Unlike the rest of Americans, New Yorkers will never forget the massive explosions that occurred well after the planes hit the towers, and just before the collapse of each tower. Many reports of these explosions were broadcast on national television that day, but were all somehow swept under the rug and ignored by the media monopoly ever since.

The collapse of the World Trade Center buildings provides incontestable scientific evidence of an inside job - a freefall collapse (10 seconds each tower) onto its own footprint, preceded by massive explosions is a controlled demolition any way you slice it.

According to the 9/11 Commission's report:

At 8:46, the hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 flew into the upper portion of the North Tower, cutting through floors 93 to 99. Evidence suggests that all three of the building’s stairwells became impassable from the 92nd floor up. Hundreds of civilians were killed instantly by the impact. Hundreds more remained alive but trapped.

At 9:03, the hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 hit 2 WTC (the South Tower) from the south, crashing through the 77th to 85th floors. What had been the largest and most complicated rescue operation in city history instantly doubled in magnitude. The plane banked as it hit the building, leaving portions of the building undamaged on impact floors.

At 9:58, the South Tower collapsed in ten seconds, killing all civilians and emergency personnel inside, as well a number of individuals—both first responders and civilians—in the concourse, in the Marriott, and on neighboring streets. The building collapsed into itself, causing a ferocious windstorm and creating a massive debris cloud. The Marriott hotel suffered significant damage as a result of the collapse of the South Tower.

By 10:24, approximately five FDNY companies reached the bottom of stairwell B and entered the North Tower lobby. They stood in the lobby for more than a minute, not certain what to do, as no chiefs were present. Finally, one firefighter—who had earlier seen from a window that the South Tower had collapsed—urged that they all leave, as this tower could fall as well. The units then proceeded to exit onto West Street. While they were doing so, the North Tower began its pancake collapse, killing some of these men.

[8:46] WTC1 is hit between floors 93-99 [9:03] WTC2 is hit between floors 77-85 [9:59] WTC2 collapses in 10 seconds [10:29] WTC1 collapses in 10 seconds

Near the surface of the Earth, gravity produces a downward acceleration of 32 feet per second for any falling object. So if I drop a basketball and a Chevy truck off a building at the same time, the first second of their descent they will both fall at 32 ft/second, a second later they'll be falling at 64 ft/sec, then 96 ft/sec and so on. Since the laws of physics are constant, we've been able to measure this force using these equations.

An object falling from the top of the twin towers will take 9.2 seconds to reach the ground (provided the object meets no resistance on the way down) which means at 10 seconds, the towers collapsed at virtually freefall speed. The government's official explanation for both of these unfathomable events is a pancake collapse. What this theory implies is the floors above the impact fell onto the floors below the impact and the entire building collapsed floor by floor all the way to the ground; this theory defies the laws of physics! It would require an enormous amount of downward energy (far more than gravity can provide) to demolish 80-90 floors of steel and concrete resistance at freefall speed.

The United States government wants us to believe the collapse occurred because the steel frame of the twin towers was weakened by the intense heat of the fires; an event that has never happened before or since. The reason this has never happened before is because the steel frame of a building will not begin to melt until it reaches over 2,700°F; such an event has never occurred - not even on September 11th. The 9/11 commission's explanation is scientifically and mathematically impossible; it is both a desperate lie to conceal the truth and an insult to the intelligence, imagination and understanding of each and every American.

The most important event of 9/11 which remains in the memories of New Yorkers is WHAT HAPPENED TO WORLD TRADE CENTER BUILDING 7? Most Americans have never heard of the collapse of building 7 because it has been widely ignored by the mainstream media in America. The reason for this is quite simple: any rational explanation of building 7's collapse will certainly undermine the credibility of the official story. So ask yourself, have you ever seen or even heard of a building collapse for no apparent reason?

World Trade Center 7 was a 47-story steel-framed skyscraper located 300 feet from the plaza. At 5:20pm on September 11th, World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed in 6 seconds (freefall) onto its own footprint.

The 9/11 Commission fails to explain what happened to building 7 - as if the mysterious collapse of a 47-story skyscraper is not worthy of comment. Some have argued the collapse of the towers and the ensuing fires caused the building's structure to fail. It is true the south side of the building was damaged from the collapse of WTC 1, however if this theory is correct, is it not reasonable to expect the building's fall to begin at its weakest point (the damaged front) and continue falling forward? Instead, this building's collapse is symmetrical, following the path of most resistance - straight down - into its own footprint in just over 6 seconds . . . freefall. The collapse of this building cannot be ignored - ignore the two towers, forget the pentagon - seriously ask yourself what in the world happened to WTC7?

The most interesting thing about World Trade Center 7 is its list of tenants on and prior to 9/11, which include the SEC, IRS, DOD, CIA, Secret Service, and the Mayor's emergency bunker. In other words, building 7 was a government building.

In my opinion it is likely somewhere deep within the secure doors of this command bunker was the "demolition room" with the big red buttons and a FEW of the true terrorists who are responsible for the atrocity that took place that day. Unfortunately for the truth-seekers all that was inside any of these buildings has been completely destroyed and the remnants of its skeleton were quickly loaded onto trucks and shipped out of the country, making it impossible for ANYONE to analyze any physical evidence to discover the true nature of the collapses.

However, we can apply science and logic to what evidence does remain. Notice in this next picture there is an obvious crimp in the left center of the building's structure causing an implosion effect, meaning the building collapses into itself instead of onto the surrounding buildings. This is a picture-perfect signature of a controlled demolition. This evidence can only be refuted with lies. Perhaps this is why you'll never hear this topic discussed on television. WTC7 is a smoking gun so hot the Kean Commission could not touch it.

The World Trade Center complex had never changed ownership since its construction until 6 weeks prior to the attacks. Larry Silverstein purchased the complex with a down payment of $124 million; the estimated value was $3.2 billion. He promptly insured his investment with a record-breaking $7 billion policy. The destruction of World Trade Center 7 is unprecedented - never before or since 9/11 has a steel-framed skyscraper collapsed from fire. If this building is indeed history's first, the event is all the more worthy of painstaking investigation - could there be other steel-framed buildings built with these exceptionally overlooked weaknesses?

Larry Silverstein explains what happened to building seven in this video clip, taken from the PBS documentary, America Rebuilds. Silverstein admits to having a conversation with the fire department wherein "they made that decision to pull" which strongly implies that WTC 7 was brought down in a controlled fashion. The term pull is regularly used in the demolition industry to mean demolish, and to professionally demolish a building takes weeks to months of preparation. In fact this very same documentary, America Rebuilds, shows the demolition team at ground zero using this same language in reference to demolishing the tattered World Trade Center building 6.

The decision to pull building seven could not have been made at 5:20pm on September 11, 2001 unless this building (which houses numerous clandestine government agencies) had previously been prepared for demolition.

These next photographs are very revealing; look closely at the World Trade Center steel columns directly behind the fireman and notice how it appears to be cut at a sharp angle very similar to how the cutter charge is being installed in the picture to its right. Second, previously molten steel (the end product of a thermite reaction) is plainly visible running down the columns.

Un-fireproofed structural steel melts at approximately 2,750°F (1,500°C) and residential fires usually get as hot as 900-1,200°F. Burning hydrocarbon (jet fuel) can make a fire as hot as 1,800°F (1,000°C). You simply cannot get molten steel with Class A & B fires - they cannot even reach the required temperature, let alone SUSTAIN it. Thermite, however, is an incendiary compound which can burn at over 4,500°F (2,500°C). When used for demolition, thermite cutter charges are capable of cutting through steel beams like a hot knife through butter, resulting in molten iron residue. To pull down a building the size of WTC 7 you would need hundreds of pounds of thermite to do the job right - certainly there would be traces of this following demolition. According to eyewitness testimonies and infrared satellite photos, building 7 and both of the towers had pools of molten metal burning for weeks after the attacks.

Here's a thermal satellite image of ground zero. The temperatures of these hot spots range from 800°F (427°C) to 1,377°F (747°C) The A & B arrows point to the hot spots underneath the rubble of WTC 7, but take a look at the larger spots underneath the twin towers! Is it not reasonable to suggest whatever brought down building 7 could have brought down the twin towers as well? After all, eyewitnesses have described hearing explosions preceding the collapse of all 3 buildings, and they each fell straight down at the rate of freefall.

I hope you're asking as I did, if the buildings were brought down with explosives, how were they planted in the buildings without anyone noticing? Some employees who worked in the World Trade Center have reported that in the weeks before 9/11 there were numerous unannounced and unusual drills where both towers and building 7 were evacuated for "security reasons." During these drills the power was cut to most of the floors, disabling the security & surveillance systems. This "security detail" had been working in 12-hour shifts for the two weeks leading up to 9/11 because of numerous "phone threats." However, on the Thursday before 9/11 the bomb-sniffing dogs and the added security were unexpectedly removed. The most damning truth about all of this is we know that Marvin Bush, the president's brother, had the authority to control these unusual security measures at the World Trade Center. Marvin was Board of Directors at Securacom from 1993 until fiscal year 2000. Securacom, now known as Stratesec, is an electronic security company backed by Kuwait-American Corporation, which provided security for United Airlines, Dulles International Airport, and from the early 1990s to the day of 9/11, the World Trade Center. Marvin is also the former director of HCC Insurance Holdings which insured parts of the World Trade Center on 9/11.

The image below illustrates a timeline of the hijackings according to the 9/11 Commission's official conspiracy theory. Moving your mouse over different areas of this map will reveal more information.

Summary: The 1st flight to lift off (AA-11) was hijacked around the time the 2nd flight (UA-175) was taking off. AA-11 flew off course for nearly 30 minutes before slamming into the North Tower. UA-175 was known to be hijacked for at least 20 minutes before hitting the South Tower. By that time, it was already known AA-77 was likely hijacked as it began to turn around and head toward D.C. Air traffic controllers and the military monitored the plane over 45 minutes before it struck the military headquarters building sitting beneath the most secured airspace on the planet.

When normal procedures are followed, the FAA alerts the military as soon as they see signs that a plane may have been hijacked. The military (NORAD) then orders the nearest air force base with fighters on alert to send up two fighters to intercept the plane and assess the situation. These interceptions usually occur within 10-20 minutes from the first sign of trouble. This routine procedure happens 60-100 times a year, excluding drills. Also note: each team of fighters deployed in time to intercept either UA-175 or AA-77 were first sent in the wrong direction until it was too late to make any difference. In the case of Flight 77's attack on the pentagon, fighters scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base (11 miles away) could have intercepted the plane long before it entered the secured airspace over Washington.

"This sort of direct violation of standard operating procedures is inconceivable without some kind of high-level government approval. If we try to explain it by using the incompetence theory, it doesn't make sense. For example, if it was incompetence, you would expect there to be a normal inquiry into what went wrong, you would expect that there would be some kind of reprimands, that certain officials would be downgraded or lose their jobs.....but we find there have been no such reprimands at all." -Nafeez Ahmed

Something else to consider: at 9:25 the FAA initiated a national ground stop, canceling all takeoffs and requiring any planes in the air to land as soon as possible. This order has never been implemented in the history of aviation before 9/11. Is it plausible such incompetent FAA personnel could accomplish such an unprecedented task - after failing miserably to carry out standard routine procedures?

Now let's take a close look at Flight 77 and the pentagon crash.

On October 24, 2001 ABC News reported:

At the Dulles tower, O'Brien saw the TV pictures from New York and headed back to her post to help other planes quickly land. "We started moving the planes as quickly as we could," she says. "Then I noticed the aircraft. It was an unidentified plane to the southwest of Dulles, moving at a very high rate of speed … I had literally a blip and nothing more."

O'Brien asked the controller sitting next to her, Tom Howell, if he saw it too.

"I said, 'Oh my God, it looks like he's headed to the White House,'" recalls Howell. "I was yelling … 'We've got a target headed right for the White House!'"

At a speed of about 500 miles an hour, the plane was headed straight for what is known as P-56, protected air space 56, which covers the White House and the Capitol.

"The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that that was a military plane," says O'Brien. "You don't fly a 757 in that manner. It's unsafe."

The plane was between 12 and 14 miles away, says O'Brien, "and it was just a countdown. Ten miles west. Nine miles west … Our supervisor picked up our line to the White House and started relaying to them the information, [that] we have an unidentified very fast-moving aircraft inbound toward your vicinity, 8 miles west."

Vice President Cheney was rushed to a special basement bunker. White House staff members were told to run away from the building.

"And it went six, five, four. And I had it in my mouth to say, three, and all of a sudden the plane turned away. In the room, it was almost a sense of relief. This must be a fighter. This must be one of our guys sent in, scrambled to patrol our capital, and to protect our president, and we sat back in our chairs and breathed for just a second," says O'Brien.

But the plane continued to turn right until it had made a 360-degree maneuver.

"We lost radar contact with that aircraft. And we waited. And we waited. And your heart is just beating out of your chest waiting to hear what's happened," says O'Brien. "And then the Washington National [Airport] controllers came over our speakers in our room and said, 'Dulles, hold all of our inbound traffic. The Pentagon's been hit.'"

Air traffic controllers could only imagine the effect of a full speed 757 slamming into a building full of people.

"I remember some folks gasping. I think I remember a couple of expletives," says O'Brien. "No tears. Not a single tear among us. No one broke down. No one strayed from their duties."

Only once they were released, says Howell, did the reality sink in

Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta told the 9/11 Commission about his experience in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center with vice president Cheney as the unidentified plane made its approach towards Washington:

"There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, 'The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out.' And when it got down to, 'The plane is 10 miles out,' the young man also said to the vice president, 'Do the orders still stand?' And the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said, 'Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?'"

What were the orders? Why was this testimony excluded from their report?

On the morning of 9/11, a military war-game called Northern Vigilance sent fighter jets to Alaska and Canada, reducing the amount of fighters available to protect the east coast. Another war-game called Vigilant Guardian simulated multiple airline hijackings in the north-east sector, which coincided with the real-world hijackings. Operations Northern Guardian and Vigilant Warrior were additional components of a remarkably coincidental series of military exercises which included the World Trade Center and Pentagon as potential targets. If you think this is too fantastic to believe, I recommend you closely examine these claims and the response given to Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney when she confronted Donald Rumsfeld and General Myers about these wargames.

Cynthia McKinney: "The question was, we had four wargames going on on September 11th, and the question that I tried to pose.....was whether or not the activities of the four wargames going on on September 11th actually impaired our ability to respond to the attacks."

Richard Myers: "The answer to the question is no, it did not impair our response, in fact General Eberhart who was in the command of the North American Aerospace Defense Command as he testified in front of the 9/11 Commission I believe - I believe he told them that it enhanced our ability to respond, given that NORAD didn't have the overall responsibility for responding to the attacks that day. That was an FAA responsibility. But they were two CPXs; there was one Department of Justice exercise that didn't have anything to do with the other three; and there was an actual operation ongoing because there was some Russian bomber activity up near Alaska. So we..."

McKinney: "Let me ask you this, then: who was in charge of managing those wargames?"

Meyers: "The important thing to realize is that North American Aerospace Defense Command was responsible. These are command post exercises; what that means is that all the battle positions that are normally not filled are indeed filled; so it was an easy transition from an exercise into a real world situation. It actually enhanced the response; otherwise, it would take somewhere between 30 minutes and a couple of hours to fill those positions, those battle stations, with the right staff officers."

"Had I had any inkling whatsoever that people were going to fly airplanes into buildings, we would have moved heaven and earth to protect the country. Just like we're working to prevent further attacks." -George W. Bush

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon... ...had we thought that there was an attack coming in Washington or New York, we would have moved heaven and earth to try and stop it. And I know that there was no single thing that might have prevented that attack." -Condoleezza Rice

Although the Bush administration has repeatedly denied having any idea an attack like this could take place on our soil, there are far too many foreign and domestic intelligence reports and US military exercises which prove this to be false. Here are only a few examples:

In January of 1995 Philippine police uncovered plans for an attack codenamed Operation Bojinka while investigating a possible attack on the Pope. Details of Bojinka, disclosed in Ramsi Youssef's 1997 trial for the WTC bombing in 93, called for crashing hijacked airliners into civilian targets.

In June of 2001, German intelligence (Bundesnachrichtendienst) warned the CIA and Israel that Middle Eastern terrorists "plan to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture."

In August of 2001, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian intelligence to warn the US government "in the strongest possible terms" of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings.

CIA officials at the Chantilly, Virginia-based National Reconnaissance Office had scheduled an exercise [the morning of 9/11] in which a small corporate jet would crash into one of the four towers at the agency's headquarters building after experiencing a mechanical failure. The agency is about 4 miles (6km) from the runways of Washington's Dulles International Airport.

Agency chiefs came up with the scenario to test employees' ability to respond to a disaster, said spokesman Art Haubold. No actual plane was to be involved - to simulate the damage from the crash, some stairwells and exits were to be closed off, forcing employees to find other ways to evacuate the building.

"It was just an incredible coincidence that this happened to involve an aircraft crashing into our facility." Houbold said. "As soon as the real world events began, we canceled the exercise.

To date, the US government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the question is of little practical significance. Al Qaeda had many avenues of funding. If a particular funding source had dried up, al Qaeda could have easily tapped a different source or diverted funds from another project to fund an operation that cost $400,000–$500,000 over nearly two years.....The available evidence indicates that the 19 operatives were funded by al Qaeda, either through wire transfers or cash provided by [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed], which they carried into the United States or deposited in foreign accounts and accessed from this country. Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance. Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government - or foreign government official - supplied any funding. -The 9/11 Commission Report

Isn't it odd the 9/11 Commission found the question of who financed this operation of little practical significance? Here are only a few reasons why they have come to this conclusion:

During the summer of 2001 Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) Chief General Ahmad Mahmoud ordered Ahmad Umar Sheikh to wire transfer $100,000.00 to Mohammad Atta who was, according to the FBI, the lead hijacker. Historically, the ISI and CIA have had a close relationship dating back to the 1980s when Pakisitan was a leading recipient of US military aid, and by treaty the CIA therefore has veto power over the appointment of the ISI director. Although this evidence of direct financial assistance has been confirmed by the FBI as well as foreign intelligence, the 9/11 Commission has concluded they have seen no evidence that any foreign government - or foreign government official - supplied any funding.

On September 4th, 2001 General Mahmoud arrived in Washington D.C. to consult with his friendly counterpart CIA director George Tenet and high ranking officials of the Bush administration, including Richard Armitage and Colin Powell. On the morning of 9/11 Mahmoud was having breakfast on Capitol Hill with Senator Bob Graham and Representatives Porter Goss and Jon Kyl (who were part of the Congressional delegation to Pakistan).

Insider Trading

Put and call options are contracts that allow their holders to sell and buy assets, respectively, at specified prices by a certain date. Put options allow their holders to profit from declines in stock values because they allow stocks to be bought at market price and sold for the higher option price. The ratio of the volume of put option contracts to call option contracts is called the put/call ratio. Now take a look at a some of the highly suspicious trade patterns in the days prior to the attacks:

These unusual trade patterns coincided with equally suspicious trades in other areas such as military contractors. For example, call options purchased in Raytheon (the 5th largest defense contractor in the world) increased 600% on September 10. By the way, Raytheon has been fined millions of dollars for inflating the costs of equipment sold to the US military. Raytheon has a secretive subsidiary, E-Systems, whose clients have included the CIA and NSA.

On October 2, the Wall Street Journal reported that the ongoing investigation by the SEC into suspicious stock trades had been joined by a Secret Service probe into an unusually high volume of 5-year US Treasury note purchases just prior to the attacks. The Treasury note transactions included a single $5 billion trade. The Wall Street Journal explains, "Five-year Treasury notes are among the best investments in the event of a world crisis, especially one that hits the US. The notes are prized for their safety and their backing by the US government, and usually rally when investors flee riskier investments, such as stocks." The value of these notes, the Journal points out, has risen sharply since the events of 9/11.

Shortly after the attack the SEC circulated a list of stocks to securities firms around the world seeking information. A widely circulated article states that the stocks flagged by the SEC include the following corporations: American Airlines, United Airlines, Continental Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Southwest Airlines, US Airways airlines, Martin, Boeing, Lockheed Martin Corp., AIG, American Express Corp, American International Group, AMR Corporation, AXA SA, Bankof America Corp, Bank of New York Corp, Bank One Corp, Cigna Group, CNA Financial, Carnival Corp, Chubb Group, John Hancock Financial Services, Hercules Inc., L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc., LTV Corporation, Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc., MetLife, Progressive Corp., General Motors, Raytheon, W.R. Grace, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., Lone Star Technologies, American Express, the Citigroup Inc., Royal & Sun Alliance, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Vornado Reality Trust, Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter & Co., XL Capital Ltd., and Bear Stearns.

An October 19 article in the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the SEC, after a period of silence, had undertaken the unprecedented action of deputizing hundreds of private officials in its investigation:

"What happens when you deputize someone in a national security or criminal investigation is that you make it illegal for them to disclose publicly what they know. Smart move. In effect, they become government agents and are controlled by government regulations rather than their own conscience. In fact, they can be thrown in jail without a hearing if they talk publicly. I have seen this implied threat time and again with federal investigations, intelligence agents, and even members of the United States Congress who are bound so tightly by secrecy oaths and agreements that they are not even able to disclose criminal activities inside the government for fear of incarceration." -Michael Ruppert

The proposed system, which would go into effect immediately, effectively deputizes hundreds, if not thousands, of key players in the private sector.....In a two-page statement issued to "all securities-related entities" nationwide, the SEC asked companies to designate senior personnel who appreciate "the sensitive nature" of the case and can be relied upon to "exercise appropriate discretion" as "point" people linking government investigators and the industry.