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To: Cogito who wrote (2237)	8/14/2010 4:13:41 PM
From: Cogito	1 Recommendation Respond to of 6846

As so often happens, when one uses logic alone to figure out whether or not something happened, one can be mistaken. Unless one has all the facts at hand, one cannot use logic to produce correct conclusions. This post Message 26754589 includes an article about the Cordoba Initiative controversy. It appears to be a fair and balanced article, and it includes a reference to the landing gear tearing through the roof of the Burlington Coat Factory warehouse which used to occupy the five story building the cultural center is to replace. Now, this is not a contemporary reference to that event, but coming, as it does, from an author who doesn't seem to have an axe to grind, it does seem credible to me. I had asked for anyone who had evidence of this event to let me know about it, and nobody took me up on the challenge, but there it is. It appears that the landing gear story may well be true. As it happens, when reviewing video of the plane hitting the South Tower, I could see some kind of large piece of flaming debris flying off in the general direction of the building in question, though it's hard to see whether it was on the right trajectory to hit a building four blocks to the north of the Tower. However, taken with the mention in the article I'm referring to here, it's enough to make me think the story is true. Now the only question is, does that make a difference? I don't think it does. A lot of debris of various kinds fell all around that area on 9/11. I don't think that makes the entire neighborhood some kind of holy ground.