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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (5437)	2/25/2004 11:35:19 PM
From: Don Earl	Respond to of 20039

There were quite a few eyewitness reports of explosions in the media, and a whole lot more at various places on the Internet. I doubt there's much need for Kennedy style "accidents", as the media is under such complete control these days that after a few limited hang outs, the matter is buried forever. I agree it might be interesting to interview workers at the WTC to see if anyone noticed anything out of the ordinary, but I suspect it wouldn't produce any results. Most likely the charges were placed at night when the building was mostly empty, and a guy in coveralls, pushing a trash bin full of C4 and thermite, doesn't look any different than your average janitor. Also, in a 30 year old building, maintenance and remodeling projects were probably going on all the time. One of the most interesting accounts I ran across was a fireman who reported seeing smoke every few floors on the lower levels. If you've looked at any of the construction photos, or some of the information available on how the towers were built, they used steel columns that spanned several stories. If thermite, or some other incendiary, were used to melt the columns at their attaching points, it would tend to run to the bottom of each support creating hot spots. In other words, seeing a lot of smoke on every third floor is exactly what you'd expect to see. It would also explain why there were pools of molten steel weeks after 9/11, since the thermite would continue to burn long after the buildings collapsed.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (5437)	2/26/2004 10:11:40 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Van Romero's second thoughts seem genuine, after all: Albuquerque Journal September 21, 2001 Fire, Not Extra Explosives, Doomed Buildings, Expert Says By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer A New Mexico explosives expert says he now believes there were no explosives in the World Trade Center towers, contrary to comments he made the day of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. "Certainly the fire is what caused the building to fail," said Van Romero, a vice president at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. The day of the attack, Romero told the Journal the towers' collapse, as seen in news videotapes, looked as though it had been triggered by carefully placed explosives. Subsequent conversations with structural engineers and more detailed looks at the tape have led Romero to a different conclusion. Romero supports other experts, who have said the intense heat of the jet fuel fires weakened the skyscrapers' steel structural beams to the point that they gave way under the weight of the floors above. That set off a chain reaction, as upper floors pancaked onto lower ones. Romero said he believes still it is possible that the final collapse of each building was triggered by a sudden pressure pulse caused when the fire reached an electrical transformer or other source of combustion within the building. But he said he now believes explosives would not have been needed to create the collapse seen in video images. Conspiracy theorists have seized on Romero's comments as evidence for their argument that someone else, possibly the U.S. government, was behind the attack on the Trade Center. Romero said he has been bombarded with electronic mail from the conspiracy theorists. "I'm very upset about that," he said. "I'm not trying to say anything did or didn't happen." maebrussell.com