- "AMEC Construction Management, a subsidiary of the
British engineering firm AMEC, renovated Wedge One of the Pentagon before
9-11 and cleaned it up afterward. AMEC had also renovated Silverstein's
WTC 7, which collapsed mysteriously on 9-11, and then headed the cleanup
of the WTC site afterward. The AMEC construction firm is currently in the
process of closing all its offices in the United States."
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- Radiation Shows 9-11 Pentagon
Hit Not By 757: Something With DU?
- By Christopher Bollyn
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- More damning fuel for the funeral pyre of the 9-11 'official
story' that is completely dead by now.
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- "Around the Pentagon there were reports of high
radiation levels after 9-11. American Free Press has documentation that
radiation levels in Alexandria and Leesburg, Va., were much higher than
usual on 9-11 and persisted for at least one week afterward. In Alexandria,
seven miles south of the burning Pentagon, a doctor with years of experience
working with radiation issues found elevated radiation levels on 9-11
of 35 to 52 counts per minute (cpm) using a "Radalert 50" Geiger
counter. One week after 9-11, in Leesburg, 33 miles northwest of the Pentagon,
soil readings taken in a residential neighborhood showed even higher readings
of 75 to 83 cpm. "That's pretty high," Cindy Folkers of the
Washing ton-based Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) told
AFP. Folkers said 7 to 12 cpm is normal background radiation inside the
NIRS building, and that outdoor readings of between 12 to 20 cpm are normal
in Chevy Chase, Md., outside Washington. The Radalert 50, Folkers said,
is primarily a gamma ray detector and "detects only 7 percent of
the beta radiation and even less of the [very short lived] alpha."
This suggests that actual radiation levels may have been significantly
higher than those detected by the doctor's Geiger counter. "The
question is, why?" Folkers said. If the radiation came from the explosion
and fire at the Pentagon, it most likely did not come from a Boeing 757,
which is the type of aircraft that allegedly hit the building. --- "Boeing
has never used DU on either the 757 or the 767, and we no longer use it
on the 747," Leslie M. Nichols, product spokesperson for Boeing's
767, told AFP.
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- At the Pentagon, AMEC cleaned up this lie
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- and, at WTC7, AMEC cleaned up this lie. Next,
in 2004,
AMEC has announced it is totally leaving country
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- Depleted Uranium Released During Canadian
Plane Crash
- Little-Known Use of DU In Commercial Jets
Exposed
- [and another little known piece of the Pentagon
hit puzzle]
- By Christopher Bollyn
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- The recent crash of a Boeing 747 in Halifax, Canada,
raises a number of questions about the use of depleted uranium (DU) in
airplanes, public health concerns and the 9-11 attacks. When a Boeing
747 crashed and burned on takeoff at Halifax International Airport in
Nova Scotia, Canada, on Oct. 14, an official accident investigator said
the aircraft probably contained radioactive depleted uranium.
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- Bill Fowler, an investigator with the Transportation
Safety Board of Canada, said the plane was likely equipped with DU as
counterweights in its wings and rudder.
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- "A 747 may contain as much as 1,500 kilograms [3,300
lbs.] of the material," the Canadian Press reported. It took 60 firefighters
and 20 trucks about three hours to control the fire.
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- Fowler said: "there is no threat or concern"
about DU exposure to those working on the wreckage.
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- "That's baloney," Marion Fulk, a retired staff
scientist from Lawrence Livermore National Lab, told American Free Press.
Fulk, 83, is currently researching how low-level ionizing radiation causes
cancer, birth defects and a host of other health problems. Burning depleted
uranium creates a "whole mess of oxides," Fulk said, "which
is what makes it so wicked biologically."
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- In 1988, American physicist Robert L. Parker wrote that
in the worst- case scenario, the crash of a Boeing 747 could affect the
health of 250,000 people through exposure to uranium oxide particles.
"Extended tests by the Navy and NASA showed that the temperature
of the fireball in a plane crash can reach 1,200 degrees Celsius. Such
temperatures are high enough to cause very rapid oxidation of depleted
uranium," he wrote.
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- "Large pieces of uranium will oxidize rapidly and
will sustain slow combustion when heated in air to temperatures of about
500 degrees Celsius," Paul Lowenstein, technical director and vice-president
of Nuclear Metals Inc., the company that has supplied DU to Boeing, wrote
in a 1993 article.
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- Now, some researchers are turning to the large number
of sick firefighters and workers from the World Trade Center site and
reports of elevated radiation levels around the Pentagon after 9-11. They
contend that the Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft involved in the attacks
may have also contained depleted uranium counterweights.
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- PENTAGON RADIATION LEVELS
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- Around the Pentagon there were reports of high radiation
levels after 9-11. American Free Press has documentation that radiation
levels in Alexandria and Leesburg, Va., were much higher than usual on
9-11 and persisted for at least one week afterward.
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- In Alexandria, seven miles south of the burning Pentagon,
a doctor with years of experience working with radiation issues found
elevated radiation levels on 9-11 of 35 to 52 counts per minute (cpm)
using a "Radalert 50" Geiger counter.
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- One week after 9-11, in Leesburg, 33 miles northwest
of the Pentagon, soil readings taken in a residential neighborhood showed
even higher readings of 75 to 83 cpm.
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- "That's pretty high," Cindy Folkers of the
Washing ton-based Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) told
AFP. Folkers said 7 to 12 cpm is normal background radiation inside the
NIRS building, and that outdoor readings of between 12 to 20 cpm are normal
in Chevy Chase, Md., outside Washington.
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- The Radalert 50, Folkers said, is primarily a gamma ray
detector and "detects only 7 percent of the beta radiation and even
less of the alpha." This suggests that actual radiation levels may
have been significantly higher than those detected by the doctor's Geiger
counter.
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- "The question is, why?" Folkers said.
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- If the radiation came from the explosion and fire at
the Pentagon, it most likely did not come from a Boeing 757, which is
the type of aircraft that allegedly hit the building.
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- "Boeing has never used DU on either the 757 or the
767, and we no longer use it on the 747," Leslie M. Nichols, product
spokesperson for Boeing's 767, told AFP. "Sometime ago, we switched
to tungsten, because it is heavier, more readily available and more cost
effective."
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- The cost effectiveness argument is debatable. A waste
product of U.S. nuclear weapons and energy facilities, DU is reportedly
provided by the Department of Energy to national and foreign armament
companies free of charge.
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- DU is used in a wide variety of missiles in the U.S.
arsenal as an armor penetrator. It is also used in the bunker-buster bombs
and cruise missiles. Because no photographic evidence of a Boeing 757
hitting the Pentagon is available to the public, 9-11 skeptics and independent
researchers claim something else, such as a missile, struck the Pentagon.
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- A white flash, not unlike those seen in videos of the
planes as they struck the twin towers, occurs when a DU penetrator hits
a target.
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- Photographs from the Pentagon reveal that large round
holes were punched through six walls in the three outer rings. The outside
wall is 24 inches thick with a six-inch limestone exterior, eight inches
of brick and 10 inches of steel reinforced concrete; the other walls
are 18 inches thick.
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- The object that hit the Pentagon on 9-11 penetrated several
feet of reinforced concrete, leaving holes with diameters between 11 and
16 feet.
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- Bill Bellinger, then head of the EPA's Radiation Program
for Region III, which includes Virginia, told AFP that he had received
information of elevated radiation levels and contacted EPA officials
at the Pentagon.
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- "I was concerned about that," Bellinger said.
"I didn't disregard it at all."
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- Bellinger told AFP that he thought the radiation was
from DU in the aircraft.
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- Bellinger, who was based in Philadelphia, did not personally
visit the Pentagon site and said that EPA personnel at the site had not
reported high levels of radioactivity. However, the EPA official who
Bellinger said had worked at the Pentagon, Craig Conklin, now at FEMA,
told AFP that he had not been involved at the site, "directly or
indirectly."
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- Workers and FEMA officials at the Pentagon were seen
wearing special protective outfits and respirators. FEMA photos show the
workers going through decontamination procedures.
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- Bellinger told AFP that the Department of Defense was
responsible for on-site safety procedures at the Pentagon.
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- In New York, however, considerably less attention was
paid to the health risks the burning rubble posed to workers at the WTC
site. A recent screening done by Mount Sinai Hospital found that nearly
three- quarters of the 1,138 first responders had experienced respiratory
problems while working at Ground Zero, and half had respiratory ailments
that persisted for an average of eight months afterward.
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- "We were dumfounded by how many people were sick,
and how sick they were, and how sick they still are," said Robin
Herbert, co-director of the program.
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- Thomas Cahill, professor of physics and atmospheric sciences,
analyzed the plumes from a station one mile north of the burning WTC
rubble. "The small particles worried me the most," Cahill told
AFP, referring to the sub-micron-size particles, which can pass through
the filters of respirators.
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- Cahill said the high levels of silicon, vanadium, nickel
and sulfuric acid concerned him. The fine concrete dust, he said, acted
"like Drano" in the lungs of the workers, where it irritated
and burned the wet membranes.
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- Until Dec. 15, the pile was so hot, a piece of paper
would ignite on contact with the rubble, Cahill said. "You had the
workers working on top of a huge incinerator in the rush to get Wall Street
going again," Cahill said. "It was really dumb.
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- "Only 30 percent of the firefighters working at
the site in October were wearing any protection at all," he said.
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- A class action lawsuit on behalf of more than 800 people
who suffer health effects was filed against WTC leaseholder Larry Silverstein
and the companies that supervised the cleanup: AMEC, Bovis Lend Lease,
Turner, and Tully Construction.
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- The suit was filed on Sept. 10, the last day set by a
federal three- year statute of limitations for lawsuits related to 9-11.
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- "Under state labor law, employers have a duty to
provide a safe place to work," lead attorney David Worby said. "They
violated that duty. Everyone knew what was on the ground."
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- As many as 100,000 workers at Ground Zero and hundreds
of thousands more people in the area were exposed to airborne toxins,
Worby said.
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- "If you expose a person to this amount of lead,
cadmium, benzene, asbestos and glass shards, they are going to be sick,"
he said. "More people could die from this than died on the day of
9-11."
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- AMEC Construction Management, a subsidiary of the British
engineering firm AMEC, renovated Wedge One of the Pentagon before 9-11
and cleaned it up afterward.
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- AMEC had also renovated Silverstein's WTC 7, which collapsed
mysteriously on 9-11, and then headed the cleanup of the WTC site afterward.
The AMEC construction firm is currently in the process of closing all
its offices in the United States.
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- http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/depleted_uranium.html
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