Background:
In 1976, a U.S. Army private said his unit was asked to create the "perfect terrorist plan," using the Twin Towers as its target and box cutters and airplanes as weapons.
Timothy McNiven of Washington reported that his army unit, stationed in Germany, was ordered to devise the "perfect terrorist plan" way back in 1976, using the Twin Towers as the main target.
McNiven said his unit, including about 100 other soldiers, spent months trying to come up with the perfect scenario to bring down the towers. He said what they devised closely resembled the 9/11 attacks right down to using box cutters as weapons and Arab terrorists flying jetliners smack dab into the towers... He claims to be still acting on ongoing orders, given by his units commander, telling him that "in the event the Twin Towers were attacked to alert the American people of the 1976 plan."
From his 2002 Polygraph Exam ResultsOne of the people from the group had done calculations and had came up with a time frame for a 100 story building to collapse after being hit by an airliner, it was between 1 and 2 hours the exact minutes I can't remember. Later when he was questioned by Military higher ups about a building's engineers disputing his calculations; he said, that unlike him they had to say that to keep their job.
What this shows, is that the same debates that are/were being hashed out about controlled demolition vs. aircraft damage, have already been discussed 30 years ago between building engineers and "military higher-ups."
Also see: McNiven's website: http://codenamegrillfire.com
And this
01/11/06 interview (hour 2)