World Trade Center: Witness Says Security Cameras Turned off 9-9 and 9-10

[seventhson]

Pre-9/11 World Trade Center Power-Down (More facts pointing to
WTC demolition)


Pre-9/11 World Trade Center Power-Down
by Victor Thorn

Did the World Trade Center towers undergo a deliberate “power-down” on the
weekend prior to the 9-11 terrorist attacks? According to Scott Forbes, a
senior database administrator for Fiduciary Trust, Inc. – a high-net
investment
bank which was later acquired by Franklin Templeton – this is precisely what
took place. Forbes, who was hired by Fiduciary in 1999 and is now
stationed
at a U.K. branch office, was working on the weekend of September 8-9, 2001,
and
said that his company was given three weeks advance notice that New York’s
Port Authority would take out power in the South Tower from the 48th floor
up.
The reason: the Port Authority was performing a cabling upgrade to increase
the WTC’s computer bandwidth.

Forbes stated that Fiduciary Trust was one of the WTC’s first occupants
after it was erected, and that a “power-down” had never been initiated prior
to
this occasion. He also stated that his company put forth a huge investment
in
time and resources to take down their computer systems due to the deliberate
power outage. This process, Forbes recalled, began early Saturday morning
(September 8th) and continued until mid-Sunday afternoon (September 9th) –
approximately 30 hours. As a result of having its electricity cut, the WTC’
s
security cameras were rendered inoperative, as were its I.D. systems, and
elevators
to the upper floors.

Forbes did stress, though, that there was power to the WTC’s lower floors,
and that there were plenty of engineers going in-and-out of the WTC who had
free
access throughout the building due to its security system being knocked out.
In an e-mail to journalist John Kaminski, author of The Day America Died
(Sisyphus Press) and America’s Autopsy Report (Dandelion Books), Forbes
wrote:
“Without power there were no security cameras, no security locks on doors,
and
many, many ‘engineers’ coming in and out of the tower.”

Forbes didn’t think much of these occurrences at the time, and said that he
worked until Monday morning (September 10th) to get all the computer systems
back online. Due to his IT-related duties on Saturday & Sunday, Forbes had
Tuesday, September 11th off, and thus watched the World Trade Center towers
collapse from his apartment. While doing so, he recalled, “I was convinced
immediately that something was happening related to the weekend work.”

In addition, Forbes says there were other peculiarities revolving around
this
unreported event, including:

1) Fiduciary employees trapped between the 90-97th floors of the South Tower
told family members (via cell-phone calls) that they were hearing “bomb-like
explosions” throughout the towers.

2) Video cameras positioned atop the World Trade Center which were used to
feed daily images to local television stations were inexplicably inoperative
that morning.

3) A Fiduciary employee who was on one of the lower floors and escaped
immediately after the first (North) tower was struck, reported that he was
amazed by
the large number of FBI agents that were already on the streets surrounding
the WTC complex only minutes after the initial strike.

4) Last but not least, Ann Tatlock, CEO of Fiduciary Trust and now a board
member of Franklin Templeton, had just arrived at a conference hosted by
Warren
Buffet at the Offutt Air Force Base (home of the U.S. Strategic Command
Headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska) when the 9-11 attacks took place.
Coincidentally,
later that day President George W. Bush flew into this very same base on Air
Force One for “security reasons.” Even more chilling are the Offutt AFB
ties
to the CIA’s MK ULTRA experiments, Project Monarch, the Franklin Cover-Up,
and
the diabolical practices of Michael Aquino. (Type any of these words into a
search engine for more information.)

In the end, Forbes says that even though these disclosures could jeopardize
his current employment, he has stepped forward because, “I have mailed this
information to many people, including the 9/11 Commission, but no one seems
to be
registering these facts.”

Obviously there are many unanswered questions to this story, and we will
keep
you updated as more information arrives.

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[LARED]

1. Dicussed here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=11081&mesg_id=11081

[Racenut20]

2. I love that Churchill quote.

[RC]

3. Power down to run new computer cable?

Why? I've run computer cables in new/used buildings and having the power on was a good thing. We could see. Our hammer drills worked. Not having power would make it much tougher to do the job especially in the dark interior shafts.

[LynzM]

4. That was my thought...

What do you run, other than actual power, that necessitates turning power off?? Cat5 and others you can install fine, and like you said, easier, in a building where you can SEE what you are doing. And LIHOP/MIHOP marches on...

And having read the other thread, this letter smells a bit like a fraud. Doesn't mean the idea should be dismissed, but I'm not sure the writer is genuine.

[nodictators]

5. On the morning of 9/11, Bush said he saw the first plane hit the...

...North tower at the WTC. Everyone says that the video of that wasn't shown until 12 hours later.

Maybe he did see the plane hit the WTC in the morning of 9/11, what with all of that new "computer cable" in place.

Somebody knew enough to buy put options in American Airlines, United Airlines, and Deutsche Re.

Somebody knew enough to call Willie Brown, then-Mayor of San Francisco, and warn him about flying that day.

I'll bet that the "somebody" wasn't one of the "computer cable" installers.