Please explain how the towers fell from the point of impact in WTC?
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They fell perfectly..like a professional team of demolition men went in the night before and carefully placed detonators in precise locations....HEY...wait a minute..........
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Still a little in shock and such over the event. I was at my school (high school at the time) waiting for a class to start. The class clown of our grade, Sean, walked in saying his dad just called and said something about [I don't remember what he said exactly]. We all told him stop kidding. We then got the announcement over the PA of what had happened. I think at that time both towers were hit. We got to go home early. My dad worked in NYC but nowhere near there. As for people who passed on, a co-worker of my dad's wife was in one of the tower's on one of the floors that was directly hit. Her name is Laura Longing.
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There are several different ways the bomb damages surroundings, depending on the distance from ground zero:\n\n1. Nearest the bomb explosion, severe heat vaporizes everything.\n2. Nuclear radiation moves out from the epicenter.\n3. Pressure shock-waves also move out from the epicenter, knocking down structures.\n4. Fallout comes down from the skies, coating everything.
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2,752 \n\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/10/29/wtc.deaths/
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No substance at all. Skyscrapers in New York City are designed to collapse straight down in the event of a catastrophic collapse (like from a severe earthquake).\n\nThis is a necessity because New York City has so many skyscrapers closely packed together. If one fell over sideways, it would cause a chain reaction like dominoes, causing millions of deaths.\n\nWTC7 collapsed due to fire. The firefighters decided not to fight the fire in the building because they knew that the building was empty, and that their efforts were better spent rescuing people trapped under the rubble.\n\nSince the fire was allowed to burn unchecked, it eventually weakened the steel members causing it to collapse.\n\n\nBackground information: The steel in the building DID NOT MELT. Steel has a strange property; when it gets heated to a certain temperature, it loses about half its strength.\n\nIf you don't believe that, think about this: why do city fire codes require steel beams to be sprayed with fireproofing material if steel can't catch fire? The fireproofing material is to prevent the steel from losing it's strength due to high temperatures.
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Absolutely absurd. How could the US have helped 9/11? Why would  they? How would no one have come up with any credible evidence after all these years? What reason is there to think that it was not a well-planned attack, run by a large group of Arab terrorists? I think that is the story that fits the evidence.\n\nThey're not addressed in any plausible way. Vast conspiracies don't actually happen or work. Someone always finds out, and yet there's no evidence of this conspiracy.\n\nEdit: Jets did not intercept the planes because they are stationed hundreds of miles from where they were and were not alerted until shortly before the planes crashed. The FAA notified NORAD at 8:40 and planes were scrambled 6 minutes later, 153 miles from the World Trade Center and the first plane crashed at about that time. http://mckinneysucks.blogspot.com/2002_06_01_mckinneysucks_archive.html#77997492\n\nThe buildings fell quickly because they were crashed into by giant airliners. It seems like a building like that should be able to withstand more, but neither you, nor I, nor Ruppert, nor even the engineers who built the towers know what it is like for a plane to crash into a building. The commission report clearly states that the plane struck main support beams and started fires that raged at intense temperatures, further weakining the already weakened supports. Once that happens it doesn't take long for a building to collapse onto itself.\n\nAs for WTC7, the report is clear enough that fires were started on several floors by debris. People say it looks too controlled, but they failr to realize that buildings that tall are made to crumble down and not out. If a main beam buckles, there's no momentum to throw debris out - the force is all down.\n\nHow long it took to form a commission is a question I have myself, but that alone does not make a conspiracy.\n\nAs for explosions, see this: http://www.geocities.com/factsnotfantasy/ExplosivesDebunked.html
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noone dynamited the towers. it was caused by thousands of gallons of jet fuel.
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If you don't know . . .\n\nIt happened on Sept. 11, 2001. Three hijacked planes struck the two World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. A fourth was taken down in a field. Thousands died.
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Terrorists choose their targets based upon several criteria.  These will include military significance, visibility, practicality,  economic importance, likely injuries, political outcome, etc..  \n\nOnce the target is chosen, it is attacked.  If you happen to be there at that time, you are unlucky, and possibly dead.  They may not care about who you are unless they are after you in particular or a group that you belong to.  Terrorists may not try to minimize collateral damage.  \n\nIn WTC, the target was apparently chosen for visibility, and ease of attack, and possibly the number of casualties.  The planes were chosen based upon normal passenger load, ease of passing security, and plane size.  My guess is that they were hoping the towers would collapse much sooner than they did.  Thanks to the construction of the buildings, the towers collapesed in very nearly the best possible manner.  Had they fallen sooner, or tipped, the outcome would have been much, much worse.  \n\n\nJust a side note:\nIt used to be quite a game to figure out how much one could get through airport sercurity.  By profiling the guards and getting into the right line, it used to be possible to get quite a bit through.   Sometimes the guards would help you get things through.  It's a bit harder now.  Apparently the terrorists played the same game as some of the regular passengers.  Presumably, they didn't let the security supervisor know of the defects.  Even when the FBI and the security companies were told of problems, nothing happened.
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i want a pilot to answer me.i am not a susspecting person.i have been flying single prop planes as a hobby for the last 15 years.i cant immagin how can a man who just compleated his primery flying training flies a jumbo jet,aim it to a building and hit it so accurately\nhow both the hita came in places that led to the collapse of both the towers in a short time\ni really wonder,could the engeneers who designed the tower  know that such critical points exist in their towers.i dont belive in consperacy theoty,but honestly i am unable to immagine this.i am totally against terrorisim,totally against killing even an insect.i cant immagin the savage act of killing 3000 innocent people at all.
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September 11, 2011\n\nThe September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11 [1]) were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks upon the United States of America carried out on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.\n\nThat morning, nineteen men affiliated with al-Qaeda[2][3] hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The attackers crashed two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane into each tower, causing the collapse of both towers within two hours. Hijackers of the third aircraft crashed that plane into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. Passengers on the fourth hijacked aircraft attempted to retake control of their plane from the hijackers; that plane crashed into a field in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Approximately 3,000 people died in these terrorist attacks.\n\nThe attacks began with the hijacking of four commercial airliners. With jet fuel capacities of nearly 24,000 U.S. gallons (91,000 litres),[4] each aircraft effectively became a flying incendiary bomb. American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north side of the north tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) at 8:46:30 a.m. local time (12:46:40 UTC). At 9:02:59 a.m. local time (13:03:11 UTC), United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the south tower, an event covered live by television broadcasters who had their cameras trained on the North Tower. American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37:46 a.m. local time (13:37:46 UTC). The fourth hijacked plane, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed in a field in southwest Pennsylvania, at 10:03:11 a.m. local time (14:03:11 UTC), with parts and debris found up to eight miles away. The crash in Pennsylvania is believed to have resulted from the hijackers either deliberately crashing the aircraft or losing control of it as they fought with the passengers. No one survived in any of the hijacked aircraft.[5]\n\nThe fatalities were in the thousands: 265 on the four planes; 2,595, including 343 New York City firefighters, 23 NYPD police officers, and 37 Port Authority police officers, in the towers and on the ground; and 125 civilians and military personnel at the Pentagon. At least 2,986 people were killed in total. In addition to the 110-floor Twin Towers of the World Trade Center itself, five other buildings at the WTC site, including WTC building 7, and four subway stations were destroyed or badly damaged. In total, on Manhattan Island, 25 buildings were damaged. Communications equipment such as broadcast radio, television and two-way radio antenna towers were damaged beyond repair. In Arlington County, a portion of the Pentagon was severely damaged by fire and one section of the building collapsed.[6]\n\nSome passengers and crew members were able to make phone calls from the hijacked flights. They reported that multiple hijackers were aboard each plane. A total of 19 were later identified by the FBI, four on United 93 and five each on the other three flights.\n\nFor a short period, the precise identity of the 19 hijackers was uncertain. For example, the BBC reported 14 days after the attack that 4 of the 19 were alive based upon the initial identification supplied by the FBI.[7]\n\nThe hijackers reportedly took control of the aircraft by using box-cutter knives to kill flight attendants and at least one pilot or passenger. The 9/11 Commission could only establish that two of the hijackers had recently purchased Leatherman multi-function hand tools,[8] but some form of noxious chemical spray, such as tear gas or pepper spray, was reported to have been used on American 11 and United 175 to keep passengers out of the first-class cabin. Bomb threats were made on three of the aircraft, but not on American 77.
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no, the "TERRORISTS" didn't...the terrorists that flew the planes were found alive later and the government kept it quiet.  Look at the tower bombing video...see the explosions in the basement?  If those towers fell from the planes, they would have went sideways, not straight down.  The company that cleaned it up wouldn't be a presidential demolition crew that knocks down buildings for a living...they were waiting right next to the damn things waiting for them to fall to go to work
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I have screamed since 9/11 that we needed to look at those who gained from the attacks, just prior to the attack, the middle east was in chaos, Israel was in trouble with the UN and US public opinion was calling for sanctions in their attacking unarmed Palastinains, Bush was pushing for increased sanctions against Iraq, meanwhile bomb sniffing dogs were removed from the trade centers and security was cut back drastically. Much of the buildings colaspe does not make scientific sense if it was caused by the fire and inpact from the jets, steel does not melt at the temp that the fire heated to, buildings do not free fall when colasping only imploding caasues this. No engine or balck box was found in the pentegon! Too many unanswered questions and no real governement attempt to answer them
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Most all the evidence that is available to us, show that the WTC buildings were rigged with explosives. Our own government had motive as was well as an opportunity to do this crime. Here is the evidence, presented for your scrutiny.  The picture of the cut core beam should be of special interest to someone with demolition knowledge.\n\nFAKE CONFESSION\nThe official government story is that the 9/11 attack was orchestrated by Al Qaeda, which is lead by Osama bin Laden. The proof our government provided was a video with Osama confessing to the crime. The problem with the video is that the person in the video does not look like Osama bin Laden: See picture.\nhttp://911blimp.net/vid_fakeOsamaVideo.shtml\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk519bkcLjg\n\nEVIDENCE\nThere are many other factors that do not fit the official story. They include, secondary explosions that were seen, heard, reported, and recorded by firefighters, in and around the WTC buildings.\nhttp://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4574366633014832928&q=firefighter+bombs+in+the+building\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcRs1fv8i3I\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHz9YWVgJWM\n\nHere is a video clip showing a trail of explosions just before the destruction wave.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_DkzhonpGY&mode=related&search=\n\nMolten, beyond red hot, "steel" was video recorded coming out of the South Tower just before it collapsed. Jet fuel does not burn hot enough to turn steel to liquid.  Melted red hot steel was also found in "ground zero" of all three WTC buildings, including WTC7; the one no jet ever hit.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=ExrVgioIXvk&search=thermite\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3D2myMbQjQ\n\nFORENSICS\nA chemical analysis of the solidified molten iron,conducted by independent firms, yielded an explosive, called Thermite. Also found was a WTC core beam; most probably cut using the demolition cutting charge (Thermate). No core beams were left standing beyond a few feet high, for it to have been cut by an Iron Workers torch. Click on pic. to enlarge.\nhttp://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341238.shtml\n\nCONFESSION \nWe also have a video recording, where owner Larry Silverstein, admits to demolishing WTC7.\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7750532340306101329\n\nTESTIMONY\nThere is also a problem with the Pentagon attack. Listen to this retired general, He says, "The Plane does not fit the hole; so what did hit the Pentagon..."\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2VoUN-7RVU&eurl=\n \nThis video, obtained by a public interest group, shows the top rear fin of an air craft hiding behind a call box: Whatever is hiding back there, is under 48 ft. long, to small to be a Boeing 757, which is over 155 ft. long.\nhttp://www.clipaday.com/2006/05/pentagon_plane_crash_from_sept.html\n\nMOTIVE\nThe New Conservatives (Neo-Cons), with the help of their friends, started planning the invasion of Iraq, shortly after Pres. Bush took office. Apparently, the plan would include the attack of the WTC buildings. It did this to get the support of congress and the nation, to attack Iraq. Read it from their own PENAC document. Pay special attention to the section entitled "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force" page 50 and the top of page 51, where it states we need a new Pearl Harbor attack to get the ball rolling.\nhttp://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf\n\nOPPORTUNITY\nWitnesses saw a work crew going into the WTC buildings with rolls of wire, supposedly for internet upgrades. Tenants were moved around while crews "upgraded" the cable systems. The Port Authority cut power to the building for a whole weekend, just prior to the attack; shutting down the entire security systems. Witnesses also heard crews operating heavy hammering equipment that left a gray cement like dust, in the building. This activity took place just weeks before the 911 attack: The Port Authority had released control of the buil
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Well, technically the WTC chaos wasn't exactly warfare material. It's more like terrorism- which of course, it is. However, the bombing of Afghanistan could be prime material. "could be" used loosely.\n\nThen again, the WTC chaos did cause the bombing of afghanistan.\n\nLike the first post said, it's technically "history".\n\nSo I would assume you can use this in your project. Just be careful not to stir up people over the WTC, of course. :)
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I worked in building 7. It burned up from the heat and the collapse\nof one and two. The whole area was wrecked, even buildings(like Myrill Lynch) where ruined, and it was blocks away, not connected by the path and the underground mall like 7 was.\n7 collapsed just the way it was built  to, like all towers in populated areas are. Spin down not fall over.
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Check the WTC records... many jews worked there and died there.