So Larry Silverstein is in bed with Jack Quinn and Marc Rich - for this
Rich connections is slowly coming to fruition.
So the World Trade Center smells like Auchwitz? Really. Only there
the victims were not burned alive?
Silverstein now wants 7 billion dollars and with the stench in the air,
all I can think about is Silverstein with his new plans on the drawing
board the next day after the World Trade Center was demolished.
And Silverstein, Giuliani, and CIA all in 7 World Trade Center.....
But most of all what sickens me is this sicko running from the fire
screaming NOW WE ARE ALL ISRAELIS.... really? Like hell we
are......they still have those 6 Israelis on ice who worked for this
"moving company" fronting for Mossad? I say, that all had "box
cutters"? How quaint - so consider this and ask Cui Bono, Cui Bono,
Cui Bono.......
And then Remember The Lavon Affair (where Egyptian Jews, young men, were
used to blow up American movie houses, etc., and got caught pretending
to be Egyptian Muslims?) And then Remember the USS Liberty and think of
those trecherous lying bastards napalming our men on the deck of the
Liberty for over 45 minutes while bombing and torpedoing them.
Think when people really get to thinking on this, they will know who The
Contractor really was on the Twin Towers Job. Nice item here....food
for thought.....talking big bucks with stench of burning bodies still
evident.....and Giuliani was worried about the gold? This gold
belonged to the Saudis mostly.
There is going to be a big awakening.......so now we are all Israelis
Think about that.....am forwrding this to this arab news. As letter to
editor.
Saba
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�The Twin Towers
Two months on, the new battles at Ground Zero
As the sifting of human remains goes on, banks and lawyers join a
scramble for the spoils
War on Terrorism: Observer special
Ed Vulliamy in New York
Observer
Sunday November 11, 2001
Two months ago this morning, the twin towers of the World Trade Centre
rose proud, audacious and beautiful from the New York skyline. By midday
they had vanished into the dust of their own stone, into a mass grave.
All that remained was an inferno of death and dust on an accursed
terrain called Ground Zero.
Two months on, Ground Zero is all crooked, cruel ruins bayoneted on to
steel mesh. Under the harsh glare of floodlights, the arm of a heavy
crane lifts another limb of incinerated steel from the dunes of rubble.
There is a flare, a burst of flame - for the buried fire still burns
white-hot - and a pall of ghastly black smoke rises into the night,
blocking the view of the illuminated Empire State Building. The stench
of the plume is sickly-sweet; everyone knows what it is but no one says
so. Only: 'this is how Auschwitz must have stunk only diluted,' as one
police forensic scientist remarked. 'Fifteen hundred degrees down
there,' says a fireman, 'and still burning'.
Ground Zero began as a shrine to the victims of 11 September. But its
story has twisted and warped, not unlike the landscape. The 'twin
towers' of heroism - police and firemen - have come to blows, exchanging
bruises with arrests. Tensions involving the fireman have led to the
resignation of the exhausted fire chief, Thomas von Essen, and the
system set up to aid victims and their families - many of whom have seen
little or nothing of the millions donated - has turned into a scandal
that led the director of the Red Cross to resign. The place has become a
cauldron of toxins, poisonous dusts and powdered metals catching the
morning sun and belching into the Hudson river.
The numbers of missing-presumed-dead fluctuate wildly as unofficial
calculations grate against those of the authorities.
Only genetic analysis can provide an answer, and even the most ambitious
forensic DNA project ever mounted faces the problem of tainted,
potentially useless material. While human remains smoulder, lawyers wage
high-fee warfare over who should pay how much and for what in al-Qaeda's
bloody wake.
The men who once worked in frenzied chain gangs now labour mostly in
silence, apart from the odd cell phone call across the 'buddy system'.
On the edge of Ground Zero is the Dakota Roadhouse, where men gather to
discuss two months of change. 'Nowadays we talk less, work harder and
don't feel like heroes any more,' says Tony Castelnuovo, heavy plant
driver from New Jersey. 'At first it was like the world was on our
shoulders like we were the guys. Now it's like a job that'll never be
done.'
Glen from Boston drifted to Ground Zero on 13 September 'to become a New
Yorker'. He uses his expertise in the construction industry to tunnel
inside the wreckage - 'I look at it from the inside.'
Among the shards, Glen sees steel crosses. Are you a Christian? He
pauses, harvesting another beer. 'Yes.' He has been 'in construction for
30 years 'and I save lives'. Now he is retrieving nothing more than
'bits of people'. What's down there in the furnace of Ground Zero?
'Nothing... someone screwed up - don't ask me who.'
The search for remains must continue, says Matt Newman, crane operator.
There was indeed a grisly find on 21 October - identifiable remains of
nine humans. The pieces of charred flesh were covered with American
flags and ceremonially stretchered out past a line of saluting workers.
At the time of a Mass amid the mountains of dust, the missing stood at
4,470, with 460 bodies recovered. But a world used to computer
exactitude may never know how many perished. Companies and organisations
feared to have sustained the highest losses count only 2,405 - half what
was originally feared. The police maintain a missing-or-dead figure of
4,764. 'As long as the process is under way,' says Thomas Antenen,
deputy police commissioner, 'the numbers are going to be refined.'
With bodies barely existent in the furnace, and identification using
tattoos or dental records impossible, experts estimate a million DNA
samples will have to be tested and that could take two years.
After the disaster, the world's largest morgue was a complex of
refrigerated units covering several blocks - the beginning of the
largest and most traumatic DNA project in history. 'It's massive,' says
chief forensic officer Robert Shaler. 'We've never done anything like
this before. I don't know of anybody that's ever been faced with this.'
Bruce Kane of Englewood, New Jersey, held a memorial service on 30
September for his missing son Howard, fearing he'd never have a body to
bury. But he learnt two weeks ago that Howard was one of the first
victims to be identified through DNA matching. It was a relief, he said,
'like I got my son back to bury. It brings closure, if there is such a
word. At least we can put him to rest.'
The last remaining essence of those lost is sent to a laboratory at the
foot of the Wasatch Mountains in Utah, where thousands of bar-coded
vials pass from one high-speed robotic processor to the next as
supercomputers decode genetic footprints of the clear fluids inside.
'You look at these samples, and you try to deal with the magnitude of
what's behind them. Sometimes it's easier just to think of them as
numbers,' says Benoit Leclair, a scientist with Myriad Genetic
Laboratories, the company contracted to identify the remains.
So far, Myriad has processed about 4,000 tissue samples, some 3,000
personal effects of the victims and 3,300 DNA samples from relatives.
But, as each day passes, body tissues are tainted by humidity, fire,
chemicals and bacteria. 'It's a huge, decaying mass of extremely damaged
remains,' says Leclair. 'Perhaps they'll find something from everyone.
Perhaps not. It's anybody's guess.'
On 2 November, the collision between raw emotion and bitter reality
erupted into violence at Ground Zero, police officers and firemen
setting upon one another. A dozen firemen were arrested and several
officers injured after the city authorities reduced the number of Fire
Department rescue workers, although the remains of only 91 of the
missing 343 firefighters had been recovered.
Some firefighters said the decision to reduce their numbers from 60 to
24 was directly connected to the excavation of more than $200 million in
gold bullion two days earlier. 'We're being disrespected.
Two days after they find the gold, we're pulled off the job,' said
fireman Mike Daly of Engine 280. 'The city is more concerned with gold
than people.' Others said the city wanted to speed up the removal of
debris to save money.
(saba note - see this sicko creep Giuliani now with his sick message -
while flesh still burns and smells to high heave he puts out call to
come back to the movies - this sick bastard and oh how he goes for the
Pollard release???? How much bribe monoy did he get for this one?
saba note)
'We're on a mission, and we won't leave until it's done,' insisted
fireman Chuck Horack. 'We see the site as sacred ground. Our brothers
are still in the debris. No one can ever know how important it is to
bring their husband home to a widow.' Mayor Giuliani launched a savage
attack on the firemen, saying their actions were 'sinful'. 'They have
absolutely no monopoly in caring about the people there,' he said.
Predatory packs of 'Sex and the City' women regard a firefighter as a
prize conquest. They hang round firehouses, offering gifts and
attention. 'I can't go a day without having to hide from some woman
coming round the firehouse,' said a firefighter already spoken for. 'I
just put my hood up and cross the road.'
Firefighters admit the strain on their emotions has not been helped by
the media and public elevating them to the status of celebrities.
'Firefighters are pretty humble guys but this hero worship is making
life very hard,' said one. 'When I saw firefighters on the cover of
Vanity Fair I thought: "Oh-oh, this is gonna get bad"... firefighters
don't read Vanity Fair, they read Sports Illustrated and Playboy.'
Of the disputes raging at Ground Zero, none is more pressing than the
disbursement of more than $1.2 billion raised by charities for the
families of victims. The charities collecting donations have no system
for co-ordinating payments, making it difficult to track who has
received assistance and who has not.
The Red Cross has faced questions about $550m raised in disaster relief.
Two weeks ago, US Red Cross president Bernadine Healy was forced to
resign after it was revealed the organisation had withheld more than
$264m raised for victims' families.
While Healy argued that the funds should be used for victims of future
terrorist attacks, Congress accused the Red Cross of misleading millions
of donors believing their money would be used directly to relieve
victims. Michigan Representative Bart Stupak accused the agency of using
the terrorist attacks to serve its own needs, such as improving its
telephone and technology systems and building its reserve of blood.
While some wait to receive money, others fight to keep what they have
and make more. Legions of lawyers are now locked in combat over who will
bear the burden of destruction and the costs of reconstruction. No one
wants to face a flood of claims from victims and bereaved; but no bank,
investor or developer wants to miss out on one of the biggest insurance
payouts of all time.
The pivotal legal technicality mocks the tragedy of the twin towers:
whether the attack constituted one atrocity (entitling leaseholder Larry
Silverstein to $3.6 billion in insurance coverage) or two separate
events (enabling him to make claims of $3.6bn apiece).
***************
A Bill on airline safety passed by Congress last week also protected
Silverstein and the owner of the World Trade Centre, the New York/New
Jersey Port Authority, from claims by victims and families.
Silverstein's cause was won with the services of Jack Quinn, former
White House counsel who organised the pardon of fugitive tycoon Marc
Rich by outgoing President Bill Clinton.
*************
(the men who were murdered on the USS Liberty those bastard Israelis
fought them for their recovery until the lawyers got the biggest portion
of the blood money - typical...right? Sasba Note}
One legal challenge to Silverstein has already been made: by the Swiss
Reinsurance company, seeking to cap the amount of its own
liability.Swiss Re stands to pay the biggest share of legally approved
losses, $7.2bn. Some 20 other insurance companies are involved, two of
them apparently planning to reduce their share through legal action:
Lloyds of London and Munich Reinsurance.
(see now, and it ws Rupert Mudoch-s paper that got the Anthrax? Well
made nice story but bet it had Made in Israel on the ID....saba note)
An old public relations hand, Howard Rubinstein - with Rupert Murdoch,
the New York Yankees and Empire State Building in his portfolio - is
trying to win a central role for Silverstein in the rebuilding of a new
World Trade Centre to rise, phoenix-like, from Ground Zero.
Silverstein has joined in unlikely alliance with his landlord, the Port
Authority, and speaks of his ambitions with apocalyptic zeal: 'There's
no way I could not go forward and build this thing. What these
terrorists have tried to do is destroy the symbol of New York, and I
can't handle that.' (this sick son of a bitch - even the Israelis were
on to him with his money laundering Free Trade Zone pandering...saba
note)
Silverstein's fiefdom at Ground Zero is sick with dangers graver than
the 34 broken bones, 183 serious burns, 441 lacerations, 1,000 eye
injuries and other wounds from crashing cranes and exploding gas
cylinders.
The air is filled with toxic chemicals and metals - dioxins, PCBs,
benzene, lead, sulphur dioxide, copper, chromium and others. Benzene is
especially noxious, with the ability to cause bone marrow cancer and
leukemia.
And yet, the most remarkable thing about the phenomenon of Ground Zero
is that it grinds on. An entire civilisation passes through the tent
established by the Salvation Army to feed hundreds of relief workers
each day: blacks, whites, Latinos, asians, arrayed in front of a heap of
macaroni salad, hands outstretched with trays like an advertisement for
New York multiculturalism.
An FBI agent stands next to a Polish immigrant dressed in a protective
asbestos suit; customs officers, police patrolmen, Mexican labourers,
environmental health monitors, firemen, all thrown together in the same
queue waiting for the same thing: lunch at Ground Zero, served in a
'kitchen' of several long tables by an assembly line of volunteers.
Another lineup of tables offers eyewash, footpads, hand creams, aspirins
and other health items. In this suddenly egalitarian society, all
volunteers - Salvation Army Christians, musicians and a Veterans
Administration orderly - are equal. The publisher of the Miami Herald,
visiting New York, hands out eyewash and alcohol swabs, unloads trash
bins, refills a huge coffee urn.
Some of downtown's most famous restaurants have taken a stab at cooking
for relief workers; the renowned Boulez is an assiduous presence. Its
tent looks similar to that of the Salvation Army, but the food is much
better - couscous, fettucini and other delicate confections. Boulez
became the desired celebrity relief destination; Candice Bergen found
herself obligingly mopping the floor.
Wake up anywhere south of Canal Street, and there's that sickening smell
coming through the window, now a routine part of daily life.
Additional reporting by Mark Schapiro and Ed Helmore. ���
Guardian Unlimited � Guardian Newspapers Limited 2001
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