Secondary explosions caused lobby of World Trade Center to implode
Newly obtained video that was reluctantly released by NIST after a lawsuit by the International Center for 9/11 Studies shows two firefighters on 9/11 discussing how secondary explosions occurred immediately before the collapse of the twin towers, providing damning new evidence that explosive devices were used to bring down the buildings.
Debunkers have repeatedly claimed that low-temperature burning jet fuel could weaken steel support columns enough to cause the pancake-style collapse of the twin towers, ignoring the plethora of eyewitness testimony to incendiary devices having caused the implosion of the World Trade Center structure.
The new tape is as clear cut as it comes – the firefighters, who were inside the lobby of one of the towers, unequivocally state that secondary explosions which occurred after the planes hit were responsible for causing the towers to collapse.
“There was an explosion….the third explosion the whole lobby collapsed on us,” states the firefighter. Asked “was that a secondary explosion,” he responds, “yes it was ….definitely secondary explosion”.
Another firefighter then confirms that there were at least three explosions which caused the lobby to collapse.
The only way to explain what firefighters described as “molten steel, like you’re in a foundary, like lava” being witnessed following the collapse of the towers was if powerful additional incendiary devices were used to take down the buildings.
The firefighters’ testimony compliments that of William Rodriguez, eyewitness to sub-level explosions that occurred before the impact of the first plane in the north tower and representative for many 9/11 victim’s families.
Rodriguez’ testimony is also confirmed by Anthony Saltalamacchia, a morning supervisor who managed over a hundred workers in the twin towers. Saltalamacchia was in sub-basement B1 of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane’s impact point at floors 93 to 98.
“The explosion….at first we believe it came from the mechanical room and then we heard a series of other explosions that sounded up on the above levels of the building,” said Saltalamacchia.
Saltalamacchia then discusses how a man ran into the office with his skin hanging off. William Rodriguez had previously described the same scenario following basement level explosions and it was also seconded by another eyewitness, Kenneth Johannemann, an employee of ABM janitorial services.
“As we’re standing there, more explosions were happening,” said Saltalamacchia, before he urged Rodriguez and the other workers to leave the building. The group left and initially headed towards the lobby before they realized it too had been partially destroyed, conforming with the eyewitness testimony of the firefighters.
Despite Saltalamacchia’s plea to stay out of harm’s way, Rodriguez ran back into the burning building in an attempt to save his colleagues.
“The amount of explosions I heard from 8:46 to the time we got out was so many – at least ten – it was just like multiple explosions to where I felt there was different grenades, that’s what it sounded like, like different grenades being set off in the building,” said Saltalamacchia.
“It was one major explosion and then there was different explosions throughout that period of time until we got out,” he added.
Numerous other WTC basement workers, including Felipe David and Salvatore Giambanco, have also gone public with eyewitness testimony concerning massive sub-level explosions that took place before Flight 11 hit the north tower.
WTC construction worker Phillip Morelli was headed for level B-4 in Tower One [north tower], four stories below ground, when he was thrown to the floor by a violent explosion that coincided with the plane hitting 100 floors above.
15-year WTC worker Marlene Cruz told Peter Jennings in an interview with ABC News that she was also rocked by an explosion in the basement level of the north tower.
The 9/11 Commission completely ignored the hundreds of survivors, professionals, first responders, firefighters and police who reported numerous secondary explosions at all levels of the twin towers.
After filing a lawsuit that prompted NIST to release more than 3 terabytes of photographs and videos from their investigation into the collapse of the twin towers and WTC 7 on 9/11, the International Center for 9/11 Studies obtained evidence, in addition to the firefighter tapes, that suggests NIST edited several videos of the collapse of Building 7 in order to hide evidence of a controlled implosion. Building 7 was not hit by a plane and yet it collapsed demolition style late in the afternoon of September 11.
The Center filed a FOIA Request with NIST on January 26, 2009, seeking production of “all of the photographs and videos collected, reviewed, cited or in any other way used by NIST during its investigation of the World Trade Center building collapses.” Following several unsuccessful attempts to get NIST to even acknowledge receipt of the Request, the Center was forced to file a lawsuit on May 28, 2009. Shortly after the lawsuit was filed, the Request was assigned a reference number, and NIST began periodically releasing batches of responsive records.
The Center has now begun posting some of those images and videos online, the first batch of which is from an external hard disk drive “NIST WTC Investigation Cumulus Video Clips.”
In one of the clips, the video of which has been in the public domain for years, a loud, low-frequency boom can be heard just before the east penthouse of WTC 7 falls. Once the support columns that held up the penthouse are taken out, the rest of the building falls almost within its own footprint.
However, in subsequent clips released by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), where the camera is located nearer to the building, the collapse of the penthouse is clearly edited out of the footage.
“Several clips from the Cumulus database show signs of editing. In the two video clips below, the collapse of the penthouse of World Trade Center 7 is cut out of the video. These videos happen to have been filmed from close to WTC 7, and have a high quality soundtrack that would have picked up explosion sounds from the charges that severed the columns supporting the penthouse, especially the explosion heard in the last video clip presented,” comments the International Center for 9/11 Studies.
In another clip, the entire collapse of the building is edited out, the audio is removed and only restored after the building has fully collapsed.
The Center also obtained videos of the collapse of the twin towers that had obviously been edited, with sections deliberately removed. “There are many video clips in the Cumulus database that do not show collapse initiation – the only event even purportedly explained in the final report from NIST on the Twin Towers,” states the Center.
Another new video shows Michael Hess yelling for help from the 8th floor window of WTC 7. The clip reinforces the fact that the building had not sustained any substantial damage before its free fall collapse within 7 seconds.
As we documented for several years, the collapse of WTC 7 is the smoking gun confirming that the official story behind 9/11 is bogus. The collapse of Building 7 was reported before it happened by several news stations, including BBC and CNN.
Explosions in WTC 7 were also reported by eyewitnesses inside the building, including Barry Jennings, who described a “big explosion” that blew him back to the 8th floor.
Other videos show firefighters talking about how the “building is about to blow up”.
The International Center for 9/11 Studies is still in the process of reviewing over 300 DVDs along with several external hard disk drives that contain a plethora of unseen photographs and video footage from ground zero. Judging by the small amount of damning footage already released, it’s highly probable that this data will provide a myriad of new contradictions both to the official 9/11 story as well as NIST’s own investigation into the collapse of the three buildings.
Why bother with this WTC buildings nonsense when all the hard evidence has been destroyed when easy to prove hard evidence conducted on behalf of lawsuits for the 9/11 victims themselves and other terrorist cases prove a link between the Saudi royal family, British intelligence and individuals and banks linked used to finance 9/11 and international terrorism to the CIA.
Case in point is the PROMISE spyware sold to Khalid bin Mahfouz the eldest son of a Saudi entrepreneur who founded the National Commercial Bank in Saudi Arabia indicted in financing the 9/11 attack and international terrorism and former Chief executive of BCCI and get this Osama Bin Ladins brother in law by marriage to Mahfouz sister.
http://www.users.on.net/~osbornep/
As well as setting up oil venture with the Taliban regime.
In 1996, Delta Oil Company formed a joint-venture with Nimir Petroleum Company, a company controlled by Osama Bin Laden’s brother in law, financial backer, and sponsor of international terrorism Defendant Khalid Bin Salim Bin Mahfouz.
This joint venture was known as Delta Nimir Khazar Limited and its purpose was to negotiate with the Taliban regime.
In December 1996, the Taliban announced that the Taliban government had agreed to allow a proposed pipeline through Afghanistan.
Delta Oil Company p.331
With Khalid bin Mahfouz, Nimir Petroleum engaged in a relationship with the Taliban regime in or about 1994. Nimir agreed to partner with the Saudi Delta Oil Company, by forming a joint-venture known as Delta Nimir Khazar Limited. Soon after, due to Nimir and Khalid bin Mahfouz’ influence, an agreement was reached between a consortium of oil companies and the Taliban. Nimir’s efforts to lobby for the consortium to reach an agreement with the Taliban regime included a meeting in November 1997 with a Taliban delegation to Texas.
NIMIR LLC p.333
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1239.pdf
Also note that this was one of the proposed pipeline routes outlined in Brzezinski’s book The Grand Chessboard.
@jack:this WTC buildings nonsense
Speak for yourself ;-)
all the hard evidence has been destroyed
Factually incorrect statement (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-am-i-not-hearing-endless-rumble-of.html)
@everybody: going for a 4 day road trip and have neither the time (or inclination – this is becoming tedious) to argue this one (again!).
If anyone here is up to this, feel free. Otherwise, see ya’ll on Monday.
Cheers!
The Saker
it’s time for the eye roll when people suggest that the #7 fill, free fall, in 2.7 seconds, practically into its own footprint, a modern steel reinforced building, with only some asymmetrical damage on one corner. We are supposed to believe that? It never happened ever before, and it will never happen again that fire can cause such a free fall collapse. Just look into the eyes of a proponent of this absurd idea.
It seems to me that, as usual, Chomsky makes the most sense on this 9/11 conspiracy:
http://www.bcvote.ca/2009/09/charlie-sheen-on-911-meet-noam-chomsky/
Does anyone if there is a master list of the companies and banks that were stationed in the WTC buildings?
Would be good to know if the Saudi banks with connections to the CIA that has been sponsoring Islamic terrorism for decades like the National Commerce Bank had offices in the WTC.
@Bernard: Chomsky makes the most sense
Indeed, he often does. His two blind-spots are the Zionist lobby in the USA and 9/11, of course. Take a good look at the statements you refer to and observe how they are utterly devoid of ANY kind of actual refutation or evne of ANY kind of actual discussion of the kind of question the 9/11 truth movement is looking at. Take for example the fact I mention here:
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-am-i-not-hearing-endless-rumble-of.html
To sum them up:
a) the government has NO official version which would explain the collapse of WTC1 and WTC2.
b) the government has by implication admitted that WTC7 has been brought down by explosive demolition.
I challenge you here to either
a) disprove the above contentions
or to
b) admit that this is true and explain that.
You can, of course, continue to refer to Chomsky and accept this point of view “on authority” or you can use your OWN brain and common sense, if not high-school understanding of physics and try to argue your point as a gown up, with something besides “my big brother said so” (in this case Chomsky if you are a progressive, or Ron Paul if you are a conservative).
The question for you is simple: can you think for yourself before heaping scorn on others?
@Bernard & VINEYARDSAKER
Chomsky as well as John Pilger are pieces of s**t classic examples of controlled opposition. Pilgers the worst if not in the pay of George Soros he might as well be.
I read Pilgers book Hidden Agenda’s years ago. Garbage!
The best researcher by far on 9/11 is Dennis Hopsicker at Mad Cow Morning News maybe even the best investigator in the US with the things he has wrote about involving the CIA and the drug trade.
The whole left/right political spectrum nonsense anyway especially dealing with geopolitical matters is redundant.
I think best commentators are F. William Engdahl and Michel Chossudovsky who of course runs Global Research.
F. William Engdahl seems to be the only one who gets what is going on in Afghanistan to secure and protect drug routes and trade with these stage attacks against NATO convoys.
Oh no! How horrible! Militants from Balochistan attacked NATO oil cargo stooping them from closing down the drug super highway between Pakistan and Iran which I am sure is not funding terrorists in Iran. Hopefully it will not cause NATO forces to intervene in the natural resource rich province. LOL
“Look around Balochistan, and you may not see much. Pakistan’s largest province is also its poorest and least inhabited an expanse of rocky deserts and ramshackle villages where hardy tribesmen live by ancient laws. But to outside eyes, Balochistan’s barren sands glisten with hidden value.
Mining companies eye its natural riches: vast and largely untapped reserves of copper, natural gas and possibly oil. Criminals see easy money: the world’s heroin superhighway, a network of smuggling trails, cuts through its lonely borders. Foreign governments consider its location: wedged between Iran and Afghanistan, and covering two-fifths of Pakistan, Balochistan occupies highly strategic real estate.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/21/us-taliban-balochistan-strategy-pakistan
It is amazing how the idiots fall for this US/NATO losing in Afghanistan nonsense.
Forgot to mention Tatars are running jihadist camps in Crimean mountains whose grandfather lead a battalion of Tatars who massacred Greek villagers.
“In the hard to access foothills of the Bakhchisaray dozens of settlements had fully embraced Wahhabism. There is no shortage of arms and military equipment on the Ay-Petri plateau. Trainining is conducted by Turkish, Jordanian and Chechen instructors. The core militant [organisation] became the SOKT, the Union of Crimean Tatar Officers, [which consists of] more than three-hundred veterans, many of which had fought in Chechnya..”
“Saying sarcastically but absolutely honestly. There used to be a Greek village called Laki in the vicinity of Bakhchisaray, a Crimean Khatyn’. For connection with the resistance, punitive Tatar battalion burned this village down. The adults had gasoline poured on them in basements, children were thrown into burning houses. Older people assert that after this action, the battalion marched through Bakhchisaray in celebration. Grandfather of Il’mi Umerov led the punishers.
During occupation, in this area all Greek settlements were annihilated, that is more than 20 of them. Thousands of people were shot. The resistance fighters liberated Bakhchisaray long before the arrival of Soviet forces. Notable commander of the Southern Resistance Union, a Greek [by ethnicity], Mikhail Makedonskiy ordered the fascist helpers hanged on the walls of Khan’s palace.”
http://www.austereinsomniac.info/blog/2010/10/9/yanukovych-returned-to-power-grandson-of-a-nazi-punisher.html
@jack: I have the utmost respect for Chomsky, whom I consider a man of absolute decency, sharp intelligence and great courage. Having met him personally, I can also attest to the fact that he is a real gentleman and a very kind and charming host.
As for Pilger, I think that he is one of the very best reporters out there. His report on Diego Garcia is just one amongst many other excellent reports he made.
I can only wish you to eventually acquire even a small fraction of the human and intellectual qualities of those you call “pieces of shit”.
The Saker
Compare the Iraq war conspiracy to the 9/11 ‘conspiracy’.
In the case of the Iraq war we have a lot of documentation – from Rumsfeld “go big” to Blair’s “Downing St Memo” to much else.
There’s little doubt about this event and it goes into the history books as such.
But with 9/11 there is no documentation whatsoever. Not one document, report or leak from any of the hundreds (thousands?) of conspirators.
Instead we rely entirely on the speculations of amateur physicists and backyard explosives experts.
No thanks.
It’s enough to try to understand that for which we have available documentation. This speculation is a waste of time, like the JFK industry.
There is also, I believe, a racist tinge to this as well. Some people cant believe a bunch of hairy-faced darkies could have pulled off something like 9/11. It could only have been done by super-smart white people from the CIA, FBI, Pentagon etc.
What exactly follows from this conspiracy anyway? That the Federal Government are criminals?
Clap, clap. Glad you figured that out.
If you’d been reading Chomsky for the last 40 years….
@jack and robert: I wonder if the two of you are in some kind of competition to see how can be more condescending towards those who do not share your certitudes.
How about his – I declare both of you winners ex aequo?
@VINEYARDSAKER
Chomsky says that the Israeli lobby has no overwhelming influence in shaping US foreign policy and 9/11 he dismisses as counter productive investigating US collusion in the attack.
As for John Pilger his main topic of focus being Burma fails to mention US interest in the regime that of the drug trade which the opposition guerrillas are involved in as well as child soldiers and forced labour which George Soros is heavily involved in trying to overthrow the military regime and claims that Britain supports Russia’s counter terrorism war against Chechnya due to oil interest when the exact opposite is true that the British government and intelligence services support Chechen separatism/terrorism with the jihadist circles or organisers based and running through London.
British oil interests became part of the separatist government in 97 with an English businessman of Polish descent Mansour Yahimchik used to broker oil deals between the separatist regime and the British government also establishing the Caucasus-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
@Bernard
You should read what Sibel Edmonds had to say.
You are right that there is no proof/smoking gun that the US government itself pulled of the attack but there is proof that they knew of the attack prior to it happening from French and other intelligence warnings to the Phoenix memo in July which in the same month from classified FBI memo obtained by investigative journalist Greg Palast The Whitehouse ordered the FBI to kill of investigation into Omar and Abdullah Bin Ladin who funded organisations linked to international terrorism and connected to 9/11 which Atta and the 9/11 hijackers operated through like WAMY and Benevolence International Foundation which Atta worked with since the Bosnian war.
So at least we know they deliberately obstructed investigation into the 9/11 attack prior to 9/11.
@jack: Chomsky says that the Israeli lobby has no overwhelming influence in shaping US foreign policy and 9/11 he dismisses as counter productive investigating US collusion in the attack.
Yes, I am quite aware of that, thank you. That just goes to show that smart folks can be wrong or have their blindspots.
That in no way diminishes my deep admiration of, and respect for, Prof. Chomsky.
Besides, having myself been wrong on the 911 topic for 8 years, how could I possibly fault Chomsky?