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\n[[FEMA]]\n\n''[[New Legislation Authorizes FEMA Camps In U.S.|http://www.infowars.com/new-legislation-authorizes-fema-camps-in-us/]]''\n''[[Dear Glenn Beck, Detention Camps DO Exist In America|http://www.infowars.com/dear-glenn-beck-detention-camps-do-exist-in-america/]]''\n''Glenn Beck's FEMA Backflip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izjfdfDHjWQ''\n\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=118210944332627737604.00000111c0c478d93695b\n\n''FEMA Camp with Better Quality Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=277826260716604258''\n\nhttp://www.freedomfiles.org/war/fema.htm\nhttp://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_fema.html\nhttp://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/fema.html\nhttp://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_lavello_031603_camps.html\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps?q=202+Garstang+St,+Beech+Grove,+IN&ie=UTF8&ll=39.718551,-86.077076&spn=0.003169,0.005847&t=h&z=18&om=1\nhttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15983.htm\nhttp://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_william__080216_concentration_camps_.htm\nhttp://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/14-homeland-security-contracts-kbr-to-build-detention-centers-in-the-us/\nhttp://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080512/NEWS/80512012/1001\nhttp://minnesotaindependent.com/31237/bachmann-reedcuation-camps\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvBlaRhs-R0\n\nAl Cuppett\nRetired Joint Chief Staffer\nA bio by P.J. Morgan of The Idaho Observer\n \nEx-Joint Chief Staffer Warns of Federal Tyranny\n\nby P.J. Morgan, July 1998\n\nA distinguished, retired military officer, winner of the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart, kept an audience of several hundred people on the edge of their seats in Spokane last month. Speaking at the Cavanaugh Inn was Al Cuppett, a Department of Defense veteran who spent six years on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Cuppett presented electrifying documentation that the U.S. Constitution can be now suspended without notice. Cuppett discussed horrific executive orders in the federal registry which authorize government to ignore the Bill of Rights, round up politically incorrect civilians for incarceration in labor camps and impose military dictatorship with the help of foreign troops.\n\nCuppett said the framework of a totalitarian government has been created by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its military adjunct under guise of disaster preparedness. Cuppett noted that in 1994, Clinton signed E.O. 12919 which authorizes FEMA and the National Security Council to seize control of the nation under a state of emergency during which Americans could be stripped of both their rights and their property.\n\nFEMA itself is a creature of executive order. It was created by Trilateral Commission member James Earl Carter through E.O.12148. Sometimes known as "Flood and Mud," FEMA is usually billed as a benign federal agency dedicated to disaster assistance. During Hurricane Andrew, however, FEMA dropped the ball. The agency did such a poor job in that crisis that Congress was forced to investigate. The reason why, said Cuppett, is that disaster assistance is only a front. In fact, a Congressional investigation revealed that only about ten percent of FEMA personnel are engaged in disaster relief projects. According to Cuppett, FEMA is part of the framework of a sinister governing apparatus created to supplant the Constitution during a real or contrived crisis.\n\nCuppett reported that there are heavily fortified FEMA bases all over the country. He said the government's secondary use of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was a practice exercises for FEMA. He noted that military aircraft was deployed continuously in and out of FEMA bases on the night of the bombing.\n\n\nCuppett reminded his audience that nearly forty years ago the U.S. State Department published a master plan for an authoritarian dictatorship. Published as official government policy, State Department Publication 7277 is Titled, Freedom From War -- The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World. This document states that the United Nations is slated to become an "unchallengeable" military force. It states that as the U.N. builds a global military machine capable of enforcing the "peace" on all mankind:\n\n-- the U.S. military must be completely dismantled\n\n-- all U.S. citizens must be disarmed\n\n-- all U.S. weapons must be surrendered to the U.N. military apparatus\n\n-- an armed internal police apparatus, subservient to the U.N., must keep the "peace" in USA\n\nOnce consummated, the plan outlined by State Department Publication 7277 will put a drastic end to the sovereign Republic established by our Founders two hundred years ago. It basically terminates the Constitution and supplants our system of checks and balances with a fearsome military dictatorship to be operated by nameless, faceless, non-elected international bureaucrats.\n\nCuppett said that elements of 7277 are rapidly being implemented by the Clinton Administration. The nationwide closing of American defensive military installations and the deployment of American troops and National Guard personnel abroad are all part of the 7277 masterplan.\n\nA local woman in the audience reported that area reservists have just received notice they will be shipped out to Bosnia. Cuppett noted that international enforcement exchanges are not just confined to military personnel. American police officers are being offered $85,000 to transfer to Bosnia. Meantime, he said, foreign troops and police personnel are being implanted here under such programs as Partnership for Peace, Project Harmony and other bizarre enforcement exchange programs.\n\nUnder an unchallengeable United Nations dictatorship envisioned by 7277, FEMA is apparently slated to become the brains of America's radical transformation. According to Cuppett, military forces comprised of aliens troops and professional assassins may well provide the brawn. Cuppett noted that a military police state in USA would be possible only with the help of foreigners willing to fire on the American people if so ordered by U.N. overlords. This is why, Cuppett said, our government is quietly authorizing the positioning of European, Russian, Chinese and Warsaw Pact troops throughout the U.S. He said that as Americans are gradually conditioned to accept the skeletal framework of an alien-troop system, "troop fill" will be the final step. He anticipates that our government will eventually have imported sufficient foreign troops under various exchange programs to keep the masses intimidated.\n\nCuppett said the black mask phenomenon so obvious at Waco was invented to disguise troops that would look foreign to us. Armed men jumping in and out of helicopters on training missions often wear black masks to conceal their faces since observers might be alarmed to see Chinese, for example, doing military exercises in America. Cuppett reported that Americans have videotaped foreign troops goosestepping around American military facilities. When they get home to watch the film, it has been electronically jammed out and can't be viewed. Cuppett said that many preparatory maneuvers preparatory for martial law are being carried out in National Forest areas where even federal agents in charge of those lands are not permitted to go. This situation may tie into the U.N. Biodiversity land grab program through which federal lands can be shut off from public access. In such seclusion, foreign troops can be quietly trained for military rule.\n\nCuppett said that one of his contacts is a state trooper in Montana who recently stopped a truck in a convoy of semi trucks. The driver, who spoke broken English and appeared to be Russian, was extremely hostile. He flashed a Department of Defense badge and told the cop to get lost. The trooper followed the convoy and when it stopped at a restaurant, he cut the tarp and found a Russian Howitzer, the sort of weapon once used to keep the peace in Soviet-occupied nations.\n\nCuppett noted that bridges are being fortified across America to accommodate such heavy military equipment. He said that many police and sheriffs' departments are being sent police dogs that will respond to commands in foreign languages. He showed slides of signs being posted across USA that will direct foreign troops. He showed slides of communications facilities erected to direct foreign pilots who might be involved in covert operations during the imposition of martial law. Cuppett said that until all command installations are completed and until sufficient troops are in place, all preparations for martial law must be kept top secret. This is why, he noted, most low-level government officials and bureaucrats have no idea what is going on. Meantime, said Cuppett, America's military readiness is being so decimated that we are now nearly defenseless against external enemy attack.\n\nCuppett warned that any emergency could trigger a FEMA declaration of martial law and the imposition of the kind of dictatorship outlined by 7277. He said that agent provocateurs are hard at work trying to stir up civil unrest and armed confrontations between various group in America. According to Cuppett, in order to precipitate martial law and effect mandatory gun confiscation as mandated by 7277, we must have crisis. He said that some inner city gang leaders are in the employ of U.S. intelligence networks because the threat of government generated crime is a tremendous psychological lever for ushering in a police state.\n\nCuppett said the Waco mess is an example of how pre-contrived violent situations are used to turn Americans against one another. While many knowledgeable citizens resent the excessive force used at Waco, Cuppett said his government contacts tell him that the military units which launched the final attack on the Mt. Carmel compound were outsiders, not part of the FBI-ATF network. He was told that foreign personnel made the final tank assault which resulted in the deadly fire.\n\nCuppett said that individuals and factions of the U.S. military which disapprove of the demonic plan for America's impending police state are being terminated. He said 3000 military brass have died of heart attacks in the last two years, indicating that chemically induced heart failure may be one way of eliminating loyal troops that might stand in the way of the plan for martial law.\n\nCuppett said that TWA 800 shot down over the Atlantic was undoubtedly an assassination episode. He claimed that the missile attack was launched by a Black Hawk helicopter. The Black Hawk units are part of special forces networks working with FEMA. He said certain helicopters have jamming equipment which can prevent them from being seen on radar, which is why the TWA 800's attack copter did not appear on radar screens during the attack.\n\nCuppett said it is not unusual for our government to sabotage a plane before takeoff if that plane is carrying persons slated for execution. Cuppett documented an example of a military plane which recently had its fuel lines tampered before it crashed, killing a number of our military personnel. He said Ron Brown's downed plane also sent a message loud and clear about what happens to those who cross the powers that be. He said that the hole in Brown's skull was probably made with an ice bullet, a clever tool which Intelligence uses when it is necessary for the evidence to melt.\n\nCuppett showed pictures of various penal facilities apparently being readied to house civilian detainees arrested under martial law. He showed a slide of an Amtrack facility with enclosed import decks which would allow train loads of detainees to be off-loaded under cover. He told of penal institutions throughout the U.S. which are now empty and awaiting political prisoners of the future. Cuppett charged that the frenetic "war on drugs" is an excuse for building a gigantic, nationwide network of detainment camps to be used during a national crisis. He said Virginia has built 27 prisons in the last 5 years. He said several prisons in California are nearly empty and maintain only a few guards and inmates as a front until the buildings are needed for a national crisis. He said one such empty prison has 4,100 beds.\n\nCuppett says his contacts have obtained copies of three hit lists being maintained by U.S. Intelligence. The lists are color-coded as red, blue and green. These lists contain the names of people who might be rounded up when the time is right. Cuppett says here are 6.2 million Americans on the blue list alone. He noted that many upstanding citizens have been shocked to find their names on those lists. Thanks to Al Cuppett's eyeopening message, concerned citizens of the Northwest now have a clearer understanding of:\n\n1. Why our national military apparatus is gradually being dismantled and our defensive bases closed.\n\n2. Why our troops and National Guard forces are continually being shipped abroad and kept involved in foreign quagmires.\n\n3. Why U.S. troops now serve under foreign commanders and wear the insignia of the United Nations.\n\n4. Why heavily fortified FEMA bases with underground control centers are being built and upgraded at a feverish pace all over the country.\n\n5. Why America is filling up with foreign troops and military equipment.\n\n6. Why the Communist Chinese government is working to obtain control of a former California military installation (COSTCO) with Clinton's help.\n\n7. Why special special forces working with FEMA are continually conducting urban assault exercises in towns and cities across the nation, signalling a future crackdown on civilian populations.\n\n8. Why, under numerous pretexts, a massive campaign is underway to disarm American civilians.\n\n9. How the phony war on drugs is being used to build penal facilities that may be used as future detainment centers.\n\n10. Why the media keeps harping on the dangers of terrorist attacks so as to enlist popular support for authoritarian executive orders and emergency actions.\n\n11. Why, under duress of Janet Reno's misnamed Justice Department, local law enforcement agencies are being given surplus military equipment (as recently confirmed by 60 Minutes) and why they are encouraged to use paramilitary tactics against civilian populations.\n\n\nCONCENTRATION CAMP LOCATIONS:\n\nALABAMA\n\nOpelika - WWII German/Italian POW camp. Under renovation.\n\nALASKA\n\nWilds of Alaska - east of Anchorage. No access by road, but there is a railway system. Facility holds 500,000 people. Projection: forced-labor camp.\n\nARIZONA\n\nFlorence - WWII German/Italian POW camp. Under renovation.\n\nFt. Huachua - 20 miles from Mexican border, 30 miles from Nogales Rex 84 Program. Projection: emergency custodial facility.\n\nPinal County, Gila River - Renovated WWII Japanese-American Special Internment Detention Facility.\n\n12/9/99 Sedona - Top-secret United Nations (and/or U.S. military) secret military activity near the small tourist town of Sedona, Arizona.\n\nYuma County, Colorado River - Renovated WWII Japanese-American Special Internment Detention Facility.\n\nARKANSAS\n\nBerryville FEMA facility - east of Eureka on Hwy 62 [near Tyson's property].\n\nBlytheville AFB - was closed; now a camp. Newly constructed wooden barracks surrounded by high barbed wire-topped fencing and guard towers.\n\nFt. Chaffee - has new aircraft runway and detention facility for 20,000 prisoners.\n\nJerome, Chicot/Drew Counties - Renovated WWII Japanese-American Special Internment Detention Facility.\n\nOmaha FEMA facility - on Hwy 65, south of old wood processing plant, on a dirt road that leads to a toxic waste dump.\n\nRohwer, Descha County - Renovated WWII Japanese-American Special Internment Detention Center.\n\nCALIFORNIA\n\nFt. Irwin - Irwin is a remote mountain region south of Death Valley National Monument. Designated as inactive, there is a camp at this facility aprox. 30 miles from I-15 in Barstow.\n\nManzanar Camp, Inyo County - Deserted WWII Japanese-American Special Internment Detention Center.\n\nOakdale - Rex 84 Program Emergency custodial facility. 90 miles east of San Francisco on Hwy 120. Holds a minimum of 15,000 people.\n\nTulelake, Modoc County - Renovated WWII Japanese-American Special Internment detention center.\n\nVandenberg AFB - Rex 84 Program Emergency custodial facility. Midway between San Lonis Obispo and Santa Barbara on Hwy 1, close to Hwy 101.\n\nCOLORADO\n\nGranada, Prowers County - Renovated WWII Japanese-American Special Internment detention center.\n\nTrinidad - WWII German/Italian POW camp. Under renovation.\n\nFLORIDA\n\nCamp Krome - near Miami Dept of Justice detention and interrogation facility.\n\nElgin AFB - Rex 84 Program Emergency custodial facility. Over 50 miles long, extending from Pensacola Bay to Hwy 331 in De Funiak Springs, adjacent to I-10 on the north, and Ft. Walton Beach vacation spot.\n\nGEORGIA\n\nCamilla, Mitchell County - FEMA facility on mount Zion road aprox. 5.7 miles south of Camilla. From Camilla, take Hwy 19 south, go 5.4 miles from 37/19 Junction to Mount Zion Road, turn left (east) on Mount Zion Road. Not manned or staffed yet.\n\nFt. Benning - Rex 84 Program Emergency custodial facility east of Columbia, near Georgia/Alabama state line. Prisoners may be brought in via Lawson Army airfield.\n\nMorgan, Calhoun County - FEMA facility. Take I-75 Exit 32 to 300 South to Albany; then Hwy 234 to Morgan; go through Morgan on Hwy 45 South. Facility is 1.5 miles on right (west) side of Hwy 45. Fully manned and staffed, but no prisoners yet.\n\nOglethorpe, Macon County - FEMA facility 5 miles from Montezuma, 3 miles from Oglethorpe, on west side of Hwy 49. No staff or prisoners yet.\n\nUnadilla, Macon County - FEMA facility on East Railroad Street 1.5 miles from Unadilla on County Rd 230. Plunket Road leads into the facility. Manned and staffed, but no prisoners yet.\n\nIDAHO\n\nKooski - 50 plus miles east, near Lolo Pass and Moose Creek, near a landing strip and a national forest. Unmanned.\n\nMinipoka, Jerome County - Renovated WWII Japanese-American Special Internment detention center.\n\nILLINOIS\n\nMarseilles - small facility on the Illinois River, on Hwy 6, off I-80, relatively close to Chicago. Holds 1400 prisoners. Surrounded by high barbed wire-topped fencing and guard towers.\n\nINDIANA\n\nFt. Benjamin, Harrison - U.S. Army facility on the outskirts of Indianapolis.\n\nFt. Wayne - FEMA detention facility.\n\n12/9/99 Grissom Air Force Base - The facility is surrounded by high barbed wire, and lights. These structures are readily visible from US 31.\n\nIndianapolis - massive concentration camp facility on thousands of acres just outside Indianapolis. Includes barracks, razor wire-topped fencing, guard towers, turnstiles, railroad, helicopter landing pads; and what appears to be 3 large furnaces with 3-inch mains on one of the buildings. Under construction.\n\nTerre Haute - FEMA detention facility.\n\nKANSAS\n\nConcordia - WWII German/Italian POW Camp. Under renovation.\n\nEldorado - Federal prison to be converted to UN forced labor facility. There are 2 that are run by the state: an honor camp by the lake, and a maximum security prison aprox. 1 mile east on US-54. Somewhere in the area is a WWII prison camp, but it has not been located yet.\n\nLeavenworth - U.S. Marshall Federal Holding facility PFP.\n\nTopeka - 80 acres converted to a holding camp for prisoners.\n\nKENTUCKY\n\nLexington - FEMA detention facility.\n\nLonisville - FEMA detention facility.\n\nLOUISIANA\n\nLivingston - WWII German/Italian POW camp. Under renovation.\n\nMAINE\n\nHoulton - WWII German/Italian POW camp. Under renovation.\n\nMASSACHUSETTS\n\nFort Devens - New prison a factory facilities and reservoir that have been built around the camp. It was constructed last year and the railroad had to reconstruct tracks into the prison from Canada and from Boston. Livingston\n\nMICHIGAN\n\nBay City - on Saginaw Bay surrounded by high barbed wire-topped fencing and guard towers. Connected to Lake Huron. Prisoners may be brought in by water from either the U.S. or Canada.\n\nCentral MI - FEMA detention facility.\n\nDetroit - FEMA detention facility.\n\n12/9/99 Fort Custer (near Battle Creek, Michigan) - has a "Prison camp". Also have received reports of FEMA "Box cars" riding the rails through Battle Creek and making stops in or around Fort Custer.\n\n12/9/99 Grayling, National Guard training base - reports of Latvian troops in large numbers (700+) stationed at Camp. All reportees are considered by this Intelligence officer as "very reliable".\n\nSouthwest MI - FEMA detention facility.\n\nMISSISSIPPI\n\nHancock County - NASA facility on old toxic waste dump with 2 camps: one at the end of Kiln Road at Waveland, then the next road after Ammo Road at the Post Office; and one in the center of a rest station back from the Interstate.\n\n[Inmates from the Hancock County Jail claim they have worked details involving the delivery of food to these camps under the supervision of UN guards. One individual claims that one of these camps is full of European men, women and children, all at the same compound. He said that the UN guards were severely beating prisoners, who appeared to be involved in forced labor. It is impossible to verify this information at this time.\n\nMISSOURI\n\nRichards Gebaur AFB, Grandview - large civilian internment facility. AFB personnel are restricted from the area.\n\n12/9/99 Warsaw - Unconfirmed report of a large concentration camp facility.\n\nNEBRASKA\n\nNortheast corner NE - FEMA detention facility.\n\nNorthwest corner NE - FEMA detention facility.\n\nScottsbluff - WWII German/Italian POW camp. Under renovation.\n\nSouth-central Hastings - FEMA detention facility.\n\nNEVADA\n\nElco - prison facility 10 miles from Elco.\n\nLas Vegas - From Range Road and Las Vegas Blvd North, across from Nellis AFB, go west on Range Road aprox. 7 miles. Go under I-15 and you'll see a new 6-foot high chain link fence and sliding road gate. Signs say "RESTRICTED AREA. AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY". Approx. 1 mile after that is the Nevada National Guard compound, and the camp is on the right next to the RR tracks.\n\nReno - 150 miles south on east side of road, 150 yards from road.\n\nWells - 40 miles north of Wells in O'niel Basin Area, 25 miles west off Hwy 93.\n\nWinnemucca - at I-80 mile marker 112, 3/4 miles off the road on the south side, near the base of the mountains.\n\nNew Mexico\n\n12/9/99 Fort Stanton - currently being used as a youth detention facility approximately 35 miles north of Ruidoso, New Mexico. We do not have a great deal of information concerning the Lordsburg location. However, we have been informed by several people at Holloman AFB near Alamogordo, NM that a new facility was just completed there a few months ago.\n\n12/9/99 White Sands - Missile Range: is being used as a storage facility for United Nations Vehicles and equipment. We have seen them bring this material in on the Whitesands rail spur in Oro Grande New Mexico about thirty miles from the Texas, New Mexico Border.\n\n12/9/99 Holloman AFB - is being very quickly taken over by the German Luftwaft, and they have been doing extensive building, destroying many of the USAF building that have been there for several years.\n\nNEW YORK\n\nAlbany - FEMA detention facility.\n\nBuffalo - FEMA detention facility.\n\nFt. Drum - upstate New York near St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario, close to Canada. Probable location for eastern processing for prisoners. Both waterways may be used for transport.\n\nWatertown - FEMA detention facility.\n\nOHIO\n\nCincinnati - FEMA detention facility\n\nCleveland - FEMA detention facility.\n\nColumbus - FEMA detention facility.\n\nLima - FEMA detention facility.\n\nOKLAHOMA\n\nMcAlester - WWII German/Italian POW camp. Under renovation.\n\nTinker AFB, Oklahoma City - civilian detention facility. AFB personnel are prohibited from going near the area, which is under constant guard.\n\nWill Rogers Airport - new FEMA facility. Probable processing center for prisoners west of the Mississippi River.\n\nOREGON\n\n12/9/99 Sheridan - FEMA detention center\n\n12/9/99 Portland - reports that rail boxcars are being built in by FMC corp. that are prisoner transport cars with 144 shackle stations per car.\n\n12/9/99 Umatilla - Prison cells spotted.\n\nPENNSYLVANIA\n\nCamp Hill - off I-15, close to Cumberland Army Depot and Camp Hill correctional facility, across the navigable Susquehanna River from Harrisburg.\n\nFt. Indiantown Gap Military Reservation - WWII POW camp north of Harrisburg. Renovated by President Jimmy Carter for Cubans during the Mariel boatlift.\n\nTENNESSEE\n\nCrossville - WWII German/Italian POW camp. Under renovation.\n\n12/9/99 Nashville - There are two buildings in Nashville, TN built on State property - that are definitely built to hold prisoners. They are identical buildings - side by side.\n\nTEXAS\n\nAmarillo - FEMA detention facility.\n\n12/9/99 Beaumont Port Arthur area - thousands of acres of federal camps already built on the order of detention camp sesign complete with the double row chain link fencing with the razor styled concertina wire on top of each row. Some but not all of these facilities are currently being used for low-risk prisoners who require a minimum of supervision. However, any of these facilities could be returned into an armed internment detection center within a 24-hr. period.\n\n12/9/99 Ft. Bliss, El Paso - Been undergoing extensive renovation of buildings and from what we have been able to see, many of these buildings that are being renovated are being surrounded by razor wire.\n\nFt. Hood - newly constructed concentration camp. Surrounded by high barbed wire-topped fencing and guard towers.\n\nMexia - WWII German/Italian POW camp. Under renovation.\n\nPrinceton - WWII POW camp on north side of Denton Hwy. Under renovation.\n\n12/9/99 Ft. Worth - Federal prison under construction on the old Carswell AFB.\n\nUTAH\n\nMillard County - in central Utah, Renovated WWII Japanese-American Special Internment detention center.\n\nCamp Williams, Skull Valley - west of the old bombing range in the south/southwestern portion of Camp Williams. Discovered by a man and his son while rabbit hunting. They were discovered and apprehended.\n\nUtah Lake - 15 miles south of Saratoga Recreation Center 200-300 yds off the road. Surrounded by 40-50-foot high black wire. Made to look something like a golf driving range.\n\nVIRGINIA\n\nCamp A.P. Hill\n\nWASHINGTON STATE\n\nOkanogan County - site for massive concentration camp, bordering Canada. Will be capable of holding hundreds of thousands of prisoners.\n\n12/9/99 Seattle/Spokan West of Vantage - Prison cells spotted.\n\nWISCONSIN\n\nCentral WI - FEMA detention facility.\n\nFt. McCoy - Rex 84 Program Emergency custodial facility in western WI, 30 miles east of Lacrosse, between the point where 90 and 94 intersect.\n\nWYOMING\n\nEast Yellowstone - manned facility. Investigators were apprehended by Foreign soldiers. They were unable to identify the language used by the soldiers.\n\nNorth-central WY - FEMA detention facility.\n\nPark County, Hart Mountain - Renovated WWII Japanese-American Special Internment detention center.\n\nSoutheastern WY - FEMA detention facility.\n\nSouthwestern WY - FEMA detention facility.\n\n\nThe 10 Federal Regions\n\nRegion I: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont Regional Capitol: Boston\n\nRegion II: New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Virgin Island\nRegional Capitol: New York City\n\nREGION III: Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, District of Columbia.\nRegional Capitol: Philadelphia\n\nREGION IV: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee\nRegional Capitol: Atlanta\n\nREGION V: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin\nRegional Capitol: Chicago\n\nREGION VI: Arkansas, Lonisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas\nRegional Capitol: Dallas-Fort Worth\n\nREGION VII: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska\nRegional Capitol: Kansas City\n\nREGION VIII: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming Regional Capitol: Denver\n\nREGION IX: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada\nRegional Capitol: San Francisco\n\nREGION X: Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho\nRegional Capitol: Seattle \n

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In 2002, the Chinese researchers Xinzheng Lu and Jianjing Jiang of the Department of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University presented a finite element analysis of the complete collapses of WTC 1 and 2 at the International Conference on Protection of Structures Against Hazards. The results of the analysis can be found in their paper, [[Simulation for the Collapse of WTC after Aeroplane Impact|http://www.luxinzheng.net/publications/english_WTC.htm]].\n\nFew details of the ~Lu-Jiang model are given in the paper. While they mention the inner core and outer perimeter, they only give some of the data related to dimension of the perimeter components (columns and spandrels). The data is gathered in the following tables:\n* [[Dimension Table|Lu-Jiang Model Dimensions Table]]\n* [[Material Property Table|Lu-Jiang Model Material Property Table]]\nAs the dimension table indicates, the values used by ~Lu-Jiang disagree with those that are given by NIST in its study. Also, It appears that the authors use the same column dimensions throughout the building, although this is not stated explicitly by the authors and would need to be verified.\n\nIn setting up their collapse simulation, ~Lu-Jiang do not simulate the aircraft impacts nor the fires. Elements of the building model are removed to approximate the effects of the impacts. To simulate the effects of the fires, they set the Young's modulus of the steel on the affected floors to 1/20 of its normal value in order to, in their words, "approach the performance of steel at 700^^o^^C". In the paper, they do not discuss their choice of elements to be removed from the model, nor do they indicate which columns they treat as being affected by the fires. It should be noted that [[other sources|http://www.corusconstruction.com/en/design_and_innovation/structural_design/fire/steelwork_fire_resistance/]] indicate that steel at 700^^o^^C should have 20% the strength it has at room temperature which indicates that the factor of 1/20 may not be the appropriate value.\n\nA full evaluation of the ~Lu-Jiang model is hampered by the various unknowns, an extensive discussion with the authors would need to be initiated to fill in the missing blanks. In spite of these difficulties, some observations can be made. ~Lu-Jiang discuss the results they achieved in the cases where the plastic deformation limit of the steel has the value 0.5%, 1.0%, and 5.0%. A complete collapse of the towers can only be achieved for the value of 0.5%. In the case that the plastic deformation limit is 1.0%, the collapse haults about 100m below the aircraft impact area. For the 5.0% case, there is no collapse and only a part of the building near the impact area is damaged. For a value of 0.5%, the buildings collapse completely. The simulated collapse time in this case is about 110 seconds for WTC 1 and 90 seconds for WTC 2. Hence, it can be seen that the ~Lu-Jiang model does not adequately characterize the collapse of WTC 1 and 2.\n\nThe ~Lu-Jiang model is a valuable contribution to the study of the collapses of the WTC towers. It demonstrates that it is possible to perform finite element analyses of the collapses of the WTC towers. However, since the model does not adequately characterize the collapses, further study is warranted.

|!Component|!~L-J Dimensions|!NIST Dimensions|!Material|\n|Perimeter Column|width: 476.25 mm<br>depth: NA<br>thickness: NA<br>spacing: 1.04 m|width: 355.6<br>depth: 342.9<br>thickness: VH<br>spacing: 1.02 m| Steel |\n|Perimeter Spandrel|width: NA<br>depth: 1219.2mm|width: VH (9.53 mm to 34.93 mm)<br>depth: 1321.0 mm<br>|~|\n|Core Column| NA | VH |~|\n|Core Beam| NA | NA |~|\n|Floor Truss| NA | TBD |~|\n|Floor Slab|| TBD | Concrete |\n|NA = not available, VH = varies with height|c

|!Property|! Steel|!Concrete|\n|Density| 7800 kg/m^^3^^ | 2500 kg/m^^3^^ |\n|Young's modulus| 200 ~GPa | 30 ~GPa |\n|Poisson's ration| 0.27 | 0.2 |\n|Yield strength| 310 ~MPa | 30 ~MPa |\n|Hardening modulus| 2 ~GPa | 0 |\n|plastic limit| 0.5%, 1.0%, 5.0% | 0.38% |

A model of a typical story of WTC towers 1 and 2 using the collected [[structural data|WTC 1,2 Structural Information]] is shown in the image below. In this model, the layout of the core columns was approximated from the [[architectural drawings|http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/plans/frames.html]]. The the beams connecting the core columns are approximate and based on the ~Astaneh-Asl [[paper|http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~astaneh/1-Publications/Astaneh-9ASEC-WTC Paper 2003.pdf]]. All of the model elements, the columns, beams and trusses, are modeled as 1-dimensional components at this phase in the modeling. Later stages of the effort will identify those components that require higher fidelity modeling. Comments and corrections on any aspect of this model are welcomed.\n\n[img[One Story Model|http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k252/lonwaters/wtcmodel/wtc_onestory_v2.jpg]]\n\nThe following figure, included for reference, is a typical floor plan from chapter 2 of the NIST document [[NIST NCSTAR 1-3: Mechanical and Metallurgical Analysis of Structural Steel|http://wtc.nist.gov/oct05NCSTAR1-3index.htm]].\n\n[img[NIST Floor Model|http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k252/lonwaters/wtcmodel/nist_floor.jpg]]

Using the available [[sources|WTC 1,2 Structural Data Sources]], in particular chapter 2 of the NIST document [[NIST NCSTAR 1-3: Mechanical and Metallurgical Analysis of Structural Steel|http://wtc.nist.gov/oct05NCSTAR1-3index.htm]], a set of basic structural data on WTC towers 1 and 2 has been gathered and is used in the [[model|Model of Typical Story for WTC 1,2]] of a "typical" story of those buildings. A typical story is defined as one that is above the 7th story and is not a mechanical floor or in the hat truss area. For these floors, the basic structural elements and the associated dimensions are given in the following table.\n\n|!Parameter|!Value|\n|building width| 63.14 |\n|building depth| 63.14 |\n|core width| 41.8 |\n|core depth| 26.52 |\n|perimeter column count| 236 (59 per side)|\n|core column count| 47 |\n|story height| 3.6576 |\n|perimeter column spacing| 1.02 |\n|number of long span trusses| 60 (30 per side) |\n|number of short span trusses| 28 (14 per side) |\n|truss spacing| 2.04 |\n|number of transverse trusses| 8 |\n|transverse truss spacing| 4.08 |\n|All lengths are in meters.|c\n\nThe long span trusses connect the perimeter columns to the core along the sides of the buildings that have the greatest distance from the perimeter to the core. The short span trusses are along the other two sides. The transverse trusses are also called the bridging trusses and are orthogonal to the long and short span trusses. In the table above, the transverse trusses refer only to those that are orthogonal to the long span trusses. If the transverse trusses orthogonal to the short span trusses are determined to be structurally significant, they will be added to the model.\n\nThe links below give additional structural information that will be required in the modeling effort about each of the main elements of the model:\n\n* [[perimeter columns|Perimeter Column Data]]\n* [[spandrels|Spandrel Data]]\n* [[core columns|Core Column Data]] \n\n

Chapter 2 of the NIST document [[NIST NCSTAR 1-3: Mechanical and Metallurgical Analysis of Structural Steel|http://wtc.nist.gov/oct05NCSTAR1-3index.htm]] gives the following information regarding the spandrels which connected perimeter columns:\n\n<<<\nAdjacent columns were interconnected at each floor level by deep spandrel plates, typically 52 in. (1.32 m) deep. The spandrels formed an integral part of of the columns: there was no inner web plate at spandrel locations. Spandrels were generally specified with a yield strength lower than that of the column webs and flanges, as well as a heavier guage that the adjacent inner webs. Spandrel thicknesses ranged from 0.375 in. to 1.375 in. ... Twelve grades of steel were specified for the spandrels, with the same strength levels as the columns but without the two highest strength steels.\n<<<\n\nReferring to the information given on the perimeter columns, the twelve grades of steel used in the spandrels have minimum yield strengths of 36, 42, 45, 46, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80 and 85 ksi.

Chapter 2 of the NIST document [[NIST NCSTAR 1-3: Mechanical and Metallurgical Analysis of Structural Steel|http://wtc.nist.gov/oct05NCSTAR1-3index.htm]] indicates that the perimeter columns were 14 in (35.56 cm) in width and 13.5 in (34.29 cm) in depth for all of the columns from the 9th to the 107th floor. This data is shown in the following figure from the NIST document.\n\n[img[Perimeter Column|http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k252/lonwaters/wtcmodel/nist_perim_col.jpg]]\n\nRegarding the thickness of the steel used inthe perimeter columns, the NIST document makes the following statements:\n<<<\nPerimeter columns in the upper stories were typically fabricated of lighter gauge steel, most commonly 0.25 in (6.35 mm) ...\nIn contrast to the upper stories, in the lower stories, the perimeter column flanges were as thick as 3 in. (76 mm) and typically made of lower strength steels.\n<<<\nFourteen grades of steel were used in the construction of the perimeter columns with minimum yield strengths of 36, 42, 45, 46, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, and 100 ksi. No further information is given on the transition points in the columns from one thickness to another and one grade of steel to another.

There were two types of core columns used in WTC 1 and 2, box columns and rolled wide flange shapes which will be referred to here as I-beams. The yield strengths of the core box columns were 36 ksi or 42 ksi. The I-beams were one of four grades, but the yield strengths were primarily 36 ksi or 42 ksi. About 1% of the core columns were 45 ksi or 50 ksi steel. The columns in lower floors were almost exclusively large box columns up to 12 in. by 52 in. (0.30 m by 1.32 m). NIST indicates that the plates of the box columns were up to 7 in. (178 mm) thick. There seems to be a problem with this thickness since columns 12 in. in width could not accommodate sides of 7 in. in thickness. The following figure shows NIST's understanding of the layout of the core columns and the floors of transition from box columns to I-beams.\n\n[img[NIST core column layout|http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k252/lonwaters/wtcmodel/nist_core_col_layout.jpg]]\n\nThe [[architectural drawings|http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/plans/frames.html]] differ from the NIST data in the floors at which the column transitions are made. The following figure gives the transition floors from this source.\n\n[img[Core column layout from architectural drawings|http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k252/lonwaters/wtcmodel/arch_core_col_layout.jpg]]\n\nThere are a few floors for which the data have not yet been determined. As was noted in the discussion on [[data sources|WTC 1,2 Structural Data Sources]], discrepancies in data will be resolved by accepting the architectural drawings as authoritative unless it can be shown otherwise.

''Mesmerize the simple minded...Propaganda leaves us blinded ... \n-- System of a Down\n\n"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." \n-- Galileo\n\n"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." \n-- Thomas Jefferson\n\n"There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know."\n-- U.S. President, Harry S. Truman\n\n"There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal."\n-- Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.\n\n"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."\n-- George Orwell\n\n"There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."\n-- Henry David Thoreau\n\n“A true patriot loves his country all the time and his government only when it deserves it.”\n-- Mark Twain\n\n"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."\n-- Mark Twain\n\n"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks back into you."\n-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil\n\n“The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong."
-- Georges Bidault, French resistance leader in WWII\n\n"A patriot must be ready to defend his country against his own government."\n-- Edward Abbey\n\nQuotations of Vision, Justice and Liberty\n-- from the Founding Fathers of the United States of America:\n\n"That which hurts, instructs."\n-- Benjamin Franklin\n\n"If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."\n-- General and President George Washington\n\n"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."\n-- Edward R. Murrow, Investigative Journalist\n\n"Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country."\n-- General and President George Washington\n\n"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."\n-- President Thomas Jefferson\n\n"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."\n-- President Thomas Jefferson\n\n"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."\n-- President Thomas Jefferson\n\n“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”\n-- President James Madison\n\n"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men."\n-- Samuel Adams (1722-1803), American Brewer and Patriot\n\n"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."\n-- Samuel Adams (1722-1803), American Brewer and Patriot\n\n"There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter; from the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government; from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing."\n-- Daniel Webster\n\n"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, 
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."\n-- President Abraham Lincoln\n\n"To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men."\n-- President Abraham Lincoln\n\n"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."\n-- President Abraham Lincoln\n\nWarnings from other U.S. Presidents:\n\n“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul this unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of statesmanship of today.”\n-- President Theodore Roosevelt, 1906\n\n"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight."\n-- President John F. Kennedy at Columbia University, ten days before his assassination in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963\n\n"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."\n-- President Harry S. Truman\n\nQuotations from the Conspirators,\ntheir Supporters, their Mentors and some Critics:\n\n“We're an empire now, and when we act we create our own reality."\n-- U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld\n\n"Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
-- David Rockefeller, “Memoirs,” p. 405\n\n"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promise of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The super-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
-- David Rockefeller, at the 1991 Bilderberger meeting\n\n"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."\n-- David Rockefeller\n\n"There didn't seem to be much to do about it immediately, and we went on with whatever the meeting was."\n-- U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz on national defense related events occurring on the morning of September 11, 2001\n\n"We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty.”\n-- George W. Bush at the U.N. in New York on November 11, 2001 talking about himself and his associates\n\n"We've been offered a unique opportunity and we must not let this moment pass."\n— George W. Bush - State Of The Union Address - January 29, 2002 ( four and one half months after ‘9/11’ )\n\n“We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth.”\n-- George W. Bush\n\n“Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.”\n-- George W. Bush\n\n"I will not withdraw from this war even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me."\n-- George W. Bush telling his own fortune\n\n"But truthfully, I don't really know. We've had trouble getting a handle on Building Number 7."\n-- Dr. Shyam Sunder - Acting Director, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, ( N.I.S.T., National Institute of Scientific Treason )\n\n"If I had just paid $20 million for the NIST report, I'd be asking for a refund!"\n-- Dr. Frank Greening\n\n"And I think all of us have a sense, if we imagine the kind of world we would face, if the people who bombed the mess-hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania, and attacked the Pentagon, should succeed."\n– U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld\n\n"The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous, he cannot believe it exists."\n-- FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover\n\n“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly -- it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”\n-- German Third Reich, National Socialist Party (NAZI), Information Director, Joseph Goebbels\n\n“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”\n-- German Third Reich, National Socialist Party (NAZI), Information Director, Joseph Goebbels\n\nHenry Kissinger and the New World Order:\n\n"Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government."\n– Henry Kissinger speaking at Evian, France, May 21, 1992\n\nAt a Bilderberger meeting, unbeknownst to Kissinger, his speech was taped by a Swiss delegate to the meeting -- 
"Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs."\n-- Henry Kissinger\n\nIn U.S. General Alexander Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for U.S. foreign policy."\n\nThe above-cited three quotes from Henry Kissinger are found in Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein’s The Final Days, second Touchstone paperback edition (1994) Chapter 14, pp. 194-95.\n\nGovernment Conspiracies, Corporate/Military-Media, and Religion:\n\n"The biggest government conspiracy of all is the claim that there are no government conspiracies!"\n-- Michael Rivero\n\n“For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a ‘conspiracy theorist.’ Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.”\n-- Dr. Paul Craig Roberts\n\n"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying, ‘Go find me a way to do this.’"\n-- Richard Clarke on the U.S. invasion of Iraq\n\n"Government secrecy is the antithesis of democracy."\n-- Jean C. Simpson\n\n"Among the 'spider-man' skeptics are those who claim that no human can shoot web and stick to walls... They conveniently ignore the FACT that he was bitten by a radioactive spider."\n-- Daily Bugle editorial debunking the claims of “Spider-Man Deniers”\n\n"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."\n-- Mohandas Gandhi\n\n“There is so much evidence, it's like trying to drink from a fire-hose.”\n-- Alex Jones\n\n"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."\n-- General and French Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte\n\n"What was behind that consuming hatred? At first I thought that it was mere evangelical passion. Evangelical Christianity, as everybody knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.”\n-- H.L. Mencken\n\nQuotations from Philosophers and Statesmen:\n\n"There are none so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free."\n-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\n\n"Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood’s school, and the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool."
\n-- Plato\n
\n"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident."\n-- Arthur Schopenhauer\n\n“War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.”\n-- Nicolo Machiavelli\n\n"As a former Minister Of National Defense, when the news came out I had to wonder. Why did airplanes fly around for an hour and a half without interceptors being scrambled from Andrews? Why did the President just sit in the schoolroom when he heard the news? Why did he not acknowledge that he already knew what was going on? You spend billions and billions with spooks all over the world and surely should have known what was going on. You get into very deep terroritory here because it's the same kind of thing as we saw with Pearl Harbor."\n-- Paul Hellyer - Former National Defense Minister Of Canada\n\n"If what I say is right, the whole U.S. government should end up behind bars."
-- Andreas von Bülow, former German government minister, author of “Die CIA und der 11. September” (quote from “The Journal of Psychohistory,” Winter 2005, 32:3, p. 202-238.)\n\n“This war on terror is bogus.”\n-- Michael Meacher, British MP and Minister of the Environment\n\n"It is no measure of health to be sane in an insane society."\n-- Shree Krishnamurti\n\nQuotations from the People:\n\n“The master class declares all the wars.\nThe subject class always fights in the battles.\nIt’s a rich man’s war\nfought with a poor man’s blood.”\n-- anonymous Reggae Poet\n\n“The ‘personal’, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is ‘political’. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here -- it is slow and cold, and it is theirs. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way you stand a far better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous, marks the difference -- the only difference in their eyes between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life, and that it's nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal!”\n-- Quellcrist Falconer, “Things I Should Have Learned By Now, Vol. II”\nfrom the novel “Altered Carbon” by Richard Morgan\n\nOn September 11, 2001 the phrase “pull it” became equivalent to the phrase “high treason.”\n\n"I am sitting here in my little office trying to figure out what happened to my country on this day. I wouldn't be a patriot if I didn't try to prove the government's story is preposterous."\n-- Barbara Honegger\n\n"I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in two hundred years, and if America doesn't stand up, we're in big trouble."\n-- Rosie O'Donnell\n\n"We are going to keep up this fight till the end, till the very end... They took it from the top to the bottom. We're gonna take it from the bottom to the top!"\n-- Dan Wallace, wearechange.org hero and activist\n\n"The greatest single crime in our lifetimes occurred on September 11th, 2001. Following that crime, not before it, we allowed through acquiescence the largest, and most strategic intelligence failure. This failure, as I would call it, is to those in power their greatest success. We, reasonable citizens failed to investigate the events leading up to and following the horror of that morning. We failed and continue to fail to pursue the fundamental questions of law enforcement, to ask of this crime: Who had most to gain? Who had access to all the weapons? Who had the capability to encode this event in erroneous historical terms? What are the real motives? The greatest consequence of this crime is the loss of all public voice of reason and logic. We lost our media, control of our government, access to our goods and services, and our ability to communicate our fears and desires to one another in order that we may act purposefully in our own best interests and for the greater good of our earth. I work now in my daughter's name, Vanessa Lang Langer. And it is in her name that I urge all real patriots to support in word and deed the Citizens Counter-Coup, because a strategy so effectively implemented against us, requires an equal or greater strategic response. Random acts can never counter strategy."\n-- Donna Marsh O'Connor, mother of Vanessa Lang Langer, WTC2: 93rd floor\n\n"Cheney, like Napoleon, believes that truth doesn't have to be suppressed, just delayed until it doesn't matter. The Truth matters now. It is time to raise our voices loud and clear for truth, for accountability, for peace, for justice on the streets, in schools, in churches, in the halls of power, in the news, on television, on the radio, with art, with music, with humor. The dam on truth is beginning to crack, to leak. A concerted effort on the part of many of us could make all the difference in the world. The Citizens Counter-Coup is a simple, easy way to amplify our message in concert with like-minded people. If you only have a little bit of time to give to the truth movement, add your voice to ours, together, we can do what no one of us could do alone."\n-- Carol Brouillet, 
Co-Founder of Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance and a 9/11 Truth Candidate for Congress\n\n“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”\n-- Charles Caleb Colton\n\n“Kick Out the Jams, Motherfuckers!”\n-- MC5, 1969\n\n"Your government is watching you, why aren't you watching your government?"\n-- John 2007\n\nhttp://tucnak.fsv.cuni.cz/~calda/Documents/1950s/Stevenson_52.html\n\n\n"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." - Franklin D. Roosevelt\n\n"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States -in the fields of commerce and manufacturing-are afraid of somebody. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - Woodrow Wilson\n\n"A financial element in the large centers has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson." - Franklin Roosevelt\n\n"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." - David Rockefeller\n\n"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans." - Bill Clinton\n\n"Today, America would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all people of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the world government." - Henry Kissinger (Bilderburg Conference 1991 Evians, France)\n\n"Naturally the common people don't want war.but after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.all you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." Herman Goering ( One of Hitler's top men, during the Nuremberg Trials)\n\nThe individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. - Edgar J Hoover\n\nWe must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary and police. - Walter Cronkite\n\nThere is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, and so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - Woodrow Wilson\n\nDespite these warnings, Woodrow Wilson signed the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. A few years later he wrote: I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men. - Woodrow Wilson\n\nBy the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. You may find you can get away with Virtual Presidents, Virtual Prime Ministers, and Virtual Everything. - Bill Clinton\n\nThe easiest way to gain control of the population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if the personal security is threatened. - Joseph Stalin\n\nWhen the Government fears the people, there is Liberty . When the people fear the Government there is Tyranny. - Unknown\n\nThe real rulers of Washington are Invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes. - Justice Felix Frankfurter - US Supreme Court Justice\n\nThe real menace of our Republic is the invisible Government which like a giant Octopus, sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states, and nation. - John F. Hylan - Mayor NYC 1918-1925\n\nThe real truth of the matter is, as you and I know that a financial element in the large centers has OWNED the Government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson." (History points to the last truly honorable and incorruptible American President as "Old Hickory") - FDR to Col. E. Mandell House 11/21/1933\n\n"Give me control of a Nation's money and I care not who makes the laws." - Mayer Amschel Bauer (Rothschild) \n\n"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism." - Karl Marx\n\n"The Trilateralist Commission is international ...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing CONTROL of the political government of the United States. The Trilateralist Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize COTROL and consolidate the four centers of power: Political - Monetary - Intellectual - and Ecclesiastical." - Barry Goldwater , U.S. Senator AZ. "With No Apologies"\n\n"We shall have World Government. Whether or not we like it. The only Question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent." - James Paul Warburg , Foreign agent for the Rothschild dynasty - Major Player in the Federal Reserve act scam / Feb. 17, 1950 speaking before the U.S. Senate.\n\n"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the NY Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings, and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop OUR PLAN for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a World Government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual ELITE and World Bankers is surely preferable to the national auto - determination practiced in past centuries." - David Rockefeller CFR Kingpin, Founder of the Trilateral Commission, NOW Godfather / June 1991\n\n"It is the SACRED principals enshrined in the UN Charter to which we will henceforth pledge our Allegiance." - President George Herbert Walker Bush - UN building, Feb. 1, 1992\n\n"The age of Nations must end... The Government of nations has decided to order their separate sovereignties into ONE GOVERNMENT to which they surrender their arms." - United Nation's World Constitution\n\n"The United Nations is the greatest fraud in all History! Its purpose is to destroy the United States ." - John Rankin , U.S. Congressman\n\n"The Technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more CONTROLLED society. Such a society would be dominated by ELITE, unrestrained by traditional values." - Zbigniew Brezhinsky , Advisor to 5 U.S. Presidents - Executive Director Trilateral Commission. "Between two Ages"\n\n"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our Banking and Monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a Revolution before tomorrow morning." - Henry Ford\n\n"Today America would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all people of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by the World Government." - Henry Kissinger 1991 Bilderberg Conference.\n\n"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans" - Bill Clinton 1993\n\n"The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, the Trilateral Commission - founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller - and the Bilderberg Group have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years." - Dr. Johannes Koeppl - former official of the German Ministry for Defense and adviser to NATO.\n\n"We are on the verge of a Global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." - David Rockefeller\n\n"Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed to counter them," explained Revel. "It awakens only when the danger becomes deadly, imminent, and evident. By then, either there is too little time left for it to save itself, or the price of survival has become crushingly high." - Jean Francois Revel\n\n"For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." - David Rockefeller, Memoirs , 2002\n\n"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face! It's just a [expletive deleted] piece of paper!" - George Bush\n\nIf people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. - Thomas Jefferson\n\n"Every time we do something, you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel . We, the Jewish people, control America , and the Americans know it." - Ariel Sharon , October 3, 2001\n\n"I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime." - Albert Einstein, 1947\n\n"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." - Woodrow Wilson [U.S. President during World War I]\n\n"The U.S. must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power." - Henry Kissinger , post-Vietnam blues, as quoted in The Washington Post, April 1975''\n\n“We condemn the current round of U.S.-British-Israeli-Pakistani campaigns of state-sponsored terror beginning with those of September 11, 2001 in New York City and Washington, DC, followed by those commencing on October 7, 2001 (illegal U.S. invasion of Afghanistan) and March 20, 2003 (illegal U.S. invasion of Iraq)!”\n-- The People of Planet Earth\n\nhttp://www.ibrattleboro.com/article.php/20070726115733930/print

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\n''Links:''\n[[01/08/08 NIST FOIA Request by James Gourley]]\n\n[[Pending FOIA Requests]]\n\n''Aidan Monaghan's blog'' \nhttp://911blogger.com/blog/2074\n\n''Title:'' The Deep State Does Not Respond To FOIA Requests\nA Profile of 9/11 Researcher Aidan Monaghan\nhttp://www.rockcreekfreepress.com/ (Nov 2009)\n\n\nhttp://www.nist.gov/admin/foia/foia.htm\n\nhttp://www.governmentattic.org\nhttp://www.usdoj.gov/oip/04_1.html\nhttp://www.foia.cia.gov/sample_request_letter.asp\nhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/foia/howtofoia.html\nhttp://www.fcc.gov/foia/\nhttp://www.osec.doc.gov/omo/FOIA/foiarequest.htm\nhttp://www.rcfp.org/foi_letter/generate.php\nhttp://www.ferc.gov/help/filing-guide/foia-request.asp\nhttp://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/press/information/topic.aspx?topic=how_to_FOIA\nhttp://www.management.energy.gov/foia_pa.htm\nhttp://www.management.energy.gov/contact_us/foia-pa.htm\nhttp://www.nv.doe.gov/about/foia/default.htm\nhttp://www.netl.doe.gov/general/foia.html\nhttp://www.ig.energy.gov/foia.htm\nhttp://www.mbe.doe.gov/execsec/foia.htm\nhttp://www.oakridge.doe.gov/external/PublicActivities/FOIA/tabid/328/Default.aspx\nhttp://www.management.energy.gov/policy_guidance/foia_privacy.htm\nhttp://www.management.energy.gov/FOIA/foia_request_form.htm\n\n\n(b)(3) EXEMPTION - Information Specifically Exempted by Other Statutes\n\nThis exemption incorporates the disclosure prohibitions that are contained in various other federal statutes. As originally enacted in 1966, Exemption 3 was broadly phrased so as to simply cover information "specifically exempted from disclosure by statute." The new Exemption 3 statute prohibits agencies from releasing under the FOIA any proposal "submitted by a contractor in response to the requirements of a solicitation for a competitive proposals," unless that proposal "is set forth or incorporated by reference in a contract entered into between the agency and the contractor that submitted the proposal."\n\n

The religion of the elite. The way to scientific dictatorship. They openly say want to kill 80-90% of us.\n\n[[Abortion]]\n\nhttp://waragainsttheweak.com/\nhttp://www.greenleft.org.au/2001/444/26278\nhttp://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2006/030406massculling.htm\nhttp://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2006/040406_b_depopulation.htm\nhttp://www.radioliberty.com/pca.htm\nhttp://www.sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues_2006/2006-04-07/feature1p/index.html\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6739227220487922409\n[[DVD Quality Copy|http://www.archive.org/details/They_Want_Your_Soul]]\nhttp://www.jonesreport.com/articles/021107_genetic_super_human.html\nhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article3177646.ece\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=508887&in_page_id=1965\nhttp://infowars.com/articles/nwo/un_wants_final_word_on_rearing_your_kids.htm\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/09/AR2008030901867_pf.html\nhttp://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/pdf/Origin_of_Species.pdf\nhttp://belowgroundsurface.org/belowgroundsurface/framespage.htm?loc=http://belowgroundsurface.org/belowgroundsurface/Comments.aspx?StoryURL=573\nhttp://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl092408cblabruzzo.a931c79f.html\n \n\n

[[Liberty]]\n[[Freedom]]\n\nBy Paul Levy\n\n06/12/07 \n \n We are truly in a war. It is not the war we imagine we are in, which is the way our true adversaries want it. It is not a foreign war against a foreign enemy. It is a war on consciousness, a war on our own minds. The global war on terror that is being fought around the world is an embodied reflection in the material world of a deeper, more fundamental war that is going on in the realm of consciousness itself.\n\nWe have the most criminal regime in all of our history wreaking unspeakable horror on the entire planet, while simultaneously waging war on the consciousness of its own citizens - US. If we aren’t aware of this, we are unwittingly playing into, supporting and complicit in the evil that is being perpetrated in our name.\n\nA government’s war on the consciousness of its own citizens is by no means unique to the Bush administration. Abusing power over others so as to limit their freedom is an archetypal process that has been endlessly re-enacted by governments throughout history in various forms. With the Bush administration, however, the pathological aspect of this process has become so exaggerated and amped up to such a degree that it is just about impossible not to notice its staggering malignancy. With the Bush administration, the underlying evil that has played out in our government over many years is becoming overwhelmingly obvious for all to see. With the Bush administration, the underlying evil that informs systems of government that are based on “power over” instead of “liberty for” is coming out from hiding in the shadows. Instead of being acted out underground, our government is acting out this evil above ground, in plain sight for all who are courageous enough to look.\n\nImpeaching Bush and Co. ultimately won’t change anything unless we deal with the corrupt powers which control and direct them. George Bush is just a finger-puppet of the hidden hand which animates him. Bush only has apparent power, as he himself is a minion of far more powerful predator-like forces whose nefarious interests he serves. Whether we call it the illuminati, the global elite, a shadow government, or a secret cabal, there is no doubt that there are darker, self-serving forces that have insinuated themselves into and taken over our government. The terrorists that we should be worried about are domestic terrorists who are actually implementing their agendas from deep within our very system of government itself.\n\nThe United States Government itself has become a “front” for the underlying military-industrial-financial crime syndicate that animates it. This is not to say that there aren’t many good, well-meaning people in our government – they are simply prohibited by the very nature of the corrupt system they are in from reforming it. Our system of government is rigged in such a way so that there is no way to transform the system within the system itself.\n\nThe underlying core of our government has become rotten such that the entire operation simply feeds into and is an expression of the same underlying corruption. All of the scandals continually coming out are like the superficial skin rash of a much deeper systemic disease, like a cancer that is infecting the greater body politic. Citizens who are not aware of our government’s insidious intrusions into our lives are unwittingly feeding the corruption they are looking away from in their very act of looking away.\n\nThe “powers” that have taken over our government have become concentrated and centralized in just a few elite hands, proving how easy it is for the few to control the many. They almost control all the levers of power: financial, political and judicial. In this war on consciousness, these powers-that-be are using the most advanced mind-control technology that our world has ever known to make its takeover complete. The essence of mind-control is information control, which is one thing our overly secretive current administration is very good at.\n\n~Mind-Control\n\nThe private interests that control our government have an incredible mind-control/propaganda machine at their disposal in the form of the mainstream media, which if not quite fully owned and controlled, is certainly under their “influence” enough to serve their underlying self-serving agenda. George Orwell once said that omission is the greatest form of lie – this perfectly describes the corporate owned media of today which is nothing other than the propaganda organ of the state. The corporate world and our government are becoming indistinguishable, which is one of the hallmarks of fascism, or more accurately – corporatism.\n\nIn addition to information, our government is adept at putting out dis-information, whose intention is to create distractions and confusion so as to cover its tracks and hide its true intentions. It will purposely leak stories that are not true simply to cover-up what it is really doing. By putting out misleading information, the government hides behind its self-generated smokescreen like an octopus squirting ink.\n\nQuite often, right at the moment when people’s focus is moving towards some area of criminality in the White House, the administration will even create a diversionary event for the public to put their attention on. Memories of those color-coded terror alerts that always seemed to happen right when something bad was starting to happen for the Bush administration come to mind. In creating distractions, our government is able to steer our collective attention in directions that allow it to successfully accomplish its malevolent goal of grabbing all the power it can get.\n\nIn a diabolical ploy, the administration will even feed stories to a compliant press, and then reference these stories as justification for enacting its pre-planned agenda. One glaring example is when the administration fed Judith Miller of the New York Times stories about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Once this propaganda appeared on the front page of the Times, the administration was only too happy to use it as evidence for why we should go to war.\n\nWMD could easily stand for “Weapons of Mind Deception”, as our own government is continually trying to “Deceive” our “Minds”, which is the battlefield in which the war on consciousness is being fought. We are all on the front lines in the war on consciousness, whether we know it or not. Instead of shooting us, our government is using cutting-edge mind-control technology to psychically emasculate us. In order to be able to deal with the evil that the Bush regime is perpetrating, we first have to become acquainted with that very same potential evil in ourselves so as to be able to recognize it in the outside world. The way to vanquish our adversary is to be found hidden within the very nature of our own awareness, which contains the key to its own freedom.\n\nThe corporate-mainstream media “captivates” our attention, capturing a part of our self-reflective, discriminative awareness, thereby restricting the range of our conscious awareness, which is what hypnotism is all about. Once the attention of the masses becomes entranced, the corporate/government media can then “play with” our mind. This unholy trinity of corporate/government/media can create an obsessive fixation on certain superficial events that “seize” the collective psyche. For example, it feeds the masses sensationalized stories such as Anna Nicole Smith ad nauseam so as to divert our attention from the evil that is being done behind the scenes in our name.\n\n~Ex-CIA director Allen Dulles used to say that the most effective way to disguise a secret is to pretend to openly share information. The Bush administration isn’t interested in solving problems as much as creating good PR (Public Relations) for itself. With one hand the Bush administration will try to appear like it is openly sharing information and being transparent, while with its other hand it will be actively obstructing the very process it is seemingly supporting. A vivid example is the government’s 9/11 commission, whose aim was allegedly to shed light on what happened on 9/11, while covertly – behind the scenes – the Bush administration was doing everything it could to hinder the commission’s inquiries (see, for example, 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, by David Ray Griffin). All one has to do is investigate the numerous ties to the core cabal of the neocon Bush administration that the members of the 9/11 commission have and the degree to which it was a deliberate operation to obscure the truth becomes apparent. It was as if the White House was investigating itself; the foxes truly guarding the henhouse. The 9/11 commission and its report, just like the Warren Commission and its report on the Kennedy assassination, was a façade, a show, a display in which it appeared like our government was giving us what we wanted, while actually being part of a deceptive game of smoke-and-mirrors. It is like a magician has hypnotized us, and is stealing what’s in our pockets while they have us under their trance in which we believe they are serving us.\n\nAs if by a perverse Jedi mind-trick, the Bush administration has bewitched us into believing that it controls the national dialogue, when in a democracy the opposite is actually true. One of many examples – when confronted with overwhelming evidence that we have been torturing our adversaries, Bush responds by saying he “rejects” that claim, and the conversation stops right there and moves on to other, more superficial topics. Our government is supposed to represent us, which is to say that they are our employees. Bush has turned this around and put himself in the role of the dictator with us as his subjects. And somehow we have allowed him to get away with this. There is no escaping our individual and collective complicity in this sad state of affairs.\n\nOne difference between what is happening in our country and the state-controlled media of the old Soviet Union, is that in the Soviet Union, most people were quite aware that what was being presented to them by their corrupt government as news was nothing but mind-warping propaganda. Many Americans have fallen so under the spell of the Bush regime’s criminal lies that they don’t even know they are being lied to. It is like we are living in a land of state-controlled zombies who think they are free citizens of a free country.\n\nIt is as if millions of our fellow citizens have fallen asleep, as if they have become hypnotized and brainwashed by the powers-that-be‘s incessant “managing” and “massaging” of reality. These powers simply manipulate an already gullible and highly suggestible public into a game of “divide and conquer.” They get rich off of other’s blood - they incite conflict, and covertly support both sides, as they themselves reap the benefit of the conflict.\n\nThe corporate war machine, which is co-dependently entangled with our government, profits wildly from our invading other sovereign countries. The government-military-industrial complex’s solution to the very problem that they created by instigating wars – more war! It’s completely sick and totally insane. And we, in our dulled denial – like hypnotized sheep - simply go along and allow the whole parasitic enterprise to be fed by offering our sons and daughters as fodder. To the extent that we are not shedding light on the utter criminality and insanity of what the Bush administration is doing and saying “No,” we are all complicit in feeding our own genocide.\n\nBush and our Congressional leaders are mouthpieces for the advertising campaign of distortion and falsehood that is being “bomb-arded” into our psyches on a daily basis. Our “leaders” repetitive slogans and incantations brand and imprint themselves deep into our unconscious, where many who do not have enough psychic resistance fall under the spell. (please see Chapter 8 – “Breaking Bush’s Spell”, in my book The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of our Collective Psychosis). People’s ability to discern truth from fiction has been rendered inoperative by our own government’s pattern of routinely taking liberty with the truth. Government propaganda has inverted the perception of what is actually happening, as lies are presented as truths, and up is portrayed as down in a truly Orwellian universe of confounding doublespeak. Through the “Big Lie” – which is based on that the bigger the lie, the harder it is for people to see the truth - the government has transformed myth into seeming fact, and has achieved its goal of muddling our minds so as to dis-empower us.\n\nMany of us haven’t developed the psychic immunity to be able to fully ward off the toxic effects of our government’s covert, fear-based psychological warfare. An expression of the success of our government’s psy-ops against US is the fact that there’s so little awareness about the government’s assault on our minds that it’s hardly even a part of our national dialogue. The insidiousness of the government’s covert manipulation of our minds is even found in the very term “Global War on Terror”. “The Global War on Terror” is a crazy-making, self-contradictory statement, as we can never stop terror with a war – on the contrary, wars induce terror! This term carries with it a false and self-negating premise that if we accept we’ve already given away our power. If we leave this underlying assumption unquestioned, we unwittingly allow them to frame the agenda on their terms. We have then already fallen under their spell without knowing it, as our capacity to think and respond creatively is undermined. Our inability to creatively respond to the war on our consciousness is an expression of being immobilized in fear as if frozen in trauma. The war on terror is really a war on our psyche. The war on terror is ultimately about control – control of our minds.\n\nWhat Bush and our Congressional leaders are doing is so morally outrageous that it is literally off the charts of accepted, “normal”, ethical, sane human behavior. In the words of French poet Andre Chenier, Bush and Co. are committing “crimes that make the laws tremble,” as they are covertly undermining our very legal and political system itself. The corruption that has infected our body politic is like a virus that is exploiting weaknesses in our political immune system so as to feed and spread its pathology.\n\nThose of us who are somewhat sane can easily lack the imagination for the depth of depravity that the Bush administration regularly acts out in the world. Our lack of imagination works to the government’s advantage, as it allows them to continue to act out the darkness in a manner which is incomprehensible to us. This is why the great doctor of the soul C. G. Jung counseled us to develop an “imagination for evil,” as being able to imagine the scope of evil that human beings can fall prey to and act out empowers us to see it clearly and thereby deal with it more effectively.\n\nOur government’s lying and criminality is so pervasive that we have become desensitized to their corruption. Their evil has become so “normalized,” that just like someone watching TV becomes numb and anesthetized to the violence, we have become desensitized to the horror of what Bush and his cronies are doing right in front of our very eyes day after day. We’ve learned – or, shall I say, become programmed - to accept the fact that the Bush administration is almost always lying, for, as we are told “All governments lie”.\n\nDefrauding us of the Truth\nBush and Co., with the help of the US Supreme Court and the approval of Congress, rigged the 2000 and 2004 elections (see, for example, Fooled Again by Mark Crispin Miller). Then, with the help of the corporate media which is dependent on the good graces of military and government budgets and operations, Bush and Co. put out mind-numbing propaganda that no such hostile takeover had even taken place, to the point where after a little while most people forgot that anything out of the ordinary had occurred. The government’s propaganda machine plays with our minds, putting us in a somnambulistic state so that we eventually begin to accept the version of reality (in our example, that Bush has been “elected” to be our president) that serves its underlying agenda.\n\nOnce the office of “perception management” convinces a critical mass of people of a particular viewpoint, there is a “consensus” or “agreement” that is reached among the masses as to what is objectively true. The agreed upon version of reality takes on a “weight” and becomes the established dogma of what is collectively imagined to be really happening. Like a “religious” truth, it is irrationally believed like an act of faith by its card-carrying members, even if overwhelming evidence points to the contrary. Anyone who doesn’t buy into the arbitrarily established story is marginalized and demonized, and either called crazy, a conspiracy theorist, or even a terrorist (“You’re either with us or you’re with the enemy”).\n\nIf only one person believed the propaganda-created consensus version of reality, they’d be thought of as crazy. If a small group of people believed it, they’d be thought of as a cult. When a certain critical mass of people irrationally believe this fictionalized version of reality (in our case, that Bush has been “elected” by the people) to be objectively true, however, they are considered normal.\n\nMass psychology then becomes the order of the day, as our species, animated and inspired by fear – which Bush and his regime are only too happy to cultivate - reverts to the primitive psychology of the herd. A collective amnesia ensues, continually fed by a self-generating web of endless denial, as the manufactured consent is recreated anew every moment. A field of force which literally resists conscious reflection becomes conjured up around those who have fallen under the seductive spell of the agreed upon and artificially constructed consensus reality. Anyone reflecting back their unconscious condition is considered to be the enemy. Dissociating from their own darkness, they fight with it outside of themselves as it is projected into and reflected back by the world. Believing the agreed-upon fantasy, they collectively fall into their unconscious together and reinforce each other’s delusions in a self-perpetuating feedback loop, which is another way of saying that they have fallen into a collective psychosis.\n\nBush was not elected by the people. The military-industrial-financial crime syndicate’s minions and operatives had already insinuated themselves into key positions of power so as to accomplish their long-planned for covert takeover of the government. Some of their cronies had already infiltrated the Supreme Court, where they literally derailed the democratic process and decided, with no basis in law, to unconstitutionally invest themselves with the authority of bestowing the election upon Bush. Bush’s seeming “election by the people” was in fact a strategically implemented political coup d’etat. Very few even noticed this act of violence because of the criminal syndicate’s control of the mainstream media. Their propaganda machine succeeded in managing our perceptions just the way they wanted, which is a polite way of saying they successfully pulled the wool over most of our eyes, or pulled the rug out from under us without too many of us even noticing.\n\nIn a diabolical feedback loop, the underlying crime syndicate, by putting out propaganda (that Bush has been elected president) creates the very situation (Bush becoming president) which confirms the truth of their propaganda, like in a self-fulfilling prophecy. Being in a position of power, they are tapping into how they can shape the world in their own image, which they are imposing on the world through forceful means. They have in some perverse way begun to access how they can seemingly manipulate and create “reality”.\n\nBecause of their position of power, these sick few can control the masses by manipulating events in the world, as well as playing with our perceptions. They are tapping into how in managing our perceptions, they can literally create events, and in creating events, they can manage our perceptions. This is a divine secret, but in tapping into it with an impure heart, where power is prioritized over love, it is always destined for failure. In the end, these black magicians will ultimately self-destruct, there is no question about this whatsoever. It is simply a question of mitigating the disaster as they create their own ruin.\n\nAnother example of our government’s attack on our consciousness: After the 9/11 attacks, there is only one thing certain – the official story put out by our government, itself a conspiracy theory, is not true. There is no question about this to any thinking person who has even minimally studied the evidence. (see, for example, 911truth.org). The fact that our own government is not telling the truth to us about what happened on 9/11, as well as actively obstructing any investigation into what actually did happen, is a huge red flag – why would our own government be lying, and covering up their lie? Who knows (maybe the shadow?) at this point whether 9/11 was a false flag operation, covertly perpetrated by our own government against us, or whether they knew about it beforehand but simply allowed it to happen so as to gain political advantage? Something’s very fishy about the whole thing. The fact that our country, except on the margins, is not even having an open discussion about what really happened on 9/11 – the official version put out by the government is blindly accepted by millions of people as the objective truth - is another expression of our government shaping our dialogue, both nationally and within our own minds. The government’s distorted story about what happened on 9/11 is itself an expression of the deeper and more general underlying conspiracy of our government to defraud us of the truth.\n\nThe last thing this criminal enterprise wants is for us to see what it is doing. These criminal war lords want us to believe that we live in a democracy. For example, in a diabolical sleight of hand, we are given the illusory stage-show of free elections, while there is overwhelming evidence that the elections were rigged. Even to be in a position to run for president you have to be able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars – this itself is the entrance fee to the game. In addition, the only people who would be allowed by these robber barons to be in a position of power such as “~Commander-in-Chief” is someone they control. Barack or Hillary? It’s an illusion of choice, a stage-managed distraction from what’s really going on. We are left with the appearance, and a misguided belief, that we live in a government run “by the people and for the people.” In a very real sense, the Democrats and Republicans are simply various factions who are fighting for the right to represent the underlying military-industrial-financial crime syndicate that owns and operates our government. Those who control “our” government want to keep their operations covert, beneath our conscious awareness. For if enough of us become conscious of the evil and depravity that they are perpetrating in our name on the entire planet, their gig is up.\n\nHow to Achieve Victory in the War on Consciousness\nThe powers that have taken over our country will do anything in their sorcerer’s bag of tricks to distract us and keep up the illusion that they are protecting us so as to maintain power. These banking and corporate pirates are willing and more than ready to intimidate, buy off, or destroy any and all critics. It is important for us to realize the depth of evil we are dealing with here – they are willing to kill as many people as needed to accomplish their aims. It is shocking to realize that the very entity that is supposed to be protecting us – our government – is the very thing from which we need protection. It is shattering to realize that our leaders are genuine psychopathic criminals who are trying to take over our planet, impose full-spectrum dominance, enact a new world order and centralize power and control. Instead of this being a conspiracy theory, the evidence is all around us, as it is everywhere we look if we have the eyes to see beyond the carefully crafted and disseminated spell that is being perpetually woven all around us.\n\nWhat is happening in our world has more the “feeling” of an invasion from a parallel universe than a physical coup d’etat. This is because the intrusion is taking place on the plane of mind, and only secondarily on the physical plane. If we could stop this covert incursion into our minds it would be much easier to mitigate the outer wars that plague our world.\n\nThese criminals clearly have way more power than we do in terms of guns, tanks, media and technology, but they are no match for us if we activate the inherent brilliance of our consciousness – a force with unlimited potential. Part of the spell they are casting is that there’s nothing we can do, that we are powerless to stop them from doing whatever they want, like when Cheney mentioned it doesn’t make a difference what Congress or the American people want, this administration is not going to be stopped from sending more troops to Iraq.\n\nThe Bush regime’s worst nightmare is for us to wake up to how we’ve been manipulated, hoodwinked and played by them like fools. The last thing they want is for us to access the natural intelligence inherent in being consciously aware, and connect with each other through the open-heart of lucidity. The powers-that-be’s greatest fear is for us individually, as well as collectively, to connect with our intrinsic God-given power to create.\n\nOnce we clearly see what is being perpetrated in our name, we can come together and “conspire to co-inspire” so as to awaken – and mobilize – our collective genius, which is a power greater than any weapon of mass destruction. In actuality, our connecting in shared lucidity is the antidote to all WMD’s – it is what I call a WMC – a “Weapon of Mass Consciousness”. It is what becomes activated when enough of us come together and see (C – i.e., become conscious of) what is happening.\n\nConnecting with each other is crucially important, as the more of us that consciously associate with each other - as if re-membering (putting our “members” back together to form a unified body) - the stronger the field of unified force that we are able to generate. Once enough of us sync up, we become more able to collectively invoke and channel through our expanded awareness a power that is able to dis-arm any WMD: the power of consciousness infused with wisdom and compassion. Genuine compassion can be very fierce, however, as it both demands and empowers us to come together and say “No” to the evil being done in our name. We can step out of the fear-based reality in which we appear to exist separately from each other in any moment and consciously connect with each other through the open-heart of lucidity. When we are truly serving what is best for the whole – for everyone – a world-changing power becomes available to us.\n\nThe solution to winning the war on consciousness is for us to RECOGNIZE the nature of the war we are in, which can only happen through the agency of our consciousness. Realizing that the true war we are in is an assault on our own minds is the expansion of consciousness which is itself simultaneously the solution. From a deeper, more expansive perspective, the war on consciousness is itself the very catalyst and instrument for consciousness to awaken to itself.\n\nIt is our turn to come together so as to render powerless these sick criminals who have been terrorizing us. We can help each other to access our intrinsic heart-centered power and collectively turn the light of truth upon them so that they have no where to hide from their lies and corruption. For “truth”, to quote the infamous Nazi minister of propaganda Joseph M. Goebbels, is “the greatest enemy of the state.” Bush and the private interests who keep him in power and profit richly from his actions are absolutely terrified of one thing - the truth. As the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, “Sunshine is the best disinfectant.” Like pouring water on the Wicked Witch of the West in “The Wizard of Oz”, when the true light of awareness is shed on what Bush and the real powers behind him are doing, their illegitimate power over us is dis-spelled as the illusion it always was.\n\nPaul Levy is an artist and a spiritually-informed political activist. A pioneer in the field of spiritual awakening, he is a healer in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dream-like nature of reality. He is the author of “The Madness of George Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis,” which is available at his website www.awakeninthedream.com. Please feel free to pass this article along to a friend if you feel so inspired. You can contact Paul at paul@awakeninthedream.com; he looks forward to your reflections.\n\n© 2007 Paul Levy\n\n[[NetNeutrality|Net Neutrality]]\nhttp://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18137343/the_fear_factory\nhttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19212.htm

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False Flag Operations are used to control societies. \nFalse Flags give the [[people|Sheeple]] a false enemy to rally around. \n\n''"The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened". - Josef Stalin''\n\n''"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death". - Adolf Hitler''\n\n[[COINTELPRO]]\n\n[[Timing As Evidence]]\n\n[[Reichstag Fire]]\n[[USS Liberty]]\n[[Operation Gladio]] ... [[Daniel Ganser]] Author: nato's secret armies \n[[Pearl Harbor|http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/pearl/www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/pearl.html]]\n[[Operation Himmler]]\n[[Gulf Of Tonkin]]\n[[The Maine]]\n[[Mukden]]\n[[OKBOMB]]\n[[1993 World Trade Center Truck Bomb]]\n[[911]]\n[[Anthrax]]\n[[Madrid Bombings]]\n[[Bali Bombings]]\n[[7/7]]\n[[Bali Bomb]]\n[[Bird Flu]]\n[[Pan Am 103]]\n[[AIDS]]\n[[Global Warming]]\n[[Martial Law]]\n[[Police State]]\n[[FEMA Camps]]\n[[North American Union]]\n[[Fear]]\n[[Continuity of Government]]\n[[Eugenics]]\n[[Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)]] ... [[Nuclear Weapons]] ... [[Fascism]] ... [[Hegelian Dialectic]]\n[[Pakistan]]\n[[Mumbia]]\n\n''[[An Introduction to False Flag Terror|http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2005/12/introduction-to-false-flag-terror.html]]''\n\n''Maddow: Largest Iraq bombing in two years may have been inside job: http://911blogger.com/node/21730''\n''Persistent Rumor: U.S. Helicopters Ferrying Taliban: http://www.infowars.com/persistent-rumor-u-s-helicopters-ferrying-taliban/''\n''The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences. http://www.slate.com/id/2245188/pagenum/all/''\n\n''[[To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Dressing Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shooting At Them|http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/31/cheney-proposal-for-iran-war/]]''\n[[Tape: Top CIA official confesses order to forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery|http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Tape_Top_CIA_officer_confesses_order_0808.html]]\n''Madsen: Taliban Imported by US to Conduct False Flag Terrorism in Iraq http://www.infowars.com/madsen-taliban-imported-to-conduct-false-flag-terrorism-in-iraq/]]''\nhttp://rawstory.com/news/2008/Suskind_Congress_wants_testimony_about_Iraq_0806.html\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/15672\nhttp://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/01/18/10-false-flags-that-changed-the-world/\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/16294\nhttp://www.infowars.com/?p=3136\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/16876\nhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=37d_1217534537\nhttp://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=655533&cid=24732335\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/17747\nhttp://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=039952\nhttp://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=039986\nhttp://www.infowars.com/?p=5452\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/18315\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/18317\nhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IygchZRJVXM\nhttp://911review.com/articles/anon/false_flag_perations.html\nhttp://www.rediff.com/news/2008/nov/30mumterror-doctors-shocked-at-hostagess-torture.htm\nhttp://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7730637&page=1\nhttp://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2009/06/email-about-george-tillers-killer-non.html\nhttp://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread469953/pg1\nhttp://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MEG20090825&articleId=14908\n\n''Report: FBI paid controversial NJ blogger for help: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jzBi0fWBvJIDUVijJgw7oQJRMYrQD9C9G98O0''\nhttp://www.infowars.com/hal-turner-is-a-national-security-intelligence-asset/\n\n''If We Don't Learn Our History, We're Doomed to Repeat It''\nhttp://georgewashington.blogspot.com/\n\n\n<html>\n<embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-7152849288500417952&hl=en&fs=true" style="width:440px;height:322px" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed>\n</html>\n\n\n''Congressional hearing reveals US intelligence agencies shielded Flight 253 bomber: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/feb2010/f253-f03.shtml''\n\nhttp://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8165\nhttp://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/08/romans-13-false-flag-attacks-and.html\nhttp://infowars.com/articles/terror/baer_suggests_saudis_stage_terror_in_usa_to_instigate_iran_attack.htm\nhttp://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8434\nhttp://www.infowars.com/?p=2376\n\n[img[7388.jpg|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/7388.jpg]]\n\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/14612\nhttp://www.infowars.net/Pages/Aug05/050805Loftus.html\n\n"With public opinion surveys showing that as much as 88% of the public opposed entry into the European war, Roosevelt and his retainers faced a daunting challenge in making good on the assurances given to Churchill. Various efforts made to goad Nazi Germany into an attack on US interests proved fruitless. However, the “back door to war” by way of a confrontation with Japan offered a more promising route."[[(source)|http://www.jbs.org/node/58]]\n\n“We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put in the wrong and makes the first bad move — overt move,” confided Secretary of War Henry Stimson in an October 16, 1941 diary entry. On November 25, Stimson elaborated on this idea in a description of cabinet discussions about the impending conflict with the Japanese: “The question was how we should maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves.”[[(source)|http://www.jbs.org/node/58]]\n\nThe burning of Rome: inside job\n\nThe bombing of the RMS Lusitania: inside job to give England and U.S. pretext to enter WW1\n\nReichstagg Fire: inside job to give Germany pretext to suspend civil rights\n\nGleiwitz Incident: inside job to give Germany pretext to invade Poland\n\nOperation Ajax: inside job by CIA and MI6 to steal Iranian oil for British Petroleum (BP)\n\nOperation Northwoods: plan drafted by L. L. Lemnitzer which would have given U.S. pretext to wage war against Cuba and USSR\n\nGulf of Tonkin Incident: used by LBJ to give U.S. pretext to enter Vietnam War\n\nU.S.S. Liberty Incident: used by LBJ to give U.S. pretext to enter Six Day War\n\n1993 WTC Bombing: used by Clinton to give U.S. pretext to pass unconstitutional anti-terrorism legislation\n\nOklahoma City Bombing: used by Clinton to give U.S. pretext to pass more unconstitutional anti-terrorism legislation and to demonize Christians, "right wingers," and "militias"\n\n9/11: used as a pretext for illegal invasions of [[Afghanistan]] and Iraq, as well as the most blatantly unconstitutional anti-terrorism legislation (PATRIOT Act, Military Commissions Act, John Warner Defense Authorization Act, and REAL ID Act)\n\n7/7/ London Bombings: used as pretext to get Blair re-elected, to get police-state agendas passed, and to "justify" UK's part in Iraq war\n\nhttp://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2007/031007_seven_retards.htm\n\n\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/12337\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/13574\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/13625\nhttp://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article3508739.ece\nhttp://rawstory.com/news/2008/Chertoff_invokes_nuclear_bomb_to_seek_0409.html\nhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/08/texas-governors-mansion-h_n_105898.html\nhttp://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=126397\nhttp://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/23/khawaja-trial.html?ref=rss#articlecomments\nhttp://www.infowars.com/?p=2846\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/16397\n\nhttp://rawstory.com/news/afp/Growing_risk_of_nuclear_or_biologic_12022008.html\n\nhttp://blog.buzzflash.com/jonas/159\n\nhttp://www.multinet.no/~falk/OCO-Bush.jpg\nhttp://www.multinet.no/~falk/Falk2002.1.htm\nhttp://www.multinet.no/~falk/Falk1.0.htm\n\n\nhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112530364\n\n\n''Title:'' The War on Truth 9/11 Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism\nBy Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed\nDeconstructing the findings of the 9/11 Commission and the joint Congressional Inquiry, he exposes disturbing liaisons between American, British and European intelligence services and Al Qaeda operatives in the Balkans, Caucasus, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and Asia-Pacific - liaisons linked not only to 9/11, but also to prior terrorist attacks, including the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing and the 1998 US embassy bombings.\n''Source:'' Middle East; Dec2006, Issue 373, p64-64, 1/3p \n''Amazon Link:'' http://www.amazon.com/War-Truth-Disinformation-Anatomy-Terrorism/dp/1566565960\n\nhttp://rawstory.com/2009/11/mexico-mayor-intel-sources-disclosed-assassination-body/\nhttp://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_says_at_l.html\nhttp://ofgoatsandmen.blogspot.com/2010/02/joseph-andrew-stack-had-911-nsa-cia-and.html\n''Prosecutors interrogate 51 Turkish officers: http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/prosecutors-interrogate-51prosecutors-interrogate-51-turkish-321143.html''\n\nStar Wars and False Flag Terrorism\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0fDUoudO7w&feature=player_embedded\n

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[[New article on Fluoride in Scientific American|http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=second-thoughts-on-fluoride]] \nhttp://science-community.sciam.com/thread.jspa?threadID=300006041\nhttp://prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/011508_fluoride_horror.htm\nhttp://www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=1641\n\n[[Sodium Fluoride vs Arsenic]]\n\n''It is true that fluoride can reduce the instance of cavities in civilization. However, this is due to the antibacterial effects of fluoride ions (by killing the bacterial that produce damaging acids), not due to the [[fortification of tooth enamel]]. Fluorine and it's compounds are some of the most toxic compounds known to human kind. If fluoride is effective in fighting against tooth decay, then why are we drinking it and allowing it to end up in places in our bodies where we have no teeth? The Nazis [[gave fluoridated water to the prisoners]] in concentration camps because it has seriously damaging mental effects, allowing them to control the prisoners much easier... Watch the video below for more information.''\n\n<html>\n<img border="0" alt="Image:Skull and crossbones.svg" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Skull_and_crossbones.svg/400px-Skull_and_crossbones.svg.png" width="400" height="400" />\n</html>[img[CORROSIVE|http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Dangclass8.png]]\n\n\n[[Sodium Fluoride MSDS|http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/SO/sodium_fluoride.html]]\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride_poisoning\n[[Fluoride Poisoning]]\nStability: Stable. Solvated by water. Reacts with mineral acids to generate highly toxic hydrogen fluoride. Incompatible with glass.\nToxicology: Very toxic by ingestion, inhalation and skin contact. 4g may be fatal. May cause burns. Severe eye irritant. Chronic exposure may cause lung damage. TLV 2.5 mg/m3 (as F).\nToxicity data:\n ~Oral-Rat LD50 80 mg/kg\n ~Oral-Rabbit LD50 200 mg/kg\n ~Oral-Woman [[LDLO]] 90 mg/kg\n ~Oral-Human [[LDLO]] 71 mg/kg\n\n<html>\n<embed style="width:640px; height:521px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-7984669833566646476&hl=en" flashvars=""> </embed>\n</html>\n\n\n[[Sodium Monofluorophosphate MSDS|http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/SO/sodium_fluorophosphate.html]]\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_monofluorophosphate\nStability: Stable. Incompatible with phosphorus oxides, strong oxidizing agents.\nToxcology: Harmful if swallowed. Toxicology not fully investigated!!!!!!!\nToxicity data:\n~ORL-Rat LD50 570 mg/kg\n~ORL-Mouse LD50 710 mg/kg\n[[IPR-RAT]] LD50 220 mg/kg\n\n\n[[Water Fluoridation|http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/]]\nThe average person drinks 60600kg of water in a lifetime. At [[1ppm|http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4841a1.htm]] that's 60600mg of sodium fluoride (NaF) or 60.6grams. Using ORL-HMN [[LDLO]] of 71mg/kg and a average human weight of [[80kg|http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/bodymeas.htm]] that's a 5680mg dose to kill... so a lifetime exposure of 60600mg would kill you (if taken at once) about 10 times.\nAdd in twice daily toothpaste exposure at 1000ppm to your lifetime exposure... assuming a [[0.25mg|http://www.nature.com/bdj/journal/v186/n9/full/4800139a1.html]] ingestion per brushing, twice daily, for [[75 years|http://www.worldpolicy.org/globalrights/econrights/maps-life.html]] that's 13687.7mg, so really we are at 13 times the lethal dose.\nNow add in all the other Fluoride exposures from:\n * Air pollution\n * Anesthetics\n * Antibiotics\n * Automobile wheel-cleaning products\n * Contaminated beverages and food products\n * Dietary supplements that contain sodium fluoride\n * Fluoridated milk\n * Fluoridated salt\n * Fluoride tablets\n * Glass-etching or Chrome-cleaning agents like ammonium bifluoride\n * Groundwater pollution\n * Household products\n * Industrial exposure to fluxes used to lower melting points of metals.\n * Insecticides containing sodium fluoride\n * Mattresses emitting fluoride gases\n * Scotchgard\n * Soy products\n * Rodenticides containing sodium fluoride\n * Tea\n * Teflon\n * Toothpaste or other oral dental products containing sodium monofluorophosphate\n * Vaccine contamination\n\n''Does this calculation prove that fluoride is going to hurt you? No, not conclusively. Specifically, it's not valid to compare lifetime exposure to [[LDLO]]. Please examine the industrial motives behind water fluoridation before making any decisions.''\n\n''A more valid comparison would be to compare the therapeutic dose to the chronic toxic dose..''\n\nFluorine is naturally occurring at approximately 0.525ppm in the earth's crust (CRC Handbook). As a reference, silicon and oxygen are occurring at 282ppm and 461ppm respectively (CRC Handbook). The majority of fluorine has historically been found found in the minerals [[fluorite (CaF2)]] and [[cryolite (Na3AlF6)]]. \nNow we are constantly 24x7 dumping it down the drain...\n\n[img[A little art.|http://www.infowars.com/images2/cartoons/fluoride_dees_large.jpg]]\n\n[[Aluminum]]\n\nhttp://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/abstract_40947.htm\n\nLINKS\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5118194644870429589&hl=en\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride_poisoning\nhttp://www.rense.com/general3/fluo.htm\nhttp://www.fluoridation.com/\nhttp://www.fluoridealert.org/\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=nazi+fluoride&spell=1\n\n\n''By Dr. David Eifrig Jr.\n\nI want you to go into your house tonight and find a label that reads: "DO NOT SWALLOW. AS WITH ALL MEDICATIONS, KEEP OUT OF THE REACH OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN."\n\nA second product that reads: "USE ONLY A PEA-SIZED AMOUNT AND SUPERVISE CHILD'S BRUSHING AND RINSING TO MINIMIZE SWALLOWING."\n\nAnd another label says: "KEEP OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN UNDER SIX YEARS OF AGE. IF MORE THAN USED FOR BRUSHING IS ACCIDENTALLY SWALLOWED, GET MEDICAL HELP OR CONTACT A POISON CONTROL CENTER RIGHT AWAY."\nBy now you've guessed that this product is... toothpaste. And the chemical causing this danger? Fluoride.\n\nTurns out, the FDA requires makers of toothpaste to print these warnings. The frightening thing is the FDA would never allow this stuff on the market if it had to be tested in humans like new drugs are tested today.\n\nSince I wrote my first piece on this topic, the FDA has – at the behest of a law firm – sold its soul and approved a health claim for fluoride in bottled water. The claim language is: "Drinking fluoridated water may reduce the risk of [dental caries or tooth decay]."\n\nThat just isn't true. Bizarrely, the claim goes on to say: "In addition, the health claim is not intended for use on bottled water products specifically marketed for use by infants."\n\nSo which is it? It works in adults, but not our children? Absurd. And worse... the chemical is toxic.\n\nThe chemical in question is called fluorine and is in the same family of chemical elements as chlorine and bromine (think of bleach and pungently bitter-smelling swimming pools and hot tubs). Although a gas in its free state, fluorine rarely occurs that way. It's often combined with other chemicals for commercial uses... It's also a waste byproduct in many industries.\n\nDrug makers and chemical companies use fluorine to create helpful drugs and even dangerous pesticides and poisons. And for more than 60 years, these chemicals have been known to affect human thyroid function indirectly by altering liver and brain activities. Worse than thyroid dysfunction, many fluorinated drugs cause severe side effects to the heart. Cisapride (called Propulsid) is a fluorinated drug that caused heart arrhythmias – so much that it was pulled from the market.\n\nOther fluorinated drugs with a history of killing and maiming humans include: Baycol, fenfluramine (the fen in "fen-phen"), fluoroquinolones (a family of antibiotics), Prozac and Paxil (well-known antidepressants), and the list goes on...\n\nBut back to the toothpaste we use and the water we drink.\n\nShockingly, the water we drink from most U.S. municipal systems is dosed with fluoride. The fluoride that does so many harmful things to human tissues is the same fluoride dumped into water supplies initially as a way to get rid of industrial waste. Seriously, the stuff was controlled by political interests in the aluminum, phosphate, and nuclear industries... to the tune of several billion dollars per year.\n\nThe actual cost of producing fluoride is only in the hundreds of millions, but the cost of properly disposing it as a toxic waste is considerably more expensive. And trust me, the fluoride is a toxic waste. The actual compound added to our water is called fluosilicic acid and is made as a sodium salt. The salt, sodium fluosilicate, is also used to make rat and insect poisons, gasoline, light bulbs, plastics, and more.\n\nWhy is it in our water? Supposedly, one part per million helps your teeth fend off cavities. But research over the past 70 years shows places where fluoridation has been stopped continue to see the rate of dental decay and related problems decline at the same pace as those places that remained fluoridated. And incidents of cavities decline even faster in areas that stop fluoridation.\n\nInterestingly, research shows that as fluoride levels rise in the water supply, osteoporosis and dental fluorosis – both devastating diseases – rise.\n\nWorse, your dentist gives you and your kids fluoride treatments thinking that it makes your teeth stronger and prevents cavities. But guess what? Science shows that the areas on our teeth where cavities are formed aren't the same areas on your teeth that fluoride makes stronger (cavities attack the crevices, while fluoride works on flat surfaces)... Thus the notion that water laced with fluoride helps prevent tooth decay is also utter rubbish.\n\nRecently declassified documents from WWII regarding fluoride are truly appalling. An American Dental Association article published at the time claimed soldiers who used the fluoride waste in their teeth had reduced cavities... but the REAL SECRET VERSION came out and reported most of the men were left with no teeth. Don't believe me? Read "The Fluoride Deception" by Christopher Bryson.\nEurope has banned fluoride in its water. Reputable scientists speak out:\n\n * "More people have died in the last 30 years from cancer connected with fluoridation than all the military deaths in the entire history of the United States." (Dean Burk, PhD, National Cancer Institute)\n * "Fluoridation is the greatest fraud that has ever been perpetrated."\n (Albert Schatz, PhD, Nobel laureate)\n * "Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century, if not all time." (Robert Carton, EPA scientist) \n\nThe strange thing is that this stuff is highly toxic, equally poisonous as lead. Would you let your kid brush their teeth with lead?\n\nFinally, my standing offer for $10... Show me a peer-reviewed journal where fluoride reduces cavities in a prospective blinded human trial... and the money is yours.\n\nWhat do I do?\n1. I no longer use fluoride toothpaste. My last visit to the dentist was the first time without a cavity... My dentist even asked me if I was using a special treatment because my teeth looked so strong. Ha!\n2. \n\nI use a mouthwash (fluoride-free) and then brush my teeth. Sometimes I'll even use baking soda as my toothpaste.\n3. I'll never let a dentist use fluoride on my teeth again. (Children have died from fluoride treatments in the dentist chair!)\n4. I use hydrogen peroxide three to four times per week to brush my teeth.\n5. I am decreasing the amount of tap water I drink.\n6. I am drinking bottled water and filtered water without fluorine.\n\nHere's to our health,\n\nDr. David Eifrig Jr.''\n\n\n\n\nFLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK\nhttp://www.FluorideAlert.org\n\nFAN Bulletin 1011: The firing of Wally Babb, water engineer in Dalton, Georgia, for refusing to buy or feed fluoride into the water supply\n\nDecember 2, 2008\n\nDear Laurel,\n\nThe following is from Dan Stockin:\n \nOn Nov 29, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that a Dalton, Georgia, water worker has been fired for following his conscience and refusing to fluoridate water because of its adverse effect on kidney patients. Also, Tenneesse's physician legislator Dr. Joey Hensley is being quoted as calling on ALL water districts in Tennessee to immediately halt water fluoridation. These are both stories with national implications. Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Dalton, Georgia, are within 27 miles of each other and just up the road from the CDC in Atlanta. We need these stories to grow legs.\n \nThe man who was fired is Wally Babb. His wife has Multiple Sclerosis and also just had a cancerous tumor removed from her intestine, and they will be without medical coverage due to Mr. Babb being fired. Nevertheless, they are resolute in not being willing to participate in harming people. Their stance has cost them something, in very real terms. AFTER Mr. Babb first notified his supervisors that he wouldn't any longer buy the harmful fluoridation chemical, the National Kidney Foundation validated his concerns with a new stance on fluorides, but Mr. Babb's bosses fired him anyway.\n \nWe'd appreciate anyone forwarding the stories and links below to as many national and local media outlets, newspapers, TV stations, water districts, etc. as possible. Mr. Babb could sure also use support and encouragement. He can be reached at: \n\nWilliam Babb safewaterindalton@yahoo.com\nCitizens for Safe Water in Dalton\nP.O. Box 1702\nRocky Face GA 30740. \n\nStories and links are below.\n \nDaniel G. Stockin, MPH \nThe Lillie Center Inc.\nstockin2@yahoo.com\nTel: 706-669-0786\n\nSee William Babb's Termination Letter - this was attached, in pdf format, to the following articles:\n\nDalton: Water worker fired for opposing fluoridation, Nov 29.\n\nTennessee: Lawmaker campaigns against fluoride bill, Nov 29.\n\n\n\n\n\n

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[[World Trade Center Dust Images]]\n{{indent{[[WTC Microsphere Images 2.8x]]\n{{indent{[[WTC Microsphere Images 8.0x]]\n{{indent{[[WTC Microsphere Images 11.5x]]\n[[Thermite]]\n[[Fly Ash]]\n\n[[MJ 08 Dust Study]]\n[[JK 08 Dust Study]]\n\n[[World Trade Center 7 Steel Samples Show Severe Damage Due To A High Temperature Corrosion Attack Which Melted The Steel]]\n[[World Trade Center Tower Steel Sample Shows Severe Damage Due To A High Temperature Corrosion Attack Which Melted The Steel]]\n\nmolybdenum (2726C) http://journalof911studies.com/articles/WTCHighTemp2.pdf\niron (1500C) \n[[Deutsche Bank Dust Signature Report|http://www.nyenvirolaw.org/WTC/130 Liberty Street/Mike Davis LMDC 130 Liberty Documents/Signature of WTC dust/WTC Dust Signature.Composition and Morphology.Final.pdf]]\n\nhttp://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/2008/Ryan_NIST_and_Nano-1.pdf\n\n''Typical office dust is composed heavily of organic and other carbon-rich particulate materials. WTC Dust, conversely, contains very little pristine organic fibrous or particulate material. Much of the organic or polymeric content of the WTC Dust has been heat hydrolyzed and partially consumed or burned. Therefore, a residual vesicular type of carbonaceous component persists in the WTC Dust. In addition to the vesicular carbon components, the high heat exposure of the WTC Dust has also created other morphologically specific varieties of particulate matter including spherical metallic, vesicular siliceous and spherical fly ash components. These types of particles are classic examples of high temperature or combustion by-products and are generally absent in typical office dust. [[(nyenvirolaw.org)|http://www.nyenvirolaw.org/WTC/130 Liberty Street/Mike Davis LMDC 130 Liberty Documents/Signature of WTC dust/WTC Dust Signature.Composition and Morphology.Final.pdf]]''\n\n[img(100%,100%)[http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/RJLee_Figure2_Figure3.png|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/RJLee_Figure2_Figure3.png]]\n''Figure 2 shows a typical loading on a lift sample collected from a Background Building and Figure 3 shows the particle loading of a lift sample collected from a WTC Dust impacted location within the Building. The images in these figures depict the same magnification. The shear amount or dust loading differential between the two samples is obvious. At higher magnifications, it can be seen that materials residing on the WTC Dust lifts possess morphological characteristics that are different from the Background Building samples. The particulate components on the WTC Dust sample appear angular or pulverized and accompany spherical heat affected particles. Also, the fibrous component exhibited in the WTC Dust sample is largely absent from the Background Building sample. [[(nyenvirolaw.org)|http://www.nyenvirolaw.org/WTC/130 Liberty Street/Mike Davis LMDC 130 Liberty Documents/Signature of WTC dust/WTC Dust Signature.Composition and Morphology.Final.pdf]]''\n\n''Organic components comprise a significant portion of the total particulate and fibrous material associated with the Background Building samples. This type of matter comprises only a trace amount within the WTC Dust. The WTC Dust contains hydrolyzed or partially consumed components of carbonaceous material exhibiting a vesicular typically sub-spherical morphology. [[(nyenvirolaw.org)|http://www.nyenvirolaw.org/WTC/130 Liberty Street/Mike Davis LMDC 130 Liberty Documents/Signature of WTC dust/WTC Dust Signature.Composition and Morphology.Final.pdf]]''\n\n''Particles that either were formed as a consequence of high temperature or were modified by exposure to high temperature are important WTC Dust Markers for WTC Dust. Fires that were a part of the WTC Event produced combustion-modified products that traveled with other components of WTC Dust. Considering the high temperatures reached during the destruction of the WTC, the following three types of combustion products would be expected to be present in WTC Dust. These products are: \n• Vesicular carbonaceous particles primarily from plastics\n• Iron-rich spheres from iron-bearing building components or contents\n• High temperature aluminosilicate from building materials\nThere were considerable amounts of plastics in the WTC buildings, that upon heating and liberation of volatiles produced spherical (or nearly so) carbonrich particles with vesicles related to emission of volatiles. Figure 18 shows typical carbonaceous materials from a Background Building and Figure 19 shows porous heat affected particulate in the WTC Dust. Figure 20 shows a PLM image of porous heat affected particulate in the WTC Dust. [[(nyenvirolaw.org)|http://www.nyenvirolaw.org/WTC/130 Liberty Street/Mike Davis LMDC 130 Liberty Documents/Signature of WTC dust/WTC Dust Signature.Composition and Morphology.Final.pdf]]''\n\n''Various metals (most notably iron and lead) were melted during the WTC Event, producing spherical metallic particles. Exposure of phases to high heat results in the formation of spherical particles due to surface tension. Figure 21 and Figure 22 show a spherical iron particle resulting from the melting of iron (or steel). [[(nyenvirolaw.org)|http://www.nyenvirolaw.org/WTC/130 Liberty Street/Mike Davis LMDC 130 Liberty Documents/Signature of WTC dust/WTC Dust Signature.Composition and Morphology.Final.pdf]]''\n\n''Normal background Fe Sphere dust content (Mean of Composition %) is 0.04% the wtc dust has a 5.87% mean composition of Iron Spheres. 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What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?\n12. @@color(black):The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the other amendments.@@\n13. 80,999,987+ firearms owners killed no one yesterday...\n14. Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians.\n15. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.\n16. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.\n17. 911: Government sponsored ~Dial-a-Prayer.\n18. Assault is a behavior, not a device.\n19. Criminals love gun control; it makes their jobs safer.\n20. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.\n21. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.\n22. You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.\n23. Enforce the gun control laws we ALREADY have; don't make more.\n24. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.\n25. 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A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it. To oblige the great body of the yeomanry, and of the other classes of the citizens, to be under arms for the purpose of going through military exercises and evolutions, as often as might be necessary to acquire the degree of perfection which would entitle them to the character of a well-regulated militia, would be a real grievance to the people, and a serious public inconvenience and loss. It would form an annual deduction from the productive labor of the country, to an amount which, calculating upon the present numbers of the people, would not fall far short of the whole expense of the civil establishments of all the States. To attempt a thing which would abridge the mass of labor and industry to so considerable an extent, would be unwise: and the experiment, if made, could not succeed, because it would not long be endured. Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.\n\n "But though the scheme of disciplining the whole nation must be abandoned as mischievous or impracticable; yet it is a matter of the utmost importance that a well-digested plan should, as soon as possible, be adopted for the proper establishment of the militia. The attention of the government ought particularly to be directed to the formation of a select corps of moderate extent, upon such principles as will really fit them for service in case of need. By thus circumscribing the plan, it will be possible to have an excellent body of well-trained militia, ready to take the field whenever the defense of the State shall require it. This will not only lessen the call for military establishments, but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist."\n\nhttp://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Wal_Mart_to_film_gun_sales_in_bid_t_04142008.html\nhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,410361,00.html\nhttp://www.infowars.com/people-running-into-gun-shows-panic-buying-ammo/\n\n[[''Gunblast - reviews cool stuff|http://gunblast.com/Archive.htm]]''\nhttp://wearechangecoloradosprings.org/blog/?p=594\nhttp://rawstory.com/blog/2009/07/acquittal-for-pa-man-who-brought-gun-to-obama-rally/\nhttp://www.infowars.com/obama-administration-begins-opposition-to-states-claiming-sovereignty-and-gun-rights/

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[[Sibel Edmonds]]\n[[Nuclear Power]]\n[[Yucca Mountain]]\n[[Israel]]\n[[Chemical Weapons]]\n[[North Korea]]\n[[Syria]]\n[[Unconventional Weapons]]\n\n[[Blast Effects|http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/hydesim.html]]\nhttp://nuclearweaponarchive.org/\nhttp://nuclearrisk.org/\n\nhttp://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/1155236/US-Russia-Reach-Nuclear-Arsenal-Agreement\nhttp://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/diagthermon.html\nhttp://www.thebulletin.org/\nhttp://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/05/thank-you-military-hero.html\nhttp://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/26631\nhttp://slashdot.org/articles/07/09/06/0045214.shtml\nhttp://rawstory.com/news/2007/Navy_veteran_questions_why_six_nuclear_1008.html\nhttp://www.star-telegram.com/245/v-print/story/259201.html\nhttp://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_No_objection_to_Egyptian_nuclear_10292007.html\nhttp://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5201505.html\nhttp://doewatch.com/\nhttp://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/294914.html\nhttp://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004639.php\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/13563\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/14366\nhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89127786\nhttp://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr08/6099\nhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080416/METRO/556828862/1001\nhttp://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/homeland_security_patriot_act_fema/news.php?q=1209752871\nhttp://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=6113992\nhttp://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Air_Force_leadership_in_shake_up_06052008.html\nhttp://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Nuclear_ring_reportedly_had_weapon__06152008.html\nhttp://it.slashdot.org/it/08/06/16/0440225.shtml\nhttp://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=126397\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20011230211454/www.geo.arizona.edu/geophysics/faculty/wallace/IRAQ/index.html\nhttp://ww4report.com/node/5691\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20020225095435/www.geo.arizona.edu/geophysics/faculty/wallace/verification/whatisverification.html\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20020611195853/www.geo.arizona.edu/geophysics/faculty/wallace/ind.pak/index.html\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20020105142806/www.geo.arizona.edu/~/paquette/NUCS/\nhttp://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/07/08/the-path-to-peace-may-lie-in-speaking-to-the-pentagon-in-its-own-language/\nhttp://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/homeland_security_patriot_act_fema/news.php?q=1209752871\nhttp://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/07/14/five-years-later-and-the-attorney-general-still-maintains-the-cover-up/\nhttp://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_claims_executive_privilege_to_block_0716.html\nhttp://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/hyperbola/2008/07/more-nasa-armageddon-work-emer.html\nhttp://www.portchicago.org/\nhttp://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4281013.html\nhttp://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/10/02/senate-votes-to-make-nonproliferation-a-joke/\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7690447.stm\nhttp://rawstory.com/news/afp/Use_of_nuclear_weapons_more_likely__11202008.html\nhttp://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/15/081215fa_fact_samuels?currentPage=all\nhttp://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/new_nuclear_weapons/loyieldearthpenwpnrpt.html\nhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/secret-nuclear-selloff-storm-1204979.html\nhttp://blogs.cqpolitics.com/spytalk/2009/06/what-nuclear-secret-was-kerry.html\nhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/nuclearpower/5509277/Nuclear-disaster-averted-by-dirty-laundry.html\nhttp://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf_deadhand?currentPage=all\n\n<html>\n<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/z-ku5Exv4s4&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/z-ku5Exv4s4&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>\n</html>\n\n''Atomic Demolition Munition — A nuclear device designed to be detonated on or below the ground surface, or under water as a demolition munition against material-type targets to block, deny, and/or canalize the enemy. [[dtic.mil|http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/new_pubs/jp1_02.pdf]]''\n\n''Span Of Detonation (Atomic Demolition Munition Employment) — That total period of time, resulting from a timer error, between the earliest and the latest possible detonation time. 1. early time — The earliest possible time that an atomic demolition munition can detonate; 2. fire time — That time the atomic demolition munition will detonate should the timers function precisely without error; 3. late time — The latest possible time that an atomic demolition munition can detonate. [[dtic.mil|http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/new_pubs/jp1_02.pdf]]''\n

\n''[[9/11 Newspaper Articles|http://www.washington911.org/newspaper.htm]]''\n\n''[["Chief Engineer” Hyman Brown|http://911blogger.com/node/20261]]''\n\n''NYT: Inside The Bunker, (William Safire Suggests U.S. Mole with Insider Codes), William Safire: \nhttp://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E5DC1038F930A2575AC0A9679C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times Topics/Subjects/S/Sept. 11, 2001/Pentagon Building''\n\n''The official 911 story v1.0: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=161310418037429567''\n\n''One Of The 9/11 Commission's Blatant Lies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u0QrcAWm8k''\n\n[[Hurst Publishing]]\n[[Taxes]]\n[[Wikipedia]]\n[[Abolhassan Astaneh]]\n[[John Gross]]\n[[Jon Magnusson]]\n[[Jim Rossberg]]\n\nhttp://www.america.gov/st/webchat-english/2009/May/20060828133846esnamfuaK0.2676355.html\n\nhttp://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20021105005734/www.fema.gov/library/wtcstudy.shtm\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20021018080736/wtc.nist.gov/\nhttp://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JENMDT000128000001000002000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes\nhttp://www.architectureweek.com/2001/1017/news_1-2.html\nhttp://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0515/news_1-1.html\nhttp://web.mit.edu/civenv/wtc/\nhttp://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/ceonline02/0502feat.html\nhttp://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0112/Eagar/Eagar-0112.html\nhttp://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2001/december5/wtc-125.html\nhttp://www.americanlaboratory.com/articles/al/a0212mar.pdf\nhttp://enr.construction.com/features/buildings/archives/040607-1.asp\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20051105193758/http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/011119fa_FACT\nhttp://www.rit.edu/~smo5024/papers/wtc/\nhttp://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/wtc/wtctragedy.html\nhttp://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=000DA0E2-1E15-128A-9E1583414B7F0000&colID=13\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6vSxR6UKFM\nhttp://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/10996\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Why-Buildings-Fall-Down-Structures/dp/039331152X\nhttp://wtc.nist.gov/media/Structural_Fire_Response_and_Collapse_Analysis.pdf\nhttp://www.implosionworld.com/Article-WTC STUDY 8-06 w clarif as of 9-8-06 .pdf\nhttp://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=000B7FEB-A88C-1C75-9B81809EC588EF21&print=true\nhttp://www.nae.edu/nae/bridgecom.nsf/weblinks/CGOZ-58NLCB\nhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/12/011204072931.htm\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/03/nyregion/03TOWE.html?ei=5007&en=a2c62eb2b42cf30c&ex=1385874000&adxnnl=1\nhttp://www.structuremag.org/Archives/2007-11/SF-WTC7-Gilsanz-Nov07.pdf\nhttp://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/2001-0911_WTC/2002-0500_LA-Firefighter_WTC-BuildingCollapse_Dunn.htm\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20030318161949/www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/plumbingengineer/1202PE08.pdf\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20040611082219/www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/plumbingengineer/wtc-rs-all.pdf\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20011121111750/http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/NYTimes91801.htm\nhttp://www.learning-org.com/01.09/0073.html\nhttp://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread467869/pg1\nhttp://www.asce.org/pdf/5-1-02wtc_testimony.pdf\nhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3287\n\nSeptember 11, 2001\nCrashes Destroy Engineering Wonders\nThe 110-story towers, the tallest buildings in the city and the fifth and sixth tallest in the world, collapsed in billows of debris following two plane crashes to their sides. Despite initial damage from the crashes, the two towers remained standing for just over an hour and appeared to be a testimony to the abilities of structural engineering.\nABC News\n\nSeptember 11, 2001\nEngineers Shocked by Towers’ Collapse\nThe World Trade Center, a symbol of American economic might, survived one terrorist attack in 1993. It was designed to withstand the impact of a jet, but both its towers collapsed this morning after planes rammed them.\nChicago Tribune\n\nSeptember 12, 2001\nHow the World Trade Center Fell\nThe design of the World Trade Center saved thousands of lives by standing for well over an hour after the planes crashed into its twin towers, say structural engineers. But the towers' ultimate collapse was inevitable, as the steel cores inside them reached temperatures of 800C - raising questions why hundreds of rescue workers were sent into the doomed buildings to their deaths.\nBBC\n\nSeptember 12, 2001\nFire, Not Crashes, Caused Buildings to Collapse, Experts say\nExperts in skyscraper construction said video of the collapse led them to believe the towers were perhaps weakened by the initial impact of the airplanes that hit them Tuesday, but that heat from the resulting fire likely was the most punishing blow.\nThe News Sun\n\nSeptember 12, 2001\nExperts: Impact, Fire Too Much for Twin Towers\nExperts agreed that collapse of the two towers was almost inevitable, for while their "tube structure" design was their greatest source of strength, it was also an Achilles' heel. For someone who wanted to bring them down, a gasoline-filled guided missile was perhaps the only way.\nSt. Petersburg Times\n\nSeptember 12, 2001\nTwin Towers Couldn't Sustain Attack\nMany asked how the Twin Towers could have collapsed. Experts in skyscraper design and construction say it was probably simple: The 110-story towers were conceived to withstand powerful impacts, but their steel skeletons couldn't protect them from thousands of gallons of flaming jet fuel.\nAP via Yahoo!\n\nSeptember 13, 2001\nExtreme Heat, 'Pancaking' Doom Towers into Rubble 2,000-degree Fire Wilts Steel\nStrange as it sounds, the World Trade Center towers lived up to engineers' hopes in the moments after two hijacked jets slammed into their upper floors Tuesday morning.\nUSA Today\n\nSeptember 13, 2001\nInteractive Graphic of the Collapse by USA Today\nWith data on impact and heat after the Towers were hit.\nUSA Today\n\nSeptember 13, 2001\nInteractive: WTC Attack\nWith interactive chart drawn by AP.\nAP via Yahoo!\n\nSeptember 13, 2001\nWhy the towers collapsed\nA chart to explain reasons of the collapse.\nSydney Morning Herald\n\nSeptember 13, 2001\n2 Planes Hit Twin Towers at the Weakest Spot\nThe terrorists who piloted two planes into the World Trade Center apparently managed--either by careful calculation or evil luck--to have hit the buildings at their weakest spot to cause their disastrous collapse, structural engineers said Tuesday.\nLA Times\n\nSeptember 13, 2001\nWeb Site Lists Safety Of Loved Ones Following Terrorist Attacks\nA University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor and two computer science students created a Web site today (Tuesday, Sept. 11) to help the public find out about the safety of loved ones affected by the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.\nScience Daily\n\nSeptember 17, 2001\nInferno Heat, Not Impact, Brought Down Towers, Experts Say\nThe structures withstood the initial impact of the two jetliners that crashed into them after being hijacked. But the steel columns supporting the damaged floors could not withstand the intense temperatures produced by the fireball of burning jet fuel, experts say.\nNational Geographic\n\nSeptember 19, 2001\nGravity Helped Terrorists Destroy Twin Towers\nThough terrorists triggered the collapse of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, much of the energy -- calculated by a physicist to have been at least 2 percent that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima -- was supplied by Nature's most ubiquitous force: gravity.\nSpace\n\nhttp://www.icivilengineer.com/News/WTC/background.php\nhttp://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0112/Eagar/Eagar-0112.html\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20020224054427/http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/Gewain.htm\n\n"No interior columns" http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/GoStructural_WTC_History.pdf\n\nApril 2002 - NOVA "Why The Towers Fell" with [[Gene Corley]] and [[Charles Thorton]] [[(transcript)|http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2907_wtc.html]]\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/bios.html\nExplination Given:\n1. Fireproofing easily blown off.\n2. Floors collapsed.\n3. Columns buckled outward.\n\nhttp://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a101904nisthypothesis#a101904nisthypothesis\nhttp://911research.wtc7.net/cache/wtc/official/nist/nyt_1020towers.html\n\n\n \nSeptember 18, 2001, Tuesday\n\nDefending Skyscrapers Against Terror\n\nBy KENNETH CHANG\n\nNo one designs a skyscraper to withstand the direct hit of a fully fueled 767, and construction engineers agree that such an attack would have doomed almost any high-rise.\n\nEach World Trade Center tower absorbed the impact of a jet with a shudder, as each was designed to do, and stood.\n\nInside, though, 2,OOO-degree infernos started burning, fed by thousands of gallons of jet fuel.\n\nIt then became a question of time. Would the fuel burn up first or would the steel columns weaken and buckle under the heat?\n\nFor the people on floors above the crash site, there was another critical factor: an ordinary fire would take two or three hours to burn through the gypsum wallboard around .the stairwells --but projectiles of plane wreckage almost certainly pierced through, letting in the fire and smoke. That trapped people on the upper floors.\n\nThe south tower collapsed 56 minutes after impact. The north tower lasted an hour and 40 rninutes.\n\nSomeone probably could build a fortress skyscraper. "Given enough money, we can design anything," said Dr. Charles H. Thornton, chairman of the Thornton-Tomasetti Group Inc. of New York City, the structural engineering firm that worked on the 1,483-foot-tall Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.\n \nBut no one would pay to build one, and no one would want to work there. Such a building would probably have the aesthetic appeal of a containment vessel of a nuclear power plant, which is designed to survive the crash of a falling 747.\n\nIn the decades since the World Trade Center was built, however, new materials and building techniques --some used on the more recent super skyscrapers like the Petronas Towers --may have given people more time to escape.\n\nThe key would have been slowing the fires. The sprinkler systems offered little help.\n\nEven if the pipes survived the impact, the sprinklers of a typical skyscraper put out a few hundred gallons of water a minute for half an hour, Dr. Thornton said, and water would have been useless against a fuel fire in any case. (Water and oil don't mix; droplets of water sink into the fuel, turn into hot steam and explode, and the fuel continues burning. )\n\nBy contrast, an anti-fire system at an aircraft hangar can unleash a deluge of 120,000 gallons a minute of water and foam --which sticks to burning fuel-- for two hours straight, Dr. Thornton said.\n\nSince extinguishing the fire is impossible, "You have to build a more rugged building," said Dr. R. Brady Williamson, an emeritus professor of civil engineering at the University of California at Berkeley.\n\nThe main ingredients of any skyscraper are steel and concrete. Both are strong, but in different ways. Concrete bears more weight; steel can bend without breaking. The World Trade Center's supporting columns were made of steel, and the intense heat would have caused the girders to expand, distorting their shape and sapping their strength, leading to the collapse.\n\n"It's better to build in reinforced concrete," said Dr. Mir M. Ali, a professor of architecture at the University of Illinois. "If there is an impact, crash or explosion, it can absorb the energy better. That makes the building less vulnerable."\n\nBut reinforced concrete --concrete with steel bars inside --is heavier. When\n\nconstruction began on the World Trade Center in the late 1960's, concrete was not a viable option because it would have required huge, unwieldy pillars to support the towers' weight. But high-strength concrete developed in recent years has made it more practical.\n\n"The trend is toward more concrete," Dr. Mir said. "The technology has substantially improved. An all-concrete structure would have lasted longer."\n\nEach of the two Petronas Towers has an outer ring of 16 7-foot-wide columns made of concrete and at the center of each tower is a 75-foot by 75-foot concrete core --almost a building within a building --that houses the stairwells and elevator shafts.\n \nConcrete --a mix of cement, sand and gravel --is not impervious to heat. The cement expands at a different rate than the sand and gravel, causing cracks. Under intense heat, some types of concrete can flake apart at about three- quarters of an inch an hour, eventually exposing the steel inside.\n\n"It ultimately would lose its strength," Dr. Thornton said\n\nThe concrete core of the Petronas Towers may have remained intact under a similar crash and provided a better escape route than the gypsum-walled stairwells of the World Trade Center.\n\n"In our buildings, most of the stairways are in the core, which is a very safe haven," Dr. Thomton said. The cores of the Petronas Towers are also pressurized to keep smoke and fire out of the stairwells.\n\nIn addition to building more fire-resistant structures, another protection against crashing airplanes would be to keep the jet fuel from entering the interior of the building.\n\nAt the University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, a professor of structural engineering, has been developing a new construction technique --bolting half-inch steel plates to six-inch concrete walls --to create buildings that can better survive earthquakes. "The concrete wall prevents the steel from buckling," Dr. Astaneh-Asl said. "The steel prevents the concrete from cracking and shattering. When you marry them, they become very good."\n\nIn tests, a half -scale, three-story building proved capable of surviving four magnitude-9 earthquakes. While the wreckage of the 767's flew into the interior of the World Trade Center, the extra mass of concrete and steel walls would have absorbed much of the planes' momentum.\n\n"Most of the fracturing of the plane will take place outside of the building, not inside," Dr. Astaneh- AsI said. That is the same fundamental physics that make the S. U .v. the lesser damaged in a collision with a motorcycle.\n\nMuch of the fuel would have then splashed against the outside of the building instead of igniting inside, Dr. Astaneh-Asl said.\n\nThe World Trade Center attack may lead developers to regard a terrorist attack as a risk to be planned for instead of an unthinkable one-time tragedy.\n\n"The perception of the terrorist threat is where earthquake hazards were in the mid- to late 1960's," said Dr. Jeremy Isenberg, president and chief at Weidlinger Associates, a consulting firm that once helped design resilient military bases and missile silos, and now offers its expertise for federal and commercial buildings. "It took a series of three or four damaging earthquakes to drive home to owners of buildings that they had financial assets at risk."\n\nDevelopers may now request that more resilience be built into new buildings and into old ones being remodelled, Dr. Isenberg said.\n\nWhile perhaps not much can protect against kamikaze jetliners, other simple steps may help protect against lesser attacks. Large, heavy cement flower pots, like those placed around the World Trade Center after the 1993 bombing, keep a car bomb a safe distance from the structural columns. Concrete walls around loading docks and mail rooms can be thickened to protect against bomb blasts. Jackets of graphite fibers wrapped around columns make them less likely to collapse. Protective glaze can be added to windows to make them less likely to shatter .\n \nIn planning for new buildings, structural designers are now more likely to add more redundancy where the collapse of one column does not lead to the collapse of the entire building, as occurred in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City .\n\nDr. Thornton said that in one sense, taller buildings are safer than midrise buildings; taller buildings are less likely to topple because their builders generally provided more redundancy into the structures. The design of skyscrapers 50 stories or more, has been "generally very robust," said Dr. Thornton. "For 40 or less, it's not."\n\nBut the taller buildings make a more tempting target for terrorists.\n\nOrganizations mentioned in this article:\n\nRelated Terms:\n\nBuildings (Structures ); Accidents and Safety; Disasters; Terrorism; Architecture; World Trade Center (NYC)\n\nYou may print this article now, or save it on your computer for future reference. Instructions. for saving this article on your computer are also available.\n\nCopyright 2001 The New York Times Company\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20011121111750/http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/NYTimes91801.htm\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20011121115318/http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/MannyHerraResponse.htm\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20020811072714/http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/CanadianJournalist.htm\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20030225015119/http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/NIST+STatement.html\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20030319010351/http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/Editorial_Structure_October2001.pdf \nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20011121114536/http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/ExpertsGatherChicagoTribune.html\nhttp://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/GoStructural_WTC_History.pdf \nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20020224054427/http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/Gewain.htm \nhttp://web.archive.org/web/*hh_/www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/FerrellEngineering/TomFerrellPresentation.pps\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20031105153715/www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/PlumbingEngineer/0703pe08.pdf\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20030319001442/http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/CollapseoftheWorldTradeCenterTowersRev1.pdf\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20060901112600/http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/SEIScans.pdf\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20030318014912/http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/STRUCTURE/Structure_Cover.pdf\n\nhttp://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110002.PDF\n(abc news interview) http://web.archive.org/web/20020508075727/http://www.acfd.com/miracle_of_ladder_company_6.htm\n\n\n''Reports indicate that the impact of each plane compromised the structural integrity of each tower, knocking out perimeter columns and the interior structure. The explosions then caused further damage, sweeping through several floors. "These were airliners scheduled for long flights, full of fuel, causing massive explosions," says Richard M. Kielar, a Tishman senior vice president. "No structure could have sustained this kind of assault," says Kielar.\n\nAs the fires burned, the structural steel on the breached floors and above would have softened and warped because of the intense heat, say sources. Fireproofed steel is only rated to resist 1,500 to 1,600° F. As the structure warped and weakened at the top of each tower, the frame, along with concrete slabs, furniture, file cabinets, and other materials, became an enormous, consolidated weight that eventually crushed the lower portions of the frame below. Massive Assault Doomed Towers (9/12/01): http://web.archive.org/web/20010915231336/http://www.enr.com/news/enrbld_091201a.asp''\n\n''A big question for implosion expert Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition Inc., the Phoenix, Md., is why the twin towers appeared to have collapsed in such different ways.\nObserving the collapses on television news, Loizeaux says the 1,362-ft-tall south tower, which was hit at about the 60th floor, failed much as one wouldlike fell a tree. That is what was expected, says Loizeaux. But the 1,368-ft-tall north tower, similarly hit but at about the 90th floor, "telescoped," says Loizeaux. It failed vertically, he adds, rather than falling over. "I don't have a clue," says Loizeaux, regarding the cause of the telescoping. Massive Assault Doomed Towers (9/12/01): http://web.archive.org/web/20010915231336/http://www.enr.com/news/enrbld_091201a.asp''\n

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[[Events]]\n[img[http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/sn87a/sn87a.jpg]]\n[[Chandra X-Ray Observatory|http://chandra.harvard.edu/]]\n[[Hubble Heritage Image Gallery|http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/gallery_category.html]]\n[[Hubble Space Telescope|http://hubblesite.org/]]\n[[The Atlas Of The Universe|http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/index.html]]\n[[XMM-Newton Observatory|http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/]]\n[[NASA Planetary Photojournal|http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html]]\n[[The University Of Arizona Department Of Astronomy and Steward Observatory|http://www.as.arizona.edu/]]\n\n[img[http://www.spaceweather.com/images2007/15aug07/midi163.gif]]\n\n

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_market

[[FDA]]\n[[Refrigeration]]\n[[Garden]] \n\n[[Edible Perennials|http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&redirs=0&search=edible+perennials&fulltext=Search&ns0=1]]\n\n''[[Doomsday seed vault's stores are growing|http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Doomsday_seed_vaults_stores_are_growing_0216.html]]''\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfberry\nhttp://efoodsdirect.com/products.html\nhttp://www.survival-center.com/foodfaq/\nhttp://www.backwoodshome.com/\nhttp://science.slashdot.org/science/08/03/16/2347253.shtml\nhttp://www2.nysun.com/article/74994\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/opinion/26borlaug.html?th&emc=th\nhttp://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/aquaponic.html\nhttp://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Greed_behind_food_price_rises_devel_05062008.html\nhttp://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Inflation_pressures_ease_despite_fo_05142008.html\nhttp://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=764962\nhttp://standeyo.com/NEWS/08_Food_Water/080721.Mountain.House.html\nhttp://www.therealfoodchannel.com/\nhttp://rense.com/general86/ppos.htm

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|SODIUM FLUORIDE|\n[[Sodium Fluoride MSDS|http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/SO/sodium_fluoride.html]]\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_fluoride\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride_poisoning\n\nStability: \nStable. Solvated by water. Reacts with mineral acids to generate highly toxic [[hydrogen fluoride|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofluoric_acid]] (LD50 500mg/kg). Incompatible with glass.\n\nToxicology: \nVery toxic by ingestion, inhalation and skin contact. 4g may be fatal. May cause burns. Severe eye irritant. Chronic exposure may cause lung damage. \n\n[[TLV]] 2.5 mg/m3 (as F).\n\nToxicity data:\n Oral-Rat LD50 80 mg kg-1\n IPR-RAT LD50 2 mg kg-1\n Oral-Rabbit LD50 200 mg kg-1 \n Oral-Woman [[LDLO]] 90 mg kg-1\n Oral-Human [[LDLO]] 71 mg kg-1\n\n\n|ELEMENTAL ARSENIC|\n[[Elemental Arsenic MSDS|http://www.physchem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/AR/arsenic.html]]\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_poisoning\n\nStability:\nStable. Incompatible with acids, oxidizing agents, halogens. Heat and air sensitive.\n\nToxicology:\nVery toxic. May be fatal if inhaled, swallowed or absorbed through the skin. This is a known human carcinogen. May cause reproductive disorders\n\nToxicity data:\nORL-RAT LD50 763 mg kg-1\nIPR-RAT LD50 13 mg kg-1\nORL-Mouse LD50 145 mg kg-1\nIPR-Mouse LD50 46 mg kg-1\n\n\n\nAs can be seen from the toxicity data of both sodium fluoride and elemental arsenic, they are comparable in toxicity. Let's assume for a moment that arsenic has the ability to stabilize tooth enamel (in reality it doesn't); if there were a proposition to put arsenic in the drinking water and toothpaste because of this property, would it make sense to you? As an aside, I once got some sodium fluoride on my wrist, and yes, it did burn me...\n\n\n\n\n

Threshold Limit Value\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_Limit_Value

Leave the internet alone.\n\nhttp://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/2044233/FCC-Declares-Intention-To-Enforce-Net-Neutrality\n\n\nhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/in-boston-a-shot-heard-_b_89142.html\nhttp://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/07/2351252\nhttp://www.eff.org/testyourisp/switzerland\nhttp://rawstory.com/news/2008/FCC_backs_Net_Neutrality_orders_Comcast_0802.html\nhttp://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/10/01/2122243.shtml

\nhttp://www.fda.gov/search.html\nhttp://www2.gsu.edu/~mstnrhx/edsc84/dyecont.htm\nhttp://www.acresusa.com/magazines/magazine.htm\nhttp://www.archive.org/download/AlexJones-AcresusaInterview/Alex_Jones_2007-07-17_acresusa.mp3\nhttp://consumerist.com/consumer/cosmetics/60-of-lipsticks-contain-lead-310028.php\n\n[img[Blue no.1|http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Brilliant_Blue_FCF.png/250px-Brilliant_Blue_FCF.png]]\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Blue_FCF\n"It has previously been banned in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland among others but has been certified as a safe food additive in the EU and is today unbanned in most of the countries. In the United States production exceeds 1 million pounds annually, and daily consumption is around 16 mg per person."\n\nhttp://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=274571\n[[Glucose Poisoning Epidemic]]\n\n<html>\n<embed src="http://www.leechvideo.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" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="464" height="412"></embed>\n</html>

[[PSYOP]]\n\nFear stifles critical thinking.\n\nhttp://infowars.com/articles/terror/fake_terror_alerts_everything_terror_unites_states_of_hysteria.htm\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/16786

The west is perfectly happy with him when [[we help|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein#cite_ref-14]] [[him to|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein#Foreign_affairs]] [[power|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein_-_United_States_relations]] because "our enemy's enemy is our friend", but once he does his own thing then he's some evil who should be destroyed, conveniently ignoring the history of how he got there.\n\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=484162\nhttp://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/10/205859.shtml\nhttp://isole.ecn.org/golfo/eng/articles/doc33eng.html\nhttp://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/cia_iraq.htm\n\nUnchecked info:\nhttp://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3717 (the "real" Saddam pics are too low res to make a valid comparison IMO)

\n<html>\n<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oO2yT0uBQbM&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oO2yT0uBQbM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>\n</html>\n\n\n\nhttp://nasathermalimages.com/media/Alex_Jones_2007-08-16_richard_gage.mp3\n\nhttp://mp3.wtprn.com/INNRadio/0710/20071007_Sun_INNRadio.m3u\nhttp://xml.wtprn.com/INNRadio/0710/20071007_Sun_INNRadio1.mp3 \nhttp://xml.wtprn.com/INNRadio/0710/20071007_Sun_INNRadio2.mp3 (Richard Gage interview)\n\nhttp://www.911blogger.com/node/8079\nhttp://www.911blogger.com/node/10025\n\nhttp://mp3.wtprn.com/TRR/0705/20070514_Mon_TRR.mp3 [[(source)|http://mp3.wtprn.com/TRR07.html]]\nhttp://www.mediamax.com/vimanaboy/Links/8B764ACF8D\n\nhttp://www.911blogger.com/node/10025?page=1\n\nhttp://aud1.kpfa.org:80//data/20070905-Wed1300.mp3 [[(source)|http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=22116]]\n\nhttp://www.alexjonesfan58.com/mp3/20070906_alexjones_richardgage.mp3\n\nhttp://www.911blogger.com/node/9381\n\nhttp://www.911blogger.com/node/9881\n\nhttp://pocono911truth.com/files/chucksheen/Video/911/Full.DVDs/Richard.Gage.SSU.iso\n\nhttp://media.libsyn.com/media/visibility911/richard_gage_krfc.mp3\nhttp://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=24521\n\nhttp://www.wtic.com/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=1083156\nhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/profile.aspx?userid=1366\n\nhttp://www.telecinco.es/informativos/internacional/noticia/51928/Un+arquitecto+estadounidense+presenta+su+version+alternativa+al+11S+en+Madrid\nhttp://www.atlas-news.com/noticias/libre/internacional/2008/11/08/noticia_33909.shtml

http://www.mindat.org/min-1576.html

http://www.mindat.org/min-1161.html

[[Classified Documents]]\n\n[[Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba - AKA Operation Northwoods|http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf]]\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20050912001704/http://www.painfuldeceptions.com/Cuba.html\n[[Operation SMASHER]]\n

[[Fluoride]]\n[[Periodic Table Of The Elements]]\n\nhttp://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/shockers.html\nhttp://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/\nhttp://yarchive.net\nhttp://www.roguesci.org/\nhttp://www.corrosionsource.com/technicallibrary/corrdoctors/Modules/HotCorrosion/Frames.htm\nhttp://openmopac.net/data_solids/Gypsum (CaSO4_2H2O)_Jmol.html\nhttp://www.webmineral.com/jpowd/JPX/jpowd.php?target_file=Gypsum_1.jpx\nhttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Gypsum.shtml

Randy said...\n\n The electoral college is needed now more than ever. It was not set up as a convenience - it was set up because we are not a democracy. We are a Representative Republic. Majority rule is Mob rule, and that is what a direct vote would be.\n\n New York, Califirnia, Texas and FLorida could vote to turn Wyoming into a nuclear dump, and there wouldn't be a darned thing Wyomiong could do about it.\n\n The 3 most populous states shouldn't get exclusive rights to elect the Prewsident.

Intercellular Voltage 10eV\n10,000 4.15MeV Alpha /min\nBeta\nGamma\nX-Ray\nover 300mrem/hr\n\n\n<html>\n<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pg2NHfoC2pc"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pg2NHfoC2pc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>\n\n<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gvIqhVnaalo"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gvIqhVnaalo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>\n\n<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WgQ79-oDX2o"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WgQ79-oDX2o" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>\n\n</html>\n\nhttp://ipsnews.net/text/news.asp?idnews=42762

\n''Editors Note: This list is outdated. I cant keep track of all the people who are working for justice and freedom. We outnumber the opposition.''\n\n\n[[Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth]]\n[[http://patriotsquestion911.org|http://patriotsquestion911.org]]\n[[http://911summary.com|http://911summary.com]]\n[[The Open Source Movement]]\n\nFallen:\n[[Aaron Russo]]\n[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]\n[[John F. Kennedy]]\n[[Pat Tillman]]\n[[John O'Neill]]\n[[Martin Luther King, Jr]]\n[[Irena Sendler]]\n\nWorking:\n[[Alex Jones]]\n[[Rep. Ron Paul]]\n[[Richard Gage|Richard Gage]]\n[[Kevin Ryan]]\n[[Steven Jones]]\n[[Neils Harrit]]\n[[Robert M. Bowman]]\n[[Sibel Edmonds]]\n[[Luke Rudkowski]]\n[[Karen Johnson]]\n[[Dennis Kucinich]]\n[[Yukihisa Fujita]]\n[[Robert Wright]]\n[[Janeane Garofalo]]\n[[David Schippers]]\n[[Peter Dale Scott]]\n[[Michael Badnarik]]\n[[Charles M. Beck|0609105]]\n[[Paul Craig Roberts]]\n[[Cynthia McKinney]]\n[[Charley Sheen]]\n[[Jerome Corsi]]\n[[Lou Dobbs]]\n[[Sen. Wellstone]]\n[[Randall Kelton]]\n[[Jessie Ventura]]\n[[Deborah Stevens]]\n[[John Judge]]\n[[Graeme MacQueen]]\n[[Robert Balsamo]]\n[[Daniel Hopsicker]]\n[[Lynn Margulis]]\n[[Kevin Barrett]]\n[[Martin Sheen]]\n[[Nate Flach]]\n[[Cindy Sheehan]]\n[[Carl Malamud]]\n[[Vincent Bugliosi]]\n[[Whistleblowers]]\n\n\n\n\nPeople in the msm who have "questions":\n[[Robert Frisk]]\n[[Bo Dietl]]\n\nGood Comedians:\n[[George Carlyn]]\n[[Doug Stanhope]]\n[[Bill Hicks]]\n\n\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/nyregion/30wire-chaplain.html\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/12428\nhttp://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=6228\n\n[[Mayor Finkbeiner]]\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7308077.stm

''Links:'' [[TimeBank]] (moneyless service exchange)\n\n''* NOTE: 0x1a is a community effort. ''\n''* Big shout out to Nate Flach ([[Xenomorph911|http://www.youtube.com/xenomorph911wtc]]) who is responsible for much of the video available here.''\n\n''Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, lies your calling. -Aristotle''\n\n''Hitler knows what Nano-Thermite in the WTC dust means: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbRc1BhXjvA''\n\n''Call Into Radio Stations: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/materials/radiostations.pdf''\n{{indent{''Like This:''\n{{indent{{{indent{''http://nate.flach.s3.amazonaws.com/WJ_Clip1.wmv''\n{{indent{{{indent{''http://nate.flach.s3.amazonaws.com/WJ_Clip2.wmv''\n{{indent{{{indent{''http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-6SHbjYWqA''\n{{indent{{{indent{''http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-908716809893415856''\n{{indent{{{indent{''http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR4dEd7StAc''\n\n''1. People respond better and are more open to information if they feel they have discovered it, as opposed to to information that they were wrong about something.\n2. Don't separate yourself from the people your trying to convince. The term "9/11 Truther" does not apply to the general population. We are all people.\n3. Try not to bring religion into the discussion unless it's in a positive light to a receptive person.\n4. Discussions get further than arguments.\n5. Listen to the other person, do not talk over them.\n6. Don't hesitate to admit that you don't know something.\n7. Better to talk about points of mutual agreement first, and slowly push the edge, rather to declare that "now we will discuss what we do not agree on".\n8. Defining the "opponents" positions beforehand is counter-productive, and generally only serves to make sure they are "proven wrong" in the end. When our central thesis is that people are un-informed, there's no point in making someone scribe in stone "I believe the official story" before starting a discussion about it.\n9. Be respectful.\n10. Be polite.\n11. Be professional.\n12. Never be condescending.\n13. When the conversation goes immature, don't degrade with it.... but realise this is a defence tactic and what you were doing isn't working.\n14. Don't keep pressing, move on. The same information will, in time, come from other sources to the person.\n15. Try not to speculate.\n16. Don't talk "at" the other person. Talk with the other person.\n17. Non-confrontational encounters recover more information.\n18. Pay attention to how symbols are used to trigger modes of thinking. For example, "9/11" vs. "09/11/01".''\n\n''[[Legalize Competing Currencies|http://www.house.gov/htbin/blog_inc?BLOG,tx14_paul,blog,999,All,Item not found,ID=100125_3633,TEMPLATE=postingdetail.shtml]]''\n''Close The'' ''"''[[Federal Reserve]]''"''\n''End'' [[The War On Drugs]]\n''Stop the'' [[Police State]]\n''_~ANNIHILATE_ the [[The False Left Right Paradigm]]''\n''Support [[AE911Truth.org|http://ae911truth.org]]''\n''Fix [[Copyright Law]]''\nContact Office of Inspector General\nhttp://www.oig.doc.gov/oig/hotline/000016.html\n''[[Recall Them All|http://recallthemall.com/]]''\n''Support [[The Electronic Frontier Foundation|http://eff.org]]''\n''[[Keep The Stars Visible|http://darksky.org]]''\n''File [[Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)]] requests for all relevant data.''\n''Find the organization that you feel is most important and support them with time or money.''\n''Question People:'' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUcNU9mLjv4\n''Support: http://www.formula4409.com/''\nhttp://foavc.org/\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcSSwW4K4AU\nhttp://www.dailymotion.com/JeanMarieBigard\nhttp://www.campaignforliberty.com/\n''Freedoms Phoenix Radio is on the Air!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VlomqA9qnA''\nhttp://911truthburn.blogspot.com/\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rRE5UK6NQU\n[img(100%,100%)[http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/9296/091152909.jpg|http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/9296/091152909.jpg]]\n\n''Audit the Federal Reserve: HR 1207 and S 604: http://www.ronpaul.com/on-the-issues/audit-the-federal-reserve-hr-1207/''\n\n[[http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/video/DVD_Vigil_at_NIST.wmv|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/video/DVD_Vigil_at_NIST.wmv]] [[(divx)|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/video/DVD_Vigil at NIST.divx]]\n\nhttp://faxfortruth.com/wordpress/\nCareer Suicide for Cap and Trade "Yes" Votes?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNPqYsFhgQo\nhttp://www.abc15.com/content/news/phoenixmetro/story/Valley-activists-working-to-protest-photo-radar/CfKdulyJ0EGDqa7OXX2BuA.cspx\nhttp://wearechangearizona.org\nhttp://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0209/Read_the_bill_okay.html?showall\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/17002\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/13564\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_OIXfkXEj0\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/12056\nhttp://wearechange.org\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/tracker/\nhttp://houston911truth.org/2007/09/12/houston-we-have-a-solution/\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/15238\nhttp://www.ae911truth.org/actions/\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/10776\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/10822\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/11846\nhttp://911research.wtc7.net/materials/wtc/index.html\nhttp://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2008/01/secrets-of-persuasion-for-truth.html\nhttp://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/84437/?page=entire\nhttp://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080516144757.0ds7otes&show_article=1&image=large\nhttp://rawstory.com/news/2008/Raw_reporter_reprimanded_for_raising_hand_0522.html\nhttp://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1214137061?bctid=1233395616\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/13604\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/15677\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/16290\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/16301\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/16215\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080919/ap_on_el_st_lo/prosecuting_bush_2\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090116/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_shoe_thrower\nhttp://www.baltimoregrassrootsmedia.org/Videos/files/902786c6deb6cf42db9df111e74239f5-37.html\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEn_6vqp17Y&NR=1\n4th of July Parade 09, Northside, Cincinnati: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vC5XfVi2JM\n\nFix this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_demolition_hypothesis_for_the_collapse_of_the_World_Trade_Center\n\n<html>\n<embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-9041549919600647555&hl=en" flashvars=""> </embed>\n</html>\n\n<html>\n</object>\n<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9ft_kxqwexY&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9ft_kxqwexY&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>\n</html>\n\n<html>\n<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/co3Spcq6Uzs&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/co3Spcq6Uzs&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>\n</html>\n\nHelp Simon ~McManus develop [[ccTiddly]]\n\n''[[9/11 Truthers Ignore Geopolitical Reality|http://www.opednews.com/articles/9-11-Truthers-Ignore-Geopo-by-George-Washington-090209-33.html]]''\n\n''READ THE BILL! Congressman John Conyers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi3ZeSW3Aw8''\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbLlz2HfuY0\n\n''When did America become a nation of frightened wimps?: http://steve-olson.com/when-did-america-become-a-nation-of-frightened-wimps/''\n\n''Hitler knows what Nano-Thermite in the WTC dust means: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbRc1BhXjvA''\n\nThe "collapse" was controlled demolition.\nBuildings do not explode because they are on fire.\nJumbo jets can not demolish skyscrapers.\nThey fell too fast.\n\n\n\n\n\n

From: http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic181.htm\n\nBackground: Fluoride toxicity is characterized by a variety of signs and symptoms. Poisoning most commonly occurs following ingestion (accidental or intentional) of fluoride-containing products. Symptom onset usually occurs within minutes of exposure.\n\nFluoride is found in many common household products, including toothpaste (eg, sodium monofluorophosphate), dietary supplements (eg, sodium fluoride), glass-etching or chrome-cleaning agents (eg, ammonium bifluoride), and insecticides and rodenticides (eg, sodium fluoride). Historically, most cases of fluoride toxicity have followed accidental ingestion of insecticides or rodenticides.\n\nPathophysiology: Fluoride has several mechanisms of toxicity. Ingested fluoride initially acts locally on the intestinal mucosa. It can form hydrofluoric acid in the stomach, which leads to GI irritation or corrosive effects. Following ingestion, the GI tract is the earliest and most commonly affected organ system.\n\nOnce absorbed, fluoride binds calcium ions and may lead to hypocalcemia. Fluoride has direct cytotoxic effects and interferes with a number of enzyme systems; it disrupts oxidative phosphorylation, glycolysis, coagulation, and neurotransmission (by binding calcium). Fluoride inhibits Na+/K+ -~ATPase, which may lead to hyperkalemia by extracellular release of potassium. Fluoride inhibits acetylcholinesterase, which may be partly responsible for hypersalivation, vomiting, and diarrhea (cholinergic signs). Seizures may result from both hypomagnesemia and hypocalcemia. Severe fluoride toxicity will result in multiorgan failure. Central vasomotor depression as well as direct cardiotoxicity also may occur. Death usually results from respiratory paralysis, dysrhythmia, or cardiac failure.\n\nFrequency:\n\n * In the US: In 2004, the American Association of Poison Control Centers reported 24,180 exposures involving toothpaste with fluoride.\n\n Only 440 cases were actually treated in the emergency department. \n\nMortality/Morbidity: One death from ingestion of fluoride toothpaste was reported to the American Association of Poison Control Centers in 2002.\n\nNo deaths were reported in 2004.\n\n * Death may result from ingesting as little as 2 g of fluoride in an adult and 16 mg/kg in children. Symptoms may appear with 3-5 mg/kg of fluoride.\n\n * Estimated toxic dose for fluoride ingestion is 5-10 mg/kg.\n\n * Estimated lethal dose is 5-10 g (32-64 mg/kg) in adults and 500 mg in small children.\n\nAge: Children younger than 6 years account for the vast majority of the cases. In 2004, this age group had a total 21,890 exposures, while adults 19 years and older had only 1213 exposures.\n\n * Infants and children usually have accidental exposures.\n\n * Adults usually have intentional exposures.\n\nINSANE - http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/general/teeth/fluoride.html

\n * [[National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive|http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html]]\n * [[Executive Order 7/17/07|http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html]]\n * [[Universal National Service Act of 2003|http://www.theorator.com/bills108/hr163.html]]\n * [[Rebuilding America's Defenses (Check page 63)|http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf]]\n * http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/odp/docs/pdd39.htm\n\n\nThe United States Constitution 1787\nComplete document required reading. The instruction manual for America.\nhttp://pyrabang.com?id=3c894a\n\nWar Department Duties of Citizenship 1928\nTraining manual given to ww1 vets after army draw down. Teaches duties of citizenship\nhttp://pyrabang.com?id=eea842\n\nEmergency Banking Relief Act 1933\nCongress overthrew the Constitution in 1933. The USA died and hasn't been revived.\nhttp://pyrabang.com?id=3c69d5\n\nFreedom From War Pub 7277 1961\nDepartment of State. Disarm all except UN. World government. dissolve US military.\nhttp://pyrabang.com?id=add399\n\nSummary Of Emergency Powers 1973\nSenate Document describes why the us constitution is no longer used. US died in 1933.\nhttp://pyrabang.com?id=eef738\n\nOur American Government 2000\nCongressional document describing our form of government etc.\nhttp://pyrabang.com?id=a3db35\n\nNational Emergency Powers 2001\nContinuation of the elite overthrow of the Constitution. Presidential Caesar powers.\nhttp://pyrabang.com?id=b9ef14\n\nCivilian Inmate Labor Program 2005\nArmy Regulation 210-35 placing civilians labor camps. Not for prisoners, for you!\nhttp://pyrabang.com?id=ee60a3\n\nAre You A Terrorist? Find Out Here\nHomeland Security extremism doc for law enforcement. Radicalized Americans. Are you one?\nhttp://pyrabang.com?id=ea19d2\n\n\n\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/11021\n[[Declassified Documents]]

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Has a half life of 4.5 BILLION YEARS.\nExtremely Toxic.\n\nIt's killing our solders and turning the middle east into a toxic wasteland. The people running this war are (literally) Satanists.\n\nhttp://rawstory.com/2009/11/fallujahs-infants-suffer-sharp-rise-birth-defects/\n\n<html>\n<object width="640" height="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/P-8PlJVhogs"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/P-8PlJVhogs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>\n</html>\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7373946.stm\nhttp://www.snowshoefilms.com/transrosalie1to7.html

Pro-Immigration\nPro-Open Borders\nANTI-GUN\n[[CFR]] Member\n\n<html>\n<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y0IBQCw0aEg"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y0IBQCw0aEg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>\n</html>\n\n''http://nasathermalimages.com/media/Alex_Jones_2007-07-27_fred_thompson.mp3\nA CFR member who is not aware of North American Union plan??? Bullshit. He's a liar too.''\n\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/11000\n\n\n1. Anti-gun terror bill (S. 735 )\nOn June 7, 1995, the Senate passed an anti-gun terror bill (S. 735) by a vote of 91-8. This version of the terror bill included: a BATF pay increase of $100 million; a provision authorizing “roving wiretaps” allowing government officials to wiretap one’s home if a person under investigation visits the home — even if one had no knowledge the person was a suspect; a weakening of the Posse Commitatus law to give the military more authority to get involved in law enforcement in certain circumstances; a grant of power to the FBI to conduct “fishing expeditions” and secure one’s financial and travel records in certain circumstances without any evidence one has committed a crime; and finally, the “Randy Weaver entrapment provision” which extends the statute of limitations for violations under the National Firearms Act of 1934 from three to five years. Thompson voted in favor of the bill.\n\n2. Anti-gun terror bill — final passage\nOn April 17, 1996, the Senate passed the conference version of the anti-terrorism bill by a vote of 91-8. The final version of the bill (S. 735) contained several problems, including ones that will: order an “anti-hunter” rifle and ammo study; authorize a $40 million pay increase for the BATF (through the Treasury Department); potentially punish gun dealers (and individuals) for selling ammunition to someone they should have known would commit a violent crime; federalize many state crimes, thus tremendously increasing the scope and jurisdiction of the BATF; restrict the right of habeas corpus in such a way as to severely damage the ability of the courts to rescue honest gun owners who are unjustly incarcerated; allow the government to use “secret evidence” against certain individuals; remove protections against wiretapping wireless data; and require banks to freeze the assets of domestic groups in certain situations. Thompson once again voted in favor of the bill.\n\n3. Taggants in gunpowder\nOn September 12, 1996, the Senate voted (57-42) to keep an anti-gun amendment off of the Treasury-Postal appropriations bill (H.R. 3756). The Kerry amendment — which Thompson voted for– would have made funds available for a study of tagging explosive materials, including black and smokeless powders (thus setting the stage for registering ammunition). The amendment also sought to further demonize firearms by selectively examining the misuse of firearms by criminals. The study would not examine the number of times firearms are used to save the lives of decent citizens.\n\n4. Lautenberg Domestic Confiscation gun ban\nOn September 12, 1996, the Senate passed the Lautenberg gun ban as an amendment to the Treasury-Postal appropriations bill (H.R. 3756). The Lautenberg Domestic Confiscation Gun Ban disarms gun owners for small (misdemeanor) offenses in the home — “offenses” as slight as spanking a child or grabbing a spouse. This lifetime ban, in certain cases, can even be imposed without a trial by jury. It is also retroactive, so it does not matter if the offense occurred 20 years ago. Thompson voted in favor of the amendment.\n\n5. Free Speech restrictions\nOn October 7, 1997, the Senate defeated an “Incumbent Protection Bill” (S. 25) which would have resulted in the government regulation of GOA’s newsletters and other communications with its members, while expanding the relative political power of the liberal media and other anti-gun forces. Senators failed in their effort, 53 to 47, to shut down a filibuster of the bill that was ostensibly aimed at reforming campaign finance laws.\n\n6. Smith “Anti-Brady” Amendment\nOn July 21, 1998, pro-gun Senator Bob Smith (R-NH) introduced an “Anti-Brady” amendment that passed by a vote of 69-31. The Smith amendment would prohibit the FBI from using Brady background checks to tax or register gun owners. Further, the amendment requires the “immediate destruction of all [gun buyer] information, in any form whatsoever.” Finally, if the FBI disregards this latter provision, the Smith language will allow private citizens to sue the agency and collect monetary damages, including attorney’s fees. Thompson, in keeping with his tendency to usually vote for expanded federal police power, voted against this limitation of FBI registration of gun owners.\n\n7. Anti-gun Clinton judge appointment\nOn February 11, 1998, the Senate voted 67-28 to confirm Margaret Morrow to the Federal bench. GOA vigorously opposed this Clinton-appointed judge, as she has not only taken strident anti-gun positions, she has showed herself to be a gun control activist.\n\n8. Anti-gun Surgeon General\nHaving nominated anti-gun David Satcher for Surgeon General, President Bill Clinton was forced to wait several months as debate raged over his controversial pick. But on February 10, 1998, the President finally realized victory. By a vote of 75-23, anti-gun Republicans teamed up with the Democrats to kill the filibuster over the Satcher nomination. Mr. Satcher was later confirmed by a vote of 63-35. Since the key vote was to end the filibuster, that is the one that was rated by GOA.\n\n9. Ending the filibuster of a major anti-gun crime bill\nOn July 28, 1999, the Senate ended a filibuster led by Senator Bob Smith (I-NH) — a filibuster intended to keep anti-gun crime legislation from progressing any further. After the 77-22 vote, the Senate moved to send the language of the anti-gun Senate crime bill (S. 254) to a House-Senate conference committee. Thompson voted to break the pro-gun filibuster.\n\n10. Young adult gun ban\nThe young adult gun ban could severely punish parents who allow their kids to even touch a so-called semi-automatic “assault weapon.” While the amendment allows for certain exemptions, there are some imponderable questions which NO senator could answer, but which a parent would have to answer in order to avoid incarceration. For example: What is a “semiautomatic assault weapon”? The definition, plus exemptions, takes up six pages of fine print in the U.S. Code. Second, a child can handle a banned semi-auto if he is in the “immediate and supervisory presence” of a parent or if he possess a written permission slip from the parent. But what happens when, during a target practice session, the parent walks to the car to retrieve his lunch and the juvenile is no longer in the parents “immediate” presence and does not have a permission slip? A parent can receive jail time for this infraction. The provision passed the Senate on May 13, 1999, with Thompson voting in the majority.\n\n11. Adopting the “Gun Control Lite” strategy\nOn May 13, 1999, a majority of Senators — including Thompson — defeated a motion to table (or kill) an anti-gun amendment introduced by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Larry Craig (R-WY). This amendment was offered as an alternative to gun control proposals being pushed by Sen. Frank Lautenberg.\n\n12. McCain’s Incumbent Protection (2000 version)\nBy 59 to 41, the Senate passed S. 27, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act to include Incumbent Protection provisions. The bill severely curtails the ability of outside groups such as GOA to communicate the actions of incumbent politicians to members and supporters prior to an election.\n\n13. Incumbent Protection (2002 failed filibuster)\nThis was the key vote in the Senate regarding the odious Incumbent Protection bill in 2002 (H.R. 2356). The legislation finally became law that year. As he had on previous occasions, Thompson voted in favor of the bill.\n[[(source)|http://conservativesagainstfred.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/fred-thompsons-anti-gun-senate-record/]]\n\nhttp://conservativesagainstfred.wordpress.com/\nhttp://www.theledger.com/article/20070916/NEWS/709160493/1039 (watch the video lol)

\n[[Site R]]\n[[Pentagon Impact Seismic Signal]]\n[[American Airlines Flight 77]]\n{{indent{[[Flight 77 Black Box]]\n[[Lightpoles]]\n[[Witnesses]]\n[[Physical Damage]]\n[[Pentagon Warning]]\n\n''Editors Note: This page is _very_ incomplete. I have NO DOUBT it contains erroneous information, bad/broken links, links to outright disinformation, spelling errors, factual errors, and other errors. I spend much more time working on the [[World Trade Center Demolition]].''\n\n[img(100%,100%)[http://visibility911.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Pentagon-Photos-002.jpg|http://visibility911.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Pentagon-Photos-002.jpg]]\n\n\n''~Jean-Marie Bigard: Please Obama, Do Something Simple!: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9vupg_bigard-11-septembre-sil-te-plait-ob_fun''\n\n''New Photos of Pentagon Minutes After 9-11 Attack: http://visibility911.com/blog/?p=1550''\n\nhttp://www.newworldorderreport.com/Articles/tabid/266/ID/1296/364-photographs-of-the-Pentagon-on-911-just-released-by-the-New-World-Order-Report-Archives-These-exclusive-pictures-have-never-been-available-on-the-internet-before.aspx\n\n''What Hit the Pentagon? - A new paper at the Journal of 9/11 Studies: http://www.911blogger.com/node/20771''\n\n[[Engineers Report On Pentagon Building Performance Presents Significant Findings On Structural Resistance To Progressive Collapse]]\n\n''Summary Presentation of damage to Pentagon and location of bodies found inside: http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/notablecases/moussaoui/exhibits/prosecution/P200318.html''\n\n[img[http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/pentagon_navy_command.gif|http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/pentagon_navy_command.gif]]\n\n''WASHINGTON, D.C. — The airliner crashed between two and three hundred feet from my office in the Pentagon, just around a corner from where I work. I'm the deputy General Counsel, Washington Headquarters Services, Office of the Secretary of Defense. A slightly different calibration and I have no doubt I wouldn't be sending this to you. My colleagues felt the impact, which reminded them of an earthquake. People shouted in the corridor outside that a bomb had gone off upstairs on the main concourse in the building. No alarms sounded. I walked to my office, shut down my computer, and headed out. Even before stepping outside I could smell the cordite. Then I knew explosives had been set off somewhere. [[(mcsweeneys.net)|http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2001/09/19perkal.html]] -Steve Anderson?\n\n''"We saw a huge black cloud of smoke," she said, saying it smelled like cordite, or gun smoke.'' -Gilah Goldsmith [[(jewishsf.com)|http://web.archive.org/web/20021116175404/http://www.jewishsf.com/bk010921/usp14a.shtml]]\n\n"I was right underneath the plane," said Kirk Milburn, a construction supervisor for Atlantis Co., who was on the Arlington National Cemetery exit of Interstate 395 when he said he saw the plane heading for the Pentagon. "I heard a plane. I saw it. I saw debris flying. I guess it was hitting light poles," said Milburn. "It was like a WHOOOSH whoosh, then there was fire and smoke, then I heard a second explosion." [[(washingtonpost.com)|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html]]''\n\n''Steve Patterson, who lives in Pentagon City, said it appeared to him that a commuter jet swooped over Arlington National Cemetery and headed for the Pentagon "at a frightening rate .‚.‚. just slicing into that building." [[(washingtonpost.com)|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html]]''\n\n''Steve Patterson, 43, said he was watching television reports of the World Trade Center being hit when he saw a silver commuter jet fly past the window of his 14th-floor apartment in Pentagon City. The plane was about 150 yards away, approaching from the west about 20 feet off the ground, Patterson said. He said the plane, which sounded like the high-pitched squeal of a fighter jet, flew over Arlington cemetary so low that he thought it was going to land on I-395. He said it was flying so fast that he couldn't read any writing on the side. The plane, which appeared to hold about eight to 12 people, headed straight for the Pentagon but was flying as if coming in for a landing on a nonexistent runway, Patterson said. "At first I thought 'Oh my God, there's a plane truly misrouted from National,'" Patterson said. "Then this thing just became part of the Pentagon .‚.‚. I was watching the World Trade Center go and then this. It was like Oh my God, what's next?" He said the plane, which approached the Pentagon below treetop level, seemed to be flying normally for a plane coming in for a landing other than going very fast for being so low. Then, he said, he saw the Pentagon "envelope" the plane and bright orange flames shoot out the back of the building. "It looked like a normal landing, as if someone knew exactly what they were doing," said Patterson, a graphics artist who works at home. "This looked intentional." [[(washingtonpost.com)|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html]]''\n\nAir Force Lt. Col. Marc Abshire, 40, a speechwriter for Air Force Secretary James Roche, was working on several speeches this morning when he felt the blast of the explosion at the Pentagon. His office is on the D ring, near the eighth corrider, he said. "It shot me back in my chair. There was a huge blast. I could feel the air shock wave of it," Abshire said. "I didn't know exactly what it was. It didn't rumble. It was more of a direct smack. I said, 'This isn't right. Something's wrong here.'" [[(washingtonpost.com)|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html]]''\n\n''At about 9:20 a.m., Lt. Col. Art Haubold, a public affairs officer with air force, was in his office on the opposite side of the complex when the plane struck. "We were sitting there watching the reports on the World Trade Center. All of a sudden, the windows blew in," he said. "We could see a fireball out our window." [[(washingtonpost.com)|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html]]''\n\n''Asework Hagos, 26, of Arlington, was driving on Columbia Pike on his way to work as a consultant for Nextel. He saw a plane flying very low and close to nearby buildings. "I thought something was coming down on me. I know this plane is going to crash. I've never seen a plane like this so low." He said he looked at it and saw American Airline insignia and when it made impact with the Pentagon initially he saw smoke, then flames. [[(washingtonpost.com)|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html]]''\n\n''At the Pentagon, employees had heard about or seen footage of the World Trade Centre attack when they felt their own building shake. Ervin Brown, who works at the Pentagon, said he saw pieces of what appeared to be small aircraft on the ground, and the part of the building by the heliport had collapsed. "We heard what sounded like a missile, then we heard a loud boom," said Tom Seibert, 33, of Woodbridge, Va., a network engineer at the Pentagon. "We just hit the dirt. We dived instinctively. "We were sitting there and watching this thing in New York, and I said, 'you know, the next best target would be us. And five minutes later, boom.'" [[(washingtonpost.com)|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html]]''\n\n''A 38-year-old Marine major who asked to remain anonymous said he and dozens of his colleagues rushed to the area in the Pentagon that appeared most heavily damaged -- the B ring between the 4th and 5th corridors. "From two-star army generals to marine officers to navy medics .‚.‚. everybody helped," he said. He said he was part of a make-shift rescue crew that tried to pulled out a civilian who was pinned by fallen pipes and other debris. As the hot, thick, black smoke built up, the men passed wet t-shirts to one another and removed debris piece-by-piece in assembly-line fashion. "It took 30 men, 30 minutes to get just that one guy to the door 15 feet away," he said, adding that the man was cut and bruised but not seriously injured. The major said that hundreds of people worked in the B-ring area and that it was "decimated .‚.‚. that heat and fire, it could eat you alive in three seconds." [[(washingtonpost.com)|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html]]''\n\n'' John Damoose, a Travis City, Mich. native who was in a meeting said "everybody got nervous. .‚.‚. We didn't know whether to stay inside or go outside. The thing with terrorist attacks is that you don't know what is the next thing that will happen." Damoose said the worst part was leaving the Pentagon and walking along Fort Meyer Drive, a bike trail, "you could see pieces of the plane." [[(washingtonpost.com)|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html]]''\n\n''Rick Watson, 30, of Lake Ridge, Va., another network engineer, felt as if he were reliving the California earthquake that struck during the World Series several years ago. "My first instinct was to jump under the desk," he said. [[(washingtonpost.com)|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html]]''\n\n''Navy Capt. Charles Fowler, assigned to the Joint Chiefs, was working on a speech for Gen. Henry Shelton, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, when he heard the explosion. "You could feel the building shake," said Fowler. You knew it was a major explosion. I grabbed all my gear and grabbed the laptop and headed out." "The interesting part was we didn't hear the alarm go off, but word got around very fast. It was an orderly evacuation" Fowler's office, on the river side, appeared to be on the opposite side from the explosion, he said. "Tons of smoke was coming up from the wedge-lots of black and gray smoke." [[(washingtonpost.com)|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html]]''\n\n''Jennifer Moody, 29, Bloomfield, Ind., arrived at George Washington University Hospital unsure where else to look for her husband. Her husband was taking a tour of the Pentagon as part of a class he was taking as a civilian for the Navy. She was at Arlington National Cemetery. "I heard a boom, saw smoke and wondered if it was at the Pentagon. I've been working my way back ever since." [[(washingtonpost.com)|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html]]''\n\n\n''Then there was this boom! And the whole building rocked. The ceiling caved in. The electricity went out. I told my wife, ‘There’s been a bombing, I’ve got to go.’ And I started screaming for everyone to get out. “When you’re in the military, your first thought is to immediately get out in case there’s a second explosion. I ran out in the corridor and people were running out of their offices. Everyone was in shock, yelling, ‘What was that?’ The Desert Storm veteran barked orders, screaming at people to get out of the building. There were a couple of generals standing there, looking at each other, and I ordered them out too,” he said. Anderson then ran down the hall to an emergency exit and out into the parking lot. As the crowd surged away from the building. Anderson looked to his left and “everything I could see, as far as I could see, were chunks of steel, some huge, some small, and I immediately knew it was an airplane.” As Anderson ran toward the debris, he looked over his shoulder and noticed two strangers, an Army sergeant and civilian, had joined him. Without exchanging words, they became a team. “We ran to the end of our building, turned left and saw nothing but huge, billowing black smoke, and a brilliant, brilliant explosion of fire.” The Boeing 757—American Airlines Flight 77—had just left Dulles Airport in Northern Virginia a few minutes before with a fuel tank full enough for a transcontinental flight. It crashed into the southwestern corner of the monolithic five-sided landmark at speeds estimated at 450mph, cutting a 100-foot-wide wedge through the five floors of the outermost E-Ring, and penetrating into the D and C rings as well. Destruction, death, mayhem on one end of the building; an earthquakelike jolt on the other. One of the Pentagon’s two fire trucks was parked only 50 feet from the crash site, and it was “totally engulfed in flames,” Anderson says. Nearby, tanks full of propane and aviation fuel had begun igniting, and they soon began exploding, one by one. As Anderson ran closer, he saw the three firemen on duty at the Pentagon firehouse pull the second truck out of the garage. “Just three guys trying to put out this huge fire—but they very heroically pulled their truck closer to the fire than they probably should have.” [[(msnbc.com|http://web.archive.org/web/20040526034459/msnbc.msn.com/id/3069699/]][[)|http://www.msnbc.com/news/635293.asp]]''\n\n'' She got to her desk in office 477 on the second floor of the Pentagon’s E-Ring at about 7:30 a.m., went through her voice-mail messages and e-mails, and spent an hour prepping for the meeting with a colleague. As Wills set off for the 9 o’clock meeting, she remembered that the second-floor conference room had a tendency to be chilly. She grabbed her black sweater from her cubicle, just in case. That sweater, she thinks, might have saved her life. As meetings go, the biweekly session was pretty informal. Still this was the Army, and there was a certain lock-step order to the process. The personnel officers gathered around the conference table, about 12 in all, majors, lieutenant colonels, colonels and a few civilians. The colonel leading the meeting spoke first, then directed presentations one by one to his left. Wills was the sixth to speak. As she was nearing the end of her presentation about the budget bills and the upcoming Association of the U.S. Army Conference, the room shook, and there was a thunderous boom. A flame passed over her left shoulder and she was thrown to the other side of the room. “The fireball shot right through the room,” Wills recalls. “Then it just got jet black.” The flames turned immediately to smoke. Wills could hear people screaming but she couldn’t see a thing. [[(msnbc.com|http://web.archive.org/web/20040526034459/msnbc.msn.com/id/3069699/]][[)|http://www.msnbc.com/news/635293.asp]]''\n\n''Wallace wanted the firetruck out of the station before Secret Service vehicles arrived and blocked its way. He parked it perpendicular to the west wall of the Pentagon. Wallace and Skipper were walking along the right side of the truck (Young was in the station) when the two looked up and saw an airplane. It was about 25 feet off the ground and just 200 yards away—the length of two football fields. They had heard about the WTC disaster and had little doubt what was coming next. “Let’s go,” Wallace yelled. Both men ran. Wallace ran back toward the west side of the station, toward a nine-passenger Ford van. “My plans were to run until I caught on fire,” he says. He didn’t know how long he’d have or whether he could outrun the oncoming plane. Skipper ran north into an open field. Wallace hadn’t gotten far when the plane hit. “I hadn’t even reached the back of the van when I felt the fireball. I felt the blast,” he says. He hit the blacktop near the left rear tire of the van and quickly shimmied underneath. “I remember feeling pressure, a lot of heat,” he says. He crawled toward the front of the van, then emerged to see Skipper out in the field, still standing. “Everything is on fire. The grass is on fire. The building is on fire. The firehouse is on fire,” Wallace recalls. “There was fire everywhere. Areas of the blacktop were on fire.” Wallace ran over to Skipper, who said he was OK, too. They compared injuries—burned arms, minor cuts, scraped skin. He ran back into the station to try to suit up. But he found debris everywhere. The ceiling had crumbled, there were broken lights and drywall everywhere. His boots were on fire. His fire pants filled with debris. The fire alarm was blaring. [[(msnbc.com|http://web.archive.org/web/20040526034459/msnbc.msn.com/id/3069699/]][[)|http://www.msnbc.com/news/635293.asp]]''\n\n''just before 9:30 a.m., the young engineer grabbed a subcontractor to help him repair a damaged ceiling grid on the third floor of the Pentagon’s E-Ring. The two were in the middle of the job when a strange sound ripped through the room. It lasted just a split second, says Fraunfelter, “A strange sucking, whirring sound, like a loud vacuum cleaner.” Then the sound stopped, the building shook violently, and the lights went out. He ran into the corridor and saw smoke coming from about 100 feet away. The smoke was so thick he couldn’t see anything, but he could hear people screaming. He grabbed his flashlight and headed down the hall. As Fraunfelter ran, he noticed a blown-out window. He ran to the window and looked down to see if he could see what happened. Below the window there was an old electric generator engulfed in smoke and flames. “The generator blew!” he said to the subcontractor. As he ran down the corridor, the smoke was getting thicker. He knew the section he had been working in was safe, so he started waving people in that direction with his flashlight. “Come toward the light. This way! Toward the light!” About 50 screaming people rushed past, but as Fraunfelter got closer in, the voices ceased. Afraid that some people may be trapped inside, he took off his shirt to cover his mouth, dropped to the searing hot floor and started to crawl. Somewhere inside the blackness he noticed the floor was deeply cracked. He knew all about this flooring—it was a strong epoxy with concrete underneath. As he felt around the floor, all the construction worker could think was, “This isn’t supposed to be cracked like this. What happened here?” Fraunfelter didn’t know that American Flight 77 was directly below him. He didn’t know that the cracked flooring that he was crawling on would give way some 30 minutes later and collapse into the wreckage. \n[[(msnbc.com|http://web.archive.org/web/20040526034459/msnbc.msn.com/id/3069699/]][[)|http://www.msnbc.com/news/635293.asp]]''\n\n'''' As the team pulled up around 1 p.m., the scene didn’t look that bad, Burkhammer thought. Sure, the building had collapsed in part, but it looked like a textbook case—exactly the kind of the thing the search and rescue team was expert at. But on the inside, things were much worse. “The building was so unstable,” says Burkhammer. Television only showed a fraction of the damage. The team sent in two reconnaissance teams, who rushed through ground floor doors. Their job was to search wherever they could and radio out to let rescue squads know where to find victims they could save. One team headed to the right of the collapse. The other went to the left. The Pentagon was still burning. The area was engulfed with smoke and heat. Burkhammer and his colleagues were suited up in full “flash gear” to handle the fire, complete with breathing equipment and search tools. They peered out from behind steamy plastic face shields and used helmet lights to see. The Pentagon’s thick walls rendered the firefighters’ radios useless. But it turned out not to matter: Burkhammer and the other recon men didn’t find any survivors to radio about. “You’d see bodies. You’d roll ‘em over and they’d be dead,” Burkhammer says. He spotted people entangled in the wreckage, but they had all succumbed to the initial blast or the ensuing fire. The air was hot and smoky. Sprinklers poured water down onto the floor. The halls were dark and the men searched with flashlights. “It was a war zone,” Burkhammer says. “Some parts of the building, there was nothing left intact.” Ceilings had fallen and ventilation systems dangled down. The left side of the building was more unstable than the right, where they could access all five floors. Burkhammer spotted lime-green pieces from the interior of the plane. “You could tell where the plane had gone because of the destruction of the steel and concrete beams,” he says. He could see evidence of the Pentagon’s renovations: exposed I-beams read MAY 2000. After a frustrating hour, the recon teams stumbled back out of the building. Lugging the heavy gear through the heat and smoke had taken a toll. One man was sent to the hospital for dehydration. “We were spent,” says Burkhammer. And they were dejected. “We did not find any live people,” he says. Even the search dogs seemed to feel the loss. “You can see it on the dog’s face. The dogs are almost as depressed as the guys are,” Burkhammer says. Still, the rescue teams wanted to go back into the building, hoping that somehow someone might have survived in a void. But they had to wait for the fire to cool before they could head back in. Shoring up the unstable building became the next task. The team built “box cribs”—replacement columns for those damaged by the crash—out of pieces of 6-by-6 lumber. Eventually, they put more than 42 in place. Conditions were tough. Though the fire was controlled, there was water everywhere from the fire streams and the sprinklers. “Your feet were soaked,” says Burkhammer. Everyone got blisters. The men worked 12-hour shifts, handling the night shift with a team from Virginia Beach, Va. During the day, teams from Tennessee and Montgomery County, Md., took over. In between, Burkhammer’s crew was shuttled to a military barracks in Anacostia, where they slept on cots. Burkhammer, a trained paramedic, never found anyone to treat. Instead, he helped carry out debris and assisted the mortuary teams. “I’m there to recover live people, and if I can’t do that I want to recover the deceased just so there’s closure for the family,” he said. One night, when he got off the bus from the barracks, Burkhammer was approached by a woman who held up a photo of her husband and asked if he could help find him. “Those things broke my heart,” he says. “What do you say to that?” Still, Burkhammer did not want to give up. “They have hope till we leave,” he says. He knew that even if they found someone who’d been in a void in the collapsed building, the person would have probably succumbed to the toxic smoke or flames. Still, he says, “Everytime we lifted up a slab of concrete, we were looking for that find. But it didn’t happen.” Everything was black and soot-covered. The first and second floors suffered major structural damage as well as fire damage. In some places, Burkhammer found office furniture that had been moved across the room by the force of the crash. There were metal file cabinets wrapped into “U” shapes around the building’s support columns. On Wednesday afternoon, President Bush planned to tour the site. Rescue workers had planted a small American flag atop the building Tuesday night. But Wednesday they unfurled a giant one that hung two thirds of the way down the walls near the damaged area. It was a little sign that inspired workers like Burkhammer. “When they dropped that flag, I thought ‘everything is going to be all right’.” Early Friday morning, shortly before 4 a.m., Burkhammer and another firefighter, Brian Moravitz, were combing through debris near the impact site. Peering at the wreckage with their helmet lights, the two spotted an intact seat from the plane’s cockpit with a chunk of the floor still attached. Then they saw two odd-shaped dark boxes, about 1.5 by 2 feet long. They’d been told the plane’s “black boxes” would in fact be bright orange, but these were charred black. The boxes had handles on one end and one was torn open. They cordoned off the area and called for an FBI agent, who in turn called for someone from the National Transportation Safety Board who confirmed the find: the black boxes from American Airlines Flight 77. “We wanted to find live victims,” says Burkhammer. But this was a consolation prize. “Finding the black box gave us a little boost,” he says. [[(msnbc.com|http://web.archive.org/web/20040526034459/msnbc.msn.com/id/3069699/]][[)|http://www.msnbc.com/news/635293.asp]]''\n\n''Don Fortunato, a plainclothes detective with the Arlington (Va.) Police Department, was walking into his office, when he heard a muffled explosion—construction, he thought. Then his radio started squawking news of a plane crash at the Pentagon. “I grabbed my radio, ran to my car and pulled on my bulletproof vest and headed toward the thick, black smoke billowing out of the sky,” he said. “Traffic was at a standstill, so I parked on the shoulder, not far from the scene and ran to the site. Next to me was a cab from D.C., its windshield smashed out by pieces of lampposts. There were pieces of the plane all over the highway, pieces of wing, I think.” [[(msnbc.com|http://web.archive.org/web/20040526034459/msnbc.msn.com/id/3069699/]][[)|http://www.msnbc.com/news/635293.asp]]''\n\n''Since the morning of the attack Fortunato has been back on site numerous times—usually as a evidence technician shifting through the tons of debris. Under the watchful eye of structural engineers, hundreds of police, fire, military and other rescue workers continue, in 12-hour shifts, to collect what they can from the blackened cavern. With body bags in tow, the workers search through the rubble by hand. “You’re looking for body parts, clothing, teeth,” Fortunato said. ” There’s so much debris, twisted metal, everything’s charred and pitch black. You have to go on foot with a flashlight, and you scan what you can scan. There’s lots of areas we can’t go into because they’re unstable. There are piles of concrete, desks, filing cabinets, duct work and ventilation pipes, all the things that can’t be incinerated. “If you find some victim remains, you get down on your hands and knees and comb the earth, and place whatever you find in the body bag, including personal belongings and clothing,” he said. “If you see something else a little farther away, you assume it’s another victim, and you put it in a new body bag.” It’s not always easy to tell where one body begins and another ends, he concedes, or what’s human and what’s not. It’s a very painstaking process. You just look for whatever evidence you can, human or forensic evidence.” A few bodies were found intact—”caught in an instant,” as one rescue worker put it. One woman was found at her desk, arms up protecting her face, charred to her chair, eerily reminiscent of the aftermath of Pompey. Two men were found in similar shape. But most victims were in pieces. [[(msnbc.com|http://web.archive.org/web/20040526034459/msnbc.msn.com/id/3069699/]][[)|http://www.msnbc.com/news/635293.asp]]''\n\n''At one point, he went into the charred opening, to check on the safety of workers there “There was jet fuel all over the place. It was very smoky, and it was difficult to breathe, even with a respirator,” he said. ” I saw horrifying things. It looked like the inner circle of Dante.... I stood there wondering, how did Dante know what this would look like.” [[(msnbc.com|http://web.archive.org/web/20040526034459/msnbc.msn.com/id/3069699/]][[)|http://www.msnbc.com/news/635293.asp]]''\n\n\n''Beans, Michael Anger and guilt still sear Lieutenant Colonel Michael Beans who shakes his head ruefully and asks himself why he survived: "Why you, not them? Who made that decision?" (...) Inside the Pentagon, the blast lifted Beans off the floor as he crossed a huge open office toward his desk. "You heard this huge concussion, then the room filled with this real bright light, just like everything was encompassed within this bright light," said Beans. "As soon as I hit the floor, all the lights went out, there was a small fire starting to burn." His friends were not so lucky. Not far away on the same floor, Beans' once familiar world had turned into a terrifying maze as well. Opening a door to the outer E-ring corridor, Beans saw waves of fire rolling towards him like surf on a beach. Turning back, he groped slowly back across the room on hands and knees. The sprinkler came on and that kept the smoke and heat down. But it was nervewracking and Beans was alone, listening as the building burned. "It was so quiet," he recalled. "There was no screaming, nobody saying anything, just nothing." He thought he might not make it out alive. He thought about his wife, his daughter and son, his 22 years in the army. "I remember taking a couple of breaths there, and I made up my mind: I just can't go out this way," he said. Suddenly out of the smoke a man ran by. "I tried to grab him, and I tried to yell at him," Beans said. But "he just disappeared into the smoke." Alone again, Beans crawled with his face to the floor. Then the carpet turned to wet tile, and he looked up and saw he was in a corridor. He ran and as the smoke cleared, he saw a guard. Beans discovered later that his head and forearms were burned. He now wears special flesh-colored compression sleeves on his arms. "These burns are going to heal, eventually," he said. But the memories "will be with me for the rest of my life." http://www.theosuobserver.com/main.cfm/include/smdetail/synid/54846.html''\nSource: http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/witnesses/bart.html\nhttp://arabesque911.blogspot.com/2007/03/pentagon-eyewitness-testimony.html\n\n''"About two minutes later one of my guys pointed to an American Airlines airplane 20 feet high over Washington Blvd.," Harrington said. "It seemed like it made impact just before the wedge. It was like a Hollywood movie or something. Thank God all of our crew got out." \nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20010919102435/http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/pentagram/6_37/local_news/10380-1.html\n\nC.C. Crangle was in the building when the plane crashed. "I was one wedge away," Crangle said. "I just heard a big explosion and saw big black smoke and that's when the (stuff) started to happen. My boss was in one of those offices." \nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20010919102435/http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/pentagram/6_37/local_news/10380-1.html\n\n''John Loretti had been working on the renovation project and had worried about just such a disaster occurring. "I've been working here a year and watching those planes fly over, and I thought someone could dive-bomb the building," Loretti said. "We put in a blast wall, blast glass and Kevlar netting. We'll see what happens. I was in the renovation trailer. It shook the whole place. It just about knocked us out of seats. It's a nightmare." John Bowman, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel and a contractor, was in his office in Corridor Two near the main entrance to the south parking lot. "Everything was calm,' Bowman said. "Most people knew it was a bomb. Everyone evacuated smartly. We have a good sprinkling of military people who have been shot at." http://web.archive.org/web/20010919102435/http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/pentagram/6_37/local_news/10380-1.html''\n\nStars and Stripes reporter Lisa Burgess was walking on the Pentagon's innermost corridor, across the courtyard, when the incident happened. "I heard two loud booms — one large, one smaller, and the shock wave threw me against the wall," she said. http://www.stripes.com/01/sep01/ed091201i.html\n\n''FBI agents also arrived soon after the blast and began combing the area for pieces of the plane’s wreckage. They commandeered photographers and equipment from Martinez’s unit, having photos taken of the entire area. http://www.stripes.com/01/sep01/ed091201i.html''\n\nTwo explosions were heard. According to one witness, "what looked like a 747" plowed into the south side of the Pentagon, possibly skipping through a heliport before it hit the building. Personnel working in the Navy Annex, over which the airliner flew, said they heard the distinct whine of jet engines as the airliner approached. Levi Stephens, 23, a courier for the Armed Forces Information Service, spoke of the crash: "I was driving away from the Pentagon in the South Pentagon lot when I hear this huge rumble, the ground started shaking … I saw this [plane] come flying over the Navy Annex. It flew over the van and I looked back and I saw this huge explosion, black smoke everywhere." http://www.stripes.com/01/sep01/ed091201i.html''\n\n''In light traffic the drive up Interstate 395 from Springfield to downtown Washington takes no more than 20 minutes. But that morning, like many others, the traffic slowed to a crawl just in front of the Pentagon. With the Pentagon to the left of my van at about 10 oclock on the dial of a clock, I glanced at my watch to see if I was going to be late for my appointment. At that moment I heard a very loud, quick whooshing sound that began behind me and stopped suddenly in front of me and to my left. In fractions of a second I heard the impact and an explosion. The next thing I saw was the fireball. I was convinced it was a missile. It came in so fast it sounded nothing like an airplane. Friends and colleagues have asked me if I felt a shock wave and I honestly do not know. I felt something, but I dont know if it was a shock wave or the fact that I jumped so hard I strained against the seat belt and shoulder harness and was thrown back into my seat. http://www.space.com/news/rains_september11-1.html''\n\n''I remember vividly that as I turned off my cell phone I was watching the almost serene image of thick pieces of flaming fiberglass insulation floating down onto the highway. http://www.space.com/news/rains_september11-2.html''\n\nRetired Col. Powell Hutton was working less than a mile away from the Pentagon on Tuesday morning when he heard the loud roar of an engine. "It went right overhead and I thought to myself, 'Uh oh,' " Hutton said. "Then about three seconds later, I heard a 'whomp.' " The Pentagon was the second U.S. target, after the World Trade Center in New York, to be hit by hijacked airplanes. "We felt the damn thing hit hard," said Army Chief Felipe Garcia, who was on the fourth floor on the north side of the Pentagon. \nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20011122185232/http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2001/09/12terrorspreadsto.html\n\nSecretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was at his desk when the American Airlines jet slammed into the building. He ran outside the building and helped load the injured onto stretchers before heading to the National Command Center deep inside the Pentagon, according to Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. Craig Quigley. \nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20011122185232/http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2001/09/12terrorspreadsto.html\n\nGannett News Service employee Mary Ann Owens was stopped in traffic on the road that runs past the Pentagon, listening on the radio to the news of the World Trade Center attacks, when she heard a loud roar overhead and looked up as the plane barely cleared the highway.\n\n"Instantly I knew what was happening, and I involuntarily ducked as the plane passed perhaps 50 to 75 feet above the roof of my car at great speed," Owens said. "The plane slammed into the west wall of the Pentagon. The impact was deafening. The fuselage hit the ground and blew up." The walls of the Pentagon had broken open, exposing interior offices. "It just was amazingly precise," Daryl Donley, another commuter, said of the plane's impact. "It completely disappeared into the Pentagon." Smoke and flames engulfed the west wall. Cars traveling nearby were lifted up off the roadway and showered with rocks and other debris. Among the trash littering the road was a scorched green oxygen tank marked "Cabin air. Airline use." When the debris shower stopped, people began getting out of their cars, some of them screaming. A woman in a black suit and heels ran up the road shouting: "There'll be a second plane. Get out of here, get out of here." A Pentagon guard yelled at the commuters to get back in their cars. As the traffic crept along, there was a second explosion, caused by propane tanks on a construction site at the Pentagon. http://web.archive.org/web/20011122185232/http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2001/09/12terrorspreadsto.html''\n\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/09/11/national/main310721.shtml\n\nhttp://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/witnesses/bart.html\nhttp://www.airdisaster.com/photos/aa1420/photo.shtml\n\nhttp://www.warrenstutt.com/\n\nhttp://eyeball-series.org/pentagon-aug08/pentagon-aug08.htm\n\n''Video Footage of Attack: http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/footage.html''\nhttp://www.judicialwatch.org/Flight77\n\n''Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request on December 15, 2004, seeking all records pertaining to camera recordings from the Sheraton National Hotel, the Nexcomm/Citgo gas station, Pentagon security cameras and the Virginia Department of Transportation. [[(judicialwatch.org)|http://www.judicialwatch.org/Flight77]]''\n\n''On May 16, 2006 the following footage was released:''\nhttp://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2006/flight77-1.mpg (5756 frames)\nhttp://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2006/flight77-2.mpg (6076 frames)\n\n[[Retrofitting The Pentagon For Blast Resistance|http://web.archive.org/web/20030319044614/http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/PentagonRetrofit.pdf]]\n\nhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Flight_77_wreckage_at_Pentagon.jpg\n\n\nOddly enough, the media likes to focus on the Pentagon (the controllers of information). Many people investigating the 9/11 attacks suspect the Pentagon is a [[honeypot]].\nPersonally, I see very little physical evidence that a 757 hit the pentagon.\nAn alternative reason to attack the pentagon was to connect the day's events to the military. The subjects of the 911 [[PSYOP]] were the military personnel as well as civilians. The goal of a [[false flag operation|False Flag Operations]] is usually war.\n\n\n\n''BEGIN RANDOM COLLECTION OF LINKS:''\n''I HAVE NOT REVIEWED THESE''\n\nhttp://911blogger.com/blog/3193\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/13724\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/15895\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/14385\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/11959\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/15519\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/20035\nhttp://www.911blogger.com/node/15502#comment-186027\n\nhttp://www.911blogger.com/node/16644\nhttp://www.911blogger.com/node/16143\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/15892\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/15901\nhttp://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/publications/download/911pentagon.pdf\nhttp://911review.com/attack/pentagon/index.html\nhttp://bfriendly123.googlepages.com/pentagon\nhttp://flickr.com/photos/courtneyplatt/2631545697/in/set-72157605942072722/ http://flickr.com/photos/courtneyplatt/sets/72157605942072722/\nhttp://www.aviationexplorer.com/flight_77_american_airlines_767.htm\n\nhttp://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1047.shtml#top\nhttp://pilotsfor911truth.org\n\nThe original 2004 "pentagonstrike" video: http://www.pentagonstrike.co.uk/flash.htm\nhttp://911research.wtc7.net/essays/pentagon/index.html\nhttp://911research.wtc7.net/essays/pentagontrap.html\nhttp://rense.com/general67/fbicl.htm\nhttp://arabesque911.blogspot.com/2007/07/pentagon-flight-path-map-perfect.html\nhttp://www.pictometry.com/articles/arlington.asp\nhttp://www.911blogger.com/node/16697\nhttp://z3.invisionfree.com/CIT/index.php?showtopic=82\n\nPentagon\n“It was raining molten metal and plastic,” remembers Capt. David M. Thomas, Jr., 44, a distant look of intensity in his eyes. “The soldered connections in the overhead wiring and the insulation were melting. I took off my uniform blouse because it had polyester in it and I was sure it would melt. I was wearing just my cotton T-shirt. But then the molten liquid from the ceiling dripped on more of my body. The drops made little black holes as they burned through my skin.” “I didn’t want to go in there,” [[(source)|http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues02/sep02/pdf/smithsonian_sep tember_2002_uncommon_valor.pdf]]\n\n<html>\n<embed style="width:640px; height:522px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=3506984191989953274&hl=en" flashvars=""> </embed>\n<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="370" wmode="transparent" data="http://www.liveleak.com/player.swf?autostart=false&token=cbf_1195549739"><param name="movie" value="http://www.liveleak.com/player.swf?autostart=false&token=cbf_1195549739"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="quality" value="high"></object>\n</html>\n\n[img[http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/143.jpg|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/143.jpg]]\n\n<html>\n<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/93rTlfo8dZ4&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/93rTlfo8dZ4&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>\n</html>\n\n\n\nSome information I got from Shane Geiger:\nThu Aug 16 00:28:15 CDT 2007\n\nSubject: 9/11 Pentagon victims questions\n\nI was wondering whether you could add anything to my research about the victims who were working in the Pentagon on 9/11. Granted, this isn't "hard evidence" of the sort that physicists are bringing to the table, but it is something I want to flesh out a little to see whether the story leads anywhere. If you have come across info on this topic, please bring it to my attention.\n\nSeptember 10, 2001: Rumsfeld Announces Defense Department Cannot Track $2.3 Trillion in Transactions\nhttp://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a091001defensebudget#a091001defensebudget\n\nAccording to what I heard (but was not able to back up later with news stories when I tried searching on the Web for information about this) was that the investigation of this Pentagon money scandal was delayed because many of the auditors were killed and documents were (conveniently) destroyed. When I mentioned this story to Gregg Roberts, 9/11 researcher affiliated with Jim Hoffman's wtc7.net, he asked for evidence of this. I was unable to come up with the evidence. Since Mr. Roberts has been researching 9/11 longer than me (I started less than 1 year ago) and seems quite familiar with the content on the voluminous 911research.wtc7.net site, it bothered me a little that I couldn't find evidence to back up this story and that he apparently had not heard of it.\n\nTonight, however, my mind is a little more at ease (and, at the same time, a little less at ease), as I came across this interesting database of Pentagon victims which seems to add credence to the story about the budget auditors being killed: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/pentagon/\n\nNote: This database is not optimized for finding the kind of information that we are looking for, so I had to look at each victim's info individually. Only a few of the victims had the title "Accountant." Many had the title "Budget analyst," "Civilian budget analyst" or something similar. Quite interestingly, if you bother to read all the biographical info, as I did rather quickly (using the search feature of my browser to find the words "accountant" and "budget" within the bio info), you will find that a number of people doing budgetary work have titles like "Civilian employee, U.S. Army". Some people with the title "Civilian employee, U.S. Army" (of which there are nearly 40) are described in their bios as budget analysts. When that generic title is used to describe some people (and no bio info describes what kind of work they did) perhaps these people were budget analysts, accountants, and/or auditors.\n\n*Very interestingly*, Bryan C. Jack might have been the main budget guru at the Pentagon was supposedly on Flight 77 and might have crashed into that very portion of the building where he would have been sitting if he weren't flying to California.\n\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/bryan-c-jack/\n -- "Occupation: Budget analyst/director of the programming and fiscal economics division, Defense Department"\n -- "Bryan C. Jack was responsible for crunching America's defense budget. He was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77, bound for official business in California when his plane struck the Pentagon, where, on any other day, Jack would have been at work at his computer. Carla Tighe, a fellow Pentagon economist, said Jack was a brilliant mathematician and top budget analyst who translated policy decisions by the defense secretary into hard numbers."\n -- Jack, a Texas native who graduated from California Institute of Technology in 1974 and from Stanford Business School, headed the Defense Department's programming and fiscal economics division. "He was really responsible for overseeing the capital budget. . . . He added it up and made sure it totaled up to the right number, which is much more complicated than it sounds," Tighe said.\n -- "The budget guru was also known for making a mean pecan pie..." <-- THE BUDGET GURU?\n\nQuestions I have about Bryan C. Jack: Was he the main guru? or is the just an accolade one is giving to someone who has passed away? And a spooky question I feel compelled to ask about what might be an incredible coincidence if I understood that correctly: Was his office in the area of the building that was struck by the plane he was on? or would he have been working in the area of the building where the plane struck?\n\nIt certainly seems as if 30 people who might have been involved in an audit lost their lives on that day. According to a Web site I quickly found with Google just now, "The crash of the American Flight 77 killed a total of 190 people, including 64 in the airplane and 126 people working in the Pentagon." So, roughly 1/4 of the Pentagon victims worked with the budget and accounting/finance. (And, well, some of the victims job titles were so generic that they, too, could have been involved--perhaps they were even auditors that worked for outside firms?)\n\n------\n\n1.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/angelene-c-carter/\n - Occupation: Accountant, U.S. Army\n\n2.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/carrie-r-blagburn/\n - Occupation: Civilian budget analyst, U.S. Army\n\n3.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/sharon-a-carver/\n -- "settling into her routine as an accountant for the Army"\n -- NOTE: Her ocupation is listed as "Civilian Employee"...so perhaps others with that title were accountants, as well.\n\n4.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/ada-m-davis/\n -- "Occupation: Civilian employee, U.S. Army"\n -- ...yet "an Army accountant" is listed in her profile\n\n5.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/brenda-c-gibson/\n -- "Occupation: Civilian employee, U.S. Army"\n -- and yet..."worked in budgeting and accounting for the Army, a job she was so dedicated to that she had postponed surgery to work last Tuesday and help close the books for the budget year."\n\n6.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/carolyn-b-halmon/\n - Occupation: Budget analyst, U.S. Army\n\n7.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/sheila-m-s-hein/\n -- Occupation: Budget and management specialist, U.S. Army\n\n8.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/jimmie-ira-holley/\n -- "Occupation: Civilian accountant, U.S. Army"\n\n9.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/peggie-m-hurt/\n -- "Occupation: Accountant, U.S. Army"\n\n10.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/robert-j-hymel/\n -- "Occupation: Civilian management analyst, Pentagon" <-- would such a person be involved in an audit?\n\n11.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/brenda-kegler/\n -- Occupation: Budget analyst, U.S. Army\n\n12.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/david-w-laychak/\n -- Occupation: Civilian budget analyst, U.S. Army\n\n13.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/samantha-l-lightbourn-allen/\n -- Occupation: Budget analyst, U.S. Army\n\n14.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/shelley-a-marshall/\n -- Occupation: Budget analyst, Defense Intelligence Agency\n\n15.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/robert-j-maxwell/\n -- "Occupation: Civilian employee, U.S. Army"\n -- "Maxwell was not a military man. But he served as a civilian budget analyst for the Army"\n\n16.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/molly-l-mckenzie/\n -- "Occupation: Civilian employee, U.S. Army"\n -- "a civilian budget analyst for the Army"\n\n17.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/patricia-e-patti-mickley/\n -- "Occupation: Financial manager, Defense Department"\n\n18.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/odessa-v-morris/\n -- "Occupation: Budget analyst, U.S. Army"\n\n19.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/rhonda-sue-rasmussen/\n -- "Occupation: Civilian employee, U.S. Army"\n -- "a budget analyst"\n\n20.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/martha-m-reszke/\n -- "Occupation: Budget analyst, U.S. Army"\n\n21.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/cecelia-e-richard/\n -- "Occupation: Accounting technician, U.S. Army"\n\n22.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/edward-v-rowenhorst/\n -- "a civilian accountant for the Army"\n -- "After graduating from George Mason University in 1992 with degrees in accounting and information management systems, he was hired at the Pentagon."\n\n23.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/robert-e-russell/\n -- "Occupation: Civilian budgetary supervisor, U.S. Army"\n -- "a civilian budgetary supervisor for the Army, worked at the Pentagon and hasn't been seen since the attack."\n\n24.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/marjorie-c-salamone/\n -- "Occupation: Budget program analyst, U.S. Army"\n\n25.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/janice-m-scott/\n -- "Occupation: Civilian employee, U.S. Army"\n -- "The 46-year-old Army budget analyst picked up her sister Darlene in Columbia, S.C."\n\n26.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/antionette-m-sherman/\n -- "Occupation: Budget analyst, U.S. Army"\n -- "Doctors gave Army budget analyst Antionette Sherman two days to live after she was burned over 70 percent of her body when Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11."\n\n27.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/edna-l-stephens/\n -- "Occupation: Budget analyst, U.S. Army"\n -- "With 34 years at the Pentagon, the civilian budget analyst for the Army looked forward to retiring next year and moving back to her home town, Gainesville, Ga."\n\n28.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/karl-w-teepe/\n -- "Occupation: Civilian employee, Defense Information Agency"\n -- "He worked as a budget analyst."\n\n29.\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/sandra-l-white/\n -- "Sandra White, 44, was a civilian in the Army budget office"\n\n30.\nAnd finally, Bryan C. Jack rounds out the list as budgetary victim #30:\nhttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/bryan-c-jack/\n -- "Occupation: Budget analyst/director of the programming and fiscal economics division, Defense Department"\n\n[img[http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?action=attachment&tid=5302&pid=15314|http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?action=attachment&tid=5302&pid=15314]]\n''Bird strike on a tail fin. Not a wing.''\n\nhttp://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/footage.html\nhttp://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/photos/index.html#parts\nhttp://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/videos/dodvideos.html\nhttp://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/videos/fiveframes.html\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20011121115111/http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/PentagonPersonalStory.html\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20021219004450/http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/PentagonRepairCost.html\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20011019004814/http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/DavidRubando.htm\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnzh-EyxKwc&feature=related \n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9jW_8ZCUmg&feature=related \n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKhBzAh_eeA&feature=related \n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVWWnK7n3H0&feature=related\n\nhttp://www.theorionconspiracy.com/media/images/projects/18_11_09_2001/catalog/18_06.jpg\nhttp://www.theorionconspiracy.com/media/images/projects/18_11_09_2001/catalog/18_05.jpg\nNote this site has hundreds of other photoshopped photos:\nhttp://www.theorionconspiracy.com/media/images/projects/\nIt even try's to convince the viewer that real pictures of particle colliers are ufo's.\nhttp://membres.lycos.fr/applemacintosh/pentagon.htm\nhttp://img234.imageshack.us/img234/3354/082506pentagon500jc7.jpg\nhttp://cellar.org/2002/birdstrike1.jpg\nhttp://cellar.org/2002/birdstrike2.jpg\nhttp://pagesperso-orange.fr/jpdesm/pentagon/pages-en/dam-inside.html\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20020403045936/http://www.ournetfamily.com/WarOnTerror/emails/pentagonwitness.html\n\n[img[http://web.archive.org/web/20010917023741/www.enr.com/news/enrbl_091201a-pent.jpg|http://web.archive.org/web/20010917023741/www.enr.com/news/enrbl_091201a-pent.jpg]]\n[[(enr.com)|http://web.archive.org/web/20010915231336/http://www.enr.com/news/enrbld_091201a.asp]]\n\n\nhttp://ignoranceisfutile.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/blank-check-the-pentagons-black-budget/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

747-200\n$800,000,000.00+ each\n\nhttp://arabesque911.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-did-worlds-most-advanced.html\nhttp://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/911MysteryPlane.pdf\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/10441#new

Enforcer for the (private for profit) Federal Reserve.\nhttp://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56855\nhttp://infowars.net/articles/march2008/280308Riley.htm

[[Money]]\n[[CAFR]]\n[[IRS]]\n\nhttp://losthorizons.com/\n\n<html>\n<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R7mRSI8yWwg&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R7mRSI8yWwg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>\n</html>\nSource: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mRSI8yWwg\n\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/18044\nhttp://freeenterprisesociety.com/\nhttp://www.arizonataxrevolt.org/

http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engAMR510511997?open&of=eng-2am\nhttp://promigrant.org/showDiary.do?diaryId=561

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http://arxiv.org/find/physics/1/au:+Beck_C/0/1/0/all/0/1\n\n''Cherry Tree vs. Cr\s^{e}pes Suzette: Global Model of Collapse of the World Trade Centers''\nhttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006physics...9105B\nhttp://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0609105\n[[PDF Link (add the .pdf extension):|http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0609105]]\nWe develop a dynamical model of one-dimensional avalanche propagating through a vertical structure of known average reaction force $R$, by which the structure opposes the avalanche, under the influence of gravity. We apply the dynamical model to the collapse of WTC 1 and 2 after each of the buildings was hit by an airplane on September 11, 2001. We examine the {\sem "NIST hypothesis"}, by which the avalanche initiated in the impact zone ($R\sequiv0$), can propagate through the intact building below (secondary zone), and reach ground zero in the observed times, $T_c = 13\spm1$ s for WTC 1, and $T_c = 11\spm1$ s for WTC 2. We find that within our dynamical model the "NIST hypothesis" does not hold, so we examine two alternatives regarding the distribution of additional damage. More plausible of the two hypotheses calls for the wave of massive destruction (WMD) that propagates through the secondary zone in front of the avalanche and reduces its average reaction force by 60-85%. We argue how the WMD does not fit a description of a physical failure mechanism initiated by the avalanche as it collides with the secondary zone, as implied by the NIST report: it doesn't have sufficient energy; through a network of steel beams it moves only vertically, and then only through the central core columns (CCCs); it has negligible activation energy; and, to the two buildings in which the avalanches and the secondary zones are considerably different, it delivers almost an identical damage. We propose that the WMD in each building is in fact a controlled demolition, in which the central core columns are severed from their base at regular heights and time intervals.\n\nFrom: http://www.phpbbserver.com/stj911/viewtopic.php?t=248&highlight=0609105&mforum=stj911\nTo the members of the forum,\nsome time ago I have posted a research paper on collapse of world trade center 2 from the perspective of an avalanche propagating in an one-dimensional structure of known mass density.\nI solved the problem as a theoretical problem in classical mechanics and wrote a research report that I published on-line at arxiv depository of physics papers. Search for physics/0609105 on google will give you the links.\n\nThe title of the paper is "Cherry Tree vs. Crêpes Suzette: Global Model of Collapse of WTC 2," and it was published in subject class Popular Physics; Physics and Society. In it I deconstruct misleading assumption of Prof. Zdenek Bazant put forth in his publication in J. of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE), namely, that the avalanche that was formed in the primary, or impact zone, was opposed to by the reaction force of the floors (as an object stretching from central core to the perimeter columns) rather than the central core. The original thesis of the paper is that the building has to be looked upon as a tree, where floors are the branches and the central core is the trunk. Thus, the collapse of the building requires the collapse of its central core.\nThe basic result of the paper is that in WTC 2 even if we assume maximal physical damage, that is, as if those 8 floors lost its load bearing ability completely (but not its mass) this is not sufficient to cause the building to collapse. More precisely, as the calculation indicates, depending whether we consider elastic or inelastic model of propagation of the avalanche, the secondary zone of the building (one below impact zone) has to loose between 50% (in elastic) and 75% (inelastic) of its load bearing capacity. This is in direct contradiction to NIST report, see its Sec. 6.14, which on one hand states that "the structure below was intact," and on the other, when they talk about the finite element modeling of the plausible collapse sequence, say that the building had to suffer damage in order for collapse to really happen.\n\nThe paper deals with collapse in WTC2 because if the WTC's really collapsed as presumed, WTC2 was more susceptible to avalanche: the core of the avalanche was almost one third of the building.\nIn WTC1 that was roughly 1/10th of the building. Now, if, as I have shown, WTC2 could not have collapsed without additional damages delivered through the building, then the collapse of WTC1 under the similar conditions is a moot point. It did not happen.\n\nIn light of that, a discussion whether damage to the primary zone was sufficient for those floors to collapse is, again, a moot point. For building to collapse to the ground it is not sufficient that 7the central core has lost its load bearing capacity over a stretch of seven floors. This makes the debate about initiation of collapse that seems to permeate news media and discussion groups irrelevant to the question of collapse of the building to the ground.\n\nAs of now, I have put the paper at arxiv.org. A longer version is submitted to American Physics Journal, and the short one to the Journal of Mechanical Engineering (ASCE). Comments and critiques are welcome - no rants please. In particular, I am looking for comments that would improve the quality of the paper.\nPlease drop me a note at beck.charles_m@yahoo.com.\n\nCheers,\nCharles M. Beck \n

''Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer''\n''AVIRIS measures the upwelling spectral radiance from 370 to 2500 nm at nominally 10 nm sampling. [[(2001Green_co2_web.pdf)|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/2001Green_co2_web.pdf]]''\n''Acquisition Mode: Whiskbroom Scanner [[(ltid.inpe.br)|http://www.ltid.inpe.br/html/pub/docs/html/concept.htm]]\nSwath Width: 614 pixels\nRadiometeric Resolution: 14bit [[(csc.noaa.gov)|http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/rs_apps/sensors/hyperspec.htm]]''\n\n\n[[AVIRIS Data]]\n[[AVIRIS Links|http://aviris.jpl.nasa.gov/html/aviris.links.html]]\n[[AVIRIS Instrument Overview|http://www.ltid.inpe.br/html/pub/docs/html/aboutAV.htm]]\n[[Timeline of AVIRIS at the World Trade Center Disaster Site|http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=enviromental_impact_911_attacks_tmln&env_imp_specific_issues_and_cases=env_imp_AVIRIS]]\n[[AVIRIS Related Published Papers|Published Papers]]\n\n''On Sept. 16, around noon when the sun was highest, lighting as much of the dark canyons between the buildings as possible, the first of the USGS missions was flown. The first pass was at 6,500 feet above Manhattan; the second pass at an altitude of 12,500 feet. The data tapes were loaded on a FEMA jet and flown to the Jet Propulsion Lab at Pasadena. They arrived at 2 a.m., where Green and Frank Loiza were waiting. The first evaluation of the data on Sept. 17 cut through the heavy smoke and clearly showed 34 fires burning deep in the bowels of the collapsed World Trade Center complex. That was more than anyone had anticipated. Maps were prepared and shipped to emergency response teams in New York. Based on this information, firefighters redeployed their equipment and changed how they were attacking the fires, which AVIRIS measured at heat ranging between 800 degrees and 1,000 degrees. "Everything we were finding went through the White House first," Clark said. The White House science office asked that AVIRIS be flown again because more information was needed, Green said. On Sept. 18, 22 and 23, the Twin Otter and its $15 million-plus sensor crisscrossed Manhattan.\n[[(source)|http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/asbestos.nsf/0/8DC49C62C3BDFD2186256CAD0076A1ED?OpenDocument]]''\n\n''Because AVIRIS measures reflected sunlight, it generally cannot detect materials deeper than can be seen with the human eye. For most solid materials this optical penetration is measured in millimeters. [[(source ACS 919 p68)|ACS 919]]''\n\n''Dust, probably more than a few millimeters thick (the optical depth), appears in shades of brown around the core WTC area on the 16th. [[(source ACS 919 p69)|ACS 919]]''\n\n''Beginning with the first images released on September 17, AVIRIS data showed hot spots that were otherwise difficult to detect through the smoke and debris.\n[[(source)|http://www.eomonline.com/Common/industrynews/industrynews12102.html]]''\n\n''Orthophotos, vector maps, and thermal data were overlaid to show the location and surface temperatures of underground fires. [[(source)||http://www.geospatial-online.com/geospatialsolutions/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=29492]]''\n\n''Another national program involved collections using NASA’s Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) instrument, which is flown aboard a de Havilland Twin Otter aircraft.7 The AVIRIS collects data in 224 channels of wavelengths (0.37 to 2.5 micrometers) in the visible to short-wavelength infrared portion of the spectrum. This instrument was flown over Ground Zero at the request of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Two flights were undertaken over lower Manhattan at mid-day, one on September 16th and the other on September 23 rd. These images provided a useful pair for identifying and comparing significant thermal hot spots at Ground Zero, which apparently had substantially diminished by the 23rd. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) calibrated the imagery and made corrections for aircraft movements, while the USGS’s Imaging Spectroscopy Group made atmospheric and ground calibrations for the resulting image maps. The imagery data also helped in identifying and locating potential asbestos fallout from the WTC plume. [[(source)|http://www.asprs.org/publications/pers/2002journal/september/highlight.html]]''\n\n[img[AVIRIS_image_cube_9-16-01.jpg|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/AVIRIS_image_cube_9-16-01.jpg]]\n''AVIRIS image cube of World Trade Center disaster site acquired on the 16th of September 2001. The sides of the cube are slices showing the edges of the top in all 224 of the AVIRIS spectral channels. The tops of the sides are in the visible part of the spectrum (wavelength of 400 nanometers), and the bottoms are in the infrared (2,500 nanometers). The sides are pseudo-color, ranging from black and blue (low response) to red (high response). The sides depict the spectral response of the single row of pixels at the top of each side, the bands on the sides are due to the solar absorption windows. The sides of this image convey little additional information since they are not showing the spectral response of the hot spots. The full dataset is necessary. [[Image Cube Description|http://aviris.jpl.nasa.gov/html/aviris.cube.html]] [[(source)|ftp://popo.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/docs/workshops/02_docs/2002_Green_wtc_web.pdf]]''\n\n|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/AVIRIS_09-16-01-thermalMapGeo.jpg\n\n[img[earthdata_c-projectssubcat_34.jpg|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/earthdata_c-projectssubcat_34.jpg]]\nFrom http://www.earthdata.com/projectssubcat.php?subcat=34\n\n[img[http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect4/img14.jpg|http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect4/img14.jpg]]\n\n[img[http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/ofr-01-0429/hotspot.C.900to1000.perc.gif|http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/ofr-01-0429/hotspot.C.900to1000.perc.gif]]\n\n[[Remote Sensing Overview|http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect4/Sect4_2.html]]\n''AVIRIS data taken on the 16th was released in 2 days, AVIRIS data taken on the 23rd was released in 19 days. [[(source)|http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/ofr-01-0405/ofr-01-0405.html]]''\n

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\n''47 Story skyscraper destroyed at 5:20 EDT 09/11/2001'' (10:20pm Universal Time)\n\n''~WTC7 was 610ft tall, which is taller than any building in [[33 states|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_by_U.S._state]].''\n\n''The sudden and complete destruction of World Trade Center 7 was not included in the [[July 2004 911 Commission Report]].''\n\n''New York Judge Dismisses Claim Negligent Construction Contributed To WTC 7 Collapse: http://www.911blogger.com/node/20780''\n''9/11’s smoking gun still smoking: http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4967.shtml''\n\n<html><big><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Background Information:</span></big></big></html>\n[[World Trade Center 7 Design and Construction]]\n[[World Trade Center 7 Building Tenants]]\n[[World Trade Center 7 Building Damage Prior to Complete Destruction]]\n{{indent{[[World Trade Center 7 Building Fire]]\n[[World Trade Center 7 Demolition Warning]]\n\n<html><big><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Data Sources:</span></big></big></html>\n[[World Trade Center 7 Demolition Videos]]\n{{indent{[[World Trade Center 7 Demolition Acceleration]]\n{{indent{{{indent{[[The Top Of World Trade Center 7 Moved Down With A Sudden Onset Of Constant Acceleration]]\n{{indent{{{indent{[[The First Penthouse Fell Through World Trade Center 7 At Freefall]]\n{{indent{[[World Trade Center 7 Seismic Signal]]\n{{indent{[[The Destruction Of World Trade Center 7 Generated A Hot Density Current]]\n{{indent{[[World Trade Center 7 Demolition Eyewitnesses]]\n{{indent{[[World Trade Center 7 Debris Pile]]\n\n\n[[August 21 2008 NIST WTC7 Report (Draft for Public Comment)]]\n[[November 20 2008 NIST WTC7 Report]]\n\n\n[[NIST Rules Out Diesel Fuel Fires As The Cause Of The Destruction Of World Trade Center 7]]\n[[NIST Rules Out Structural Damage To WTC7 From WTC1 Debris Impact As The Cause Of The Destruction Of World Trade Center 7]]\n[[NIST Rules Out Extreme Fire Temperatures As the Cause Of The Destruction Of World Trade Center 7]]\n[[NIST Rules Out Sub-Standard Building Construction As the Cause Of The Destruction Of World Trade Center 7]]\n[[World Trade Center 7 Columns Show Evidence Of Cutter Charges]]\n[[World Trade Center 7 Steel Samples Show Severe Damage Due To A High Temperature Corrosion Attack Which Melted The Steel]]\n\n\n\n''~WTC7 Was was demolished at 5:20 EDT 09/11/2001''\n''[[The BBC reported WTC7's collapse at 5:00 EDT 09/11/2001|World Trade Center 7 Demolition Warning]]''\n\n''WTC 7 was unlike the WTC towers in many respects. It was a more typical tall building in the design of its structural system. It was not struck by an airplane. The fires in WTC 7 were quite different from those in the towers. Since WTC 7 was not doused with thousands of gallons of jet fuel, large areas of any floor were not ignited simultaneously. Instead, the fires in WTC 7 were similar to those that have occurred previously in several tall buildings where the sprinklers did not function or were not present. These other buildings did not succumb to their fires and collapse because they were of structural designs that differed from that of WTC 7. [[nist.gov WTC7 NCSTAR1A Draft p33|http://wtc.nist.gov/media/NIST_NCSTAR_1A_for_public_comment.pdf]]''\n\n''"The collapse of ~WTC7 had a small debris field as the façade was pulled downward, suggesting an internal failure and implosion." [[fema.gov_p31|http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/fema403_ch5.pdf]]''\n\n''"The specifics of the fires in ~WTC7 and how they caused the building to collapse remain unknown at this time. Although the [[total diesel fuel on the premises|Additional WTC7 Diesel Information]] contained massive potential energy, the best hypothesis [fire causing a complete collapse] has only a low probability of occurrence. Further research, investigation, and analyses are needed to resolve this issue." [[fema.gov_p7|http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/fema403_ch8.pdf]]''\n\n''Demolishing the building so that it collapses straight down into its own footprint ... requires such skill that only a handful of demolition companies in the world will attempt it. [[howstuffworks.com|http://science.howstuffworks.com/building-implosion.htm]]''\n\n''"Amazing, incredible, pick your word. For the third time today; It's reminiscent of those pictures we've all see (too much on television before) when a building was deliberately destroyed by well place dynamite to knock it down." -Dan Rather [[whatreallyhappened.com|http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/wtc-7_cbs_demolition.mpg]]''\n\n''"Just before the fall of the North Tower, we saw a large explosion coming from the street-level area around World Trade Center 7." [[trismccall.net|http://web.archive.org/web/20040412230000/http://www.trismccall.net/jersey_city_journal.html]]''\n\n''"In my opinion ~WTC7 was with the utmost probability brought down by controlled demolition done by experts" -Hugo Bachmann, Professor emeritus for structural analysis and construction at ETH and former Chairman of the Department of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. [[911blogger.com|http://911blogger.com/node/2925]]''\n\n''"~WTC7 was with the utmost probability brought down by explosives". -Jörg Schneider, Professor emeritus for structural analysis and construction at ETH [[911blogger.com|http://911blogger.com/node/2925]]''\n\n''“But truthfully, I don’t really know. We’ve had trouble getting a handle on building No. 7.” -Dr. Sunder [[September 2005 NIST Report]] Lead Investigator [[nymag.com|http://nymag.com/news/features/16464/index6.html]]''\n\n''"The fire is the most misunderstood part of the WTC collapse. Even today, the media report (and many scientists believe) that the steel melted. It is argued that the jet fuel burns very hot, especially with so much fuel present. This is not true.... The temperature of the fire at the WTC was not unusual, and it was most definitely not capable of melting steel. In combustion science, there are three basic types of flames, namely, a jet burner, a pre-mixed flame, and a diffuse flame.... In a diffuse flame, the fuel and the oxidant are not mixed before ignition, but flow together in an uncontrolled manner and combust when the fuel/oxidant ratios reach values within the flammable range. A fireplace is a diffuse flame burning in air, as was the WTC fire. Diffuse flames generate the lowest heat intensities of the three flame types... The maximum flame temperature increase for burning hydrocarbons (jet fuel) in air is, thus, about 1000 °C - hardly sufficient to melt steel at 1500 °C. But it is very difficult to reach [even] this maximum temperature with a diffuse flame. There is nothing to ensure that the fuel and air in a diffuse flame are mixed in the best ratio... This is why the temperatures in a residential fire are usually in the 500 °C to 650 °C range [Cote, 1992]. It is known that the WTC fire was a fuel-rich, diffuse flame as evidenced by the copious black smoke.... It is known that structural steel begins to soften around 425 °C and loses about half of its strength at 650 °C [Cote, 1992]. This is why steel is stress relieved in this temperature range. But even a 50% loss of strength is still insufficient, by itself, to explain the WTC collapse... The WTC, on this low-wind day, was likely not stressed more than a third of the design allowable... Even with its strength halved, the steel could still support two to three times the stresses imposed by a 650 °C fire." (source - Eagar and Musso, 2001)''\n\n[img(70%,70%)[http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/wtc7debrisfield5qa.jpg|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/wtc7debrisfield5qa.jpg]]\n\n[img(100%,100%)[wtc-photo_wtc7.jpg|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/wtc-photo_wtc7.jpg]]\n[[(noaa.gov)|http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/wtc/images/wtc-photo.jpg]]\n\nJoerg Schneider ETH Professor Emeritus of Structural Engineering\n\nThe owner of Jowenko Exposieve Demolitie B.V., a company founded in 1980 which holds Dutch, German and European permits for CD, stated on camera when observing the collapse:\n"It starts from the bottom. They simply blew up columns and the rest caved in afterwards. ... This is CD. ... This was a hired job, performed by a team of experts. ... It is without a doubt a professional job. They knew exactly what they were doing." http://sc.tagesanzeiger.ch/dyn/news/ausland/663864.html\nhttp://www.jowenko.com/index.php/1,3,2\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=877gr6xtQIc\n\n\n[[WTC7 Work In Progress]]\n

\n[[World Trade Center Seismic Signal]]\n\n''The North Tower collapse was the largest seismic source and had local magnitude ML 2.3. From this we infer that ground shaking of the WTC towers was not a major contributor to the collapse or damage to surrounding buildings. Earthquakes of ML 2.3 are not known to cause any structural damage in buildings. In the eastern U.S. that threshold is believed to be close to or above ML 4 to 4.5. [[(ldeo.columbia.edu)|http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/Eq/20010911_WTC/WTC_LDEO_KIM.pdf]]''\n\n[img[http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/Eq/20010911_WTC/Bldg7.jpg|http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/Eq/20010911_WTC/Bldg7.jpg]]\n[[(ldeo.columbia.edu)|http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/Eq/WTC_20010911.html]]

\n[[Burnt Cars]]\n\n<html>\n<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U8lrTy5mrZY&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U8lrTy5mrZY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>\n</html>\nSouth Tower: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=67PMXROL\nNorth Tower: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YS0XHA8B\nBuilding 7: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EKPQ0VXM

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''Was Delta 1989 Part of a Live-Fly Hijacking Exercise on 9/11?: http://www.911blogger.com/node/20706''\n\n[[(Audio) Webster Tarpley|http://www.archive.org/details/WebsterTarpleysSpeechInSanDiego7807part1]]\n[[Operation Noble Resolve]]\nhttp://mceer.buffalo.edu/publications/resaccom/02-SP09/pdfs_screen/17_Kendra-Wachtendorf.pdf\nhttp://www.nrt.org/production/NRT/NRTWEB.nsf/AllAttachmentsByTitle/A-285WTCPentagonObservations/$File/WTC_PENTAGON.pdf?OpenElement\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20040723111721/http://dels.nas.edu/dr/docs/harrald.pdf TOPOFF\n\n"There was a plan in place, but we went from 0 to 60 overnight, so to speak," said Lt. Col. Stephen N. Wood, Garrison commander, here. "By sheer coincidence we were scheduled to conduct "Timely Alert II," a force protection exercise on Sept. 11 and because of that, some of the concrete barriers were already in place." [[(source)|http://web.archive.org/web/20011103072714/http://www.amc.army.mil/amc/pa/oct01.html]]\n\nhttp://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050830185334880\n\n\nLATEST FACTFILE: Seconds From Disaster: A Day of 9/11 Events \nA MASCAL (mass casualty) training exercise is held at Fort Belvoir. It is “designed to enhance the first ready response in dealing with the effects of a terrorist incident involving an explosion.” [MDW News Service, 7/5/01] People and organizations involved: Fort Belvoir readmore\n \n tablecurve tablecurve \n You Are Here: Home >> Factfiles >> waronterror >> Seconds From Disaster: A Day of 9/11 Events \n tablecurve tablecurve \n tablecurve tablecurve \n Seconds From Disaster: A Day of 9/11 Events\n\n \nadd to favourites Add to Favorites\nprint this page Print This Page\n \n \n\nSeconds From Disaster: A Day of 9/11 EventsJuly 2001: MASCAL Training Exercise Held at Fort Belvoir\n\nA MASCAL (mass casualty) training exercise is held at Fort Belvoir. It is “designed to enhance the first ready response in dealing with the effects of a terrorist incident involving an explosion.” [MDW News Service, 7/5/01] People and organizations involved: Fort Belvoir\n\n8:30 a.m.: Army Base Near Pentagon Holds Terrorist Attack Exercise\n\nAt Fort Belvoir, an army base 10 miles south of the Pentagon, Lt. Col. Mark R. Lindon is conducting a “garrison control exercise” when the 9/11 attacks begin. The object of this exercise is to “test the security at the base in case of a terrorist attack.” Lindon later says, “I was out checking on the exercise and heard about the World Trade Center on my car radio. As soon as it was established that this was no accident, we went to a complete security mode.” Staff Sgt. Mark Williams of the Military District of Washington Engineer Company at Fort Belvoir also later says: “Ironically, we were conducting classes about rescue techniques when we were told of the planes hitting the World Trade Center.” Williams' team is one of the first response groups to arrive at the site of the Pentagon crash and one of the first to enter the building following the attack. [Connection Newspapers, 9/5/02] A previous MASCAL (mass casualty) training exercise was held at Fort Belvoir a little over two months earlier (see July 2001). It was “designed to enhance the first ready response in dealing with the effects of a terrorist incident involving an explosion.” [MDW News Service, 7/5/01] People and organizations involved: Mark Williams, Mark R. Lindon, World Trade Center, Fort Belvoir\n\n8:30 a.m.: US Military Holding ‘Practice Armageddon’ Nationwide Training Exercise\n\nAs the 9/11 attacks are taking place, a large military training exercise called Global Guardian is said to be “in full swing.” It has been going on since the previous week. [Omaha World-Herald, 2/27/02; Omaha World-Herald, 9/10/02] Global Guardian is an annual exercise sponsored by US Strategic Command (Stratcom) in cooperation with US Space Command and NORAD. One military author defines Stratcom as “the single US military command responsible for the day-to-day readiness of America's nuclear forces.” [Arkin, 2005, pp 59] Global Guardian is a global readiness exercise involving all Stratcom forces and aims to test Stratcom's ability to fight a nuclear war. It is one of many “practice Armageddons” that the US military routinely stages. [Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 11/12/97; Associated Press, 2/21/02 (B); Omaha World-Herald, 2/27/02; Omaha World-Herald, 9/10/02] It links with a number of other military exercises, including Crown Vigilance (an Air Combat Command exercise), Apollo Guardian (a US Space Command exercise), and NORAD exercises Vigilant Guardian and Amalgam Warrior [Defense Department, 5/97; GlobalSecurity [.org], 10/10/02] Global Guardian is both a command post and field training exercise, and is based around a fictitious scenario designed to test the ability of Stratcom and its component forces to deter a military attack against the US. Hundreds of military personnel are involved. [Collins Center, 12/99; Times-Picayune, 9/8/02; Committee on Armed Services, 2000] According to a 1998 Internet article by the British American Security Information Council—an independent research organization—Global Guardian is held in October or November each year. [BASIC, 10/98] In his book Code Names, NBC News military analyst William Arkin dates this exercise for October 22-31, 2001. [Arkin, 2005, pp 379] And a military newspaper reported in March 2001 that Global Guardian was scheduled for October 2001. [Space Observer, 3/23/01, pp 2] If this is correct, then some time after March, the exercise must have been rescheduled for early September. Furthermore, there may be another important facet to Global Guardian. A 1998 Defense Department newsletter reported that for several years Stratcom had been incorporating a computer network attack (CNA) into Global Guardian. The attack involved Stratcom “red team” members and other organizations acting as enemy agents, and included attempts to penetrate the Command using the Internet and a “bad” insider who had access to a key command and control system. The attackers “war dialed” the phones to tie them up and sent faxes to numerous fax machines throughout the Command. They also claimed they were able to shut down Stratcom's systems. Reportedly, Stratcom planned to increase the level of computer network attack in future Global Guardian exercises. [IAnewsletter, 6/98] It is not currently known if a computer attack was incorporated into Global Guardian in 2001 or what its possible effects on the country's air defense system would have been if such an attack was part of the exercise. People and organizations involved: US Department of Defense, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Crown Vigilance, Apollo Guardian, US Space Command, Global Guardian, US Strategic Command, Vigilant Guardian, Amalgam Warrior\n\n8:30 a.m.: FBI/CIA Anti-Terrorist Task Force Away From Washington on Training Exercise in California\n\nUSA Today reports that at this time, “a joint FBI/CIA anti-terrorist task force that specifically prepared for this type of disaster” is on a “training exercise in Monterey, Calif.” Consequently, “as of late Tuesday, with airports closed around the country, the task force still [hasn]'t found a way to fly back to Washington.” [USA Today, 9/11/01] The US politics website evote.com adds that the FBI has deployed “all of its anti-terrorist and top special operations agents at a training exercise (complete with all associated helicopters and light aircraft) in Monterey, California.” So at the time of the attacks, “the chief federal agency responsible for preventing such crimes [is] being AWOL.” [Evote [.com], 9/11/01] People and organizations involved: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency\n\n8:46 a.m.: Fighters Are Training over North Carolina; Not Recalled to Washington Until Much Later\n\nAt the time of the first WTC crash, three F-16s assigned to Andrews Air Force Base, ten miles from Washington, are flying an air-to-ground training mission to drop some bombs and hit a refueling tanker, on a range in North Carolina, 207 miles away from their base. However, it is only when they are halfway back to Andrews that lead pilot Major Billy Hutchison is able to talk to the acting supervisor of flying at Andrews, Lt. Col. Phil Thompson, who tells him to return to the base “buster” (as fast as his aircraft will fly). After landing back at Andrews, Hutchison is told to take off immediately, and does so at 10:33 a.m. The other two pilots, Marc Sasseville and Heather Penney, take off from Andrews at 10:42 a.m., after having their planes loaded with 20mm training rounds. These three pilots will therefore not be patrolling the skies above Washington until after about 10:45 a.m. [Aviation Week and Space Technology, 9/9/02; Air War Over America, by Leslie Filson, 1/04, p. 56] F-16s can travel at a maximum speed of 1,500 mph. [Associated Press, 6/16/00] Traveling even at 1,100 mph (the speed NORAD Major General Larry Arnold says two fighters from Massachusetts travel toward Flight 175 [MSNBC, 9/23/01 (C); Slate, 1/16/02] ), at least one of these F-16s could have returned from North Carolina to Washington within ten minutes and started patrolling the skies well before 9:00 a.m. People and organizations involved: Billy Hutchison, Heather Penney Garcia, Phil Thompson, NBC, Marc Sasseville\n\n8:48 a.m.: Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, Preparing for Global Guardian Exercise When Attacks Start\n\nBarksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana is an important node in the US Strategic Command (Stratcom) exercise Global Guardian (see 8:30 a.m.) on 9/11. Colonel Mike Reese, director of staff for the 8th Air Force, is monitoring several television screens at the base as part of the exercise when he sees CNN cut into coverage of the first World Trade Center crash, two minutes after it happens. He watches live when the second plane hits the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m. Reese says that at this point, “we knew it wasn't a mistake. Something grave was happening that put the nation's security at risk.” An article in the New Orleans Times-Picayune later recounts how awareness of the real attacks impacts those participating in the exercise: “Immediately [the Barksdale staff's] focus turned to defense, securing Barksdale, Minot [North Dakota], and Whiteman [Missouri] air force bases, where dozens of aircraft and hundreds of personnel were involved in the readiness exercise ‘Global Guardian.’ The exercise abruptly ended as the United States appeared to be at war within its own borders. Four A-10s, an aircraft not designed for air-to-air combat, from Barksdale's 47th Fighter Squadron, were placed on ‘cockpit alert,’ the highest state of readiness for fighter pilots. Within five minutes, the A-10s, equipped only with high intensity cannons, could have been launched to destroy unfriendly aircraft, even if it was a civilian passenger airliner.” Lt. Col. Edmund Walker, commander of the 47th Fighter Squadron, a novice pilot still in training, is sitting in his fighter along with other pilots in other fighters, ready to take off, when they are ordered back to the squadron office. They are told they are no longer practicing. Walker recalls, “We had to defend the base against any aircraft, airliner or civilian. We had no idea. Would it fly to the base and crash into the B-52s or A-10s on the flight line?” [Times-Picayune, 9/8/02] When President Bush's Air Force One takes off from Sarasota, Florida, at approximately 9:55 a.m., it has no destination, and circles over Florida aimlessly. But around 10:35 (see (10:35 a.m.)), it begins heading towards Barksdale Air Force Base. [CBS News, 9/11/02; Washington Post, 1/27/02] It finally arrives at Barksdale around 11:45 a.m. [Daily Telegraph, 12/16/01; CBS News, 9/11/02] It's never been explained exactly why Bush traveled from Florida to Barksdale. The Daily Telegraph has reported, “The official reason for landing at Barksdale was that President Bush felt it necessary to make a further statement, but it isn't unreasonable to assume that—as there was no agreement as to what the President's movements should be—it was felt he might as well be on the ground as in the air.” [Daily Telegraph, 12/16/01] People and organizations involved: Offutt Air Force Base, James O. Ellis Jr, Mike Reese, Global Guardian, Eni\n\n9:00 a.m.: 9/11-Styled Simulation Cancelled\n\nAn “emergency response exercise” is scheduled to take place at 9 a.m. the morning of 9/11, involving the simulated crash of a small corporate jet plane into a government building. The exercise is to be conducted by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in Chantilly, Virginia—just four miles from Washington Dulles International Airport, from where Flight 77 took off, and 24 miles from the Pentagon. The NRO draws its personnel from the CIA and the military. The exercise is to involve the jet experiencing mechanical problems then crashing into one of the four towers at the NRO. In order to simulate the damage from the crash, some stairwells and exits are to be closed off, forcing NRO employees to find other ways to evacuate the building. However, according to an agency spokesman, “as soon as the real world events began, we cancelled the exercise.” After the attacks, most of the agency's 3,000 staff are supposedly sent home. [National Law Enforcement and Security Institute, 8/6/02; Associated Press, 8/21/02; UPI, 8/22/02] People and organizations involved: National Reconnaissance Office\n\nJust Before 9:00 a.m.: Two Otis Fighters Take Off for Training Mission Over Ocean\n\nA team in the 102nd Fighter Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, finishes loading dummy missiles onto two fighters that are going to fly a training mission over the Atlantic. They take off sometime before the second WTC tower is hit. Shortly after that hit, the fighters on the training mission are recalled. The implication is that the fighters are then refitted with actual weapons instead of dummy ones. [Cape Cod Times, 9/8/02] Otis is the base from which the two F-15s launch in response to the first hijacking (Flight 11) at roughly the same time. [9/11 Commission Report, 6/17/04] One of the pilots of these F-15s—nicknamed “Nasty” —is reportedly standing in for the usual “alert” pilot, who is “scheduled for training” on 9/11. [Cape Cod Times, 8/21/02]\n\nBefore 9:00 a.m.: Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, is Directing Global Guardian Training Exercise\n\nAdmiral Richard Mies. Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska, appears to be the headquarters of the US Strategic Command (Stratcom) exercise Global Guardian that is “in full swing” when the 9/11 attacks begin. At least the director of the exercise, Admiral Richard Mies, commander in chief of Stratcom, is at Offutt this morning. [Omaha World-Herald, 9/10/02] Because of Global Guardian, bombers, missile crews, and submarines around America are all being directed from Stratcom's Command Center, a steel and concrete reinforced bunker below Offutt. [Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 11/12/97; Associated Press, 2/21/02 (B); Omaha World-Herald, 2/27/02; BBC, 9/1/02; Omaha World-Herald, 9/10/02] This bunker is staffed with top personnel and they are at a heightened security mode because of the exercise. [Associated Press, 2/21/02 (B); Air Force Weather Observer, 7/02] Because of Global Guardian, three special military command aircraft with sophisticated communications equipment, based at Offutt, are up in the air the morning of 9/11. These E-4B National Airborne Operations Center planes—nicknamed “Doomsday” planes during the Cold War—are intended to control nuclear forces from the air in times of crisis. They are capable of acting as alternative command posts for top government officials from where they can direct US forces, execute war orders and coordinate the actions of civil authorities in times of national emergency. The Federal Advisory Committee (whose chairman is retired Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft) is aboard one of these Doomsday planes, being brought to Offutt to observe the exercise. Media accounts indicate Global Guardian is cancelled at Offutt shortly after the second WTC tower is hit (at 9:03 a.m.), with staff switching to “real-world mode.” [Defense Department, 1/9/02; Air Force Weather Observer, 7/02; Omaha World-Herald, 9/8/02] However, even after Global Guardian is called off, the three E-4Bs remain airborne. [Omaha World-Herald, 2/27/02; BBC, 9/1/02] Also, the morning of 9/11, a small group of business leaders are at Offutt Air Force Base for a charity fundraiser event due to take place there later in the day, hosted by the multi-billionaire Warren Buffett. When the attacks begin, these visitors are having breakfast with Admiral Mies, the director of Global Guardian. After the second WTC tower is hit, Mies excuses himself from the group, presumably to assist in canceling the exercise. [San Francisco Business Times, 2/1/02; Omaha World-Herald, 2/27/02; Omaha World-Herald, 9/10/02] People and organizations involved: Federal Advisory Committee, Brent Scowcroft, Richard Mies, Warren Buffet, Global Guardian\n\nBefore 9:00 a.m.: Army Base Outside New York Prepares for Terrorist Attack Exercise\n\nStaff at Fort Monmouth, an Army base in New Jersey located about 50 miles south of New York City, is preparing to hold a “disaster drill” to test emergency response capabilities to a fake chemical attack. The exercise, called Timely Alert II, is to involve various law enforcement agencies and emergency personnel, including Fort Monmouth firefighters and members of the New Jersey State Police. Personnel are to be deployed and measures taken as in a real emergency. A notice has been sent out, warning that anyone not conducting official business will be turned away from Fort Monmouth during the exercise. Soon after 9 a.m., the exercise director tells a group of participating volunteers that a hijacked plane has crashed into the World Trade Center. The participants pretend to be upset, believing this is just part of the simulation. When they see the live televised footage of the WTC attacks, some people at the base think it is an elaborate training video to accompany the exercise. One worker tells a fire department training officer: “You really outdid yourself this time.” Interestingly, the follow-up exercise held in July 2002 (Timely Alert III) does incorporate simulated television news reports to give participants the impression that the emergency is real. And in the first Timely Alert exercise, held on the base in January 2001, a call had come through of a supposed “real” bomb situation, but this “fortunately turned out to be a report related to a training aid being used during the exercise.” On 9/11, Fort Monmouth is geared to go into high-alert status as part of Timely Alert II. The exercise is called off once the base is alerted to the real attacks. [Monmouth Message, 2/9/01; Hub, 9/21/01; Monmouth Message, 9/21/01; Asbury Park Press, 7/24/02; Monmouth Message, 8/23/02; US Army CECOM, 8/03; Monmouth Message, 9/12/03] Fort Monmouth is home to various Army, Defense Department, and other government agencies. The largest of these is the US Army's Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM). CECOM serves to “develop, acquire, field, and sustain superior information technologies and integrated systems for America's warfighters.” It is tasked with the “critical role of command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR).” [CECOM website, 4/17/02; GlobalSecurity [.org], 8/02/04; CECOM brochure, 1/03] Fort Monmouth services also directly assist in the emergency response later in the day. Its fire department deploys to Atlantic Highlands to assist passengers coming from Manhattan by ferry, and members of its Patterson Army Health Clinic are also sent out to help. Teams of CECOM experts from the base are later deployed to ground zero in New York with equipment capable of locating cellular phone transmissions within the ruins of the collapsed World Trade Center. Its explosive ordnance company is also deployed to assist authorities should they come across anything they think might be explosives, while digging through the debris in search of victims. [Hub, 9/21/01 (B); Monmouth Message, 9/21/01] People and organizations involved: World Trade Center, Army's Communications-Electronics Command, Fort Monmouth, Timely Alert II\n\nAfter 9:03 a.m.: NORAD Training Exercise Cancelled\n\nNORAD Commander Larry Arnold later says that after Flight 175 hits the South Tower, “I thought it might be prudent to pull out of the exercise [presumably Vigilant Guardian (see (6:30 a.m.))], which we did.” He says: “As we pulled out of the exercise we were getting calls about United Flight 93 and we were worried about that.” Some early accounts say the military receives notification of the possible hijacking of Flight 93 at around 9:16 a.m. [CNN, 9/17/01; 9/11 Commission Report, 5/23/03] However, the 9/11 Commission later claims that the military first receives a call about Flight 93 at 10:07 a.m. [9/11 Commission Report, 6/17/04] Larry Arnold adds, “Then we had another call from Boston Center about a possible hijacking, but that turned out to be the airplane that had already hit the South Tower but we didn't know that at the time.” [Air War Over America, by Leslie Filson, 1/04, pp 59] People and organizations involved: North American Aerospace Defense Command, Larry Arnold\n\n(9:09 a.m. and After): Numerous False Reports of Hijacked Aircraft\n\nAccording to the 9/11 Commission, “During the course of the morning, there were multiple erroneous reports of hijacked aircraft in the system.” [9/11 Commission Report, 6/17/04] Around 9:09 a.m., the FAA Command Center reports that 11 aircraft are either not communicating with FAA facilities or flying unexpected routes. [Aviation Week and Space Technology, 6/3/02] NORAD's Major General Larry Arnold claims that during the “four-hour ordeal” of the attacks, a total of 21 planes are identified as possible hijackings. [Air War Over America, by Leslie Filson, 1/04, p. 71; Code One magazine, 1/02] Robert Marr, head of NEADS on 9/11, says, “At one time I was told that across the nation there were some 29 different reports of hijackings.” [Newhouse News Service, 3/31/05] It is later claimed that these false reports cause considerable chaos. Larry Arnold says that particularly during the time between the Pentagon being hit at 9:37 and Flight 93 going down at around 10:06, “a number of aircraft are being called possibly hijacked ? There was a lot of confusion, as you can imagine.” [Air War Over America, by Leslie Filson, 1/04, pp 73] He says, “We were receiving many reports of hijacked aircraft. When we received those calls, we might not know from where the aircraft had departed. We also didn't know the location of the airplane.” [Code One magazine, 1/02] According to Robert Marr, “There were a number of false reports out there. What was valid? What was a guess? We just didn't know.” [Air War Over America, by Leslie Filson, 1/04, pp 73] People and organizations involved: Robert Marr, Larry Arnold, Federal Aviation Administration\n\n9:28 a.m.: NORAD Possibly Holding ‘Live-Fly’ Training Exercise\n\nAccording to former counterterrorism “tsar” Richard Clarke, around this time the acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers tells him via video link: “We are in the middle of Vigilant Warrior, a NORAD exercise, but ... Otis [Air National Guard Base] has launched two birds toward New York.” [Clarke, 2004, pp 5] However, no other references have been found to this exercise, “Vigilant Warrior.” Considering that exercise terms are “normally an unclassified nickname,” [CJCSM, 4/23/98] this is perhaps a little odd. Could Richard Clarke have mistakenly been referring to the Vigilant Guardian exercise (see (6:30 a.m.)), which is taking place on 9/11? According to a later news report though, NORAD confirms that “it was running two mock drills on Sept. 11 at various radar sites and Command Centers in the United States and Canada,” one of these being Vigilant Guardian. [New Jersey Star-Ledger, 12/5/03] If this is correct then there must be another NORAD exercise on 9/11. If not “Vigilant Warrior,” a possibility is that the exercise referred to by Richard Clarke is in fact “Amalgam Warrior,” which is a NORAD-sponsored, large-scale, live-fly air defense and air intercept field training exercise. Amalgam Warrior usually involves two or more NORAD regions and is held twice yearly, in the spring for the West Coast and in the autumn for the East Coast. [Airman, 1996; GlobalSecurity [.org], 4/14/02; Committee on Armed Services, 2000; Arkin, 2005, pp 254] Is it possible that in 2001 the East Coast Amalgam Warrior is being held earlier than usual (like Global Guardian (see 8:30 a.m.)) and is taking place on 9/11? In support of this possibility is a 1997 Defense Department report that describes the Stratcom exercise Global Guardian, saying it “links with other exercise activities sponsored by the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Unified Commands.” The exercises it links with are Crown Vigilance (an Air Combat Command exercise), Apollo Guardian (a US Space Command exercise), and—significantly—the NORAD exercises Vigilant Guardian and Amalgam Warrior. [Defense Department, 5/97; GlobalSecurity [.org], 10/10/02] Since in 2001, Vigilant Guardian (see (6:30 a.m.)) is occurring the same time as Global Guardian, might Amalgam Warrior be as well? In his book Code Names, William Arkin says that Amalgam Warrior is “sometimes combined with Global Guardian.” [Arkin, 2005, pp 254] Amalgam Warrior tests such activities as tracking, surveillance, air interception, employing rules of engagement, attack assessment, electronic warfare, and counter-cruise-missile operations. A previous Amalgam Warrior in 1996 involved such situations as tracking unknown aircraft that had incorrectly filed their flight plans or wandered off course, in-flight emergencies, terrorist aircraft attacks, and large-scale bomber strike missions. Amalgam Warrior 98-1 was NORAD's largest ever exercise and involved six B-1B bombers being deployed to Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, to act as an enemy threat by infiltrating the aerial borders of North America. [Airman, 1/96; GlobalSecurity [.org], 4/14/02; Arkin, 2005, pp 254] Another Amalgam Warrior in fall 2000 similarly involved four B-1 bombers acting as enemy forces trying to invade Alaska, with NORAD going from tracking the unknown aircraft to sending up “alert” F-15s in response. [Eielson News Service, 10/27/00; Associated Press, 10/29/00] If either one (or both) of these exercises ending with the name “Warrior” is taking place on 9/11, this could be very significant, because the word “Warrior” indicates that the exercise is a Joint Chiefs of Staff-approved, Commander in Chief, NORAD-sponsored field training exercise. [NORAD, 8/25/89] Real planes would be pretending to be threats to the US and real fighters would be deployed to defend against them. People and organizations involved: US Department of Defense, Richard B. Myers, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Richard A. Clarke, Amalgam Warrior, Ellington Air National Guard Base, Vigilant Guardian\n\nBefore 9:37 a.m.: Army Base near Pentagon Holding Air Field Fire Fighting Training\n\nAt the Education Center at Fort Myer, an army base 1.5 miles northwest of the Pentagon, the base's firefighters are undertaking training variously described as “an airport rescue firefighters class”; “an aircraft crash refresher class”; “a week-long class on Air Field Fire Fighting”; and a “training exercise in airport emergency operations.” Despite hearing of the first WTC crash during a break, with no access to a TV, the class simply continues with its training. According to Bruce Surette, who is attending the session: “We had heard some radio transmissions from some other units in Arlington about how they thought they had a plane down here or a plane down there. So you're thinking, ‘Hey this could be real.’ But it really didn't strike home as being real until our guy came on the radio and said where the plane crash was.” The Fort Myer firefighters then immediately head for the Pentagon, arriving there at 9:40 a.m., only three minutes after it is hit, and participate in the firefighting and rescue effort there. The fire station at the Pentagon heliport is actually operated by the Fort Myer Fire Department, and is manned on the morning of 9/11 by three Fort Myer firefighters who have already undertaken the airfield firefighting training. [MDW News Service, 10/4/01; Pentagram, 11/2/01; JEMS, 4/02; Arlington County After-Action Report, 7/02; First Due News, 4/1703] The Fort Myer military community, which includes Fort Myer and Fort Lesley J. McNair—another army base, just two miles east of the Pentagon—was scheduled to hold a “force protection exercise” the week after 9/11. However this has been cancelled, so just prior to the attacks the morning of September 11, “some of its participants [are] breathing a sigh of relief.” [Pentagram, 9/14/01] People and organizations involved: Fort Myer, Pentagon\n\nAfter 9:55 a.m.: Ellington Fighters Airborne on Local Training Mission\n\nTwo F-16s from the 147th Fighter Wing, Ellington Air National Guard Base, Texas, are said to be already airborne on a local training mission when they are instructed to escort Air Force One after it departs Sarasota, Florida, with President Bush on board. [American Defender, 12/01; Code One magazine, 1/02] People and organizations involved: 147th Fighter Wing, Ellington Air National Guard Base, George W. Bush\n\nBefore 9:55 a.m.: AWACS Planes on Training Missions in Florida and Near Washington, DC\n\nWhile President Bush is still in Sarasota, an AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System plane) is flying a training mission off the coast of Florida. Referring to the AWACS plane, NORAD Commander Larry Arnold later says: “I had set up an arrangement with their wing commander at Tinker [Air Force Base, Oklahoma] some months earlier for us to divert their AWACS off a normal training mission to go into an exercise scenario simulating an attack on the United States. The AWACS crew initially thought we were going into one of those simulations.” Another AWACS is also flying a training mission, near Washington, DC, the morning of 9/11. [Code One magazine, 1/02] People and organizations involved: Larry Arnold\n\n2:50 p.m.: Bush Arrives in Nebraska; Enters Strategic Command Center\n\nHaving left Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana at around 1:30 p.m. (see (1:30 p.m.)), Air Force One lands at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Nebraska. President Bush stays on the plane for about ten minutes before entering the United States Strategic Command bunker at 3:06 p.m. [Daily Telegraph, 12/16/01; Salon, 9/12/01 (B)] Offutt Air Force Base appears to be the headquarters of the US Strategic Command (Stratcom) exercise Global Guardian that was “in full swing” at the time the attacks began (see 8:30 a.m.). While there, the president spends time in the underground Command Center from where Global Guardian was earlier being directed, being brought up to date on the attacks and their aftermath. [Daily Telegraph, 12/16/01; Omaha World-Herald, 2/27/02; Washington Times, 10/8/02] People and organizations involved: Offutt Air Force Base, George W. Bush\n\n(5:53 a.m.): Two Hijackers Caught on Video as They Board a Flight to Boston\n\nAbdulaziz Alomari, right, and Mohamed Atta, left (in dark shirt), passing through security in the Portland, Maine, airport. Note the different times on the two time stamps, one in the middle, one at the bottom. Hijackers Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari board a Colgan Air flight from Portland, Maine, to Boston, Massachusetts. A security camera captures Atta and Alomari going through security at the Portland airport. [Time, 9/24/01; FBI, 10/4/01; Miami Herald, 9/22/01; New York Daily News, 5/22/02]\n\n(6:00 a.m.): Two Hijackers Fly to Boston\n\nMohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari's flight from Portland to Boston takes off. [FBI, 10/4/01] Two passengers later say Atta and Alomari board separately, keep quiet, and do not draw attention to themselves. [Washington Post, 9/16/01; Chicago Sun-Times, 9/16/01]\n\n(6:00 a.m.): Bush Interview or Assassination Attempt?\n\nPresident Bush has just spent the night at Colony Beach and Tennis Resort on Longboat Key, Florida. Surface-to-air missiles have been placed on the roof of the resort (it is not known if this was typical of presidential security before 9/11, or if this was related to increased terror warnings). [Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 9/10/02] Bush wakes up around 6:00 a.m. and is preparing for his morning jog. [New York Times, 9/16/01 (B); Daily Telegraph, 12/16/01; MSNBC, 10/27/02] A van occupied by men of Middle Eastern descent arrives at the Colony Beach Resort, stating they have a “poolside” interview with the president. They do not have an appointment and they are turned away. [Longboat Observer, 9/26/01] Some question whether this was an assassination attempt modeled on the one used on Afghan leader Ahmed Massoud two days earlier. [Time, 8/4/02 (B)] Longboat Key Fire Marshal Carroll Mooneyhan was reported to have overheard the conversation between the men and the Secret Service, but he later denies the report. The newspaper that reported this, the Longboat Observer stands by its story. [St. Petersburg Times, 7/4/04] Witnesses recall seeing Mohamed Atta in the Longboat Key Holiday Inn a short distance from where Bush was staying as recently as September 7, the day Bush's Sarasota appearance was publicly announced. [Longboat Observer, 11/21/01; St. Petersburg Times, 7/4/04]\n\n(6:30 a.m.): NORAD on Alert for Emergency Exercises\n\nDawne Deskins. Lieutenant Colonel Dawne Deskins and other day shift employees at NEADS start their workday. NORAD is conducting a weeklong, large-scale exercise called Vigilant Guardian. [Newhouse News Service, 1/25/02] Deskins is regional mission crew chief for the Vigilant Guardian exercise. [ABC News, 9/11/02] Vigilant Guardian is described as “an exercise that would pose an imaginary crisis to North American Air Defense outposts nationwide”; as a “simulated air war”; and as “an air defense exercise simulating an attack on the United States.” According to the 9/11 Commission, it “postulated a bomber attack from the former Soviet Union.” [Newhouse News, 1/25/02; Air War Over America, by Leslie Filson, 1/04, pp 55 and 122; 9/11 Commission Final Report, 7/04, pp 458] Vigilant Guardian is described as being held annually, and is one of NORAD's four major annual exercises. [GlobalSecurity [.org] Vigilant Guardian page, 4/14/02; Air War Over America, by Leslie Filson, 1/04, pp 41; Code Names, by William M. Arkin, 1/05, pp 545] However, another report says it takes place semi-annually. [Aviation Week and Space Technology, 6/3/02] Accounts by participants vary on whether 9/11 was the second, third, or fourth day of the exercise. [Newhouse News Service, 1/25/02; Ottawa Citizen, 9/11/02; Code One Magazine, 1/02] Vigilant Guardian is a command post exercise (CPX), and in at least some previous years was conducted in conjunction with Stratcom's Global Guardian exercise and a US Space Command exercise called Apollo Guardian. [Committee on Armed Services, undated; GlobalSecurity [.org] Vigilant Guardian page, 4/14/02; Code Names, by William M. Arkin, 1/05, pp 545] All of NORAD is participating in Vigilant Guardian on 9/11. [Aviation Week and Space Technology, 6/3/02] At NEADS, most of the dozen or so staff on the operations floor have no idea what the exercise is going to entail and are ready for anything. [Utica Observer-Dispatch, 8/5/04] NORAD is also running a real-world operation named Operation Northern Vigilance. NORAD is thus fully staffed and alert, and senior officers are manning stations throughout the US. The entire chain of command is in place and ready when the first hijacking is reported. An article later says, “In retrospect, the exercise would prove to be a serendipitous enabler of a rapid military response to terrorist attacks on September 11.” [Aviation Week and Space Technology, 6/3/02; Bergen Record, 12/5/03] Colonel Robert Marr, in charge of NEADS, says, “We had the fighters with a little more gas on board. A few more weapons on board.” [ABC News, 9/11/02] However, Deskins and other NORAD officials later are initially confused about whether the 9/11 attacks are real or part of the exercise. There is a National Reconnaissance Office exercise planned to occur as well (see 9:00 a.m.), involving a scenario of an airplane as a flying weapon. [Associated Press, 8/21/02; UPI, 8/22/02] People and organizations involved: North American Aerospace Defense Command, Northeast Air Defense Sector, Vigilant Guardian, Operation Northern Vigilance, Dawne Deskins, Robert Marr\n\n(6:30 a.m.): Hijackers Cause Scene in Airport, Have Pass to Restricted Airport Areas\n\nA man has an argument with five Middle Eastern men over a parking space in the parking lot of Boston's Logan Airport. He reports the event later in the day and officials discover that the car was rented by Mohamed Atta. Inside the car, police find a ramp pass, which allows access to restricted airport areas. [News of the World, 9/16/01; Miami Herald, 9/22/01]\n\n(6:30 a.m.): NORAD on Alert for Emergency Exercises\n\nDawne Deskins. Lieutenant Colonel Dawne Deskins and other day shift employees at NEADS start their workday. NORAD is unusually prepared on 9/11 because it is conducting a weeklong, semi-annual exercise called Vigilant Guardian. [Newhouse News Service, 1/25/02] Deskins is regional Mission Crew Chief for the Vigilant Guardian exercise. [ABC News, 9/11/02] The exercise poses “an imaginary crisis to North American Air Defense outposts nationwide.” [Newhouse News Service, 1/25/02] Accounts by participants vary on whether 9/11 was the second, third, or fourth day of the exercise. [Newhouse News Service, 1/25/02; Ottawa Citizen, 9/11/02; Code One Magazine, 1/02] NORAD is also running another fighter exercise named Operation Northern Vigilance. NORAD is thus fully staffed and alert, and senior officers are manning stations throughout the US. The entire chain of command is in place and ready when the first hijacking is reported. An article later says, “In retrospect, the exercise would prove to be a serendipitous enabler of a rapid military response to terrorist attacks on September 11.” [Aviation Week and Space Technology, 6/3/02; Bergen Record, 12/5/03] ABC News later reports that because NORAD is “conducting training exercises [it has] extra fighter planes on alert.” [ABC News, 9/14/02] Colonel Robert Marr, in charge of NEADS, says, “We had the fighters with a little more gas on board. A few more weapons on board.” [ABC News, 9/11/02] However, Deskins and other NORAD officials later are initially confused about whether the 9/11 attacks are real or part of the exercise. There is a National Reconnaissance Office exercise planned to occur as well, involving a scenario of an airplane as a flying weapon. [Associated Press, 8/21/02; UPI, 8/22/02]\n\n(6:31 a.m.): Bush Goes Jogging\n\nThe Colony Beach and Tennis Resort, where Bush stays the night before 9/11. President Bush goes for a four-mile jog around the golf course at the Colony Beach and Tennis Resort. [Washington Post, 1/27/02; MSNBC, 10/27/02; Washington Times, 10/7/02]\n\n(6:45 a.m.): Israeli Company Given Two Hours' Notice of Attack\n\n“Approximately two hours prior to the first attack,” at least two workers at Odigo, an Israeli-owned instant messaging company, receive messages warning of the attack. Odigo's US headquarters are located two blocks from the WTC. The source of the warning is unknown. [Washington Post, 9/28/01; Ha'aretz, 9/26/01]\n\n6:47 a.m.: WTC Building 7 Alarm Not Operating\n\nAccording to later reports, the alarm system in WTC 7 is placed on “TEST” status for a period due to last eight hours. This ordinarily happens during maintenance or other testing, and any alarms received from the building are generally ignored. [Nist Progress Report, 6/04, pp 28]\n\n6:50 a.m.: Hijacker's Connecting Flight Arrives in Boston\n\nMohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomar's Portland-Boston flight arrives on time at Boston's Logan Airport. [Der Spiegel, 2002]\n\n(7:00 a.m.-7:45 a.m.): Computer Screening Program Selects Some Hijackers; Fails to Stop Them\n\nSometime during this period, the hijackers pass through airport security checkpoints at the various airports. The FAA has a screening program in place called the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS). CAPPS automatically targets passengers for additional screening based on suspicious behavior such as buying one-way tickets or paying with cash. If a passenger is selected, their bags are thoroughly screened for explosives, but their bodies are not searched. [Washington Post, 1/28/04] CAPPS selects three of the five Flight 11 hijackers. Since Waleed Alshehri checked no bags, his selection had no consequences. Wail Alshehri and Satam Al Suqami have their bags scanned for explosives, but are not stopped. No Flight 175 hijackers are selected. Only Ahmad Alhaznawi is selected from Flight 93. His bag is screened for explosives, but he is not stopped. The 9/11 Commission later concludes that Alhaznawi and Ahmed Alnami, also headed to Flight 93, have suspicious indicators and that they could have been linked to al-Qaeda upon inspection, but it has not been explained why or how. [9/11 Commission Report, 1/27/04; Baltimore Sun, 1/27/04] Screening of the Flight 77 hijackers is described below.\n\n7:18 a.m.: Hijack Suspects Set Off Airport Alarms; Allowed to Board Anyway\n\nHijackers in a Dulles Airport, Washington, security checkpoint, from left to right: Nawaf Alhazmi gets searched, Khalid Almihdhar, and Hani Hanjour. This picture of Hanjour doesn't seem to have much resemblance to the thin Hanjour in other photos. According to a security video apparently viewed by the 9/11 Commission, Flight 77 hijackers Majed Moqed and Khalid Almihdhar pass through a security checkpoint at Washington's Dulles International Airport. They are selected by the CAPPS program for closer inspection. While their carry-on bags fail to set off any alarms, both set off alarms when passing through the magnetometer. They are directed to a second magnetometer. Almihdhar passes, but Moqed fails again. He is subjected to a personal screening with a metal detection hand wand. This time he is cleared and he is permitted to pass through the checkpoint. The 9/11 Commission later concludes that Almihdhar's passport was “suspicious” and could have been linked to al-Qaeda upon inspection, but it has not been explained why or how. [9/11 Commission Report, 1/27/04; Baltimore Sun, 1/27/04]\n\n7:35 a.m.: More Hijackers Have Checkpoint Problems; Allowed to Board Anyway\n\nHijacker brothers Salem (white shirt) and Nawaf Alhazmi (dark shirt) pass through security in Dulles Airport in Washington. According to the 9/11 Commission's review of airport security footage, the remaining three Flight 77 hijackers pass through a security checkpoint at Dulles Airport. Hani Hanjour is selected for further inspection by the CAPPS program. His two carry-on bags fail to set off any alarms. One minute later, Nawaf Alhazmi and Salem Alhazmi enter the same checkpoint. They are selected for further inspection because one of them does not have photo identification nor is able to understand English and a security agent finds both of them suspicious. [San Francisco Chronicle, 7/23/04] Salem Alhazmi successfully clears the magnetometer, and he is permitted through the checkpoint. Nawaf Alhazmi sets off the alarms for both the first and second magnetometers. He is subsequently subjected to a personal screening with a metal detection hand wand. He finally passes. His shoulder strap carry-on bag is swiped by an explosive trace detector and returned without further inspection. The 9/11 Commission later concludes that the Alhazmi brothers' passports had suspicious indicators, and that they could have been linked to al-Qaeda upon closer inspection. [9/11 Commission Report, 1/27/04; Baltimore Sun, 1/27/04] To date, video footage of the Flight 77 hijackers has been released to the public, but none of the footage of other hijackers going through security has been.\n\n(7:45 a.m.): Hijack Suspects' Bags Contain Airline Uniforms\n\nMohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari board Flight 11. Atta's bags are not loaded onto the plane in time and are later found by investigators. Investigators later find airline uniforms and many other remarkable items. [Boston Globe, 9/18/01] It is later reported that at least two other hijackers on Flight 11 use stolen uniforms and IDs to board the plane. [Sunday Herald, 9/16/01]\n\n(Before 7:59 a.m.): Inter Flight Phone Call Between Hijackers\n\nHijacker Mohamed Atta on Flight 11 calls hijacker Marwan Alshehhi in Flight 175 as both planes sit on the runway. They presumably confirm the plot is on. [Time, 8/4/02 (B)]\n\n(7:59 a.m.): Flight 11 Is Late Taking Off\n\nFlight 11 takes off from Boston's Logan Airport, 14 minutes after its scheduled 7:45 departure time. [Los Angeles Times, 9/20/01; ABC News, 7/18/02; CNN, 9/17/01; Washington Post, 9/12/01; Guardian, 10/17/01; Associated Press, 8/19/02 (B); Newsday, 9/10/02; 9/11 Commission Report, 6/17/04]\n\n(8:00 a.m.): Bush Receives Daily Intelligence Briefing\n\nPresident Bush sits down for his daily intelligence briefing. “The president's briefing appears to have included some reference to the heightened terrorist risk reported throughout the summer,” but it contained nothing serious enough to cause Bush to call National Security Adviser Rice. The briefing ends around 8:20 a.m. [Daily Telegraph, 12/16/01]\n\n8:01 a.m.: Flight 93 Is Delayed for 41 Minutes\n\nFlight 93 is delayed for 41 minutes on the runway in Newark, New Jersey. It will take off at 8:42 a.m. The Boston Globe credits this delay as a major reason why this was the only one of the four flights not to succeed in its mission. [Boston Globe, 11/23/01; Newsweek, 9/22/01; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 10/28/01 (B)] Apparently, Flight 93 has to wait in a line of about a dozen planes before it can take off. [USA Today, 8/12/02]\n\n(Between 8:13-8:21 a.m.): Flight 11 Transponder Turned Off\n\nFlight controller Matt McCluskey stands in the Boston tower where the Flight 11 hijack was first detected. Shortly after flight controllers ask Flight 11 to climb to 35,000 feet, the transponder stops transmitting. A transponder is an electronic device that identifies a plane on a controller's screen and gives its exact location and altitude. Among other vital functions, it is also used to transmit a four-digit emergency hijack code. Flight control manager Glenn Michael later says, “We considered it at that time to be a possible hijacking.” [Associated Press, 8/12/02; Christian Science Monitor, 9/13/01; MSNBC, 9/15/01] Initial stories after 9/11 suggest the transponder is turned off around 8:13 a.m., but Pete Zalewski, the flight controller handling the flight, later says the transponder is turned off at 8:20 a.m. [MSNBC, 9/11/02 (B)] The 9/11 Commission places it at 8:21 a.m. [9/11 Commission Report, 6/17/04] Colonel Robert Marr, head of NEADS, claims the transponder is turned off some time after 8:30 a.m. where the Flight 11 hijack was first detected a.m. [ABC News, 9/11/02]\n\n(8:13 a.m.): Flight 11 Hijacked, but Pilot Makes No Distress Call\n\nFlight 11's manifest. Such details on other flights haven't been released. One version of where the hijackers and murdered passenger Daniel Lewin sat is marked, but there are competing versions of the seat numbers. The last routine communication takes place between ground control and the pilots of Flight 11 around this time. Flight controller Pete Zalewski is handling the flight. The pilot responds when told to turn right, but immediately afterwards fails to respond to a command to climb. Zalewski repeatedly tries to reach the pilot, even using the emergency frequency, but gets no response. [Boston Globe, 11/23/01; New York Times, 10/16/01; MSNBC, 9/11/02 (B); 9/11 Commission Report, 6/17/04] Flight 11 is apparently hijacked around this time. One flight controller says the plane is hijacked over Gardner, Massachusetts, less than 50 miles west of Boston. [Nashua Telegraph, 9/13/01] The Boston Globe notes, “It appears that the hijackers' entry was surprising enough that the pilots did not have a chance to broadcast a traditional distress call.” It would only have taken a few seconds to press the right buttons. [Boston Globe, 11/23/01] Yet flight attendant Amy Sweeney appears to witness three of the hijackers storming the cockpit around 8:20 a.m. [Los Angeles Times, 9/20/01 (C)] This would imply that, at most, one or two hijackers enter the cockpit at this time, before the others do.\n\n8:14 a.m.: Flight 175 Takes Off 16 Minutes Late\n\nFlight 175 takes off from Boston's Logan Airport, 16 minutes after its scheduled 7:58 departure time. [Washington Post, 9/12/01; CNN, 9/17/01; Guardian, 10/17/01; Associated Press, 8/19/02 (B); Newsday, 9/10/02]\n\n(After 8:14 a.m.-8:38 a.m.): Flight 11 Pilot Repeatedly Pushes Talk Back Button\n\nJohn Ogonowski. At some unknown point after the hijacking begins, the talkback button is activated, which enables Boston flight controllers to hear what is being said in the cockpit. It is unclear whether John Ogonowski, the pilot of Flight 11, activates the talkback button, or whether a hijacker accidentally does so when he takes over the cockpit. A controller later says, “The button [is] being pushed intermittently most of the way to New York.” An article later notes that “his ability to do so also indicates that he [is] in the driver's seat much of the way” to the WTC. Such transmissions continue until about 8:38 a.m. [Christian Science Monitor, 9/13/01; MSNBC, 9/15/01]\n\n(8:15 a.m.): Flight Controllers Cannot Contact Flight 11\n\nTwo Boston flight controllers, Pete Zalewski and Lino Martins, discuss the fact that Flight 11 cannot be contacted. Zalewski says to Martins, “He won't answer you. He's nordo [no radio] roger thanks.” [CNN, 9/17/01; Guardian, 10/17/01; New York Times, 10/16/01 (C); MSNBC, 9/11/02 (B)]\n\n(8:20 a.m.): Flight 11 Attendant Sweeney Phones in Hijacking Details\n\nFlight attendants Karen Martin and Barbara Arestegui are apparently stabbed early in the hijacking of Flight 11. Flight 11 attendant Amy (Madeline) Sweeney borrows a calling card from flight attendant Sara Low and uses an Airfone to call Boston's Logan Airport. She speaks to Michael Woodward, an American Airlines flight service manager. Because Woodward and Sweeney are friends, he does not have to verify the call is not a hoax. The call is not recorded, but Woodward takes detailed notes. [New York Observer, 2/11/04; ABC News, 7/18/02] She calmly tells Woodward, “Listen, and listen to me very carefully. I'm on Flight 11. The airplane has been hijacked.” [ABC News, 7/18/02] According to one account, she gives him the seat locations of three hijackers: 9D, 9G, and 10B. She says they are all of Middle Eastern descent, and one speaks English very well. [New York Observer, 2/11/04] Another account states that she identifies four hijackers (but still not the five said to be on the plane), and notes that not all the seats she gave matched up with the seats assigned to the hijackers on their tickets. [ABC News, 7/18/02; Los Angeles Times, 9/20/01 (C)] She says she cannot contact the cockpit, and does not believe the pilots are flying the plane any longer. [New York Observer, 2/11/04] According to a later Los Angeles Times report, “Even as she was relating details about the hijackers, the men were storming the front of the plane and ‘had just gained access to the cockpit,’ ” (Note that Sweeney witnesses the storming of the cockpit at least seven minutes after radio contact from Flight 11 stops and at least one of the hijackers begins taking control of the cockpit.) [Los Angeles Times, 9/20/01 (C)] She says the hijackers have stabbed the two first-class flight attendants, Barbara Arestegui and Karen Martin. She adds, “A hijacker cut the throat of a business-class passenger [later identified as Daniel Lewin], and he appears to be dead.” She also says the hijackers have brought a bomb into the cockpit. Woodward asks Sweeney, “How do you know it's a bomb?” She answers, “Because the hijackers showed me a bomb.” She describes its yellow and red wires. Sweeney continues talking with Woodward until Flight 11 crashes. [Boston Globe, 11/23/01; New York Observer, 2/11/04]\n\n(8:20 a.m.): Boston Flight Control Thinks Flight 11 May Be Hijacked?\n\nAccording to some reports, Boston flight control decides that Flight 11 has probably been hijacked, but apparently, it does not notify other flight control centers for another five minutes, and does not notify NORAD for approximately 20 minutes. [Newsday, 9/23/01; New York Times, 9/15/01 (C)] ABC News will later say, “There doesn't seem to have been alarm bells going off, [flight] controllers getting on with law enforcement or the military. There's a gap there that will have to be investigated.” [ABC News, 9/14/01] (Note the conflicting account at 8:21 a.m.)\n\n(8:20 a.m.): Flight 77 Takes Off 10 Minutes Late\n\nFlight 77 departs Dulles International Airport near Washington, ten minutes after its 8:10 scheduled departure time. [CNN, 9/17/01; Washington Post, 9/12/01; Guardian, 10/17/01; 9/11 Commission Report, 6/17/04; Associated Press, 8/19/02 (B)]\n\n(8:20 a.m.): Flight 11 Veers Off Course\n\nFlight 11 starts to veer dramatically off course. [MSNBC, 9/11/02 (B)]\n\n(Before 8:20 a.m.): Hijackers Attack Passenger on Flight 77\n\nDaniel Lewin. Four hijackers get up from their seats and stab or shoot passenger Daniel Lewin, a multimillionaire who once belonged to the Israel Defense Force's Sayeret Matkal, a top-secret counterterrorist unit. Lewin is sitting in front of one of the three hijackers in business class. An initial FAA memo regarding the flight states that Satam Al Suqami shoots Lewin at 9:20 a.m. The time is certainly a typo; perhaps 8:20 a.m. is meant? The killing is mentioned in a phone call from the flight that starts at 8:20 a.m. [ABC News, 7/18/02; UPI, 3/6/02; Washington Post, 3/2/02 (B)]\n\n8:20 a.m.: Flight 11 IFF Signal Transmission Stops\n\nFlight 11 stops transmitting its IFF (identify friend or foe) beacon signal. [CNN, 9/17/01]\n\n8:21 a.m.: Sweeney's Call Reaches American Headquarters, but Managers Cover Up the News\n\nAmy (Madeline) Sweeney. American Airlines flight service manager Michael Woodward is listening to Flight 11 attendant Amy Sweeney on the telephone, and he wants to pass on the information he is hearing from her. Since there is no tape recorder, he calls Nancy Wyatt, the supervisor of pursers at Logan Airport. Holding telephones in both hands, he repeats to Wyatt everything that Sweeney is saying to him. Wyatt in turn simultaneously transmits his account to the airline's Fort Worth, Texas, headquarters. The conversation between Wyatt and managers at headquarters is recorded. All vital details from Sweeney's call reach American Airlines' top management almost instantly. However, according to victims' relatives who later hear this recording, the two managers at headquarters immediately begin discussing a cover-up of the hijacking details. They say, “don't spread this around. Keep it close,” “Keep it quiet,” and “Let's keep this among ourselves. What else can we find out from our own sources about what's going on?” One former American Airlines employee who has also heard this recording recalls, “In Fort Worth, two managers in SOC [Systems Operations Control] were sitting beside each other and hearing it. They were both saying, ‘Do not pass this along. Let's keep it right here. Keep it among the five of us.’ ” Apparently, this decision prevents early and clear evidence of a hijacking from being shared during the crisis. Gerard Arpey, American Airlines' executive vice president for operations, soon hears details of the hijacking from flight attendant Betty Ong's phone call at 8:30 a.m., but apparently, he does not learn of Sweeney's call until much later. Victims' relatives will later question whether lives could have been saved if only this information had been quickly shared with other airplanes. [New York Observer, 6/17/04]\n\n(8:21 a.m.): Flight 11 Attendant Ong Phones in Hijack Report, Officials Doubt Validity\n\nBetty Ong. Flight 11 attendant Betty Ong calls Vanessa Minter, an American Airlines reservations agent in North Carolina, using a seatback Airfone from the back of the plane. Ong speaks to Minter and an unidentified man for about two minutes. Then supervisor Nydia Gonzales is patched in to the conference call as well. Ong says, “The cockpit's not answering. Somebody's stabbed in business class and ... I think there's mace ... that we can't breathe. I don't know, I think We're getting hijacked.” A minute later, she continues, “And the cockpit is not answering their phone. And there's somebody stabbed in business class. And there's ... we can't breathe in business class. Somebody's got mace or something ... I'm sitting in the back. Somebody's coming back from business. If you can hold on for one second, they're coming back.” As this quote shows, other flight attendants relay information from the front of the airplane to Ong sitting in the back, and she periodically waits for updates. She goes on, “I think the guys are up there [in the cockpit]. They might have gone there—jammed the way up there, or something. Nobody can call the cockpit. We can't even get inside.” The first four and a half minutes of the call is later played in a public 9/11 Commission hearing. Ong apparently continues speaking to Gonzales and Minter until the plane crashes. [New York Observer, 2/11/04; 9/11 Commission Report, 1/27/04] 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey, who has heard more recordings than have been made public, says that some officials on the ground greet her account skeptically: “They did not believe her. They said, ‘Are you sure?’ They asked her to confirm that it wasn't air-rage. Our people on the ground were not prepared for a hijacking.” [New York Times, 4/18/04]\n\n(8:21 a.m.): Boston Controller Suspects Something Seriously Wrong with Flight 11, but NORAD Not Notified\n\nBoston flight controller Pete Zalewski, handling Flight 11, sees that the flight is off course and that the plane has turned off both transponder and radio. Zalewski later claims he turns to his supervisor and says, “Would you please come over here? I think something is seriously wrong with this plane. I don't know what. It's either mechanical, electrical, I think, but I'm not sure.” When asked if he suspected a hijacking at this point, he replies, “Absolutely not. No way.” According to the 9/11 Commission, “the supervisor instructed the controller [presumably Zalewski] to follow standard operating procedures for handling a ‘no radio’ aircraft once the controller told the supervisor the transponder had been turned off.” Another flight controller, Tom Roberts, has another nearby American Airlines flight try to contact Flight 11. There is still no response. The flight is now “drastically off course” but NORAD is still not notified. [MSNBC, 9/11/02 (B); 9/11 Commission Report, 6/17/04] Note that this response contradicts flight control manager Glenn Michael's assertion that Flight 11 was considered a possible hijacking as soon as the transponder was discovered turned off.\n\n(8:23 a.m.): Flight 11 Attendant Ong's Hijacking Account Forwarded to American Airlines Headquarters\n\nNydia Gonzalez, an American Airlines supervisor with expertise on security matters, is patched in to a call with flight attendant Betty Ong on Flight 11. [9/11 Commission Report, 1/27/04] At 8:27 a.m., Gonzalez calls Craig Marquis, a manager at American Airlines' headquarters. Gonzalez holds the phone to Ong to one ear, and the phone to Marquis to the other. [Wall Street Journal, 10/15/01; New York Observer, 2/11/04] Gonzalez talks to Marquis continuously until Flight 11 crashes. The first four minutes of this call are later played before the 9/11 Commission. Marquis quickly says, “I'm assuming they've declared an emergency. Let me get ATC [air traffic control] on here. Stand by. ... Okay, We're contacting the flight crew now and We're ... We're also contacting ATC.” In the four recorded minutes, Gonzalez relays that Ong is saying the hijackers from seats 2A and 2B are in the cockpit with the pilots. There are no doctors on board. All the first class passengers have been moved to the coach section. The airplane is flying very erratically. [9/11 Commission Report, 1/27/04]\n\n(8:24 a.m.): Boston Flight Controllers Hear Flight 11 Hijacker: We Have Some Planes\n\nBecause the talkback button on Flight 11 has been activated, Boston flight controllers can hear a hijacker on Flight 11 say to the passengers: “We have some planes. Just stay quiet and you will be OK. We are returning to the airport.” Flight controller John Zalewski responds, “Who's trying to call me?” The hijacker continues, “Everything will be OK. If you try to make any moves you'll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet.” [Guardian, 10/17/01; New York Times, 10/16/01; 9/11 Commission Report, 6/17/04; Boston Globe, 11/23/01; MSNBC, 9/11/02 (B); New York Times, 9/12/01; Channel 4 News, 9/13/01] Immediately after hearing this voice, Zalewski “knew right then that he was working a hijack” and calls for his supervisor. The frequency of Flight 11 is played on speakers so everyone in Boston flight control can hear. [MSNBC, 9/11/02 (B); Village Voice, 9/13/01]\n\n(8:24 a.m.): Flight 11 Turns, Many Watch It on Primary Radar\n\nBoston flight control radar sees Flight 11 making an unplanned 100-degree turn to the south (the plane is already way off course). Flight controllers never lose sight of the flight, though they can no longer determine altitude once the transponder is turned off. [Newhouse News Service, 1/25/02; MSNBC, 9/11/02 (B); Christian Science Monitor, 9/13/01] Before this turn, the FAA had tagged Flight 11's radar dot for easy visibility and, at American Airlines headquarters at least, “All eyes watched as the plane headed south. On the screen, the plane showed a squiggly line after its turn near Albany, then it straightened.” [Wall Street Journal, 10/15/01] Boston flight controller Mark Hodgkins later says, “I watched the target of American 11 the whole way down.” [ABC News, 9/6/02] However, apparently, NEADS has different radar. When they are finally told about the flight, they cannot find it. Boston has to update NEADS on Flight 11's position periodically by telephone until NEADS finally finds it a few minutes before it crashes into the WTC. [Aviation Week and Space Technology, 6/3/02; ABC News, 9/11/02; Newhouse News Service, 1/25/02]\n\n8:25 a.m.: Boston Flight Control Tells Other Centers About Hijack, but Not NORAD\n\nThe Guardian reports that Boston flight control “notifies several air traffic control centers that a hijack is taking place.” But it does not notify NORAD for another 6-15 minutes, depending on the account. [Guardian, 10/17/01] However, the Indianapolis flight controller monitoring Flight 77 claims to not know about this or Flight 175's hijacking twenty minutes later at 8:56 a.m. Additionally, the flight controllers at New York City's La Guardia airport are never told about the hijacked planes and learn about them from watching the news. [Bergen Record, 1/4/04]\n\n(Between 8:27-8:30 a.m.): Ong Gives Flight 11 Details; Seating Accounts Differ\n\nCraig Marquis, listening to information coming from flight attendant Betty Ong on Flight 11, calls American Airlines' system operations control center in Fort Worth. He says, “She said two flight attendants had been stabbed, one was on oxygen. A passenger had his throat slashed and looked dead and they had gotten into the cockpit.” He relays that Ong said the four hijackers had come from first-class seats: 2A, 2B, 9A, and 9B. She said the wounded passenger was in seat 10B. [Boston Globe, 11/23/01] Note that this conflicts with the seats flight attendant Amy Sweeney gives for the hijackers at about the same time: 9D, 9G, and 10B. By 8:27 a.m., this information is passed to Gerard Arpey, the effective head of American Airlines that morning. By 9:59 a.m., counterterrorism “tsar” Richard Clarke and other top officials receive the information. [Clarke, 2004, pp 13-14]\n\n(Before 8:26 a.m.): Hijackers Identified by Seat Locations\n\nHaving been told by flight attendant Amy Sweeney the seat locations of three hijackers, A

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Upon learning that no bombs had been detonated, "I was very surprised," said Mr. Hamburger. The buildings "certainly did not do as well as I would have hoped." [[(absconsulting.com)|http://www.absconsulting.com/news/wsjsept11.pdf]]''\n\n''Televised images of the attacks on the World Trade Center suggest that explosives devices caused the collapse of both towers, a New Mexico Tech explosion expert said Tuesday. The collapse of the buildings appears "too methodical" to be a chance result of airplanes colliding with the structures, said [[Van Romero]], vice president for research at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. "My opinion is, based on the videotapes, that after the airplanes hit the World Trade Center there were some explosive devices inside the buildings that caused the towers to collapse," Romero said. [[(wtc7.net)|http://911research.wtc7.net/disinfo/retractions/romero.html]]''\n\n''Jack Kelly, a war correspondent for USA Today stated that the FBI believed that bombs in the buildings brought them both down. [[(video)|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3su9mWta-M&eurl=http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/911_car_bombs_mystery.htm]]''\n\n''NY Fire Department Chief of Safety stated there were "bombs" and "secondary devices", which caused the explosions in the buildings. [[(video)|http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7094370627958457222&hl=en]] [[(source)|http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/SecondaryDevices.mp3]]''\n\n''NYC firefighters who witnessed attacks stated "floor by floor it started popping out" .. "it was if... if they had detonators planned to take down a building... boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom" [[(video)|http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7317829465242546122]] [[(source)|http://www.letsroll911.org/discussion_in_firehouse.mpg]]''\n\n''Louie Cacchioli, a firefighter assigned to Engine 47 in Harlem stated "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 was bombs set in the building." [[(aol.com)|http://web.archive.org/web/20010914230246/http://people.aol.com/people/special/0,11859,174592-3,00.html]]''\n\n''Rich Sanchez, a MSNBC reporter stated that police had found a suspicious device "and they fear it could be something that might lead to another explosion" and the police officials believe "that one of the explosions at the world trade center . . . may have been caused by a van that was parked in the building that may have had some kind of explosive device in it, so their fear is that there may have been explosive devices planted either in the building or in the adjacent area" [[(video)|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUkbLaFevyg&eurl=http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/911_car_bombs_mystery.htm]]''\n\n''At that point a debate began to rage because the perception was that the building looked like it had been taken out with charges. We had really no concept of the damage on the east side of 2 World Trade Center at that point, and at that point many people had felt that possibly explosives had taken out 2 World Trade, and officers were gathering companies together and the officers were debating whether or not to go immediately back in or to see what was going to happen with 1 World Trade at that point. The debate ended pretty quickly because 1 World Trade came down. -Firefighter Christopher Fenyo FDNY Engine 35 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110295.PDF]]''\n\n''“Somewhere around the middle of the World Trade Center, there was this orange and red flash coming out. Initially it was just one flash. Then this flash just kept popping all the way around the building and that building had started to explode. The popping sound, and with each popping sound it was initially an orange and then red flash came out of the building and then it would just go all around the building on both sides as far as I could see. These popping sounds and the explosions were getting bigger, going both up and down and then all around the building. I went inside and told everybody that the other building or there was an explosion occurring up there and said think we have another major explosion. I don't know if we are all going to be safe here" [[(nytimes.com_p15)|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110192.PDF]] [[(source)|http://sfgate.com/gate/pictures/2005/09/10/ga_karin_deshore.pdf]]''\n\n''I heard 3 loud explosions. I look up and the north tower is coming down now, 1 World Trade Center. -Gregg Brady FDNY Battalion 4, EMT [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110184.PDF]]''\n\n''I was with an officer from Ladder 146, a Lieutenant Evangelista, who ultimately called me up a couple of days later just to find out how I was. We both for whatever reason - again, I don't know how valid this is with everything that was going on at that particular point in time, but for some reason I thought that when I looked in the direction of the Trade Center before it came down, before No. 2 came down, that I saw low-level flashes. In my conversation with Lieutenant Evangelista, never mentioning this to him, he questioned me and asked me if I saw low-level flashes in front of the building, and I agreed with him because I thought -- at that time I didn't know what it was. I mean, it could have been as a result of the building collapsing, things exploding, but I saw a flash flash flash and then it looked like the building came down.\nQ. Was that on the lower level of the building or up where the fire was?\nA. No, the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building, how when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That's what I thought I saw. And I didn't broach the topic to him, but he asked me. He said I don't know if I'm crazy, but I just wanted to ask you because you were standing right next to me. He said did you see anything by the building? And I said what do you mean by see anything? He said did you see any flashes? I said, yes, well, I thought it was just me. He said no, I saw them, too. I don't know if that means anything. I mean,\nI equate it to the building coming down and pushing things down, it could have been electrical explosions, it could have been whatever. But it's just strange that two people sort of say the same thing and neither one of us talked to each other about it. I mean, I don't know this guy from a hole in the wall. I was just standing next to him. I never met the man before in my life. He knew who I was I guess by my name on my coat and he called me up, you know, how are you doing? How's everything? And, oh, by the way did you ... It was just a little strange.\nQ. On the television pictures it appeared as well, before the first collapse, that there was an explosion up on the upper floors.\nA. I know about the explosion on the upper floors. This was like eye level. I didn't have to go like this. Because I was looking this way. I'm not going to say it was on the first floor or the second floor, but somewhere in that area I saw to me what appeared to be flashes. I don't know how far down this was already. I mean, we had heard the noise but, you know, I don't know. -Commissioner Stephen Gregory FDNY Bureau of Communications [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110008.PDF]]''\n\n''"When we reached the 15th floor, the building began to vibrate and shake. I heard loud explosions and rumblings in the background. The stairwell shifted and gave out a large metal on metal groan. The stairwell then twisted back into place with another loud groan. The lights went out. At that point the stairwell became filled with smoke and dust." [[(nytimes.com_p58_59)|http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-transcripts/pa-police-reports02.pdf]]''\n\n''A firefighter said "I just remember there was just an explosion. It seemed like on television when they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt, all these explosions." [[(nytimes.com)|http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/Banaciski_Richard.txt]]''\n\n''Chief of NY Fire Department (Citywide Tour Commander) said "there was what appeared to be at first an explosion. It appeared at the very top, simultaneously from all four sides, materials shot out horizontally. And then there seemed to be a momentary delay before you could see the beginning of the collapse" [[(nytimes.com_p4)|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110179.PDF]]''\n\n''British newspaper stated "In New York, police and fire officials were carrying out the first wave of evacuations when the first of the World Trade Centre towers collapsed. Some eyewitnesses reported hearing another explosion just before the structure crumbled. Police said that it looked almost like a "planned implosion" designed to catch bystanders watching from the street." [[(guardian.co.uk)|http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,600839,00.html]]''\n\n''"periodically you would hear a loud boom go off at the top of tower one. As the building continued to burn and emergency equipment kept on responding stirring up the dust and debris in the streets. After approximately 15 minutes suddenly there was another loud boom at the upper floors, then there was a series of smaller explosions which appeared to go completely around the building at the upper floors. And another loud earth-shattering blast with a large fire ball which blew out more debris and at that point everyone began to run north on West Broad Street." [[(nytimes.com_p5)|http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-transcripts/pa-police-reports04.pdf]]''\n\n''"my lieutenant said he looked down at the first floor, and he could see the first floor of the south tower like exploding out" [[(nytimes.com_p5)|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110510.PDF]]''\n\n''Another firefighter stated "all of a sudden you just heard like it almost actually that day sounded like bombs going off, like boom, boom, boom, like seven or eight, and then just a huge wind gust just came and my officer just actually took all of us and just threw us down on the ground and kind of just jumped on top of us, laid on top of us. There were rocks falling and all that. The lights were still on at that point and all of a sudden the lights went out and you couldn't see anything." [[(abcnews.com)|http://abclocal.go.com/images/wabc/2005/TurilliThomas_firefighter.pdf]]''\n\n''NYC firefighter stated "It actually gave at a lower floor, not the floor where the plane hit, because we originally had thought there was like an internal detonation explosives because it went in succession, boom, boom, boom, boom, and then the tower came down." [[(nytimes.com)|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110251.PDF]]''\n\n''Paramedic Daniel Rivera said "At first I thought it was -- do you ever see professional demolition where they set the charges on certain floors and then you hear "Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop"? That's exactly what -- because I thought it was that. When I heard that frigging noise, that's when I saw the building comimg down." [[(nytimes.com)|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110035.PDF]]''\n\n''A facilities manager in the north tower said "There were explosions going off everywhere. I was convinced that there were bombs planted all over the place and someone was sitting at a control panel pushing detonator buttons." [[(nytimes.com)|http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/veliz-bombs.htm]]''\n\n''“Shortly before the first tower came down, I remember feeling the ground shaking. I heard a terrible noise, and then debris just started flying everywhere." and later "The ground shook again and we heard another terrible noise and the next thing we knew the south tower was coming down." [[(nytimes.com_p5)|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110194.PDF]]''\n\n''"Within a short period of time (approximately ¾ of an hour) one of the buildings to the World Trade Center collapsed. During this time period there were numerous explosions, causing us to leave and re-enter the incident area" [[(nytimes.com_p88)|http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-transcripts/pa-police-reports02.pdf]]''\n\n''I was distracted by a large explosion from the south tower and it seemed like fire was shooting out a couple of hundred feet in each direction, then all of a sudden the top of the tower started coming down in a pancake. I remember my jaw dropping and just staring at it and Richard Banaciski, one of the firemen that was there, yelled "Run" and I turned and I started running into the parking garage of the Financial Center."\nQ. Bill, just one question. The fire that you saw, where was the fire? Like up at the upper levels where it started collapsing?\nA. It appeared somewhere below that. Maybe twenty floors below the impact area of the plane. [[(nytimes.com)|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110288.PDF]]''\n\n''Just maybe about a minute had gone by and somebody said "look the building is starting to bulge." We looked up and you could see the entire facade starting to buckle on the upper floors. Immediately nobody said anything. We just turned and ran as fast as we possibly could. - Dean Beltrami FDNY Company 260 [[nytimes.com_p4|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110359.PDF]]''\n\n''A NY police officer noted "As we were at the desk we kept hearing explosions that would shake the whole room. People were saying "there's another one and another one" [[(nytimes.com_p61)|http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-transcripts/pa-police-reports01.pdf]]''\n\n''“It sounded like a bomb and the lights went on and off,” said Sanchez. “We started to walk to the exit and a huge ball of fire went through the freight elevator. The hot air from the ball of fire dropped Chino to the floor and my hair got burned,” ... “The room then got full of smoke and I remember saying out loud "I believe it was a bomb that blew up inside the building." [[(lewisnews.com)|http://www.lewisnews.com/article.asp?ID=106368]]''\n\n''"I saw what was happening and it sounded as if you had a hundred of those little black cat firecrackers and you lit them off all at once, that's what it sounded like. It sounded like the finale of the 4th of July over the east river." [[(video_15:12)|http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1375208054676470714]]''\n\n''I remember seeing, it looked like sparkling around one specific layer of the building. I assume now that that was either windows starting to collapse like tinsel or something. Then the building started to come down. My initial reaction was that this was exactly the way it looks when they show you those implosions on TV. I would have to say for three or four seconds anyway,\nmaybe longer. I was just watching. It was interesting to watch, but the thing that woke everybody up was the cloud of black material. It reminded me of the 10 commandments when the green clouds come down on the street. The black cloud was coming down faster than the building, so whatever was coming down was going to hit the street and it was pretty far out. You knew it\nwasn't coming right down. Judging from where people were jumping before that, this cloud was out much further. -Tom Fitzpatrick FDNY Deputy Commissioner for Administration [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110001.PDF]]''\n\n''Firefighter stated "Meanwhile we were standing there with about five companies and we were just waiting for our assignment and then there was an explosion in the south tower, which according to this map, this explosion just blew out in flames. A lot of guys left at that point. I kept watching. Floor after floor after floor. One floor under another after another and when it hit about the fifth floor, I figured it was a bomb, because it looked like a synchronized deliberate kind of thing. I was there in '93." [[(nytimes.com)|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110290.PDF]]''\n\n''At 8:53am the Police Desk received a report of "an explosion on the lower level" [[(nytimes.com_p17)|http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-transcripts/pa-police-reports01.pdf]]''\n\n''"As more and more and more and more and more emergency vehicles descended on the World Trade Center, I hear a second explosion in WTC 2, then a loud, low-frequency rumble that precipitates the unthinkable -- a collapse of all the floors above the point of explosion. First the top surface, containing the helipad, tips sideways in full view. Then the upper floors fall straight down in a demolition-style implosion, taking all lower floors with it, even those below the point of the explosion."\n"I hear another explosion followed by a now all-too familiar rumble that signaled the collapse of WTC 1, the first of the two towers to have been hit. I saw the iconic antenna on this building descend straight down in an implosion twinning the first." [[(amnh.org)|http://web.archive.org/web/20020829190531/http://research.amnh.org/users/tyson/essays/TheHorrorTheHorror.html]]''\n\n''"it sounded like gunfire... bang bang bang bang bang... and then three big explosions" [[(video)|http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/911.wtc.witness.2.wmv]]''\n\n''I was watching the fire, watching the people jump and hearing a noise and looking up and seeing - it actually looked - the lowest floor of fire in the south tower actually looked like someone had planted explosives around it because the whole bottom I could see -- I could see two sides of it and the other side -- it just looked like that floor blew out. I looked up and you could actually see everything blew out on the one floor. I thought, geez, this looks like an explosion up there, it blew out. Then I guess in some sense of time we looked at it and realized, no, actually it just collapsed. That's what blew out the windows, not that there was an explosion there but that windows blew out. -FDNY Battalion Chief Brian Dixon [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110166.PDF]]''\n\n''Police Officer described events which occurred inside Tower One after the second plane hit and well before that tower collapsed: "We went back up to the sixth floor . . . . Then there was an eerie silence and it was like you knew something was going to happen. There just seemed to be one explosion after another. I was separated from the guys from the bridge . . . by another explosion, massive again, sucking the air out of your lungs and then just a wind more intense this time with larger pieces of debris flying." (pages 94 & 95) [[(nytimes.com)|http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-transcripts/pa-police-reports02.pdf]]''\n\n''(below the impact zone) An incredible noise - he calls it an "exploding sound" - shook the building, and a tornado of hot air and smoke and ceiling tiles and bits of drywall came flying up the stairwell. "In front of me, the wall split from the bottom up," he says. [[(csmonitor.com)|http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0917/p1s1-usgn.html]]''\n\n''"We start walking back there and then heard ground level explosions and I'm like holey shit and then you heard that twisting metal wreckage again." [[(nytimes.com)|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110486.PDF]]''\n\n''Assistant Chief Engineer at the World Trade Center arrived on the 38th floor of the North Tower before the plane hit, got out of the elevator, and about 50 feet down the hallway, he heard a loud explosion and was lifted into the air. "I can't even tell you how far I traveled," he recalled. When he landed, people were already coming out of their offices into the hallway . . .Upon reaching the 43rd floor, "there were patches of ceiling that was just down on the floor, water pipes were broken, water was gushing like a brook or river that was just running down the corridor of the machine room." [[(chiefengineer.org)|http://www.chiefengineer.org/article.cfm?seqnum1=1029]]''\n\n''The last person out of the north tower, said that there was a massive explosion in the North Tower before the plane hit. [[(source)|http://www.911forthetruth.com/William's pics/album2/WilliamBush2.html]] [[(source)|http://ia311525.us.archive.org/1/items/inn/innrodriguesisdnsept05snow.wmv]] [[(theconservativevoice.com)|http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=7762]]''\n\n''Stationary engineer who worked in world trade center one described tremendous damage in the basement of the building more consistent in nature and timing with a bomb than with damage from jet fuel: "'There was nothing there but rubble . . . We're talking about a 50 ton hydraulic press—gone!'. . . They then went to the parking garage, but found that it was also gone. Then on the B level, they found that a steel-and-concrete fire door, which weighed about 300 pounds, was wrinkled up 'like a piece of aluminum foil.' Having seen similar things after the terrorist attack in 1993, [he] was convinced that a bomb had gone off." [[(chiefengineer.org)|http://www.chiefengineer.org/article.cfm?seqnum1=1029]]''\n\n''An officer in the New Jersey Fire Police Department who was previously a sergeant in the U.S. Army, said about the south tower: “[I]t sounded like bombs going off. That's when the explosions happened. . . . I knew something was going to happen. . . . It started to get dark, then all of a sudden there was this massive explosion.” Then, discussing her experiences during the collapse of the north tower, she said: “[There was] another explosion. That sent me and the two firefighters down the stairs. . . . I can't tell you how many times I got banged around. Each one of those explosions picked me up and threw me. . . . There was another explosion, and I got thrown with two firefighters out onto the street.” [[(pages 65-66, 68)|Women at Ground Zero - Stories of Courage and Compassion]] [[(source)|http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0028644220/002-7168646-8424844?v=glance&n=283155]]''\n\n''It is known that structural steel begins to soften around 425°C and loses about half of its strength at 650°C.4 This is why steel is stress relieved in this temperature range. But even a 50% loss of strength is still insufficient, by itself, to explain the WTC collapse. It was noted above that the wind load controlled the design allowables. The WTC, on this low-wind day, was likely not stressed more than a third of the design allowable, which is roughly one-fifth of the yield strength of the steel. Even with its strength halved, the steel could still support two to three times the stresses imposed by a 650°C fire. [[tms.org|http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0112/Eagar/Eagar-0112.html#ref2]]''\n\n''"anyone who has ever watched a building being demolished on purpose knows that if you're going to do this you have to get at the under-infrastructure of the building to bring it down" -Peter Jennings 09/11/01 [[(source)|http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/911.abc.demolition.infrastructure.wmv]]''\n\n''A leading collapse expert thought the South Tower was brought down with explosives: http://911blogger.com/node/11241''\n\n''9/11/2001: USA Today Reveals FBI Theory That World Trade Center Towers Destroyed By Explosives: http://911blogger.com/node/11712''\n\n''118 Witnesses to Explosions: http://www.journalof911studies.com/articles/Article_5_118Witnesses_WorldTradeCenter.pdf''\n\n''THEN THE BUILDING POPPED LOWER THAN THE FIRE WHICH LEARNED WAS GUESS THE AVIATION FUEL FELL INTO THE PIT AND WHATEVER FLOOR IT FELL ON HEATED UP REALLY BAD AND THATS WHY IT POPPED AT THAT FLOOR THATS THE RUMOR HEARD BUT IT SEEMED LIKE WAS GOING OH MY GOD THERE IS SECONDARY DEVICE BECAUSE THE WAY THE BUILDING POPPED THOUGHT IT WAS AN EXPLOSION -TIMOTHY BURKE FDNY Engine 202 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110488.PDF]]''\n\n''We just kept walking up. As far as we knew, there were no planes or anything coming in. There wasn't even a plane that hit that building. We just knew there was a fire up there. Any other explosions that we felt from inside were maybe extra machinery or something like that. Those were the words that we were getting. -Frank Campagna FDNY Ladder 11 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110224.PDF]]''\n\n''I guess about three minutes later you just heard explosions coming from building two, the south tower. It seemed like it took forever, but there were about ten explosions. At the time I didn't realize what it was. We realized later after talking and finding out that it was the floors collapsing to where the plane had hit. We then realized the building started to come down. At that point everybody at the command post took off into -- there were two garages across. I guess it was by Two World Financial Center next to the Winter Garden, just a little bit south of the north bridge. Everybody took off into an underground garage. -Craig Carlsen FDNY Ladder 8 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110505.PDF]]''\n\n''Q. When the north tower was coming down, did you have any indication? Did you hear the explosions again? Did anybody warn you like they heard on the radio or anything like that?\nA. I didn't have a radio, because we were coming from the medical office. So I never did get a radio. So I wouldn't have heard that, if somebody had said it. You did hear the explosions. Of course after the first one -- the first one was pretty much looking at it like in awe. You didn't realize that this was really happening because you kind of just stood there and you didn't really react as fast as you thought you were going to. The second one coming down, you knew the explosions. Now you're very familiar with it. Of course when I looked up, all I could see was the antenna coming down. You pretty much just pick up and take off. Everybody was on their own, I guess.\nQ. All right. Thank you, Craig. The time now is 2:04 p.m., and this concludes the interview. -Craig Carlsen FDNY Ladder 8 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110505.PDF]]''\n\n''We put our gear on, started going moving forward, and that's when we heard the rumbling. Somebody screamed, "The building's coming down." I had one shoulder strap on, I dropped my mask and I turned around and made it to -- I tried to run towards the restaurant to get out. I didn't get any more than one step and everything just turned black, and I got pulled into a corner in there that was still standing. My helmet came off. I had a concussion, I believe. That was it. At that point I didn't think I was going to make it out alive. I thought that was it. I made noise at the door. I banged on the door really loud before guys came to me. One guy from 24 Truck was bleeding really bad. He had no face piece on his regulator. I said, "Let's get this door open." I put my light on and I started banging and making a lot of noise. Other guys came and started lifting up the door. I heard a guy from my company screaming, "I've got the way out. It's over here." I followed his voice with two other firemen. I followed his voice. That's pretty much what I remember as far as locations and locations of the companies that I saw that were operating.\nQ. Which tower were you operating in?\nA. South tower.\nQ. South tower.\nFrom there where did you go? Did you go to EMS?\nA. I came out. I came out of the crater. The street was gone, the restaurant and everything was gone. I saw Koyles and Vitiello. They were alive. I saw them and then I turned around and I couldn't see them. Walker had come out. I turned around and Koyles was gone. I don't know where he went. I told Vitiello, I said, "Follow me," because he's a proby. Then I turned around and\nhe was gone. He walked another way. I walked up -- by the overpass was a fire truck there. There was a fireman crushed. There was another guy who was screaming, going crazy. I walked another 50 feet and there was another guy that was dead. There were bodies everywhere. I walked another like 50 feet. I was limping. I hurt my knee, my back. My eyes were closing. I couldn't see. I bumped into a guy on the floor. I helped him. He was hurting. He was injured bad. I started walking with him. Another fireman came over and helped me. We just kept walking, and we ended up at the water marina. A boat came over, and they pretty much threw us on the boat. They said, "You guys are banged up. Get on the boat." And that was it. -Gerard Casey Firefighter Second Grade FDNY Ladder 122 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110239.PDF]]''\n\n''WE START WALKING BACK THERE AND THEN I HEARD A GROUND LEVEL EXPLOSION AND IM LIKE HOLY SHIT AND THEN YOU HEARD THAT TWISTING METAL WRECKAGE AGAIN -JASON CHARLES FDNY EMT BATTALION 13 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110486.PDF]]''\n\n''The chief told us, "All right, make your way to the 90th floor in the south tower." I remember Steve started walking right away. I remember I put my arm around Freddie and I said, "Did he say the 90th floor?" Freddie looked at me and said, "Hold on a second." Right as he said that, I heard a loud roar, "boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom," and it was getting louder. I looked around, and we were looking at each other. What is that noise? I just looked out the window of the lobby. I could see stuff out of the window of the lobby hitting the street, and I just dove into the corner of the wall. -Lieutenant John Citarella FDNY Hasmat [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110264.PDF]]''\n\n''Joe Angelini and I were out in West Street, and he starts walking towards the hotel. We tried to tell him, "Joe, they want everyone out of here. They think the other one is going to come down." He started walking over. -Lieutenant John Citarella FDNY Hasmat [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110264.PDF]]''\n\n''I turned, I took maybe a couple more steps, and then I heard another explosion, it sounded like. I looked up, and the north tower was starting to come down. -Lieutenant John Citarella FDNY Hasmat [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110264.PDF]]''\n\n''He said, "There is a lot of people gonna be hurt on the outside." He was a policeman so he was all concerned about a secondary device. So he was saying that, you know, he kept drilling that into my head: "Secondary device," "Secondary device," "Secondary device." You know, it's not over. There is something else that's gonna happen. He goes if that first tower came down, he said, this might go down too. -Patrick Connolly FDNY Ladder 16 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110453.PDF]]''\n\n''I WAS DIRECTLY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET ON WASHINGTON STREET AND THERE WERE TWO GUYS THREE GUYS BEHIND ME AND I WAS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET AND THATS WHEN THE TOWER STARTED TO COME I HAPPENED TO BE LOOKING UP AT IT AND FROM THE FIRE FLOOR DOWN IT WAS JUST LIKE REALLY LOUD CRACKLING NOISE IT SOUNDED LIKE A MILLION FIRECRACKERS AND JUST A WAVE RIGHT FROM THE FIRE FLOOR DOWN JUST A WAVE THAT STARTED TO COME DOWN -DEAN COUTSOUROS FIREFIGHTER 2ND GRADE ENGINE 220 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110049.PDF]]''\n\n''I REMEMBER GLANCING TO MY RIGHT AND JOE MAZZARELLA WAS AT THAT MOMENT LOOKING UP I SUDDENLY SAW HIS FACE LIKE LOOK OF COMPLETE TERROR AND HE JUST TURNED ON HIS HEEL AND TOOK OFF RUNNING I STARTED RUNNING AFTER HIM AND LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER THE TOWER WAS - IT LOOKED TO ME - I THOUGHT IT WAS EXPLODING ACTUALLY THATS WHAT I THOUGHT FOR HOURS AFTERWARDS THAT IT HAD EXPLODED OR THE PLANE OR THERE HAD BEEN SOME DEVICE ON THE PLANE THAT HAD EXPLODED BECAUSE THE DEBRIS FROM THE TOWER HAD SHOT OUT FAR OVER OUR HEADS IT WAS RAINING DOWN. -FIRE MARSHAL JOHN COYLE FROM BROOKLYN BASE SQUAD 34 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110406.PDF]]''\n\n''And while I was still in that immediate area, the south tower, 2 World Trade Center, there was what appeared to be at first an explosion. It appeared at the very top, simultaneously from all\nfour sides, materials shot out horizontally. And then there seemed to be a momentary delay before you could see the beginning of the collapse. -Chief Frank Cruthers FDNY Citywide Tour Commander [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110179.PDF]]''\n\n''At that time I started walking back up towards Vesey Street. I heard three explosions, and then we heard like groaning and grinding, and tower two started to come down. -Paramedic Kevin\nDarnowski FDNY Battalion 20 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110202.PDF]]''\n\n''All of a sudden you heard the rumble and people yelling and screaming. You look and you see -- I didn't see the top of the building. I didn't see the top of tower two. The collapse started. You felt like the ground - it was like a deep sound, rumble; like you're laying on the platform and the D train is coming. You look and you see what - I best describe it as a wave coming. -Lieutenant Rene Davila FDNY Battalion 04 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110075.PDF]]''\n\n''We heard a rumbling noise, and it appeared that that first tower, the south tower, had exploded, the top of it. That's what I saw, what a lot of us saw. -Father John Delendick [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110230.PDF]]''\n\n''I remember asking Ray Downey was it the jet fuel that blew up. He said at that point he thought there were bombs up there because it was too even. As we've since learned, it was the jet\nfuel that was dropping down that caused all this. But he said it was too even. \nQ. Symmetrical?\nA. So his original thought was that he thought it was a bomb up there as well. -Father John Delendick [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110230.PDF]]''\n\n''We didn't know the building came down. We just knew the top of the building exploded and didn't know what happened to the rest of the building. -Father John Delendick [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110230.PDF]]''\n\n''It was weird how it started to come down. It looked like it was a timed explosion, but I guess it was just the floors starting to pancake one on top of the other. -Battalion Chief Dominick\nDeRubbio FDNY Division 8 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110064.PDF]]''\n\n''The next thing I know, we heard a little bit of a rumbling, and then white powder came from the first collapsed building. I thought it was an explosion initially. -George J. DeSimone, Lieutenant FDNY Engine Company 224 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110129.PDF]]''\n\n''I looked up, and the tower started coming down, which at the time I said I thought it was a secondary device. -Lieutenant Robert Dorritie FDNY Engine 53 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110299.PDF]]''\n\n''''We were in the process of getting some rigs moved when I turned, as I heard a tremendous roar, explosion, and saw that the first of the two towers was starting to come down.....When the dust started to settle, I headed back down towards the World Trade Center and I guess I came close to arriving at the corner of Vesey and West again where we started to hear the\nsecond roar. That was the north tower now coming down. I should say that people in the street and myself included thought that the roar was so loud that the explosive - bombs were going off inside the building. Obviously we were later proved wrong..... As I said I thought the terrorists planted explosives somewhere in the building. That's how loud it was, crackling explosive, a wall. -Assistant Commissioner James Drury FDNY [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110098.PDF]]''\n\n\n''We proceeded through a broken window that the Fire Department broke to lead access into the south tower. We proceeded to set up a triage area. At that time plans changed and we transferred the triage area over to 7 World Trade Center, in the lobby. -Gregg Brady Battalion 4, EMT [[nytimes.com_p4|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110184.PDF]]''\n\nAt that time, I had a very tight feeling in my stomach, just experiencing what I went through with 2 World Trade Center, being that close. I didn't feel at ease at all. We were standing underneath and Captain Stone was speaking again. We heard -- I heard 3 loud explosions. I look up and the north tower is coming down now, 1 World Trade Center.... At that time, when I heard the 3 loud explosions, I started running west on Vesey Street towards the water. At that time, I couldn't run fast enough. The debris caught up with me, knocked my helmet off. I tumbled and then eventually I started running again. -Gregg Brady Battalion 4, EMT [[nytimes.com_p7|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110184.PDF]]''\n\n\n''We just took our tanks off and our jackets off, and that's when the second building came down. It came down right behind us. So now we started running down West Street towards Stuyvesant High School. Take a peek behind. You could see this black cloud coming behind you. You couldn't out run it, and you get caught in that black, and I felt like the push, you know, from this black cloud, and I got myself to the first building before Stuyvesant High School, and I seen guys go inside there, and I made the turn around the building, and I went inside that building, because, I mean, you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. -Firefighter Peter Fallucca FDNY Engine 16 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110388.PDF]]''\n\n''When I was going -- that was when they gave the order to get out. I was on my way down. I don't know what floor I was on when I heard it, but it was fairly high. Had to be like in the high teens, maybe 20th Floor, just as I was starting to go down. They were telling us to go down, and I heard Rescue 1 say to meet up, all rescue one members meet up on the 40th Floor, and I know all those guys are no longer with us any more, so they were somewhere headed to the 40th Floor, I would imagine, those guys. \nQ. As far as --\nA. I heard Maydays given for guys -- guys -- I heard of guys passing out. Still missing members I heard. This is before anything had collapsed.\nQ. Can you remember any specifics, any specific companies?\nA. No, I remember hearing that they found the boss from Engine 1. I remember hearing, found an officer from Engine 1, possibly DOA. I remember hearing that on the radio, but the only real one I can remember where guys were going was Rescue 1. I heard them say meet up on the 40th Floor. I heard that transmission for Rescue 1. \nQ. And the highest floor that your company, Engine 16 got to, was the 23rd?\nA. 23rd Floor. And we were going to go higher, but at that time they had ordered us out, and we went down.\n -Firefighter Peter Fallucca FDNY Engine 16 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110388.PDF]]''\n\n''I heard the explosion, looked up, and saw like three floors explode, saw the antenna coming down, and turned around and ran north. -Firefighter 1stKevin Gorman FDNY Ladder 22 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110434.PDF]]''\n\n''Q. Any particular event that stands out in your mind for -- or struck you as odd or anything like that?\nA. Just actually the collapse and the sound it made. It was like a strange sound, rumbling, not the loudest thing you ever heard, not like a boom explosion type thing, but just strange. How fast it was collapsing, you just started running. -Lieutenant Gregg Hadala FDNY EMS Battalion 50 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110119.PDF]]''\n\n\n''A large explosion took place. In my estimation that was the tower coming down, but at that time I did not know what that was. I thought some type of bomb had gone off. -Lieutenant Gregg Hansson FDNY Engine 24 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110017.PDF]]''\n\n\n''WE CAME OUT FROM 90 WEST MADE A LEFT HEADED EAST AND RIQHT WHEN WE QOT TO THE CORNER OF WASHINQTON AND ALBANY THATS WHEN I HEARD THE BUILDING COLLAPSE FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS AN EXPLOSION I THOUGHT MAYBE THERE WAS BOMB ON THE PLANE BUT DELAYED TYPE OF THING YOU KNOW SECONDARY DEVICE\nQ. I WAS CONVINCED FOR WEEK IT WAS SECONDARY DEVICES -BATTALION CHIEF ART LAKIOTES\nA. YOU KNOW AND I JUST HEARD LIKE AN EXPLOSION AND A THEN A CRACKING TYPE OF NOISE AND THEN IT SOUNDED LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN RUMBLING AND PICKING UP SPEED AND I REMEMBER I LOOKED UP AND I SAW IT COMING AND I WAS ABLE TO MAKE IT ACROSS WASHINGTON TO THE VERY CORNER OF WASHINGTON AND ALBANY I THINK ITS THE SOUTH SIDE OF BANKERS TRUST BUILDING. I MADE IT RIGHT TO THE CORNER AND THERE'S A COLUMN RIGHT THERE AND I WAS WITH MY GUYS WE ALL\nMADE IT TO LIKE THE COLUMN AND I REMEMBER IT WAS PLATE GLASS BEHIND ME AND IM THINKING IM GOING TO GET HIT BY THIS GLASS AND LIKE A PORCUPINE IM GOING TO GET IT YOU KNOW BUT NONETHELESS IT RUMBLED IT WAS THE LOUDEST RUMBLING I EVER HEARD THE GROUND SHOOK AND I GOT THROWN DOWN AND I REMEMBER IT JUST GOT BLACK AND I GOT KNOCKED DOWN I REMEMBER BEING BURIED I THINK I DUCKED MORE OR LESS YOU KNOW PIECES OF METAL SOMETHING HIT ME NOT THAT HEAVY THOUGH WASNT AN I BEAM OR ELSE I WOULDNT BE TALKING TO YOU AND I REMEMBER THAT BEING ON ME AND I KIND OF WAS ABLE TO STAND UP AND PUSH EVERYTHING OFF ME BUT I NOW FELT LIKE I WAS IN THE STREET OR THE SIDEWALK AND IT WAS HOT SMOKY I FELT LIKE I WAS IN A FIRE AND I REMEMBER DIGGING MY WAY OUT A LOT OF CEMENTATION POWDERY INSULATION WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT ALMOST LIKE BEING IN A BLIZZARD WITH SOME METAL DEBRIS RIGHT ON ME FORTUNATELY NOTHING HEAVY HIT ME. -FIREFIGHTER TIMOTHY JULIAN FDNY LADDER 118 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110386.PDF]]''\n\n''AS WE WERE WALKING WE HEARD WE THOUGHT IT WAS ANOTHER PLANE COMING IT WAS LIKE A BIG SHHHHH A THOUSAND TIMES LOUDER THAN THAT IT SOUNDED LIKE A MISSILE COMING AND WE JUST STARTED BOOKING WE TOOK OFF LIKE BATS OUT OF HELL WE MADE IT AROUND THE CORNER AND THATS WHEN THAT SHIT HIT THE FAhttp://0x1a.com/#[[World Trade Center Demolition]]N RIGHT THEN AND THERE WE HEARD THAT LOUD AND THEN BA BOOM I JUST IT WAS LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE OR WHATEVER A GIANT GIANT EXPLOSION KENNY MADE IT AND THOSE OTHER GUYS MADE IT AROUND THIS BEND HERE I WAS LIKE THE LAST GUY AND I JUST TURNED AROUND AND I JUST SORT OF FFFFFFFF I JUST DID FETAL\nPOSITION I CRAWLED DOWN AND HELD THANK GOD THAT HELMET SAVED MY LIFE I JUST HELD ONTO IT AND THE IMPACT I CLOSED MY EYES JUST THE IMPACT I COULD\nJUST FEEL SHIT HITTING ME FLYING. I THINK SOMETHING FELL ON MY BACK THAT PROTECTED ME FROM SOME OF THE OTHER STUFF THAT FELL LUCKILY A COUPLE OF THINGS HIT MY HELMET THEN IT WAS JUST THAT IMPACT AND I WAS IN A FETAL POSITION JUST HOLDING MY HELMET SHAKING THEN THIS BIG GUST CAME AND I JUST WENT FLYING MAYBE 30 40 FEET TUMBLING. I GOT UP GOT ON MY HANDS AND KNEES BECAUSE ALL OF THE WHITE SHIT WAS ALL OVER ME I JUST KEPT CRAWLING MY EARS WERE LIKE DEAF YOU KNOW WHEN YOU HEAR A GIANT FIRECRACKER OR SOMETHING -FIREFIGHTER GEORGE KOZLOWSKI FDNY LADDER 20 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110308.PDF]]''\n\n''...our attention was drawn to the south tower. There was some kind of explosion, you might say, up in the area where the fire was. Actually, in hindsight, that was the start of the\ncollapse. -Dave Lynn Supervising Fire Marshal, Brooklyn Bureau of Fire Investigation [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110389.PDF]]''\n\n''Then all of a sudden there was like a loud - almost like a rushing sound, a roar, and we looked up and we could see it looked like an implosion and the building kind of went in and out\nand kind of like shook.'' -Captain David Loper FDNY Engine 210 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110349.PDF]]''\n\n''THE GROUND SHOOK AGAIN AND WE HEARD ANOTHER TERRIBLE NOISE AND THE NEXT THINK WE KNEW THE SECOND TOWER WAS COMING DOWN. -LIEUTENANT BRADLEY MANN FDNY [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110194.PDF]]''\n\n''In that process of him trying to explain to me to pull my ambulance over, I heard a loud bang. We looked up, and we just saw the building starting to collapse. I looked over and started to scream at my partner, which he was inside the vehicle. .... I was screaming from the top of my lungs, and I must have been about ten feet away from her and she couldn't even hear me, because the building was so loud, the explosion, that she couldn't even hear me. -Julio Marrero FDNY EMT [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110162.PDF]]''\n\n''I WAS TALKING TO HIM WHEN I HEARD LOUD LIKE A ROARING NOISE LIKE A LOUD LOUD ROARING NOISE AT THE TIME I DIDNT KNOW WHAT IT WAS I JUST LOOKED\nUP ALL I COULD SEE BECAUSE OF THE FOG THAT WAS THERE YOU COULDNT SEE ABOVE YOUR DISTANCE WAS LIMITED ONCE I HEARD THAT I HEARD LIKE A BIG EXPLOSION A TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION LET ME PUT IT THAT WAY AND RUMBLING SOUND -Edward Martinez FDNY EMT [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110494.PDF]]'' (some confusion)\n\n''All of a sudden I heard this huge explosion, I didn’t know what it was cause nobody was telling me anything. I didn’t know until we were called back to Chambers and something, Chambers and West Street, that it might have been a terrorist attack. I was this close to it, and I didn’t know what was going on. After that I heard this huge explosion, I thought it was a boiler exploding or something. -James McKinley, FDNY EMTD Battalion 8 [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110072.PDF]]''\n \n''It tipped down first and then the thing fell within itself. It was an amazing sight to see. It was really unbelievable. I thought I was watching a movie with special effects. -Michael Mejias FDNY EMT [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110149.PDF]]''\n\n''As we are looking up at the building, what I saw was, it looked like the building was blowing out on all four sides. We actually heard the pops. Didn't realize it was the falling -- you know, you heard the pops of the building. You thought it was just blowing out. -Joseph Meola FDNY [[nytimes.com|http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110287.PDF]]''\n\n''"VON ESSEN: That's the building they were worried about collapsing. \nKING: That one? \nVON ESSEN: Yeah, (UNINTELLIGIBLE). It's got a little bit of a (UNINTELLIGIBLE) on the top, so people thought it was going to collapse. And in the first day or two, there was a lot of panic going on, because we didn't know. Now we have a handle on it, but the first day or two, they didn't know if there were secondary devices in other buildings, people were running, you know, very afraid." [[CNN.com|http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/06/lklw.00.html]]''\nCNN Interview with Thomas von Essen, N.Y. Fire Commissioner; aired October 6, 2001\n\n\n[[FBI Believed that Bombs Were Used on 9/11|http://911blogger.com/node/19350]]\n\n

\nhttp://www.csi911.info/CSI911.html\nhttp://heiwaco.tripod.com/nist.htm \nhttp://heiwaco.tripod.com/nist3.htm\nhttp://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/12311\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/12725\nhttp://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/02/354581.shtml\nhttp://www.americanfreepress.net/html/cutter_charges_brought_down_wt.html\nhttp://www.911blogger.com/node/14533\nhttp://prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/032808_reaches_crescendo.htm\nhttp://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5658132.html\nhttp://www.911blogger.com/node/13272\nhttp://911proof.com/11.html\nhttp://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=245\n\nCheck out [[Gregg Roberts'|http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/roberts/index.html]] execellent commentary, [[Jones v. Robertson, A Physicist and a Structural Engineer Debate the Controlled Demolition of the World Trade Center|http://journalof911studies.com/volume/200704/Roberts_AnnotatedJones-RobertsonTranscript.pdf]]\n\n''Dr. Crockett Grabbe's Presentation:\nhttp://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/APR08/Event/84051\nhttp://www.sealane.org/writings/PhysSTFall.html''\n\n\n\n\n

''~MODerate resolution atmospheric ~TRANsmission''\n\n''Radiative transfer code to calculate the atmosphere and surface reflected radiance components as well as the one way transmittance for the emitted radiance [[(source)|http://popo.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/docs/workshops/01_docs/2001/2001Green_lava_web.pdf]] [[(cached_copy)|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/2001Green_lava_web.pdf]]''\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MODTRAN\nhttp://www.rese.ch/modo/\nftp://popo.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/docs/workshops/96_docs/1.PDF

[[Fire Load]]\n[[Building Demolition]] and [[Building Collapses]]\n[[February 13 1975 World Trade Center One Fire]]\n[[Timor Sea Oil Rig Fire (PTTEP Montara)]]\n[[Can Steel Buildings Completely Collapse Due To Fire?]]\n[[2009 Mandarin Oriental Hotel Fire]]\n\n''11.3.3. At what temperature does a typical fire burn?\nThe duration and the maximum temperature of a fire in a building compartment depends on several factors including the amount and configuration of available combustibles, ventilation conditions, properties of the compartment enclosure, weather conditions, etc. In common circumstances, the maximum temperature of a fully developed building fire will rarely exceed 1800°F (982°C). The average gas temperature in a fully developed fire is not likely to reach 1500°F (816°C). Temperatures of fires that have not developed to post-[[flashover]] stage will not exceed 1000°F (538°C). [[aisc.org|http://www.aisc.org/Template.cfm?Section=HOME&template=/CustomSource/FAQContentDisplay.cfm&InterestCategoryID=402&FAQID=2119]]''\n\nhttp://www.fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs/fire95/PDF/f95044.pdf\nhttp://www.doctorfire.com/flametmp.html\n\n''“Wood and gasoline burn at essentially the same flame temperature. The flame temperatures achieved by all hydrocarbon fuels (plastics and ignitable liquids) and cellulosic fuels are approximately the same, although the fuels release heat at different rates” ([[NFPA 921]], 4-8.1). [[atslab.com|http://www.atslab.com/fire/PDF/IndicatorsOfTrouble.pdf]]''\n\n''There is no indication that any of the fires in the World Trade Center buildings were hot enough to melt the steel framework. Jonathan Barnett, professor of fire protection engineering, has repeatedly reminded the public that steel - which has a melting point of 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit - may weaken and bend, but does not melt during an ordinary office fire. [[wpi.edu|http://www.wpi.edu/News/Transformations/2002Spring/steel.html]]''\n\n''From the [[FEMA Report]]:''\n''A.3.1.3 Response of High-rise, Steel-frame Buildings in Previous Fire Incidents:\nIn recent years, three notable fires have occurred in steel frame buildings, though none involved the total floor area as in WTC 1 and WTC 2. However, prior to September 11, 2001, no protected steel frame buildings had been known to collapse due to fire. These previous three fire incidents include the following:\n\n*[[1st Interstate Bank Building, Los Angeles, May 4-5, 1988|1st Interstate Bank Building, Los Angeles]]\n*[[Broadgate Phase 8, UK, 1990|Broadgate Phase 8, UK]]\n*[[One Meridian Plaza, Philadelphia, February 23-24, 1991|One Meridian Plaza, Philadelphia]]\n\nIn the case of the fire at One Meridian Plaza, the fire burned uncontrolled for the first 11 hours and lasted 19 hours. Contents from nine floors were completely consumed in the fire. In addition to these experiences in fire incidents, as a result of the Broadgate fire, British Steel and the Building Research Establishment performed a series of six experiments at Cardington in the mid-1990s to investigate the behavior of steel frame buildings. These experiments were conducted in a simulated, eight-story building. Secondary steel beams were not protected. Despite the temperature of the steel beam reaching 800-900 degrees Centigrade (1,500-1,700 degrees Fahrenheit) in three tests (well above the traditionally assumed critical temperature of 600 degrees Centigrade [1,100 degrees Fahrenheit]), no collapse was observed in any of the six experiments.\nOne important aspect of these previous incidents is that the columns remained intact and sustained their load carrying ability throughout the fire incidents (though there was no structural damage caused by impacts). Throughout the fire in One Meridian Plaza, horizontal forces were exerted on the columns by the girders and despite the 24 to 36-inch deflections of the girders, floor beams, and concrete and steel deck floor slabs, the columns continued to stabilize the building throughout the fire and for several years after the fire. \n[[fema.gov|http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/fema403_apa.pdf]]''\n\n[img[http://11syyskuu.net/terrorismi/Doha.jpg|http://11syyskuu.net/terrorismi/Doha.jpg]]\nhttp://www.qatarliving.com/blog/qatari/doha_on_fire_pictures\n\n[img[http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/spain_fire6.jpg|http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/spain_fire6.jpg]][img[http://planetquo.net/911/Woman/madrid_1.bmp|http://planetquo.net/911/Woman/madrid_1.bmp]]\n[[Madrid Skyscraper Fire]]\n\n[img[http://www.zetatalk.com/index/oct17g.jpg|http://www.zetatalk.com/index/oct17g.jpg]][img[http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/venezuela_fire2.jpg|http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/venezuela_fire2.jpg]]\n[[Oct 17, 2004 Parque Central Caracas, Venezuela|Parque Central Caracas, Venezuela]]\n\n[img[http://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/880504_1stInterstateFire/050488_interstate_fire_lg.gif|http://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/880504_1stInterstateFire/050488_interstate_fire_lg.gif]]\n[[May 4-5, 1988 1st Interstate Bank Building, Los Angeles|1st Interstate Bank Building, Los Angeles]]\n\n[img[images/Meridian_Plaza_Philadelphia.jpg|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/Meridian_Plaza_Philadelphia.jpg]]\n[[Feb 23, 1991 One Meridian Plaza, Philadelphia|One Meridian Plaza, Philadelphia]]\n\n[img[http://infowars.com/images2/sept11/150807building2.jpg|http://infowars.com/images2/sept11/150807building2.jpg]]\n[[Aug 14, 2007 World Financial Center, Shanghai|World Financial Center, Shanghai]]\n\n[[August 18, 2007 Deutsche Bank Fire|Deutsche Bank Fire 8-18-07]]\n\n[[February 15, 1981 Brazillian Skyscraper Fire|Brazillian Skyscraper Fire]]\n\n[img[http://911research.wtc7.net/mirrors/guardian2/fire/SCI-4-3.jpg|http://911research.wtc7.net/mirrors/guardian2/fire/SCI-4-3.jpg]]\n[[Churchill Plaza, Basingstoke]] following the fire.\n\n\n<html>\n<object width="640" height="527"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hTL9mmXFrI8"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hTL9mmXFrI8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="640" height="527"></embed></object>\n</html>\n\n[img[5088.jpg|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/5088.jpg]]\n\n''"The presence of melted metals at floor level is particularly meaningless in the context of a black hole fire. A study of the 1991 Oakland fire that burned 3,000 homes revealed the presence of melted copper ([[1083C|Melting and Boiling points]]) in over 80% of the burned structures, and what appeared to be melted steel in over 90% of the burned structures. With respect to steel, looks can be deceiving. What appears to be melted may be merely oxidized. Interpret melted metals, particularly steel, with caution, and interpret the temperatures you infer from these melted metals with extreme caution. High temperatures are more likely a result of increased ventilation than of the presence of ignitable liquid residues." [[atslab.com|http://www.atslab.com/fire/PDF/IndicatorsOfTrouble.pdf]]''\n\n''"Most of us expect to find melted aluminum ([[660C|Melting and Boiling points]]) at just about any fire scene, and the finding of melted copper ([[1083C|Melting and Boiling points]]) is also reasonably common." [[atslab.com|http://www.atslab.com/fire/PDF/MeltedSteel.pdf]]''\n\n''"Normal unaccelerated house fires can and do achieve temperatures sufficiently high to melt copper ([[1083C|Melting and Boiling points]])." [[atslab.com|http://www.atslab.com/fire/PDF/MeltedSteel.pdf]]''\n\n''"The theoritical flame temperature which can be achieved by hydrocarbon liquids is listed in the Fire Protection Handbook at between 3500F and 4200F. Thus, flammable and combustible liquids are cited in an "athorative" source as having enough energy melt steel. The temperatures in the handbook, however, are for [[ideal flames]], which are never achieved in a real fire. We have a shortage of oxygen, rather than an abundance of it, and the likely flame temperatures are below 2000F." [[atslab.com|http://www.atslab.com/fire/PDF/MeltedSteel.pdf]]''\n\n''"When exposed to a fire, steel bedsprings will undergo four distinct changes, as the temperature increases. Unfortunately, only the first two changes are likely to be detectable by visual observation. Figure 2 shows the micro structure of a bedspring before it has been heated. The radically elongated grains are typical of spring steel. Upon exposure to elevated temperatures (up to 1300F), the spring will anneal and loose most of it's residual tension, as a result of stress relief, as shown in Figure 3. After exposure to temperatures over about 1300F, the grains of steel actually recrystallize, and the micro structure shown in Figure 4 is typical. A heavy oxidation scale will usually be present on steel which has been exposed to temperatures sufficiently high to cause recrystallization. At even higher temperatures, decarbonization (loss of carbon) of the steel occurs, and the micro structure shown in Figure 5 may be expected. This micro structure was obtained after heating at 1800F for two and one half hours. Finally when the melting point of steel is reached (somewhere between 2200F and 2400F depending on the alloy), incipient melting begins in the grain boundaries. The resolidified melted material, such as that shown in Figure 1, can be identified. Oxidation will frequently result in the formation of a stable oxide coating." [[atslab.com|http://www.atslab.com/fire/PDF/MeltedSteel.pdf]]''\n\nhttp://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/project/research/structures/strucfire/Design/performance/fireModelling/nominalFireCurves/fig1.htm\nhttp://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/project/research/structures/strucfire/Design/performance/fireModelling/nominalFireCurves/default.htm\n\nhttp://www.sysplan.com/TriData/Publications/Fire_Reports\nhttp://www.interfire.org/res_file/pdf/Tr-049.pdf\nhttp://www.aisc.org/Template.cfm?Section=HOME&template=/CustomSource/FAQCategoryDisplay.cfm&InterestCategoryID=402&CategoryID=413\nhttp://www.china.org.cn/china/local/2008-10/10/content_16592007.htm\nhttp://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2004/121104easilywithstood.htm\nhttp://sageauthoring.com/nfa/nfa1.htm#Operate\nhttp://911research.com/wtc/analysis/compare/fires.html\nhttp://lafdtraining.org/ists/books/bk83.pdf\nhttp://www.iklimnet.com/hotelfires/fire_modelling_software.html\nhttp://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/project/research/structures/strucfire/Design/performance/fireModelling/nominalFireCurves/default.htm\nhttp://www.corusconstruction.com/en/design_and_innovation/structural_design/fire/steelwork_fire_resistance/effect_of_temperature_profile/\nhttp://uncensored.co.nz/2005/09/07/so-what-happens-when-world-trade-center-type-trusses-are-heated/\nhttp://guardian.150m.com/fire/SLamont.htm\nhttp://www.bfrl.nist.gov/pdf/GCR04_872.pdf\n\n[img[http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/china_fire_image001.jpg|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/china_fire_image001.jpg]]\n[img[http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/china_fire_image002.jpg|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/china_fire_image002.jpg]]\n\nhttp://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/centrepoint-tower-blaze-smoke-billows-over-the-city-20090525-bjst.html

''Links:'' \n[[Fire Pages Index]] (see "cases")\n\nFire spread through six floors of the World Trade Center, North Tower, in 1975 for 3 hours.\n\nFebruary 13, 1975 North Tower Fire\nFloors Burnt: 6\n[img[02-14-1975_p41_NYT_100405WTC.jpg|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/02-14-1975_p41_NYT_100405WTC.jpg]]\n[img[02-15-1975_p45_NYT_100405WTC2.jpg|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/02-15-1975_p45_NYT_100405WTC2.jpg]]\n[img[WTC_fire_table.jpg|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/WTC_fire_table.jpg]]\n\nNew York Board of Fire Underwriters. 1975. One World Trade Center Fire, February 13, 1975. Nicholson, W. J.; Rohl, A. N.; Wesiman, I.; and Seltkoff, I.J. 1980. Environmental Asbestos Concentrations in the United States, page 823. Environmental Sciences Laboratory, Mount Zion Hospital, New York, NY. \n\nhttp://www.wireville.com/news/news01.html\nhttp://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc_fire.htm\nhttp://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/fema403_ch2.pdf\nhttp://www.serendipity.li/wot/wtc_ch2.htm\nhttp://www.icivilengineer.com/News/WTC/Sprinkler.htm\nhttp://guardian.150m.com/wtc/small/not-so-hot.htm\n\n[[Appendix G-Interim Report on Significant Fires in WTC 1, 2, and 7 Prior to September 11, 2001|http://wtc.nist.gov/progress_report_june04/appendixg.pdf]]

[[MJ 08 Dust Study]]\n[[JK 08 Dust Study]]\n[[USGS Dust Study]]\n[[RJ Lee World Trade Center Dust Study]]\n\n\n[[World Trade Center Dust Images]]\n[[World Trade Center Dust Microspheres]]\n[[World Trade Center Hot Spots]]\n[[The Destruction Of Each World Trade Center Tower Generated A Hot Density Current]]\n[[The Destruction Of World Trade Center 7 Generated A Hot Density Current]]\n[[World Trade Center Dust Asbestos Content]]\n[[World Trade Center Dust 1,3-diphenylpropane Content]]\n[[Thermite]]\n[[Atmospheric Aerosols]]\n[[World Trade Center Concrete]]\n[[World Trade Center Debris Field Distribution]]\n[[World Trade Center Debris Pile Mass and Volume]]\n\n[img[http://web.archive.org/web/20020112070455/http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0111/images/aris11.jpg|http://web.archive.org/web/20020112070455/http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0111/images/aris11.jpg]]\n''[img[http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/WTC_report_20030821.pdf_livingroom.png|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/WTC_report_20030821.pdf_livingroom.png]]\nIndoor dust contamination from WTC debris. Source: EPA/ORD - - photo courtesy of Dr. Lung Chi Chen - NYU [[(salemstate.edu_p32)|http://w3.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/gls100/gls100_vol.htm]]''\n\nhttp://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/10/12/2009-10-12_3_heroes_of_911_die_of_cancer_in_5_days.html\n\n''Airborne dust from the collapse of the towers blanketed Lower Manhattan and was blown or dispersed into many of the surrounding office buildings, schools, and residences. One person described the aftermath in Lower Manhattan as “looking like a blizzard” had hit. However, this blizzard did not deposit snow, but instead a complex mixture of building debris and combustion by-products. This mixture included, among other substances, asbestos, lead, glass fibers, and concrete dust. In addition to the initial dispersion of dust and debris, fires at the site created various emissions of potentially harmful pollutants. These fires were not officially declared extinguished until December 19, 2001, and debris continued to smolder and fires flared up for weeks after that. Emissions resulting from these fires included particulate matter, various metals, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and dioxin. [[(salemstate.edu)|http://w3.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/gls100/gls100_vol.htm]]''\n\n''The explosion and collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) was a catastrophic event that produced an aerosol plume impacting many workers, residents, and commuters during the first few days after 11 September 2001. [[(ehponline.org)|http://www.ehponline.org/members/2002/110p703-714lioy/lioy-full.html]]''\n\n''"No one has ever reported a situation like the one we see in the World Trade Center samples," said UC Davis researcher Thomas Cahill, an international authority on the constituents and transport of airborne particles. "The air from Ground Zero was laden with extremely high amounts of very small particles, probably associated with @@high temperatures in the underground debris pile@@. Normally, in New York City and in most of the world, situations like this just don’t exist." [[(ucdavis.edu)|http://web.archive.org/web/20020331115425/http://www-dateline.ucdavis.edu/021502/DL_wtc.html]]''\n\n''"Even on the worst air days in Beijing, downwind from coal-fired power plants, or in the Kuwaiti oil fires, @@we did not see these levels of very fine particulates@@," [[(ucdavis.edu)|http://web.archive.org/web/20020331115425/http://www-dateline.ucdavis.edu/021502/DL_wtc.html]]''\n\n''Similar to the high concentrations of very fine particles, virtually all the air samples from the trade center site carried high concentrations of coarse particles – those about 12 micrometers to 5 micrometers in diameter. "These particles simply should not be there," Cahill said. "It had rained, sometimes heavily, on six days in the prior three weeks. That rain should have settled these coarse particles." The finding suggests that @@coarse particles were being continually generated from the hot debris pile@@. [[(ucdavis.edu)|http://web.archive.org/web/20020331115425/http://www-dateline.ucdavis.edu/021502/DL_wtc.html]]''\n\n''The aerosols identified as having an origin in the WTC collapse piles are extraordinary in almost every regard, from the species mix to the concentrations in the very fine mode. [[(informaworld.com)|http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a714044206&fulltext=713240928]]''\n\n''The WTC plume resembled in many ways those seen from @@municipal waste incinerators and high temperatures processes in coal-fired power plants@@. [[(informaworld.com)|http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a714044206&fulltext=713240928]]''\n\n''"The USGS team also analyzed WTC dust using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction analysis. Like Lioy's group, USGS scientists discovered a complex mixture of materials: glass fibers (up to 40% in some samples), gypsum (wallboard), concrete, paper, and other construction debris. "I was just amazed at how many glass fibers there were," Meeker said. The high concentration of glass was due partially to windows, but primarily to ceiling tiles. SEM revealed that much of the glass was present as odd-shaped fibers and spheres. "It's not an effect of the collapse," Meeker said. These compositions are compatible with "slag wool," a common component of ceiling tiles and other building materials." [[(acs.org)|http://pubs.acs.org/cen/NCW/8142aerosols.html]]''\n\n''Thomas A. Cahill, who leads the DELTA (Detection & Evaluation of ~Long-Range Transport of Aerosols) group at UC Davis, is more concerned about the possible health risks of the plume from WTC. Cahill first started to wonder about the plume after the rainfall of Sept. 14. @@"The color of the plume was all wrong," he said. "It was a light blue. My background is atmospheric physics, and the color of the plume tells me a lot. A light blue plume means very fine particles. Clearly, the pile was still hot and was giving off very fine particles." Yet very fine particles, he said, are more characteristic of a very high temperature process, such as a coal-fired power plant, a smelter, or a diesel engine.@@ The pile at ground zero wasn't hot enough to generate such fine particles. Cahill sent one of his instruments to a colleague in New York who started measuring ambient air on Oct. 2. As Cahill looked at the data, @@he began to think that perhaps the WTC debris pile was acting like an oxygen-poor municipal waste incinerator@@, "an enormous ground-level waste incinerator that burned for three months." If there is chlorine in an oxygen-poor municipal waste incinerator, the chlorine can combine with metals in the waste and create volatile compounds (for example, VCl4), which leave with the smoke. "Metals that would normally stay, mobilize and come out of the stack," Cahill said. [[(acs.org)|http://pubs.acs.org/cen/NCW/8142aerosols.html]]''\n\n''Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton helped get the initial financing approved by Congress for the center. In June, Congress approved $90 million for screenings and long-term health monitoring of thousands of ground zero workers, but President Bush rejected the plan, citing budget constraints. Mrs. Clinton's office is in discussions with the Federal Emergency Management Agency about more money for health screenings. [[(nytimes.com)|http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E7DE1331F932A25752C1A9649C8B63&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=all]]''\n\n''The relatively low temperatures of the trade center fires mean that traces of dozens of toxic chemicals and heavy metals are carried into the air, including benzene, a cancer-causing compound released when fuels are burned, and styrene, a gas emitted by burning plastic. At times the chemicals in the air at the site reach dangerous levels, particularly when fire flares up, as it did on Nov. 8. [[(nytimes.com)|http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CEEDF113BF93AA25752C1A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink]]''\n\n''EPA’s early public statements following the collapse of the WTC towers reassured the public regarding the safety of the air outside the Ground Zero area. However, when EPA made a September 18 announcement that the air was “safe” to breathe, it did not have sufficient data and analyses to make such a blanket statement. At that time, air monitoring data was lacking for several pollutants of concern, including particulate matter and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Furthermore, The White House Council on Environmental Quality influenced, through the collaboration process, the information that EPA communicated to the public through its early press releases when it convinced EPA to add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones. [[(salemstate.edu)|http://w3.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/gls100/gls100_vol.htm]]''\n\n''EPA’s early statements reassured the public regarding the safety of the air outside the Ground Zero perimeter area. However, when EPA made a September 18 announcement that the air was “safe” to breathe, the Agency did not have sufficient data and analyses to make the statement. The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) influenced, through the collaboration process, the information that EPA communicated to the public through its early press releases when it convinced EPA to add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones. [[(salemstate.edu_p17)|http://w3.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/gls100/gls100_vol.htm]]''\n\n''EPA issued five press releases within 10 days after September 11, 2001, four more through the end of December, and another four through the end of May 2002. EPA’s WTC press releases from September through December 2001 reassured the public about air quality. Although EPA’s press releases generally recommended that rescue and cleanup workers take precautions to reduce their exposure to pollutants, EPA’s basic overriding message was that the public did not need to be concerned about airborne contaminants caused by the WTC collapse. This reassurance appeared to apply to both indoor and outdoor air. [[(salemstate.edu_p18)|http://w3.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/gls100/gls100_vol.htm]]''\n\n''EPA Statements On Air Quality 9/13 to 10/30/01:''\n09-13-01 “Monitoring and sampling conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday have been very reassuring about potential exposure of rescue crews and the public to environmental contaminants. . . . EPA and OSHA will work closely with rescue and cleanup crews to minimize their potential exposure, but the general public should be very reassured by initial sampling.” \n\n09-16-01 “Our tests show that it is safe for New Yorkers to go back to work in New York’s financial district” (quoting Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA). “The Agency is recommending that businesses in the area planning to reopen next week take precautions including cleaning air conditioning filters and using vacuums with appropriate filters to collect dust.”\n\n09-18-01 “I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breath [sic] . . . ” (quoting EPA Administrator). \n\n09-21-01 “NYC Monitoring Efforts Continue to Show Safe Drinking Water & Air” (press release heading).\n\n10-03-01 “Data Confirms No Significant Public Health Risks; Rescue Crews and Nearby Residents Should Take Appropriate Precautions. . . ” (press release sub-heading).\n\n10-30-01 “While we have fortunately not found levels of contaminants that pose a significant health risk to the general public, our efforts to monitor the area and keep the public informed of our findings have not waned. “\n''[[(salemstate.edu_p18)|http://w3.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/gls100/gls100_vol.htm]]''\n\n''EPA provided public access to its monitoring data through its public web site, which included interactive maps that could be used to identify monitoring results. In regard to the monitoring data, we found no evidence that EPA attempted to conceal data results from the public. [[(salemstate.edu_p19)|http://w3.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/gls100/gls100_vol.htm]]''\n\n''In addition to not knowing the health impacts of certain individual pollutants, information was not available on the cumulative or synergistic impacts of being exposed to several pollutants at once. For example, one medical expert suggested there may be a synergistic effect between PAHs and asbestos, since PAHs resemble cigarette tar. Studies have shown the lung cancer risk from exposure to asbestos is increased exponentially for cigarette smokers. In addition, this expert noted that the combination of high pH and the small shards of glass found in WTC dust could have had a synergistic impact on the acute respiratory symptoms that many people experienced. [[(salemstate.edu_p23)|http://w3.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/gls100/gls100_vol.htm]]''\n\n''Over 25 percent of the bulk dust samples that EPA had collected and analyzed by September 18 showed the presence of asbestos above the 1 percent threshold used by EPA to indicate significant risk. [[(salemstate.edu_p24)|http://w3.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/gls100/gls100_vol.htm]]''\n\n''As a result of the White House CEQ’s influence, guidance for cleaning indoor spaces and information about the potential health effects from WTC debris were not included in EPA’s issued press releases. In addition, based on CEQ’s influence, reassuring information was added to at least one press release and cautionary information was deleted from EPA’s draft version of that press release. [[(salemstate.edu_p24)|http://w3.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/gls100/gls100_vol.htm]]''\n\n'Both NYCDDC and OSHA officials told us that the WTC site was under continuous dust suppression, and the latter said this dust suppression was very successful. An EPA On-Scene Coordinator told us that once dust suppression began, water was sprayed wherever there was dust and, to the best of his knowledge, this practice was successful. OSHA officials further stated that it would have been too dangerous to send abatement contractors into WTC 4, WTC 5, or WTC 6 to remove asbestos-containing material before demolition. [[(salemstate.edu_p46)|http://w3.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/gls100/gls100_vol.htm]]''\n\n<html>\n<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZR0Y5o-pC3w&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZR0Y5o-pC3w&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>\n</html>\n\n<html>\n<embed style="width:640px; height:522px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-9137295628446919478&hl=en" flashvars=""> </embed>\n</html>\n\n<html>\n<object width="425" height="373"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rwOgEZghrYM&rel=1&border=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rwOgEZghrYM&rel=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="373"></embed></object>\n</html>\n\nhttp://www.epa.gov/WTC/panel/pdfs/WTC_peer_review_report.pdf\nhttp://911research.wtc7.net/papers/dustvolume/volumev3_1.html\nhttp://www.epa.gov/wtc/panel/pdfs/summary-report-20040512.pdf\nhttp://lib.bioinfo.pl/pmid:12953863\nhttp://openmopac.net/data_solids/Gypsum (CaSO4_2H2O)_Jmol.html\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/16117\nhttp://www.911blogger.com/node/16656\nhttp://www.ehponline.org/members/2003/5930/5930.html\nhttp://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/5712\nhttp://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/content/full/169/7/883\nhttp://www.911dust.org/\n\n\n\nhttp://delta.ucdavis.edu/WTC.htm\n\n<html>\n<embed style="width:800px; height:652px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-1855050994689354420&hl=en" flashvars=""> </embed>\n</html>\n\nCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF A DISASTER\nScientists struggle to understand the complex mixture of aerosols released during and after the destruction of the World Trade Center\nOctober 20, 2003\nVolume 81, Number 42\nCENEAR 81 42 pp. 26-30\nISSN 0009-2347\nLOUISA DALTON, C&EN WASHINGTON\nhttp://pubs.acs.org/cen/NCW/8142aerosols.html\n\n\nhttp://phys4.harvard.edu/~wilson/publications/ppaper862.doc\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20011107134559/http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/alerts/911.html\nhttp://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=137\n\n<html>\n<embed style="width:800px; height:652px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-5960554325625810328&hl=en" flashvars=""> </embed>\n</html>\n\n[[EPA WTC Air Quality Survey|http://www.epa.gov/oigearth/reports/2003/WTC-survey_20030926.pdf]]\nhttp://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/10/allan-tannenbaums-ph.html\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/11303\nhttp://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/asbestos.nsf/0/8DC49C62C3BDFD2186256CAD0076A1ED?OpenDocument\nhttp://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/113471465/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0\n\nhttp://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag/40/i22/html/111506feature_lioy.html\nhttp://www.911ea.org/PhotoAlbum.htm\nhttp://www.nyenvirolaw.org/PDF/StLouisDispatch-2-9-02-CausticDustBlanketsWTCarea.pdf\n\nhttp://www.eomonline.com/Common/industrynews/industrynews12102.html\nhttp://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/asbestos.nsf/story/8DC49C62C3BDFD2186256CAD0076A1ED?OpenDocument\nhttp://pubs.acs.org/cen/NCW/print/8142aerosols.html\n\n\n\nhttp://www.eohsi.rutgers.edu/wtc/ehnetwork/Projects.shtml\nhttp://www.envsci.rutgers.edu/~gera/papers_wtc/StenchikovEnvFluidMech2006.pdf\n\n\n\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/13414\nhttp://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1031/pdf/OF2005_1031_508.pdf\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20011018072011/http://www.nyc.gov/html/em/health.html\nhttp://maloney.house.gov/index.php?id=1145&option=com_content&task=view\nhttp://www1.va.gov/vasafety/docs/Journal-of-Medicine-Resp.pdf\nhttp://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2003/news030905.htm\nhttp://www.ehponline.org/members/2002/110p703-714lioy/lioy-full.html\nhttp://www.nycosh.org/environment_wtc/WTC-catastrophe.html\nhttp://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a714044206&fulltext=713240928\nhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/11/BU4P10BB88.DTL\nhttp://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Ex_Bush_health_chief_s_firm_wins_Se_06042008.html\nhttp://www.sohoblues.com/9-11-Still-Killing.html\nhttp://www.ehponline.org/members/2003/5930/5930.html\nhttp://www.inspect-ny.com/WTC/WTCdust.htm\nhttp://www.technologyreview.com/blog/duncan/17621/\nhttp://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/356/22/2233\n\n\n\nWASHINGTON – “At the White House's direction, the Environmental Protection Agency gave New Yorkers misleading assurances that there was no health risk from the debris-laden air after the World Trade Center collapse, according to an internal inquiry. “The White House "convinced EPA to add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones" by having the National Security Council control EPA communications after the Sept. 11 terror attacks,\naccording to a report issued late Thursday by EPA Inspector General Nikki Tinsley.\n\nIn all, the EPA issued five news releases within 10 days of the attacks and four more by the end of 2001 reassuring the public about air quality. [Soon,] respiratory ailments and other problems began to surface in hundreds…\nhttp://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/136350_epa23.html\n\n“Tests revealed the dust to be extremely alkaline with a pH of 12.1 (out of 14) and that some of it was as caustic as liquid drain cleaner. It was obvious that precautions had to be taken to protect the workers and people\nreturning to their homes from the dust.” Gregg Swayze, USGS\n• Sam Vance, an environmental scientist with the EPA, sent the results to officials at the EPA..\n• [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2/10/02]\n\n“James Connaughton, chairman of the environmental council, which coordinates federal environmental efforts, said the White House directed the EPA to add and delete information based on how it should be released publicly…”\n\n• “It was much more important to open up Wall St. than it was to worry about our health,” said former city councilperson.. Kathryn Freed… “We’ve known it was a cover-up since the beginning,” Jain said [president of Battery Pk\nResidents Coalition]. Downtown Express, “Residents Angry,” August 19, 2003.\n\n“White House Misled City on Post-9/11 Health Issues”\nBy Laurie Garrett, Newsday August 22, 2003\n\n• “Language in an EPA draft stating that asbestos levels in some areas were three times higher than national standards was changed to "slightly above the 1 percent trigger for defining asbestos material.“\n• This sentence was added to a Sept. 16 press release: "Our tests show that it is safe for New Yorkers to go back to work in New York's financial district." \n• A warning on the importance of safely handling Ground Zero cleanup, due to lead and asbestos exposure, was changed to say that some contaminants had been noted downtown but "the general public should be very reassured by\ninitial sampling.“\n• New York's leaders responded with dismay.\n• Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-Manhattan) called for a Justice Department investigation. "That the White House instructed EPA officials to downplay the health impact of the World Trade Center contaminants due to 'competing considerations' at the expense of the health and lives of New York City residents is an abomination," he said in a press release.\n• “I want an independent investigation to determine exactly who at the White House manipulated the information.” D. Yassky \n• The White House did not respond to requests for comment.”\n\n9/11 Dust: 15,000+ Sick\n• USA Today article 6/26/2006:\n• “The number of people with medical problems linked to the 9/11 attacks on New York has risen to at least 15,000.\n• “On Tuesday, a coroner said the death of a policeman who developed a respiratory disease was "directly linked" to 9/11. “\n• Problems mount from 9/11 fallout By David Shukman BBC News science correspondent 4/12/2006\n\nhttp://www.jstor.org/pss/3435174\nhttp://bcbsma.medscape.com/viewarticle/506451\nhttp://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2002/2002-09-10-02.asp\nhttp://www.ehponline.org/members/2003/5930/5930.html\nhttp://www.villagevoice.com/2006-11-21/news/death-by-dust/\nhttp://www.workers.org/ww/2002/pollute0307.php\nhttp://www.ehponline.org/members/2002/110p703-714lioy/EHP110p703PDF.PDF\n\n\n''We found out what a powerful force gravity is. Everything was completely pulverized. You saw gray dirt, which was pulverized concrete, and you saw beams and you saw pipes, basically, with a lot of wires around. You didn’t see anything identifiable beyond those three things, and pieces of paper every place. You didn’t see a chair, a desk, a computer screen. I never saw a piece of glass the whole time I was there. -Firefighter-special-operations panel member [[rand.org|http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/2006/CF176.pdf]]''\n\n''The two towers, for example, were primarily office buildings. Yet, in the rubble, they have found no glass, no desks, no filing cabinets, no evidence of the primary work that went on. [[nd.edu|http://www.nd.edu/~ndmag/reflect/malloydiary.html]]''\n\n\n''All statements to the media should be cleared through the NSC [National Security Council] before they are released. -September 12, 2001, e-mail from EPA Deputy Administrator’s Chief of Staff to senior EPA officials According to the EPA Chief of Staff. One particular CEQ official was designated to work with EPA to ensure that clearance was obtained through NSC. The Associate Administrator for the EPA Office of Communications, Education, and Media Relations (OCEMR)3 said that no press release could be issued for a 3- to 4-week period after September 11 without approval from the CEQ contact. [[(salemstate.edu_p24)|http://w3.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/gls100/gls100_vol.htm]]''\n\n''9/11 first responders twice as likely to have asthma, researchers say : http://www.riskandinsurance.com/story.jsp?storyId=312470321&topic=Main''

http://www.oig.doc.gov/oig/hotline/000016.html\n\n''Links:''\n[[NIST Pages Index]]\n\n*** ''NOTE: The NIST website has "broken" many of the original document links below. Please use the "unlocked" links (next to each section below) instead.''\n\n''NIST Director established a World Trade Center study secretariat early in 2002—six months prior to formal announcement of the investigation—to ensure that relevant offices throughout\nNIST—public affairs, legal, contracts, congressional, budget, safety, program office—would all work to effectively support the investigation. [[wtc.nist.gov|http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/WTC_Part I_Introduction.pdf]]''\n\n[[NIST]]\n[[NCST Advisory Committee]]\n[[June 2004 NIST Progress Report]]\n[[June 2008 NIST WTC7 Draft Report (unofficial release)]]\n[[NIST Contracts]]\n[[NIST World Trade Center Investigation Team|http://wtc.nist.gov/contacts/]]\n\n[[Recovered World Trade Center Steel At NIST]]\n[[NIST Claims To Have No Steel Samples From WTC7]]\n\n[[World Trade Center Towers Design and Construction]]\n[[NIST Did Not Test The World Trade Center Debris For Explosives]]\n\n\n''On August 21, 2002, with funding from the U.S. Congress through FEMA, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced its building and fire safety investigation of the WTC disaster. On October 1, 2002, the National Construction Safety Team Act (Public Law 107-231), was signed into law. (A copy of the Public Law is included in Appendix A). The NIST WTC Investigation was conducted under the authority of the National Construction Safety Team Act. [[NCSTAR_1A_p29|http://wtc.nist.gov/NCSTAR1/PDF/NCSTAR 1A.pdf]]''\n\n''The first specific objective of the NIST building and fire safety investigation was to "Determine why and how WTC 1 and WTC 2 collapsed following the initial impacts of the aircraft and why and how WTC 7 collapsed". [[NCSTAR_1A_p29|http://wtc.nist.gov/NCSTAR1/PDF/NCSTAR 1A.pdf]]''\n\n''Released September 2005:''\n''Final Report on the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers'' (11,889 pages)\n[img[http://wtc.nist.gov/images/StackOfFinalReports.jpg|http://wtc.nist.gov/images/StackOfFinalReports.jpg]]\n''http://wtc.nist.gov/reports_october05.htm''\n''http://wtc.nist.gov/''\n\n''NIST's findings do not support the "pancake theory" of collapse. [[(nist.gov)|http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm]]''\n''NIST is withholding evidence. [[(source)|http://911blogger.com/node/13458]]''\n\n''Chapters:''\n[[NIST NCSTAR 1: Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster: Final Report of the National Construction Safety Team on the Collapses of the World Trade Center Tower||http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR1CollapseofTowers_noPW.pdf]] (298 pages)\nOriginal URL: http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1CollapseofTowers.pdf (broken)\n\n[[NIST NCSTAR 1-1: Design, Construction, and Maintenance of Structural and Life Safety Systems|http://wtc.nist.gov/NCSTAR1/NCSTAR1-1index.htm]] (summary page, 2228 pages) Original URL: http://wtc.nist.gov/oct05NCSTAR1-1index.htm (broken)\n{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-1: Design, Construction, and Maintenance of Structural and Life Safety Systems|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR 1-1_noPW.pdf]] (280 pages)\nCurrent URL: http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/NISTNCSTAR1-1.pdf\nOriginal URL: 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[[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR 1-4A_noPW.pdf]] (140 pages)\n{{indent{{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-4B: Fire Suppression Systems|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-4B.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR 1-4B_noPW.pdf]] (278 pages)\n{{indent{{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-4C: Fire Alarm Systems|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-4C.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR 1-4C_noPW.pdf]] (148 pages)\n{{indent{{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-4D: Smoke Management Systems|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-4D.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR 1-4D_noPW.pdf]] (248 pages)\n\n[[NIST NCSTAR 1-5: Reconstruction of the Fires in the World Trade Center Towers|http://wtc.nist.gov/oct05NCSTAR1-5index.htm]] (summary page, 2705 pges)\n{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-5: Reconstruction of the Fires in the World Trade Center 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pages)\n{{indent{{{indent{{{indent{[[1-5A appendixes H-M|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-5A_AppxH-M.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR1-5A_AppxH-M_noPW.pdf]] (232 pages)\n{{indent{{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-5B: Experiments and Modeling of Structural Steel Elements Exposed to Fire|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-5B.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR1-5B_noPW.pdf]] (352 pages)\n{{indent{{{indent{{{indent{[[1-5B appendixes D-G|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-5B_AppxD-G.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR1-5B_AppxD-G_noPW.pdf]] (54 pages)\n{{indent{{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-5C: Fire Tests of Single Office Workstations|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-5C.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR1-5C_noPW.pdf]] (130 pages)\n{{indent{{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-5D: Reaction of Ceiling Tile Systems to Shocks|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-5D.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR1-5D_noPW.pdf]] (146 pages)\n{{indent{{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-5E: Experiments and Modeling of Multiple Workstations Burning in a Compartment|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-5E.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR1-5E_noPW.pdf]] (158 pages)\n{{indent{{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-5F: Computer Simulation of the Fires in the World Trade Center Towers|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-5F.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR1-5F_noPW.pdf]] (164 pages)\n{{indent{{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-5G: Fire Structure Interface and Thermal Response of the World Trade Center Towers|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-5G.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR1-5G_noPW.pdf]] (338 pages)\n{{indent{[[ERRATUM|http://wtc.nist.gov/ErratumNCSTAR1-5and1-5A.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://wtc.nist.gov/ErratumNCSTAR1-5and1-5A.pdf]] (1 page)\n\n[[NIST NCSTAR 1-6: Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse Sequence of the World Trade Center Towers|http://wtc.nist.gov/oct05NCSTAR1-6index.htm]] (summary page, 1730 pages)\n{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-6: Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse Sequence of the World Trade Center Towers|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-6.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR 1-6_noPW.pdf]] (470 pages)\n{{indent{{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-6A: Passive Fire Protection|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-6A.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR 1-6A_noPW.pdf]] (326 pages)\n{{indent{{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-6B: Fire Resistance Tests of the Floor Truss Systems|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-6B.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR 1-6B_noPW.pdf]] (202 pages)\n{{indent{{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-6C: 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Evacuation|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-7A.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR 1-7A_noPW.pdf]] (70 pages)\n{{indent{{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-7B: Technical Documentation for Survey Administration: Questionnaires, Interviews, and Focus Groups|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-7B.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR 1-7B_noPW.pdf]] (79 pages)\n\n[[NIST NCSTAR 1-8: The Emergency Response Operations|http://wtc.nist.gov/oct05NCSTAR1-8index.htm]] (summary page, 808 pages)\n{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-8: The Emergency Response Operations|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-8.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR 1-8_noPW.pdf]] (294 pages)\n{{indent{{{indent{[[NIST NCSTAR 1-8: Appendixes A-L|http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-8_AppendixesA-LFinal.pdf]] [[unlocked|http://nasathermalimages.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/NISTNCSTAR 1-8_Appendixes A-L Final_noPW.pdf]] (514 pages)\n\n\n[[The Experts Who Support The Official Reports Are Predominantly Those Who Profit From Doing So]]\n[[A New Standard For Deception: The NIST WTC Report A Presentation - by Kevin Ryan|http://911research.wtc7.net/reviews/kevin_ryan/newstandard.html]]\n[[Building a Better Mirage: NIST's 3-Year $20,000,000 Cover-Up of the Crime of the Century - by Jim Hoffman|http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/nist/]]\n[[Responses to NIST's FAQs|http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/NIST_Responses.doc]]\nhttp://stj911.org/ryan/NIST_Responses.html\n\n[[Message from a NIST Whistleblower|http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/10/former-nist-employee-blows-whistle.html]]\n[[Sydney Conference: 9/11 - Physics and Findings: Challenging the NIST Report|http://911blogger.com/node/14363]]\n\n\n''The conventional explanation as given by [[Shyam Sunder]], the NIST Lead Investigator, is:\n“Like most building collapses, these events were the result of a combination of factors. While the buildings were able to withstand the initial impact of the aircraft, the resulting fires that spread through the towers weakened support columns and floors that had fireproofing dislodged by the impacts. This eventually led to collapse as the perimeter columns were pulled inward by the sagging floors and buckled.”\n-Shyam Sunder, lead investigator for the agency’s building and fire safety investigation into the WTC disaster. [[(sciencedaily.com)|http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/04/050411122017.htm]]''\n\n\n\n\nhttp://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/340461.shtml\nhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/08/040829130757.htm\n\n\n[img[nist_ULtestresults.gif|http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/images/nist_ULtestresults.gif]]\n\n\n\n\n\n''Details on the people behind the NIST Report:''\nNational Construction Safety Team for WTC Investigation:\nhttp://wtc.nist.gov/pi/\nNIST World Trade Center Investigation Team <wtc@nist.gov>\nMichael E. Newman <michael.newman@nist.gov>\nNCST Advisory Committee <NCSTAC@nist.gov>\n\n[[Shyam Sunder]] <sivaraj.shyam-sunder@nist.gov>\n[[William Grosshandler]] <william.grosshandler@nist.gov>\n[[H.S. Lew]] <hai.lew@nist.gov>\n[[Richard Bukowski]] <richard.bukowski@nist.gov>\n[[Fahim Sadek]] <fahim.sadek@nist.gov>\n[[Frank Gayle]] <frank.gayle@nist.gov>\n[[Richard Gann]] <richard.gann@nist.gov>\n[[John Gross]] <john.gross@nist.gov>\n[[Therese McAllister]] <therese.mcallister@nist.gov>\n[[Jason Averill]] <jason.averill@nist.gov>\n[[James Randy Lawson]] <james.lawson@nist.gov>\n[[Harold E. Nelson]] <harold.nelson@nist.gov>\n[[Stephen Cauffman]] <stephen.cauffman@nist.gov>\n\nPhone numbers:\nhttp://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/wwwph?Shyam+Sunder\nhttp://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/wwwph?William+Grosshandler\nhttp://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/wwwph?Lew\nhttp://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/wwwph?Richard+Bukowski\nhttp://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/wwwph?Fahim+Sadek\nhttp://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/wwwph?Frank+Gayle\nhttp://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/wwwph?Richard+Gann\nhttp://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/wwwph?John+Gross\nhttp://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/wwwph?Therese+McAllister\nhttp://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/wwwph?Jason+Averill\nhttp://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/wwwph?James+Lawson\nhttp://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/wwwph?Harold+E+Nelson\nhttp://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/wwwph?Stephen+Cauffman\n\n\n\n[[The AIA's Response to NIST's Draft Report and Recommendations|http://nistreview.org/aiawtcresponse.pdf]]\n[[The Collapse of Building 7" by Arthur Scheuerman, FDNY (Retired)|http://nistreview.org/WTC7-COLLAPSE-SCHEUERMAN.pdf]]\n[[The NIST WTC Investigation--How Real Was The Simulation? by Eric Douglas, R.A.|http://nistreview.org/NCSTAR1-REVIEW-DOUGLAS.pdf]]\n[[Comments on NIST NCSTAR1 DRAFT by Professor James Quintiere|http://nistreview.org/NIST-NCSTAR1-QUINTIERE.pdf]]\n[[Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse? by Professor Steven Jones|http://nistreview.org/WTC-COLLAPSE-JONES.pdf]]\n[[Energy Transfer in the WTC Collapse by Dr. Frank Greening|http://nistreview.org/WTC-REPORT-GREENING.pdf]]\n\n\n[[Mechanics of Progressive Collapse: Learning From World Trade Center and Building Demolitions by Professors Bazant and Verdure|http://nistreview.org/WTC-PROGRESSIVE-COLLAPSE-BAZANT.pdf]]\n''Detailed refutation of Bazant et.al:''\nhttp://heiwaco.tripod.com/nist.htm\nhttp://heiwaco.tripod.com/nist3.htm\nhttp://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/07/1-sentence-debunking-of-nists-report-on.html\nhttp://www.911blogger.com/node/16523\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/16622\nhttp://911blogger.com/node/17847\nhttp://www.fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs/fire03/art053.html\nhttp://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/wtc_062907.html \nhttp://wtc.nist.gov/oct05NCSTAR1-5index.htm \nhttp://www.nist.gov/testimony/wtc.htm \nhttp://www.nist.gov/testimony/2002/abwtc2.\nhtml http://www.fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs/fire07/art018.html \nhttp://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/seminars/051122sh.htm \nhttp://www.fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs/fire02/art018.html \nhttp://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_12_2007.htm \nhttp://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/wtc_briefing_june2305.htm\n\n[[Engineers]]\n[[9/11, NIST, and “Bush Science”: A New Standard For Absurdity|http://www.911blogger.com/node/4324]]\n\n\n1-9 Vol.1 pg 88 [PDF pg 132]\n"The overall amount of visual material from September 11 was immense. Well in excess of 7,000 photographs, representing more than 200 photographers, and over 300 hours of video, from professional organizations and over 40 individuals, on nearly 150 separate tapes were assembled and logged."\n\npg 261 [PDF pg 365]\n"The visual database contains 16 videos showing at least a portion of the collapse of WTC 7. Nine of these were selected for more detailed analysis; each of these nine cameras was primarily located to the north of the WTC complex."\n\nApx H 6-22-04 pg 8 [PDF pg 14]\nAt the present time, 3,032 of the 6,759 catalogued photographs and 2,673 of the 6,911 video clips in the databases are timed with assigned relative accuracies of 3 seconds or better.\n\nhttp://wtc.nist.gov/progress_report_june04/appendixh.pdf\n\nVisual Data Collection and Analysis. 4-22-04 pg 5\n6,900 photographs catalogued (in excess of 185\nphotographers represented) with 3,060 timed with accuracy of 3 seconds or better.\nApproximately 150 hour of videotape digitized and clipped\n(6,882 clips) from more than twenty individuals, news\norganizations, and documentaries with 2,674 clips timed with accuracy of 3 seconds or better.\n\nhttp://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/June2004VisualDataCollectionandAnalysis.pdf\n

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