Crossposted from Antemedius
From RawStory, Saturday April 4, 2009:
A team of scientists claim to have unearthed startling data from dust and debris gathered in the days and weeks after the World Trade Center towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001.
Note: Abstract here… full .pdf here – 9.88mb
In a study published by the Open Chemical Physics Journal – a peer-reviewed, scientific publication – Steven E. Jones and Niels Harrit [Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen] level a stark allegation: that within the dust and rubble of the World Trade Center towers lays evidence of “a highly engineered explosive,” contrary to all federal studies of the collapses.
“We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center,” reads the paper’s abstract. “One sample was collected by a Manhattan resident about ten minutes after the collapse of the second WTC Tower, two the next day, and a fourth about a week later. The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).”
They claim their analysis has uncovered “active thermitic material”: a combination of elemental aluminum and iron oxide in form of thermite known as “nanostructured super-thermite.”
Thermite, used in steel welding, fireworks shows, hand grenades and demolition, can produce a chemical reaction known for extremely high temperatures focused in a very small area for a short period of time.
According to the Navy’s Small Business Innovation Research, super-thermite “is restricted under the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), which controls the export and import of defense-related material and services.”
“This finding really goes beyond anything that has previously been shown,” said Jones in a media advisory. “We had to use sophisticated tools to analyze the dust because this isn’t just a typical explosive, RDX or CD4 or something – this is a highly engineered material not readily available to just anyone.”
“The cost and production rate of super-thermite composites has limited the use of these materials in DoD applications,” claims the Navy’s SBIR.
Read the entire RawStory article here…
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Amazing find, eh?
Are we surprised? I am not surprised at all. I have always believed that demolitions were involved. Because the story fed to us is BS — those buildings came down like “sand castles.” Only demolitions could have caused them to collapse in the manner they did.
Having this confirmation of the use of demolitions will help to back up Rodriquez’s (the janitor) accountings, who had been gagged during the Bush Administration (I don’t know if he still is gagged, though.)
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an old buddy of mine has been pursuing the collapses for awhile. Here‘s a page with his simulations.
that this was the case.
If it had not been for the spectacular and filmed crashes of the planes I might give this more weight, but the two sections make the size of the conspiracy so big that it seems unlikely that it would have been uncovered by now.
Think about it, torture was uncovered, warrantless wiretapping was uncovered and neither of those would be nearly the story this kind of conspiracy would be.
That said, it is another data point. If there are enough of them discovered, then I might change my mind, but for now, I tend to think it was not done the way this implies.
these folks are just bidding their time…..
On Thursday, September 6th 2001, all Sun Microsystems system support engineering personnel (including myself) received a memo telling them that there was to be a site-wide powerdown in the WTC complex that weekend. We were told to be prepared to assist our customer accounts in the buildings in case they had any trouble coming back up.
That was the weekend the bomb sniffing dogs and extra security personnel were pulled by the security company run by Bush’s younger brother.
That was the weekend they planted the bombs for the controlled demolition.
Apparently you are one now. All WTC CT’ers on La Naranja Grande are evidently anti-semitic. You sneaky, um, anti-semitic anti-semite, you. ;-7
…..”collapsed” from controlled demolition (Charlie Sheen?) I thought this has to be a bunch of hooey. When I took a little time to find some reasonable sources it became a credible possibility.
Just by looking at the videos of the towers “collapsing”(actually they are exploding), someone with an middle school understanding of physics could see that something does not make sense as far as the official explanantion. Gravity does not eject 20 ton steel beams at 50-60 MPH sending them out more than 150 yards horizontally.
…post at the orange more often; it’s so much fun for the rest of us! Thanks for an informative post and many giggles.
That diary was the equivalent to super thermite at dKos. Well blown up! Gracias. And thanks for an entertaining evening!
you really kicked the place in the butt. Good thing you live in Canada and have healthcare.
Speaking of cts, have you read Thom Hartmann’s book on the JFK/RFK/MLK assassinations? I hope to buy it this weekend and take it with me when we go up north next weekend to open up the place for summer.
over there…lol.
How to be successful at DailyKos
Recently I used teh google to look into that flight that nose dived into the Atlantic about one year before 9/11 .
The FBI ended up blaming it on the Egyptian pilot doing some kind of Jihad-Suicide deal, inspite of the fact that his family said he loved the USA and was very pro western.
Anyway this crash could have been a pre 9/11 test for remote control of jets, something that has to be considered as far as what happened that day. The technology has certainly been around for awhile.
For eight years you’ve been sayin’ the Bush administration was incompetent — now we’re supposed to believe they pulled this off?
Which is it? Go on…you can admit Bush is actually a super-genius…you know you want to…
And all I can do is quote Gore Vidal:
“‘Conspiracy stuff’ is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.”