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Josef Princiotta
Cousin of Firefighter Vincent Princiotta
Ladder Company 7, Manhattan, FDNY
Added April 24, 2008


Allan L. Rosenzweig
Brother of Philip M. Rosenzweig
Passenger, American Flight 11
Added April 9, 2008


Beth Fertig
WTC survivor
Senior Reporter, WNYC Radio News
Added November 23, 2007


Firefighter Keith Murphy
WTC survivor
Engine 47, FDNY
Added November 23, 2007


Anthony Saltalamacchia
WTC survivor.  Maintenance Supervisor
World Trade Center
Added October 11, 2007


Hursley Lever
WTC survivor
Mechanic at the World Trade Center
Added October 11, 2007


Eileen Torres
Marisol Torres
Carmen Zayas
Cousins of Lt. Manuel Delvalle, Jr
Engine Co. 5, Manhattan, FDNY
Added October 9, 2007


Arthur DelBianco
WTC survivor.  American Building
Maintenance employee at the WTC
Added September 28, 2007


Kevin McPadden
WTC First Responder
Former US Air Force Search and Rescue
Added September 26, 2007


Stephen Evans
WTC survivor
North American Business Correspondent
The BBC
Added August 28, 2007


Marvin Jackson
WTC survivor
Commodities Trading Commission
WTC North Tower, 36th floor
Added August 19, 2007


Firefighter John Schroeder
WTC survivor
Engine 10, FDNY
Added August 8, 2007


Gordon and Kathleen Haberman
Parents of Andrea Lyn Haberman
Carr Futures
WTC North Tower, 92nd floor
Added July 29, 2007


Rosemary Cain
Mother of Firefighter George C. Cain
Ladder Company 7, Manhattan, FDNY
Added July 29, 2007

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Twenty-five U.S. Military Officers Challenge Official Account of 9/11 – Official Account of 9/11 “Impossible”, “A Bunch of Hogwash”, “Total B.S.”, “Ludicrous”, “A Well-Organized Cover-up”, “A White-Washed Farce”
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9/11 Survivors and Family Members
Question the 9/11 Commission Report

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• Article 6/24/05: Regarding an explosion in the sub-basement of the World Trade Center North Tower on 9/11, prior to any airplane impact. "When I heard the sound of the explosion, the floor beneath my feet vibrated, the walls started cracking and it everything started shaking," said Rodriguez, who was huddled together with at least 14 other people in the office. ... [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Rodriguez was in sub-basement B1 of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's impact point at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  "Seconds after the first massive explosion below in the basement still rattled the floor, I hear another explosion from way above," said Rodriguez.  "Although I was unaware at the time, this was the airplane hitting the tower, it occurred moments after the first explosion."
  
  But before Rodriguez had time to think, co-worker Felipe David stormed into the basement office with severe burns on his face and arms, screaming for help and yelling "explosion! explosion! explosion!"
  
  David had been in front of a nearby freight elevator on sub-level 1 about 400 feet from the office when fire burst out of the elevator shaft, causing his injuries.
  
  "He was burned terribly," said Rodriguez. "The skin was hanging off his hands and arms. His injuries couldn't have come from the airplane above, but only from a massive explosion below. I don’t care what the government says, what scientists say. I saw a man burned terribly from a fire that was caused from an explosion below.
  
  "I know there were explosives placed below the trade center. I helped a man to safety who is living proof, living proof the government story is a lie and a cover-up. ...
  
  "I disagree 100%with the government story," said Rodriguez. "I met with the 9/11 Commission behind closed doors and they essentially discounted everything I said regarding the use of explosives to bring down the north tower.
  
  "And I contacted NIST previously four times without a response. Finally, this week I asked them before they came up with their conclusion that jet fuel brought down the towers, if they ever considered my statements or the statements of any of the other survivors who heard the explosions. They just stared at me with blank faces and didn't have any answers." http://www.arcticbeacon
  
  
• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.



• Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:    
  "We want truthful answers to question. …  As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:
• An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
• Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings.
• Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence.
• The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php



• Signatory 11/19/04: Complaint filed with the Attorney General, State of New York for a new independent grand jury investigation of 9/11.
  
  "We, the complainant signatories below, petition the Attorney General of New York, on behalf of millions of New Yorkers who also call for a fearless independent inquiry; for the sake of residents, workers, and business owners in New York—most particularly in and near "Ground Zero"; and also on behalf of other Americans who have lost employees, friends, and family members as well as health, business, and personal assets and civil, privacy, and other rights in the events of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath.
  
  We approach your office as concerned citizens desiring to bring to light the truth about the events of 9/11." http://www.justicefor911.org



• Personal website: http://www.911keymaster.com/

Anthony Saltalamacchia

• Video interview by William Rodriguez 9/07: "On the morning of September 11th, I was in my office.  I was just getting the work handed out to all the employees. ... [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Saltalamacchia was in sub-basement B1 of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's impact point at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  We heard a massive explosion that was in the World Trade Center about 8:46 a.m. in the morning.  The explosion came from -- I believe at first we believed that it came from the Mechanical Room.  [Editor's note: The Mechanical Room was below them in a lower sub-basement .]
  
  Then we heard a series of other explosions that sounded up on the above levels of the building.  We then realized that there was something wrong and there was a major problem.  And about, I'd say, 14 to 15 people came running and screaming into our office. ...
  
  Then right after that the floor started shaking.  The tile from above, which was above us, started coming down, falling on us.  And we knew that there was something seriously wrong happening.
  
  A man came into the office.  He was a black man, very shaky, like in shock.  He had multiple wounds.  His arms were bleeding.  Skin was peeling off.  You could see basically his flesh.  It was a very tough thing to see. ...
  
  And as we're standing there, more explosions were happening.  A lot of screaming confusion. ...
  
  It was very smoky, very cloudy.  It just looked very serious.  We knew we had to get out of the building. ...
  
  The amount of explosions I've heard from 8:46 until the time we got out was so many, at least ten.  It was just like multiple explosions to where I felt like there were different grenades.  That's what it sounded like, it was different grenades being set off in the building.  It was like -- There was one major explosion, and then there was different explosions throughout that period of time until we got out.
  
  Do I believe six years after 9/11?  I don't know the truth.  I don't believe a word that they say.  I just don't believe  Everything they say is a cover up. ... No, definitely don't leave it alone.  I think that we should get documents to know the truth of what was really going on that we didn't know that we should know now." http://www.youtube.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Video interview: "At 8:30 he says he was headed for level B-4 in Tower One [North Tower], four stories below ground.
  
  "... As I'm walking by the main freight car of the building, in the corridor, that's when I got blown.  I mean the impact of the explosion, from whatever happened, it threw me to the floor. And that's when everything started happening.  It knocked me right to the floor. You didn't know what it was.  Of course, you're assuming something fell over on the loading dock, something very heavy, something very big.  You don't know what happened.  And all of a sudden you just felt the floor moving. ... [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Morelli was in the sub-basement of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's point of impact at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  I was racing -- I was going towards the bathroom.  All of a sudden.  I opened the door.  I didn't know it was a bathroom   And all of a sudden a big impact happened again.  And all the ceiling tiles were falling down.  The light fixtures were falling, swinging out of the ceiling.  And I come running out the door and everything, the walls were down.  And I now started running towards the parking lots."
  
  Nearly 100 floors below where the first plane hit Phil felt the devastating impact. ...
  
  "As I ran to the parking lots, you know, I mean, everybody screaming ... There was a lot of smoke down there. ... You gotta go clear across the whole -- from One to Two World Trade Center. That's the way you gotta run.
  
  And then all of a sudden it happened all over again.  Building Two got hit. I don't know that. I just know something else hit us to the floor.  Right in the basement you felt it. The walls were caving in.  Everything that was going on.  I know of people that got killed in the basement.  I know of people that got broken legs in the basement.  People got reconstructive surgery because the walls hit them in the face." http://real.ny1.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• ABC 9/12/01: Peter Jennings interviewed Marlene Cruz the day after 9/11.  Ms. Cruz, a WTC carpenter, was injured in the basement of WTC North Tower on 9/11.  She was the first casualty from the WTC to arrive at Bellevue Hospital.
  
  Peter Jennings:  So tell me how you're feeling.  How did you get there? What happened to you?
  
  Marlene Cruz:  I work for the Trade Center.  I'm one of the carpenters.  And I was gonna go do a job.  And I got on the elevator, the freight elevator.  And I heard the first explosion.  And the elevator blew up.  The doors blew up.  And it dropped.  I was lucky that the elevator got caught between two floors.
  
  Peter Jennings:  Which floors?
  
  Marlene Cruz:  The B Levels.  The basement levels. ...  [Editor's note: At this point, Ms. Cruz was in the basement of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's point of impact at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  After the first explosion I was laying on the floor about 40 minutes.
  
  Peter Jennings:  And how well do you know that subterranean part of the World Trade Center?
  
  Marlene Cruz:  Well, I worked for the building for 15 years.  I think I know it from the back of my hand.  Really I didn't expect this bombing to occur after the first one, since I was in the first one, also.  But when I heard that explosion that's the first thing I thought was; here we go again, another bomb. http://youtube.com/watch?v=TSGZYP--wz0



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

Mike Pecoraro

• Article Chief Engineer 2002: Mike Pecoraro and a co-worker were working in the sub-basement of the North Tower when the first airplane hit. "They had been told to stay where they were and "sit tight" until the Assistant Chief got back to them. By this time, however, the room they were working in began to fill with a white smoke. "We smelled kerosene," Mike recalled, "I was thinking maybe a car fire was upstairs", referring to the parking garage located below grade in the tower but above the deep space where they were working. [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Pecoraro was in the sub-basement of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's impact point at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  The two decided to ascend the stairs to the C level, to a small machine shop where Vito Deleo and David Williams were supposed to be working. When the two arrived at the C level, they found the machine shop gone.
  
  "There was nothing there but rubble, " Mike said. "We're talking about a 50 ton hydraulic press? gone!" The two began yelling for their co-workers, but there was no answer. They saw a perfect line of smoke streaming through the air. "You could stand here," he said, "and two inches over you couldn't breathe. We couldn't see through the smoke so we started screaming." But there was still no answer.
  
  The two made their way to the parking garage, but found that it, too, was gone. "There were no walls, there was rubble on the floor, and you can't see anything" he said.  [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Pecoraro was in the basement of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's point of impact at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  They decided to ascend two more levels to the building's lobby. As they ascended to the B Level, one floor above, they were astonished to see a steel and concrete fire door that weighed about 300 pounds, wrinkled up "like a piece of aluminum foil" and lying on the floor. "They got us again," Mike told his co-worker, referring to the terrorist attack at the center in 1993. Having been through that bombing, Mike recalled seeing similar things happen to the building's structure. He was convinced a bomb had gone off in the building. Mike walked through the open doorway and found two people lying on the floor. One was a female Carpenter and the other an Elevator Operator. They were both badly burned and injured." http://www.chiefengineer.org



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Statement to television reporter 9/11/01: Mr. Johannemann was in the basement of the North Tower when the first plane impacted.  "I was right there.  I was down in the basement.  Came down.  All of a sudden the elevator blew up.  Smoke.  I dragged a guy out.  His skin was hanging off and I dragged him out and I helped him out to the ambulance." [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Johannemann was in the basement of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's point of impact at floors 93 to 98.]
  http://www.prisonplanet.com



• Article 9/12/01: "Kenny Johannemann was in the the number one [North] tower of the World Trade centre, waiting for the elevator in the basement. [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Johannemann was in the basement of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's point of impact at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  It was shift-change time, the time of day when the building is most crowded.
  
  "The lift door exploded open. There was a man inside half burnt. His skin was hanging off.
  
  "I dragged him out of the lift and somebody helped me get him out for the building." http://www.smh.com.au



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Article Chief Engineer 2002: "That morning a note had been left for Joe by the Chief Engineer of the midnight to 8 a.m. shift telling him that a tenant on the 38th floor wanted to see him as early as possible. So after distributing the work orders to his staff, he entered one of the tower's elevator cars and headed up into the building.
  
  On the 38th floor, Joe Shearin exited the elevator and began his walk down the hallway to meet with the tenant who had requested to see him. About 50 feet down the hallway, he heard a loud explosion and was lifted into the air. "I can't even tell you how far I traveled," he recalled. When he landed, people were already coming out of their offices into the hallway. "They were screaming, hollering," he said. "They were asking what they should do and where they should go".  Joe directed them down the stairwells and out of the building.   [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Shearin was on the 38th floor of the North Tower, approximately 650 feet below the airplane's point of impact at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  What Joe first believed was that an equipment room on the 43rd floor, which had an electrical substation, had blown up. He proceeded up the 5 floors to that level. Upon reaching the 43rd floor, "there were patches of ceiling that was just down on the floor, water pipes were broken, water was gushing like a brook or river that was just running down the corridor of the machine room."  [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Shearin was on the 43rd floor of the North Tower, approximately 600 feet below the airplane's point of impact at floors 93 to 98.]http://www.chiefengineer.org



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

Arthur DelBianco

• Video interview 9/11/01: "...and then all of a sudden it started like -- It sounded like gunfire.  You know, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.  And then all of a sudden three big explosions." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IqSsTmWv7k&eurl=



• NBC Today Show Video interview with Arthur DelBianco, Marlene Cruz, and Hersley Lever 9/12/01:  At time of the first plane impact, Arthur DelBianco was in WTC 1 (North Tower).
  
  "I was heading up to the 106th or 7th floor in an elevator.  And around the 70th floor I heard -- the lights flicked in the elevator and a rumble and then I heard people screaming on the radio, "I'm trapped.  Get me out.  Get us out.  Get us out.  Fire!  Fire!"  I told the elevator operator to open the door and get the people wherever we were on.  And we took them down to the ground level. ...
  
  I went downstairs looking for my fellow workers, because at that time I didn't know the extent of the explosion.  I thought it was just an explosion, not that it was two planes that ran into the building.  So we're looking subgrade for fellow workers.  And I got out of the building at one point and saw the two planes and the building burning. ...
  
  I went looking for my friend, Hursley Lever, over here, and couldn't find him.  Myself and Mike Pecoraro were back in the building looking for him and we couldn't find him.  We helped the paramedics to work their way down and the firemen to work their way down because Marlene was hurt on the second level below ground.
  
  At that point, we got out because the smoke and the water was getting too heavy.  And when I got up to the concourse level it was just like gunfire and then and then, just three big explosions.  And the elevator banks came down and the windows and glass and the stainless steel and the marble just started pushing us.  We started running to get out of there.  And it pushed us through the rubble like 25 to 50 feet.
  
  I wound up handing by an elevator pit with my hand on a turnstyle. When I awoke, when it stopped, I felt someone walk over to me and it was a firefighter. ... And as we went along trying to find our way out to Liberty Street, we just grabbed people along the way. ... When I got outside, the building come down. ... We'd just stepped across the street by the financial center and the building started coming down." http://www.youtube.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

Hursley Lever

• NBC Today Show Video interview with Arthur DelBianco, Marlene Cruz, and Hursley Lever 9/12/01:  "I was in the B-4 level. ...  I heard a bomb.  [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Lever was in sub-basement B4 of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's impact point at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  So, I says, 'Probably a transformer again blew up.'  So I step back, finish what I had to finish, and I started towards the door again.  And there came a big blast with a big ball of fire.  And that's when I got hit.  It hit me right back down on the ground and I realized my ankle was shattered." http://www.youtube.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

Stephen Evans

• Article The Guardian 9/11/01:  "Stephen Evans, the BBC's business and economics correspondent in North America, was sitting in the foyer of the World Trade Centre as the two aeroplanes crashed into the twin towers in the worst terrorist attack ever.
  
  "I was on the ground floor of the building sitting in a chair waiting for somebody to turn up as you do," said Evans.
  
  "There was huge bang. It felt to me like somebody dropped a skip full of rubbish, a great container full of rubbish, from a great height in the yard which separates the two huge towers which are the World Trade Centre.
  
  "It's one of those where you think, well something's happened on a building site
  
  "But seconds later, there were two or three similar huge explosions and the building literally shook." http://media.guardian.co.uk



• Video interview BBC 9/11/01: Stephen Evans was being interviewed at the initiation of the collapse of WTC South Tower "There was another big, big explosion in the other tower.  [Apparently referring to the second airplane impact into WTC South Tower]  Flames coming out.  This billowing gray smoke.  People still not panicking.  People not quite understand what was going on.  Then somebody said that they saw an airliner go into one of those towers.  Then, I don't know, an hour later than that, we had that big explosion, from much, much lower.  I don’t know what on earth caused that."  Initiation of collapse begins a few seconds later in the interview.
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• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.



• Bio: http://news.bbc.co.uk

• Women Journalists at Ground Zero by Suzanne Huffman and Judith L. Sylvesterby (2002):  Ms. Fertig was standing near the World Trade Center recording the sounds and her impressions of the impact of the planes when WTC 2 (South Tower) began to collapse.  She gave this interview to the authors after the event.
  
  "I heard this huge rumbling noise like an elevated train above my head.  I'm staring at this in disbelief.  I just held my microphone out to get the sound of it and, after a few seconds started narrating what I'm seeing. ...
  
  It just descended like a timed explosion - like when they are deliberately bringing a building down.  It was the strangest thing to see.  It was coming down so perfectly that in one part of my brain I was thinking, 'They got everyone out, and they’re bringing the building down because they have to.' "   http://books.google.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.



• Bio: http://www.wnyc.org/about/bios_news.html

• Video interview by Peter Jennings, ABC 9/12/01:
  
  Peter Jennings:  We have with us Marvin Jackson, a commodities trader who was on the 36th floor of the World Trade Center yesterday.  Mr. Jackson, thank you for coming in and having a chat with us.  Your story's important.  What happened? ...
  
  Marvin Jackson:  I looked back after I got past Church Street to see what had happened.  And I saw that both of the buildings were on fire.  And with that I just, you know, moved as far north as I could away from there.  I was four or five blocks away when all of a sudden the street shook and I felt, I heard like an explosion.  I thought, "Oh my God."  I said, "A bomb just went off."  I turned around and looked back and I saw all of a this soot and smoke and everyone just started running then.
  
  Peter Jennings: Which tower were you in?  One or two.
  
  Marvin Jackson:  I was in One.  When I saw that, that was when Tower Two collapsed.
  
  Peter Jennings:  The South Tower.  The first to go.   [begins at 8:10 in the segment]  http://www.archive.org



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

Unidentified WTC Survivor

• Statement to reporter 9/11/01: "It just went ba-boom, it was like a bomb went off, and it was like holy hell coming down them stairs.  And then when we finally got to the bottom we were coming out -- on the mezzanine level there and another explosion came .... sent everyone flying.  Right in front of me.  Everybody just went oomph." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IqSsTmWv7k&eurl=



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

Unidentified WTC Survivor

• Statement to reporter 9/11/01: "I'm from the 82nd floor. ... We saw a shadow.  It looked like a plane.  The next thing we know it went ba-boom and the floor started shaking.  And then we saw debris fall down.  And the next thing we know we had to get out of the building.  We were stuck on the stairs for a while. We finally got down to the lobby, and then when we get to the lobby there was this big explosion." http://www.whatreallyhappened.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Article Christian Science Monitor 9/17/01: "Tom Elliott was at work in his office at the Aon Corp., an insurance brokerage firm, on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center's other, south tower. ...
  
  He was just typing in a response when a bright flash of light startled him, and a rumble shook the structure [First plane impact on the North Tower]. Flames appeared to be crawling up the outside of the building, along with dark smoke and debris, burning paper and ash. ...
  
  "I don't know what's happening, but I think I need to be out of here," he remembers thinking. ...
  
  Elliott and two others headed down the building stairwell, a narrow beige corridor with a yellow stripe painted down the middle of concrete steps. ...
  
  They had descended three more floors [to the 67th floor] when United Airlines Flight 175 slammed into their own south tower like an arrow from a giant crossbow. It was 9:03 a.m. [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Elliot was on the 67th floor of the South Tower, approximately 150 feet below the airplane's center of impact on floors 78 to 84.]
  
  Although its spectacularly televised impact was above Elliott, at first he and those around him thought an explosion had come from below. An incredible noise - he calls it an "exploding sound" - shook the building, and a tornado of hot air and smoke and ceiling tiles and bits of drywall came flying up the stairwell.
  
  "In front of me, the wall split from the bottom up," he says." http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0917/p1s1-usgn.html



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Video of Edna Cintron waving: http://thewebfairy.com/911/humanwaving/



• Editor's note: The appearance of Edna Cintron, looking out of the hole in the North Tower caused by the airplane impact, raises doubts about the existence of raging fires at the impact point hot enough to substantially weaken steel, which according to the official account caused the collapse of the Twin Towers.  Note also the near absence of smoke and flames.  See also Chief Orio Palmer.



• Bio: http://www.russbaker.com

• Video interview 1/25/01: "The [Twin Tower] building was designed to have a fully loaded 707 crash into it. That was the largest plane at the time. I believe that the building probably could sustain multiple impacts of jetliners because this structure is like the mosquito netting on your screen door. This intense grid ­ and the jet-plane is just a pencil puncturing that screen netting. It really does nothing to the screen netting." http://video.google.com



• Editor's note: The Boeing 767-200s that impacted the Twin Towers on 9/11 were only slightly larger than 707s and DC 8s, the types of jetliners whose impacts the World Trade Center's designers anticipated.  The maximum takeoff weight of the 707 is 15% less than the 767.

• Letter 2/06: "Immediately after 9/11, I wanted to join the army to save my country!  After the 9/11 Commission’s obvious cover-up, I knew I had to join the "9/11 Truth" movement, in order to help save my country.
  
  It seems like every day someone else has the courage to stand up and speak out about the issues that our mainstream media have been "blacking out".
  
  Dr. David Ray Griffin continues to work fearlessly to examine the events of that day.  He authored a second book, The 9/11 Commission Report, Omissions and Distortions, in which he skillfully refutes the findings of the 9/11 Commission." http://www.communitycurrency.org/jl.html



• Speech 11/11/06: "I work on trying to educate people about 9/11 literally every day because I was so personally affected that it really never goes away for me. It stays with me 100 percent of the time. ... I was a victim and a survivor ...
  
  It really takes a lot to step outside of your comfort zone and, even for a second, imagine that your government did this to you." http://video.google.com



• Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice   Association Statement: "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice is a non-partisan organization consisting of independent researchers and activists engaged in uncovering the true nature of the September 11, 2001 attacks."



• Personal Diary of 9/11: http://www.theneedtoremember.com
• Bio: http://www.theneedtoremember.com/artist.html

• Statement recorded by FDNY 10/31/01: "And while I was still in that immediate area, the south tower, 2 World Trade Center, there was what appeared to be at first an explosion. It appeared at the very top, simultaneously from all four sides, materials shot out horizontally. And then there seemed to be a momentary delay before you could see the beginning of the collapse." http://graphics8.nytimes.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Statement recorded by FDNY 12/10/01: Chief Turi arrived at the WTC just prior to and witnessed the second airplane impact.  He entered the North Tower lobby shortly after the second impact, where a temporary command post was located.
  
  "Q: Let me stop you there for a second, chief.   When you were in the lobby of 1 World Trade, can you describe the interior and the condition of the lobby?
  
  Chief Turi: Yes. I was surprised that all the glass was mostly out. I wasn't sure how it got out. I didn't think we took it out. I just assumed that it was the vibration of the aircraft hitting it. And I did notice some pieces of marble that looked like it was dislodged from the core area. ... [Editor's note: At this point, Chief Turi was in the lobby of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's impact point at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  And as my eyes traveled up the building, and I was looking at the south tower, somewhere about halfway up, my initial reaction was there was a secondary explosion, and the entire floor area, a ring right around the building blew out. I later realized that the building had started to collapse already and this was the air being compressed and that is the floor that let go. And as my eyes traveled further up the building, I realized that this building was collapsing ..." http://graphics8.nytimes.com



• Statement of Firefighter Timothy Julian, conducted by Chief Turi, recorded by FDNY 12/10/01:
  
  Firefighter Julian: ... that's when I heard the building collapse.
  
  First I thought it was an explosion.  I thought maybe there was a bomb on the plane, but delayed type of thing, you know, secondary device.
  
  Chief Turi: I was convinced for a week it was secondary devices.
  
  Firefighter Julian: You know, and I just heard like an explosion and a then a cracking type of noise, and then it sounded like a freight train, rumbling and picking up speed, and I remember I looked up, and I saw it coming down ... " http://graphics8.nytimes.com



• NBC report 9/11/01:
  
  NBC Anchor: NBC’s Pat Dawson is close to the scene of that attack. Pat?
  
  Pat Dawson: Just moments ago, I spoke to the Chief of Safety for the New York City Fire Department. The chief, Albert Turi, he received word of the possibility of a secondary device, that is, another bomb going off. He tried to get his men out as quickly as he could. But he said that there was another explosion, which took place. And then an hour after the first hit here, the first crash that took place, he said there was another explosion that took place in one of the towers here. He thinks that there were actually devices that were planted in the building. The second device, he thinks, he speculates, was probably planted in the building." video segment at 39:05 of the 89 minute version of Loose Change, 2nd Edition.



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Transcript of FDNY radio communications on 9/11: Battalion Chief Orio Palmer took an elevator to the 41st floor of the South Tower, then climbed the stairs to the 78th floor. With him was Fire Marshal Ronald Bucca, who had climbed the stairs from the ground floor. They were the first firefighters to reach an airplane impact zone in either the North or South Tower. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, United Flight 175 impacted the South Tower, "crashing through the 77th to 85th floors".
  
  9:52 a.m.
  
  Chief Palmer: "Battalion Seven ... Ladder 15, we've got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able to knock it down with two lines. Radio that, 78th floor numerous 10-45 Code Ones."
  
  Ladder 15: "What stair are you in, Orio?"
  
  Battalion Seven Aide: "Seven Alpha to lobby command post."
  
  Ladder Fifteen: "Fifteen to Battalion Seven."
  
  Chief Palmer: "... Ladder 15."
  
  Ladder 15: "Chief, what stair you in?"
  
  Chief Palmer: "South stairway Adam, South Tower."
  
  Ladder 15: "Floor 78?"
  
  Chief Palmer: "Ten-four, numerous civilians, we gonna need two engines up here."
  
  Ladder 15: "Alright ten-four, we're on our way."
  
  9:52 a.m.
  
  Battalion Seven Aide: "Seven Alpha for Battalion Seven."
  
  Chief Palmer: "South tower, Steve, south tower, tell them ...Tower one."
  
  Chief Palmer: "Fifteen."
  
  Chief Palmer: "I'm going to need two of your firefighters, Adam stairway, to knock down two fires. We have a house line stretched we could use some water on it, knock it down, kay."
  
  Ladder 15: "Alright ten-four, we're coming up the stairs. We're on 77 now in the B stair, I'll be right to you."
  
  Ladder 15 Roof: "Fifteen Roof to 15. We're on 71. We're coming right up."
  
  9:57 a.m.
  
  "Division 3 ... lobby command, to the Fieldcom command post."
  
  Chief Palmer: "Operations Tower One to floor above Battalion Nine."
  
  Battalion Nine Chief: "Battalion Nine to command post."
  
  Battalion Seven Operations Tower One: "Battalion Seven Operations Tower One to Battalion Nine, need you on floor above 79. We have access stairs going up to 79, kay."
  
  Battalion Nine: "Alright, I'm on my way up, Orio."
  
  Two minutes later, at 9:58:59, the South Tower collapsed in 10 seconds.   http://911research.wtc7.net



• Editor's note: Chief Palmer's calm assessment of the situation and his confidence that the "two isolated pockets of fire" can be controlled with two more firefighters raises doubts about the existence of raging fires at the impact point hot enough to substantially weaken steel, which according to the official account caused the collapse of the South Tower two minutes after his last radio message.  See also Edna Cintron.



• Bio: http://www.ladder12fdny.com/oriopalmernewsday.html

• Statement recorded by FDNY 10/1/01: Regarding the collapse of WTC South Tower.  "We looked up at the building straight up, we were that close.  All we saw was a puff of smoke coming from about 2 thirds of the way up. Some people thought it was an explosion.  I don't think I remember that. I remember seeing it, it looked like sparkling around one specific layer of the building.  I assume now that that was either windows starting to collapse like tinsel or something.  Then the building started to come down.  My initial reaction was that this was exactly the way it looks when they show you those implosions on TV.  I would have to say for three or four seconds anyway, maybe longer.  I was just watching." http://graphics8.nytimes.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Statement recorded by FDNY 10/3/01: "I don't know how valid this is with everything that was going on at that particular point in time, but for some reason I thought that when I looked in the direction of the Trade Center before it came down, before No. 2 [South Tower] came down, that 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 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 anything by the building? And I said what do you mean by see anything? He said did you see any flashes? I said, yes, well, I thought it was just me. He said no, I saw them, too. ....
  
  Q. On the television pictures it appeared as well, before the first collapse, that there was an explosion up on the upper floors.
  
  A. I know about the explosion on the upper floors. This was like eye level. I didn't have to go like this. Because I was looking this way. I'm not going to say it was on the first floor or the second floor, but somewhere in that area I saw to me what appeared to be flashes. I don't know how far down this was already. I mean, we had heard the noise but, you know, I don't know." http://graphics8.nytimes



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Statement recorded by FDNY 10/16/01: "When the dust started to settle [from the collapse of the South Tower], I headed back down towards the World Trade Center and I guess I came close to arriving at the corner of Vesey and West again where we started to hear the second roar. That was the north tower now coming down. I should say that people in the street and myself included thought that the roar was so loud that the explosive - bombs were going off inside the building. Obviously we were later proved wrong. ...
  
  That's basically what my memories are of the day. The sight of the jumpers was horrible and the turning around and seeing that first tower come down was unbelievable. The sound it made. As I said, I thought the terrorists planted explosives somewhere in the building. That's how loud it was, crackling explosive, a wall. That's about it." http://graphics8.nytimes.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

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