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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 437
crashing into the towers was not structurally significant. One of these is Dr. Eagar who is an MIT
professor of materials engineering. He states: “the number of columns lost on the initial impact
was not large and the loads were shifted to remaining columns in this highly redundant
structure.”
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He further stated in a NOVA interview after being asked if he thought the towers
would collapse:
No. In fact, I was surprised. So were most structural engineers.... All
buildings and most bridges have what we call redundant design.... Some people
were concerned the building would fall down. The structural engineers knew it
wouldn't, because the whole thing had an egg-crate-like construction. Or you can
think of it as a net. If you lose one string on a net, yes, the net is weakened but the
rest of the net still works.... That's essentially how the World Trade Center
absorbed an airplane coming into it. It was somewhat like the way a net absorbs a
baseball being thrown against it.
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What Happened To the Evidence?
The unique design of the twin towers is key to the governments theory in which they
explain the cause of the collapse of the towers. But while they maintain that design elements are
key to their theory, they have refused to publicly release the actual engineering drawings or blue
prints.
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The New York Times reported on Dec. 25, 2001 that a team of investigators,
investigating the cause of the collapses, was unable to get “detailed blueprints.” “Ronald
Hamburger, an expert in structural analysis at A.B.S. Consulting in Oakland, Calif., and a
director of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations, said he had not even been
given access to basic blueprints describing where the steel and other structural elements had been
when the World Trade Center was whole.”
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These are very basic to an investigation.
Later on March 6, 2002, Dr. W. Gene Corely told congress that the investigation team
had received “the engineering plans for the WTC towers on January 8, 2002.”
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But the
question remains, why are they not making them public and why do engineering drawings in
FEMA's report differ very significantly from those that were previously published in 1985 in
Multi-Storey Buildings in Steel.
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The discrepancies will be discussed later.
Investigators also complained that they had “no subpoena power and little staff support.”
The Times further reported that some of the team members, which included “some of the nation's
most respected engineers,” complained “that they had at various times been shackled with
bureaucratic restrictions that prevented them from interviewing witnesses, examining the disaster
site and requesting crucial information like recorded distress calls to the police and fire
departments.” One team member commented, “FEMA is controlling everything.” Control of an
investigation and suppression of evidence is critical in a cover-up.
The structural steel in the building such as columns, beams and trusses would have held
vital clues to the cause of the collapse but very little was ever able to be examined. It was rapidly
sent to recyclers. Dr. Frederick W. Mowrer, an associate professor in the fire protection
engineering department at the University of Maryland, believes that this decision alone could
have compromised the investigation. He further stated: “I find the speed with which potentially
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