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The Immediate Response to the Attacks in New York City and the Pentagon 1. WTC were not up to "code" with regard to their fireproofmg. Whose responsibility was it to ensure that these buildings were built to "code"? What is the name of the individual who was responsible to ensure that all buildings were maintained? 2. Why were WTC emergency evacuation protocols not followed? 3. Why were the roof access doors locked? Who is responsible for the failure to warn the WTC towers occupants, through signs posted and other forms of communication, that the roof doors were locked? 4. Why were the sprinkler systems locked? 5. Why was there no roof-top evacuation? 6. What is the name of the individual who made the announcement in 2 WTC who told workers to return to their offices? 7. In light of the 1993 bombings at the WTC, what additional security precautions were put into effect? 8. The Port Authority of NY/NJ owns and operates Newark International Airport. They also owned and operated the WTC. Please explain the failure of the Port Authority to coordinate and act on the information about the second plane heading for the South Tower when they had this information available to them by their own Air Traffic Control Center. They had eleven minutes of notice that the plane was bearing down on Tower 2 and yet, they told people that the building was safe and secure. 9. Why won't the Port Authority in concert with the City of NY release the 9/11 tapes? 10. What was the City of NY and the Port Authority told about these numerous warnings, which occurred over a period of years, and the dozens of warnings in the months preceding 9/11? 11. If they were told nothing about the warnings, why were they told nothing? If they were told, why did the City of NY and the Port Authority do nothing? 12. Why was the World Trade Center steel removed so quickly, without being examined, from the scene of a mass murder? Who ordered the removal of the steel? 13. Why wasn't the WTC site sealed and treated as a crime scene? Who made the determination as to what was to be saved and what was to be thrown out? How was it determined and who made the determination as to what might have relevant DNA/remains before being thrown out/destroyed? Where did the items go that were determined to be not "valuable" enough to retain for further inspection? Who determined what was to be done with these items? 14. Why was the Port Authority permitted to cluster staircases in such a huge building anc who acquiesced to spacing one of them at a distance of only 50 feet, which is less than code?

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15. Why has there been no OSHA investigation into the WTC evacuation and collapse? 16. Why didn't Federal officials take over search and rescue after the buildings were hit? 17. During the WTC attack, it was reported that a small aircraft were involved. Why were these reports made? Were any small aircraft actually involved? 18. There were many eyewitnesses who reported explosions at the WTC on 9/11. The buildings came down quite neatly, I am sure you would agree. The seismic activity from that day also raises the questions of explosives, which need to be looked at. Seismographs at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, 21 miles north of the WTC, recorded very interesting seismic activity on September 11, 2001 that has still not been explained. While the aircraft crashes caused minimal earth shaking, significant earthquakes with unusual spikes occurred at the beginning of each collapse. The Palisades seismic data recorded a 2.1 magnitude earthquake during the 10-second collapse of the South Tower at 9:59:04 and a 2.3 quake during the 9-second collapse of the North Tower at 10:28:31. The Palisades seismic record shows that -- as the collapses began - a huge seismic "spikes" marked the moment the greatest energy went into the ground. The strongest jolts were both registered at the beginning of the collapses, well before the falling debris struck the earth. These unexplained "spikes" in the seismic data tends to lend credence to the theory that perhaps a massive explosion(s) in the lowest level of the basements where the supporting steel columns of the WTC met the bedrock caused the collapses. A "sharp spike of short duration" is how seismologist Thorne Lay of University of California at Santa Cruz told AFP an underground nuclear explosion appears on a seismograph. The two unexplained spikes are more than twenty times the amplitude of the other seismic waves associated with the collapses and occurred in the East-West seismic recording as the buildings began to fall. In the basements of the collapsed towers, where the 47 central support columns connected with the bedrock, hot spots of "literally molten steel" were discovered. Such persistent and intense residual heat, 70 feet below the surface, could explain how these crucial structural supports failed. Peter Tully, president of Tully Construction of Flushing, New York, told AFP that he saw pools of "literally molten steel" at the World Trade Center. Tully was contracted on September 11 to remove the debris from the site. Tully called Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition, Inc. (GDI) of Phoenix, Maryland, for consultation about removing the debris. GDI calls itself "the innovator and global leader in the controlled demolition and implosion of structures." Loizeaux, who cleaned up the bombed Federal Building in Oklahoma City, arrived on the WTC site two days later and wrote the clean-up plan for the entire operation. AFP asked Loizeaux about the report of molten steel on the site. "Yes," he said, "hot spots of molten steel in the basements." These incredibly hot areas were found "at the bottoms of the elevator shafts of the main towers, down seven [basement] levels," Loizeaux said. The molten steel was found "three, four, and five weeks later, when the rubble was being removed, "Loizeaux said. He said molten steel was also found at 7 WTC, which collapsed mysteriously at 5:20 on September 11th. Construction steel has an extremely high melting point of about 2800A0 Fahrenheit (1535A0 Celsius). Asked what could have caused such extreme heat, Tully said, "Think of the jet fuel." A way to prove that explosives had blasted the supporting steel columns of the Twin Towers would be to examine fragments from them among the debris for evidence of what metallurgists call "twinning". While steel is often tested for evidence of explosions, despite numerous eyewitness reports of explosions in the towers, the engineers involved in the FEMA-sponsored building assessment did no such tests. The WTC debris was removed as fast as possible and no forensic examination of the debris was permitted by the FBI or any other government agency.

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Almost all the 300,000 tons of steel from the Twin Towers was sold to New York scrap dealers and exported to places like China and Korea as quickly as it could be loaded onto the ships, thereby removing the evidence. The magazine Fire Engineering, a respected journal of firefighting for 125 years, which publishes studies of catastrophic fires, criticized the American Society of Civil Engineers and FEMA investigations as "a half-baked farce." Fire Engineering editor William A. Manning wrote in the January issue: "...the structural damage from the planes and the explosive ignition of jet fuel in themselves were not enough to bring down the towers." Why is such there disparity in opinion within the ranks of the fire-engineering community? The immense clouds of dust and apparent disintegration of the 425,000 cubic yards of concrete of the World Trade Center cause me to question the MIT account of events. Describing the ruins, television evangelist Dr. Robert Schuller said that "...there was not a single block of concrete in that rubble." One observer described the scene "as if some high-energy disintegration beam or laser had been focused on the towers and pulverized the concrete into minute particles of ash and dust." The 110-ten-story World Trade Center reduced to dust by jet fuel? Dr. Michael Baden, New York state's chief forensic pathologist and an expert in pathology said in September that most of the victims' bodies should be identifiable, because the fires had not reached the 3200A°F for 30 minutes necessary to incinerate a body. At a November press conference, Dr. Charles Hirsch, the chief medical examiner, told grieving relatives that many bodies had been "vaporized." Are we to believe that the people killed on 9/11 were "vaporized" at 1700A0 F? The World Trade Center smoldering pits of molten steel burned for exactly 100 days, despite the constant spray of water being applied. The fires were finally reported extinguished on December 19. Other reports, from firemen, have said that the FBIA's offices in NYC that were on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th floors of the north tower of the WTC were totally destroyed, presumably by bombs. Seismic article: http://www.americanfreepress.net/09_03_02/NEW_SEISMIC_/new_seismic_.html Seismic charts: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/Eq/WTC_20010911 .html Seismic article: http://www.firehouse.eom/tech/news/2002/0121_terrorist.html Seismic article and chart: http://serendipity.magnet.ch/wot/bollyn2.htm Fire still burning: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991634 Fire still burning: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/letters.html 19. What information did the JTTF share with Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the City of New York and the Port Authority of NY/NJ regarding potential dangers to NYC, downtown Manhattan and specifically the WTC as terrorist targets? A The Port Authority of NY/NJ owns and operates Newark International Airport. They also owned and operated the WTC. The Port Authority Police Department was also a member of the JTTF. A Please explain the failure of the Port Authority to coordinate and act on the information about the second plane heading for the South Tower when they had this information available to them by their own Air Traffic Control Center. They had eleven minutes of notice that the plane was bearing down on Tower 2 and yet, they told people that the building was safe and secure. 20. What did the FBI tell the NYPD in their Joint Terrorism Task Force regarding the numerous warnings about NYC being a terrorist target and the possibility of NYC and specifically, the WTC being hit by planes? A 21 . When was this information relayed to the Mayor, City of NY and NYPD and what actions, if any, were taken? 22. As a result of the 1993 bombing at the WTC, what additional security precautions were put into effect with the knowledge that the WTC was now a very real target for future terrorism?

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23. What special precautions and protocols, if any, were in place to protect NYC, and, most especially, the WTC prior to and on 9/11, considering the vast amount of information the JTTF had collected over the course of its investigations? 24. As we were all well aware (those of us that were watching), the Pentagon, flight 77, crash video was not released right after 9/11/01. When it was finally released, there were some frames missing, some frame numbers were duplicated and the date of the video footage was 9/12/01 - it could be that the clock was just wrong in the camera, or it could be that something in the video was manipulated - or both. The first of the two links below has the video and three of the still photos, and the second link has the five uncropped photos of the Pentagon crash. http://www.cnn.com/20Q2/US/03/07/gen.pentagon.pictures/index.html http: //www. startr ibune. com/images/24/ 25. My understanding is that there was also another video taken by a security camera at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, VA which overlooks the Pentagon. From what I understand, this video was confiscated by the FBI. I am hoping that you will subpoena this video. The address of the hotel is below. Sheraton National Hotel Arlington Columbia Pike & Washington Boulevard 900 South Orme Street Arlington, Virginia 22204 (703) 521 -1900 € (703) 521 -2122 - Fax € (800) 468-9090 26. Also, the Virginia Department of transports has video cams on main highways to monitor trafic. My understanding is that two of these cameras are near the Pentagon, on Washington boulevard. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/DailyNews/primetime_flightattendant 27. Investigate reports that FBI and FEMA officials were checking out the WTC buildings just prior to 9/11/2001. 28. Investigate why the FBI can't tell us who they've interviewed and talked to in its investigation. What is the FBI's guidelines about not reporting conversations/interviews? 29. Why change the name of FEMA? Isn't the brand name of value to DHS? Will they change the name of the Secret Service and the Coast Guard? 30. Request a full briefing on the status and substance of the new National Response Plan (NRP) and the National Incident Management System (NIMS) planned to replace the Federal Response Plan (FRP). 31. Why is the responsibility for developing this plan located in Border and Transportation Security instead of in Emergency Preparedness and Response where execution of the Plan will take place? 32. Has the process for declaring a Presidential disaster been revised? If yes, how? If no, are there any plans to do so? How will this process change when the new National

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Response Plan is implemented? 33. In the new National Response Plan (NRP), which official will be in charge of future Presidential declared disasters - governor, mayor or representative of the President? 34. Will the location of the next terrorist attack in the United States be first declared a disaster site or a crime scene? 35. What role will the FBI play in responding to the next terrorist attack? 36. Request information on national response teams at DHS. 37. What is the status of the Disaster Relief Fund? Will it continue to reside in EPR or be moved to another part of DHS? Does it have any money in it currently? 38. Will the Federal Coordinating Official (FCO) cadre be continued? If not, what kind of training will be required of the lead Federal official in a Presidentially declared disaster. 39. What is the status and plans for Citizen Corps? What funding will it received in 2004 and beyond? 40. Are there plans to expand or reduce the number of courses offered at the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) and the National Fire Academy? 41. What is the status and plans for the higher education program? 42. Is there an after action report for TOPOFF2? If yes, can you get a copy? 43. What is the status of funding for State and local emergency managers through the Emergency Management Planning Grant program in FY2004 and beyond? What is the status of DHS partnership with the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) and the International Associations of Emergency Managers (IAEM)? 44. Does DHS have a partnership with the groups representing the governors, the mayors and other elected and appointed officials such as the NGA, the National Conference of Mayors, the League of Cities, ICMA, etc.? 45. What is the nature of DHS partnerships with other Federal agencies beyond the Federal Response Plan and the National Response Plan? 46. What partnerships has DHS established with State and local governments? 47. Are there any plans or studies on changing Federal disaster relief from grants to loans? 48. What changes if any are planned for existing recovery programs in FEMA, SB A and other Federal agencies? 49. What is the status and plans for the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)? 50. What is the status of the pre-disaster mitigation grant program?

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51. What is the status of the earthquake, hurricane, tornado and other natural hazard mitigation programs at FEMA? 52. What will be the funding level for EPR in FY2004 and beyond? 53. Are any changes planned for the organizational structure of EPR? 54. Are there any personnel moves anticipated for March 2004 in EPR? 55. We would also like the following (more to follow) to be included for interviewing and would prefer to have them sworn in. A Mayor Rudy Giuliani Bernard Kerick, Police Commissioner on 9.11 Neil Herman. FBI Louie Napoli, FBI Robert Martin, NYPD ret. Tommy Corrigan, NYPD ret. Lt. Haughie, Detective in charge of the JTTF representing the NYPD on 9.11 and before 56. Team 9 - Family Questions - 7/24/03

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