The South Tower of the WTC collapses to the ground, in approximately 10 seconds.

29 Minutes later the North Tower follows suit, collapsing in approximately 10 seconds.

Later that evening at 5:20, WTC7, a 47 story office building 300 feet away from the North Tower, suddenly collapses.

The building's tenants included the CIA, DoD, IRS, Secret Service, and Rudy Guiliani's emergency bunker.

And the SeC was using it to store 3 to 4,000 files related to numerous Wall Street investigations.

Although every single building surrounding Building 7 stood intact, WTC7 fell straight down, into a convenient little pile, in 6 seconds.

Official explanation? Falling debris from the Twin Towers created an internal fire which ignited several fuel tanks inside the building.

If this is true, then it would be the third building in history to collapse because of a fire.

The first two would be the Twin Towers.

On July 28th, 1945, a B-25 bomber lost in the fog crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building.

NOTE: In Loose Change 2nd Edition, it is incorrectly referred to as a b-52. We apologize for the error.

(Now, stop e-mailing us about it.)

On February 14th, 1975, a three alarm fire broke out between the 9th and 14th floors of the North Tower.

According to the New York Times, “The fire leads to intense scrutiny of the towers and eventually to a decision to install sprinklers.“

On February 12th, 2005, the Windsor Building in Madrid, a 32 story tower framed in steel reinforced concrete, burned for almost 24 hours, completely eradicating the upper ten stories of the building.

And yet on September 11th, 2001, two 110 story skyscrapers, completed in 1973, burned for 56 minutes and 103 minutes respectively, over four floors, before collapsing completely to the ground.

One might argue that this was due to the construction of the WTC. Let’s look at what was inside those buildings.

The core of each Tower was 87 by 133 feet, comprised of 47 box columns 36 by 16 inches thick.

The North Tower was completed in 1970, standing at 1,368 feet tall.

The South Tower was completed in 1973, clocking in at 1,362 feet tall, making them the tallest buildings in the world until the Sears Tower was completed in 1974.

And to think... the government would have us believe that these massive structures were destroyed by 10,000 gallons of jet fuel.

However, eyewitnesses, video footage, and a little common sense quickly refutes that claim...

The second plane hits the South Tower between the 78th and 82nd floors at 9:03 AM, barely hitting the southeast corner, the majority of the jet fuel exploding outside in a massive fireball that grows almost 500 feet wide.

Yet, this Tower collapses first, even though the North Tower was hit straight on, and had already been burning for 18 minutes longer.

So what could cause the Twin Towers to collapse in freefall?

Ginny Carr was attending a business meeting on the 36th floor of One Liberty Plaza, across the street from the WTC, and caught the first plane on tape.

A second explosion can be heard nine seconds after the impact.

So what happened in the North Tower?

Ask Willie Rodriguez.

Willie, a janitor who worked in the World Trade Center for 20 years, was in sub level 1 when the North Tower was hit.

His account of what happened on September 11th, 2001 completely refutes the government's official story.

The windows in the lobby were blown out, and marble panels were blown off of the walls. This was brushed off as damage from a raging fireball that went barreling down the elevator shafts.

However, the World Trade Center’s core and elevator shafts were hermetically sealed, AKA, air-tight...

The fire could not possibly have had enough oxygen to travel 1,300 feet down, retaining enough energy to destroy the bottom 8 floors of the building.

On 9-11, New York City lost 343 firefighters at the World Trade Center. Since they were the ones inside the Towers before and as they collapsed, I’d say they’ve got a pretty good grasp on what happened.

So, what does the FDNY think?

First, we have this interview from the Naudet brothers’ documentary

See this page for additional interviews.

Firefighter Louie Cacchioli told People Weekly "I was taking firefighters up in the elevator to the 24th floor to get in position to evacuate workers. On the last trip up a bomb went off. We think there were bombs set in the building.”

For more than a year, the Port Authority blocked the release of a tape of firefighters' transmissions from the World Trade Center on 9-11. In November 2002, the tape was released to the New York Times and other "news outlets."

Why did it take so long to get this tape released?

Click below to hear the entire 78 minute recording.

Chief Palmer had reached the fire on the 78th floor of the South Tower, and devised a plan to put it out.

He describes "two isolated pockets of fire", and requests two lines (hoses) to knock it down.

If the 78th floor was a “raging inferno” like the government would have us believe, then Palmer wouldn’t have gotten as far as he did, and certainly wouldn't have been able to put it out with two fire hoses.

On August 12th, 2005, an additional 15 hours of radio transmissions and transcripts of interviews with firefighters was finally released to the public.

Firefighters describe two events consistent with a controlled demolition.

Bright flashes from inside the building, and a number of crackling sounds before the buildings collapsed.

The collapse of the WTC was picked up by Columbia University’s observatory in Palisades, NY.

The South Tower registered as a 2.1 earthquake. The North Tower registered as a 2.3 earthquake.

Won-Young Kim told Chris Bollyn that their seismographs pick up underground explosions from a quarry 20 miles away.

Mark Loizeaux, the president of Controlled Demolition, Inc. told the American Free Press that in the basements of the World Trade Center, where 47 central support columns connected to the bedrock, hot spots of "literally molten steel" were discovered more than a month after 9-11.

These incredibly hot areas were found "at the bottoms of the elevator shafts, down seven [basement] levels, three, four, and five weeks later, when the rubble was being removed."

He said that molten steel was also found at WTC 7.

The highest temperature was in the east corner of the South Tower, where a temperature of 1377° F was recorded.

The molten steel in the basement was more than double that temperature.

Do you still think that jet fuel brought down the World Trade Center?

Etienne Sauret was filming her documentary, WTC: The First 24 Hours, and caught both collapses on tape.

Watch carefully

The tripod shakes 12 seconds before the North Tower begins collapsing, and something is knocked off the right hand side of the building.

Ben Fountain, a financial analyst who worked in the WTC, told People Magazine that in the weeks before 9-11, there were a number of unannounced and unusual drills where sections of both the Twin Towers and Building 7 were evacuated for security reasons.

Daria Coard, a guard in the North Tower, told Newsday that security detail was working 12 hour shifts for two weeks before 9-11. But on Thursday the 6th, bomb sniffing dogs were abruptly removed from the building.

So who authorized all this?

President Bush’s brother, Marvin, was Board of Directors at Securacom from 1993 until fiscal year 2000.

Securacom, now known as Stratesec, is an electronic security company which provided security for United Airlines, Dulles International Airport, and from the early 1990s up to the day of 9-11, the World Trade Center.

Marvin is also former director at HCC Insurance Holdings, which insured parts of the World Trade Center on 9-11.

More information on this was supposed to be disclosed and never was. To date the SEC has not revealed what they have learned.

If only we could examine the debris from the World Trade Center and figure out what happened.

Unfortunately, Mayor Giuliani began shipping the remains off to recycling yards overseas before investigators could even examine it.

Not even FEMA was allowed into Ground Zero.

Essentially, they blocked off a crime scene and destroyed all the evidence.

Guess who was allowed into the site?

Controlled Demolition, who was also responsible for cleaning up after the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995

Regardless, I think what happened to the World Trade Center is simple enough.

It was brought down in a carefully planned controlled demolition.

It was a psychological attack on the American People, and it was pulled off with military precision.