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2023-09-12 Home Front: WoT

Inside the forgotten third World Trade building occupied by CIA that burned down on 9/11

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-12 05:51|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

Many important records and documents could have been lost. We may learn a great deal more in 50-60 years or so.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-12 05:58|| 2023-09-12 05:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Certain day in Dallas?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-09-12 07:19|| 2023-09-12 07:19|| Front Page Top

#3 The contention is based on two different engineering theories. The NIST says the steel in the main supports weakened because of the fire. Other say that auxiliary columns failed and that was the main problem.

Posted by lord garth 2023-09-12 08:32|| 2023-09-12 08:32|| Front Page Top

#4 A bunch of engineers from the Institute of Northern Engineering based out of the University of Alaska Fairbanks drafted/authored a White Paper that does not blame fire and concludes:

The collapse of WTC 7 was a global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building.

White Paper Here

Posted by mossomo 2023-09-12 12:45|| 2023-09-12 12:45|| Front Page Top

#5 I've also read it was because of the seismic result of the trade centers collapsing.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-09-12 15:53|| 2023-09-12 15:53|| Front Page Top

#6 I seem to recall photographs of numerous people described as Agency employees going through the rubble and paper litter around the build looking for classified material. They were all wearing EFFBEYE standard windbreakers and the notation was that the New York Station was clandestine so they had to pose as Bureau agents.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-09-12 18:34|| 2023-09-12 18:34|| Front Page Top

#7 …occupied by the CIA that burned it down….

Funny, how all those columns failed simultaneously.

Posted by KBK 2023-09-12 21:13|| 2023-09-12 21:13|| Front Page Top

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