September 11, 2001
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.
Romero is a former director of the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center at Tech, which studies explosive materials and the effects of explosions on buildings, aircraft and other structures.
Romero said he based his opinion on video aired on national television broadcasts. Romero said the collapse of the structures resembled those of controlled implosions used to demolish old structures.
"It would be difficult for something from the plane to trigger an event like that," Romero said in a phone interview from Washington, D.C.
Romero said he and another Tech administrator were on a Washington-area subway when an airplane struck the Pentagon.
He said he and Denny Peterson, vice president for administration and finance, were en route to an office building near the Pentagon to discuss defense-funded research programs at Tech.
If explosions did cause the towers to collapse, the detonations could have been caused by a small amount of explosive, he said.
"It could have been a relatively small amount of explosives placed in strategic points," Romero said. The explosives likely would have been put in more than two points in each of the towers, he said.
The detonation of bombs within the towers is consistent with a common terrorist strategy, Romero said.
"One of the things terrorist events are noted for is a diversionary attack and secondary device," Romero said.
Attackers detonate an initial, diversionary explosion that attracts emergency personnel to the scene, then detonate a second explosion, he said.
Romero said that if his scenario is correct, the diversionary attack would have been the collision of the planes into the towers.
Tech President Dan Lopez said Tuesday that Tech had not been asked to take part in the investigation into the attacks. Tech often assists in forensic investigations into terrorist attacks, often by setting off similar explosions and studying the effects.
Here we go again. For pete's sake, use your brains Romero. If they had bombs in the building, they wouldn't have to hit it with a plane! They would use the plane to hit another target!You can see on the video exactly what happened. There were no secondary explosions. This is poppycock.
This makes as much sense as the thread that said the pilots were in with the terrorists. Duh... If the pilot wanted to crash the plane, why would they need terrorists in the back to make him crash the plane?
The static load of a building is nothing compared to the kinetic energy of half of the building under freefall accelerated by gravity onto the rest of the building below.
Try this experiment!
1. Balance a brick on your head.
2. Note that it doesn't feel all that heavy.
3. Now gently tip that brick off the top of your head and let it fall on your bare foot.
Note any difference???
I heard this very same thing on Alex Jones' show yesterday, so it must be true.....also, Osama Bin Laden was assasinated a couple of days ago before the attacks.LOL!