BBC Reported WTC7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell
author: reposts grouped for the issue
A revealing video uncovered today shows a BBC reporter talking about the collapse of WTC 7 while WTC 7 can clearly be seen still standing behind her in the background.
Google removed the clip within hours. So did (Google's recently purchased and consolidated) You Tube. Other versions salvaged and spreading around like internet wildfire.
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BBC Reported Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell
A revealing video uncovered today shows a BBC reporter talking about the collapse of WTC 7 while WTC 7 can clearly be seen still standing behind her in the background,
Google removed the clip within hours.
Monday, February 26, 2007 (UPDATED 7:58PM CST)
An amazing video uncovered from the BBC archives today shows the BBC reporting on the collapse of WTC Building 7 over twenty minutes before it fell at 5:20pm on the afternoon of 9/11.
The incredible footage shows BBC reporter Jane Standley talking about the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building while it remains standing in the live shot behind her head. She even moves aside at one point and looks back so you can see the entire building, upright and erect, quite clearly, still smoldering.
Minutes before the actual collapse of the building is due, the feed to the reporter mysteriously dies, and the anchor, who has obviously been informed of the error, just kind of shrugs and moves on.
Here's a link to the video on Utube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7SwOT29gbc&eurl=
This amazing clip was on Google Video, but was removed within hours of the story breaking. A You Tube upload (still processing) is embedded above. My personal favorite part is where the solemn studio anchor in London states that WTC 7 "was apparently weakened by the fire", and then goes on to ask whether there have been "calls in America for revenge....yet."
Political theatre, anyone?
Here's a link to the full article about it, with more video clip links.
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/260207building7.htm
It really begs the demolition question once again, to put it mildly to see that the BBC reported on the collapse of Building 7 over twenty minutes in advance of its implosion. This obviously provokes a myriad of questions as to how they knew it was about to come down when the official story says its collapse happened accidentally as a result of fire damage and debris weakening the building's structure.
Cut! Print it.
related:
I attempted to download several versions of the longer one, though strangely both versions are already corrupted somehow?
I could download the larger .flv version [57 MB] still.
though http://www.arcfxhost.com/building7_still_up.avi [77 MB] didn't work for me and the 128 MB .wmv version didn't work for me either (which has a black screen and U2 song dubbed into it instead. On viewing the .flv version that IS the correct audio for the background introduction titles, though I was unable to personally see the video from that version--only from the .flv version. It may be just the software I have that is buggy though.
or still watch this shorter version, streaming video up for now--other links ***deleted within hours.*** This may go down soon because other You Tube versions have already been deleted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7SwOT29gbc&eurl=
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Calls have already been put through to the BBC reporting the "mistake," click here to listen to an MP3.
http://www.pumpitout.com/audio/bbc_oops.mp3
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An astounding video uncovered from the archives today shows the BBC reporting on the collapse of WTC Building 7 over twenty minutes before it fell at 5:20pm on the afternoon of 9/11. The incredible footage shows BBC reporter Jane Standley talking [empathetically] about the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building [WTC7] while it remains standing in the live shot behind her head. [She is then cut out with only minutes to spare from the actual demolition which would have occurred live after they were already talking about it collapsing. She's cut from NYC-to-London TV feed without explanation when someone at BBC realizes the egregious continuity error about what they were ordering her to report from NYC something already occurring which has has not yet happened in the live shot from her NYC location.]
Although there is no clock or time stamp on the footage, the source claims the report was given at 4:57pm EST, 23 minutes before Building 7 collapsed at 5:20pm. While the exact time of the report cannot be confirmed at present, it is clear from the footage that the reporter is describing the collapse of WTC 7 while it clearly remains standing behind her in the live shot.
This newly uncovered video confirms that the collapse of WTC 7 was no surprise, because television news stations were reporting on it before it happened!
This footage is absolutely amazing and should provoke a firestorm of new questions aimed both at Silverstein [WTCs owner] and the BBC. Who told the BBC that the building was going to collapse before it did and why were they reporting its fall in advance of the event actually taking place?
Many have speculated that some kind of press release was leaked too soon and AP wires, radio stations and TV news outlets prematurely reported on WTC 7's collapse.
This amazing clip was on Google Video, but was removed within hours of the story breaking.
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BBC Reported Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell
Revealing, shocking video shows reporter talking about collapse with WTC 7 still standing in background, Google removes clip
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Prison Planet
Monday, February 26, 2007 (UPDATED 7:58PM CST)
An astounding video uncovered from the archives today shows the BBC reporting on the collapse of WTC Building 7 over twenty minutes before it fell at 5:20pm on the afternoon of 9/11. The incredible footage shows BBC reporter Jane Standley talking about the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building [WTC7] while it remains standing in the live shot behind her head.
Minutes before the actual collapse of the building is due, the feed to the reporter mysteriously dies.
This amazing clip was on Google Video, but was removed within hours of the story breaking. A You Tube upload (still processing) is embedded above but we fully expect this to be removed soon. You can watch it for the time being at this link and also here. A WMV link is here (on our server) and a Quicktime here. Bit torrent versions of the file can be found here. An avi version can be found here. We are attempting to compile numerous mirrors of the video file. Skip forward to around the 14:30 minute mark. We expect the surviving links to quickly disappear, so we've also uploaded an FLV file to our own server. Click here to download. You'll need a free player that plays FLV files, a selection of which can be found here. Please use this download to create mirror copies in all formats and e mail the links to us.
To be clear, the Salomon Brothers Building is just a different name for Building 7 or WTC 7.
Although there is no clock or time stamp on the footage, the source claims the report was given at 4:57pm EST, 23 minutes before Building 7 collapsed at 5:20pm. While the exact time of the report cannot be confirmed at present, it is clear from the footage that the reporter is describing the collapse of WTC 7 while it clearly remains standing behind her in the live shot.
Here are some further screenshots from the video.
The fact that the BBC reported on the collapse of Building 7 over twenty minutes in advance of its implosion obviously provokes a myriad of questions as to how they knew it was about to come down when the official story says its collapse happened accidentally as a result of fire damage and debris weakening the building's structure.
As we have documented before, firefighters, police and first responders were all told to get back from the building because it was about to be brought down. It is widely acknowledged by those who were there on the scene that warnings were issued for people to evacuate the area in anticipation of the building's collapse, with some even stating that a 20 second countdown preceded the collapse of the 47-story skyscraper, again clearly suggesting that it was taken down by means of explosives as the video footage of its implosion illustrates.
Alex Jones' film Terror Storm documents how Thermate was the likely culprit for the implosion of the twin towers and also explores the collapse of WTC 7.
In a September 2002 PBS documentary, the owner of the WTC complex Larry Silverstein discusses Building 7 and states that in the late afternoon of September 11, the decision was made to "pull it." The term "pull it" is industry jargon for controlled demolition, but Silverstein denied charges that WTC 7 had been deliberately brought down.
This newly uncovered video confirms that the collapse of WTC 7 was no surprise, because television news stations were reporting on it before it happened!
This footage is absolutely amazing and should provoke a firestorm of new questions aimed both at Silverstein and the BBC. Who told the BBC that the building was going to collapse before it did and why were they reporting its fall in advance of the event actually taking place?
Many have speculated that some kind of press release was leaked too soon and AP wires, radio stations and TV news outlets prematurely reported on WTC 7's collapse.
The video also severely undermines the credibility of the BBC who recently caused controversy by airing a 9/11 hit piece that sought to debunk questions that bring the official story into doubt.
Calls have already been put through to the BBC reporting the "mistake," click here to listen to an MP3. The BBC have promised to "look into it."
Moronic commenters on Digg are already trying to bury the story, yet none of them have an answer as to why the BBC reported the building's collapse before it happened. Click here to add your own comment and counter the debunkers.
ACTION: E Mail the BBC and ask them to clarify exactly why their reporter is announcing the collapse of Building 7 before it has collapsed.
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newswire article reporting global 22.Feb.2007 13:19
9.11 investigation | imperialism & war
80 BLOCKBUSTING Statements on 911 Truth by Govt. & Military Personnel
author: jail bush
This is a seminal collection of statements from people in all walks of government and military who have made statements relative to the 911 truth message: cheney, bush, et al should be guantanamoed. click the link for photos or the "truth tellers"
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/02/354510.shtml?discuss
[Rarely does the Wizard of Oz curtain get pulled back so well. Classic. Freaking classic. ]
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WTC 7 Larry Silverstein
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Owner of a 99 year lease and 3.5 billion dollar insurance policy, Larry Silverstein admits in a PBS special called "Rebuilding America" that WTC 7 was "pulled", the industrial term for demolished.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=u0scE7bQWdk
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newswire article reposts united states 05.Jan.2006 14:37
9.11 investigation Silverstein Answers WTC Building 7 Charges
author: Paul Joseph Watson
Says "pull it" meant to evacuate firefighters, but there were no firefighters in the building
Larry
Paul Joseph Watson | January 5 2006
After nearly two years of steadfast silence, Silverstein Properties have finally responded to questions about what Larry Silverstein meant when he told a PBS documentary that WTC Building 7 was "pulled" in the late afternoon of September 11 2001.
Building 7 occupied a city block immediately north of the World Trade Center complex. Photos taken minutes before its collapse show small fires on two or three floors. Building 7 became only the third steel building in history before or since 9/11 to ["officially"] collapse from fire damage. The other two were the North and South towers of the World Trade Center.
Any building that was not owned by Silverstein Properties strangely remained upright.
Photo and video evidence of the collapse shows classic indications of a controlled demolition. The standard 'crimp' in the center-left top of the building and the subsequent 'squibs' of smoke as it collapses clearly represent explosive demolition.
Even Dan Rather, commenting on the collapse for CBS News said that the collapse was, "reminiscent of those pictures we've all seen too much on television before, where a building was deliberately destroyed by well placed dynamite to knock it down."
Click here for Alex Jones' video analysis of the collapse of Building 7.
Questions about the highly suspicious nature of the building's collapse remained comparatively muted until January 2004, when a PBS documentary, America Rebuilds, originally broadcast in September 2002, received attention across the Internet.
The documentary was made infamous for one comment made by Larry Silverstein on the subject of 9/11. Silverstein states, "I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, "We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it. And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."
Click here to watch the clip.
We know that the term 'pull it' means to bring the building down by means of explosives because in the same documentary a cleanup worker (in December 2001) refers to the demolition of WTC Building 6 when he says, "...we're getting ready to pull the building six." The term is industry jargon for planned demolition.
Click here to listen to the clip.
For the following year and a half the Internet and alternative talk radio was aflame with talk of Building 7 and Silverstein's apparent admission. For many it is now the central issue of 9/11.
[1] In June 2005 this website reported Silverstein's only response to date. It was an ambiguous comment made to New York Post journalist Sam Smith. Silverstein told Smith that he "meant something else" by the "pull it" comment but mysteriously refused to elaborate any further.
[2] Silverstein Properties have finally provided a detailed explanation of what Silverstein meant when he said Building 7 was pulled.
The State Department, as part of its pathetic efforts to debunk 9/11 research, has posted the response from Silverstein's spokesperson Dara McQuillan on its website. It reads as follows.
Seven World Trade Center collapsed at 5:20 p.m. on September 11, 2001, after burning for seven hours. There were no casualties, thanks to the heroism of the Fire Department and the work of Silverstein Properties employees who evacuated tenants from the building.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) conducted a thorough investigation of the collapse of all the World Trade Center buildings. The FEMA report concluded that the collapse of Seven World Trade Center was a direct result of fires triggered by debris from the collapse of WTC Tower 1.
In the afternoon of September 11, Mr. Silverstein spoke to the Fire Department Commander on site at Seven World Trade Center. The Commander told Mr. Silverstein that there were several firefighters in the building working to contain the fires. Mr. Silverstein expressed his view that the most important thing was to protect the safety of those firefighters, including, if necessary, to have them withdraw from the building.
Later in the day, the Fire Commander ordered his firefighters out of the building and at 5:20 p.m. the building collapsed. No lives were lost at Seven World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
The State Department website then comments,
As noted above, when Mr. Silverstein was recounting these events for a television documentary he stated, "I said, you know, we've had such terrible loss of life. Maybe the smartest thing to do is to pull it." Mr. McQuillan has stated that by "it," Mr. Silverstein meant the contingent of firefighters remaining in the building.
The insurmountable problem with this explanation of Silverstein's statement is that there were no firefighters inside WTC 7.
Dr. Shyam Sunder, of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), which investigated the collapse of WTC 7, is quoted in Popular Mechanics (9/11: Debunking the Myths, March, 2005) as saying: "There was no firefighting in WTC 7."
The FEMA report on the collapses, from May, 2002, also says about the WTC 7 collapse: "no manual firefighting operations were taken by FDNY."
And an article by James Glanz in the New York Times on November 29, 2001 says about WTC 7: "By 11:30 a.m., the fire commander in charge of that area, Assistant Chief Frank Fellini, ordered firefighters away from it for safety reasons."
Some defenders of the official 9/11 story say that the term "pull" is not demolition lingo for "bring down by controlled demolition". However, the same PBS video in which Silverstein makes his admission, contains the following exchange:
(unidentified construction worker): "Hello? Oh, we're getting ready to pull building six." Luis Mendes, NYC Dept of Design and Construction: "We had to be very careful how we demolished building six. We were worried about the building six coming down and then damaging the slurry walls, so we wanted that particular building to fall within a certain area."
But even this argument is beside the point. The building's collapse had all the hallmarks of controlled demolition.
Silverstein's explanation, after two years of stonewalling, that "pull it" meant to withdraw the firefighters is a lie. There were no firefighters in the building for hours before the building's collapse.
So what did Larry Silverstein mean when he stated: "I said, 'You know, we've had such terrible loss of life, may be the smartest thing to do is, is pull it. And they made that decision to pull and then we watched the building collapse." He could not have meant that they should "pull" the firefighters from the building because there weren't any firefighters in the building, at least according to FEMA, NIST, and Frank Fellini, the Assistant Chief responsible for WTC 7 at that time. And if he meant "pull the firefighters" then why did he say "pull it", with no reference to anything other than the building? The argument that "pull" is not used to mean "demolish" a building is belied by the other footage in the PBS documentary. And consider the timing: "they made that decision to pull and then we watched the building collapse." Could it really be possible that some (nonexistent) fire brigade was removed from the building and just at that moment ("then") the building collapsed? Is there really any doubt here about what Silverstein meant?
The only reasonable conclusion is that Larry Silverstein's statement is an admission that WTC 7 was brought down by a controlled demolition, meaning that the official version of what happened to WTC 7 is false, and casting serious doubt on the official story that terrorists of a foreign origin destroyed the twin towers, as well as on the rest of the official account of 9/11. Note that this admission is a statement against Silverstein's own interests (putting him at odds with the official version of events and potentially jeopardizing his insurance claims). Such statements are given great weight as a matter of law.
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. This building's collapse alone resulted in a profit of about $500 million.
[Silverstein made the video admittal that his insurance claims of a 500 billion dollar profit were fradulent, several months later in the PBS video "America Rebuilds," after he had collected half a trillion dollars.]
How concerned should we be therefore that Silverstein Properties bought the lease from MetLife for Chicago's Sears Tower in March 2004?
The length of time that it took Silverstein to respond to these charges and the fact that his eventual rebuttal does not correspond with the facts only gives us more grounds for skepticism.
A real, thorough, impartial, independent investigation of the collapse of Building 7 needs to take place and if the conclusions of that investigation are that Building 7 was professionally demolished, criminal charges need to be brought against those suspected of involvement.
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http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/331417.shtml
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newswire article reporting global 03.Dec.2006 22:06
9.11 investigation | arts and culture VIDEO: D. Tippet Sings Ode to Neocons Music Video, WTC7 thermate, Amer. Scholars Symposium
author: repost
Memorable moments from the Alex Jones organized L.A. 9-11 American Scholars Symposium, June 2006:
Thermite verifier Dr. Stephen Jones, University of Utah, plays a reworded version of The Police's "Every Breath You Take" song by Dale Tippet: dealing with WTC7 issues, thermite, fake wars, and most of all--America waking up from Bush's lies.
The song got a standing ovation.
Ode to the Neocons Music Video
All time views: 4,045
4 min 24 sec - Oct 31, 2006
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2124251799530760088
lyrics printed here:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/350203.shtml
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