On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 03:04:53PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:

Both of these these stories lack plausibility as far as I'm concerned.

2. WTC: If you have the ability to insert tower-busting bombs into the WTC towers, why the hell would you go to the trouble of doing the plane thing? It tooks extra months/years, with high training costs, many extra people, and a substantial chance of failure or detection. For that matter, why the hell would you wait the better part of an hour before blowing the charge?

Rather than a terrorist bomb, could it have been a damage control function by the good guys? The objective in such a case being a controlled collapse. I imagine it could take far longer than an hour to place such charges. My ignorance is probably obvious from the question, but I've heard this idea bandied about before. I'd imagine that if this were the case, expert engineers studying the collapse would recognize it instantly, so it doesn't seem too probable. Just throwing it out there.