I doubt a controlled implosion would have been as 'effective'...though it would have been interesting to see them putting the dust-catching tarpaulin being put over the towers first....
There's an idiot born every day....
It always poses a problem how to deal with buildings which are past their use-by date. Something of the size/proximity of those towers would be by necessity a deconstruction, not a demolition....
It's truly a biological miracle, the "truthers" have such vivid imaginations but no brain in their heads. ;~D
It's always bugged me. If such dramatic, important secrets are locked away in Area 51....WTF is in the previous fifty areas?
Actually, "THE" site for aliens is Wright Patterson AFB. Dont believe me? Just ask any of the residents near by.