Time: Wed Dec 03 08:09:55 1997 To: From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: FBI Bombed Murrah Building (OKC) to Ensure Funding of US Spy Agencies (fwd) Cc: Bcc: sls References: <snip> > > However, it can *not* snap rebars across an even break, > which is what occured at the Murrah building. > > You know this how? > > Because *credible* demolitions experts say so. > > Such as Brig. Gen. (ret) Benjamin Partin. > > > In fact, I challange you to show any evidence in which *any* ANFO >explosion *anywhere* has *ever* snapped a concrete column and severed the >rebars inside along the same break as the concrete. > > ANFO is a low-order "heaving" explosive. If a detonation is powerful >enough to shove over the support columns of a building, concrete will >crumble along a break in the column and the rebars will bend like >spaghetti (similar to the damage scene in collapsed highway structures >after earthquakes). It is possible rebar will shred in an extremely >powerful blast, but only as it is torn bar-by-bar as column sections are >carried apart by the blast. Nevertheless, there will be no clean breaks. > > Clean breaks across the rebar in the columns require supplimentary >demolition charges on the columns themselves. (Which is why the bombs >squad was there in minute removed "unexploded bombs" and tarps were >hurriedly thrown over the column stumps - but not before pictures were >taken.) > <snip>
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