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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
You are absolutely correct. One can only imagine the chaos.
I think, however, that what pai mei is getting at, is Just what exactly does Giuliani remember from that day.
"We were told that the World Trade Center was going to collapse."
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"No one that I know of had any idea they would implode. That was a complete surprise."
Which is it? Did they know, suspect, or have a really bad feeling that the towers would collapse? Or, did no one have the foggiest notion of what was about to happen?
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Just because "somebody told" Giuliani the towers were going to collapse doesn't mean that Giuliani himself (or the chief of police or the fire chief or the emergency management chief) were themselves convinced the towers were going to collapse, going by these transcripts. For all we know, he could have been thinking the towers would never collapse...its not made clear in the 2001 transcript. Furthermore, Giuliani goes on to say that the building collapsed 10-15 minutes after "they were told" it was going to collapse, so they didn't seem to be much alarmed by the announcement.