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Warning of the collapse of the Twin Towers and more
Peter Duveen
9/11 Blogger
Saturday, Jan 3, 2008
There’s a tremendous amount of material to be gleaned from the newspaper editions that were published in the days immediately following the events of September 1, 2001. Only seven years have passed since that human tragedy was visited upon us, yet already an aura of history has surrounded it. There is a certain forgetfulness that makes revisiting the moment all that much more of a discovery, even though, with the advent of the electronic media, there is unprecedented access to the written word in all its forms.
Below are some cogent passages from The New York Times and the New York Post that I found among a personal stack of archived newspapers, dating from the days immediately following 9-11. These passages are made all the more relevant by research conducted over much of the decade. They supplement others I have already brought to the attention of readers in “Early 9-11 Reportage Reveals Surprises” (see below, also here and here).
We find, for example, that there were reports of a second explosion at the Pentagon following the alleged aircraft impact that is said to have caused the initial damage to the building.
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The New York Times, Sept 12, 2001 p. A5
“A Hijacked Boeing 757 Slams Into the Pentagon, Halting the Government”
by Don Van Nata and Lizette Alvarez
Other witnesses said the plane crash was followed by an explosion about 15 minutes later that could be heard miles away–apparently the sound of a large portion of the Pentagon collapsing.
[CAPTION: A New York Times photograph of the Pentagon building taken on the day it was allegedly hit by a hijacked airliner, although
debris normally associated with such an event is clearly absent.]
Moving on to the World Trade Center, we have mention of some foreknowledge of the collapse of the Twin Towers, and then, potent comments by observers who witnessed their disintegration:
The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2001, p. A7
“A Creeping Horror and Panicked Flight as Towers Burn, Then Slowly Fall, p. A7 (continued from p. A1)”
by N.R. Kleinfield
Police officers warned people in the vicinity to move north, that the buildings could fall, but most people found that unthinkable. They stayed put or gravitated closer.
Abruptly, there was an ear-splitting noise. The south tower shook, seemed to list in one direction and them (sic) began to come down, imploding upon itself.
“It looked like a demolition,” said Andy Pollock.
“It started exploding,” said Ross Milanytch, 57, who works at nearby Chase Manhattan Bank. “It was about the 70th floor. And each second another floor exploded out for about eight floors, before the cloud obscured it all.”
And:
Several people voiced the thought: “Get out of here, the other tower’s going to fall.”
People started walking briskly north until the premonition became real–another horrifying eruption, as one floor after another seemed to detonate.
And:
Late in the afternoon, hundreds of rescue workers remained outside where the trade towers once loomed, watching the stubs of the buildings continue to burn into infinity. Several stories still stood, but it was hard to judge how many. Above the second story was nothing but an intense orange glow.
Here’s a personal account that some will find relevant:
The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2001, A10
“Personal Accounts of a Morning Rush That Became the Unthinkable”
Mr. Pollard, 45, a portfolio manager at Deutsche Bank, ran into a nearby firehouse on Liberty Street, and took refuge with half dozen people, some of them injured, including a Japanese woman who had been badly burned all over her body.
“Her clothing was just blood and rags,” he said.
The group gathered in the firehouse kitchen, just across from the Twin Towers, and watched the live television coverage, while they tended to the wounded. Suddenly, they watched in disbelief as the television showed the facade of tower one collapsing. “We just ran for the door, but a blast of heat and debris drove us back inside,” Mr. Pollard said.
–ANDREW JACOBS
Then, a little something about Building 7 of the complex. There is an ongoing debate about what happened in Building 7 before, during and after the “attacks.”
The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2008, p. A7
“Trying to Command an Emergency When the Emergency Command Center Is Gone”
by Richard Perez-Pena
Initially, city officials set up shop in the Emergency Command Center on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center, a stone’s throw from the twin towers, but officials concluded that the building should be evacuated.
One of the witnesses to the condition of the building in the early morning hours of that day was Barry Jennings, who recently died of undisclosed causes. Fortunately, his testimony has been recorded. He is said to have been reticent to fully disclose what happened that day, as he feared that if the information were made public, it would jeopardize his employment.
Moving on, we have a snippet from the New York Post about fires in the rubble, the origin of which are hotly debated:
New York Post, Sept. 13, 2001, p. 2
“THEY’RE ALIVE”
Written by Tracy Connor
Some of the rescue work was delayed by sudden bursts of fire that erupted as chunks of concrete were removed.
“We’ve got a problem with fireballs” someone screamed from an FDNY radio.
The following passage mentions the Blackstone Group, a rather weighty firm, not just in terms of the magnitude and character of its holdings, but also for its connections to current and former government officials.
New York Post, Sept. 13, 2001, p. 32
“$1B INSURANCE FIGHT: ‘Act of war’ claim may let firms off the hook
by Lois Weiss
John Ford, a spokesman for Blackstone–which owns the debt on Seven WTC–declined to discuss the financing but said Tuesday’s events “may take the shine off trophy properties, that’s for sure.”
One of the most startling stories to come out of 9-11 involves reports of individuals in the south tower (Building 2) who announced only moments after the first plane struck the north tower (Building 1) that it was safe to return to work. I have a particular interest in this issue, as only two years before 9-11, I worked for a short time at Fuji Bank, which occupied the offices where the second plane hit. During my stay, I participated in a fire drill in which the division I was working for walked down all 79 flights of stairs and exited the building, an exercise of the type the 9-11 Commission Report expressly denies ever occurred. [The 9-11 Commission Report, 2006, Barnes and Noble Pub., NY p. 280: "Deputy fire safety directors conducted fire drills at least twice a year." p. 281: "But during these drills, civilians were not directed into the stairwells, or provided with information about their configuration and about the existence of transfer hallways and smoke doors. Neither full nor partial evacuation drills were held."]
But I digress:
The New York Times, Sept. 13, 2001, p. 6
“Instincts to Flee Competed With Instructions to Remain”
by Michael Moss and Charles Bagli
Nat Alcamo of Morgan Stanley had been on the phone with his fiancee, who told him to flee his 60th floor office, and as he made his way down he ignored the official with the bullhorn on the 44th floor who said he was just as safe there as outside.
Moments later, his tower was struck, and “I went down three steps at a time, flying,” he said.
Richard Jacobs of Fuji Bank left the 79th floor with all of his colleagues, but on the 48th floor they heard the announcement that the situation was under control.
Several got in the elevators and went back up, two minutes or so before the plane smashed into their floor.
“I just don’t know what happened to them,” Mr. Jacobs said.
There’s an elaborate sidebar that takes up at least a quarter of page six, with illustrations of the two towers. Along the sides of the graphic are testimonies of survivors. One of these testimonies supplements the others cited above:
The New York Times, Sept. 13, 2001, p. A6 (sidebar)
“GETTING DOWN AND GETTING AWAY”
Arturo Domingo,
Floor 60
Morgan Stanley
He started down from the 60th floor and made it to the 44th when a man with a megaphone told him to go back. He and others went back up and returned to their desks. When the second plane hit, he headed for the exit again. “I really felt like punching the guy,” he said about the man with the megaphone.
Back to the main article, we have the following passage relating to the management of the World Trade Center complex:
Yesterday, Ernesto L. Butcher, chief operating officer of the Port Authority, refused to discuss evacuation procedures at the World Trade Center. But other Port Authority executives said the towers were under the command of the trade center’s new operator, Larry Silverstein.
Executives like Alan L. Reiss, the director of the World Trade Center, had been working on a transition team with Silverstein Properties that was to last for three months. But in recent weeks, agency executives said, Silverstein Properties asked Mr. Reiss to let it more fully operate everything from safety systems to tenant relations.
Mr, Silverstein would not comment yesterday on any aspect of the disaster. In response to questions concerning announcements made by security guards in the south tower advising tenants that it was safe to return to work, he issued a statement saying: “We are investigating this situation carefully. At this time we do not know whether a statement was issued, or, if it was, who issued it.”
To be continued.
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January 3rd, 2009 at 6:57 am
“One of the witnesses to the condition of the building in the early morning hours of that day was Barry Jennings, who recently died of undisclosed causes. Fortunately, his testimony has been recorded. He is said to have been reticent to fully disclose what happened that day, as he feared that if the information were made public, it would jeopardize his employment.”
Anyone that has evidence of government complicity in 9/11 or other crimes should immediately put their observations on mutiple copies of tape or disk.
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:31 am
Many of the media’s only true statements of 9/11 were made while it was happening. Same thing with the Oklahoma bombing. Curious isn’t it.
Well unlucky for them there is just too much evidence clearly showing it was an inside job. There will be no future for this country while the perpatrators of this event still run free and are still in control of our governement.
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:14 am
Good article, but can anyone tell me what is wrong in the opening sentence:
“There’s a tremendous amount of material to be gleaned from the newspaper editions that were published in the days immediately following the events of September 1, 2001.”
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:53 am
look up- kroll associates- on your web to see a connection.
January 3rd, 2009 at 1:44 pm
there are a few vids still floating about
that cover the drills and that the second tower was evacing
and out side on the ground floor there is some one telling them to go back in
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:06 pm
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/pf/p-j031302.html
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:09 pm
all this is evidence that will put these insiders away or out in the very near future
Fuking traitors and sick twisted murderous demons!
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:37 pm
The longer we let this inside job go unpunished the worst off this country is going to be! These killer terrorist are free and running/ruining your country! They are ripping you off and we just sit there and take it. If we don’t do something it will happen again and probably worst next time.
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:10 pm
What happens in the US, is also felt here in Australia.
With all these videos,recordings,coverups and lies, why hasn’t an authority done anything?
I guess I just answered my own question. They caused it all.
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Why the continued yak about 911? As I constantly point out, Putin was caught red-handed blowing up apartment blocks in Moscow. The result of this? He gets elected as the first strong-man of post communist Russia. His genocidal war against Chechnya still occurs exactly as planned. Blair protects Putin against an EU backlash, and convinces the Americans to support Putin. Blair provides a home for massive russian money laundering operations in the UK and associated territories. Blair creates a massive domestic EU fuel market for Russian gas etc, and pours billions into Putin’s coffers.
PUTIN WAS CAUGHT RED-HANDED BLOWING UP APARTMENT BLOCKS IN MOSCOW. The final target (because he was caught, obviously) was saved because locals discovered Putin’s security forces loading up the explosives in the basement of the building. The story was reported around the world. Putin claimed that his people were just ‘practicing’ at planting explosives (remember the practice drills that accompanied the false flags in New York and London?). After being caught, no other building was attacked that way.
Nobody even bothers denying Putin’s guilt to this day. Russians interviewed in the aftermath of the reporting of the false flag actually PRAISED Putin for having the b*lls to carry out such a brutal act.
Five minutes research into 911 reveals it to have been an operation carried out by out-of-towners (israelis- just as the mafia always uses out-of-towners for assassinations to minimise the Human trail), working for Cheney and his team. Where does that get any of us. It proves that WE ARE THE NAZIS, if one lives in any nation that supports the activities of the USA or Israel, but since people have a mental block when it comes to seeing themselves as part of a nation more evil than nazi-Germany, how does this help?. The very evil of 911 is its very protection.
Only an external force could stop the nazis or japanese empire. What external force is going to stop the UK, USA, Israel, and their various vessel states? Russia? You must be insane if you think this, since all Russia will do is barter for little bits of its old empire back. China? Well China is in the same position as Russia was immediately before WW2. At the moment, all China can do is pretend to support the Demons of the West, and prey it buys itself enough time to create a military capable of dissuading the genocidal, psychopathc brute of the USA from attacking. It will not succeed, and all China can realistically hope for is enough of its people survive the holocaust to help repopulate the Earth at some point in our future.
911 has already told us everything of use. Today, non-involved Humans either care to know the truth, or choose to delude themselves, just as so many german citizens chose to pretend the crimes of the nazis were not really happening. The jewish-Israel holocaust of Gaza currently underway is likely to shake a few more people out of their slumber but more again are going to place their heads deeper under the bedcovers.
The time to use the truth about 911 has long since passed. Indeed, very soon, Obama will state that those people that continue to hark on about the subject are social criminals, to be actively disbarred from all discourse. Darkness has descended, and the light will not return until after WW3. Few, if any, will be around to see that new dawn.
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:48 pm
typo in the article: september 1 should be september 11
LOL
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Can’t argue that point, Its true Vein, its true
January 4th, 2009 at 3:29 am
I’ll reiterate,
the official independent investigation into 911 has been ongoing for TWO YEARS and it’s growing, from the ground up – justice will be done.
http://www.ae911truth.org/flashmov11.htm
January 4th, 2009 at 5:14 am
ENGAGE THE INFORMATION WAR THAT WE’RE IN FOLKS. IT’S TIME 2 UNITE & FIGHT.
DON’T LET THESE NEO-SCUM BLOOD-SUCKING BASTARDS WIN !!!!!
POWER 2 THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, 4 THE PEOPLE
VIVA LA REVOLUTION ………………………….. MR ALEX JONES 4 EL PREZIDENTAY !!
January 4th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Dear vein, I couldn’t of said it better. Thank You for that but we will always need to tell the truth about history and especially an event that has changed the world so much. If you go do a search on Youtube on 911 you’ll see government hacks and scum alike writing lies in the comments and spreading hate toward muslims, arabs, and persians. It’s sickening, it’s like they’re trying to warp the minds and spread hate. I live in Orange County, CA in a conservative neighborhood and I wear a “investigate 911″ T-shirt around sometimes. I have NEVER got anything but stares of PURE HATRED from the people at the local Rite-Aid, Walmart and a food court plaza I frequent. While walking to my car with my food one evening I passed two guys who had to be Marines with their haircuts and all and as they passed me with hatred in their eyes one of them said ” fuck you terrorist scumbag” and when I turned around to look at them they had stopped and were waiting for me to say something but my common sense told me to just walk away as these guys looked angry as hell and ready to beat me up. This is the reason we have to spread the truth so the ones who did 911 are at the receiving end of that hate and not the innocent. Buy a “investigate 911″ T-shirt and wear it as much as possible is what I say. Until the majority understand how evil the US, Israel, Britain, and Russia are(to name a few) and how these countries use False Flag Operations to push their evil agendas we should never stop. We will win in the end my brothers and sisters because we are decent people. Never give up!
January 4th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
The future will be what we, ourselves make it.
It is not the end of the world that is upon us, but the end of an Age.
We create our realities by the way we think.
The present is the only time of real power. It is what is done now that will determine the outcome of our future. We can not change yesterday but we can learn from it and thereby build a better tomorrow.
We will either fail each other and harm ourselves….or we will help each other and thereby help ourselves. It is our choice and the time has come.
Wake up and chose.
January 4th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
i distinctly remember seeing colin powell on c span several weeks
prior to 911 speaking to a congressional comitee about the possibility
of terrorist flying planes into buildings.
January 4th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
bullshit, why would anyone read it unless it indicated it was before september 11th?
typo my ass, nice try!
scroll down post, leave.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:24 am
ANY DOUBTS?
http://www.jedreport.com/2008/.....ent-i.html
January 5th, 2009 at 3:37 am
INFORMATION IS THE BEST WEAPON TO USE AGAINST THESE NEO-SCUM BASTARDS !!
IT’S TIME FOR ALL INFOWARRIORS TO STEP UP, STEP FORWARD, AND POLLUTE THE
WORLD WITH OUR COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. 1 LOVE !!!!!!!!!!!
TIME TO GIVE POWER BACK 2 THE PEOPLE, GIVEN BY THE PEOPLE, & GIVEN 4 THE PEOPLE
AND SO BEGINS THE REVOLUTION …………………………………………….
………”RON PAUL”……………………….”ALEX JONES”………………………….”DAVID ICKE”……….
…..FOR PRESIDENT…………….FOR VICE-PRESIDENT………….FOR SECRETARY-OF-STATE…..
January 5th, 2009 at 4:51 am
It should indeed read “September 11,” and not “September 1.” Thanks to those who have pointed it out. The author.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
I was always baffled as to exactly how they cut thick steel I-beams and generated the enormous amount of heat to make I-beams red-hot weeks later.
Thermite or thermate seems to fit the bill. It is not an explosive so it is safe (no need to follow explosive material laws). It can burn at up to 16,000 degrees (that can cut through anything).
http://911blogger.com/node/12620
And what about Building 7? What about the interviews of people who heard the countdown? Maybe they are just “complete fools” or “mentally ill”? I don’t think so.