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Originally posted by Asktheanimals
This is the first time I've ever heard this:
He even provided the panel with a list of firsthand witnesses to the explosions, people who were ready to testify under oath. One of the individuals Rodriguez recommended the panel summon was his friend and fellow employee, John Mongello. Mongello was in the lobby of the neighboring South Tower when the first aircraft plowed into the North Tower where Rodriguez was located. It would be another sixteen minutes before the second aircraft would rip into the one Mongello was in. Yet, within a minute of the first plane hitting the North Tower, an elevator in the South Tower exploded to smithereens right before his eyes! Mongello and others were literally blown backwards by the blast, as people—many, horribly burned—began to run willy-nilly shrieking in pain, shock, and sheer terror. Thick, black smoke could be seen billowing out of the now exposed elevator shaft, and the pungent smell of “gunpowder” was very evident. Again, just as with the North Tower, this explosion occurred inside a building that had not yet been struck by a plane! How could a plane crashing into the North Tower possibly have caused elevators in the South Tower to explode? The esteemed 9/11 Commission never bothered to ask.
I have heard of multiple accounts from firemen of the marble facades being blown off in the WTC lobby but I'm not sure if they are talking about the South or North towers or possibly both.
Originally posted by Asktheanimals
I swear the 9/11 waters just keep getting muddier and muddier.
Originally posted by spacevistor
This rabbit hole goes in my opinion much deeper as we ever can imagine.
Nobody who ever saw the video of the collapses could come to any other conclusion than controlled demolition, of all three buildings.
I too said it then and stand with that conclusion.
Originally posted by samkent
You sir are in the minority. Most of the world accept it as we saw it.
Originally posted by _BoneZ_
That's a false statement. There are more architects, engineers, scientists, etc., that have come out publicly against the official story, than have come out publicly for it.
There are millions of people from every major country all over the world that know those buildings couldn't have come down like they did without assistance. Just in the U.S. alone, it's about 33% of the people. That's over 100 million people just in one country.
Originally posted by _BoneZ_
Originally posted by samkent
You sir are in the minority. Most of the world accept it as we saw it.
That's a false statement. There are more architects, engineers, scientists, etc., that have come out publicly against the official story, than have come out publicly for it.
There are millions of people from every major country all over the world that know those buildings couldn't have come down like they did without assistance. Just in the U.S. alone, it's about 33% of the people. That's over 100 million people just in one country.
Originally posted by fixer1967
Originally posted by spacevistor
This rabbit hole goes in my opinion much deeper as we ever can imagine.
I am starting to think it does not have a bottom. If it does then there are people still today are digging it even deeper.
Originally posted by Varemia
There isn't a list of scientists and engineers who support the official story.
Originally posted by Varemia
I think this may be because supporting the official story is the default position.
Originally posted by Varemia
If only 1500 of these near 2 million people choose to deny the official story, then the numbers do not seem as grandiose as is pushed. What do the rest of them think?
"I disagree 100% with the government story," said Rodriguez. "I met with the 9/11 Commission behind closed doors and they essentially discounted everything I said regarding the use of explosives to bring down the north tower.
And I contacted NIST previously four times without a response. Finally, this week I asked them before they came up with their conclusion that jet fuel brought down the towers, if they ever considered my statements or the statements of any of the other survivors who heard the explosions. They just stared at me with blank faces and didn’t have any answers.”
"The fire, the ball of fire, for example, I was in the basement when the first plane hit the building. And at that moment, I thought it was an electrical generator that blew up at that moment. A person comes running into the office saying 'explosion, explosion, explosion.' When I look at this guy; has all his skin pulled off of his body. Hanging from the top of his fingertips like it was a glove. And I said, what happened? He said the elevators. What happened was the ball of fire went down with such a force down the elevator shaft on the 58th (50A) – freight elevator, the biggest freight elevator that we have in the North Tower, it went out with such a force that it broke the cables. It went down, I think seven flights. The person survived because he was pulled from the B3 level. But this person, being in front of the doors waiting for the elevator, practically got his skin vaporized."
“And at that terrible day when I took people out of the office, one of them totally burned because he was standing in front of the freight elevator and the ball of fire came down the duct of the elevator itself, I put him on the ambulance.”
....Rodriguez, at great risk to his own life, re-entered the Towers three times after the first, North Tower impact at about 8:46 A.M., and is believed to be the last person to exit the North Tower alive....
Hi, I'm William Rodriguez. I'm not with the FDNY. Actually I’m the last survivor pulled from the rubble.
"I knew it was our building, because there was nothing else left," said Lim. "It lasted about 15 seconds, but it felt like forever."
A floor lower, a floor or two higher, and he might be dead. But Lim, Harris and firefighters Mike Meldrum, Matt Komorowski, Bill Butler, Tom Falco, Sal D'Agostino and John Jonas were somehow alive in Stairwell B on the fourth floor.
Five hours later, with the aid of Lim's cell phone, help from Ladder Company 43 and plenty of personal resilience, they poked through what would have been the stairwell's sixth floor. As he crawled over the debris field to safety, Lim cried out for his K-9 partner Sirius, a yellow Labrador that he had last seen in the South Tower.
Originally posted by Six Sigma
His 9/11 Commission interview notes were released and nowhere does he mention anything about explosives.
Originally posted by Six Sigma
Here is his interview with NIST:
Originally posted by Varemia
reply to post by _BoneZ_
If you read what Six_Sigma wrote, he wasn't saying that the Commission was right. He was saying that the guy lied about what he said to the Commission. The point was that he did not actually ever talk about explosives with them.
Originally posted by Varemia
reply to post by _BoneZ_
So you are saying that you consider William to be undeniably truthful, but you consider the notes by the 9/11 Commission to be lying and/or omitting information purposefully with no real evidence on your part to support this consideration?
If William says that he says these things, and then no one is able to corroborate them, that does not automatically make William right. It means we need more data.
Originally posted by _BoneZ_
The 9/11 Commission and NIST are two organizations who's credibility has been ruined because of their own members. Nothing any of them say can be taken seriously or credibly. You can peddle their lies and believe them all you like, but I don't do faith.