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Do you think a)the events of 9-11 are highely classified and politicians don't have access to them OR b)most politicians know the truth and keep their mouths shout?
I would go with the first because trying to silence 500+ senators and house representatives is no easy task. Best to compartmentalize like they do with ufos and aliens. Just my opinion!
Originally posted by impressme
reply to post by EarthCitizen07
Do you think a)the events of 9-11 are highely classified and politicians don't have access to them OR b)most politicians know the truth and keep their mouths shout?
I would go with the first because trying to silence 500+ senators and house representatives is no easy task. Best to compartmentalize like they do with ufos and aliens. Just my opinion!
I think both A&B, we know Cheney took all his records with him.
We know George Bush sealed his records forever.
The rest that do know anything will never speak out if they know what’s good for them and their families.
Remember, Cheney had a hit squad working for him.
(I really wish I could make this laugh larger)
Cheney has a hit squad working for him? That is way to funny!
Seymour Hersh: "Executive Assassination Ring" Answered to Cheney, Had No Congressional Oversight
Investigative journalist Sy Hersh dropped a bombshell revelation on Monday about international killings ordered under Bush.
This 9/11 TM is getting more and more entertaining by the day.
Originally posted by okbmd
reply to post by GenRadek
Once again,would you mind quoting your sources?How do you propose to convince me as to the validity of your claims,if you fail to source your information?How can I formulate an opinion regarding your claims,based on nothing other than your claims?I attempt to source my information whenever possible.This allows the reader the privilege of examining material they may not have been aware of.The 'other side of the coin',if you will.At this point in time,I am not convinced of anything 100%.The most that I can say with conviction, is that there are way too many inconsistencies in the OS camp.Not once have I strayed into the 'no planes,fake planes,missiles,etc.,' although I cannot outright dismiss the possibilty of those theories.My focus has mainly been on the 'manner' in which these buildings fell.The OS is nowhere near credible in my own opinion.Also,I am curious as to why you refer to the guy as 'Larry' ? Does this somehow imply that you know him on a personal level? After all, you don't say 'George, or Dick' when referring to Bush or Cheney...
Taliban heads are also keeping the thousands and thousands of "alleged" people involved in the "inside job" quiet?
Where did you get this?
I also do not find it funny when people like yourself make outlandish stories about "inside jobs" and rediculus assumptions of Cheney Death Squads that are keeping the "real conspirators" quiet.
That is an insult to those that died and those that lost loved ones on 9/11.
Also, you are defending the true murderers that are still plotting to attack and kill more Infidels, including you AND me.
Originally posted by chorizo4
reply to post by impressme
The Japanese lost people on 9/11. Hopefully they were compensated. The Americans lost more. They were compensated.
By now they have spent most of the money. Too late! Complain earlier. You took the money, walk away and shut your mouths.
The most important operational decision to be made that afternoon was the collapse had damaged 7 World Trade Center, which is about a 50 story building, at Vesey between West Broadway and Washington Street. It had very heavy fire on many floors and I ordered the evacuation of an area sufficient around to protect our members, so we had to give up some rescue operations that were going on at the time and back the people away far enough so that if 7 World Trade did collapse, we wouldn't lose any more people. We continued to operate on what we could from that distance and approximately an hour and a half after that order was [given], at 5:30 in the afternoon, World Trade Center collapsed completely" - Daniel Nigro, Chief of Department
"They told us to get out of there because they were worried about 7 World Trade Center, which is right behind it, coming down. We were up on the upper floors of the Verizon building looking at it. You could just see the whole bottom corner of the building was gone. We could look right out over to where the Trade Centers were because we were that high up. Looking over the smaller buildings. I just remember it was tremendous, tremendous fires going on. Finally they pulled us out. They said all right, get out of that building because that 7, they were really worried about. They pulled us out of there and then they regrouped everybody on Vesey Street, between the water and West Street. They put everybody back in there. Finally it did come down. From there - this is much later on in the day, because every day we were so worried about that building we didn't really want to get people close. They were trying to limit the amount of people that were in there. Finally it did come down." - Richard Banaciski
Deputy Chief Peter Hayden:
"By now, this is going on into the afternoon, and we were concerned about additional collapse, not only of the Marriott, because there was a good portion of the Marriott still standing, 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."
"Firehouse: Was there heavy fire in there right away?"
"Hayden: No, not right away, and that's probably why it stood for so long because it took a while for that fire to develop. It was a heavy body of fire in there and then we didn't make any attempt to fight it. That was just one of those wars we were just going to lose. We were concerned about the collapse of a 47-story building there. We were worried about additional collapse there of what was remaining standing of the towers and the Marriott, so we started pulling the people back after a couple of hours of surface removal and searches along the surface of the debris. We started to pull guys back because we were concerned for their safety."
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Yeah, we had to pull everybody back. It was very difficult. We had to be very forceful in getting the guys out. They didn’t want to come out. There were guys going into areas that I wasn’t even really comfortable with, because of the possibility of secondary collapses. We didn’t know how stable any of this area was. We pulled everybody back probably by 3 or 3:30 in the afternoon. We said, this building is going to come down, get back. It came down about 5 o’clock or so, but we had everybody backed away by then. At that point in time, it seemed like a somewhat smaller event, but under any normal circumstances, that’s a major event, a 47-story building collapsing. It seemed like a firecracker after the other ones came down, but I mean that’s a big building, and when it came down, it was quite an event. But having gone through the other two, it didn’t seem so bad. But that’s what we were concerned about. We had said to the guys, we lost as many as 300 guys. We didn’t want to lose any more people that day. And when those numbers start to set in among everybody… My feeling early on was we weren’t going to find any survivors. You either made it out or you didn’t make it out. It was a cataclysmic event. The idea of somebody living in that thing to me would have been only short of a miracle. This thing became geographically sectored because of the collapse. I was at West and Liberty. I couldn’t go further north on West Street. And I couldn’t go further east on Liberty because of the collapse of the south tower, so physically we were boxed in.
FDNY Captain Ray Goldback:
"I'm going to guess it was after 3:00...we walked all the way back down to Vesey Street. There was a big discussion going on at that point about pulling all of our units out of 7 World Trade Center. Chief Nigro didn't feel it was worth taking the slightest chance of somebody else getting injured. So at that point we made a decision to take all of our units out of 7 World Trade Center because there was a potential for collapse."
"Then we found out, I guess around 3:00 [o'clock], that they thought 7 was going to collapse. So, of course, [we've] got guys all in this pile over here and the main concern was get everybody out, and I guess it took us over an hour and a half, two hours to get everybody out of there. (Q. Initially when you were there, you had said you heard a few Maydays?) Oh, yes. We had Maydays like crazy.... The heat must have been tremendous. There was so much [expletive] fire there. This whole pile was burning like crazy. Just the heat and the smoke from all the other buildings on fire, you [couldn't] see anything. So it took us a while and we ended up backing everybody out, and [that's] when 7 collapsed.... Basically, we fell back for 7 to collapse, and then we waited a while and it got a lot more organized, I would guess." - Lieutenant William Ryan