FORD
04-11-2004, 06:18 PM
Possibly just wild speculation, but the fact that the same guys bought the building IS a little weird, you gotta admit.....
The Eve of
Destruction
On a spring day in 2004, two linked events made news. The first was spectacular and horrifying. The second was surprising, irritating to some --and ominous to others. Both happened exactly 911 days after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The first was the brutal attack on Madrid's rail system which left almost 200 dead and over a thousand injured. Dubbed Europe's 9/11, it was an alleged al-Qaida bid to shock Spain into departing from George Bush's Iraq coalition.
Those terror bombs struck Madrid on Tuesday, 11th March, 2004 --exactly 911 days after the 9/11 attacks of 2001.
The second event that day was the unexpected announcement that three investors involved in buying the World Trade Center complex just seven weeks before the total destruction of it's twin 110 story towers, had just bought the last of the USA's 110 story skyscrapers --Sears Tower, in Chicago.
A trio of reclusive New York landlords had just paid Metlife close to $850 million for the third remaining 110 story tower. The Chicago skyscraper used to have a spooky pre-9/11 valuation of exactly $911 million. News of the purchase was announced on the same morning as Madrid's carnage --exactly 911 days after 9/11.
The irritating part was that potential competing bidders for the Sears Tower never had a chance to make a better offer. Metlife closed the deal with the New York buyers so quickly, that real estate experts were left scratching their heads as to why.
Some saluted the resolve of the new investors, who clearly were either undaunted by terror risks --or else well protected by accomodating insurers willing to underwrite the risk.
The Sears Tower management had worked hard to show its total commitment to security and its conviction that the building was as terror-proof as humanly possible.
Most existing and potential tennants had been reassured. With perhaps one notable exception. For whatever reason, Goldman Sachs are set to leave the Tower --despite a lease which secured their tennancy until 2011.
Sears Tower was not the only deal going down in town. Real estate analysts say the Chicago market had been buzzing since the start of 2004 --making it the third most active market in the U.S.
So, that day, March 11th, 2003 saw a 9/11-style attack --911 days after 9/11, and the purchase of a 110 story tower valued at $911 million dollars prior to 9/11 --by investors who had seen their two 110 story towers crumble to the ground within weeks of purchase, on 9/11.
No wonder some people sat up and took notice. Things had gotten curious. And the ominous part is that they get even curiouser. The references to 911 and 110 which cropped up on March 11th are scheduled to intersect again very soon:
On April 19th, 2004 it will be the 110th day of the year. The day will begin at midnight, when it will be EXACTLY 911 hours since the midnight after the Madrid bombings.
(38 days X 24 hours = 912 hours, minus 1 hour for
daylight savings = exactly 911 hours in 38 days.)
On April 19th, 2004, it will also be 9 and 11 years respectively since two of the darkest moments in modern American history: the Oklahoma Murrah Building blast on April 19th, 1995; and the related mass incineration of David Koresh's followers on April 19th 1993, at Waco, Texas..
Propping up these gloomy resonances are a host of further esoteric indications which point to April 19th and the Sears Tower, as detailed in the articles below.
And it is against this inauspicious backdrop that in recent days have come media reports of questionable origin.
These reports are based on murky intelligence contacts touting a claimed transcript of the interrogation of a terror suspect.
Under breathless headlines like "Sears Tower Was Terror Target," articles have been popping up on news pages around the world over the last few weeks.
The supposed interrogation transcript say that Sears Tower was/is a prime target for the "terrorists" who perpetrated 9/11. But everyone knows this anyway. After all, on the day of 9/11, the Sears Tower was immediately evacuated as a blindingly obvious precaution.
Those reports are basically, old news. Or maybe, they are not.
Maybe theose media reports are signs that world media are being carefully primed to pin the blame in the "right" places --should anything happen to the Sears Tower.
Perhaps the very same people who brought you Waco, Oklahoma and 9/11 are about to unleash more of their brutal brand of socio-political manipulation.
And, I'm not talking about terrorists here.
Consider this web page a blindingly obvious precaution.
Fintan Dunne
April 8th, 2004
The Eve of
Destruction
On a spring day in 2004, two linked events made news. The first was spectacular and horrifying. The second was surprising, irritating to some --and ominous to others. Both happened exactly 911 days after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The first was the brutal attack on Madrid's rail system which left almost 200 dead and over a thousand injured. Dubbed Europe's 9/11, it was an alleged al-Qaida bid to shock Spain into departing from George Bush's Iraq coalition.
Those terror bombs struck Madrid on Tuesday, 11th March, 2004 --exactly 911 days after the 9/11 attacks of 2001.
The second event that day was the unexpected announcement that three investors involved in buying the World Trade Center complex just seven weeks before the total destruction of it's twin 110 story towers, had just bought the last of the USA's 110 story skyscrapers --Sears Tower, in Chicago.
A trio of reclusive New York landlords had just paid Metlife close to $850 million for the third remaining 110 story tower. The Chicago skyscraper used to have a spooky pre-9/11 valuation of exactly $911 million. News of the purchase was announced on the same morning as Madrid's carnage --exactly 911 days after 9/11.
The irritating part was that potential competing bidders for the Sears Tower never had a chance to make a better offer. Metlife closed the deal with the New York buyers so quickly, that real estate experts were left scratching their heads as to why.
Some saluted the resolve of the new investors, who clearly were either undaunted by terror risks --or else well protected by accomodating insurers willing to underwrite the risk.
The Sears Tower management had worked hard to show its total commitment to security and its conviction that the building was as terror-proof as humanly possible.
Most existing and potential tennants had been reassured. With perhaps one notable exception. For whatever reason, Goldman Sachs are set to leave the Tower --despite a lease which secured their tennancy until 2011.
Sears Tower was not the only deal going down in town. Real estate analysts say the Chicago market had been buzzing since the start of 2004 --making it the third most active market in the U.S.
So, that day, March 11th, 2003 saw a 9/11-style attack --911 days after 9/11, and the purchase of a 110 story tower valued at $911 million dollars prior to 9/11 --by investors who had seen their two 110 story towers crumble to the ground within weeks of purchase, on 9/11.
No wonder some people sat up and took notice. Things had gotten curious. And the ominous part is that they get even curiouser. The references to 911 and 110 which cropped up on March 11th are scheduled to intersect again very soon:
On April 19th, 2004 it will be the 110th day of the year. The day will begin at midnight, when it will be EXACTLY 911 hours since the midnight after the Madrid bombings.
(38 days X 24 hours = 912 hours, minus 1 hour for
daylight savings = exactly 911 hours in 38 days.)
On April 19th, 2004, it will also be 9 and 11 years respectively since two of the darkest moments in modern American history: the Oklahoma Murrah Building blast on April 19th, 1995; and the related mass incineration of David Koresh's followers on April 19th 1993, at Waco, Texas..
Propping up these gloomy resonances are a host of further esoteric indications which point to April 19th and the Sears Tower, as detailed in the articles below.
And it is against this inauspicious backdrop that in recent days have come media reports of questionable origin.
These reports are based on murky intelligence contacts touting a claimed transcript of the interrogation of a terror suspect.
Under breathless headlines like "Sears Tower Was Terror Target," articles have been popping up on news pages around the world over the last few weeks.
The supposed interrogation transcript say that Sears Tower was/is a prime target for the "terrorists" who perpetrated 9/11. But everyone knows this anyway. After all, on the day of 9/11, the Sears Tower was immediately evacuated as a blindingly obvious precaution.
Those reports are basically, old news. Or maybe, they are not.
Maybe theose media reports are signs that world media are being carefully primed to pin the blame in the "right" places --should anything happen to the Sears Tower.
Perhaps the very same people who brought you Waco, Oklahoma and 9/11 are about to unleash more of their brutal brand of socio-political manipulation.
And, I'm not talking about terrorists here.
Consider this web page a blindingly obvious precaution.
Fintan Dunne
April 8th, 2004