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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (1058)	11/11/2004 8:40:54 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1968

>The twin WTC towers couldn't possibly have collapsed the way they did --completely and utterly-- just because an airliner hit them... So the $1 billion question is: what caused the towers to collapse? That should be the homework of your crack FBI sleuths.... Full tanks of jet fuel. On tape, bin Laden said that they had calculated that they might be able to take out the towers if the planes were international flights with lots of fuel. -Z

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (1058)	11/11/2004 1:51:37 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1968

Re: So we should have sent some FBI or Interpol agents in to Afghanistan? Maybe some New York City Police detectives to question ben Laden about the events of 9/11/2001? The twin WTC towers couldn't possibly have collapsed the way they did --completely and utterly-- just because an airliner hit them... So the $1 billion question is: what caused the towers to collapse? That should be the homework of your crack FBI sleuths....<?I> That's bull.......I attended a lecture by one of the architects of the complex. He made it clear why the buildings collapsed. A new concept of design had been introduced with the building of the WTC....it had to do with the load carried by the lateral curtain wall. It was never intended to take the high heat generated by the jet fuel burning. First, the girders began to buckle from the heat and then the curtain wall began to fragment. You need to chill on some of your conspiracy theories. Ole Rummie will start to cite you as an example of the moral decay of Old Europe. ;~) ted