RE: [Marxism] The Politics of Larry Silverstein

["Austin, Andrew" <austina@xxxxxxxx>]

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Sent: Sun 9/10/2006 7:20 AM
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Subject: [Marxism] The Politics of Larry Silverstein

The major evidence for the plausibility of this assumption is the August memo 
entitled "bin Laden
Plans Major Attack on the US" or words akin. Someone in the US intelligence 
service wrote this memo.

Where did the evidence for this warning come from? Why was the warning 
apparently ignored?

* * *
 
It was more than a memo.  It was the Presidential Daily Briefing or PDB.  The 
PDB in question was dated August 6, 2001 and carried the title "bin Ladin 
Determined to Strike in US."  It was declassified on April 10, 2004.  Here's a 
copy.  It's pretty revealing.  It offers no time and date, but it seems to me 
that what is contained therein would have made anybody seriously committed to 
defending a country drink some coffee and make some phone calls.
 
http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/80601pdb.pdf 
<http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/80601pdb.pdf> 

On another matter discussed here, I did some research last night and found that 
the National Institute of Science and Technology has not determined why WTC-7 
collapsed.  It appears, then, that Popular Mechanics is the only source of the 
theory that WTC-7 collapsed because of damage and fire.  Copy follows.  Note in 
particular the last sentence, which I have highlighted.

                When NIST initiated the WTC investigation, it made a decision 
not to hire new staff to support the investigation. After the June 2004 
progress report on the WTC investigation was issued, the NIST investigation 
team stopped working on WTC 7 and was assigned full-time through the fall of 
2005 to complete the investigation of the WTC towers.  

                With the release and dissemination of the report on the WTC 
towers in October 2005, the investigation of the WTC 7 collapse resumed. 
Considerable progress has been made since that time, including the review of 
nearly 80 boxes of new documents related to WTC 7, the development of detailed 
technical approaches for modeling and analyzing various collapse hypotheses, 
and the selection of a contractor to assist NIST staff in carrying out the 
analyses. It is anticipated that a draft report will be released by early 2007.

                The current NIST working collapse hypothesis for WTC 7 is 
described in the June 2004 Progress Report on the Federal Building and Fire 
Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (Volume 1, page 17, as 
well as Appendix L), as follows: 

                *       An initial local failure occurred at the lower floors 
(below floor 13) of the building due to fire and/or debris-induced structural 
damage of a critical column (the initiating event) which supported a large-span 
floor bay with an area of about 2,000 square feet; 

                *       Vertical progression of the initial local failure 
occurred up to the east penthouse, and as the large floor bays became unable to 
redistribute the loads, it brought down the interior structure below the east 
penthouse; and 

                *       Triggered by damage due to the vertical failure, 
horizontal progression of the failure across the lower floors (in the region of 
floors 5 and 7 that were much thicker and more heavily reinforced than the rest 
of the floors) resulted in a disproportionate collapse of the entire structure. 

                This hypothesis may be supported or modified, or new hypotheses 
may be developed, through the course of the continuing investigation. NIST also 
is considering whether hypothetical blast events could have played a role in 
initiating the collapse. While NIST has found no evidence of a blast or 
controlled demolition event, NIST would like to determine the magnitude of 
hypothetical blast scenarios that could have led to the structural failure of 
one or more critical elements. 

                http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm 
<http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm> 


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