Larry Silverstein and his Tower

[realFedUp]

Has this guy been investigated yet for bringing down
Building 7 by controlled demolition when it wasn't hit
by a plane? Asbestos? Someone should be writing a book at the
very least if not a whole investigative piece.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/opinion/30thu1.html

June 30, 2005
A Better Tower

So much for the good news. The bad news is that the original design was in a state of deconstruction even before the Police Department voiced its security worries. Many of the features that would have made that building environmentally and architecturally distinctive had been stripped away at the insistence of Larry Silverstein, the developer who held the lease on the World Trade Center and who has received several billion dollars in insurance proceeds following its destruction.

Plans are all well and good. But the basic question raised by this new design is the same one raised earlier. What will Mr. Silverstein actually build?

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But this was at least a public reckoning of sorts, an opportunity to see, for a moment, inside the working relationship between Mr. Childs and his client, Mr. Silverstein. Ordinarily, the private evolution of building plans between a developer and his architect would be nothing unusual. But this is not ordinary. Mr. Silverstein holds the insurance money he won in court in trust for the public. He is building on public ground, with public oversight from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. While there is no question that even this new design for the Freedom Tower will evolve over time, this project can never be seen as a normal private business deal.

Every question about the commercial redevelopment of ground zero comes back to a question about the instincts of one man, Larry Silverstein. He has claimed that he has the city's interests at heart - he eagerly acknowledges the moral obligation that 9/11 placed upon him. But his own pocketbook speaks every bit as loudly. Every politician, including the governor, dances around him. His cost cutting is as much the architect of the tower that will eventually be built as Mr. Childs is. The new design for the Freedom Tower is impressive. What matters, though, is not what we make of it, but what Mr. Silverstein will.

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[spooked911]

1. Gag me.

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[dbeach]

2. Marve Bush had WTC,Dulles insurance contracts til 2000

How lucky to sell your stock before 9/11!! Exactly what that lucky marve did..

Main Media still yawning....red tablet and back to sleep..


http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0204-06.htm
Bush-Linked Company Handled Security for the WTC, Dulles and United
by Margie Burns

"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.

The security company, formerly named Securacom and now named Stratesec, is in Sterling, Va.. Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the company had a ``completion contract" to handle some of the security at the World Trade Center ``up to the day the buildings fell down."

It also had a three-year contract to maintain electronic security systems at Dulles Airport, according to a Dulles contracting official. Securacom/Stratesec also handled some security for United Airlines in the 1990s, according to McDaniel, but it had been completed before his arriving on the board in 1998.


The suite in which Marvin Bush was annually re-elected, according to public records, is located in the Watergate in space leased to the Saudi government. The company now holds shareholder meetings in space leased by the Kuwaiti government there. The White House has not responded to various requests for comment"

[spooked911]

3. just an amazing coincidence, I'm sure!

[spooked]

4. Check out this DU thread for more on Silverstein, the Towers & Asbestos

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=125&topic_id=29373


Larry Silverstein & his Twin Towers

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[dbeach]

6. insurance scam is one ot the pile on reasons for 9/11

but it also could have been the one of the original reasons

the buildings were unsafe?? ...
silvie is a pile on...he knew a big scam was coming..knew about the stock fraud records and legal cases stored in WTC..which were completely destroyed according to Karl B. Schwarz

the combining and interlacing of different layers of criminals is evidence that the tip of the pyramid planned and knew or guessed the rewards including the police stete of privlege which long has been their goal

THERE ARE NO ARAB/ISLAM TERRISTS

only cia criminals and their assets..

WE need to out smart these criminals who still seem unbeatable at this moment..

TREASON is of 3 branchs of govt and is not exactly an easy task to prove.

Give me a guess :How many honest govt oficials and military personnel at highest levels are still in govt???

bet its less than 20 %

[Dancing_Dave]

5. The NYT COULD have done an independ. investigation of what REALLY happened

to WTC buildings 7, 1 and 2 on 9/11/2001, but they didn't. So they got the history of the greatest disaster in the history of their own home town all wrong. So now they make these pathetic little gestures...

[dbeach]

7. D.D.

why is the once respectable NY Times so silent???

long have I thougt its all been a rip_off by the elites..

money and power are reaching for all the stars

[pox americana]

10. The NY Times has a huge conflict of interest.

They're in the middle of building a 52-story midtown office tower (1.54 million square feet) between 41st and 40th at Eighth Avenue.

Having a rebuilt World Trade Center suck all the oxygen out of the commercial real estate market would not help them rent their building.

[spooked]

8. IT'S SO OBVIOUS!

http://www.911closeup.com/

"Why would they want to demolish the WTC? It had been losing money for
years. It's the most valuable piece of real estate in the world, but
the buildings themselves were a disaster. Under- tenanted, beset by
asbestos problems, the owner, the NY Port Authority, had received
warnings that it was sittting on a legal and financial timebomb. And
of course, they couldn't be demolished because of all the asbestos
dust that would go into the air of NY.

The NYPA had been trying to sell the buildings for years, and
understandably, nobody was interested. In early 2001, the NYPA went
to court in a test case, and tried to get its insurance company to
pay for asbestos renovations. The case was thrown out. This should
have made the buildings even more unsaleable. However, immediately
after this, Manhattan property developer Larry Silverstein, who sits
on the board of Westfield America, stepped in with a consortium worth
$US3.2 billion for a 99-year lease on the site.

Westfield Australia directly contributed $A840 million for control of
the shopping plaza. Silverstein insured himself for $US3.5 billion
per terrorist attack, and Westfield fully insured itself against
terrorism and loss of rental income. Immediately upon signing the
deal, Westfield announced that it would double the rents, causing
much scratching of heads in financial circles, since the buildings
were already so under-tenanted.

Silverstein, and Peter Lowy from Westfield were handed the keys in a
take-over ceremony on Sept 10, and the very next day, the troublesome
things conveniently disappeared in a terrorist attack - along with
building 7 of the complex - solving the asbestos problem, leaving
Silverstein with a clean building site on the best real estate in the
world, and Westfield with a rental income which would have been
unsustainable in a real trading environment, and no law suits over
all the asbestos dust released into the air of Manhattan.
Silverstein's insurer has agreed to the $3.5 billion pay out, but
Silverstein is claiming that it was two terrorist attacks and wants
$7 billion, which is currently the subject of a court case."

[dbeach]

9. Silverstein pal Zacheim had remote control plane technology

Zacheim is another chikenhhawk neo-con..



http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Number=293499967
"It’s a matter of record. Flight 175 (the second plane to strike the WTC) came barreling out of the north, flew south far past Manhattan before circling back towards the city, a peculiar deviation that took the plane a good fifteen minutes or so out of its way. This odd, time wasting and risky maneuver has never been explained. Certainly the “hijackers” wouldn’t have thought it was a good idea. Wouldn’t they want to secure the objective ASAP before the fighter jets showed up? It just doesn’t compute. But there’s one man who might’ve done very well by this short trip south if only his fortunes had unfolded according to plan in the courtroom. And all Silverstein had to do was give Dov Zakheim a call.

With close ties to the Israeli government and reported duel Israeli/American citizenship, Bush’s Texas buddy and undersecretary of state, Dov Zakheim, boasts a long list of impressive credentials. Ex-DoD CFO (chief financial officer), Zakheim joined the Pentagon staff in May, 2001, shortly before the attacks and at a time when the Pentagon couldn’t account for $3 trillion in spending. A longtime DoD consultant and neo-con insider, he’s also a senior figure at the Heritage Foundation, the Center for International and Strategic Studies and the Center for Security Policy — not to mention the Council on Foreign Relations and the PNAC. But before his Pentagon gig, he was also VP of Systems Planning Corporation and CEO of one of its subsidiaries. SPC is a high-tech outfit that specializes in, among other things, the remote control commandeering of aircraft and the technical support required for live flight military exercises.

This bizarre but entirely viable theory, that some or all of the “hijacked” passenger jets on 9/11 had been remotely commandeered and guided to their targets, has been (despite its Buck Rogers kind of aspect) a key speculation among the very best 9/11 researchers. This technology has been with us for decades and Zakheim’s SPC specializes in it. SPC’s Flight Termination System is a fully programmable tool to retrieve aircraft remotely. But this technology is also a key element in the kind of live flight war games the military was conveniently conducting on 9/11. These cold war drills in Northern Canada and Alaska drew interceptors away fron the Northeast US and, using false radar blips, effectively paralyzed defenders who might otherwise have reached their targets. But it also eliminated the need for a peculiar and very risky general “stand down” order from Pentagon brass during the attacks, a command that would create disbelief and suspicion among hundreds of patriotic military people. "