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Originally posted by Fruit Pie Jones@Jun 30 2005, 09:39 PM
That may be true, but how many unplanned building collapses have you seen?* (...)* Recalling that 9/11/2001 was a Tuesday, don't you think that at least one of the thousands of people who worked in the WTC towers would have noticed that this was going on?* If you worked in one of the world's tallest buildings, would it not strike you as odd to walk in one morning and see people going to town on the building's support structures with sledgehammers, rock saws, and cutting torches?
To my knowledge I have never heard of a modern steel-skeleton construct collapsing unplanned, unexpected in the last 50 years. There may have been bits and pieces falling off, but I've never heard of a modern building collapsing unexpectedly because of fire. Feel free to inform me if you possess knowledge of such cases.
I doubt there would have been people with sledgehammers and assorted power tools in the WTC in the weeks or months prior to 9/11. It would only attract attention. Since they would have an enormous budget, the perpetrators could have used more and heavier explosives instead of many small charges like the demo-people usually do (who are on a budget and also have safety precautions to attend to). When the order was given to 'pull' building 7, of course they didn't start rigging it at that time with explosives! That would have happened in secret in the weeks or months before.
WTC collapse due to high temperaturs melting steel construction: this is the official government statement. Are you saying they were actually wrong? The official story is that WTC 7 caught fire from the two tall WTC buildings and subsequently collapsed. Only this: building 7 is much, much farther away from the two towers than, say the Millennium Hilton. The Millennium Hilton was also hit by debris of the two towers and it too caught fire, yet it did not collapse.
The difference between WTC 7 and the Millennium Hilton was that WTC 7 was owned by the same man who leased the two WTC tall towers. Incidentally, this man started leasing the WTC from port authorities three months before 9/11 and practically doubled the insurance on the towers. When they fell three months later, he was given 7 billion dollars.
In addition to the general-sounding warning about Bin-Laden, the FBI got numerous reports that hijackers would use planes as missiles in the USA. At least the government did consider this a threat because from 2000 on they ran practice drills of hijacked airliners being used as missiles.
NORAD: whatever they may claim to save face, throughout the Cold War NORAD has always been tracking air traffic within American airspace and outside of that. They would not be very efficient at protecting America if they did not also track air traffic over America itself. When an aircraft diverted from its course, fighters were sent up to intercept the plane within minutes. In the two years prior to "9/11," NORAD conducted practice drills in which hijacked planes were used as missiles targeting the WTC to cause mass-casualties.
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Ah, seems I've found a hard-core government supporter. It's always refreshing to meet people who are convinced their government would never lie to them.
Regarding the collapse of the two WTC towers and the collapse of WTC building 7: they did collapse in a vertical, symmetrical way, didn't they?
That makes three times on one day. What a coincidence!
NORAD practice drills in which hijacked airliners were used by terrorists to target the WTC and cause mass-casualties:
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For my further replies see quotes above.