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Jesse Ventura's new book American Conspiracies questions the government's position on 9/11. He wrote about the same topic on The Huffington Post, but his article was banned. Read it here on RT.
By Jesse Ventura
You didn't see anything about it in the mainstream media, but two weeks ago at a
conference in San Francisco, more than one thousand architects and engineers signed a
petition demanding that Congress begin a new investigation into the destruction of the
World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11.
That's right, these people put their reputations in potential jeopardy because they
don't buy the government's version of events. They want to know how 200,000 tons of steel
disintegrated and fell to the ground in 11 seconds. They question whether the hijacked
planes were responsible – or whether it could have been a controlled demolition
from inside that brought down the twin towers and Building 7.
Richard Gage, a member of the American Institute of Architects and the founder of
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, put it like this: "The official Federal
Emergency Management [Agency] and National Institute of Standards and Technology reports
provide insufficient, contradictory and fraudulent accounts of the circumstances of the
towers' destruction." He's especially disturbed by Building 7, whose 447 stories came
down in "pure free-fall acceleration" that afternoon – even though it
was never hit by an aircraft.
This is a subject I take up in my new book, American Conspiracies, published this week by
Skyhorse. An excerpt follows:
Some people have argued that the twin towers went down, within a half hour of one another,
because of the way they were constructed. Well, those 425,000 cubic yards of concrete and
200,000 tons of steel were designed to hold up against a Boeing 707, the largest plane
built at the time the towers were completed in 1973. Analysis had shown that a 707
traveling at 600 miles an hour (and those had four engines) would not cause major damage.
The twin-engine Boeing 757s that hit on 9/11 were going 440 and 550 miles an hour.
Still, we are told that a molten, highly intense fuel mixture from the planes brought down
these two steel-framed skyscrapers. Keep in mind that no other such skyscraper in history
had ever been known to collapse completely due to fire damage. So could it actually have
been the result of a controlled demolition from inside the buildings? I don't claim
expertise about this, but I did work four years as part of the Navy's underwater
demolition teams, where we were trained to blow things to hell and high water. And my
staff talked at some length with a prominent physicist, Steven E. Jones, who says that a
"gravity driven collapse" without demolition charges defies the laws of physics.
These buildings fell, at nearly the rate of free-fall, straight down into their own
footprint, in approximately ten seconds. An object dropped from the roof of the
110-story-tall towers would reach the ground in about 9.2 seconds. Then there's the fact
that steel beams that weighed as much as 200,000 pounds got tossed laterally as far as 500
feet.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) started its investigation on
August 21, 2002. When their 10,000-page-long report came out three years later, the
spokesman said there was no evidence to suggest a controlled demolition. But Steven E.
Jones also says that molten metal found underground weeks later is proof that jet fuel
couldn't have been all that was responsible. I visited the site about three weeks after
9/11, with Governor Pataki and my wife Terry. It didn't mean anything to me at the time,
but they had to suspend digging that day because they were running into heat pockets of
huge temperatures. These fires kept burning for more than three months, the
longest-burning structure blaze ever. And this was all due to jet fuel? We're talking
molten metal more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Probably the most conclusive evidence about a controlled demolition is a research paper
(two years, nine authors) published in the peer-reviewed Open Chemical Physics Journal, in
April 2009. In studying dust samples from the site, these scientists found chips of
nano-thermite, which is a high-tech incendiary/explosive. Here's what the paper's lead
author, Dr. Niels Harrit of the University of Copenhagen's chemistry department, had to
say about the explosive that he's convinced brought down the Twin Towers and the nearby
Building 7:
"Thermite itself dates back to 1893. It is a mixture of aluminum and rust-powder,
which react to create intense heat. The reaction produces iron, heated to 2500 degrees
Centigrade. This can be used to do welding. It can also be used to melt other iron. So in
nano-thermite, this powder from 1893 is reduced to tiny particles, perfectly mixed. When
these react, the intense heat develops much more quickly. Nano-thermite can be mixed with
additives to give off intense heat, or serve as a very effective explosive. It contains
more energy than dynamite, and can be used as rocket fuel."
Richard Gage is one of hundreds of credentialed architects and structural engineers who
have put their careers on the line to point out the detailed anomalies and many
implications of controlled demolition in the building collapses. As he puts it bluntly:
"Once you get to the science, it's indisputable." (3.10.2010; Edited 3.12.2010) http://rt.com/Politics/2010-03-10/jesse-ventura-911-truth.html
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