World Trade Centre 7

Most people, when asked how many buildings collapsed on the day of the 911 attacks, will tell you that two buildings fell, these being the Twin Towers. In fact, a third building also fell that day, a 47 story skyscraper known as World Trade Centre 7. This building housed many Government offices, including the Office of Emergency Management for Rudolf Giuliani (the Mayor of New York), the offices of the Securities & Exchange Commission, who were investigating Enron and other scandals, the offices of the CIA, the Secret Service and the IRS together with a number of private companies. Despite not being hit by any aircraft, this building also collapsed into its own footprint, taking around six seconds, again roughly the same time as if free-falling by gravity.

The Elephant in the Room

In the following video clip, Kevin McPadden, a 9/11 first responder, talks of his experience during the collapse of World Trade Centre 7. Filmed at the World Trade Centre in New York on September 18th 2007, he stands in front of a gap in the sky that used to be occupied by the twin towers telling us how he heard a countdown just prior to the collapse of WTC7, and then explosions.

Giuliani's operational bunker?

One of the most interesting tenants of WTC7 was then-Mayor Giuliani's Office of Emergency Management, and its emergency command center on the 23rd floor. This floor received $15 million worth of renovations, including independent and secure air and water supplies, and bullet and bomb resistant windows designed to withstand 200 MPH winds. The 1993 bombing must have been part of the rationale for the command center, which overlooked the Twin Towers, a prime terrorist target. How curious that on the day of the attack, Guiliani and his entourage set up shop in a different headquarters, abandoning the special bunker designed precisely for such an event.

  Why did this building collapse?

There were a few sporadic fires in the building, but nothing like a raging inferno. Indeed, the reasons for the collapse were ignored and not even referred to in the 911 official report, just as the many witnesses who heard explosions that day were ignored.

At no time before and since the day of the attack have steel and concrete buildings completely collapsed as a result of fire. Some argue that the Twin Towers were hit by a plane and that is why they collapsed. However, World Trade Centre 7 was not, yet this building still mysteriously collapsed, why?

Why was it "pulled"?

What is also so strange about the collapse of this building are a number of factors, not least the fact that the leaseholder of the building, Mr Larry Silverstein, admitted that the building was “pulled”. Now this reference to the word “pulled”, in context with the destruction of a building, is used by specialist contractors who demolish buildings in a controlled fashion using explosive charges. This would have taken weeks of planning and rigging, but here the building collapsed within eight hours of the attacks that morning.

Was it insured against terrorist attack?

Another odd fact is that just prior to the attacks on September 11th, Mr Silverstein had taken out an insurance policy on the various World Trade Centre buildings which he leased, specifically insuring the buildings against terrorist attacks. He received over $7 billion in insurance payouts as a result. Coincidence?.. perhaps..

BBC had premonition, or was it foreknowledge?

What is just as puzzling is that it has recently come to light that the BBC seemed to know around twenty minutes before the building collapsed that it was going to collapse. Indeed, they reported that it had collapsed when the building could be seen clearly behind the reporter at the time. So how could anyone have known beforehand?