What did Larry Silverstein mean by "pull it"?

Does this statement constitute Silverstein’s admission that WTC 7 was brought down by controlled demolition?  The U.S. Government and Silverstein Properties insist that it does not, but does their alternative explanation make any sense?

In one of its websites, the Department of State has posted the official response from Silverstein Properties:

“In the afternoon of September 11, Mr. Silverstein spoke to the Fire Department Commander on site at Seven World Trade Center .  The Commander told Mr. Silverstein that there were several firefighters in the building working to contain the fires.  Mr. Silverstein expressed his view that the most important thing was to protect the safety of those firefighters, including, if necessary, to have them withdraw from the building.”

“Later in the day, the Fire Commander ordered his firefighters out of the building and at 5:20 p.m. the building collapsed.  No lives were lost at Seven World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.”

Here is that website:  http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Sep/16-241966.html

The insurmountable problem with this explanation of Silverstein’s statement is that there were no firefighters inside WTC 7.  Dr. Shyam Sunder, of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), which investigated the collapse of WTC 7, is quoted in Popular Mechanics (9/11:  Debunking the Myths, March, 2005) as saying:  “There was no firefighting in WTC 7”.  The FEMA report on the collapses, from May, 2002, also says about the WTC 7 collapse:  “no manual firefighting operations were taken by FDNY”.   And an article by James Glanz in the New York Times on November 29, 2001 says about WTC 7:  “By 11:30 a.m., the fire commander in charge of that area, Assistant Chief Frank Fellini, ordered firefighters away from it for safety reasons.”

http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/wtc7/archive/nytimes_112901.html

(Note in this article the next to the last paragraph regarding the unexplained evaporation of steel members.  Molten steel was also found under the twin towers, a fact that cannot be explained by the official fire-collapse story but is explained by the use of high-energy demolition explosives, such as thermite.  Before they could be studied, the steel remains of the buildings were immediately – and illegally -- removed from the site, which was after all a crime scene no matter what else you believe, over the loud objections of Fire Engineering magazine and the New York Times, among many others, and access to the steel was unusually restricted in the short time before it was shipped off to Asia to be melted down, forever preventing a thorough investigation.)

Some defenders of the official 9/11 story say that the term “pull it” is not demolition lingo for “bring it down by controlled demolition”.  However, the same PBS video in which Silverstein makes his admission, contains the following exchange:

(unidentified construction worker):  “Hello?  Oh, we’re getting ready to pull building six.”  Luis Mendes, NYC Dept of Design and Construction:  “We had to be very careful how we demolished building six.  We were worried about the building six coming down and then damaging the slurry walls, so we wanted that particular building to fall within a certain area”.

If you wish to watch this segment, it is also at minute 5:00 in the following Alex Jones film:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2005/180305groundzero.htm

So what did Larry Silverstein mean when he stated:  “I said, ‘You know, we’ve had such terrible loss of life, may be the smartest thing to do is, is pull it.  And they made that decision to pull and then we watched the building collapse.”  He could not have meant that they should “pull” the firefighters from the building because there weren’t any firefighters in the building, at least according to FEMA, NIST, and Frank Fellini, the Assistant Chief responsible for WTC 7 at that time.  And if he meant “pull the firefighters” then why did he say “pull it”, with no reference to anything other than the building?   The argument that “pull” is not used to mean “demolish” a building is belied by the other footage in the PBS documentary.  And consider the timing:  …“they made that decision to pull and then we watched the building collapse.”  Could it really be possible that some (nonexistent) fire brigade was removed from the building and just at that moment (“then”) the building collapsed?   Is there really any doubt here about what Silverstein meant?

Isn't the only reasonable conclusion that Larry Silverstein’s statement is an admission that WTC 7 was brought down by a controlled demolition, meaning that the official version of what happened to WTC 7 is false, and casting serious doubt on the official story that terrorists of a foreign origin destroyed the twin towers, as well as on the rest of the official account of 9/11?  Note that this admission is a statement against Silverstein’s own interests (putting him at odds with the official version of events and potentially jeopardizing his enormous insurance claims.)  Such statements are given great weight as a matter of law