I just watched the video provided a few blog posts ago

http://www.911eyewitness.com/truth/downloads/northtowercomplete.wmv

and noticed the inner columns were still standing and then fell down.

I'm not sure if it means anything (regarding whether or not explosives were used) but it sure will help us understand the nature of collapse.

Any thoughts?

Among the welter of 9-11 anomalies still begging for a plausible explanation, one stands out as a convincing entree for those who dismiss "conspiracy theory," and as a compelling lead for a new investigation: The $2.5 million reward for "put option" stock trading that remains unclaimed to this day (below, I apply Occam's infamous razor to solve this stubborn mystery).

The unusual stock betting that preceded 9-11 is well-known (for those unfamiliar, the details are cited at end of this article).

“The uncollected money raises suspicions that the investors – whose identities and nationalities have not been made public – had advance knowledge of the strikes...They don’t dare show up now. The suspension of trading for four days after the attacks made it impossible to cash-out quickly and claim the prize before investigators started looking."

Wall Street analysts tell us that peaks of put/call options are not that uncommon--there have been episodes in the past. True, but it is the significant disproportion between put and call options that is supposed to arouse the suspicion of Wall Street police--the SEC, FBI and CIA, which tracks such suspicious trading in real-time as a signal of possible insider trading or other criminal activity. Moreover, securities analysts in other countries have stated that these agencies have the capacity to identify the culprits--there is no unbreachable firewall here.

I went to the Le Figaro site to check the archives for the article on the CIA visiting Bin Laden in the American Hospital in Dubai (that has been continually referenced). I wanted to see the original source.... but no luck. Try for yourself here.

The closest to the original article I could find was this smh.com.au article, published 10/31/01.

Does anyone know how to find the original Le Figaro article?

I didn't see this Friday press conference but ... for what it's worth, he apparently read from his script and ...

Bush went on to say that the operatives of the planned attacks were instructed in the placement of explosives. Adding, as though it's the clearest thing in the world, that Khalid disclosed the explosives were to detonate at "a point high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping."

http://www.Rigint.blogspot.com

Now to find video of this online ... there is a link here but I can't get it to play. But I did find the WhiteHouse Transcript here:

" For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them out. That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping."

Greetings fellow truthers! Just back from my local popular town square and thought I would let everyone know how easy it was to hand out 25 or so DVDs. 2 hours, no hecklers, and a bunch of good conversations with the usual variety of concerned citizens--a group of young women and one guy from high school, the guy mentioned that one dude at their school recently did a project on 9/11 conspiracy theories. A couple who said they were friends of friends of the Loose Change guys, a couple of older Canadian women, a tatooed dude and his girl on the train, the father of a group of rambunctious toddlers--they were all out tonight, and they all agreed with RT that something is wrong with the official story. I've been truthin'in the streets for about a year now and I can't overstate how much easier it's getting to be a truther. In the early days we were looked at as curiosities, maybe slightly crazy folks with too much time on our hands. These days you get a different feeling being out there--people either stop to thank you or glance over as they walk by with their friends, only to begin a discussion about the phenomenon of 9/11 truth. We are, in other words, relevant and being acknowledged as legitimate voices.

Pagan posted this clip a few days ago. There were only a few comments on it. Please take a look:
http://www.911eyewitness.com/truth/downloads/northtowercomplete.wmv

Now compare the flashes to this video of an acknowledged controlled demolition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL3zIv7LdZQ

Do you see what I see!?!?

This is perhaps the clearest visual evidence of explosives going off as the tower collapses. You can clearly see the charges. Also note how the spires disentegrate after the tower has already fallen.

Is this why Bush is suddenly talking about the terrorist capabilities to plant bombs in U.S. buildings? Please view the video and share your thoughts.

Please join us on a new live voice/text discusion on 911, details at http://911blog.org/?q=node/112

Talk live with other like minded folks using Skype and or Paltalk, and occasionally we get government shillers that we ripp to shreds, also we have live interviews from time to time of popular folks in the movement.

Tonight one of our friends will be on RBN live on the "Late Night With D'Anne" show at 11PM Eastern.

http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=19795

Summary:
1- Intro - Les Jamieson - NY Stories
2- David Miller-National Guard
3- Craig Bartmer-Police Officer
4- Mike McCormick-National Guard
5- Kevin McPadden-Air Force
6- Donna Marsha O'Connor-Victim's Mother
7- Janet McKinley-Resident
8- Willie Rodriguez-J
Credits: ny911truth.org

Thank you to each and every one of you who spoke. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Bush TELLS of planted EXPLOSIVES INSIDE THE WTC!
500kB mp3 audio snippet (broadcast quality, wink, nod, prod, hint)

For Immediate Release -- Office of the Press Secretary -- September 15, 2006 -- Press Conference of the President -- The Rose Garden -- President's Remarks -- 11:15 A.M. EDT

Blah blah ...we need to torture, because...

Bush: For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them out. That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping.

Bush HESITATES twice and gives away more than he is saying... he uses REVERSE LOGIC.. if the explosives are planted HIGH in the building.. there are LESS floors above where people can get trapped. i.e. If the OPERATIVES wanted to MINIMIZE the bloodbath they would WANT TO plant explosives HIGH in the building.

Here is a picture from a 1979 Pakistani Airlines Advertisment about a non stop flight to New York. And to think that you guys were making a big thing about the United States having the WTC in crosshairs! Look at the picture its legitimate!

So to speak! He's probably not widely-read enough to rate mention... but the editor of Guerrilla News Network is so weak that he has to hide behind the words of Cockburn, someone he hopes has enough left cred to skate this bullshit past his well-informed audience at GNN. This is someone who has basically built his career on 911 and has had every facet of research available to him on his own site over the past 5 years. As someone who contributed to GNN for four years up until recently and gave Lappe the benefit of the doubt for far too long, I'm disgusted with his continued sleazy gatekeeper ways. His last contribution on 911 was hyping up the writer of Flight 93/Vanity Fair article, using the occasion to once again bash "conspiracy theorists" while getting his facts wrong. Way too many other examples to bother with. It's still a good site to post blogs on because they go right to the front page and they don't censor for the most part.

Anphony's hit-piece oreo:

http://anthony.gnn.tv/blogs/18363/Holding_the_criminals_of_9_11_accountable

9/11 Bloglines (09/16)
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/ewing2001

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My fellow truthers, I don’t know about you, but I really was insulted in NYC every time a New Yorker tried to invalidate me as a concerned American simply because I wasn’t in NYC on 9/11. The skeptic firefighters use this argument all the time. I was attacked on the street by a group of hostile Catholic School girls who used the same retarded logic, saying, “You’re from Tennessee and trying to educate New Yorkers. Oh, just stop it.” Here is how you shoot down that ridiculous argument.

Next time someone in New York tries to say you don’t know anything about New York, give them what I like to call “The 9/11 Pop Quiz.” Ask as many 9/11 NYC related questions and see how many they can answer and how fast, such as:

What time was the North Tower hit? What airline and flight number? What floors were taken out? How fast was it traveling when it hit? Who were the hijackers for that plane? Who was the pilot? Where did the flight originate? How many minutes was it on fire before collapsing? How many people died above the impact zones? Did anyone survive above the impact zones? (no, all three stairs were severed.) How fast did it collapse? How many people died in the building? What did it register on the seismographs?

Has anyone out there heard that buildings that house Govt. offices of NSA, CIA, NSC etc. are routinely mined with explosive charges to bring them down if their security is compromised as in time of war, to keep sensitive and.classified information out of the hands of an enemy? I heard that speculation several times. I believe that all three buildings in the WTC complex did have Govt. offices in them. Would the fires have set them off, or would someone have set them off on purpose. It's an interesting question, and the answers would probably be even more interesting.

"For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them out. That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping."

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/launchPage.html?091506/091506_bush_1&%27Time%20Is%20Running%20Out%27&FNL&President%20urges%2...