I am stunned!
The BBC could well be expected to whitewash and smother any conspiracy theories.
Yet having read this web page, it seems to me to do the opposite!

Anyway the video to be screened on Sunday may well be convincing in saying the conspiracy theorists are lunatics, that is possible or probable. But this web page I have tried to read with an open mind. And it appears to me to suggest there are a lot of missing holes, with a lot of apologies and defensive justifications and that the conspiracy theorists have valid arguments.

And it even quotes the video ‘loose change’ which has been seen by a hundred million people. The only thing it has dug up is a picture of the side of the building facing the twin towers.

Yet on the alternative news sites we have eye witnesses saying they heard & felt bombs.
Expect Rense, Whatreallyhappened and Prisonplanet (all together 10 million hits a day) to convincingly ridicule the Beebs efforts.

There is every possibility this documentary will add fuel to the fire for the controversy, exactly the opposite of the intended message.
What is convincing about being told fires burning for hours brought down a 47 story building in free fall over a few seconds? And that All the evidence was taken away and destroyed? And that such a thing has never ever hapened before. And appears to defy the laws of science. And I could go on.
But I don’t want to be a martyr or a working class hero.

Just maybe the best brains and funding at the Beeb shot themselves in the foot. Or the Beeb is really an independent body (haha).
Or it is intended for the brain dead?
Or I am misreading it?
No comments were published yet, maybe they are being used in the edit room?
Notice the page was last updated at 9/11 ….

Page last updated at 21:11 GMT, Friday, 4 July 2008

9/11 third tower mystery ’solved’

By Mike Rudin – BBC, Conspiracy Files

The final mystery of 9/11 will soon be solved, according to US experts investigating the collapse of the third tower at the World Trade Center.

The 47-storey third tower, known as Tower Seven, collapsed seven hours after the twin towers.

Investigators are expected to say ordinary fires on several different floors caused the collapse.

Conspiracy theorists have argued that the third tower was brought down in a controlled demolition.
Unlike the twin towers, Tower Seven was not hit by a plane.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, based near Washington DC, is expected to conclude in its long-awaited report this month that ordinary fires caused the building to collapse.

That would make it the first and only steel skyscraper in the world to collapse because of fire.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s lead investigator, Dr Shyam Sunder, spoke to BBC Two’s “The Conspiracy Files”:

“Our working hypothesis now actually suggests that it was normal building fires that were growing and spreading throughout the multiple floors that may have caused the ultimate collapse of the buildings.”

‘Smoking gun’

However, a group of architects, engineers and scientists say the official explanation that fires caused the collapse is impossible. Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth argue there must have been a controlled demolition.

FIND OUT MORE… The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 – The Third Tower is on BBC Two on Sunday 6 July at 2100 BST

The founder of the group, Richard Gage, says the collapse of the third tower is an obvious example of a controlled demolition using explosives.

“Building Seven is the smoking gun of 9/11… A sixth grader can look at this building falling at virtually freefall speed, symmetrically and smoothly, and see that it is not a natural process.

“Buildings that fall in natural processes fall to the path of least resistance”, says Gage, “they don’t go straight down through themselves.”

Conspiracy theories

There are a number of facts that have encouraged conspiracy theories about Tower Seven.

• Although its collapse potentially made architectural history, all of the thousands of tonnes of steel from the skyscraper were taken away to be melted down.
• The third tower was occupied by the Secret Service, the CIA, the Department of Defence and the Office of Emergency Management, which would co-ordinate any response to a disaster or a terrorist attack.
• The destruction of the third tower was never mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report. The first official inquiry into Tower Seven by the Federal Emergency Management Agency was unable to be definitive about what caused its collapse.
• In May 2002 FEMA concluded that the building collapsed because intense fires had burned for hours, fed by thousands of gallons of diesel stored in the building. But it said this had “only a low probability of occurrence” and more work was needed.

But now nearly seven years after 9/11 the definitive official explanation of what happened to Tower Seven is finally about to be published in America.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has spent more than two years investigating Tower Seven but lead investigator Dr Shyam Sunder rejects criticism that it has been slow.

The collapse of Tower 7

“We’ve been at this for a little over two years and doing a two or two and a half year investigation is not at all unusual. That’s the same kind of time frame that takes place when we do aeroplane crash investigations, it takes a few years.”

With no steel from Tower 7 to study, investigators have instead made four extremely complex computer models worked out to the finest detail. They’re confident their approach can now provide the answers. Dr Sunder says the investigation is moving as fast as possible.

“It’s a very complex problem. It requires a level of fidelity in the modelling and rigour in the analysis that has never been done before.”

Other skyscrapers haven’t fully collapsed before because of fire. But NIST argues that what happened on 9/11 was unique.

Steel structure weakened

It says Tower Seven had an unusual design, built over an electricity substation and a subway; there were many fires that burnt for hours; and crucially, fire fighters could not fight the fires in Tower 7, because they didn’t have enough water and focused on saving lives.

Investigators have focused on the east side where the long floor spans were under most stress.

They think fires burnt long enough to weaken and break many of the connections that held the steel structure together.

Most susceptible were the thinner floor beams which required less fireproofing, and the connections between the beams and the columns. As they heated up the connections failed and the beams sagged and failed, investigators say.

The collapse of the first of the Twin Towers does not seem to have caused any serious damage to Tower Seven, but the second collapse of the 1,368ft (417m) North Tower threw debris at Tower Seven, just 350ft (106m) away.

Tower Seven came down at 5.21pm. Until now most of the photographs have been of the three sides of the building that did not show much obvious physical damage. Now new photos of the south side of the building, which crucially faced the North Tower, show that whole side damaged and engulfed in smoke.

Not from the BBC; H/T whatreallyhappened

Leaked Nist documents reveal unusual events prior to WTC 7 collapse:

http://blog.t1production.com/leaked-nist-docs-unusual-event-before-collapse-of-wtc-7

02 Jul 08 | Conspiracy Files

RELATED INTERNET LINKS [from the BBC]

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth

Federal Emergency Management Agency

9/11 Commission

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7485331.stm

Another BBC web page about the missing tape that shows the BBC announcing the fall of building 7 before it fell. Given that copies of this tape are circulating on YouTube, one would have to ask what would be to gain from losing the originals anyway.

More BBC links:

Q&A: The collapse of Tower 7
Timeline: WTC 7