PBS Documentary: Larry Silverstein, FDNY Demolished (pulled) WTC Building 7

[dualsmp]

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In a stunning and belated development concerning the attacks of 9/11 Larry Silverstein, the controller of the destroyed WTC complex, stated plainly in a PBS documentary that he and the FDNY decided jointly to demolish the Solomon Bros. building, or WTC 7, late in the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.

This admission appeared in a PBS documentary originally aired in Sept. of 2002 entitled "America Rebuilds". Mr Silverstein's comments came after FEMA and the Society of Civil Engineers conducted an extensive and costly investigation into the curious collapse of WTC 7. The study specifically concluded that the building had collapsed as a result of the inferno within, sparked, apparently, by debris falling from the crumbling North Tower.

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.

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Watch WTC Building 7 Collapse
http://www.wtc7.net/docs/wtc7_collapse2.mpg

PBS Documentary (audio): Listen to Larry Silverstein
http://www.prisonplanet.com/pullit.mp3

PBS Documentary (video): Listen to Larry Silverstein
http://www.infowars.com/Video/911/wtc7.ram

"In the same program a cleanup worker referred to the demolition of WTC 6: "... we're getting ready to pull the building six." There can be little doubt as to how the word "pull" is being used in this context."

http://www.prisonplanet.com/pullit2.mp3

 

[MonstaThrilla]

So? What's the big deal if they did?

 

[dualsmp]

Originally posted by: MonstaThrilla
So? What's the big deal if they did?

The official story has been that WTC Building 7 collapsed by itself because of a fire. There has never been an omission that WTC Building 7 was demolished until now.

 

[SuperTool]

Originally posted by: dualsmp

Originally posted by: MonstaThrilla
So? What's the big deal if they did?

The official story has been that WTC Building 7 collapsed by itself because of a fire. There has never been an omission that WTC Building 7 was demolished until now.

I thought by pull they meant pull out the firefighters and let the building burn and collapse by itself. I might have missed something.

 

[arsbanned]

OMG. So they were able to move in the necessary equipment and engineer the demolition to occur absolutely perfectly despite the chaos. This is just...INCREDIBLE! Yeah. That's it. INCREDIBLE.

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: arsbanned
OMG. So they were able to move in the necessary equipment and engineer the demolition to occur absolutely perfectly despite the chaos. This is just...INCREDIBLE! Yeah. That's it. INCREDIBLE.

Not too incredible actually. All they did was tie a rope to a corner of the building and hooked it up to a firetruck, and PULLED. Pretty simply, heck they probably PULLED the two towers down too.

KK

 

[dualsmp]

Originally posted by: arsbanned
OMG. So they were able to move in the necessary equipment and engineer the demolition to occur absolutely perfectly despite the chaos. This is just...INCREDIBLE! Yeah. That's it. INCREDIBLE.

Exactly! Doesn't it take a bit longer than a few hours to engineer a controlled demolition of a 47 story building? More like a few days, if not weeks? Something doesn't add up.

 

[Dari]

Big freakin deal. It's 9/11 and other buildings are coming down. They decide to destroy this building and move on to more urgent business instead of wasting more urgent time to save something that may have had to come down eventually (and prevent it uncontrollable fall later on). WHere are all these conspiracy theorists coming from? Is there a big convention going on?

 

[rudder]

I am all for a controlled demolition versus letting the building fall where it may.

 

[tnitsuj]

I don't see why this is significant???? Could someone enlighten me?

 

[Gaard]

Only significant in terms of honesty.

Personally, I have serious doubts about this claim. If true, what's the reason for not saying so? It's not like people are going to care.

 

[Homerboy]

Look at the link in his sig: Text
Hes one of the brainwashed that beleive 9/11 was a conspiracy of this administration.

Nothing more than a troll post.

 

[rahvin]

Unless the burning building had no remaining structural integrity it would be impossible to hook a truck up and pull the building down. As has already been posted the pull statement likely referes to pulling out the firefighters and letting the fire have the building. In large fires this is typical procedure, pull back and contain the fire to the building it's consuming.

Personally I would trust the review of Professional Civil Engineers with their jobs, reputations and careers on the line.

 

[Czar]

not surprised, at that point in my opinion it was more important to save people instead of buildings

 

[lozina]

Originally posted by: tnitsuj
I don't see why this is significant???? Could someone enlighten me?

Well, in terms of significance I believe that lies in the fact that FEMA conficted an "extensive and costly investigation into the curious collapse of WTC 7. The study specifically concluded that the building had collapsed as a result of the inferno within, sparked, apparently, by debris falling from the crumbling North Tower. " despite the admission now that they pulled it down themselves.

 

[tnitsuj]

Originally posted by: lozina

Originally posted by: tnitsuj
I don't see why this is significant???? Could someone enlighten me?

Well, in terms of significance I believe that lies in the fact that FEMA conficted an "extensive and costly investigation into the curious collapse of WTC 7. The study specifically concluded that the building had collapsed as a result of the inferno within, sparked, apparently, by debris falling from the crumbling North Tower. " despite the admission now that they pulled it down themselves.

And that matters because? So someone from the Fire Department forgot to bring that up. It was a reasonable action, and a lot of stuff was going on at the time.

 

[rahvin]

Originally posted by: lozina

Originally posted by: tnitsuj
I don't see why this is significant???? Could someone enlighten me?

Well, in terms of significance I believe that lies in the fact that FEMA conficted an "extensive and costly investigation into the curious collapse of WTC 7. The study specifically concluded that the building had collapsed as a result of the inferno within, sparked, apparently, by debris falling from the crumbling North Tower. " despite the admission now that they pulled it down themselves.

There is no admission that they pulled it down. There is an admission that they pulled (firefighters from the building). If you think people could pull down a skyscaper with a fire truck I got a bridge in Broklyn to sell ya.

 

[dualsmp]

See a clip of the PBS Documentary:

Video in Windows Media Player format

 

[Moonbeam]

Al least we got the oil of Iraq as pay back.

 

[Moonbeam]

The important thing now is to stall the investigation into what bush knew and when he knew it till after May 17 so we can shut that investigation down.

 

[MaxDepth]

interesting. you ask people today about the two towers and they'll probabaly say something along the line of "my precccciiiiiiooooouuuussss." How quickly we put things out of our minds.