The BBC 'Knew' Why the Twin Towers Fell, within 48 Hours

[Anthony Lawson]

Never mind about NIST and FEMA, the BBC’s experts on building collapses—the likes of which had never been seen before—knew exactly what caused the Twin Towers to collapse, less than 48 hours after the first one fell. I discovered this item, while looking for some statistics about the Twin Towers. Titled...

How the World Trade Center fell

...the full article is at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1540044.stm

The item, dated: Thursday, 13 September, 2001, 12:59 GMT 13:59 UK , by BBC News Online's Sheila Barter, comes complete with diagrams and expert opinions on how hot the fires were, ‘that melted the steel.’ No calculations were included, as to how much of the fuel would have been burned up in the initial-impact fireball, or how thick the 47 steel beams were that made up the central cores of the buildings; most of which would have had to have melted through at exactly the same time to make these two, almost-identical, first-time-ever events possible.

To make life marginally simpler (dealing with time zones always gives me a headache), let’s say that that the South Tower (the first to collapse) was well on the ground at 1000 hours, New York time, on September 11th., and that the BBC item went out a minute later than it did, at 1400 hours, UK time, on September 13th.*

Both time zones were subject to summer time, so we can subtract the time-zone difference of 5 hours from London time, which gives us the time in New York when the BBC first put out their item about why the Towers had collapsed. That would be at 0900 hours on September 13, New York time. Which means it took the BBC less than 48 hours to get this prepared—presumably carefully checking their facts, all the way—and have it on the Internet for all the world to see, before the dust had settled.

Fast work? Or an unseemly rush to judgement?

Considering that the BBC announced the collapse of WTC7 before it happened, is this another indication that they could have been in the loop?

By the way, if you haven't yet seen: 'WTC7 - This is an Orange' it can be viewed at:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3898962504721899003

(*According to the 9/11 Commission, the South Tower collapsed at 9:58:59. The North Tower collapsed at 10:28:25)

[Stephen]

Well done Anthony Lawson, Great stuff!

[TonyGosling]

You have bowled a blinder sir

Wonder where BBC News Online's Sheila Barter is these days????

Impressed by the graphics?
http://blackkrishna.blogspot.com/2005/08/fahrenheit-2777-temperature-a t-which.html

[karlos]

The design of the World Trade Center saved thousands of lives by standing for well over an hour after the planes crashed into its twin towers, say structural engineers.
this is a quote from the bbc article.
It is hilarious.
But tragic too, what kind of medal should these people get? A building that survives a whole * hour. These bbc people think they can shovel any kind of brown stuff and joe public will just swallow it.

This is a very good find Anthony and another smoking gun. There is no way the BBC could have done this piece without prior knowledg of what the official story was going to be.

[Anthony Lawson]

Searching for Sheila

In the early hours of this morning, I tried looking for a CV of Sheila Barter, but nothing turned up. However, her brief and erudite piece on how the towers fell is given as a reference in a paper which is full of official-story-backup garbage. If it is not likely to make you too ill, you can check it out at:

http://www.rit.edu/~smo5024/papers/wtc/

‘Experts’ quoting BBC reports, to back up their claims. Whatever next?

But wait, there is a Sheila Barter listed on the web as follows:

Gosport
Gosport PO12 4NG. Contact: John Sadden or Sheila Barter. Telephone Number: 023 9258 2162. Email: clsoels@hants.gov.uk. 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm ...
jobs.hants.gov.uk/silversurfers/cx-silversurfers-events2006/cx-silvers urfers-gosport.htm - 14k - Cached - Similar pages

Who's got their gumshoes handy?

Take care,

Anthony

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