[Watch Enver Masud rebut The 9/11 Commission Report in a
television interview broadcast to Sub-Saharan Africa.]
On September 11, 2001, 5:20 PM, 47-story Building 7 of the World Trade
Center (WTC 7) collapsed in about seven
seconds. To this day there is no official explanation of why it collapsed.
"The 9/11 Commission
Report" tells us that the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management was
located on the 23rd floor of WTC 7, and at 8:48 AM the Emergency Operations
Center was activated, but it does not mention the collapse of WTC 7. Major
news media have largely ignored this omission.
The collapse of the nine-story Murrah
Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995 was repeatedly
shown on television, and initially blamed on Muslim terrorists. Videos of
the collapse of the 47-story WTC 7, while readily available on alternative news sites, have generally not
been shown to the public after September 11 by major news media.
Dr. Steven E. Jones, a
physics professor at Brigham Young University, writes: "Concluding remarks
in the FEMA report on the WTC 7 collapse lend support to my arguments: The
specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the building to collapse
["official theory"] remain unknown at this time."
Prof. Jones attempted to make his point on MSNBC's "The Situation" with
Tucker
Carlson on November 15, 2005, but was prevented from doing so.
Buildings
5 and 6, which stood between the twin towers and Building 7, sustained
much greater damage than Building 7, but they did
not collapse in the way that the twin towers, and Building 7 collapsed.
Indira
Singh, a first responder on September 11, said during an appearance on
KPFA that by "noon
or one o'clock", the Fire Department was telling them that they had to move
the triage site because "we're
going to have to bring it down."
CNN's Aaron Brown
and BBC's Jane
Standley reported that Building 7 "has collapsed or is collapsing" before
it collapsed. The BBC picture above is time stamped 21:54 London
time which is 16:54 or 4:54 PM EST.
Diane Sawyer,
an award-winning investigative journalist, interviewed J. D.
Halperin - a volunteer, on ABC News Live Coverage who said: "At Building 7
there was no fire there whatsoever, but there was one truck putting water on
the building, but it collapsed completely."
Sawyer then says, "And you saw melted tour busses, melted cars." Halperin
responds, "The cars that were right down there were unbelieveable. They were
twisted and melted into nothing."
Dan Rather, at the time anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News,
while reporting on the collapse of Building 7, said: "For the third
time today, it's reminiscent of those pictures we've all seen too much on
television before - a building was deliberately destroyed."
Larry Silverstein, the World Trade Center leaseholder, was shown on television
saying: "I remember getting a call from the ER, Fire Department Commander,
telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the
fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest
thing to do is pull it.' And they made the decision to pull and we watched
the building collapse."
If Building 7 was "pulled" - a demolition term, when were the explosives
planted to pull it? Who planted them?
The FEMA investigation of
WTC7 stated: "Further research, investigation, and analyses are needed to
resolve this issue." According to a NIST FAQ (updated
August 30, 2006) "a draft report will be released by early 2007."
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Enver Masud founded The Wisdom Fund - a
nonprofit corporation - eleven years ago today.
David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott (Editors), "9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out,"
Olive Branch Press (August 23, 2006) - contributors include Richard Falk,
Daniele Ganser, David Ray Griffin, Steven E. Jones, Karin Kwiatkowski, John
McMurtry, Peter Phillips, Morgan Reynolds, Kevin Ryan, Peter Dale Scott, Ola
Tunander.
Kevin Barrett, John Cobb and Sandra Lubarsky (Editors), "9/11 and American Empire: Christians, Jews, and Muslims
Speak Out," Olive Branch Press (October 15, 2006) - contributors include
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Kevin Barrett, Faiz Khan, Enver Masud, Yasmin
Ahmed, Tamar Frankiel, Roger Gottlieb, Marc Ellis, Sandra Lubarsky, Rabbi
Michael Lerner, John Cobb, David Ray Griffin, Carter Heyward, Catherine
Keller, and Rosemary Radford Ruether.
