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If it's all on the up and up as you seem to believe why were the fire engineers who were desperate to examine the steel from the WTC not only prevented from doing their job (that is, to find out why buildings that was designed NOT to come down in a fire had come down) but why were the more persistent ones actually threatened with losing their jobs if they didn't shut up? Bill Manning,editor of Fire Engineering Magazine wrote an editorial in which he said that, 'The destruction and removal of evidence (from ground zero) must stop immediately.' Fire engineers complained in a story run in the New York Times in 2001 that their investigation was impeded at every turn. They were prevented from interviewing witnesses and even had difficulty gaining access to recorded distress calls to the fire department and the police. Is this the behaviour of an administration with nothing to hide? The fact is Giuliani and co couldn't let the fire engineers examine the steel: they would have realized imediately that the steel pillars that held up the Twin Towers had been 'cracked' with explosives into regular lengths perfect for throwing on to the back of trucks. Giuliani did in fact have them thrown on to the back of trucks and shipped to Asia where they were melted down. The fire engineers were never allowed to examine them. The only way the Twin Towers could come down is if the steel pillars collapsed and that steel was especially formulated not to melt and collapse unless it was subjected to heat of 3,000 degrees fahrenheit. The highest estimate of the fires in the Twin Towers is 2,000 degrees fahrenheit. If everything is as it should be why did the 9/11 Commission lie about the steel pillars and claim there was a hollow centre where the pillars in fact were, down which the fire is supposed to have rushed. Fact after fact refutes the official story. If the 9/11 Commission had done it's job the whole treasonous story would have been revealed to the public. The reason they didn't do their job is that they were never meant to. Condoleeza Rice's friend Phillip Zelikow, Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission,made sure of that. This is the man who yelled so hard at the Jersey Girls, bereaved women who had lost husbands and loved ones on 9/11, that he went red in the face. 'Everything is connected,' he mocked them. 'The hip bone is connected to the thigh bone is connected to the knee bone. It's all connected.' Next time you hear Bush pretending he gives a damn about those who died on 9/11 think about Zelikow's red face and his contempt for the victims.If you really want the truth, that's the truth.
