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


To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (11784)10/13/2005 1:22:31 PM
From: Orcastraiter  Respond to of 20039
 
So it says. The format on the NYT server was wide and long, and impossible to read without reformatting...so I did it here for the convenience of SI readers. I don't know what to think of eyewitnesses saying it was a military plane, other than it's troubling if true.

Orca



To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (11784)10/24/2005 12:35:36 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20039
 
he and another fireman saw for themselves flashes from detonations at the bottom of the tower before it came down.

Why then didn't the tower begin to come apart from the bottom?
It fell apart from the point of impact, which is easy to see in any movie of the tower one or two coming down.

If the bottom had been exploded, the lower floors would have begun crunching and the building would appear to sink almost intact until impacting on the debris pile. You can see this kind of collapse on almost any of the videos of a building being demolished. The twin towers remained structurly sound at the bottom until the roof came crashing in, floor by floor by floor to the bottom.

TP