If they high five it's an Eiffel Tower.

nice legs...anybody care to eiffel tower this one with me?

I remember this incident. French intelligence had human elements inside this terror group, and knew they had plans to turn a plane into a flying bomb by refuelling in Marseille and then crashing it into the Eiffel Tower or the Montparnasse Tower, also in Paris. This is why the decision was made to storm the plane, rather than try to negotiate further.

It makes you wonder if a US intelligence community which hadn't abandoned human intelligence after the cold war in favour of technological gadgets would have been more alert to the possibility of an attack such as 911.

Theo, you really gotta be just typing for giggles at this point. Show me once where you addressed any concern, any question of physics, any way that a massive steel WTC7 fell.

You just call names, and say that we can't deal with the obvious.

"It makes no sense - I'm the one actually dealing with the facts at hand responsibly, and the mob with the unbelievably ridiculous controlled demolition theories are getting the back-up."

I've never read such CRAP. Deal with the facts. If you watch the PBS video (and any of these) you'll see the elaborate description of the core of the towers with tons of steel, then the concrete floors anchored the the center and the outer shell. So, simple question, if the floors bowed and pancaked all the way down -- what happened to the steel core?

Why wasn't it still standing like a bolt through the middle of a stack of washers? Why didn't it just topple in one direction like a massive 100-story steel tree? I can understand the floors falling, and the outer skin, but the core was built essentially like the Eiffel tower. Why wasn't it in say, three massive pieces? How could they have just fallen apart under their own weight?

And WTC7, there is no explanation. It's not about feeling special, it's about people pissed off cause they were lied to. You are happy about being lied to, and you get mad at us for trying to reason with you. For telling you to think, ask yourself if it makes sense. Steel building don't fall from fire. Heck, explosives often aren't enough to take them down and the demo company has to try twice.

Watch the videos again, and you will hear firemen talk about a bomb. You will hear a news guy being told to get away from WTC7 because it is going to come down.

In 1912 Austrian tailor Franz Reichelt leapt from the observation deck of the eiffel tower in a combination overcoat-parachute of his own design. He expected to fly. He did not.