Evidence of Controlled Demolition
by: Geronimo Jones

This story has been read over 2.2 million times since being published, on April 23rd, 2004, letsroll911.org!


9-11: THE EXPLOSIVE TRUTH REVEALED

It was a picture perfect day in September. I was watering some plants on my terrace and enjoying the unseasonably warm weather when I heard the sound of a plane flying low. Within seconds I watched in horror as the unthinkable unfolded, right in my backyard!

The shock was overwhelming. My first thoughts was that it was a terrorist attack. This was confirmed by the news reports of Al Qaeda. But one thing the reporters left out was something I witnessed first hand. A very important omission at that!

Seconds before the South Tower crumbled to its doom, I heard/felt a series of explosions. Same with the North Tower. There was no denying it, I could FEEL the vibrations of them like a small earthquake. Yet when I turned on the news none of the other eyewitnesses commented on this.

Indeed, in the days that followed, like many Americans, I remained glued to the news networks to keep myself informed of any developments and confirm what I had witnessed. But despite the numerous eyewitness accounts, there was still no mention of the explosions.

I decided to examine the evidence for myself…

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THE OFFICIAL STORY

The above is an image of a towers cross-section provided by our good friends at BBC news. Here is the link if you wish to read the publicly accepted theory of what happened.

In a nutshell, this article claims that the collapse of the towers was direct result of the plane crashes, whose fires blazing hot from the jet fuel, created temperatures in excess of 800C and caused the steel supports to melt, leading to the towers collapse. Case closed. Although the news networks gobbled this story up instantly, I had my doubts ever since they failed to report the explosions. It was time to do some serious homework to figure out what actually happened…

My first question was

HOW TOUGH WERE THE TOWERS?

A lead engineer who worked on the WTC expressed shock that the towers collapsed from plane crashes. Lee Robertson, the tower's structural engineer, addressed the problem of terrorism in the plans for the building, claiming he “designed it for a (Boeing) 707 to hit it.”

Lets examine Mr. Robertsons handiwork a bit more and take a look at how these towers were made…

Those 4 cranes you see in the photo, are perched atop
the central support core of the tower. This core is built of sheer concrete reinforced by 44 beams of construction grade steel which were sealed in asbestos. As you can see, it takes up the majority of the towers footprint. Here is a more accurate sketch of the floorplan…

Compare it to the BBC version..

Funny how millions of people will see this drawing with 4 steel beams and think it is accurate! Moving on, check out the approach angles of the planes in relation
to the positioning of the cores...

Notice how the North Tower takes a direct hit, perpendicular to the core, while the South Tower takes more of an angular hit, almost parallel to the core structure. Now take this knowledge of the core positions and apply it to the following diagram…

As you can see, the fuel barely grazes the core of the South Tower, with most of it burning outside the building in a huge fireball, yet the South Tower is the first one to fall.

Why?

The official story claims it was because the tower was struck lower and had more weight on top of the area of the impact. In light of this theory, I still could not shake the memory of the explosions I heard and felt. Apparently I was not the only one…

EYEWITNESSES SPEAK OUT

USA
Today Interviews Final Survivor of WTC Disaster

" As he left the building, (Ronald
DiFrancesco) saw a fireball rolling toward him. He put his arms in
front of his face. He woke up three days later at St. Vincent's hospital.
His arms were burned. Some bones were broken. His lungs were singed.
But he was alive – the last person out of the south tower. "

The Account of Two Photographers of 911

Don Halasy: " As I turned to run, a wall of warm air came barrelling toward
me. I tried to outrace it, but it swept me up and literally blew me
into the wall of a building. By the time I regained my footing, a
hailstorm of debris was falling from the sky."

(Notice how the “hailstorm of debris” fell from the sky
moments AFTER Halasay was thrown to the ground. This is a crucial detail!)

David Handschuh: "
Instinctively I lifted the camera up, and something took over that
probably saved my life. And that was to run rather than take pictures.
I got down to the end of the block and turned the corner when a wave
– a hot, solid, black wave of heat threw me down the block.
It literally picked me up off my feet, and I wound up about a block
away. "

What each of these witnesses are describing is known as the “shockwave
effect”. When an explosion goes off, extremely high temperatures
are generated in a small amount of time and space. This abrupt shift
in temperature causes the air to push outwards with violent force, seeking
to stabilize itself. The result is a blast of hot air radiating in all
directions.

For more evidence of this effect, check out the following video footage
of a Czech helicopter crew who was filming the events of 911…



WMV
video of Helicopter Crew experiencing severe shockwave (180K)

If the collapse alone had caused this shockwave, there should have
been a delayed reaction, but you can clearly see the helicopter getting
thrown back by the blast of air just as the first bit of debris touches
the ground. This video evidence shows that an explosion occured moments
before the collapse.

If you are still skeptical, then lets have a look at some professional
reports. Civilians and journalists were not the only ones to report
explosions …

THE FIREMEN UNCENSORED

Firefighter
Transcript Made Public

Official: Battalion 3 to dispatch, we've just
had another explosion.

Official: Battalion 3 to dispatch, we've had additional explosion.

Dispatcher: Received battalion command. Additional explosion
.
[...]
Dispatcher: Battalion 5, be advised we're trying to contact Battalion
3 at this moment to report north tower just collapsed.

This transmission takes place a few moments before the North Tower
Collapses…

MP3
of Firefighter Transmission (344K)

"We have numerous people covered in dust
because of the secondary explosion..."

NBC Reporter Pat Dawson on the morning of 9-11:

...The Chief of Safety of the Fire Department
of New York told me that...er...he thinks that there were
actually devices that were planted in the building. One of
the secondary devices he thinks that took place after the initial
impact was, he thinks, may have been on the plane that crashed into
one of the towers. The second device, he thinks, he speculates, was
probably planted in the building...er... so that's what we have been
told by...erm...Albert Turi who is the Chief of Safety for the New
York City Fire Department, he told me that just moments ago.

You simply HAVE to check out the following video clip…

MPEG film of NY firemen discussing the explosions. (4.8MB)

Fireman1: Floor by floor it started popping out...
Fireman2: It was almost like they had detonators…
Fireman1: Yeah, detonators…
Fireman2: …planted to take down the building. boom-boom-boom-boom-boom….


Fireman1: All the way down. I was watching it and running..

The explosions these firemen describe can be seen in this photo by
Bill Biggert, a photographer who was killed by the dust cloud moments after taking this shot.

What you are seeing in this photo are large numbers of 12' sections
of perimeter columns flying out ahead of the dust cloud in what is very
clearly an explosive event. He got very close to the North Tower just
before it fell, and captured some amazing pictures of its collapse and
of the previous damage from the WTC-2 collapse. What is clear especially
in Biggert's picture is that the building is turning to dust as or even
before it falls.

Still not convinced? There is more…

THE SEISMOGRAPH

More explosive evidence comes from the seismographs at Columbia University's
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, 21 miles north
of the WTC. This facility recorded strange seismic activity on September
11 that has still not been explained.

The above image is a seismographical readout at the time of the attacks
and collapse of the WTC. You can clearly see on the top line the small
peaks of the planes impacts.

But here is where it gets interesting, check out those two really BIG
spikes on the 3rd and 4th lines. Those spikes represent the collapse
of the towers. Notice the shape of these spikes, the highest peak is
actually at the beginning. A strange anomaly when you consider the nature
of a collapse is more gradual than explosive, with the vibrations becoming
more and more intense as each floor collapses onto the next.

But this isnt the case in the seismograph.

The Palisades seismic data recorded a 2.1 magnitude earthquake during
the 10-second collapse of the South Tower at 9:59:04 and a 2.3 quake
during the 8-second collapse of the North Tower at 10:28:31.

While the aircraft crashes caused minimal earth shaking, significant
earthquakes with unusual spikes occurred at the beginning of each collapse.
Not only that, but these two unexplained spikes are more than twenty
times the amplitude of the other seismic waves associated with the collapses!

This seismic record shows that as the collapses began - a huge seismic
spike marked the moment the greatest energy went into the ground. The
strongest jolts were all registered at the beginning of the collapses,
well before the falling debris struck the earth.

THE EXPERTS SPEAK OUT

Asked about these spikes seismologist Arthur Lerner-Lam, director of
Columbia University's Center for Hazards and Risk Research told the
American Free Press, "This is an element of current research and
discussion. It is still being investigated." According to Lerner-Lam,
"The ground shaking that resulted from the collapse of the towers
was extremely small."

A "sharp spike of short duration" is how seismologist Thorne
Lay of Univ. of California at Santa Cruz told AFP an underground explosion
appears on a seismograph. Another seismologist, Won-Young Kim, stated
that the Palisades seismographs register daily underground explosions
from a quarry 20 miles away. These blasts are caused by 80,000 lbs.
of ammonium nitrate and cause local earthquakes between Magnitude 1
and 2.

Evidently, the energy source that shook the ground beneath the towers
was many times more powerful than the total potential energy released
by the falling mass of the huge towers.

DIGGING UP MORE EVIDENCE

To have a better understanding of what happened, lets take another
look at how the WTC was built. Here is a photo of the construction of
the towers foundation.

The foundations were 70 feet deep. At that level, 47 huge box columns,
connected to the bedrock, supported the entire gravity load of the structures.
The steel walls of these lower box columns were 4 inches thick.

This is where clean-up crew discovered hot spots of "literally
molten steel" more than a month after the collapse. Such persistent
and intense residual heat, 70 feet below the surface, required the help
of a professional.

A call was placed to Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition,
Inc. (CDI) who arrived on the WTC site two days later and wrote the
clean-up plan for the entire operation

American Free Press asked Loizeaux about the report of molten steel
on the site. "Yes," he said, "hot spots of molten steel
in the basements." These incredibly hot areas were found "at
the bottoms of the elevator shafts of the main towers, down seven [basement]
levels," Loizeaux said. The molten steel was found "three,
four, and five weeks later, when the rubble was being removed,"
Loizeaux said. He said molten steel was also found at 7 WTC, which collapsed
mysteriously in the late afternoon.

What could have caused those box columns of 4-inch thick steel to melt
like this?

EXAMINING THE HEAT OF GROUND ZERO

Five days after the collapse, on September 16, the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA) used an Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging
Spectrometer (AVIRIS) to locate and measure the site's hot spots.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/ofr-01-0429/thermal.r09.html

Dozens of hot spots were mapped. The hottest spots at the surface of
the rubble, where abundant oxygen was available, showed a temperature
of 1377° F (747° C). This is, however, less than half as hot
at the molten steel in the basement.

Construction steel has an extremely high melting point of about 2,800°
Fahrenheit (1535° Celsius). Kerosene-based jet fuel, paper, or the
other combustibles normally found in the towers, cannot generate this
much heat, especially in an oxygen-poor environment like a deep basement.

It should be noted that one of the few things capable of producing
such extreme temperatures in these conditions is thermite, a chemical
compound used in demolition explosives.

TOO HOT FOR JET FUEL

It has been calculated that if the entire 10,000 gallons of jet fuel
from the aircraft was injected into just one floor of the World Trade
Center, that the jet fuel burnt with the perfect efficency, that no
hot gases left this floor and that no heat escaped this floor by conduction,
then the jet fuel could have only raised the temperature of this floor
to, at the very most, 536°F (280°C). You can find the calculation
here.

Another reason that we know the fires were not serious enough to cause
structural failure, is that witnesses tell us this. The impact floors
of the south tower were 78-84. Here are a few words from some of the
witnesses:

Stanley Praimnath was on the 81st floor of the south tower:

The plane impacts. I try to get up and then
I realize that I'm covered up to my shoulder in debris. And when I'm
digging through under all this rubble, I can see the bottom
wing starting to burn, and that wing is wedged 20 feet in
my office doorway

Donovan Cowan was in an open elevator at the 78th floor sky-lobby:

We went into the elevator. As soon as I hit
the button, that's when there was a big boom. We both got knocked
down. I remember feeling this intense heat. The doors were still open.
The heat lasted for maybe 15 to 20 seconds I guess. Then it
stopped.

Ling Young was in her 78th floor office:

Only in my area were people alive, and the
people alive were from my office. I figured that out later because
I sat around in there for 10 or 15 minutes...

The official story claims that temperatures, exceeding 800 degrees Celsius,
were hot enough to cause the trusses of the south tower to fail, but
here we have eye-witnesses stating that temperatures were cool enough
for them to walk away.

YOU BE THE JUDGE

Lets examine some video footage of these explosions. A few of these
downloads may take a while, but are worth it if you are not yet convinced…

NORTH
TOWER COLLAPSE (MPEG 4.3 MB)
This footage was shot by a camera mounted on a tripod. Notice how, moments
before the collapse, the ground shakes for a full 3 seconds. This
was the very same vibration I felt right before the towers fell!

THE SMOKING GUN OF WTC # 6

Now look at the scene below. This footage is the smoking gun evidence
which shows one of the explosions going off moments before the collapse
of the South Tower. (Note: this animated GIF is roughly 1 MB and may
take a while to load for you dial-up users)

A massive explosion, witnessed by millions of television viewers on
CNN, evidently devastated World Trade Center 6, the eight-story U.S.
Customs building, although no national newspaper, other than American
Free Press, has written a word about it.

Before the smoke had cleared from around the stricken South Tower,
a mysterious explosion shot 550 feet into the air above the U.S. Customs
House at WTC 6.

FEMA has stated that there was "no data collection" from
WTC #6. Interesting that without collecting any data they still managed
to put together the official story that this building was destroyed
by rubble from the collapse of the North Tower. But if so then one would
expect to see the remains of the building covered by rubble. Instead
we see a huge crater. Here is a closer look at WTC #6 after it was demolished.

You have now seen photographic and video evidence of the explosions,
but if you still have doubts, I saved the best part for last...

OWNER OF WTC ADMITS EXPLOSIVES WERE USED!

Listen to this PBS interview with Larry Silverstein, owner of the WTC,
describing how he had Building #7 demolished!

MP3
of Silverstein “Pull It”

(The Fire Department) were not sure that they
were gonna be able to contain the fire. I said, you know, we´ve
had such terrible loss of life. Maybe the smartest thing to do is
pull it. They made that decision to pull and then we watched the building
collapse

In the demolition industry, “pull” is the common term they
use for demolishing buildings with explosives.

Silverstein is talking about how a decision was made between him and
the New York Fire Department to 'Pull' the building. And there is no
doubt the meanings of his words, captured in context. He is admitting
on public TV that a decision was made between him and the NYFD to use
a controlled demolition to fell WTC 7 on 911. And all of this AFTER
the official FEMA report, costing millions said otherwise, and they
had all the experts.

In order to appreciate the severity of this evidence, you must first
understand that demolishing a building is not something you can do in

a few minutes by tossing explosives into a basement. It actually takes
days of planning. First you have to pinpoint all the load-bearing structures,
then you have to wire everything and set the cutting charges so they
all go off in a pre-destined order. Which means that this demolition
was planned long before 9-11!

Here is the footage of WTC 7 getting "pulled". Click on the
image to view a close-up video of the explosive charges shooting up
the building.

The official story to this day is that WTC 7 fell because of fire.,
just like Towers 1 & 2.

But we all know that “official” does not always mean “true”!

So now you have to ask yourself...

Why would this man destroy his own buildings?

Six months before the attacks on the World Trade Center, the World
Trade Center was "privatized" by being leased to a private
sector developer. The lease was purchased by the Silverstein Group for
$3.2 billion 6 weeks before 911. But the World Trade Towers were not
the real estate prize the Silverstein Group might have been led to believe.
The towers required some $200 million in renovations and improvements,
most of which related to removal and replacement of building materials
declared to be health hazards in the years since the towers were built.
Other New York developers had been driven into bankruptcy by the costly
mandated renovations, and $200 million represented an entire year's
worth of revenues from the World Trade Towers.

The attacks on 9/11 changed the picture. Instead of renovation, Silverstein
is rebuilding, funded by the insurance coverage on the property which
'fortuitously' covered acts of terrorism. Even better, Silverstein filed
TWO insurance claims for the maximum amount of the policy, based on
the two, in Silverstein's view, seperate attacks. The total potential
payout is $7.1 billion, more than enough to build a fabulous new complex
and leave a hefty profit for the Silverstein Group, including Larry
Silverstein himself.

As reported in The Washington Post, the insurance company, Swiss Re,

has gone to court to argue that the 9/11 disaster was only one attack,
not two and that therefore the insurance payout should be limited to
$3.55 billion, still enough to rebuild the complex.

The destruction of the World Trade Towers may make Silverstein one
of the wealthiest men alive.

COMMON SENSE

The towers fell in roughly 10 seconds, that is, that they fell at about
the same rate that an object falls through air.

The fact that the towers fell this quickly (essentially at the rate
of free-fall) is conclusive evidence that they were deliberately demolished.

Believing that there is nothing wrong with the towers collapsing so
quickly, is roughly analogous to believing that people pass through
closed doors as quickly as they pass through open doors.

The fact that they fell at such a rate means that they encountered
essentially no resistance from the supposedly undamaged parts of the
structure. That is, no resistance was encountered from any of the immensely
strong parts of the structure that had held the building up for the
last 30 years. This just doesn't happen, unless, of course, the lower
part of the building has lost its structural integrity (And this is
usually due to the detonation of a multitude of small explosive charges
as seen in controlled demolitions).

You have seen the evidence. The footage, the eyewitness reports, the
seismographs, the infrared shots, the molten steel. They all point to
one thing…

The World Trade Center was not destroyed by terrorists. It was a controlled
demolition, an inside job!

FEMA CLAIMS IGNORANCE

While steel is often tested for evidence of explosions, despite numerous
eyewitness reports of explosions in the towers, the engineers involved
in the FEMA-sponsored building assessment did no such tests.

Dr. W. Gene Corley, who investigated for the government the cause of
the fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco and the Oklahoma City
bombing, headed the FEMA-sponsored engineering assessment of the WTC
collapse. Corley told AFP that while some tests had been done on the
80 pieces of steel saved from the site, he said he did not know about
tests that show if an explosion had affected the steel. "I am not
a metallurgist," he said.

SELLING THE EVIDENCE OVERSEAS

Much of the structural steel from the WTC was sold to Alan D. Ratner
of Metal Management of Newark, New Jersey, and the New York-based company
Hugo Neu Schnitzer East. Ratner, who heads the New Jersey branch of
the Chicago-based company, quickly sold the WTC steel to overseas companies,
reportedly selling more than 50,000 tons of steel to a Shanghai steel
company known as Baosteel for $120 per ton. Ratner paid about $70 per
ton for the steel. Other shipments of steel from the WTC went to India
and other Asian ports.

So why have you not heard of this until now? Where is the media coverage?
The public outrage?

WITNESSES SILENCED BY GOVERNMENT

Can you say "repression"?

NEW
YORK COURT CENSORS TESTIMONIES OF 911

(1) denied the motion of nine family members
of persons who died on 9/11 for leave to intervene as petitioners
(Family Members), and

(2) directed disclosure of the oral histories albeit redacted to delete
the employees' personal expressions of feelings, opinions and recommendations.

…Not falling within the intra-agency exception are the personal
expressions of feelings contained in the oral histories, and we accordingly
modify to direct disclosure of such expressions.

In other words, if a firefighter who was interviewed said, "I
heard what sounded like explosions and I think it was bombs that took
down those towers, it was all so horrible", the press will merely
get the portion that says: "it was all so horrible".

There is more..

(3) directed disclosure of the 911 tapes and
transcripts albeit redacted to delete the opinions and recommendations
of respondent's employees, and further redacted to delete the words
of 911 callers other than those related to the Family Members, unanimously
modified, on the law, to grant the motion to intervene, and to direct
disclosure of respondent's employees' personal expressions of feeling
contained in the oral histories, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

Translation for you non-lawyer types: The transcripts of tapes of the
calls that people made to 911 on that day will not be released at all
because the Court said they would invade the privacy of the surviving
families - even though surviving family members indicated to the Court
that they waived such rights to privacy.

There is one higher court in New York that this decision could be appealed
to, the Court of Appeals, but I have seen no reports on whether the
New York Times plans on appealing it. These same records will not even
make it to the 9-11 Commission without deletions.

So much for justice for all! But the testimonies, the evidence and
the truth are still there. All you have to do is search for them!

CONCLUSION

I understand that all this proof will only spawn more questions…

Why was this done?
Who was behind it?
What about the terrorists?

But alas, with my approach of leaving no stone unturned, the answers to these questions deserve posts of their own...