UPDATE: WOW, I am blown away! Raw Story HAS TAKEN THE STORY DOWN. It appears nowhere on their site now! This is highly unusual for this site, known for its hard-hitting, investigative journalism.   They could be counted on for tackling the tough stories. No mas.

This story must have really hit a nerve. Here is a link to the original source:

http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCPJ/2009/00000002/00000001/7TOCPJ.SGM

Et tu, Brute?

Thanks, Rick. I've said it before - I knew people who lived in NY in 2001 and they said the collapse of the buildings looked just like a demolition project. That said, didn't a hotel in China collapse after intense heat from a fireworks mishap? Still, any investigation should be followed through to make sure the American people, especially the families of the victims, get the whole truth.

As with most "big" events, I suspect nothing serious will be mentioned in the lame-stream for another 40-plus years; after the major players are mostly dead.

Nancy, no that hotel in China burned for many hours (16?) completely engulfed in flames and it didn't collapse or lose any structural integrity.

The fact that Raw Story has sold out is already becoming a story of its own at other sites.

In case the Raw Story link above doesn't work, here is the original text of the article:

A team of nine scientists have unearthed startling data from dust gathered in the days and weeks after the World Trade Center towers collapsed on 9/11. They discovered that scattered throughout the dust samples were red and gray chips of 'active thermitic material', or an un-reacted pyrotechnic explosive.

Thermite is used in steel welding, fireworks shows, and hand grenades. It is the combination of a metal powder and a metal oxide which produce a reaction known for extremely high temperatures focused in a very small area for a short period of time. The 'active thermitic material' discovered in the World Trade Center dust was a combination of elemental aluminum and iron oxide, and is a form of thermite known as 'nano-structured super-thermite'.

“These observations reminded us of nano-thermite fabricated at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and elsewhere; available papers describe this material as an intimate mixture of UFG[Ultra-fine grain] aluminum and iron oxide in nano-thermite composites to form pyrotechnics or explosives. Commercially available thermite behaves as an incendiary when ignited, but when the ingredients are ultra-fine grain and are intimately mixed, this 'nano-thermite' reacts very rapidly, even explosively, and is sometimes referred to as 'super-thermite',” the report explains.

The full article in The Open Chemical Physics Journal can be found here. http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCPJ/2009/00000002/00000001/7TOCPJ.SGM

Some of the authors of the paper have lost their jobs at universities and chemistry labs for their outspoken breakdown of what happened at the World Trade Center on 9/11. Kevin Ryan lost his job as a lab director after writing a letter to the National Institute for Standards and Technology(NIST was conducting an investigation into 9/11 at the time) challenging the common theory that burning jet fuel weakened the steel supports holding up the 110-story skyscrapers. Ryan claims that the owner of his laboratory subsidiary "was the company that certified the steel components used in the construction of the WTC buildings,” according to the South Bend Tribune. Dr. Steven E. Jones, a physicist at Brigham Young University, presented a paper in 2005 discussing alternative theories to the commonly accepted 'jet fuel' reasoning. In September 2006 he was placed on paid administrative leave and his paper was removed from the BYU database.

Jones has told Visibility911.com, "In short, the paper explodes the official story that 'no evidence' exists for explosive/pyrotechnic materials in the WTC buildings."

Parts of the report mention other studies being conducted by the scientists that will come out soon.

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@Rick G: Link working again... for the moment. :)

Thanks, t*t.