[lbo-talk] 'bogus' WTC Collapse story

Paul paul_ at igc.org
Tue Jun 14 18:52:14 PDT 2005



>Fromhttp://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050613-102755-6408r.htm
>UPI Hears...
>By John Daly UPI International Correspondent
>Washington, DC, Jun. 13 (UPI) -- Insider notes from United Press
>International for June 8
>Former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing
>serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11.
>Former chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George
>W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds comments that the official story
>about the collapse of the WTC is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a
>controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7.

The WTC is a topic that, for personal reasons, I try to avoid. But there is an easy tip off to this being from someone who has put NO effort into knowing something about 9/11 --- the reference to No. 7. Most people familiar with that day will acknowledge the role Rudi Guiliani played in No. 7's unnecessary collapse (although he is given a pass by most New Yorkers on this).

No 7 World Trade Center (a substantial skyscraper in its own right) was hit with debris from the twin towers and set ablaze. This fire was the cause of the thick black plume of smoke (diesel fuel) that many of you may have seen throughout that day. FDNY was unable to control the fire, for obvious reasons, and many many hours after the twin towers collapsed, the fire brought down No 7.

It is of course curious that a large diesel fire could take place in an office building, and set by falling debris -- building codes require fuel tanks to be stored underground, etc. As it happens that was the massive emergency tanks of Guiliani's pride a joy - a brand new multi-million Emergency Management center, nicknamed "the bunker". When Guiliani's first proposed "the bunker" liberals balked. More importantly Guiliani's's essential ally City Council President Peter Vallone balked at the location, since the WTC was a prime target. Guiliani called a press conference and called this key conservative Democrat "an idiot", thus largely ending their 7 year alliance. Halfway through the project it was discovered that the necessary emergency fuel tanks could not be installed in the basement (the building was also the NYC HQ of the Secret Service and, I believe the FBI and CIA, and these agencies had already installed emergency fuel tanks for their own emergency generators). So - over the objections of all safety experts and contrary to the NYC building code - Guiliani insisted on installing the massive fuel tanks on an upper floor.

This information was widely (albeit discreetly) reported, even in mainstream newspapers. Also unlike the twin towers, many rescue workers personally saw the cause of the fire and lived to file reports (there were largely no deaths in No. 7).

Paul



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