Physicist says heat substance felled WTC

deseretnews.com | Physicist says heat substance felled WTC

Extremely hot fires caused structures to fail, BYU expert says

By Suzanne Dean
For the Deseret Morning News

EPHRAIM — A Brigham Young University physicist said he now believes an incendiary substance called thermite, bolstered by sulfur, was used to generate exceptionally hot fires at the World Trade Center on 9/11, causing the structural steel to fail and the buildings to collapse.

"It looks like thermite with sulfur added, which really is a very clever idea," Steven Jones, professor of physics at BYU, told a meeting of the Utah Academy of Science, Arts and Letters at Snow College Friday.

The government requires standard explosives to contain tag elements enabling them to be traced back to their manufacturers. But no tags are required in aluminum and iron oxide, the materials used to make thermite, he said. Nor, he said, are tags required in sulfur.

Jones is co-chairman, with James H. Fetzer, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a group of college faculty members who believe conspirators other than pilots of the planes were directly involved in bringing down New York's Trade Towers.

The group, which Jones said has 200 members, maintains a Web site at www.st911.org. A 40-page paper by Jones, along with other peer-reviewed and non-reviewed academic papers, are posted on the site.

Last year, Jones presented various arguments for his theory that explosives or incendiary devices were planted in the Trade Towers, and in WTC 7, a smaller building in the Trade Center complex, and that those materials, not planes crashing into the buildings, caused the buildings to collapse.

At that time, he mentioned thermite as the possible explosive or incendiary agent. But Friday, he said he is increasingly convinced that thermite and sulfur were the root causes of the 9/11 disaster.

He told college professors and graduate students from throughout Utah gathered for the academy meeting that while almost no fire, even one ignited by jet fuel, can cause structural steel to fail, the combination of thermite and sulfur "slices through steel like a hot knife through butter."

He ticked off several pieces of evidence for his thermite fire theory:

First, he said, video showed a yellow, molten substance splashing off the side of the south Trade Tower about 50 minutes after an airplane hit it and a few minutes before it collapsed. Government investigators ruled out the possibility of melting steel being the source of the material because of the unlikelihood of steel melting. The investigators said the molten material must have been aluminum from the plane.

But, said Jones, molten aluminum is silvery. It never turns yellow. The substance observed in the videos "just isn't aluminum," he said. But, he said, thermite can cause steel to melt and become yellowish.

Second, he cited video pictures showing white ash rising from the south tower near the dripping, liquefied metal. When thermite burns, Jones said, it releases aluminum-oxide ash. The presence of both yellow-white molten iron and aluminum oxide ash "are signature characteristics of a thermite reaction," he said.

Another item of evidence, Jones said, is the fact that sulfur traces were found in structural steel recovered from the Trade Towers. Jones quoted the New York Times as saying sulfidization in the recovered steel was "perhaps the deepest mystery uncovered in the (official) investigation." But, he said, sulfidization fits the theory that sulfur was combined with thermite to make the thermite burn even hotter than it ordinarily would.

Jones said a piece of building wreckage had a gray substance on the outside that at one point had obviously been a dripping molten metal or liquid. He said that after thermite turns steel or iron into a molten form, and the metal hardens, it is gray.

He added that pools of molten metal were found beneath both trade towers and the 47-story WTC 7. That fact, he said, was never discussed in official investigation reports.

And even though WTC 7 was not connected to the Trade Towers — in fact, there was another building between it and the towers —and even though it was never hit by a plane, it collapsed. That suggests, he said, that it came down because a thermite fire caused its structural steel to fail. (It was "pulled"= deployed per the instruction of Larry Silverstien-leaseholder, who made a hefty profiy in insurance)

Jones said his studies are confined to physical causes of the collapses, and he doesn't like to speculate about who might have entered the buildings and placed thermite and sulfur. But he said 10 to 20 people "in the know," plus other people who didn't know what they were doing but did what they were told, could have placed incendiary packages over several weeks.

Not a Conspiracy, Folks

"It's very true that some of the more specious conspiracy claims have been largely discredited and proved false. Some of the more radical "evidence" gathered by theorists is quite suspect and easily placed in the category of no-way-in-hell. This is valid. You have to chew through a lot of skin and gristle to get to the real meat. But...it is quite impossible to watch the entire "Loose Change" documentary and not come away just a little shaken, a little awed by the sheer number of perversely interrelated facts and aberrant coincidences-that-aren't-coincidences."
-- San Francisco Chronicle, 3/29/06

Dear friends,

As one who has worked as a language interpreter for presidents and other dignitaries at the highest levels of government, I am deeply committed to strengthening democracy and to building a brighter future for all of us. I and many others in the research network in which I am involved have found that a key difficulty we face in building a better world is the resistance of many people to looking at some of the darker aspects of what is going both in the world and inside of ourselves.

I invite you to consider that by avoiding or suppressing the darker aspects of life, we only give them room to grow even darker and more threatening. By choosing to pull back the veil and look directly into the darkness, by choosing to face both our individual and collective fears and working to transform them, we can improve not only our own lives, but our entire world. I present the information below out of a desire to invite all of us draw back the veils and awaken to the deeper potential that lies within all of us to play an important role in transforming our world into a more caring, supportive place to live.

If you can give just a few minutes of your time, I invite you to open to a crucial piece of what is going on behind the veil by watching the most empowering documentary on 9/11 that I've ever seen. Titled "Loose Change," this highly revealing film is available free on Google Video at the link below. If you have limited time, I cannot recommend highly enough going straight to the link now and watching at least 10 to 15 minutes of this highly revealing documentary. The reliable information provided serves as a wake-up call for us all to come together in building a better world.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848 - Loose Change (82 minutes)

Though it ranks as far and above the best documentary on 9/11 I've seen, "Loose Change" is not enjoyable to watch. Many people find their stomach turning and their mind saying "is this true" or "how can this be?" The documentary is meant to be disturbing, yet it is equally designed to inspire us to action. Once we open to seeing the darkness by educating ourselves, we begin to take power back into our own hands both individually and collectively, and can then work together to create more balance and harmony in our world.

You may not be aware the even the major media has recently joined in raising serious questions about 9/11 and suggesting a major cover-up. The savvy, sophisticated New York magazine had a long, detailed article and the San Francisco Chronicle had two articles raising serious questions about the official story. One of the articles (see below) was on the front page of the entertainment section. CNN also recently gave over 10 minutes of very supportive coverage for several days running to this vital topic. To see these articles and watch the CNN clips, visit http://www.WantToKnow.info/cnn9-11cover-up

If you have questions about what you saw in "Loose Change," for much of the information provided we have links direct to the original, highly reliable sources allowing for easy verification at http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg. Our website at WantToKnow.info also has a 9/11 Information Center filled with more easily verifiable information raising many serious questions. If you have the time, before viewing "Loose Change" I recommend taking a few minutes to educate yourself about Operation Northwoods, which is mentioned at the beginning of the film. Read the reliable, verifiable information (including an ABC News article) at http://www.WantToKnow.info/010501operationnorthwoods.

Over the last year or so, numerous high-level government officials, professors, and others have joined in investigating and spreading the word the many unanswered questions around 9/11. For quotes from top government officials of both parties who have publicly raised questions in the media (links provided), see http://www.WantToKnow.info/050908insidejob911. Over 100 respected professors and scholars have also joined together to form an investigative website exposing the truth of what happened on that fateful day (see http://scholarsfor911truth.org). The numbers of those involved in the 9/11 movement are growing every day.

For the many thousands of us who have spent long hours researching 9/11 (try Googling "9/11 cover-up"), we have found that the problem we are facing is not in finding solid facts and information disproving the official story. We have an abundance of reliable, easily verifiable information showing clear and obvious deceit on the part of both the 9/11 Commission and elements within government. Our problem is rather in breaking through the psychological barrier that keeps people from even wanting to look at the evidence.

As you watch "Loose Change", please remember that there is a large, well-organized network of passionate, caring people who have known about much of what is presented in this landmark documentary for years. We have accepted the disturbing reality and are ready to share with you what we know can be done to turn this all around. Below is the full article that came out in San Francisco's leading newspaper on March 29th with serious questions and great recommendations on the 9/11 cover-up. Underneath this revealing article are suggestions for what we can do now to make a difference and build a brighter future.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/03/29/notes032906.DTL - San Francisco Chronicle

Anyone still care about the heap of disturbing, unsolved questions surrounding Our Great Tragedy?

Here is your must-read for the month. Here is your oh-my-God-I'm-sending-this-piece-to-every-smart-person-I-know hunk of outstanding, distressing, disquieting media bliss.

Here it is: an absolutely exceptional inside scoop on the white-hot world of Sept. 11 conspiracy theories, writ large and smart by Mark Jacobson over at New York magazine, and it's mandatory reading for anyone and everyone who's ever entertained the nagging thought that something -- or rather, far more than one something -- is deeply wrong with the official line on what actually happened on Sept. 11.

See, it is very likely that you already know that Sept. 11 will go down in the conspiracy history books as a far more sinister affair than, say, the murky swirl of the Kennedy assassination. You probably already know that much of what exactly happened on Sept. 11 remains deeply unsettling and largely unsolved -- or to put another way, if you don't know all of this and if you fully and blithely accept the official Sept. 11 story, well, you haven't been paying close enough attention.

But on this, the third anniversary of the launch of Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq by way of whoring the tragedy of Sept. 11 for his cronies' appalling gain, what you might not know, what gets so easily forgotten in the mists of time and via the endless repetition of the orthodox Sept. 11 tale, is the sheer volume, the staggering array of unanswered questions about just about every single aspect of Sept. 11 -- the planes, the WTC towers, the Pentagon, the fires, the passengers and the cell phone calls and the firefighters and, well, just about everything. It is, when you look closely, all merely a matter of how far down the rabbit hole you are willing to go.

Verily, Jacobson, in his New York mag piece, encounters crackpots and fringe nutballs and those who think Sept. 11 was connected to aliens and electromagnetic fields and the Illuminati. It can, unfortunately, get a little crazy. But there is also a very smart, grounded, intelligent and surprisingly large faction -- which includes eyewitnesses, Sept. 11 widows, former generals, pilots, professors, engineers, WTC maintenance workers and many, many more -- who point to a rather shocking pile of evidence that says there is simply no way 19 fanatics with box cutters sent by some bearded lunatic in a cave could have pulled off the most perfectly orchestrated air attack of the century. Not without serious help, anyway.

Whose help? This, of course, is the biggest question of all, one which many of the more well-researched theories go a surprisingly long way toward answering.

You have to sift and sort. There are disturbing questions about collapse speeds and controlled demolitions and why the towers fell when the all-steel infrastructure was designed to easily withstand the temperatures of any sort of fire, even burning jet fuel. There are questions of the mysterious, media-documented blasts deep in the WTC towers that took place after the planes hit. There are questions of why there was such a short-selling spree on shares of American Airlines and United Air Lines the day before the attack, huge doubts about the failures of NORAD and the FAA, the bizarre case of the missing plane in the Pentagon crash, and also the downing of Flight 93 where, according to the coroner, no blood or major plane wreckage was actually found. There is, ultimately, the stunning failure of the entire multi-trillion-dollar American air-defense system. Just for starters.

There is also the very big question of what happened to 7 WTC, the only building not hit by anything at all, but which collapsed anyway, in a perfect controlled-demolition sort of way, for no reason anyone can sufficiently explain. But which just so happened to contain vital offices for the IRS, the Department of Defense, the CIA, the Secret Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission and more.

But perhaps Jacobson's article is insufficient for you. Perhaps you have heard much of it before, or you're more of the visceral type and need to actually see the proofs in order to delve deeper, have them laid out like gruesome body parts in a mesmerizing autopsy. Fair enough.

For you, we have the surprisingly compelling indie documentary "9/11 Loose Change" (Google it), freely available on the Internet and produced by three very astute and very young and very strong-willed dudes who managed to cobble together a truly astounding array of proofs and interviews and evidence, a full 1 hour and 20 minutes' worth of mesmerizing footage you will not be able to easily forget.

Or maybe you should peruse one of the countless Sept. 11 conspiracy sites, many of which link to relevant video and one of which -- scholarsfor911truth.org -- claims to be "a non-partisan association of faculty, students, and scholars, in fields as diverse as history, science, military affairs, psychology, and philosophy, dedicated to exposing falsehoods and to revealing truths behind 9/11." Start there.

Now, it's very true that some of the more specious conspiracy claims have been largely discredited and proved false. Some of the more radical "evidence" gathered by theorists is quite suspect and easily placed in the category of no-way-in-hell. This is valid. This is as it should be. You have to chew through a lot of skin and gristle to get to the real meat.

But oh the meat. The overwhelming quantity, the bloody, deadly stench of it. Fact is, it is quite impossible to watch the entire "Loose Change" documentary and not come away just a little shaken, a little awed by the sheer number of perversely interrelated facts and aberrant coincidences-that-aren't-coincidences, shaking your head at how it all seems to irrefutably prove there is far, far more to the Sept. 11 tragedy than just crazy Osama and his band of zealots, as you begin to sink into a sighing morass of rage and frustration and suspicion and mistrust. You almost can't help it.

Of course, there is another option. There is another way out. You may, as is the standard cultural default, simply ignore it all, scoff and roll your eyes and shrug it all off because it's just too bleak and distasteful to entertain the idea that the dark Sept. 11 thread winds all the way through the NSA and the FBI and the White House and the Project for the New American Century and Dick Cheney's mangled soul and God only knows where else.

But then again, no. You have to look. You have to try. Knowledge is power, and while the truth may be spurious and slippery and messy and deep, the pursuit of it is just about the only thing we have left. Give that up, and all that's left is spiritual numbness, emotional stasis and death. So what are you waiting for?

Thoughts for the author? E-mail him.

What We Can Do. Many of us having been working steadily for years to help find ways to bring this disturbing, yet critical information into the public light. Our hundreds of websites and media campaigns are beginning to bear real fruit with the recent media coverage. Choosing to educate yourself by exploring all of the plentiful information on the 9/11 cover-up is the first powerful step you can take. You can then invite your friends and colleagues to open to this information, remembering the psychological barrier that most people must overcome. Join us in presenting this issue as a powerful opportunity for a better world.

You can also join those of us in the 9/11 movement in asking the media to give fair and full coverage to this topic. We are particularly focused now on inviting Oprah to help raise the questions that need to be asked on her popular program. Send Oprah a message asking her first to learn about all the information discussed here, and then to invite key guests on to her show to discuss and debate this highly important issue. You can reach her at the link below.

http://www.oprah.com/email/reach/email_showideas.jhtml

And to provide balance to all of the darkness, I highly recommend finding some time to enjoy the deeply inspiring stories also available on our website at http://www.WantToKnow.info/coverupnews#inspiration. Let us not forget to find balance in dealing with these difficult issues. Remember that by looking into the darkness and educating ourselves to what is happening behind the veil, we choose to join together in transforming our fears. Because I believe in you and in all of us collectively, I have no doubt that we can and will spread the word and build a brighter future together.

With gratitude and very best wishes,
Fred Burks for the WantToKnow.info Team
Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton

Article NYTimes wants removed

The New York Times> Search> Abstract

http://www.wanttoknow.info/011225nytimes

Last week, for the first time, Fred Burks received a letter from a lawyer at the New York Times insisting that we take down one of our webpages. The page in question contained a Times article where experts claim the investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Centers was inadequate. How interesting that this particular page was targeted when there has been so much discussion of the WTC collapse in the media lately. We may have to remove it, so take a look before it's gone at...

No, you can read it below too :)

http://www.WantToKnow.info/011225nytimes

A NATION CHALLENGED: THE TOWERS;
Experts Urging Broader Inquiry In Towers' Fall

By JAMES GLANZ and ERIC LIPTON (NYT) 1612 words

Saying that the current investigation into how and why the twin towers fell on Sept. 11 is inadequate, some of the nation's leading structural engineers and fire-safety experts are calling for a new, independent and better-financed inquiry that could produce the kinds of conclusions vital for skyscrapers and future buildings nationwide.

Senator Charles E. Schumer and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, both of New York, have joined the call for a wider look into the collapses. In an interview on Friday, Mr. Schumer said he supported a new investigation ''not so much to find blame'' for the collapse of the buildings under extraordinary circumstances, ''but rather so that we can prepare better for the future.''

''It could affect building practices,'' he said. ''It could affect evacuation practices. We live in a new world and everything has to be recalibrated.''

Experts critical of the current effort, including some of those people who are actually conducting it, cite the lack of meaningful financial support and poor coordination with the agencies cleaning up the disaster site. They point out that the current team of 20 or so investigators has no subpoena power and little staff support and has even been unable to obtain basic information like detailed blueprints of the buildings that collapsed.

While agreeing that any building hit by a jetliner would suffer potentially devastating damage, experts want to examine whether the twin towers may have had hidden vulnerabilities that contributed to their collapse.

The lightweight steel trusses that supported the tower's individual floors, the connections between the trusses and the buildings' vertical structural columns, as well as possible flaws in the fireproofing have been drawing scrutiny from fire safety consultants and engineers in recent weeks.

''Two buildings came down,'' said Joseph F. Russo, director of the Center for Fire Safety Engineering at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, referring to the twin towers. ''That suggests some degree of predictability.''

''And if it was predictable,'' Mr. Russo said, ''was it preventable?''

Family members of some victims have added their voices to the calls for a wider investigation.

The exact scope of an expanded inquiry has not been defined. But the central desire is to learn any lessons that might be hidden in the rubble and to pinpoint the exact sequence and cause of the collapse, regardless of whether it was inevitable from the moment the planes struck, members of the investigative team and others said.

In calling for a new investigation, some structural engineers have said that one serious mistake has already been made in the chaotic aftermath of the collapses: the decision to rapidly recycle the steel columns, beams and trusses that held up the buildings. That may have cost investigators some of their most direct physical evidence with which to try to piece together an answer.

Officials in the mayor's office declined to reply to written and oral requests for comment over a three-day period about who decided to recycle the steel and the concern that the decision might be handicapping the investigation.

''The city considered it reasonable to have recovered structural steel recycled,'' said Matthew G. Monahan, a spokesman for the city's Department of Design and Construction, which is in charge of debris removal at the site.

''Hindsight is always 20-20, but this was a calamity like no other,'' said Mr. Monahan, who was designated by the mayor's office to respond to questions about the investigation. ''And I'm not trying to backpedal from the decision.''

Interviews with a handful of members of the team, which includes some of the nation's most respected engineers, also uncovered complaints that they had at various times been shackled with bureaucratic restrictions that prevented them from interviewing witnesses, examining the disaster site and requesting crucial information like recorded distress calls to the police and fire departments.

The investigation, organized immediately after Sept. 11 by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the field's leading professional organization, has been financed and administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A mismatch between the federal agency and senior engineers accustomed to bypassing protocol in favor of quick answers has been identified as a clear point of friction.

''This is almost the dream team of engineers in the country working on this, and our hands are tied,'' said one team member who asked not to be identified. Members have been threatened with dismissal for speaking to the press.

''FEMA is controlling everything,'' the team member said. ''It sounds funny, but just give us the money and let us do it, and get the politics out of it.''

A spokesman for FEMA, John Czwartacki, said the agency's primary mission was to help victims, emergency workers and to speed the city's recovery, and added, ''We are not an investigative agency.''

But given the assignment to examine the structural failures at the World Trade Center, the agency has so far spent roughly $100,000 and Mr. Czwartacki said that more financing could be expected after the group produced what he called an ''interim document'' in the spring.

''I've heard the calls for the N.T.S.B.-style investigation,'' Mr. Czwartacki said, referring to appeals by engineers and some families of trade center victim for an exhaustive examination like those done by the National Transportation Safety Board when a plane crashes. ''I don't think this study will do it for them.''

Mr. Czwartacki added that it was premature to comment on whether team members were receiving necessary information because the study has not been completed. Regardless of what any investigation might find, it is unclear how many civilian lives would have been saved if the buildings had not collapsed, because so many died on the burning upper floors.

Despite the universe of unknowns, the calls for more extensive investigations of various kinds are coming from engineers, fire experts and professional organizations in New York and across the nation.

''What some of us are calling for is a probe or reassessment,'' said Loring A. Wyllie Jr., a member of the National Academy of Engineering and chairman emeritus and senior principal at Degenkolb Engineers in San Francisco. Mr. Wyllie, who has investigated many building collapses after earthquakes, said the work would involve ''a critique of our building practices'' in search of greater safety after Sept. 11.

He added that intensive studies of building failures in disasters like the Northridge earthquake near Los Angeles in 1994 had led to important structural advances.

Calling an intensive new investigation ''absolutely necessary,'' Mr. Russo, of Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, said the expense could be justified by the payoff of better safety in high-rises of the future. Other experts take a still wider view, favoring a study that would look at the implications of the collapses -- a nearby, 47-story building, 7 World Trade Center, also fell on Sept. 11 after burning for most of the day -- for fire codes, building standards and engineering practices across the board.

National organizations charged with addressing building and fire safety issues have sent letters urging the federal government to invest as much as $15 million a year to study the vulnerability of buildings to terrorist attacks and possible changes to fire and safety standards.

''There is an urgent and critical need to determine the lessons to be learned from these events,'' reads a letter from the American Society of Civil Engineers, dated Nov. 15.

In other disasters, FEMA, the Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies have played a more central role in making decisions about cleanup and investigations. But from the start, they found that New York had a degree of engineering and construction expertise unlike any they had encountered.

''They wanted to do a lot of things on their own,'' said Charles Hess, who is in charge of civil emergency management for the Army Corps. ''Which they're very capable of doing.''

But during a recovery effort that received worldwide praise, the city made one decision that has been endlessly second-guessed. To deal with nearly 300,000 tons of crumpled steel, the city quickly decided to ship it to scrap recyclers.

Dr. Frederick W. Mowrer, an associate professor in the fire protection engineering department at the University of Maryland, said he believed the decision could ultimately compromise any investigation of the collapses. ''I find the speed with which potentially important evidence has been removed and recycled to be appalling,'' Dr. Mowrer said.

But Mr. Monahan, the City Department of Design and Construction spokesman, pointed out that members of the investigation team were eventually allowed to visit the site and inspect steel at the scrapyards and continue doing so.

Some experts have suggested that the only way to definitively determine the sequence and cause of the collapse is to recover large amounts of steel from the areas near where the planes struck, and possibly reassemble sections of the towers.

Others say such a reconstruction of an entire section might be impractical, but also expressed discomfort with the impediments they said they have faced in their investigation.

For example, three months after the disaster, Ronald Hamburger, an expert in structural analysis at A.B.S. Consulting in Oakland, Calif., and a director of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations, said he had not even been given access to basic blueprints describing where the steel and other structural elements had been when the World Trade Center was whole.

''I'd like to be able to have a set of the drawings for all of the affected buildings,'' Mr. Hamburger said. ''I don't have that.''

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CNN Transcript

SHOWBIZ TONIGHT

Sheen 9/11 Comments Spark Controversy

Aired March 23, 2006 - 19:00:00 ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

A.J. HAMMER, CO-HOST: New information about the death of Princess Diana. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York.
BROOKE ANDERSON, CO-HOST: I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood. And a look at a workplace phenomenon, the office spouse. TV`s only live entertainment news show starts right now.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

HAMMER (voice-over): On SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Charlie Sheen speaks out on a controversial theory that the government covered up what really happened on 9/11.

CHARLIE SHEEN, ACTOR: Taking over four commercial airliners and hitting 75 percent of their targets. That feels like a conspiracy theory.

HAMMER: Tonight, we dig even deeper. The host of the radio show on which Sheen leveled his startling allegations joins us live right here on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Plus, the overwhelming response from you, the viewers.

Rebuilding communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Tonight, how a TV reality show is going in to fix what some say the government could not.

HARRY CONNICK JR., SINGER/ACTOR: I`m Harry Connick Jr. If it happened today, it`s on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HAMMER: Hello, I`m A.J. Hammer, live in New York City.

ANDERSON: And I`m Brooke Anderson, live in Hollywood.

A.J., it`s been incredible. Pretty hard to believe, actually, the response we got today to the incredible story SHOWBIZ TONIGHT broke last night. Actor Charlie Sheen`s startling claims that the government may be covering up what really happened on September 11.

HAMMER: So many e-mails coming in. We`ve been really overwhelmed today. Between the e-mails, the blogs, the web sites, everybody is writing and talking about it.

Charlie Sheen made the comments during a hard-to-believe interview on a radio show. And don`t move because in just a moment the host of the radio show, the guy who actually spoke with Sheen, is going to join me live here on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. But first let`s get you up to speed on the latest developments.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SHEEN: The more you look at stuff, especially specific incidents, specific events, in or around the fateful day, it just-- it just raises a lot of questions.

HAMMER: The questions Charlie Sheen is raising about the 9/11 attacks are raising a lot of eyebrows. Our e-mail inbox immediately started to overflow. And the coverage on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is getting a lot of attention.

The web site 9/11 Blogger calls SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s coverage, quote, "The first time a major news station has covered 9/11 questions in any reasonable format."

It all started with a radio interview Sheen gave to GCN Radio Network host Alex Jones, a cult hero of sorts to 9/11 conspiracy theorists. During the interview, Sheen made clear that he backs Jones` views.

SHEEN: We`re not the conspiracy theorists on this particular issue. It seems to me like, you know, 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airliners and hitting 75 percent of their targets, that feels like a conspiracy theory.

HAMMER: Sheen also made another shocking suggestion: that we may not know the full story about the collapse of the World Trade Center.

SHEEN: I have a hard time believing that a fireball traveled down the elevator over 110 feet and still had the explosive energy to destroy the lobby like it was described.

I said, "Hey, call me insane. But did it sort of look like those buildings came down in a controlled demolition?"

If I was your age, I could only dream about my parents splitting up.

HAMMER: As the star of the sitcom "Two and a Half Men," Sheen is seen weekly by about 10 million people. And many of them may end up paying attention to his controversial comments about 9/11.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HAMMER: As I mentioned the radio host who interviewed Sheen is Alex Jones of the Genesis Communications Network. Alex joins me live from Austin, Texas, to talk about Sheen`s riveting comments.

Alex, as I mentioned, the response that we got from doing this story last night absolutely shocking. So I want to know how it actually all came about. How did the interview with Charlie Sheen actually happen? Did you guys reach out to him? Did he call you? What was the deal?

ALEX JONES, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Well, just to make something clear, Mr. Sheen has amazing courage to do what he`s done. And he contacted me. He`s been watching my documentaries for years. He`s one of the most informed people that I`ve talked to in Hollywood on this subject.

Listen, for years Hollywood`s been on fire with people knowing the truth about 9/11. And I was the first to expose 9/11 on the day. In fact two months before I had intel that elements of the military industrial complex were going to carry out the attack. I said they`ll use bin Laden, the known CIS. That is their patsy to take the blame for attacking the towers.

So Mr. Sheen is only exceptional in that he has courage in going public. Courage that no one else in Hollywood had.

I mean, here`s a CNN poll from Anderson Cooper a year and a half ago where they said is the government covering up 9/11? Could they be involved? Ninety percent when the poll closed on CNN said this.

So listen I have my own syndicated show. I`ve done 4,000 radio interviews in the last 4 1/2 years. Almost no one calls in and disagrees now. We have the majority view and we have the evidence.

And bottom line, there are declassified U.S. government documents like Operation Northwoods that ABC News reported on back in 2000. Operation Northwoods. Google it.

And in there the U.S. government -- an element of it -- said we want to hi-jack jets by remote control, crash them and blame it on the Soviet Union in Cuba. Now that was decades ago. This is why we believe this.

Then you look at the official story. The firefighters, the police, hundreds of them saying there were bomb in the buildings. They were told to shut up. You look at building seven, detonators going off. You can see the explosion.

HAMMER: And Alex, a lot of this is what Charlie Sheen was covering. I`m actually just curious. Did he reach out to you guys? Is he the one who put the call into you and how he wound up on your show?

JONES: Sure. Sure. He called me a few weeks ago and said that -- said that he loves this country. He has nothing to gain from this. In fact it`s dangerous for him to do.

HAMMER: Sure, sure.

JONES: He said, "I love this country and my kids so much that I`m going to do this, Alex."

And I said, "God bless you" because now it makes for other Hollywood people who`ve got major pull who know the truth to start going public.

HAMMER: And dangerous indeed to do. Because a lot of what he said makes a lot of people sort of sit back and say, "Whoa, I don`t know about that."

And what`s really important here. You may not agree with everything that Charlie Sheen had to say. I personally think it`s a good thing that he did go on your show, so he could go public with his point of view. Because it does get people talking.

You know, there are a lot of people who may look at this, however, and say there just goes another Hollywood nut job shooting off his mouth.

JONES: Listen -- listen...

HAMMER: I imagine that you think, though, having a Hollywood actor on your side is a good thing and, as you mention, may bring some more people to the table talking about this.

JONES: Sure, sure. If you knew some of the Hollywood names that are aware of 9/11. We`re talking some of the biggest people.

HAMMER: Any you can tell us about that you`ve been in contact with?

JONES: No, I can`t. Because -- because people in Hollywood contact me because I have integrity, and I`ve been in a few films and they know me. And they know I keep my mouth shut.

You know, it was kind of like back in high school. I learned to keep my mouth shut about girls I was dating and all the girls started liking you.

Look, it`s really simple. Let`s understand this, OK? Nine-eleven was an inside job. It was a self-inflicted wound. And -- and what Charlie Sheen is doing is just amazing, and he can only be commended for it. And all he`s calling for is a real investigation.

I go further at InfoWars.com and PrisonPlanet.com. We lay out how it happened and what took place.

And it`s not just Charlie Sheen I`ve interviewed. CNN has interviewed some of these people, the only network that I`ve seen doing it. You guys have interviewed. There have been physics professors that have gone public. There have been the heads of mining colleges that have gone public.

George Bush Sr.`s top CIA adviser who briefed him and Ronald Reagan, one of the highest little guys at the CIA, says our government is clearly involved in carrying out terror to blame it on foreign enemies.

Did you know that on CIA.gov they admit that they carried out terror attacks in 1953 to blame it on Mohammed Mozadek (ph) in Iran as a pretext to overthrow Iran?

HAMMER: Alex -- I`m going to rein -- all good stuff and all stuff that needs to be talked about. But I`m going to rein you back in here to the topic at hand.

JONES: Sure.

HAMMER: One thing that I think is interesting. You know, as I mentioned we`ve gotten this overwhelming response. The e-mail has not stopped coming in. Most of the e-mail I`ve been getting has been supporting the fact that we are bringing attention to something that is rarely talked about in mainstream media.

JONES: Yes, sir. You have courage. No one else has done what you`re doing.

HAMMER: And I appreciate you saying that. So the question is why? Why have so many of the major media outlets not talked about these alternative theories that exist behind 9/11? Why is that?

JONES: Mark Twain said that, "In the beginning a patriot is a scarce man, hated and feared and scorned. But in time when his cause succeeds, the timid join him, because then it costs nothing to be patriot."

A lot of people don`t have the courage that you have, A.J. A lot of people don`t have the courage of Charlie Sheen. They don`t have the courage of the German defense minister, Andre Van Bulow (ph), who two years ago went public...

HAMMER: What do you think is afraid of that`s going to happen to them?

JONES: They`re afraid of being beaten up by the hordes of neocon intimidators who try to go out there with their Gestapo Nazi tactics to try to bludgeon everybody with their blogs and radio shows to shut up.

But they`ve lost, pal, because people have learned that they`re a bunch of liars. They lied about WMDs. They lied about everything. And now their credibility is totally blown.

The new White House memo just came out where Bush is talking about staging the shoot down of American planes to get -- to blame it on Saddam. That`s public. That`s admitted.

HAMMER: Let`s talk about some public documents. Because obviously experts, government commissions, countless officials have all come out and supported what is the official line.

JONES: Yes, they call it Henry Kissinger independent.

HAMMER: Right. Well, we know that those documents are out there and that people are supporting them. So I guess what some people watching us tonight may be thinking is, well, why the heck should I be listening to Charlie Sheen or to Alex Jones and his web site on this matter?

JONES: They shouldn`t. They shouldn`t. They shouldn`t believe me. They shouldn`t believe you. They shouldn`t believe George Bush. They shouldn`t believe the Keane Commission where almost the entire commission has conflicts of interest and was appointed by Bush. You`ve got to love this. He appoints his own commission, and then the media calls it independent.

Did you know that the "9/11 Whitewash Commission" claims there were no columns in tower one and two when they had 47 of the biggest columns in the world up until that time? They won`t say why building seven had blast points going off down the side.

HAMMER: Well, Alex -- Alex, I`m afraid I`ve got to cut you off because we`re out of time. But as I said, it`s sparking debate. It`s getting people talking. And I appreciate you help bringing it up.

JONES: Thank you. Go to InfoWars.com, sir. Find out the truth at PrisonPlanet.com.

HAMMER: Alex Jones, live from Austin.

And as I mentioned we`ve gotten so many e-mails on the subject. We`ll read what some of you have to say coming up a bit later in the show.

Nine eleven also happens to be the subject of a new movie that`s coming out in theaters soon. And SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has your first look at "United 93." That`s coming up in a bit in the "SHOWBIZ Showcase."

ANDERSON: Plus, rebuilding communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Tonight how a TV reality show is going in to fix what some say the government could not.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I`m going to get the door for you, like I always do.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you.

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HAMMER: Office spouses. Until desks do us part. In sickness and in health plans. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT investigates the phenomenon that`s all the buzz in the media. Is it OK to have a real wife and a work wife?

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HAMMER: Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. I am A.J. Hammer. You are watching TV`s only live entertainment news show.

We have gotten a tremendous response to the story that we brought you on Charlie Sheen`s comments about 9/11. We do want to keep hearing from you. It is our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT question of the day. Charlie Sheen speaks out. Do you agree there is a government cover-up of 9/11?

Let`s see the votes so far: 65 percent of you say yes; 35 percent of you say no, you don`t.

A couple of the e-mails we`ve received include one from Dylan in Texas, who writes, "There are so many unanswered questions, and all attempts at an investigation have been stonewalled by the government."

We also heard from Mike in Hawaii, who writes, "How could any sane person believe that our government attacked our own people?"

Do keep voting at CNN.com/SHOWBIZTONIGHT. You want to e-mail us more of your thoughts, we want to hear from you at ShowbizTonight@CNN.com. Those e-mails coming up later in the show.

ANDERSON: In tonight`s "SHOWBIZ Showcase" we`ve got your first look at the movie "United 93." The film is a real-time account of what happened on the fourth plane to be hijacked on September 11.

Heroic passengers fought back against the terrorists and spared what might have been the intended target, the White House. Take a look.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Welcome aboard United Flight 93. We`re flying to San Francisco.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Runway is clear.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Runway clear for take-off.

United 93. United 93. United 93.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hello?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Honey, it`s me. My flight has been hi-jacked.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Two planes into the World Trade Center. We have to shoot that thing down.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh my God. I think we`re heading to Washington.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have to do something.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`re running out of time.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He`s going to do something stupid.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are a bunch of us here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Take him down.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are going to take back the cockpit.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have to go. They`re about to storm the cockpit. I love you.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

ANDERSON: "United 93" will be in theaters next month.

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"It's been pretty hard to believe the response we got today to the incredible story Showbiz Tonight broke last night, after Charlie Sheens' startling claims that the government may be covering up what really happened on 9/11. So many emails coming in...we've been really overwhelmed today. Between the emails, the blogs, the websites—everybody is writing and talking about it. "
-- CNN Showbiz Tonight , 3/23/06

March 24, 2006

Dear friends,

CNN aired an interview with actor Charlie Sheen on Wednesday night's Showbiz Tonight discussing major unanswered questions about 9/11. A link to a clip from this revealing interview even showed up in two places on the CNN homepage. On Thursday night's show, host A.J. Hammer stated that the response to Sheen's statements was so overwhelming that they decided to get more riveting information by bringing in Alex Jones, the fringe radio personality who had originally interviewed Sheen. Though Mr. Jones has a tendency to be somewhat angry and blaming, I have known of him for years, and he has done some very respectable investigative work on major cover-ups other people will not touch.

Many of us who have spent long hours investigating what happened on 9/11 believe that once the media starts playing their role to educate the public on these vital matters, people will unite to demand accountability and the release of vast amounts of documents and videos the government is concealing. For the first time, CNN is now playing that role in a big way. We encourage you to contact CNN to show your support by contacting them at http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5c.html?23. To hear Thursdays night's interview with Alex Jones and for reliable, verifiable information on the crucial topics discussed on both shows, see below.

With gratitude and best wishes,
Fred Burks for the WantToKnow.info Team
Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton

To listen to the most recent 11-minute CNN interview on 9/11 with Alex Jones
http://www.911podcasts.com/files/video/ShowbizTonight20060323/ShowbizTonight20060323.wmv

For a written transcript of the above CNN interview
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/23/sbt.01.html

To listen to the previous night's 10-minute CNN interview with Charlie Sheen
http://www.911podcasts.com/files/video/ShowbizTonight20060322.wmv

To vote in CNN's pole on whether or not there is a government cover-up of 9/11
http://www.cnn.com/showbiztonight - Poll in left column of webpage

For information on Operation Northwoods—the Pentagon's plans to incite terrorism and even kill innocent Americans in order to justify a war with Cuba—see the below revealing article on ABC and the astounding declassified documents available on the US government archives website
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1 - ABC News report
http://www.WantToKnow.info/010501operationnorthwoods - Declassified government documents

For top government officials who have publicly stated 9/11 may have been an inside job
http://www.WantToKnow.info/050908insidejob911

For information on the mystifying collapse of World Trade Center building 7
http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#wtc7 - Incriminating files lost and more
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/WTC7_Collapse.wmv - Video of collapse (five seconds long)

For questions concerning the collapse of the twin towers and following investigation
http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#wtcinvestigation - New York Times Article
http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#wtcinvestigation2 - Top firefighter magazine: "half-baked farce"

For serious unanswered questions concerning the Pentagon crash
http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#pentagon - US defense headquarters unprotected
http://www.freedomunderground.org/memoryhole/pentagon.php - Riveting 5-minute clip exposes cover-up

For information on the Zogby Poll showing how many question the official story of 9/11
http://www.WantToKnow.info/zogby911

For an excellent summary of 9/11 questions quoting top media sources with links for verification
http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg

If you want to be fully informed of the many, serious unanswered questions about 9/11, I most highly recommend finding a way to set aside 80 minutes to watch the below incredibly powerful video "Loose Change" on Google Video. You will be amazed at the reliable, verifiable sources used.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848&q=loose+change&pr=goog-sl

For some of my personal experience in high-level government manipulations and cover-ups
http://www.WantToKnow.info/powerofnightmares

For how we can work together to turn this all around and build a brighter future
http://www.WantToKnow.info/brighterfuture

Want to Know

Dear Friends;

Serious questions about 9/11 received ten minutes of excellent coverage on CNN's ShowBiz Tonight last night. This crucial story is one of the features on CNN's homepage even as this is being written. If you go to http://www.cnn.com right now and look in the top right column of the webpage, the ninth bullet is a link with the title "Watch: Charlie Sheen: I'll be 'demonized' for 9/11 theory." This CNN video clip is 3:37 in length. Both this shorter clip and a longer 10 minute version of the show are available at the links below. Let's send a big thank you to CNN for having the courage to do what no other major media have yet done in raising vital questions which many of us have been asking.

For an even more revealing, 40-minute compilation of major media video footage filled with witness testimony and astounding shots which raise serious questions, see the third link below. This news may be quite shocking to those who have yet to seriously investigate 9/11, yet it is vitally important that we open to the possibility the 9/11 Commission did not complete its mission. For an excellent two-page summary of these many questions with links to major media sources for easy verification, please visit http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up. Thanks for caring. By spreading the word to our friends and colleagues, I have no doubt that we can and will build a brighter future together.

With best wishes,
Fred Burks for the WantToKnow.info Team
Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton

CNN three-minute clip linked to from CNN homepage with actor Martin Sheen on 9/11
http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/showbiz/2006/03/23/hammer.sheen.911.theory.cnn

CNN ten-minute clip from ShowBiz Tonight with Sheen and 9/11 experts
http://www.911podcasts.com/files/video/ShowbizTonight20060322.wmv

Excellent 40-minute compilation of 9/11 footage from major media raising serious questions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psP_9RE0V2I

Agent Faults FBI on 9/11

Agent Faults FBI on 9/11:

"The man who caught Zacarias Moussaoui testifies that higher-ups blocked his efforts to determine whether there was a larger plot.
by Richard A. Serrano


ALEXANDRIA, Virginia - The FBI agent who arrested Zacarias Moussaoui weeks before Sept. 11 told a federal jury Monday that his own superiors were guilty of 'criminal negligence and obstruction' for blocking his attempts to learn whether the terrorist was part of a larger cell about to hijack planes in the United States.

During intense cross-examination, Special Agent Harry Samit — a witness for the prosecution — accused his bosses of acting only to protect their positions within the FBI.

His testimony appeared to undermine the prosecution's case for the death penalty. Prosecutors argue that had Moussaoui cooperated by identifying some of the 19 hijackers, the FBI could have alerted airport security and kept them off the planes.

Moussaoui is the only person to have been convicted in the United States on charges stemming from Sept. 11. His sentencing trial began several weeks ago, but the prosecution's case was nearly gutted when it was learned that a lawyer for the Transportation Security Administration had improperly coached key aviation security witnesses. U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema decided to allow the government to present a limited amount of aviation testimony and evidence.

Samit's"

Citizens Counter-Coup

Action Plan: Citizens Counter-Coup
http://3c.911truth.org
March 9, 2006

Saturday, March 11th marks 4 years and 6 months since 9/11/01. We at 911truth.org want to appeal to all concerned citizens to participate in the monthly action known as Citizens Counter-Coup to raise a groundswell demanding truth and justice for 9/11. First, an overview of recent events which highlight the necessity for this campaign.

There is much to report in the last month. It has been revealed by NSA whistleblower Russell Tice that there are NSA spying programs that are even worse than what has been disclosed. This information is so top secret he can’t even tell Congress.

It has been revealed that the FBI’s reason for not releasing tapes of Flight 77 striking the Pentagon is because it will affect the Moussaui case, even though he has already pled guilty. Is there any logic here?

The Bush Administration and a secretive agency which authorizes business transactions with foreign countries wants to allow UAE to run several main U.S. ports. Even Republican leaders in Congress are in disbelief. It’s interesting that a sheik from the United Arab Emirates contributed at least $1 million to the Bush Library Foundation, which established the George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University in College Station (AP). Could this deal be a quid pro quo? Forget that UAE was a financial base for several of the alleged hijackers, and a transfer point for shipments of smuggled nuclear components to Iran, North Korea and Libya by a rogue Pakistani scientist.

The Iraq War rages on with with over 2300 American soldiers dead and 16,635 wounded according to DOD. The destruction of a Shia mosque has increased the potential for all out civil war. Experts are saying the bombing could only have been done by demolition specialists which makes one wonder if there are sinister forces attempting to inflame tensions and bring about civil war to further weaken the country, Balkanize it into smaller ethnic regions, and give cause for extending the U.S. occupation. There is disturbing news of over a thousand detainees in Iraq still being tortured.

Halliburton has been awarded another contract, this time for building detention camps for an influx of illegal aliens storming our borders, so we’re told. There is ample reason to question whether these camps could be for American dissidents. The problem is that until such time as these camps are put into use, the public doesn’t know their real purpose.

Congress has renewed the PATRIOT Act which gives even more intrusive powers to an imperial administration engaged in thousands of warrantless wiretaps on a public that has been shell shocked by the media terror hoax. We have a nuclear stand-off with Iran looming on the immediate horizon. So the aftermath of 9/11 in which the neocon agenda has free reign and “wars that will not end in our lifetime” fills our reality.

On the plus side, the Feb. 22nd issue of the Village Voice in New York featured a cover story titled “The ABCs of 9/11”. While the article may have missed some important areas, on balance it included many of the compelling questions that must be raised about 9/11. This resulted in great visibility and can be considered a mini-breakthrough in media coverage. Also, George Noory’s Coast-to-Coast radio show which has 5 million listeners hosted David Ray Griffin, Jim Fetzer and Morgan Reynolds. On the downside, the media has fallen far short of adequately covering the Able Danger hearings and has systematically engaged in lies of omission in covering the Zacarias Moussaoui trial. Also, at a public forum hosted by Harper’s Magazine and broadcast on C-SPAN 2 discussing “Is There A Cause For Impeachment”, the topic of 9/11 was not addressed by the panelists until a few attendees included the issue during Q&A. This omission is incredible. Lewis Lapham, a monthly writer and editor for the magazine, actually said he hasn’t seen credible evidence on government complicity for 9/11! Why not write him with a few pointers at ann@harpers.org (this is his personal assistant) or write the magazine at letters@harpers.org.

This is merely a glimpse of what makes up current reality. Does anyone see the need for action? Come be part of a campaign that has the potential to grow exponentially, create mass awareness and action? Together we can build a wider movement to distribute the work that must be done. This is what Citizens Counter-Coup is designed to do.

We have to work now more than ever to build our base -- which can become substantial in a matter of months if we focus. Now we have the tool that can make the difference.

Even though the government has been unresponsive in the past and the media has been an obstruction, we need to realize that there is a majority of people in high levels of public service who are aware of the crisis we're in and are just waiting for the American public to get engaged and fulfill their obligation to lead the leaders. They need us to rise up. Either we set the agenda or the military/industrial/intelligence complex will continue to set it for us. The choice is clear.

Go to http://3c.911truth.org, take 10 minutes to read through the information, then take 15 minutes to participate in the monthly action. Also, be sure to sign up for the monthly reminders where you can also volunteer for media outreach, e-Activisim through our Blogger Brigade, and 9/11 journalism. The Blogger Brigade is already in action and others soon to be mobilized. The truth of 9/11 is up to us to reveal! Please spread the word right away!

Towards truth and justice,

The 911Truth.org Steering Committee

Become Part of Citizens Counter-Coup, The Formula For Change Now
http://3c.911truth.org

The 9/11 Truth Movement

911Truth.org ::::: The 9/11 Truth Movement

Welcome Truth Seeker

to a quick course on the shortest paths to 9/11 truth...

Orientation

• The Two-Step 9/11 Truth Expedition: The demands on brain and heart
• The 911truth.org Mission: Where we are going with this and where we are not
• Wildlife to be Avoided: Note on some of our zanier friends along the way

Paths to 9/11 Understanding

• The Path of Official Absurdity - A black humor course in Coincidence Theory
• The Path of News Breaks - The long slow climb of 9/11 questions into media visibility
• The Path of Stubborn Questions - Victim family queries that remain unanswered to this day
• The Path of Deceit, Distortion & Perjury - The neocon warrior's way
• The Path of Past Precedents - How & why these "enabling events" keep happening to us
• The Path of Timelines - Where simply aligning times with facts often connects the dots

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The Two-Step 9/11 Truth Expedition

Understanding the full truth of 9/11 seems to require two separate awakenings.

The first, awakening to the fraudulence of the "official 9/11 story," is a pretty simple brain function and only requires a little study, logic or curiosity. We can help a lot with that part here and it's a major purpose of this site.

The second step, however, consciously confronting the implications of that knowledge--and what it says about our media, politics and economic system today--is by far the harder awakening and requires an enormous exercise of nerve and heart. (As the Chinese say, "You cannot wake up a man who is pretending to sleep.") In other words, this part of the journey depends more on character than on maps and evidence so we can't help you much here, except to point out inspiring heroes and heroines who have courageously faced that truth, spoken out, and survived. (Though we might also point out the intriguing fact that our 9/11 heroines now outnumber 9/11 heroes by about six to one.)

The 911Truth.org Mission: Where we are going with this and where we are not

Although our members and friends in the truth movement hold a variety of opinions about what actually happened on September 11, 2001, 911truth.org as an organization generally believes that our chance for justice is now best served by focusing on the following five points:

• The frequently warned of 9/11 attacks handed a lackluster presidency irresistible political power to increase inequality, repression, corporate domination, and imperial warfare (and even boost its electoral clout);

• Since this administration benefited so mightily from these crimes, a reasonable person (or investigation) might find it prudent to at least question its possible complicity. Even the minimalist LIHOP (Let It Happen On Purpose) complicity scenario constitutes high treason--i.e., the supposition that high officials knew a blowback attack was coming, understood the incredible poltical power it might confer, and preemptively disabled the few working parts of government that might have been able to thwart its success (by ignoring foreign warnings, quashing domestic investigations, cancelling Counterterrorism Task Force meetings, rewriting air emergency response protocols, staging distracting aerial war games, etc.)

• There is now more than enough compelling evidence of just such official misconduct, foul play, perjury and obstruction of justice to constitute probable cause for a full criminal investigation of all 9/11 events;

• Despite continuing avoidance of this issue by our Congress, major parties and corporate press, there is widespread public support for this perception and course of action (as demonstrated by the August 2004 Zogby 9/11 Poll);

• If we as a people refuse to demand truth and justice on a matter this grave, we will deserve our leaders' contempt and embolden them to further treachery. (They and their predecessors have, after all, gotten away with the now documented lies of the Tonkin Resolution, the JFK and MLK assassinations, Iran-Contra, Flight 800, the Waco Davidian murders, the Pentagon's "missing" $2.2 trillion, etc, etc. without consequence. Why should they start worrying about what the "sovereign people" think now?) We have to stand up and draw the line somewhere or we can kiss our hopes for security, solvency and democracy goodbye.

Wildlife to be Avoided

There are a good number of irrational and unsupportable 9/11 theories and theorists "out there" that have been used to great effect to discredit 9/11 truth advocates as whole (Check out Rule 4 in "The Twenty-five Rules of Disinformation" to grasp the tactic and then watch it in action in Popular Mechanics' recent 9/11 smear). We are therefore also concerned about these spurious plot lines and how they are exploited, and we criticize many on our site. Every large and growing movement picks up a few noisy dunces or provocateurs in the margins, but they do not in any way invalidate the well researched evidence at its core. We only pray that those drawn to the 9/11 issue by sensationalist claims will stay long enough to learn the less theatrical but equally damning truth.

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The Path of News Breaks
- A sampling of the rare exceptions that prove
the media's hear/see/report-no-9/11-evil rule

• The Truth About Sept. 11
  By Ted Rall, AlterNet, September 11, 2002
  First 9/11 questions statement by a well known media figure (one year late and only online, but still much appreciated)

• Fallout: The Hidden Environmental Consequences of 9/11
  by Juan Gonzalez, In These Times, September 10, 2002
  Early prophetic piece on the administration cover-up of the post-attack pollution (Implicit question: If they could condemn thousands of New Yorkers to death just to get the Stock Exchange running, how many would they sacrifice to run Afghanistan and Iraq?)

• 9/11 Pollution Could Cause More Deaths Than Attack
  by Geoffrey Lean, The Independent (UK), September 12, 2004
  A Sierra Club study confirms and grimly quantifies the previous story, which breaks in a major world paper.

• One Year Later: Unintended Consequences of 9/11 and the War on Terrorism
  by John Tirman, AlterNet, August 29, 2002
  Early, almost touchingly naive, recount of 9/11's exploitation - unintended by whom?

• The Enemy Within
  by Gore Vidal, The Observer (UK), October 27, 2002
  In a 7,000 word essay and review of Ahmed's "War on Freedom", Vidal lays out the early evidence for administration complicity (This stunning piece has never been quoted or even mentioned in the mainstream US press.)

• Conspiracy Crusader Doubts Official 9/11 Version
  by Michele Landsberg, Toronto Star, May 11, 2003
  Celebrated columnist sympathetically introduces 9/11 truth pioneer Barry Zwicker in Canada's largest paper.

• Barbs aside, 9/11 questions aren't going away
  by Michelle Landsberg, Toronto Star, May 18, 2003
  And takes a lot of flack...

• Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush
  by Gail Sheehy, New York Observer (front page story), August 25, 2003
  First "unanswered questions" story appears in the US press: Best-selling author Sheehy offers this great human and political saga to all New York's mainstream publications, but only one feisty weekly had the guts to pick it up.

• This War on Terrorism is Bogus
  The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination
  by Michael Meacher, The Guardian/UK, September 6, 2003
  First compelling sketch of the motive, means and opportunity for the 9/11 crimes by veteran UK cabinet official.

• Why Don't We Have Answers to These 9/11 Questions?
  by William Bunch, Philadelphia Daily News, September 11, 2003
  First mention of "unanswered questions" in major US daily, brave and well done, but two years after the fact.

• Conspiracy Theories about Sept. 11 Get Hearing in Germany
  - Distrust of U.S. Fuels Stories about Source of the Attacks
  By Ian Johnson, Wall Street Journal, September 29, 2003
  orporate Journalism Central begins damage control, but still relates some intriguing facts.

• Whitewash as Public Service: How The 9/11 Commission Report defrauds the nation
  By Benjamin DeMott, Harper's Magazine, October 2004
  Despite the feisty title, the piece generally collapses into minutiae and fry-more-bureaucrats gripes. For a far deeper insight into the Commission cover-up, see David Ray Griffin's "A National Disgrace" - an intro to his explosive "The 9/11 Commission Report - Omissions and Distortions."

• To be expanded...

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The Path of Stubborn Questions
- Victim family queries that remain unanswered to this day

• The original 400+ Family Steering Committee questions that Commissioner Jamie Gorelick said would be the Commission's "road map"

• FSC co-founders Mindy Kleinberg & Lorie van Auken rate the Commission's final Report and give it a failing grade.

• A good rundown of the basic 9/11 questions from whatreallyhappened.com

• An extensive reader-generated, reader-rated list of questions from the pioneer site unansweredquestions.org

• Keys to 9/11 - Deja Vu All over Again By Michelle Mairesse - a clean and clear example of many questions in narrative form
  
  

The Path of Deceit, Distortion & Perjury
- The Way of the Neocon Warrior (When the "free press"
turns to stenography, Machiavelli returns to life!)

• Bushlies.com has produced a fine compendium of administration 9/11 lies, some aforethought, some afterthought, some cobbled on the fly.

• In the "practice makes perfect" vein, see also Rep. Henry Waxmann's "Iraq on the Record" database of 237 subsequent Bush official lies about Iraq

• For more specific indictments, see:
  • "NORAD LIED ABOUT 9/11" : Senator Mark Dayton
  • LIES A SIXTH GRADER WOULD NOT ACCEPT by Michael C Ruppert
  • AN OPEN LETTER TO CONDOLEEZZA RICE "You Are a Liar" by Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing
  • FBI WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS RICE IS LYING - Bush knew al-Qaida was planning attack by Andrew Buncombe, The Independent [London, UK]
  • Similar reporting on LiesofBush.com's "Culpability or Incompetence?" page

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The Path of Past Precedents
- How and why they keep doing it to us,
a crash course in official betrayal

• FAKE TERROR - The Road to War and Dictatorship
  "It's the oldest trick in the book, dating back to Roman times; creating the enemies you need." Excellent retrospective on governmental creation and abuse of terror from the Roman despot Crassus up to the headlines today.

• INVASION YANQUI: The Mexican War, 1846-1848 by Frances Leonard
  - You want history of provoked/invited attacks, we got history...
  
  
• How to Start a War: The American Use of War Pretext Incidents (1848-1989) - More history than you might ever want to know...
  
  
• War is a Racket - Gen. Smedley Butler's classic confession and repudiation of his life as a corporate hitman.
  
  
• PEARL HARBOR: Mother of All Conspiracies - Exhaustive documentation of FDR's foreknowledge and how he in fact methodically invited the attack.
  
  
• Operation Northwoods - the early Sixties Pentagon plan to attack America, blame it on Castro, and use the patriotic outrage as a pretext to invade and conquer Cuba. Excerpted from James "Puzzle Palace" Bamford's best-selling Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency."

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The Path of Timelines
- Systematic compilations of documented 9/11 facts that make
"coincidence theory" the wildest hypothesis of the day

• 9/11 Timelines/Outlines by Topic Area (e.g., 9/11 air "defense", Pakistan connections, insider trading, FBI inquiry blocks, etc.) - From Paul Thompson and friends at the incomparable cooperativeresearch.net

• Best Single 9/11 Timeline: Exhaustive - Ditto

• "Oh Lucy! - You Gotta Lotta 'Splainin To Do" - Michael Ruppert's Timeline: The first - still growing, still excellent, and still offering $1000 to anyone finding an inaccuracy.

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The top 15 reasons to doubt the official story of Sept. 11, 2001

• Disclaimer
  Background Issues: The Abiding Truth Deficit
• 1) The 9/11 Commission Fraud: Conflicts, Collapse and Cover-up
• 2) The Hundreds of Still Unanswered Questions, the Scores of Documented Lies
  Motive Issues: Cui Bono - Who Profits Most?
• 3) Instant Fulfillment of Neocon Wish List
• 4) Political Bonanza for Bush/Rove team
• 5) Scale and Diversity of Profiteering
  Means and Opportunity Issues: How to Make it Happen
• 6) Ignored Foreign Warnings
• 7) Quashed Domestic Investigations
• 8) Incapacitated Oversight
• 9) Disabled Air Defenses
• 10) The Amazing Disappearing National Chain of Command
• 11) The Pakistan Intelligence Chief Who Loved Everyone At Once
  Aftermath Issues: How to Keep the Lid On
• 12) The Bitter Fight Against Investigations
• 13) The Amazing Disappearing Evidence
• 14) The Amazing Disappearing Demand for Accountability
  Wildcard Issues: Just How Stupid They Think We Are
• 15) The Ripley Believe It or Not Sideshow of 9/11 Miracles
• Epilogue: For the 9/11 Legacy Victims Still Dying in New York

Experts Call for Release of 9/11 Evidence

Experts Call for Release of 9/11 Evidence

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Scholars for 9/11 Truth supports Judicial Watch. A society of experts and scholars has now joined with Judicial Watch in calling for release of videos that are being held by the Department of Defense, which are essential to understanding events at the Pentagon that transpired on September 11, 2001. Scholars for 9/11 Truth, which is dedicated to exposing falsehoods and establishing truths about the events of 9/11, has gone beyond Judicial Watch by calling for the release of other films and evidence that, its officers maintain, are essential to understanding 9/11. Duluth, MN (PRWEB) March 1, 2006 -- A society of experts and scholars has now joined with Judicial Watch in calling for release of videos that are being held by the Department of Defense, which are essential to understanding events at the Pentagon that transpired on September 11, 2001. Scholars for 9/11 Truth, which is dedicated to exposing falsehoods and establishing truths about the events of 9/11, has gone beyond Judicial Watch by calling for the release of other films and evidence that, its officers maintain, are essential to understanding 9/11. "It is outrageous that the government is withholding this vital information", said James H. Fetzer, founder and co-chair of the society. "This concerns one of the monstrous events of our time and deserves to be in the public domain." The group, whose members include such prominent figures as David Ray Griffin, Morgan Reynolds, John McMurtry, Wayne Madsen, Robert Bowman, Webster Tarpley, and Andreas von Buelow, has been speaking out against what its own research suggests has been complicity by elements of the administration in the crime. They are calling for immediate release of the full Pentagon surveillance tape as well as video tapes seized by FBI agents minutes after the Pentagon hit; a complete inventory of the plane wreckage and debris from Flights 11, 77, 93, 175 or any other aircraft that crashed or was destroyed on September 11, 2001, including, but not limited to their location (whether warehoused or otherwise), catalog of photographs and videotapes taken of any items from the planes, and results of all tests and examinations conducted concerning any of these items. Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit demanding that DoD release its film footage. In addition, the scholars call for the release of a complete inventory of any steel, other metal, or other materials from the World Trade Center, including, but not limited to the location (whether warehouses or otherwise) of all such items, catalog of photographs and videotapes of any items from the scene, and results of all tests and examinations conducted concerning any of those items. Judy Wood, a professor of mechanical engineering at Clemson University and a full member of the society of scholars, has emphasized the importance of this material for those studying the collapse of the Twin Towers and World Trade Center 7. "This material has the potential to resolve crucial questions about the forces that were responsible for the buildings' fall, including the possible use of incendiaries and explosives", she observed. "It is of great importance that we have access to it." They also call for release of 6,899 photographs and 6,977 segments of video footage held by NIST; tape recordings of interviews by air traffic controllers, at least some of which were deliberately destroyed while in the possession of representatives of the government; a complete accounting of "terror drills" that were being conducted that morning, which may have been used to mask the attack; the cockpit voice recorders and other "black boxes", three of four of which are reported to have survived the Twin Towers' collapse; and other related evidence. According to Professor Fetzer, the SEC possesses knowledge of "put options" on American and United Airlines, which are suggestive of advanced knowledge that the attacks would take place; Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta gave very important testimony to The 9/11 Commission, which it chose not to include in its report; and the Secret Service conducted itself in a manner suggesting that it knew there was no serious threat to the President, even following the attacks in New York, while the Commander-in-Chief ignored the unfolding drama. "We are inclined to believe that these events were orchestrated by the Bush administration in order to instill fear in the American people," Fetzer said. "The use of violence and threats of violence to manipulate a populace based on fear," he observed, "is the definition of terrorism. The release of this vital evidence will help to confirm or to dispel our concerns about what happened on 9/11." Added Wood, "The American people are entitled to know the truth about their own history. If the government has nothing to hide, it should have no objections to releasing all this evidence for experts and scholars to study." Fetzer also noted today's Zogby International Poll, which shows that 90% of American troops in Iraq believe that they are fighting to avenge Saddam Hussein's role in 9/11. "This would be funny if it weren't so sad", Fetzer said. "The administration falsely linked Iraq to 9/11 even though it knew better", he remarked. "Even the Osama Bin Laden 'confession tape' appears to have been faked. We want to know the identity of those who perpetrated these despicable acts." Scholars for 9/11 Truth maintains its own public web site at www.st911.org. Documentary support for its request is available at www.st911.org/petition/.