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Securacom had a small board of directors that included James Abrahamson, of the White House Commission on Aviation Security as mentioned above, Marvin Bush, the brother of George W. Bush, and Wirt Walker III, a cousin of the Bush brothers. Other directors included Charles Archer (since 1998), former Assistant Director in charge of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division, who had been recently been promoted by FBI Director Louis Freeh. Another Securacom director was Yousef Saud Al Sabah, a member of the Kuwaiti royal family. [102]
there has been several evacuation exercises in the days (weeks?) before the attack.
But in the twenty minutes between the first and second plane crashes, Morgan Stanley had implemented an evacuation plan put into place after the 1993 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. "It turned out we had most of our people off the high floors before the second plane hit," Scott said.
Meanwhile, employees in charge of operations, having been drilled in what to do in the event of disaster, walked twenty-two blocks to Morgan Stanley's backup site and turned on the computers. "By 9:20 A.M., the backup site was activated," said Scott. "By 9:30 A.M., senior management had relocated to another backup site that became our command facility."
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Preparedness counts, said Scott, in ticking off the lessons he has learned from the disaster. "We had 2,500 people in Tower 2, but lost only six people because of the evacuation plan we had put in place." Drills are economically and psychologically important, he said, adding that employees often ask these days about when the next drill will take place.
Originally posted by kro32
Why would the government go through all this trouble and complexity just for an excuse to invade Iraq or pass the Patriot Act when a simple plan would have acheived the exact same results with a far less risk of something going wrong?
A single Al-Quieda man setting off a dirty bomb or something along those lines would have given America all the reason they needed.
If the government asked you to create something that would mobilize the American people is 9/11 what you would come up with? There are 1000 different things that have to go perfectly right for this to be pulled off. The amount of people with knowledge is far too large for comfort.
Look at the history of government cover-ups and how successful they were.
Gulf of Tonkin, Johnson couldn't even keep one little bombing incident secret and it was leaked through the pentagon papers.
Bay of Pigs. A disaster by Kennedy that didn't involve nearly the complexity of a 9/11 operation, totally blown
Watergate, Nixon couldn't even hide 2 people stealing files yet our government is gonna pull off something involving 4 jetliners and 100's of people?
Get serious and look at the big picture. A lot of people get hung up on details and do not see the forest through the trees.
Originally posted by OccamAssassin
9/11 theories are grabbing at straws again.
Just say that they did use explosives and blew the building to bits...
1. What the hell were the planes for then?
2. Why would anyone set the explosives to blow from the top down?
Originally posted by micmerci
reply to post by Observer99
Was the Pentagon and the plane crash in PA a demolition job too? You cannot separate the events of that day. They were a single attack on several fronts. The Sears tower was supposed to be hit that day as well. Why no explosives planted in there?
Originally posted by thedman
reply to post by micmerci
One of my friends is an elevator installer - currently is going to work on the new Freedom Tower
Its a small work and these people all kniow each other from working together or be reputation
Strangers walking in to "fix the elevators" would be recognized and challenged
Originally posted by hooper
reply to post by bing0
probably not an expert rapport to you?
Whats a rapport?
Besides, not on topic. The topic, I believe, was whether it is reasonable to assume that you can sneak around in a building and plant massive amounts of explosives without a chance of being found out.
I propose that it is not. Not impossible, but so highly unlikely that the idea of someone taking a chance does not hold water.
Originally posted by micmerci
Maybe some people do not know what WTC stands for- WORLD trade center. There were companies from almost everywhere in the world in that complex- Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Korea, Japan, South Africa, etc. See my point? The place was a place of global business. When the attacks occurred it was inevitable that a country would be represented that did business there.
The so called Bush security company was put in place after the 1993 attack to provide electronic security devices. They certainly were not running the whole security show of the complex. They were in fact commended for the improvement they provided after the 1993 attack.
But a group of cave dwellers, financed by a US asset, spent years inside the US taking flight classes, all while being followed by the FBI as well as other countries investigative groups, hijack 4 planes successfully, and crash 3 of them into their designated targets, all while at the helms of planes, they do things and hit speeds that a lot of professional pilots claim is impossible or 'not likely', all while the end result brought down 4 buildings.
SOOOO....what seems more improbable as to what did and didn't happen?
Originally posted by micmerci
I was an elevator mechanic in NYC for years. I can say without any doubt that the elevators were not the means of access for explosives. This would mean that Otis Elevator Co. was involved in the plot and that the resident elevator mechanics were involved as well. The WTC complex had a dozen or so full time mechanics onsite. Those guys were there everyday for years. They developed relationships within the buildings after seeing the same people day in and day out for years. There is no way any of these guys were involved in any inside plot.
At the time the elevator mechanics left, dozens of people were trapped in stuck elevators. Other people lost their lives trying to rescue those trapped in elevators, including a mechanic from another company who rushed to the Trade Center from down the street.
The departure of elevator mechanics from a disaster site is unusual. The industry takes pride in rescues. In the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, elevator mechanics worked closely with the firefighters making rescues.
"Nobody knows the insides of a high-rise like an elevator mechanic. They act as guides for firefighters, in addition to working on elevators," says Robert Caporale, editor of Elevator World, a trade magazine.
Originally posted by hooper
reply to post by DIDtm
But a group of cave dwellers, financed by a US asset, spent years inside the US taking flight classes, all while being followed by the FBI as well as other countries investigative groups, hijack 4 planes successfully, and crash 3 of them into their designated targets, all while at the helms of planes, they do things and hit speeds that a lot of professional pilots claim is impossible or 'not likely', all while the end result brought down 4 buildings.
SOOOO....what seems more improbable as to what did and didn't happen?
Really? Still playing that tired old "cavedwellers" card and the "Osama was CIA" stuff? No one is buying it. And particularly not the "professional pilots" crap.
Originally posted by J.Son79
reply to post by kro32
Why didn't Al Queda just send a single man or two with a dirty bomb to a football stadium and blowup a crowd of 30,000+? Why did Al Queda do what they did? Why go through the trouble to hijack airplanes and run them into the towers? Then the Pentagon? When far more damage could have been done at a stadium? Wouldn't that have killed 1000's more? I mean if that's really what the terrorists were really there to do right? Why not do it right?
But wether the building came down through explosives or not is irrelevant. What is important who intitiated it, who funded it, who made it happen?
Originally posted by hooper
reply to post by DIDtm
But a group of cave dwellers, financed by a US asset, spent years inside the US taking flight classes, all while being followed by the FBI as well as other countries investigative groups, hijack 4 planes successfully, and crash 3 of them into their designated targets, all while at the helms of planes, they do things and hit speeds that a lot of professional pilots claim is impossible or 'not likely', all while the end result brought down 4 buildings.
SOOOO....what seems more improbable as to what did and didn't happen?
Really? Still playing that tired old "cavedwellers" card and the "Osama was CIA" stuff? No one is buying it. And particularly not the "professional pilots" crap.
I think its highly likely that airplanes can be hijacked and crashed, compared to US government super secret ninja agents sneaking into the World Trade Center and planting explosives. But that's just me (and everyone else) and we are burdened with being stuck in reality.
Originally posted by hooper
reply to post by DIDtm
But a group of cave dwellers, financed by a US asset, spent years inside the US taking flight classes, all while being followed by the FBI as well as other countries investigative groups, hijack 4 planes successfully, and crash 3 of them into their designated targets, all while at the helms of planes, they do things and hit speeds that a lot of professional pilots claim is impossible or 'not likely', all while the end result brought down 4 buildings.
SOOOO....what seems more improbable as to what did and didn't happen?
Really? Still playing that tired old "cavedwellers" card and the "Osama was CIA" stuff? No one is buying it. And particularly not the "professional pilots" crap.
I think its highly likely that airplanes can be hijacked and crashed, compared to US government super secret ninja agents sneaking into the World Trade Center and planting explosives. But that's just me (and everyone else) and we are burdened with being stuck in reality.
Originally posted by nh_ee
The head of the NY Port Authority who awarded the Lease of the WTC to Silverstein even though he'd been outbidded by another Real Estate firm. Gave it to Silverstein... only months prior to 9/11.
Silverstein himself who made weekly phone calls to none other than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
And as to how the explosives were brought into WTC.
1.) ZIM, an Israeli company, vacated its office(10,000 square feet) in the North WTC tower a week before 9/11, breaking its lease. 49% of this company is owned by the Israeli government. The lease ran till the end of 2001, and the company lost $50,000 by breaking the lease. Later, FBI agent Michael Dick, who was investigating Israeli spying before and after 9/11 and looking into the suspicious move, was removed from his duties by the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, Michael Chertoff.
According to a non-official cover or N.O.C. CIA source who worked closely with Dick, the Israeli movers moved in explosives when ZIM moved out.
2.) Security for WTC was controlled by another Israeli tied company. Kroll associates, also known as the CIA of Wallstreet.
In looking at the Zionists as akin to a bunch of mobsters....and Larry Silverstein alone netting 4.5 Billion.....not to mention the Bullion stolen from the underground vaults, there's plenty of Booty to spread around amongst the players involved.