Who's Really To Blame For 9/11?

President Clinton and his national security team ignored several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates, including one as late as last year. (December 5, 2001)

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SFCB, on 9/8/2006 1:28:12 PM
Total Posts: 194, Joined: 1/27/2006

Pvsheridan, I misread what you were asking.

How'd WTC7 come down? Fire and structural damage.

http://www.firehouse.com/terrorist/911/magazine/gz/hayden.h
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"We had fire in 50 and 7 World Trade Center."

And it's not like it was something that happened suddenly or unexpectedly. "...but also we were pretty sure that 7 World Trade Center would collapse. Early on, we saw a bulge in the southwest corner between floors 10 and 13, and we had put a transit on that and we were pretty sure she was going to collapse. You actually could see there was a visible bulge, it ran up about three floors. It came down about 5 o?clock in the afternoon, but by about 2 o'clock in the afternoon we realized this thing was going to collapse."

http://www.firehouse.com/terrorist/911/magazine/gz/boyle
.html

One of the NYFD chiefs on the scene already talked about the fire going on in WTC7. How about that structural damage?

"So we go there and on the north and east side of 7 it didn?t look like there was any damage at all, but then you looked on the south side of (WTC)7 there had to be a hole 20 stories tall in the building, with fire on several floors. Debris was falling down on the building and it didn?t look good. "

"(N)obody's going into (WTC)7, there's creaking, there are noises coming out of there, so we just stopped. And probably about 10 minutes after that, Visconti, he was on West Street, and I guess he had another report of further damage either in some basements and things like that, so Visconti said nobody goes into 7, so that was the final thing and that was abandoned."

"There was a huge gaping hole and it(fire) was scattered throughout there. It was a huge hole. I would say it was probably about a third of it, right in the middle of it."