Conspiracy Disproved: The Government’s Innocence September 11, 2001 America took a huge hit. Around 3,000 innocent U.S citizens were killed including 400 police and firefighters. A day so significant that it would lead us into a war with the Middle East taking the lives of over 4,000 men and women who served. No one saw what would be the most devastating day in America coming. On the morning of September 11 the skies above New York City were alluring with beauty. Then it was all taken away with a group of Islamic extremism hijacking four planes in mid flight with horrible intentions. The first two planes flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The North Tower was hit first at 8:45 a.m. spilling 20,000 gallons of jet fuel causing
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Many institutes such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Popular Mechanics Magazine have carried out investigations dismissing the 9/11 conspiracy theories as inadequate. The civil engineering community has accepted that a fire caused the Twin towers to collapse, not controlled demolition. Around 10,000 gallons of jet fuel was dispersed throughout the tower creating a temperature of 1,000 degrees Celsius. According to senior engineer Farid Alfawak-hiri, “Steel loses about 50 percent of its strength at 1100 degrees Fahrenheit”(qtd. in “Debunking the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories”). (1,000 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to about 500 degrees celsius.) According to Williams, "The jet fuel was the ignition source, it burned for maybe 10 minutes, and [the towers] were still standing in 10 minutes. It was the rest of the stuff (rugs, paper, furniture) burning afterward that was responsible for the heat transfer that eventually brought them down" (qtd. in “Debunking the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories”). The high temperature made the floors sag and the perimeter columns bend, causing the sounds of explosions. If the towers were demolished then the collapse would have started from the bottom. Footage shows the towers collapsing from the
Many institutes such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Popular Mechanics Magazine have carried out investigations dismissing the 9/11 conspiracy theories as inadequate. The civil engineering community has accepted that a fire caused the Twin towers to collapse, not controlled demolition. Around 10,000 gallons of jet fuel was dispersed throughout the tower creating a temperature of 1,000 degrees Celsius. According to senior engineer Farid Alfawak-hiri, “Steel loses about 50 percent of its strength at 1100 degrees Fahrenheit”(qtd. in “Debunking the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories”). (1,000 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to about 500 degrees celsius.) According to Williams, "The jet fuel was the ignition source, it burned for maybe 10 minutes, and [the towers] were still standing in 10 minutes. It was the rest of the stuff (rugs, paper, furniture) burning afterward that was responsible for the heat transfer that eventually brought them down" (qtd. in “Debunking the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories”). The high temperature made the floors sag and the perimeter columns bend, causing the sounds of explosions. If the towers were demolished then the collapse would have started from the bottom. Footage shows the towers collapsing from the