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One of the guys I hired a few years back worked in EOD in the Marine Corps, and he debunked the whole "it was rigged" argument that some of the 9/11 truthers spout off.
Almost all explosives degrade over time. Dynamite & TNT will leech out the nitroglycerin within a few years. C4 only has a shelf life of ~6 months before it gets taken for controlled demolition. Semtex will last up to about 5 years. When they become unstable, and the slightest vibrations can set it off.
If the towers were indeed rigged, it would have had to have been done during Clinton's second term or the first few months of the Bush presidency, and that's something that might have drawn a bit of attention on the internet before the attacks....
Almost all explosives degrade over time. Dynamite & TNT will leech out the nitroglycerin within a few years. C4 only has a shelf life of ~6 months before it gets taken for controlled demolition. Semtex will last up to about 5 years. When they become unstable, and the slightest vibrations can set it off.
If the towers were indeed rigged, it would have had to have been done during Clinton's second term or the first few months of the Bush presidency, and that's something that might have drawn a bit of attention on the internet before the attacks....