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Source: Reinsurance Companies Wait to Sort Out Cost of Damage, New York Times, 9/12/01, page C6
The company heading a consortium that had just obtained a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center was supposedly spared by a last-minute cancellation. According to the New York Times, Silverstein Properties had planned to meet on 9/11/01 on the 88th floor of one of the towers to "discuss what to do in the event of a terrorist attack," but cancelled the meeting Monday night "because one participant could not attend."
Originally posted by airspoon
According to a reporter by the name of Christopher Bollyn, a company named "Zim American Israeli Shipping Co." broke a lease in order to vacate the World Trade Center just days before the attack. Bollyn's source claims that Zim's lease extended through the end of the year and that the termination cost was aprox. $50,000.
Also, this little tidbit from the New York Times, published on 9/12/2001:
Source: Reinsurance Companies Wait to Sort Out Cost of Damage, New York Times, 9/12/01, page C6
The company heading a consortium that had just obtained a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center was supposedly spared by a last-minute cancellation. According to the New York Times, Silverstein Properties had planned to meet on 9/11/01 on the 88th floor of one of the towers to "discuss what to do in the event of a terrorist attack," but cancelled the meeting Monday night "because one participant could not attend."
Then, apparently several business leaders who should have otherwise been inside the towers on the morning of September 11, 2001, were instead attending a meeting at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, according to The San Francisco Business Times (cached). Anne Tatlock, CEO of Fiduciary Trust Inc., a company which occupied five floors around the 90th, was among them, according to the same source.
According to SFGate.com (cached), San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown admitted to them that he received an early warning just hours before the attack, not to fly that day, by what he described as his airport security.
Also, according to at least one www.ananova.com..." target="_blank" class="postlink">news source (cached), George W. Bush's cousin, Jim Pierce, was scheduled to attend a conference on the 105th floor of the South Tower on September 11, 2001, where his company was based, but because the group was too large (according to them), the conference was moved across the street to the Millennium Hotel.
Originally posted by Cassius666
reply to post by vipertech0596
And quite a few jews died in the attacks. The question referred to Israelis, out of which we have seen Israelis companies vacating their offices in the towers, taking the heavy fines and even employees of Israeli companies being warned the day of the attack, who subsequently left the building.