Government Refuses to Consider Cause of 47 story World Trade Center
skyscraper Building 7 Demolition
by David R. Kimball
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“It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are
apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth … For my part, whatever
anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to
know the worst, and to provide for it.”
-- Patrick Henry
“The important thing is to never stop questioning.”
-- Albert Einstein
Everyone remembers the Twin Towers exploding at 9:59AM and 10:28AM
EDT on September 11, 2001. Comparatively few people can recall that
there was a third massive skyscraper, also a part of the World Trade
Center, which fell very rapidly to the ground on that day.
 This was
World Trade Center Building 7.1
One reason that few remember WTC Building 7’s collapse is that after
September 11th it has been treated, both in the media and in The 9/11
Commission Report, as if it didn’t happen.
“The total collapse of the third huge skyscraper late in the
afternoon September 11th was reported as if it were an insignificant
footnote... most people never saw video of Building 7’s collapse…
Incredibly, it is virtually impossible to find any mention of Building 7
in newspapers, magazines, or broadcast media reports after September
11th.” 2
“The Commission avoids another embarrassing problem – explaining how
WTC 7 could have collapsed, also virtually at free-fall speed – by
simply not mentioning the collapse of this building.” 3
The collapse of Building 7 at 5:20PM EDT was in itself a major event;
the sudden and unexplained fall to earth of a 47-story steel-framed
skyscraper is certainly news. Why has there been almost no mention of
this in the U.S. corporate mass-media, and why was there no mention of
Building 7’s collapse in The 9/11 Commission Report? These are questions
of great significance, and they cry out for answers. To be able to
approach any kind of explanation, however, first some pertinent and
verified facts of the Building 7 aspect of 9/11 need to be scrutinized.
The following eleven facts have been compiled from the
 research of
reputable sources – those who have dared to question and have devoted
innumerable hours into discovering what really happened on 9/11.
FACT 1: WTC Building 7 was one of the largest buildings in downtown
Manhattan. It was 47 stories tall, about half the height of the Towers,
and took up an entire city block. It was 300 feet from the closest Twin
Tower (the North Tower, WTC 1), and was a steel-framed, concrete
structure.4
FACT 2: WTC Building 7 – on its 23rd floor – housed an Emergency
Command Center for the City of New York that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had
built in the mid-1990’s. On the morning of September 11th, Mayor
Giuliani did not go “to his Command Center – with its clear view of the
Twin Towers – but to a makeshift, street-level headquarters at 75
Barkley Street.” WTC 7 also held the offices of numerous government
agencies, including the U.S. Department of Defense, the CIA, the Secret
Service, the IRS, and the Security and Exchange Commission.5 Late 2001
was the time of “the height of the investigation into Enron, so the
majority of Enron’s SEC filings were likely destroyed when World Trade
Center 7 came down.”6
FACT 3: WTC Building 7 was not hit by airplane or significant debris
on September 11th. It had been evacuated after the planes hit the
towers. By the afternoon of September 11th, there were a few small fires
of unknown origin evident in the building, and these small fires could
be seen in only a few of the hundreds and hundreds of windows in the
building.7
FACT 4: On 11 September 2001, at 5:20PM, EDT, World Trade Center
Building 7 suddenly and rapidly collapsed. Beginning with the penthouse,
all 47 stories of it imploded into its own footprint in less than seven
seconds. Three different videos of Building 7’s vertical collapse – two
from CBS video broadcasts, and one from an NBC news camera – can be seen
online, LINK.
FACT 5: On 16 September ,
NASA
flew an airplane over the World Trade Center site, recorded infrared
radiation coming from the ground, and created a thermal map. The U.S.
Geological Survey analyzed this data, and determined the actual
temperature of the rubble. This map shows that five days after the
collapse of Building 7, the surface temperature of a section of its
rubble was 1,341º F.8 This high a temperature is indicative of the use
of explosives.
“WTC 7’s rubble pile continued to smolder for months.”9
FACT 6: Fire Engineering magazine is the 125-year-old paper-of-record
of the fire engineering community. Bill Manning, editor-in-chief, wrote
an Editor’s Opinion in the January, 2002 edition. His editorial, $elling
Out the Investigation, pointed out that destruction of evidence – the
hurried removal of rubble which should be examined by investigators – is
illegal. He also issued a “call to action”. To quote excerpts:
“For more than three months, structural steel from the World Trade
Center has been and continues to be cut up and sold for scrap. Crucial
evidence that could answer many questions … is on the slow boat to China
…”
“I have combed through our national standard for fire investigation,
NFPA 921, but nowhere in it does one find an exemption allowing the
destruction of evidence for buildings over 10 stories tall.”
“Fire Engineering has good reason to believe that the ‘official
investigation’ blessed by FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] and
run by the American Society of Civil Engineers is a half baked farce
[emphasis mine] that may have already been commandeered by political
forces whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full
disclosure. Except for the marginal benefit obtained from a three-day,
visual walk-through of evidence sites conducted by ASCE investigation
committee members – described by one close source as a ‘tourist trip’ –
no one’s checking evidence for anything.”
“The destruction and removal of evidence must stop immediately.”
“Firefighters, this is your call to action. …contact your
representatives in Congress and officials in Washington and help us
correct this problem immediately.” 10 11
FACT 7: In May of 2002, FEMA published their report #403 titled World
Trade Center Building Performance Study. This report claims that the
fires caused the building to collapse, but that the specifics of how
this is supposed to have occurred “…remain unknown at this time.”12
FACT 8: The collapse of WTC Building 7 shows five characteristics of
a controlled demolition:
It “dropped directly into its own footprint in a smooth, vertical
motion”;
It “collapsed completely in less than seven seconds”;
“Dust streamed out of the upper floors of Building 7 early in its
collapse”;
“WTC 7’s roof inverted toward its middle as the collapse progressed”;
and
“WTC 7’s rubble was mostly confined to the block on which the
building stood.”13
FACT 9: “Larry Silverstein is a rather large player within the realms
of 21st Century real estate, finance, and politics.”14 He “…had taken
out a long lease on the World Trade Center only six weeks before 9/11.
In a PBS documentary entitled ‘America Rebuilds’, originally aired in
September of 2002, Silverstein made the following statement about
Building 7:
‘I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander,
telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain
the fire, and I said, “We’ve had such terrible loss of life, maybe the
smartest thing to do is pull it.” And they made that decision to pull,
and we watched the building collapse.’” 15 16
FACT 10: “It is inconceivable that anyone could be running around
placing explosives in exactly the right places all within seven hours.
In fact, implosions take a minimum of two weeks and up to two months to
plan and place the charges. The fire department of New York does not
even train their personnel to do controlled demolition. They are done by
highly skilled experienced specialists who plan and test far ahead.”17
FACT 11: “… [George W.] Bush’s brother, Marvin Bush, and his cousin,
Wirt Walker III, were principles in the company [Stratesec, formerly
named Securacom] that was in charge of security for the World Trade
Center, with Walker being the CEO from 1999 until January 2002.”18
In summation: A major aspect of 9/11 has been excluded from the
entire U.S. media after September 11th, and was also omitted from The
9/11 Commission Report. This was the sudden fall to earth, on September
11th, 2001, of World Trade Center Building 7. Not hit by airplane or
significant debris, 300 feet from the closest Twin Tower, and with just
a few small fires burning within it, at 5:20PM EDT this massive concrete
and steel-framed 47-story skyscraper imploded into its own footprint in
less than seven seconds. Its rapid implosion had all of the
characteristics of a controlled demolition, and the World Trade Center
leaseholder, Larry Silverstein, stated in so many words that the
building had been collapsed by demolition. It takes weeks, if not
months, to prepare the demolition of a building as large as WTC 7; this
implosion could not have been engineered and implemented in seven
chaotic hours on September 11th. Therefore, a question emerges:
Who had the means and expertise to engineer such a demolition and
acquire needed materiel, and who had access to WTC Building 7 PRIOR TO
September 11, 2001 in order to place the explosives?
An inquiry into the answer to this question might be a good place to
begin a search for the real perpetrators of 9/11. Do we, the citizens of
the United States, have the courage and honesty necessary to initiate an
actual investigation, or will we continue living a Lie – and reap the
consequences?
Footnotes
1 Jim Hoffman: http://wtc7.net/
2 Jim Hoffman: http://wtc7.net/
3 David Ray Griffin, The 9/11 Commission Report – Omissions and
Distortions (Olive Branch Press, 2005), 28
4 Don Paul and Jim Hoffman, Waking Up From Our Nightmare
(Irresistible/Revolutionary, 2004), 5-20
5 Don Paul and Jim Hoffman, 18
6 Barry Zwicker, The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw, Global Outlook
magazine (Issue 9, Fall/Winter 2005), 19
7 Eric Hufschmid, Painful Questions – An Analysis of the September 11th
Attack (Endpoint Software, 2002), 62-65
8 Eric Hufschmid, 69-70
9 Don Paul and Jim Hoffman, 10
10 Eric Hufschmid, 5-6
11 Fire Engineering magazine, January 2002
12 Eric Hufschmid, 7-8
13Don Paul and Jim Hoffman, 8-10
14 Don Paul and Jim Hoffman, 20
15 David Ray Griffin, 28
16 For video footage of Silverstein’s statement, see Eric Hufschmid’s
video Painful Deceptions, edited and narrated by ReOpen911.org
(911busters.com, www.EricHufschmid.net).
17 Narration from Eric Hufschmid’s video Painful Deceptions, edited and
narrated by ReOpen911.org
18 David Ray Griffin, 31-32
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