Between 1993 and 2000, Marvin
Bush (President Bush's brother) was a principal in a company that provided
security for the World Trade Center (as well as United Airlines) and from
1999 to January 2002 their cousin Wirt Walker III was the CEO. According
to its president CEO, Barry McDaniel, the company had an ongoing contract to
handle security at the World Trade Center "up to the day the buildings fell
down". The company, Securacom, was backed by KuwAm, a Kuwaiti-American
(!) investment firm on whose board Marvin Burns also served.
Mr. Bush was also a former
director and now is an advisor to the board of directors to a firm called HCC
Insurance Holdings, Inc., which had what it called a "small participation in
the World Trade Center property insurance coverage and some of the surrounding
buildings".
Security loosened and bomb-sniffing dogs removed days before 9/11
The World Trade Center was destroyed just days after a heightened security
alert was lifted at the landmark 110-story towers, security personnel said
yesterday.
Daria Coard, 37, a guard at Tower One, said the security detail had been working
12-hour shifts for the past two weeks because of numerous phone threats. But
on Thursday, bomb-sniffing dogs were abruptly removed.
Power shutdown and construction works in the WTC before 9/11
Scott Forbes, who worked in the South Tower of the world trade center, witnessed
a power-down of the tower in the weekend before 9/11. In interviews, Scott
states that during the power-down there was no security
GW: You've previously stated that on the weekend of September 8 and 9, 2001,
there was a "power down" condition in world trade center Tower 2, the South
Tower, and that this power down condition meant there was no electrical supply
for approximately 36 hours from floor 50 up. Do you know what time the power-down
started?
SF: All systems were shutdown on Saturday morning and the power down condition
was in effect from approximately 12 noon on Saturday September 8, 2001.
GW: When did it end?
SF: Approximately 2PM on Sunday 9/9.
GW: How do you know that there was no electricity from floor 50 up, if Fiduciary
Trust was on much higher floors -- starting at the 90th floor?
SF: I can't absolutely verify that there was no power on lower floors ... all
I can validate is that we were informed of the power down condition, that we
had to take down all systems and then the following day had to bring back up
all systems ...
GW: You said the reason given by the World Trade Center or Port Authority for
the power down was that cabling in the tower was being upgraded. Do you know
what parts of the building or how extensive the area would have been for upgrading
cabling? In other words, would the area being worked on have been near the
outer walls of the tower? Near the core? In the middle?
SF: I have no knowledge about this and can't comment ...
GW: You also stated that, without power, there were no security cameras. How
do you know that? Could there have been backup generators which powered the
security cameras?
SF: Within my company security cameras were monitored and videos retained for
reference. They were powered from the usual power supplies so they would ave
been out of action like all other electrical appliances.
GW: You also stated that, without power, there were security locks on doors.
Are you just referring to outside doors, or also office doors? Were the locks
electrical or key? If electrical, were they battery-operated?
SF: I was referring to the secure doors accessing my companies floors (and
other companies). I do not believe there were any battery operated doors.
GW: You also stated there were many, many 'engineers' coming in and out of
the tower. Did you see any of these folks yourself?
SF: Yes. By “engineers” I mean there were workmen on site, in overalls.
GW: Did these folks look "middle eastern"?
SF: No, not particularly, I mean I don't recall registering that the
guys were of one racial group or another.
GW: Did you recognize any of them from previous "work" in the tower?
KT: When you were working these two days, did you notice anything suspicious
going on in or around the WTC?
SF: Well there were several guys in overalls, carrying building gear, toolboxes,
etc inside the building. Remember there were no security locks on doors or
security cameras, so access was free unless a door was locked by a manual key.
Seeing so many 'strangers' who didn't work at the WTC was unusual.
I'd make one other point at this juncture also, because of the power down backups
of system were an absolute necessity and they would have been taken offsite
for security. Because of the power outage all our systems backups had to be
100% valid and available in case of an emergency. These were taken offsite,
like normal, for security.
KT: So the people you saw coming in and out of the building, did they have
badges and what were their ethnic makeup, were they Arab?
SF: No ethnic consistency at all and I don't remember any badges or labels
of any sort.
KT: Where did you see all these strange workers? Was it just the floors you
were working on that Saturday and Sunday, or also in the lobbies and elevators
and what floors were you working on that Saturday and Sunday?
SF: I was working on the 97th floor and as I recall I saw guys in the main
lobby, on the ground floor and in the elevator lobby on floor 76. This was
on the Saturday.
KT: You mentioned you didn't notice them wearing any badges. Is this unusual?
I take it there must be a lot of construction going on in the WTC from time
to time. Do construction workers not need identity badges?
SF: They would all need to have stick-on badges, with their photo and name.
I can't remember seeing those badges or not.
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