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"I don't know what happened to No. 7. I knew the building was coming down" [WTC Task Force Interview, 10/25/01]

Larry Silverstein, WTC 7,
and the 9/11 Demolition


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the collapse of world trade center 7 controlled demolition damage

The above photo shows the fires in WTC 7 at roughly
3 p.m, as does this 1 MB wmv video of the building.

If the FEMA collapse report were true then the fires shown would have been burning throughout entire floors, not just in a few rooms.

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.

In the documentary " America Rebuilds", aired September 2002, 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." [ wmv download]

In the same program a cleanup worker referred to the demolition of WTC 6: "... we're getting ready to pull the building six." [ mp3 download]

There can be little doubt as to how the word "pull" is being used in this context.


Firemen evacuated the area as they prepared for the collapse of Building Seven. [Ground Zero Spirit]

"Keep your eye on that building, it'll be coming down soon."

WMV video download (105kB)

september 11 WTC 7 coming down

"Then it was about 5:00, because I was getting hungry. We were eating oatmeal cookies and watered-down Gatorade from the Salvation Army and the Red Cross. ... We walked back. We didn't do any further because building number seven was coming down. That was another problem, to wait for building seven to come down, because that was unsecure. It was about 5:30 that building came down." [WTC Task Force Interview]

Molten steel was found ?three, four, and five weeks later, when the rubble was being removed [from WTCs 1 & 2],? Loizeaux said. He said molten steel was also found at 7 WTC, which collapsed mysteriously in the late afternoon. [ American Free Press]

Molten steel is a by-product of a thermite reaction.

Wired New York reported "steel members in the debris pile that appear to have been partly evaporated in extraordinarily high temperatures".

Burning diesel can't produce enough heat to melt steel, so it certainly can't evaporate it, but thermite can.


Consider the facts:

  • The fires in WTC 7 were not evenly distributed, so a perfect collapse was impossible.
  • Firemen anticipated the building's collapse (even though fire had never brought down a fire-protected steel building prior to 9/11).
  • Silverstein said of the building "the smartest thing to do is pull it."
  • WTC 7 subsequently collapsed perfectly into its footprint at freefall speed.
  • Molten steel and partially evaporated steel members were found in the debris.

When you add to the above the fact that Madrid's Windsor Building remained standing after an 18+ hour 800?C fire there can be only one conclusion as to what happened to WTC 7: it was demolished.


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The fires in WTC 7 were supposedly started by the collapse of WTC 1 meaning there would have been no time the rig the building for demolition on 9/11, therefore this had to have been done whilst the building was still occupied prior to 9/11.

Doesn't this strike you as an odd and dangerous thing to do? If there were no terrorist attacks on 9/11 then a disgruntled employee could have brought down WTC 7 simply by thumping a red button - it makes no sense whatsoever.

world trade building 7 collapse not due to fire september 11th
"You can stick your lousy job up your ass!"

There had to be a very good reason for this building to be rigged for demolition whilst it was still occupied. Did Silverstein, the new WTC owner who wisely invested in insurance against terrorism, have prior knowledge of the attacks?

One thing is for sure, the decision to 'pull' WTC 7 would have delighted many people:

The SEC has not quantified the number of active cases in which substantial files were destroyed [in the collapse of WTC 7]. Reuters news service and the Los Angeles Times published reports estimating them at 3,000 to 4,000. They include the agency's major inquiry into the manner in which investment banks divvied up hot shares of initial public offerings during the high-tech boom. ..."Ongoing investigations at the New York SEC will be dramatically affected because so much of their work is paper-intensive," said Max Berger of New York's Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann. "This is a disaster for these cases." [ New York Lawyer]

Citigroup says some information that the committee is seeking [about WorldCom] was destroyed in the Sept. 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center. Salomon had offices in 7 World Trade Center, one of the buildings that collapsed in the aftermath of the attack. The bank says that back-up tapes of corporate emails from September 1998 through December 2000 were stored at the building and destroyed in the attack. [TheStreet]

Inside [WTC 7 was] the US Secret Service's largest field office with more than 200 employees. ..."All the evidence that we stored at 7 World Trade, in all our cases, went down with the building," according to US Secret Service Special Agent David Curran. [TechTV]

One other thing, insurance payments from WTC 7's collapse profited Silverstein Properties to the tune of ~ $500 million.


See also:

A Feeble Excuse For Silverstein's "Pull It" Comment
7 World Trade Center - The History
The 9/11 WTC Collapses: An Audio-Video Analysis


What Really Happened



What Really Happened enemy inside the gates

911review Homepage



Was WTC 7 hit by a missile ?

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Blackstone Group & 7 World Trade Center. “New York, NY October 17, 2000:
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investment and management

The WTC Report. World Trade Center Demolition chapter 2

Building 7 Collapse - 9/11 Encyclopedia

Why Did the Trade Center Skyscrapers Collapse? Professor Reynolds

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