On Dec 11, 9:53*am, riverman wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:00:59 -0800 (PST), riverman
wrote:
The whole thing fell apart for me when it was reported that someone
found the passport of one of the hijackers lying in the street near
Ground Zero a few days later.

No, actually. Like I said, my BS meter pegged when I heard that,
especially after seeing the video of the TONS of paperwork blowing all
around Ground Zero once the building collapsed.

According to the report you linked, the passport was found *before*
the tower collapsed, so there wouldn't have been "tons" of paperwork,
rubble, etc. The only stuff on the street would have come from the
plane or the impacted floors. Most paper, I daresay, probably burned
before falling or dispersed, so the unlikelihood of finding something
on the street isn't quite the needle in a haystack one might imagine
from the post-collapse debris pile.

What the hell a "passerby" was doing there or who he was is another
matter, but I don't think it's long odds that a passport might have
caught someone's eye pre-collapse.

$.02,
Joe F.