Rock_nj > you're in a very small minority (I've never met anyone else) that is convinced that no planes hit the WTC on 9/11. You're entitled to your opinion.
For what it's worth, I am one who accepts that planes did, in fact, hit WTC1 and WTC2, both of which were subsequently demolished by the use of explosives. Clearly, in the circumstances, what happened to other buildings in the WTC complex is also important.
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>>Building #7 was not hit by any airplane. It was a large office building, 47 stories tall. To date, however, the common view is that the building somehow caught fire and collapsed along with the two towers. No investigating committee has been examining its "collapse."
Originally, it was claimed that illegally stored diesel fuel and emergency generators exploded in building 7, setting fires that compromised its structural integrity. Mayor Giuliani had been warned repeatedly by fire marshals that storing thousands of gallons of fuel in that way was a serious violation of all fire codes. But the Federal Emergency Management Agency report stresses that the fuel tanks remained fully intact. In pictures of building 7 at 3 pm on September 11, two and a half hours before it collapsed, the only fires are on the 7th and 12th floors; they are considered small and containable and could have been forseeably put out by the building's sprinkler system. FEMA was puzzled in its report about what happened to building #7 and could only conclude, The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the building to collapse remain unknown at this time.
The report is available at fema.gov.
In a September 2002 PBS documentary called "America Rebuilds," the owner of the World Trade Center Complex Larry Silverstein, who had bought the entire complex but a short time before the attacks, states in reference to World Trade Center Building #7:
"I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, "We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it. And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."
The term 'pull it' means to bring the building down by means of explosives. In the same documentary a cleanup worker refers to the demolition of WTC Building #6 in December, 2001, when he says, "...we're getting ready to pull the building six."
Silverstein's remarks are critical here in understanding what occurred. Why would FEMA commission a report into how building #7 collapsed if it was already known that the owner, presumably in conjunction with the government, made the decision to destroy it on the evening of 9/11?
Thus, it is crucial to establish what exactly happened to building #7: Did Silverstein (and the government?) make the decision to 'pull' the building on September 11, 2001 as Silverstein indicated a year later in the PBS interview, amidst the ongoing chaos, endangering rescue workers and equipment? If so, when was this decision made?
And if, as Silverstein says, he decided to "pull the building, how did they manage to rig explosives in a matter of hours that would successfully and safely take down a 47 story building in the middle of the chaos on 9-11? Could explosives could bought (and from whom? Where is the paper trail, the order receipts, etc.?), brought to the location and carefully put into place within a couple of hours on the afternoon of September 11, 2001, and the 47-story building safely "pulled" at that time? If not, then the explosives would have had to have been in place for such an eventuality PRIOR TO 9-11. The implications of THAT scenario are even scarier and profound - the entire official story about what happened on 9-11 would have to be discarded.
Silverstein Properties' estimated investment in WTC 7 was $386 million. In February of 2002 Silverstein Properties won $861 million from Industrial Risk Insurers to rebuild on the site of WTC 7. This one building's collapse alone resulted in a profit of about $500 million! << |
