Why the World Trade Center?

[Kire]

I mean the Pentagon as a symbol of the American war machine, sure, but why the World Trade Center? Is it just because it was two skyscrapers right next to each other and it's a bigger spectacle? Or is there some kind of World Trade Organization operation going on in the building? Is it just a symbol, or was there actually some kind of critical governmental process disrupted? I'm the first one to admit my ignorance, which is why I'm asking the question, but what was in those buildings besides commercial businesses?

Thank you for your time.

[hack89]

1. They were the greatest buildings in America's greatest city .

I think they were picked as symbolic of America's business community. Assuming that flight 93 was heading for either the Capital or the White House, the terrorists would have hit the centers of America's military, political and business worlds.

There were no critical government functions - it was pure symbolism.

[Kire]

2. I see

Thanks for answering that one.

[mirandapriestly]

6. They were disliked intensely

They were a symbol of nothing. They were a big mistake and difficult to keep full most of the time. The "symbol" of the greatness of America propaganda didn't start up til after 9-11. Their anchor tenants were questionable corporations under investigation for fraud. (see Who Killed John O'Neill thread)

[BuddyYoung]

3. I believe the correct phrase is: "Shock and Awe" propaganda value.

911 was an inside job and a Hollywoodish spectacle was a big part of the whole shebang. Besides, the perps probably saw that movie on TV in which the WTC buildings were featured...spectacularly.

I'm not 100% certain, but I doubt Osama could have gotten the TV signal inside his headquarters there in Cave # __, because Cable TV is unreliable in Osamastan. Then again, who knows, maybe he has satellite TV.

[Make7]

4. Was that movie on TV before...

... or after the February 26, 1993 bombing?

- Make7

[sabbat hunter]

9. he wasnt in a cave on

911. he only went into hiding afterwards. but prior to that he was out and about the afgan countryside working with the taliban government.

[BuddyYoung]

11. Correct. Osama was in a military hospital in Pakistan on 9/11.

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[dailykoff]

5. They were holding down the commercial real estate market

for one thing. Notice how midtown is awash in new highrises that popped up right after downtown was firebombed, and notice who owns the biggest two -- Bloomberg and Time Warner. Hearst and the NYT also have towers coming up.

[sabbat hunter]

10. all of those buildings

were planned prior to 911.

[dailykoff]

14. Yes,

and so was 9/11.

[DrDebug]

7. WTC was not a great success

Too big with too many vacant floors and too many other problems. It was an easy way to get rid off them and play dozens of other dirty games as well. Everybody profited from 9/11 including a lot of companies inside 9/11 and nobody wept for the victims.

WTC was a nice idea, but two towers was a bit too much. One tower would have been enough, because they weren't popular.

Oh yeah, and then those greedy corporations met the neocons who wanted to play a sick twisted game on the people as well, so the two evils met and conspired together.

If you were to make a cartoon, get a couple of hunderd people and have them knock the towers down and then see some of them feast in the loot from destroying the towers and others having some fun in Afghanistan and Iraq with an even bigger bloodfest.

And don't forget the hunderds of vultures from all over the world who made fortunes on inside trading. So they are pretty good at keeping those secrets among themselves even though they informed their buddies from all over the world to join in the fun.

The victims were the normal people, the uncorruptable people, the companies who weren't informed etc.

[Mnemosyne]

8. Weren't there Enron records kept there also DrDebug? n/t

[DrDebug]

12. Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing etc.

A lot of scandals were kept in WTC7. A lot of companies in WTC had massive scandals as well like American Bureau of Shipping who certified a ship which caused one of the largest oil spills in history and other little problems. A lot of information was destroyed in both the towers and WTC7.

Personally I find it incredible how many subgoals there were to 9/11. It seems like so many additional games were being played. It is almost like they knew in advance that 9/11 was going to happen and all tried to use it to their advantage.

[Mnemosyne]

13. Amazing isn't it? Almost as if they had

something to hide.