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Conspiracy
by James "KOJAK" Hughs
U.S. ARMY, CAPT. (RET.)
Most of you have never heard of Thierry Meyssan. This one man is “indirectly” responsible for the death of American servicemen. He has “indirectly” caused hundreds of riots and recruited thousands of terrorists. Who is this horrible criminal and how did he commit these crimes?
Mr. Meyssan is a film maker who took a little intellectually vacuous rumor and made a movie called “The Big Life”. This movie is now circulating in the Arab world and enflaming Islamic passions. Many passionate Muslims and patriotic allied troops will die because of this piece of intellectual garbage.
The sad thing is there are several people reading this column who believe and support his empty theory. Mr. Meyssan believes the 911 tragedy was a vast government conspiracy orchestrated by President Bush. Thierry and his supporters are normally very intelligent people, but for some reason they suspend their logic and intellect to rabidly believe the silliest of conspiracy plots. Plots even Hollywood would throw out as too improbable.
“Ocum’s Razor” suggests that the simplest explanation is most often the correct explanation.
Here are some of the Conspiracy Theorists anti-government charges. •The hole in the wall of the Pentagon could not have been made by a commercial airliner. The hole in the building was only 75 feet wide and the airplane has a wingspan of over 125 feet. In addition there was no aircraft debris around the crash site (usually this is based on another film called “Loose Change”).
One of the first people at the Pentagon crash site was Allyn E. Kilsheimer. CEO of KCE Structural Engineering. He helped coordinate the emergency response. He has made sworn statements that there was an extensive debris field filled with pieces of American Airlines Flight 77a Boeing 757. He also testifies he personally helped pick up much of the debris, which included airline uniforms and human body parts. The Professor of Structural Engineering at Perdue University, Mete Sozen, investigated the crash site. He states the left wing of the aircraft was sheared off by striking the ground. The right wing, judging by damage done to the building and the support pillars was sheared off on impact. Only the fuselage actually entered the building.
• Marc Bimbach, an employee of the FOX news network saw the 911 airplane in flight just before it hit the Twin Tower. He says, “I did not see any window in the plane.” This has lead to the speculation that the aircraft was not a commercial airplane. People have guessed it was a missile or an even remote controlled military aircraft. In addition a photograph taken just before the plane hit the building and published in the New York magazine by Rob Howard revealed a “mysterious” pod under the aircraft. Conspiracists suggest this was a remote control device.
Mr. Bimbach admitted he saw the aircraft only “briefly”. Gene Corely, a licensed structural engineer with Technology Laboratories found parts of the fuselage of United Airlines, flight 175, complete with windows, in the Twin Tower debris. Who do you believe? The photograph of the “mysterious” pod was examined by Ronald Greeley from the Space Photography Laboratory University of Arizona; he determined it was not a “pod” in the photo but the results of glare and pixel bleed.
• The 47 story WTC # 7 fell “mysteriously” two hours after the fall of the twin towers. The fall of WTC #7 was a controlled demolition and the fall of the twin towers was an assisted (thermite) controlled demolition. No high rise structure in the history of the world ever fell as did the Twin Towers. The fires were not hot enough to melt steel yet molten steel was seen and found on site. This lead to the speculation that thermite was used to assure complete destruction. Explosions were heard in the basement of the Twin Towers prior to the actual plane crash. Causing people to believe the building had additional internal explosives.
The simple reason there has never been a high rise building that burned and fell like the Twin Towers is that there has never been a fire in a high rise building built like the Twin Towers. Most high rise structures in the world are “hard shell”. That means the support structure is in the exterior walls. The Twin Towers use a new “soft shell” construction technique.
The load supporting beams were clustered in the center of the building. If the towers had been hard shell construct they probably would not have fallen. Mr. Sunder of the National Institute of Structural Technology said the construction of WTC #7 was also rather unusual. The load carrying columns in WTC #7 had a unique truss system that transferred the weight of the upper floors to all the columns. When the debris from the Twin Towers damaged the columns in the front of the building the entire load of the penthouses and upper floors was transferred to the rear columns.
The stress on these columns far exceeded their design specifications. Still the building did not fall. The cause of the “progressive collapse” of the building was an uncontrolled fire that burned for seven hours.
That fire was fueled by a large tank of pressurized emergency fuel stored in the basement. The Twin Tower fire did not need to melt it for the building to collapse. There were literally hundreds of tons of weight pressing down on these central columns. When the fire weakened the columns, the upper floors acted like a giant hammer. As each floor fell it gathered speed and weight. This “hammer” sheared rivets, snapped welds and pulverized supports. As the towers fell the center beams kept it from toppling sideways.
The yellow dripping material seen in films and reputed to be melted steel or thermite could not have been either. The characteristics of the dripping material does not match either substance. It is much more likely it was simply melted plastic and other construction materials.
Melted steel was found later in the rubble but any fire fighter or blacksmith will tell you this is not unusual. When a fire is in a confined area and “banked”, it will develop very high temperatures. Eyewitnesses in the lobby of the twin towers testified there were no underground explosions prior to impact. They did testify that burning aviation fuel exploded out of the elevator shafts and destroyed the lobby.
All of the conspiracy questions can be answered with a simple open minded examination of the facts. But conspiracy theorists would rather believe in some huge complex convoluted plot by the government that defies these facts and suspends common sense.
The facts prove terrorists were responsible for 911. Osama Ben Laden says his terrorists are responsible for 911. Do not indirectly support the killing of American servicemen by giving the terrorists a lie they can hide behind.