Facts of the World Trade Center Collapse on 9/11

I always wondered that it is not possible for a building like WTC7, which was a great work of engineering, to collapse vertically to it's footprints in just 7 seconds at a free fall speed. Why has there been almost "no mention" of this in the U.S. media, and why was there "no mention" of Building 7’s collapse in The 9/11 Commission Report? How the roof inverted toward it's middle during the collapse? And also WTC7 did not simply "fall down". Rather, both towers and building #7 crumbled into concrete powder and small pieces of steel. By evening lower Manhattan was covered with concrete powder up to several inches thick, as if a volcano has erupted nearby. Why all the powder? Why didn't the buildings just fall down or break into large pieces?

The following eleven facts compiled from the research of reputable sources helped me to discover a bit that what really is the truth behind the fall....????

FACT 1: WTC Building 7 was one of the largest buildings in downtown Manhattan. It was 47 stories tall, about half the height of the Towers, and took up an entire city block. It was 300 feet from the closest Twin Tower (the North Tower, WTC 1), and was a steel-framed, concrete structure.

FACT 2: WTC Building 7 – on its 23^rd floor – housed an Emergency Command Center for the City of New York that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had built in the mid-1990’s. On the morning of September 11^th, Mayor Giuliani did not go “to his Command Center – with its clear view of the Twin Towers – but to a makeshift, street-level headquarters at 75 Barkley Street.” WTC 7 also held the offices of numerous government agencies, including the Department of Defense, the CIA, the Secret Service, the IRS, and the Security and Exchange Commission. Late 2001 was the time of “the height of the investigation into Enron, so the majority of Enron’s SEC filings were likely destroyed when World Trade Center 7 came down.”

FACT 3: WTC Building 7 was not hit by airplane or significant debris on September 11^th. It had been evacuated after the planes hit the towers. By the afternoon of September 11^th, there were a few small fires of unknown origin evident in the building, and these small fires could be seen in only a few of the hundreds and hundreds of windows in the building.

FACT 4: On September 11, 2001, at 5:20PM, EDT, World Trade Center Building 7 suddenly and rapidly collapsed. Beginning with the penthouse, all 47 stories of it imploded into its own footprint in less than seven seconds.

FACT 5: On September 16^th, NASA flew an airplane over the World Trade Center site, recorded infrared radiation coming from the ground, and created a thermal map. The U.S. Geological Survey analyzed this data, and determined the actual temperature of the rubble. This map shows that five days after the collapse of Building 7, the surface temperature of a section of its rubble was 1,341º F. This high a temperature is indicative of the use of explosives.

FACT 6: Fire Engineering magazine is the 125-year-old paper-of-record of the fire engineering community. Bill Manning, editor-in-chief, wrote an Editor’s Opinion in the January, 2002 edition. His editorial, Selling Out the Investigation, pointed out that destruction of evidence – the hurried removal of rubble which should be examined by investigators – is illegal.

FACT 7: In May of 2002, FEMA published their report #403 titled World Trade Center Building Performance Study. This report claims that the fires caused the building to collapse, but that the specifics of how this is supposed to have occurred “…remain unknown at this time.”

FACT 8: The collapse of WTC Building 7 shows five characteristics of a controlled demolition:

1. It “dropped directly into its own footprint in a smooth, vertical motion”;

2. It “collapsed completely in less than seven seconds”;

3. “Dust streamed out of the upper floors of Building 7 early in its collapse”;

4. “WTC 7’s roof inverted toward its middle as the collapse progressed”; and

5. “WTC 7’s rubble was mostly confined to the block on which the building stood.”

FACT 9: “It is inconceivable that anyone could be running around placing explosives in exactly the right places all within seven hours. In fact, implosions take a minimum of two weeks and up to two months to plan and place the charges. The fire department of New York does not even train their personnel to do controlled demolition. They are done by highly skilled experienced specialists who plan and test far ahead.”

FACT 10: “… [George W.] Bush’s brother, Marvin Bush, and his cousin, Wirt Walker III, were principles in the company [Stratesec, formerly named Securacom] that was in charge of security for the World Trade Center, with Walker being the CEO from 1999 until January 2002.”

In summation: A major aspect of 9/11 has been excluded from the entire U.S. media after September 11^th, and was also omitted from The 9/11 Commission Report. This was the sudden fall to earth, on September 11^th, 2001, of World Trade Center Building 7. Not hit by airplane or significant debris, 300 feet from the closest Twin Tower, and with just a few small fires burning within it, at 5:20PM EDT this massive concrete and steel-framed 47-story skyscraper imploded into its own footprint in less than seven seconds. Its rapid implosion had all of the characteristics of a controlled demolition, and the World Trade Center leaseholder, Larry Silverstein, stated in so many words that the building had been collapsed by demolition. It takes weeks, if not months, to prepare the demolition of a building as large as WTC 7; this implosion could not have been engineered and implemented in seven chaotic hours on September 11^th. Therefore, a question emerges:

Who had the means and expertise to engineer such a demolition and acquire needed materiel, and who had access to WTC Building 7 PRIOR TO September 11, 2001 in order to place the explosives?

Some more links which tells us a lot about the collapse rather demolition of WTC7

http://www.public-action.com/911/firemen.html

http://911review.org/Wget/www.nerdcities.com/guardian/Hufschmid/CloudsOfConcrete_2.ह्त्म्ल