World Trade Center: Ownership & Control

 

Control of World Trade Center  

Strange doings concerning Larry Silverstein and associates, the new leaseholders of the WTC.

 http://www.emporis.com/en/bu/sk/wt/cp/if/si/
Larry A. Silverstein is a real estate developer in New York City and was appointed a director of Westfield America in May 1997. Since 1979, Mr. Silverstein has been President of Silverstein Properties, Inc., a Manhattan-based real estate investment and development firm which owns interests in and operates over 10 million square feet of office space.
Larry Silverstein purchased a $3.2 billion, 99-year lease of the World Trade Center in July 2001, along with the above mentioned partner Westfield America for the shopping parts. Silverstein took control of the 10-million-square-foot trophy office complex just seven weeks before it was destroyed by terrorist attacks.
The veteran developer also owned the collapsed 7 World Trade Center, a 2-million-square-foot, 47-story office building adjacent to the complex erected by the bi-state agency Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. In the meanwhile the new 7 World Trade Center building is under construction.

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Just  weeks before 9-11, Larry Silverstein obtained a 99 year lease for $ 100 million down payment for the tax payer paid for and government built World Trade Center.     Silverstein raised insurance on the WTC from $ 1 billion to $ 3.5 billion (including coverage for terror attacks) and is trying to collect $ 7 billion in insurance by counting the two towers as two separate incidents of terrorism.    The buildings had asbestos protecting the steel which is no longer accepted by code.  They needed $ 200-500 millions in renovation to correct asbestos problem in light of current requirements.
 The once premier office tower was outdated in mechanical and electrical systems, needed renovation to compete with recent new buildings, $ 1/2 billion in upgrade required..  Marvin Bush , our President's brother, had control of WTC security  and was in NYC on 9-11 according to Barbara Bush's book.  A week before 9-11 power at WTC was cut off for 36 hours - killing all access to internal video monitors. Many engineers went in and out of the building. The 9-11 Commission failed to mention or address the multiple war games / exercises that were being conducted that day, out of the White House. As many as five war game drills were in process, some involving hijacked airliners, a plane crashing into a building, some involving false blips deliberately inserted onto FAA and military radar screens. - One war game exercise pulled significant fighter resources away from the Northeastern United States on Sept. 11. - These exercises involved North American Air Defense Command, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Canadian Air Force, the CIA and the National Reconnaissance Office.
Coincidentally, in New York City, massive preparations were underway for a biochemical attack drill involving FEMA, the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management, the FBI, the U.S. Department of Justice, Weill Medical College, the N.Y. Department of Health, the N.Y. Fire Department, the N.Y. Police Department, the American Red Cross and the Port Authority.

 

George Bush’s brother, Marvin, had the WTC security contract. http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0204-06.htm
Common Dreams News Center - Published on Tuesday, February 4, 2003 by the Prince George's Journal (Maryland)
George W. Bush's brother was on the board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines, according to public records. The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family.
 The security company, formerly named Securacom and now named Stratesec, is in Sterling, Va.. Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the company had a ``completion contract" to handle some of the security at the World Trade Center up to the day the buildings fell down."  It also had a three-year contract to maintain electronic security systems at Dulles Airport, according to a Dulles contracting official. Securacom/Stratesec also handled some security for United Airlines in the 1990s, according to McDaniel, but it had been completed before his arriving on the board in 1998.
McDaniel confirmed that the company has security contracts with the Department of Defense, including the U.S. Army, but did not detail the nature of the work, citing security concerns. It has an ongoing line with the General Services Administration - meaning that its bids for contracts are noncompetitive - and also did security work for the Los Alamos laboratory before 1998.
Marvin P. Bush, the president's youngest brother, was a director at Stratesec from 1993 to fiscal year 2000. But the White House has not publicly disclosed Bush connections in any of its responses to 9/11, nor has it mentioned that another Bush-linked business had done security work for the facilities attacked.
 Marvin Bush joined Securacom when it was capitalized by the Kuwait-American Corporation, a private investment firm in D.C. that was the security company's major investor, sometimes holding a controlling interest. Marvin Bush has not responded to telephone calls and e-mails for comment.
According to SEC filings, Securacom/ Stratesec acquired the $8.3 million World Trade Center contract in October 1996. The project generated 28 percent of all revenues for the company in 1996. SEC filings indicate that revenues from the World Trade Center project commenced in 1996 at $1.6 million, peaked in 1997 at $6.6 million ($4.1 million in the first half), and diminished in 1998 to less than $1 million.

 

 Blackstone Group
In February of 2002 Silverstein Properties won $ 861 million from Industrial Risk Insurers to rebuild on the site of WTC 7. Silverstein Properties' estimated investment in WTC 7 was $386 million. So: This building's collapse resulted in a profit of about $500 million!

Pre-9/11 World Trade Center Power-Down   article by Victor Thorn, April 23, 2004. Concerns the time when explosives may have been placed in the World Trade Center towers.

Was World Trade Center building number 7  imploded  (pulled) by Silverstein, FDNY and Others  WTC Leaseholder Larry Silverstein says they decided to pull (collapse by explosives) WTC 7 (audio from broadcast)
 The building was little damaged by Fire, and bomb proof room on 23rd floor to supervise the Tower 1 and 2 attach and collapse
 It was destroyed many hours later.  It was said to have been evacuated early in the day, but was it ?

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