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mom cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 08:03 PM
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Heightened Security Alert Had Just Been Lifted (at WTC before 9-11_
Heightened Security Alert Had Just Been Lifted

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By Curtis L. Taylor and Sean Gardiner
STAThis and a host of other 9-11 postings on http//.whatreallyhappened.com

September 12, 2001

The World Trade Center was destroyed just days after a heightened security alert was lifted at the landmark 110-story towers, security personnel said yesterday.

Daria Coard, 37, a guard at Tower One, said the security detail had been working 12-hour shifts for the past two weeks because of numerous phone threats. But on Thursday, bomb-sniffing dogs were abruptly removed.

"Today was the first day there was not the extra security," Coard said. "We were protecting below. We had the ground covered. We didn't figure they would do it with planes. There is no way anyone could have stopped that."

Security guard Hermina Jones said officials had recently taken steps to secure the towers against aerial attacks by installing bulletproof windows and fireproof doors in the 22nd-floor computer command center.

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/wtc/ny-nyaler122362178sep12,0,7280472,print.story

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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 08:27 PM
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1. Thursday: Bomb sniffing dogs removed?
Sept. 8th a moving van with security clearance pulls into the basement of each of the Towers. Moving crews hastily begin moving the load from the van to floors well up in the Towers. Without bomb sniffing dogs around, the job proceeds without a hitch.

Little did anyone know that the in the crates moved that day were packages of C4 explosives with remote control activation switches.

Welcome to the Twilight Zone.
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mom cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 09:41 PM
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3. What is the link on this? I am collecting a file... like everyone else
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 10:38 PM
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7. Unfortunately
All records were destroyed when the Towers blew down.

I suggest you check out the DU forum of 9/11. Good luck with that file.
Befree
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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 08:37 PM
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2. Do not forget...
it was a Kuwaiti security company in charge of security for the WTC also. I would prefer to think we use American security for such things.
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mom cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 09:42 PM
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4. Shit! Do you have the link on that? Thanks.
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 10:08 PM
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5. Not only was it Kuwaiti, but Marvin Bush was a board member.
Edited on Sun Jun-27-04 10:09 PM by Minstrel Boy
Bush-Linked Company Handled Security for the WTC, Dulles and United

George W. Bush's brother was on the board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines, according to public records. The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family.

...

Marvin Bush joined Securacom when it was capitalized by the Kuwait-American Corporation, a private investment firm in D.C. that was the security company's major investor, sometimes holding a controlling interest. Marvin Bush has not responded to telephone calls and e-mails for comment.

KuwAm has been linked to the Bush family financially since the Gulf War. One of its principals and a member of the Kuwaiti royal family, Mishal Yousef Saud al Sabah, served on the board of Stratesec.

The managing director at KuwAm, Wirt D. Walker III, was also a principal at Stratesec, and Walker, Marvin Bush and al Sabah are listed in SEC filings as significant shareholders in both companies during that period.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0204-06.htm
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mom cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 10:25 PM
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6. Holy Shit! Thanks for the info. The shit is up to my neck!
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