Evidence
Dr. Steven E. Jones, Former Professor of Physics, of Brigham Young University, has written an extensive analysis of the collapse of the World Trade Centre (WTC) Buildings 1, 2 and 7. He has come to the conclusion that explosives were used in the destruction of both the WTC Twin Towers and WTC7. Here is a summary of his evidence:
• WTC7 which was not hit by an airplane and had only a few small scattered fires collapsed rapidly and nearly-straight-down symmetrically into its own footprint on September 11, 2001.
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• There were twenty-four huge steel support columns inside WTC 7 as well as huge trusses, arranged non-symmetrically, along with some fifty-seven perimeter columns.
• In the history of architecture, there is no modern, steel-reinforced high-rise building that has ever collapsed because of an uncontrolled fire.
• The temperature required to melt steel is 2750° F while the maximum burning temperature of jet fuel is 1200°F.
• Evidence of molten steel was found in the basements of all three buildings, WTC 1, 2 (Twin Towers) and 7 which glowed red hot for weeks after the event.
• Evidence of squibs observed during the collapse of WTC7 going up the side of the building in rapid sequence provides further confirmation of explosives.
• The WTC Twin Towers were built to withstand the impact of a large commercial aircraft even a Boeing 707 as reported by John Knapton, Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Newcastle.
• Numerous reports of multiple loud explosions in rapid sequence being heard in and near the WTC Twin Towers consistent with explosive demolition.
• Horizontal ejection of steel beams for hundreds of feet and the pulverization of concrete to flour-like powder observed in the collapses of the WTC Towers further indicate the use of explosives.
• The speed of the collapses was at near free fall speed. This violates the law of conservation of momentum (one of the foundational laws of physics). There would have been substantial delay if the pancake theory were true.
• If the buildings collapsed due to the impact of the airplanes and the fires, as the pancake theory claims, the 47 massive core steel columns in the centre of the Twin Towers would still be standing.
(For the full report, go to Scholars for 9/11 Truth
http://www.911scholars.org - see under “Peer-Reviewed Papers”)
Dr. David Ray Griffin is a Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Emeritus, at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. He has written a number of books on 9/11 and the American Empire including The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (2004) and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions (2005). His extensive analysis of the 9/11 Commission Report has brought him and countless others to the conclusion that the Bush administration is engaged in a serious cover-up of the events of 9/11. Here is a brief summary of some of the most glaring omissions he found in the 9/11 Commission Report:
• Evidence that at least six of the alleged hijackers are still alive.
• The publicly released flight manifests contain no Arab names.
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• The fact that fire has never, before or after 9/11, caused steel-frame buildings to collapse.
• The fact that the fires in the Twin Towers were not very big, very hot, or very long-lasting compared with fires in several steel-frame buildings that did not collapse.
• The fact that WTC 7 which was not hit by an airplane and which had only small, localized fires also collapsed and that FEMA admitted it could not explain.
• Larry Silverstein’s statement that he and the fire department commander decided to ‘pull’ WTC 7.
• The fact that the Twin Towers and WTC 7 exemplified at least 10 features suggestive of controlled demolition.
• The fact that the 47 massive steel columns in the core of each of the Twin Towers should have been left standing if in fact the ‘pancake theory’ were true.
• The steel from the WTC buildings was quickly removed from the crime scene and shipped overseas before it could be analyzed for evidence of explosives.
• The fact that there are photos showing that the west wing’s façade of the Pentagon did not collapse until 30 minutes after it was struck and also that the entrance hole appears too small for a Boeing 757 to have entered.
• Testimony which casts serious doubt on whether remains of a Boeing 757 were visible either inside or outside the Pentagon.
• The fact that pictures from various security cameras, including the camera at the gas station across from the Pentagon, were confiscated by the FBI immediately after the strike and were never made public.
• The evidence that Hani Hanjour was too poor a pilot to have flown an airliner into the Pentagon.
• While Osama bin Laden was on the FBI’s ‘most wanted’ list, he was treated in the American Hospital in Dubai and visited by the local CIA agent just two months prior to 9/11.
• The report that Attorney General Ashcroft was warned to stop using commercial airlines prior to 9/11.
• There was no mention of the FBI agents who reportedly claimed to have known the targets and dates of the attacks well in advance.
• Evidence that Pakistan’s intelligence agency (the ISI) chief General Mahmoud Ahmad had ordered $100,000 to be sent to Mohammed Atta, one of the alleged hijackers, prior to 9/11.
• The Commission’s claim that it found no evidence that any foreign government, including Pakistan, had provided funding for the al Qaeda operatives.
