Reviewing 9/11 by R.E. Prindle I just bought a book entitled The Engineering Book by Marshall Brain, if you can believe the author’s name. It is a little compendium of engineering feats. On p.54 Mr. Brain has an entry about Building Implosions, the process beginning 1773. I quote from the entry in full: Quote: There is a funny thing about building implosions. On the one hand we have a group of architects and engineers who originally designed a building to stay standing, even in the case of catastrophic events like hurricanes, fires, and earthquakes (hence modern innovations such as earthquake-safe buildings.) With a building implosion, another set of engineers must defeat all of that hard work and bring the structure down as efficiently and safely as possible. The goal is for the building to fall straight down and land in a pile roughly the size of the building’s foundation. So how do they do it? Initial efforts were crude—massive explosions leveled the building, as in the 1773 destruction of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Waterford Island. Today, this simplistic approach is frowned on because large explosions cause collateral damage to other nearby buildings. In a modern building implosion, some of the exterior of the original building will be removed manually because it has value. Remaining exterior walls may be perforated or removed entirely. Interior structural beams that keep the building standing will be exposed. And this is where the real engineering comes in. The easiest thing would be to simply cut all the beams and let the building fall. However, this approach is unsafe and would probably, because of the timing, cause the building to fall over rather than collapse in a pile. Instead, engineers carefully analyze the structure and the loads to understand how the building needs to collapse. Some of the beams are partially cut to weaken them. Then explosives are attached to the columns at carefully calibrated positions. The explosives are called “shaped charges”, which focus the explosive force in specific directions. The effect is to cut the steel support beams precisely where required. The shaped charges also reduce the total amount of explosives needed. This is important to demolition engineers because large explosions can damage adjacent buildings, and infrastructure, for example by breaking windows. Once all the charges are set, they are wired back to a controller. The explosions throughout the building are carefully ordered and timed so that they occur in the correct sequence. Gravity does the rest and the building collapses. Unquote. Mr. Brain has succinctly described the only way that engineers have to bring a tall building down into its foundation as each of the twin towers did. Two separate building fell directly into their foundations. Let’s look at how the Towers themselves were engineered. These are enormous projects involving years of planning and construction. At the end of the above page Mr. Brain refers us to the Twin Towers page. The Towers were astonishing triumphs of engineering ingenuity. Note how Mr. Brain places the engineering for bringing a building down, such as the Towers, on page 54 and a description of the Twin Towers on page 330. Quote: World Trade Center, architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1996) The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City became two of the most famous buildings of the world because of what happened to them in 2001. But prior to their destruction they were two of the most famous buildings in the world because of their engineering and their iconic architecture. They truly were a work of art. The lead architect on the project was Minoru Yamasaki assisted by other architects and a structural engineering firm. The structural engineering of the towers was impressive for several reasons. The buildings had a dense core to hold the primary steel support structure along with all utilities and services. Four dozen steel box columns ran from the floor to the roof in this core, which measured 135 feet (41 meters) by 85 feet (20meters) from the core to the outer wall without any interior columns. The trusses supported poured reinforced concrete floors. The elegance of the design came in the beautiful repeatability. In addition, the floor space between the core and the outer wall was completely open—no supporting columns on the interior at all. Each floor was almost a perfect acre in size, with three -quarters of an acre open, usable, and infinitely configurable space on every floor. The design also meant that the building was quite light for its volume—perhaps one-quarter the weight per volume of an older building like the Empire State Building. This lower weight meant lower cost. Most skyscrapers have a number of setbacks on the rise. This happened because of zoning ordinances designed to avoid a canyon-like effect in New York City. The setbacks kept skyscrapers from blocking too much wind and sunlight from neighboring areas. The Twin Towers were able to rise without setbacks because there was so much open space around them—another truly unique feature. Unquote. So there we have what was built and what was destroyed. As is evident it was a marvelous structure, built to withstand all conceivable disasters including planes flying into it. It was impossible for the concussion of the planes to bring the towers down. They were cosmetic effect to draw attention from the destructive engineering. And yet the towers came down. Now let us look at the background for the attack. We were and have been led to believe that the attack on the Towers was solely an act of Moslem aggression, almost entirely performed by Saudi Arabians. But how could the Moslems have been in the US where they formed a Fifth Column? Moslem immigration, because of its history of animosity to the West was forbidden in the US until 1965 when the McCarren Act was repealed and unlimited immigration was encouraged from the entire world. Why was this insanity so? Was the plan from the beginning to undermine the United States which has been the result. The US had virtually been at war with the Moslem States since the end of World War II. Tensions had been high for decades when the gates were suddenly thrown open to people who must have been groomed to hate the United States. They came flooding in and tensions immediately escalated on US soil. The Moslems marched, demonstrated and terrorized until getting bolder, in 1993 they bombed the Twin Towers. A mere 28 years after gaining admission. A large fertilizer bomb in a truck was parked beneath the Tower and detonated causing minimal damage while not bringing the Tower down. But that sent brains spinning while eight years later it produced 2001. Now, 9/11/2001 was not a few bumblers setting off a fertilizer load without forethought. 9/11 was a professional affair requiring engineering specialists, access to the building and complicity between the US and Saudi governments. Unless I mistake the attack was well beyond the competence of the Arabs requiring an intimate knowledge of the construction of the Towers. The planning took several years, it was not a spur of the moment thing. The execution was so loose that it is impossible that it could not have escaped detection either of one or all: the Mossad, Interpol, national intelligences or the FBI and the CIA. Remember out close ally the Saudis were behind it. The Jewish Mossad with its excellent penetration of Moslem States must surely have known of what was stirring. The actual Arab agents had been sent to the US years before as ‘immigrants’. They had enrolled in flying schools for small aircraft long before the event. These guys were not professionals and must have blabbed in pride of why they were in the US. The US’ own intelligence services must have known. Good god, any suspect organization is immediately filled with agents. British and German intelligence must have known. Tensions were so high evidence of something about to happen was so apparent that even I guessed that something must have been in the planning because it was apparent that the Arabs were not going to give up and the US government was not taking the situation seriously. The Moslems said they were going to do something. The US on the other hand invited more and more Moslems to settle in the US. Even immediately after the bombing the Bush administration allowed huge numbers of Moslem into the country. Even that might be taken as complicity. Remember the attack was a very large plan; the two WTC towers, the Pentagon and the White House were to be destroyed. Those were the top four symbols of US power. Four hi-jacked airliners. The planes could create havoc by crashing into the tower but they could not bring it down, and yet after an hour without further molestation the Towers sank into its foundations. Refer back to the first article from Mr. Brain’s (is anyone named Brain) engineering book and you have a step by step description of the destruction process. The planes flying into the buildings were merely a decoy, an explanation that people without technical knowledge would accept. The effect of the crashes was visually stunning, close to a volcanic eruption. The affected floors burst into more than flames as the fully fueled planes sent from Boston erupted but the buildings didn’t even quiver from the impact. The pilots trained on small propeller driven planes probably couldn’t fly the big jets but they didn’t have to. The planes were obviously riding a radio beam. But then in the blink of an eye, faster than the eye could react the building sank to the ground. Refer back now to the first article by Mr. Brain. As required each floor had ‘shaped bombs’ placed at each of the four corners. You can see the puffs blow as the bombs blew out the supports at all four corners simultaneously in floor sequence in uniform puffs allowing the buildings to collapse into their foundations. At some point in a natural fall the building would have had to tip. Remember, not only did one building fall perfectly but two did. Not possible. The bombs necessarily were activated by phone according to a program. A little later another of the four planes crashed into the Pentagon. The Pentagon being a much lower building than the Towers required more flying skill. These so-called pilots had been trained on small propeller crafts. They had never flown at five hundred miles an hour so that their reflexes had never been conditioned to those speeds, yet the plane did a fine job of hitting the Pentagon at nearly touchdown level. The plane must have been riding a radio beam meaning someone was remotely guiding it in. That means government involvement. The Bush government. The fourth plane was destined for the White House. This is interesting because the movie Independence Day had been released in 1996 depicting just such a destruction. Thus the four premier symbols of US power were to be destroyed in a couple hours and at least hopefully the President of the United States himself. Bush was therefore a target. The White House attack was aborted when the flight passengers revolted, the plane crashing short of its destination. Where was Pres. Bush at this critical juncture? Behind his desk in the Oval Office? No, he wasn’t at the White House. He chose this critical moment to be in a Florida primary school reading fairy tales to Kindergartners. Coincidence? As can be seen this whole scenario took careful planning and especially with the Twin Towers the cooperation of US authorities. The supports could not have had bombs placed without expert US engineers placing them there and arranging the timing sequences. It can’t be any other way. The planes which had no effect were used simply for cosmetic purpose to blow the public mind with their colorful explosions. An hour after impact there was no sign of collapse until the explosion puffs at the supports dropped the buildings in seconds. Another question is, did our companion Israelis know? They had to or their legendary intelligence capabilities are a fraud. The did not tell this country with whom they have a ‘special relationship’. Why were cameras set up at least an hour in advance focused on the Towers waiting to film the event if no one had advance notice? Why was the bombing captured so perfectly if no one knew? They knew. It is said and denied that Jewish workers were advised to stay at home and in fact they did stay at home. Yes, it was denied that they were told to and in fact, they did. Another coincidence? What was Bush’ reaction to this terrible insult and injury from our ally Saudi Arabia? Within a few days he flew to Arabia and chummed with the king as a seeming subordinate. At home he shut down the entire country for four days. He laughingly told the public to go out shopping; nothing happening here. He didn’t want to see any retaliation on the Moslems. Just a few bad eggs. What the hell? He grounded all commercial flights and then put every fighter jet the country owned whizzing around in the air over the East Coast. How crazy was that? The Arabs didn’t have an air force nor could they have flown from Arabia undetected if they had. They had used our own commercial liners for Christ’s sake. Was there US involvement in the destruction of the Twin towers? Unless you can ignore the complex actions necessary there had to be. It couldn’t have been done otherwise. And who was the chief American culprit? The finger points directly at President George W. Bush.