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With regard to explosions, literally dozens of people---including journalists, police officers, WTC employees,emergency medical workers, and firefighters---reportedhearing explosions in the Twin Towers, with some of themexplicitly saying that the collapses appeared to beinstances of controlled demolition. 27 One fire captain said:"I hear an explosion and I look up. It is as if the buildingis being imploded, from the top floor down, one afteranother, boom, boom, boom." 28 One paramedic said: “[I]t was[like a] professional demolition where they set the chargeson certain floors and then you hear 'Pop, pop, pop, pop,pop.’” One firefighter said: “It seemed like on television[when] they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it wasgoing all the way around like a belt, all theseexplosions.” 29Steven Jones, a physicist who long taught at BrighamYoung University, has pointed out that to believe theofficial account is to believe that some very basic laws ofphysics were violated. 30Ground Zero: “It was dripping from the molten steel” (Jennifer Lin,“Recovery Worker Reflects on Months Spent at Ground Zero,” KnightRidder, May 29, 2002 [http://www.messengerinquirer.com/news/attacks/4522011.htm]).27 See my “Explosive Testimony: Revelations about the Twin Towers in the9/11 Oral Histories” in Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11. Seealso Graeme MacQueen, “118 Witnesses: The Firefighters’ Testimony toExplosions in the Twin Towers,” Journal of 9/11 Studies((http://www.journalof911studies.com), Vol. 2/August 2006: 49-123.28 Captain Dennis Tardio as quoted in Dennis Smith, Report from GroundZero: The Story of the Rescue Efforts at the World Trade Center (NewYork: Penguin, 2002), 18.29 9/11 Oral History of Daniel Rivera, 9, and 9/11 Oral History ofRichard Banaciski, 3-4.30 Steven E. Jones, “Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?” InDavid Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott, eds., 9/11 and American Empire:Intellectuals Speak Out (Northampton: Olive Branch, 2006), 33-62. Theonline version, to which Jones refers for photographs, is now in theJournal of 9/11 Studies, Vol. 3/September 2006.10
Given all the features that indicate controlleddemolition, it is not surprising that when a controlleddemolition expert in Holland was shown videos of thecollapse of WTC 7, 31 without being told what the buildingwas (he had previously thought that only the Twin Towers hadcollapsed on 9/11), he said: “They have simply blown awaycolumns. . . . A team of experts did this. . . . This iscontrolled demolition.” 32 It is also not surprising that twoemeritus professors of structural analysis and constructionat Zurich’s prestigious ETH Institute of Technology say thatWTC 7 was “with the highest probability brought down byexplosives.” 33All evidence suggesting controlled demolition isignored in The 9/11 Commission Report, which simply assumedthe truth of the official story. Indeed, after FEMA, thefirst agency given the task of explaining the collapse ofthe WTC, said that its best explanation for the collapse ofWTC 7 had “only a low probability of occurrence,” 34 the 9/11Commission avoided the problem by simply not finding room tomention this collapse in its 571-page report. 3531 For videos of all the WTC collapses, see “9/11/01 WTC Videos”(http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/videos/index.html) and “9/11Videos: The Controlled Collapse of WTC 7”(http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc7.html).32 This interview can be seen at “Demo Expert Confirms WTC-7 Was‘Controlled Demolition” (http://www.911blogger.com/node/2807).33 See Daniele Ganser, “Der erbitterte Streit um den 11. September,”Tages-Anzeiger, September 9, 2006(http://tagesanzeiger.ch/dyn/news/ausland/663864.html). The statementquoted in the text is from Jörg Schneider. Hugo Bachmann is quoted assaying: "In my opinion WTC 7 was with the utmost probability broughtdown by controlled demolition done by experts."34 See FEMA, World Trade Center Building Performance Study, Ch. 5, Sect.6.2, “Probable Collapse Sequence,” which I discussed in The New PearlHarbor, 22.35 This is only one of the most egregious of the 115 lies of omissionand distortion that I discuss in The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissionsand Distortions, which are summarized in “The 9/11 Commission Report: A571-Page Lie,” Global Outlook, April 2006: 100-106; originally posted at11
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