He paid 124 million up front to buy a 3.2 billion complex, and received 4.6 billion in insurance...

Profit = 1.4 billion. Not 4 billion. (Still not bad though...)

""I remember getting a call from the...er...fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."

As anyone who knows anything about construction can tell you, “Pull” is common industry jargon for a controlled demolition."

ROFL. Conspiracy fun indeed. (And no citations to be found.)

"Mr. Silverstein’s first order of business as the new owner was to change the company responsible for the security of the complex."

If only they had had better security, they could have asked those planes to show their ID.