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Exactly How and When Could the WTC Be Wired With Explosives? Answer...

Repost from Progressive Review | 23.04.2004 17:01 | Analysis | Anti-militarism

Many people have suspected the World Trade Center was wired with explosives, causing the unprecedented collapse following the impacts of two jumbo jets. In fact, NYC firefighters remarked that day that it seemed like bombs were going off in the buildings, just prior to the tower's collapse. One glaring question remains unanswered: exactly how and when could such a monumental undertaking be accomplished. Read on for the answer...

Feedback from the Progressive Review's Undernews for April 22, 2004.

||| SEP 11

WE RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING from someone who worked for Fiduciary Trust on the 90th, 94-97th floors of the South Tower:

"On the weekend of 9/8,9/9 there was a 'power down' condition in WTC tower 2, the south tower. This power down condition meant there was no electrical supply for approx 36 hrs from floor 50 up. I am aware of this situation since I work in IT and had to work with many others that weekend to ensure that all systems were cleanly shutdown beforehand ... and then brought back up afterwards. The reason given by the WTC for the power down was that cabling in the tower was being upgraded ...

"Of course without power there were no security cameras, no security locks on doors and many, many 'engineers' coming in and out of the tower. I was at home on the morning of 9/11 on the shore of Jersey City, right opposite the Towers, and watching events unfold I was convinced immediately that something was happening related to the weekend work."

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Operation Northwoods

23.04.2004 18:27

Operation Northwoods: Government stages terror attacks to manipulate public support for foreign wars:
 http://cryptome.org/jcs-corrupt.htm

Black Ops
- Homepage: http://cryptome.org/jcs-corrupt.htm


Eyewitnesses discuss explosions at WTC

23.04.2004 18:28

Eyewitnesses discuss explosions at WTC prior to collapse:
 http://www.rense.com/general17/eyewitnessreportspersist.htm

NYC Firefighters Discuss Bombs In WTC (video):
 http://www.prisonplanet.com/032404firefightersdiscuss.html

Northwoods
- Homepage: http://www.rense.com/general17/eyewitnessreportspersist.htm


The Facts

23.04.2004 18:30

The twin towers of the World Trade Centre were destroyed by Muslim extremists flying aircraft into them.

There was not a planned series of explosions
There was not a Jewish plot
It was not a CIA black op
Father Christmas was not responsible

Grown Up


"The twin towers of the World Trade Centre were destroyed by Muslim extremists"

23.04.2004 19:10

Oh yeah, they discovered Mohammed Atta's passport in the rubble even though the inferno destroyed the flight data recorders. WE DO NOT KNOW WHO CARRIED OUT THE 9-11 ATTACKS. We owe it to the victims, both the <3000 who were killed directly and the <15,000 since in US 'retaliation' against Afghanistan and Iraq to find out. There are many unanswered questions. If we are concerned with the truth we should seek to answer them. The 'proof' that 9-11 was an al-qaeda op is the repetiton of the 'fact' - circular logic that prooves nothing. In fact, if such weak evidence was presented suggesting a CIA or Mossad op it would rightly be ridiculed. They way the buildings collapsed was certainly consistent with a controlled demolition, but we don't know. Yet.

Tom


Bomb Sniffing Dogs Pulled from WTC Detail One Day Before "Rewiring," On 9-6-2001

23.04.2004 19:18

Bomb Sniffing Dogs Pulled from WTC Detail One Day Before "Rewiring," On 9-6-2001
What a perfect cover for CIA agents wiring the towers with explosives...
 http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/wtc/ny-nyaler122362178sep12,0,7280472,print.story

Heightened Security Alert Had Just Been Lifted

By Curtis L. Taylor and Sean Gardiner
STAFF WRITERS

September 12, 2001

The World Trade Center was destroyed just days after a heightened security alert was lifted at the landmark 110-story towers, security personnel said yesterday.

Daria Coard, 37, a guard at Tower One, said the security detail had been working 12-hour shifts for the past two weeks because of numerous phone threats. But on Thursday, bomb-sniffing dogs were abruptly removed.

"Today was the first day there was not the extra security," Coard said. "We were protecting below. We had the ground covered. We didn't figure they would do it with planes. There is no way anyone could have stopped that."

Security guard Hermina Jones said officials had recently taken steps to secure the towers against aerial attacks by installing bulletproof windows and fireproof doors in the 22nd-floor computer command center.

"When the fire started, the room was sealed," said Jones, who was in the command center when explosions rocked the building. "Flames were shooting off the walls....We started putting wet towels under the doors. The Fire Department unsealed the door and grabbed us by the hand and said, 'Run!' "

Security worker Diane Easton said she was out front writing tickets when notice of "a plane flying too low" placed security personal on alert.

"The plane went right through the building...and debris started falling everywhere, then 15 minutes later the second plane," Easton said.

Nancy Joyner said several police officers were knocked down and then were stampeded in the ensuing frenzy.

"People were flying out of the windows; there was nothing we could do," Joyner said. "People were pulled from the top floors by the wind tunnel created."

Copyright © 2004, Newsday, Inc.

Northwoods
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correction

23.04.2004 19:26

that should read >15,000 victims of retaliation

Tom


Pre-9/11 World Trade Center Power-Down

23.04.2004 20:08

Did the World Trade Center towers undergo a deliberate “power-down” on the weekend prior to the 9-11 terrorist attacks? According to Scott Forbes, a senior database administrator for Fiduciary Trust, Inc. – a high-net investment bank which was later acquired by Franklin Templeton – this is precisely what took place. Forbes, who was hired by Fiduciary in 1999 and is now stationed at a U.K. branch office, was working on the weekend of September 8-9, 2001, and said that his company was given three weeks advance notice that New York’s Port Authority would take out power in the South Tower from the 48th floor up. The reason: the Port Authority was performing a cabling upgrade to increase the WTC’s computer bandwidth.

Forbes stated that Fiduciary Trust was one of the WTC’s first occupants after it was erected, and that a “power-down” had never been initiated prior to this occasion. He also stated that his company put forth a huge investment in time and resources to take down their computer systems due to the deliberate power outage. This process, Forbes recalled, began early Saturday morning (September 8th) and continued until mid-Sunday afternoon (September 9th) – approximately 30 hours. As a result of having its electricity cut, the WTC’s security cameras were rendered inoperative, as were its I.D. systems, and elevators to the upper floors.

Forbes did stress, though, that there was power to the WTC’s lower floors, and that there were plenty of engineers going in-and-out of the WTC who had free access throughout the building due to its security system being knocked out. In an e-mail to journalist John Kaminski, author of The Day America Died (Sisyphus Press) and America’s Autopsy Report (Dandelion Books), Forbes wrote: “Without power there were no security cameras, no security locks on doors, and many, many ‘engineers’ coming in and out of the tower.”

Forbes didn’t think much of these occurrences at the time, and said that he worked until Monday morning (September 10th) to get all the computer systems back online. Due to his IT-related duties on Saturday & Sunday, Forbes had Tuesday, September 11th off, and thus watched the World Trade Center towers collapse from his apartment. While doing so, he recalled, “I was convinced immediately that something was happening related to the weekend work.”

In addition, Forbes says there were other peculiarities revolving around this unreported event, including:

1) Fiduciary employees trapped between the 90-97th floors of the South Tower told family members (via cell-phone calls) that they were hearing “bomb-like explosions” throughout the towers.

2) Video cameras positioned atop the World Trade Center which were used to feed daily images to local television stations were inexplicably inoperative that morning.

3) A Fiduciary employee who was on one of the lower floors and escaped immediately after the first (North) tower was struck, reported that he was amazed by the large number of FBI agents that were already on the streets surrounding the WTC complex only minutes after the initial strike.

4) Last but not least, Ann Tatlock, CEO of Fiduciary Trust and now a board member of Franklin Templeton, had just arrived at a conference hosted by Warren Buffet at the Offutt Air Force Base (home of the U.S. Strategic Command Headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska) when the 9-11 attacks took place. Coincidentally, later that day President George W. Bush flew into this very same base on Air Force One for “security reasons.” Even more chilling are the Offutt AFB ties to the CIA’s MK ULTRA experiments, Project Monarch, the Franklin Cover-Up, and the diabolical practices of Michael Aquino. (Type any of these words into a search engine for more information.)

In the end, Forbes says that even though these disclosures could jeopardize his current employment, he has stepped forward because, “I have mailed this information to many people, including the 9/11 Commission, but no one seems to be registering these facts.”

Obviously there are many unanswered questions to this story, and we will keep you updated as more information arrives.

 http://69.28.73.17/thornarticles/powerdown.html

Victor Thorn
- Homepage: http://69.28.73.17/thornarticles/powerdown.html


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