Homeland Insecurity: The 9/11 Conspiracy File: Myths and Facts
Six years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, there are plenty of unanswered questions about why the Bush administration didn't prevent them. But the most popular 9/11 conspiracy theories are full of holes, too. Part six of a seven-part series on the lessons of 9/11.
Assessing our vulnerability to terrorist attack remains difficult in part because the events surrounding the attacks of September 11, 2001, have not been thoroughly explained. In its investigation into them, the 9/11 Commission slid past many important questions, leaving them unanswered, and did not adequately challenge the Bush administration when it refused to cooperate or obfuscated its own actions. This has naturally spurred the various conspiracy theories that have set out to unravel what happened. Some address legitimate issues, such as the as-yet-unexplained fact that American intelligence had been tracking lead hijacker Mohammad Atta since the late 1990s but did nothing to stop him. But most theories run the gamut from the preposterous (the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon were drones) to the improbable (the WTC buildings collapsed due to a demolition charge). The prevailing theory is summed up by a bumper sticker: "9/11 Was an Inside Job."
My own inquires, made while preparing the book Five Unanswered Questions About 9/11, suggest that there was a real government "conspiracy"—but not the one the 9/11 skeptics are peddling. Government agencies, particularly the FBI and CIA, did not inform the public that a terrorist attack might be imminent, and afterward, the FBI engaged in an unconscionable cover-up of its activities and blunders. FBI translator Sibel Edmonds has repeatedly fought to publicize the bureau’s inner workings, only to be blocked by the Justice Department and the courts. Likewise, the 9/11 Commission did not pursue many major lines of inquiry. It failed to take sworn testimony from President Bush or Vice President Cheney on what happened that day. We still do not have satisfying answers on why Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, second in command to the commander-in-chief, appeared to have been largely absent on 9/11. Why was he out of the loop while Cheney, who had no constitutional authority, ran the show from the White House bunker? And why did the commission not look into why our friends the Pakistanis, who helped create the Taliban, did not tell us what was going on? Or did they? How come John Walker Lindh, the young American convert, was able to walk into the inner councils of Al Qaeda, but CIA agents could not? These are but a few of the legitimate lingering questions that dog the official storyline.
It is clear that the real conspiracy of 9/11 (besides, of course, Al Qaeda's) was the federal government's deliberate cover-up of what it knew and never acted upon, as well as its ineptitude. Below, a few of the other major 9/11 conspiracy theories and some information that helps to explain their persistence, as well as their flaws.
The Pentagon Attack
Theory: A missile, not American Airlines Flight 77, hit the Pentagon. The two holes punched in the side of the building were much smaller than the wingspan of a 757. According to a French author, the building was struck by a satellite-guided missile fired as part of an attempted military coup.
Fact: Crash investigators concluded that the main hole in the Pentagon was smaller than the plane's wingspan because one wing was sheared off and the other was damaged on impact. The second, smaller hole was made by the jet's landing gear. And if a missile did strike the Pentagon, why was DNA from the passengers of Flight 77 found in the rubble? Finally, Flight 77's black box was unearthed at the site.
Remote Control
Theory: The two planes that hit the Twin Towers weren't piloted by hijackers but directed by remote control.
Fact: Boeing said these planes could only be piloted from the flight deck. In addition, the passengers and crew made phone calls describing hijackers taking over. In a call minutes before the crash, American Flight 11 attendant Betty Ong told ground personnel, "Our Number One has been stabbed and our Five has been stabbed. Can anybody get up to the cockpit? Okay. We can't even get into the cockpit. We don't know who's up there." A second flight attendant on Flight 11 told an American Airlines ground employee, "Listen to me. Listen to me very carefully," and then went on to describe the hijacking as it unfolded.
The Twin Towers Collapse
Theory: The Twin Towers collapsed because demolition charges were planted inside them, not because of fire and structural damage resulting from American Flight 11 and United Flight 175 plowing into them. The buildings had been designed to withstand great stress and the fires were not hot enough to melt steel. And, if the buildings had collapsed, they would have fallen at an angle—not pancaked straight down, as only buildings destroyed by controlled demolition do.
Fact: Planting enough explosives to blow up the Twin Towers would have required considerable preparation, such as hacking away concrete and steel to position the charges. The work would have taken weeks, possibly months, and could scarcely have gone unnoticed. Additionally, no evidence of explosives has ever turned up at Ground Zero or on debris from the towers. The explosions set off by the crashes ignited fires that did not melt the buildings' steel structure but significantly weakened it, causing its design to fail. Floors crashing down upon one another with enormous impact took the building down.
Flight 93
Theory: United Flight 93 was shot down over southwestern Pennsylvania by an unidentified white military plane or by a heat-seeking missile fired from an F-16, possibly flown by the North Dakota Air Guard.
Fact: On 9/11, a white Dassault Falcon business jet, owned by VF Corp of Greensboro, North Carolina, was preparing to land at an airport 20 miles north of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 crashed. According to Popular Mechanics, which did a thorough investigation into Flight 93 and other conspiracy theories, the Cleveland control center contacted the VF plane's cockpit and asked the pilot to divert and see if he could find the crash site. The Dassault descended to 1,500 feet and eventually spotted the smoking hole in the ground where Flight 93 had crashed. As for the missile, according to an Air National Guard spokesman, Lt. Colonel Rick Gibney flew an F16 that morning from Fargo, North Dakota, to Bozeman, Montana, where he picked up Ed Jacoby Jr., head of New York state's Emergency Management Office; he then took him to Albany, New York. Jacoby told Popular Mechanics that Gibney couldn't possibly have shot down Flight 93 because he was with the fighter pilot at the time the plane went down and they never were anywhere near Shanksville. Additionally, the military did not know about the crash of Flight 93 until four minutes after it occurred.
Where Were the Fighters?
Theory: None of the fighters from the 28 air bases within range of the hijacked airplanes were scrambled because the Air Force was ordered to stand down.
Fact: The Federal Aviation Administration's Boston Center phoned the Northeast Air Defense Sector at 8:37 a.m. to say Flight 11 had been hijacked. Within minutes, NEADS scrambled two sets of fighters—two F-15s from Otis Air National Guard Base at Falmouth, Massachusetts, and three F-16s from a National Guard base at Hampton, Virginia. The Virginia planes headed out over the ocean. The F-15s didn't have time to reach Flight 11 before it crashed. Also, the hijackers had turned off the planes' transponders, forcing air traffic controllers to look through thousands of radar blips to find the planes. North American Aerospace Defense Command, which is supposed to guard American airspace from attack, had its radar focused out of the country, searching for incoming rather than internal attacks.
Hijackers and the FBI
Theory: In 2000, future hijackers Khalid Al Mihdhar and Nawaf Al Hazmi were followed by the CIA to an Al Qaeda meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Then the agency lost them. Afterward, both men legally entered the United States through Los Angeles and went to live in plain sight in San Diego. How could this have happened without the government’s knowledge? The 9/11 Commission buried this detail in its footnotes and the FBI successfully resisted subpoenas from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to produce an informant who had known the two men in San Diego. Congress never was able to question this informant. The 9/11 Commission did talk to him, but what transpired at this meeting is classified, along with other footnotes in the commission's report. Therefore, the hijackers must have been here with government approval.
Fact: The Intelligence Committee's staff was the first to unearth and report the FBI informant's relationship with the two hijackers. Former Florida Senator Bob Graham has described the committee’s unsuccessful efforts to persuade the FBI to bring the informant to testify before Congress. The true relationship of the hijackers and the FBI informant remains hidden in the bureau's files.
Insider Trading
Theory: Insider trading in American Airlines and United Airlines stock just prior to 9/11 suggests that the traders had foreknowledge of the plot.
Fact: This appears to have been a coincidence, not a conspiracy. After investigating the theory, the 9/11 Commission concluded that "much of the seemingly suspicious trading in American [Airlines stock] on September 10 was traced to a specific U.S.-based options trading newsletter, faxed to its subscribers on Sunday, September 9, which recommended these trades."
Able Danger
Theory: Mohammad Atta had been under surveillance by German and American intelligence back in the late 1990s. A secret Pentagon project called Able Danger knew all about Atta and his trips back and forth from Germany to the United States. Able Danger participants wanted to tell the FBI what was going on but were prevented from doing so by Pentagon brass, who feared that news of the secret project would cause a political uproar. The military is prohibited by law from spying inside the country.
Fact: Atta's purported trips to the United States now seem unlikely. Nobody really knows what Able Danger was up to, since project officials were prevented by the Pentagon from testifying before Congress.
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almost there you are almost a truther! just kidding well you are right to assume 9/11 was an inside job to some degree because in reality we can't completely prove that Marvin Bush important member of the WTC complex security who resigned shortly before 9/11 intentionally powered down the buildings and pulled out all the bomb sniffing dogs. Or that client companies reported that they were moved around the building a lot and heard heavy contstruction like sounds coming from the vacant areas. These are coincidences but if any credit to the truthers tidbits such as these allow a chance of opportunity for bombs to be placed in the building. So along with eyewitness reports of explosions being heard throughout the building and evidence of thermate being recovered from steel wreckage of course we can't test the larger portions of steel because they were immediately sent off to be scrapped along with the body parts of the firemen they were mixed in with, I mean is really that hard to see where the truth movement is heading with all of this? Suspicious stock options being placed on the specific airlines involved the week or two before, all FAA guidelines ignored, well a lot of guidelines ignored. Norm Mineta's omitted testimony to the 9/11 commission which was first headed by Kissenger, Bin Laden not appearing on the FBI's most wanted list for orchestrating the attacks, the NIST still has yet to complete the report on the destruction of the third building WTC 7, which was due a long time ago? Why doesn't the NIST have to abide by deadlines and the commission did? I just want the truth so I can get on with my life.
On a long weekend in May of this year, my friends and I came upon a fire being held on a beach. We joined the party and proceeded to chat with some of the unknown strangers. It turns out that four of the partygoers that night were recently graduated mechanical engineers. We got into a lengthy discussion on 9/11 and how possible it was for office fires and kerosene to melt steel. All four of those engineers discussed their extensive research on 9/11 in their materials classes at the University of Western Ontario. In each case they concluded that there either had to be explosives on the planes, or within the walls of the buildings in order to bring them down within the timeframe that the collapses occurred. I will take a mechanical engineer's word over a senior correspondent any day. Sorry guys, all evidence points to a controlled demolition.
this is one of the worst articles on the subject i have read. i think you didnt even answer the questions you proposed, let alone more important ones. in my mind, it is not necessary to say this happened, or that happened, but just to ask questions like, how the hell did WC7 collapse? how can pancaking be argued still today when it has been proven to be a physically impossible explanation? you are telling me that NORCOM was not able to react correctly because they had to look through thousands of blips? and finally just for grins, what happened to the wing that was sheered off? i never saw that picture.
During the 9/11 hearings a General mentioned ongoing war games as interfering with the response to the hijackings. It's odd the terrorists chose a day that a war game simulating hijackings was going on.
I am also curious to hear the Sibel Edmonds side of the story.
Guys... why even mention these idiotic conspiracy theories? It's such a tiresome waste of time! Thank god you're not promoting them, at least. But seriously, if you must talk about them, at least do something more in depth. I could have written this in like 30 minutes.
Why did you purposely ignore building 7? The twin towers and wtc 7 all fell exactly alike straight down. First time ever steel buildings and 3 in one day. Perfect. No more questions here!
Great! They found flight 77's black box! Let's hear what it says. That will clear everything up. They should also show some video footage of the plane crashing. Surely the most secure building on the planet has camera footage of a jet slamming into their building. Right?? Right!??!!
Why did nobody pick up the profits for their trading if it was coincidental?
I would just remove the "smart" from your "smart, fearless, journalism" slogan....and then resign.
This is a stunning act of journalistic irresponsibility, the kind of analysis I would expect from corporate media--but Mother Jones? From Pulitzer quality reporting on the "School of Shock" last week to a sloppy, dismissive Bill O'Reilly-like piece on 911 this week-- what's going on, Mother Jones? Was the editorial decision made to analyze 911 Truth claims, or merely to shut down the discussion? I've got a suggestion: go to drjudywood.com and spend A WEEK going through the evidence she has compiled, including her NIST Request for Correction, and tell me (as Ridgeway asserts) that "floors crashing down upon one another with enormous impact took the building down." Unfortunately, too much of the 911 discussion--on both sides--consists of ad hominim attack and playing to prejudices. It takes some intelligence and persistance to get to the truth. Too bad James Ridgeway shows so little of either in this throw-away article.
It hard to imagine an intelligent person who can examine the facts of how those 3 buildings fell and still believe it was caused by anything other than explosives (i.e how did fire pulverize concrete to dust before the buildings even started falling?)...the logical reasoning that follows once you accept that is the scarey stuff
How do you explain that numerous people including our very own then SF Mayor Willie Brown was told not to fly that day? Has anyone ever looked into that? And the debris from the collapse of the three buildings was pulverized? Thermite? Never has been a steel framed building anywhere except there on that day which has burned and collapsed so perfectly....or that Rumsfield had slipped and said 'when the missile hit the building' right after the Pentagon attack (There was a dearth of visible debris on the relatively unmarked [Pentagon] lawn, where I stood only minutes after the impact. Beyond this strange absence of airliner debris, there was no sign of the kind of damage to the Pentagon structure one would expect from the impact of a large airliner. This visible evidence or lack thereof may also have been apparent to the secretary of defense [Donald Rumsfeld], who in an unfortunate slip of the tongue referred to the aircraft that slammed into the Pentagon as a "missile". ...
Mark, thanks for posting the drjudywood page...I always wondered why I couldn't get a web page in my own name! this is great...I will pretend she is my doppleganger.
Congratulations on an unfair and unbalanced piece of propaganda worthy of Fox. What's happened to Mother Jones?
Where is any mention of the nationally recognized engineers and scientists who have called for new investigations of the WTC collapses?
Are these simply inconvenient facts to be kept hidden from your readers so as to not confuse them?
On Sept. 4, Joel S. Hirschhorn, Ph.D., who served for 12 years as a Senior Staff Member of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and later as Director of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources for the National Governors Association, called for a new investigation of 9/11, saying "First, let the technical truth emerge. Then, if necessary, cope with the inevitable political, conspiracy and other questions." http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_alan_mil_070905_former_congressi...
On Aug. 27, Lynn Margulis, Ph.D., member of the National Academy of Sciences and world renowned scientist, characterized the official account of 9/11 as "a fraud" and called for a new investigation, "I suggest that those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly erroneous official account of 9/11 be dismissed as a fraud and a new, thorough, and impartial investigation be undertaken." http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_alan_mil_070906_national_academy...
An Aug. 21 article reported that James Quintiere, Ph.D., former Chief of NIST's Fire Science Division, called for an independent review of the World Trade Center Twin Tower collapse investigation. "I wish that there would be a peer review of this," he said, referring to the NIST investigation. "I think all the records that NIST has assembled should be archived. I would really like to see someone else take a look at what they've done; both structurally and from a fire point of view. ... I think the official conclusion that NIST arrived at is questionable." http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_alan_mil_070820_former_chief_of_...
On July 16, J. Marx Ayres, former member of the National Institute of Sciences Building Safety Council and former member of the California Seismic Safety Commission called for a new investigation of 9/11, "Steven Jones' call for a serious investigation of the hypothesis that the WTC 7 and the Twin Towers were brought down, not just by impact damage and fire, but through the use of pre-positioned 'cutter-charges' must be the rallying cry for all building design experts to speak out." http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_alan_mil_070715_former_californi...
And the article also ignores the dozens of vastly experienced military and commercial pilots who have come forward to state the official account of 9/11 just doesn't hold water from an aviation standpoint. http://patriotsquestion911.com/pilots.html
When are conspiracy nuts going to realize this: THERE WAS NO MOLTEN STEEL! The steel didn't have to melt in order for it to fail. And don't give me that crap about no steel building in history collapsing as a result of fire before 9/11. No other building had huge planes fly into them at high speed with nearly full tanks of gas either.
Has anyone noticed that conspiracy nuts used Ridgeway's book to suggest that even a respectable journalist is on their side; now they are trashing him. Ridgeway is a real journalist who does a lot more research than looking at crazy web sites that just make stuff up.
My compliments to you on writing this article as undoubtably(as posts below illustrate)a large swath of MJ's readership believes in these conspiracies. As with any conspiracy the underlining reason folks subscribe to such garbage is that they can't accept that we are on a rock hurling through the universe and that anything can and will happen. It is a far more comfortable prospect that there are puppet masters who control everything; and that such a cataclysmic event like 9/11 could only happen if "they" allow it to. Conspiracy theories are also a bastion of expression for the terribly uninformed, allowing someone to have an impassioned opinion on complex subjects with absolutely no facts or understanding on a given subject.
One other point. Above one of your questions was
"Why was he (Bush) out of the loop while Cheney, who had no constitutional authority, ran the show from the White House bunker?" I would expect more from your publication. Being aloft in Air Force One is not being "out of the loop." Air Force One is a mobile command center equipped to not only run the country's affairs, but direct defensive counter measures to any attack on the country. Air Force One is capable of directing and commanding all conventional and nuclear forces, domestic and abroad, under the US flag. I mean I knew this when I was like 7 years old. Anyway, thanks for the article.
The thing is, the significance of what happened on 9/11 is so enormous and shocking that many American's psychology simply can't accept it. ANY kind of argument that runs counter to the 'conventional wisdom' is reflexively perceived as 'wacky-cuckoo'. They would rather go on with their lives thinking that the people in power in this country are generally sane and benevolent and that our institutions are effective and humane as they have generally been throughout American history. They lack the WILLINGNESS to take that red pill and abandon the view of their country and their world that they've held so dearly all their lives. And who can blame them...it's HARD! It's EASY to dismiss it all as wing nut conspiracy and continue to have faith in such things as government, democracy, the military, capitalism etc. because when you start doubting the Official Story then all of these things are called into question....at least they were for me! So for those of you who would like all the 9/11 truth seekers and 'conspiracy nuts' to just go away...I ask you, how much do you need YOUR illusions?
Remember, you don't have to believe in a conspiracy, you just need to doubt the Official Story.
Ridgeway of course fails to address Building 7's bizarre collapse late in the day. He is either a bad investigative journalist, still too naive, or simply on the take. (I am guessing the latter.) I can't believe Mother Jones is endorsing this whitewasher.
Good Grief, popular mechanics ! in an investigation of this magnitude..... if you can write that down with a straight journalist face... then quoting the hallowed "9/11 commission" as though it was an unbiased investigative body and not a sham that is controlled by exec director and Bush insider Philip Zelikow.....
Mother Jones. are you really on the side of the people ?
I am shocked to see yet another of the many half-brained, "this-lie-is-the-truth" mantra articles published in MotherJones. Shame on you!This article in no way lives up to the standard of reporting your readers expect! So, we should just sleep well tonight because James has identified the myths and what he has decided are the facts?? Where are his supporting arguments and evidence?? What, no footnotes?? MotherJones must be spinning in her grave. You do realize that she was slandered as a conspiracy theorist during her career as a labour activist, don't you. That she was accused of "wild flights of fancy" for describing the murders of miners and their families by company thugs and state militia in Leadville, Colorado ? Is there no media that the CIA has not bought-out??
By the way, the smoking gun for demolition is the actual structure of the towers. There were 46 steel columns (with 4 hours of regulation fire insulation rated for temperatures much higher than on 9-11) in the center of each tower and in order for the towers to fall as they did those columns had to fail completely and simultaneously. If the "pancaking theory" had any relevence then what we should have seen was floors shearing off the central column and when it was finished, the column would have remained. (with anyone still in the stairways likely to be safe and sound as well)This is what happened to the AFFECTED FLOORS of the Madrid, Spain office building fire 18+ months ago after a raging white hot fire burned for over 10 hours. The affected floors sheared off and fell to the street without the building losing 1 meter of its total height. Anyone who believes that steel constructed buildings just collapse like a pile of cards has no business working in them or visiting them. Tell it to the paying customers because those of us who know how to think aren't buying it.
Ok, u guys are all making a classical conspiritorial "argument." A conspiracy operates on a cyclical self supporting argument, with cyclical logic(thats not good by the way). The evidence for any conspiracy is a lack of evidence. Any evidence that is produced to counter the conspiracy is diproved by stating that either the author of the facts is 'on the take' or being produced by whatever diabolical group that is really running the world...i.e. capitalists with big hats twisting their mustaches, the government, the UN, Bush's family, Israel and the Jews, oil cartels, military-industrial complex, anybody who knows that Che Guerrva was really a jerk etc. etc. etc. And as every source of information that rebukes said conspiracy is manufactured by the bad guys controling everything, then the only truth lies in sources that are not mainstream nor supported by any tangible facts(because these were placed in a campaign of misinformation by the overlords. Anyway, the point is that you can say anything about anything with out ever having to burden yourself with tangible proof that support your argument. Again, the lack of evidence is evidence of the conspiracy that the evidence is trying to hide, which proves that there is a conspiracy to hide the truth and the real evidence, which hasn't been discovered yet, because all of the false evidence put out by(ad your conspiracy of choice's main bad dude here)is just part of the master cover-up. Believing that 9/11 was an orchestrated event by a Legion of Doom, in a secret HQ under the sea is far less terrifying than what happened: A bunch of guys got together and said we are going to try and blow up and kill as many Americans as possible because all Americans are evil(our moms, dads, grandparents, kids and pets included). And even worse, the most powerful nation in history was absolutely unable to stop it, and will likely be unable to stop other attacks in the future, possibly even nuclear. Wow,looking back at what I just wrote...I must be on the take also. If I am, I'm pissed that I haven't received my check in the mail yet!
A pretty shoddy article. Pretends some authoritative knowledge on the issues involved, but fails to deliver compelling arguments. Superficial.
> NORAD...had its radar focused out of the country, searching for incoming rather than internal attacks.
Uh, yeah...right. NORAD only has one $billion radar that can either be focused over the Atlantic Ocean or above Kansas. And I'll bet you believe that NORAD is really tracking the actual sleigh of Santa Claus every Christmas...
Here's some testimony from an expert:
“I knew within hours of the attacks on 9/11/2001 that it was an inside job. Based on my 11-year experience as an FAA Air Traffic Controller in the busy Northeast corridor, including hundreds of hours of training, briefings, air refuelings, low altitude bombing drills, being part of huge military exercises, daily military training exercises, interacting on a routine basis directly with NORAD radar personnel, and based on my own direct experience dealing with in-flight emergency situations, including two instances of hijacked commercial airliners, I state unequivocally: There is absolutely no way that four large commercial airliners could have flown around off course for 30 to 60 minutes on 9/11 without being intercepted and shot completely out of the sky by our jet fighters unless very highly placed people in our government and our military wanted it to happen.”
~Robin Hordon, Former FAA Air Traffic Controller at the Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center, located in Nashua, NH, 1970 - 1981. Former Certified Commercial Pilot. Former Certified Flight Instructor and Certified Ground Instructor.
The most important thing to understand in the collapse of the towers is that the top of the building fell at a freefall. The accelaration rate of a falling object is 9.8 m/s/s--we learned that in 6th grade science. In order to fall at that rate, concrete cannot crash through even one floor of steel and concrete, let alone hundreds.
The official explanation for the collapse of the towers is physically impossible on a painfully obvious scale. The only possible explanation for a building to collapse in freefall is demolition. You can see explosions coming out the windows of the buildings in the news videos, and, as we all remember, news reports on the morning of 9/11/01 stated--with visual reference to the video--there were explosions in the building unrelated to the burning jets.
The buildings did a "freefall". Please explain that. Tell me how, other than demolition techciques, how the building fell into it's own foorprint? It doesn't just happen!! Most of the fuel on #2 just blew up in midair, and then fell "before" #1. In order to have been weakened by the fuel, it would have had to be distributed "evenly" throughout the building.
Another website that needs to be pointed out, AE911truth.org. AE=architects, engineers, come on, Mother Jones, what's happening to you? We have been, are being and will be lied to!
The Twin Towers Collapse
Your fact:s are wacky.... you say large amount of charge ..... but don't explain how so little COULD bring the tower's down sorry i'm still not sold .
i don't believe that those two huge buildings imploded with out assistance whether it be a combination of jet fuel and internal explosives. it just doesn't add up - we've all seen stadiums and old buildings taken down an falling in on themselves. any other type of explosion - things blow outward. what sickens me is how - if in any way possible our government or any officials were inolved, they could watch TV on that day and see those people jumping out the windows of those buildings. people say that they are tired of hearing about this day that we "celebrate" the Taliban with every new article and rememberance of the horrible events that took place on this day. i even heard a radio station comment that, just like Memorial Day, in 5 to 6 years there will be "9/11 Sales". May the Lord above help all of us and keep watch over all of this if this is how the USA continues to operate. Of course, all of those sale items will probably me manufactured in China, only to be recalled a week later.
Mr. Ridgeway should seek work with Fox News. Fox would happily print this trash article. Mother Jones is turning over in her grave and everyone in the magazine should be ashamed of it and him.
Way to explain a lot, without really explaining anything. I loved the print article on extinction several months ago. That was wonderful writing; maybe setting the bar too high. I understand. Take a break.
In fact, many HIGHLY CREDIBLE former military officials, scientists, 9/11, congress people, psychologists, historians, even the 9/11 Commissioners themselves, question the official story:
Q: What do Daniel Ellsberg, Lewis Lapham, Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, Thom Hartmann, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Marc Crispin Miller, Howard Zinn, Ray McGovern, Robert McChesney, Gore Vidal, Robert Fisk, Medea Benjamin, Doris "Granny D" Haddock, Paul Hawken, David Cobb, Randy Hayes, Ernest Callenbach, Dennis Bernstein, Paul H. Ray, Michael Franti, Janeane Garafalo and Ed Asner all have in common?
A: All of these leading liberal voices question the Bush administration's account of what happened on 9/11.
See http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/02/911-and-left.html for details.
MILITARY LEADERS QUESTION 9/11.
Numerous high-level U.S. military leaders have publicly questioned 9/11. The following is just a small sample*:
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan said that the official story of 9/11 is "the dog that doesn't hunt" (bio)
Director of the U.S. "Star Wars" space defense program in both Republican and Democratic administrations, who was a senior air force colonel who flew 101 combat missions, stated that 9/11 was an inside job (he also said "If our government had merely done nothing, and allowed normal procedures to happen on that morning of 9/11, the twin towers would still be standing, and thousands of dead Americans would still be alive. [T]hat is treason")
U.S. Army Air Defense Officer and NORAD Tac Director, decorated with the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star and the Soldiers Medal stated that "there is no way that an aircraft . . . would not be intercepted when they deviate from their flight plan, turn off their transponders, or stop communication with Air Traffic Control ... Attempts to obscure facts by calling them a 'conspiracy Theory' does not change the truth. It seems, 'Something is rotten in the State.'"
President of the U.S. Air Force Accident Investigation Board, who also served as Pentagon Weapons Requirement Officer and as a member of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review, and who was awarded Distinguished Flying Crosses for Heroism, four Air Medals, four Meritorious Service Medals, and nine Aerial Achievement Medals, is a member of a group which doubts the government's version of 9/11
20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer, the second-ranking civilian in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence, and former CIA clandestine services case officer stated that "9/11 was at a minimum allowed to happen as a pretext for war", and it was probably an inside job (see Customer Review dated October 7, 2006).
U.S. General, Commanding General of U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, decorated with the Bronze Star, Silver Star, and Purple Heart said "We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intelligence information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time."
Air Force Colonel and key Pentagon official finds various aspects of 9/11 suspicious
Lieutenant colonel, 24-year Air Force career, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the Defense Language Institute said "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."
Two-Star general questions the attack on the Pentagon
U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, former instructor at the USAF Fighter Weapons School and NATO’s Tactical Leadership Program, with a 20-year Air Force career said the following:
"I am 100% convinced that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were planned, organized, and committed by treasonous perpetrators that have infiltrated the highest levels of our government ....
Those of us in the military took an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic". Just because we have retired does not make that oath invalid, so it is not just our responsibility, it is our duty to expose the real perpetrators of 9/11 and bring them to justice, no matter how hard it is, how long it takes, or how much we have to suffer to do it.
We owe it to those who have gone before us who executed that same oath, and who are doing the same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan right now. Those of us who joined the military and faithfully executed orders that were given us had to trust our leaders. The violation and abuse of that trust is not only heinous, but ultimately the most accurate definition of treason!"
U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, a fighter pilot with over 300 combat missions flown and a 21-year Marine Corps career, believes that 9/11 was an inside job, and said:
"This isn't about party, it isn't about Bush Bashing. It's about our country, our constitution, and our future. ...
Your countrymen have been murdered and the more you delve into it the more it looks as though they were murdered by our government, who used it as an excuse to murder other people thousands of miles away.
If you ridicule others who have sincere doubts and who know factual information that directly contradicts the official report and who want explanations from those who hold the keys to our government, and have motive, means, and opportunity to pull off a 9/11, but you are too lazy or fearful, or ... to check into the facts yourself, what does that make you? ....
Are you afraid that you will learn the truth and you can't handle it? ..."
U.S. Navy 'Top Gun' pilot who questions the official account of 9/11 and is calling for a new investigation, says "When one starts using his own mind, and not what one was told, there is very little to believe in the official story".
Former army captain and intelligence officer said this:
"As a former Army officer, my tendency immediately after 911 was to rally 'round the colors and defend the country against what I then thought was an insidious, malicious all-Arab entity called Al-Qaida. In fact, in April of 2002, I attempted to reactivate my then-retired commission to return to serve my country in its time of peril...
Now I view the 911 event . . . as a matter that implies either
A) passive participation by the Bush White House through a deliberate stand-down of proper defense procedures that (if followed) would have led US air assets to a quick identification and confrontation of the passenger aircraft that impacted WTC 1 and WTC 2, or worse ...
B) active execution of a plot by rogue elements of government, starting with the White House itself, in creating a spectacle of destruction that would lead the United States into an invasion of the Middle East ..."
Additionally, numerous military leaders from allied governments have questioned 9/11, such as:
Canadian Minister of Defense (the top military leader of Canada)
Assistant German Defense Minister (the number two military leader from Germany)
Commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force
Chief of staff of the Russian armed forces
The chief of NATO, a high-ranking general (discussing explosions in the Twin Towers; in Danish)
See http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/04/military-leaders-question-9...
SCIENTISTS QUESTION 9/11.
Numerous credible scientists and engineers have recently disproven some of the most commonly-held, but false, theories about the collapse of the World Trade Centers on September 11, 2001:
A prominent physicist with 33 years of service for the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, said that the official theory for why the Twin Towers and world trade center building 7 collapsed "does not match the available facts" and supports the theory that the buildings were brought down by controlled demolition
A prominent physicist, former U.S. professor of physics from a top university, and a former principal investigator for the U.S. Department of Energy, Division of Advanced Energy Projects, stated that the world trade centers were brought down by controlled demolition
A U.S. physics professor who teaches at several universities believes that the World Trade Centers were brought down by controlled demolition
A professor emeritus of physics and former division chairman from a small community college said "My wife and I, transfixed in front of a TV as the horror of 9/11 unfolded, watched as the topmost, undamaged floors of the WTC South Tower started to gradually lean (rotate) in the direction of the damage due to impact. In an instant, the rotation stopped, and that which was rotating began to fall, as if only under the influence of gravity! The fulcrum was no longer there! I blurted out, "My god, they wired the building."
An expert on demolition said that the trade centers were brought down with explosives (and see TV interview here; both in Danish)
A Dutch demolition expert stated that WTC 7 was imploded
A safety engineer and accident analyst for the Finnish National Safety Technology Authority stated regarding WTC 7 that "The great speed of the collapse and the low value of the resistance factor strongly suggest controlled demolition."
A 13-year professor of metallurgical engineering at a U.S. university, with a PhD in materials engineering, a former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment Senior Staff Member, is calling for a new investigation of 9/11
A number of structural engineers have questioned the government's explanation for the collapse of the Twin Towers. As just two of many examples, two structural engineers at a prestigious Swiss university said that, on 9/11, World Trade Center 7 was brought down by controlled demolition (translation here)
A prominent engineer with 55 years experience, in charge of the design of hundreds of major building projects including high rise offices, former member of the California Seismic Safety Commission and former member of the National Institute of Sciences Building Safety Council believes that the World Trade Centers were brought down by controlled demolition (see also this)
An architect, member of the American Institute of Architects, who has been a practicing architect for 20 years and has been responsible for the production of construction documents for numerous steel-framed and fire-protected buildings for uses in many different areas, including education, civic, rapid transit and industrial use, has disputed the claim that fire and airplane damage brought down the World Trade Centers and believes there is strong evidence of controlled demolition (see also this video, part 2 here, and part 3 here (other architects who question 9/11 are listed here)
A former guidance systems engineer for Polaris and Trident missiles and professor emeritus, mathematics and computer science at a university concluded that the Twin Towers "were brought down by planted explosives."
A professor of mathematics said "The official explanation that I've heard doesn't make sense because it doesn't explain why I heard and felt an explosion before the South Tower fell and why the concrete was pulverized"
A Danish professor of chemistry said, in a mainstream Danish newspaper, "WTC7 collapsed exactly like a house of cards. If the fires or damage in one corner had played a decisive role, the building would have fallen in that direction. You don't have to be a woodcutter to grasp this" (translated)
A world-renowned scientist, recipient of the National Medal of Science, America's highest honor for scientific achievement, said “I suggest that those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly erroneous official account of 9/11 be dismissed as a fraud and a new, thorough, and impartial investigation be undertaken.”
HEROIC RESCUERS AND FAMILY MEMBERS QUESTION 9/11.
A common tactic that 9/11 apologists use for changing the subject away from 9/11 truth is to claim that questioning the official version is "disrespectful to the victims and their families".
In fact, half of the victim's families believe that 9/11 was an inside job (listen to this interview). Many family and friends of victims not only support the search for 9/11 truth, but they demand it (please ignore the partisan tone). See also this interview.
Indeed, it has now become so clear that the 9/11 Commission was a whitewash that the same 9/11 widows who called for the creation of the 9/11 Commission are now demanding a NEW investigation (see also this video).
And dying heroes, soon-to-be victims themselves, the first responders who worked tirelessly to save lives on and after 9/11, say that controlled demolition brought down the Twin Towers and that a real investigation is necessary.
So next time someone tells you that questioning 9/11 is disrespectful to the victims, show him or her the facts contained in this story, and educate them to the fact that NOT questioning the heinous lie passing for the official story is what is truly disrespectful to the victims and their families. For failing to uncover the truth of 9/11 will mean that the victims died in vain: just 3,000 of countless victims of false flag terror committed by Western (and other) governments from Rome to the present.
If, instead, the truth of 9/11 is revealed and the perpetrators are brought to justice, the victims of this horrible tragedy will have helped educate America and the world as to the secret history of false flag terror, and their deaths will have been heroic and honorable.
See http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2006/09/disrespectful-to-victims.ht...
LEGAL SCHOLARS QUESTION 9/11.
Many highly-qualified legal scholars believe that the horrible attacks of September 1, 2001, may intentionally have been allowed to happen or even been actively aided and abetted by elements within the United States government. This is important, since attorneys are good at assessing the strength of competing pieces of evidence, and since lawyers are the ones who will ultimately file any 9/11 prosecutions.
A partial list of such scholars includes:
John Loftus (Former Federal Prosecutor, Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Department of Justice under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan; former U.S. Army Intelligence officer; currently a widely-sought media commentator on terrorism and intelligence services). See http://www.patriotsquestion911.com/#Loftus
Francis Boyle, PhD, LLD (Professor of International Law at the University of Illinois, Champaign; a leading practitioner and advocate of international law; Boyle was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention; Boyle 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). See http://patriotsquestion911.com/professors.html#Boyle
Richard Falk (Professor Emeritus, International Law, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University; in 2001 Falk served on the three-person UN Commission on Human Rights for the Palestine Territories, and previously, on the Independent International Commission on Kosovo). See http://patriotsquestion911.com/professors.html#Falk
Burns H. Weston (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). See http://patriotsquestion911.com/professors.html#Weston
C. Peter Erlinder, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, has signed a petition calling for a real investigation into 9/11. See http://patriotsquestion911.com/professors.html#Erlinder. and http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026093059633.
Mark Conrad (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). See http://patriotsquestion911.com/professors.html#Conrad
Mary Schiavo (Former Inspector General, U.S. Department of Transportation; former Professor of Aviation, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Aviation and Professor of Public Policy, Ohio State University).
See http://patriotsquestion911.com/#Schiavo
J. Terrence "Terry" Brunner (Former prosecutor in the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the U.S. Justice Department and a key member of Attorney General Bobby Kennedy’s anti-corruption task force; former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois).
See http://patriotsquestion911.com/#Brunner
Horst Ehmke, PhD (Professor of Law, University of Freiburg; former Minister of Justice (West Germany)). See http://patriotsquestion911.com/professors.html#Ehmke
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). See http://patriotsquestion911.com/professors.html#Weaver
Gerry Spence (famed trial attorney). See http://www.interlinkbooks.com/BooksN/New_Pearl_Harbor.html
William Veale, Former Instructor of Criminal Trial Practice, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley 11-year teaching career. Retired Chief Assistant Public Defender, Contra Costa County, California 31-year career. See http://patriotsquestion911.com/professors.html#Veale
Veale says:
"When you grow up in the United States, there are some bedrock principles that require concerted effort to discard. One is the simplest: that our leaders are good and decent people whose efforts may occasionally warrant criticism but never because of malice or venality... But one grows up. ... And with the lawyer's training comes the reliance on evidence and the facts that persuade... After a lot of reading, thought, study, and commiseration, I have come to the conclusion that the attacks of 9/11 were, in their essence, an inside job perpetrated at the highest levels of the U S government."
See http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2005/06/justice-and-9-11.html
HIGH-LEVEL OFFICIALS QUESTION 9/11.
Current and former high-level U.S. officials have recently and publicly stated that the 9/11 attack was not as it seemed.
For example:
Current U.S. Senator states "The two questions that the congress will not ask . . . is why did 9/11 happen on George Bush's watch when he had clear warnings that it was going to happen? Why did they allow it to happen?"
Current Republican Congressman states that "we see the [9/11] investigations that have been done so far as more or less cover-up and no real explanation of what went on"
Current Democratic Congressman hints that we aren't being told the truth about 9/11
Former U.S. Republican Congressman and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, and who served six years as the Chairman of the Military Research and Development Subcommittee, has shown that the U.S. tracked hijackers before 9/11, is open to hearing information about explosives in the Twin Towers, and is open to the possibility that 9/11 was an inside job
Former Democratic Senator states that he supports a new 9/11 investigation and that we don't know the truth about 9/11
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan said that the official story of 9/11 is "the dog that doesn't hunt" (if you suspect he is a closet liberal, take a look at his bio)
Former director of the U.S. "Star Wars" space defense program in both Republican and Democratic administrations, who was a senior air force colonel who flew 101 combat missions, and who is a Catholic Archbishop stated that 9/11 was an inside job (he also said "If our government had merely done nothing, and allowed normal procedures to happen on that morning of 9/11, the twin towers would still be standing, and thousands of dead Americans would still be alive. [T]hat is treason")
Former U.S. Army Air Defense Officer and NORAD Tac Director, decorated with the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star and the Soldiers Medal stated that "there is no way that an aircraft . . . would not be intercepted when they deviate from their flight plan, turn off their transponders, or stop communication with Air Traffic Control ... Attempts to obscure facts by calling them a 'conspiracy Theory' does not change the truth. It seems, 'Something is rotten in the State.'"
Former 20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer, the second-ranking civilian in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence, and former CIA clandestine services case officer stated that "9/11 was at a minimum allowed to happen as a pretext for war", and it was probably an inside job (see Customer Review dated October 7, 2006).
Former high-ranking Reagan official and very influential conservative doubts the official story about 9/11
Former Two-Star general questions the attack on the Pentagon
Former Air Force Colonel and key Pentagon official finds various aspects of 9/11 suspicious
Former President of the U.S. Air Force Accident Investigation Board, who also served as Pentagon Weapons Requirement Officer and as a member of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review, and who was awarded Distinguish Flying Crosses for Heroism, four Air Medals, four Meritorious Service Medals, and nine Aerial Achievement Medals, is a member of a group which doubts the government's version of 9/11
Current U.S. Congresswoman, former senior CIA analyst, former Deputy Secretary for Intelligence and Warning under Nixon, Ford, and Carter, former US Ambassador and Chief of Mission to Iraq, former Deputy Director to the White House Task Force on Terrorism, and former US Department of State Foreign Service Officer (as well as a who's who of liberals and independents) jointly call for a new investigation into 9/11
Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said that some of the claims concerning government involvement in 9/11 are credible, that "very serious questions have been raised about what they [U.S. government officials] knew beforehand and how much involvement there might have been", that engineering 9/11 would not be humanly or psychologically beyond the scope of the current administration, and that there's enough evidence to justify a new, "hard-hitting" investigation into 9/11 with subpoenas and testimony taken under oath
Former FBI translator, who the Department of Justice's Inspector General and several senators have called extremely credible (free subscription required), 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". She also is leaning towards the conclusion that 9/11 was an inside job
A 28-year career CIA official says 9/11 was an inside job
A retired 27-year CIA analyst who prepared and presented Presidential Daily Briefs and served as a high-level analyst for several presidents stated that there are indications that Cheney ordered a stand down of the military on 9/11
Former FBI agent says "The FBI, rather than trying to prevent a terrorist attack, was merely gathering intelligence so they would know who to arrest when a terrorist attack occurred."
Former air traffic controller, who knows the flight corridor which the two planes which hit the Twin Towers flew "like the back of my hand" and who handled two actual hijackings says that 9/11 could not have occurred as the government says, and that planes can be tracked on radar even when their transponders are turned off (also, listen to this interview)
Former 6-year Inspector General, U.S. Department of Transportation and former Professor of Aviation, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Aviation says "the [9/11] commission is clearly not talking to everybody or not telling us everything .... Huge discrepancies persist in basic facts .... when we heard the carriers and governments alike saying, “Oh, no one could have foreseen this. No one knew that this was coming. No one knew that there was any risk like this in the world,” is absolutely false....
The Group Director on matters of national security in the U.S. Government Accountability Office said that President Bush did not respond to unprecedented warnings of the 9/11 disaster and conducted a massive cover-up instead of accepting responsibility
Former ambassador to Iraq is not satisfied with the official story
Numerous high-level legal scholars question the official version of 9/11. As do numerous military leaders.
And many officials from allied governments have also questioned 9/11:
Statement by former President of Italy
Statements by former German Defense Minister and current member of British Parliament
Statement by former Canadian Minister of Defense
Statements of two former MI5 (British intelligence) agents (19 minutes into video)
Statement of a high-ranking general and the former chief of NATO regarding bombs in the Twin Towers (in Danish)
Statement by the commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force; and see also statement of former chief of staff of the Russian armed forces
And see this easy-to-read website for additional high-level officials.
PSYCHIATRISTS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS: GOVERNMENT'S 9/11 STORY IS CRAZY
Should people who question the government's version of the events of 9/11 have their heads examined?
Well, the following psychiatrists and psychologists have concluded that the official version of 9/11 is false. Moreover, many of these mental health experts have concluded that the government's account is so obviously false that people who believe the government's version are in psychological denial:
Psychiatrist Carol S. Wolman, MD
Psychiatrist E. Martin Schotz
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, as well as Radiology, at Duke University Medical Center D. Lawrence Burk, Jr., MD
Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Ruters University Barry R. Komisaruk
Professor of Psychology at University of New Hampshire William Woodward
Professor of Psychology at University of Essex Philip Cozzolino
Professor of Psychology at Goddard College Catherine Lowther
Professor Emeritus of Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies Ralph Metzner
Professor of Psychology at Rhodes University Mike Earl-Taylor
Retired Professor of Psychology at Oxford University Graham Harris
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Nebraska and licensed Psychologist Ronald Feintech
Ph.D. Clinical Neuropsychologist Richard Welser
Clinical psychologist, Ed.D., Harvard University Gwendolyn Atwood,
Psychology researcher, M.A., Psychology Victoria Ashley
Psychotherapist, M.S. Clinical Psychology, Greg Henricks
M.S. in educational psychology, Roy Holcombe
M.A. in Counseling Psychology Tova Gabrielle
There are literally thousands of other mental health professionals who have reached the same conclusions. So who is out of touch with reality: those who question 9/11 or those who believe the government's version without question?
See http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/05/psychiatrists-and-psycholog...
HISTORIANS QUESTION 9/11.
What will future history books say about 9/11? When all the facts are in, what will future historians write about 9/11?
Well, a good place to start might be to see what professional historians are saying now.
All of the following historians have concluded that 9/11 was an inside job, or at least questioned major portions of the the government's account about 9/11:
Col. Ronald D. Ray, U.S. Marine Corps (ret), Military Historian and Deputy Director of Field Operations for the U.S. Marine Corps Historical Center, Washington, D.C. 1990 - 1994, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Reagan Administration and a highly decorated Vietnam veteran (two Silver Stars, a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart)
Georg Kreis, PhD, Professor of History and Director of the Europe Institut of the University of Basel
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
Howard Zinn, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Boston University. Historian and political scientist. Author of A People's History of the United States
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
James G. Smart, PhD, Professor Emeritus of History, Keene State College. Former Assistant Professor of History, University of Chattanooga
Carolyn Baker, PhD, Adjunct Professor of History, New Mexico State University
Joseph Diaferia, Professor of History and political science
Prominent World War II historian Robert Stinnett (who stated, in a telephone interview with me, that he believes the government let 9/11 happen in order to justify its agenda)
Gore Vidal, writer and historian
Webster Tarpley, historian and writer
Many other historians, especially those with expertise on war and fascism, understand that false flag operations such as 9/11 have been used throughout history to justify military campaigns and the consolidation of domestic power.
See http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/07/when-history-of-911-is-writ...
HOW COULD THEY PLANT BOMBS IN THE WORLD TRADE CENTER? Please see http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-could-they-plant-bombs-...
WHAT IS A FALSE FLAG? Please see http://pledgeforamerica.com/2.html
What a terrible article. Complete whitewash. I can't believe MJ published this. To an informed audience this article is simply a joke. Shame. Shame. Shame.
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS QUESTION COLLAPSE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. One of the arguments that government apologists have used in trying to prop up the official story of why the World Trade Centers came down on 9/11 is that no structural engineers have questioned the government's version of events. However, that is now changing.
The following structural engineers have now publicly challenged the government's account of the destruction of the Trade Centers on 9/11:
Hugo Bachmann and Jörg Schneider, both emeritus professors in structural engineering at a prestigious Swiss university (translation here)
Charles Pegelow, structural engineer, of Houston, Texas (and see this)
Dennis Kollar, structural engineer, of West Bend, Wisconsin
Doyle Winterton, structural engineer (retired)
Haluk Akol, Structural Engineer and architect (ret.)
Joseph M. Phelps, MS, PE. Structural Dynamicist (ret.), Charter Member, Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers
William Rice, P.E., structural engineer, former professor of Vermont Technical College
Please see http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/05/structural-engineers-questi...
i,ve been studying this for 2 years and you are clueless.silverstein admitted they pulled the building. don't call yourself a journalist,get a job at fox news
WHY THE TRUTH ABOUT 9/11 IS CENSORED BY THE MEDIA. Please see http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2005/10/hit-them-with-truth.html
You say "Smart Fearless Journalism", that is your motto. But is this article honestly "Smart", "Fearless" or even "Journalism"? I can think of three words that this article is, but I will keep this post respectful.
Consider my subscription cancelled.
For those who want to actually understand what happened on 9/11 I suggest you start here:
The Journal of 9/11 Studies.
http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/2007/FaultyTowersofBeliefPart_...
http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/2007/ManwellFaultyTowersofBeli...
perhaps you need to do a little more research. have you read David Ray Griffin's Debunking 911 Debunking? Have you noticed how many architects, engineers, pilots, scientists, scholars, etc, want reinvestigation and do not buy the "official conspiracy theory"??? www.patriotsquestion911.com
you quote the ridiculous Popular Mechanics crap. i suppose no conflict of interest with MIchael Chertoff's overseeing anythin spewn from that rag.
what about Dov Zakheim and the missing trillions from the pentagon? What about P. Zelikow as overseer/handler of the 9/11 commission?? these people are foreign-nationals!!! traitors. what about all israeli companies who headed security for the airports and the Cleveland hanger? what about L. Silverstein/Lowy/Eisenberg sweet deal?
you have got to be kidding.
This article is one of the worst I have ever read on this subject! Unlike the author there are many of us who have done extensive research on this subject. the "official" conspiracy theory is almost completely false and provably so. The world trade center towers and building 7 could not have come down as they did without carefully placed and timed high explosives. It is beyond the laws of physics for any building to collapse at free fall speed through the path of most resistance. It just can't happen! Building 7 is a classic smoking gun, one look at the video and it's obvious that the building is not "falling down" due to damage or fires, it's being demolished by controlled demolition! You can see the blast wave and the central core columns being taken out just prior to the beginning of the collapse. It's no wonder that the author left that out of his "work".
When the public pressure becomes great enough and there is a new independent investigation into the events of 9/11 we are going to see just how badly we were let down by our mainstream media. MJ can now take it's place among the ranks of the media who failed their audience in their slipshod approach to this subject. Awful article.
Did Gnome Chumpsky advise you on writing this?
Well here's all about Mr Gnome, sorry liberals, your "great leader" is a paid gate keeper. Read it and weep into your copy of Momma Jones and bowl of lentil soup.
http://www.geocities.com/agent_noam_chomsky/chomsky.htm
Have you read Animal Farm lately, it's only 96 pages it's worth re-reading. It was written by George Orwell, I know you liberals are really smart and know everything but I thought I'd tell you all anyway.
9/11 was an inside job, those building were blown up, all three of them you bunch of self-righteous, vegetarian organic wine drinking, free Tibet protesting, snobs.
