The figures from the first
official investigation, by FEMA, are more in line with figures
given on the Discovery Channel, noted earlier by Dave McGowan.
The tendency is that in later investigations, the estimated
amount of fuel burned inside the buildings escalates. 5.7.4
References to explosives, explosive, or anomalous
characteristics Chapter 1 of the FEMA Report notes: Sudden
collapse of each tower sent out air pressure waves that spread
dust clouds of building materials in all directions for many
blocks. The density and pressure of the dust clouds were strong
enough to carry light debris and lift or move small vehicles and
break windows in adjacent buildings for several blocks around
the WTC site. 293]…Once movement began, the entire portion of
the building above the area of impact fell in a unit, pushing a
cushion of air below it. As this cushion of air pushed through
the impact area, the fires were fed by new oxygen and pushed
outward, creating the illusions of a secondary explosion. 294]
Although not noted in the main text, the FEMA Report did note in
appendix C the presence of sulfur and a eutectic reaction, which
had a corrosive effect of the steel, as previously discussed.
Although FEMA noted this was an unusual event, and recommended a
detailed study, this went no further in the official reports.
Chapter 9 of the 9/11 Commission Report contains only one
oblique reference to explosions: “When the South Tower
collapsed, firefighters on the upper floors of the North Tower
heard a violent roar, and many were knocked off their feet…those
firefighters not standing near windows facing south had no way
of knowing that the South Tower had collapsed, many surmised
that a bomb had exploded…” 295] Investigations by the 9/11
Commission, FEMA, and NIST did not address the well documented
presence of molten metal in the WTC basements. 296] 5.7.5
Aircraft Impact Damage The towers are traditionally accepted as
having been designed by Leslie E. Robertson to withstand 140
mile per hour winds, and the impact of the largest airliner of
the day, the Intercontinental Boeing 707. This has been
acknowledged in both the FEMA BPA, and the NIST investigations.
297] The FEMA BAP contends that the 707 design was for low
speed and low fuel, and that the 767 is more “massive” than the
707. Both of these claims have been rebutted. 298] FEMA wrote
that for each tower, the aircraft impact resulted in severe
structural damage, including some localized partial collapse,
but did not result in the initiation of global collapse. 299]
The NIST Executive Summary states: “The two aircraft hit the
towers at high speeds and did considerable damage to principle
structural components,” Abdolhasan Astaneh Asl wrote: “The
impact did nothing to this building.” 300] 5.7.6 “Pancaking”,
“Progressive Collapse”; Mode of failure; New building codes
While the FEMA report cast suspicion on the floor trusses, the
Silverstein report exonerated the floor trusses, and noted the
core columns had to fail completely for the tower collapse. The
Silverstein study also concluded that fire temperatures were
lower than typical "fully developed" office fires. 301] The
FEMA BPA implicated weakening of floor trusses as leading to
“progressive collapse”. It mentions “pancaking” only a few
times, but references floor failure and weakness numerous times.
302] The March 2005 Popular Mechanics debunk article notes in
support of “pancake theory”: FACT: Once each tower began to
collapse, the weight of all the floors above the collapsed zone
bore down with pulverizing force on the highest intact floor.
Unable to absorb the massive energy, that floor would fail,
transmitting the forces to the floor below, allowing the
collapse to progress downward through the building in a chain
reaction. Engineers call the process "pancaking," and it does
not require an explosion to begin, according to David Biggs, a
structural engineer at Ryan-Biggs Associates and a member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) team that worked on
the FEMA report. 303] In the first place, as we have seen,
there were no massive blocks bearing down with pulverizing
force, because both upper blocks were pulverized. Further, no
momentum transfer analysis was done; and it is just assumed the
lower floors would fail, because they did. Going further, Dr.
Steven Jones puts it this way: "Where is the delay that must be
expected due to conservation of momentum, one of the
foundational laws of physics? That is, as upper-falling floors
strike lower floor —and intact steel support columns—the fall
must be significantly impeded by the impacted mass. - somehow
the enormous support columns failed /disintegrated along with
the falling floor pans. How do the upper floors fall so quickly,
then, and still conserve momentum in the collapsing buildings?”
304] The contradiction is ignored by FEMA, NIST and 9-11
Commission reports where conservation of momentum and the fall
times were not analyzed. Dr. Steven Jones and Richard Gage have
used the following example to illustrate the point. Which tower
top will strike the ground first? According to the official
story, both will strike the ground at the same time. Tower tops
in free fall 305] “Like all office buildings, the WTC towers
contained a huge volume of air. As they pancaked, all that
air--along with the concrete and other debris pulverized by the
force of the collapse--was ejected with enormous energy. ‘When
you have a significant portion of a floor collapsing, it's going
to shoot air and concrete dust out the window,’ NIST lead
investigator Shyam Sunder tells PM. Those clouds of dust may
create the impression of a controlled demolition, Sunder adds,
‘but it is the floor pancaking that leads to that perception.’”
306] Although “pancake/pancaking” is not referenced in the NIST
report, the lead investigator uses the term freely. Steven Jones
has an excellent response: the timing between puffs is too
short, so air expulsion due to collapsing floors is excluded. A
rough calculation of the time for the north tower to freefall
(from 1368 ft) is 9.22 seconds, and the time for one floor to
freefall is .88 seconds. 307] Pancaking as described by Mr.
Sunder would require each floor to collapse (free fall)
independently and sequentially for each of the 110 floors. The
total time would be 110 stories * .88 seconds per story, or
about 97 seconds. This does not include a delay time for the
breaking of successive floors. So the observed time of collapse
of the North Tower (under 16 seconds, is much closer to freefall
time (9.2 seconds) than the time for “pancaking” as described by
Mr. Sunder (Which would take 97 seconds). As Steven Jones notes,
the FEMA “Pancaking” approach “finally fails to account for the
observed collapse of the 47 interconnected core columns which
are massive and designed to bear the weight of the buildings,
and it has the striking weakness of requiring the connections of
the floor pans to the vertical columns to break, both at the
core and at the perimeter columns, more or less simultaneously.”
308] Although NIST has officially given up the idea of
“pancaking” 309], which is never mentioned in its final report,
it has clearly has not given up on the term “progressive”
collapse 310], which is mentioned frequently. 311] Although
the FEMA, NIST and Purdue studies emphasize the high
temperatures of the fires, the Silverstein study noted that fire
temperatures were lower than typical "fully developed" office
fires. Although both NIST and the Purdue study agree that
stripped fireproofing from the core columns was a factor leading
to collapse, the Purdue study, as the Silverstein study, suggest
core columns failed first, while the NIST study concluded the
perimeter columns failed first. NIST reported that 9 core
columns were severed or heavily damaged in the “more severe”
category, while Purdue claims 52 core columns were "destroyed or
heavily damaged" over a height six floors; Shyam Sunder, lead
NIST WTC investigator, suggested the fidelity of modeling was
the reason for this discrepancy. 312] Kevin Ryan notes that in
one important way the Purdue animation reflects reality: it is
clear that the aircraft impacting the WTC towers could not have
been instantly transformed into thousands of tiny pellets in the
form of shotgun blasts. The Purdue animation more realistically
displays the large fragments of debris from the fuselage
clattering around in the skeletal framework of the tower. This
contradicts the NIST notion of the aircraft disintegrating into
shotgun type blasts, purportedly scraping the fireproofing off
of thousands of square meters of surface area. 313] NIST says
the connections of the floor pans to vertical columns do NOT
fail (contrary to FEMA's model), but rather the floor pans "pull
with enormous force, sufficient to cause the perimeter columns
to significantly pull in, leading to final failure.” 314] NIST
coordinated on some WTC work with ARUP, an international
construction and safety organization. According to NCEI,
“British engineers strongly disputed official American claims
that the towers became more vulnerable to collapse as a result
of removal of fireproofing due to aircraft impact. The
disagreement provoked a strong exchange of views at a major
conference held at Gaithersburg near Washington DC to discuss
the official findings. British engineer Barbara Lane stated that
from ARUP’s analysis, the towers would have collapsed even
without the removal of fireproofing. 315] ARUP also contests
another NIST failure mechanism: “the core columns cannot pull
the exterior columns in via the floor simply as a result of
column shortening.” 316] Although the FEMA BAP acknowledged the
novelty of the collapses, 317] Griffin notes of NIST: “Indeed,
the supposedly definitive report put out by NIST--the National
Institute for Standards and Technology (2005)--even implies that
fire-induced collapses of large steel-frame buildings are normal
events (Hoffman, 2005).” 318] Indeed, NIST, based on the
singular collapses of 9/11, appears to have come up with a whole
new class of building failures that were not “coded” for in past
history, and must be protected against retroactively and in the
future. 319] NCEI notes that the engineering community as well
as developers are now concerned about another layer of
regulations, some of whom doubt the resulting buildings will be
any safer. 320] The apparent revisionism we have seen in the
politically correct “collapse” mechanism advocated by the US
technical and fire fighting community seems paralleled in Great
Britain. Although British elements in ARUP are now convinced the
towers would have fallen even without “removal of fireproofing”,
several high profile British structural designers were
originally quite dubious of the idea of fire induced collapses.
In an article dated 4 October 2001, Professor Wilem Frischmann,
of the Pell Frischmann Group and the City University, London,
said that the aircraft puncturing of the outer steel shells of
the towers would not in itself have caused the towers to fall.
Although the explosion caused by the fuelladen aircraft would
have been intense, the lack of available oxygen inside the
towers would, according to Professor Frischmann, have limited
the fireball's temperature to less than 1,000 Celsius, within
the tower design limits. Architect Bob Halvorson, of Halvorson
and Kaye in London said: "There is going to be a debate about
whether or not the World Trade Center Towers should have
collapsed in the way that they did....We are operating well
beyond realistic experience." 321] One might wonder how there
can be so much divergence in details of the mechanism of
building collapse proposed by the various studies, even by the
same engineers, yet such certainty that the underlying cause is
aircraft impact and fire. 6.0 Bush Science The NIST study is a
product of the Bush administration. An enumeration of the
inconsistencies of the NIST study is consistent with a long
standing and well documented pattern of Bush administration
abuse of the scientific method The House Committee on Government
Reform found "numerous instances where this Administration has
manipulated the scientific process and distorted or suppressed
scientific findings." 322] On February 18, 2004, over 60
leading scientists, including Nobel laureates, signed a
statement that "The distortion of scientific knowledge for
partisan political ends must cease." Since then, over 9000
additional scientists and engineers have signed on. 323]
Consider the case of the US Fish and Wild Life Service.
According to the L.A. Times, a survey of the 1400 employees
working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service scientific staff
was conducted jointly by the Union of Concerned Scientists and
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. A division of
the Department of the Interior, the Fish and Wildlife Service is
charged with determining which animals and plants should be
placed on the endangered species list and designating areas
where such species need to be protected. More than 20% of the
420 survey responders reported they had been "directed to
inappropriately exclude or alter technical information." More
than half of survey responders said they knew of cases in which
commercial interests, including timber, grazing, development and
energy companies, had applied political pressure to reverse
scientific conclusions deemed harmful to their business. One
biologist, who retired in 2002 after 20 years with the agency,
said: "Political pressures influence the outcome of almost all
the cases…As a scientist, I would probably say you really can't
trust the science coming out of the agency." 324] left: George
Bush on Global Warming; Center: James Connaughton, chairman
NewsFollowUp.com of the White House Council on Environmental
Quality 325] A clear example of distortion of scientific
knowledge was seen in the subsequent declaration by EPA
Administrator Christine Todd Whitman that the "air is safe" in
Manhattan a week after the attacks. 326] In fact, according to
top scientists, the air at Ground Zero was highly corrosive, and
a "significant threat to health." 327] The White House Council
on Environmental Quality, headed by James Connaughton, directed
the EPA to edit the scientific findings "based on how it should
be released publicly." 328] Since then, problems have mounted
from 9/11 dust. The number of people with medical problems
linked to the 9/11 attacks on New York has risen to at least
15,000, and over 70,000 are enrolled in WTC Health Registry.
329] 7.0 Alternative Theories 7.1 Steven Jones Thermite/Thermate
Alternative On 23 Nov 2003, D. P. Grimmer published a paper
which considered the possible use of thermite to melt sections
of the WTC inner core columns in such a way as to cause
collapse. The paper estimated the mass and volume of thermite
necessary to allow melting, and concluded that it would have
been physically possible to deliver this quantity of thermite to
the WTC towers. 330] In late 2005, and early 2006, two articles
were published in the Deseret News, a Salt Lake City mainstream
publication, which signaled the emergence of the issue of the
collapse of the WTC towers into mainstream U.S. consciousness.
The first article, “BYU Professor Thinks Bombs, Not Planes,
Toppled WTC,” 331] set the stage, justifying the possibility
that the WTC towers were subject to explosives. The article
included a list of characteristics observed during the collapse
of the towers which paralleled classic examples of controlled
demolition. The second article, “Physicist Says Heat Substance
Felled WTC,” 332] presented some preliminary evidence for a
specific demolition mechanism. Jones noted that the government
requires standard explosives to contain tag elements enabling
them to be traced back to their manufacturers, but no tags are
required for aluminum, iron oxide, or sulfur, the constituents
of a powerful incendiary. The article noted a video showing a
yellow molten substance flowing from the South Tower moments
before it collapsed. About this same time, Scholars for 9/11
Truth was founded, which attempted to focus on scientific fact
in an investigation of the events of 9/11. At this time, Jones
began several ongoing reports to document his position, and his
alternative theory of the collapse of the towers: “Answers to
Questions and Objections,” and “Why Indeed did the WTC Buildings
Completely Collapse?” See “Abbreviations used in endnotes and
text.” Dr Steven E. Jones]
332] A key question is: how does a small amount of jet fuel at
the top of the towers, with a maximum temperature of 1000 deg C,
result in large explosions and molten metal at 1500 deg C. in
the basement? Jones maintains that “these observations molten
metal in the WTC basements] are consistent with use of the
high-temperature thermite reaction or some variation thereof
such as thermate, used to cut or demolish steel… Thermite is a
mixture of iron oxide and aluminum powder. The end products of
the thermite reaction are aluminum oxide and molten iron. So the
thermite reaction generates molten iron directly, and is hot
enough to melt and even evaporate steel which it contacts while
reacting…Thermite contains its own supply of oxygen and so the
reaction cannot be smothered, even with water...Use of sulfur in
conjunction with the thermite produces thermate, which will
accelerate the destructive effect on steel.” Remember Appendix
C of the FEMA report discusses the presence of sulfur, creating
a eutechtic reaction]. Jones also said the use of explosives
such as HDX and RDX should also be considered.] 333] From an
analysis of the color of slag recovered from WTC debris, and
melting temperatures of various metals , Jones concluded the
metal could be either structural steel and/or iron, both of
which melt at about 1500 deg C. 334] Metal slag recovered from
WTC basement 335] Jones notes that an abundance of Iron (as
opposed to aluminum) is suggested by the reddish rust in a
sample of slag recovered from the WTC site, now stored in a
warehouse in NY. 335] Bright flame in S. Tower 336] Molten
metal flows in S. Tower 337] Jones notes that a photograph
found in the NIST Report provides evidence for a highly
exothermic reaction Regarding this photograph, NIST notes “an
unusual flame is visible … a very bright flame… a bright spot
appeared …followed by the flow of a glowing liquid” 336] A
number of frames showing flowing molten metal from the South
Tower, shortly prior to it’s collapse, are available . 337] Ash
from South Tower 338] A previous version of “Why Indeed” shows
a picture taken by Rob Miller, photojournalist with the New
York Post] with white ash rising from the South Tower near the
dripping, liquefied metal. 338] Thermite reaction at BYU lab
339] Jones notes the similarity between NIST’s “bright flame”
followed by molten metal and white ash with a thermite reaction
in his lab at BYU, which shows bright flare, molten yellow-white
glowing iron, and a plume of aluminum oxide smoke. 339] He
states: “These discoveries strongly motivate an immediate
in-depth investigation of the use of thermite-type reactions in
the destruction of the” WTC. 340] NIST investigators ruled out
the possibility of melting steel being the source of the
material because of the unlikelihood of steel melting. They
suggested the molten material may have been aluminum from the
impacting aircraft. 341] Jones argues that although aluminum
may glow faintly, the material flowing from the South Tower is
most likely not aluminum, but iron. 342] As of July 2006, Jones
stated that a peer reviewed qualitative analysis has shown that
samples of formerly molten material from the Towers were mostly
iron. Electron microprobe data also showed aluminum, sulfur, and
potassium, as well as fluorine. Potassium (K), manganese (Mn)
and fluorine (F) are used in thermite explosives, and are often
present in the residue, and may be part of a "thermite
fingerprint." 343] Note that the FEMA investigation found
sulfidization of several samples of WTC steel. Jones notes:
“While gypsum in the buildings is a possible source of sulfur,
it is highly unlikely that this sulfur could find its way into
the structural steel such as to form a eutectic.” 344] Dr Jones
and his students also ran experiments to see if a hypothesis put
forward by F. Greening might be credible. This hypothesis holds
that aluminum from the planes which struck the Towers could
melt, and that this aluminum might fall on "rusted steel
surfaces inducing violent thermite explosions." The results of
Dr. Jones’ experiments lent no support whatever to the Greening
theory. Aluminum hit with torch does NOT catch fire; Aluminum
melts and flows at about 600 deg c. No violent aluminum-rusty
steel or aluminum-gypsum/concrete/plastic reactions occurred.
345] Tiny aluminum particles in iron oxide can be cast into any
shape in a "sol-gel", developed by Livermore Labs. However,
Kevin Ryan notes that sol-gels might leave a tell-tale residue:
1,3,diphenylpropane. 346] Analysis of WTC dust showed that one
molecule, 1,3,diphenylpropane, was present at levels "that
dwarfed all others," according to EPA's Erik Swartz. "We've
never observed it in any sampling we've ever done." Swartz
speculated that the most likely source was plastic/ polyvinyl
chloride materials of tens of thousands of burning
computers 347] In his paper 9/11 Revisited Applying the
Scientific Method, Dr. Jones reports of his work on dust from
the WTC collapses. The iron rich component of the WTC dust
samples was analyzed by scanning electron microscopy and x-ray
energy dispersive spectroscopy (X-EDS). The result: much of the
iron rich dust was composed of roughly spherical
particles-microspheres, up to about 1.5 mm in diameter. The
presence of metallic microspheres implies that the metals were
once molten so that surface tension pulled the droplets into a
roughly spherical shape. Jones notes that a thermate reaction of
a mixture of iron, aluminum powder, and sulfur, produces
metallic spheres with high peaks in iron, aluminum, and sulfur,
in X-EDS testing. He notes this would constitute a chemical
signature of thermate variant microspheres. Although he
meticulously avoids drawing any conclusions, he does point out
that the WTC iron rich dust samples also contained aluminum and
sulfur. He then points out that the NFPA (National Fire
Protection Association) 921 Guide for Fire and Explosion
investigation clearly states: “Unusual residues might remain
from the initial fuel. Those residues could arise from thermite,
magnesium, or other pyrotechnic materials.” He then notes that
looking for residues is the standard procedure for fire and
explosion investigations. “Was the steel tested for explosives
or thermite resedue?” NIST’s answer: No, and in that answer they
are remiss. 348] Although Jones notes that the USGS Particle
Atlas of WTC Dust shows micrographs of a few metallic spherules
, 349] particle form is not considered in most air quality
analyses. Environmental Health Perspectives notes “The explosion
and collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) was a catastrophic
event that produced an aerosol plume impacting many workers,
residents, and commuters during the first few days after 11
September 2001. “ Each of three samples was analyzed for
inorganic and organic composition, not for particle size or
shape. 350] On 4/18/08, Dr. Jones and his researchers
successfully published their first paper in a mainstream Civil
Engineering journal, The Open Civil Engineering Journal,
pp.35-40. The title is Fourteen Points of Agreement with
Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center
Destruction. Authors: Steven E. Jones, Frank M. Legge, Kevin R.
Ryan, Anthony F. Szamboti, James R. Gourley. The abstract was
given as: “Reports by FEMA and NIST lay out the official account
of the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001. In
this Letter, we wish to set a foundation for productive
discussion and understanding by focusing on those areas where we
find common ground with FEMA and NIST, while at the same time
countering several popular myths about the WTC collapses.” 351]
Jones research on the collapse of the WTC towers made Project
Censored story number 18 in 2007. Peter Phillips noted that
inclusion of few stories, if any, have generated more
controversy, and that two of Project Censored’s esteemed
national judges resigned because of it’s inclusion in the 2007
yearbook. 352] 7.3 Gordon Ross Four Phase Attack Alternative
According to Gordon Ross, the towers were demolished in four
separate steps. The four steps destroyed successively the upper
central core, perimeter corners, perimeter sides, horizontal
bracing, and lower core. Ross notes that the chamfered corners
of the tower perimeter were capable of supporting the total mass
above them, without the help of the perimeter sides or tower
cores. He points out that the floor trusses from the core
connected only to the mid perimeter columns within the
projection of the core width (which makes good sense
geometrically). The floor trusses from the four corners outside
the projection of the core were connected to a transfer truss,
and the transfer truss was connected to the core. Ross suggests
that this provided two somewhat independent structural systems;
the perimeter corners, and the core and perimeter mid-sides.
Each would have been capable of sustaining the towers structure.
Ross argues that both of these systems were attacked and
destroyed to bring about total collapse. Upper core failure
would result in transfer of the entire load through the hat
truss (“building top”) to the perimeter columns. The downward
moving core would pull the perimeter mid-side columns inward
(inward bowing). Failure of each of the four corners of each
tower would also result in a transfer of the load to the
perimeter mid-sides columns, which would then fail. Ross
believes, to facilitate collapse, the floor to mid-wall
perimeter and core column connections were broken. He notes this
would be especially necessary on the mechanical floors, because
of their relatively greater design strength. Finally, the lower
core was attacked. Ross provides evidence, including still
images and video, for each of the stages of destruction. These
include: Survival of the lower core structure until an advanced
stage of the collapse; Survival of the corners of the perimeter
structure after the collapse front has passed; Inward bowing of
the perimeter walls; Sagging of floors; Tilting movement of the
upper section; Bending of upper section; Early disintegration of
upper section; Early downward movement of the antennae;
Ejections of dust & debris simultaneously across whole floors;
Behavior of the "spire"; Flashes of light; Color and character
changes of smoke emissions; Molten metal ejections; Failure of
core structure horizontal bracing; and Angle cut core columns.
This scenario would appear to account for the infamous behavior
of the top 34 floors of the South Tower, which had seemingly
violated the principle of angular momentum. 353] 8.0 Wrapping
it up with a few questions 8.1 Questions RE the “Official Story”
Why have no steel framed structures collapsed either before or
since 9/11 due to fire, even though subjected to very intense
fire? Could it be that the World Class structural design firm
Worthington, Skilling, Helle & Jackson screwed up in designing
the towers to sustain impact with a 707, even when, according to
John Skilling, they designed for fires from about the same
amount of fuel that the impacting aircraft carried? We have been
told by the Official Discovery Channel that the fuel burned up
in 8 minutes or less in each tower, so we might ask what
supplied the fuel needed for sustained high temperatures for the
remaining time until the towers “collapsed”? Why does NIST
conclude floor assemblies softened due to high temperatures,
when actual NIST test specimens endured temperatures of almost
1000 deg. C for two hours, while “no significant steel
temperatures over 625 deg. C.” were found? (Not withstanding the
fact that a lot of the steel had been inappropriately
“recycled”) Where did all the extra energy come from to: create
a pyroclastic flow; cause massive destruction; pulverize
concrete to fine dust; melt metal in basements; vaporize steel
columns in mid-air; partially or fully burn or melt thousands of
cars and trucks near the towers; create afterglow, and “vaporize
humans”? Who is correct in calculating the amount of energy
needed to produce the observed quantity of dust during tower
“collapse”? Jim Hoffman calculated 10 times the available
gravitational energy, and the “official story” calculated 30% of
available gravitational energy. What caused the non-incendiary
destruction of the lobby, basement machine shop, and underground
parking garage in the North Tower, prior to its collapse ? A
floor-by-floor gravitational collapse of a 110-story tower
appears to require over 90 seconds, a time much longer than the
actual time of collapse of the towers. Why? How could any
mechanical process (causing a floor by floor chain reaction
collapse) proceed through 110 floors with enough speed to
roughly coincide in time to building free fall? What caused the
numerous explosions and tower swaying reported prior to and
during the collapses? What caused the smoke coming from the area
around buildings 5, 6, and/or 7, videotaped by CNN, moments
after flight 175 crashed into the South Tower? Why did major
media outlets mis-represented the size of the WTC service cores
by use of a misleading diagram? WTC1,2, and 7 all collapsed
symmetrically at close to the time of freefall; produced a
pyroclastic cloud; showed signs of eutectic reaction; and molten
metal remained in the basements for weeks. Photographic evidence
shows that steel from the towers actually vaporized in mid-air.
Photographic evidence shows metal of all sorts, including
thousands of cars and trucks near the towers, being burned
and/or melted. Sometimes a vehicle is only partially burned, and
the remainder is undamaged, and videos showed an afterglow after
each collapse. How can this be the work of gravity? Why would
the Supreme Court of New York label reports of emergency
responders "opinions" and "recommendations" as untrue, across
the board, and refuse to release this information to the public?
Why was this information redacted from first responders reports,
and this redacted material accepted by the 9/11 Commission? What
are these "opinions" and "recommendations" NY City wants to keep
hidden? Why has the New York Times removed all articles related
to these issues from their archives? Why were the relatives of
16 firefighters identified on the "lost tape” required to sign a
statement of non-disclosure before being allowed to hear it? The
so-called “lost tape”, which recorded the last words of Chief
Orio Palmer on the 78th floor of the South Tower, were
ostensible a “secret” because they were going to be used in the
Zacarias Moussaoui trial. That trial is over now, so why not let
the public hear the un-redacted audio tape of Chief Palmer’s
last moments? Who told Former Mayor of New York City Rudolph
Giuiliani that the towers were going to collapse, and how did
they know? Why did the 9/11 Commission not further question
Giuiliani on this? Why is it that a number of European explosive
experts continue to support the possible scenario of explosives
in the towers, while that scenario has been consistently denied
by the “official” investigations? Why do the official reports by
NIST, FEMA and the 9/11 Commission ignore the possible
significance of the well-documented evidence of large quantities
of molten metal observed in the basement areas of the Twin
Towers and WTC 7? NIST speculated the metal may have been
aluminum from the aircraft, but apparently have done no testing
of recovered slag to verify this. Why? Why do the official
reports by NIST and the 9/11 Commission laud the information
provided by first responders on the state of the buildings, but
ignore oral histories from these same first responders
mentioning the sounds of explosions? The FEMA BPA found evidence
of sulfur, which allowed a “eutectic reaction,” which resulted
in “severe corrosion and subsequent erosion” of some WTC steel.
Why did the FEMA BPA consign evidence of this reaction to a
report appendix? Where did the sulfur come from in the reaction?
When did the eutectic reaction occur? Why did NIST not follow
through with the FEMA request for further study? Why has NIST
assumed the most critical aspect of global tower collapse:
“Energy of the downward movement of the building mass above the
damaged columns exceeded the strain energy that could have been
absorbed by the lower floors”? Why no momentum transfer, or
elasticity analysis to prove that assumption? Was this because
there was no “upper block” in either the North or South Tower
collapse? The upper floors of both disintegrated prior to, or
during, the collapse of the lower blocks. That the Towers
collapsed due to progressive collapse as described by NIST makes
no sense. The top 15 floors of the North Tower are recorded on
video to have disintegrated prior to the collapse of the
remaining floors. The top 34 floors of the South Tower begin to
topple, so there is no huge mass of material bearing down on the
untoppled floors, so why did the lower floors collapse? The
toppling 34 floors are in virtual free fall; no crushing mass
bearing down on them, so why did these floors disintegrate into
dust? Why, as members of the engineering community state, has
NIST “changed its story” in explaining the collapses? Why has
NIST resisted calls from the engineering community to simulate
the collapses? www.serendipity.li/WTC.html notes that steel
which is subjected to explosion exhibits a characteristic which
metallurgists call "twinning". Why has this test not been
performed on representative WTC steel and reported upon? Why
have many of the same people headed the study of the Oklahoma
City Murrah building bombing, as well as the FEMA and NIST WTC
collapse studies? Why have many of the same people been
responsible for writing the ASCE, FEMA, and NIST reports? Why
did the engineers who signed off on the NIST report also sign
off on the Silverstein report, even though those two studies
reached contradictory conclusions regarding collapse mechanism?
Remember that in 2006 the Bush administration doubled the budget
of the National Science Foundation to $6.02 billion. Was the NSF
funded Purdue Study a payback? How can there so much uncertainty
about the mechanism of the collapse, but yet such certainty of
the underlying “cause” of the collapse, i.e., aircraft impact
and fire? NIST was charged with determining how the towers
“collapsed”, but themselves have admitted that they do not know
how global collapse ensued. Why has this been accepted? 9.0 Fair
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The Missing Jolt: A Simple Refutation of the
NIST-Bazant Collapse Hypothesis Graeme MacQueen Tony Szamboti
April 22, 2009* In its Final Report on the Collapse of the World
Trade Center Towers, the National Institute of Standards and
Technology summarizes its three year study and outlines its
explanation of the total collapse of WTC 1 and WTC 2. 1]
Readers of the report will find that the roughly $20 million
expended on this effort have resulted in an explanation of the
total collapse of these buildings that is so vague it barely
qualifies as a hypothesis. But it does have one crucial feature
of a hypothesis: it is, in principle, falsifiable. In fact, it
is easy to demonstrate that it is false. In this paper we will,
concentrating on the North Tower, offer a refutation that is: •
easy to understand but reasonably precise • capable of being
stated briefly • verifiable by any reader with average computer
skills and a grasp of simple mathematics. NIST’s Hypothesis of
Total Collapse: Three essential elements of NIST’s hypothesis of
total collapse are made explicit in the Final Report and the
companion volumes of the study: 1. Because of damage to stories
93 to 98, and especially because of column buckling due to fire,
the top 12 stories of the North Tower (99-110) plus the roof
were, in effect, separated from the rest of the Tower and began
to behave as a unit. 2] 2. This “rigid block” of 12 stories
plus the roof began to move. First it tilted, and then it
abruptly fell onto the stories beneath it. 3] 3. The fall of
the rigid block caused such damage to the lower structure that
“global collapse began.” 4] The rigidity of the upper block of
stories is crucial to this explanation. If the upper block were
to break, disintegrate or flow on impact it would certainly not
threaten the 92 intact floors beneath it. In addition, the rigid
block had to fall onto the rest of the building. Although this
seems obvious, the NIST authors are often shy about saying it.
We hear about the rigid block’s “descent.” 5] We hear of tilting
and “downward movement.” 6] We have to look carefully to find
the NIST authors using the language of falling. Whatever the
reasons for their reticence, it is clear that it will not do for
the upper block to ease itself onto the building beneath it,
with a gradual creaking of buckled columns and sagging floors.
If this were to happen, why would the structure beneath
collapse? Journal of 911 Studies 2 January 2009/Volume 24 There
was nothing special about the weight of the upper block, rigid
or otherwise. The lower part of the Tower had held up this
weight without difficulty since 1970. The lower block had 283
cold steel columns, with less than 30% of their total load
capacity being utilized for gravity loads, because of the
factors of safety designed into the structure and the need to
withstand high winds—and gravity loads were essentially the only
loads the columns would have been subject to on a day such as
9/11 with little wind. The lower block was not weak, nor
(excluding stories 93-98) was it damaged by plane impact or
fire. The weight of the upper block posed no threat to it. If
there were to be a threat, it had to come from the momentum of
the upper block. But momentum is a product of mass and velocity,
and since the upper block could not increase its mass it had to
increase, if it were to become a threat, its velocity. Since
NIST’s theory assumes the only energy at play at this stage of
events was gravitational, the upper block had to fall, and the
greater its velocity the greater its momentum. The longer and
the less impeded its fall, the greater would be its impact on
the lower structure. So it is no surprise that the NIST authors,
however shy they are about affirming it, eventually come out in
favour of the falling of the upper block. 7] Zdenek Bazant and
Yong Zhou, with whose September 13, 2001 back-of-the-envelope
theory (with subsequent revisions and additions) NIST largely
agrees, have never hesitated to say that the upper block fell.
8] Bazant has likewise been frank about the need for severe
impact as the upper and lower structures met: he believes the
impact may have been powerful enough to have been recorded by
seismometers. 9] In his view, collapse initiation of the lower
structure required “one powerful jolt.” 10] Of course, if there
was a powerful jolt to the lower structure there must also have
been a powerful jolt to the upper falling structure, in accord
with Newton’s Third Law. In order to keep a sense of reality as
we discuss NIST’s theory it may be useful to label the three
interacting parts of the North Tower, as they are pictured by
NIST, as RB-12+, DS-6 and RB-92. Where RB stands for rigid
block, DS stands for damaged structure, and the numbers
following the letters refer to the number of stories in each
structure. The upper block comprised the 12 stories of 99-110 as
well as the roof structure with antenna and hat truss; the
intermediate area was damaged by plane impact and fire and was
six stories high (93-98 inclusive); and the lower block was
rigid and comprised, in addition to subterranean levels, the
first 92 stories of the building. These designations actually
underestimate the contrast between RB-12+ and RB-92, because the
latter was not only largely undamaged by fire but was more
massive per story. It was also stronger: the Tower’s columns
tapered as they ascended. 11] Yet the fall of RB-12+, we are
supposed to believe, put a catastrophic end to DS-6 and RB-92.
What NIST essentially says, agreeing with Bazant, is that the
lighter and weaker part initially fell with a powerful jolt onto
the heavier and stronger part, which could not withstand its
momentum, and that this caused a progressive collapse to
initiate smashing the lower block to bits all the way to the
ground. The NIST Final Report does not tell us what happened to
RB-12+ after its impact with the two structures beneath it. Did
it fall through them all the way to the ground (that is, to the
rubble heap on the ground), maintaining considerable mass and
rigidity the whole time--as Bazant argued in 2001 and has
continued to argue? 12] Journal of 911 Studies 3 January
2009/Volume 24 On this the NIST authors are silent. NIST also
does not tell us how far RB-12+ fell before its impact with
intact structure. Did it fall one story (roughly 12 feet), or
several stories? We are left in the dark. Once again Bazant
comes to the rescue. It fell “at least one story,” he says. 13]
To his credit, Bazant is willing to state the essential elements
of the hypothesis. If this hypothesis is to hold any water at
all there must be substantial impact: RB-12+ has a lot of work
to do, so it had better fall at least one story. As we will
show, for the purposes of the present refutation it does not
matter whether RB-12+ fell one story, six stories, or somewhere
in between. The Necessary Jolt: As Bazant has said, when the top
part fell and struck the stories beneath it, there had to be a
powerful jolt. While a jolt entails acceleration of the impacted
object it requires deceleration of the impacting object. Even a
hammer hitting a nail decelerates, and if the hammer is striking
a strong, rigid body fixed to the earth its deceleration will be
abrupt and dramatic. Although NIST does not explicitly speak,
like Bazant, of a “jolt”, and may therefore be thought to evade
this paper’s refutation, it is impossible for NIST to escape the
implications of its own assertions. The NIST report speaks of a
strong, rigid structure (the upper structure or rigid block)
falling freely onto another strong, rigid structure (the intact
part of the building below the damaged area): the jolt cannot be
avoided. 14] This was a necessary jolt. Without it the required
work could not have been done. Testing for Deceleration: If a
jolt occurred there would have been high short-term deceleration
of the upper block. Why not simply check for this deceleration?
It is not difficult. We will: • examine a video clip of the
North Tower’s collapse • find a point on the upper block of the
North Tower, the progress of which can be observed and measured
in the early stages of the collapse • plot the progress of this
point on a graph • check for evidence of deceleration We have
chosen a well known video clip of the collapse associated with
French film maker, Etienne Sauret. 15] The Sauret clip has
advantages over many others. It is a single, continuous sequence
with no changes in camera angle and no zooming in and out. There
is a very slight shift in the camera position relative to
distant objects caused by a trembling of the camera several
seconds prior to the collapse, but this is irrelevant to us
since all our measurements are taken after the shift. The camera
is very steady throughout the time we are making our
measurements, as we can confirm by measuring the position of the
picture frame relative to stationary objects. In addition, the
image of the north face of the North Tower is exceptionally
clear in these images. Journal of 911 Studies 4 January
2009/Volume 24 Here is how we proceed: 16] 1. We save the
Sauret footage to our hard drive. 2. We break the 1 minute,
56.53 second clip into 3497 equal segments or “frames.” Each
frame is approximately 0.033 seconds in length (33 thousandths
of a second). 3. We find two points associated with the roof of
the upper block of the North Tower whose progress we can
measure. Two points are necessary since neither one is
consistently visible but one of the two is always visible. The
point whose fall we shall use in our computations is at the tip
of a white device on the roof. (The distance between this point
and the upper frame is called Distance A in Figure 1 below.) The
other point is located at the interface of the upper white
section of the roof and the lower dark section. (The distance
between this point and the upper frame is called Distance B in
Figure 1.) The difference between Distance B and Distance A is
approximately 28 pixels. Where the white device on the upper
right-hand corner of the roof is obscured by smoke, measurements
of the roof interface have been taken and the position of the
device has been obtained by subtracting 28. 4. We choose a set
of frames that stretches from Frame 929, before the discernible
beginning of the roof’s fall, to the last frame in which our
point can be recognized before it disappears into the dust
cloud, Frame 1024. 5. We measure the number of pixels separating
the white device from the fixed upper edge of the video frame,
computing the position of the device when necessary by measuring
the position of the roof interface. We take one measurement at
each five frames in the progress of the Tower’s collapse, ending
up with 20 points. 6. Our measurement stretches from 30.93
seconds into the clip to 34.1 seconds into the clip, giving us a
total interval of 3.17 seconds. 7. We find that during this
interval the white device on the roof has fallen a distance
represented by 130 pixels. 8. In order to get an approximation
of the real distances at issue; we find a known vertical
distance on the north face of the North Tower. (The Tower’s
proportions have been distorted as it has been rendered into
frame-by-frame format. See Appendix A for a description of our
method of determining the known vertical distance and the ratio
of pixels to feet.) We discover that in our frame-by-frame
version of the Sauret video 1 pixel = 0.88 feet. We now know
that the point on the roof has fallen approximately 114.4 feet.
The figure is not precise--there are the effects of
foreshortening to consider (the roof and device are higher than
the camera and the upper block, as it moves downward, tilts away
from us)--but the figures are close enough for our purpose
because we are looking for changes in acceleration over time,
not exact velocity values. Figure 1: Sauret Video:
Representative Frame with Key Points for Measuring the Roof’s
Fall DistanceADistance B 9. We know that d = ½ × g × t2 where d
stands for distance, g stands for acceleration due to gravity,
which is 32.174 ft./s2 at sea level, and t stands for time.
Using this formula, we discover that a freely falling object
would travel 161.6 feet in the time it took the roof to drop
114.4 feet. 10. We create two graphs. In the first the roof’s
descent is given in pixels. In the second the roof’s fall is
given in feet. Journal of 911 Studies 5 January 2009/Volume 24
Figure 2: The Roof Fall: Pixels Roof Fall in
Pixels02040608010012014000.511.522.533.5Time (sec)Pixels Data:
Frame from clip start Distance of device (pixels) Distance of
inter-face (pixels) Distance of device (pixels) adjusted to 0
Distance of device (feet) adjusted to 0 (1 pixel = 0.88 ft.)
Time (seconds) from clip start Time (seconds) adjusted to 0 929
109 0 0.00 30.93 0.0000 934 110 1 0.88 31.10 0.167 939 111 2
1.76 31.27 0.334 944 113 4 3.52 31.43 0.500 949 115 6 5.28 31.60
0.667 954 118 9 7.92 31.76 0.834 959 122 13 11.44 31.93 1.000
964 126 17 14.96 32.10 1.167 969 132 23 20.24 32.27 1.334 974
138 29 25.52 32.43 1.500 979 146 37 32.56 32.60 1.667 984 (153)
181 44 38.72 32.76 1.834 989 (161) 189 52 45.76 32.93 2.000 994
(170) 198 61 53.68 33.10 2.167 999 (180) 208 71 62.48 33.27
2.334 1004 (190) 218 81 71.28 33.43 2.500 1009 (201) 229 92
80.96 33.60 2.667 1014 (213) 241 104 91.52 33.76 2.834 1019
(226) 254 117 102.96 33.93 3.000 1024 (239) 267 130 114.40 34.10
3.167 Journal of 911 Studies 6 January 2009/Volume 24 Figure 3:
The Roof Fall: Distance Roof Fall
Distance02040608010012014000.511.522.533.5Time (sec)Distance
(feet) Data: Time (sec.) Roof Fall Distance (ft.) 0.000 0.00
0.167 0.88 0.334 1.76 0.500 3.52 0.667 5.28 0.834 7.92 1.000
11.44 1.167 14.96 1.334 20.24 1.500 25.52 1.667 32.56 1.834
38.72 2.000 45.76 2.167 53.68 2.334 62.48 2.500 71.28 2.667
80.96 2.834 91.52 3.000 102.96 3.167 114.40 Journal of 911
Studies 7 January 2009/Volume 24 Journal of 911 Studies 8
January 2009/Volume 24 Knowing the distance the roof fell, in
equal time intervals, from our measurements, we can now
determine its actual velocity, at each measured point through
its fall, using symmetric differencing. The equation is Vn =
(Dn+1 - Dn-1) / (Tn+1 – Tn-1) where V = velocity D = distance T
= time n = point in question Data: Time (sec) Roof Fall Distance
(ft.) Velocity (ft./sec) 0.0000 0.00 0.00 0.1667 0.88 5.28
0.3334 1.76 7.92 0.5000 3.52 10.56 0.6667 5.28 13.20 0.8334 7.92
18.48 1.0000 11.44 21.12 1.1667 14.96 26.39 1.3334 20.24 31.68
1.5000 25.52 36.96 1.6667 32.56 39.59 1.8334 38.72 39.60 2.0000
45.76 44.88 2.1667 53.68 50.15 2.3334 62.48 52.81 2.5000 71.28
55.45 2.6667 80.96 60.71 2.8334 91.52 66.01 3.0000 102.96 68.65
It may be noticed that the last point measured at 3.167 seconds
is left off of the data table above and the velocity graph
below. The reason for this is that each point the velocity is
found for needs to have a point ahead of it as well as behind
it, so this method cannot calculate the velocity for the last
point measured. As it is known that the measurements were taken
every five frames with a 30 frame per second video, the actual
time can be resolved fairly precisely. The use of four places
for time increments, of 0.1667 seconds between measurements, in
the velocity calculation above, is done for accuracy. Below is a
graph of the actual velocity of the roof at each measurement
point over the same time frame in which the distance was
measured. Figure 4: The Roof Velocity y = 22.81xR2 =
0.99610102030405060708000.511.522.533.5Time (sec)Velocity
(ft./sec) Regression analysis (least squares curve fit) The
velocity of the roof increases in a relatively linear way and is
68.65 ft./s after 3.00 seconds, which is about 71% of the free
fall velocity of 96.52 ft./s for this fall time. At the actual
measured distances and calculated velocities, the initial fall
through one story would have taken place in approximately 1.0
second. If the upper block, RB-12+, were rigid, as Bazant and
NIST claim, the powerful jolt, required by Bazant to generate an
impulsive load and explain the collapses of the Twin Towers,
would show itself as an abrupt negative deviation in the
otherwise positively sloped and virtually linear velocity graph.
For readers unfamiliar with the concept of an impulsive load,
the impulse-momentum change equation is shown below and
essentially shows that the change in momentum with respect to
time provides the force involved in a collision.
matvmtvmvmForceffii=ΔΔ=Δ−= As stated earlier, it is only the
velocity that changes with respect to the duration of the
impulse, as the mass of an object is constant at all times
everywhere in the universe. A change in velocity with respect to
time is defined as either an acceleration or deceleration,
depending on whether it is positive or negative. This
acceleration or deceleration is then multiplied by the mass of
the impacting object and provides the force involved in the
collision, so the impulse equation ultimately reduces to the
well known relation F = ma. Journal of 911 Studies 9 January
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It is useful to refer to accelerations and decelerations in
terms of the acceleration due to gravity, which is defined as
1g. The static weight of any item on earth is measured as the
force due to the mass of the item multiplied by the acceleration
of earth’s gravitational pull or 1g. An acceleration or
deceleration of 1g is equal to 32.174 ft./s2, so if the
deceleration of an impacting object during a collision is
greater than this then the weight or force applied by the
impacting object is amplified. To find the number of g’s
involved one merely needs to divide the actual deceleration by
32.174 ft./s2. Bazant claims that a minimum force amplification
of 31g, or 31 times the static weight of the upper stories,
could have occurred in a collision between the upper and lower
blocks of the Twin Towers after a fall of one story. 17] With
the 98th story columns completely collapsing, a distance between
floor slabs of approximately 11.44 feet, and the actual measured
velocity of 22.81 ft./s of the upper block at this point, the
first collision would have occurred approximately one second
into the fall. Regardless of the actual amplification, any
impulse at the impact zone between the 98th and 99th story floor
slabs capable of causing collapse continuation would have had to
cause the columns on at least the first stories on either side
of the impact to deform elastically, and plastically, and then
to buckle. The deformations and buckling of the columns of the
impacting stories, on both the lower and upper blocks, would
cause a kinetic energy drain, which would reduce the velocity of
the rigidly attached falling mass above them. Using energy
methods we have calculated what effect these energy drains would
have on the velocity of the upper block. Since the upper block
would pick up the mass of the 98th floor in the impact there
would also be a conservation of momentum component to the
velocity reduction. From Appendices D and E we find the reduced
velocity (Vreduced) of the upper block, after impact,
considering the three energy drains and conservation of
momentum, and it is Vreduced = 22.81 ft./s – (15.63 ft./s + 1.75
ft./s) = 22.81 ft./s – 17.38 ft./s = 5.43 ft./s Since the roof
was part of the rigid upper block it would have displayed this
momentary abrupt change in its velocity, from 22.81 ft./s to
5.43 ft./s, if the collapse were a natural occurrence. It should
also be noted that the energy losses and conservation of
momentum we have calculated and used here, to determine the
velocity loss, are a minimum. We do not consider energy losses
due to vibration of the building, heat, and sound, during the
initiating impulse, all of which would have required energy from
the impulse to produce and thus have an additional effect on
velocity loss. The intent here is only to show that, even with a
quantifiable minimum energy loss and conservation of momentum,
the velocity loss would be quite dramatic, and should have been
readily observed if an impulse capable of causing collapse had
indeed occurred. The graph below shows what the upper block
velocity change would look like if a 31g impulse had occurred
one story into the fall, with its velocity at least momentarily
reduced in a significant way after impact. Figure 5: Roof
Velocity Curve with a hypothetical 31g deceleration Journal of
911 Studies 11 January 2009/Volume 24 The fact that a 31g
impulse requires a deceleration of 997.4 ft./s2 is unassailable,
and it does not matter whether the collision is elastic or
inelastic. With a velocity reduction of 17.38 ft./s and a 997.4
ft./s2 deceleration, the duration of this impulse would have
been 17 milliseconds. This rapid deceleration associated with
the 31g impulse would necessarily show itself as an abrupt
negative slope change in the velocity curve. We have shown the
curve starting upward again after the impact, on the generous
assumption that the impacting object (the upper block) is now
free to accelerate. We have also only charted what the effect on
the velocity would have been for an initiating impulse between
the first two floors to collide. The measurements of the roof’s
actual fall do not show any abrupt negative change in velocity,
so it appears that there was no impulse and thus no amplified
load. It seems that Dr. Bazant was simply theorizing that there
had to be one to make sense of the collapse in a natural way. It
is also important to note here that Dr. Bazant was off by a
factor of ten in his calculation of the stiffness of the
columns, with his 71 GN/m estimate. 8] The actual stiffness,
calculated here using the actual column cross sections, is
approximately 7.1 GN/m. (see Appendices B and C) 19] 20] This
error caused Dr. Bazant to significantly overestimate the
potential amplifying effect of the impulse or jolt, which he
claims occurred after a one story fall of the upper block. In an
effort to refute the argument put forth in this paper, some may
claim that plastic deformation of the lower stories of the upper
block could have created a crush wave below the upper block and
kept the roof from experiencing a discernable impulse. If that
were true then the impulse durations would have increased
dramatically, absorbing the energy over a longer period of time
and eliminating any significant amplification of the upper
block’s weight. But without the amplification of the upper
block’s weight why would the lower block have collapsed? There
are those who might argue that the tilt of the upper block to
the south could have kept an Actual measured velocity 31g
impulse with abrupt negative slope and velocity loss Pre-impact
velocity recovery 700 msec impulse from being discernable—that
there may have been impulses on the south face or further inside
the Tower, in the central core, that were not visible on the
north face. Impulses at these locations could not have caused
the collapse of the north face of the Tower and its corner
columns in the observed vertical manner. The corner columns of
the east and west faces, in conjunction with the columns of the
north face, formed a structural channel (a stiff structural
element with support in two orthogonal directions) and, barring
planned demolition, would have collapsed as observed only if
they were struck impulsively, in a vertical manner by the upper
block. In reality, the upper block could not have tolerated the
potential 31g impulse theorized by Dr. Bazant. To get this
overload he claims was possible, all of the mass of the upper
block would have had to participate, and if it did so it would
have come apart completely. Perhaps the impulse was of a lower
value but still high enough to cause an overload of the lower
structure and bring about global collapse? Consider a velocity
graph with a 6g deceleration, very likely the minimum load
amplification necessary to overcome the reserve capacity of the
perimeter columns, which had a minimum factor of safety of 5.00
to 1. Figure 6: Roof Velocity Curve with a hypothetical 6g
deceleration 0102030405060708000.511.522.533.5Time (sec)Velocity
(ft./sec) 6g impulse with abrupt negative slope and velocity
loss Pre-impact velocity recovery 800 msec Actual measured
velocity A 6g impulse requires a deceleration of 193 ft./s2.
With a velocity reduction of 17.38 ft./s and a 193 ft./s2
deceleration, the duration of this impulse would have been 90
milliseconds. As the graph shows, there would still be a quite
obvious abrupt negative slope change, which is not seen in the
velocity curve determined from the measured data. The
measurements were taken every five frames, or 167 milliseconds
apart. The recovery to the pre-impact velocity is shown to occur
in the dashed graphs in the approximate times of 700
milliseconds for the 31g case and 800 milliseconds for the 6g
case. In both cases there are four data points taken well within
this recovery window, so it is apparent that a negative change
in the velocity of the roof would have been captured if an
impulse had indeed occurred. Journal of 911 Studies 12 January
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Findings: As the figures and graphs above clearly show, any
impulsive load would have required a high deceleration, which
would have shown itself very prominently in the velocity curve
derived from the measured data. The fact that no such negative
change exists in the roof’s actual velocity curve reveals that
no major interruption or significant abrupt deceleration, and
therefore no amplified load, could have occurred during the fall
of the upper block. How can this be? If RB-12+ fell with a jolt
on the rest of the building after a 12 foot drop (one story),
the deceleration, as shown above, would have revealed itself
clearly, and if RB-12+ fell more than one story, the
deceleration would have been even more dramatic. If RB-12+ fell
72 feet—all the way through the six damaged stories—we would see
powerful evidence of a jolt during the measured 114.4 foot fall
of the roof. It would be dramatic precisely because the velocity
and therefore the momentum would be high, and any change more
discernable. But there is no evidence of major impact and
deceleration either early or late. In the main, these findings
confirm the earlier research of Dr. Frank Legge. 18] In 2006
Legge, using a different video clip and measurement technique,
carried out detailed measurements of the fall of the roof of the
North Tower and calculated its acceleration rate. Although his
purposes were different from ours, he discovered similarly
smooth curves. There is no more trace of deceleration in his
graphs than in ours. What happened to RB-12+ during its fall? It
would appear, based on the Sauret video and other video
recordings of the event, that a substantial portion of the
bottom of RB-12+, along with DS-6, was violently destroyed
amidst clouds of ejected matter at the same time the top portion
of RB-12+, containing the rooftop, was falling. Since the clouds
of matter in the videos obscure many details of the event, it is
easy to see why someone might try to make the case that the fall
of the upper portion of the rigid block was accompanied by a
fall of its lower portion. But we do not see a fall of its lower
portion: we simply see violent destruction in the vicinity of
the lower portion and fall of the upper portion. To repeat: if
RB-12+ had fallen as a rigid block, there would be impact, and
the impact would have caused abrupt interference with the fall
of its upper part, including the roof. No such interruption has
occurred, and therefore no such impact has taken place.
Evidently, the violent destruction that occurred--presumably
through planted explosives or other means of
demolition--effectively destroyed the structural integrity of
the lower part of the upper block as well as DS-6, permitting
the upper block to fall at speed while meeting minimal
resistance and experiencing neither major impact nor abrupt
deceleration. Conclusions: We have tracked the fall of the roof
of the North Tower through 114.4 feet, (approximately 9 stories)
and we have found that it did not suffer severe and sudden
impact or abrupt deceleration. There was no jolt. Thus there
could not have been any amplified load. In the absence of an
amplified load there is no mechanism to explain the collapse of
the lower portion of the building, which was undamaged by fire.
The collapse hypothesis of Bazant and the authors of the NIST
report has not withstood scrutiny. Journal of 911 Studies 14
January 2009/Volume 24 NOTES Thanks are offered to members of
the discussion forum of Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice,
especially to Alfons, who initiated the discussion and provided
a number of interesting ideas. Thanks are also due to Zoran
Bilanovic for a critical reading of the paper and to Paul Bouvet
for early software advice. Crucial software assistance was
obtained from Joe Terrien, who gave freely of his time and
expertise. We are enormously grateful to Civil Engineering
Professor Robert Korol for help with the calculations in the
appendices. All measurements, calculations, and conclusions are
the sole responsibility of the authors. 1. NIST NCSTAR 1.
Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World
Trade Center Disaster. Final Report on the Collapse of the World
Trade Center Towers. National Institute of Standards and
Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce, September 2005. http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1CollapseofTowers.pdf
2. There is some ambiguity in the NIST study on which stories
are included in the upper rigid block, but the analysis given in
this paper appears to represent NIST’s best estimate. See, e.g.,
NIST NCSTAR 1, p. 150-151. 3. NIST NCSTAR 1, p. 151. 4. NIST
NCSTAR 1, p. 151. 5. NIST NCSTAR 1, p. xxxviii. 6. NIST NCSTAR
1, p.151. 7. NIST NCSTAR 1, 145 (“the falling building
section”); 146 (“the falling building mass,” “the falling
mass”). See also the companion volume: NIST NCSTAR 1-6. Federal
Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center
Disaster. Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse
Sequence of the World Trade Center Towers. National Institute of
Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce, September
2005, p. liv (“the building section began to fall downward”) and
p. 156 (“the building section began to fall vertically”).
http://wtc.nist.gov/oct05NCSTAR1-6index.htm 8. Bazant, Zdenek
and Yong Zhou, “Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse?—Simple
Analysis”. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, vol. 128, no. 1
(Jan. 2002), p. 2-6 See also the Addendum to this article in the
same journal, vol. 128, no. 3 (March 2002), p. 369-370. http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/people/bazant/PDFs/Papers/405.pdf
Note: when we refer in the article to Bazant, we include his
co-authors. For NIST’s reference to the Bazant paper, see NIST
NCSTAR 1-6, p. 323. Journal of 911 Studies 15 January
2009/Volume 24 9. Bazant, Zdenek and Jie-Liang Le, Frank
Greening, David Benson, “Collapse of the World Trade Center
Towers: What Did and Did Not Cause It?” Structural Engineering
Report No. 07-05/C605c. Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Northwestern University. May 27, 2007. Revised
December 15, 2007. p. 11. http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/people/bazant/PDFs/Papers/00%20WTC%20Collapse%20-%20What%20did%20%26%20Did%20Not%20Cause%20It%20-%20Revised%206-22-07.pdf
Jim Hoffman challenged Bazant’s claim some time ago in his
article “Seismic Records of the Twin Towers’ Destruction:
Clarifying the Relationship Between Seismic Evidence and
Controlled Demolition Theories.” Version 0.9, Oct. 31, 2006.
http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/demolition/seismic.html#evidence_of
10. Addendum, Bazant and Zhou, 2002, p. 369. 11. See Gregory
Urich, “Analysis of the Mass and Potential Energy of World Trade
Center Tower 1.” Journal of 9/11 Studies, vol. 18 (Dec. 2007).
http://www.journalof911studies.com/ See also NIST NCSTAR 1-1.
Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World
Trade Center Disaster. Design, Construction, and Maintenance of
Structural and Life Safety Systems. National Institute of
Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce, September
2005. http://wtc.nist.gov/oct05NCSTAR1-1index.htm 12. Bazant and
Zhou, 2002; Bazant et al, 2007. 13. Bazant et al, 2007, p. 1.
14. The following four points commit NIST to impact and jolt:
(a) NIST speaks of the core of the building as consisting of
three sections, which correspond closely to the sections we have
spoken of when discussing the building as a whole: “At this
point, the core of WTC 1 could be imagined to be in three
sections. There was a bottom section below the impact floors
that could be thought of as a strong, rigid box, structurally
undamaged and at almost normal temperatures. There was a top
section above the impact and fire floors that was also a heavy,
rigid box. In the middle was the third section, partially
damaged by the aircraft and weakened by heat from the fires.” (NIST
NCSTAR 1, p. 79) (b) The section of the building above the
damage zone NIST calls a “rigid block.” This rigid block first
manifests its independent movement when it tilts to the south.
(“The section of the building above the impact zone (near the
98th floor), acting as a rigid block, tilted…” NIST NCSTAR 1, p.
201.) NIST also refers to this rigid block with terms such as
“upper section,” “building section above the impact zone,”
“building mass,” “upper building section” and “structural
block.” See NIST NCSTAR 1, pp. 83, 195, 196, 201 Journal of 911
Studies 16 January 2009/Volume 24 (c) NIST acknowledges that
this rigid block then falls. NIST says that “the building
section began to fall downward,” “the building section began to
fall vertically.” Indeed, we are told that this falling rigid
block goes through all or part of the damaged area “essentially
in free fall.” (“Since the stories below the level of collapse
initiation provided little resistance to the tremendous energy
released by the falling building mass, the building section
above came down essentially in free fall, as seen in videos.”)
See NIST NCSTAR 1-6, pp. 416, 238; NIST NCSTAR 1, p. 196. (d)
After falling through all or part of the damaged area of the
tower, the rigid block or falling building mass encounters
“intact structure.” (“The potential energy released by the
downward movement of the large building mass far exceeded the
capacity of the intact structure below to absorb that through
energy of deformation.”) See NIST NCSTAR 1, p. 196. This “intact
structure,” has, of course, already been referred to as
including the core of the building, described as “a strong,
rigid box, structurally undamaged and at almost normal
temperatures.” 15. A version of the Sauret video clip can be
found at: http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=xGAofwkAOlo For our
purposes we have used the footage from Etienne Sauret’s film,
“WTC: the first 24 hours.” 16. Readers wanting to get a rough
approximation of the measurements in this paper without expense
may acquire from the internet the software, Vdownloader: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/VDownloader-Download-51327.html
Once the on-line version of the Sauret video clip (see note 15)
is downloaded it can be broken into 0.033 second frames using
VirtualDub: http://www.virtualdub.org/ A pixel measurement
device (several are available free or for a minimal charge on
the Internet) can be used for measurements. For our paper we
found we were able to get more accurate measurements by ripping
the Sauret video (from the DVD) using DVD Decrypter. Then the
raw video files were converted to mpeg2 using Xilisoft Video
Converter 3.The converted files were then imported into Adobe
Premiere Pro CS3. The timestamp was added and the entire segment
was exported as a still frame sequence in .gif format. For pixel
measurements, we used Screen Calipers: http://iconico.com/caliper/
17. Bazant and Zhou, 2002, p. 3. 18. Frank Legge, “9/11-Evidence
for Controlled Demolition: a Short List of Observations.”
Journal of 9/11 Studies, vol.1 (June 2006).
http://www.journalof911studies.com/articles/Journal_2_Evidence_for_demolition_20.pdf
Journal of 911 Studies 17 January 2009/Volume 24 19. The cross
sectional areas of the central core columns on each story were
released by NIST in 2007 and are publicly available. This
information can be found at http://wtcmodel.wikidot.com/nist-core-column-data
20. The exterior column cross sectional area for each story was
determined using the WTC1 mass analysis cited in reference 11],
which gives the total mass of the columns on each story. Knowing
the length of the columns and the density of steel, the area
could be determined. 21. See Section 2.6 on pages 5 through 7 of
the below link for an explanation of column cross section
classifications for resistance to local buckling. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/civeng/H23S07/Design%20of%20SHS.pdf
* This paper has been revised to use symmetric differencing to
calculate instantaneous velocity. The initial method used the
equations of motion to calculate velocity, which are only valid
with constant acceleration, causing smoothing of the data and
inflation of the pre-impact velocity. Since the energy
requirements do not change, the actual lower pre-impact velocity
results in a larger percentage of kinetic energy drained at
impact with a correspondingly more dramatic change in velocity.
An arithmetic error in the velocity reduction calculation on
page 26 was also corrected. AUTHORS Graeme MacQueen received his
Ph.D. in Asian religion and literature from Harvard University.
Now retired, he taught at McMaster University in Canada for
almost thirty years. He was founding Director of McMaster’s
Centre for Peace Studies and directed peace-building projects in
several war zones, including Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. He is a
member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice. Tony Szamboti
received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from
Villanova University. Prior to that he worked as a machinist and
tool engineer in industry, and as an aircraft mechanic in the
U.S. Navy. Since 1990 he has worked as a design engineer in
industry, performing structural and thermal design, analysis,
and testing to ensure survivability of antennas and equipment
for use on ships, aircraft, spacecraft, and communication
towers. He is a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice and
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Journal of 911 Studies 18
January 2009/Volume 24 APPENDIX A DETERMINING THE PIXEL-FOOT
RATIO FOR THE SAURET VIDEO 1. In order to correct any possible
vertical distortion of the image of the North Tower that might
affect our measurements (such distortions are common), we
decided to find a vertical distance on the north face of the
Tower that can be measured accurately in pixels. We took a
measurement from a horizontal line of damage caused by the plane
to a line on the roof of the NT, where the upper white part of
the roof meets a darker, lower part of the building. 2. We then
chose five excellent still photos of the North Tower. The
perspective from which they were taken seemed unlikely to create
severe foreshortening effects. These photographs are from the
NIST report (NIST NCSTAR 1.5A, Chapter 8), and are grouped
conveniently on the forensic website “WTC Demolition Analysis”
found at: http://www.sharpprintinginc.com/911/index.php?module=photoalbum&PHPWS_Album_id=20&PHPWS_Photo_op=view&PHPWS_Photo_id=909
The photographs were taken at different times and by several
different photographers, and they are reproduced below with
added red arrows showing the two distances measured. Our aim was
to measure, in pixels, the horizontal distance x and then the
vertical distance y so that we could work out the ratio of x to
y. If consistency could be found, we could be confident that we
had the correct ratio. Then, knowing the value of x (the width
of the tower) in feet, we could determine the value, in feet, of
y. 3. Here are the measurements made for the original five
photos, marked A, B, C, D, and E. (Note that the measurements
will be different on the photos as reproduced below, but the
proportions will remain constant.) Photo x y x:y ratio A 231
pixels 211 pixels 1: .91 B 373 pixels 340 pixels 1: .91 C 379
pixels 354 pixels 1: .93 D 373 pixels 343 pixels 1: .92 E 327
pixels 302 pixels 1: .92 4. There is little variation in the
figures found for the ratio of x: y. The average is 1:92, which
corresponds to the ratio in what is arguably the photograph with
the least apparent distortion from foreshortening, photo D, 5.
Various figures, from 207 to 210 feet, have been suggested for
the external width of the Towers. We chose 210 feet as our best
estimate. The figure is from NIST NCSTAR 1, p. 5. See also
Gregory Urich, “Analysis of the Mass and Potential Energy of
World Trade Center Tower 1” (Journal of 9/11 Studies), p. 8.
Bear in mind that the perimeter columns were covered in
insulation and aluminum cladding, which added to their external
dimensions. 6. This means that the value of the vertical
distance measured (y) is 210 x .92 = 193.2 feet. 7. Measuring y
in our frame-by-frame version of the Sauret video we found it to
be 220 pixels. The ratio of pixels to feet for vertical
measurements in this version of the Sauret video is: 1 pixel =
0.88 feet. A Journal of 911 Studies 19 January 2009/Volume 24 B
C Journal of 911 Studies 20 January 2009/Volume 24 DE Journal of
911 Studies 21 January 2009/Volume 24 Journal of 911 Studies 22
January 2009/Volume 24 APPENDIX B CORE AND PERIMETER COLUMN
CROSS SECTIONS ON THE 97TH STORY CORE COLUMNS 97TH story Yield
Flange Flange Web Web Cross sectional strength width thickness
height thickness area Column No. Designation (ksi) (in.) (in.)
(in.) (in.) (in.2) 501 14WF426F42 42 16.695 3.033 12.624 1.875
124.942 502 14WF264F42 42 16.025 1.938 12.624 1.205 77.325 503
14WF264F42 42 16.025 1.938 12.624 1.205 77.325 504 14WF246F36 36
16.945 1.813 12.624 1.125 75.645 505 14WF219F36 36 15.825 1.623
12.624 1.005 64.055 506 14WF287F42 42 16.13 2.093 12.624 1.31
84.058 507 14WF264F42 42 16.025 1.938 12.624 1.205 77.325 508
14WF426F42 42 16.695 3.033 12.624 1.875 124.942 601 12WF106F42
42 12.23 0.986 10.908 0.62 30.881 602 14WF150F36 36 15.515 1.128
12.624 0.695 43.776 603 14WF158F36 36 15.55 1.188 12.624 0.73
46.162 604 12WF106F36 36 12.23 0.986 10.908 0.62 30.881 605
12WF120F36 36 12.32 1.108 10.908 0.71 35.046 606 14WF150F36 36
15.515 1.128 12.624 0.695 43.776 607 14WF142F36 36 15.5 1.063
12.624 0.68 41.537 608 12WF106F36 36 12.23 0.986 10.908 0.62
30.881 701 12WF161F42 42 12.515 1.486 10.908 0.905 47.066 702
14WF176F36 36 15.64 1.313 12.624 0.82 51.422 703 14WF103F36 36
14.575 0.813 12.624 0.495 29.948 704 14WF53F50 50 8.062 0.658
12.624 0.37 15.280 705 14WF43F45 45 8 0.528 12.624 0.308 12.336
706 14WF111F36 36 14.62 0.873 12.624 0.54 32.343 707 14WF167F36
36 15.6 1.248 12.624 0.78 48.784 708 12WF161F42 42 12.515 1.486
10.908 0.905 47.066 801 12WF161F42 42 12.515 1.486 10.908 0.905
47.066 802 14WF176F36 36 15.64 1.313 12.624 0.82 51.422 803
12WF133F42 42 12.365 1.238 10.908 0.756 38.862 804 12WF79F36 36
12.08 0.736 10.908 0.47 22.909 805 14WF111F42 42 14.62 0.873
12.624 0.54 32.343 806 14WF167F36 36 15.6 1.248 12.624 0.78
48.784 807 14WF167F42 42 15.6 1.248 12.624 0.78 48.784 Journal
of 911 Studies 23 January 2009/Volume 24 901 12WF120F36 36 12.32
1.108 10.908 0.71 35.046 902 14WF150F36 36 15.515 1.128 12.624
0.695 43.776 903 14WF193F36 36 15.71 1.438 12.624 0.89 56.417
904 12WF92F36 36 12.155 0.856 10.908 0.645 27.845 905 12WF99F36
36 12.19 0.921 10.908 0.56 28.562 906 14WF142F36 36 15.5 1.063
12.624 0.68 41.537 907 14WF150F36 36 15.515 1.128 12.624 0.695
43.776 908 12WF120F36 36 12.32 1.108 10.908 0.71 35.046 1001
14WF426F42 42 16.695 3.033 12.624 1.875 124.942 1002 14WF264F42
42 16.025 1.938 12.624 1.205 77.325 1003 14WF342F36 36 16.365
2.468 12.624 1.545 100.282 1004 14WF219F36 36 15.825 1.623
12.624 1.005 64.055 1005 14WF202F36 36 15.75 1.503 12.624 0.93
59.085 1006 14WF314F42 42 16.235 2.283 12.624 1.415 91.992 1007
14WF287F36 36 16.13 2.093 12.624 1.31 84.058 1008 14WF426F42 42
16.695 3.033 12.624 1.875 124.942 Total area (in.2) = 2,621.657
PERIMETER COLUMNS The perimeter columns were uniform in cross
section on a given floor. While their exact cross sections have
not been made publicly available they are discernable due to
their height, number, material density, and total weight per
floor being known. The NIST NCSTAR 1-3D report states that “As
the elevation in the building increased, the thickness of the
plates in the columns decreased, but the plates were always at
least 0.25 thick”. The height of a floor of perimeter columns in
WTC 1 can be calculated by dividing the building height of 1,368
feet by 110 stories to get a height of 12.44 feet or 149.24
inches per story. The weight of the 236 perimeter columns at the
97th story was approximately 78.71 tons or 157,420 lbs..
Dividing the weight by the 0.283 lbs./in.3 density of steel and
the number of columns gives a volume for each column of 2,357
in.3. Dividing this volume by the 149.24 inch height of each
floor gives a cross sectional area for each column of 15.79
in.2. With 236 columns this gives a total cross sectional area
for the perimeter columns at the 97th story of 3,726 in.3. As
the perimeter columns can be approximated as 14 inch square
columns, the wall thickness can be estimated. For the 97th story
it would be approximately 0.289 inches. This comports well with
the NIST statement that the plate thickness was never less than
0.25 inches thick, and since the 97th story was 13 floors down
from the top of the building it appears reasonable. Journal of
911 Studies 24 January 2009/Volume 24 APPENDIX C CALCULATION OF
THE AXIAL STIFFNESS OF THE COLUMNS FROM THE 97TH STORY DOWN TO
GROUND LEVEL IN THE TOWERS The axial stiffness of a structural
column can be determined knowing the modulus of elasticity of
its material, the cross sectional area, and the length of the
column, with the equation K = AE/L. The problem for determining
this for the tower columns below the 97th story is that the
cross sectional areas change with elevation. One way to estimate
the cross section is to use a median, which we will do here
using the cross sectional area of the columns at the 55th story
since it is the midpoint in the tower above ground level. The
core column cross sectional area at the 55th story was 8,777
in.2 and the perimeter column cross sectional area 10,784 in.2
giving a total column cross sectional area of 19,561 in.2 at the
55th floor. Steel was used for all of the columns and the
modulus of elasticity of steel is 30 x 106 psi. The length of
the columns from the 97th story down to ground level was 149.24
inches per story multiplied by 97 stories, giving a length of
14,476 inches. Using K = AE/L = (19,561 in.2)(30 x 106
psi)/14,476 inches, the stiffness is found to be 40,538,132
lb./in. or 7.1 GN/m. While one could make the case that the
stiffness used should have been that from the 97th story down to
the foundation, and considering the six sub-levels, the
stiffness in that case would be nearly the same. The median
floor in that case would be the 52nd story and the columns on
that floor were only slightly larger in cross section than those
on the 55th, which would be offset in the calculation by the
additional length of the six sub-level floors. Journal of 911
Studies 25 January 2009/Volume 24 APPENDIX D CALCULATION OF
VELOCITY CHANGES DUE TO ENERGY DRAINS DURING THE COLLISION OF
THE UPPER AND LOWER BLOCKS It is assumed that there are 3 parts
to the energy dissipation from the collision for a given story.
These are: 1) Uniform elastic spring action compression in the
core and perimeter columns. 2) Compressive plastic yielding of
core and perimeter columns in columns of the 97th and 99th
stories. 3) Plastic hinging action (buckling) of all columns, in
the two stories. 1) Calculations show that an average spring
constant for the tower columns is 40,500 kips/in or 7.1 GN/m,
i.e. if the columns were of uniform cross section over the 110
stories of the building, and using values found at mid-height
for the 55th story. If the cross sections were uniform the tops
of the columns of the 97th story would axially compress
elastically 19.84 in. However, the column sections are not
uniform, since the cross sections get smaller with increasing
height, as one would expect with decreasing load. Thus the 97
stories of columns can only be shown to compress elastically the
amount consistent with the least cross sectional area, i.e.
those of the 97th story. To calculate the maximum resistance
offered by the core and perimeter columns in the 97th story we
need to take into account the fact that some columns are very
stocky while some have thin elements that will buckle locally
before they yield. All 47 core columns plus 236 perimeter
columns are categorized into classes 1, 2, 3 and 4 (with 4 being
the thinnest-walled and 1 being the sturdiest), where class 4
columns do not reach yield before local buckling occurs. 21]
Approximately half of the core columns were 36 ksi yield
strength with the remaining half at 42 ksi or above, resulting
in an average yield strength of approximately 40 ksi. 14 of the
core columns are class 4 and we conservatively use 50% yield
resistance before buckling for these columns. With the remaining
33 columns being given 40 ksi credit, we get a total core column
load resistance of 94,900 kips. The 236 perimeter columns at the
97th story are considered class 4, but all have a yield strength
of 65 ksi. Using the 1/2 factor and multiplying by the total
area of perimeter columns we get 121,600 kips. The total
sustainable load, before plastic deformation occurs, for the
97th story columns = 216,500 kips. As expected, the columns of
the 55th story have a significantly larger overall cross section
and their sustainable load, before plastic deformation occurs,
is 821,600 kips. The elastic displacement of the tops of the
97th story columns can then be found using the ratio of
(216.5/821.6) times 19.84 inches = 5.22 inches. Using the
equation E = ½Kx2, the elastic energy absorbed by axial
deformation of the columns can be calculated using the figures
above as ½ (40,500 kips/in.)(5.22 in.) 2 = 552,000 in-k. (Note:
in-k is an accepted abbreviation for in-kip). 2) The 216,500 kip
elastic strain limit value, that was used to calculate the
elastic axial strain energy above, is also used to calculate the
plastic axial strain energy. When the columns as a group reach
their elastic limit, many will be able to sustain the value of A
x Fy, i.e. cross sectional area times the yield stress. The
thinner walled columns will not. A 3% axial strain limit is
commonly assumed for class 1 sections, and lesser proportional
amounts for classes 2, 3 and 4. Taking an average between 3 and
zero (zero for class 4 since they will buckle locally before
reaching yield), we get 1.5% strain. The shortening of a column
in a given Journal of 911 Studies 26 January 2009/Volume 24
story will thus be the height of the column of 149 inches times
0.015 = 2.24 inches. It follows that the axial plastic energy is
216,500 kips x 2.24 inches = 485,000 in-k. 3) After the 2.24
inch plastic strain occurs, rather than continuing to squash
like a pancake, the columns will deform by forming plastic
hinges at the top, bottom and at mid-height within the story and
then buckle. The energy dissipation here is calculated in the
same manner used in the Bazant model, in which the total
rotations summed at the three locations = 2 pi. There will be
fully plastic moments for the stockier sections that can
maintain Mp for several degrees of rotation before the bending
capacity diminishes. For the less stocky columns (classes 2 and
3) Mp is initially reached and then degradation sets in. For the
class 4 thin-walled columns, Mp is never reached, but a value of
0.5 Mp is likely. Finally, a scissors shape will occur in all
columns of the 97th story with the 98th floor squashing the
space between it and the 97th floor slab with a corresponding
energy drain of 2,103,000 in-k. Adding these up, a total energy
drain of 552,000 + 485,000 + 2,103,000 = 3,140,000 in-k is
realized. However, this is only a part of the energy drain that
needs to be considered. Since the lower columns of the upper
block would be subject to equal but opposite forces, these
columns would also be expected to suffer axial elastic and
plastic deformation and buckling. The forces applied to the
upper block will, in fact, be exerted on the columns of the 99th
story, at the bottom of the upper block. With the forces being
equal and opposite, the total damage to the structure of the
upper block, if calculated, would show an equivalent total
energy drain to that occurring in the structure of the lower
block. However, here we are only quantifying the energy required
to deform and buckle the columns on the 99th story, as we did
for only the columns on the 97th story of the lower block. Since
the 99th story columns had 93% of the size of the columns on the
97th story, they result in 93% of the energy drain found for the
columns on the 97th story, with the difference being accounted
for by stress wave propagation to points further up in the upper
block structure. The total amount of energy dissipation for the
columns on both the 97th and 99th stories is thus 1.93 times
that for the 97th story and it calculates as 1.93 x 3,140,000
in-k = 6,060,000 in-k. As shown earlier, the weight of the upper
12 stories plus the roof had a value of 69,303 kips and the
velocity determined by the regression analysis, at 1 second into
the collapse and just prior to impact, is V1 = 22.81 ft./s. The
kinetic energy of the upper 12 stories plus the roof, dropping a
height of 11.44 feet to the 98th floor slab below, can be found
using the equation ½MV12, while also dividing the weight by the
acceleration due to gravity to get mass. A value of 6,725,860
in-k is found for the kinetic energy of the upper block, at the
time of impact of the 99th and 98th story floor slabs. The after
impact velocity V2 can be found by subtracting the dissipated
energy from the kinetic energy just prior to impact and solving
the equation below for velocity. 6,725,860 in-k - 6,060,000 in-k
= ½MV22 The value of V2 is 7.18 ft./s, reflecting a velocity
reduction of 15.63 ft./s due to the three calculated energy
drains of axial elastic deformation, axial plastic deformation,
and plastic hinge buckling of the columns on the 97th and 99th
stories. Journal of 911 Studies 27 January 2009/Volume 24
APPENDIX E CALCULATION OF VELOCITY REDUCTION DUE TO CONSERVATION
OF MOMENTUM The upper block consists of the 99th through 110th
stories plus the roof with an approximate weight of 69,303 kips,
the mass of which we will designate as M ( = 2,152 k-slugs). The
measured velocity of the upper block, when it contacts the floor
slab of the 98th story, was 22.81 ft./s (based on a height
between floor slabs of h = 11.44 feet), which we will designate
here as V1. If the masses of the 98th story columns and floor
slab are added to the original mass of the falling upper block,
the new mass becomes 13/12M. A velocity drop will occur due to
conservation of momentum and can be found using the equation M x
V1 = 13/12M x V1′ As mass drops out of the equation we are left
with 12/13V1 = V1′ Knowing V1 from the actual measurements and
solving we find the new velocity V1′ = 21.06 ft./s reflecting a
reduction in velocity due to conservation of momentum of 1.75
ft./s.
Scientists, Scholars, Architects & Engineers
respond to NIST submitted by Reprehensor on mon, 09/15/2008 -
10:02pm via Electronic Mail: [email protected] WTC Technical
Information Repository Attention: Mr. Stephen Cauffman National
Institute of Standards and Technology Stop 8610 Gaithersburg, MD
20899-8610
September 15, 2008
Re: Public Comments on WTC 7 Draft Reports
Dear Mr. Cauffman,
I am writing on behalf of a group of
scientists, scholars, engineers and building professionals who
are dedicated to scientific research regarding the destruction
of all three high-rise buildings (WTC 1, 2 and 7) on September
11, 2001. We have examined the draft reports recently released
by NIST purporting to explain the demise of WTC Building 7
(collectively referred to herein as the “Report”). We have found
many areas that need to be revised and re-examined by NIST
personnel before they release a final report on this matter. We
have provided our names and affiliations at the end of this
document, in accordance with the guidelines for submittal of
comments promulgated by NIST at (http://wtc.nist.gov/media/comments2008.html).
At the outset, we would like to call attention
to the fact that we requested a reasonable extension of time for
the public to submit comments. Given the rate at which we were
finding incorrect or contradictory statements in the Report, we
would likely have found many more areas NIST needs to re-examine
before issuing a final report. As we pointed out in our original
correspondence with you requesting the extension, the original
three week deadline was completely unreasonable. First, it took
NIST more than three years to compile this 1000+ page Report.
Why, then, were members of the public only given three weeks in
which to comment? Moreover, NIST lists ten authors and dozens of
contracted and employed staff, which over the three year
investigation would yield somewhere in the neighborhood of
200,000 man-hours of labor. How did NIST expect members of the
public to match or even come close to NIST's labor expenditure
in three weeks? This first reason alone was enough to warrant a
significant extension in the deadline for public comment.
Second, in NIST’s "Questions and Answers" page
(http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/factsheet/wtc_qa_082108.html),
NIST has attempted to refute many of the points that members of
our group and others have made regarding the WTC 7 destruction.
However, NIST did not provide any references to sections of the
Report that support its alleged refutations. How is a member of
the public, then, able to verify NIST’s refutation without
reading through the entire 1000+ page Report? Our comments are
directed to many of the areas addressed in the "Questions and
Answers" page, and without citations directly to the Report
itself, it was extremely difficult and time consuming for us see
whether our main criticisms of the NIST theory of collapse have
been adequately addressed in the Report. This is especially true
in light of the fact that this latest draft Report is the third
different story NIST has come up with.
Your response to our request was dismissive,
based primarily on your belief that a six-week comment period on
the 10,000 page report NIST issued for the Twin Towers was
reasonable. You also saw no problem with NIST’s failure to
provide any references in its Questions and Answers page to the
1000 page Report itself, apparently satisfied with NIST
committing the logical fallacy of appeal to authority. As things
stand right now, your position in this matter can be seen as
nothing less than a deliberate attempt to hamstring the public’s
ability to review and comment on NIST’s work in this extremely
important area of research.
Nevertheless, we have been able to spend some
time reading and analyzing the report, and have already found
numerous problems that severely undermine its veracity and
usefulness. Our comments on the Report are detailed below. Note
that we declined NIST’s invitation to comment only on the
summary report, NCSTAR 1A. These comments are all regarding the
more detailed NCSTAR 1-9 document. Of course, once NCSTAR 1-9 is
revised according to these comments, the summary report NCSTAR
1A will need to be revised as well.
Based on our comments below, it is readily
apparent that the NIST collapse explanation relies solely on
extremely suspect computer models. Furthermore, at each juncture
where NIST was given the opportunity to input data into each
subsequent model, NIST has chosen to use those inputs which
would cause the highest temperatures and the most amount of
structural damage. Therefore, the submitters of these comments
hereby call on NIST to publicly release its models and modeling
data so that members of the scientific community can test
whether other, more reasonable, assumptions will also result in
global collapse of the structure. After all, a scientific
hypothesis cannot be widely accepted unless it is repeatable by
others.
Chapter 9: Fire Simulations
Contradictions between Floor 12 Fire
Simulations and Other Evidence
Figure 9-11 from NCSTAR 1-9 (page 383) depicts
the upper layer air temperatures on the 12th floor fire
simulation. As can be seen therein, significant fires are
present across at least half of the north face of the building
at 5:00pm.
This part of the fire simulation presents two
problems. First, it contradicts an earlier report issued by NIST
regarding the fires on floor 12. Second, it contradicts NIST’s
own photographic evidence of the fire activity on floor 12.
COMMENT: Appendix L to NIST’s June 2004
“Progress Report on the Federal Building and Fire Safety
Investigation of the World Trade Center” contains NIST’s
“Interim Report on WTC 7”. (See
http://wtc.nist.gov/progress_report_june04/appendixl.pdf) On
page L-26 of this interim report, NIST states that “Around 4:45
p.m., a photograph showed fires on Floors 7, 8, 9, and 11 near
the middle of the north face; Floor 12 was burned out by this
time.”
REASON FOR COMMENT: The contrast between
NIST’s prior assertion that floor 12 was “burned out” by 4:45pm,
and NIST’s current computer model, that shows a raging inferno
at 5:00pm, could not be more apparent. This discrepancy calls
into question the veracity of the Report.
SUGGESTED REVISION: This discrepancy must be
acknowledged and explained in the Report. Furthermore, the
photographic or other visual evidence NIST relied upon for its
statement in Appendix L that floor 12 was burned out by 4:45pm
must be included in the final version of its report.
COMMENT: To support NIST’s assertion that
there was indeed fire present on floor 12 at 5:00pm, NIST has
provided a single photograph from an “unknown source” (Figure
5-152, NCSTAR 1-9, p. 237), that was purportedly taken at around
5:00pm, and shows fire in the two windows that comprise the
northwest corner. NIST contends that it has determined that this
photograph was taken at approximately 5:00pm, with a margin of
error of “at least 10 minutes,” using shadow analysis.
REASON FOR COMMENT: We find it unlikely that
NIST could estimate the time the “unknown source” photograph in
Figure 5-152 was taken with such accuracy.
SUGGESTED REVISION: NIST must explain how it
was able to estimate the photograph’s time using shadow analysis
to a margin of error even close to 10 minutes.
COMMENT: The following graphic is excerpted
from Figure 9-11, and purports to describe the state of the
fires on the 12th floor of WTC 7 at 5:00pm:
As can be seen, this graphic depicts raging
fires across at least half of the north face of the building.
However, when compared with Figure 5-152, which only shows a
small fire in the extreme northwest corner, clearly the computer
model is not representative of reality.
REASON FOR COMMENT: It appears that NIST’s
computer fire simulations are not representative at all of the
fires actually occurring in WTC 7.
SUGGESTED REVISION: NIST needs to describe why
(assuming Figure 5-152 accurately describes the floor 12 fires
at about 5:00pm) the computer models show significant fires
across at least half of the north side of the building at
5:00pm. NIST should clearly explain why its fire simulation
models of the 12th floor should be accepted by the public as an
accurate representation of the fires actually occurring in WTC
7.
Separately submitted by Chris Sarns and
Richard Gage is a graphic that compares NIST’s computer model
fire data for floor 12 with actual pictures of the fires in WTC
7. It is attached hereto as Exhibit A. They present a more
realistic depiction of what a computer model for the floor 12
fires should look like if it were to agree with the available
visual evidence. NIST should take this into consideration when
they are re-running their computer models based on these public
comments, and revise their Report to use computer models that
are more representative of reality, which would look more like
the depictions contained therein.
Combustible Fuel Loading on Floors 11 and 12
COMMENT: This comment relates to NIST’s
assumptions regarding combustible fuel loading for the 11th and
12th floors. In NCSTAR 1-9, at p. 375 (para. 1, sent. 7-9) NIST
states:
NIST assumed that the combustible mass of
furniture was about the same in an office as in a cubicle. Since
the loading of other combustibles was reported to have been high
on the 11th and 12th floors (Chapter 3), NIST assumed that the
total combustible mass in an office was double that of a
cubicle. Thus, the average combustible fuel load on the 11th and
12th floors was estimated as 32kg/m2.
However, Chapter 3 tells us that, contrary to
NIST’s assertions in Chapter 9, the loading of other
combustibles was not reported to have been high on the 11th and
12th floors. On page 55 (para. 6, sent. 1) of NCSTAR 1-9, NIST
reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
occupied the 11th and 12th floors and the north side of the 13th
floor. On page 56 (para. 1, sent. 1) NIST further reports that
American Express occupied the southwest sector of the 13th
floor. On the same page, NIST reports that the “combustible load
in the offices was described as high by interviewed American
Express managers.” (NCSTAR 1-9, p. 56, para. 4, sent. 3)
REASON FOR COMMENT: Recall that American
Express occupied only the southwest sector of the 13th floor.
How, then can NIST credibly claim that the combustible load on
the entirety of the 11th and 12 floors, both occupied solely by
the SEC, was reported to have been high? Were American Express
managers given regular access to the SEC offices, such that they
would be qualified to comment on the combustible fuel load
there? Moreover, are American Express managers qualified to give
an opinion on the quantity of combustible fuel load as compared
to offices in the Twin Towers?
SUGGESTED REVISION: Clearly American Express
personnel are competent to provide information only on the state
of the American Express offices, which were confined to the
southwest sector of the 13th floor. NIST must provide real
support for its assertion that the combustible load on the 11th
and 12th floors was high in order to merit any increase in
estimated average combustible fuel load on these floors. If it
cannot provide such support, it should re-run its computer
models with the lower combustible fuel load on these floors and
report those results to the scientific community and the
American public.
Combustible Fuel Loading on Floor 13
COMMENT: This comment is regarding NIST’s
treatment of the combustible fuel load of the 13th floor. On
page 375 of NCSTAR 1-9 (para. 1, sent. 8, 9) NIST states as
follows: “The density of combustibles on the 13th floor was
varied and not well known. The average value for the 13th
floor] was assumed to be the same as the 12th floor.” Here
again, the only reported description of the combustible load on
the 13th floor was from American Express managers, who were
competent to comment only on the southwest sector of the 13th
floor. In Chapter 3 of NCSTAR 1-9, page 57 (para. 2, sent. 2, 3)
NIST reports that in the SEC occupied sections of northern
perimeter of the 13th floor were “a hearing room and multiple
testimony rooms facing it. There were additional testimony rooms
on the northern portion of the east and west sides of the floor,
and a storage room at the northwest corner.”
Importantly, NIST reports that the “testimony
rooms were sparsely furnished, with just a table and a few
chairs.” (NCSTAR 1-9, p. 57, para. 2, sent. 4) Furthermore, an
examination of the schematic diagram of floor 13 (Figure 3-8, p.
57) reveals that the hearing room appears similar to a court
room. Court rooms are also sparsely furnished, with a few tables
and chairs. Finally, it is doubtful that there was any
appreciable level of additional combustibles present in these
testimony and hearing rooms.
REASON FOR COMMENT: NIST has apparently
greatly overestimated the fuel loading on the 13th floor.
SUGGESTED REVISION: NIST must justify its use
of the higher combustible fuel load on the 13th floor in Chapter
9 of the Report with more than just bare assertions. NIST
clearly had more information available to it regarding the
layout and make up of floor 13, as reported in Chapter 3, than
it lets on in Chapter 9. This discrepancy must be reconciled.
Combustible Load Sensitivity Tests
COMMENT: NIST claims that it did sensitivity
tests to determine whether these exorbitant combustible fuel
loads adversely affected the outcome of its simulations.
However, the fact that NIST even performed the sensitivity tests
brings up the question of why NIST went to the trouble of
increasing the fuel load in the first place if it would have a
negligible effect on the simulation. That point aside, Chapter 9
contains statements that directly contradict the results of
these alleged sensitivity tests.
On page 381 of NCSTAR 1-9 (para. 3, sent. 3)
NIST flatly states that, in its fire simulations for the 12th
floor, “ t]he fire] spread rate was about one-third to one-half
slower than that on the lower floors due to the higher fuel load
on the 12th floor simulation].” NIST goes on to report that the
burn time across the north face in the simulation was longer
than observed in the visual evidence. (NCSTAR 1-9, p. 381, para.
3, sent. 4) NIST then rejects the possibility that this could
have resulted from the fuel load being too high, citing the
sensitivity analysis in Section 9.3.3. (para. 3, sent. 4-8)
In Section 9.3.3, we find the referenced
sensitivity analysis. Here, NIST reports that doubling the fuel
load on the 8th floor resulted in the fires moving distinctly
more slowly than in the visual evidence. (NCSTAR 1-9, p. 382,
para. 5, sent. 1-3) Confusingly, NIST also reports that
decreasing the fuel load by more than one-third on floor 12
“showed little effect on the rate of fire progression.” (Id.,
para. 6, sent. 1-3)
REASON FOR COMMENT: NIST’s contradictory
statements raise the question of why reducing the fuel load by
more than one-third would show no appreciable effect on the fire
rate of progression on the 12th floor, when doubling the fuel
load on the 8th floor did result in an appreciable change.
SUGGESTED REVISION: NIST should explain here
exactly what the differences in the fire progression rate were
in each case and let the public judge whether the effect was
“little”. More important, however, is the direct contradiction
between NIST’s statement that the “spread rate was about
one-third to one-half slower than that on lower floors due to
the higher fuel load” (NCSTAR 1-9, p. 381, para. 3, sent. 3)
with its statement that decreasing the fuel load to a value
equal to that of the lower floors “showed little effect on the
fire rate of progression.” (NCSTAR 1-9, p. 382, para. 6, sent.
1-3) Surely NIST can see this direct contradiction. On page 381,
it is claimed that higher fuel load slows down the fire spread
rate. On page 382, it is claimed that a lower fuel load will not
speed up the rate of fire progression. This contradiction must
be reconciled.
Fire Simulations for Floors 11 and 13
NIST used the data generated by its 12th floor
fire simulation for floors 11 and 13. (NCSTAR 1-9, p. 382, para.
1, 3) The 13th floor simulation used the 12th floor data delayed
by one-half hour because visual evidence indicated that the 13th
floor fire followed the 12th floor fire. (Id., para. 3, sent. 5)
The 11th floor simulation used the 12th floor fire data delayed
by 1 hour, although the visual evidence indicated that the 11th
floor fire was delayed from the 12th floor fire by 1.5 hours.
(NCSTAR 1-9, p. 382, para. 1, sent. 5)
COMMENT: Our first comment in this regard
simply notes the discrepancy between the visual evidence that
the 11th floor fire was delayed from the 12th floor fire by 1.5
hours, yet in its fire simulations for the 11th floor, it was
only delayed from the 12th floor fire by 1.0 hour.
REASON FOR COMMENT: This represents yet
another discrepancy in the Report that needs to be rectified.
SUGGESTED REVISION: NIST must explain why the
visual evidence was not relied upon for inputs on the 11th
floor, when it was relied upon for inputs on the 13th floor. The
computer models should be re-run with the 11th floor fire
delayed by 1.5 hours, not 1.0 hour, and the results reported
accordingly.
COMMENT: Our second comment concerns both the
11th and 13th floor fires. As we demonstrated above, the 12th
floor fire simulation is not representative of reality, and
likely grossly overestimates the fires that were present there.
By using its grossly overestimated 12th floor fire data on both
the 11th and 13th floors, it has magnified this error
three-fold.
REASON FOR COMMENT: By magnifying an obvious
error by three times, the results of all of NIST’s subsequent
computer models are again called into question.
SUGGESTED REVISION: The computer models should
be re-run for the 12th floor using more realistic fire
scenarios, and if NIST can still justify using the 12th floor
data on the 11th and 13th floors, it should use that more
realistic data on both floors. The results should then be
reported accordingly.
COMMENT: Our third comment concerns the
propagation of error through NIST’s approach to using a purely
computer model driven approach. On page 382 of NCSTAR 1-9 (para.
1-3, sent. last) NIST acknowledges that its computer models for
the fires on floors 11 and 13 “could have led to a mild
overestimate of the heating on the north side of the floor.”
REASON FOR COMMENT AND SUGGESTED REVISION: In
order to assure public confidence in the document, NIST must
explain how such an error in overestimating the heating would
propagate itself throughout all of NIST’s subsequent computer
models, and how such propagation of error will affect the
reliability of the ultimate results. The Report should be
revised to include such a propagation of error analysis.
Chapter 11: Structural Analysis of Initial
Failure Event
Section 11.4 – Structural Response to Case B
and Case C Fires
COMMENT: In Section 11.4 (NCSTAR 1-9, p.
523-532), NIST goes through a detailed comparison of the
structural response of the lower floors of WTC 7 to Case B and
Case C fire scenarios. Case B used gas temperatures that were
10% higher than Case A, while Case C used gas temperatures that
were 10% lower than Case A. No analysis of the structural
response is shown or discussed for Case A.
On page 533 of NCSTAR 1-9 (para. 1, sent. 1)
NIST makes the unsupported assertion that “comparison of Case B
and Case C results at 4 h (Section 11.3.3) showed that the Case
C structural response would be nearly identical to the Case B
structural response at a time between 4.0 h and 4.5 h.” However,
when we read Section 11.3.3, we see that the analysis of Case C
structural response was not carried out to 4.5 hours. Instead,
we see that the response of Case C at 4.0 h was somewhat similar
to the response of Case B at 3.5 h. NIST must explain how it
extrapolated the Case C damage to 4.5 hours, when it was using
lower temperatures in Case C than in Case B.
Also, no detailed analysis is disclosed for
the Case A temperatures. NIST must include this data generated
by Case A temperatures in its Report so the public can
independently determine whether Case A profiles should be used
in the subsequent LS-DYNA model.
REASON FOR COMMENT: Most important is the fact
that NIST’s use of the structural response to only Case B
temperatures in its subsequent LS-DYNA model represents yet
another example of NIST choosing input data that would tend to
overestimate the temperatures and structural damage caused
during the WTC 7 fires. We explained above how NIST did this
before with respect to gross overestimates of combustible loads
on floors 11, 12 and 13. These happen to be the exact floors on
which the most damage was caused in NIST’s black box model. Why
did NIST not use the Case A and Case C structural response in
the LS-DYNA model? Or, if it did, why did it not report the
results of these models?
SUGGESTED REVISION: The final report must be
revised to correct this error. If Case A and Case C structural
responses were never used with the LS-DYNA model, the models
should be re-run and the results reported to the scientific
community and the American people. This is especially true in
light of the fact that the 3.5 h Case B structural response did
not result in global building collapse in the LS-DYNA model.
Chapter 12: WTC Global Collapse Analysis
Section 12.5.3 – Collapse Time
COMMENT: This comment concerns NIST’s
estimation of the time it took for the WTC 7 structure to fall.
Specifically, this concerns NIST’s comparison to the actual
descent time with a hypothetical free-fall time. (NCSTAR 1-9, p.
595; NCSTAR 1A, p. 40-41) Basically, NIST took two data points,
and assumed a constant acceleration throughout the collapse.
(Id.) The first data point was allegedly taken at the time the
top of the parapet wall on the roofline of the north face began
descending. The second data point was allegedly taken at the
time the roofline was no longer visible in Camera 3. NIST claims
that the time it takes for the building to fall this distance,
242 feet, is 5.4 seconds, plus or minus 0.1 seconds. No
graphical or visual support is given for this time estimate.
REASON FOR COMMENT: Members of this group have
conducted an independent analysis of the Camera 3 footage and
come to an entirely different conclusion regarding the collapse
time. Our analysis was done on a frame-by-frame basis using a
frame rate of 29.97 frames per second. As shown in the figure
below, our analysis concludes that it takes 3.87 seconds for the
top of the roofline to descend out of view of Camera 3. This
time matches almost exactly the free-fall time.
SUGGESTED REVISION: NIST must revise its
Report to show the exact frames it used from Camera 3 in
determining the time it took for the roofline to fall out of
view. 5.4 seconds appears to be a gross overestimate. The frames
we used in our collapse analysis are shown below (times “t + X
seconds” reference the times given in NIST’s Appendix L, Table
L-1) along with a graphical analysis of how we determined which
frame represented the onset of global collapse:
Members of this group have used the Physics
Toolkit computer software to plot Velocity vs. Collapse Time
using discrete data points gathered during the entire collapse
from the view NIST calls Camera 2. This plot is reproduced below
and provides a much more detailed look at the dynamics of the
WTC 7 collapse than is provided by NIST’s two-data-point
analysis. Also included in the graph is a linear regression for
approximately 2.6 seconds of the collapse that appears to have a
constant acceleration. As can be seen, the slope (acceleration)
during this portion of the collapse was approximately constant
at about 9.8 m/s/s, or acceleration due to gravity with little
to no resistance below. The r-squared value for this linear
regression analysis was 0.9931 – a very good fit. This clearly
demonstrates that NIST is being extremely misleading in
reporting to the public that the structure did not descend at
free-fall speed, especially given the implications of this
documented feature of WTC 7’s destruction.
Chapter 8: Initiating Event Hypothesis
Inconsistencies Between Report and NIST
Technical Presentation Slides
COMMENT: On page 353 of NCSTAR 1-9 (para. 1,
sent. 9) NIST states that “Buckling of other floor beams
followed as shown in Figure 8-27 (a), leading to collapse of the
floor system, and rocking of the girder off its seat at Column
79 as shown in Figure 8-27(b).” Slide 33 of Dr. Sunder’s August
26, 2008 technical presentation states that “Forces from thermal
expansion failed the connection at Column 79, then pushed the
girder off the seat.” (http://wtc.nist.gov/media/WTC7_Technical_Briefing_082608.pdf)
REASON FOR COMMENT: There seems to be an
inconsistency in what NIST is telling the public. In the Report
it seems as if the floor system collapses, which drags the
girder off its seat to the east. In Dr. Sunder’s presentation,
the floor beams appear to remain rigid and push the girder off
its seat to the west. These conflicting statements make it
difficult for the public to determine which story NIST actually
believes.
SUGGESTED REVISION: NIST must reconcile the
difference between its public presentation and the substance of
the Report.
“Perfectly Fixed” Exterior Columns and Rigid
Floor Beams
COMMENT: On page 350 of NCSTAR 1-9 (para. 2)
the exterior columns and column 44 were modeled as “perfectly
fixed” at a number of locations during the finite element
analysis of the northeast corner of the building. This computer
model was purporting to demonstrate that thermal expansion could
cause the girder to disconnect from Column 79. Obviously, if the
floor beams were to elongate due to thermal expansion, it would
expand in both axial directions. This, in turn, would put
pressure on whatever was connected to each end of the expanded
beam.
REASON FOR COMMENT: To the extent “perfectly
fixing” the exterior columns and column 44 caused the computer
model NewsFollowUp.com to neglect the pressure put on the
exterior columns due to thermal expansion, the computer model
does not represent reality. The exterior columns should have
been allowed to bow outward in response to this pressure. It is
also unclear whether the floor beams were allowed to sag as they
heated in the computer model. In NIST’s report on the Twin
Towers, the main reason given for global collapse initiation was
sagging floor beams. If NIST did not allow the floor beams to
sag in its WTC 7 model, then it did not allow any of the thermal
expansion to express itself as sagging rather than pressure on
the connections. Even the Cardington tests cited by NIST showed
that floor beams to sag when they are heated.
SUGGESTED REVISION: NIST must more clearly
explain how the thermal expansion of the floor beams in both
axial directions was accounted for in the computer models. If
“perfectly fixing” the exterior columns caused all of the
thermal expansion to occur in one direction, the computer models
needs to be modified to comport with reality, and allow outward
bowing of the external columns. Also, if the floor beams and
girders were not allowed to sag as they heated, there is a
fundamental disconnect between the WTC 7 computer models and the
WTC 1 and 2 computer models. The computer models should be
re-run with appropriate revisions made to the floor beam
properties, which allow them to sag as they heat.
Temperatures Applied to Beams and Girders
COMMENT: In Figure 8-25 on p.352 of NCSTAR
1-9, NIST applies temperatures of 600°C and 500°C to the floor
beams and girders, respectively, over a period of about 2.6
seconds. Putting aside for a moment the fact that applying that
much heat over a 2.6 second time interval could not possibly
approximate the reality of the fires at WTC 7, other problems
still remain. For example, these extreme temperatures were
applied uniformly for all nodes of the beams and girders.
(NCSTAR 1-9, p. 351)
REASON FOR COMMENT: On page 452 of NCSTAR 1-9,
NIST only reports that some “sections” of the floor beams
exceeded 600°C. Nowhere does NIST indicate that the computer
models show uniform temperatures of 600°C for floor beams and
virtually no information is given for temperatures of girders.
Again, these temperatures are applied uniformly over an
extremely small amount of time, which is not representative of
an actual fire.
SUGGESTED REVISION: Run the computer models
for the northeast section of floors again using realistic
temperatures and realistic application times. Report the results
accordingly.
Only High Explosives Considered in
Hypothetical Blast Event
COMMENT: In its analysis of “hypothetical
blast scenarios” that might have lead to the collapse of WTC 7,
NIST only considers blast events using RDX, an extremely high
explosive. (NCSTAR 1-9, p. 355, last sentence) NIST goes on to
argue that because no loud sounds were heard, and because no
window breakage was observed, that RDX was not used to bring
down WTC 7.
REASON FOR COMMENT AND SUGGESTED REVISION:
However, as documented by Kevin Ryan at the Journal of 9/11
Studies
(http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/2008/Ryan_NIST_and_Nano-1.pdf)
many scientists working for and associated with NIST have
experience with nanoenergetic compounds, or nanothermites, that
have the potential to be used for building demolitions. And
because nanothermites are primarily high-temperature
incendiaries rather than explosives, they could cause damage to
steel structures without producing the sound and destruction
levels associated with RDX. Because NIST personnel have intimate
experience with these materials, NIST should revise its report
to specifically analyze whether such nanoenergetic materials
could have been used as a component in a “hypothetical blast
scenario” at WTC 7.
Furthermore, the National Fire Protection
Association Manual for fire and explosion investigations, in
Section 921, very clearly indicates that the possibility of
explosives should have been thoroughly investigated by NIST.
Specifically in NFPA 921 18.3.2 “High Order Damage” –
“High-order damage is characterized by shattering of the
structure, producing small, pulverized debris. Walls, roofs, and
structural members are splintered or shattered, with the
building completely demolished. Debris is thrown great
distances, possibly hundreds of feet. High-order damage is the
result of rapid rates of pressure rise.” WTC 7 clearly met this
definition. Therefore NIST should have investigated more
thoroughly the possibility that explosive were used.
Specifically, the use of “exotic accelerants” should have been
investigated. In NFPA 921 19.2.4 – “Exotic Accelerants,” three
indicators were clearly met that should have led to a thorough
investigation into the possible use of “exotic accelerants,”
specifically as stated in the guideline, “Thermite mixtures.”
NIST should comply with NFPA Section 921 and test the debris
from WTC 7 for thermite residues and report the results to the
scientific community.
Omissions from the NIST Report
Foreknowledge of Collapse
NIST omitted from the Report information
relating to foreknowledge by several groups of people that WTC 7
was going to collapse.
What we mean by foreknowledge is a quality of
detail and a strength of conviction that allow us to say, in
light of the building’s collapse at approximately 5:21 p.m.,
that they knew in advance that it was coming down.
Such knowledge is highly significant in light
of the facts that (a) no steel framed skyscraper in history
(indeed, NIST says, “no tall building” in history) had ever
before collapsed from fire alone; and (b) the collapse,
according to NIST, was the result of a series of accidental and
unpredictable factors, which did not come together in such a way
as to determine the fate of the building until minutes, or
possibly even seconds, before the collapse took place.
In any situation where someone demonstrates
foreknowledge of an extremely unusual event, the possibility
must be considered that the knowledge derived from those who had
control over the event. In other words, foreknowledge of WTC 7’s
collapse greatly strengthens our suspicions that the building
was subjected to controlled demolition and that the knowledge of
its demise derived ultimately from those who intended to bring
it down.
NIST has tried to evade the issue of
foreknowledge of WTC’s collapse by implying:
(a) that the FDNY, on the scene, saw the
damage to the building caused by the collapse of WTC 1 and
rationally concluded that WTC 7 might collapse.
From NIST NCSTAR 1A, p.16:
“The emergency responders quickly recognized
that WTC 7 had been damaged by the collapse of WTC 1...
As early as 11:30 a.m., FDNY recognized that
there was no water coming out of the hydrant system to fight the
fires that were visible. With the collapses of the towers fresh
in their minds, there was concern that WTC 7 too might
collapse...”
(b) that an engineer, early in the day, saw
the damage to the building and concluded it might collapse,
passing on this assessment to others (Lead Investigator Shyam
Sunder, in a discussion with Graeme MacQueen on CKNX Radio,
Wingham, Ontario, Aug. 25, 2008)
It is true that damage to WTC 7 was directly
witnessed by some firefighters and led a few of them (about
seven) to worry that the building might collapse, but the great
majority (approximately 50) who were worried about collapse did
not base this worry on what they perceived but on what they were
told. (See Graeme MacQueen, “Waiting for Seven: WTC 7 Collapse
Warnings in the FDNY Oral Histories”, Journal of 9/11 Studies,
June 11, 2008) Moreover, while it is apparently also true that
an engineer communicated his opinion, early in the day, that the
building might collapse, neither this communication nor
communications from the FDNY is sufficient to explain the
evidence of foreknowledge that we possess.
Below are seven reasons why the above NIST
explanations of foreknowledge are inadequate. One example is
given to illustrate each of the seven reasons. More details can
be found in the paper by Graeme MacQueen titled “Waiting for
Seven: WTC 7 Collapse Warnings in the FDNY Oral Histories”
published at the Journal of 9/11 Studies
(http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/200701/MacQueenWaitingforSeven...).
1. Certainty To worry that a damaged building
might collapse in some fashion is one thing; but to be certain
that it will collapse is another. Detailed study of the accounts
of the FDNY shows that over half of those who received warnings
of WTC 7’s collapse (where degree of certainty can be determined
from the reports) were certain or were told with certainty that
it was coming down. (The figures are: 31 out of 58. See “Waiting
for Seven”.)
2. Early announcement If someone was observing
the fires in WTC 7 and was able to determine, in the last few
moments of the building’s existence, that a peculiar set of
circumstances was beginning to threaten the building, that would
be one thing; but to receive warnings of the building’s collapse
well before this set of circumstances was in place raises far
more suspicions. Yet a detailed study of the FDNY reports show
that of the 33 cases where the time of warning can be
determined, in ten cases warnings were received two or more
hours in advance and in six cases warnings were apparently
received four of more hours in advance. (See “Waiting for
Seven.”) In other words, long, long before the unique set of
circumstances had come together to cause the building’s
collapse, the collapse was being spoken of widely.
3. Precision If the collapse warnings derived
from vague worries and concerns they would not have been
precise. No building had come down from these causes before,
and, in fact, complete collapse such as happened to WTC 1, WTC
2, and WTC 7 was very rare, apart from cases of controlled
demolition. That is why FDNY member James McGlynn could say on
9/11, speaking of one of the Towers, "Any time I've heard of a
collapse, it was never an entire building like this turned out
to be." (See “Waiting for Seven.”) Yet, despite the rareness of
complete collapse, many people apparently knew in advance that
WTC 7 would be undergoing such a collapse. Consider the
following from the FDNY oral histories:
Q. "Were you there when building 7 came down
in the afternoon?" A. "Yes." Q. "You were still there?" A. "Yes,
so basically they measured out how far the building was going to
come, so we knew exactly where we could stand." Q. "So they just
put you in a safe area, safe enough for when that building came
down?" A. "5 blocks. 5 blocks away. We still could see. Exactly
right on point, the cloud stopped right there." (See “Waiting
for Seven.”)
4. New information If the collapse warnings
derived from worries and concerns expressed early in the day by
engineers and firefighters, why would the collapse of WTC 7 have
been reported by CNN (one hour and 10 minutes in advance) and
BBC (23 minutes in advance) as breaking news based on just
received information? CNN anchor Aaron Brown said “We are
getting information now.” CNN anchor Judy Woodruff: “We’re
hearing for the first time” (See Appendix.) BBC anchor: “We’ve
got some news just coming in”.
5. Premature announcement CNN and the BBC did
not merely report that the building was damaged or that it might
collapse; they prematurely announced its actual collapse.
CNN’s Aaron Brown, one hour and ten minutes in
advance of the collapse: “We are getting information now that
one of the other buildings, Building 7, in the World Trade
Center complex, is on fire and has either collapsed or is
collapsing...” BBC anchor, 23 minutes before the collapse: “the
Salomon Brothers Building in New York, right in the heart of
Manhattan, has also collapsed.” No satisfactory explanation has
been forthcoming about these premature announcements, which were
obviously based on data fed to these announcers.
6. Continuity The BBC continued to announce
that WTC 7 had collapsed, even when the building could be seen
standing directly behind reporter Jane Standley, for about 17
minutes until the story was pulled abruptly.
When CNN personnel realized they had made an
error in their early announcement, they could simply have
corrected it. They could, at the very least, have withdrawn
their attention from WTC 7 and stopped covering it since it was
obviously still standing. Instead, CNN continued to keep WTC 7
in the forefront of its coverage over the hour and ten minutes
preceding its collapse, repeatedly warning that it was going to
come down and keeping the image of the building in front of the
viewer until it had actually collapsed. (See Appendix.)
7. Progression According to NIST’s study, WTC
7’s fires had been reduced from ten floors, soon after the
collapse of WTC 1, to essentially two floors as the collapse
time approached. This was a building in which the fires were
actually dying down. Why, then, did CNN show awareness of the
building’s approaching doom, and why did it revise its captions
accordingly, from “may collapse” to “poised to collapse”
(approximately 15 minutes before actual collapse) and then to
“on verge of collapse” (approximately 1.5 minutes before actual
collapse). (Appendix)
Any one of these seven factors would be enough
to make us consider the possibility of foreknowledge of WTC 7’s
collapse. Taken together, they make an unanswerable case.
As further support, below we have provided a
timeline of events based on CNN’s coverage of Building 7. The
times in the left-hand column are within 30 seconds of actual
time.
The NIST Report should be revised to include a
detailed analysis of all of the reports of specific
foreknowledge of the collapse of Building 7. NIST’s Lead
Investigator, Dr. Sunder, when challenged with reports like this
during radio interviews recently has stated that NIST’s
investigation was not a criminal investigation, but instead is a
technical one. However, this position belies the fact that NIST
did opine in the Report that the controlled demolition
hypothesis was unlikely because NIST didn’t believe that the
explosives could be placed without being detected. Such an
opinion is not a technical opinion, but an operational one that
goes more to logistically how a criminal could have committed
the crime than technically how it was done. Clearly NIST could
consider the many reports of foreknowledge and note the
impossibility of such specific and detailed foreknowledge. The
Report should be revised accordingly.
FEMA Building Performance Study – Appendix C
The NIST WTC 7 Report does not attempt to
explain the “severe high-temperature corrosion attack” on
apparently the only piece of WTC 7 steel which was tested, as
documented in Appendix C, “Limited Metallurgical Examination” of
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Building
Performance Study, which can be found at the link below on the
NIST website.
The detailed further study deemed necessary by
FEMA was – as far as we know - never done, and the observed
“intergranular melting” of the steel can not be explained within
the framework of the present NIST hypothesis. Why would NIST
ignore the recommendations made by FEMA investigators for
additional research of the unexplained material behavior?
In a taped interview Worcester Polytechnic
Institute Fire Engineering professor Dr. Jonathan Barnett, one
of the authors of the 13 page report in Appendix C, made the
comment that normal investigative protocol was not followed in
the case of the WTC 7 collapse. He says that the steel from WTC
7 was not photographed, examined, and cataloged before being
removed. The comments he makes are at the 3:00 minute mark in
the below linked video.
It is reported that WTC 7 was fully evacuated
long before its collapse and that there were no fatalities or
missing persons involved with its demise. The photos in the
figures below show the collapsed WTC 7 to have its debris field
confined to within a short distance of its footprint.
In addition to showing the relatively tight
confinement of the debris field of WTC 7, the photo in Figure 2
also shows that debris from WTC 6 and WTC 5 was contained within
their footprints or very nearby.
The FEMA report debris field map for the Twin
Towers, below in Figure 3, shows that only a small percentage of
the debris from WTC 1 made it the 350 feet to WTC 7’s location.
The lighter areas on the map represent low debris density and
the darker areas high debris density.
The seeming separation of the WTC 7 debris
field from those of the other buildings, and the fact there were
no missing persons or fatalities involved with its collapse,
make it hard to accept the History Channel program narrator’s
comment, in the video above, that the mingling of the steel from
the different buildings, and the need for search and rescue,
were the reasons for the removal of the WTC 7 steel, before it
could be properly photographed, examined, and cataloged, at the
collapse site.
Even if the WTC 7 steel was moved, without
being examined and cataloged at the site of the collapse, an
additional question arises as to why it wasn’t recovered and
stored for later testing, evaluation, and a systematic forensic
analysis. This is especially pertinent in light of the FEMA
recommendation that additional research was needed due to the
strange findings in their very limited metallurgical
examination.
In the August 2008 NIST draft Report on WTC 7
there is no mention of testing of any recovered steel from the
collapsed remains of the building. In sections where the
properties of the steel need to be discussed reference is
curiously made to WTC steel samples, not specifically those of
WTC 7. This can be understood if one is aware that in an earlier
draft of the WTC 7 report NIST made the stark admission that “No
metallography could be carried out because no steel was
recovered from WTC 7. Other physical properties are the same as
those estimated in Chapter 8 for the WTC steels”.
Since the NIST report on the collapse of WTC 7
suffers from a lack of physical evidence to support its
findings, it should go into some level of detail on: why normal
investigatory protocol was not followed, why none of the steel
was recovered, and whether any laws were violated in not doing
so. If there are questions as to the legality of the removal and
lack of recovery for investigatory purposes, NIST should
recommend that an investigation be commenced to determine who
was involved with the decision to remove the steel and why NIST
did not receive any of it for its investigation.
There are also several seemingly contradictory
issues between the FEMA Building Performance Study Appendix C
and the NIST WTC 7 Report, for which no explanations have been
provided, and they are:
NIST states "No steel was recovered from WTC
7" while FEMA section C.2 shows that at least one piece of WTC 7
steel was tested, with the results being alarming, considering
the highly unusual formation of a liquid eutectic, intergranular
melting, and erosion. Features not seen before, by the
experienced investigators, in steel subject to common office
fires. FEMA section C.3 Summary for Sample 1 states that the
steel was heated to around 1,000° C. (1,800° F.), which is much
hotter than the steel temperatures NIST is claiming to have
caused the collapse, and seemingly far outside the ability of
office fires to heat the steel. Additionally, this section
states that steel liquefied at these temperatures, due to the
formation of the eutectic, which would dramatically lower the
usual 2750° F melting point temperature of the steel. FEMA
Section C.6 Suggestions for Future Research states "It is also
possible that the intergranular melting, eutectic formation, and
erosion phenomenon started prior to collapse and accelerated the
weakening of the steel structure."
Why hasn't the "future research" been done,
and the results from it published, especially when FEMA itself
suggested that this melting and erosion may have started “prior
to collapse”? NIST was charged with investigating the conditions
that led to the collapse of WTC 7, and clearly something that
possibly occurred prior to collapse and “accelerated the
weakening of the steel structure” is something NIST should have
investigated. NIST should revise the Report accordingly after it
has performed the needed metallurgical analysis. These public
comments on the NIST WTC 7 Report are being submitted by the
following individuals:
James R. Gourley, Esq. Chemical Engineer
International Center for 9/11 Studies [email protected]
Tony Szamboti Mechanical Engineer Architects &
Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Richard Gage AIA Architect Architects &
Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Graeme MacQueen, Ph.D. Scholars for 9/11 Truth
& Justice
Dr. Steven Jones Ph.D. Physicist S&J
Scientific Co.
Kevin Ryan Chemist Scholars for 9/11 Truth &
Justice
Dr. Niels Harrit Ph.D. Chemistry University of
Copenhagen
Ron Brookman Structural Engineer Architects &
Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Chris Sarns Architects & Engineers for 9/11
Truth
Kamal Obeid, SE PE Structural Engineer
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Scott Grainger, PE Forensic Engineer Civil
Engineer Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Frank Legge Logistical Systems Consulting
Bob Fischer Architects & Engineers for 9/11
Truth
Justin Keogh Architects & Engineers for 9/11
Truth
David Chandler Architects & Engineers for 9/11
Truth
CBS Sunday Morning features Ed
Asnerquestioning 9/11 and showing WTC 7’s free fall on
national television
More mass media breakthroughs:
CBS Sunday MorningfeaturesEd
Asner
questioning 9/11 and showing WTC 7’s free fall
on national television
~ Fox News’ Allan
Colmes also covers Asner’s
views on 9/11
Help us push this media wave even
higher!
Dear AE911Truth Supporter,
Over the past several days you have helped us regain the slipped ground
at onPBS’s
websitesince
we achieved #1 Most Watched and Most Shared rankings with Colorado
Public Television (CPT12)’s showing of “9/11:
Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out.”Thank
you so much!As
of this writing, your efforts have pushed us back up to the #2 Most
Watched spot, after dropping for a time to #8.
We have always retained the "1 “Most Shared” spot, suggesting that
people who see the explosive evidence are much more motivated to share
it with others than are those who watch other PBS online previews and
programs. That certainly does not surprise us … and it’s another point
we can all make to help encourage the media to give us more and better
coverage.
We are asking you now to both celebrate andacceleratetwo
additional mainstream media breakthroughs, both involving Ed Asner,
legendary actor and former Screen Actors Guild president. Asner is a
longtime supporter of AE911Truth who narrated our hit YouTube mini-documentary,Architects
& Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7.
On September 30, CBS Sunday Morning ran Rita Braver’s interview of Asner:
CBS Sunday Morning’s
eight-minute interview with Ed Asner covered his lifetime
achievements, his current stage show, and his political
activism – including Asner’s critical remarks about the
official account of 9/11
Architects & Engineersis
now nearing 1 million views on YouTube. Click the image below to watch
it and help carry us over the 1 million mark!
Not only did CBS allow Asner to “hold the microphone” as he questioned
the official account of 9/11. It also broadcast perhaps the most crucial
part ofSolving
the Mystery:
a clear video clip of WTC 7 coming down smoothly and symmetrically. We
believe this is the first time since the week of 9/11/2001 that CBS has
shown the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. At the time, CBS’
Dan Rather commented on its similarity to a controlled demolition:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvx904dAw0o.
The interview starts to cover 9/11 around the 6:25 mark.
Coming on the heels of the PBS/CPT12 breakthrough, these mass media
victories provide welcome if unexpected opportunities for ratcheting
public awareness of the WTC evidence and the need for a real
investigation to a new level.
Help Us Carry These Victories Even Further
FIRST: Watch All Three Program Links and Send Them to All Your
Contacts
Watch theCBS
Sunday Morningvideo
at least once yourself by clicking here:
Then share all three videos with your contacts, using the buttons near
each video or by e-mailing these links with your own introduction. Seeour
last action alertfor
detailed instructions on doing this with the CPT12 Experts Speak Out
video.
SECOND: Thank CBS and Fox and Ask Them to Do More
Contact the producers ofCBS
Sunday MorningandFox
News Radio:
In response to Braver’s comment to Asner about incompetence explaining
the failures to protect Americans on 9/11, you might politely point out
to her that incompetence cannot explain how a modern steel skyscraper
not hit by a jetliner can come straight down symmetrically, in freefall
for more than 100 feet, merely because of office fires on a few floors,
as NIST claimed. Braver can find more information about this in theArchitects
& Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7mini-documentary,
a clip of which was shown in her interview of Asner.
Thank Fox for letting Asner inform network audiences about little-known
facts about 9/11 this week, and ask them to provide more information
about World Trade Center Building 7 – to do a story on it. Point out
that Fox has done nothing to follow up on this issue since November
2010, when Geraldo Rivera gave asympathetic
interviewto
engineer and AE911Truth petition signer Tony Szamboti and 9/11 victim
family member Bob McIlvaine. Geraldo said, “What caught my eye is their
claim by theBuildingWhat?
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that more than 1,300 architects and engineers examined the evidence
about Building 7 and disagree with the official report issued by the
National Institute of Standards and Technology.”
THIRD: Ask Your Local PBS Station to ShowExperts
Speak Out
Michael RuppertBarrie
Zwicker, 38]published
criticisms FrenchauthorJean-Charles
Brisard 39]andGermanauthorsMathias
Bröckers 40]andAndreas
von Bülow 41]published
books critical of media reporting and The All People's
Coalition. 42]In October 2004, the organization9/11
Truthreleased a
statement, signed by nearly 200 people, including many relatives of
people who perished on September 11, 2001, that calls for an
investigation into the attacks. It also asserted that unanswered
questions would suggest that people within the administration of
President George W. Bush may have deliberately allowed the attacks
to happen. ActorEdward
Asner, former presidential candidateRalph
Nader, former congresswomanCynthia
McKinney, former assistant secretary of housingCatherine
Austin Fitts, authorRichard
Heinberg,Enver
Masud, founder of The Wisdom Fund, professorsRichard
Falkof the
University of California,Mark
Crispin Millerof New
York University, Douglas Sturm of Bucknell University, Burns H.
Weston of the University of Iowa College of Law and others signed
the statement. In 2009,Van
Jones, a former advisor to President Obama, said he hadn't fully
reviewed the statement before he signed and that the petition did
not reflect his views "now or ever.
In 2006, Steven E. Jones, who became a leading academic voice of the
demolition theory, 2]published
the paper "Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Completely Collapse?".He
was placed on paid leave byBrigham
Young Universityfollowing
what they described as Jones's "increasingly speculative and
accusatory" statements in September, 2006, pending a review of his
statements and research. Six weeks later, Jones retired from the
university. 47]
Several organizations of family members of people who have died in
the attacks are calling for an independent investigation into the
attacks. 51]In
2009, a group of people, including 9/11 Truth movement activistLorie
Van Aukenand others
who have lost friends or relatives in the attack, appealed to the
City of New York to investigate the disaster. The organizationNew
York City Coalition for Accountability Nowcollected
signatures to require the New York City Council to place the
creation of an investigating commission on the November 2009
election ballot.The
group collected more than enough signatures to put the proposal
before the voters, but Supreme Court Justice Edward Lehner ruled
that the petition overstepped what is allowable by city law, and
ruled that, despite wording in the petition to allow for elements
ruled invalid to be stricken, it would not be allowed to appear on
the ballot.
9/11 Commission Report reaction
To the consternation of the families and adherents of the 9/11 Truth
movement, many of the questions that the9/11
Family Steering Committeeput
to the9/11
Commission, chaired by formerNew
JerseyGovernorThomas
Kean, were not asked in either the hearings nor in the
Commission Report. 55]Lorie
Van Auken, one of theJersey
Girls, estimates that only 30% of their questions were answered
in the final 9/11 Commission Report, published July 22, 2004.
The9/11
Family Steering Committeeproduced
a website summarizing the questions they had raised to the
Commission, indicating which they believe had been answered
satisfactorily, which they believe had been addressed but not
answered satisfactorily, and which they believe had been generally
ignored in or omitted from the Report. 56]
In addition, the 339-page bookThe
9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and DistortionsbyDavid
Ray Griffin, claimed that the report had either omitted
information or distorted the truth, providing 115 alleged examples. 57] 58] 59]He
has characterized the 9/11 Commission Report as "a 571-page lie". 60]
On May 26, 2008 adjunct religious studies professor Blair Gadsby
began a protest and a hunger strike outside the offices ofSenatorandRepublican
Partynominee for PresidentJohn
McCain's office requesting McCain meet with the principal
scientists and leaders of the 9/11 Truth movement, specifically
Richard Gage, Steven Jones, and David Ray Griffin. McCain had
written the foreword to the bookDebunking
9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts,
published by the magazinePopular
Mechanics. 61]Arizona
Republican State Senator Karen Johnson joined the protest in
support. On June 10 Johnson with Gadsby as her guest and other 9/11
Truth movement members in the audience spoke before theArizona
State Senateespousing
thecontrolled
demolition theoryand
supporting a reopening of the 9/11 investigation. 14] 61]In
response to a question, McCain said he did not meet Gadsby, adding:
"Because I don't take well to threats." 62]
9/11 Truth
9/11 Truthwas
launched in June 2004 and has become a central portal for many 9/11
Truth movement organizations. It is run by Janice Matthews
(Executive Director), 88]David
Kubiak (International Campaign Advisor)and
Mike Berger (Media Coordinator), 91]among
others, and its advisory board includes
Steven E. Jones,Barrie
Zwickerand Faiz
Khan.The organization co-sponsored opinion polls conducted by the
U.S. market research and opinion polling firmZogby
Internationalthat
have shown substantial numbers of people believing the government
did not tell the full truth about the September 11 attacks. Of the
people surveyed, those in lower education and income brackets were
more likely to express disbelief in government accounts, rather than
those in higher income/education brackets.
Scholars for 9/11 Truth
The originalScholars
for 9/11 Truth, founded byJames
H. FetzerandSteven
Joneson December 15,
2005, was a group of individuals of varying backgrounds and
expertise who rejected the mainstream media and government account
of theSeptember
11 attacks. 3] 95]Initially
the group invited many ideas and hypotheses to be considered,
however, leading members soon came to feel that the inclusion of
some theories advocated by Fetzer—such as the use of directed energy
weapons or small nuclear bombs to destroy the Twin Towers—were
insufficiently supported by evidence and were exposing the group to
ridicule. By December 2006, Jones and several others set up a new
scholars group titledScholars
for 9/11 Truth and Justice, whose focus was in the use of the
scientific method in analysis. 96]The
original members took a vote on which group to join and the majority
voted to move to the new group. 97]By
2007, James Fetzer had been openly rejected by the 9/11 Truth
Movement, banned from and criticized on popular forums 98] 99] 100] 101]and
no longer invited to public 9/11 events.
Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice
Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice (STJ) formed in January 2007 and
is a self-described "group of scholars and supporters endeavoring to
address the unanswered questions of the September 11, 2001 attack
through scientific research and public education". 102]The
group is composed of more than 900 members, 103]includingRichard
Gage,Steven
E. Jones,Jim
Hoffman,David
Ray Griffin,Peter
Phillips, former CongressmanDaniel
Hamburg, and Kevin Ryan. Most members support the conspiracy
theory that the World Trade Center Towers and the third skyscraper,
WTC 7, were destroyed throughexplosive
demolition.
In 2008 and 2009, several Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice members
published essays in science and engineering journals. In April 2008,
a letter by membersSteven
E. Jones, Frank Legge, Kevin Ryan, Anthony Szamboti and James
Gourley, was published inThe
Open Civil Engineering Journal. 104]In
July 2008, an article by Ryan, Gourley and Jones was published inthe
Environmentalist. 105]In
October 2008, a comment by STJ member James R. Gourley describing
what he considers fundamental errors in a Bažant and Verdure paper
was included in an issue of theJournal
of Engineering Mechanics. 106]And
in April 2009, Danish chemist and STJ member Niels H. Harrit, of the
University of Copenhagen, and eight other authors, some also STJ
members, published a paper inThe
Open Chemical Physics Journal, titled, 'Active Thermitic
Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center
Catastrophe'. The paper concludes that chips consisting of unreacted
and partially reactednano-thermite('super-thermite')
appear to be present in samples of the dust. 66] 107]
The group was formed in 2002 by John Judge and Kyle Hence and, along
with theFamily
Steering Committee, played an active role in calling for the
establishment of the 9/11 Commission, and monitoring the commission
closely. 108]
9/11 Commission Campaign
Founded in 2011 by SenatorMike
Gravel, the 9/11 Commission Campaign's objective is to enact
subpoena-capable, state-level commissions through state ballot
initiatives, namely in Oregon, Alaska and California. 109]These
commissions are envisioned as citizen-driven, independent
organizations that would form a semi-unified grassroots national
presence by exercisingjoint
powers authority.
The Hispanic Victims Group is a group created after the 9/11
attacks, founded byWilliam
Rodriguez, 110]an
adherent of the 9/11 Truth movement. The group was one of the key
forces behind the creation of the 9/11 Commission. 108]William
Rodriguez, as founder of the group, was a member of the Families
Advisory Council for theLower
Manhattan Development Corporation. 111]
Conferences
Members of the 9/11 truth organizations, such as 911truth.org and
Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice, regularly hold meetings and
conferences to discuss ongoing research about 9/11 and to strategize
about how best to achieve their goals. Many of these conferences are
organized by 911truth.org, and some have been covered by the
international media. 112]
Details
These documentaries present a range of alternative theories about
how the attacks might have been carried out.
9/11 Press for Truth(2006)
documents the struggle by theJersey
Widowsto open a full
investigation of the events, and their frustration while monitoring
the 9/11 Commission as part of theFamily
Steering Committee.
Alex Jones, 9/11 andNew
World Orderconspiracy
theorists are the subject of the documentary filmNew
World Orderdirected
by Luke Meyer andAndrew
Neelthat debuted on
theIndependent
Film Channelon May
26, 2009. The documentary, while not endorsing the movement, is
described as giving the movement "more sympathetic, or less
critical, airing than they've yet had (except among the converted)". 125] 126]
Conferences are usually composed of various
presentations. They tend to be short and concise, with a time span of
about 10 to 30 minutes; presentations are usually followed by a
discussion. The work may be bundled in written form as academic papers
and published as the conference proceedings. Usually a conference will
include keynote speakers (often, scholars of some standing, but
sometimes individuals from outside academia). The keynote lecture is
often longer, lasting sometimes up to an hour and a half, particularly
if there are several keynote speakers on a panel. In addition to
presentations, conferences also feature panel discussions, round tables
on various issues and workshops. Prospective presenters are usually
asked to submit a short abstract of their presentation, which will be
reviewed before the presentation is accepted for the meeting. Some
disciplines require presenters to submit a paper of about 6–15 pages,
which is peer reviewed by members of the program committee or referees
chosen by them. In some disciplines, such as English and other
languages, it is common for presenters to read from a prepared script.
In other disciplines such as the sciences, presenters usually base their
talk around a visual presentation that displays key figures and research
results. A large meeting will usually be called a conference, while a
smaller is termed a workshop. They might be single track or multiple
track, where the former has only one session at a time, while a multiple
track meeting has several parallel sessions with speakers in separate
rooms speaking at the same time. At some conferences, social or
entertainment activities such as tours and receptions can be part of the
program. Business meetings for learned societies or interest groups can
also be part of the conference activities. The larger the conference,
the more likely it is that academic publishing houses may set up
displays. Large conferences also may have a career and job search and
interview activities. Academic conferences fall into three categories:
the themed conference, small conferences organized around a particular
topic; the general conference, a conference with a wider focus, with
sessions on a wide variety of topics. These conferences are often
organized by regional, national, or international learned societies, and
held annually or on some other regular basis. the professional
conference, large conferences not limited to academics but with
academically related issues. Increasing numbers of amplified conferences
are being provided which exploit the potential of WiFi networks and
mobile devices in order to enable remote participants to contribute to
discussions and listen to ideas. A seminar is, generally, a
form of academic instruction, either at an academic institution or
offered by a commercial or professional organization. It has the
function of bringing together small groups for recurring meetings,
focusing each time on some particular subject, in which everyone present
is requested to actively participate. This is often accomplished through
an ongoing Socratic dialogue 1] with a seminar leader or instructor, or
through a more formal presentation of research. Normally, participants
must not be beginners in the field under discussion (at US and Canadian
universities, seminar classes are generally reserved for upper-class
students, although at UK and Australian universities seminars are often
used for all years). The idea behind the seminar system is to
familiarize students more extensively with the methodology of their
chosen subject and also to allow them to interact with examples of the
practical problems that always occur during research work. It is
essentially a place where assigned readings are discussed, questions can
be raised and debates can be conducted. 2] It is relatively informal, at
least compared to the lecture system of academic instruction.
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