Thread: Is the US Driving the World Towards World War III: Osama's

Is the US Driving the World Towards World War III: Osama's Alleged Compound. How Many SEALs Died?

by Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research, May 21, 2011

In a sensational and explosive TV report, the Pakistani News Agency has provided a live interview with an eye witness to the US attack on the alleged compound of Osama bin Laden. The eye witness, Mohammad Bashir, describes the event as it unfolded. Of the three helicopters, “there was only one that landed the men and came back to pick them up, but as he [the helicopter] was picking them up, it blew away and caught fire.â€

"Buildings that are destroyed by fires and structural damage do not disintegrate in 10 seconds or less into fine dust with massive steel beams sliced at each floor level by high temperatures that building fires cannot attain. It has never happened, and it never will."

I was in the steel industry for 25 yrs. I intimately know steel making and processing. The making and processing of steel does require high temperatures", but the failure of structural steel does not.

Steel melts at 2600 - 2800 degrees, but a structural steel beam may fail, under load, at a mere 600 - 800 degrees. One need not melt a steel beam to cause it's failure, only soften it.

Almost all steels are soften or annealed, in order to make useful products. Without annealing, steel is hard and brittle. Many steel processes have the annealing aspect of the process built "in line". Other times steel items are batch annealed.

The fires in the World Trade Towers never melted the steel beams, but merely softened them. The fires easily burned at 600 - 800 degrees. The entire structure is "under load". The failure at any single point merely caused a domino effect that resulted in the collapse of the towers.

The Engineering trade journals that I have read explain how this happened in sufficient detail. There's no doubt in my mind, the building collapsed due to diesel fuel fires, not an explosion.