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In reply to the discussion: The Great Thermite Debate... [View all]Ace Acme
(1,464 posts)It's a question of the security apparatus ignoring warnings from 13 foreign countries, 4 FBI offices, and the CIA.
The FBI had a memo entitled "Kamikaze Pilots".
The Mossad warned of 19 terrorists inside the USA planning something big, and they named names. We don't know how many names, but the 4 that have been released include 2 alleged 9/11 pilots and 2 alleged 9/11 hijackers who were known by both the FBI and the CIA to be al Qaeda agents and who, according to Bob Woodward, bought 10 airline tickets under their own real names dated 9/11/01.
The military is not expected to shoot airliners out of the sky. It is expected to fulfill its normal mission of intercepting off-course aircraft, establishing communication with them, and ordering them to land. A GAO report shows that in the early '90s this mission was routine, an everyday matter for fighter scrambles.
According to FEMA, a few failed truss anchors started a chain reaction in the towers that brought the buildings down. This was conventional engineering wisdom for 3 years. According to a demolitions expert, Dr. Van Romero, a few charges in key places could have brought the buildings down.