The weekend before 911 all power was cut to the entire WTC
This allegation is sourced to one person, Scott Forbes of Fiduciary Trust. He claims that "this power down condition meant there was no electrical supply for approx 36hrs from floor 50 up". So
NOT the entire WTC. Additionally, he was unable to verify that claim. Interview transcript:
How do you know that there was no electricity from floor 50 up, if Fiduciary Trust was on much higher floors -- starting at the 90th floor?SF:
I can't absolutely verify that there was no power on lower floors ... all I can validate is that we were informed of the power down condition, that we had to take down all systems and then the following day had to bring back up all systems ...No mention of heavy drilling. No entire WTC power down.
http://www.911myths.com/html/wtc_power_down.htmlThe speed the buildings collapsed has been measured at 9.6 seconds from start to finish. That calculates to free fall speed. Impossible as the resistance of each floor will slow the collapse.
As the floors collapse they take with them increasing energy, enough to offset resistance. Each floor collapse acted like a hammer - increasing in mass with each level. That's not going against Newton's law, it just means that the sheer weight would have made the lower floors collapse as if they weren't there at all.
Explosions can be clearly seen in front of the falling buildings just as in any demolition.
This is just idle speculation. What does an explosion look like? If it's merely ejection of material, then it must be remembered that the collapsing floors were increasing downward air pressure in a violent manner, thus the sideward ejection of loose material is likely.
For a 33-story building, it takes 12 persons 24 days to lay 4,118 separate charges in 1,100 locations on 9 levels of the structure. Over 36,000 ft. of detonating cord and 4,512 non-electric delay devices are used.
http://www.controlled-demolition.com/default.asp?reqLocId=6&reqItemId=20020304145120I doubt you could ever find 12 American citizens who were prepared to lay charges throughout the WTC. Of course that number is in addition to all the planners and the detonation crew. Were this to be true, they would all be accessories to mass murder. The Americans are fiercely loyal to their own nationality. Any thought of mass slaughter of US citizens may be entertained by a few deranged home-grown individuals but, if you believe this hoax, the necessary covert planning and execution to make it happen would in reality have been impossible.
Finally, hoaxers believe that the plane-hijackings were a part of the grand scheme. How did they ensure airport security did not apprehend the suspects by chance before they were able to board? If you're planning such a complex operation, you don't leave things like that to possibly screw things up, so were the airport security approached by men with dark glasses before 11 September?

The whole idea that this was anything other than an Al-Qaida terrorist attack is interesting when you first look at it, but barmy when you look deeper. (IMHO)