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Professor Graeme MacQueen presents the eyewitnesses as not only "hearing" explosions, but experiencing them with multiple senses, hearing, seeing, and feeling, is a potent way to counter the arguments made that the explosions were smoke bursts, electrical transformer explosions, cracking beams and columns, but cannot explain people being thrown around, burned, windows blown out in areas far away from the strike zone.
His treatment of the visual evidence of acceleration of the antenna and roof line fits perfectly with the same analysis others have shown with WTC7. The curves of distance dropped versus time very nearly match, and are damning for those who claim the lower, intact structures were destroyed by the falling mass from above, in the case of the north tower, and a random, falling down in the case of WTC7.
Graeme MacQueen, Founding Director of the Centre for Peace Studies (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario) reads testimony from New York Fire Dept. firefighters:
Angel Rivera: "When we hit the 19th floor, something horrendous happened. It was like a bomb went off. We thought we were dead. The whole building shook."
NYFD Asst. Commissioner Stephen Gregory: I thought that I saw...low level flashes...I saw flash-flash-flash, and then it looked like the building came down. You know like when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That's what I thought I saw."
Firefighter Daniel Rivera: "At first I thought it was... Do you ever see professional demolition where they set the charges on certain floors and then you hear, 'pop-pop-pop-pop-pop'? That's exactly what, because I thought it was that, when I heard that frigging noise, that's when I saw the building coming down."
NYFD Captain Karin Deshore: "Somewhere around the middle of the World Trade Center there was this orange and red flash coming out. Initially it was just one flash. Then this flash kept popping, all the way around the building, and that building had started to explode."
The New York City Fire Department, under the direction of Fire Commissioner Tom Von Essen, collected the testimony of 503 first-responder EMTs, Port Authority police, and firefighters. It came to 12,000 pages. The 9/11 Commission, run by White House appointee and insider, Philip Zelikow, rejected the testimony, just ignored it, not germane to the foregone conclusion. Also, somewhat explosive.
Originally posted by _BoneZ_
This is an unbelievably great lecture.
I'm now curious of the what the debunkers could possibly make up to explain away the points that Dr. MacQueen makes in his lecture.
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
reply to post by _BoneZ_
However, there are quite a few pissed off members of the FDNY that are tired of their words being misused to support conspiracy theories.
Originally posted by SPreston
Actually I think the FDNY firefighters and police officers were more 'pissed off' because they were gag-ordered for years and their livelihoods were threatened if they did not keep their mouths shut.
Back it up Spreston. For once... try using evidence in a post.
You won't.
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
To date, no one, has come up with ANY bona fide evidence that it was anything OTHER than the impact damage and fires that caused those three buildings to collapse that day.
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
No explosive residue
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
no detonators
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
no det cord
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
no witnesses to the massive numbers of workmen
Seems you're willing to deny all of the overwhelming evidence of the explosive residue, the numerous witness testimony to the explosives going off as the towers are collapsing, the video evidence of the explosives being detonated, and the physics, all because you can't come to terms with the facts. The evidence is so overwhelming that it seems that some people are payed to deny the facts....
Is there any physical evidence that the plane impacts actually severed any core columns?
On the weekend of 9/8,9/9 there was a 'power down' condition in WTC tower 2, the south tower. This power down condition meant there was no electrical supply for approx 36hrs from floor 50 up. I am aware of this situation since I work in IT and had to work with many others that weekend to ensure that all systems were cleanly shutdown beforehand ... and then brought back up afterwards. The reason given by the WTC for the power down was that cabling in the tower was being upgraded ... Of course without power there were no security cameras, no security locks on doors and many, many 'engineers' coming in and out of the tower.
GW: In 2001, you were working as an information technology specialist for Fiduciary Trust. Were you the main IT person for Fiduciary Trust, or were you an assistant IT person?
SF: I worked within an IT department of around 100 as a senior DBA [database administrator] and team leader.
GW: Fiduciary Trust had floors 90 and 94-97 of the South Tower at that time. Did you work on a specific floor, or did your duties normally keep you roaming on several floors?
SF: I and my technology colleagues worked on the 97th floor ... in the course of the day we would have meetings or give support on other floors but most our time would have been spent on the 97th floor.
GW: You've previously stated that on the weekend of September 8 and 9, 2001, there was a "power down" condition in world trade center Tower 2, the South Tower, and that this power down condition meant there was no electrical supply for approximately 36 hours from floor 50 up. Do you know what time the power-down started?
SF: All systems were shutdown on Saturday morning and the power down condition was in effect from approximately 12 noon on Saturday September 8, 2001.
GW: When did it end?
SF: Approximately 2PM on Sunday 9/9.
GW: How do you know that there was no electricity from floor 50 up, if Fiduciary Trust was on much higher floors -- starting at the 90th floor?
SF: I can't absolutely verify that there was no power on lower floors ... all I can validate is that we were informed of the power down condition, that we had to take down all systems and then the following day had to bring back up all systems
GW: You've previously stated that you were aware of the power down since you worked in the IT department and had to work with many others that weekend to ensure that all systems were cleanly shutdown beforehand ... and then brought back up afterwards. How many other Fiduciary Trust folks were you working with? Can any of them verify your story?
SF: Many, many people worked on the power down, both from the IT department and from the business, revalidating systems when they were available again. Other people can validate my information. Some people do not remember the circumstances, some people will not revisit that time ... but others acknowledge the power down freely and can validate my information.
In 24 days, CDI's 12 person loading crew placed 4,118 separate charges in 1,100 locations on 9 levels of the structure. Over 36,000 ft. of detonating cord and 4,512 non-electric delay devices were installed in CDI's implosion initiation system. As the implosion required the detonation of a total of 2,728 lb. of explosives, CDI implemented 36 "primary delays" and an additional 216 “micro-delays" in the implosion initiation sequence in an attempt to keep detonation overpressure to a minimum.
posted by Swampfox46_1999
(by the way, I am the individual that sent that dust to him)
If anyone is in denial, it would be the people that think there were controlled demolitions performed that day.
Okay, so I was lying about sending the dust to those idiots....but I figure if you are going to believe them.............
posted by Swampfox46_1999
who in the h*ll would allow TOURISTS access to that part of the building?
Who Signed Sakher Hammad's WTC Basement Level Pass?
Who Murdered Katherine Smith?
License Suspect Had WTC Repair Pass, But Port Authority Did its Own Work
by Bartholomew Sullivan
GoMemphis
February 16, 2002
A photo ID pass for Sept. 5 found on one of the men charged with fraudulently obtaining a Tennessee driver's license from a Memphis woman gave him access to the six underground levels of the One World Center building.
But which tenant hired Sakher 'Rocky' Hammad, 24, to work on its sprinklers is lost, said Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Alan Hicks on Friday.
Hammad told federal authorities that he was working on the sprinklers six days before the twin towers were brought down by terrorists, court testimony revealed this week.
But Hicks said the Port Authority, which owned the building, did its own sprinkler work, and that any other work involving sprinklers would have been arranged by an individual tenant.
"We don't know (which one) because all our records were destroyed in the World Trade Center, as were some of the people who know that," Hicks said.
Small details about the five Middle Eastern men arrested Feb. 5 with Tennessee driver's license examiner Katherine Smith are slowly surfacing. Smith died Sunday in a fiery car crash, a day before she was to appear in court. It appears that Khaled Odtllah of Cordova shared the same 2840 Morning Lake Drive address at different times over the past year with Rocky Hammad, according to an online people finder database.
All five men are being held without bail at the pretrial facility of the Federal Correctional Institution in Memphis.
whatreallyhappened.com...
Was Mysterious Death in Tennessee Linked to Terrorism?
AP
24 February 2002
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shortly before 1 a.m. Feb. 10, witnesses saw flames erupt from the back seat of a 1992 Acura Legend as it crawled along a two-lane road skirting farm fields in the little Tennessee town of Piperton.
The driver breathed in the flames, her lungs searing, as the car veered off the road and came to rest against a utility pole near the Mississippi state line. There were no skid marks or furrows in the grass to indicate the driver had hit the brakes.
A witness rushed up and pulled open the car door, but the driver was not moving. She appeared to be already dead. When the first volunteer firefighters arrived, the car was engulfed in flames.
From the very beginning, it didn't look right, said Steve Kellett, chief of the Piperton Volunteer Fire Department.
The car had been moving too slowly for the accident to cause much damage. The wooden pole was barely dented. The radiator was pushed in a few inches, but the engine block was undamaged. Most important, the gas tank had not ruptured. The cardboard packaging for a replacement headlamp in the trunk was barely scorched.
What could have caused a fire so severe that it cooked the passenger compartment of the sedan down to the frame, burned the driver's arms and legs off, and left her charred beyond recognition? If someone had been trying to make this death look like an accident, they had done a lousy job.
Police began investigating the death as a homicide, though they have not ruled out suicide. The mystery deepened the next day when dental records identified the victim as Katherine Smith, 49, a state driver's license examiner.
Smith had been scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 11 on federal charges of helping five Middle Eastern men from New York obtain fraudulent Tennessee driver's licenses.
One of the men, authorities say, drove from New York to Memphis on Sept. 11 — the day of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. And one of them, at the time of his arrest, was carrying in his wallet a pass to the trade center dated Sept. 5.
Was this a series of bizarre coincidences?
www.911readingroom.org...
Copyright 2002
From 911Encyclopedia:
The original story on Denko Mechanical began with the arrestment of Sakher "Rocky" Hammad in 2001, who was carrying a WTC pass for Sept 5th 2001. He told police that he had been working on the sprinkler system. He showed them his business card: Magic Plumbing and Heating. Hammad was later involved in a trial on drivers license fraud, which was interrupted with the bizarre death of witness Katherine Smith (->). The following results are based on an independent investigation by Du member Rebecky: "Rocky was released on $250,000 bail. The nature of the work was not specified. The Port Authority of New York claimed no knowledge of hiring a Denko Mechanical and said Denko must have been hired by a tenant.
Denko Mechanical Ltd's address and phone is the residential Manhattan apartment and phone of Mr. Sergei Davidenko. Mr. Davidenko obtained a business license in Feb, 2000. Denko is not listed in any yellow pages or in any type of NY contractor list. Denko simply could not be the sprinkler system contractor for the WTC. Not only would the Port Authority have had records, but companies that install and maintain sprinkler systems for large buildings are heavily regulated major operations with civil engineers, inspectors, warehouses full of delicate equipment and highly trained specialty crews. A Feb 8, 2000, business entity license issued for a Denko Mechanical Ltd, 232 E 26th St. in Manhattan (ph 212-481-8226) which, on reverse trace, is the Manhattan residence and phone of Mr. Sergei Davidenko; it's an apartment building.
As noted above, the letter verifying Hammad's WTC employment was signed by a Sergei Denko. In addition to the WTC 9/5 pass, found in Mr. Hammad's wallet at the time of arrest: two video rental cards, a credit card, a membership card for the New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, a card for Detectives Endowment Association of New York with a commemoration for 9/11 victims on it, and a charter membership card to Team Ford Racing. In a February 2002 interview, a rep of the Port Authority, Alan Hicks stated that the PA took care of its own sprinkler system and had no records of Mr. Hammad hired to work on it. The letter exonerating Mr. Hammad's employment was from a company Denko Mechanical signed by its owner Sergei Denko -- does not exist in NY except as a 2 y.o. business license registered to a Mr. Sergei Davidenko of 232 E 26th St., Manhattan.
Another residential apartment (again using Skipease reverse trace). A co-defendant in the Memphis trial was Hammad's cousin, also in the WTC on 9/5, Mr. Abdelmuhsen Mahmid Hammad. Other defendants were the Memphis ringleader Khaled Odtllah of Jerusalem, immigrated to the US in 1989, and Mr. Mostafa Said Abou-Shahi and Mr. Mohammed Fares, and a juvenile obtaining a 20 y.o. false ID, Mr. Omar Khayata.
NOTE: Denko Mechanical was one of a few sponsors for a trade show at "opportunity knocks"
911review.org...
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
with the thousands of people swarming over the debris field, there is NO way that any remains of detonators/det cord would NOT have been noticed.
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
If anyone is in denial, it would be the people that think there were controlled demolitions performed that day.
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
So he is claiming that there was no power from the 50th floor up for 36 hours. Of course, he is still the only one who claims this
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
So first, its a power down for 36 hours from the 50th floor on up to a power down that lasted 26 hours (maybe) on his four floors
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
Then there is the little fact that tourists were being allowed to go to the Observation Deck on the Saturday afternoon of the "power down".
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
we have a 26 hour period that supposedly the building was being wired for demolition
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
Face it, Mr Forbes story, is just that, a story.
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
And for you (or anyone else) to continue believing it, shows a complete lack of common sense.
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
where are the "power down" stories for the other Tower and WTC 7? Oh, wait, there arent any.....
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
Dr Dipstick
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
those idiots
The denials of you government loyalists in protecting your precious 9-11 OFFICIAL STORY are becoming more and more desperate each growing day; as it steadily self-destructs. Nevertheless the duped American public is waking up to the truth and the numbers are growing by the millions