Originally posted by Griff
One quote by Mr. Robertson:
"Leslie E. Robertson, the lead structural engineer on the team that designed the towers, wrote that "The events of September 11 are not well understood by me . . . and perhaps cannot really be understood by anyone." As NIST would also conclude"
No source of where he wrote this though.
I wonder why I haven't been able to find anything on it yet? Am I looking in the wrong places or is Mr. Swampfox pulling this out of his you-know-what? Not sure just yet, but if Mr. Robertson has publicly said anything, you'd think it would be easier to find. No?
Or is he keeping quiet to avoid any future lawsuits?
During a 1984-85 Office of Special Planning study into the vulnerability of the WTC to a terrorist attack, Leslie Robertson, one of the two original structural engineers for the World Trade Center, assured investigators that whether the towers suffered a bomb attack or were hit by an airplane, there was "little likelihood of a collapse no matter how the building was attacked."
In 2001, Leslie Robertson again stated, "The twin towers were in fact the first structures outside the military and nuclear industries designed to resist the impact of a jet airplane."
"As investigators have pointed out, immediately after 9/11 Leslie Robertson refused to discuss the collapse of the buildings with the media but he later recanted and agreed with NIST's conclusions"
Immediately after 9/11 it was reported that “the engineer who said after the 1993 bombing that the towers could withstand a Boeing 707, Leslie Robertson, was not available for comment yesterday, a partner at his Manhattan firm said. ‘We're going to hold off on speaking to the media,’ said the partner, Rick Zottola, at Leslie E. Robertson Associates. ‘We'd like to reserve our first comments to our national security systems, F.B.I. and so on.’” arabesque911.blogspot.com...
Mr. Robertson has said some very interesting things worth inquiring about.
"I designed it for a 707 to smash into it," he told a conference in Frankfurt Germany.
www.911blogger.com...
Some quotes so far.
[edit on 5/13/2008 by Griff]
Looks like this man Mr. Robertson has either been bought off or threatened by the government. I find Jeff King's analysis very credible and would love to see how the government apologists deal with the powdered concrete and computer chips issue.
Everybody forgets about the gold bullion that disappeared out of the basement. Where did that go? Who has custody of that?
I also heard some empty headed woman the other day on television saying that nobody could have come in an wired the place without the employees knowing. YES THEY COULD, AND IN FACT DID. President Bush's brother's company had a contract in the weeks before 9-11 to do service work in the mechanical areas of the WTC. These areas are used for maintenance and are never visited by the regular employees. They allow maintenance workers to operate behind the scenes and out of the way of the regular business employees and customers. These areas would have encompassed the elevator shafts and steel columns. In most high rise buildings entire floors are dedicated to mechanical machinery and heating and ventilation ducting. Regular employees are never allowed there. Only maintenance personel.
[edit on 5-17-2008 by groingrinder]
