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The Bigger Picture
1.08.01
WTC collapse investigators DON'T buy Fed jet fuel story, dished up by
Scientific American and MANY other establishment mouthpieces
Compare these two items, reprinted below.
The first is a compilation of recent articles from the New York Times
and New York Daily News, which report on major criticisms of the
currently ongoing "official" investigation into the WTC collapse, from
the INVESTIGATORS themselves!
MASSIVE complaints have been made by the VERY INVESTIGATORS hired by
FEMA to INVESTIGATE the twin towers' destruction; to the effect that
they (investigators) were being deliberately obstructed on nearly EVERY
FRONT in efforts to determine conclusively -- NOT SPECULATE -- precisely
why the buildings collapsed. Major amounts of KEY EVIDENCE have ALREADY
been destroyed; investigators are being PREVENTED from actually
EXAMINING any remaining evidence; and they're receiving THREATS saying
to back off from probing too deeply.
These serious professionals are very distressed over attempts being made
RIGHT NOW, to manipulate and maneuver them into RUBBER-STAMPING the
speculative "assessment" propagated to the ends of the Earth by Feds and
their countless mouthpieces (like Sci Am) within hours of the WTC
collapse -- that burning jet fuel caused it. MANY of the investigators
who are supposed to examine the actual EVIDENCE and figure out for SURE
what brought the towers down HAVE SAID they consider it unlikely that
structural damage from burning jet fuel was sufficient to have caused
the collapse of the buildings.
The second item is a total gov't con job article, promulgated only WEEKS
after 911 by nattering nabobs on government payrolls at MIT and
Scientific American; who new -- at THAT point in time -- probably only
just as MUCH about the WTC attack/collapse as YOU OR ME and EVERYONE
ELSE IN THE WORLD.
They hadn't so much as touched, or looked at, a single piece of debris.
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1.05.02
Investigators: Burning fuel damage 'NOT ENOUGH' to have crumbled WTC **
Explosives involved as well
** Experts charge official cover-up/destruction of evidence
-- 'A growing number of fire protection engineers have theorized that
"the structural damage from the planes and the explosive ignition of jet
fuel in themselves were not enough to bring down the towers...' -- NY
Daily News
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Firefighter Mag Raps 9/11 Probe
By Joe Calderone
NY Daily News Chief of Investigations
A respected firefighting trade magazine with ties to the city Fire
Department is calling for a "full-throttle, fully resourced"
investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Center.
A signed editorial in the January issue of Fire Engineering magazine
says the current investigation is "a half-baked farce."
The piece by Bill Manning, editor of the 125-year-old monthly that
frequently publishes technical studies of major fires, also says the
steel from the site should be preserved so investigators can examine
what caused the collapse.
"Did they throw away the locked doors from the Triangle Shirtwaist fire?
Did they throw away the gas can used at the Happy Land social club fire?
... That's what they're doing at the World Trade Center," the editorial
says. "The destruction and removal of evidence must stop immediately."
Fire Engineering counted FDNY Deputy Chief Raymond Downey, the
department's chief structural expert, among its senior advisers. Downey
was killed in the Sept. 11 attack. John Jay College's fire engineering
expert, Prof. Glenn Corbett, serves as the magazine's technical editor.
A group of engineers from the American Society of Civil Engineers, with
backing from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has been studying
some aspects of the collapse. But Manning and others say that probe has
not looked at all aspects of the disaster and has had limited access to
documents and other evidence.
A growing number of fire protection engineers have theorized that "the
structural damage from the planes and the explosive ignition of jet fuel
in themselves were not enough to bring down the towers," the editorial stated.
A FEMA spokesman, John Czwartacki, said agency officials had not yet
seen the editorial and declined to comment. Norida Torriente, a
spokeswoman for the American Society of Civil Engineers, described her
group's study as a "beginning" and "not a definitive work."
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has joined a group of relatives of
firefighters who died in the attack in calling for a blue-ribbon panel
to study the collapse.
"We have to learn from incidents through investigation to determine what
types of codes should be in place and what are the best practices for
high-rise construction," Manning told the Daily News. "The World Trade
Center is not the only lightweight, core construction high-rise in the
U.S. It's a typical method of construction."
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NY TIMES
December 25, 2001 THE TOWERS
Experts Urging Broader Inquiry in Towers' Fall
...In calling for a new investigation, some structural engineers have
said that one serious mistake has already been made in the chaotic
aftermath of the collapses: the decision to rapidly recycle the steel
columns, beams and trusses that held up the buildings. That may have
cost investigators some of their most direct physical evidence with
which to try to piece together an answer.
Officials in the mayor's office declined to reply to written and oral
requests for comment over a three-day period about who decided to
recycle the steel and the concern that the decision might be
handicapping the investigation...
Interviews with a handful of members of the team, which includes some of
the nation's most respected engineers, also uncovered complaints that
they had at various times been shackled with bureaucratic restrictions
that prevented them from interviewing witnesses, examining the disaster
site and requesting crucial information like recorded distress calls to
the police and fire departments...
"This is almost the dream team of engineers in the country working on
this, and our hands are tied," said one team member who asked not to be
identified. Members have been threatened with dismissal for speaking to
the press. "FEMA is controlling everything," the team member said...
Dr. Frederick W. Mowrer, an associate professor in the fire protection
engineering department at the University of Maryland, said he believed
the decision could ultimately compromise any investigation of the
collapses. "I find the speed with which potentially important evidence
has been removed and recycled to be appalling," Dr. Mowrer said.
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Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/explorations/2001/100901wtc/index.html When the
Twin Towers Fell
Oct 9, 2001
... The mechanisms by which these huge and seemingly solid edifices
suddenly collapsed, snuffing out the lives of thousands, was the subject
of a preliminary postmortem conducted last week in Cambridge, Mass. ...
After first describing the highly redundant structural system that kept
the 110-story twin towers standing for decades despite hurricane-force
winds and a terrorist truck bomb, the engineers then delineated how that
system was breached and finally overcome... The main culprits in
bringing the famously lofty buildings down, they concluded, were the two
intensely hot infernos that erupted when tens of thousands of gallons of
aviation fuel spilled from the doomed airliners. Once high temperatures
weakened the towers' supporting steel structures, it was only a matter
of time until the mass of the stories above initiated a rapid-sequence
"pancaking" phenomena in which floor after floor was instantly crushed
and then sent into near free fall to the ground below.
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