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CREDIBLE EVIDENCE, EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY CONVINCING
NO EXPLOSIVES HIDDEN IN WTC
FTW, Sept 13, 2001, 1500 PDT - Based upon a detailed review of an interview with a NY
architect who is expert on high rise construction and upon today's BBC story which I
have linked at the bottom of this page, I am now virtually certain that there were no
explosives placed within the WTC buildings. The motive for such a move would have been
unclear in light of the drama and the security risks for "pre-event" compromise posed
by dual efforts that would have ultimately accomplished the same ends.
The New York architect, John Young, in a detailed interview located at
http://cryptome.org/wtc-collapse.htm, based upon prior examinations of high rise fires
and the 1946 crash of a B-25 into the side of the Empire State Building made critical
and compelling observations. These included:
"Yes, if the fires were suppressed it likely the structure could have survived the
impact except for localized damage. However, conventional architectural
fire-suppression systems are not designed to suppress the types of fires caused by
plane crashes and cascading fuel.
"The WTC towers withstood the initial impacts amazingly well. The exterior walls were
damaged but because there were no interior columns they were not knocked out by the
plane. However, the steel framework around interior core of the building -- composed
of elevators, stairs and building systems -- and which supported the floor structure
along with the exterior wall structure, was surely damaged to some extent. Still both
buildings stood, not even other parts of the walls falling, until raging fires
undermined the load-bearing capacity of the interior structure."
Later, Young offered an opinion that matched perfectly with British experts quoted in
today's BBC story:
"... above the crash fell. Then the smoke cleared momentarily to show the totality.
Then the second tower, collapsing in a near-perfect copy of the first. The sudden
dropping of the floors above the crash, that impacting load overpowering the remaining
system, and the straight drop collapse, neither tower falling much to the side,
indicated what had happened."
In it's posting of a detailed graphic showing central elevator and ventilating shafts
running down the center of the building the BBC made the point clear. These shafts
would have served as funnels for unburned aviation fuel. The BBC describes what
happened next:
"The design of the World Trade Center saved thousands of lives by standing for well
over an hour after the planes crashed into its twin towers, say structural engineers.
"It was the fire that killed the buildings - nothing on Earth could survive those
temperatures with that amount of fuel burning�
"But the towers' ultimate collapse was inevitable, as the steel cores inside them
reached temperatures of 800C - raising questions as to why hundreds of rescue workers
were sent into the doomed buildings to their deaths.
"The steel and concrete structure performed amazingly well, said John Knapton,
professor in structural engineering at Newcastle University, UK.
"I believe tens of thousands of lives have been saved by the structural integrity of
the buildings," he told BBC News Online.
"They had a lot of their structure taken out, yet they remained intact for more than
an hour, allowing thousands to escape."
Temperatures at 800C
"But as fires raged in the towers, driven by aviation fuel, the steel core in each
building would have eventually reached 800C - hot enough to start buckling and
collapsing.
"The protective concrete cladding on the cores would have been no permanent defence in
these extraordinary circumstances - keeping the intense heat at bay for only a limited
time span.
"Nothing is designed or will be designed to withstand that fire."
As the interior core supports melted the building floors would literally have
collapsed inward toward the center as a result of the melting steel. That would
explain why the building did not collapse outward and why much of the steel exterior
fa�ade held up so well.
Additional Reasons Why Explosives Unlikely
Discovery of the explosives before the hijacking would have emptied the buildings and
placed the nation on alert before the hijackings could have been carried out. The WTC
towers would have been evacuated and that would have reduced the impact of the crashes
if the hijackings had been successful.
Gravity would have taken all of the unburned fuel down central shafts of the building
and the physics in this story are consistent with both witness statements and other
expert interviews I have read.
In addition, my ex-wife Mary lives a block away and witnessed both the second crash
and the collapse of both towers from a close distance. Neither she, nor any other
person she knows, heard any explosions or believe that secondary charges were a factor
in of the collapses.
One of the most common mistakes made is that analysts are always prepared to evaluate
a current crisis through the lens of the last crisis. We should not let unresolved
issues over the Oklahoma City bombing prejudice our evaluation of this one.
Mike Ruppert
www.copvcia.com
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1540000/1540044.stm
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