Monday, March 06, 2006

fake osama tape and the blueprints

* via the DU thread about the blueprints, comes this from the dodgy UBL tape (transcript) from dec01:
"UBL: (...Inaudible...) we calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all. (...Inaudible...) due to my experience in this field, I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit and all the floors above it only. This is all that we had hoped for."

1) it's funny that an engineer would mistake iron for steel, and
2) nearly all engineers (except 'osama', and in retrospect) would have expected the buildings to withstand the hits from the planes. they were designed to so.
3) 'osama' specifically claims that he thought the FIRES would cause the collapse

Prof Steven Jones discusses building collapses in detail:
"no steel-beam high-rise had ever before (or since) completely collapsed due to fires... What a surprise, then, for such an occurrence in downtown Manhattan— three skyscrapers completely collapsed on the same day, September 11, 2001, presumably without the use of explosives."
Most people seem to agree that this OBL tape is a fake (wikipedia, damien)- fakes are very useful of course because they tell us a lot about the motivations of the lies that are being propogated.

Sibel knows who sent the blueprints and building composites. And she knows who they were sent it. I wish I knew. Hopefully Paul can get permision to discuss what he knows.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

None of the transcripts of the various tapes put out by OBL subsequent to the fake video (12-13 Dec) appear to contain any references to the buildings, or even any admissions of complicity by OBL (link). Rather, they show only moral approval.

Anonymous said...

indeed. in fact obl specifically denied that he was involved immediately after the attacks