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Title: "Seven is exploding"
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URL Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58h0LjdMry0
Published: Apr 16, 2007
Author: Canale 5
Post Date: 2007-05-05 10:55:52 by honway
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http://www.911blogger.com/node/8267

On April 16, 2007, a major Italian network (Canale 5) has aired some conclusive evidence that Building 7 did not collapse on its own, but was deliberately taken down with the use of explosives.

The piece was part of a larger presentation we provided to the network as an update on the ongoing research on 9/11. In particular, we included a clip we had all seen many times before, but possibly never listened to with the full attention it deserved. Here is the 6 min. segment (please ignore yellow subtitles): Subscribe to *9-11*

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#52. To: AGAviator (#50)

This is an intellecually honest statement. Nobody knows with complete certainty what caused the collapse of WTC7.

Yes, the author of the piece was being intellectual honest by including his qualifying statement. You were being intellectually DIShonest by omitting a link and the qualifying statement.

You are still being intellectually DIShonest. He did not qualify his article by saying he did not have "complete certainty," he said his "article is a visualization of what probably happened."

However I'd have to say it's more "probable" that a diesel fuel fire weakened the structure to the point of collapse, than the structure was blown up with explosives because Silverstein said "pull."

Even in the absence of evidence, you are entitled to your unsupported opinion.

I was discussing the conspiracy theory accounts of the WTC collapses, not what the MSM says.

What you -said- was, "All 'un-offical' accounts of WTC 7 have - up to this time - begun with the statement 'No steel structure has ever collapsed due to fire.'"

What you said was in response to someone posting a subtitled report from Italian television which is MSM.

In any context you care to put it, your statement is untrue.

"The impossible happens - a first in the 100-year history of steel-frame towers. 'The South Tower collapsed...." [9/11 revealed, Rowland Morgan and Ian Henshall, p. 88]

"However, as Hoffman points out, this suggestion was deceptive, because there are 'no examples of total progressive collapse of steel-framed buildings outside of [the alleged cases of] 9/11/01.'" [Debunking 9/11 Debunking, David Ray Griffin, p.164]

Most unofficial accounts refer to steel-framed buildings. As for your BAC-like wordsmithing, ALL the sources were discussing buildings and not bridges.

Are you claiming that the New York Times supports the "un- official" stories of the "controlled demolition" of WTC7?

No. Are you claiming that a NYT article is not "'un-offical' accounts of WTC 7" which is the phrasing you employed?

Last but not least, if you really, truly, absolutely can't give up your notion that WTC7 collapsed because Silverstein said pull, that does not completely rule out the collapse due to diesel fuel fires weakening the structure.

Last but not least, I did not make any of the claims you attribute to me. I have said I have found no theory, the government theory or any other theory, completely persuasive. There is insufficient evidence available to state with certainty precisely what happened.

All you have to do is allege that "they" placed some of their explosives along the pressurized fuel lines, which started some fires that burned out of control, and everybody walks away happy.

All you have to do is make up some bullshit that I did not say, argue against it, and walk away happy.

But you have to say *probably.*

Probably. You have to take a source that says "probably" and assert that you walked down from a mountain with the text inscribed on stone tablets.

LOL

nolu_chan  posted on  2007-05-09   14:12:53 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: nolu_chan (#52)

You were being intellectually DIShonest by omitting a link and the qualifying statement.
I put a link on my earlier comments, numbnuts.
You are still being intellectually DIShonest. He did not qualify his article by saying he did not have "complete certainty," he said his "article is a visualization of what probably happened."
And you are going to allege you have *complete certainty* that Silverstein said "Pull," which therefore means explosive charges were detonated?
Even in the absence of evidence, you are entitled to your unsupported opinion.
I have more evidence than you do.
What you -said- was, "All 'un-offical' accounts of WTC 7 have - up to this time - begun with the statement 'No steel structure has ever collapsed due to fire.'"
What you said was in response to someone posting a subtitled report from Italian television which is MSM.
Then your quoting it and the NYT are irrelevant to my point. The conspiracy theories all have said - up to this point - that fires don't get hot enough to melt steel and that no steel structures have collapsed due to fire. They've also pooh-pooed Dr. Thomas Eager's contention that load-bearing trusses were weakened by fires in the Twin Towers.
Most unofficial accounts refer to steel-framed buildings. As for your BAC- like wordsmithing, ALL the sources were discussing buildings and not bridges.
Buildings and bridges are both load-bearing structures, Bubba. If a fire can bring down a bridge it can bring down a building.
I have said I have found no theory, the government theory or any other theory, completely persuasive. There is insufficient evidence available to state with certainty precisely what happened.
Then you can't rule out the possiblity of pressurized fuel lines feeding fires that structurally weakened the building to the point of collapse.

Hey Beavis!

Silverstein said "Pull"

"Pull" my finger!

AGAviator  posted on  2007-05-09   20:48:03 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#54. To: AGAviator (#53)

I put a link on my earlier comments, numbnuts.

It was your post #3 on this thread. You had no earlier comments on this thread, numbnuts.

And you are going to allege you have *complete certainty* that Silverstein said "Pull," which therefore means explosive charges were detonated?

I have *absolute certainty* to a degree of metaphysical certitude that Silverstein said "Pull." To be more precise, Silverstein said, "pull it."

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/cutter.html

"I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/pullIt3.wmv

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/silverstein_pullit.html

In the same program a cleanup worker referred to the demolition of WTC 6: "... we're getting ready to pull building six." ... "We had to be very careful about how we demolished building six.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/wtc6_pull.wmv

WTC-6 BEING PULLED

"' ... maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."
"... we're getting ready to pull building six."
The intent was to put a line around the buildings, hook it up to the pickup truck of a visiting redneck, and pull the buildings up to midtown. It was a most unfortunate happenstance that each building collapsed in a heap in a manner not unlike a controlled demolition shortly after the decision "to pull it" was made and before the building could be pulled up to midtown where it would have been safe.

What do you think Silverstein meant when he said, "maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it?"

I have more evidence than you do.

And you would post it but then you would have to kill everyone on the net.

Imagination is not evidence.

The conspiracy theories all have said - up to this point - that fires don't get hot enough to melt steel and that no steel structures have collapsed due to fire.

This is, of course, bullshit. Fires can get hot enough to melt steel. What is questioned is whether any particular fire in the WTC on 9/11 could have gotten hot enough to severely weaken or melt steel. The NIST report stated that the jet fuel burned up in about 15 minutes. What remained was oxygen starved fires burning whatever combustibles were available. Neither before nor since has any steel frame hi-rise office building had its steel frame demolished by fire.

The government conspiracy theory is just another conspiracy theory. If this was not a conspiracy then one person had to do it all. All 9/11 theories, of necessity, are conspiracy theories, just as are all theories about the Lincoln assassination. This is not a question of whether a conspiracy theory applies, but which one applies.

Also, in the Italian broadcast it appears that the broadcaster uses the word edificio which is building. It appears that the subtitle is responsible for the imprecise language and the broadcast, in Italian, is terminologically correct.

Buildings and bridges are both load-bearing structures, Bubba. If a fire can bring down a bridge it can bring down a building.

Impeccable logic. The frame of a mobile home is a load bearing structure. If a fire can bring down a mobile home, it can therefore bring down a steel-frame hi-rise office building. Have another Billy Beer, Bubba.

I have said I have found no theory, the government theory or any other theory, completely persuasive. There is insufficient evidence available to state with certainty precisely what happened.

Then you can't rule out the possiblity of pressurized fuel lines feeding fires that structurally weakened the building to the point of collapse.

I cannot rule out a death ray from Mars, but there is about as much evidence for that as for your nonsense.

If your pressurized fuel line sprayed fuel all over the floor on the 5th floor, it either ignited quickly or it formed a lake and flowed around a 40,000 sq ft area and down any stairs or elevators it could find. The NIST report says that no diesel odor was detected between 11:30 am and 2:30 pm. It would have been hard to miss.

If your pressurized fuel line sprayed fuel all over the floor on the 5th floor, and it ignited quickly, all that diesel fuel was burning on the 5th floor for hours and hours undetected.

Assuming the fire burned hot enough and long enough to cause the failure of immense structural steel beams, it is questionable why the fire did not burn hot enough and intense enough to burn through either an exterior wall, a floor or a ceiling and become visible as a raging inferno. It seems it must go through the steel beams without going through walls, floors or ceilings.

Assuming fires on the other floors hot enough and intense enough to cause the failure of immense structural steel beams must also assume a fire which did not even break the windows.

It must also assume that the fire burned for hours and hours, destroying the massive steel beams without destroying the line which is pumping the fuel into the room.

And, of course, the pump continued to pump.

"Pull" my finger!

It is not available until you stop pulling your pud.

What Really Happened sums up the pressurized fuel theory as follows.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fema_report.html

In evaluating the potential that a fire fed by fuel oil caused the collapse, it is necessary to determine whether the following events occurred:

  1. The SSB generators called for fuel. This would occur once the generators came on line

  2. The pumps came on, sending fuel through the distribution piping.

  3. There was a breach in the fuel distribution piping and fuel oil was discharged from the distribution system.

    Although there is no physical evidence available, this hypothesis assumes that it is possible that both the inner and outer pipes were severed, presumably by debris from the collapse of WTC 1. Depending on ventilation sources for air, this is sufficient to flashover the space along the north wall of this floor. The temperature of the fire gases would be governed to a large extent by the availability of air for combustion. The hot gases generated would be blocked from impacting Trusses 1 and 2 by the masonry wall separating the generation area from the mechanical equipment room, assuming that this wall was still intact after collapse of the tower and there were no other significant penetrations of walls.

  4. The discharged fuel must be ignited. For diesel oil to be ignited, there must be both an ignition source and the oil must be raised to its flash point temperature of about 60 degrees Centigrade (140 degrees Fahrenheit). Because there were fires on other floors of WTC 7, an assumption of ignition at this level in the building is reasonable, but without proof.

  5. There is sufficient air for combustion of the discharged fuel oil.

    The air required for combustion of 75-gpm (160 MW potential) diesel fuel is approximately 100,000 cubic feet per minute (cfm). If less air is available for combustion, the burning rate will decrease proportionally. As the engine generator sets come on line, automatic louvers open and 80,000 cfm are provided for each of the nine SSB engines. A portion is used as combustion air for the drive engines; the rest is for cooling, but could supply air to an accidental fire. Given open louvers and other sources for entry of air, it is, therefore, probable that a fuel oil spill fire would have found sufficient air for combustion.

  6. The hot fire gases reach and heat the critical member(s).

    For this to happen, the fire must have propagated either fuel or hot gases to the members in the truss in the mechanical equipment room. If the double door to the mechanical equipment room was either open or fell from its frame at some point, or if the door was undercut, the spilled fuel oil might have flowed into the mechanical equipment room, enveloping truss members in the main (hottest) portion of the flame. Such a situation could produce an exposure possibly exceeding that in the standard furnace test producing localized heat fluxes approaching the 200 kW/m2 used by Underwriters Laboratories to simulate a hydrocarbon pool fire, with exposure temperatures in the range of 1,200 degrees Centigrade (2,200 degrees Fahrenheit). If such intense exposure existed, the steel would be weakened more rapidly than normally expected. If the door was of superior construction (as with a fire door), it is unlikely that the fire would have reached the trusses in the mechanical equipment room until such time that the door failed.

So we have been presented with the following absurd story:

  1. Power to the Twin Towers was wired from the substation in WTC 7 through two separate systems. The first provided power throughout each building; the second provided power only to the emergency systems. In the event of fire, power would only be provided to the emergency systems. This was to prevent arcing electric lines igniting new fires and to reduce the risk of firefighters being electrocuted. There were also six 1,200 kW emergency power generators located in the sixth basement (B-6) level of the towers, which provided a backup power supply. These also had normal and emergency subsystems.

  2. Previous to the collapse of the South Tower, the power to the towers was switched to the emergency subsystem to provide power for communications equipment, elevators, emergency lighting in corridors and stairwells, and fire pumps and safety for firefighters. At this time power was still provided by the WTC 7 substation.

  3. Con Ed reported that "the feeders supplying power to WTC 7 were de-energized at 9:59 a.m.". This was due to the South Tower collapse which occurred at the same time.

  4. Unfortunately, even though the main power system for the towers was switched off and WTC 7 had been evacuated, a design flaw allowed generators (designed to supply backup power for the WTC complex) to start up and resume an unnecessary and unwanted power supply.

  5. Unfortunately, debris from the collapse of the north tower (the closest tower) fell across the building known as World Trade Center Six, and then across Vesey Street, and then impacted WTC 7 which is (at closest) 355 feet away from the north tower.

  6. Unfortunately, some of this debris penetrated the outer wall of WTC 7, smashed half way through the building, demolishing a concrete masonry wall (in the north half of the building) and then breached a fuel oil pipe that ran across the building just to the north of the masonry wall.

  7. Unfortunately, though most of the falling debris was cold, it manages to start numerous fires in WTC 7.

  8. Unfortunately, even with the outbreak of numerous fires in the building, no decision was made to turn off the generators now supplying electricity to WTC 7. Fortunately, for the firefighters, someone did make the decision not to fight and contain the fires while they were still small, but to wait until the fires were large and out of control. Otherwise, many firefighters may have been electrocuted while fighting the fires.

  9. Unfortunately, the safety mechanism that should have shut down the fuel oil pumps (which were powered by electricity) upon the breaching of the fuel line, failed to work and fuel oil (diesel) was pumped from the Salomon Smith Barney tanks on the ground floor onto the 5th floor where it ignited. The pumps eventually emptied the tanks, pumping some 12,000 gallons in all.

  10. Unfortunately, the sprinkler system of WTC 7 malfunctioned and did not extinguish the fires.

  11. Unfortunately, the burning diesel heated trusses one and two to the point that they lost their structural integrity.

  12. Unfortunately, this then (somehow) caused the whole building to collapse, even though before September 11, no steel framed skyscraper had ever collapsed due to fire.

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nolu_chan  posted on  2007-05-10   5:55:22 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: honway, *9-11* (#0)

http://www.luogocomune.net/site/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1795

The originators of the video:

"Seven is exploding"

Welcome to all foreign readers. Luogocomune is a news commentary site (all in Italian, thus far) featuring a large, separate section on 9/11. In a way, the whole website revolves around the idea that unless that paramount, unacceptable lie called "the 9/11 terrorist attacks" is removed and put into right perspective, the downward spiral towards this new "dark age" of humanity will never stop.

To us "9/11 victims" are not only the 3,000 people that perished on that day, but also some 650,000 civilians killed in Iraq since the invasion began, 100,000 plus Afghans who've met the same fate in their country, more than 3,000 US soldiers sent by "Dick & Rummy" to die under false pretense, and --sadly but truly -- the ever increasing number of first responders who were knowingly sent to their death by an administration that could be defined "criminal" for this one action alone.

It's for them all that we fight.

°°°

Now for some interesting news we wish to share with anyone interested in 9/11 worldwide.

On April 16, 2007, a major Italian network (Canale 5) has aired some conclusive evidence that Building 7 did not collapse on its own, but was deliberately taken down with the use of explosives.

The piece was part of a larger presentation we provided to the network as an update on the ongoing research on 9/11. In particular, we included a clip we had all seen many times before, but possibly never listened to with the full attention it deserved. Here is the 6 min. segment (please ignore yellow subtitles):


[More videos inside]. Yes, we all saw that last clip more than once, but each time we must have stopped at the powerful evidence the blast itself represents, while disregarding the ensuing exchange, which in our opinion represents the final nail in the coffin of the official version on WTC7. Without even the need to discuss Larry's intentionally ambiguous "pull it" statement.

Our presentation was broadcast as a rebuttal to a bunch of accusations leveled on the same channel ...

... by a group of Italian debunkers against the movie "Inganno Globale" (produced by this writer/website), which is possibly the "flagship" for 9/11 Italian truth seekers, being somehow the equivalent to any other major 9/11 movie in English available on the web.



THE BROADCAST

For those who are interested, this is the entire, 42 min. presentation that was aired on Apr. 16th by Italian Canale 5, divided in the following 5 segments:

1 - Intro + Military stand-down.
2 - Pentagon + UA175
3 - WTC7 (the segment you just saw)
4 - Twin Towers + UA93
5 - 2 touching testimonies by W. Rodriguez and David "We were also killed on 9/11" Miller.

The narration is in Italian, all the original interviews are in English. Keeping an eye on the brief summary above each segment, however, may help you grasp the whole thing anyway.


Part 1 - Intro + Military stand-down

a) After a brief intro the 9/11 Commission Report is presented as the equivalent of the infamous Warren Report, in that both Commissions openly refused to look at evidence that would compromise in any way the reconciliation of the Report with the desired, official version. b) The "Pandora's Box" of evidence against the hijackers emerged from the crash site of UA93 -- while the very plane is yet to be found -- is shown as an example of likely fabricated evidence by the FBI. c) Senator Dayton [thanks Eric Hufschmid for the footage] denounces as "lies" the Norad timelines appearing in the Report. d) The very heads of the Commission, Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, denounce in a book the Pentagon's "untrue" statements on their failure to act on 9/11. e) Rumsfeld's intercept procedure change order is paired with the illuminating testimony by Robin Hordon (Pilots for 911 Truth), resulting in a possible answer on how the military response could have been thwarted without necessarily involving "thousands of people" in the plot: All it took apparently was for Rummy not to pick up the phone.




Part 2 - Pentagon + UA175

a) Italian debunkers are caught in the act of resorting to the cheapest tricks in order to try and cast some doubt on the critics of the Pentagon's official version. b) A 2002 New York Times article is shown, reporting doubts on the authenticity of Hani Hanjour's "commercial license", while the alleged hijacker is clearly portrayed as someone who "could not fly at all". c) A collection of witnesses seeing a somehow smaller plane at the Pentagon is presented, while the fact that the debunkers seem unable to produce a witness speaking of a "large plane" themselves is underlined. d) Danielle O'Brien's testimony on what looked on their screens like a fighter jet is presented. e) The idea that "all it took for the hijackers to fly those planes right into their targets was to set the auto-pilot systems" is refuted both by the 330 degrees turn by "Hany Hanjour" before hitting the Pentagon -- losing sight of a target you have been so lucky to find in first place? -- and by the testimony of the controller who followed UA175 all the way into New York's harbor, executing maneuvers "you would only see in the movies". While both alleged pilots, as we know, had never flown a jet before in their life. (Nor had the other two, for that matter.)




Part 3 - WTC7

The same segment you saw above, in which: a) Danny Jowenko's opinion on WTC7's collapse is presented ("a controlled demolition"). b) A short clip from "Inganno Globale" follows, showing a side-by-side comparison between controlled demolitions and the World Trade Center collapses. c) A possible solution for the apparent mishap by the BBC on the actual collapse of the "Solomon Brother's Building" is suggested: It was CNN's earlier announcent that might have confused them. d) However, a good explanation for such foreknowledge must be found, especially since e) A testimony from a first responder moves that foreknowledge even further up, "between noon and one o' clock." f) Police is heard clearing the area because "the building is about to blow up." g) A firefighter is heard commenting "We gotta get back, seven is exploding," his collegue responding "I know, I know," right after a powerful blast is heard from the streets nearby.




Part 4 - Twin Towers + United 93

a) Scott Forbes' testimony is presented as a possible answer to the ever-recurring question, "How would it have been possible to place 'tons' of explosives in the Towers with everybody watching?" By doing it exactly "under everyone's eyes," the answer seems to be. b) Debunkers are shown scrambling through the dictionary in their desperate attempt to refute the tons of testimony about "explosions" in the Towers, prior and during the collapses: If you translate "scoppio" ("pop") into English -- they maintain -- you will get "explosion." Therefore it was only "pops" what all those people really heard. [Hey, let's cut them some slack. Someone may even fall for that!] c) The debunkers' statement that "there is no video actually confirming the sound of explosions" is confuted by the very clip [ending with "Seven is exploding"] you saw above. d) The debunkers' statement that "the idea of molten steel is sheer fantasy" is confuted by presenting different clips, including two reports on the "meteorite" now stored at the JFK hangar. e) How most of the crucial information about the true reasons for the Twin Towers' collapses ended up being sealed in court proceedings is revealed. f) The fact that the debunkers avoided confronting the notion that UA93 debris was found as far as eight miles away from the crash site is underlined, while the same fact is presented as definite proof that the plane did not fall in one piece into the infamous, "empty" hole. g) An interesting comment by a former NTSB official suggesting the "Let's Roll" story is but a nice legend -- "Just like the Alamo" -- ends the segment.





Part 5 - 2 Testimonies

a) William Rodriguez testimony confirms, among other things, that underground explosions took place in Tower 1 before the collapse. b) David Miller's condition, which he shares with hundreds of first responders, that "we now live with those buildings in our bodies" confirms, among other things, that the pulverization of the buildings was too fine to be the result of sheer force of gravity (which is the only force acting in a passive, non-induced structural collapse).





A final note: Except maybe for the "seven is exploding" sound bite, there was nothing truly exceptional in the broadcast but the broadcast itself. As the 9/11 web community at large, in fact, it seems at this point we have gathered enough evidence to make a valid case for a new investigation. We suggest researchers worldwide may want to shift some of their energies -- wherever possible -- towards their local media, to possibly achieve what we have luckily managed to achieve here in Italy.

As the times "are a' changing" fast, it may turn out much easier than expected to puncture the mainstream media cover that still protects the official version. After all it's not politics, it's ratings that they care most about, and Rosie O'Donnell has just shown us that once you have those on your side, nothing else truly matters.

Massimo Mazzucco

Note: Luogocomune is truly open to all different political views, and when I say "we," in the article, I refer to a vast majority of registered users, but not necessarily all of them.



If you want more info on the website, or if you want to register in order to leave a comment, please go HERE. Registration is quick and free, and all your personal info is guaranteed to be kept confidential.

We have also opened a new forum for English-speaking users who may want to discuss 9/11-related issues other than Tower7. Please be patient if our responses will not be in perfect English as well.

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington

robin  posted on  2007-05-10   11:14:53 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#56. To: robin (#55)

great post!

christine  posted on  2007-05-10   11:22:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#57. To: christine (#56)

It's the rest of the videos to the first one honway posted. It was aired in Italy last month. Good for Italy! And it's an interesting website.

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington

robin  posted on  2007-05-10   11:27:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#58. To: nolu_chan, AGAviator, honway, ALL (#54)

"I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse." http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/pullIt3.wmv

As usual, you left out something. They were talking about the firefighting effort and the risk to firefighters just before Silverstein said that. Perhaps by "it", he meant the firefighting effort? And you also forgot to mention that "pull" isn't a term the demolition industry uses when they take down a structure with explosives as you are asserting. It's used when they literally pull it down.

http://www.implosionworld.com/Article-WTC%20STUDY%208-06%20w%20clarif%20as%20of%209-8-06%20.pdf "We have never, ever heard the term "pull it" being used to refer to the explosive demolition of a building, and neither has any blast team we've spoken with. The term is used in conventional demolition circles, to describe the specific activity of attaching long cables to a pre-weakened building and maneuvering heavy equipment (excavators, bulldozers, etc.) to "pull" the frame of the structure over onto its side for further dismantlement. This author and our research team were on site when workers pulled over the six-story remains of WTC-6 in late fall 2001, however we can say with certainty that a similar operation would have been logistically impossible at Ground Zero on 9/11, physically impossible for a building the size of WTC 7, and the structure did not collapse in that manner anyway."

In the same program a cleanup worker referred to the demolition of WTC 6: "... we're getting ready to pull building six." ... "We had to be very careful about how we demolished building six. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/wtc6_pull.wmv

Case in point. They pulled WTC 6 down with cables. There are statements and photos proving it. You knew that, didn't you, NC? Or didn't you visit the links I posted to this forum previously about the "pull it" controversy. Like this one:

http://www.debunking911.com/pull.htm

which has such gems as this:

*************

"Conspiracy theorists say "Pull" is a term used by demolition experts. This is one of those many half truths conspiracy theorists use to convince the ignorant. "Pull" is used when they "Pull" a building away from another with cables during demolition.

****************

You can clearly hear the demolition worker in that video state they were pulling WTC 6 down with cables. He says “We’ve got the cables attached in four different locations going up. Now they’re pulling the building to the north. It’s not every day you try to pull down a eight story building with cables.”

And that source also quotes fireman Richard Banaciski saying

"They told us to get out of there because they were worried about 7 World Trade Center, which is right behind it, coming down. We were up on the upper floors of the Verizon building looking at it. You could just see the whole bottom corner of the building was gone. We could look right out over to where the Trade Centers were because we were that high up. Looking over the smaller buildings. I just remember it was tremendous, tremendous fires going on. Finally they pulled us out. They said all right, get out of that building because that 7, they were really worried about. They pulled us out of there and then they regrouped everybody on Vesey Street, between the water and West Street."

So there is proof that fireman can be "pulled".

It was a most unfortunate happenstance that each building collapsed in a heap in a manner not unlike a controlled demolition

And here you are trying to convince folks that it collapsed like an explosive demolition. It's pathetic how uninformed you are, NC. ROTFLOL!

The truth is that neither building collapsed like a explosives demolition. Which is why there is only one demolition expert in the whole world claiming that either building was a controlled demolition (and he concluded that WTC 7 was without knowing that the structure actually toppled to the south, without knowing it was on fire for many hours before it fell, without seeing photos or eyewitness statements about a gaping hole in the south side, without knowing that firemen said it was starting to lean hours before the collapse and would fall, and after seeing a video clip from only one angle that showed only a portion of the entire collapse).

What is questioned is whether any particular fire in the WTC on 9/11 could have gotten hot enough to severely weaken or melt steel. The NIST report stated that the jet fuel burned up in about 15 minutes. What remained was oxygen starved fires burning whatever combustibles were available.

This is nothing but disinformation.

First, jet fuel is only what started the fires. Office buildings like the WTC contain many things that can burn ... and burn very hot. The measured temperature in the Madrid skyscraper fire was over 1400 F and that was a fire without jet fuel as a starter and a fire in a building where occupants had moved out for construction.

Furthermore, the fires in the World Trade Center were not oxygen starved ... certainly not near the face where the collapses were observed to begin. You claim that the fires weren't even hot enough to weaken steel. Well you need to explain the sagging floors in photos taken many minutes before the collapse, like this:

(and yes, I know the photo says objects but the NIST report clearly states those are sagging floors and no one in the structures community has contradicted that)

What you don't tell folks is that NIST replicated the fires by burning office furniture in a controlled experiment and found the ceiling temperatures of 1100 C. And here is some more that you don't tell folks: http://www.debunking911.com/moltensteel.htm . Instead you try to make hay of small snippets of conversations completely out of context. Because that's all you have to actually *prove* your theory. You have NO experts that support you. And clearly the evidence like photos and videos doesn't either. To put it bluntly, the so-called *truth* movement and its advocates are looking rather pathetic because they clearly can't deal with THE TRUTH.

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BeAChooser  posted on  2007-05-10   13:24:44 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#59. To: robin, ALL (#57)

To us "9/11 victims" are not only the 3,000 people that perished on that day, but also some 650,000 civilians killed in Iraq since the invasion began

FALSE. The John Hopkins mortality study didn't claim 650,000 CIVILIANS have been killed in Iraq. It stated quite clearly that they did NOT ask whether the claimed dead in their sample were members of Saddam's military, insurgents, or civilians. Yet another example of the lies posted by the *truth* movement.

And I sure wish I understood Italian.

Because I bet I could prove the video clips you posted are filled with similar lies.

Please ... one of you ... post an English translation so I can prove that.

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BeAChooser  posted on  2007-05-10   13:39:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#60. To: nolu_chan (#54)

I must say you are trying very hard to eclipse someone else with limited posting capabilties as the premier spammer on this site.

However I will briefly address a couple of your major comments.

(1) What do you think Silverstein meant when he said, "maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it?"

Right after he said "We've had such a terrible loss of life?"

I really have never, ever, seen such a gross inability to place comments into their proper context as with the blithering idiots who assert that right after he expresses concern about a terrible loss of life, he would give a command to destroy a building and put even more lives at risk. It really takes a very special kind of stupid to make that allegation.

In this context, "Pull" obviously means "Pull Back." Duh.

(2)WhatNeverHappened.com
As far as your cut and paste from WhatNeverHappened, those 12,000 gallons of diesel fuel had to have gone somewhere. And at the same time, there was heavy black smoke pouring from the building.

But the same people who can't connect pulling back from a danger zone with a concern for a potential loss of life, also can't figure out that thick black smoke is from combustion of something quite a bit more messy than paper and office furniture.

AGAviator  posted on  2007-05-11   2:17:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#61. To: BeAChooser, AGAviator, honway, ALL (#58)

As usual, you left out something. They were talking about the firefighting effort and the risk to firefighters just before Silverstein said that.

As usual, your bullshit does not pass the laugh test. The firefighters were ordered out of WTC-7 at about 11:30 am. When the FDNY Chief Officer for that scene arrived at Barclay and West Broadway, the firefighters were already evacuating the building.

At approximately 11:30 a.m., FDNY assigned a Chief Officer to take charge of operations at WTC 7. ... When the Chief Officer in charge of WTC 7 got to Barclay Street and West Broadway, numerous firefighters and officers were coming out of WTC 7.
-- NIST NSTAR 1-8, page 110.

Perhaps by "it", he meant the firefighting effort?

What firefighting effort? Firefighting was never started in building 7.

According to the FDNY first-person interviews, water was never an issue at WTC 7 since firefighting was never started in the building.
-- NIST NSTAR 1-8, page 110.

At approximately, 2:30 p.m., FDNY officers decided to completely abandon WTC 7, and the final order was given to evacuate the site around the building. The order terminated the ongoing rescue operations at WTC 6 and on the rubble pile of WTC 1. Firefighters and other emergency responders were withdrawn from the WTC 7 area, and the building continued to burn. At approximately 5:20 p.m., some three hours after WTC 7 was abandoned the building experienced a catastrophic failure and collapsed.
-- NIST NSTAR 1-8, page 111.

And you also forgot to mention that "pull" isn't a term the demolition industry uses when they take down a structure with explosives as you are asserting. It's used when they literally pull it down.

I accept your assertion that WTC-7 is still standing, it was only destroyed figuratively, but literally it is still there.

I provided the audio that they were about to "pull" WTC-6 and the video of them "pulling" it. You provided your usual bullshit.

Case in point. They pulled WTC 6 down with cables. There are statements and photos proving it. You knew that, didn't you, NC?

Right after they said they were going to "pull it," what happened? Did they suspend firefighting efforts or did they drop the building?

So there is proof that fireman can be "pulled".

Yeah. The ones in WTC-7 were "pulled" at about 11:30 am. According to Larry Silverstein, after he said "pull it" they watched the building come down. The building came down at about 5:20 pm, about 6 hours after FDNY had evacuated the building, and about 3 hours after they abandoned the area around the building altogether.

First, jet fuel is only what started the fires.

Do you have any video of a jet hitting WTC-7?

Do you forget that this is a thread about WTC-7 and you are responding to my post about WTC-7 and the theory of pressurized diesel fuel going to the fifth floor and taking out all the steel beams simultaneously?

Office buildings like the WTC contain many things that can burn ... and burn very hot.

Right. Typically, office fires in a building such as the WTC towers cause the buildings to collapse. Why there are millions of examples such as... uhh.... uhhh... gimme time... uhhh... I know... the office fire that consumed... well... let Glanz and Lipton describe it:

Angry that he had too many floors to clean, Adorno started by setting a fire on the eleventh floor of the north tower, down the hall from Rich Boody's office. He lit it just before midnight on February 13, 1975, inside a closet filled with telephone switching equipment and filing cabinets filled with paper. Another custodian happened to pass by and hear a crackling sound as the fire burned. New York City Fire Department captain Harold Kull soon led his men into what could only be described as a towering inferno. As it happened, the room also held a large supply of alcohol-based duplicating fluid for mimeograph machines; feeding on all the combustibles in the room, the blaze was already out of control.

There was another reason the fire spread so quickly. For anyone who knew nothing of the long-standing problems with fireproofing at the trade center, this unexpected factor would be shocking: just as in the make-believe tower where Steve McQueen did the firefighting, the "fire-stopping" at the World Trade Center was missing. A foot-wide hole between the floors allowed hot gases to snake upward, setting fires all the way to the seventeenth floor, while burning embers dropped down the hole, igniting fires all the way to the ninth floor. Kull concentrated on the eleventh floor, which he said "was like fighting a blowtorch," so hot that all of his men got their necks and ears burned. A second and then a third alarm had to be called, ultimately drawing 132 firefighters to the north tower. It would be three hours before the last of the fire was out.

The damage would take weeks to repair—the southeast corner of the eleventh floor was little more than a charred shell—but the impact of the fire would be permanent. After assuring the New York City Fire Department that the fire-protection systems in the twin towers were first rate, the Port Authority now had to contend with clear evidence to the contrary. "Had the building been occupied, and given the stack action that exists in this 110-story building," Fire Commissioner O'Hagan later wrote, "the rescue problem would have been tremendous."

Adorno was not finished with his mischief. "More fires," a man said in an anonymous call to the Port Authority security desk, unless the main­tenance workers received a promised raise. Adorno then waited three months. Over the night of Monday, May 19, 1975, he set seven fires, this time in the south tower, on the twenty-fifth, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, thirty-second, and thirty-sixth floors. He was arrested one day later, but the consequences were just beginning to play out. Spurred by the fires, a group of state employees, including experts in state and city fire codes, organized an impromptu inspection squad. Gennaro Fischetti, a workers' compensation judge who led the effort, was literally having nightmares about the trade center. The recurring dream involved his being trapped in a stairwell during a fire. During his waking hours, he sat in his courtroom at the trade center looking at the fifty to one hundred disabled people who filed in each day for workers' compensation cases. In case of a fire, "we couldn't possibly get enough employees to carry them," Fischetti said. "And if we just put them in the stairways, that would block them and panic would ensue."

The survey by Fischetti and his volunteers turned up thirty-eight violations, including exit doors that were locked or blocked by a steel gate, fire-stopping insulation that was still missing, and deficiencies in the fire alarm system that meant it could not be heard across most areas of the acre-size floors. State legislators had already started their own investi­gation. The next step was a press conference, held right in the World Trade Center plaza on May 23, 1975, just five months after the Towering Inferno premiere. There was "clear and potential danger to fifty-five thou­sand persons," declared State Senator Norman J. Levy. "The Port Author­ity's word 'safe' is not enough."

By this time, the Port Authority had no choice but to act. The agency would spend $14 million to install more walls and doors on open floors to prevent the spread of fires, improve the alarm and communications systems, add more smoke detectors, and train extra staff to help the handicapped in case of an emergency. Yet despite the continued insis­tence by Fire Commissioner O'Hagan that the single most important step would be to install fire sprinklers in the towers, the agency balked. The estimated $43 million it would cost to install the sprinklers was "a figure that at this time is not feasible," said William J. Ronan, the chair­man of the Port Authority board and the man who had been Governor Nelson Rockefeller's chief of staff when the trade center was approved.

James Glanz and Eric Lipton, City in the Sky, The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center, 2003, ISBN 0-8050-7691-3.

I suppose it did prove that office fires can burn hot... very hot... like a towering inferno... so that it was like fighting a blowtorch...

However, for some unexplainable reason, the building decided not to fall down.

Back to WTC-7:

Con Edison personnel arrived at the scene and consulted with FDNY. They wanted to know if they should cut the power off at the WTC 7 power station. It was decided to leave the power on and not allow Con Edison personnel to enter WTC 7 because it was not safe. The Con Edison personnel also indicated that fuel tanks were located in the lower level of WTC 7. However, they could not determine if the fuel tanks were involved with the fires burning in the building. FDNY personnel reported that they did not see any indication of burning liquid fuels before the building collapsed. No accurate time is available for this event during the operations; however, the sequence of events indicates that it occurred between approximately 12:00 noon and 2:00 p.m.

One Battalion Chief coming from the building indicated that they had searched floors 1 through 9 and found that the building was clear. In the process of the search, the Battalion Chief met the building's Fire Safety Director and former Deputy Fire Safety Director on the ninth floor. The Fire Safety Director reported that the building's floors had been cleared from the top down. By this time, the Chief Officer responsible for WTC 7 reassessed the building again and determined that fires were burning on the following floors: 6, 7, 8, 17, 21, and 30. No accurate time is available for these actions during the WTC 7 operations; however, the sequence of event indicates that it occurred during a time period from 12:30 p.m. to approximately 2:00 p.m.

-- NIST NSTAR 1-8, page 110-11.

nolu_chan  posted on  2007-05-11   3:54:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#62. To: AGAviator (#60)

I really have never, ever, seen such a gross inability to place comments into their proper context as with the blithering idiots who assert that right after he expresses concern about a terrible loss of life, he would give a command to destroy a building and put even more lives at risk. It really takes a very special kind of stupid to make that allegation.

In this context, "Pull" obviously means "Pull Back." Duh.

There is nothing that quite compares to a blithering idiot who wants, shortly before 5:20 pm, to evacuate WTC-7 which had been evacuated by the firemen at about 11:30 am. When the FDNY Chief Officer for that scene arrived at Barclay and West Broadway, the firefighters were already evacuating the building.

Firefighting was never started in building 7.

According to the FDNY first-person interviews, water was never an issue at WTC 7 since firefighting was never started in the building.
-- NIST NSTAR 1-8, page 110.

At approximately 11:30 a.m., FDNY assigned a Chief Officer to take charge of operations at WTC 7. ... When the Chief Officer in charge of WTC 7 got to Barclay Street and West Broadway, numerous firefighters and officers were coming out of WTC 7.
-- NIST NSTAR 1-8, page 110.

At approximately, 2:30 p.m., FDNY officers decided to completely abandon WTC 7, and the final order was given to evacuate the site around the building. The order terminated the ongoing rescue operations at WTC 6 and on the rubble pile of WTC 1. Firefighters and other emergency responders were withdrawn from the WTC 7 area, and the building continued to burn. At approximately 5:20 p.m., some three hours after WTC 7 was abandoned the building experienced a catastrophic failure and collapsed.
-- NIST NSTAR 1-8, page 111.

The firefighters at WTC-7 were "pulled" at about 11:30 am. According to Larry Silverstein, after he said "pull it" they watched the building come down. The building came down at about 5:20 pm, about 6 hours after FDNY had evacuated the building, and about 3 hours after they abandoned the area around the building altogether.

Damn, some gubermint pimps are too dumb to even read what the gubermint is saying.

nolu_chan  posted on  2007-05-11   4:04:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#63. To: AGAviator (#60) (Edited)

those 12,000 gallons of diesel fuel had to have gone somewhere. And at the same time, there was heavy black smoke pouring from the building.

Con Edison personnel arrived at the scene and consulted with FDNY. They wanted to know if they should cut the power off at the WTC 7 power station. It was decided to leave the power on and not allow Con Edison personnel to enter WTC 7 because it was not safe. The Con Edison personnel also indicated that fuel tanks were located in the lower level of WTC 7. However, they could not determine if the fuel tanks were involved with the fires burning in the building. FDNY personnel reported that they did not see any indication of burning liquid fuels before the building collapsed. No accurate time is available for this event during the operations; however, the sequence of events indicates that it occurred between approximately 12:00 noon and 2:00 p.m.

One Battalion Chief coming from the building indicated that they had searched floors 1 through 9 and found that the building was clear. In the process of the search, the Battalion Chief met the building's Fire Safety Director and former Deputy Fire Safety Director on the ninth floor. The Fire Safety Director reported that the building's floors had been cleared from the top down. By this time, the Chief Officer responsible for WTC 7 reassessed the building again and determined that fires were burning on the following floors: 6, 7, 8, 17, 21, and 30. No accurate time is available for these actions during the WTC 7 operations; however, the sequence of event indicates that it occurred during a time period from 12:30 p.m. to approximately 2:00 p.m.

-- NIST NSTAR 1-8, page 110-11.

FDNY, told about it by Con Ed, must have missed a diesel fuel fire big enough to bring down the building.

But the same people who can't connect pulling back from a danger zone with a concern for a potential loss of life, also can't figure out that thick black smoke is from combustion of something quite a bit more messy than paper and office furniture.

Please advise the FDNY to improve their training to meet your level of expertise.

nolu_chan  posted on  2007-05-11   4:09:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#64. To: nolu_chan, robin, honway, ALL (#63)

There were no 1100c or 2012F fires or anything near these gas temps in WTC 1,2,7.

Mark

"I was real close to Building 7 when it fell down... That didn't sound like just a building falling down to me while I was running away from it. There's a lot of eyewitness testimony down there of hearing explosions. [..] and the whole time you're hearing "boom, boom, boom, boom, boom." I think I know an explosion when I hear it... — Former NYC Police Officer and 9/11 Rescue Worker Craig Bartmer

Kamala  posted on  2007-05-11   5:45:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#65. To: richard9151 (#35)

The BLOviator is full of it. You need not waste your energy responding to its shilling.

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma Gandhi

angle  posted on  2007-05-11   8:22:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#66. To: richard9151 (#43)

I do not have to be a scientist to understand basic facts

The BLOviator is not a scientist either. It's a shill posting talking points and distractions/disruptions to the thread. That's its job.

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma Gandhi

angle  posted on  2007-05-11   8:26:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#67. To: angle, richard9151, Kamala, nolu_chan (#66) (Edited)

He spammed the thread again to hide this link. It's the rest of the videos and the Italian website that created it.

http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=51633&Disp=55#C55

Just put him on bozo and these threads are much easier to read.

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington

robin  posted on  2007-05-11   9:31:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#68. To: nolu_chan (#62)

More Silverstein:

"I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire,

and I said,

'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."

You dishonestly omit another important part of Silverstein's statement, which is the FD told him they were not sure they were going to be able to contain the fire.

So what part of "They were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire" and "We've had such a terrible loss of life" do you blockheads not understand?

AGAviator  posted on  2007-05-11   10:57:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#69. To: AGAviator (#68)

Building 7
Building 7 imploded late on 9/11/01. It was not hit by an aircraft.

http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/analysis/anomalies.html

Because Lucky Larry is a liar. There were only a few small fires.
WTC7 was obviously a controlled demolition.

Later Larry tried to deny he said "pull it", a lie that failed because his video is all over the internet.

But what can you expect from such a patriot who sued and collected for TWO terrorist attacks on buildings he had insured only a few months prior.

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington

robin  posted on  2007-05-11   11:11:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#70. To: nolu_chan, AGAviator, ALL (#61)

The firefighters were ordered out of WTC-7 at about 11:30 am. When the FDNY Chief Officer for that scene arrived at Barclay and West Broadway, the firefighters were already evacuating the building.

At approximately 11:30 a.m., FDNY assigned a Chief Officer to take charge of operations at WTC 7. ... When the Chief Officer in charge of WTC 7 got to Barclay Street and West Broadway, numerous firefighters and officers were coming out of WTC 7. -- NIST NSTAR 1-8, page 110.

Odd. That doesn't say the firefighters were ordered out at 11:30. It says that a Chief Officer was assigned at 11:30.

Perhaps by "it", he meant the firefighting effort?

What firefighting effort? Firefighting was never started in building 7.

Do you think the only things firefighters do is fight the fires? Hundreds went into the WTC towers and very few actually fought a fire while inside.

According to the FDNY first-person interviews, water was never an issue at WTC 7 since firefighting was never started in the building. -- NIST NSTAR 1-8, page 110.

That's right. Fires burned inside structure for about 7 hours without attempts to extinguish them.

At approximately, 2:30 p.m., FDNY officers decided to completely abandon WTC 7,

Wait. You just told us that firefighters were "ordered out of WTC-7 at about 11:30 am". Were they just slow to obey? Or were you wrong about that?

"And you also forgot to mention that "pull" isn't a term the demolition industry uses when they take down a structure with explosives as you are asserting. It's used when they literally pull it down."

I accept your assertion that WTC-7 is still standing, it was only destroyed figuratively, but literally it is still there.

Your response doesn't address the fact that "pull" isn't a term the demolition industry uses with regards to explosive demolitions.

"Case in point. They pulled WTC 6 down with cables. There are statements and photos proving it. You knew that, didn't you, NC?"

Right after they said they were going to "pull it," what happened? Did they suspend firefighting efforts or did they drop the building?

They dropped it. But they used the word pull referring to bringing the down with cables. Logical, right?

"So there is proof that fireman can be "pulled"."

Yeah. The ones in WTC-7 were "pulled" at about 11:30 am.

Sorry you didn't prove that. Not with what you posted. Getting desperate yet, NC?

The building came down at about 5:20 pm, about 6 hours after FDNY had evacuated the building, and about 3 hours after they abandoned the area around the building altogether.

Nothing you posted proves that. In fact, the source you quoted ( -- NIST NSTAR 1-8, page 110-11) proves just the opposite:

It states:

"At approximately 11:30 a.m., FDNY assigned a Chief Officer to take charge of operations at WTC 7. The Chief was initially given orders to put the fires out in WTC 7. ... snip ... Con Edison personnel arrived at the scene and consulted with FDNY. ... snip ... No accurate time is between approximately 12:00 noon and 2:00 p.m. One Battalion Chief coming from the building indicated that they had searched floors 1 through 9 and found that the building was clear. In the process of the search, the Battalion Chief met the building’s Fire Safety Director and Deputy Fire Safety Director on the ninth floor. The Fire Safety Director reported that the building’s floors had been cleared from the top down. By this time, the Chief Officer responsible for WTC 7 reassessed the building again and determined that fires were burning on the following floors: 6, 7, 8, 17, 21, and 30.391 No accurate time is available for these actions during the WTC 7 operations; however, the sequence of event indicates that it occurred during a time period from 12:30 p.m. to approximately 2:00 p.m."

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So they hadn't cleared the building of firefighters at 11:30 and the decision wasn't made to fully do so until later ... after the time Silverstein reportedly spoke with the Fire Chief.

"First, jet fuel is only what started the fires."

Do you have any video of a jet hitting WTC-7?

Do you forget that this is a thread about WTC-7 and you are responding to my post about WTC-7 and the theory of pressurized diesel fuel going to the fifth floor and taking out all the steel beams simultaneously?

No, I responded to you posting " What is questioned is whether any particular fire in the WTC on 9/11 could have gotten hot enough to severely weaken or melt steel. The NIST report stated that the jet fuel burned up in about 15 minutes. What remained was oxygen starved fires burning whatever combustibles were available." You are the one showing confusion on this thread, NC.

"Office buildings like the WTC contain many things that can burn ... and burn very hot."

Right. Typically, office fires in a building such as the WTC towers cause the buildings to collapse.

All portions of the Windsor Tower in Madrid that relied on a steel frame collapsed. So it can happen. And, typically, fires aren't started in the manner the WTC towers fires were. After a severe impact which damages not only many structural members but the fire suppression and fire protection systems built into the structure. With 10,000 gallons of jet fuel being immediately released to engulf whole floors of the structure with flame. And with firefighters being unable to reach and fight the fires effectively.

And the fact is that many in offices can burn, very very hot. Plastics, for one.

He lit it just before midnight on February 13, 1975

Let's talk about the 1975 fire. It wasn't started with an impact. The fire started locally and slowly spread. Firemen were able to get firefighting materials to the fire and fight them effectively. There are some big differences there. Not sure what you hoped to prove, NC.

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BeAChooser  posted on  2007-05-11   21:36:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#71. To: angle, richard99151, ALL (#66)

The BLOviator is not a scientist either. It's a shill posting talking points and distractions/disruptions to the thread. That's its job.

But unlike you, angle, I can actually quote scientists and engineers with expertise in structures, fire and steel. You? You rely on sub-atomic particle physicists, experts in dental materials, economists, water treatment experts, software developers, janitors, theologians, philosophers and psychologists. ROTFLOL!

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BeAChooser  posted on  2007-05-11   21:37:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#72. To: BeAChooser (#70)

BAC EDITED VERSION

It states:

"At approximately 11:30 a.m., FDNY assigned a Chief Officer to take charge of operations at WTC 7. The Chief was initially given orders to put the fires out in WTC 7. ... snip ... Con Edison personnel arrived at the scene and consulted with FDNY. ... snip ... No accurate time is between approximately 12:00 noon and 2:00 p.m. One Battalion Chief coming from the building indicated that they had searched floors 1 through 9 and found that the building was clear. In the process of the search, the Battalion Chief met the building’s Fire Safety Director and Deputy Fire Safety Director on the ninth floor. The Fire Safety Director reported that the building’s floors had been cleared from the top down. By this time, the Chief Officer responsible for WTC 7 reassessed the building again and determined that fires were burning on the following floors: 6, 7, 8, 17, 21, and 30.391 No accurate time is available for these actions during the WTC 7 operations; however, the sequence of event indicates that it occurred during a time period from 12:30 p.m. to approximately 2:00 p.m."

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So they hadn't cleared the building of firefighters at 11:30 and the decision wasn't made to fully do so until later ... after the time Silverstein reportedly spoke with the Fire Chief.


UNEDITED VERSION - PARTS LEFT OUT BY BAC APPEAR IN BLUE

http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-8.pdf

NIST NSTAR 1-8 WTC INVESTIGATION Analysis of Emergency Responder Operations

pp. 164-5 of the PDF, numbered pages 110-1 of the report.

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At approximately 11:30 a.m., FDNY assigned a Chief Officer to take charge of operations at WTC 7. The Chief was initially given orders to put the fires out in WTC 7. [382] From the Chiefs assigned location at WTC 7, he reported that looking south toward WTC 7, they could not see the building because of the large smoke and dust cloud. The Chief Officer was able to negotiate the debris fields, get to the building, and see the WTC 7 logo on the side. There were numerous burned out FDNY vehicles around WTC 7. At the comer of Vesey and West Broadway, a FDNY Engine was connected to a hydrant at the comer of WTC 7. Hose lines were stretched, and the Engine's pump was still running even though the Engine was on fire and was almost burned out. There was no water coming out of the hydrant system. [383] One FDNY Chief Officer that entered WTC 7 indicated that he opened a standpipe on the 4th floor of one stairway and found no water in the standpipe system. [384] A FDNY fire boat and the retired FDNY fire boat "Harvey" were located at the shore on the Hudson River near the site. They were starting to stretch lines up to the WTC. [385] According to the FDNY first-person interviews, water was never an issue at WTC 7 since firefighting was never started in the building. [386] When the Chief Officer in charge of WTC 7 got to Barclay Street and West Broadway, numerous firefighters and officers were coming out of WTC 7. These firefighters indicated that several blocks needed to be cleared around WTC 7 because they thought that the building was going to collapse. [387]

Con Edison personnel arrived at the scene and consulted with FDNY. They wanted to know if they should cut the power off at the WTC 7 power station. It was decided to leave the power on and not allow Con Edison personnel to enter WTC 7 because it was not safe. [388] The Con Edison personnel also indicated that fuel tanks were located in the lower level of WTC 7. However, they could not determine if the fuel tanks were involved with the fires burning in the building. FDNY personnel reported that they did not see any indication of burning liquid fuels before the building collapsed. [389] No accurate time is

381 WTC 7 Interviews 2041604 and 1041704, spring 2004.
382 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2004.
383 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2004.
384 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2004.
385 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2004.
386 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2003.
387 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2004.
388 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2004.
389 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2004.

110 NIST NCSTAR 1-8, WTC Investigation

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Analysis of Emergency Responder Operations

available for this event during the operations; however, the sequence of events indicates that it occurred between approximately 12:00 noon and 2:00 p.m.

One Battalion Chief coming from the building indicated that they had searched floors 1 through 9 and found that the building was clear. [390] In the process of the search, the Battalion Chief met the building's Fire Safety Director and former Deputy Fire Safety Director on the ninth floor. The Fire Safety Director reported that the building's floors had been cleared from the top down. By this time, the Chief Officer responsible for WTC 7 reassessed the building again and determined that fires were burning on the following floors: 6, 7, 8, 17, 21, and 30. [391] No accurate time is available for these actions during the WTC 7 operations; however, the sequence of event indicates that it occurred during a time period from 12:30 p.m. to approximately 2:00 p.m.

The Chief Officer then met with his command officer to discuss the building's condition and FDNY's capabilities for controlling the building fires. A Deputy Chief who had just returned from inside the building reported that he had conducted an inspection up to the 7th or 8th floor. [392] He indicated that the stairway was filling with smoke and that there was a lot of fire inside the building. The chiefs discussed the situation and the following conditions were identified: [393], [394]

At approximately, 2:30 p.m., FDNY officers decided to completely abandon WTC 7, and the final order was given to evacuate the site around the building. [395], [396] The order terminated the ongoing rescue operations at WTC 6 and on the rubble pile of WTC 1. Firefighters and other emergency responders were withdrawn from the WTC 7 area, and the building continued to burn. At approximately 5:20 p.m., some three hours after WTC 7 was abandoned the building experienced a catastrophic failure and collapsed.

390 FDNY Interview 26, winter 2004.
391 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2004.
392 FDNY interview 14, winter 2004.
393 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2004.
394 FDNY Interview 14, winter 2004.
395 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2004.
396 FDNY interview 14, winter 2004.

NIST NCSTAR 1-8, WTC Investigation 111

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nolu_chan  posted on  2007-05-12   1:02:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#73. To: BeAChooser (#70)

At approximately 11:30 a.m., FDNY assigned a Chief Officer to take charge of operations at WTC 7. ... When the Chief Officer in charge of WTC 7 got to Barclay Street and West Broadway, numerous firefighters and officers were coming out of WTC 7. -- NIST NSTAR 1-8, page 110.

[BAC] Odd. That doesn't say the firefighters were ordered out at 11:30. It says that a Chief Officer was assigned at 11:30.


WHEN THE CHIEF OFFICER ARRIVED, the firefighters were coming out of the building and he was informed the area needed to be cleared because they thought the building was going to collapse.


http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-8.pdf

NIST NSTAR 1-8 WTC INVESTIGATION
Analysis of Emergency Responder Operations

pp. 164-5 of the PDF, numbered pages 110-1 of the report.

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At approximately 11:30 a.m., FDNY assigned a Chief Officer to take charge of operations at WTC 7. The Chief was initially given orders to put the fires out in WTC 7. [382] From the Chiefs assigned location at WTC 7, he reported that looking south toward WTC 7, they could not see the building because of the large smoke and dust cloud. The Chief Officer was able to negotiate the debris fields, get to the building, and see the WTC 7 logo on the side. There were numerous burned out FDNY vehicles around WTC 7. At the comer of Vesey and West Broadway, a FDNY Engine was connected to a hydrant at the comer of WTC 7. Hose lines were stretched, and the Engine's pump was still running even though the Engine was on fire and was almost burned out. There was no water coming out of the hydrant system. [383] One FDNY Chief Officer that entered WTC 7 indicated that he opened a standpipe on the 4th floor of one stairway and found no water in the standpipe system. [384] A FDNY fire boat and the retired FDNY fire boat "Harvey" were located at the shore on the Hudson River near the site. They were starting to stretch lines up to the WTC. [385] According to the FDNY first-person interviews, water was never an issue at WTC 7 since firefighting was never started in the building. [386] When the Chief Officer in charge of WTC 7 got to Barclay Street and West Broadway, numerous firefighters and officers were coming out of WTC 7. These firefighters indicated that several blocks needed to be cleared around WTC 7 because they thought that the building was going to collapse. [387]

381 WTC 7 Interviews 2041604 and 1041704, spring 2004.
382 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2004.
383 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2004.
384 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2004.
385 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2004.
386 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2003.
387 FDNY Interview 3, winter 2004.


nolu_chan  posted on  2007-05-12   1:13:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#74. To: BeAChooser (#70)

[BAC #58] Perhaps by "it", he meant the firefighting effort?

[nc #61] According to the FDNY first-person interviews, water was never an issue at WTC 7 since firefighting was never started in the building.
-- NIST NSTAR 1-8, page 110.

[BAC #70] Do you think the only things firefighters do is fight the fires? Hundreds went into the WTC towers and very few actually fought a fire while inside.

I guess he did not mean the non-existent BAC-referenced "firefighting effort."

nolu_chan  posted on  2007-05-12   1:20:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#75. To: BeAChooser (#70)

[BAC #70] Your response doesn't address the fact that "pull" isn't a term the demolition industry uses with regards to explosive demolitions.

PULL IT AUDIO MIX W PHONE CALL

http://www.pumpitout.com/audio/pull_it_mix.mp3

The linked audio file provides the Larry Silverstein statement, a call denying that "pull it" is a demolition term, and a call to Controlled Demolition, Inc., asking what "pull it" means and the Controlled Demolition response, "'Pull it' is when they actually pull it down."

nolu_chan  posted on  2007-05-12   1:25:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#76. To: BeAChooser (#70)

[nc #61 quoting the NIST report] At approximately, 2:30 p.m., FDNY officers decided to completely abandon WTC 7,

[BAC #70 mindlessly bloviating] Wait. You just told us that firefighters were "ordered out of WTC-7 at about 11:30 am". Were they just slow to obey? Or were you wrong about that?


At 2:30 pm the order was given to "evacuate the site around the building." The building had already been evacuated.

BAC is dishonestly editing the more complete quote which was fully provided in my #61.

At approximately, 2:30 p.m., FDNY officers decided to completely abandon WTC 7, and the final order was given to evacuate the site around the building. [395], [396] The order terminated the ongoing rescue operations at WTC 6 and on the rubble pile of WTC 1. Firefighters and other emergency responders were withdrawn from the WTC 7 area, and the building continued to burn. At approximately 5:20 p.m., some three hours after WTC 7 was abandoned the building experienced a catastrophic failure and collapsed.
http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-8.pdf

nolu_chan  posted on  2007-05-12   1:49:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#77. To: nolu_chan, BeAChooser (#73)

These firefighters indicated that several blocks needed to be cleared around WTC 7 because they thought that the building was going to collapse

Interesting, it appears that professional firemen, who get killed regularly by structure failures, didn't have such an unshakeable faith in the integrity of steel buildings as some posters on the Internet.

AGAviator  posted on  2007-05-12   2:12:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#78. To: nolu_chan, AGAviator, ALL (#73)

* The Chief Officer was assigned at 11:30 am.He proceeded immediately to WTC-7.
* At the time of his arrival, shortly after 11:30 am, the firefighters were already evacuating the building.

You tried to claim that Silverstein had his conversation with the Fire Chief when there was no firefighters in WTC 7 so there were no firefighters to "pull". You did this by implying they were all evacuated from inside the building at 11:30 am. Now you've revised that to "shortly after 11:30". But all Silverstein said was that in "the afternoon" he had his conversation and your own sources indicate that " the Battalion Chief met the building’s Fire Safety Director and Deputy Fire Safety Director on the ninth floor" sometime between 12:30 and 2 pm ... in the afternoon.

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BeAChooser  posted on  2007-05-12   2:22:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#79. To: AGAviator (#77)

Interesting, it appears that professional firemen, who get killed regularly by structure failures,

Professional Firefighters DO NOT usually get killed by fires . Other people do,

Your statement is close to idiotic.

Outside of the WTC disaster, trained firefighters would stay outside the kill zone and pump AFFF on the thing.

"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato

tom007  posted on  2007-05-12   2:27:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#80. To: BeAChooser (#78)

You tried to claim that Silverstein had his conversation with the Fire Chief when there was no firefighters in WTC 7 so there were no firefighters to "pull". You did this by implying they were all evacuated from inside the building at 11:30 am. Now you've revised that to "shortly after 11:30". But all Silverstein said was that in "the afternoon" he had his conversation and your own sources indicate that " the Battalion Chief met the building’s Fire Safety Director and Deputy Fire Safety Director on the ninth floor" sometime between 12:30 and 2 pm ... in the afternoon.

INDEED, HOURS AFTER THERE WERE NO FIREFIGHTERS IN THE BUILDING.

By 11:30 a.m., the fire commander in charge of that area, Assistant Chief Frank Fellini, ordered firefighters away from it for safety reasons.
-- James Glanz reporting in the NYT, November 29, 2001, Link

"I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."
-- Humanitarian Larry Silverstein

[VIDEO] http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/pullIt3.wmv

"And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse." -- Larry Silverstein.

"At approximately, 2:30 p.m., FDNY officers decided to completely abandon WTC 7, and the final order was given to evacuate the site around the building. [395], [396] The order terminated the ongoing rescue operations at WTC 6 and on the rubble pile of WTC 1. Firefighters and other emergency responders were withdrawn from the WTC 7 area, and the building continued to burn. At approximately 5:20 p.m., some three hours after WTC 7 was abandoned the building experienced a catastrophic failure and collapsed."

The firemen evacuated the building at about 11:30 am. They evacuated the site around the building at 2:30 pm. Larry Silverstein said "they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse." Just like everyone else, Larry Silverstein watched the building collapse or implode in a controlled demolition at 5:20 pm.

"It's blowin' boy." ... "Keep your eye on that building, it'll be coming down soon." ... "The building is about to blow up, move it back." ... "Here we are walking back. There's a building, about to blow up..."

[VIDEO] http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/wtc7_blow_up.wmv

Damn. Just damn. It wasn't about to fall down, it was about to blow up.

nolu_chan  posted on  2007-05-12   3:00:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#81. To: tom007 (#79)

Professional Firefighters DO NOT usually get killed by fires . Other people do

"Your statement is close to idiotic."

More than 100 firefighters die on the job each year.

AGAviator  posted on  2007-05-13   3:16:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#82. To: angle (#66)

It's a shill posting talking points

Yeah, I caught on. Thanks for the note. I wonder if him and BeAC are posting from the Pentagon, Langley, or some Jewish group in New York..... inquiring minds want to know.....

The Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

richard9151  posted on  2007-05-16   15:39:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#83. To: richard9151, angle, ALL (#82)

It's a shill posting talking points

Yeah, I caught on. Thanks for the note. I wonder if him and BeAC are posting from the Pentagon, Langley, or some Jewish group in New York..... inquiring minds want to know.....

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BeAChooser  posted on  2007-05-16   15:51:27 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#84. To: BeAChooser, Minerva (#83) (Edited)

21. To: Goldi-Lox, Mister D
(#19)
Goldi ... hate to say it but this place is becoming anti-semite central.

BeAChooser posted on 2006-07-17 01:40:08 ET

http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi? ArtNum=150176&Disp=21&Trace=on#C21

That was your response to the post immediately before your's by Mr D who posted quotes to criticize Zionism. In no way did he post anti-Semitism. But you saw oppertunity to exploit Goldi's religion to silence a critic.

But then again, you never let the facts get in the way of your kook agenda, do you?

Thesis: Official 9/11 story is an unproven conspiracy theory. http://911truth.org http://Justicefor911.org http://summeroftruth.org Probable-cause standards have been met for an unlimited investigation of unsolved crimes relating to the events of Sept. 11, including allegations of criminal negligence, cover-up, complicity or commission of the attacks by US officials and assets of intel services.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2007-05-16   16:13:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#85. To: BeAChooser (#83)

25. To: BeAChooser (#24)
BAC....intelligent discussion with you is a standing joke all over the Internet....

bug off bozo

http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=149479&Disp=24#C24

BrerRabbit posted on 2006-07-12 20:58:50 ET

Amazing how one need hardly look at your posting record to find bozo announcements directs at you.

How many bozoings have you accrued lately, bait boy? Bet it's way up there.

Thesis: Official 9/11 story is an unproven conspiracy theory. http://911truth.org http://Justicefor911.org http://summeroftruth.org Probable-cause standards have been met for an unlimited investigation of unsolved crimes relating to the events of Sept. 11, including allegations of criminal negligence, cover-up, complicity or commission of the attacks by US officials and assets of intel services.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2007-05-16   16:21:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#86. To: BeAChooser (#83)

27. To: GO65, goldi-Lox, all
(#10)
I think the answer is obvious.

How about because of the binary sarin warhead that turned up as an IED and the fact that Iraq was still in contact with the terrorists who killed 3000+ on 9/11?

BeAChooser posted on 2006-06-29 19:32:37 ET

http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=148037&Disp=27&Trace=on#C27

So, although absolutely zero connection has been shown between Saddam's government and al Qaeda, you here repeat the chimp and Cheney's quite laughable and debunked claim that Saddam and 9-11 were tied together.

Sounds like you are the one having trouble separating perception from reality, not those you bait.

Thesis: Official 9/11 story is an unproven conspiracy theory. http://911truth.org http://Justicefor911.org http://summeroftruth.org Probable-cause standards have been met for an unlimited investigation of unsolved crimes relating to the events of Sept. 11, including allegations of criminal negligence, cover-up, complicity or commission of the attacks by US officials and assets of intel services.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2007-05-16   17:12:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#87. To: Ferret Mike, ALL (#86)

What's the problem, ferret?

You don't want to discuss WTC 7, the collapse of the WTC towers, or the damage at the Pentagon anymore?

I thought that's what this thread was about ...

ROTFLOL!

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BeAChooser  posted on  2007-05-16   17:17:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#88. To: BeAChooser (#87)

You are repeating yourself. Guess my last post showing how little you care for the truth hit too close to home for comfort.

Truth hurt? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM?

ROTFLMFAO!

Thesis: Official 9/11 story is an unproven conspiracy theory. http://911truth.org http://Justicefor911.org http://summeroftruth.org Probable-cause standards have been met for an unlimited investigation of unsolved crimes relating to the events of Sept. 11, including allegations of criminal negligence, cover-up, complicity or commission of the attacks by US officials and assets of intel services.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2007-05-16   17:21:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#89. To: BeAChooser (#87)

"You don't know that. There is plenty of circumstantial evidence now to suggest Saddam's regime was not only aware that 9/11 was coming ... and the form it was going to take ... but actively aided al-Qaeda in that effort through funding, if nothing else. And you still haven't explained the atta/al-Ani meeting away. You still haven't explained documents that show Saddam's regime was helping train al-Qaeda and that they warned al-Qaeda and afghanistan that they would be attacked after 9/11."

From post #277 in this thread: http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi? ArtNum=146686&Disp=277&Trace=on#C277

So BAC, why is it nobody but you and the Neocon garbage in the Bush Administration repeats such tired, debunked crap?

You claim you only post facts and the truth, but here we have two instances of lies of convenience by you.

Care to explain yourself?

Hmmmmmmmmmmm?

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!

Thesis: Official 9/11 story is an unproven conspiracy theory. http://911truth.org http://Justicefor911.org http://summeroftruth.org Probable-cause standards have been met for an unlimited investigation of unsolved crimes relating to the events of Sept. 11, including allegations of criminal negligence, cover-up, complicity or commission of the attacks by US officials and assets of intel services.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2007-05-16   17:42:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#90. To: BeAChooser (#87)

"President George W. Bush, with friend and ally Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, seem ripe to receive the rewards of perseverance and faith. They've stood together against relentless attacks of opposition partisans and pundits, and sad abandonment by wobbly members of their own parties. Through single-minded tenacity, Bush and Blair are making history in forming the bonds of a three-strand cord, true ''free world'' leaders entwined with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. That cord, reinforcing the future of human liberty — should they persevere — will not easily be broken. I'm betting these three faces do finally get carved into some 21st century version of Mount Rushmore."

From post #5 in this thread: http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi? ArtNum=146335&Disp=5#C5

So Miss Clara, do you still laud the war, feel history will show Bush, al- Maliki and Blair to be due rewards for 'perseverance and faith' and will rate a Mt. Rushmore scale carving somewhere?

What drugs were you no when you wrote that? Whatever they were, I sure hope you had a prescription for them. ;-)

Thesis: Official 9/11 story is an unproven conspiracy theory. http://911truth.org http://Justicefor911.org http://summeroftruth.org Probable-cause standards have been met for an unlimited investigation of unsolved crimes relating to the events of Sept. 11, including allegations of criminal negligence, cover-up, complicity or commission of the attacks by US officials and assets of intel services.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2007-05-16   17:55:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#91. To: Ferret Mike, ALL (#89)

"You don't know that. There is plenty of circumstantial evidence now to suggest Saddam's regime was not only aware that 9/11 was coming ... and the form it was going to take ... but actively aided al-Qaeda in that effort through funding, if nothing else. And you still haven't explained the atta/al-Ani meeting away. You still haven't explained documents that show Saddam's regime was helping train al-Qaeda and that they warned al-Qaeda and afghanistan that they would be attacked after 9/11."

From post #277 in this thread: http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=146686&Disp=277&Trace=on#C277

So BAC, why is it nobody but you and the Neocon garbage in the Bush Administration repeats such tired, debunked crap?

You claim you only post facts and the truth, but here we have two instances of lies of convenience by you.

Care to explain yourself?

Well, since you no longer want to talk about WTC7, the collapse of the towers or the damage at the Pentagon (and no wonder ... ROTFLOL!), let's examine your claim that above statements by me are instances of me lying.

Well I'm sorry ferret, but I have no record of you or anyone else EVER providing sources or sound logic to shows any of those assertions are lies. Whereas I have and can provide both sources and logic to support each one.

Tell you what. Let's consider my first statement:

"There is plenty of circumstantial evidence now to suggest Saddam's regime was not only aware that 9/11 was coming ... and the form it was going to take ... but actively aided al-Qaeda in that effort through funding, if nothing else."

You say that's a lie.

Well to begin with, two 9/11 families were awarded over $100 million by U.S. District Court Judge Harold Baer based on evidence that Iraq was involved in 9/11 (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/05/september11/main520874.shtml) in part, because of an editorial that was published July 21, 2001 in the Iraqi newspaper Al-Nasiriya which was owned by Saddam's son, Qusay. The columnist was Naeem Abd Muhalhal, who evidence at the trial indicated had a long term connection with Iraqi Intelligence.

On September 12, 2002, Senator Fritz Hollings entered the editorial into the Congressional record (http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/005332.php ). Here are a few quotes from it:

"Meanwhile America has started to pressure the Taliban movement so that it would hand them Bin Ladin, while he continues to smile and still thinks seriously, with the seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert about the way he will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White House ....."

"It seems that they will be going away because the revolutionary Bin Ladin is insisting very convincingly that he will strike America on the arm that is already hurting. That the man will not be swayed by the plant leaves of Whitman nor by the ``Adventures of Indiana Jones'' and will curse the memory of Frank Sinatra every time he hears his songs."

So just two months before 9/11 we have reference to upcoming attacks on the Pentagon, the White House and, if we are going to curse the memory of Frank Sinatra, New York (since New York, New York was Sinatra's most famous song).

The statement that bin Laden "will strike America on the arm that is already hurting" would seem, in hindsight, to narrow down the New York target to the World Trade Center, since that was already attacked (and hurt) in the 1993 bombing.

Mulhalhal's editorial also contained the following: “The wings of a dove and the bullet are all but one and the same in the heart of a believer." That might be a reference to using airplanes as bullets in the attack.

Circumstantial, yes. But what a curious and unlikely coincidence. Especially when Saddam personally praised Muhalhal in the September 1, 2001 issue of that paper for his "documentation of important events and heroic deeds that proud Iraqis have accomplished."

Now consider the above in light of the following:

http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1999/03/990304_in.htm "During the Gulf war, Iraq's media and officials threatened revenge in the form of assassinations and bombings. On Jan 30, 1991, INA warned, 'The American arena will not be excluded from the operations and explosions of the Arab and Muslim mujhadin and all the honest strugglers in the world.' On Feb 9, Baghdad Radio read a cable from the chief of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam, 'We will chase them to every corner at all times. No high tower or house of steel will protect them against the fire of truth.'" A curious way of phrasing things...

Audio tapes captured in Baghdad after the 2003 invasion, that were recorded in the mid to late 90's, clearly suggest that Saddam and his closest advisors still considered themselves at war with the US despite the cease fire agreement stopping the fighting in the 1991 war. The 1993 bombing was perhaps the first act in continuation of that war.

Among the 1993 WTC bomb plotters, the leader was a man with an Iraqi passport named Ramzi Yousef. Ramzi was known to his associates as "Rashid the Iraqi". Now get this ... Yousef was one of the original planners of Operation Bojinka in 1994. That was a plot to attack buildings with airplanes.

Another leader in the WTC bomb plot, Abdul Rahman Yasin, fled to Baghdad after the bombing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_Yasin ). Documents found in Iraq after the invasion show he was put on government payroll and given a home. In addition, "an ABC news stringer saw him there in 1994, outside his father's house, and learned from neighbors that he worked for the Iraqi government." Iraq was clearly involved in the first attempt to bring down the World Trade Center towers.

So why not the second?

The WTC bomb plot can be viewed another way, as well. Although Iraqis were involved, all ten of those convicted in the plot are identified as islamic fundamentalists. Since the anti-war naysayers are always pointing to Saddam's secularism as proof that he would have nothing to do with islamic fundamentalists (like al-Zarqawi), the plot was set up provides a certain deniability on Iraq's part. Perhaps from the very beginning, authorities were meant to suspect islamic terrorists, rather than Iraq. It just didn't go as planned because the FBI had an informant in their midst. This may demonstrate that Saddam was not above instigating a plot where someone else gets blamed. A false flag operation.

Throughout the 90's Iraq cultivated a relationship with al-Qaeda and other terrorists. Here's a good summary based on a variety of sources:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/cases/78/Wtccomp.htm

If even a fraction of those assertions are true (and many of them are corroborated by more than one source), then the case for a Saddam / al-Qaeda connection is strong, making pre-awareness of the 9/11 attack and even some Iraqi participation in the 9/11 plot more likely than the anti-war community and the mainstream press wants to admit.

For example, Farouk Hijazi, an Iraqi intelligence officer, reportedly met with Bin Laden in Kandahar in December 1998. Mr. Hijazi is "thought to have offered bin Laden asylum in Iraq," according to a 1999 report in the Guardian. Also in 1998, two of bin Laden’s senior military commanders, Muhammad Abu-Islam and Abdullah Qassim, visited Baghdad for discussions with Qusay Hussein ... the son who owned the paper in which Mulhalhal published his prescient article.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/804yqqnr.asp?pg=2 "On December 28 Milan's Corriere della Sera reported "Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden have sealed a pact." In its issue dated January 11, 1999, Newsweek quoted an anonymous "Arab intelligence officer who knows Saddam personally" as warning that "very soon you will be witnessing large-scale terrorist activity run by the Iraqis" against Western targets. The Iraqi plan would be run under one of three "false flags": Palestinian, Iranian, and the "al Qaeda apparatus." All of these groups, Newsweek reported, had representatives in Baghdad."

The above source lists a large number of other connections between al-Qaeda and Iraq and reasons to suspect Iraq knew and was involved in more than the anti-war community and liberal media will admit.

In any case, let's move on and take the second of the claims you say I'm lying about. Since I obviously was not lying about the first. I had good reasons for claiming what I did.

And you still haven't explained the atta/al-Ani meeting away.

The Czech government to this day maintains they are 70% certain that Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent, Al-Ani, in Europe five months before 9/11 in April, 2001. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030729-093909-9839r.htm and http://edjayepstein.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_edjayepstein_archive.html

The intelligence agent's day planner (seized after the war in what had been the Iraq regime's Czech embassy) indicates a meeting on that day with a "Hamburg Student", which coincidentally is the occupation Atta listed on his passport.

Atta's whereabouts during the time in question are not known. He disappeared off the FBI's radar in the US for a week around the date of the alleged meeting, immediately after withdrawing $8000 out of a bank account. The ONLY thing suggesting he was still in the US was the use of his cell phone. But the hijackers shared cars, apartments, bank accounts ... why not a cell phone that wouldn't have been usable in Europe anyway?

A secret CIA memo, released by the Senate Intelligence Committee, cited evidence that Iraqi intelligence bankrolled Mohamed Atta in the months leading up to 9/11. That memo said Atta met as many as four times in Prague with al Ani prior to the 9/11 attacks. The Czech government stated their certainty that Atta did meet al-Ani on a previous occasion. The 911 Commission said Atta "is known to have been in Prague on two occasions" — once for a single night in December 1994, and once for a single night in June 2000. Curiously enough, 3 days after the 2000 meeting, a large amount of money showed up in Atta's bank account. Three days after the alleged April 2001 meeting, a large amount of money was again deposited to Atta's bank account (and http://respekt.inway.cz/english/clanek_detail.php?f_id=62 ).

And this certainly looks like a picture of Atta and Al-Ani together:

And note ... Colonel al-Ani headed Iraq's department for "special operations". He's exactly the person Iraq might have picked to handle such an important case. Plus, senior US intelligence sources said the CIA had 'credible information' that at least two other members of the hijacking team also met known Iraqi intelligence agents outside the United States.

And then we have Atta asking about crop dusters at a time when the decision had already been made to crash commercial jets into the buildings. And the coincidence of Atta and the hijackers residing in Florida within a few miles of where the very first case of anthrax showed up. And the coincidence of Atta and another hijacker visiting a doctor and a pharmacist to get treatment for skin conditions that in hindsight those two medical professionals as well as doctors from John Hopkin's say were likely anthrax. Now surely you aren't so uninformed that I have to repeat the links to prove the above. Well perhaps you didn't hear about the last one. Here: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/anthraxhijackerslink.html

And if the hijackers had something to do with the anthrax attack, where did they get the anthrax?

Iraq?

So again, you see I'm not lying. I've plenty of basis for claiming what I did.

Which brings us to the last claim that you say I'm lying about.

You still haven't explained documents that show Saddam's regime was helping train al-Qaeda and that they warned al-Qaeda and afghanistan that they would be attacked after 9/11.

Well, here are SOME of the sources I've cited in the past:

Stephen Hayes reported that documents reveal that "in 1998, Iraq began training 2,000 Arab Islamic terrorists a year and that this training continued through 2002. ... snip ... As a U.S. intelligence official explained to this author, the United States has interrogated the Iraqis who trained the foreign terrorists and has their accounts of that training, along with material like group pictures of the graduating classes. ... snip ... What is the relationship between the expertise that the IIS developed in IEDs, their training of terrorists, and the present Iraqi insurgency? Document (CMPC-2003-005745) details plans for improving IEDs in 2003 and includes such points as triggering bombs at a distance and by light, as well as "studying the improvement of the explosive power of RDX." We can reasonably infer that such plans existed for 2001 and 2002 as well."

Centcom spokesman General Vincent Brooks stated on April 6, 2003: "There was a raid last night by the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. What they raided was a training camp near Salman Pak....This raid occurred in response to information that had been gained by coalition forces from some foreign fighters we encountered from other countries, not Iraq. And we believe that this camp had been used to train these foreign fighters in terror tactics.... [T]hat's just one of a number of examples we've found where there is training activity happening inside of Iraq. It reinforces the likelihood of links between his regime and external terrorist organizations, clear links with common interests. Some of these fighters came from Sudan, some from Egypt, and some from other places, and we've killed a number of them and we've captured a number of them."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618519/posts "2003 Document: Saddam Ordered To Treat The Arab Feedayeen Terrorists The Same As Iraqi Soldiers, Posted on 04/20/2006 2:00:22 PM PDT by jveritas Document ISGQ-2004-00060580 is a memo that contains a direct order form Saddam Hussein in the middle of the war asking to treat the Arab Feedayeen i.e. the non Iraqi Foreign Arab Terrorists as equal as the Iraqi soldier in salary and benefits and not just any soldier but like those in the Special Forces. These are the same Arab terrorists who stayed in Iraq after the removal of the regime and caused those horrible attacks mostly on innocent civilians. This document is a follow on another document where the Iraqi were training Foreign Arab terrorist since the year 2000 (please see those two translations: Document: Iraqi Intelligence To Train Arab Feedayeen Terrorists In the Year 2000 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617431/posts Document: Saddam Regime Training and Using Foreign Arab Terrorists As Suicide Bombers. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1600367/posts ). The extremely strong connection between Saddam and Terrorism is something that we need to tell the whole world about it, because for this reason alone we would have all the right to remove this Terrorist Regime after the 9/11, we just cannot afford to live with it."

http://iraqdocs.blogspot.com/ "Independent Verification Of jveritas Translation accuracy ... snip ... You will note that all three translations of this document -- performed by three different people working independently of each other -- all translate this section almost identically. All three explicitly show that the Iraqi military had ordered a call for volunteers to carry out suicide attacks on American interests, six months before 9/11 and two years almost to the day prior to our invasion."

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http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/006539.php

March 16, 2006

Unlocking History At Leavenworth

The documents released by John Negroponte and hosted on a military website at Leavenworth promise to rewrite the long history of Iraq and its place in the war on terror. Just the first few documents have shown links between Saddam's regime and terrorism, including a strong reference to the 9/11 attack by Saddam's own intelligence service. ABC News has begun their own translation of the key documents, as have others in the blogosphere.

Let's start with the document that mentions 9/11, a report from the IIS regarding a conversation with a Taliban official:

Our source in Afghanistan No 11002 (for information about him see attachment 1) provided us with information that that Afghani Consul Ahmad Dahestani (for information about him see attachment 2) told him the following:

1. That Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban in Afghanistan are in contact with Iraq and it that previously a group from Taliban and Osama Bin Laden group visited Iraq.

2. That America has proof that the government of Iraq and Osama Bin Laden group have shown cooperation to hit target within America.

3. That in case it is proven the involvement of Osama Bin Laden group and the Taliban in these destructive operations it is possible that American will conduct strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

4. That the Afghani Consul heard about the subject of Iraq relation with Osama Bin Laden group during his stay in Iran.

5. In light of this we suggest to write to the Commission of the above information.

Please view… Yours… With regards

Signature:……, Initials : A.M.M, 15/9/2001

Foot note: Immediately send to the Chairman of Commission

Immediately after 9/11, the US suspected that al-Qaeda had masterminded the attacks, confirming it within days. Until the 20th, when Bush made his speech, the government had not clearly and publicly stated its position to the Taliban. However, the IIS reported four days after the fact that the Taliban believed the US had proof of cooperation between Iraq and Osama bin Laden to attack American targets. The Taliban went out of its way to warn Saddam that the US would retaliate against Iraq when we got the proof together. That explicitly shows cooperation between the two governments. Moreover, the same people who sheltered and sponsored Osama bin Laden turned immediately to Saddam after the attacks for coordination on their response. They would have had no reason to do so -- except knowing that Osama and Saddam had a working relationship in fostering terrorist attacks against America.

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So you see, ferret, you were wrong about those being examples of me lying.

Just as you are wrong about Saddam having no connection to al-Qaeda or 9/11.

Just as you are wrong about bombs in the WTC and what damaged the Pentagon.

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Aren't you lucky. You get to receive one of the 15 posts I'm allowed each day.

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-05-17   0:41:19 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#92. To: BeAChooser (#91) (Edited)

I want none of your baitful, egotistical posts that are just spam vehicles. We are done talking 9-11, and I have no interest in your strange delusions that have been thoroughly debunked that Saddam and al Qaeda are linked.

You lie, refuse to answer what you don't want to answer, answer with leveraged responses, and post tons of spam that make it impossible to decypher what you are getting at.

Your games are tiresome, and you have a new nick, 'pinfish' to play with in LP. Go toy with that. I would love to chat with a person of opposing viewpoint operating in good faith. You do not such a person.

I have examined in depth your tactics and modus operandi, you are a sleazy operator, a liar, and a fuckwit. You have no intention of conducting dialog in good faith or with reciprocity of respect or with a desire to achieve effective communication with whom you post with.

Thesis: Official 9/11 story is an unproven conspiracy theory. http://911truth.org http://Justicefor911.org http://summeroftruth.org Probable-cause standards have been met for an unlimited investigation of unsolved crimes relating to the events of Sept. 11, including allegations of criminal negligence, cover-up, complicity or commission of the attacks by US officials and assets of intel services.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2007-05-17   0:51:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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