It [photograph] also reveals some important clues about which types of buildings survived and which didn’t. Those built around skeletons of steel fared the best. Unsolved History: Great Quake Cover-Up, Discovery
In 2005 there was a fearsome conflagration in Madrid. A sky-scraper went up in flames. It was a huge torch that kept burning for twenty hours. Twenty consecutive hours! But in the end the load-bearing structure remained intact. The sky-scraper did not fall down. Dario Fo, cited Zero: An Investigation into 9/11
Fires burned and molten metal flowed in the pile of ruins still settling beneath my feet. Sarah Atlas, New Jersey Task Force One Urban Rescue
They showed us many fascinating slides ranging from molten metal which was still red-hot weeks after the event to four-inch thick steel plates sheared and bent in the disaster. Dr Keith Eaton, The Structural Engineer September 2002
One fireman told us that there was still molten steel at the heart of the Towers’ remains. Firemen sprayed water to cool the debris down but the heat remained intense enough at the surface to melt their boots. New York Air National Guards 109th Air Wing
I talked to many contractors and they said they actually saw molten metal – beams had just totally been melted because of the heat. Chaplain Herb Trimpe
How could they let this happen? They knew this building was a target. Over the past few weeks we’d been evacuated a number of times, which is unusual. I think they had an inkling something was going on. Ben Fountain, financial analyst, People Magazine
One of the things that particularly struck me was the incredible speed with which the Towers came down. There was something truly inexplicable about the speed of the collapse. Paolo Marini, Italian Centre for Materials Development, cited Zero: An Investigation into 9/11
At the same time two planes hit the building the FBI most likely thinks that there was a car or truck packed with explosives underneath the buildings which exploded at the same time and brought both of them down. Jack Kelley, USA Today
One of the explosions at the World Trade Centre may have been caused by a van that was parked in the building that may had had some kind of explosive device in it. Rick Sanchez, online article
Agency planned exercise on September 11 built around a plane crashing into a building. Associated Press online article John J Lumpkin 5th September 2002
Fire Engineers Call WTC Probe ‘Half-Baked Farce’: A respected magazine [Fire Engineering] read by firefighters and engineers is calling the investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Towers a farce and a sham. Associated Free Press article Christopher Bollyn, cited Alex Jones
New seismic data refutes official explanation ... These spikes suggest that massive underground explosions may have literally knocked the Towers off their foundations, causing them to collapse. American Free Press article Christopher Bollyn
Seismic Data Refutes Official Explanation. American Free Press article
The concrete was pulverised. And I was down here Tuesday. It was like you were on a foreign planet. All of lower Manhattan, not just this site, from river to river, there was dust, powder, two or three inches thick. The concrete was just – pulverised. George Pataki, CNN News, cited September 11 Revisited
Obviously, it was the result of controlled demolition. Jack Keller, Emeritus Professor Engineering Utah State University
There were continuing moments of alarm. A panel truck with a painting of a plane flying into the World Trade Centre was stopped near the temporary command post. It proved to be rented to a group of ethic middle-eastern people who did not speak English. Fearing that it might be a truck bomb the NYPD immediately evacuated the area, called out the bomb squad and detained the occupants until a thorough search was made. Norman Mineta, former Transport Secretary
What you had was a ground-level municipal incinerator that smouldered for months ... Burning up the most heavily computerised building in the world. Professor Thomas A Cahill
Ben Fountain, a financial analyst who worked in the World Trade Centre Complex, 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 security reasons’. This was obviously the perfect opportunity to place those explosives. News report, cited John Nada, Wake Up Call
Rescue workers and first responders were uncorrected informed by officials like Christine Todd Whitman who said the air at ground zero would not cause permanent respiratory damage and was certainly safe to breathe. So Wall Street could open. Many of these heroic rescue workers have now died or been diagnosed with terminal respiratory illness, and are expected to die because of this negligence and lack of health care. Hijacking Humanity Final Cut
These first responders are unsung heroes. And they deserve respect ... Many people ask me why I am involved with this organisation, why do I do what I do. And my answer is, seeing my friend David Miller cough up blood when I’m talking to him is enough inspiration ... They deserve respect and justice. Luke Rudkowski, activist
How was the concrete pulverised? How was glass micronised into dust? And how was there molten steel? But a passport survived! What were those explosions reported by the FDNY? And why weren’t the planes intercepted? ... And how did Hani Hanjour learn to fly like that? I don’t think we’re crazy. David Miller
The collapses of the Twin Towers and Building 7 had to have been examples of Controlled Demolition brought about by thousands of explosives placed throughout each of the buildings. No foreign terrorist could have obtained the kind of access to the buildings this would have required. One reason for concluding that the three buildings were brought down by explosives is the very fact that they did collapse. High-rise steel buildings have never before or after 9/11 been caused to collapse by fire ... The second reason is the specific nature of the collapses, each feature of which points to explosives; for example, the buildings collapsed straight down and at virtually free-fall speed as in controlled demolitions. And then the rubble smouldered for months afterwards ... The Twin Towers in particular – many people in the buildings said that they felt or heard explosions; virtually all of the concrete of these enormous structures was pulverised into very fine dust ... Much of this dust, along with steel and aluminium, was blown out horizontally from the buildings several hundred feet. Most of the steel beams and columns came down in sections about thirty feet long, conveniently ready to be loaded onto trucks. Pools of molten steel were found beneath the rubble. These and even more facts point to the existence of very powerful, precisely placed explosives. David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Fraud
Evidence of a deliberate cover up ... What happened to the 47 massive steel columns that constituted the core of each of these Twin Towers? They were the weight-bearing structure of each Tower. Even if the pancake theory is true, those forty-seven steel beams should have been sticking up at least several hundred feet into the air ... The 9/11 Commission ... avoided the problem incredibly by simply denying the existence of the steel columns. ibid.
Steel-frame high-rise buildings have never collapsed except when they have been brought down by explosives in the process known as Controlled Demolition. Therefore the natural hypothesis, the scientific hypothesis, would have been that explosives brought the Towers down. But NIST refuse to consider this hypothesis. Second, At least two hundred people including over hundred members of the Fire Department of New York reported evidence of explosions in the Towers ... Third, the Towers didn’t merely collapse, they disintegrated. The top floors exploded ... The Towers came down at nearly free-fall speed ... Virtually all the concrete and everything else except the steel was pulverized into tiny particles ... The systematically collapse is evidence of Controlled Demolition. David Ray Griffin, interview Guns and Butter 7th January 2009
One proof provided was that the passports of some of the hijackers were found. A week after 9/11 the FBI reported that the passport one of the hijackers who crashed the plane into the North Tower had been found in the street a few days earlier. We are supposed to believe in other words that after one of the airliners hit the Tower creating a fiery inferno, and after the Tower exploded pulverizing virtually everything into concrete and dust, one of the passports floated to the ground. This story was subjected to some ridicule in the press. It was later changed. ibid.
Nevertheless, we are told the authorities found two of the hijackers’ passports. Actually, you know, maybe this is believable. Because when we’re flying along at five hundred and eighty miles an hour we often leave the window open and things fly out! ibid.
It turned out that literally dozens of firefighters and emergency medical workers had given testimony that they had heard one, two, three, seven, eight, some said ten explosions going off in the building. Some of the people in the buildings reported that they were banged around and knocked downstairs by explosions. Other people testified to seeing flashes, and many of them said it looked just like on TV when we see them bring down buildings with explosions – we saw the flashes, we saw the demolition bangs, we heard the sounds. David Ray Griffin, interview Zero: An Investigation into 9/11