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PHYSICIST SUGGESTS THAT INCENDIARY SUBSTANCES PLANTED AT WTC

SUZANNE DEAN, DESERET MORNING NEWS - A Brigham Young University
physicist said he now believes an incendiary substance called thermite,
bolstered by sulfur, was used to generate exceptionally hot fires at the
World Trade Center on 9/11, causing the structural steel to fail and the
buildings to collapse. "It looks like thermite with sulfur added, which
really is a very clever idea," Steven Jones, professor of physics at
BYU, told a meeting of the Utah Academy of Science, Arts and Letters at
Snow College Friday. The government requires standard explosives to
contain tag elements enabling them to be traced back to their
manufacturers. But no tags are required in aluminum and iron oxide, the
materials used to make thermite, he said. Nor, he said, are tags
required in sulfur. Jones is co-chairman, with James H. Fetzer, a
distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota of
Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a group of college faculty members who believe
conspirators other than pilots of the planes were directly involved in
bringing down New York's Trade Towers. . .

Another item of evidence, Jones said, is the fact that sulfur traces
were found in structural steel recovered from the Trade Towers. Jones
quoted the New York Times as saying sulfidization in the recovered steel
was "perhaps the deepest mystery uncovered in the (official)
investigation." But, he said, sulfidization fits the theory that sulfur
was combined with thermite to make the thermite burn even hotter than it
ordinarily would. Jones said a piece of building wreckage had a gray
substance on the outside that at one point had obviously been a dripping
molten metal or liquid. He said that after thermite turns steel or iron
into a molten form, and the metal hardens, it is gray. He added that
pools of molten metal were found beneath both trade towers and the
47-story WTC 7. That fact, he said, was never discussed in official
investigation reports. And even though WTC 7 was not connected to the
Trade Towers - in fact, there was another building between it and the
towers -and even though it was never hit by a plane, it collapsed. That
suggests, he said, that it came down because a thermite fire caused its
structural steel to fail. Jones said his studies are confined to
physical causes of the collapses, and he doesn't like to speculate about
who might have entered the buildings and placed thermite and sulfur. But
he said 10 to 20 people "in the know," plus other people who didn't know
what they were doing but did what they were told, could have placed
incendiary packages over several weeks.

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