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This programme contains some strong language.

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-Holy fuck!

-Oh, my God!

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We all remember how the Twin Towers were destroyed on 9/11.

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It's gone...the whole tower. Holy crap.

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SHOUTING AND SCREAMING

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But there was a third huge skyscraper that collapsed that day.

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Unlike the Twin Towers, no plane hit Tower 7.

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Keep your eye on the building. It'll be coming down soon.

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What could cause a seemingly sound 47-storey building to collapse?

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In the building, I heard explosions. Outside, I heard explosions.

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The building began to shake and it was as if you were in an earthquake.

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Could one use a controlled demolition on any building? Sure.

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Did it happen to WTC7 on 9/11? No, it did not.

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But now, seven years on, the official report has finally been released.

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Will it answer the many questions

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surrounding Tower 7's extraordinary collapse?

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The reason for the collapse at World Trade Center 7 is no longer a mystery.

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World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fuelled by office furnishings.

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It did not collapse from explosives.

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But that makes this the first and only skyscraper in the world

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to have collapsed because of fire.

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CHANT: Wake up! Don't be afraid! Wake up! Don't be afraid!

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Critics say there are many unanswered questions and claim it's a cover up.

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We will not stop until we get a real investigation.

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The official report given is unscientific and full of mistruths.

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We talk to witnesses who have become central figures in the controversy.

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It hurts when you're being accused of mass murder.

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And look at new evidence to unravel the last great mystery of 9/11.

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You have to wonder how much of the truth have we been told?

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In the American West, the internet phenomenon that is Loose Change has come to town.

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This is no longer a fringe conspiracy.

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This is over half the American public that fully believe

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the 9/11 Commission is a cover up at the very least.

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We just know we've been lied to in a big way and that's why we need a new investigation.

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Loose Change claims a government conspiracy was behind the events of 9/11

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and the ensuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Its makers say more than one hundred million people have seen the film,

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making it one of the most viewed internet movies ever.

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Now there's a new version for the big screen.

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Conspiracies have become big business.

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'Our entire foreign and domestic policy

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'has been based upon the events of September 11th.

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'It has enabled the passage of Patriot Act One and Two.'

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The Truth movement is heavily centred on Building 7.

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And for very good reason,

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a lot of people are very suspicious about what went down that day.

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Hidden behind the Twin Towers stood 7 World Trade Center.

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It was almost like the little sister of the two big towers.

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About half the size in height.

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And it struck me as a very modern well-constructed

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office building.

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It was a building that had a lot of security.

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There was always

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like police officers, undercover cops out front.

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It was very, very heavily guarded.

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On the outside an unremarkable building, but it had some unusual occupants.

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The Secret Service, The CIA, The Department of Defence

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and the Office of Emergency Management,

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which would coordinate any response to a disaster or a terrorist attack.

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You have to look at what was inside Building 7.

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You had the largest CIA field office,

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a number of government agencies in the building.

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So automatically, for a number of people, myself included, that is enough to at least raise an eyebrow.

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Some say the government had to demolish Tower 7 because

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it's where plans were hatched for a massive conspiracy on 9/11.

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Why building 7?

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Let's ask the question again. As the WTC Command Centre,

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was it the hub for the 9/11 plan?

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Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward.

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And freedom will be defended.

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Some think the attack on the Twin Towers was orchestrated by the Bush administration

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and the hijacked aeroplanes were guided to their targets from Tower 7.

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Others believe the government also wanted to destroy key files held there about corporate fraud.

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After its collapse, a CIA team is reported to have scoured the rubble

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looking for secret documents.

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The people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

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CHEERING

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Our government will willingly kill its own citizens for whatever gain it seems necessary

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and then lie as much as they need to to cover it up.

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It was the third tower to collapse that day,

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but its destruction was never mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report.

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And the first official inquiry into Tower 7

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was unable to be definitive about what caused its collapse.

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Regardless of what you think happened to the building,

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it does look like and it does resemble a controlled demolition.

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I do believe, it's the first in architectural history,

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a steel high-rise building has collapsed simply because of damage and fire.

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Despite that, all the steel from the 47-storey skyscraper

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was taken away to be melted down.

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Some made its way into this new US navy vessel.

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But it turns out one section of steel was kept.

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How it got to be in its present state was described by the New York Times as

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"perhaps the deepest mystery uncovered in the investigation."

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There's parts where

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the entire half inch of the beam is gone.

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Entirely dissolved, right through and so some something happened to cause the steel

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to really thin and in some places to disappear entirely.

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Critics say if you look carefully at the events of that day

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there's precious little evidence of damage or fire in Tower 7,

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but plenty of unexplained questions

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that suggest something far more sinister.

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Tuesday 11th of September 2001

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started like any other working day in downtown New York.

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But as these pictures were being filmed that morning,

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something extraordinary was already underway.

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Early that morning, the fire alarm system for the entire Building 7

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was "placed on test" because of "routine maintenance".

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For the next 8 hours "any alarms received from the system"

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are to be ignored.

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An hour later, American Airlines Flight 11 leaves Boston's Logan International Airport.

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We have a problem here.

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We have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New York, and we need you guys to...

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we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there, help us out.

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-Is this real world or exercise?

-No, this is not an exercise, not a test.

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At 8:46, a Boeing 767 slammed into the North Tower.

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Holy shit!

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It was carrying around 10,000 gallons of jet fuel.

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I watched it. I seen it go around I heard the boom.

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See I thought, as soon as it happened, I said "Was it terrorists?"

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The fire department been waiting there, like they were waiting for them to come in.

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And I said, "What is the fire department just sitting there for? Is it a conspiracy?"

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I heard a boom.

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SIRENS WAIL

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Straight away, the emergency operations plan was put into action

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and police, fire, health and other teams were called to Tower 7.

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Holy shit!

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A second Boeing 767 laden with jet fuel hit the South Tower.

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Two more planes had been hijacked.

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And the order was given to evacuate civilians from Tower 7.

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The police department and Intel

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and FBI, they were telling us

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we had a plane hit us in the Pentagon,

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and we now realise, it didn't take too long to realise we were under attack.

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What building would be attacked next? Tower 7?

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It could have been a target, I felt, because of where we were.

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It could have been a serious target. Plus the other federal agencies.

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In an emergency, we were supposed to go

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and huddle and plan and strategise with Mayor Giuliani

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in the Emergency Manager Center on the 23rd floor. That was the plan.

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But the decision is taken to evacuate

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the very office designed to respond to a terrorist attack.

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Oh, they're jumping!

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But not everyone leaves. Unaware of the evacuation order,

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two city officials head up to the 23rd floor.

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They are about to be trapped inside a building on the verge of destruction.

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They have become key witnesses

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in the controversy over what really happened inside Tower 7.

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I didn't realise, and maybe that's a good thing,

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I didn't realise how close I was to death.

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Everyone had been evacuated, except the two of us, who actually

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made the huge error of going back into the building and upstairs.

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-SIREN BLARES

-When Barry Jennings

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reaches the Office of Emergency Management, he is shocked.

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To my amazement, nobody's there.

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I saw coffee that was still hot, it was still smouldering.

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They had screens all over the place, the screens were blank.

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So I didn't know what was going on.

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And at that time, I received a phone call from one of my higher ups

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and he said, "Where are you?"

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And I said, "I'm at the Emergency Command Centre."

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A long pause, and then he came back and he said,

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"Get out of there, get out of there now."

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At 9:59, the 1,300 foot South Tower collapses.

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Debris and dust are thrown over a huge area.

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And Tower 7 doesn't escape.

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These are some of the only pictures of Building 7 at that moment.

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Just over a minute later, the fire alarm in Tower 7 is triggered.

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But because it's on test, there's no information about where the fires are.

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-What happened?

-The side of the building came down.

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Something fell?

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What did you see?

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It was pretty clear at one point, then this whole bunch of smoke and glass.

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I think we're just about the last ones in this building right now.

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I think you should leave. Everybody else has gone.

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I wanted to get out of that building in a hurry.

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So I started, instead of taking one step at a time, I'm jumping landings.

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When I reached down to the sixth floor, there was this eerie sound. The whole building went dark.

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A great deal of smoke came into the stairway, the sprinklers went on,

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I hit a wall and I was ahead of Barry

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and the building started to shake.

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At 10:28, the North Tower collapses in just 11 seconds.

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This time, Tower 7 takes a direct hit from the collapsing building.

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According to the official account,

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this is the start of a chain of events

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that will ultimately lead to the collapse of Tower 7.

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The World Trade Center complex in the heart of downtown Manhattan

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contained seven buildings occupied by many of the world's leading financial companies.

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The Twin Towers rose above the site, more than 1,300 feet tall.

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Tower 7 was 610 feet tall, and just 350 feet away from the North Tower.

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As the North Tower collapsed, debris hit Tower 7

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and fires were immediately reported in the building.

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Early evidence of explosives or just debris from a falling skyscraper?

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Barry Jennings and Michael Hess

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were still trapped inside on the eighth floor.

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Outside these big glass windows, the wind was blowing,

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papers and ash were flying all over the place.

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And it was just like the end of the world.

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They heard sounds that unnerved them.

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Sounds interpreted by others as evidence of explosives.

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The building began to shake, and it was as if you were in an earthquake.

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I've never really been in one, but it's what it felt like - the whole building was shaking.

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The first explosion I heard when I was on the stairwell landing,

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when we made it down to the sixth floor.

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Then when we made it back to the eighth floor I heard some more explosions.

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EXPLOSION

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What sort of sound?

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Like a boom, like an explosion.

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-And more than one?

-Yes.

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It's seven years on from 9/11

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and we finally have the official explanation.

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Dr Shyam Sunder led a team of more than 50 investigators.

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It took three years of extensive research

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and cost millions of dollars.

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But they are confident the last mystery of 9/11 has been solved.

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Our science shows us in

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great certainty it was fires that caused the collapse of building 7.

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We know that it wasn't intentional demolition that caused the building to collapse.

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What we now know is it was fires that primarily caused the building to collapse.

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Every year, more police state!

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But this has not silenced the critics.

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Wake up! Don't be afraid! Wake up!

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For these protestors at Ground Zero on the anniversary of 9/11,

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this new report is further evidence of an official cover up.

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Leading the calls for a new investigation is a group called

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Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

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They question the official explanation

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and refuse to accept its findings.

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Richard Gage is a member of the American Institute of Architects.

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He's been an architect in California for 20 years.

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He set up the group, which now has around 500 professionals from around the world.

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No steel frame high-rise building has ever collapsed due to fire.

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And we have over a hundred examples from which to choose.

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In 1991, a fire in a Philadelphia skyscraper raged for 18 hours.

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But it didn't collapse.

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In 2005, a 32-storey building in Madrid burned for a whole day.

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There was a partial collapse but the building remained standing.

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Tower 7 burned for seven hours.

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The Madrid building burned for 24 hours

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and my understanding is that the steel around the perimeter was not fire proofed.

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In Building 7, we have a completely fire-proofed building to two and three hours.

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What's more, a series of experiments were carried out in these giant hangars

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in Cardington, Bedfordshire in the mid-1990s.

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They showed that steel buildings were more robust than previously thought.

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The Cardington tests in the UK were exemplary

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in that the steel did not collapse as a result of these tests.

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A purpose built eight-story steel building was set on fire.

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For a short time, the steel reached temperatures of more than

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1,000 degrees centigrade, far hotter than in Tower 7.

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Ceiling beams did sag but no collapse was observed in any of the six experiments.

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I'm deeply troubled by the collapse of Building 7

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because if the official story is true,

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then what they're telling us is that our existing building codes,

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to which thousands of skyscrapers are currently designed with two and three hour fire protection,

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there's a serious problem.

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After being trapped for three hours, Barry Jennings and Michael Hess

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are finally led to safety through the lobby of the building.

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It was amazing! Because then, this big five-storey atrium was totally black and white.

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There were wires hanging down from everywhere that were black,

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and the rest of the whole lobby was white with ash.

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It was as if you, all of a sudden, had a black-and-white movie.

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When we get outside, a police officer comes and says, "You have to run.

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"We have more information of bombs, so you have to run."

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I ran for about two blocks and, after two blocks of running,

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I mean, obviously, curiosity got a hold of me

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and I said I wanted to turn around and I almost couldn't believe it

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and my mind is trying to process what happened to these 100-storey buildings.

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When I got to the 19th block,

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Channel Seven says, "Can we talk to you?"

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I said, "I need an ambulance." "Let's talk quickly."

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We started walking down the stairs. We made it to the eighth floor.

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Big explosion blew us back into the eighth floor.

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'All this time, I didn't know it.'

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All this time somebody had called my wife, told her I'd died in the building.

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Big explosion... 'Who comes over the TV set?'

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Whose voice comes over? It's mine.

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And my sister said, "Wait a minute. That's Barry right there."

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I said, this is it. We're dead.

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We're not going to make it out of here. I took a fire extinguisher and I bust the window out.

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My wife comes back down the stairs and says, "Wait! Is this live? Because we were told he was dead."

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And the little caption in the corner, left hand corner of the TV set said it was live.

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The two tallest buildings in New York had just collapsed

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cutting the water mains and severely hindering fire fighting.

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Fire boats were brought in to pump what water they could from the Hudson River.

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Just after midday, fire fighters were watching Tower 7 nervously.

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The Deputy Chief of the New York Fire Department that day remembers the scene.

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We had our special operations people surveying instruments to monitor

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see if there was any movement of the building.

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We were concerned of the possibility of collapse.

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We had a discussion with one particular engineer there,

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and we asked him if we allowed it to burn

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could we anticipate a collapse and if so how soon?

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It turned out that he was pretty much right on the money,

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that he said, in its current state, you have about five hours.

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Some people have interpreted this anticipation of collapse as evidence

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that the fire department and others were planning its destruction.

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Silverstein, a commercial real estate tycoon with international political connections acquired...

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And the owner, Larry Silverstein, has also been accused of being part

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of a huge conspiracy to destroy the buildings.

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It all stems from a TV interview when he used the phrase "pull it".

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I remember getting a call

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from the fire department commander telling me they weren't sure

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they were gonna be able to contain the fire.

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And I said, "We've had such terrible loss of life,

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"maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it."

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And they made that decision to pull. Then we watched the building...

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From here, we watched the building collapse.

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My personal response to his comment is that he was, um...

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involved in a decision to bring the building down.

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But who knows what he was thinking or saying?

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This is just speculation.

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Critics say just two months before 9/11,

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Larry Silverstein took out a 3.5 billion dollar insurance policy on the Twin Towers,

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a policy that would pay out in the event of a terrorist attack.

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But without this policy Larry Silverstein would not have been able to buy the buildings,

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and the insurance was not just for terrorism.

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The insurance on Tower 7 dated from 1987 when it was built.

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You don't say "We made the decision to pull it," which refers to something.

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You wouldn't say that about a group of firemen.

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You would say, "We made a decision to pull them out of the building."

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Larry Silverstein denies any involvement in any possible conspiracy.

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CHANT: Arrest Larry! Arrest Larry! Arrest Larry!

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-And there's no evidence to suggest he was.

-Arrest Larry!

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Is there a simpler explanation?

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The fire chief who was forced to assume command of New York's rescue operation that day

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had narrowly escaped death with the collapse of the South Tower.

0:22:540:22:58

It was like the surface of another planet.

0:22:580:23:01

All there was was

0:23:010:23:03

powdered debris and metal.

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It was a very strange scene.

0:23:060:23:09

Emergency teams scoured the wreckage desperately searching for survivors,

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among them hundreds of their own friends and colleagues.

0:23:140:23:17

At three o'clock, with the condition of Tower 7 deteriorating rapidly,

0:23:170:23:21

Chief Nigro was forced to make an impossible choice.

0:23:210:23:25

The biggest decision was to make an evacuation zone around building 7, to pull everyone away,

0:23:250:23:33

to stop the rescue efforts that were going on,

0:23:330:23:35

which was very difficult to do

0:23:350:23:37

because there were people trapped still,

0:23:370:23:41

and to step back, to step back and wait.

0:23:410:23:45

But was Larry Silverstein really giving the orders?

0:23:450:23:49

We don't need to ask permission from the owner, no.

0:23:490:23:52

When we're in charge of the building, we're in charge

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and that decision would be the fire chief's and his alone.

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That's why I know there is no conspiracy,

0:23:580:24:01

because for me to be part of that would be obscene

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and it disgusts me to even think of it.

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At 5.21pm, Tower 7 finally collapses.

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The 47-storey skyscraper and its contents are pulverised to dust.

0:24:180:24:24

A sixth grader can look at

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this building falling at virtually free-fall speed,

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symmetrically and smoothly, and see that it is not a natural process.

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Buildings that fall in natural processes

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fall to the path of least resistance.

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They don't go straight down through themselves.

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Tower 7 was a large skyscraper.

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At 610 feet high, it had 47 floors each the size of a football field.

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There were only a few places foundations could be put down

0:24:540:24:57

because it was built over a subway and an electricity substation.

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So long beams were needed to take the weight of the building on the east side, on the right here,

0:25:010:25:06

and it had to be reinforced on the fifth to seventh floors,

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and also between the 22nd and 24th floors.

0:25:100:25:14

It had 82 columns, 58 columns around the edge and 24 core columns inside.

0:25:140:25:21

In order for the perimeter to fall

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perfectly and symmetrically, which it pretty much does, Building 7,

0:25:250:25:31

all of those columns have to be removed within a tenth of a second of each other.

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Fire cannot do that.

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Controlled demolition can.

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Did Building 7 collapse because of damage from the falling North Tower

0:25:410:25:46

or was it also a controlled demolition?

0:25:460:25:49

Loose Change has found one demolition expert

0:25:490:25:52

with 28 years experience who thinks he knows what happened.

0:25:520:25:57

When shown the video for the first time he was taken aback.

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And you're sure it was the 11th?

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-That can't be.

-Seven hours after the World Trade Center.

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Really? Then they worked hard.

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AUDIENCE LAUGHS

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But it's not a view shared by other demolition experts.

0:26:360:26:39

Controlled Demolition Incorporated is one of the world's leading demolition companies.

0:26:440:26:50

They were consultants to the official report on the collapse of building 7.

0:26:510:26:56

Mark Loizeaux has been in this family business all his life.

0:26:570:27:00

He knows what it takes to bring a building down.

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The largest steel structure

0:27:030:27:05

we've taken down which I think is still a Guinness record is

0:27:050:27:09

the J L Hudson building in Detroit.

0:27:090:27:12

It took months to design it.

0:27:160:27:17

It took months to prepare the structure for the placement of the explosive charges, months.

0:27:170:27:24

It's noisy.

0:27:240:27:26

There's just no way to get around it.

0:27:260:27:29

You go in you knock out usually all the walls on the floors where you place explosives, gut them.

0:27:290:27:36

Then there's the placing of all the hundreds of explosive charges,

0:27:360:27:40

plus literally miles of initiating cable and miles of detonating cord.

0:27:400:27:44

Is it actually possible to have done a controlled demolition of a building like Building 7

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and it to be occupied and no-one to have seen anything?

0:27:500:27:55

In a screenplay, in a movie,

0:27:570:27:59

something with Bruce Willis in it maybe.

0:27:590:28:02

In reality, no.

0:28:020:28:04

But the architect Richard Gage has an answer for that.

0:28:060:28:10

It's possible, although this is mere speculation, that the explosives

0:28:100:28:14

could have been planted prior to each floor being remodelled,

0:28:140:28:21

or during such remodelling or even during the initial erection of the building.

0:28:210:28:27

When would that be? What sort of dates would you get into for that?

0:28:270:28:30

The building was built in the eighties.

0:28:300:28:33

Really?

0:28:340:28:36

I don't know what to say to that.

0:28:400:28:41

These explosives have a life expectancy. They have a shelf life.

0:28:410:28:45

Some of the ones manufactured in this country they say use within three years,

0:28:450:28:49

or you can't trust them to go off at all.

0:28:490:28:51

The official investigators specifically looked

0:28:540:28:57

at the theory of controlled demolition.

0:28:570:29:00

They determined the smallest charge needed

0:29:000:29:02

to destroy just one column in Tower 7 was 9lbs of explosives.

0:29:020:29:07

But even that would've produced a huge noise.

0:29:070:29:11

What we found is that about a mile away

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from this particular site, we would have a sound level

0:29:150:29:18

of somewhere between 130 and 140 decibels,

0:29:180:29:22

which would be as loud as a jet plane engine

0:29:220:29:25

or being in front of speakers at a rock concert.

0:29:250:29:27

Investigators say that sound was not picked up

0:29:310:29:33

by any videos or witnesses that they talked to.

0:29:330:29:36

But what about sounds eyewitnesses heard inside Building 7?

0:29:380:29:43

When the North Tower collapsed,

0:29:430:29:45

some of the debris that hit the building

0:29:450:29:48

scooped out the southern face of the building,

0:29:480:29:50

causing a lot of window damage, causing a lot of exterior columns

0:29:500:29:55

to be broken in the lower south west corner as well as the very top.

0:29:550:30:00

So it's likely that all of those huge failures and damage really caused

0:30:000:30:04

noises that were incredibly loud.

0:30:040:30:07

And one crucial eyewitness, who assumed there'd been an explosion in Building 7,

0:30:090:30:14

is now clear it was something else.

0:30:140:30:17

My position - and I'm quite firm on it -

0:30:170:30:22

there were no explosions.

0:30:220:30:24

Did I feel the building shake? Absolutely.

0:30:240:30:28

And I recollect that.

0:30:280:30:30

And I know now that that was caused by the northern half of number one

0:30:300:30:36

falling on the southern half of our building.

0:30:360:30:41

But what about those sounds of explosions recorded

0:30:440:30:47

after the Twin Towers had fallen but before Tower 7's collapse?

0:30:470:30:52

LOUD EXPLOSION

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The official explanation is that these sounds were caused

0:30:570:31:00

by exploding fuel tanks in the many vehicles around Ground Zero

0:31:000:31:05

and the enormous steel beams that were breaking and falling inside Tower 7.

0:31:050:31:10

All of that could have led to noises in the building

0:31:100:31:14

which seemed like explosions, sudden sounds.

0:31:140:31:19

When you're dealing with charges this size,

0:31:220:31:24

the amount of air that's displaced will break windows easily.

0:31:240:31:29

Mark Loizeaux was at Ground Zero three days after 9/11

0:31:300:31:33

to help organise the removal of debris.

0:31:330:31:36

He also advised the official investigation

0:31:360:31:39

on what a real controlled demolition would be like.

0:31:390:31:43

There were a lot of broken windows, mainly from impact of debris.

0:31:430:31:47

But I didn't see windows broken on the backs of buildings,

0:31:470:31:51

only where debris falling from the Towers struck it.

0:31:510:31:55

But come round the back side, no.

0:31:550:31:58

Windows weren't broken there. They were shielded from debris falling.

0:31:580:32:02

If explosives of the magnitude necessary to cut the columns in a big building were detonated,

0:32:020:32:07

the windows all the way round would have been shattered.

0:32:070:32:10

No way round it.

0:32:100:32:12

And they would leave behind some unmistakable signs of explosives.

0:32:120:32:16

In a structure taken down with explosives, you'd find these tubes.

0:32:160:32:20

You'd likely find the upper part of this cap, where the delay element is.

0:32:200:32:25

Every inch of the site was picked over by hundreds of people.

0:32:270:32:31

No-one reported any signs of explosives.

0:32:310:32:34

Up in Utah, there's a scientist who thinks he has an explanation.

0:32:400:32:44

Steven Jones' theory was not looked at by the official investigators.

0:32:440:32:49

They only looked at conventional demolition.

0:32:490:32:52

Professor Jones thinks he's found evidence of an unconventional demolition

0:32:520:32:57

in the dust that's he analysed from the World Trade Center.

0:32:570:33:02

It is rather like

0:33:020:33:03

a DNA in an investigation.

0:33:030:33:07

This dust carries all this information of what caused it, what created it.

0:33:070:33:13

Professor Jones thinks there was a conspiracy to destroy Tower 7 and the Twin Towers

0:33:130:33:19

using a strange substance that can quite literally melt steel.

0:33:190:33:23

Thermite is a very active chemical reaction that produces molten iron spheres.

0:33:230:33:29

The spheres you get from thermite matches the spheres I see in the World Trade Center dust.

0:33:290:33:34

The dust he found contains iron oxide and aluminium.

0:33:360:33:39

So does thermite.

0:33:390:33:41

What do you think?

0:33:450:33:47

I would say it melted out the whole side and went right through the aluminium.

0:33:470:33:54

So, as the thermite reacts, it blows molten iron into the air,

0:33:540:33:59

where it forms droplets due to surface tension.

0:33:590:34:03

And then those solidify and form these little spheres.

0:34:030:34:07

These iron-rich spheres can only be formed at very high temperatures.

0:34:100:34:14

Steven Jones says the fires in the buildings before their collapse were not hot enough.

0:34:140:34:20

Only a thermite reaction could have made them.

0:34:200:34:24

But official investigators say these spheres could have been formed

0:34:260:34:29

in the fires in the rubble after the collapse of the buildings.

0:34:290:34:33

Debris can trap heat and lead to long-lasting and very hot fires.

0:34:330:34:37

They also say that the ingredients found in thermite are not unusual.

0:34:370:34:43

Iron oxide and aluminium are very common materials.

0:34:460:34:50

They are used extensively in buildings.

0:34:500:34:53

So the fact that aluminium and iron combined together

0:34:530:34:57

in a chemical reaction under heat is not at all surprising.

0:34:570:35:01

Steven Jones is undaunted.

0:35:030:35:06

He thinks these red chips in the dust could be evidence of unreacted thermite.

0:35:060:35:11

It's not an opinion shared by the official investigation.

0:35:110:35:15

We feel very strongly that there was no credible hypothesis associated with thermite.

0:35:150:35:20

I saw thermite once in high school.

0:35:200:35:24

It was very impressive, but I've never seen anyone

0:35:240:35:27

use a material which melts steel for demolition purposes.

0:35:270:35:30

I don't see how you could possibly get all of the columns to melt through at the same time.

0:35:300:35:38

On the internet there are references to secret formulations of thermite that have special properties.

0:35:380:35:45

You can cut with thermite without a large explosion.

0:35:450:35:48

You see. In other words, thermite you can formulate to burn rapidly or slowly.

0:35:500:35:55

The key is nanothermite. Why won't people deal with super thermite?

0:35:570:36:01

It's like they don't want to see it, I guess. I don't know.

0:36:010:36:04

But it does exist.

0:36:040:36:05

We have reports of it in a sol-gel form.

0:36:050:36:08

It's very explosive. The sol-gel can be formed and shaped.

0:36:080:36:12

I suppose you can keep saying, "But what if? What if? What if?"

0:36:120:36:17

and you could go to fantasy land and make up whatever you wanted.

0:36:170:36:22

It's just not real, it's not real.

0:36:220:36:25

The materials and the technologies just aren't there.

0:36:250:36:29

If they were, I'd know.

0:36:290:36:31

Mark Loizeaux is not unbiased.

0:36:310:36:33

Due to his very wealthy clientele

0:36:330:36:36

he also works for the Federal Government.

0:36:360:36:38

He can't come out and say

0:36:380:36:41

this is a controlled demolition,

0:36:410:36:43

if he doesn't want to lose many of his top clients.

0:36:430:36:46

Is Mark Loizeaux part of a conspiracy?

0:36:470:36:50

Or is it that anyone who contradicts the alternative theories

0:36:500:36:54

is condemned as part of a cover up?

0:36:540:36:56

But they say that you did work at Ground Zero, which you did.

0:36:560:37:00

You've got the absolute perfect credentials for a government-paid demolition expert.

0:37:000:37:05

And of course, you're going to say, "I didn't do it."

0:37:050:37:09

But you absolutely fit the bill.

0:37:090:37:11

I'd make a great terrorist, I suppose.

0:37:110:37:14

Unfortunately, I don't have those inclinations.

0:37:140:37:16

Since 9/11, other people have gone much further.

0:37:180:37:21

Mark Loizeaux and his company have been the subject

0:37:210:37:25

of a hate campaign and even accused of mass murder.

0:37:250:37:29

I'm disturbed by 9/11. I'm disturbed by all of this.

0:37:290:37:33

But I think there are ways to handle it and ways that you don't handle it.

0:37:330:37:37

And you certainly don't terrorise, terrorise people

0:37:370:37:42

like the good folks that work here and family members.

0:37:420:37:45

A new building 7 was opened in 2006.

0:37:530:37:57

It's thinner, but taller than the previous one.

0:37:570:38:00

Over the last seven years,

0:38:000:38:03

the work on clearing and rebuilding Ground Zero has continued.

0:38:030:38:07

And new evidence has emerged which supports the official explanation that fire brought Tower 7 down.

0:38:070:38:13

This is some of the only footage of the south face of the building

0:38:160:38:19

and it shows the whole side engulfed in smoke.

0:38:190:38:23

Until recently, most people have only seen the other sides where there was much less obvious damage.

0:38:230:38:29

Richard Rotanz had to assess the damage to Tower 7.

0:38:290:38:34

And crucially, he saw the south face

0:38:340:38:36

just after the North Tower had collapsed slamming debris into it.

0:38:360:38:41

Well, looking at the upper floors at Tower 7,

0:38:410:38:44

you could see columns gone, floors collapsed,

0:38:440:38:47

heavy smoke coming out and fire.

0:38:470:38:49

The upper floors were an inferno.

0:38:490:38:52

And then he had to go into that building to assess it.

0:38:520:38:56

You could hear the building creak above us,

0:38:570:39:00

you could hear things fall, you could hear the fire burning.

0:39:000:39:03

You could see columns just hanging from the upper floors,

0:39:030:39:07

gaping holes in the floors up above us.

0:39:070:39:09

There was an elevator car that was blown out of the shaft and it was down the hall.

0:39:090:39:13

This is the massive impact from the fall of Tower 1 onto Tower 7.

0:39:130:39:18

We need volunteers for first aid.

0:39:180:39:20

Raid the buses! Raid the trucks!

0:39:240:39:26

One photographer was able to get close to Building 7

0:39:260:39:30

because he was an honorary deputy chief in the Fire Department.

0:39:300:39:33

-These are some his pictures.

-You could see part of

0:39:330:39:36

the south part of the building was damaged heavily.

0:39:360:39:39

There was a big hole on the corner of the south side of the building.

0:39:390:39:44

You could see part of the building has bowed out a little bit. To me, that's major structural damage.

0:39:440:39:49

And there's smoke on a lot of floors on the south side of the building.

0:39:490:39:53

I saw fire coming out some of these windows.

0:39:530:39:55

And that, through my experience of taking fire photography for the last 30 years,

0:39:550:39:59

to me that's an indication of extremely heavy fire condition and a dangerous fire condition.

0:39:590:40:04

The architect Richard Gage is not impressed.

0:40:040:40:08

He says the smoke on the south side may not be from Tower 7 at all.

0:40:080:40:13

This is indicative of a negative pressure which

0:40:130:40:17

drew the smoke from the World Trade Center 6 or 5

0:40:170:40:23

that was burning quite severely.

0:40:230:40:26

And there's no visible flames in any of that smoke.

0:40:260:40:30

So it appears to not be coming from World Trade Center 7.

0:40:300:40:33

It was from number 7.

0:40:350:40:37

The smoke was coming out of the building, not going from the opposite direction, that's insane.

0:40:370:40:43

It was coming out of the windows.

0:40:430:40:45

You see it on the video, in the still pictures.

0:40:450:40:47

There was heavy smoke. Numerous floors had fire on.

0:40:470:40:51

The small pockets of travelling fires in this building,

0:40:510:40:55

of which the official report claims there's about ten,

0:40:550:40:59

we see maybe five or six from the outside,

0:40:590:41:02

were not sufficient to weaken this building,

0:41:020:41:06

modern fire-proofed, steel-framed building,

0:41:060:41:08

to cause a global catastrophic collapse at free-fall speed.

0:41:080:41:12

But a fireman who was there on the day is clear

0:41:150:41:18

about the intensity of the fire.

0:41:180:41:21

We saw the fire and the smoke

0:41:210:41:22

on the south side of building 7.

0:41:220:41:24

A lot of damage, a lot of damage.

0:41:240:41:27

And a tremendous amount of smoke. I couldn't tell what floor it ended at.

0:41:270:41:31

And he also saw the east side of Tower 7.

0:41:330:41:37

The windows on approximately 10 to 15th floor of Building 7

0:41:370:41:42

started to fail from the heavy fire inside.

0:41:420:41:44

We looked at it and said, "There's so much fire in this building,

0:41:440:41:48

"nobody's gonna put this fire out."

0:41:480:41:50

Then after being told there was nothing more they could do to save Building 7,

0:41:500:41:54

he walked away and witnessed its collapse.

0:41:540:41:57

It sounded like a jet engine.

0:41:570:41:59

And we looked over the buildings, you could see the top of building 7

0:41:590:42:03

and it just started to shake and then just disappeared down.

0:42:030:42:06

And it was down in about seven or eight or nine seconds.

0:42:060:42:10

It was just gone.

0:42:100:42:12

I saw the damage and that was good enough for me.

0:42:120:42:16

I never heard any charges.

0:42:160:42:18

I never heard any sequence of explosions, timed explosions.

0:42:180:42:22

In the last few years, the scale of the alleged conspiracy has grown and grown.

0:42:260:42:31

Not just the government and foreign intelligence, but police, fire service and even the media.

0:42:310:42:36

Now, more on the latest building collapse in New York

0:42:390:42:42

you may have heard moments ago. We'll find out more

0:42:420:42:45

from correspondent Jane Standley. Jane, what more can you tell us?

0:42:450:42:49

Well, only really what you already know. Details are very sketchy.

0:42:490:42:53

But Tower 7 hadn't collapsed.

0:42:530:42:56

'Where did CNN and the BBC get their information,

0:42:560:43:00

'especially considering the building was still standing directly behind their reporters?'

0:43:000:43:04

You have to put it in the context of a chaotic day.

0:43:070:43:10

Our investigations suggest we were working on the basis of an incorrect news agency report.

0:43:100:43:16

We had this statement from Reuters. What it says is,

0:43:160:43:19

"On September 11th, 2001,

0:43:190:43:22

"Reuters incorrectly reported that one of the buildings

0:43:220:43:25

"at the New York World Trade Center, 7WTC, had collapsed before it actually did."

0:43:250:43:30

Do you think that's suspicious?

0:43:300:43:32

Not really. To be honest with you I didn't want to put that line in.

0:43:320:43:36

But, you know, I'm not the only person on the team.

0:43:360:43:39

I do think it's a little embarrassing on both the part of CNN and BBC.

0:43:390:43:44

Even more embarrassing, the BBC lost key tapes of its 9/11 coverage.

0:43:440:43:50

But we found them.

0:43:500:43:52

It turned out they'd been put back on the wrong shelf.

0:43:520:43:56

2002 rather than 2001.

0:43:560:43:59

Cock up rather than conspiracy.

0:43:590:44:02

What of the reporter herself? She's never talked about this before.

0:44:040:44:08

Jane Standley was a world affairs specialist and had just arrived in New York.

0:44:080:44:12

The BBC quickly found a place to interview her.

0:44:120:44:15

But she had precious little information to go on.

0:44:150:44:18

I was thrown

0:44:180:44:19

not a question but a statement of fact.

0:44:190:44:22

I don't know where that came from.

0:44:220:44:24

What can you tell us about the collapse?

0:44:240:44:27

'Only really what you already know, details are very sketchy...'

0:44:270:44:31

It's very difficult being in that position with no communications,

0:44:310:44:34

no access to information, that comes out of left field.

0:44:340:44:37

'Details are very sketchy.'

0:44:370:44:39

It was very upsetting about a year ago

0:44:390:44:42

because of the level of persecution and the virulence

0:44:420:44:45

in which I was spoken about.

0:44:450:44:47

It's very unfortunate that this whole conspiracy,

0:44:470:44:51

I think a rather ridiculous situation,

0:44:510:44:53

has grown out of what's really a very small and very honest mistake.

0:44:530:44:58

Unfortunately, I think we've lost the line with Jane Standley in Manhattan.

0:44:580:45:04

Even the way the interview ended is seen by some as evidence of a conspiracy.

0:45:040:45:09

The BBC says there's a simple explanation for the interview ending abruptly.

0:45:090:45:15

The satellite feed had an electronic timer,

0:45:150:45:18

which cut out at quarter past five exactly.

0:45:180:45:21

'This is the Alex Jones Show, on News Radio 590KLDJ...'

0:45:230:45:29

Boom! There's a huge explosion. There's dead people all over the lobby.

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The cops say, "Don't look at them!" Remember they said that nobody died.

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But, folks, we have them. This is so huge.

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Every word used by eyewitnesses is picked over in a relentless search for a hidden truth.

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Conspiracy talk shows and websites seized on an interview

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for Loose Change with the crucial witness, Barry Jennings.

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There's no evidence that anyone died in Tower 7 on 9/11.

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But did Barry's interview suggest something else?

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The amount of detail Barry gave us was unreal.

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He says he was stepping over dead bodies in the lobby.

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Trouble is, Barry Jennings himself disagrees with their interpretation of his words.

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I didn't like the way

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I was portrayed.

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They portrayed me as seeing dead bodies. I never saw dead bodies.

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But Dylan Avery has a recording of his interview and he's unrepentant.

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'The fire fighter who took us down kept saying, "Do not look down."

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'And I kept saying, "Why?" He said, "Do not look down."

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'And we're stepping over people.

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'And you know you could feel when you're stepping over people.'

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I didn't take anything out of context.

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I said it felt like I was stepping over them but I never saw any.

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And you know, that's the way they portrayed me

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and I didn't appreciate that so I told them to pull my interview.

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Do I think our government would do something like that to its people?

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No, I honestly don't believe that...

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All I know that I was in there, heard what I heard, saw what I saw.

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In New England, the claims of the mysterious melted steel

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from Tower 7 has been unravelled.

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The scientist who tested the steel is adamant

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it wasn't caused by unconventional explosives like thermite.

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Well, it was attacked by what we determined was a liquid slag.

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When we did the analysis, we actually identified it

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as a liquid containing iron, sulphur and oxygen.

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You can see what it does is it attacks the grain boundaries

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and this bit would eventually have fallen out

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and continue the attack.

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Professor Sisson says it didn't melt, it eroded.

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The cause were those very hot fires in the debris after 9/11 that cooked the steel over weeks.

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When a NASA plane flew over Ground Zero after 9/11,

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the temperatures recorded were remarkably high.

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The highest temperature within Tower 7's footprint

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was 727 degrees centigrade.

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I don't find it very mysterious at all,

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that if I have steel in this sort of a high temperature atmosphere

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that's rich in oxygen and sulphur,

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this would be the kind of result I would expect.

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With no steel from Tower 7 to study,

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investigators at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

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created the most complex computer simulation of a building collapse ever made.

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NIST reconstructed the entire skyscraper

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right down to the smallest bolt and then set fire to it.

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A single computer run

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in the case of World Trade Center 7 took eight months

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compared to two months for the towers.

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Scientists are certain the building collapsed,

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because of fires that started when Tower 1 fell.

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These fires were mainly on floors 6 through to 13,

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except floor 10,

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and there were fires initially on some of the upper floors.

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The collapse of the Twin Towers also severed the mains water supply

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preventing fire fighters tackling the fires

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and, crucially, stopping the sprinkler system working.

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There's no way to put the fire out.

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We've got all kinds of water problems.

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The Two Trade buildings took out the mains.

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We can handle just about everything, but this is beyond.

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To explain Tower 7's collapse,

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it's vital to understand what was going on

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inside the building in the seven hours before it fell.

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Investigators focused on the east side, where the long floor spans were under most stress.

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Here, fires burnt long enough to weaken and break

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many of the connections that held the steel structure together.

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Most susceptible were the thinner floor beams which required less fireproofing,

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and the connections between the beams and the columns.

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As they heated up, the connections failed and the beams also buckled.

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Our analysis showed that it was the fires that, when it reached the north east corner,

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it really was the reason why this building collapsed.

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Unique to Building 7's collapse was thermal expansion.

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The steel beams heated up quicker than the concrete floors.

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As they expanded, the beams buckled,

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causing many floors and connections to fail.

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The weakening of those floors eventually led to the failure of a girder on floor 13,

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which caused the floors to start collapsing one on top of the other.

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And suddenly, you had a single column that was unsupported

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over a nine-storey length and that buckled.

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That initiated the collapse.

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For those self-styled Truthers, who think 9/11 was an inside job by the US government,

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no official report is going to convince them otherwise.

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For the seventh anniversary, many of them gathered

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at an event in New York called Now or Never.

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-APPLAUSE

-Richard Gage flew in from California to speak to them.

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He was scathing about the official report.

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Let's get this started off with some evidence, what do you say?

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It can't tear, it can't bend, it can't crush.

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That means it is falling at free-fall speed

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and can't do any other work.

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This is a fundamental point for the critics.

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They say Building 7 falls at free-fall speed.

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Nothing in its huge steel structure slows its collapse.

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They argue it looks and acts like a controlled demolition.

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There is no resistance. The building would've slowed down

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in order for it to crush these columns.

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It didn't, meaning the columns had to have been removed.

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I have two 15-storey buildings that I'm gonna drop.

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Simple experiments don't lie. When I show this experiment to people,

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'they get it intuitively.' Ready, one, two, three.

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Oh, my God! The one that had no resistance under it

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falls at free-fall speed! What happens over here?

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The one that has 80,000 tons of structural steel on it,

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it doesn't even give.

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But investigators say columns hadn't been removed.

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They'd been weakened by fires.

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And what's more, the building did not collapse at free-fall speed.

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The scientists timed the fall of the top 17 floors

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before they disappeared from view.

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It took 5.4 seconds.

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A free-fall collapse will have taken 3.9 seconds.

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Clearly, the time that this building took to collapse was longer

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by almost 40-50% than the free-fall time of an object.

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Well, 40% is a lot longer.

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It's not 5%, it's 40%. It's huge.

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# Live free or die. #

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Good evening and welcome to Hardfire. I'm Ronald Wieck.

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A community TV station in New York hosts a regular programme aimed at debunking conspiracy theories.

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We're here at historic St Paul's Chapel on Broadway, where the Truthers are flocking.

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For the seventh anniversary of 9/11, they're filming the show at Ground Zero.

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I'm looking for someone seven years after the fact to tell me what happened seven years ago.

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Give me some kind of coherent narrative.

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A coherent narrative, um...

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Well, basically, there is evidence that shows 9/11 was an inside job.

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What happens if China came here and started building permanent bases here in the United States?

0:53:410:53:46

'We hear all sorts of scattershot criticisms and we hear'

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outlandish theories that are eternally inconsistent.

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Why would the government attack its own citizens?

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Make sense of this to me. If you allege a conspiracy,

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then someone benefits. Show me who and how.

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I don't really know what happened. I have no idea.

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I don't think anybody in this movement knows.

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If there is... if there is a grand conspiracy,

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and something much larger behind the scenes than we've been told,

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it would probably be a little presumptuous of us to at least...

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to at least try to form some kind of cohesive story from start to finish.

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It would be setting ourselves up, you know.

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You do know that NIST just released its final report

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-on the collapse of WTC7?

-PEOPLE SHOUT OVER HIM

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'These are beliefs. This is a faith.'

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Wake up! Don't be afraid!

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This is not a world view that's based on reality.

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The chief counter-terrorism adviser to President Bush on 9/11 was Richard Clarke.

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He was with Vice President Dick Cheney in the White House that morning.

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People who believe in conspiracy theories

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and particularly this one about WTC7 don't understand government

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and clearly have never worked in government.

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Anyone who's ever worked in government will tell you two things,

0:55:070:55:11

that the government doesn't have the competence to do

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a large scale conspiracy like this,

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and number two, it can't maintain secrecy.

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There's almost nothing that I know of in 30 years

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of having top secret clearances that hasn't come out

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in the Washington Post and the New York Times.

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There can be no whitewash at the White House.

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So, there's no way this conspiracy

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of knocking down WTC7 could have happened.

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But he's got 30 years experience?

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I don't care what kind of fucking experience he has. I don't care.

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He's in the system. Of course he'll tell you those kinds of things.

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You honestly think he'll say, "Of course the government was part of it, of course there's a cover up."

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No, he'll fucking toe the party line and defend the government.

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He'll defend his ex-bosses. Come on, man.

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The former chief counter-terrorism adviser

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does not think there's anything mysterious about Tower 7.

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I was in the World Trade Center 7 on a number of occasions.

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This was an office building in downtown New York.

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The fact there were some government agencies in there is certainly true,

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but there were lots of others and you could have rented an office or floor, anybody could have.

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Sceptics reject the official report

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and also question the integrity of the scientists who worked on it.

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I don't know how to judge the good faith of the individuals at NIST.

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But if I were them, I wouldn't be sleeping well at night.

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CHANT: Osama bin Laden! CIA! Osama bin Laden! CIA!

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It's surprising that there's a community of people who don't

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accept solid science

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conducted by people with impeccable technical expertise.

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If you wanna know who did it, start researching secret societies!

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We really have not seen any coherent theory

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that really stands up to technical scrutiny.

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This is part of an ongoing cover up.

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The evidence exists. They are not letting it out.

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CHANT: Wake up! Don't be afraid! Wake up!

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'I guess everyone's entitled to their opinion.'

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It kind of angers me, because I was there.

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I've heard people talk about it that come from Cincinnati and California

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and wherever else they come from. I was here, you weren't.

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I think they have no respect for all the friends of mine that I lost

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and all the people that died. It's like a slap in their face.

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# Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light... #

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Nearly 3,000 people died on 9/11,

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including 343 New York fire fighters.

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The man who was in charge that day hopes now,

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with the release of the official report on Tower 7,

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a painful chapter in America's history will end.

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Conspiracies can always be more exciting than the real thing,

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because you can always add to them. It makes for great fiction.

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And I enjoy great fiction myself, but when it comes to real life,

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I think we have to know that one side of the page is real life and one side is fiction,

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and draw the line between them

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and live in the real world and enjoy our fiction as fiction.

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Find out more about this programme and others

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in "The Conspiracy Files" series at our website bbc.co.uk/conspiracyfiles.

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