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It looks like the 9/11 Myths site linked above discusses the Silverstein Building 7 issue -- and it includes a citation for the quote. (http://www.911myths.com/
by clock_tower 10y ago
It looks like the 9/11 Myths site linked above discusses the Silverstein Building 7 issue -- and it includes a citation for the quote. (http://www.911myths.com/html/wtc_insurance.html http://www.911myths.com/html/wtc_insurance.html) According to the page, firefighters confirmed that no one was left in the building, then withdrew and allowed it to burn down; but burned down or brought down, it fell well after the main towers, with no loss of life beyond the initial debris impacts.
If the destruction of the main towers was deliberately orchestrated, it couldn't possibly have been by Larry Silverstein acting alone. No landlord can literally get away with murder; if he caused the attacks, either he's an absolute criminal mastermind or he'd be dead by now.
If there was more going on than just al-Qaida, the US almost has to have known about the attacks in advance. If we did know, why did we let the attacks go through -- and if we were ruthless enough to let them happen, why weren't we ruthless enough to implicate Iraq?
From what I've heard, GWB saw Saddam as a family enemy, and started asking if Iraq was involved with the WTC attacks indecently quickly after they'd occurred. If he was willing to sit idly by as his citizens were killed (or even authorize the killings himself), surely he wouldn't scruple to frame an old enemy in the process. It would kill two birds with one stone: misdirect the blame in a very plausible manner, and give Saddam what was coming to him anyways (at least from GWB's perspective).
(Come to think of it, why not implicate the government of Saudi Arabia in a really clear, undeniable fashion? It would be easy and convincing -- I mean, they're already halfway to fully culpable in the official narrative of the attacks -- and it would offer a large, cheap payoff. On September 12th, "discover" that the Saudi royal family had signed off on the attacks. On September 13th, demand that the Saudis hand over 51% of Saudi Aramco by September 14th, or we'll bomb Riyadh and seize the oil fields on September 15th. It's not like the Saudi armed forces could stand up to the US...)