On Friday, September 7th, 2001, an old colleague from work called me and we discussed terrorism. During our conversation, he brought up the World Trade Center, and the 1993 bombing which Ramsey Joseph and others plotted and carried out in order to bring down the Twin Towers. It didn’t succeed.
The reason for this was that the towers had been built on a solid foundation deep into the bedrock of lower Manhattan Island, with dozens of steel frames criss-crossing the entire perimeter of what constituted the inside of the towers and its deep well constructed foundations.
I told my friend that this was the reason why the bombing of 1993 failed to bring them down, but that the only way that I could foresee those towers being brought down was that two large commercial or military planes would have to crash into them at full speed, and not just at any level, but three quarters of the way up, where the impact would case the greatest effect on the structure of the towers themselves. What’s more, it could not be predicted the level of damage the towers’ destruction would cause, because there was the distinct possibility that the towers themselves would fall across the island of Manhattan and crash into other buildings and cause a chain reaction that would be even greater than what happened on that day. Were that to have happened there would have been more people killed, because the towers crashing into those other buildings would have brought them down as well. The loss of life would have been incomprehensible. And even the way things turned out, it was. What I said to my friend was prophetic.
That Tuesday, on September 11th, two commercial planes crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Interesting however, was how all of the structures at Ground Zero fell; they all imploded and fell like pancakes one on top of the other, until the all three buildings that constituted the World Trade Center, had imploded and fell. I am not suggesting some grandiose conspiracy as many fanatics have been quick to surmise and then cleverly create using computer generated models and slick presentations.
I have always believed that since the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, all three buildings and those surrounding them, were lined throughout their foundations with explosives just in case of such eventuality as that which occurred on 9/11. The reason for this? Because of the scenario I had given my friend that previous Friday on the phone; were the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and Building Three and all of the other buildings in the perimeter; to fall in the manner that I explained above – with these buildings falling across Manhattan, the destruction and loss of life would have been much greater, and costly. For this reason, all of these buildings had been previously lined with explosives by demolition experts, and these explosives were used when all hope had been given up on trying to rescue the survivors high above in the higher elevations of the Twin Towers. Once they – and I don’t know who they were – had reached that conclusion and the decision had been made to “play G-d” with their lives, the order was given – again by whom I do not know – to implode all of the buildings. Again, this was done for the reason cited above.
Conspiracy theorists wish to make out of this something that it never was, and in the process, they have caused confusion, and have trivialized the lives of those who lost them on that dreadful day, and the hard work of all of those involved in rescuing and evacuating the remaining survivors. If my theory is correct, whoever gave the order to implode all of the buildings on Ground Zero, would have much to answer for, inasmuch as he/she/they were also responsible for the loss of those firemen, EMT personnel, policemen, and others who were in the process of trying to reach the people in the higher elevations. In effect, however gave this order, literally pulled whatever foothold these people had to do their courageous work out from under them. This person/people has/have the blood of these heroes and those on the higher elevations on their hands. Again, the only way that I could see that anyone would sanction such a course of action was to prevent greater tragedy from taking place with the collapse of the Twin Towers across lower Manhattan, and for that reason, all of these buildings were imploded as they were.
We can understand and see why the authorities would not want to pursue an investigation into this, because a whole lot of heads would roll, and a good many people, some perhaps we have thought of as heroic leaders on that day, might find themselves in some very hot water. Careers would end, and a lot of people would go to jail, and these people are too high up the food chain to be indicted, or much less, convicted of any crime. No grand conspiracy, just a course of action that was less than what anyone would have wanted in order to prevent a much greater catastrophe on that awful and dreadful day.
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