'Pull the Building!' Proof That 9/11 Was a Conspiracy

RECEIVED Fri., July 6, 2007

Mr. Black,
    You asked, "Can you handle the truth?" [“Page Two,” June 22]. I hope that your part two will be more substantive in debunking the evidence of a homegrown 9/11 conspiracy.
    Let's take an easy one, World Trade Center building 7, where former Mayor Rudy Giuliani had his emergency command center. This 42-story building went from free-standing to free-fall at about 5:14pm on 9/11. The official myth says that it came down as a result of fire, but only two small fires were visible through the windows prior to the collapse. The BBC was notified of its collapse and aired it about 30 minutes prior to the event with the building actually visible in the background during the report.
    On PBS's aired report "Rebuilding America's Defenses," developer and leaseholder of the World Trade Center towers Larry Silverstein admitted "I remember getting a call from the fire department commander telling me they were not sure they were going to be able to contain the fire … and I said, 'Well, you know, we've had such terrible loss of life … maybe the smartest thing to do is, is 'pull' it … and they made that decision to 'pull' … uh, and we watched the building collapse." The term “pull the building” is industry speak for initiating the demolition of the building. The collapse has all the earmarks of a controlled demolition: the roof kinks downward in the middle, and then the building free-falls into its own basement. With insufficient time for the proper placement of demolition charges after evacuation, the charges had to be placed well before 9/11. A pool of red-hot steel was found in the basement a week later, still at more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and a chemical analysis showed that it contained elements of the demolition explosive Thermate.
    So to me sir, this is not a conspiracy theory, but evidence of conspiracy.
Ron Hepler
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