> THE ISRAELI "ART STUDENTS/MOVERS MYSTERY" SOLVED
13 April 2010, 20:23, by Paul Isaac Jr(NYsentinel at Large)
"Yama ’ Architech Of Terror"
"The World Trade Center was Yamasaki’s most prestigious, highly visible commission. Its would-be levelers were, presumably, a band of terrorist who packed a van with explosives and detonated it in the basement garage. There intention was to blow out the supporting collums along one wall of tower 2, causing it to keel over and tople against its twin. Yamasaki HAD ENGINEERED HIS TOWERS TO WITHSTAND THE FORCE OF A 747 SHEARING INTO THEM-THE NIGHTMARE SCENARIO OF AN EARLIER, MORE "INNOCENT" ERA-and though shaken by february 93 blast, his squared-off tubes remained standing. 6 People died, but scores of thousands might have if the collums had failed. Though the terrorist had used sufficient explosives to the job, according to Eugene Faso, The Port Authority’s Chief Engineer, "They had built the wrong kind of bomb’ "
Page 117
"Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York’s World Trade Center"
Eric Darton (1999)
"Yama ’ Architech Of Terror"
"The World Trade Center was Yamasaki’s most prestigious, highly visible commission. Its would-be levelers were, presumably, a band of terrorist who packed a van with explosives and detonated it in the basement garage. There intention was to blow out the supporting collums along one wall of tower 2, causing it to keel over and tople against its twin. Yamasaki HAD ENGINEERED HIS TOWERS TO WITHSTAND THE FORCE OF A 747 SHEARING INTO THEM-THE NIGHTMARE SCENARIO OF AN EARLIER, MORE "INNOCENT" ERA-and though shaken by february 93 blast, his squared-off tubes remained standing. 6 People died, but scores of thousands might have if the collums had failed. Though the terrorist had used sufficient explosives to the job, according to Eugene Faso, The Port Authority’s Chief Engineer, "They had built the wrong kind of bomb’ "
Page 117
"Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York’s World Trade Center"
Eric Darton (1999)