What President George Bush said during a televised press conference from the Rose Garden gave me pause and sent a cold chill up my spine.
Bush said that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed gave the CIA information about operatives within U.S. borders who had been “instructed to ensure the explosives are at a point high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping.”
On the face of it, this sounds rational because we all know what happened on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The planes struck the towers high, causing massive damage, and trapping thousands above the burning floors before the structures collapsed.
Because I listen differently than most, I heard something different that adds to the so-called conspiracy theories that the building collapsed because the superstructure was destroyed by individual explosive charges placed inside at critical points. In his speech, Bush used the word “explosives,” when the act was supposed to have been caused by the rupture of jet fuel superheating the internal girders, bringing on the building’s demise.
Could those so-called conspiracy theorists be correct?