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Deputy Chief Raymond Downey
WTC victim
Special Operations Command, FDNY
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Father John Delendick
WTC survivor
Chaplain, FDNY
Added June 6, 2008


Bob Pugh
Pentagon eyewitness
Freelance photographer
Added June 5, 2008


Jamie McIntyre
Pentagon eyewitness
CNN Senior Pentagon Correspondent
Added June 5, 2008


Father Lawrence Lucas
Deputy Director, Ministerial Services
NYC Corrections Department
Added June 5, 2008


Jeff Birnbaum
WTC Survivor
President of Broadway Electric Supply
Added May 30, 2008


Evalle Sweezer
WTC Survivor
Office Worker. WTC North Tower
Added May 30, 2008


Michelle Scott
WTC Survivor
Office Worker. WTC North Tower
Added May 30, 2008


Salvatore Giambanco
WTC Survivor
Maintenance Employee, World Trade Center
Added May 30, 2008


Felipe David
WTC Survivor
Aramark Co. Employee, World Trade Center
Added May 30, 2008


Gregory Reszka
WTC Survivor
WTC North Tower, 82nd floor
Added May 30, 2008


Brian Clark
WTC Survivor
Manager, Eurobrokers
WTC South Tower, 84th floor
Added May 24, 2008


Josef Princiotta
Cousin of Firefighter Vincent Princiotta
Ladder Company 7, Manhattan, FDNY
Added April 24, 2008


Allan L. Rosenzweig
Brother of Philip M. Rosenzweig
Passenger, American Flight 11
Added April 9, 2008

RECENT ARTICLES: 

Twenty-five U.S. Military Officers Challenge Official Account of 9/11 – Official Account of 9/11 “Impossible”, “A Bunch of Hogwash”, “Total B.S.”, “Ludicrous”, “A Well-Organized Cover-up”, “A White-Washed Farce”
Jan. 14, 2008      PDF Version      Article on OpEdNews

Eight U.S. State Department Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11 – Official Account of 9/11 "Flawed", "Absurd", "Totally Inadequate", "a Cover-up"
Jan. 5, 2008      PDF Version      Article on OpEdNews

Seven Senior Federal Engineers and Scientists Call for New 9/11 Investigation – Official Account of 9/11 "Impossible", "Hogwash", "Fatally Flawed"  
Dec. 13, 2007      PDF Version      Article on OpEdNews

Eight Senior Republican Administration Appointees Challenge Official Account of 9/11 – "Not Possible", "a Whitewash", "False"  
Dec. 4, 2007      PDF Version      Article on OpEdNews

Seven CIA Veterans Challenge 9/11 Commission Report – Official Account of 9/11 a "Joke" and a "Cover-up"
Sep. 23, 2007      PDF Version      Article on OpEdNews

9/11 Survivors and Family Members
Question the 9/11 Commission Report

Contact Your Local 9/11 Truth Group Listed Here!

Demand a New 9/11 Investigation!

• Article 6/24/05: Regarding an explosion in the sub-basement of the World Trade Center North Tower on 9/11, prior to any airplane impact. "When I heard the sound of the explosion, the floor beneath my feet vibrated, the walls started cracking and it everything started shaking," said Rodriguez, who was huddled together with at least 14 other people in the office. ... [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Rodriguez was in sub-basement B1 of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's impact point at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  "Seconds after the first massive explosion below in the basement still rattled the floor, I hear another explosion from way above," said Rodriguez.  "Although I was unaware at the time, this was the airplane hitting the tower, it occurred moments after the first explosion."
  
  But before Rodriguez had time to think, co-worker Felipe David stormed into the basement office with severe burns on his face and arms, screaming for help and yelling "explosion! explosion! explosion!"
  
  David had been in front of a nearby freight elevator on sub-level 1 about 400 feet from the office when fire burst out of the elevator shaft, causing his injuries.
  
  "He was burned terribly," said Rodriguez. "The skin was hanging off his hands and arms. His injuries couldn't have come from the airplane above, but only from a massive explosion below. I don’t care what the government says, what scientists say. I saw a man burned terribly from a fire that was caused from an explosion below.
  
  "I know there were explosives placed below the trade center. I helped a man to safety who is living proof, living proof the government story is a lie and a cover-up. ...
  
  "I disagree 100%with the government story," said Rodriguez. "I met with the 9/11 Commission behind closed doors and they essentially discounted everything I said regarding the use of explosives to bring down the north tower.
  
  "And I contacted NIST previously four times without a response. Finally, this week I asked them before they came up with their conclusion that jet fuel brought down the towers, if they ever considered my statements or the statements of any of the other survivors who heard the explosions. They just stared at me with blank faces and didn't have any answers." http://www.arcticbeacon
  
  
• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.



• Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:    
  "We want truthful answers to question. …  As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:
• An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
• Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings.
• Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence.
• The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php



• Signatory 11/19/04: Complaint filed with the Attorney General, State of New York for a new independent grand jury investigation of 9/11.
  
  "We, the complainant signatories below, petition the Attorney General of New York, on behalf of millions of New Yorkers who also call for a fearless independent inquiry; for the sake of residents, workers, and business owners in New York—most particularly in and near "Ground Zero"; and also on behalf of other Americans who have lost employees, friends, and family members as well as health, business, and personal assets and civil, privacy, and other rights in the events of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath.
  
  We approach your office as concerned citizens desiring to bring to light the truth about the events of 9/11." http://www.justicefor911.org



• Personal website: http://www.911keymaster.com/

Anthony Saltalamacchia

• Video interview by William Rodriguez 9/07: "On the morning of September 11th, I was in my office.  I was just getting the work handed out to all the employees. ... [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Saltalamacchia was in sub-basement B1 of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's impact point at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  We heard a massive explosion that was in the World Trade Center about 8:46 a.m. in the morning.  The explosion came from -- I believe at first we believed that it came from the Mechanical Room.  [Editor's note: The Mechanical Room was below them in a lower sub-basement .]
  
  Then we heard a series of other explosions that sounded up on the above levels of the building.  We then realized that there was something wrong and there was a major problem.  And about, I'd say, 14 to 15 people came running and screaming into our office. ...
  
  Then right after that the floor started shaking.  The tile from above, which was above us, started coming down, falling on us.  And we knew that there was something seriously wrong happening.
  
  A man came into the office.  He was a black man, very shaky, like in shock.  He had multiple wounds.  His arms were bleeding.  Skin was peeling off.  You could see basically his flesh.  It was a very tough thing to see. ... [Editor's note: Mr. Saltalmaccia is referring to Felipe David.]
  
  And as we're standing there, more explosions were happening.  A lot of screaming confusion. ...
  
  It was very smoky, very cloudy.  It just looked very serious.  We knew we had to get out of the building. ...
  
  The amount of explosions I've heard from 8:46 until the time we got out was so many, at least ten.  It was just like multiple explosions to where I felt like there were different grenades.  That's what it sounded like, it was different grenades being set off in the building.  It was like -- There was one major explosion, and then there was different explosions throughout that period of time until we got out.
  
  Do I believe six years after 9/11?  I don't know the truth.  I don't believe a word that they say.  I just don't believe  Everything they say is a cover up. ... No, definitely don't leave it alone.  I think that we should get documents to know the truth of what was really going on that we didn't know that we should know now." http://www.youtube.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Video interview: "At 8:30 he says he was headed for level B-4 in Tower One [North Tower], four stories below ground.
  
  "... As I'm walking by the main freight car of the building, in the corridor, that's when I got blown.  I mean the impact of the explosion, from whatever happened, it threw me to the floor. And that's when everything started happening.  It knocked me right to the floor. You didn't know what it was.  Of course, you're assuming something fell over on the loading dock, something very heavy, something very big.  You don't know what happened.  And all of a sudden you just felt the floor moving. ... [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Morelli was in the sub-basement of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's point of impact at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  I was racing -- I was going towards the bathroom.  All of a sudden.  I opened the door.  I didn't know it was a bathroom   And all of a sudden a big impact happened again.  And all the ceiling tiles were falling down.  The light fixtures were falling, swinging out of the ceiling.  And I come running out the door and everything, the walls were down.  And I now started running towards the parking lots."
  
  Nearly 100 floors below where the first plane hit Phil felt the devastating impact. ...
  
  "As I ran to the parking lots, you know, I mean, everybody screaming ... There was a lot of smoke down there. ... You gotta go clear across the whole -- from One to Two World Trade Center. That's the way you gotta run.
  
  And then all of a sudden it happened all over again.  Building Two got hit. I don't know that. I just know something else hit us to the floor.  Right in the basement you felt it. The walls were caving in.  Everything that was going on.  I know of people that got killed in the basement.  I know of people that got broken legs in the basement.  People got reconstructive surgery because the walls hit them in the face." http://real.ny1.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• ABC 9/12/01: Peter Jennings interviewed Marlene Cruz the day after 9/11.  Ms. Cruz, a WTC carpenter, was injured in the basement of WTC North Tower on 9/11.  She was the first casualty from the WTC to arrive at Bellevue Hospital.
  
  Peter Jennings:  So tell me how you're feeling.  How did you get there? What happened to you?
  
  Marlene Cruz:  I work for the Trade Center.  I'm one of the carpenters.  And I was gonna go do a job.  And I got on the elevator, the freight elevator.  And I heard the first explosion.  And the elevator blew up.  The doors blew up.  And it dropped.  I was lucky that the elevator got caught between two floors.
  
  Peter Jennings:  Which floors?
  
  Marlene Cruz:  The B Levels.  The basement levels. ...  [Editor's note: At this point, Ms. Cruz was in the basement of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's point of impact at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  After the first explosion I was laying on the floor about 40 minutes.
  
  Peter Jennings:  And how well do you know that subterranean part of the World Trade Center?
  
  Marlene Cruz:  Well, I worked for the building for 15 years.  I think I know it from the back of my hand.  Really I didn't expect this bombing to occur after the first one, since I was in the first one, also.  But when I heard that explosion that's the first thing I thought was; here we go again, another bomb. http://youtube.com/watch?v=TSGZYP--wz0



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

Mike Pecoraro

• Article Chief Engineer 2002: Mike Pecoraro and a co-worker were working in the sub-basement of the North Tower when the first airplane hit. "They had been told to stay where they were and "sit tight" until the Assistant Chief got back to them. By this time, however, the room they were working in began to fill with a white smoke. "We smelled kerosene," Mike recalled, "I was thinking maybe a car fire was upstairs", referring to the parking garage located below grade in the tower but above the deep space where they were working. [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Pecoraro was in the sub-basement of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's impact point at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  The two decided to ascend the stairs to the C level, to a small machine shop where Vito Deleo and David Williams were supposed to be working. When the two arrived at the C level, they found the machine shop gone.
  
  "There was nothing there but rubble, " Mike said. "We're talking about a 50 ton hydraulic press? gone!" The two began yelling for their co-workers, but there was no answer. They saw a perfect line of smoke streaming through the air. "You could stand here," he said, "and two inches over you couldn't breathe. We couldn't see through the smoke so we started screaming." But there was still no answer.
  
  The two made their way to the parking garage, but found that it, too, was gone. "There were no walls, there was rubble on the floor, and you can't see anything" he said.  [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Pecoraro was in the basement of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's point of impact at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  They decided to ascend two more levels to the building's lobby. As they ascended to the B Level, one floor above, they were astonished to see a steel and concrete fire door that weighed about 300 pounds, wrinkled up "like a piece of aluminum foil" and lying on the floor. "They got us again," Mike told his co-worker, referring to the terrorist attack at the center in 1993. Having been through that bombing, Mike recalled seeing similar things happen to the building's structure. He was convinced a bomb had gone off in the building. Mike walked through the open doorway and found two people lying on the floor. One was a female Carpenter and the other an Elevator Operator. They were both badly burned and injured." http://www.chiefengineer.org



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Statement to television reporter 9/11/01: Mr. Johannemann was in the basement of the North Tower when the first plane impacted.  "I was right there.  I was down in the basement.  Came down.  All of a sudden the elevator blew up.  Smoke.  I dragged a guy out.  His skin was hanging off and I dragged him out and I helped him out to the ambulance." [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Johannemann was in the basement of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's point of impact at floors 93 to 98.]
  http://www.prisonplanet.com



• Article 9/12/01: "Kenny Johannemann was in the the number one [North] tower of the World Trade centre, waiting for the elevator in the basement. [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Johannemann was in the basement of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's point of impact at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  It was shift-change time, the time of day when the building is most crowded.
  
  "The lift door exploded open. There was a man inside half burnt. His skin was hanging off.
  
  "I dragged him out of the lift and somebody helped me get him out for the building." http://www.smh.com.au



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Article Chief Engineer 2002: "That morning a note had been left for Joe by the Chief Engineer of the midnight to 8 a.m. shift telling him that a tenant on the 38th floor wanted to see him as early as possible. So after distributing the work orders to his staff, he entered one of the tower's elevator cars and headed up into the building.
  
  On the 38th floor, Joe Shearin exited the elevator and began his walk down the hallway to meet with the tenant who had requested to see him. About 50 feet down the hallway, he heard a loud explosion and was lifted into the air. "I can't even tell you how far I traveled," he recalled. When he landed, people were already coming out of their offices into the hallway. "They were screaming, hollering," he said. "They were asking what they should do and where they should go".  Joe directed them down the stairwells and out of the building.   [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Shearin was on the 38th floor of the North Tower, approximately 650 feet below the airplane's point of impact at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  What Joe first believed was that an equipment room on the 43rd floor, which had an electrical substation, had blown up. He proceeded up the 5 floors to that level. Upon reaching the 43rd floor, "there were patches of ceiling that was just down on the floor, water pipes were broken, water was gushing like a brook or river that was just running down the corridor of the machine room."  [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Shearin was on the 43rd floor of the North Tower, approximately 600 feet below the airplane's point of impact at floors 93 to 98.]http://www.chiefengineer.org



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

Arthur DelBianco

• Video interview 9/11/01: "...and then all of a sudden it started like -- It sounded like gunfire.  You know, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.  And then all of a sudden three big explosions." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IqSsTmWv7k&eurl=



• NBC Today Show Video interview with Arthur DelBianco, Marlene Cruz, and Hursley Lever 9/12/01:  At time of the first plane impact, Arthur DelBianco was in WTC 1 (North Tower).
  
  "I was heading up to the 106th or 7th floor in an elevator.  And around the 70th floor I heard -- the lights flicked in the elevator and a rumble and then I heard people screaming on the radio, "I'm trapped.  Get me out.  Get us out.  Get us out.  Fire!  Fire!"  I told the elevator operator to open the door and get the people wherever we were on.  And we took them down to the ground level. ...
  
  I went downstairs looking for my fellow workers, because at that time I didn't know the extent of the explosion.  I thought it was just an explosion, not that it was two planes that ran into the building.  So we're looking subgrade for fellow workers.  And I got out of the building at one point and saw the two planes and the building burning. ...
  
  I went looking for my friend, Hursley Lever, over here, and couldn't find him.  Myself and Mike Pecoraro were back in the building looking for him and we couldn't find him.  We helped the paramedics to work their way down and the firemen to work their way down because Marlene [Cruz] was hurt on the second level below ground.
  
  At that point, we got out because the smoke and the water was getting too heavy.  And when I got up to the concourse level it was just like gunfire and then and then, just three big explosions.  And the elevator banks came down and the windows and glass and the stainless steel and the marble just started pushing us.  We started running to get out of there.  And it pushed us through the rubble like 25 to 50 feet.
  
  I wound up handing by an elevator pit with my hand on a turnstyle. When I awoke, when it stopped, I felt someone walk over to me and it was a firefighter. ... And as we went along trying to find our way out to Liberty Street, we just grabbed people along the way. ... When I got outside, the building come down. ... We'd just stepped across the street by the financial center and the building started coming down." http://www.youtube.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

Felipe David

• Article by Greg Szymanski 7/13/05: 
  
  "Two more WTC workers have come forward with eye-witness testimony that a huge explosion ripped apart the lower levels of the north tower at about the same time a jetliner rammed into the top floors.
  
  The pair not only reported hearing an underground blast, but were both injured, one suffering severe burns to the face, arms and hands and the other cuts and bruises after being trapped in a stalled basement elevator.
  
  Burn victim, Felipe David, employed by Aramark Co. and Salvatore Giambanco, a WTC office painter trapped in a basement elevator, were both unavailable for comment, but made their explosive testimony - never before released in America - to a Colombian television station in 2002 on the first anniversary of 9/11. ...
  
  Standing in front of a freight elevator on sub level 1 near the office where Willie Rodriguez and 14 others were huddled together when the explosion erupted below, David said in the taped interview:
  
  "That day I was in the basement in sub-level 1 sometime after 8:30am. Everything happened so fast, everything moved so fast. The building started shaking after I heard the explosion below, dust was flying everywhere and all of a sudden it got real hot.
  
  [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. David was in the basement of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's point of impact at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  "I threw myself onto the floor, covered my face because I felt like I was burned. I sat there for a couple of seconds on the floor and felt like I was going to die, saying to myself 'God, please give me strength.'"
  
  Although severely burned on his face, arms and hands with skin hanging from his body like pieces of cloth, David picked himself up, running for help to the office were Rodriguez and others were gathered.
  
  "When I went in, I told them it was an explosion," said David, who was then helped out of the WTC by Rodriguez and eventually taken by ambulance to New York Hospital."  http://www.arcticbeacon.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

Hursley Lever

• NBC Today Show Video interview with Arthur DelBianco, Marlene Cruz, and Hursley Lever 9/12/01:  "I was in the B-4 level. ...  I heard a bomb.  [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Lever was in sub-basement B4 of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's impact point at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  So, I says, 'Probably a transformer again blew up.'  So I step back, finish what I had to finish, and I started towards the door again.  And there came a big blast with a big ball of fire.  And that's when I got hit.  It hit me right back down on the ground and I realized my ankle was shattered." http://www.youtube.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

Evalle Sweezer – WTC survivor.  Office Worker, WTC North Tower.

• Video interview on WABC 9/11/01:
  
  Interviewer:  The ladies that are with me were in the World Trade Center in the first building [North Tower] and escaped through the lobby, where they report they beleive there was a bomb in the lobby.
  
  Michelle Scott:  We ran down the steps to the lobby.  There was no lobby.  Everything was torn up.  And even the turnstyle was burnt and it was sticking up.  And they just told us to run.
  
  Evalle Sweezer:  My boss ran out of the office.  He said one thing, "Run!"  Everybody just ran.  And we ran down the stairs.  They told us to come back up the stairs.  And we were like, "Come back up the stairs?  Are you crazy?"  So we continued down the stairs.  We came outside in the lobby.  There was no lobby.  The lobby was totally gone.
  
  Interviewer:  Did you see other people?
  
  Evalle Sweezer:  People?  There was a woman with her face blown off. ... And as we were coming out we passed the lobby.  There was no lobby.  So I beleive the bomb hit the lobby first.    And in a couple of seconds, the first plane hit.   http://www.youtube.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Video interview on ABC 9/11/01:
  
  Gregory Reszka:  I was up in my office on the Northwest corner of the 82nd floor.  I heard a noise like a sonic boom, almost, and then a blast.  The building swayed.  It shook a little bit.  I saw papers coming fly out of the middle of the building and then we went to the staircase to try to get down. ...
  
  We made it all the way downstairs.  And then when we were just about to come out of the building, there was another blast and all the lights went out.   And this is what happened then.
  
  Interviewer:  The glass came down?
  
  Gregory Reszka:  We didn't see.  We were still inside the building.  All we heard was a big blast and a whole volume of air moved.  And we came out through the subway.  http://www.youtube.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

Stephen Evans

• Article The Guardian 9/11/01:  "Stephen Evans, the BBC's business and economics correspondent in North America, was sitting in the foyer of the World Trade Centre as the two aeroplanes crashed into the twin towers in the worst terrorist attack ever.
  
  "I was on the ground floor of the building sitting in a chair waiting for somebody to turn up as you do," said Evans.
  
  "There was huge bang. It felt to me like somebody dropped a skip full of rubbish, a great container full of rubbish, from a great height in the yard which separates the two huge towers which are the World Trade Centre.
  
  "It's one of those where you think, well something's happened on a building site
  
  "But seconds later, there were two or three similar huge explosions and the building literally shook." http://media.guardian.co.uk



• Video interview BBC 9/11/01: Stephen Evans was being interviewed at the initiation of the collapse of WTC South Tower "There was another big, big explosion in the other tower.  [Apparently referring to the second airplane impact into WTC South Tower]  Flames coming out.  This billowing gray smoke.  People still not panicking.  People not quite understand what was going on.  Then somebody said that they saw an airliner go into one of those towers.  Then, I don't know, an hour later than that, we had that big explosion, from much, much lower.  I don’t know what on earth caused that."  Initiation of collapse begins a few seconds later in the interview.
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• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.



• Bio: http://news.bbc.co.uk

• Women Journalists at Ground Zero by Suzanne Huffman and Judith L. Sylvesterby (2002):  Ms. Fertig was standing near the World Trade Center recording the sounds and her impressions of the impact of the planes when WTC 2 (South Tower) began to collapse.  She gave this interview to the authors after the event.
  
  "I heard this huge rumbling noise like an elevated train above my head.  I'm staring at this in disbelief.  I just held my microphone out to get the sound of it and, after a few seconds started narrating what I'm seeing. ...
  
  It just descended like a timed explosion - like when they are deliberately bringing a building down.  It was the strangest thing to see.  It was coming down so perfectly that in one part of my brain I was thinking, 'They got everyone out, and they’re bringing the building down because they have to.' "   http://books.google.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.



• Bio: http://www.wnyc.org/about/bios_news.html

• Interviewed in the documentary film Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11  10/26/07:
  
  "On September 11, 2001, I was employed by a company called Eurobrokers and our offices were on the 84th floor of the South Tower, which was the second building to be hit that day with an airplane.  And I was working away at my computer and at 8:46 in the morning, there was this loud BOOM. ...
  
  Two or three minutes later I started talking with one fellow named Bobby Call ... and as he was telling me this -- BOOM  BOOM -- this double explosion and our building shook. ... Everything just exploded in our room.  Now we're on the 84th floor.  What I didn't know at the time was that the second plane had hit six floors below us on the 78th floor. ... We dusted ourselves off and I said, "Come on.  Let's go home." ...
  
  When I looked down there, I didn't see flames.  I just sensed that it was the right thing to go and try and test it.  We would go as far as we could until we were stopped by flames.  And when we came to the 78th floor, the last layer was standing, but it was cracked, and there were flames licking up the other side of the wall, like this.  It wasn't a roaring inferno.  I sensed that the flames were maybe starved for oxygen right there, you know, in the interior.  We kept going and we got onto the 74th floor, when we got down that far, normal conditions -- the lights were on, fresh air was coming up from below. ...
  
  My ears were hearing loud explosions at ground level.  Very mysterious.  Explosions that seemed to be at ground level as opposed to high in the air."



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Video interview by Peter Jennings, ABC 9/12/01:
  
  Peter Jennings:  We have with us Marvin Jackson, a commodities trader who was on the 36th floor of the World Trade Center yesterday.  Mr. Jackson, thank you for coming in and having a chat with us.  Your story's important.  What happened? ...
  
  Marvin Jackson:  I looked back after I got past Church Street to see what had happened.  And I saw that both of the buildings were on fire.  And with that I just, you know, moved as far north as I could away from there.  I was four or five blocks away when all of a sudden the street shook and I felt, I heard like an explosion.  I thought, "Oh my God."  I said, "A bomb just went off."  I turned around and looked back and I saw all of a this soot and smoke and everyone just started running then.
  
  Peter Jennings: Which tower were you in?  One or two.
  
  Marvin Jackson:  I was in One.  When I saw that, that was when Tower Two collapsed.
  
  Peter Jennings:  The South Tower.  The first to go.   [begins at 8:10 in the segment]  http://www.archive.org



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

Unidentified WTC Survivor

• Statement to reporter 9/11/01: "It just went ba-boom, it was like a bomb went off, and it was like holy hell coming down them stairs.  And then when we finally got to the bottom we were coming out -- on the mezzanine level there and another explosion came .... sent everyone flying.  Right in front of me.  Everybody just went oomph." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IqSsTmWv7k&eurl=



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

Unidentified WTC Survivor

• Statement to reporter 9/11/01: "I'm from the 82nd floor. ... We saw a shadow.  It looked like a plane.  The next thing we know it went ba-boom and the floor started shaking.  And then we saw debris fall down.  And the next thing we know we had to get out of the building.  We were stuck on the stairs for a while. We finally got down to the lobby, and then when we get to the lobby there was this big explosion." http://www.whatreallyhappened.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Video of Edna Cintron waving: http://thewebfairy.com/911/humanwaving/



• Editor's note: The appearance of Edna Cintron, looking out of the hole in the North Tower caused by the airplane impact, raises doubts about the existence of raging fires at the impact point hot enough to substantially weaken steel, which according to the official account caused the collapse of the Twin Towers.  Note also the near absence of smoke and flames.  See also Chief Orio Palmer.



• Bio: http://www.russbaker.com

• Video interview 1/25/01: "The [Twin Tower] building was designed to have a fully loaded 707 crash into it. That was the largest plane at the time. I believe that the building probably could sustain multiple impacts of jetliners because this structure is like the mosquito netting on your screen door. This intense grid ­ and the jet-plane is just a pencil puncturing that screen netting. It really does nothing to the screen netting." http://video.google.com



• Editor's note: The Boeing 767-200s that impacted the Twin Towers on 9/11 were only slightly larger than 707s and DC 8s, the types of jetliners whose impacts the World Trade Center's designers anticipated.  The maximum takeoff weight of the 707 is 15% less than the 767.

• Letter 2/06: "Immediately after 9/11, I wanted to join the army to save my country!  After the 9/11 Commission’s obvious cover-up, I knew I had to join the "9/11 Truth" movement, in order to help save my country.
  
  It seems like every day someone else has the courage to stand up and speak out about the issues that our mainstream media have been "blacking out".
  
  Dr. David Ray Griffin continues to work fearlessly to examine the events of that day.  He authored a second book, The 9/11 Commission Report, Omissions and Distortions, in which he skillfully refutes the findings of the 9/11 Commission." http://www.communitycurrency.org/jl.html



• Speech 11/11/06: "I work on trying to educate people about 9/11 literally every day because I was so personally affected that it really never goes away for me. It stays with me 100 percent of the time. ... I was a victim and a survivor ...
  
  It really takes a lot to step outside of your comfort zone and, even for a second, imagine that your government did this to you." http://video.google.com



• Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice   Association Statement: "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice is a non-partisan organization consisting of independent researchers and activists engaged in uncovering the true nature of the September 11, 2001 attacks."



• Personal Diary of 9/11: http://www.theneedtoremember.com
• Bio: http://www.theneedtoremember.com/artist.html

Salvatore Giambanco
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• Article by Greg Szymanski 7/13/05: 
  
  "Two more WTC workers have come forward with eye-witness testimony that a huge explosion ripped apart the lower levels of the north tower at about the same time a jetliner rammed into the top floors.
  
  The pair not only reported hearing an underground blast, but were both injured, one suffering severe burns to the face, arms and hands and the other cuts and bruises after being trapped in a stalled basement elevator.
  
  Burn victim, Felipe David, employed by Aramark Co. and Salvatore Giambanco, a WTC office painter trapped in a basement elevator, were both unavailable for comment, but made their explosive testimony - never before released in America - to a Colombian television station in 2002 on the first anniversary of 9/11. ...
  
  At the same time David, Willie Rodriguez and the others heard the basement explosion, Giambanco was in a completely different location on the opposite side of sub level 1 by another elevator.
  
  [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Giambanco was in the basement of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's point of impact at floors 93 to 98.]
  
  In the taped interview, Giambanco told Gurisatti, the Colombian reporter:
  
  "We heard the explosion and the smoke all of a sudden came from all over. There was an incredible force of wind that also swept everything away. I remember hearing a scream of a woman, but I couldn't see her. I had just gotten off the elevator and I was standing by it with another man but didn't know his name.
  
  "The doors of the elevator were still open and, I don't know why we did, but we both jumped back in maybe because of the wind whipping everything around in the hallway. "Then, suddenly, the elevator doors closed in front of us and we started going down. It all of a sudden stopped and I could see through the cracks we were between B-2 and B-3. We were both screaming and afraid. I remember seeing through the slot of the elevator and seeing other people running and screaming.
  
  "Then water started gushing in the elevator and I remember saying, 'God, please help us.' At that point, I was resigned to the fact I was going to die"
  
  But like a miracle, Giambanco's plea to God was answered as all of a sudden he heard someone yelling from above, "How many people are down there?"
  
  The miracle above turned out to be Rodriguez who had returned into the WTC after helping David to safety in order to help others after disobeying police orders to remain outside. ...
  
  After Rodriguez brought him to safety, Giambanco remembers being taken to an ambulance and rushed to a hospital where in his hospital room, he received news reports that both towers collapsed. ...
  
  Reflecting back on his 9/11 near death experience, he added:
  
  "I remember riding in the ambulance that morning and looking back, thinking it had to be a bomb.
  
  "Later they told me it was an airplane that hit the towers, but how could it just be an airplane? I know all the newspapers were saying that, but it was just too incredible to believe if you heard and experienced what I did. It had to be a bomb."  http://www.arcticbeacon.com




• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Article Christian Science Monitor 9/17/01: "Tom Elliott was at work in his office at the Aon Corp., an insurance brokerage firm, on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center's other, south tower. ...
  
  He was just typing in a response when a bright flash of light startled him, and a rumble shook the structure [First plane impact on the North Tower]. Flames appeared to be crawling up the outside of the building, along with dark smoke and debris, burning paper and ash. ...
  
  "I don't know what's happening, but I think I need to be out of here," he remembers thinking. ...
  
  Elliott and two others headed down the building stairwell, a narrow beige corridor with a yellow stripe painted down the middle of concrete steps. ...
  
  They had descended three more floors [to the 67th floor] when United Airlines Flight 175 slammed into their own south tower like an arrow from a giant crossbow. It was 9:03 a.m. [Editor's note: At this point, Mr. Elliot was on the 67th floor of the South Tower, approximately 150 feet below the airplane's center of impact on floors 78 to 84.]
  
  Although its spectacularly televised impact was above Elliott, at first he and those around him thought an explosion had come from below. An incredible noise - he calls it an "exploding sound" - shook the building, and a tornado of hot air and smoke and ceiling tiles and bits of drywall came flying up the stairwell.
  
  "In front of me, the wall split from the bottom up," he says." http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0917/p1s1-usgn.html



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitness reports of explosions throughout the Twin Towers by doomed victims, survivors, emergency service personnel, reporters, and bystanders, the 9/11 Commission Report contains virtually no mention of them and entirely ignores them in its conclusions.  Graeme MacQueen's analysis of oral histories of 9/11 taken from 503 FDNY survivors reveals more than 100 FDNY personnel reported explosions in the Twin Towers.

• Article CEE News 2/13/03:
  
  "Jeff Birnbaum, president of Broadway Electrical Supply Co., New York, was one of those workers.  His natural instinct, honed during 23 years of experience as a fire chief and EMT for Pt. Lookout-Lido Beach on Long Island, N.Y., was to rush to the scene of a disaster to help out.
  
  So when he found out that two airliners had hit the World Trade Center, Birnbaum's first reaction was to get to the World Trade Center as soon as possible to assist the recovery efforts.  He ran from a subway station to his office at Broadway Electrical Supply just north of Manhattan’s Union Square to get an employee who had some medical experience.  The two men then left the building for the World Trade Center.  Fire trucks were racing down Broadway past his building and he flagged one down and hitched a ride with the crew to the World Trade Center.
  
  "We were down there in three minutes," he said.  "The police had the roads cleared right down to Ground Zero." ...
  
  "When we got to about 50 ft from the South Tower, we heard the most eerie sound that you would ever hear.  A high-pitched noise and a popping noise made everyone stop.  We all looked up.  At the point, it all let go.  The way I see it, it had to be the rivets.  The building let go, there was an explosion and the whole top leaned toward us and started coming down.
  
  "I stood there for a second in total awe, and then said, 'What the F_____?'  I honestly thought it was Hollywood." ...
  
  "Who thought those towers would come down?  I thought we would be fighting these fires for a week or two chasing them around the buildings.  When the first one came down it was like, 'Wow!'  But the second one?  And for it to come down, and there to be nothing left except for a plume of smoke." http://september11.ceenews.com



• Editor's note: Despite hundreds of eyewitne