Posted on 08/21/2008 1:48:46 PM PDT by library user
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GAITHERSBURG -- Maryland: Fires in the 47-story office tower at the edge of the World Trade Center site undermined floor beams and critical structural columns, federal investigators concluded Thursday, as they attempted to curb still-rampant speculation that explosives or fuel fires had been responsible for the collapse of the building on Sept. 11, 2001.
The long-delayed report by engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in suburban Washington is intended to solve one of the lingering questions about the 2001 attacks: Why did the building at 7 World Trade Center fall, if it was not hit by an airplane?
"Heating of floor beams and girders caused a critical support column to fail," said Shyam Sunder, the lead investigator. "Video and photographic evidence, combined with detailed computer simulations, show that neither explosives nor fuel oils played a role."
No one died when 7 World Trade Center fell, nearly seven hours after the center's twin towers collapsed. But the fall of the adjacent tower - once home to branch offices of the CIA, the Secret Service and the emergency operations center of the New York City mayor - is cited in hundreds of books and Internet sites as perhaps the most compelling evidence that an insider secretly planted explosives, intentionally destroying the tower.
It is the first skyscraper in modern times to collapse primarily as a result of a fire.
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...
Where's that awjeez guy when you need him?
Charlie Sheen and the Troofers will be sorely disappointed to hear this.
ahhh Rosie...... Earth to Rosie
The writer sounds almost saddened that no one was killed.
Just in time for Obama’s Convention....
Scariest thing at Gitmo!
“The writer sounds almost saddened that no one was killed.”
You have quite an imagination.
But but but everyone knows that rudy went into the building and pulled it down when no one was looking. Just ask rosie o’donuts.
Probably not. This report will just be added to their stack of proof of a conspiracy.
I don’t believe it...
Fat and Ugly Rosy the Bull Dike said that steel can not be “melted by fire”...
I think a lot of these conspiracy kooks are mentally ill.
Why isn't natural selection selecting?
Haha...???
ramp·ant
Spelled Pronunciation[ram-puhnt]
adjective
1. violent in action or spirit; raging;
furious: a rampant leopard.
2. growing luxuriantly, as weeds.
Lets see...301,139,947 Americans.
Maybe 100,000 idiots cannot except the reality of what happened and continue to jerk each other off.
I think that 1/3 of one percent is anything but "rampant".
(1% of 30113994 citizens = 15056997/50 = 301,140 citizens)
I’ve sent this WTC report to a couple consiracy buffs...brought them right down to earth.
http://implosionworld.com/Article-WTC%20STUDY%208-06%20w%20clarif%20as%20of%209-8-06%20.pdf
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