The WTC & 9/11: Part Four

Steven E. Jones, a physicist at Brigham Young University, hypothesized that prepositioned thermite charges, used with barium nitrate, brought the buildings down. A thermite explosion generates temperatures around 2500 degrees and molten metal. It gives off white smoke with little odor. However, it burns slowly and does not go off in dramatic explosions. For that reason, those who think that some other explosive might have a point. There was visual evidence of molten iron falling from the eastern edge of the South Tower just before it went down. Three FEMA scientists, Jonathan Barnett, Ronald R. Biederman, and R. D. Sisson, Jr. , theorized that thermite, with sulfur and an eutectic alloy, would account for the ability to cut through steel so quickly. They were not encouraged to test their theory.

In April 2009, Scholars for Truth and Justice announced that studies had been made of fragments from the 9/11 debris that revealed that traces of thermite were present. The chief investigator was a Danish physicist. Red/gray bilayered chips were analyzed with x-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS) and scanning electron microscope (SEM ). The report stated, that the red “ portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic." The material was weapons grade, and it did not contain the required markers that would make it possible to trace it to its place of origin. The tested material came from four separate and unrelated samples taken after the explosions. All samples had thermite. The problem will be that these were not “official samples,” so questions can be raised about thains of custody, and there can be no perfect answers to these objections. A great deal of time will be spent picking away the four sources, but little or no time will be invested into examining who could have planted thermite in these buildings.

In 1999 and 2000, there were construction upgrades to the towers. In WT 1, 18 floors were upgraded and fireproofed, and in WT 2, 13 were upgraded. The width of these floors came out twice what was specified in the blueprints. Oddly, these were the first floors to collapse in both buildings, and this has led some to believe that explosives were inbedded in them.

Sherman Skolnick believed that a somewhat different explosive was used, but the new thermite finding may to eliminate his theory. He knew that the government has a new sub atomic explosive called “ blue lightening, ” but we do not know if it included thermite. Skolnick reported that it was used on retreating Iraqis in 1991, and he suspected it was used in the Oklahoma City bombing. He learned of this from Michael Riconosciuto, a known weapons expert and inventor. Riconosciuto helped develop it for Wackenhut Corporation. It is a electro-hydrodynamic gaseous fuel bomb that has an enormous blast. He claimed it was used to incinerate and blast away thousands of Iraqi troops in 1991. When it is used there is a residue of tritium. ( I know some are critical of Riconosciuto, but I’ve researched everything he man ever said, and found only a few comments on other things that could not be supported. He was a very, very odd genius.) But even without Riconoscuito, there was some evidence of this sub nuclear explosive.

Gasoline fires yield black smoke. On September 27, New York fire officials ordered 2000 gallons of Pyrocool FEF, a chemical that has two agents to fight ultraviolet radiation. Thermite gives off ultraviolet radiation. Some of the core columns showed sharp cuts, suggesting a thermite blast. Some other high energy explosive could have been used. Globules containing iron, aluminum, and sulfur were found. The iron and aluminum were to be expected, but the sulfur points to termite.

Albert Turri, Deputy Fire Chief for Public Safety told NBC on 9/11 that he believed that one of the towers war brought down by explosives. The Fire Department interviewed many of the firefighters who worked that tragic day and the interviews were released in 2005. There were many references to controlled demolition. In 2003, a fireman said he was present when FBI men found three of the four black boxes from the two planes, and another emergency worker confirmed this report. The official story is that all four transponders were never found.

Some believe that the three buildings came down as a result of controlled nuclear blasts. They make this suggestion because there has been a high incident of non-Hodgkin lymphoma among residents of the area around the site. This kind of cancer occurs around leaking nuclear reactors and where high energy releases have occurred. Some think it is a form of tritium or “Blue Lightning,” which was allegedly used on fleeing Iraqi troops in the First and Second Gulf War. It has a shorter half-life than plutonium.
Three blocks away, the Woolworth building developed a roof fire that day.

For some reason, FEMA forbade private photographers from taking pictures in southern Manhattan for several weeks after the blasts.

The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory is located is located 25 miles north of the towers. They registered a slight seismic activity when the planes hit the buildings. When the South Tower collapsed in registered 2.1 seismic activity and 2.3 when the North Tower came down. Cell phones in the vicinity went dead briefly. These are characteristics of micronukes, which were about the size of coffee cans back in the 1960s. The South Tower went down first, and oddly there were some indications that the fires were beginning to go out on its upper floors.

One of the odd things about the WTC attacks was that the planes flew into computer rooms. We’re talking about rooms with large computers and things that looked like large batteries. . The plane that hit the North Tower honed in on the 95th and 96th floors. The 81st floor of the South Tower was hit. That was one of three floors leased by Fuji Bank. It was full of battery-like devices, same as the 95th floor of the other building. No one says the large battery -like things on the 81st floor were ever turned on. No one ever worked there. Some think they contained thermite, but there is no proof other than the color of smoke when the area exploded. It is believed that Blue Lightening used in the First gulf War on the Baghdad airport and on fleeing Iraqi troops.

The WTC& 9/11: Part Two

100 New York firemen have said that they heard explosions and saw flashes. A court ordered 10,000 pages of oral history released in 2005. Adjunct Fire Lieutenant Paul Isaac said: "There were definitely bombs in those buildings..." Isaac added: "...many other firemen know there were bombs in the buildings, but they're afraid for their jobs to admit it because the 'higher-ups' forbid discussion of this fact” He continued, "It's amazing how many people are afraid to talk for fear of retaliation or losing their jobs," regarding the FBI gag order placed on law enforcement and fire department officials, preventing them from openly talking about any inside knowledge of 9-11.Battalion Chief Brian Dixon recalled, “the lowest floor of fire in the south tower actually looked like someone had planted explosives around it because . . . everything blew out on the one floor"

Here are the words of Lou Cacchioli , another fireman
...there were bombs...elevator doors completely blown out... we heard this huge explosion that sounded like a bomb... another huge explosion like the first one hits.... Oh. My God, these bastards put bombs in here like they did in 1993! Then as soon as we get in the stairwell, I hear another huge explosion like the other two. Then I heard bang, bang, bang - huge bangs... .

William "Willy" Rodriguez, a janitor in the WTC1, said he escaped from the basement after hearing a huge explosion go off several subbasements below him. He said he heard the explosion just before the plane hit.

In one short period everything we knew about steel and concrete was demolished, perhaps because the terrorists were such marvelous scientists. Expert after expert expressed their astonishment and then quickly agreed with the official theory—which were brand new. It was that the fires made pancake-line inevitable. There could have been as much as 24,000 gallons of jet fuel burning in each building. The basic claim of the official theory is that nothing could withstand being melted by such intense heat. The problem is that the maximum temperature the fire could have been at was about 1100 degrees below the level at which steel begins to melt. Another problem with the conventional view is that the fireballs were gone after about ten minutes. How long did maximum temperatures prevail?

Steel-framed buildings had never come down like this before. To wonder if there were other explanations rendered one an outrageous conspiracy theorist. The problem was, however, that the towers were designed to withstand the kind of impact that 767s would bring. A WTC design engineer, Hyman Brown, said: “They were over-designed to withstand almost anything, including hurricanes, . . . bombings and an airplane hitting [them]” Maybe the designers miscalculated stress equations. Even so, would the buildings have come down so neatly? Even the studies that support the official theory do not claim that the core columns were subjected to intense heat. In each core, there were 47 massive steel columns. Maybe some of the peripheral columns were subjected to such heat that they began to buckle. This is a theory—certainly not a scientific fact. There is some evidence that some of the core columns may have buckled. That could not have happened unless they were somehow taken out from below.

In addition, each floor in these 110 floor buildings were supported by a total of 287 columns. Each was supposed to be crushed instantly as the buildings went down in symmetrical fashion. Each building had a steel support network of 100,000 tons or more. They collapsed as though the steel were not there.

The pancake theory does not account for the fact that existing steel beams and other structures on the floors below the collapsing floors should have slowed up or impeded the serial collapsing of the floors. The resistance should have been greater because there were these support structures in place. After the first floors collapsed there should have been a loss of momentum and energy. That is to say there should have been a decrease in gravitational acceleration, but there was not. To collapse at free fall speed, the floors below the falling ones had to be removed, as well as their supporting structures. It is an application of the theory of the Conservation of Momentum. “Free fall” means falling through thin air.

Three large buildings in the World Trade Center collapsed, two in a matter of ten to fifteen seconds. Before this, modern building built around steel beams had ever collapsed completely .To fall at that rate, it would have been necessary to remove the floors as objects of resistance. If each floor offered just a second of resistance, the time would have been 37.5 + 10

There were two major explanations for why the steel skeleton of the buildings collapsed. (1) They were secured by single bolt connections that popped, and (2) the intense fire caused by burning fuel caused them to melt. An MIT team said that the single bolt connections did not secure the floor trusses. Assuming all the bolts could be melted, they would have to be melted at exactly the same time for the buildings to come down like decks of cards, as they did.
In the middle of each tower, were many steel beams clustered together around many elevator shafts. The Kean Commission Report inadvertently said the core simply was hollow except for elevators and stairwells. This gave the wrong impression, as there were many steel pillars in the middle, comprising 47 huge pillars. These inner cores were rectangular. This is what has been called the “tube within a tube” design. Even in high winds, the top sways less than three feet. When the buildings went up in the seventies, the rule was that a structure should handle three times the maximum load that could be placed upon it.

The buildings were surrounded by 240 interlinked “box” or outer columns. The official theory is that they could not have impeded the collapse the least little bit. Therer was no forensic testing and the metal was swiftly hauled away.

Pictures of the South Tower show that the upper floors broke off as a unit and somehow slid right down where the rest of the rectangular core should have been, unless it had all melted at once. Two people who were in the area of the South Tower were 78th –80th floor area the plane hit did not see a roaring inferno. They saw flames licking up but not fireballs.