Kirkstall Blue
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The twin towers imploded just like any other controlled demolition of buildings taken down in England by demolition experts, that's always been my opinion. Really the question for me is who would want to do such a thing and why.
The top of my alleged list, would be the leaseholder of the WTC.. Larry Silverstein he may have had the most to gain financially from 9/11. ("Sorry, Mr Silverstein if your innocent").. This article is why?
Quote "Six months before the 9/11 attacks the World Trade Center was "privatized" by being leased to a private sector developer. The lease was purchased by the Silverstein Group for $3.2 billion. "This is a dream come true," Larry Silverstein said. "We will be in control of a prized asset, and we will seek to develop its potential, raising it to new heights."
But the World Trade Towers were not the real estate plum we are led to believe.
From an economic standpoint, the trade center -- subsidized since its inception -- has never functioned, nor was it intended to function, unprotected in the rough-and-tumble real estate marketplace.
How could Silverstein Group have been ignorant of this?
Also, the towers required some $200 million in renovations and improvements, most of which related to removal and replacement of building materials declared to be health hazards in the years since the towers were built.
It was well-known by the city of New York that the WTC was an asbestos bombshell. For years, the Port Authority treated the building like an ageing dinosaur, attempting on several occasions to get permits to demolish the building for liability reasons, but being turned down due the known asbestos problem. Further, it was well-known the only reason the building was still standing until 9/11 was because it was too costly to disassemble the twin towers floor by floor since the Port Authority was prohibited legally from demolishing the buildings. Other New York developers had been driven into bankruptcy by the costly mandated renovations, and $200 million represented an entire year's worth of revenues from the World Trade Towers.
The perfect collapse of the twin towers changed the picture. Instead of renovation, Silverstein is rebuilding, funded by the insurance coverage on the property which 'fortuitously' covered acts of terrorism. Even better, Silverstein filed TWO insurance claims for the maximum amount of the policy, based on the two, in Silverstein's view, separate attacks. The total potential payout is $7.1 billion, more than enough to build a fabulous new complex and leave a hefty profit for the Silverstein Group, including Larry Silverstein himself."
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEuJimaumW4&NR=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEuJimaumW4&NR=1</a>
WTC7 could never have been demolished for safety reasons on that same day , as it would have had to have been primed with explosives well beforehand!! it had many departments such as FEMA and the CIA.......It may have been convenient for that building to implode as "apparently lots of the Enron case documents and files were stored in the WTC7??
The top of my alleged list, would be the leaseholder of the WTC.. Larry Silverstein he may have had the most to gain financially from 9/11. ("Sorry, Mr Silverstein if your innocent").. This article is why?
Quote "Six months before the 9/11 attacks the World Trade Center was "privatized" by being leased to a private sector developer. The lease was purchased by the Silverstein Group for $3.2 billion. "This is a dream come true," Larry Silverstein said. "We will be in control of a prized asset, and we will seek to develop its potential, raising it to new heights."
But the World Trade Towers were not the real estate plum we are led to believe.
From an economic standpoint, the trade center -- subsidized since its inception -- has never functioned, nor was it intended to function, unprotected in the rough-and-tumble real estate marketplace.
How could Silverstein Group have been ignorant of this?
Also, the towers required some $200 million in renovations and improvements, most of which related to removal and replacement of building materials declared to be health hazards in the years since the towers were built.
It was well-known by the city of New York that the WTC was an asbestos bombshell. For years, the Port Authority treated the building like an ageing dinosaur, attempting on several occasions to get permits to demolish the building for liability reasons, but being turned down due the known asbestos problem. Further, it was well-known the only reason the building was still standing until 9/11 was because it was too costly to disassemble the twin towers floor by floor since the Port Authority was prohibited legally from demolishing the buildings. Other New York developers had been driven into bankruptcy by the costly mandated renovations, and $200 million represented an entire year's worth of revenues from the World Trade Towers.
The perfect collapse of the twin towers changed the picture. Instead of renovation, Silverstein is rebuilding, funded by the insurance coverage on the property which 'fortuitously' covered acts of terrorism. Even better, Silverstein filed TWO insurance claims for the maximum amount of the policy, based on the two, in Silverstein's view, separate attacks. The total potential payout is $7.1 billion, more than enough to build a fabulous new complex and leave a hefty profit for the Silverstein Group, including Larry Silverstein himself."
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEuJimaumW4&NR=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEuJimaumW4&NR=1</a>
WTC7 could never have been demolished for safety reasons on that same day , as it would have had to have been primed with explosives well beforehand!! it had many departments such as FEMA and the CIA.......It may have been convenient for that building to implode as "apparently lots of the Enron case documents and files were stored in the WTC7??