Thank you for the extremely lucid recap.
Jones Beene wrote: [ snip ] > > I mentioned before there had been a valid demolition permit issued by > the City to the WTC owners (the Port Authority) - after the 1993 > incident - and there are reports from around that time period from > contractors that themite was actually loaded into parts of the structure > at that time. It should have been removed, but was it? and if not, why > not? Got any links on this? I'd be interested in chasing them; I didn't notice this observation when you posted this the first time. How the thermite got into the building has always been a big sticking point in the "grand conspiracy" theory; it's too much for me to swallow that all the workers involved went swimming with cement overshoes the day after the incident and so none of them had a chance to blow the whistle.