[jmacusa]

Exactly. If it had been the Empire State Building that had been hit then there would have been asbestos all over the place. In actuality if it had been the Empire State Building because of the way it's constructed it would have held. At most the upper part of the building would have been lost(''failed'' in the parlance).

[21twelve]

“...there would have been asbestos all over the place.”

And it would take 30 years to notice if you had any cancer from it.

That said, there is lots of other nasty stuff that gets released in a structure fire. Not that that excuses what these people did. The leaders of the scheme should be hanged for treason; adding to the debt that will some day take down this nation.