An alternative theory about what happened in New York on September 11th, 2001 will be presented to a Cork audience next week. American Richard Gage is the founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and believes that a series of explosions were actually responsible for the collapse of three World Trade Centre buildings and not jet fuel fires as maintained by the US Government.

A San Francisco-based architect with 23 years experience, Gage’s suspicions began as he watched events unfolding live on television but it was not until four years later - when he heard testimony describing a series of explosions in and around the WTC buildings before, during and after the structures collapsed - that he took a more serious interest. US activist Luke Rudkowski and former MEP Kathy Sinnott will also speak at The Masterplan event.

“People coming along to the Montenotte Hotel will learn about the 1,500 architects and engineers that are demanding a new investigation into the destruction of all three World Trade Centre high-rise buildings,” Mr. Gage explained to the The Cork News this week. “The third tower was World Trade Centre 7 and we realised that we, as professionals, knew nothing about the third worst structural failure in modern history when a 47-story skyscraper dropped cleanly, symmetrically and straight down into its own footprint.

"Our Government told us the destruction was caused by small, scattered fires but that makes no sense because fire had never brought a skyscraper down before and it’s not what was seen at the base of these buildings. We don’t see a gravitational collapse - 90,000 tonnes of concrete was pulversied in mid air and four tonne perimeter wall units were ejected and landed 600 feet away.

“Molten iron droplets were found throughout all the World Trade Centre dust and they can’t have come from the jet fuel fires because it takes 2800 degrees to melt iron. However, Thermite, an incendiary used to cut through steel, was also found - documented in an uncontested paper - and that's a sophisticated material that is not made in a cave.

“In the case of the north tower, we're told that the block of building above where the plane hit drove the rest of it into the ground. Again, that’s not what we see - the upper block itself is destroyed in the first four seconds so there’s nothing left to actually drive the rest of the building down. There’s no jolt as the building implodes, there’s no stopping and starting associated with any real collapse - it just gives way.

“We also have testimony from the first responders – evidence that was recorded orally by their own department and only released under court order in 2005. We now know that 118 of 500 of these people talked about explosions going off and flashes of light, particularly at the onset of the collapse. This points to an explosive destruction.”

The battle for a new and independent enquiry is likely to be a “slow, uphill climb” according to Mr. Gage. He is acutely aware of cynics that have cried foul on his group’s findings and beliefs but says the architects and engineers’ mission is simply to present the scientific evidence and encourage individuals to draw their own conclusions.

“Most people are shocked when they have to wrestle with the implications of this. It’s obvious these buildings were set up with explosives so you’re looking at some sort of inside job. Then you have to ask yourself how wide it goes and how high it goes, and these are things that architects are not qualified to answer.

“Conspiracies have been par for the course throughout history, especially when it comes to starting wars. We understand that Iraq was not involved in 9/11 – we were lied to about that – but people have a much harder time understanding being lied to in relation to Afghanistan. The evidence speaks for itself though and it’s all been documented by official sources. Iron was melted by the tonne, it takes 2800 degrees to melt iron and office fires and jet fuel can only get to about half of that temperature.”

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