Published: March 10, 2008 10:46 am      

We should take blinders off the events of 9/11

I've been a welder for several years. Ordinary fires do not melt steel. The presence of molten metal at ground zero is not in dispute. The question is what produced 2,750-degree temperatures needed to melt steel.

Jet fuel and open-air fires do not come close to reaching that temperature. Thermate is a 4,000-degree incendiary which can easily cut through thick steel beams. Composed of iron oxide, aluminum and sulfur, thermate reacts violently to produce large amounts of molten iron, rich in aluminum and silver.

There is an explosives fingerprint confirmed at Ground Zero. The 9/11 commission was forbidden to tell us that scanning electron microscopy and X-ray spectroscopy of world trade center dust samples found many aluminum-rich iron microspheres, once molten droplets which solidified in air, strong evidence of explosives. Who wired thermate there? Someone knows who did.

Nothing in official reports can explain the molten metal or iron microdroplets in the dust. Only the use of incendiary explosives in a controlled demolition can account for tee molten metal and the microspheres at ground zero.

Minutes before the south tower collapsed streams of molten metal poured out of a window on the 80th floor. Glowing pools of molten material were photographed in the rubble at ground zero that evening. New York City Firefighters saw molten steel running down the channel rails, like in a foundry, like lava. For several weeks after the collapse, recovery crews continued to pull red hot, sometimes still molten, steel from the pile at ground zero.

Witnesses reported hearing, feeling, and seeing explosions typical of controlled demolitions. The powerful blasts pulverized the concrete and blew it outward with great force. My close slow-motion observation of the towers falling led me to wonder is this building falling down or blowing up.

Teresa Veliz, a north tower survivor, said that "There were explosions going off everywhere. I was convinced that there were bombs planted all over the place and someone was sitting at a control panel pushing detonator buttons." If you want to discover the truth for yourself about what was actually going on on 9/11, here are some Web sites with indisputable information: 9EIeven.info, 91 Itruth.org, 911 dvdProject.coni, wtc7.net, 911 blogger.com

It's so unbelievable that some few national leaders were knowingly complicit in this preventable tragic affair that most Americans are afraid to take their blinders off.

I might add that on March 14 at 6:30 at Hampshire's Public Library in Romney there will be an overwhelming audiovisual presentation about the controlled demolition of the three skyscrapers on 9/11. See for yourself.

Ben Showers
Rio, W.Va.