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Larry Silverstein — he and partner Frank Lowy obtained 99-year lease on WTC shortly before 9-11; made several billion dollars on 9-11 insurance fraud
He tried to purchase LESS insurance on the complex. His bankers forced him to purchase what he had.
Wirt Walker — cousin of George Bush; principal at Securacom, US-Kuwaiti joint-venture that managed security for WTC, United Airlines, and Dulles Airport, all of which figured into 9-11
Wirt, not related to the Bush family. Securacom, didnt manage security at any of the places you listed. They install security systems.
According to two articles in the Progressive Populist written by Margie Burns, from 1993 to 2000, Bush served on the board of Securacom (since renamed Stratesec). The chairman of the board of Stratesec is Wirt D. Walker III, a cousin of Marvin and George W. Bush. Securacom had contracts to provide security for Dulles International Airport (the airport from which American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon, originated) and the World Trade Center in New York. Securacom's backers include a number of Kuwaitis through a company called KuwAm Corp (Kuwaiti-American Corp.). Stratesec also has Saudi investors. Walker also serves as a managing director of KuwAm, which maintains offices within the Watergate complex along with Riggs Bank, on whose board Bush's uncle, Jonathan Bush, sits. Saudi Princess Haifa al Faisal, the wife of Saudi Ambassador to the US Prince Bandar, used a Riggs account to funnel money to Omar al Bayoumi and Osama Basnan, two Saudi students in California associated with two of the 911 hijackers.
A Houston businessman who worked closely with the Bush family over the years confided that Marvin Bush and Wirt Walker appear to have taken over the Saudi real estate investment and aircraft brokerage business once run out of Texas by Houston-based James Bath in association with Salem bin Laden, the late brother of Osama bin Laden, and Khalid bin Mahfouz. The source, who has dealt personally with the Bush family in Houston for a number of years, said there should be skepticism when looking at bizarre deaths like that of Champagne. The source speculated that Champagne might have happened upon some sensitive information the Bush family wanted kept secret.
Originally posted by Sliadon
reply to post by Joey Canoli
With all due respect I think you are taking the OP's comment out of context. I may be wrong here, but I believe the OP is referring to all of the reconnaissance work done by both the United States and other nations in general, and more specifically among the United States and the Soviet Union and tensions began to rise with these emerging super powers in terms of disagreements with power and political agenda.
-Sliadon
Originally posted by Sliadon
reply to post by Joey Canoli
With all due respect I think you are taking the OP's comment out of context. I may be wrong here, but I believe the OP is referring to all of the reconnaissance work done by both the United States and other nations in general, and more specifically among the United States and the Soviet Union and tensions began to rise with these emerging super powers in terms of disagreements with power and political agenda.
-Sliadon
edit to add: We have have people inside countries today that are our "allies," just because we weren't in Cold War yet with Russia doesn't mean that both sides didn't have people that were able to obtain top secret information.
[edit on 7/15/2009 by Sliadon]
There is a sharp increase in the short selling of American and United Airlines stocks on the New York Stock Exchange prior to 9/11. A short sell is a bet that a particular stock will drop. Short selling increases 40 percent over the previous month for these two airlines, compared to an 11 percent increase for other big airlines and one percent for the exchange overall. United’s stock will drops 43 percent and American 39 percent the first day the market reopens after the attack. [Reuters, 9/20/2001; San Francisco Chronicle, 9/22/2001] There is also a short spike in the short interest in Dutch airline KLM three to seven days before 9/11, reaching historically unprecedented levels. [USA Today, 9/26/2001]
Originally posted by tyranny22
I've always heard that possession is 9/10 of the law.
If that's true, we can't rely on hear-say evidence such as Silverstein's insurance policies or trader fraud on the stock market.
We need cold hard proof.
Which we got last April:
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
Click Vol. 2 > then click the 2nd link below > then click download. Fascinating findings.
[edit on 15-7-2009 by tyranny22]
Originally posted by OnTheFelt
Hey Joey, what do you think we got those scientists for, so that they could make paper mache. Give me a break.
In regards to the other airlines, here is an interesting quote.
Originally posted by Joey Canoli
Originally posted by OnTheFelt
Hey Joey, what do you think we got those scientists for, so that they could make paper mache. Give me a break.
In regards to the other airlines, here is an interesting quote.
They were for the most part jet and rocket scientists. So what's the relevance about keeping secrets again?
You DO know that these were investigated, and cleared, right? And that there were in fact larger put options executed in previous months? No? That wouldn't surprise me much.
A single U.S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda purchased 95 percent of the UAL puts on September 6 as part of a trading strategy that also included buying 115,000 shares of American on September 10.
Originally posted by OnTheFelt
My point to you was that during this era, there was quite a bit of information sharing between the USA and the USSR. This was to refute your ridiculous claim that the Manhattan Project was not a secret, since Stallin knew about it.
Originally posted by Ramsesthedamned
Enough of this drivel. 15 minutes online and you can find every hairbrained theory of 'an inside job' dismantled and BURIED.
Its pathetic that people cannot accept the truth out of FEAR. Because you would rather it be the evil you know (Bush, the Government) because its easier to accept than the evil you don't know (Taliban and organization you cannot relate to on any level.)
The mind of the conspiracy theorist is a sad one. Its lonely, dejected, paranoid and in many cases dangerous.
9/11 conspiracy theorists are the worst because they will listen to all the screwball theories, yet pay no credence to how systematically they have been debunked.
Denying ignorance is NOT the strong suit of a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Rather they THRIVE in ignorance.
I would say 'shame on you' but its your own time and energy you are wasting in the pursuit of bull#. And all out of fear.
How utterly pathetic.
Originally posted by Ramsesthedamned
Enough of this drivel. 15 minutes online and you can find every hairbrained theory of 'an inside job' dismantled and BURIED.
Its pathetic that people cannot accept the truth out of FEAR. Because you would rather it be the evil you know (Bush, the Government) because its easier to accept than the evil you don't know (Taliban and organization you cannot relate to on any level.)
The mind of the conspiracy theorist is a sad one. Its lonely, dejected, paranoid and in many cases dangerous.
9/11 conspiracy theorists are the worst because they will listen to all the screwball theories, yet pay no credence to how systematically they have been debunked.
Denying ignorance is NOT the strong suit of a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Rather they THRIVE in ignorance.
I would say 'shame on you' but its your own time and energy you are wasting in the pursuit of bull#. And all out of fear.
How utterly pathetic.