Developer Larry Silverstein is accusing American Airlines of trying to have it both ways over whether or not the terror attack on the World Trade Center was an “act of war.”
In court papers filed yesterday, Silverstein says the airline and its insurers “repeatedly and explicitly promised Congress, regulators and the American people that they would not use act of war to avoid paying claims” over 9/11.
But after those assurances prompted “billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded benefits from a massive federal bailout,” Silverstein says American — in an act of “breathtaking cynicism” — is now pressing an “act of war” defense in his negligence suit against the airline over the destruction of the WTC, which he’d leased just two months earlier.