WTC lease owner: WTC 7 'pulled' (intentionally demolished) on 9/11

[Zhade]

Here's another piece of information that contradicts the Official Story - the man who signed a 99-year lease for the WTC plaza, six weeks before 9/11, stated in a PBS documentary that WTC 7 was intentionally demolished:

In the documentary Silverstein makes the following statement;

"I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, "We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it." And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."

This directly contradicts the official FEMA report that "fire" and "damage from debris from WTC 1 and 2" caused the building to collapse.

This is huge. Here's the relevant sound clip from the PBS documentary "America Rebuilds":

http://VestigialConscience.com/PullIt.mp3

This comes from http://www.prisonplanet.com/011704wtc7.html - yes, I realize Alex Jones is way out there for some people, but this clip is the real deal from the documentary that anyone can order.

Now, to those who buy the Official Story - how do you explain THIS one?

[cthrumatrix]

1. you woner why 911 investigation will be "ended" ...too much there

[Cannikin]

2. Wasnt some kind of

Emergency response center based in that building?

[teach1st]

3. I think DoD and CIA were in WTC7, too

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00711F63C5D0C778CDDA80994D9404482

[teach1st]

5. List of tenants

I don't know how accurate this site is:

http://www.wtc7.net/articles/FEMA/WTC_ch5.htm

The 47-story office building had 1,868,000 square feet of office space. The top 40 stories of the building (floors 8 to 47) were office type occupancies. Table 5.1 lists the larger tenants of WTC 7. WTC 7 was completed in 1987 by a development team composed of the following parties:
Owner/Developer: Seven World Trade Company, Silverstein Development Corporation, General Partner
Construction Manager: Tishman Construction Corporation of New York
Design Architect: Emery Roth & Sons, P.C.
Structural Consultant: The Office of Irwin G. Cantor, P.C.
Mechanical/Electrical Consultant: Syska & Hennessy, P.C.
Structural Consultant (Con Ed Substation): Leslie E. Robertson Associates

Table 5.1 WTC 7 Tenants

Floor Tenant
46-47 Mechanical floors
28-45 Salomon Smith Barney (SSB)
26-27 Standard Chartered Bank
25 Inland Revenue Service (IRS)
25 Department of Defense (DOD)
25 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
24 Inland Revenue Service (IRS)
23 Office of Emergency Management (OEM)
22 Federal Home Loan Bank of New York
21 First State Management Group
19-21 ITT Hartford Insurance Group
19 National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)
18 Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
14-17 Vacant
13 Provident Financial Management
11-13 Securities and Exchange Commission
9-10 US Secret Service
7-8 American Express Bank International
7 OEM generators and day tank
6 Switchgear, storage
5 Switchgear, generators, transformers
4 Upper level of 3rd floor, switchgear
3 Lobby, SSB Conference Center, rentable space, manage
2 Open to first floor lobby, transformer vault upper level, upper level switchgear
1 Lobby, loading docks, existing Con Ed transformer vaults, fuel storage, lower level switchgear

[Old and In the Way]

7. I think there were a couple of interesting things located in WTC7

(1) I think it was the NYC emergency headquarters...maybe FEMA too.
(2) I believe the Federal Prosecutors in charge of prosecuting white collar crime had their offices there as well. Wonder how this set back investigations?

IIRC, there was a 7000 gallon reservoir of diesel fuel to run emergency generators in the building. The location of WTC7, while close to WTC 1 and 2, was physically seperated by some other buildings and the destruction of this building was very odd indeed.

[Zhade]

4. I don't understand how anyone can still accept the Official Story.

There are more holes in that "explanation" than in Chimpy McTraitor's military record!

[theboss]

6. There is already a thread on this

The building was not intentionally demolished. The fire department simply stopped trying to save the building. "Pull it" means "pulling back."

Tell me, if the department was trying to "save lives" why would then send a demolitions team into a burning, unstable building.

[slaveplanet]

8. I listened today

The feed got pulled 3 different times...he had to drive to his alternate studio...great show ..tons of info when they finally got rolling

[KFC]

9. They couldn't contain the fire

Decided to pull their men, and the building collapsed due to the fire.

They decided it was too late to save the building.

[DoctorMyEyes]

10. whoa!!!

WTF does this mean?

on edit - nevermind..."pulled" has been explained.

[nostamj]

11. please.................

"pull" refers to pulling back any members of the FDNY.

how anyone can seriously even consider that WTC7 was brought down my any kind of controlled detonation is beyond me.

if if was rigged to detonate prior to the attacks, how did the charges survive damage from the North Tower collapse and 7+ hours of fire?

if you're suggesting that charges were placed after the attacks, in a building that had been burning for 7+ hours at Ground Zero, well, even if someone could do such a thing, who would attempt it? on that day?

this is an impossible stretch. and there are too many serious LIHOP/MIHOP questions that need to be answered.

convince Kristen Breitweiser that this is an important line of questioning.

[Warpy]

12. This is a little silly

I'm sure they decided to demolish the building. I'm also sure it takes about a week to drill the supports and place and wire the explosives.

That they decided to pull down an unsafe building just before it collapsed seems a little irrelevant. It just showed that the decision was correct.

I'm surprised the residents of lower Manhattan hadn't done the job themselves, years earlier. That ugly heap of steel and concrete was sitting right on top of what had been a major cross street. It effectively cut off the lower east side from the rest of the island.

I sincerely hope they don't rebuild that ugly sucker.

(edited for a truly witless typo)

[Snivi Yllom]

13. BS

Silverstein OWNED 7 WTC! He developed it and built it himself. He did not demolish it.

They meant pull the fire fighters.

[DS1]

14. ARGH!!! Not another identical thread!

That's it, I'm done.

[Moderator]

15. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1031007&mesg_id=1031007