16-08-2011, 08:14 AM
(This post was last modified: 16-08-2011, 09:59 AM by James Lewis.)
Back to the thread title...which was, as I recall, how demolition charges could have been placed in the World Trade Center, here's William Rodriguez. Emphasis mine:
Strange Recollections
Having worked at the WTC for close upon two decades, he obviously was very familiar with its general layout. The North Tower, in particular, was nigh a second home to him. An extremely affable fellow, Rodriguez had many friends in the WTC community. His days almost invariably began with breakfast with co-workers at the employees' cafeteria at Windows On The World, the elegant restaurant on the 107th floor.
Especially following the 1993 bombing, security in the towers was extremely tight. That was glaringly obvious wherever he went. So how did the culprits manage to gain access?
He started to look into the security company in charge of the WTC complex, Securacom, and was more than a little surprised by the identities of two of its top executives.
President George W. Bush's brother Marvin Bush and his cousin, Wirt Walker III, were both principals of the company. Further, he found this very same company was in charge of security at Dulles Airport and United Airlinesboth central to the attacks.
Brushing this curious connection aside as coincidence, he began to wonder about the practical difficulties the perpetrators would have encountered in gaining access to the buildings. He tried to recall having seen any suspicious people, or strange occurrences.
Pieces began to slowly come together.
He recalled seeing small teams of men in white "HazMat" coveralls busily moving about the building in the weeks preceding the attacks. Their presence didn't strike him as particularly odd at the time, except for the fact that they used the stairwells almost exclusively and avoided using the service elevators. But he now began to wonder about these men's real identities and true purpose.
One particularly bizarre incident snapped into focus, one that was so frightening he recalls it made his "hair stand up."
A few weeks prior to the attacks, he was working in a stairwell on the 34th floor, which he knew to be completely vacant. Suddenly, he heard the strangest soundone he'd never heard inside the tower in his nearly twenty years there.
It was a powerful, ominous, "rumbling" sound of something extremely heavy being rolled about. It sounded like a "huge metal dumpster on steel wheels, containing something extremely heavytonsbeing rolled around" a floor that he knew to have been totally emptydevoid even of furniture.
Yet, Rodriguez categorically maintains there was "someone" on that floor moving some monstrous contraption about.
Oddly, he admits to having been gripped by intense fear at the time, but he was having difficulty verbalizing to me the exact nature of his apprehension. While this didn't strike me as having been a particularly inauspicious occurrence, it was clear he had been deeply affected by it. He immediately reported the incident to the main office, but was reassured it was a vacant floor.
Rodriguez was emphatic that he felt so frightened by this incident he didn't dare open the door to look inside because he literally feared for his life.
He intuitively sensed grave danger behind that door, and did his best to avoid the 34th floor thereafter.
[NB: It is worth considering that long-term occupancy (and thus control) of a whole floor would have granted occupants virtually unlimited and unobstructed access from all sides to the entire 47-column central core of the tower via the elevator shafts. By sequentially disabling individual elevators for servicing,' the occupants would have had clear access to the entire 1,350-ft central load-bearing corefrom the topmost floor right down the 6th level basement sitting on bedrock.]
Willy does not strike me as a man who can be frightened very easily, and this one anecdote has always intrigued me. The emotions I saw in his eyes, and his body language as he was describing the event were real. I was left with no doubt that what he experienced that day was extremely frightening and deeply impressionable.
And, I might add, Rodriguez's testimony to the 9/11 Commission was sealed from the public, which makes one think that it was A) important, and B) extremely damaging to the official version. It also makes me think that Rodriguez was probably asked by the Commission to change his testimony, he refused to do so, and as a result, his testimony had to be sealed. Refer to the Warren Commission for further proof of that. Here's the link to the entire article:
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/931/331/E...osure.html
Strange Recollections
Having worked at the WTC for close upon two decades, he obviously was very familiar with its general layout. The North Tower, in particular, was nigh a second home to him. An extremely affable fellow, Rodriguez had many friends in the WTC community. His days almost invariably began with breakfast with co-workers at the employees' cafeteria at Windows On The World, the elegant restaurant on the 107th floor.
Especially following the 1993 bombing, security in the towers was extremely tight. That was glaringly obvious wherever he went. So how did the culprits manage to gain access?
He started to look into the security company in charge of the WTC complex, Securacom, and was more than a little surprised by the identities of two of its top executives.
President George W. Bush's brother Marvin Bush and his cousin, Wirt Walker III, were both principals of the company. Further, he found this very same company was in charge of security at Dulles Airport and United Airlinesboth central to the attacks.
Brushing this curious connection aside as coincidence, he began to wonder about the practical difficulties the perpetrators would have encountered in gaining access to the buildings. He tried to recall having seen any suspicious people, or strange occurrences.
Pieces began to slowly come together.
He recalled seeing small teams of men in white "HazMat" coveralls busily moving about the building in the weeks preceding the attacks. Their presence didn't strike him as particularly odd at the time, except for the fact that they used the stairwells almost exclusively and avoided using the service elevators. But he now began to wonder about these men's real identities and true purpose.
One particularly bizarre incident snapped into focus, one that was so frightening he recalls it made his "hair stand up."
A few weeks prior to the attacks, he was working in a stairwell on the 34th floor, which he knew to be completely vacant. Suddenly, he heard the strangest soundone he'd never heard inside the tower in his nearly twenty years there.
It was a powerful, ominous, "rumbling" sound of something extremely heavy being rolled about. It sounded like a "huge metal dumpster on steel wheels, containing something extremely heavytonsbeing rolled around" a floor that he knew to have been totally emptydevoid even of furniture.
Yet, Rodriguez categorically maintains there was "someone" on that floor moving some monstrous contraption about.
Oddly, he admits to having been gripped by intense fear at the time, but he was having difficulty verbalizing to me the exact nature of his apprehension. While this didn't strike me as having been a particularly inauspicious occurrence, it was clear he had been deeply affected by it. He immediately reported the incident to the main office, but was reassured it was a vacant floor.
Rodriguez was emphatic that he felt so frightened by this incident he didn't dare open the door to look inside because he literally feared for his life.
He intuitively sensed grave danger behind that door, and did his best to avoid the 34th floor thereafter.
[NB: It is worth considering that long-term occupancy (and thus control) of a whole floor would have granted occupants virtually unlimited and unobstructed access from all sides to the entire 47-column central core of the tower via the elevator shafts. By sequentially disabling individual elevators for servicing,' the occupants would have had clear access to the entire 1,350-ft central load-bearing corefrom the topmost floor right down the 6th level basement sitting on bedrock.]
Willy does not strike me as a man who can be frightened very easily, and this one anecdote has always intrigued me. The emotions I saw in his eyes, and his body language as he was describing the event were real. I was left with no doubt that what he experienced that day was extremely frightening and deeply impressionable.
And, I might add, Rodriguez's testimony to the 9/11 Commission was sealed from the public, which makes one think that it was A) important, and B) extremely damaging to the official version. It also makes me think that Rodriguez was probably asked by the Commission to change his testimony, he refused to do so, and as a result, his testimony had to be sealed. Refer to the Warren Commission for further proof of that. Here's the link to the entire article:
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/931/331/E...osure.html
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"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." - William S. Burroughs
"Truth is logic, and logic is truth."
"In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely." - Hunter S. Thompson
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." - William S. Burroughs