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Steel shipped to China...

Right, no one thought the collapses of the bldgs looked suspicious. After we get past this doozy of yours, let's consider one of the paranoid twoofies who refutes nearly all of your simplistic rationalization for the spoliation of the evidence.

March 12, 2002: Structural Engineer Criticizes Decision to Destroy WTC Steel A structural engineer who was a member of the team assembled by the American Society of Civil Engineers to investigate the World Trade Center site after 9/11 complains about the decision to rapidly destroy the remaining structural steel from the collapsed WTC buildings. Dr. Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, and specializes in studying structural damage done by earthquakes and terrorist bombings. [Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/7/2001; CBS News, 3/11/2002; Associated Press, 9/6/2002] He had come to New York a week after 9/11 to examine the collapsed towers, hoping to gain an understanding of how they had come down (see September 19-October 2001). [New York Times, 10/2/2001; US Congress. House. Committee on Science, 3/6/2002] However, New York City officials had decided early on to quickly transport the remaining structural steel to scrap yards, to be shipped abroad and melted down for reuse (see Shortly After September 11, 2001). As CBS News now reports, “As a result, Astaneh has almost certainly missed seeing crucial pieces before they were cut up and sent overseas.” Astaneh-Asl complains: “When there is a car accident and two people are killed, you keep the car until the trial is over. If a plane crashes, not only do you keep the plane, but you assemble all the pieces, take it to a hangar, and put it together. That’s only for 200, 300 people, when they die. In this case you had 3,000 people dead.” He says: “My wish was that we had spent whatever it takes, maybe $50 million, $100 million, and maybe two years, get all this steel, carry it to a lot. Instead of recycling it, put it horizontally, and assemble it. You have maybe 200 engineers, not just myself running around trying to figure out what’s going on. After all, this is a crime scene and you have to figure out exactly what happened for this crime, and learn from it.” However, he adds, “My wish is not what happens.” [CBS News, 3/12/2002] Astaneh-Asl previously told the New York Times that the scrap steel from the WTC was “worth only a few million dollars, a tiny fraction of the billions of dollars the cleanup will cost.” Yet the knowledge that could be gained from it “could save lives in a future disaster.” [New York Times, 10/2/2001]

Only a stupid, paranoid twoofie would think there was any reason to keep the steel.
Of course this has nothing to do with the collapses looking "suspicious".

Come on Red.

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Of course Red chooses to leave out Astenah's later comments:

Thanks to cooperation of the HSNE recycling plant, I have been able to study the steel from the WTC before recycling. I have identified and saved some components of the structures that appear to have been subjected to intense fire or impact of fast moving objects...I wish I had more time to inspect steel structure and save more pieces before the steel was recycled. However, given the fact that other teams such as NIST, SEAONY and FEMA-BPAT have also done inspection and have collected the perishable data, it seems to me that collectively we may have been able to collect sufficient data. The main impediments to my work were and still are:
-Not having a copy of the engineering drawings and design and construction documents.

-Not having copies of the photographs and videotapes that various agencies might have taken during and immediately after the collapse.

Such data has already been made available to ASCE Building Performance Assessment Team. If those are also available to us, we will be able to proceed further with our research.
(Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl,Before the Committee on Science of the U.S. House of Representatives March 6, 2002)
 
I came across that 4 number in a FEMA report and thought it couldn't be right. Surely more physical evidence from a crime and disaster of this magnitude would have been retained. The same FEMA report stated that numerous other pieces of steel marked for retention were accidentally scrapped as well. The last time I raised this on this forum no one could even concede that some portions of the investigation were compromised because they think that may somehow hurt their argument. And these guys call themselves intellectuals. :D
 
I came across that 4 number in a FEMA report and thought it couldn't be right. Surely more physical evidence from a crime and disaster of this magnitude would have been retained. The same FEMA report stated that numerous other pieces of steel marked for retention were accidentally scrapped as well. The last time I raised this on this forum no one could even concede that some portions of the investigation were compromised because they think that may somehow hurt their argument. And these guys call themselves intellectuals. :D

Who are you talking to?
 
I came across that 4 number in a FEMA report and thought it couldn't be right. Surely more physical evidence from a crime and disaster of this magnitude would have been retained. The same FEMA report stated that numerous other pieces of steel marked for retention were accidentally scrapped as well. The last time I raised this on this forum no one could even concede that some portions of the investigation were compromised because they think that may somehow hurt their argument. And these guys call themselves intellectuals. :D

What does the steel have to do with 19 nuts taking four planes and crashing them? Nothing

911 truth makes up lies out of thin air. They make up silly claims about steel, and forget about 19 terrorists - as they weave the dumbest fantasy in history, mocking the murdered on 911.

How can something not related to the conspiracy of 19 idiots compromise anything? Explain in great detail how your fantasy works.

Can't believe the massive leap to ignorance in your post about steel.

The steel has nothing to do with who did 911, and how they did it.

The only investigation missing steel could compromise would be modes of failure, but gee whiz, engineers already know how the WTC fails because they know how it was built. What the heck is your point? 13th year of failure for 911 truth, are you joining them, or what.

What is your fantasy version of 911? Why would steel be needed to solve who did 911? Don't fly on jets if you want to keep a secret of what you did...

13 years, and 911 truth can't figure out 911, they require a new investigation, which they will not understand.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10052249#post10052249#1278

And.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=278504#39
And when are you...
I will be back later to comment further.
Is it later yet?
 
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What does the steel have to do with 19 nuts taking four planes and crashing them? Nothing

911 truth makes up lies out of thin air. They make up silly claims about steel, and forget about 19 terrorists - as they weave the dumbest fantasy in history, mocking the murdered on 911.

How can something not related to the conspiracy of 19 idiots compromise anything? Explain in great detail how your fantasy works.

Can't believe the massive leap to ignorance in your post about steel.

The steel has nothing to do with who did 911, and how they did it.

The only investigation missing steel could compromise would be modes of failure, but gee whiz, engineers already know how the WTC fails because they know how it was built. What the heck is your point? 13th year of failure for 911 truth, are you joining them, or what.

What is your fantasy version of 911? Why would steel be needed to solve who did 911? Don't fly on jets if you want to keep a secret of what you did...

13 years, and 911 truth can't figure out 911, they require a new investigation, which they will not understand.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10052249#post10052249#1278

And.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=278504#39
And when are you...

Is it later yet?

What confirmation do you have that those 19 guys did it?
 
What confirmation do you have that those 19 guys did it?

Where have you been? The crew, did you try to research anything before going full woo, reported by seat number, etc, who was doing what on some of the planes.
The Passengers on Flight 93 know exactly who was doing the murders, they decided to take action after they figured out 911 in minutes - and here you are 13 years later with no clue who did it.
Flight 93 terrorists identified because they left behind evidence, etc. DNA is on record.
Flight 77, all 5 terrorists, DNA is on record.
Two of the 10 terrorists at the WTC are on DNA record.
Guess what the FBI did on 911 and 912; they cleared all passengers and identified those who did 911.

Did you know the rest of the passengers on Flights 11, 175, 77 and 93, had no motive for killing 8 pilots and others to take the planes and murder thousands. But 19 did, and they were proud to kill Americans. UBL promised us in the 90s he would kill Americans... Did you miss it.

What is your fantasy version of 911 - the real story has terrorist DNA, what do you have.

Flight 93 terrorists are heard on the CVR talking, guess what language they are using? Flight 93 pilots are heard screaming as they are murdered on ATC tape - did you miss that too? Why do you try to apologize for 19 terrorists who killed thousands of Americans on 911. Stick with the event, not some anti-government BS.

911 truth BS on the WTC falls short when we get to Flights 77 and 93 - it fails the reality check.
 
What does the steel have to do with 19 nuts taking four planes and crashing them? Nothing

911 truth makes up lies out of thin air. They make up silly claims about steel, and forget about 19 terrorists - as they weave the dumbest fantasy in history, mocking the murdered on 911.

How can something not related to the conspiracy of 19 idiots compromise anything? Explain in great detail how your fantasy works.

Can't believe the massive leap to ignorance in your post about steel.

The steel has nothing to do with who did 911, and how they did it.

The only investigation missing steel could compromise would be modes of failure, but gee whiz, engineers already know how the WTC fails because they know how it was built. What the heck is your point? 13th year of failure for 911 truth, are you joining them, or what.

What is your fantasy version of 911? Why would steel be needed to solve who did 911? Don't fly on jets if you want to keep a secret of what you did...

13 years, and 911 truth can't figure out 911, they require a new investigation, which they will not understand.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10052249#post10052249#1278

And.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=278504#39
And when are you...

Is it later yet?

Surely you're having a laugh and messing with me?

A building *********** free fell, and you don't think it'd be relevant to hang onto the only physical evidence they had in order to determine why? C'mon , I thought you were better than this. There's no need to ignore or make excuses for glaring deficiencies in the investigation. If everyone knew it was the 19 highjackers what then was the point of hanging onto any material at all. You obviously don't understand the significance of a steel high rise collapsing from fire and the implications that has on similar structures.

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Where have you been? The crew, did you try to research anything before going full woo, reported by seat number, etc, who was doing what on some of the planes.
The Passengers on Flight 93 know exactly who was doing the murders, they decided to take action after they figured out 911 in minutes - and here you are 13 years later with no clue who did it.
Flight 93 terrorists identified because they left behind evidence, etc. DNA is on record.
Flight 77, all 5 terrorists, DNA is on record.
Two of the 10 terrorists at the WTC are on DNA record.
Guess what the FBI did on 911 and 912; they cleared all passengers and identified those who did 911.

Did you know the rest of the passengers on Flights 11, 175, 77 and 93, had no motive for killing 8 pilots and others to take the planes and murder thousands. But 19 did, and they were proud to kill Americans. UBL promised us in the 90s he would kill Americans... Did you miss it.

What is your fantasy version of 911 - the real story has terrorist DNA, what do you have.

Flight 93 terrorists are heard on the CVR talking, guess what language they are using? Flight 93 pilots are heard screaming as they are murdered on ATC tape - did you miss that too? Why do you try to apologize for 19 terrorists who killed thousands of Americans on 911. Stick with the event, not some anti-government BS.

911 truth BS on the WTC falls short when we get to Flights 77 and 93 - it fails the reality check.

The problem with this is that for the official story to be true, they need 100% of the story to be true. For there to be evidence of conspiracy, all I need is some percentage to be found a flat out lie.

Before I get into this I want to say that I don't believe this is some "everybody is aware and in on it" type of thing. A select handful know. Many are willing to be directed while ignorant for personal gain. The rest is left to apathy and confidence in their ability to revise history. So with that said, on to presenting you with that 1%...

The FBI stated that 19 hijackers did this. Okay. They are confident that these 19 men did it. Okay. What they used to confirm this was DNA. Okay.

The BBC is a global news organization. Its tendrils did what they were trained to do, seek pertinent information. They found one of the alleged hijackers alive and scared as hell. It did a story found here in their archives:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1559151.stm

The grounds they used to dismiss this story were that it was just confusion about names. They just mistakenly asked a guy who had the same name without any other correlating information and ran with it. Problem is, this doesn't jibe with the contents of the article. The man CLEARLY states that it is HIS picture which is used. The man states that he also attended flight training in the US. The man states his reason for being in the States. The man states his passport was lost (stolen?) in Denver. The article also states that another of the men has come forward due to a mistaken identity.

Revisionism, changing history to HIS-story. Suppression of dissent.

The BBC later retracted this article. Remember with web crawlers erasing it was basically impossible. Even going so far as to directly discourage questioning of the official story and forwarding the suppressive label of questioning as "conspiracy theory":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/th..._theory_1.html

There are links within this article to reports which allegedly supersede the original story. Problem is, those reports don't talk at all about ANYTHING in the original story. They are just "on message" with the official story of the FBI. So in effect the BBC just wrote the first story out of history. Here is what they feel "supersedes" the original report:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1567815.stm

Wail M Alshehri, 33, may have lived in Hollywood, Florida, and Newton, Massachusetts.


That blurb wiped the entire previous story out of history? That man identified HIS PICTURE. That man stated that he was a flight student. That man confirmed he was in the states. No follow up. Nothing. Just rewritten. Does this make sense to you?

Also, the BBC is an actually half decent news apparatus so it may have some integrity, unlike the US corporate media. Check this out at the bottom of one of the linked articles:

There is no direct evidence in the public domain linking Osama Bin Laden to the 11 September attacks.

At best the evidence is circumstantial.


Yet this is the basis for for the US and her allies waging a GLOBAL war?
 
A building *********** free fell, and you don't think it'd be relevant to hang onto the only physical evidence they had in order to determine why?

Why would the speed it fell be a reason to hold on to the steel? Wouldn't the fact it burned all day be a reason to suspect it could fail (like everyone on site thought it would)?

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The problem with this is that for the official story to be true, they need 100% of the story to be true. For there to be evidence of conspiracy, all I need is some percentage to be found a flat out lie.

You have two problems with this.

(1) You think there is an "official story"

(2) You think that finding one "flat out lie" invalidates the whole story when you use your own interpretation of the story.
 
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Surely you're having a laugh and messing with me?

A building *********** free fell, and you don't think it'd be relevant to hang onto the only physical evidence they had in order to determine why? C'mon , I thought you were better than this. There's no need to ignore or make excuses for glaring deficiencies in the investigation. If everyone knew it was the 19 highjackers what then was the point of hanging onto any material at all. You obviously don't understand the significance of a steel high rise collapsing from fire and the implications that has on similar structures.
You talk BS, talk of glaring deficiencies, yet they remain complete BS, and you can't produce anything of value for 911.

The WTC towers were hit by planes, it knocked out the fire systems and made it impossible to fight the fires. The impacts equal in energy of a 2,000 pound bomb knocked off insulation giving zero time for the steel to be protected. WTC 7 burned all day, and collapsed, an expected event when you don't' fight the fire.

you lost this one based on reality

You don't understand fire, and engineering, so you make up a fantasy of, glaring deficiencies you can't define, can't explain. Good luck

Then you go with a story the terrorists are alive, yet they were dead, they were really on the 4 planes, and they died. People with the same names still alive are not the same people, the BBC ran a story of BS, false, and you use it as evidence for what? MSM is in on it, remember the 911 truth claims! lol, you can't figure out 911 after 13 years, and you can't make any valid claims for your fantasy of, "glaring deficiencies".

Each of your " glaring deficiencies" is due to ignornace, lack of study, no knowledge of flying, FAA, NTSB, RADAR, fire, fire science, engineering, physics, reading comprehends, poor logic, and more.

You quote-mine stuff and make up BS about it.

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