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To: Don Earl who wrote (9156)12/7/2004 12:32:40 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20039
 
CONTROLLED DEMOLITION THEORY: RDX can be used to sever 4 inch plate steel --

Controlled Demolition, Inc. reports in this document that it is able to sever thick steel plating with its proprietary DREXS(TM) explosives:

perso.club-internet.fr

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Controlled Demolition Incorporated's DREXS (Directional Remote Explosive Severance) System sequentially severed the 4 inch thick flanges of the buildings' support columns to drop the structure without damage to a Boston Fire Department facility just 30 feet away. The 60,000 cubic yards of debris generated by the implosion of this downtown office complex was so well fragmented that it was cleared from the site in just 6 weeks.
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This DREXS(TM) result may not be a "smoking gun", but it sure looks to be completely consistent with the physical evidence at the WTC tower collapses.

The "smoking gun" in my mind is the fact that FEMA acted so aggressively to prevent any professional forensic investigation of any of the tower collapses in situ and then went on to pronounce the tower collapses "inexplicable".

This nation should know better than to let an ultra right-wing political operative like Joe Allbaugh seize control of FEMA. The politicization of that agency is a huge red flag.

Allbaugh stepped down at FEMA just as some stunningly profitable opportunities arose in Iraq.
fema.gov

Currently, Allbaugh is employed as a "consultant" on Iraqi business opportunities for Republican business cronies. And he's doing a damn good job of keeping this fact out of the news.
corpwatch.org

A Google search on "Allbaugh retires FEMA" failed to turn up this information. Curiously, many are complaining these days about Google having certain political biases. This is just one more possible example.

An astute prosecutor might ask if there were a cui bono? investigation to be made into the extremely curious way that FEMA prevented a proper forensic study of the WTC debris in the aftemath of the tower collapses, leading to an extremely lucrative opportunity for the former director. Curiouser and curiouser....

Some will recall how the editor of Fire Engineering Magazine became incensed by the "half-baked" investigation by FEMA:
tinyurl.com



To: Don Earl who wrote (9156)12/7/2004 6:26:09 AM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20039
 
Don > I don't believe it would require a device of the size most speculation I've seen appears to be centered around; 80,000 pound ANFO bombs, mini nukes, etc

Indeed so, particularly because of the seismic evidence. This is not easily discounted.

letsroll911.org

>>A "sharp spike of short duration" is how seismologist Thorne Lay of Univ. of California at Santa Cruz told AFP an underground explosion appears on a seismograph. Another seismologist, Won-Young Kim, stated that the Palisades seismographs register daily underground explosions from a quarry 20 miles away. These blasts are caused by 80,000 lbs. of ammonium nitrate and cause local earthquakes between Magnitude 1 and 2.

Evidently, the energy source that shook the ground beneath the towers was many times more powerful than the total potential energy released by the falling mass of the huge towers.<<

Furthermore, this assessment is in agreement with Jim Hoffman with respect to the energy required to produce the dust clouds.

And one also has to account for the pools of molten metal which persisted in the basements for weeks afterwards and which would not have been the case if "standard" explosives were used.

>>The foundations were 70 feet deep. At that level, 47 huge box columns, connected to the bedrock, supported the entire gravity load of the structures. The steel walls of these lower box columns were 4 inches thick.

This is where clean-up crew discovered hot spots of "literally molten steel" more than a month after the collapse. Such persistent and intense residual heat, 70 feet below the surface, required the help of a professional.

American Free Press asked Loizeaux about the report of molten steel on the site. "Yes," he said, "hot spots of molten steel in the basements." These incredibly hot areas were found "at the bottoms of the elevator shafts of the main towers, down seven [basement] levels," Loizeaux said. The molten steel was found "three, four, and five weeks later, when the rubble was being removed," Loizeaux said. He said molten steel was also found at 7 WTC, which collapsed mysteriously in the late afternoon. <<