Amount of fill excavated beneath the WTC site: >1 million cubic yards
Amount of structural steel in WTC: 200,000 tons
Weight of each tower: 500,000 tons
Amount of rentable space: about 10 million square feet
Amount of masonry walls: 6 million square feet
Number of lighting fixtures: 200,000
Number of windows: 43,600
Distance seen in every direction from observation deck: 45 miles
Amount each tower swayed from true center in strong winds: 3 feet
Sources:
(1, 8, 18) NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation;
(2-7, 10-15) Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center, by Angus Kress Gillespie. Rutgers University Press, 1999;
(9, 16) www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/ World_Trade_Center.html;
(17) www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/ structure/world_trade.html
~ Audible Explosions and Rumbles - 1:22 (Thanks Xenomorph911WTC.)
~ The "B-Thing" WTC 91st Floor Balcony Art - 2:16
Andreas Von Bulow, former German Intelligence Minister, interviewed by Cloak & Dagger's Lenny Bloom regarding Austrian artists Gelatin
On 9-15-06, while reading from a script, Bush said: "He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping." (full speech) This admission, albeit through a lie that 9-11 "mastermind" Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said it, is a smart move by the perpetrators, really. Conspiracy theorists were right in a way, Bush concedes. Nevermind the widely reported sub-level explosions and the preconceived NIST cover-up or the extreme extent to which the towers were obliterated. image 1image 2image 3
~ Bush says "explosives" Used - 36 sec (See above video.)
~ MIT Engineer Jeff King Says World Trade Center Demolished - 11 min Dr. Jeff King on RBNlive, Webster Tarpley radio 3-25-2006
~ Molten Metal Shot from Street Level - 2:48
While this is certainly interesting, more evidence exists for molten steel in the debris pile of Ground Zero.
~ The PC WTC 7 Report, Pt.3 (and Pt.5 - see the high contrast analysis of the penthouse freefall), by achimspok
~ Popular Mechanics Debunked: "Pull It" Revisited - 10 min
~ Reality vs. Worldwide Disinformation - WTC Building 7 :: download mp4 (6.55MB) - 2min 51sec
Jeff Hill of pumpitout.com calls Dutch demolition expert Danny Jowenko (see full Jowenko interview now on Global Awareness page)
~ South Tower Demo Compilation by Xenomorph911WTC - 8:46
See the giant WTC 1 and WTC 2Collapse video collections now. WTC 7 too!
~ Sublevel Explosions, Compilation by Xenomorph911WTC - 10 min
~ Survivor M. Cruz Says Bomb in Basement, NBC 9/12 (MOVED to witnesses video window below)
~ Total Proof Bombs Were Planted in the Buildings - 10:22
Abundant news clips describe explosions in New York City.
~ William Rodriguez FOX TV Interview - 4:36sec
~ Witnesses to BOMB in WTC Lobby - 42 sec
~ World Trade Center, "All That's Left" NOT Building 7
~ World Trade Center Power Down Pre-911 - 6:54
WTC evacuations intro by David Ray Griffin, followed by radio interview with Scott Forbes on "Deadline Live"
More from Scott Forbes regarding WTC Power Down in the South tower midday Saturday September 8th through the afternoon of Sunday the 9th.
Even more shocking is the coincidence that the fireproofing upgrades and renovations done in the Twin Towers corresponded with the floors that "failed" to begin the "collapses." (see graphic)
See closeups of 7 World Trade Center, afterwards: 1. (see right side) 2.3.
"I looked out to Liberty Street and saw a big fireball coming. That's all I remember."
- Ron DiFrancesco, WTC 2 survivor
"We made it all the way downstairs, and then when we were just about to come out of the building, ah, there was another blast." - Gregory Reszka, 9/11
"...I went to Broadway and all of a sudden all hell broke loose and I thought that we were being shot at or something. And then, a cloud of dust...." - Bill Heitman, 9/11
"I was about 4 or 5 blocks away when all the sudden I-- the street shook, and I felt like-- I heard like an explosion... 'a bomb just went off....'" - Marvin Jackson, 9/12
"...the southern World Trade Center began to just buckle. About 50 consecutive bangs and it went-- fell down like a waterfall." - Ron Saladino, 9/13
Banner quote by Noam Chomsky taken from Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-up of 9-11, by Barry Zwicker, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada, 2006, p. 180. Zwicker's source is listed as Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky, Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel, eds., The New Press, 2002, p. 26.
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