--- Begin Message ---
-Caveat Lector-
(Includes interesting quotes re explosions in buildings prior to and during
collapse, some of which are new -- to me. I cannot vouch for the general
veracity of the source: http://americanfreepress.net/ however I can
independently confirm one the quotes, which IMO, adds credibility to the
others. -- Laura )
found at: http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=20611
CENSORED: 9-11 Video Evidence
Posted By: ChristopherBollyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, 28 June 2002, 2:22 p.m.
9-11 VIDEO EVIDENCE CENSORED IN U.S.
By Christopher Bollyn
American Free Press
http://americanfreepress.net/
Video footage and photographs from September 11 have been suppressed to
prevent Americans from seeing and hearing evidence of unexplained explosions
at the World Trade Center.
Although the terror attacks in New York and Washington on September 11
occurred in broad daylight and were seen by millions around the world via
television, heavy-handed media censorship has suppressed video footage that
challenges the official version of events.
European news networks have abundant video footage and photos that indicate
explosions occurred within the twin towers of the World Trade Center before
and during the collapses. This evidence, however, is being suppressed and
ignored by the U.S. media and government agencies supposedly investigating
the causation of the towers’ structural failures.
Relatives and fire engineering experts recently acknowledged the censorship
and called on the government to allow the investigators to “review” the
“essential” video and photographic evidence during a public meeting. The
meeting held in New York City on June 24, was to “gather comments and
suggestions” as a preliminary step for the “fact-finding” investigation
planned by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
President George W. Bush asked NIST to conduct a fact-finding investigation
into the WTC buildings and why they collapsed. Dr. Arden Bement, Jr.,
appointed by the president in August 2001, directs NIST, a bureau of the
Dept. of Commerce.
Bement was previously head of Purdue University’s School of Nuclear
Engineering. Prior to joining Purdue in 1993, he was vice-president of
science and technology for TRW, Inc. and served as the deputy under secretary
of defense for Research and Engineering and within the Department of
Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
NIST, being a bureau of the Dept. of Commerce, will report its findings to
Secretary of Commerce Donald L. Evans through his deputy, Phillip Bond.
Evans, who is “almost like a brother” to Bush, according to Karen Hughes,
Bush's White House counselor, raised some $100 million for Bush’s
presidential campaign as his national finance chairman.
Although NIST was chosen by Bush to investigate the collapses, the agency
reportedly launched its 2-year study “partly in response to the complaints of
victims' groups.” Victims' families and fire engineers have been especially
critical of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) report released
April 30. The FEMA report was faulted for failing to include input from
survivors of the attacks on the towers. NIST officials say they plan to
interview survivors about the final moments before the towers' collapse.
The 10-month delay in starting a forensic investigation was criticized by
Glen Corbett, a professor in the fire-engineering department of New York’s
John Jay College. Corbett said that the proposed investigation “is the type
of large-scale forensic inquiry that the federal government should have
launched back in September.”
During the public meeting, experts addressed inadequate fireproofing and
other fire safety problems in high-rise buildings. "The fire service has seen
a consistent weakening in fire safety," said Vincent Dunn, a retired New York
City fire chief and fire safety consultant. He described climbing through
buildings after fires and finding “nothing left up there but bent, warped,
twisted steel. There's no spray-on [fireproofing] left.”
"After nine months, after knocking on the doors of elected officials . . . we
are finally here today," Sally Regenhard, founder of the Skyscraper Safety
Campaign and mother of Christian Regenhard, one of the many firefighters who
perished on 9-11 said. "Apparently the problem of inadequacy in fireproofing
is not something new."
Victims' families said they hope to prevent other families from suffering the
same grief. "I can't tell you what it's like for a mother to see that
building hit, knowing your child is in the building," Mary Fetchet, who lost
her 24-year-old son, Brad, in the World Trade Center, told The Washington
Post. "We're all at risk today . . .. I do not want 3,000 people to lose
their life and have it be in vain.”
“The data obtained from people, from videotape, and from phone calls is
critical to the investigation. Please don't let this crucial information slip
through our fingers,” Monica Gabrielle, one of the founders of the Skyscraper
Safety Campaign said, “We do not want a repeat of what happened to the WTC
evidence.”
More than 90 percent of the physical evidence from the WTC site has
reportedly been destroyed or recycled. A NIST spokesman, Mat Heyman, told AFP
that the agency has only 70 pieces of steel to work with. Heyman added that
the NIST investigation will be “based on the FEMA report.”
VIDEO EVIDENCE CENSORED
“Occupant accounts should be gathered on the fire and damage that was seen,”
James Quintiere, from the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at the
University of Maryland said, “that type of information is essential.”
“Videos and photographs need to be reviewed. This is a very intensive effort
that needs to be undertaken,” Quintiere said, adding that, “there is an
allusion to a New York Police helicopter that had videos, and I don't think
anyone in this investigative effort has been privy to those yet.”
EXPLOSIVE EVIDENCE IGNORED
Some of the essential video footage and photographs that have been kept from
the American public and investigators are those made by European sources,
which clearly point to explosions in the towers. Numerous survivors fleeing
from the burning towers have described massive explosions on camera. Such
first-hand reports are essential pieces of evidence that cannot be ignored.
American Free Press has footage from eyewitness interviews in which survivors
describe explosions inside the buildings. Heyman said there had been “no”
mention of any evidence of explosions during the meeting. When asked if NIST
would investigate the alleged explosions, Heyman said the bureau would look
at “anything that contributed to the collapse of the buildings.”
"On the eighth floor we were blown back by a huge explosion,” a black
American in a dust-covered business suit told Denmark’s DR-TV1 on Sept. 11.
Another survivor wearing a red shirt told Germany’s SAT 1, “There was a big
explosion creating a lot of panic, after that we calmed down, and got out of
the towers.”
In another SAT1 interview, a survivor named Tom Canaban tells the German
journalists, "There was a big explosion but I managed to get out of the
tower.” Within seconds two FBI agents stepped in front of the TV camera,
asked Canaban to stop the interview and escorted him away.
Several firefighters also reported explosions in the towers. One fireman on
camera said he witnessed a “heavy duty explosion” while another, veteran
firefighter Louie Cacchioli, 51, told People magazine: "I was taking
firefighters up in the elevator to the 24th floor to get in position to
evacuate workers. On the last trip up a bomb went off. We think there were
bombs set in the building."
Oddly enough, this writer was criticized in November by the Jewish pressure
group Anti Defamation League for an article, “Eyewitness Reports Persist of
Bombs At WTC Collapse” in which nothing was mentioned about Jews or Israel
other than that one of the WTC architects lives in Israel.
Careful analysis of the footage from the collapse of the first tower
indicates explosive blasts occurring 5-10 stories below the collapsing
section, as if timed detonations brought the tower down in a controlled
demolition. These horizontal blasts, like those seen at the base of the
towers, have not been explained.
An unexplained crater occurred in the center of 6 WTC, not 7 WTC as
previously reported. However, 7 WTC, which housed offices of the CIA,
collapsed mysteriously in the late afternoon of Sept. 11. Fire engineers are
baffled as to what caused steel beams in 7 WTC to vaporize and the 47-story
building to collapse.
An amateur video of the second plane hitting the south tower, shown on Danish
TV2’s “22 Fokus” on Sept. 19, shows a laser beam-like spot moving across the
west facade of the tower immediately before the plane crashes into it. The
spot, which some experts believe is evidence of a laser guidance system being
used, moves from left to right before the plane strikes the tower slightly
lower and to the right of the dot.
Finis
------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->
<FONT COLOR="#000099">Free $5 Love Reading
Risk Free!
</FONT><A HREF="http://us.click.yahoo.com/3PCXaC/PfREAA/Ey.GAA/xYTolB/TM";><B>Click
Here!</B></A>
---------------------------------------------------------------------~->
Please let us stay on topic and be civil.
To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs
-Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org
OM
Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
<A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A>
DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER
==========
CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic
screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are
sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis-
directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with
major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.
That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and
always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no
credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
========================================================================
Archives Available at:
http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html
<A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
<A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A>
========================================================================
To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Om
--- End Message ---
