Perhaps i am not being clear, although i don't know how many different ways to make it any easier to understand.
How did the collapse of building 7 have any bearing whatsoever to the events that transpired after. In other words, what was gained by taking this building down? A building that was severly damaged already.
Motive can frequently be difficult to determine. However, the following articles
mentioned at whatreallyhappened.com by certainly offer many possibilities:
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The collapse of WTC 7 also profited Silverstein Properties to the tune of ~
$500 million through insurance payments.
[WTC 7] contained offices of the FBI, Department of Defense, IRS (which contained prodigious amounts of corporate tax fraud, including Enron’s), US Secret Service, Securities & Exchange Commission (with more stock fraud records), and Citibank’s Salomon Smith Barney, the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management and many other financial institutions. [
Online Journal]
The SEC has not quantified the number of active cases in which substantial files were destroyed [by 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]
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scott3x said:
If by "intellectually suited", you mean intellectually and politically dangerous to the people who were truly behind 9/11, I agree.
No i mean just what i said.
I think you would have been better off saying "you forgot the last 2 words in that sentence", that is, "to understand". I had felt you meant this anyway, but I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt. In any case, what do you believe that people like myself wouldn't understand? The motives for taking down the building? That they were acting nobly but are afraid that their actions will be misconstrued? Perhaps in their minds they were acting nobly. That they were vacinating America from truly horrific terrorism by giving them a little light home grown terrorism masquerading as foreign terrorism so that America would be ready to take the war to the terrorists. And if they profited a little on the side, well, they're only human, right?
Ofcourse, there is a darker possibility; the U.S. war machine had gone (relatively) hungry during the Clinton years, U.S. officials in high places wanted to invade Afghanistan and Iraq before 9/11, Israel could use a boost for its justifications to oppress the palestinians (gotta get tough on terrorism); in essence, that elements in the U.S. government and perhaps others (elements of Israel's Mosad for instance) were propping up the war on terror to get things going again
