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3. A "Remember the Maine" incident could be arranged in several forms: a. We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba. b. We could blow up a drone (unmanned) vessel anywhere in the Cuban waters. We could arrange to cause such incident in the vicinity of Havana or Santiago as a spectacular result of Cuban attack from the air or sea, or both. The presence of Cuban planes or ships merely investigating the intent of the vessel could be fairly compelling evidence that the ship was taken under attack. The nearness to Havana or Santiago would add credibility especially to those people that might have heard the blast or have seen the fire. The US could follow up with an air/sea rescue operation covered by US fighters to "evacuate" remaining members of the non-existent crew. Casualty lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation.
An alternative interpretation of Silverstein's statement is that "pull it" refers to withdrawing firefighters from the building. However, according to FEMA's report there were no manual firefighting operations in Building 7, so there would not have been any firefighters to "pull" -- at least not from inside the building.
Web research supports the theory that Silverstein's remark was part of a calculated distraction. The pull-it remark is copied by hundreds of websites, many citing the remark from the Ground Zero worker about Building 6 as proof that to 'pull' means to demolish. However, searching sites specific to the demolition trade does not support this meaning of 'pull'. The following Google searches of the two best known controlled demolition sites in October of 2003 did not return any results indicating that pulling and demolition are synonymous.
Originally posted by ThroatYogurt
reply to post by ULTIMA1
Ultima.
When was the steel removed from Ground Zero?
What was the date NIST took over the investigation?
Please answer those two questions.
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
reply to post by Beefcake
Shall we go through all the videos taken that day that have firefighters saying all afternoon that WTC7 was so badly damaged that they were sure it was going to fall too??
EVERYONE was sure it was going to come down at some point. Thats why they had the evacuation zone around it.
Or maybe we should go through all the information from demolition specialists and the terminology they use?
Or would you rather stick with your conspiracy websites instead of maybe looking for the facts??
Originally posted by SRTkid86
pull it in this situation couldn't possibly mean EVACTUATE THE AREA could it???
Web research supports the theory that Silverstein's remark was part of a calculated distraction. The pull-it remark is copied by hundreds of websites, many citing the remark from the Ground Zero worker about Building 6 as proof that to 'pull' means to demolish. However, searching sites specific to the demolition trade does not support this meaning of 'pull'. The following Google searches of the two best known controlled demolition sites in October of 2003 did not return any results indicating that pulling and demolition are synonymous.
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
Originally posted by SRTkid86
pull it in this situation couldn't possibly mean EVACTUATE THE AREA could it???
I am afraid PULL IT did mean the building since we have the statements from the fire chiefs that the firemen were evacuated before the call was made to Silverstein.
The only reason for the fire commander to call Silverstein was to tell him they could not save the building.
The fire commander and incident command decided to PULL the building.
[edit on 23-8-2008 by ULTIMA1]
Originally posted by SRTkid86
im afraid you have provided no proof of your statements, and you are just parroting the same crap that i just tore apart in last couple of posts. whether you read what i say and actually reply to it or not, doesn't make it an less valid.