26hr WTC security breach 2 days before 9/11

[TonyGosling]

British IT engineer Scott Forbes was working in New York's World Trade Center in September 2001 and lost 89 of his work colleagues in the 9/11 attacks.

Listen here to his eyewitness account of the security systems power down and mysterious 'cabling' contractors working in the south tower the weekend immediately prior to the attacks.

Scott Forbes demands disclosure of documents authorising the power down and details of who the contractors were.
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=23942

From his nearby flat, on his day off, Scott witnessed the second plane strike the tower just below offices where his colleagues were working.

The 9/11 Commission were not interested that the WTC security cameras and other security systems were paralysed between 12 noon on Saturday 8th and 2pm on Sunday 9th September 2001.

The New York Port Authority now deny that there was any power outage. It has now become a mission for Scott to get an explanation.

Scott is appealing to anyone and everyone, in New York particularly, to file freedom of information requests with the Port Authority for disclosure of the documents authorising the power down and details of who the contractors were.

Scott was interviewed on Wednesday 18th July 2007 at Charing Cross in London by Tony Gosling and Fran Scott... for the people....
Duration 26m 42s

Previous interview on Google Video has been removed without explanation.
9/11 Truth: Scott Forbes describes power-downs in WTC
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/September2006/190906power-downs.h tm

Please copy this mp3 and circulate widely. Thanks and respect to Fran and to Scott.

[nrmis]

Has anyone else come forward to verify these power outages?

[Mark Gobell]

Thanks for this Tony.

Scott Forbes comes across as being a credible witness.

Good effort all round.

[TonyGosling]

There are 76,800 returns for a .....9/11 "power down".... on Google. Have you looked at any of those links?

[Ed]

Just a point, although I agree there probably were outages, I just listened to the interview on breakfornews which makes the case that the towers were actually built to be demolished. (It seems logical to do this if you think about it but of course the poor engineers involved would have no idea that their work would be used for such evil) If theres any truth in this then heres a question : - Will the freedom tower when finished also be designed to fall down?

[TonyGosling]

I heard your recent interview with Scott Forbes and while I have no official capacity, I can provide personal anecdotal testimony of the WTC power-down he discusses.

I'm 42, and like Scott Forbes I'm an IT engineer. On September 11, I was working for a financial institution based in South Dakota, USA but which had offices in the World Trade Center towers.

I was a Senior Systems Engineer for the company. In that capacity, I was charged with the maintenance and monitoring of our wide-area network systems. This included not only our primary business locations in South Dakota, but also New York, San Francisco, and other areas of the US.

We had a monitoring system for all of our wide-area network equipment (maintained by me) which included our server in NYC and both the LAN and WAN interfaces of the Cisco router in the office. Consequently, any time we lost connectivity with NYC, I would be alerted via email sent to my
pager.

I recall the power-down in question quite vividly because it was one of the few times we had warning of an outage and consequently disabled
monitoring of the NYC site. This was in contrast to the overwhelming majority of WAN outages, which are caused by circuit failures (generally due to bad weather or construction), and can occur at any time without warning.

I'm sure that at least three of my co-workers (including the then-VP of IT) would remember the incident. We were all advised of the power-down well in advance and discussed disabling monitoring for the duration of the outage, as well as advising the local staff to power down the equipment in advance.

I found the timing of loss of connectivity on 9/11 rather amazing. I
recall coming downstairs after getting ready for work that morning and
being shocked when my then-wife pointed me to the TV. I remember being surprised that my pager hadn't gone off, since the company's WTC offices were well above the impact area. I've generally attributed the delay to the fact that our equipment had an emergency power supply that could run for up to three hours if power was lost.

Nevertheless, I was rather amazed that the circuit itself and the supporting equipment in the building were still functional well after the plane impacted.

It wasn't until twenty minutes or so later (as I walked from my car to the door to the office building) -- that my pager went off. There is an error margin of about five minutes, since the monitoring system made a sweep of NYC every five minutes. Assuming that connectivity was lost immediately after the preceding sweep, it could have been out for as long as five minutes before the next sweep caught it.

If you'd like to discuss this, please feel free to email me. I don't know that I can be of any particular help, but I did want to confirm that others besides those immediately involved were definitely aware of the power-down.

All the best,

Bill Stone

[TonyGosling]

Also rec'd from the same chap:

I should hasten to add that I don't consider the power-down particularly noteworthy except in the context of the NYC Port Authority claiming that it didn't occur. In almost 20 years in the IT business, I've seen a number of power outages, planned and unplanned, and have occasionally caused a couple by accident or misadventure during the course of my work.

I should also clarify my general position: I'm a limited-government
Constitutionalist who believes that the American Federal Government abandoned both the spirit and letter of the Constitution long before I was born.

I've nothing against the Bush Administration per se: I view it as yet another in a lengthy string of administrations that believe foreign interventionism is both necessary and proper, in abject defiance of the Constitution. I'm not out to get anyone and don't believe that the exchange of a Right-wing socialist President for a Left-wing one would be an improvement. I'm simply disturbed that a government agency like the Port Authority would deny an event to which I happened to be a peripheral party.

I'm not among those who consider 9/11 an "inside job." In my opinion, most non-authoritarian governments don't have the wherewithal to successfully pull off a covert operation of such magnitude within its own borders. Certainly the American Federal Government doesn't.

One should remember that this is the same government that in 1972 couldn't even successfully pilfer an office in the Watergate Hotel. To secretly plant enough explosives to utterly destroy two of the tallest buildings in the world would involve an enormous amount of highly-trained personnel, large quantities of dangerous materiele, meticulous planning, and no small amount of luck. There is no evidence to suggest that the Federal Government is even remotely competent to pull it off.

Furthermore, many of the people who would be involved are career politicians who routinely betray each others' confidence the moment they perceive that there is even the slightest political advantage in doing so. They are not the Mafia or other organized crime, maintaining both silence and loyalty under pain of death.

In short, this would have been too big an operation for an entity as historically incompetent as the Federal Government to pull off. Someone involved would have come forward, some operative would have been seen at the wrong moment, or some public official would have blown the whistle as a political tactic, and the jig would have been up.

Imagine that the British Government decided to secretly destroy Canary Wharf and blame it on terrorists. Given the amount of people and materiele necessary, would your government be capable of successfully pulling it off?

There is no question in my mind that the current Iraq occupation was a subject of policy planning since at least 1991 and that the Bush Administration opportunistically used 9/11 to implement these policies. That these policies are in the process of failing isn't surprising, though not for the reasons most people imagine -- though I won't bore you with my thoughts on that.

At any rate, suffice it to say that I've no objection to having my knowledge of the power-down made public, provided that I'm not portrayed as believing it to be evidence of anything other than the usual incompetence one expects from a government that abandoned its own founding principles close to a century ago.

Bill Stone

[TonyGosling]

<wrs@wrstone.com>
is his email

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[nrmis]

Thanks. Thought I was watching this topic but apparently not. I am now.

So there are several? credible witnesses who can verify the power outage.
And the port authority are saying it didn't happen?

This seems like pretty big news if we can get statements from a few people. I'll have a look at the google search you suggest.

[TonyGosling]

It's been massive news since Scott risked his neck to talk about this several years ago. Please shove this under all broadcasters' noses, it might even wake them up a bit!

[Andrew Johnson]

Thanks for this interesting information. As you may be aware, Scott Forbes has signed up and posted on this forum before:

http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=6695&start=0&postday s=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=50027&highlight=#500 27

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[TonyGosling]

Had disappeared from youtube - looks like it's now been replaced now


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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/September2006/190906power-downs.h tm
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