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Experts Claim Official 9/11 Story is a Hoax
Duluth, MN (PRWEB) January 30, 2006 -- A group of distinguished
experts and scholars, including Robert M. Bowman, James H. Fetzer, Wayne
Madsen, John McMurtry, Morgan Reynolds, and Andreas von Buelow, have
concluded that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts
about what really happened on 9/11.
They have joined with others in common cause as members of "Scholars
for 9/11 Truth" (S9/11T), because they are convinced, based on their own
research, that the administration has been deceiving the nation about
critical events in New York and Washington, D.C.
These experts suggest these events may have been orchestrated by
elements within the administration to manipulate Americans into
supporting policies at home and abroad they would never have condoned
absent "another Pearl Harbor."
They believe that this White House is incapable of investigating
itself and hope the possibility that Congress might hold an
unaccountable administration accountable is not merely naive or wishful
thinking.
They are encouraging news services around the world to secure
scientific advice by taking advantage of university resources to verify
or to falsify their discoveries. Extraordinary situations, they believe,
require extraordinary measures.
If this were done, they contend, one of the great hoaxes of history
would stand naked before the eyes of the world and its perpetrators
would be clearly exposed, which may be the only hope for saving this
nation from ever greater abuse.
They hope this might include The New York Times, which, in their
opinion, has repeatedly failed to exercise the leadership expecedt from
our nation's newspaper of record by a series of inexplicable lapses. It
has failed to vigorously investigate tainted elections, lies leading to
the war in Iraq, or illegal NSA spying on the American people, major
unconstitutional events. In their view, The Times might compensate for
its loss of stature by helping to reveal the truth about one of the
great turning-point events of modern history.
Stunning as it may be to acknowledge, they observe, the government
has brought but one indictment against anyone and, to the best of their
knowledge, has not even reprimanded anyone for incompetence or
dereliction of duty. The official conspiracy theory--that nineteen Arab
hijackers under control of one man in the wilds of Afghanistan brought
this about--is unsupportable by the evidential data, which they have
studied. They even believe there are good reasons for suspecting that
video tapes officially attributed to Osama bin Laden are not genuine.
They have found the government's own investigiation to be severely
flawed. The 9/11 Commission, designated to investigate the attack, was
directed by Philip Zelikow, part of the Bush transition team in the NSA
sector and the co-author of a book with Condoleezza Rice. A Bush
supporter and director of national security affairs, he could hardly be
expected to conduct an objective and impartial investigation.
They have discovered that The 9/11 Commission Report is replete with
omissions, distortions, and factual errors, which David Ray Griffin has
documented in his book, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and
Distortions. The official report, for example, entirely ignores the
collapse of WTC7, a 47-story building, which was hit by no airplanes,
was only damaged by a few small fires, and fell seven hours after the
attack.
Here are some of the kinds of considerations that these experts and
scholar find profoundly troubling:
- In the history of structural engineering, steel-frame high-rise
buildings have never been brought down due to fires either before or
since 9/11, so how can fires have brought down three in one day? How
is this possible?
- The BBC has reported that at least five of the nineteen alleged
"hijackers" have turned up alive and well living in Saudi Arabia,
yet according to the FBI, they were among those killed in the
attacks. How is this possible?
- Frank DeMartini, a project manager for the WTC, said the
buildings were designed with load redistribution capabilities to
withstand the impact of airliners, whose effects would be like
"puncturing mosquito netting with a pencil." Yet they completely
collapsed. How is this possible?
- Since the melting point of steel is about 2,700*F, the
temperature of jet fuel fires does not exceed 1,800*F under optimal
conditions, and UL certified the steel used to 2,000*F for six
hours, the buildings cannot have collapsed due to heat from the
fires. How is this possible?
- Flight 77, which allegedly hit the building, left the radar
screen in the vicinity of the Ohio/Kentucky border, only to
"reappear" in very close proximity to the Pentagon shortly before
impact. How is this possible?
- Foreign "terrorists" who were clever enough to coordinate
hijacking four commercial airliners seemingly did not know that the
least damage to the Pentagon would be done by hitting its west wing.
How is this possible?
- Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, in an underground
bunker at the White House, watched Vice President Cheney castigate a
young officer for asking, as the plane drew closer and closer to the
Pentagon, "Do the orders still stand?" The order cannot have been to
shoot it down, but must have been the opposite. How is this
possible?
- A former Inspector General for the Air Force has observed that
Flight 93, which allegedly crashed in Pennsylvania, should have left
debris scattered over an area less than the size of a city block;
but it is scattered over an area of about eight square miles. How is
this possible?
- A tape recording of interviews with air traffic controllers on
duty on 9/11 was deliberately crushed, cut into very small pieces,
and distributed in assorted places to insure its total destruction.
How is this possible?
- The Pentagon conducted a training exercise called "MASCAL"
simulating the crash of a Boeing 757 into the building on 24 October
2000, and yet Condoleezza Rice, among others, has repeatedly
asserted that "no one ever imagined" a domestic airplane could be
used as a weapon. How is this possible?
Their own physics research has established that only controlled
demolitions are consistent with the near-gravity speed of fall and
virtually symmetrical collapse of all three of the WTC buildings. While
turning concrete into very fine dust, they fell straight-down into their
own footprints.
These experts and scholars have found themselves obliged to conclude
that the 9/11 atrocity represents an instance of the approach--which has
been identified by Karl Rove, the President's closest adviser--of
"creating our own reality."
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