From The 9/11 Article Series – Article #6:
Evidence For Pre-planted Bombs In Twin Towers
For twenty-five years the government has repeatedly claimed the Twin Towers collapsed straight down into their own footprint as a result of being struck by a massive jetliner that burst into flames after the violent collision. This specious claim flies in the face of numerous eyewitness accounts of exploding bombs being responsible for causing critical structural damage leading to building collapse. This article provides a brief summary of these eye-witness observations.
From Richard Gage a leading architectural authority:
“The explosive destruction of the Towers laterally ejected massive steel-column sections weighing several tons away from the buildings at speeds of up to 80 mph, some landing 600 feet from the building footprint.” https://richardgage911.org/executive-summary/
More evidence from FEMA:
A review of aerial photographs suggests that debris impacted the American Express and Winter Garden buildings located across West Street [from WTC1]. The debris field extended as far as 400–500 feet from the tower base. https://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/fema403_ch2.pdf
During a live CNN interview a witness said: “I believe the bomb hit the [WTC1] lobby first than a couple seconds later the first plane hit.”
https://www.lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org/lc-doj-grand-jury-petition/exhibit-21-petition-1/
Another witness exclaimed, “All you had to do was look around. It was obvious something happened right there in the lobby.”
Paramedic Daniel Rivera described what he observed at the South Tower.
At first I thought it was – do you ever see professional demolition where they set charges on certain floors and then you hear POP POP POP POP POP? That’s exactly what I thought it was … then the building came down.
In a formal interview firefighter Edward Cachia described what he saw at Ground Zero:
As my officer and I were looking at the south tower, it just gave. It actually gave at a lower floor, not the floor where the plane hit, because we originally had thought there was like an internal detonation explosives because it went in succession, boom, boom, boom, boom, and then the tower came down.
https://static01.nyt.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110251.PDF Page 5 (Emphasis added.)
Assistant Fire Commissioner Stephen Gregory provided this captivating account:
When I looked in the direction of the Trade Center before it came down, before No. 2 came down, ..I saw low-level flashes. In my conversation with Lieutenant Evangelista,
never mentioning this to him, he questioned me and asked me if I saw low-level flashes in front of the building, and I agreed with him because I thought — at that time I didn’t know what it was. I mean, it could have been as a result of the building collapsing, things exploding, but I saw a flash flash flash and then it looked like the building came down.
Q. Was that on the lower level of the building or up where the fire was?
A. No, the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building, how when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That’s what I thought I saw. And I didn’t broach the topic to him, but he asked me. He [Lieutenant Evangelista] said I don’t know if I’m crazy, but I just wanted to ask you because you were standing right next to me… He said did you see any flashes? I said, yes, well, I thought it was just me.
He said no, I saw them, too… I mean, I equate it to the building coming down and pushing things around, it could have been electrical explosions, it could have been
whatever.”
https://static01.nyt.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110008.PDF Pages 14 – 15
(Emphasis added.)
William Rodriguez, an immigrant from Puerto Rico, worked as a janitor in WTC 1. Rodriguez, the only person at the site with the master key to the North Tower stairwells led firefighters up the stairs, unlocking doors as they climbed and helped hundreds of survivors.
But this is only part of the incredible Rodriquez story. In his own words:
I went straight to the north tower (WTC1) to the basement number one. The building has six sub-levels of basement B1, B2 all the way down to B6. All of a sudden we hear BOOM an explosion very loud very powerful that lifted us up, the walls crack, the ceiling fell on top of us, the sprinkler system got activated water started spewing everywhere and the fax machine fell on the floor. I thought one of the generators blew out from the mechanical room because it lifted us up.
Six to seven seconds after we have BOOM all the way from the top of the building. Two different events and all of a sudden the building started to shake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sma-OEe-3us
(3:56 – 4:27 Minutes)
Rodriguez was not the only one to report a sub-level explosion.
Deep below the WTC1 tower in an area surrounded by solid bedrock, Stationary Engineer Mike Pecoraro donned with hearing protection, a respirator, gloves and eye protection while operating a large grinder was suddenly interrupted by a shake on his shoulder from his coworker who asked if he saw the lights flicker. The flickering of the lights was potentially an ominous sign since a power surge could cause wide spread destruction to the building’s equipment.
Ominously the room started to fill with a white smoke prompting the two to climb the stairs to the C level, to a small machine shop. When they arrived they were aghast to discover that the machine shop was gone. According to Pecoraro,”There was nothing there but rubble. We’re talking about a 50 ton hydraulic press – gone!”
While climbing the stairs up to the B level they had another surprise: a steel and concrete fire door that weighed about 300 pounds, wrinkled up “like a piece of aluminum foil” and lying on the floor. Pecoraro was convinced a devastating bomb had gone off in the building.
https://www.911research.wtc7.net/cache/wtc/analysis/theories/chiefengineer_pecoraro.html
Rodriguez became internationally known for his many acts of valor that morning. As a result speakers’ bureaus lined up to represent him to help charities raise over $100 million for 9/11 victims.
Rodriguez also testified before the 9/11 Commission that he heard an explosion in one of the sub-level areas that preceded a horrific explosion at the top of the building. Strangely his testimony was not included in the Commission’s final report.
This is just a small sampling of the extensive eye-witness testimonies that internal explosions were prevalent in the Twin Towers. But if this is actually true than one must ask how could internal explosive devices be covertly planted in the Twin Tower buildings? That question will be addressed in the next article.
– National Security Correspondent Mark Adams