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To: Dale Baker who wrote (13688)	9/11/2001 3:00:00 PM
From: Tom Hua	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19633

Dale, heard on the radio Palestinians were singing, dancing and celebrating on streets. Arafat was quoted as being shocked by the attacks and asked his people to cool it. Regards, Tom

To: Dale Baker who wrote (13688)	9/11/2001 3:02:27 PM
From: Roger A. Babb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19633

Dale, I am sure that the collapses will be the subject of many engineering studies but my guess is that the building was not designed to withstand several thousand gallons of burning jet fuel flowing down its core. It WAS designed to withstand an air crash. The key element of these attacks was that all planes had just left the ground and were fueled for long flights. In my opinion, the fire brought them down and this raises serious design questions. Not unlike the situation some years ago where a single small missle destroyed a new British warship because of poor design using Aluminum while older ships survived numerous hits. The Empire State Building might have survived both hits, it once survived a B17 hit without major structural damage.