What incredible arrogance you all show when you can't be bothered to read what real people, people with experience of dealing with burning buildings of all sorts, who were present at the scene of the crime had to say. And if you do read it, dismiss it as something other than what it is. You're all so pathologically entrenched in your positions that you think you know what happened and you definitely know what didn't happen - and you won't even listen to people who were there. Not one of you has agreed that explosives should have been tested for as part of a perfectly normal
process of elimination. I hardly need say more; you're all doing a perfectly good job without my help.
But, how about some snippets of
eyewitness (yes, that's what it's called) testimony from the FDNY oral history?
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packag...12_WTC_GRAPHIC/met_WTC_histories_full_01.html
[ex=http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110295.PDF]Christopher Fenyo, 9110295
South Tower:
About a couple minutes after George came back to me is when
the south tower from our
perspective
exploded from about midway up the building. We all turned and ran... [p. 5]
...
At that point a debate began to rage because the perception was that
the building looked like it
had been taken out with charges...
North Tower
There was an
explosion at the top of the Trade Center
anda piece of Trade Center flew across
the West Side Highway and hit the Financial Center... [p. 3]
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Brian Fitzpatrick, 9110256
Journal of 9/11 Studies 79 August 2006/Volume 2
North Tower:
...
wind, debris, heat. I
remember falling down, getting back up, and
the guys were just falling all over each other. [pp.
3-4]
...We just thought it was debris or an
explosion or a
secondary explosion or
another
bomb inside the building or another plane.
I looked up, and
the building exploded, the building that we were very close to, which was one
tower.
The whole top came off like a volcano...I thought
the terrorists planted explosives...South Tower:
I got up, I got into the parking garages, was
knocked down by the percussion. I thought there had
been
an explosion or a bomb
I never turned around because a sound came from somewhere
that I never heard before...I can’t explain it, what it was. All I know is--and
a force started to
come hit me in my back. I can’t explain it. You had to be there. All I know is
I had to run
because I thought there was
an explosion.
... a
major explosion.
South Tower [Experienced while low in the NT.]:
With that, all a sudden the tower went completely -- a horrendous noise, a very, very
tremendous
explosion, and a
very heavy wind came through the tower. The
wind almost knocked you down.
[/ex][ex=http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110179.PDF]
Frank Cruthers, 9110179
And while I was still in that immediate area, the south tower, 2 World Trade Center, there was
what appeared to be at first
an explosion. It appeared at the very top,
simultaneously from all
four sides, materials shot out horizontally. And then there seemed to be a momentary
delay
before you could see the beginning of
the collapse.
We heard a rumbling noise, and it appeared that that first tower,
the south tower, had
exploded,
the top of it.
That's what I saw, what a lot of us saw. [p. 5]
...
I remember asking Ray Downey was it the jet fuel that blew up. He said at that point he thought
there were
bombs up there
because it was too even.
...
We didn't know the building came down. We just
knew the top of the building exploded and
didn't know what happened to the rest of the building. You just couldn't see anything. [p. 7][/ex]
And this represents the tip of the eyewitness iceberg in relation to explosions, explosives, charges, blasts, eruptions and other such words as used to describe what the witnesses saw, heard and felt. Oh yes, and not forgetting
bomb.
Presumably you still all think the idea of testing for explosives unnecessary? That position tells anyone reading this something about you. My advice would be to stop digging your hole on this one and conceed; if it is a simple choice between tests and no tests - what is your answer?