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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
Well then you're talking about destroying all of Manhattan.
They wanted to get Wall Street going again as soon as possible. You see, towers 1 and 2 were costing Silverstein alot of money and they were ordered to do 1 billion plus worth of asbestos removal.
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Jesse Ventura postulated that the WTC buildings were brought down because WTC 1 and 2 were “white elephants,” that is to say the cost of the buildings exceeded their usefulness. “They were losing money, they had asbestos in them, and they were required by law to do over a billion dollars worth of asbestos removal.”
“It was an insurance job?” asked Stern.
Ventura continued. Larry Silverstein had insured the buildings against terrorist attacks for $7 billion dollars, “of which he settled for four.” Again, Stern and crew were incredulous, although Stern said he would have to read Ventura’s book, Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me. Jesse urged him to do so.
Anyways the 9/11 disaster workers were told that the air was safe to breathe..........well it wasn't and many of them are bleeding from the lungs. They had to get wall-street running ASAP.
I think WTC7 had to come down so Silverstein could get the full value of his insurance money.
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Larry Silverstein did not insure the buildings for 7 billion dollars. He insured them for half of that. He tried to claim that the 2 planes constituted 2 different events thus he would get 7 billion the insurance companies knowing he was behind the attacks disagreed. The court went somewhere in the middle and gave him 4.6.