Press Item

Dec 8, 2007  
It's Time to Open up the 9/11 Story
— by Richard Gage, AIA, in Keene Sentinel
 
http://www.sentinelsource.com/main.asp?...

The official explanation of the total destruction of the World Trade Center skyscrapers has explicitly failed to address the massive evidence for explosive demolition... found only in controlled demolitions.

On September 11, 2001 the world was shocked and horrified as our nation was attacked by terrorists. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the plane crashes and the collapses of the World Trade Center towers.

The attacks have been used to justify huge increases in defense spending, the invasions of two other countries, and sweeping reductions in our cherished civil liberties.

While the World Trade Center twin towers were hit by airplanes, the 47 story high-rise WTC 7 was not. Yet it was completely destroyed later that day when it fell at free-fall pace in 6.5 seconds into a tidy rubble pile.

Molten metal persisted in the rubble for more than a month and was seen and attested to by numerous witnesses. However the official reports acknowledge that the jet fuel and office fires could not have melted structural steel.

So where did the molten metal come from? Physicist Steven Jones, Ph.D. and other scientists have found chemical evidence of the incendiary Thermate in samples of the previously molten metal.

The official explanation of the total destruction of the World Trade Center skyscrapers has explicitly failed to address the massive evidence for explosive demolition. The destruction exhibited characteristics found only in controlled demolitions:

* Rapid onset of destruction

* Sounds of explosions & flashes of light heard by 118 first responders at the onset of destruction

* Squibs, or "mis-timed" explosions, 60 floors below the main zone of destruction – seen in all the videos

* Complete mid-air pulverization of the 90,000 tons of concrete

* Symmetrical collapse through the path of greatest resistance at nearly free-fall speed

* Blast waves blowing out all windows within 400 feet

* Lateral ejection of individual 20-50 ton steel beams up to 500 feet at 55 miles per hour

* Total destruction of the building down to individual structural steel elements

* Tons of molten metal found by the New York Fire Department "flowing like lava" under all three high-rises - persisting for months

* The chemical signature of Thermate, a high-tech incendiary that melts steel like a hot knife through butter, found in the slag at the beam ends, the solidified molten metal, and in dust samples

It is because of these considerations that over 220 Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth.org) are calling for the evaluation of the evidence and are educating building professionals and the public.

We are deeply concerned for the future as well. We note the steady drumbeat of threats against Iran being made by U.S. political leaders.

Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski has warned the Senate that a future terrorist attack could be engineered and falsely blamed on Iran to trigger war against that country. Such an attack might well be worse than the 9/11 attack.

Also, settling for half-answers and evasions certainly does not honor the victims, their families, nor the hundreds of thousands more who have died under the rationale of the official story.

Please join us in demanding answers that make sense and that will lead to justice for each of them and a safer world for all. We need to know what really happened on 9/11, and we need to know it now.

Richard Gage, a member of the American Institute of Architects, has been a practicing architect for 20 years, and is employed by a San Francisco architecture firm. He will speak at Keene State College's Alumni Recital Hall on Thursday, Dec. 13, at 7 p.m.