I bet it's not an overreaction to Larry Silverstein! (he's the owner of the WTC complex)Stacy Oliver wrote:So what's the LDSFF community view on why WTC7 was destroyed?
The normal explanation that I've seen is that "they" wanted to destroy evidence (either the DoD accounting issues, 9/11 planning material, or some Giuliani something or other). But it seems like a bit of an overreaction to blow up a building to just get rid of some documents, instead of, say, just shredding them.
In February of 2002 Silverstein Properties won $861 million from Industrial Risk Insurers to rebuild on the site of WTC 7. Silverstein Properties' estimated investment in WTC 7 was $386 million. So: This building's collapse resulted in a profit of about $500 million!