9/11 - Who Put
Thermite
In The World Trade
Center?
by Christopher Bollyn
Reporter Sans Frontières
2-1-7
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When
a former worker from the World Trade Center came forward recently with
crucial and verifiable information about what was really on the 81st floor
of the South Tower (WTC 2), he broke up a logjam of unanswered questions
about the source of the molten metal seen falling from the tower before its
collapse on 9/11.
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- Based on this important piece of
information from a former IT professional who worked with computers in the
Twin Towers, I was able to determine that the two airplanes that struck the
twin towers of the World Trade Center on 9/11 had directly impacted secure
computer rooms in both buildings:
- · the first on the 95th floor of
the North Tower;
- · the second on the 81st floor of
the South Tower.
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- This information raises new
questions:
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- · Were the computer rooms equipped
to play a role in the crime?
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- · Were there homing devices or
computers in these rooms that used precision-guidance systems to direct the
planes into the towers?
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- · Did these computer rooms contain
pre-placed explosives or forms of Thermite to destroy evidence, create an
incendiary spectacle, and weaken the structure prior to the collapses?
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- EVIDENCE OF
THERMITE
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Photographic
evidence strongly suggests that the secure computer rooms in both towers
contained forms of Thermite, which had been pre-placed to destroy evidence
and facilitate the collapse of the immense steel-frame towers while creating
a deadly pyrotechnic spectacle.
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- After examining the photographic
and physical evidence, Professor Steven E. Jones of Brigham Young University
has concluded that the yellow and white glowing metal pouring from the east
corner of the 81st floor of the South Tower was, most likely, molten iron
created by a Thermite reaction.
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- It could not have been molten
aluminum as the federal government's Final Report on the Collapse of the
World Trade Center Towers (NIST, 2005) speculates, Jones says, because,
among other things, molten aluminum at that temperature would appear
silver-grey in daylight conditions.
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- Having tested pieces of hardened
molten metal from the twin towers, Jones found that they were composed
primarily of iron, not structural steel. This is positive physical evidence
of an aluminothermic reaction, more commonly known as Thermite, having
occurred in conjunction with the collapse of the twin towers and WTC 7.
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- Aluminothermics refers to the
intense exothermic (heat producing) reactions that occur when powdered
aluminum is mixed with powdered iron oxide and/or other elements and oxides.
Copper, potassium permanganate, zinc- and barium nitrate are among the
additives Jones has found evidence of in the dust from the World Trade
Center.
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- The Thermite reaction produces an
extremely hot reaction (up to 2500 °C or 4500 °F), which creates molten iron
and aluminum oxide. The molten iron produced from Thermite is white hot and
the aluminum oxide is a white smoke.
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- EVIDENCE OF
SULFIDATION
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- Thermate is a variant of Thermite
that contains additives to enhance certain effects. It may contain
pyrotechnic additives, such as barium nitrate, for incendiary purposes.
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- The addition of barium nitrate
increases its thermal effect, creates flame in burning and significantly
reduces the ignition temperature.
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- The addition of 2 percent sulfur to
Thermite improves the steel-cutting properties by creating a eutectic that
will melt steel at much lower temperatures.
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- Eutectic comes from the Greek word
"eutektos," which means "easily melted." Thermate cuts through steel like "a
warm knife through butter," Jones says.
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- The FEMA-sponsored Building
Performance Study of 2002 contains evidence of melted steel caused by
sulfidation and oxidation. This is found in the "Limited Metallurgical
Examination" written by Professor Jonathan Barnett. The NIST report,
however, fails to address the evidence of sulfidation found in the
structural steel from the WTC.
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- Barnett examined two pieces of
melted steel: one from the WTC 7, the other from the Twin Towers. About the
first piece, Barnett wrote: "The thinning of the steel occurred by a
high-temperature corrosion due to the combination of oxidation and
sulfidation." This was done by "a eutectic mixture of iron, oxygen, and
sulfur that liquefied the steel," he concluded.
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- Barnett found the same sulfidation
in the piece of melted steel from the Twin Towers. "The severe corrosion and
subsequent erosion of Samples 1 and 2 are a very unusual event," Barnett
wrote. "No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been
identified."
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- Professor Jones points to Thermate,
with 2 percent sulfur, as being the most likely culprit. The oxidation and
sulfidation of the steel requires the oxygen and sulfur being "intimately in
contact with the metal at high temperature," Jones said.
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- VISIBLE
EVIDENCE OF THERMATE
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- The molten iron seen falling from
the South Tower's eastern corner before it collapsed must have weighed many
tons. One cubic meter of iron weighs about 8.5 tons and it certainly looks
like several cubic meters poured from the 81st floor shortly before it
collapsed. But what could have been the source of so much iron on the 81st
floor?
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- The NIST report gives no answers to
this crucial question. In this respect, the NIST report is a good example of
studied ignorance. Not only does NIST fail to provide any information about
what was on the crucial floors of the South Tower (79, 81, and 82), but they
actually suggest that these floors contained normal office materials.
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- "There were vigorous fires on the
east side of the 80th through 83rd floors, especially on the northeast end
of the 81st and 82nd floors, where the aircraft had bulldozed the office
desks and chairs and added its own combustibles," the NIST report says in
its "Account of WTC 2."
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- From the NIST report the reader
gets the impression that these were normal office floors with "desks and
chairs," although that was definitely not the case with the 81st floor while
the contents of the 82nd and 79th floors remain unknown.
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- Fuji Bank was the tenant of floors
79-82, yet for some reason the NIST researchers were unable or unwilling to
provide any description of the contents of these crucial floors four years
after 9/11.
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- A former Japanese bank employee
recently came forward and explained that the 81st floor was an entire floor
of server-size computer batteries:
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- Fuji Bank had reinforced the 81st
floor, he said, so the floor could support more weight. The entire floor was
then filled with server-size Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) batteries.
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- These units were bolted to a raised
floor about 3 feet above the reinforced 81st floor. "The whole floor was
batteries," he said, "huge battery-looking things." They were "all black"
and "solid, very heavy" things that had been brought in during the night.
They had been put in place during the summer prior to 9/11, he said.
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- But were they really batteries or
were they Thermate?
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- "It's weird," he said. "They were
never turned on."
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- See:
http://www.iamthewitness.com/Bollyn-Fuji-WTC.html
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- PHOTOGRAPHIC
EVIDENCE OF THERMATE EXPLOSIONS
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- Were these batteries the source of
the molten iron seen falling from the 81st floor? Was Thermate in these
"batteries"? Is there evidence to prove Thermate was used on the 81st floor?
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- Before addressing these questions,
allow me to explain how Thermate may have been used in the crash zones (this
is just a speculation for those of you who often ask us to provide a
scenario on what may have happened):
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- The perverse terrorist team that
planned the destruction of the Twin Towers apparently used Hollywood
expertise to create an incendiary spectacle.
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- They employed remote control
devices and precision guidance systems to fly the planes into the towers at
precisely the points where they had pre-placed explosives and Thermate
incendiary bombs.
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- Immediately before the planes, or
specially prepared drones, hit the towers, missiles carried beneath the
fuselage or wing were fired into the buildings. These missiles, which
apparently contained depleted uranium (DU), caused the white flashes seen
before the planes hit the towers.
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- This white flash is evidence of a
pyrophoric white-hot uranium penetrator, which bores through everything it
hits and creates a super-heated space as it burns at extremely hot
temperatures. Asked if a white-hot DU penetrator would set off Thermate,
Jones said, "Definitely."
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- More about the uranium possibility
here:
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http://www.iamthewitness.com/Bollyn-DU-Missiles.html
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- The DU penetrator would carry on
through the tower unless it were stopped by a core column or some other
extremely dense object. In fact, a white-hot burning object with the
characteristics of a DU penetrator is clearly seen coming out ahead of the
fireball that engulfed the South Tower.
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- If DU missiles were used, they
would have created a super-heated space in which any combustible, such as
atomized jet fuel, explosives, or Thermate, would ignite immediately.
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- While the orange and black
fireballs caused by the burning jet fuel are easily recognized in
photographs, there is visible evidence of Thermate seen in the dust and
smoke the conspicuous white smoke of aluminum oxide.
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- THE WHITE
SMOKE OF WTC 1
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- On the 95th floor of WTC 1, Marsh &
McLennan had a "large walled data center," a secure computer room along the
north and east sides of the tower. And that's exactly where the plane hit
the north wall of the 95th floor.
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- The plane struck the North Tower
right in the middle of the north face. The nose of the plane struck the
130th perimeter column at the 96th floor slab and something, perhaps the
nose landing gear, carried on right through the middle of the building and
severed three columns on the south side of the tower.
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- An image caught on video
immediately after the plane struck the tower shows a huge fireball engulfing
the north face of the building where the plane hit. But from the east side
of the tower a suspicious huge white dust cloud is emerging that looks like
an exploding bale of cotton
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- It is pure white and shows no signs
of burning jet fuel. This white dust is emerging from the east wall of the
tower, from the level and side occupied by the computer room.
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- Photo below: One frame from the
Naudet video. You can watch the high-resolution video by renting the DVD
called 9/11, the Filmmakers' Commemorative Edition
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- Professor Jones, when shown this
photo, said, "It looks very much like aluminum oxide dust." The white smoke
is clearly coming out of the east side of the building and is also seen
behind the orange and sooty cloud that is rising on the north side of the
tower.
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- It is very clear that two very
different materials are exploding in the crash area: jet fuel and some form
of Thermate, which is producing the telltale white smoke.
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- The NIST report does not mention
the white smoke or dust seen coming out of the north tower and attributes
these clouds to 10,000 gallons of burning fuel mixed with dust:
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- Atomized jet fuel is highly
flammable (similar to kerosene), so both the hot debris and the numerous
pieces of electrical and electronic gear in the offices were more than
sufficient as ignition sources.
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- A surge of combusting fuel rapidly
filled the floors, mixing with dust from the pulverized walls and floor
slabs.
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- The pressure created by the heated
gases forced the ignited mist out the entrance gash and blown-out windows on
the east and south sides of the tower.
- The resulting fireballs could be
seen for miles, precipitating many 911 calls.
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- Isn't it odd that the explosion,
which was supposedly caused by jet fuel combusting in the middle of the
building, did not affect the western façade as it had the eastern?
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- Why did the east side of the
building react so differently from the west side? And why is the smoke
coming from the east side such a bright white and completely lacking any of
the characteristics of burning jet fuel?
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- Is this where Thermate incendiary
devices had been placed in the computer room of Marsh & McLennan? If
Thermate bombs had been pre-placed in the 95th floor computer room, who put
them there?
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- Certainly Marsh & McLennan must
know or have records of who had access to that room and what was in it. This
information needs to be revealed.
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- Photo below: The North Tower before
the South Tower has been hit by a plane.
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- Notice the stream of white smoke
coming from one side of the North Tower, but the rest of the smoke is black.
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- These images can be found at:
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http://www.rengel.net/wtc_images/index.php
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- WHITE SMOKE
FROM WTC 2
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- The bright orange and black
fireballs that erupted from the South Tower are indelibly seared in the
memory of the modern world. But here again, there was a conspicuous white
cloud that is not easily explained by the burning jet fuel.
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- Again, the NIST report points only
to burning jet fuel:
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- Within about one half of a second,
dust and debris flew out of windows on the east and north faces.
- Several small fireballs of atomized
jet fuel burst from windows on the east face of the 81st and 82nd floors,
coalescing into a single, large fireball that spanned the entire face.
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- A tenth of a second later, fire
appeared in the dust clouds ejected from the south face of the 79th, 81st,
and 82nd floors.
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- Photo below: The plane entered at
the left side of this picture and exited along the right side.
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- As with all photos that show this
fireball at the South Tower, the cloud of smoke that shot out of the
entrance hole is mostly gray and white, with very little soot.
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- If you have Hufschmid's
book Painful Questions, this photo is on page 88
- "The fireballs burned for 10
seconds, extending almost 200 feet out from the north, east, and south
faces," NIST reports. "Having consumed the aerosol fuel, the flames then
receded."
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- From the south face of WTC 2, the
"dust clouds" that emerged look nothing like combusting jet fuel. They look
much more like the white smoke of Thermate than burning kerosene.
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- The massive aircraft and its
estimated 9,100 gallons of fuel hit the south face of the South Tower at 540
mph and carried on through the east and north sides. But what is exploding
out of the south side of the tower a fraction of a second later?
- The huge whitish cloud of dust that
comes from the south face has orange flame within it but has none of the
dark orange and black colors seen in the jet fuel fireballs that emerged
from the north and east sides of the tower.
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- This white dust lacks any visible
evidence of burning kerosene but was expelled from the tower at least 250
feet. What was the force pushing it out if no jet fuel is seen in it or
behind it?
- As one looks up at the three
fireballs emerging from the explosion that occurred at the crash level of
the South Tower, it is clear to see, from the color of the flame and soot,
that the jet fuel is primarily in the front of the fireball. The further one
looks to the rear, toward the point of entry, the less evidence one sees of
burning kerosene.
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- When the South Tower begins to
collapse, huge amounts of white smoke are pushed from the tower.
Furthermore, prior to every documented flow of molten metal, NIST observed
puffs of dust. The photographic and physical evidence proves that Thermate
was used in the destruction of the towers and strongly suggests that it had
been pre-placed on the floors that the planes hit.
- If Arab terrorists did not
pre-position Thermate in the secure computer rooms and throughout the Twin
Towers and WTC 7, who did?
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- Finding what was on these crucial
floors and who had access to these floors and secure computer rooms will
help identify the real culprits of 9/11.
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- Photo below: The plane entered the
South Tower from this side of this building. There is not much soot in a
fireball at the entrance hole.
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- Photo below: This shows the exit
hole where some plane parts flew out. This fireball looks more like a sooty,
hydrocarbon fire.
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- Photo below: The South Tower. The
plane entered at the left, and exited at the right. A stream of white smoke
is mixing with the black smoke. What could create that white smoke?
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Reproduced from
www.Rense.com
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