I would submit that none of the other buildings were hit by a heavy aircraft moving at 500 miles per hour, which sheared off many beams, support structures, etc. The shock to the tower must have been tremendous! Isn\'t this obvious?</span></span></span>[/indent]It may be \"obvious\" that a heavy plane hitting a skyscraper would deliver a \"tremendous\" shock, but it doesn\'t follow that the building must therefore collapse. In 1945 the Empire State Building was hit by a B-25 bomber, but it was still standing last time I saw it. \"Ah yes, but it was the impact plus the fires!\" Well, when the B-25 hit the Empire State Building \"its fuel tanks were reported to have exploded, engulfing the 79th floor in flames\", as we read at <a href=\'http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0112/News/News8-0112.html\' target=\'_blank\'>Empire State Building Withstood Airplane Impact</a>.
? \"Ah, but none of the buildings mentioned above were struck by a 390,000 pound aircraft traveling at 350+ m.p.h.\" Well, each of the Twin Towers was still standing 50 minutes after being hit, so it was not the impacts which caused them to collapse. \"Ah, but the intense heat of the burning jet fuel!\" Actually, according to NIST\'s chief WTC-investigator the jet fuel burnt itself out in less than ten minutes. Don\'t believe it? Read through <a href=\'http://www.serendipity.li/wot/pop_mech/reply_to_popular_mechanics.htm#6\' target=\'_blank\'>Reply to Popular Mechanics re 9/11: Claim #6</a>. Then go to the top and read it all. Then follow the links to other articles on this website showing that the official story is bogus. Then follow the links to the many other websites which demonstrate that 9/11 was an inside job. Too busy? Oh, well, then, if you don\'t care to know what really happened on 9/11 ...
? <span style=\'font-family:Callisto MT,Georgia,Book Antiqua,Palatino,Times New Roman,Serif\'>What you have heard ever since 9/11 on network TV and in the mainstream media such as the New York Times and all the other corporate-controlled newspapers is simply <a href=\'http://www.serendipity.li/wtc2.htm#twin_towers\' target=\'_blank\'>the official story</a>, repeated over and over, on the assumption that if a lie is repeated often enough then people will believe it. Especially if it is a big lie. The idea that elements of the US government were responsible for planning and carrying out acts which killed about 3000 people is so outrageous that most people (most Americans, at least) reject it reflexively. But it is precisely because it is so outrageous that the perps assumed that no-one except a few fringe thinkers would ever take it seriously, and that they would get away with this act of mass murder. What they didn\'t count on was that thousands of websites would minutely examine the evidence available (such evidence as was left, mainly photographic, after New York Mayor Giuliani order every scrap of physical evidence removed from the WTC site as quickly as possible, with nothing but a token forensic examination, and shipped overseas to be melted down in blast furnaces). An examination of the evidence which remains leads inexorably to the conclusion that 9/11 was an inside job, perpetrated by elements within the US government (probably going back before Bush came to power in 2001) in order to justify US military aggression against any country which stood in the way of its aims of global economic, financial and political domination. This website presents much of this evidence, and there are many other websites which also do so. There is now no excuse to plead ignorance.
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