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The following letter was sent today by Kevin Ryan of Underwriters
Laboratories to Frank Gayle of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) . Underwriters Laboratories is the company that
certified the steel components used in the construction of the World
Trade Center towers. The information in this letter is of great
importance.

Dr. Gayle,

Having recently reviewed your team's report of 10/19/04, I felt the
need to contact you directly.

As I'm sure you know, the company I work for certified the steel
components used in the construction of the WTC buildings. [..]

We know that the steel components were certified to ASTM E119. The time
temperature curves for this standard require the samples to be exposed
to temperatures around 2000F for several hours. And as we all agree,
the steel applied met those specifications. Additionally, I think we
can all agree that even un-fireproofed steel will not melt until
reaching red-hot temperatures of nearly 3000F (2). Why Dr. Brown would
imply that 2000F would melt the high-grade steel used in those
buildings makes no sense at all. [..]

This story just does not add up. If steel from those buildings did
soften or melt, I'm sure we can all agree that this was certainly not
due to jet fuel fires of any kind, let alone the briefly burning fires
in those towers. That fact should be of great concern to all Americans.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...rt icleId=236

This is great --- except that it is all a lie.


Kevin Ryan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kevin Ryan is a former Site Manager for Environmental Health Laboratories in
South Bend, Indiana, a subsidiary of Underwriters Labs(UL) responsible for
water testing. He was fired after publicly challenging UL's conclusions
regarding the collapse of the WTC.

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Research
Ryan said that in the WTC towers case, UL was the company that certified the
steel used in construction of the two towers. Although Ryan was not was not
involved in the certification for the steel used in the World Trade Centers,
he claimed to have been given information, both verbally and in writing,
about UL's involvement in in these activities.

However the company's spokesman Paul M. Baker stated "UL does not certify
structural steel, such as the beams, columns and trusses used in World Trade
Center". In a paper entitled "Propping Up the War on Terror: Lies About the
WTC by NIST and Underwriters Laboratories", Ryan states that this statement
by UL is misleading.

The NIST also said that steel is not certified and "UL did not certify any
steel as suggested. In fact, in U.S. practice, steel is not certified at
all; rather structural assemblies are tested for their fire resistance
rating in accordance with a standard procedure such as ASTM E 119 (see
NCSTAR 1-6B). That the steel was "certified ... to 2000 degrees Fahrenheit
for six hours" is simply not true." [1]

But Ryan never stated that the steel was certified for six hours.

The NIST also states that steel heated to 2000 degrees Fahrenheit "softens
and its strength reduces to roughly 10 percent of its room temperature
value."[2]

Ryan has responded to the UL statements, noting that they directly
contradict statements made by UL's CEO, Loring Knoblauch [3].

Ryan wrote to Dr. Frank Gayle urging him to clarify his findings on the
causes of structure collapse of the towers, copying the letter to David Ray
Griffin, author of The New Pearl Harbor, and to Catherine Austin Fitts, who
is a member of the 911Truth.org board. Gayle was, at the time, the Deputy
Chief of the Metallurgy Division, Material Science and Engineering
Laboratory, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Gayle headed the "NIST and the World Trade Center" project.

In Ryan's letter, he claimed that a subsequent report from NIST ignored
Gayle's initial findings that weak steel was not the contributing factor in
the collapse of the towers. Ryan stated: "Your comments suggest that the
steel was probably exposed to temperatures of only about 500 °F (250 °C)."

Ryan admitted that he wrote to Dr. Gayle on his own capacity and not on
behalf of his employer, UL. Subsequently, UL disavowed Ryan's expertise
because he was not employed in the Fire Protection Department and fired him.


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"Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn
and ridicule" - Al Franken



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