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Evidence Refutes the Official 9/11 Investigation: The Scientific
Forensic Facts
By Richard Gage and Gregg Roberts
URL of this article:www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21436
Global Research, October 13, 2010 Architects & Engineers for 9/11
Truth - 2010-10-04
AE911Truth Delivers the Evidence to the Media: Press Conference -
National Press Club Washington DC
Ed. This is the actual 10-minute statement read by Richard Gage,
AIA, to the media at the AE911Truth press conference at the National
Press Club in Washington DC on September 9, 2010.
Good afternoon, my name is Richard Gage, AIA. Im a member of the
American Institute of Architects; Ive been a licensed architect for
22 years; And Im the founder of the non-profit organization,
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth).
As a group, we now have more than 1,270 architect and engineer
petition signers. Collectively, we have more than 25,000 years of
building and technical experience. This press conference is being
given by our petition signers and supporters today in 65 [it turned
out to be 67] locations around the world, including 30 states and
4 countries.
Today, were here to inform you that we have uncovered evidence that
the official investigations into what happened to the World Trade
Center skyscrapers on 9/11 were deeply flawed, or worse. The
scientific forensic facts we have discovered have very troubling
implications.
For example, a technologically advanced, highly energetic material
has been discovered in World Trade Center dust from the 9/11
catastrophe.
This follows the discovery, by the United States Geological Survey
and others, of high concentrations of unusual previously molten
iron-rich microspheres in the WTC dust. These microspheres can only
have been formed during the destruction of the World Trade Center
at temperatures far higher than can be explained by the jet fuel
and office fires. Those fires, we are told by engineers employed
by NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, were
allegedly the cause of the World Trade Centers destruction. The
discovery of this advanced energetic material, in the form of
red/gray chips distributed throughout the dust, both explains the
iron-rich microspheres and confirms the inadequacy of the official
account of what happened that tragic day.
Even before the microspheres and red/gray chips had been identified
and brought to our attention, we were deeply concerned about other
aspects of the destruction of these iconic buildings, and how they
were investigated. More than two dozen firefighters, engineers, and
other witnesses reported seeing substantial quantities of molten
iron or steel, flowing like lava in the debris under all three World
Trade Center high-rises. Office fires and jet fuel cannot possibly
reach the temperatures necessary to liquefy iron or steel. A mixture
called thermite, consisting of pulverized iron oxide and aluminum,
CAN generate temperatures above 40000F -- far more than is needed
to melt iron or steel, which melts at about 27500F.
The energetic material that was found in the WTC dust by an
international team of scientists (led by Niels Harrit of the
University of Copenhagen in Denmark) was reported in the peer-reviewed
Bentham Open Journal of Chemical Physics. It consists of nano-engineered
iron oxide and aluminum particles 1000th the size of a human hair,
embedded in another substance consisting of carbon, oxygen, and
silicon. The sizes of the iron oxide particles are extremely uniform,
and neither they nor the ultra-fine-grain aluminum platelets could
possibly have been created by a natural process such as a gravitational
collapse or the impact of jetliners. The red/gray chips in which
these particles were found exhibit the same characteristics as
advanced energetic materials developed in US national laboratories
in the years leading up to 9/11. They have no reason to be in this
dust. Given all the horrific costs in human lives, lost civil
liberties, and trillions of tax dollars spent in response to the
official account of 9/11, there can be no more urgent need than for
our country and the world to find out who put those materials in
the World Trade Center and why.
This need makes it all the more disturbing that top engineers in
charge of the governments investigation would avoid dealing
straightforwardly with ALL the evidence that AE911Truth and others
have repeatedly brought to their attention, much of which has been
available in the public record since the beginning. John Gross,
NIST co-project leader, has denied the existence of or even any
reports of molten iron or steel at the World Trade Center.
They stopped their analysis of the towers complete and highly
energetic destruction at the very point when the destruction began.
And they have dismissed or avoided serious analysis of the additional
evidence with which we are concerned, such as:
1. Both Twin Towers were completely dismembered and destroyed in
just 10 to 14 seconds - which occurs at near free-fall acceleration.
For this to happen, all 47 of their massive core columns as well
as a large fraction of their external columns would have to be
compromised with explosives beforehand.
2. More than 100 first responders reported hearing explosions and
seeing flashes of light at the onset of destruction. Light flashes
indicate explosive detonations. These witnesses are documented in
NYCs Oral Histories by City Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen
3. Multi-ton steel perimeter wall sections were ejected laterally
at 60 mph to a distance of 600 ft. That speed and distance indicates
that a high-pressure explosion initiated the ejection.
4. 90,000 tons of concrete and metal decking was pulverized in
mid-air, again indicating explosions.
5. World Trade Center 7, a 47-story building which was not hit by
an aircraft, fell at free-fall acceleration for more than 100 feet
a significant fact that NISTs Shyam Sunder was forced to admit after
being presented with our research. Yet NIST has failed to review
or acknowledge the obvious implications of this fact, which is that
the columns must have been explosively severed within fractions of
a second of each other.
6. The complete destruction and dismemberment of Building 7,
collapsing in just 6 = secondswhich is near freefall accelerationthrough
the path of what was greatest resistance, symmetrically vertical,
including 2 = seconds of pure free-fall (zero resistance), is an
occurrence only possible with expertly-placed explosives.
There are other falsehoods and omissions in NISTs official report:
1. NIST overstated the severity and duration of the fires in all
three skyscrapers, apparently in order to more credibly attribute
the destruction to the fires, yet without exaggerating them enough
to account for molten iron or steel.
2. NIST and FEMA did not follow the National Fire Protection
Associations standard procedures for fire and explosion investigations
and test building debris for explosive residues.
3. NIST did not test for explosives when explosive demolition was
the most likely hypothesis.
4. NISTs animated computer model of Building 7s destruction,
showing the outer walls crumpling inward like a piece of foil, bears
no resemblance to the actual collapse as seen in the videos.
5. NIST claims that the falling section of each of the Twin Towers,
above the jetliner impact zones, crushed the much larger and more
massive intact lower section. But [in the case of the North tower,]
video analysis reveals clearly that the upper [section] disintegrated
in waves of explosions prior to any crushing of the lower [section].
This indicates that the top sections could not have been the cause
of the destruction of the lower [section].
6. NISTs technical analysis into the twin towers collapses stops
at the initiation of collapse. There is no technical analysis of
the structural behavior of the building during the collapse itself.
In response to our Request for Correction on this matter, NIST
acknowledged that they were unable to provide a full explanation
of the total collapse.
In short, NISTs official technical explanation is fraudulent and
inconsistent with the basic laws of physics. By contrast, the
hypothesis of controlled demolition is consistent with all of the
available technical evidence.
This week, here in Washington, DC, we personally delivered our DVD
9/11: Blueprint for Truth The SF Press Conference Edition, which
included highlights of the forensic evidence, into the hands of
staffers for the science advisors of every elected representative
on Capitol Hill. In addition, we have sat down with over a dozen
of them and presented in detail the overwhelming evidence of explosive
controlled demolition. We have personally invited over 400 of them
to todays event. How many Congressional science advisors are here
today? [None].
I urge you to go to our website AE911Truth.org for more information,
including comments by our members on the problems with the official
investigation. At this point, we are calling for Attorney General
Eric Holder to ask a federal grand jury to investigate those
responsible for the NIST report, including Lead Investigator Shyam
Sunder and Co-Project Leader John Gross.
Wed like any and all reporters who will be covering this story to
know that Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth are here to give
you any technical support you need.
Finally, Id like to thank the thousands of scientists, senior level
members of the military, intelligence and other government officials,
pilots and aviation professionals, firefighters, scholars and
university professionals, 9/11 survivors and their family members
and concerned citizens here and around the world for their continuing
support.
We also want to thank our growing family of more than three hundred
sustaining financial supporters. We could not do this without you.
Now, I will answer any quick questions you may have. Keep in mind
that most of your questions will probably be answered during the
Mock Debate which will be starting in just a minute. Also, more
detailed information is available in our DVD, 9/11: Blueprint for
Truth The Architecture of Destruction, which is available on our
website AE911Truth.org.
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