BZRK Posted November 1, 2006 #76 Share Posted November 1, 2006 They're good word, all of which they have currupted by "repeatedly" lying to us about .....hmmm almost everything? Well you see Mr. Bzrk, its quite the contrary good friend, these "credible" former or present government officials aren't lying per say, but..........THEY'RE JUST CRAZY! Raving Loons like Alex Jones !!............ You still fail to comprehend that all of these people have severe mental problems. Even though they're taking steps to bring the "truth" to light while protecting themselves, the fact still remains theyre crazy. Yes! Yes! Yes! They are here to help us, they are our government. They wouldnt do anything against out best intrest, nor would they make political decisions which soley benefit a select few. Muhammad Atta is dead. We knew it was him who crashed the first plane through the first World Trade Center. You wanna know how? Its simple. We have proof! His paper passport was found outside the trade centers throughout all the debris on the city streets. It not unbelievable to think that the paper passport could jump out his coat, morph through the fireball, slip and slide itself through the collapse then gently loft itself on the city streets to be found. You all act as if its impossible. Well, so, Rumsfield is credible too, when has he ever lied to you.....?? Our president is credible to, his word is the Gospel the Ultimate Revalation! LOL you maybe right Urban hahaha Great Post Cheers BZRK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redtail Posted November 1, 2006 #77 Share Posted November 1, 2006 (edited) The investigations into WTC7 leave some disturbing questions. Why does FEMA conclude it was fire and quit probing when it admits its theory is highly unlikely? Strangely, FEMA’s non-investigation is consistent with that of the official 9/11 Commission: the collapse of WTC7 is not mentioned once in the 571-page 9/11 Commission Report. Prior Knowledge: Tom Kennedy, A Member of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) "National Urban Search and Rescue Team"During an Interview with CBS News anchor Dan Rather Talks about How FEMA Was in Place in NY the Day Before the Attack. Link On August 30, 2006, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) posted on their website a list of fourteen frequently asked questions (FAQ) and answers to them. NIST's new FAQ avoids answering the central charges of its most visible critique, Building a Better Mirage: * That NIST fails to support it's key assertion that "collapse initiation" automatically leads to "global collapse". * That NIST uses the diversionary tactic of describing some events -- such as the airliner crashes -- in great detail, while almost completely avoiding the core question of what brought the Towers down. * That NIST's report is internally inconsistent, supposing that steel columns were heated to temperatures hundreds of degrees in excess of the maximum temperatures indicated by its steel samples. * That NIST fails to substantiate it's implied claim that its computer models predicted "collapse initiation". * That NIST fails to even address most of the features of the Towers' destruction that are apparently unique to controlled demolitions. I could go on and on..... Once again most of the Governments explanation have come from GOVERNMENT organisations FEMA & NIST etc..... this topic is not about NIST or FEMA.... although we have debunked them over and over again....if your going to refer to your bible Popular mechanics or 911myths these have been debunked before.... Please create a different topic regards to this and we will be more than happy to debunk FEMA & NISTS and the structural engineers etc that have said the opposite of what we have..... So you can easily provide an example where they have been "debunked"? Oh, and I mean were they show the work. Maybe you havnt read the whistle blowers section properly... well have you? have you heard of the Gag order? So all of these "whistle blowers" who had access to this top secret information weren't under a gag order? Or is that the reason that they can say "It was an inside job" but can't provide any proof? This has to be one of the lamest comments ever....... Ex 28 yr old CIA agent coming forward... is doing it for fame, money or a grudge? any proof, evidence, source? please provide evidence with your claims..... Oh no see I was speculating. That's what your "whistle blowers" are doing because they can't back up what they say. The difference is I know that... Wow your only defense against that is "This has to be one of the lamest comments ever."? Care to post evidence of the sources that say the opposite of what this topic is about.....?? Aside from the Musawi trial? Edited November 1, 2006 by Redtail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BZRK Posted November 1, 2006 #78 Share Posted November 1, 2006 (edited) So you can easily provide an example where they have been "debunked"? Oh, and I mean were they show the work. So all of these "whistle blowers" who had access to this top secret information weren't under a gag order? Or is that the reason that they can say "It was an inside job" but can't provide any proof? Oh no see I was speculating. That's what your "whistle blowers" are doing because they can't back up what they say. The difference is I know that... Wow your only defense against that is "This has to be one of the lamest comments ever."? Aside from the Musawi trial? ***EDIT*** -Personal attack deleted No Evidence, no sources, no nothing as usual..... You should really do your research mate, the professionals from FEMA and NIST have been debunked over and over again.... i only merely stated a few examples......once again you have strayed off the road and hit a pole...... Some have been put on gag orders and have come forward about it..... maybe if you take the time to read the actual topic you may comment at the topic on hand..... Now you will probably try to counter argue that as usual by saying stupid crap like "but why wouldnt the government kill these whistle blowers" well the reason for that is if so many whistleblowers are getting killed then surely people will start to speculate that the Government really is hiding something..... Many people have backed up what they have said, including engineers and other high profiled people. Once again read the topic before you POST. Actually it was a lame comment you made. You claimed something and failed to back it up AS USUAL...... What has the Musawi case got to do with you debunking the topic? Try to stay on topic please..... Just some of the information you probably missed; John O’Neil, the former deputy FBI director Timothy McNiven -a 29yr defense department operative Sibel Edmonds who is a former FBI wiretap translator who spoke publicly about US prior knowledge. Sibel D. Edmonds and 24 other former federal employees signed and are prepared to tell all to a grand jury. There is also over 200 former federal employees, also willing to tell all to a grand jury. FBI Special Agent Robert Wright who got on national TV and practically cried as he talked about how his bosses wouldn’t let him do his job in protecting the American people and preventing the WTC attacks. Bill Manning, editor of the 125-year-old monthly that frequently publishes technical studies of major fires Louie Cacchioli, 51, is a firefighter assigned to Engine 47 in Harlem. USAF Col. George Nelson (ret.), a 30 year veteran, aircraft accident investigator and expert in aircraft maintenance and aircraft identification. Morgan Reynolds, Ph.D, a former member of the Bush team who also served as director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis headquartered in Dallas. Paul Craig Roberts, listed by Who’s Who in America as one of the 1,000 most influential political thinkers in the world. Former MI5 agent David Shayler, who previously blew the whistle on the British government paying Al Qaeda $200,000 to carry out political assassinations William Rodriguez , the WTC janitor who heard and felt a strong explosion in the basement levels of the north tower just seconds before...including 100's of others who felt the same explosion.... There was no fooling former Air Force and commercial pilot Russ Wittenberg the morning of 9/11. He knew it was an inside job from the get-go, knowing the ‘big boys’ were up to the same dirty tricks they played in the Kennedy assassination and Pearl Harbor. Jose Sanchez, while working in a sub-level 4 workshop of the north tower on 9/11, heard a bomb-like explosion, had his hair burned and rescued a co-worker who had his leg and knee broken from the basement blast taking place at the same time the jetliner struck the top floors. Rene Welch knew her life would never be the same when she went public about her two 1987 encounters with Saudi royals, including two of the bin Laden brothers, who claimed the U.S. government was actively involved in pre-arranging 9/11. Besides being verified by Ronald Logsdon, 49, of Philadelphia, a scientist who worked in a NASA program with Welch and also present at the bin Laden meetings, this week long time Sedona resident, Naomi Niles, also verified the Sedona meeting took place. Despite threats on his life, Dr. Bill Deagle went public after being told by credible sources U.S. government brought about Oklahoma City bombing and 9/11 tragedy. Homeland Security whistleblower Mary Schneider is naming names, revealing that former FBI Director Louis Freeh, Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller and numerous U.S. senators and congressmen knew before the September 11 attacks that U.S. immigration officials were bribed by an illegal Moroccan Muslim allegedly linked to Osama bin Laden’s half-brother. This according to Schneider, who was told about the illegal alien's ties to terrorism by outside informant Bonnie Sharrit. It is quite plausible that explosives were pre-planted in all three (WTC) buildings," BYU physics professor Steven E. Jones Distinguished University of Minnesota Philosophy Professor Joins 9/11 Fight, Saying the Truth Must Be Uncovered James H.Fetzer, PhD. Glen Standish, an airline pilot for over 20 years stated, “The plane seen in various video clips of the attack could not have been UA flight 175, due to the extra equipment that appears to be attached to the bottom of the fuselage”. Many others agree...... Nila Sagadevin, a seasoned airline pilot of over 20 years, examined photos of the engine that was found at the Trade Center site. He stated, “The engine found at the Trade Center was a CFM-56, which is not utilized on a Boeing 767”, confirming that the south tower was not hit by flight 175, but by another plane that had taken its place. Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine, US Army (ret.), an expert in photo analysis, reviewed the photos taken at the Pentagon before the collapse and concluded, “The plane does not fit in that hole!” indicating that the damage was inconsistent with a 757 strike. SHOULD THE LIST GO ON.........You think all these people are capable of lying just for fame when really the media has put a blanket over there comments........fame, money a grudge has nothing to do with all this.... these people are patriotic as you and i are... and they find it necessary for people to know the TRUTH...... PLEASE READ THE TOPIC from start to finish ***EDIT*** -Personal attack deleted Cheers BZRK ***EDIT*** -BZRK Please read the PM I am sending you. Edited November 1, 2006 by Waspie_Dwarf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquatus1 Posted November 1, 2006 #79 Share Posted November 1, 2006 ***EDIT*** -Personal attack deleted Can you please discredit the whistle-blowers is this too much to ask for? or maybe it because you can not disprove them wrong. Actually, it's because of the exact reason I already gave. I just don't find the topic interesting, and I never have. Its quite obvious you can not disprove them wrong because you can not look at your bible 911myths.com or Popular Mechanics and copy and paste material from there to debunk thist topic as there is nothing on these sites to debunk whistle blowers.... ***EDIT*** -Personal attack deleted BZRK Well, what an interesting accussation.. I can't recal a single time that I have refered to either Popular Mechanics or 911Myths.com. Not a single one. For that matter I can't even recall a single time that I have ever bothered to "debunk whistle-blowers", for the simple reason that I have always, in all matters, insisted that physical proof trumps subjective eyewitnesses. Tell you what...prove me wrong. Give me a single example of my ever having used either my "bible" 911myths.com or Popular Mechanics. JUST one. ONE. Since its my bible, it should be pretty easy to find just one, right? Or is this another case of making claims instead of actually presenting evidence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Urban Legend Posted November 1, 2006 #80 Share Posted November 1, 2006 (edited) ***EDIT*** An Urban Legend, Please read the PM I am sending you. Edited November 1, 2006 by aquatus1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BZRK Posted November 26, 2006 #81 Share Posted November 26, 2006 Not one person have debunked this thread. Makes you wonder what evidence is sufficient to these debunkers. Aquatus did say "it doesnt interest her" ..... but yet she still claims the Government was not involved without even looking at all this information provided. Cheers BZRK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquatus1 Posted November 27, 2006 #82 Share Posted November 27, 2006 (edited) Aquatus did say "it doesnt interest her" ..... Him. but yet she still claims the Government was not involved without even looking at all this information provided. No, I haven't. You've said I have, several times, but I haven't. I personally believe (I do not claim) that the government did not have a direct involvement. They might have had a third party role, possibly. As far as eyewitness testimony goes, I've said it before, and I'll say it as many times as people wish to misquote me on it, testimony only serves as supporting evidence for an existing theory. If the theory has not yet been shown to exist, testimony is worth very little. You can have a dozen people claiming they saw a man murder another man, but without the corpus delecti, their testimony will be fairly powerless. On an unrelated note, I can't help but notice that on pretty much every thread that comes up, you mention me in some manner to get my attention, and sooner or later post that maybe it would be a better idea for me not to post. What's up with that? If you want to discuss something specific with me, fine, but don't try and pick a fight over it. This is just an internet forum, man. Don't take it so seriously. Edited November 27, 2006 by aquatus1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BZRK Posted November 27, 2006 #83 Share Posted November 27, 2006 Him. No, I haven't. You've said I have, several times, but I haven't. I personally believe (I do not claim) that the government had an direct involvement. They might have had a third party role, possibly. As far as eyewitness testimony goes, I've said it before, and I'll say it as many times as people wish to misquote it on it, testimony only serves as supporting evidence for an existing theory. If the theory has not yet been shown to exist, testimony is worth very little. You can have a dozen people claiming they saw a man murder another man, but without the corpus delecti, their testimony will be fairly powerless. On an unrelated note, I can't help but notice that on pretty much every thread that comes up, you mention me in some manner to get my attention, and sooner or later post that maybe it would be a better idea for me not to post. What's up with that? If you want to discuss something specific with me, fine, but don't try and pick a fight over it. This is just an internet forum, man. Don't take it so seriously. Sorry i always thought you were a woman, my apologies. Oh ok so you believe the Government had a direct involvment in 9/11. Then theres nothing to say your a "Conspiracy Theorist". Internet forum, live debate, real time debate whatever you may wish to call it, the fact of the matter is your totally contradict your self in more ways than Bush has lied. You refute so many facts and evidence that suggest GOVERNMENT INVOLVMENT but yet you dont claim but you believe that there was government involvment. Now whats up with that? Cheers BZRK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquatus1 Posted November 27, 2006 #84 Share Posted November 27, 2006 (edited) Sorry i always thought you were a woman, my apologies. Oh ok so you believe the Government had a direct involvment in 9/11. Then theres nothing to say your a "Conspiracy Theorist". No, I think you were reading while I was editing my post. I do not believe the government had a direct involvement, but they might have had a third party involvement. Besides, a conspiracy theorist theorizes. I have done nothing of the sort. Internet forum, live debate, real time debate whatever you may wish to call it, the fact of the matter is your totally contradict your self in more ways than Bush has lied. That sentence makes absolutely no sense. You refute so many facts and evidence that suggest GOVERNMENT INVOLVMENT but yet you dont claim but you believe that there was government involvment. Now whats up with that? Cheers BZRK The only things I have refuted have to do with the physical collapse of the towers. Edited November 27, 2006 by aquatus1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BZRK Posted November 27, 2006 #85 Share Posted November 27, 2006 No, I think you were reading while I was editing my post. I do not believe the government had a direct involvement, but they might have had a third party involvement. Besides, a conspiracy theorist theorizes. I have done nothing of the sort. That sentence makes absolutely no sense. The only things I have refuted have to do with the physical collapse of the towers. So how can you come to the conclusion of the government not being involved directly on 9/11 if you have only refuted the physical collapse of the towers. So all the direct testimonies and other pieces of evidence leading upto and on the day of 9/11 are not refuted by yourself? On one hand you say "it just doesnt interest me" and on the other hand you say they might have had a third party involvment, thus being a Conspiracy - 9/11 Conspiracy. I really am having trouble understanding your posts. Maybe we can discuss it on UM chat now. I am on there right now if you wish to talk. It would appreciated if we could discuss this on UM chat privately. Cheers BZRK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquatus1 Posted November 27, 2006 #86 Share Posted November 27, 2006 So how can you come to the conclusion of the government not being involved directly on 9/11 if you have only refuted the physical collapse of the towers. I haven't come to the conclusion. It is merely a personal belief. So all the direct testimonies and other pieces of evidence leading upto and on the day of 9/11 are not refuted by yourself? Refuted? Not at all. On occasion, I may point out some incorrect assumptions, such as descriptions of explosions being evidence of explosives, but overall, I generally don't even address them, let alone refute them. On one hand you say "it just doesnt interest me" and on the other hand you say they might have had a third party involvment, thus being a Conspiracy - 9/11 Conspiracy. I'm not all that interested in basketball, but I have certain beliefs on how the game is played regardless (and I suspect some of them are correct, and others are incorrect). I really am having trouble understanding your posts. I think most of you trouble comes from you taking this topic so seriously, and not understanding that others don't see it anywhere near as seriously. I understand how, to you, this topic is of very great importance, but it just isn't to me, and because of that, it only gets a certain amount of attention. If I looked into the conspiracy section a bit more, I'm sure that I could come up with some argument supporting my position (and, frankly, I am pretty sure I could also come up with better arguments concerning the opposite position than some that I have seen posted here), but I could say the same thing concerning the existance of psychic powers, or of cryptids. The fact of the matter is that the subjects just don't interest me enough. I have read all the information, I have sat through the videos, and I just can't work up an interest in the matter. I understand it well enough, and I have my own opinions on quite a few aspects of it, but when all is said and done, my opinion of the matter is pretty much the same as my opinion on the government in any matter. That opinion is based on the many years I worked with the government, on what I have read, and what I have concluded. It is that opinion that gave rise to the belief that the government did not have a direct hand in 9/11, but may have had a third-party role. It is, however, merely a belief, because it is not based on evidence, but merely on one unrelated opinion. Maybe we can discuss it on UM chat now. I am on there right now if you wish to talk. It would appreciated if we could discuss this on UM chat privately. Not much of a chat-er. Come to think of it, I haven't yet gone to the UM chat room . I generally post between commercials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BZRK Posted November 27, 2006 #87 Share Posted November 27, 2006 I haven't come to the conclusion. It is merely a personal belief. Refuted? Not at all. On occasion, I may point out some incorrect assumptions, such as descriptions of explosions being evidence of explosives, but overall, I generally don't even address them, let alone refute them. I'm not all that interested in basketball, but I have certain beliefs on how the game is played regardless (and I suspect some of them are correct, and others are incorrect). I think most of you trouble comes from you taking this topic so seriously, and not understanding that others don't see it anywhere near as seriously. I understand how, to you, this topic is of very great importance, but it just isn't to me, and because of that, it only gets a certain amount of attention. If I looked into the conspiracy section a bit more, I'm sure that I could come up with some argument supporting my position (and, frankly, I am pretty sure I could also come up with better arguments concerning the opposite position than some that I have seen posted here), but I could say the same thing concerning the existance of psychic powers, or of cryptids. The fact of the matter is that the subjects just don't interest me enough. I have read all the information, I have sat through the videos, and I just can't work up an interest in the matter. I understand it well enough, and I have my own opinions on quite a few aspects of it, but when all is said and done, my opinion of the matter is pretty much the same as my opinion on the government in any matter. That opinion is based on the many years I worked with the government, on what I have read, and what I have concluded. It is that opinion that gave rise to the belief that the government did not have a direct hand in 9/11, but may have had a third-party role. It is, however, merely a belief, because it is not based on evidence, but merely on one unrelated opinion. Not much of a chat-er. Come to think of it, I haven't yet gone to the UM chat room . I generally post between commercials. I take it seriously due to the fact that most of my good friends live in the USA and they have been effected by that traumatic event as many thousands have. I know and many people know for a fact that the US Governmet at the very least knew about the 9/11 attacks. It is not a belief if it is backed up by mountains of evidence in which you have "no interest in" ...... I find it very hard to believe that you have looked over the evidence and read info in this thread because if you have you would have realised that top government officials have blown the whistle on the coverup on 9/11. These are no ordinary citizens that work a 9-5 job, these are the top brass of the Goverment. Your ona different ball game to what i am trying to discuss. All i am saying to you is that you refute the evidence compiled on the collapse of the WTC but manage (in my opinion) to disregard other crucial evidence in this massive jigsaw puzzle.... this is just like a jig saw, the pieces fit perfectly, although sometimes they are hard to find due to mass cover up from the Government(s) & the media alone. I mean you really think the Governments explanation of the events surrounding 9/11 are honestly and truthfully correct? (911 Commission Report)..... I would love to chat with you in a friendly discussion on UM Chat, gives you a chance to meet the locals of UM Chat. Cheers BZRK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunofone Posted November 27, 2006 Author #88 Share Posted November 27, 2006 the real issue is that the findings were not used for the benefit of the general public but to insure its destruction instead ************************************************************** Ex-employee says FAA warned before 9/11 By Catherine Rampell, USA TODAY From 1995 to 2001, Bogdan Dzakovic served as a team leader on the Federal Aviation Administration's Red Team. Set up by Congress to help the FAA think like terrorists, the elite squad tested airport security systems. In the years leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Dzakovic says, the team was able to breach security about 90% of the time, sneaking bombs and submachine guns past airport screeners. Expensive new bomb detection machines consistently failed, he says. The team repeatedly warned the FAA of the potential for security breaches and hijackings but was told to cover up its findings, Dzakovic says. Eventually, the FAA began notifying airports in advance when the Red Team would be doing its undercover testing, Dzakovic says. He and other Red Team members approached the Department of Transportation's Office of the Inspector General, the General Accounting Office and members of Congress about the FAA's alleged misconduct regarding the Red Team's aviation security tests. No one did anything, he says. Then came 9/11. "Immediately (after 9/11), numerous government officials from FAA as well as other government agencies made defensive statements such as, 'How could we have known this was going to happen?' " Dzakovic testified later before the 9/11 Commission. "The truth is, they did know." About a month after 9/11, he filed a complaint with the Office of the Special Counsel, the government agency that investigates whistle-blower cases. It alleged that the FAA had covered up Red Team findings. cont... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunofone Posted November 27, 2006 Author #89 Share Posted November 27, 2006 from the files of john conner--keep up the diligant work sir--great job!! *********************************************************************** class is now in session Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquatus1 Posted November 27, 2006 #90 Share Posted November 27, 2006 I take it seriously due to the fact that most of my good friends live in the USA and they have been effected by that traumatic event as many thousands have. Good for you. You are not me, however. Your reasons for finding something important do not apply to me. I know and many people know for a fact that the US Governmet at the very least knew about the 9/11 attacks. And I believe the government might have something to do with it, but by the same token, might not have. It is not a belief if it is backed up by mountains of evidence in which you have "no interest in" ...... I find it very hard to believe that you have looked over the evidence and read info in this thread because if you have you would have realised that top government officials have blown the whistle on the coverup on 9/11. These are no ordinary citizens that work a 9-5 job, these are the top brass of the Goverment. Yes, I've heard. You still aren't quite getting it. Show me evidence in terms of the physical collapse, and I'll be interested. Without evidence of the crime actually occurring, witnesses to the crime mean little to me. Your ona different ball game to what i am trying to discuss. All i am saying to you is that you refute the evidence compiled on the collapse of the WTC but manage (in my opinion) to disregard other crucial evidence in this massive jigsaw puzzle.... this is just like a jig saw, the pieces fit perfectly, although sometimes they are hard to find due to mass cover up from the Government(s) & the media alone. Different ballgame? I'm not even on the playing field . I mean you really think the Governments explanation of the events surrounding 9/11 are honestly and truthfully correct? (911 Commission Report)..... Yes. You can think of that what you like, and I know that you think I am simply nodding in sheep like complicity, but frankly, I'm not all that worried about your opinion on the matter. I would love to chat with you in a friendly discussion on UM Chat, gives you a chance to meet the locals of UM Chat. Sorry, not interested in discussing 9/11, and not much a chat person in general. On that, it's about time we finish derailing this thread with talk about my opinion and yours, and let it return to its original topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redtail Posted November 29, 2006 #91 Share Posted November 29, 2006 (edited) (Sorry my response is so late, but...)Still trying to figure out when hearsay trumps mathamatics. If the Math for the official explaination has be debunked so many times, why is it so hard to post it? Also if they have backed it up, if they have "undebunkable" proof, when can we expect to see a trial? Edited November 29, 2006 by Redtail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunofone Posted December 8, 2006 Author #92 Share Posted December 8, 2006 WOW i wonder what barbara's opinion is?? im sure she will be called out soon to comment-- two in one day-- rumors are that a pic of bush sr and johnny gosch has surfaced --could that have been the reason for the uncontrollable crying in public the other day?? are the illuminatti fixing to change bird cage liner? ***************************************************************** Actor James Brolin Latest Celebrity To Publicly Doubt 9/11 Follows in footsteps of David Lynch on same day Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Wednesday, December 6, 2006 Actor James Brolin, the husband of Barbara Streisand, has today become the latest celebrity figure to publicly question the official story behind 9/11, after he encouraged viewers of a top rated ABC talk show to check out a 9/11 truth website. Brolin appeared as a guest on The View Wednesday morning and according to e mails we have been receiving in numbers, towards the end of the show the actor questioned 9/11 and urged the audience to check out the website 911weknow.com, which is a website that purports to expose how the twin towers and Building 7, which wasn't hit by a plane, were brought down via controlled demolition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redtail Posted December 9, 2006 #93 Share Posted December 9, 2006 WOW i wonder what barbara's opinion is?? im sure she will be called out soon to comment-- two in one day-- rumors are that a pic of bush sr and johnny gosch has surfaced --could that have been the reason for the uncontrollable crying in public the other day?? are the illuminatti fixing to change bird cage liner? ***************************************************************** Actor James Brolin Latest Celebrity To Publicly Doubt 9/11 Follows in footsteps of David Lynch on same day Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Wednesday, December 6, 2006 Actor James Brolin, the husband of Barbara Streisand, has today become the latest celebrity figure to publicly question the official story behind 9/11, after he encouraged viewers of a top rated ABC talk show to check out a 9/11 truth website. Brolin appeared as a guest on The View Wednesday morning and according to e mails we have been receiving in numbers, towards the end of the show the actor questioned 9/11 and urged the audience to check out the website 911weknow.com, which is a website that purports to expose how the twin towers and Building 7, which wasn't hit by a plane, were brought down via controlled demolition. As an actor myself, ssssso? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boggle Posted December 9, 2006 #94 Share Posted December 9, 2006 As an actor myself, ssssso? how convenient if it was about the cia would you then say you was one too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunofone Posted December 14, 2006 Author #95 Share Posted December 14, 2006 the truth is emerging!! is this thread fixing to explode?? any high-profile individuals who are reading this and have their own 9/11 truth story the time is NOW to come forward-- dont delay ************************************************************************ Boston Air Traffic Controller Says 9/11 An Inside Job Knew people in FAA on day of hijackings who said intercept procedures should have been enacted as normal Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Thursday, December 14, 2006 A former Boston Center air traffic controller has gone public on his assertion that 9/11 was an inside job and that Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon tracked three of the four flights from the point of their hijacking to hitting their targets. In an astounding telephone interview, Robin Hordon claims air traffic controllers have been ignored or silenced to protect the true perpetrators of 9/11. A recording of the phone conversation was posted on Google video late yesterday by the Pilots For 9/11 Truth organization. After having acquired a background in aviation, Hordon underwent rigorous FAA training to become an air traffic controller and was posted to Boston Center where he worked for eleven years. He did not work at Boston Center when 9/11 occurred but still knows people that did who concur with his conclusions. In comparing the stand down of air defense on 9/11 and what should have occurred according to standard operating procedure, he quickly concluded on the very afternoon of the attacks that they could represent nothing other than an inside job. "On September 11th I'm one of the few people who really within quite a few hours of the whole event taking place just simply knew that it was an inside job, and it wasn't because of the visuals, the collapses, whatever....I knew that it was an inside job I think within about four or five o'clock that afternoon and the reason that I knew is because when those aircraft did collide and then we got the news and information on where the aircraft were and where they went....if they knew where the aircraft were and were talking to them at a certain time then normal protocol is to get fighter jet aircraft up assist," said Hordon. Hordon said that from personal experience he knew the system was always ready to immediately scramble intercepting fighters and that any reversal of that procedure would have been unprecedented and abnormal. He had also personally handled both real hijacking situations in his airspace and other emergency procedures. "I know people who work there who confirmed to me that the FAA was not asleep and the controllers could do the job, they followed their own protocols," he stated. Hordon said that the only way the airliners could have avoided being intercepted was if a massive electrical and communications failure had occurred which it didn't on that day, adding that there was "no way" the hijacked airliners could have reached their targets otherwise. He highlighted the fact that only an emergency handling of aircraft protocol change on that day could have interrupted standard operating procedure and hijacking protocol. Hordon said it was unbelievable how far American Airlines Flight 11 was allowed to go off course without the appropriate action being taken on behalf of flight controllers. "What you do is you don't wait for the judge, jury and executioner to prove it's an emergency, if things start to go wrong you have the authority to simply say I am going to treat this craft as if it is an emergency, because if everybody's wrong then fifteen minutes later no big thing." Hordon emphasized that the debate has deliberately been channeled by NORAD and the government to focus on reactions to hijackings, when the real issue is the emergency condition of the aircraft well before a hijacking is even confirmed. He went on to explain how as soon as the hijacking of Flight 11 was confirmed at around 8:24am, the entire system, from every FAA center coast to coast, to the Pentagon, to the President were informed and knew of the hijacking. "The system now had to make some phone calls and call up Rummy's Pentagon and Rummy's Pentagon is the one that would then make the decision." link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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boggle Posted December 14, 2006 #97 Share Posted December 14, 2006 the truth is emerging!! is this thread fixing to explode?? any high-profile individuals who are reading this and have their own 9/11 truth story the time is NOW to come forward-- dont delay ************************************************************************ link That is very interesting and its nice to see yet another person coming foward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunofone Posted December 20, 2006 Author #98 Share Posted December 20, 2006 AWESOME WORK GUYS!!!!!!! we need to organise these on all the coasts and make it an annual event ************************************************************************************** 9-11 Boston Tea Party in Milwaukee Dec 16, 1773 the Boston Tea Party was a revolt against government tyranny, Dec 16, 2006 we honor the 1773 event by burning the 9-11 Commission Report for its lies and deception. Also included is a brief overview of the Military Commissions Act of Oct, 2006. Sponsored by Veterans for 9-11 Truth, www.myspace.com/prothink and www.ts911t.org produced by www.snowshoefilms.com Milwaukee News channel 12 footage ************************************************************************************** San Francisco 9/11 Truth Tea Party Dumps Official Whitewash in the Bay by Cam Saturday Dec 16th, 2006 9:09 PM On Saturday, December 16, 2006, on a bitter cold day in San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf district, about forty hardy patriots came out with the intent to expose the lies and omissions of the 9/11 Commission Report by passing out information to tourists and locals, by reciting most of the omissions and deceptions in the official document, and then dumping the offensive whitewash in the San Francisco Bay. Marking the 223 anniversary of the Boston Tea Party where 18th century colonists decided to reject onerous and unjust taxation by dumping tea in the Boston harbor, these modern day patriots, some with fifes and drums, marched from Pier 39 past curious, and some stunned, onlookers to the end of the Municipal Pier at Aquatic Park. They then proceeded to dump the 9/11 Commission Report to its watery grave to boisterous “hoorays” from the crowd gathered. Before the book tossed an audience gathered to hear Truth activists “Connect the Dots” and to voice a proclamation demanding an immediate, genuinely independent investigation. According to the latest polls, 62% of the American people believe that the official 9/11 story of George W, King Pretender, is fatally flawed or a deliberate lie. The catastrophic events of 9/11 and the illegal, unilateral wars and unprecedented assaults on our constitutional rights and liberties here at home, justified by the official lie about who perpetrated the 9/11 events, are at the very center of everyday life in America. We therefore will accept no compromise until the full truth of 9/11 reclaims its rightful place at the core of the American psyche. Only a complete and independent 9/11 investigation will yield the answers all Americans deserve. For more information, see http://www.communitycurrency.org/sfteaparty.html, and http://patriotsquestion911.org link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunofone Posted December 24, 2006 Author #99 Share Posted December 24, 2006 anyone who thinks 9/11 was NOT an inside job needs to pay CLOSE ATTENTION to the bio-terror attack that took place in america soon after 9/11 and EXACTLY WHO it targeted-- the truth is truly in plain sight -- funny how the victims had a say in determining the scope and magnitude of the 9/11 investigations-- coincidence?? ha maybe if the peprs had been caught-- wake up NOW america -- its two minutes to midnight-- its time to come forward if you havent ************************************************************ December 23, 2006 at 04:56:39 Anthrax Attacks on U.S. Congress Were Inside Job by Sherwood Ross Tell A Friend ANTHRAX ATTACK ON U.S. CONGRESS MADE BY FT. DETRICK, MD., SCIENTIST AND COVERED UP BY FBI, EXPERT SAYS By Sherwood Ross (305) 205-8281 The perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attack on Congress likely was a government scientist employed at the Army's Ft. Detrick, Md., bioterrorism lab having access to a "moonsuit" that made it possible to safely process and manufacture super-weapons-grade anthrax, a bioterrorism authority says. Although only a "handful" of scientists had the ability to perpetrate the crime, the culprit, or culprits, among them may never be identified as the FBI ordered the destruction of the anthrax culture collection at Ames, Ia., from which the Ft. Detrick lab got its pathogens, the authority said. This action made it impossible "to pin-point precisely where, when, and from whom these bio-agents had originated," said Dr. Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois at Champaign. It was Boyle who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention. Boyle says destruction of the Ames anthrax "appears to be a cover-up orchestrated by the FBI." Calls for comment to two FBI press offices in Washington, D.C., on this charge were not returned. Members of the Senate have been pressing the FBI for additional information on its investigation, thought to be ongoing. If impartial scientists could have performed genetic reconstruction of the anthrax found in letters mailed to Senators Daschle(D-S.D.) and Patrick Leahy, (D -Vt.), "the trail of genetic evidence would have led directly back to a secret but officially-sponsored U.S. government biowarfare program that was illegal and criminal" in violation of biological weapons conventions and U.S. laws, Boyle said. "I believe the FBI knows exactly who was behind these terrorist anthrax attacks upon the United States Congress in the Fall of 2001, and that the culprits were U.S. government-related scientists involved in a criminal U.S. government biowarfare program," Boyle said. The anthrax attacks killed five people, including two postal workers, injured 17 others, and temporarily shut down the operations of the U.S. Congress, Supreme Court, and other Federal entities. Boyle, a leading American authority on international law, said after the attacks he contacted senior FBI official Marion "Spike" Bowman, who handles counter-terrorism issues, and provided him with the names of the scientists working with anthrax. Boyle told Bowman the Ft. Detrick scientists were not to be trusted. In addition to then destroying the anthrax, the FBI "retained every independent life-scientist it could locate as part of its fictitious investigation, and then swore them all to secrecy so that they cannot publicly comment on the investigation or give their expert opinion," Boyle said. Boyle pointed out that Bowman is the same FBI agent "who played a pivotal role in suppressing evidence which in turn prevented the issuance of a search warrant for the computer of Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged 20th al-Qaeda hijacker on 11 September 2001, which might otherwise have led to foreknowledge and therefore prevention of those terrorist attacks in the first place." A self-confessed al-Qaeda operative, Moussaoui was detained on immigration three weeks before 9/11 when a Minnesota flight school reported he was acting suspiciously. Boyle asked if Bowman received an FBI award in Dec., 2002, for "exceptional performance" because of his capacity "to forestall investigations, because of where they may lead?" He goes on to inquire, "Could the real culprits behind the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, and the immediately following terrorist anthrax attacks upon Congress ultimately prove to be the same people?" link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunofone Posted January 23, 2007 Author #100 Share Posted January 23, 2007 perhaps 3 of the professors mentioned in the following article have been mentioned here already but the list is too impressive in its original form to mutilate--enjoy -- give us our justice and we will ask for no more ******************************************************* Professors Question 9/11 Many well known and respected professors have expressed significant criticism of the 9/11 Commission Report. Several even allege government complicity in the terrible acts of 9/11. This section is a collection of their public statements. It should be made clear that none of these individuals are affiliated with this website. Listed below are statements by 100 professors that contradict or are critical of the 9/11 Commission Report. Their collective voices give credibility to the claim that the 9/11 Commission Report is tragically flawed. These individuals cannot be simply dismissed as irresponsible believers in some 9/11 conspiracy theory. Their sincere concern, backed by their dedication to researching and teaching the truth about a wide variety of subjects, demonstrates that criticism of the Commission Report is not inherently irresponsible or illogical, and that, in fact, it can be just the opposite. If you are a professor who has publicly expressed concerns about the 9/11 Commission Report, and would like your comment added to this website, please email your information to me. – Alan Miller Demand a New 9/11 Investigation! PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION AND THEOLOGY David Ray Griffin, PhD David Ray Griffin, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Religion and Theology and Co-director of the Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology. One of the founding thinkers of Process Theology. Recent books include Parapsychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality; Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem; Religion and Scientific Naturalism; and Reenchantment without Supernaturalism: A Process Philosophy of Religion. Editor of the SUNY series in Constructive Postmodern Thought. Author and editor of several books that question the official account of 9/11, including; The New Pearl Harbor, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, 9/11 and American Empire (Vol I) – Intellectuals Speak Out and Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action. * Video of Speech 9/14/06: "The official story is false. ... Now why is the official theory an outrageous conspiracy theory? Because every one of the major elements in it can easily be shown to be false." http://youtube.com/watch?v=-y6OSkDH4nk * Essay: "The 9/11 Commission Report tells many lies about particular issues. This point is implied by my critique's subtitle, 'Omissions and Distortions.' ... Given these two types of lies, it might be wondered how many lies are contained in The 9/11 Commission Report. I do not know. But, deciding to see how many lies I had discussed in my book, I found that I had identified over 100 of them. Once I had made the list, it occurred to me that others might find this summary helpful. Hence this article." http://www.serend * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11. http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ray_Griffin * CV: http://www.ctr4process.org/about/CoDirectors/drg_cv.pdf James Fetzer, PhD James Fetzer, PhD – Distinguished McKnight University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. Former Captain, U.S. Marine Corps. He has published more than 100 articles and reviews and 20 books in the philosophy of science, the theory of knowledge, and the theoretical foundations of computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. * Essay 9/11: Rational Beliefs are not Paranoid 12/8/06: "The impact of the planes cannot have caused enough damage to bring the [World Trade Center] buildings down, since the buildings were designed to withstand them (as Frank De Martini, the project manager, has observed), the planes that hit were very similar to those they were designed to withstand, and they continued to stand after those impacts with negligible effects. ... WTC-7 [570 feet tall, 47 stories] came down in a classic controlled demolition at 5:20 PM/ET after Larry Silverstein suggested the best thing to do might be to "pull it", displaying all the characteristics of classic controlled demolitions: a complete, abrupt, and total collapse into its own footprint, where the floors are all falling at the same time, and so forth, an event so embarrassing to the official account that it is not even mentioned in THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT. The hit point at the Pentagon was too small to accommodate a 100-ton airliner with a 125-foot wingspan and a tail that stands 44 feet above the ground; the kind and quantity of debris was wrong for a Boeing 757: no wings, no fuselage, no seats, no bodies, no luggage, no tail! Which means that the building was not hit by a Boeing 757. ... There are more, especially about the alleged hijackers, including that they were not competent to fly the planes and their names were not on any passenger manifest. Several have turned up alive and well and living in the Middle East. The government has not even produced their tickets as evidence that they actually could have boarded the aircraft they are alleged to have hijacked. Did Osama call from a cave in Afghanistan and charge them to his MasterCard?" http://www.scholarsfor911truth * Co-founder: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fetzer Rosemary Radford Ruether, PhD Rosemary Radford Ruether, PhD – Professor Emerita of Feminist Theology, Pacific School of Religion and Graduate Theological Union. Author of numerous books, including Sexism and God-Talk, In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writing (ed. with Rosemary Skinner Keller), and The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History. * Essay: "Until recently I dismissed the suggestions that the Bush administration might have been complicit in allowing 9/11 to happen as groundless "conspiracy theory." ... Thus it was with some skepticism that I agreed to read the new book written by David Ray Griffin ... that argues the case for just such complicity ... The New Pearl Harbor. ... Griffin writes in a precise and careful fashion, avoiding inflammatory rhetoric. He argues for a high probability for the Bush's administrations complicity with allowing and facilitating the attacks, based not on any one conclusive piece of evidence, but the sheer accumulation of all of the data. He concludes by calling for a genuinely independent investigative effort that would examine all this evidence. ... I personally found Griffin's book both convincing and chilling. If the complicity of the Bush Administration to which he points is true, then Americans have a far greater problem on their hands than even the more ardent anti-war critics have imagined. If the administration that would do this, what else would they do to maintain and expand their power?" http://www.thewitness.org * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio:http://www.cgu.edu/pages/3563.asp John B. Cobb, Jr., PhD John B. Cobb, Jr., PhD – Professor Emeritus of Theology and Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology . One of the founding philosophers of Process Theology. Fullbright Professor at the University of Mainz, Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt, Harvard, and Chicago Divinity Schools. His writings include: Christ in a Pluralistic Age; God and the World; and co-author with Herman Daly of For the Common Good which was co-winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Co-editor of 911 and American Empire (Vol II) – Christians, Jews and Muslims Speak Out. * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Cobb%2C_Jr. * CV: http://www.ctr4process.org/about/CoDirectors/cobb_cv.pdf Joseph C. Hough, Jr., PhD Joseph C. Hough, Jr., PhD – President of the Faculty and William E. Dodge Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University. Former Dean, Vanderbilt Divinity School. Ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, Congregational. * Endorsement of The New Pearl Harbor: "Griffin's The New Pearl Harbor ought to be read by any American who values our democracy and understands the importance of retaining the basic trust of the people for any such democracy to survive over time." http://physics911.ca * Bio: http://www.uts.columbia.edu/index.php?id=319 John McMurtry, PhD John McMurtry, PhD – Professor of Philosophy and University Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Author of six books dealing with public policy issues, including: Value Wars: The Global Market Versus the Life Economy, and Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market As an Ethical System. * Contributor to 9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out 8/23/06: "The documented details that expose 9/11 denial will not be repeated here, because this volume and others have already reported them. They are impressively massive in confirming – and are not balanced by any facts disconfirming – the long open pathway to the attacks and the blocking of all independent inquiry since then." * Signatory: Petition For An Independent International Truth Commission On 9-11. "[T]he Bush administration has never offered a detailed and documented account of its claims about the events of 9-11 which have allegedly revolutionized human affairs. Nor has it explained obvious and serious discrepancies in its own statements and actions. No systematic proof has ever been published or offered as to who the terrorists were, how they operated, where they came from, and why they were not stopped. ... The Kean-Hamilton panel’s limited funding from Congress makes a mockery of the tragedy of 9-11, considering that it is only a small fraction of the huge sums spent to investigate Bill Clinton. We therefore call upon statesmen, thinkers, journalists, investigators, artists, scientists, jurists, academics, humanitarians, religious leaders, activists and other eminent personalities from around the world to form an Independent International Truth Commission dedicated to preventing unproven assertions about 9-11 from setting the stage for a new world conflagration." http://iitc.911review.org/ * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://www.uoguelph.ca/philosophy/faculty Douglas Sturm, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Religion and Political Science, Bucknell University. * Endorsement of The New Pearl Harbor: "That 9/11 has become a defining moment in our history cannot be gainsaid. But its exact significance is an exceedingly contentious question notwithstanding the seeming clarity of prevailing accounts. David Ray Griffin deconstructs those accounts with a host of unresolved puzzles strongly suggestive of some sort of culpable complicity by US officials in the event. His book presents an incontrovertible argument of the need for a genuinely full and independent investigation of that infamous day." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php Carter Heyward, PhD Carter Heyward, PhD – Howard Chandler Robbins Professor Emerita of Theology, Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA. Author of Saving Jesus from Those Who Are Right and God in the Balance: Christian Spirituality in Times of Terror * Endorsement Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action: "Are we brave enough to read this nerve-wracking book, one of the most important theological texts of our time? Rooted in the longstanding belief that Christians share responsibility for shaping a more justice-loving world, Griffin makes a strong case that the real “conspiracy theory” about 9/11 is the Bush Administration’s silly notion that nineteen young Arab men could have pulled it off. Griffin helps us wrestle with questions that are almost too much to bear, yet which may empower us, if we dare, to build a more truthful and, over time, more deeply moral nation and world." http://www.miraesoft.com * Bio: http://www.eds.edu/sec.asp?cat=78&page=74 James Goulding, PhD James Goulding, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Religion and former Vice President for Academic Affairs at MacMurray College. Adjunct Member of Religious Studies Faculty at Edgewood College. * Member: Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, a group of scholars, religious leaders and activists dedicated to uniting members of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths in pursuit of 9/11 truth. * Bio: http://religst.edgewood.edu/FACULTY Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, PhD Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, PhD – Professor Emerita of Theology and Co-director of the Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology. Considered one of the leading philosophers of Process Theology. Former professor of systematic theology and dean of Wesley Theological Seminary. Visiting professor at Vanderbilt University in 1996 and 1999, and at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. Her publications include The End of Evil; God-Christ-Church: A Practical Guide to Process Theology; Divinity and Diversity; and The Fall to Violence. * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Hewitt_Suchocki * CV: http://www.ctr4process.org/about/CoDirectors/mhs_cv.pdf Graeme MacQueen, PhD Graeme MacQueen, PhD – Associate Professor of Religious Studies and founding Director, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University (ret). * Essay 8/21/06: Regarding the recorded oral accounts of 503 members of the Fire Department of New York taken by the Department shortly after 9/11. "Claims that explosions contributed to the collapses were made on 9/11 and have persisted, but studies supportive of the U.S. government’s account of events have ignored or denied these claims. ... We begin by facing the simple number of individual witnesses (118) and the even greater number of references, direct or indirect, in their accounts to explosions. We next have to deal with the rich, mutually supportive detail of these accounts. ... I cannot read this material without being struck by the ways in which the witnesses’ testimony is not merely cumulative but complementary and multidimensional. ... It appears (references are somewhat unclear) that the Commission did, in fact, make fairly extensive use of the oral histories. ... But what about all the references in the FDNY material to explosions? The Report makes no mention of them." http://www.journalof911studies.com * Interview 11/19/06: "... there’s no way those 3 towers were brought down by planes, jet fuel and fire. One tower, maybe. A structural flaw in the tower, a set of coincidences. Two towers — we’re getting into a highly unlikely situation, even though their construction was similar, because the planes hit in different ways. Three towers (including WTC 7 [570 feet tall, 47 stories] now, which wasn't hit by a plane), the odds against this are astronomical." http://americanbuddhist.net/node/3390 * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: Appears at the end of the article at http://americanbuddhist David Sprintzen, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and former Co-director, Institute for Sustainable Development, C.W. Post College at Long Island University. Founder and currently Secretary of the Long Island Progressive Coalition. * Statement to this website 1/9/07: "I believe there are many serious unanswered questions about 9/11 that call out for a complete, independent investigation, without pre-judging the results of such an investigation. The official commission report is not credible." * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth * Bio: BA from Queens College. MA & Ph.D. from Penn State. Author of Camus; A Critical Examination and Sartre and Camus: A Historic Confrontation. Founder and Co-Chair for 20 years, and currently Secretary of the Long Island Progressive Coalition. Board member of Citizen Action of New York. Founder and former co-Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development at Long Island University. John Milbank, PhD John Milbank, PhD – Professor in Religion, Politics, and Ethics, University of Nottingham. Former Francis Ball Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of Virginia . Author of Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (1993), Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology (1999) , The Suspended Middle: Henri De Lubac And The Debate Concerning The Supernatural (2005) and co-author with Catherine Pickstock of Truth in Aquinas (2001). * Essay 5/16/06: "As to the precise causes of 9/11 I remain entirely agnostic. It certainly appears that while certain strange circumstances surrounding that event have been satisfactorily explained, certain others have not been accounted for in any unequivocally emphatic way (and in particular the tardiness of response to the planes’ initial capture). Quite definitely we can say that on the part of someone a terroristic conspiracy was fomented and that who that someone really was is not as yet entirely apparent. I must stress however, that there is as yet absolutely no clear evidence for such a supposition and indeed that there is every reason for scepticism in the face of it. But on the other hand, there remains a case to answer and the refusal of nearly all public organs to press this point remains striking." MS Word doc located at http://www.theologyphilosophycentre.co * Bio: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ Sean Kelly, PhD Sean Kelly, PhD – Professor of Philosophy and Religion, California Institute of Integral Studies. * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio: http://www.ciis.edu/faculty/kelly.html Richard Curtis, PhD Richard Curtis, PhD – Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at a variety of Seattle area colleges. * Guest Editorial "9/11 Commission Report is a Lie" Seattle Post-Intelligencer 5/16/06: "The commission's conclusions and recommendations should be totally rejected. Its story is full of lies, distortions and omissions of fact." http://seattlepi.nwsource * Speech 7/1/06: "... there is no evidence to support the commonly held belief that 19 Arab religious fanatics were responsible for the attack of 9/11. And further, the evidence we do have strongly supports the alternative theory that the attacks were actually an inside job. ... The government and our media have endlessly repeated a Big Lie about 9/11. The official version of this lie was published in a book called The 9/11 Commission Report." http://72.14.253.104 * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." James K. Powell II, PhD James K. Powell II, PhD – Visiting Assistant Professor, Buddhist Studies, Department of the Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin. * Essay: "... having seen some 12 times the collapse of Building 7 [570 feet tall, 47 stories] throughout these videos, it has dawned upon me what a dupe I have been. Everyone has been. The DVD captures news anchors and experts at the time commenting at how like a demolition job the destruction seemed. In the videos we see an official deciding whether to "pull it" meaning Building 7. From whatever source, I urge skeptics to watch building 7 just make a free fall. Compare the destruction of these buildings with that of the Madrid Hotel that raged with fires but still did not fall. It is up to citizens to investigate the smoke that points to the fire. As Franklin indicated, those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither." http://mujca.com/powell.htm MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING A. K. Dewdney, PhD A. K. Dewdney, PhD – Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario. Author of Scientific American's "Computer Recreations" and "Mathematical Recreations" section, 1984 - 1993. * Essay : "[T]he debris found outside the Pentagon is inconsistent with the impact of a Boeing 757 or any aircraft of comparable dimensions. In particular, in the absence of some agency (possibly unknown to physical science) that removed the wings, there is no way to avoid the conclusion that the wings (and therefore the aircraft) were never present in the first place. In this case, no Boeing 757 struck the Pentagon building on the morning of September 11, 2001." http://www.physics911.net * Member: Scientific Panel Investigating Nine-Eleven Association Statement: "We have found solid scientific grounds on which to question the interpretation put upon the events of September 11, 2001 by the Office of the President of the United States of America and subsequently propagated by the major media of western nations." * Member:Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._K._Dewdney * CV: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/akd/PERSONAL/hp.html Hugo Bachmann, PhD Hugo Bachmann, PhD – Professor Emeritus and former Chairman of the Department of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. * Tages Anzeiger Article 9/9/06: "In my opinion the building WTC 7 [570 feet tall, 47 stories] was, with great probability, professionally demolished," says Hugo Bachmann, Emeritus ETH [swiss Federal Institute of Technology] - Professor of Structural Analysis and Construction. And also Jörg Schneider, likewise emeritus ETH - Professor of Structural Analysis and Construction, interprets the few available video recordings as evidence that "the building WTC 7 was with great probability demolished." English translation: http://www.danieleganser.ch Original in German: http://www.danieleganser.ch * Book 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA: "As Bachmann told the Neue Züricher Zeitung Online on September 13, 2001, at first glance there seemed to be two possibilities in the fall of the towers. The first was the fire and its effect on the steel supports. But Bachmann had an alternative: "In the second scenario, an additional terrorist action would have caused the collapse of the buildings. In this way, according to Bachmann, buildings like the World Trade center can be destroyed without great logistical exertion." The article went on to say that "Bachmann could imagine that the perpetrators had installed explosives on key supports in a lower floor before the attack." If the perpetrators had rented office space, then these "explosive tenants" could have calmly placed explosive charges on the vulnerable parts of the building "without having anyone notice." http://www.reopen911.org/Tarpley_ch_6.pdf * Bio: http://www.ibk.ethz.ch/emeritus/Bachmann Jörg Schneider, Dr hc Jörg Schneider, Dr hc – Professor Emeritus, Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Former Vice President and honorary lifetime member of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering. * Tages Anzeiger Article 9/9/06: " In my opinion the building WTC 7 [570 feet tall, 47 stories] was, with great probability, professionally demolished," says Hugo Bachmann, Emeritus ETH-Professor of Structural Analysis and Construction. And also Jörg Schneider, likewise emeritus ETH-Professor of Structural Analysis and Construction, interprets the few available video recordings as evidence that "the building WTC 7 was with great probability demolished." English translation: http://www.danieleganser.ch Original in German: http://www.danieleganser.ch * Bio: http://www.iabse.ethz.ch Jack Keller, PhD, PE Jack Keller, PhD, PE – Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University. Member, National Academy of Engineering. International advisor on water resources, development and agricultural water use. Serves as an advisor to the CALFED Water Use Efficiency Program and former member CALFED Independent Science Board. Awarded State of Utah Governor's Medal for Science and Technology (1988). Selected by Scientific American magazine as one of the world's 50 leading contributors to science and technology benefiting society (2004). * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." Steven Jones, PhD Steven Jones, PhD – Former Professor of Physics at Brigham Young University. Retired in October 2006 to devote more time to 9/11 research. Principal Investigator for experimental Muon-catalyzed fusion from 1982 to 1991 for the U.S. Department of Energy, Division of Advanced Energy Projects. From 1990 to 1993, Jones researched fusion in condensed matter physics and deuterium, for the U.S. Department of Energy and for the Electric Power Research Institute. * Journal of 9/11 Studies Peer reviewed paper, Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Completely Collapse? 9/06: "On the basis of photographic and video evidence as well as related data and analyses, I provide thirteen reasons for rejecting the official hypothesis, according to which fire and impact damage caused the collapse of the Twin Towers [each 1300+ feet tall, 110 stories] and WTC 7 [570 feet tall, 47 stories], in favor of the controlled-demolition hypothesis. The goal of this paper is to promote further scrutiny of the official government-sponsored reports as well as serious investigation of the controlled demolition hypothesis." http://worldtradecentertruth.com/volume * Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Jones David L. Griscom, PhD David L. Griscom, PhD – Research physicist, retired in 2001 from Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC, after 33 years service. Fellow of the American Physical Society. Fulbright-García Robles Fellow at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City (1997). Visiting professorships of research at the Universities of Paris and Saint-Etienne, France, and Tokyo Institute of Technology (2000 - 2003). Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona (2004 - 2005). Winner of the 1993 N.F. Mott Award sponsored by the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, the 1995 Otto Schott Award offered by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung (Germany), a 1996 Outstanding Graduate School Alumnus Award at Brown University, and the 1997 Sigma Xi Pure Science Award at NRL. Principal author of 109 of his 185 published works, a body of work which is highly cited by his peers. Officially credited with largest number of papers (5) by any author on list of 100 most cited articles authored at NRL between 1973 and 1988. * Personal blog 1/5/07:"David Ray Griffin has web-published a splendid, highly footnoted account of The Destruction of the World Trade Center: Why the Official Account Cannot Be True: This scholarly work, rich in eyewitness accounts, includes 11 separate pieces of evidence that the World Trade Center towers 1, 2, [each 1300+ feet tall, 110 stories] and 7 [570 feet tall, 47 stories] were brought down by explosives. ... I implore my fellow physicists and engineers who may have the time, expertise, and (ideally) supercomputer access to get to work on the physics of the World Trade Center collapses and publish their findings in refereed journals like, say, the Journal of Applied Physics. The issue of knowing who was REALLY behind the 9/11 attacks is of paramount importance to the future of our country, because the so-far-UNPROVED assumption that it was the work of 19 Arab amateurs has led directly to the Patriot Act, the Iraq war, NSA spying on ordinary Americans, repudiation of the Geneva Conventions, and the repeal of habeas corpus (a fundamental point of law that has been with us since the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215). Surely there can be no higher motivation than this for any patriotic American physicist or engineer to enter the search for 9/11 Truth!" http://impactglassman * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://impactglassman.blogspot.com/ Bruce R. Henry, PhD Bruce R. Henry, PhD – Professor Emeritus, Mathematics and Computer Science, Worcester State College. Former guidance systems engineer for Polaris and Trident missiles, General Electric Co. * Article 8/12/06: "The sudden collapse, the seamless downward cascade of the crumbling World Trade Center towers planted doubt in Bruce Henry's mind. The way the buildings fell didn't seem right. The implosion-like plummeting, the absence of central beams and girders refusing to fall, the speed of the collapse -- all raised suspicion for the retired mathematics professor from Worcester. "That was the seed," said Henry, who taught at Worcester State College. "To me it seems so transparent with a minimal amount of reflection that there's something catawampus," or cockeyed, with the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Finally, he came to a shocking conclusion that runs counter to the accepted history of America's darkest day: The towers, he believes, "were brought down by planted explosives." http://www.information * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." Martin Walter, PhD Martin Walter, PhD – Professor and Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder. Member, Executive Committee of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Sierra Club. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://www.colorado.edu/math/earthmath/marty.html Robert S. Boyer, PhD Robert S. Boyer, PhD – Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas, Austin. Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Awarded the 2005 Software System Award by the Association for Computing Machinery. Awarded the 6th Herbrand Award (1999) for exceptional contributions to the field of Automated Deduction, by the Conferences on Automated Deduction. Co-author of A Computational Logic Handbook. Editor of Automated Reasoning. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~boyer/ Joanna Rankin, PhD Joanna Rankin, PhD – Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Vermont. * Member: Vermonters for a Real 9/11 Investigation Association Statement: "We do support a new, thorough, and truly independent forensic investigation of the events on and surrounding 9/11/2001. We believe that without such an investigation, the threat of further attacks like those of 9/11 remains unabated, our government will continue to erode our civil liberties, and our government will continue to support foreign policies that are destructive to the U.S. and to the world." * Bio: http://www.uvm.edu/~jmrankin/?Page=default.html Kenneth L. Kuttler, PhD Kenneth L. Kuttler, PhD – Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University. * Essay: "I provide a short computation, focused on World Trade Center building 7 [570 feet tall, 47 stories] . Based on very favorable assumptions for achieving a fast fall, including ignoring resistance due to intact steel columns, I could only get the building to fall in about 8.3 seconds, whereas the observed roof-fall time is approximately 6.5 seconds. The problem is the large number of floors and conservation of momentum in a collision. Some of the “official” explanations about progressive collapse are evocative but they do not explain the difficulty in the rapid fall of the building along with what is evidently taking place when the video of the falling building is observed." http://www.journalof911studies.com * Bio: https://math.byu.edu/~klkuttle/ * CV: http://www.math.byu.edu/%7Eklkuttle/vitaforweb.pdf Michael Elliot, PhD Michael Elliot, PhD – Teaching Fellow, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queens University, Belfast. * Signatory: Petition For An Independent International Truth Commission On 9-11. "[T]he Bush administration has never offered a detailed and documented account of its claims about the events of 9-11 which have allegedly revolutionized human affairs. Nor has it explained obvious and serious discrepancies in its own statements and actions. No systematic proof has ever been published or offered as to who the terrorists were, how they operated, where they came from, and why they were not stopped. ... The Kean-Hamilton panel’s limited funding from Congress makes a mockery of the tragedy of 9-11, considering that it is only a small fraction of the huge sums spent to investigate Bill Clinton. We therefore call upon statesmen, thinkers, journalists, investigators, artists, scientists, jurists, academics, humanitarians, religious leaders, activists and other eminent personalities from around the world to form an Independent International Truth Commission dedicated to preventing unproven assertions about 9-11 from setting the stage for a new world conflagration. " http://iitc.911review.org/ * Bio: http://www.qub.ac.uk/ Judy Wood, PhD Judy Wood, PhD – Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University. Member of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM). Co-founder SEM’s Biological Systems and Materials Division. Currently serves on the SEM Composite Materials Technical Division. * Essay: "So, for the building to be collapsed in about 10 seconds, the lower floors would have to start moving before the upper floors could reach them by gravity alone. Did we see this? I believe it's pretty clear in some of the videos. The "wave" of collapse, progressing down the building, is moving faster than free-fall speed. This would require something like a detonation sequence. ... In conclusion, the explanations of the collapse that have been given by the 9/11 Commission Report and NIST are not physically possible. A new investigation is needed to determine the true cause of what happened to these buildings on September 11, 2001. The destruction of all seven WTC buildings and especially WTC1 and WTC2 may be considered the greatest engineering disaster in the history of the world and deserves a thorough investigation." http://janedoe0911.tripod.com * Bio: http://janedoe0911.tripod.com/Wood_Bio.html Gregory S. Jenkins, PhD Gregory S. Jenkins, PhD – Associate Professor and Director, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University. Member NASA's U.S. African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) committee. Associated editor of the American Geophysical Union's Journal of Geophysical Research. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/bios Joshua Mitteldorf, PhD Joshua Mitteldorf, PhD – Researcher, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. Former instructor of physics, math, astronomy, and evolution at Harvard, University of California at Berkeley, Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, LaSalle University and Bryn Mawr. * Statement to this website 1/15/07: "Three prominent and readily observable features of the collapse of the Twin Towers on the morning of 9/11 are inconsistent with the official explanation involving fires and "pancaking". ... First, the towers collapsed quickly ... Second, the collapse was symmetrical. Natural events (including fires) will always be governed by a certain amount of randomness. Some situations are stable and inherently restore symmetry; but the collapse of a tall building is not one of them. ... Third, each collapse began with an explosion in the upper storIes that carried impressive energy. Jet fuel will burn, but not explode. ... The explosions that are readily observable in videos of the towers’ collapse could only have been produced by commercial explosives. ... Finally, I mention only for extra emphasis that a third tower (WTC 7 [570 feet tall, 47 stories] ) collapsed 6 hours after the first two. It was never struck by a plane, and fires in WTC 7 were far smaller than the other two towers, and confined to one side of the building. Yet WTC 7 also collapsed suddenly and symmetrically, almost as fast as a free fall – hallmarks of controlled demolition. The 9/11 Report of the Kean Commission omits any mention of Building 7, and no government agency has even proposed an explanation of how it fell. Conclusion: We may differ over the political plausibility of conspiracies that have been proposed in connection with the destruction of 9/11. But the physical implausibility of the official scenario concerning the towers’ collapse should be beyond dispute. This is an area where physicists’ calculations and our commonsense notions of how tall objects fall down both point to the conclusion that sophisticated engineering and carefully-timed explosive charges would be required for the towers to fall in the manner that they did." Link to statement * Bio: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~jmitteld/ Gary Welz, MSc Gary Welz, MSc – Instructor of Mathematics at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University New York. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://www.newmedialab.cuny.edu/people/welz/ Ted Micceri, PhD Ted Micceri, PhD – Coordinator of Institutional Research, University of South Florida. * Article 5/7/06: "As soon as I saw the second plane hit the towers, I knew that it had to be collusion," said Ted Micceri, a professor of statistical analyses at the University of South Florida and a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth. "I have a lot of friends who are pilots and I know that if you go off course for even ten minutes, fighter planes from the [North American Aerospace Defense Command] would be at your wing tips." ... "Another interesting fact is the collapse of World Trade Center 7," [570 feet tall, 47 stories] Micceri said. "All of the records for the WTC were kept there, and no airplane hit it, so why did it collapse and why didn't the 9/11 Commission even mention it in their report?" http://www.theseliberties.net * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." Kenneth Sowden, MA Kenneth Sowden, MA – Instructor, Mathematics, West Hills Community College. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." Robert J. Stern, MS Robert J. Stern, MS – Associate Professor, Mathematics, Pellissippi State Technical Community College. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." Garry Anaquod Garry Anaquod – Lecturer in Computer Science and Physics, First Nations University of Canada (formerly Saskatchewan Indian Federated College). * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." LAW AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE Horst Ehmke, PhD Horst Ehmke, PhD – Professor of Law, University of Freiburg. Former Minister of Justice (West Germany). Former Minister for Research and Technology. Cabinet Member under Chancellors Kurt Kiesinger and Willy Brandt 1966 - 1974. * Article 7/22/04: "Terrorists could not have carried out such an operation with four hijacked planes without the support of a secret service." http://www.guardian.co * Bio: http://translate.google.com Richard Falk, JSD Richard Falk, JSD – Professor Emeritus, International Law, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University. In 2001 he served on the three-person UN Commission on Human Rights for the Palestine Territories, and previously, on the Independent International Commission on Kosovo. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Religion and Humane Global Governance; Human Rights Horizons; On Humane Governance: Toward a New Global Politics; and Human Rights and State Sovereignty. Honorary Vice president of the American Society of International Law. * Foreward to The New Pearl Harbor 6/16/04: "There are so many gaping holes in the official accounts of 9/11 that no plausible coherent narrative remains, and we must go forward as if the truth about these traumatic events no longer matters. Griffin shows, with insight and a firm grasp of the many dimensions of global security policy of the Bush Administration, that getting 9/11 right, even belatedly, matters desperately. The layer upon layer of unexplained facts, the multiple efforts by those in power to foreclose independent inquiry, and the evidence of a pre-9/11 blueprint by Bush insiders to do what they are doing on the basis of a 9/11 mandate is why the Griffin assessment does not even require a reader with a normally open mind. As suggested, 30% receptivity will do, which means that all but the most dogmatically blinded adherents of the Bush presidency will be convinced by the basic argument of The New Pearl Harbor." http://www.transnational * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu Burns H. Weston, JSD Burns H. Weston, JSD – Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Director, Center for Human Rights, University of Iowa. Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science. Honorary Editor, Board of Editors, American Journal of International Law (Washington, DC). Senior Human Rights Adviser, IKEA Social Initiative. Senior Human Rights Adviser, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, Italy. * Endorsement of The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions: "In this masterful sequel to The New Pearl Harbor, David Ray Griffin unveils a disparity between official 9/11 "spin" and independently researched 9/11 fact so glaring as to suggest the possibility of a constitutional crisis unlike anything our country has ever known. In this new study, as in its predecessor, he simply details the hard, cold evidence that seriously--and alarmingly--challenges the independence, impartiality, and thoroughness of the 9/11 Commission. For anyone serious about combating terrorism, let alone upholding constitutional democracy, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, is a must read." * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio: http://www.burnsweston.com/biodata/vitae.shtml Francis Boyle, PhD, LLD Francis Boyle, PhD, LLD – Professor of International Law at the University of Illinois, Champaign. A leading practitioner and advocate of international law. He was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. He served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International (1988-1992), and represented Bosnia- Herzegovina at the World Court. He holds a Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude as well as a Ph.D. in Political Science, both from Harvard University. * Article 12/13/06: "The real culprits behind the 2001 anthrax attack on Congress were most likely US government scientists at the army's Ft. Detrick, MD., bioterrorism lab according to a former government biological weapons legislator and University of Illinois Professor. Dr. Francis A. Boyle says the FBI covered up these facts and has also quite clearly stated that he doubts the official government story that 19 arabs with boxcutters perpetrated the attacks of 9/11. "I believe the FBI knows exactly who was behind these terrorist anthrax attacks upon the United States Congress in the Fall of 2001, and that the culprits were US government-related scientists involved in a criminal US government bio-warfare program," Boyle says in his new book Biowarfare and Terrorism. Boyle goes on to inquire, "Could the real culprits behind the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, and the immediately following terrorist anthrax attacks upon Congress ultimately prove to be the same people? Could it truly be coincidental that two of the primary intended victims of the terrorist anthrax attacks - Senators Daschle and Leahy - were holding up the speedy passage of the pre-planned USA Patriot Act ... an act which provided the federal government with unprecedented powers in relation to US citizens and institutions?" http://infowars.net * Bio: http://www.law.uiuc.edu/faculty C. Peter Erlinder, JD C. Peter Erlinder, JD – Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law. Past President, National Lawyers Guild. * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio: http://www.wmitchell.edu/academics/faculty William G. Weaver, JD, PhD William G. Weaver, JD, PhD – Director of Academic Programs, Institute for Policy and Economic Development, University of Texas, El Paso, specializing in executive branch secrecy policy, governmental abuse, and law and bureaucracy. Former U.S. Army Signals Intelligence officer. Author of several books on law and political theory. * Essay 9/5/06: Regarding the 9/11 Commission - "In their responsibility to report all the facts: They either refused to interview all relevant experts and witnesses, or, they censored the reports provided to them by those with direct and first-hand information. Both these acts were selective and intentional. Contrary to their pledge to establish accountability: They refused to hold anyone accountable and lamely justified it by saying, “We don’t want to point a finger at anyone." http://www.nswbc.org * Bio: http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=21347 Mark Conrad, JD Mark Conrad, JD – Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Troy University. Associate General Counsel, National Association of Federal Agents. Retired Agent in Charge, Internal Affairs, U.S. Customs, responsible for the internal integrity and security for areas encompassing nine states and two foreign locations. Former Federal Sky Marshall. 27-year U.S. Customs career. * Signatory of a Letter to Congress regarding the 9/11 Commission Report 9/13/04, signed by 25 military, intelligence, and law enforcement veterans: "[W]e the undersigned wish to bring to the attention of the Congress and the people of the United States what we believe are serious shortcomings in the [9/11 Commission] report and its recommendations. … Omission is one of the major flaws in the Commission’s report. We are aware of significant issues and cases that were duly reported to the commission by those of us with direct knowledge, but somehow escaped attention. … The omission of such serious and applicable issues and information by itself renders the report flawed, and casts doubt on the validity of many of its recommendations. ... The Commission, with its incomplete report of “facts and circumstances”, intentional avoidance of assigning accountability, and disregard for the knowledge, expertise and experience of those who actually do the job, has now set about pressuring our Congress and our nation to hastily implement all its recommendations. ... We the undersigned, who have worked within various government agencies (FBI, CIA, FAA, DIA, Customs) responsible for national security and public safety, call upon you in Congress to include the voices of those with first-hand knowledge and expertise in the important issues at hand. We stand ready to do our part." Link to signatories ECONOMICS AND FINANCE Morgan Reynolds, "We can prove the government's story is false." Morgan Reynolds, PhD Morgan Reynolds, PhD – Professor Emeritus, Economics, Texas A&M University. Former Director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis. Former Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Labor under George W. Bush 2001 - 2002. * Video 6/2/06: "I first began to suspect that 9/11 was in inside job when the Bush-Cheney Administration invaded Iraq. … We can prove that the government’s story is false." http://video.goo * Essay 6/9/05: "It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over the cause(s) of the collapse of the twin towers [each 1300+ feet tall, 110 stories] and building 7 [570 feet tall, 47 stories]. If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis is not likely [to] prove to be sound." http://www.l... * Bio: http://nomoregames.net/index.php?page=bio Daniel Orr, PhD Daniel Orr, PhD – Professor Emeritus and former Chairman of the Department of Economics, University of Illinois. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://www.economics.uiuc.edu/ Paul Craig Roberts, PhD Paul Craig Roberts, PhD – Chairman, Institute for Political Economy and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. Former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under Ronald Reagan, "Father of Reaganomics". Former Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. * Endorsement of 9/11 and American Empire (Vol I) – Intellectuals Speak Out: "This is the most important book of our time. Distinguished national and international scientists and scholars present massive evidence that the 9/11 Commission Report is a hoax and that the 9/11 "terrorist attack" has been manipulated to serve a hegemonic agenda in the Middle East. The book's call for a truly independent panel of experts to be empowered to bring out the true facts must be heeded or Americans will never again live under accountable government." http://www.interlinkbooks.com * Essay 8/16/06: "We know that it is strictly impossible for any building, much less steel columned buildings, to "pancake" at free fall speed. Therefore, it is a non-controversial fact that the official explanation of the collapse of the WTC buildings is false." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info * Essay 2/6/06: "There are not many editors eager for writers to explore the glaring defects of the 9/11 Commission Report. One would think that if the report could stand analysis, there would not be a taboo against calling attention to the inadequacy of its explanations." http://www.counterpunc * Bio: http://www.vdare.com/roberts/bio.htm Michel Chossudovsky, PhD Michel Chossudovsky, PhD – Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa. Consultant to several international organizations including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the African Development Bank, the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (AIEDEP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Past President, Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. * Signatory: Petition For An Independent International Truth Commission On 9-11. "[T]he Bush administration has never offered a detailed and documented account of its claims about the events of 9-11 which have allegedly revolutionized human affairs. Nor has it explained obvious and serious discrepancies in its own statements and actions. No systematic proof has ever been published or offered as to who the terrorists were, how they operated, where they came from, and why they were not stopped. ... The Kean-Hamilton panel’s limited funding from Congress makes a mockery of the tragedy of 9-11, considering that it is only a small fraction of the huge sums spent to investigate Bill Clinton. We therefore call upon statesmen, thinkers, journalists, investigators, artists, scientists, jurists, academics, humanitarians, religious leaders, activists and other eminent personalities from around the world to form an Independent International Truth Commission dedicated to preventing unproven assertions about 9-11 from setting the stage for a new world conflagration. " http://iitc.911review.org/ * Article 7/20/06: "What I've done in my writings is to show that the official narrative or explanation regarding 9/11 can be refuted, namely that the official narrative is a lie. What the 9/11 Commission Report has submitted is an extensive narrative of what happened on that day and what happened on the planes. And the evidence suggests that the 9/11 report is a lie. It’s fabricated." http://www.globalresearch.ca * Bio: http://www.transnational.org Paul Zarembka, PhD Paul Zarembka, PhD – Professor of Economics, State University of New York at Buffalo. Editor, The Hidden History of 9-11-2001, published by Elsevier, 2006. * Essay: Initiation of the 9-11 Operation, with Evidence of Insider Trading in The Hidden History of 9-11-2001: "The peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Business by Allen Poteshman (2006) trumps casual new remarks about whether the stock market and/or airline stocks were going down before 9-11 as an explanation for rising put-option purchases. .. it goes beyond anecdotal comments ... . It is a complicated statistical exercise ... Poteshman finds ... these purchases [of options on American Airline stock] ... had only 1 percent probability of occurring simply randomly. We have focused on option trading in AA [American Airline] and UA [united Airline]. But there is a lot more to be discussed in a more complete study. For example, Mathewson and Nol (2001) report: At Morgan Stanley ... put options jumped between Sept 6 and Sept 10 , almost 27 times a previous daily average ... We are not surprised that the Commission avoided any and all such types of information." * Editor's note: The 9/11 Commission states in its Monograph on Terrorist Financing, "The U.S. government investigation unequivocally concluded that there was no evidence of illicit trading in the U.S. markets with knowledge of the terrorist attacks. The Commission staff, after an independent review of the government investigation, has discovered no reason to doubt this conclusion." See also Ernst Welteke. Stephen F. LeRoy, PhD Stephen F. LeRoy, PhD – Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara. Former Visiting Economist, Federal Reserve Bank. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/cgi-bin/faculty.cgi?f=sleroy MEDICINE AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Robert G. Horn, MD Robert G. Horn, MD – Clinical Professor, Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://www.kidneybiopsy.com/ William Willers, PhD William Willers, PhD – Professor Emeritus, Biology and Microbiology, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Founder and President, Superior Wilderness Action Network. Editor of Learning to Listen to the Land and Unmanaged Landscapes: Voices For Untamed Nature. * Essay 12/15/06: "On December 8, The Nation ... published an essay by Christopher Hayes ... titled "9/11: The Roots of Paranoia," in which the author ... disparages the "so-called" 9/11 Truth Movement, which he calls "a rabbit hole of delusion." ... Two of the scholars he identifies by name: theologian David Ray Griffin and physicist Steven Jones. ... Regarding investigative thoroughness, the two scholars cited, Griffin and Jones, are scrupulous in their investigative methodology. Moreover, James Fetzer, a leading 9/11 skeptic and retired professor of philosophy, has written numerous well-received books on research technique and cognitive inquiry. Hayes' suggestion that the Truth Movement is based on half-baked ideas and lies is simply untrue. Nor are 9/11 skeptics of note only in academe. Go to www.patriotsquestion911.com (really, go to it) and find an astonishing list of figures who flatly reject the official version of the 9/11 Commission. They include individuals from the U.S. Senate (e.g., Mark Dayton, D-MN), the House (e.g., Curt Weldon, R-PA), the FBI (e.g., Louis Freeh, former director), the CIA (e.g., Raymond McGovern and Bill Christison), the Departments of Defense (e.g., Morton Goulder, under Nixon, Ford and Carter), Treasury (e.g., Paul Craig Roberts, under Reagan), Labor (e.g., Morgan Reynolds under Bush II), Justice (e.g., John Loftus, under Carter and Reagan), State (e.g., George Kenny, under Bush I), and the U.S. Military (e.g., Major General Albert Stubblebine). Given that such open expressions are dangerous for one's professional life, it is safe to assume that for each one who comes forward, there are many remaining silent. ... Yes, the Truth Movement "raises questions", and the questions are of vastly greater importance than any theories that might arise from them. It is not necessary -- perhaps not even desirable -- to resort to scenarios that can then be dashed by the belittling label of "conspiracy" which, like the word "paranoia", can be applied to neutralize valid concerns. The questions themselves are so numerous and significant that demands for honest answers are implicit within them." http://www.dissidentvoice.org Charles H. Hux, MD Charles H. Hux, MD – Associate Professor, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Faculty Member, Monmouth Medical Center. Obstetrician & Gynecologist, specialist in Maternal & Fetal Medicine. * Signatory of Petition of Solidarity to the Attorney General of New York for a new independent grand jury investigation of 9/11 11/19/04: "We the undersigned: a) think that there is ample evidence and probable cause to believe that many grave and still unresolved crimes were committed by US officials prior to, during and after the events of 9/11; observe that most of these apparent crimes, including but not limited to abetment of mass murder, criminal negligence, insider trading, and obstruction of justice fall well within the jurisdiction of New York's top law enforcement officials ..." http://www.justicefor911.org * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." Faiz Khan, MD Faiz Khan, MD – Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY. Director of Medical Observation Unit and Assistant Residency Director - Emergency Medicine, Hershey Medical Center, Penn State College of Medicine. Practicing physician with dual board specialization in Emergency and Internal Medicine. A 9/11 first responder. * Co-founder: Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, a group of scholars, religious leaders and activists dedicated to uniting members of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths in pursuit of 9/11 truth. * Signatory 11/19/04: Complaint filed with the Attorney General, State of New York requesting a new independent grand jury investigation of 9/11. http://www.justicefor911.org/Complainant * Bio: http://www.suficircle.com/event-khan.html Paul D. Haemig, PhD Paul D. Haemig, PhD – Guest Researcher, Department of Infectious Diseases, Umeå University. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." Matthew Orr, PhD Matthew Orr, PhD – Instructor of Biology, University of Oregon. * A Short Course "Is the War on Terror Fraudulent?" 2/21/06: "This course has described numerous instances of incomplete investigation by the 9/11 Commission: its burial of Able Danger, the Navy intelligence unit that identified Mohammed Atta long before 9/11; its failure to investigate the hijackers reported alive after 9/11; its failure to mention the collapse of WTC 7 [570 feet tall, 47 stories]; its convoluted and unsupported scenario for the behavior of the FAA and military on 9/11; its burial of Sibel Edmonds’ testimony; its failure to interview David Schippers, who served as a conduit for the FBI warnings prior to 9/11; its failure to investigate or interview General Mahmoud Ahmed, the head of the Pakistani ISI, who wired $100,000 to lead hijacker Mohammed Atta the week prior to 9/11 and who was meeting with CIA and Pentagon officials during the week of the attacks; its failure to disclose the source of the incriminating stock transactions prior to 9/11; and its declaration that the source of financing of the attacks is not important." http://www.scholarsfor911truth * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." John Pepper, PhD John Pepper, PhD – Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://eebweb.arizona.edu/Faculty/Bios/pepper.html * CV: http://www.santafe.edu/~jpepper/CV.htm HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT John Rensenbrink, PhD John Rensenbrink, PhD – Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of Government, Bowdoin College. Co-founder, US Green Party. Author of Against All Odds: The Green Transformation of American Politics . * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php Howard Zinn, PhD Howard Zinn, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Boston University. Author of numerous books, including; A People's History of the United States (1980 - 2005), Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (2004), Terrorism and War (2002), The Zinn Reader - Writings on Disobedience and Democracy (1997). * Endorsement of The New Pearl Harbor: "David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9-11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation of the Bush administration's relationship to that historic and troubling event." * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio: http://www.heartbone.com/supcourt/howard.htm James G. Smart, PhD James G. Smart, PhD – Professor Emeritus of History, Keene State College. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." Georg Kreis, PhD Georg Kreis, PhD – Professor of History and Director of the Europe Institut of the University of Basel. President, Swiss Federal Commission Against Racism. * Tages Anzeiger Article 9/9/06: "If the official and final investigation of September 11th only speaks of the collapse of two skyscrapers [omitting the collapse of Buidling 7, 570 feet tall, 47 stories] , while in fact and truth three skyscrapers collapsed in Manhattan, then it is difficult to classify the Kean Report as a solid historical source for the monumental incident that is 9/11." English translation: http://www.danieleganser.ch Original in German: http://www.danieleganser.ch * Bio: http://www.europa.unibas.ch/cms4/index.php?id=40&L=2 Major John M. Newman, PhD Major John M. Newman, PhD, U.S. Army (ret) – Professor of History and International Relations, University of Maryland. Former Executive Assistant to the Director of the National Security Agency. Former military attaché in China. 21-year career in U.S. Army Intelligence. * Congressional briefing testimony 7/22/05 (p.36): "It falls to me this morning to bring to your attention the story of Saeed Sheikh, whose full name is Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, and his astonishing rise to power in Al Qaeda, his crucial role in 9/11, which is completely, utterly, missing from the 9/11 Commission report… The 9/11 Commission which studied US intelligence and law enforcement community performance in great detail, (maybe not so much great detail, but they did), neglected to cover the community’s performance during the weeks following the attacks to determine who was responsible for them, not a word about that in the Report. The Report does discuss the immediate US responses but the immediate investigation is never addressed, and anyone who has closely studied the post-9/11 investigation knows that the first breakthrough came two weeks into the investigation when the money transfers from the United Arab Emirates to the hijackers were uncovered. Furthermore, if you have studied that investigation, you know there is no disputing that while investigators may have struggled with the identity of the paymaster, they were clear about one thing, he was Al Qaeda’s finance chief. For this reason alone you have to ask why the 9/11 Commission Report never mentions the finance chief’s role as the 9/11 paymaster." http://www.vt911.org Melvin A. Goodman, PhD Melvin A. Goodman, PhD – Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University. Professor of International Security at the National War College 1986 - 2004. Former Division Chief and Senior Analyst at the Office of Soviet Affairs, CIA,1966 - 1990. Senior Analyst at the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, State Department, 1974 - 1976. Author and co-author of several books on international relations, including: Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze, Gorbachev's Retreat: The Third World, and Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk. * Congressional briefing testimony 7/22/05 (p.85): "I think the 9/11 Commission has taught me that we need to be extremely rigorous and extremely tenacious in pursuing that truth, because there is a corporate mentality in this country that is working against allowing the truth to surface, even in tragedies, such as the 9/11 tragedy. ... I want to talk about the [9/11] Commission itself, about the flawed process of the Commission and finally about the conflict of interest within the Commission that is extremely important to understand the failure of the Commission." http://www.vt911.org * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio: http://ciponline.org/biographies Michael M. Andregg, PhD Michael M. Andregg, PhD – Professor, Justice and Peace Studies, University of St. Thomas. Lecturer, University of Minnesota. Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence and Wisdom, at Ground Zero Minnesota (a non-profit educational organization) 1982 - present. Author of On the Causes of War, winner, National Peacewriting Award for 1999. * Statement to this website 1/9/07: "There is persuasive physical, photographic and other evidence to support the hypotheses of controlled demolition of the towers and of a cruise missile at the Pentagon rather than a full-sized, commercial aircraft. These require inside operators, and there is evidence of 3 or 4 intelligence agencies active behind the screen of Osama bin Laden and his 19 - 200 associates. Much of that evidence of involvement by intelligence agencies is independent of the evidence of controlled demolitions, yet must be accounted for either way one goes on engineering and physics issues. The really daunting question is what to do about this national and international security crisis once one accepts the physical impossibility of the official story." * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Member: Scientific Panel Investigating Nine-Eleven Association Statement: "We have found solid scientific grounds on which to question the interpretation put upon the events of September 11, 2001 by the Office of the President of the United States of America and subsequently propagated by the major media of western nations." * Bio: Ph.D. in genetics, University of California Davis, 1977. Medical genetics research at University of Minnesota 1977 - 1979. Instructor, University of Minnesota, 1981 - present. Professor, University of St. Thomas 1993 - present. Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence and Wisdom, at Ground Zero Minnesota (a non-profit educational organization) 1982 - present. Carolyn Baker, PhD Carolyn Baker, PhD – Adjunct Professor of History, New Mexico State University. Author and former psychotherapist. Her books include U.S. History Uncensored: What Your High School Textbook Didn’t Tell You (2006), The Journey of Forgiveness: Fulfilling The Healing Process (2000), and Reclaiming the Dark Feminine: The Price of Desire (1996). * Review of 9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out 1/18/07: "Professors David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott have edited a masterpiece of critical thinking and scholarly analysis in this collection of articles by intellectuals who have broken silence on the atrocities of September 11, 2001. ... As a member of academia myself, I am buoyed by the caliber of scholars included in the Griffin-Scott volume, particularly in the light of what I consider higher education’s abject paranoia regarding skepticism of the official story of 9/11. ... In my opinion, one of the most important aspects of critical thinking is asking questions which is due, in part, to my preference for questions rather than answers written in stone. This is the paramount reason for my enthusiastic support for the 9/11 truth movement. As long as a community of thinkers, and indeed, the citizenry at large, continue to question the events of September 11, there is at least a spark of hope that at some point, with the proper conditions and at the right time, that spark might be fanned into a flame of revolution." Link to the review * Article originally published in From the Widerness 9/06 : "On this fifth anniversary of the horror that gripped America on September 11, 2001, one thing feels extraordinarily appropriate to me: Acknowledging not only our grief for the innocent victims of that day’s butchery, but our grief for all of the valiant men and women who have sacrificed everything but their lives to illumine the reality of the coup d’etat that took place on that day as the United States government orchestrated the attacks then immediately implemented its pathetic, shabby coverup which non-questioning Americans have accepted ever since." http://www.intellectual * Bio: http://carolynbaker.org/administrative/about-me Don Bustion Don Bustion – Adjunct Professor, Political Science, Southern Arkansas University. Former Assistant Attorney General, State of Texas. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, MA Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, MA – Associate Tutor and Doctoral Candidate, Department of International Relations and Politics, University of Sussex. Former Senior Researcher at the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) in London. Author of Behind the War on Terror (2003), awarded the Naples Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award. Also author of The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism (2005) and The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry (2006). Contributing author to Elsevier's The Hidden History of 9/11 ("Terrorism and Statecraft: Al-Qaeda and Western Covert Operations after the Cold War"). * Personal blog 9/11/06 : "Five years after 9/11, the official narrative is riddled with inconsistencies that every official investigative process has been at great pains to ignore. For those familiar with the oddities and absurdities of the 7/7 official narrative here in the UK, this should not come as a great surprise. But it does indicate that the Western government narrative of international terrorism is profoundly flawed. Among those sceptical of the government’s account of the 9/11 attacks, for instance, are the bereaved families of the 9/11 victims. “We hoped that our thousands of unanswered questions would be addressed and answered” said Lauri van Auken, whose husband Kenneth died in the attacks ... So what about 9/11 specifically? Five years on, even core elements of the official narrative taken for granted by the 9/11 Commission Report, remain absurdly unresolved. ... Five years on, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that we still don’t know what really happened on 9/11. And this dismal, pathetic state of affairs should not continue. The 9/11 families, and with them the wider public, have an elementary right to full answers to these basic questions." http://nafeez.blogspot.com * Bio: http://nafeez.mediamonitors.net/ Daniele Ganser, PhD Daniele Ganser, PhD – Lecturer in the History Department at the University of Basel. Former Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Former Researcher at the Military Academy (MILAK) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. * Interview 4/8/05: "Academics who study secret warfare find themselves between these three theories—LIHOP [The US government knew the attack was coming, but Let It Happen On Purpose.], SURPRISE [The US government was not expecting the attack.], and INSIDE JOB [The U.S. government planned and executed the attack.]. They all are “conspiracy theories,” by the way. Researchers try to find out which theory is best able to account for all the known facts. … But unfortunately, the 600-page [9/11 Commission] report, published in July 2004 and accepted by Bush as the “official story” of what happened in respect to 9/11, does not even mention the LIHOP and INSIDE JOB theories! It presents SURPRISE as the only possible explanation. Now, Philip Zelikow is a respected professor of history; as a fellow historian I was therefore very surprised to find that his report is totally unbalanced. Of course, Zelikow is aware of the LIHOP and INSIDE JOB theories, no doubt. How can he author a book on 9/11, which claims to search for the truth, but which totally ignores these theories? ... n the utterly unbalanced way this book has been written, it could not be accepted as a Ph.D. thesis or maybe not even as a Masters thesis at a university. Because it not only fails to mention LIHOP and INSIDE JOB as competing theories, but leaves out all data which support the latter two theories: The collapse of WTC7 (World Trade Center building 7, [570 feet tall, 47 stories] ) is not mentioned; the controversial Pentagon picture is not mentioned let alone debated; the BBC report, that six alleged hijackers are still alive, is not mentioned nor debated; the alleged funding Mohamed Atta by the Pakistani ISI intelligence service is not mentioned; nor the protests of FBI agent Coleen Rowley that there were lies and coverups. … So we are back to square one, with three competing theories, while the official U.S. investigation looks very much like a coverup. … Academics in the U.S. and across the globe must make a real effort to break through such a web of lies, but that will be difficult, above all because many have simply settled for SURPRISE without knowing the debate at all." http://www.danieleganser.ch * Bio: http://www.danieleganser.ch/e/biographie/index.htm Richard Heinberg, MA Richard Heinberg, MA – Core Faculty Member, New College of California. Widely regarded as one of the world's foremost educators of the Peak Oil issue. Author of seven books, including The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies and The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse. * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio: http://www.newcollege.edu ANTHROPOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, AND SOCIAL WORK Ralph Metzner, PhD Ralph Metzner, PhD – Psychologist and Professor Emeritus of Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies and former Academic Dean, California Institute of Integral Studies. Author of Maps of Consciousness, The Well of Remembrance, The Unfolding Self, and Green Psychology. * Statement to this website 1/13/07: "I've come to believe, in accord with many people who are certainly far more qualified than I am to arrive at informed judgments on this matter, and who can in no sense of the word be regarded as "conspiracy theorists", that the official 9/11 story is an unbelievable cover-up of a major crime against the American people and the world. For the sake of our collective soul and the future of our world, this story cries out to be investigated and the truth made known. Only the truth will set us free...As one of my teachers used to say: "knowing the truth has never hurt anyone". And we all know the corrupting effect of lies and deceit." * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio: http://www.ciis.edu/faculty/metzner.html David MacGregor, PhD David MacGregor, PhD – Professor, Department of Sociology, King's University College at the University of Western Ontario. * Contributing author, The Hidden History of 9-11-2001 ("September 11 as “Machiavellian State Terror”), published by Elsevier, 2006: "September 11 may be an example of expedient destruction, ordered from within the state ... Machiavelian state terror advances the ruling agenda while disguising itself as the work of individuals or groups opposed to the state's fundamental principles. ... I want to show how September 11 follows a typical pattern: a convenient terrorist event explained by the media in terms of widely shared stereotypical understandings and then embellished and deepened by compliant intellectuals." * Bio: http://publish.uwo.ca/~mcgregor/personal.html Peter Phillips, PhD Peter Phillips, PhD – Professor of Sociology, Sonoma State University. Director, Project Censored. * Essay 3/6/05: "A threshold concept facing Americans is the possibility that the 9/11 Commission Report was on many levels a cover-up for the failure of the US government to prevent the tragedy. Deeper past the threshold is the idea that the report failed to address sources of external assistance to the terrorists. Investigations into this area might have lead to a conclusion that elements of various governments - including our own - not only knew about the attacks in advance, but also may have helped facilitate their implementation. The idea that someone in the Government of the United States contributed support to such a horrific attack is inconceivable to many. It is a threshold concept that is so frightening that it brings up a state of mind akin to complete unbelievability. ... Overall concerns with the official version of 9/11 have been published and discussed by scholars and politicians around the world including: Jim Marrs, Nafeez Ahmed, Michael Ruppert, Cynthia McKinney, Barrie Zwicker, Webster Tarpley, Michel Chossudovsky, Paul Thompson, Eric Hufschmid and many others. The response to most has been to label these discussions as "conspiracy theories" unworthy of media coverage or further review. Pursuit of a critical analysis of these questions is undermined by the psychological barrier about 9/11 issues as threshold concepts — too awful to even consider. We may be on the borders of discovery regarding the possibility of a great evil within our own government, and perhaps others outside as well. We must step past the threshold and have the courage to ask the questions, demand answers, and support research into all aspects of this American tragedy. Perhaps the closet isn't as dark and as fearful as we envision. If we don't courageously look and search into the deepest regions of our fears how can we assure our children and ourselves a safe and honest future?" http://www.commondreams.org * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio: http://www.sonoma.edu/sociology/biopeter.htm William Woodward, PhD William Woodward, PhD – Professor of Psychology, University of New Hampshire. Co-author of B. F. Skinner and Behaviorism in American Culture. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://www.unh.edu/psychology/faculty/fac_woodward.htm Catherine Lowther, PhD Catherine Lowther, PhD – Professor of Psychology, Goddard College. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." Charles Simpson, PhD Charles Simpson, PhD – Professor of Sociology, State University of New York, Plattsburgh. * Member: Vermonters for a Real 9/11 Investigation Association Statement: "We do support a new, thorough, and truly independent forensic investigation of the events on and surrounding 9/11/2001. We believe that without such an investigation, the threat of further attacks like those of 9/11 remains unabated, our government will continue to erode our civil liberties, and our government will continue to support foreign policies that are destructive to the U.S. and to the world." (State University of New York is mentioned for identification purposes only and in no way signifies the University's views on this matter.) * Bio: http://www.plattsburgh.edu Kevin Barrett, PhD Kevin Barrett, PhD – Lecturer on Islamic Studies, University of Wisconsin. Co-editor of 911 and American Empire (Vol II) – Christians, Jews and Muslims Speak Out . * Co-founder: Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, a group of scholars, religious leaders and activists dedicated to uniting members of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths in pursuit of 9/11 truth. * Member: Scientific Panel Investigating Nine-Eleven Association Statement: "We have found solid scientific grounds on which to question the interpretation put upon the events of September 11, 2001 by the Office of the President of the United States of America and subsequently propagated by the major media of western nations." * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." Diana Ralph, PhD Diana Ralph, PhD – Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Carleton University. Author of Work and Madness: The Rise of Community Psychiatry. * Contributing author, The Hidden History of 9/11 ("Islamophobia and the “War On Terror”: The Continuing Pretext for U.S. Imperial Conquest"), published by Elsevier, 2006: "Researchers are uncovering extensive, credible evidence that the official account of the 9-11 attacks is untenable. Although al-Qaeda may have had the resources to get hijackers onto planes with box cutters, it did not have the power to shut down FBI investigations of suspected hijackers, to set up distracting war games on 9-11-2001, to issue stand-down orders preventing effective military response, or to cause two WTC towers [each 1300+ feet tall, 110 stories] plus Building 7 [570 feet tall, 47 stories] to collapse using demolition explosives. ... Western intelligence knew about the 9-11 attack plans as early as 1995, and may have facilitated and exploited them for their own ends. Some suggest that the U.S. may even have directly planned and carried them out. Regardless of whether it simply facilitated the attacks or carried them out themselves, there is little doubt that the U.S. was involved." * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." Angana Chatterji, PhD Angana Chatterji, PhD – Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, California Institute of Integral Studies. * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio: http://www.ciis.edu/faculty/chatterji.html Mike Earl-Taylor Mike Earl-Taylor – Lecturer in Psychology, Rhodes University, South Africa. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://campus.ru.ac.za/index ARTS AND HUMANITIES Peter Dale Scott, PhD Peter Dale Scott, PhD – Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Drugs, Oil and War (2003), and seven other books including Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993, 1996) and The Iran-Contra Connection (in collaboration, 1987). Co-editor of 9/11 and American Empire (Vol I) – Intellectuals Speak Out (2006). His writings deal among other matters with U.S. covert operations and their impact on democracy at home and abroad. Prior to having taught for thirty-four years at UC Berkeley, Scott was a Canadian diplomat and served at the United Nations and the Canadian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland. * Congressional briefing testimony 7/22/05 (p.52): "The American people have been seriously misled about the origins of the al Qaeda movement blamed for the 9/11 attacks, just as they have been seriously misled about the reasons for America’s invasion of Iraq. ... The 9/11 Commission Report assures Americans that “Bin Ladin and his comrades had their own sources of support and training, and they received little or no assistance from the United States. This misleading statement fails to consider that: – Al Qaeda elements received considerable indirect U.S. Government assistance, first in Afghanistan until 1992, and thereafter in other countries such as Azerbaijan (1992-95) ... – Key members of the network which became al Qaeda, such as Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, Ali Mohamed, Mohamed Jamal Khalifa, and lead hijacker Mohammed Atta, were granted visas to enter the United States, despite being suspected of terrorism. Al Qaeda foot soldiers were also admitted to the United States for training under a special visa program. ... [Editor's note: See also J. Michael Springman.] – Repeatedly al Qaeda terrorists were protected by FBI officials from investigation and prosecution." [Editor's note: See also Coleen Rowley and Bryan Sacks.] http://www.vt911.org * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/ Benjamin Demott, PhD Benjamin Demott, PhD (1924 - 2005) – Mellon Professor of Humanities Emeritus, Amherst College. Former board member, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Author of several works of cultural criticism, including Junk Politics: The Trashing of the American Mind (2005), Killer Woman Blues: Why Americans Can't Think Straight about Gender and Power (2000) and The Trouble With Friendship: Why Americans Can't Think Straight about Race (1995). * Essay in Harpers Magazine, 10/04 Whitewash as Public Service: "The plain, sad reality—I report this following four full days studying the work—is that The 9/11 Commission Report, despite the vast quantity of labor behind it, is a cheat and a fraud. It stands as a series of evasive maneuvers that infantilize the audience, transform candor into iniquity, and conceal realities that demand immediate inspection and confrontation. ... At the core of all these failures lies a deep wariness of earnest, well-informed public debate. ... There's little mystery about why the Commission is tongue-tied. It can't call a liar a liar. ... The Commission, in sum, offers peace through exculpation, evasion, and entertainment—and in doing so dangerously reenergizes a national relish for fantasy." http://www.harpers.org * Bio: http://www.boston.com Eric Larsen, PhD Eric Larsen, PhD - Professor of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York 1971 - 2006. Author of A Nation Gone Blind - America in an Age of Simplification and Deceit (2006) and two novels, An American Memory (1989) and I Am Zoë Handke (1994). * Endorsement of The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions: "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions ...... Exactly what it says. If you read the actual commission report and then read Griffin's point by point perusal and rebuttal of it, you'll be overwhelmed. Even if you don't read the actual report first, Griffin's effect is very nearly the same, since the care he takes to synopsize wherever necessary or useful, the ease of his pace, and the measured, calm, never sensational quality of his method and his voice all fill you in not only about what is in the report but what isn't. The result overall: Anyone who reads Griffin's book with an open mind and with an empirically based acceptance of commonsense logic—no such person will leave Omissions and Distortions without have been convinced that the "Kean Commission Report" is an enormous, partisan coverup, or, as Griffin himself has says, "a 571-page lie." http://www.ericlarsen.net * Essay "The Great Crime of 9/11" 11/5/06: "Book after book (see the bibliography at the end of Part Four), article after article, scholar after scholar—all of them provide overwhelmingly numerous examples of the absolute absurdity not only of the "official theory" itself of 9/11 but also of the "Kean Commission" report—and at the same time they show the absolute obviousness of 9/11 having been in fact a "black flag operation," a self-inflicted wound and self-generated "attack," whether one that was planned and perpetrated by the Bushiscti themselves (probably not), or by what Webster Tarpley calls the "oligarchy" or the "invisible" or the "rogue" government that's actually in control of the nation—these questions are matters for scholarship, and they've been and are still being ever more deeply and accurately explored through scholarship." http://www.ericlarsen.net * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://www.ericlarsen.net/about.html Richard McGinn, PhD Richard McGinn, PhD – Professor Emeritus and former Department Chairman, Linguistics and Southeast Asian Studies, Ohio University. Former President, Consortium of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * CV: http://www.cats.ohiou.edu/linguistics/dept/Mcginn.html Marcus Ford, PhD Marcus Ford, PhD – Professor, Humanities Department, and Past President, Faculty Senate, Northern Arizona University. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." Michael Keefer, PhD Michael Keefer, PhD – Professor, College of Arts, University of Guelph. Former President of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. Graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada. * Essay, a rebuttal to Alexander Cockburn 12/16/06: "As anyone who presumes to hold forth on this aspect of the 9/11 evidence should know, what is really incriminating about the failure to intercept the aircraft which were flown on that day into the Twin Towers and (by the official account) into the Pentagon is not the simple absence of fighter-interceptors over New York and Washington, but rather the fact that that absence was ensured by a series of concurrent military exercises which had transferred most of the available interceptors out of the northeastern region, and which for a crucial period that morning left the military air traffic controllers responsible for vectoring the remaining fighters into position unable to determine which of the many blips appearing on their radar screens represented actual as opposed to simulated threats. We can add to this what seems the no less incriminating testimony of Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta to the 9/11 Commission, which suggests very strongly that Vice President Cheney had ordered a stand-down of missile defenses protecting Washington DC. ... But like the 9/11 Commission, he [Cockburn] manages quietly to forget about the collapse of WTC 7 late in the afternoon of 9/11: this 47-story steel-framed tower, which was damaged by debris from the North Tower but not struck by any aircraft, collapsed at free-fall speed into its own footprint in what half a dozen different videos show to have been a classic implosion demolition. Significantly, FEMA and NIST have failed to offer any plausible alternative explanation of this collapse. As to the questions of how, when, or by whom demolition charges may have been planted: there is evidence, though Cockburn may not be interested in exploring it, of activity on unoccupied floors of the Twin Towers just prior to 9/11 that is consistent with the placing of such charges." http://www.911truth.org * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://www.mos.umu.se Mark Crispin Miller, PhD Mark Crispin Miller, PhD – Professor, Culture and Communication, New York University. * Endorsement of 9/11 and American Empire (Vol I) – Intellectuals Speak Out: "For far too long, the very reasonable questions raised by 9/11 have been ignored and even ridiculed by America's press and politicians, who treat the subject with the sort of willful blindness that suggests a wish not to find out unpleasant truths. We, the people, therefore owe the editors of this important new collection our warm thanks for their intelligent and unrelenting work." http://www.interlinkbooks.com * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/steinhardt/db/faculty/1216 Robert Merrill, PhD Robert Merrill, PhD – Professor of Literature and Humanities, Maryland Institute College of Art. Founder and director of the Institute for Advanced Cultural Studies. Editor, Maisonneuve Press. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://www.mica.edu/ William A. Cook, PhD William A. Cook, PhD – Professor of English, University of La Verne. Author of Tracking Deception: Bush Mid-East Policy. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://www.drwilliamacook.com/ John Albert Dragstedt, PhD John Albert Dragstedt, PhD – Professor of Classics and Philosophy, St. Mary's College of California. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." Raymond Munro, MAH Raymond Munro, MAH – Professor of Theatre, Clark University. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://www.clarku.edu/academiccatalog/facultybio.cfm?id=27 A. L. Kennedy A. L. Kennedy – Lecturer in Creative Writing at St. Andrews University. Fellow of Royal Society of Arts. Booker Prize Judge (1996). Judge of Orange Prize for Fiction (2002). Winner of numerous awards including the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Prize for her powerful novels and short stories, including Paradise and Indelible Acts. * Endorsement of 9/11 and American Empire (Vol I) – Intellectuals Speak Out: "If you wondered where morality, intellectual rigor, common sense and historical perspective went when they disappeared from public discourse, be reassured—the authors of these essays were keeping them safe for you, along with a surprisingly functional sense of humor. This is a massively important book about events which are still changing our world—forget the internet wingnuts, forget the blurry thinking and the blurry photographs, forget the government gibberish—if you want to know about 9/11 read this book. Read it. Read it now. And then tell someone else what it told you." http://www.interlinkbooks.com * Bio: http://www.a-l-kennedy.co.uk/vital.htm Paul W. Rea, PhD Paul W. Rea, PhD – Lecturer, Graduate Liberal Studies Program, St. Mary’s College of California. Former Director of Writing, Southern Utah University, 1991 - 1995. Coordinator, Film and Lecture Series and Director of Composition, University of Northern Colorado, 1970 - 1991. Selected Professor of the Year, University of Northern Colorado, 1983. Author of Canyon Interludes - Between White Water and Red Rock and Still Seeking the Truth About 9/11. * Signatory of Petition of Solidarity to the Attorney General of New York for a new independent grand jury investigation of 9/11 11/19/04: "We the undersigned: a) think that there is ample evidence and probable cause to believe that many grave and still unresolved crimes were committed by US officials prior to, during and after the events of 9/11; observe that most of these apparent crimes, including but not limited to abetment of mass murder, criminal negligence, insider trading, and obstruction of justice fall well within the jurisdiction of New York's top law enforcement officials ..." http://www.justicefor911.org Michael Morrissey, PhD Michael Morrissey, PhD – Lecturer, Institut for English, University of Kassel, Germany. Board member, Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." Bryan Sacks Bryan Sacks – Adjunct Professor, Department of English and Philosophy, Drexel University. Contributing author to Elsevier's The Hidden History of 9/11 ("The Compromised 9-11 Commission"). * Essay 6/26/04: "... several FBI “street-level” investigations into the activities of the 9/11 terrorists were stymied by higher-ups in the weeks prior to 9/11, each under strange circumstances, and well before the street-level agents felt like they had reached their “logical end”. ... 1) Ken Williams of the Phoenix FBI office sent a now-famous July 10, 2001 memo to the counterterrorism division of the FBI suggesting that the organization institute a national program to keep tabs on suspicious flight-school students. ... Williams ... also warned of a possible "effort by Osama bin Laden to send students to the US to attend civil aviation universities and colleges" ... His suggestion for a national program was ignored before 9/11; 2) FBI agent Robert Wright of the Chicago field office, who had been investigating a suspected terrorist cell for three years, was informed in January 2001 that the case was being closed. This despite Wright's contention that his case was growing stronger. ... Three months before September 11, Wright wrote a stinging internal memo charging that the FBI was not interested in thwarting a terrorist attack, but rather "was merely gathering intelligence so they would know who to arrest when a terrorist attack occurred." ... 3) Legal officer Colleen Rowley worked in the FBI's Minneapolis field office when agents arrested Zacarias Moussaoui in August of 2001. ... The Minneapolis [office] felt so strongly about the need to detain him that a request was sent to FBI headquarters to search Moussaoui's laptop computer under the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act. Approximately 10,000 requests under FISA over the past 20 years had been made without a single request being turned down, but the Minneapolis agency's request never got out of the FBI. ... the request was never forwarded for FISA consideration, spurring Rowley to charge that the FBI was "sabotaging" the case, and another agent to charge that headquarters was "setting this up for failure." ... 4) On Aug 28, 2001 the New York FBI office requested opening a criminal investigation in soon-to-be hijacker Khalid Almihdhar based on evidence he had been involved in the USS Cole bombing. The request was turned down, on the basis that, as Griffin puts it, "Almihdhar could not be tied to the Cole investigation without the inclusion of sensitive intelligence information." This led one frustrated FBI agent to write in an email that "someday someone will die--and. . . the public will not understand why we were not more effective."... There are several other aspects about the FBI’s behavior pre- and post-9/11 that scream out for further investigation." http://www.count Annie Higgins, PhD Annie Higgins, PhD – Visiting Assistant Professor, Asian and African Languages and Literature, University of Chicago. * Member: Scientific Panel Investigating Nine-Eleven Association Statement: "We have found solid scientific grounds on which to question the interpretation put upon the events of September 11, 2001 by the Office of the President of the United States of America and subsequently propagated by the major media of western nations." * Bio: http://web.aall.ufl.edu/faculty/bios/higgins.html Donna Marsh O'Connor Donna Marsh O'Connor – Instructor, Writing and Rhetoric, Syracuse University (retired after 22 years). Mother of Vanessa Lang Langer, who perished in the collapse of World Trade Center Building 2. * Speech 9/12/06: "This government has made me a victim of conspiracy theories because they haven't answered fully, or allowed anyone to ask the true questions of September 11th. And that's what I'm asking from you [members of the media] today; for exposure. We are not crazy. We have questions. We demand answers. ... We're asking for a new investigation into the events of September 11th and this time a truly bipartisan, global--with families invested from the beginning, middle and though out the end." Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb script: http://journals.democraticunderground.com * Signatory 11/19/04: Complaint filed with the Attorney General, State of New York for a new independent grand jury investigation of 9/11. http://www.justicefor911.org/Complainant Clare Brandabur, PhD Clare Brandabur, PhD – Assistant Professor, English Literature, Dogus University. * Statement to this website 1/12/07: "When I first watched the mesmerizing pictures of the collapse of the Twin Towers and Building Number 7, my reaction was a kind of numb disbelief which later gave way to a perception of the whole event as an elaborately staged piece of theatre. ... But it had to be made to look like an attack by Arab/Islamic terrorists. Many researchers have now shown how the so-called hijackers were set up as a cover for the real professional state-terrorists who actually coordinated the attacks. ... Although I have spoken to people who fear what will happen if the public at large finds out the truth, I believe that dismantling the 9/11 hoax and exposing to public view the real perpetrators is essential for salvaging American democracy. Link to full statement * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://cosmos.ucc.ie EDUCATION, LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT Four Arrows, aka Don Trent Jacobs, EdD, PhD Four Arrows, aka Don Trent Jacobs, EdD, PhD – Professor of Educational Leadership, Fielding Graduate University. Associate Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, Northern Arizona University. Former Dean of Education, Oglala Lakota College. Former U.S. Marine Corps officer. Author of 12 books, including Primal Awareness and Teaching Virtues: Building Character Across the Curriculum; lead author American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone. Editor of the University of Texas Press text, Unlearning the Language of Conquest. Contributing author to Elsevier's The Hidden History of 9/11 ("The Military Exercises of 9/11: Bizarre Coincidence or Something Else?"). * Statement to this website 1/9/07: "Available evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about what happened on and before September 11, 2001, and it should be the responsibility of every world citizen to bring forth the truth." * Member: Scientific Panel Investigating Nine-Eleven Association Statement: "We have found solid scientific grounds on which to question the interpretation put upon the events of September 11, 2001 by the Office of the President of the United States of America and subsequently propagated by the major media of western nations." * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." * Bio: http://www.fielding.edu/elc/faculty/jacobs.htm Lt. Col. Stephen L. Butler, EdD Lt. Col. Stephen L. Butler, EdD, U.S. Air Force (ret) – Former Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the Defense Language Institute. Served as a B-52 Radar Navigator in the Gulf War. 24-year Air Force career. * Article 6/4/02: "Of course Bush knew about the impending attacks on America. He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism." http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.06E.butler.bush.htm David Gabbard, EdD David Gabbard, EdD – Professor, College of Education, East Carolina University. Editor, Public Resistance, an Academic Journal to Confront the Lies of the Right * Statement to this website 1/8/07: "The truth about 9-11 is that we do not know the truth about 9-11. Our government does not want us to know the truth about 9-11. If you want to know the truth about 9-11, then please help us lift the gag order that former Attorney General John Ashcroft placed on former FBI translator, Sibel Edmonds, and call for a truly independent investigation of the information contained in the documents she translated while working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation after 9-11. She said, "If they were to do real investigations we would see several significant high level criminal prosecutions in this country. And that is something that they are not going to let out. And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up." * Bio: http://web.mac.com/publicresistance Norma Carr-Rufino, PhD Norma Carr-Rufino, PhD – Professor of Management, San Francisco State University. Member of the editorial board of the international scholarly journal Women in Management Review. Lay referee of the California State Bar Court. Business consultant to Safeway International, Hearst New Media & Technology, Bechtel Power, Pearson Educacion, International Association of Administrative Professionals, Texas Business Education Association, University of Colorado, University of South Carolina, Deere & Company and others. Author of Managing Diversity, Building Innovative Skills, The Promotable Woman, Business Students Guide, The Innovative Woman Diversity Success Strategies, and Making Diversity Work. * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio: http://cob.sfsu.edu/cob/directory/faculty_...le.cfm?facid=23 Jesus Nieto, PhD Jesus Nieto, PhD – Associate Professor, School of Teacher Education, San Diego State University. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Mark J. Bamberger, PhD Mark J. Bamberger, PhD – Professor of Geology and Environmental Sciences, Miami University and Capital University. Legal Fellow and Technical Advisor at The Ohio Environmental Council. Consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for nuclear audits at the Nevada Test Site, Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and Argonne National Atomic Laboratories. Contributor to Principles of Water Resources: History, Development, Management, and Policy. * Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon." Gray Brechin, PhD Gray Brechin, PhD – Lecturer and Visiting Scholar, Geography Department, University of California at Berkeley. * Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11: "We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things: o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings. o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence. o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php * Bio: http://www.graybrechin.com/GBrechinBiography.html link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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