Inexcusable error.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)

In publishing your "Conspiracy Theories" issue (THE NEW AMERICAN, May 2, 2005) endorsing the official account of 9/11, you . made an inexcusable error.

On page 16 you quoted an engineer: "As soon as fire hits steel, it loses strength fast and those towers had relatively lightweight steel beams spanning large distances. The building was supported by the steel outer walls."

Ridiculous! It was supported by 236 outer wall columns and 47 sturdy central steel columns. Leslie Robertson, the WTC structural engineer, stated, "I designed it for a 707 to hit it.... I believe that the building could sustain multiple impacts of jet liners."

The heating of steel is affected by temperature and time. Jet fuel (call it kerosene) does not burn at a high temperature and would have burned off completely in a maximum of ten minutes. After that, all that was burning were office furnishings.

Fire never brought down a steel-framed building, yet on one day we are expected to believe (and sadly TNA believes) that three such buildings fell because of fire!

The third building, WTC 7, was even more clearly a controlled demolition. A brick dropped from the roof would hit the ground in 5.95 seconds. The whole building collapsed neatly into its footprint in less than 7 seconds! It was free-falling because interior explosions were removing resistance to its fall, as in the Twin Towers, which also collapsed at almost free-fall speed.