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600+ Architects Say 9-11 an Inside Job
Fire couldn’t have caused collapse of three Trade Center buildings that crumbled to dust on Sept. 11
By Mark Anderson
SAN FRANCISCO ARCHITECT RICHARD GAGE told the Freedom Law School’s annual health and freedom conference that his organization, Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth, now has more than 600 structural experts who have grave doubts about the official story of what happened to the three World Trade Center buildings that were destroyed in New York on Sept. 11, 2001.
“We hope to have 1,000 members by September and have over 600 now,” said Gage, an architect whose projects dot the California landscape, during the conference in Irvine, Calif.
Gage said fire is an “organic process” that could not have caused the symmetrical (uniform) destruction of the 110-story Twin Towers that morning, and the fall of the 47-story Salomon Brothers Building (Building 7) more than six hours later. These three buildings were part of the Rockefeller-inspired WTC complex, consisting of seven buildings on 16 acres.
Gage said the National Institute for Safety and Technology (NIST) study of the WTC buildings did not even look at the voluminous evidence of a controlled demolition of the three structures. So it’s not as if the evidence was examined by NIST and declared inconclusive. NIST instead only examined the event “up to the point of collapse” and went no further. Thus, there is no way the government can objectively assess the entire catastrophe.
“How can you find what you are not looking for?” Gage asked. He said various forces that can destroy buildings—including fire and earthquakes—have obvious characteristics. Fire does not devour a structure uniformly because it randomly branches out wherever there is, say, furniture and other “fuel” to consume. The melting point of structural steel is around 2,300 degrees Fahrenheit. The short-duration Twin Tower fires reached no more than 1,400 degrees (and that’s generous).
So for the government to say that burning jet fuel within the Twin Towers not only uniformly melted structural steel to the point of collapse—but brought the huge buildings down at near freefall speed—is the height of absurdity, Gage said. It is impossible for fire to pulverize concrete. More than 90,000 tons of concrete was pulverized mid-air, along with metal decking. Blast waves blew out windows in buildings 400 feet away.
That third building that many Americans still are only dimly aware of, Building 7, really drives this issue home, in Gage’s view. “Well, the 600 architects I represent are most concerned about the freefall collapse of Building 7, the third skyscraper, [which was] not hit by an airplane, to fall on the afternoon of 9-11. This is a 47-story skyscraper that in the first hundred feet of its fall it fell at freefall speed. This is acknowledged by NIST. That can’t happen unless the structure [underneath] is removed. There was no resistance from the structure to that fall in the first 2.25 seconds. So this is of great concern. Of course it falls symmetrically almost at freefall speed and collapses thereafter—the whole building is destroyed in 6.5 seconds,” he told AFP in an exclusive interview.
He added: “NIST . . . claims that we have 10 fires (in Building 7), one of which was ‘roaring’ . . . and [the fires] ‘expanded the beams,’ knocking a girder off its seat and causing ‘an internal cascading collapse’— which is ludicrous because we would have seen all kinds of deformation on the perimeter structure. Anyway, they claim fires brought this building down, but fire is an organic process that doesn’t bring buildings down symmetrically at freefall speed, in the manner of a classic controlled demolition. So that’s the No. 1 key point of evidence.”
As for the Twin Towers, he said there are “many similar features of controlled demolition, but very different as well. It’s very explosive. Everything is being ejected outside of the footprint—95 percent of the debris. Four-ton perimeter wall units are being hurled laterally 600 feet, which takes 55 miles per hour instant acceleration out of the sides of the tower. Now underneath all three buildings we have several tons of molten metal (at 2,700 F or hotter, which stayed hot for 3-4 months) which is not created by jet fuel or office fires or anything else. Where does all this come from?
We have video evidence, photographic evidence. The official government reports don’t even talk about it; nor do they talk about the dozens of explosions heard by 118 witnesses recorded orally by the chief fire commissioner of the City of New York.”
Gage continued: “It’s extraordinary what we don’t have in the (NIST) report, and that’s what we focus on in Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth. In addition in the towers we have 110 floors of four-inch thick concrete; they are an acre in size each. We’re looking for some of those floors at the bottom of the pile. The photographs don’t reveal any of them—just a pile of debris two or three stories high.”
“Where did the ‘pancakes’ go?” AFP then asked Gage, referring to the government’s ‘pancake’ theory, wherein the heavy collapsing floors from the top overwhelmed the structure below and ‘pancaked’ down to the bottom. Counting both towers, 220 floors were missing on that “Black Tuesday.”
“That’s what we’re looking for, is pancakes,” he replied. “We’ve got the ‘syrup,’ we have no pancakes. The ‘syrup’ is the molten metal.”
As determined by former Brigham Young physicist Steven Jones—and reiterated by Gage—the telltale signs of an ultra-hot incendiary known as thermite (which becomes thermate with sulfur added) were found in the dust at 4-5 distinct locations in NewYork.
Thermite can reach temperatures of 4,500 F and can be explosive when it’s souped up. Microspheres formed from molten iron constitute some of the evidence, as well as red chips comprised of unignited thermite. Gage believes that nano-thermite is the most likely culprit, since it is a “quieter” but ultra-powerful explosive.
“Al Qaeda probably did not have access to these buildings or to thermite (or thermate), which was not made in a cave in Afghanistan,” Gage commented, adding, however, that his organization (AE911truth.org) does not formally probe who the perpetrators were. But he fears whoever pulled this major crime could do it again because the truth has long been suppressed, leaving Americans vulnerable.
Gage’s group supports a new, genuine investigation, whereas the official “investigation” did not even include establishing a crime scene at the WTC complex and ended with the official 9-11 Commission report that does not even mention Building 7.
Mark Anderson is a longtime newsman now working as a corresponding editor for American Free Press. Together he and his wife Angie provide many photographs of the events they cover for AFP. Mark welcomes your comments and inputs as well as story leads. Email him at at truthhound2@yahoo.com.
(Issue # 14, April 6, 2009)
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