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Missing Gold

A King's Ransom in Precious Metals Seems to Have Disappeared

The basement of 4 World Trade Center housed vaults used to store gold and silver bullion. Published articles about precious metals recovered from the World Trade Center ruins in the aftermath of the attack mention less than $300 million worth of gold. All such reports appear to refer to a removal operation conducted in late October of 2001. On Nov. 1, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced that "more than $230 million" worth of gold and silver bars that had been stored in a bomb-proof vault had been recovered. A New York Times article contained:



Reports describing the contents of the vaults before the attack suggest that nearly $1 billion in precious metals was stored in the vaults. This article gives a figure of $650 million to the value of gold and silver in the 4 WTC vault:



An article in the TimesOnline gives the following rundown of precious metals that were being stored in the WTC vault belonging to Comex. 3

* Comex metals trading - 3,800 gold bars weighing 12 tonnes and worth more than $100 million
* Comex clients - 800,000 ounces of gold with a value of about $220 million
* Comex clients - 102 million ounces of silver, worth $430 million
* Bank of Nova Scotia - $200 million of gold

The TimesOnline article is not clear as to whether the $200 million in gold reported by the Bank of Nova Scotia was part of the $220 million in gold held by Comex for clients. If so, the total is $750 million; otherwise $950 million.

There appear to be no reports of precious metals discovered between November of 2001 and the completion of excavation several months later. It would seem that at least the better part of a billion dollars worth of precious metals went missing. It is not plausible that whatever destroyed the towers vaporized gold and silver, which are dense, inert metals that are extremely unlikely to participate in chemical reactions with other materials.

An article in The Sierra Times suggests that gold was recovered from two trucks in a tunnel under 5 World Trade Center, giving rise to suspicions that the trucks were being used to remove the gold from the vaults before the South Tower fell. 4 However, this report may have been based on an erroneous reading of other reports that describe the removal of crushed vehicles from a tunnel under 5 WTC in order to gain access to the vaults under 4 WTC to remove their contents. 5
References

1. Below Ground Zero, Silver and Gold, New York Times, 11/1/2001
2. Thanksgiving at Ground Zero, National Real Estate Investor, [cached]
3. Crushed towers give up cache of gold ingots, TimesOnline, 11/1/02 [cached]
4. Cache of Gold Found at WTC Two truckloads retrieved through a tunnel in rubble2, [cached]
5. , Reuters and New York Daily News, [cached]

http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/gold.html

Secondary links to sources are in the above link.

Another thing I've noticed is that Jones' theories were never peer reviewed in any serious scientific publication for structural engineering, just some 'political science' publication.

Found some interesting criticism of Dr. Jones' theories here: http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=42548

I'd have to admit that I lack the knowledge to critique his theories myself, but it appears that the presence of sulfur in itself doesn't necessarily indicate that thermate was used.

Another thing I've noticed is that Jones' theories were never peer reviewed in any serious scientific publication for structural engineering, just some 'political science' publication. My point remains that his theories need to be judged by experts in the field, people who can really judge whether his claims have any merit.

jimmyzen. Any scientific paper will have the words might, should, possibly, etc. attached to it, for science, contrary to what people tend to believe, dosen't deal with absolute truths...

Don't get offended by the gold stuff, I didn't see the doc you've mentioned (what it is name?), this is not personal in anyaway. I am only trying to look for references I hear about. I wans't there, can't confirm what is and what isn't true for sure, the only things I know are:

-any of the four planes not being intercepted = weird, almost unveliveble...

-there were reports of explosion that morning (i saw it live in tv). They were not showed again.

-terrorist flying boeings doing Ace manouvers = almost unbeliveble.

-Petagon hit = ? Where is the plane? Where are the videos?

-of all skyscrapers hit by fire, only the WTC collapsed.

-a much smaller building in Iran was hit by a plane and didn't collapse.

-Bin Laden is CIA asset. The Bin Ladens have influential ties with the Bushes.

-The Afghan got bombed and had nothing to do with it.

-The Iraquis got bombed and had nothing to do with it.

-Iran is gonna get bombed and has nothing to do with it.

-The US people (and other "cilivilzed countries") are loosing the most precious things they earned as a nation = its individual freedoms and and are witnessing the rise of a police state.

-Bush might have nothing to do with 911, but he surely liked it happened.

Ok, my bad, it seems that the famous Jones paper was not yet published in a peer reviewd journal, but in the BYU's website and it is scheduled to be plublished in a coming book http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566566592.

But still his research dosen't qualify as "political science" in the terms described in the wikipedia link above...

I agree, Studebaker, while the official explanation of what happened is clearly not accurate, the conspiracy theorist do not do themselves any favors when trying to imlicate practically EVERY level and department of government, and EVERY large corporation in the US etc. Whenever there is a fact that does not fit the theory, then the [fill in the blank] must be in on it.

It is unfathomable to me that there was NOT ONE ethical person in any of the branches of government or corporations involved who would be screaming like crazy BEFORE such a nefarious plot could take place. The vocorder stuff and all the actual passengers on the flights who have never come home being hidden away somewhere because they are in on it or, worse, killed by the government, is just silly. That being said, certainly there are questions and there clearly is incompetency going around .

I am not calling everyone who questions the official story a conspiracy theorist. I am questioning it and I am not a conspiracy theorist. But the documentary we have all been discussing is proposed by a person who repeatedly talks about conspiracy and , therefore, I think IS a conspiracy theorist. And, anyway, there is nothing wrong with being a conspiracy theorist...my point , and Batchy's too I think, is that the theories start to get so outlandish that it exceeds the limits of logic to believe them. There may be some level of "conspiracy" that is not so fiendish and some would have us believe. It is likely we will continue to live in ignorance anyway...

...the theories start to get so outlandish that it exceeds the limits of logic to believe them. There may be some level of "conspiracy" that is not so fiendish and some would have us believe. It is likely we will continue to live in ignorance

Yeah, I guess that for the masses, as they say, Ignorance Is Bliss...

Hey Lumpy,

Did I send you to GO FUCK YOURSELF yet today?

Who told anything about being better than the rest?

Why do you keep pursuing this vendetta with what I think or don't think...

I was not directing any claims towards your sorry self and I intend to keep this way (ie. without any contact with obsessed people such as yourself).

I think you need professional help, this is going too far. HOW MANY TIMES SHOULD I SAY IT?

Live me alone, you poor bastard!

I think we are all ignorant for not knowing the true intentions and causes of current world affairs.