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Debate Over WTC Fires Draws Experts
Published Monday, November 15th, 2004
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Kevin Ryan

An executive at Underwriters Laboratories (UL), the company that certified the steel used in the construction of the World Trade Center, this week questioned the common theory that fuel fires caused the Twin Towers to collapse.

In a letter dated Thursday, November 11th (complete text below) UL executive Kevin Ryan called on Frank Gayle, director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - the government team that has spent two years studying how the trade center was built and why it fell - to “do what you can to quickly eliminate the confusion regarding the ability of jet fuel fires to soften or melt structural steel.”

Kevin Ryan is Site Manager at Environmental Health Laboratories in South Bend, Indiana, which is a division of UL, the product-compliance and testing giant. Because UL certified the WTC steel for its ability to withstand fires, the steel’s performance on September 11 is obviously of concern to the company. While Ryan’s letter does not constitute an official statement from Underwriters Laboratories, it suggests incipient disagreements between UL and NIST about the true cause of the WTC collapses.

Gayle is deputy chief of the Metallurgy Division at NIST and head of the “NIST and the WTC” team. A draft of the government agency’s final report on the WTC collapses is due in January.

Ryan copied the letter to Gayle in e-mails to David Ray Griffin, author of ‘The New Pearl Harbor’, and to Catherine Austin Fitts, who is a member of the 911Truth.org board. Griffin requested and received permission to distribute Ryan’s letter to other parties. The letter was published Friday at the site of the 9/11 Visibility Project.

911Truth.org called Ryan Friday to confirm his authorship. Ryan made it clear he is speaking for himself only, not on behalf of his laboratory or the company, but others at UL are aware of his action.

The letter raises disturbing questions, pointing out that the temperatures of fuel fires in the towers on September 11 appear to have been far too low to cause a failure of the structural steel.

A chemist by profession, Ryan said he considers Gayle to be a good scientist and an honest person. Given the impact of September 11 on events around the world, Ryan said everyone needs to know the full truth of what really happened on that day.

In a related development, the New York Times reported Friday that the NIST team under Gayle is planning to hold some of its deliberations in secret. “The announcement has been sharply protested by advocates for families of the 9/11 victims, who said they were considering a lawsuit to force the agency to open the meetings to the public,” the Times wrote.

As the Times noted, the NIST investigation was started in 2002 after lobbying by, among others, the Skyscraper Safety Campaign, an organization created by Monica Gabrielle and Sally Regenhard, both of whom lost family on September 11.

Gabrielle told the Times that NIST should have “one job, and one job only - to find out the truth of what happened to those buildings and to report to the public about it. You don’t owe industry, the Port Authority or federal agencies anything. You owe it to the public - the truth, no matter where it goes.”



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