Silverstein, WTC-7 and Israel

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Silverstein, WTC-7 and Israel

Billionaire Larry Silverstein, the private property developer, acquired the WTC complex off the New York Port Authority (founded and owned by the Rockefeller family), fifty days before 9/11 - the first time in its 33-year history that the complex had ever changed ownership. Silverstein had formerly been chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, the largest Zionist organization dedicated to raising money and support for Israel. Lewis Eisenberg, Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who personally supervised the negotiations that delivered the 99-year lease to Silverstein, is also a former leader of the United Jewish Appeal. Silverstein's first order of business as the new owner was to change the company responsible for security of the complex: he hired Securacom (now Stratasec), with George W. Bush's brother, Marvin Bush, on its board of directors and Marvin's cousin, Wirt Walker III, its CEO. According to public records, Securacom provided electronic security for the World Trade Center - and likewise covered Dulles International Airport and United Airlines, two key players in the 9/11 attacks.[1]

Silverstein Properties, together with Lowy's Westfield America which was in charge of the basement areas, secured the leases, whereby control of the World Trade Center passed into private hands on July 24, 2001. Frank Lowy had formerly been a commando fighter in Israel's Golani Brigade. Thereby Silverstein and Lowy came to control all access to the 10.6 million square feet of the World Trade Center.

Silverstein's company had built WTC-7 in the mid-1980s. [2] In 1980, Silverstein Associates won a bid to lease and develop that portion of the WTC, and to construct the 47-storey World Trade Center - 7. Larry Silverstein personally ordered WTC-7 to be demolished ('pulled') around noon of 9/11 and has never been cross-examined by any enquiry over this. [3] Clearly, the company which built WTC-7 was ideally situated to demolish it ... in a secretive manner. For financial reasons, chiefly involving asbestos problems, the main WTC complex was no longer viable and needed to be demolished, but the costs of doing this legally were prohibitive. Putting up the scaffolding alone was estimated at a couple of billion!

Despite being a mere leaseholder of the buildings, he was the sole beneficiary of the insurance indemnity payments. He insured the complex against 'terrorist attacks': His insurance was for 3.6 billion dollars, but he found an obscure clause in the insurance policy which enabled him to claim twice, one for each 'attack':

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Blocking the Insurance payout

Californian John Leonard (publisher, 'Tree of Life' books*, eg Webster Tarpley's 9/11 SyntheticTerror and Nafeez Ahmed's The War on Freedom) is a shareholder of Allianz Insurance. This is one of the nine insurance companies which is having to fork out for Larry Silverstein's absurdly bogus insurance claims. Even after admitting on film that he ordered the WTC-7 to be 'pulled' he is still raking in billions from the insurance! At a shareholder's meeting, John Leonard pointed to reports that building WTC 7 apparently collapsed by demolition, and for no plausible reason related to the 9/11 attacks. This caused the German-based insurance company Allianz to stall, in coughing up the dosh.

Questions about the suspicious nature of the building's collapse remained comparatively muted in the US until January 2004, when a PBS documentary, America Rebuilds, originally broadcast in September 2002, received wide attention. Then in December 2004, a jury ruled in favor of the insurance holders' double claim - the mad idea that, because two planes slammed into the buildings, the companies had to pay out twice! After two trials in 2004, a federal court decided that the insurers owed a maximum of $4.6 billion, not the $7 billion originally claimed.

A recent (March 2007) article by Steve Watson explains how Allianz still owes him $US553 million ($A708.57 million) and that a second insurer, Britain's Royal & Sun Alliance, owes him $US250 million ($A320.33 million). Their reluctance had slowed rebuilding at the site:
http://www.infowars.net/articles/march2007/140307Silverstein.htm

Brooklyn-Queens Democratic (Jewish) Congressman Anthony Weiner has vowed to punish the insurers with fines or operating restrictions if they do not pay up. Weiner has vowed he will defend Israel 'Here or Anywhere' (www.nysun.com/article/9578) and is doubtless doing that, by such intimidation. Let's send a message to these insurance companies, loud and clear: say NO to Zionist Neo-Cons - traitors to their country.

Following the glowing example of John Leonard could be an effective action for 9/11 Sceptics, let's tell Britain's Royal & Sun Alliance - don't pay up! Demand the cash back!

* Visit his inspiring website, www.progressivepress.com

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A couple of billion what, rupees? I think that sounds a little high, although I have never had to procure scaffolding for 110 storey buildings.

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STAKEHOLDER CHALLENGES THE VAMPIRE ELITE

John Leonard (visit his dynamic website www.progressivepress.com) set up an account with a broker in Germany, and thereby became a shareholder of the two giant insurance companies, Allianz and Munich Re. These have been forking out billions for Larry Silverstein and his pals in Israel, over the WTC collapse. As a shareholder, Leonard successfully inserted a complaint against their shelling out for this bogus insurance claim. He explained to me his view that

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EURO - BILLIONS FUND WTC RECONSTRUCTION

9/11 was a wheeze whereby European insurance companies could be fleeced for $4.6 billion by New York financiers. Once he acquired the WTC, Lucky Larry moved its insurance so it was no longer with US companies, but with Munich-Re, Allianz, Royal Sun etc - of Germany, Switzerland and the UK. No wonder the New York judges allowed his absurd claims - no US companies had to fork out. New York gets its lovely new asbestos-free WTC built with Euro-dosh!

It is a crime under European law to insure property twice and to attempt to claim twice for an accident - which Lucky Larry did, on the grounds that two planes had impacted as two events! Each Tower did not cost $3.2 billion, this sum of insurance was for the total complex, so his argument was plainly fraudulent. Also, he had stated outright his command to 'pull' the WTC-7, in an interview a year after the event. But, the Euro companies stood to lose their entry to the US markets, if they demurred over this transparently bogus insurance claim. So, they paid.

To be very politically incorrect, let’s timidly mention the prominent Jewish figures who helped Silverstein in this enterprise: Lewis Eisenberg, former chairman of the New York Port Authority, who gave him the lease;Howard Rubenstein, his PR agent; Steve Solomon, his speaker; Michael Bloomberg, New York's Jewish mayor; David Yerushalmi, leader of the Israel Export Development Company, who urged Silverstein to be its chair; and Daniel Liebeskind, the architect of Berlin’s ‘Jewish Museum,’ now rebuilding Ground Zero.

Swiss Re was the most heavily hit, paying about $1 billion of the $4.6 billion. Lloyd's of London was another. If you get the urge to send, eg, 9/11 Mysteries to one of these companies, first become a shareholder! Don’t forget, even if an insurance company has settled, they still have the right, based on alleged fraud and other misconduct, to revisit a claim.

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On September 9, 2005, Silverstein attempted to cover his back against potential accusations of insurance fraud by issuing a public statement in which he denied that his words "pull it" meant controlled demolition.
http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Sep/16-241966.html
Instead, he said he meant that the fire fighters should be withdrawn from WTC7 during the afternoon. Unfortunately for him, he seemed to be unaware that, as the NIST Report and the New York Times stated, all fire fighters had been withdrawn from WTC7 before mid-day on 9/11, so that there was no one inside the building to withdraw! He lied to stop speculation that he had carried out an insurance fraud. The exposure of his lie can only add more pressure for an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the collapse of WTC7. Until that occurs, insurance companies like Allianz that owe Silverstein money should withhold payment and call his bluff if he threatens to take them to court. Turn it into a big legal case centred on how WTC7 fell and perhaps the whole can of worms that is 9/11 can be forced at last to open.

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People will overlook the deaths of 3,000 people on 9/11 and settle for hand wringing, but show enough people that they are being fleeced out of money and they will be up in arms and demand justice! How much has your house/car insurance gone up because of 9/11??