The World Trade Center Demolition
Exposing the fraud of the government's story
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a comprehensive video presentation click on "Loose Change Movie" in
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9-11Research is committed to uncovering the truth behind
the most sophisticated psy-op in history, one whose denial stands in the way of
a future based on humanity rather than fear. The core of the psy-op was the
collapse of each of the Twin Towers -- an event so shocking that rational
analysis of it has been absent from almost all mass media.
This talk, examining the collapses of the Twin Towers and
Building 7, was first presented by Jim Hoffman at the International Inquiry into
9-11, Phase Two, in Toronto, Canada. It covers the material in the previously
delivered talks The Twin Towers' Demolition and Building 7, the Untold Story,
and adds a concluding section on the psychological engineering of the attack.
Recommended Resources
This new book by Don
Paul and Jim Hoffman exposes the demolition of the World Trade Center and the
financiers behind the crime.
9-11 Research is planning to publish a book based on this
website some time in 2005. This promises to be the most complete and
authoritative book yet disproving the official story that the attack was the
work of Osama bin Laden.
The
Hidden Collapses
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Tower collapses were the most deadly and traumatic events of 9/11
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Most remembered image is of South Tower jetliner impact.
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News media conflated impacts and collapses, removing 56 and 102
minutes between impacts and collapses.
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New York Times, 9/12/01: Hijackers rammed jetliners into each of
New York's World Trade Center towers yesterday, toppling both in a hellish storm
of ash, glass, smoke, and leaping victims.
2
Explosions, 1 Implosion
On
9/11/01 three skyscrapers were demolished.
EXPLOSION
EXPL
OSION
The South Tower
The North Tower
WTC Building 2
WTC Building 1
9:59 AM EDT
10:28
AM EDT
IMPLOSION
WTC
Building 7
5:20
PM EDT
The
Meaning of Demolition
Bin Laden: "I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE
ATTACKS."
WTC demolition is the core of the 9/11/01 scam.
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Tower collapses were most deadly events of attack.
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Tower collapses were heart of psychological assault.
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Denial of the demolitions underpins denial of other facts.
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Demolition is all-or-nothing proposition.
Not explainable through incompetence.
This talk will show that all three buildings were
demolished.
This means:
·
Twin Towers
·
The
entire attack was an inside job: Osama bin Laden did not have the means to blow
up the towers.
·
Thousands
participated in destroying evidence and covering up the pre-meditated murder of
almost 3000 people.
14 FEBRUARY 2002 - New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani,
KBE, was honoured with a Knight Of The British Empire, as he was praised for his
leadership in the wake of the September terrorist attacks on New York City.
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Building 7 (depending on whether you believe Silverstein):
·
FDNY
pulled it : Neither FEMA nor the insurance company that paid $3.6 billion
bothered to talk with the owner.
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FDNY
has a crack demolition team that can wire a burning 47-story skyscraper on an
hour's notice to produce a textbook controlled demolition.
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Demolition was planned before 9/11/01:
·
The
building was demolished to destroy evidence of the crime.
·
Numerous
agencies participated in the cover-up.
The Flexible Official Story
Is
your building designed to explode?
All
acceptable discourse on the tower collapses must avoid words like explosion and
demolition. The official story consists of layers of ever-more-absurd fall-back
stories. Twin Towers Structural
damage and fire stress caused collapses mostly structural damage -or- mostly
fire stress -- mix 'n match as required Faulty construction contributed cheap
pre-fab construction Designed to fall vertically Rigged with explosives when
built Building 7
What Building? ... collapse wasn't newsworthy Collapse
contagion -- damage due to proximity to towers Diesel fuel burning caused
collapse FEMA: the total diesel fuel on the premises contained massive potential
energy. They
"pulled" the building.
Silverstein: And they made that decision to pull and we
watched the building collapse.
The Official Story Collapses Under Scrutiny
The
South Tower at 5.8 seconds
The
official investigations are a sham.
Fires
have never leveled steel high rise buildings.
The
collapses were not seriously investigated.
The
physical evidence was destroyed.
Building
7 was demolished.
Owner
admits to demolishing building.
FEMA
and insurance companies blame fire.
Features
demonstrate controlled demolition.
The
towers could not have fallen down.
Twin
Towers were demolished.
The
official explanations are ludicrous.
The
evidence indicates demolition.
Simple
proofs demonstrate demolition.
Tower
demolitions are the core of the 9/11/01 psy-op.
the
official timeline and narrative told by the media: The towers collapsed.
A
Genuine Investigation Was Needed
FEMA's
inconclusive $600,000 report is treated as the last word on the cause of the
collapses.
The
total collapses of WTC 1, 2, and 7 where the largest failures of engineered
steel structures in history.
No one
anticipated such buildings could fall from fires.
Fires
have never leveled steel-framed buildings.
Only
severe earthquakes have caused total collapse.
If
official explanation is correct then:
Existing
engineering theory is invalidated.
A new
phenomenon -- progressive collapse -- has to be invented.
No
steel-frame building is safe --
Isolated
fires can cause total collapse.
Billions
of dollars in retrofitting will be required.
Firefighters
should no longer enter burning buildings.
A
serious investigation was called for, requiring at minimum: billions of dollars
to fund an investigation commensurate with the disaster a paid staff of
forensics experts and scientists thorough documentation of the crime scenes
preservation of the evidence, recording locations of pieces at scene before
transport to warehouse.
Only Demolition and Severe Earthquakes Have Leveled Skyscrapers
Skyscrapers
are designed to withstand earthquakes and hurricanes.
Outside
of demolition, only severe earthquakes have caused "total collapse" of
steel frame high-rise buildings.
Those
cases are rare.
Those,
unlike WTC 1, 2, and 7:
Were
not skyscrapers, designed to less demanding standards.
Left
large semi-intact pieces, not just crushed rubble.
Did
not collapse in a radially-symmetric fashion.
Other High-Rise Fires
Fires
have never collapsed skyscrapers.
The 100+ year history of steel frame high-rise
buildings provides a number of documented examples of skyscrapers subjected to
severe fires.
Examples
include:
1991
One Meridian Plaza fire in Philadelphia
Raged
for 18 hours
Gutted
8 floors of the 38 floor building
1988
First Interstate Bank Building fire in Los Angeles
Burned
out of control for 3-1/2 hours
Gutted
4 floors of the 64-floor tower
Burned
low in building
Both
fires exhibited:
large
emergent flames
extensive
ongoing window breakage
blazes
filling entire floors
Neither
fire damaged the support columns of these buildings.
Report by Iklim Ltd. describes damage in the Los
Angeles fire:
In spite of the 
total
burnout of four and a half floors, there was no damage to the main structural
members and only minor damage to one secondary beam and a small number of floor
pans.
These fires were much worse than those in the Twin Towers
or Building 7.
Neither fire significantly damaged any vertical steel
columns.
FEMA's "Investigation"
The
total collapses of the Twin Towers and Building 7 were (based on the official
story) the 3 largest engineering failures in the history of the world.
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) made sure there
was no real investigation. No independent investigation was funded.
FEMA assembled a group of volunteer investigators: the Building Performance
Assessment Team (BPAT), and gave them a budget of $600,000 to create their
report.
FEMA's investigators lacked subpoena
power.
They were not allowed to see the buildings' blueprints.
The investigators were
barred from
Ground Zero.
They were
only allowed
to examine the few large pieces of steel
in salvage yards.
Engineers examined no steel until late October.
Salvage yards were visited on 57 days by March 15.
They had to guess where the pieces came from.
They saved 156 pieces (mostly "coupons") out of
millions for further study.
By the time BPAT published its report: The World Trade
Center Building Performance Study, in May 2002, Ground Zero had been scrubbed.
Conclusions of FEMA's Study
*
Pretended to explain the collapse of the North Tower
*
Pretended the same explanation applied to the South Tower
*
Admitted to being cllueless on cause of Building 7's collapse
On
Building 7:
The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the
building to collapse remain unknown at this time. Although the total diesel fuel
on the premises contained massive potential energy, the best hypothesis has only
a low probability of occurrence. Further research, investigation, and analyses
are needed to resolve this issue.
On
the Twin Towers:
With the information and time available, the sequence of
events leading to the collapse of each Tower could not be definitively
determined.
Destruction of Evidence
The
primary evidence of the 3 largest structural failures in history -- the
structural steel -- was removed and destroyed as quickly as possible.
The city accepted a plan by Controlled Demolition Inc. for
the recycling of the steel, 11 days after the attack.
The steel was sold to scrap metal vendors for a low price.
The vast majority of the steel was quickly removed to ships
destined for blast furnaces in India and China.
New infrastructure was built to accelerate the removal.
Trucks hauling the steel were outfitted with $1000 GPS
locators.
Investigators were barred from Ground Zero.
People were threatened with arrest for taking photographs.
The evidence destruction operation was conducted over the
concerted objections of victims' family members and the firefighting
community.
Building 7
Building 7 was a 47-story steel-framed skyscraper, occupying a city bloc
k
north of the World Trade Center.
Building 7 had a World Trade Center address but:
Was on a different block from
other 6 WTC buildings.
Was a different age and
architecture than WTC.
Was 300' from nearest tower.
Building 7 was the only building outside WTC complex
to collapse.
Building 7 was farther from the Towers than Bankers
Trust Building.
The Supposed Cause of Building 7's Collapse
Media, government, and insurance companies blame the total
collapse of Building 7 on fires.
This would be the first case in history in which fires
alone were blamed for the total destruction of a steel-framed high-rise.
The fires in Building 7 were not severe:
Limited to isolated regions of 2
floors
No broken glass on the north side
Puny compared to other building
fires
Building 7 Collapse: Textbook Implosion
The removal of a tall building with minimal damage to
surrounding structures is an engineering feat.
The collapse of Building 7 had all of the important
features of an engineered, or controlled, demolition.
The collapse was precisely vertical and symmetrical.
The building imploded, its walls falling inward.
It produced a tidy pile of rubble.
The Smooth Vertical Collapse of Building 7
Building
7 fell with a smooth vertical motion.
The collapse was complete in 6.5 seconds.
Free-fall time from Building 7's roof is 5.96 seconds.
Videos Show Building 7's Vertical Collapse
CBS video frames at 1 second intervals allows
measurement of collapse times.
Building 7 Imploded
Building
7's exterior walls were pulled toward its central axis.
They ended up on the top of the rubble pile
The
Tidy Pile of Rubble
The 47-story tower was converted into a pile of rubble
lying almost entirely within its footprint.
The rubble pile was less than 3 stories high.
The fall visibly damaged only one adjacent building.
Taking a building down into its footprint is the objective
of controlled demolition.
It requires shattering all columns at ground level
simultaneously, then marching the charge detonations up the building as it
falls.
Building 7's Exclusive Tenants
Unlike rest of WTC, which came under private control
in July 2001, WTC 7 was privately owned since its construction in 1985.
Building 7's short list of tenants consisted entirely
of government and financial institutions.
Financial institutions
Salomon Smith Barney (SSB)
Standard Chartered Bank
Federal Home Loan Bank of New York
First State Management Group
TT Hartford Insurance Group
American Express Bank International
National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)
Government agencies
Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Office of Emergency Management (OEM)
US Secret Service
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
The collapse of Building 7 destroyed thousands of SEC
casefiles of ongoing investigations into companies such as WorldCom
Giuliani's Command Center
23rd floor of building was a bunker housing Giuliani's
Emergency Command Center. It had:
bullet- and bomb-resistant windows
an independent, secure air and
water supply
the ability to withstand winds of
160 MPH
an unubstructed view of entire
height of both towers
The Command center was built in 1998, in response to
1993 bombing. It was designed to
respond to terrorist attack. Yet on 9/11/01 it was supposedly abandoned.
Giuliani did not go to Building 7 that morning.
Instead, he went to makeshift headquarters on Barkley St.
He told ABC's Peter Jennings on 9/11/01 he received advance notice of the
impending collapses: We were operating out of [the makeshift headquarters] when
we were told that the World Trade Center was gonna collapse, and it did collapse
before we could get out of the building. Unfortunately
the nearly 400 firefighters who were killed by the unexpected collapses did not
have the benefit of this knowledge. 
Owner
Admits Building 7 was Demolished
Building 7's owner and insurance payout recipient Larry
Silverstein said in the PBS documentary America Rebuilds aired on September 11th
2002:
I
remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that
they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said,
"We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is
pull it." And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building
collapse.
"Pulling a building" is used by a Ground
Zero worker to mean demolition:
... we're getting ready to pull the building six.
Suggesting that the FDNY decided on and then carried
out a plan to demolish Building 7 is bizarre:
Why didn't FEMA, the FBI, or the insurance companies know
this?
How did they rig the skyscraper for implosion placing
hundreds or thousands of high-explosive charges throughout the building:
* in a few hours?
* working around fires?
Despite absurdity of claim, functions to confuse issue of
demolition as an issue exposing 9/11/01 as inside job.
The Twin Towers' Demolition
A Series of Explanations Was Promoted to Explain the Collapses
* The killer fires (or core meltdown) theory
* The
column failure (or wet noodle) theory
* The
truss failure (or zipper and domino) theory
Both the column and truss failure theories are
variants of the "pancake theory". (See my taxonomy of collapse
theories.)
The
Killer Fires or Core Meltdown theory
Errors:
* Columns were 100% steel, not reinforced concrete.
* Core structures were 87 X 137 feet, not 30 X 50 feet.
* Structural steel melts at ~1510º C, not 800º.
We heard numerous references to the unimaginably intense
infernos, with comparisons to the heat output of nuclear power plants.
The BBC quoted "structural engineer" Chris Wise:
It was the fire that killed the buildings. There's nothing
on earth that could survive those temperatures with that amount of fuel burning.
The columns would have melted, the floors would have melted and eventually they
would have collapsed one on top of each other.
The Killer Fires Theory is Pure Fantasy
The simple facts of temperatures:
1535ºC (2795ºF) - melting point of iron
~1510ºC (2750ºF) - melting point
of typical structural steel
~825ºC (1517ºF) - maximum temperature of hydrocarbon fires burning in
the atmosphere without pressurization
or pre-heating (premixed fuel and air - blue flame)
Diffuse flames burn far cooler.
Oxygen-starved diffuse flames are
cooler yet.
The fires in the towers were
diffuse -- well below 800ºC.
Their dark smoke showed they were
oxygen-starved -- particularly in the South Tower.
The Column Failure, or Wet Noodle, Theory
Heat
from fires causes columns to lose most of their strength precipitating a
progressive collapse.
Endorsed
in a paper Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse?-Simple Analysis by Bazant
and Zhou. Uses elastic dynamic analysis to conclude:
"The structural resistance is found to be an order of
magnitude less than necessary for survival."
Published on September 13, 2001.
Authors pull numbers out of thin air.
Reveals authors' ignorance of structural engineering, and
of the towers' design.
"[... if the] majority of columns of a single floor
were to lose their load carrying capacity, the whole tower was doomed."
Described as "simple and approximate," yet no
other papers have quantitatively analyzed collapses. Endorsed by
Silverstein insurance claim investigation conducted by Weidlinger Associates
Inc.
The Column Failure Theory is Inapplicable
The
fires were not hot enough to cause column failures.
Theory
(Bazant & Zhou) assumes all columns on a floor were raised to 800º C.
Fires
did not cover an entire floor in either tower.
None
of the features of 700+ºC fires were observed:
Steel
glowing red-hot
Extensive
window breakage
Big
bright emergent flames
Light
smoke (not seen after first few minutes)
Fires
have never caused column failure in steel structures.
Steel
structures stay far below flame temperatures, because of steel's thermal
conductivity.
Corus
Construction performed extensive tests subjecting uninsulated steel-frame
carparks to prolonged hydrocarbon-fueled fires.
The
highest recorded steel temperatures were 360ºC.
Column
Failure Would Not Level the Towers
All 287 columns would have to have weakened to the point of
collapse in an instant to cause the telescoping seen in North Tower.
Asymmetric damage cannot produce such a symmetric result.
Even if simultaneous column failure caused the building to
start crushing itself straight down, it would either stop, or be deflected to
the side and topple.
Of collapse causes other than controlled demolition, only
earthquakes can cause the simultaneous damage needed to cause total collapse
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Column failure? Buckled by weight -or-shattered by
explosions?
Enter the Truss Failure Theory
With
the evidence blatantly contradicting the colu
mn
failure theory, the truss failure theory was trotted out.
Since
the lightweight trusses undergirding the floor slabs were not visible from the
outside, it could be imagined that they
became
very hot, and softened enough to succumb to their loads.
The
failure of some of the these trusses would be the first in a rapidly cascading
chain-reaction of events resulting in the total destruction of the buildings.
