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Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:28:25 -0000

Consistently, as Richard Gage presents his case to both those believing the government and those disbelieving the government, virtually all realize he is correct at the end of the presentation. It's quite obvious too. The government's is a fairy tale.

Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:24:17 -0000

The "like" was an error. You are not really liked, albury.

Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:22:05 -0000

Engineers need the government to hire them, so speaking out against the government has its repercussions, but many did anyway.

Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:42:18 -0000

Was he part of the plan which told the firefighters there, that if they spoke out, they would lose their pensions? Jessie Ventura is speaking for those that did speak out and for those that didn't as well, because he thinks we should honor the Truth and the firefighters, not one or the other, but both...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:37:17 -0000

I've known firefighters', some that remain in denial. If you are a firefighter, I'm afraid you are speaking out against your fellow firefighters' best interests. Sometimes FOX does something good, and this clip will show you facts all need to see...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:43:40 -0000

CTK, this is a fine summary... all should get this, or bethe cog in the wheels of the progres of humanmity. We got a war machine that is as much at war with the Truth on the media, as it has its wars operating around the globe. All the same group, interactive, media/military/perception management, as the government calls it, the literal squads of people our government actually does hire now to interact on the web, and take down the group of people that expose the mafia tactics, literally now, within our government, although they were theere all along, they have just recenlty after 9-11-01 gotten more control over money and weapons and media.

The image comes to mind, of the kind of people that fight pit bulls to the death, for money, is only an inkling of an idea of how dirty they are, to use our money to control what we "think". Literally we have a psy0ops program in all media now. Well, you should watch this... Those kind of people I speak of use vulnerable young men and women to knock over, kill civilizations in the way of the corporate elite. Down through history. Some populations are easier to manipulate for power mongers than others. The US population has been easy to manipulate for a while now, because our media has been disappearing, real media, not corrupt, corporate media/military industrial complex. We need to share these things now.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:33:39 -0000

But the breaking/pulverization process was happening symmetrically, sequentially, with no radiant effect from the hit, top down, until it was a pile of pulverized building with the city carpeted in pulverized building, and workers that survived all around there doing what ever they do, white with pulverized building, not soot, but white pulverized debris/dust. All quite like the blowing of Mt. St. Helen, only part of Mt. St Helen pulverized though, WTC I, II, and 7 all were symmetrical in their under a minute each descent, some of the buildings had over a hundred floors each, an acre in size, all a pile of dust immediately afterward along with most all the bodies too. Quite amazing.

Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:09:06 -0000

Herbert J. Hoffman, MA, PhD – Former Chief Mental Health Coordinator and Director of Manpower Development and Training, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. Retired Clinical Psychologist. In his 40-year career, Dr. Hoffman held several academic and senior professional positions, including; Lecturer (Psychology), Boston University. Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Assistant Professor of Research, Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare, Brandeis University. Founder and Faculty Member, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. Executive Director, Brookline (MA) Mental Health Association. Veteran, U.S. Army.

* Statement in support of Medical Professionals petition for Reinvestigation of 9/11:

"I have been following the 9/11 "story" for over 7 years. The most significant impediment for citizens even considering that the U.S. government is in some way complicit is the unwillingness to entertain that possibility. The fact that the government and the 9/11 Commission Report could not/would not address certain questions raised by the Jersey Girls, scientists, pilots etc., questions which would seem to have easily available factual responses, strongly suggests "cover up."

I refer to such items as: release of the Pentagon and other videos of the Pentagon crash; explanation of the debris scatter at the PA "crash" site; explanation of how these obviously "hijacked" airliners were not intercepted in a timely fashion -- especially the one in DC; a more evidence-based, scientific explanation of the fall of the twin towers and Building 7.

The failure to produce this information/evidence, along with much more, can only lead to one conclusion: THERE IS A COVER UP. There is much data to strongly suggest who and what are being protected and shielded by this cover up. Hopefully a sufficient number of citizens will shed their denial and demand answers and explanations from our nations leaders."

* Member: Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth Association Statement:

"As medical professionals, we are trained in science and logical reasoning. We are appalled by the lack of scientific rigor and the substantial omissions and blatant distortions in the official account of 9/11 as embodied in the 9/11 Commission Report and related government documents. We join with other organizations of professionals, such as Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Pilots for 9/11 Truth, Firefighters for 9/11 Truth, and Lawyers for 9/11 Truth, and millions of individual citizens in demanding a thorough, impartial, open and transparent reinvestigation of the terrorist acts of 9/11."

* Signatory: War Is Illegal Petition 12/07, which states:

"Against a background of escalating ecological crises, and the fact that large parts of the world´s population are being exposed to extreme poverty, inhuman working conditions and increasing social tensions, the annual global military expenditure has risen to more than 1,000 billion dollars.

The military-industrial complex of just a few G8 countries is responsible for the overwhelming part of this spending, causing incalculable social and ecological consequences.

Unequal distribution of global resources, increasingly controlled by large multinational companies, global debt policy and unfair international trading practices ultimately could not be maintained without military security. In many countries the military is used to repress critical opposition.

The terror attacks of September 11, 2001 are increasingly used to justify systematic surveillance and the dismantling of constitutional rights. [Bold added for emphasis by Editor of this website.] Even European countries have helped to establish Guantanomo-like secret prisons, where torture in all probability takes place.

Iraq was attacked based on falsified evidence causing the death of hundreds of thousands of people, widespread destruction, destabilization and contamination with cancer-causing depleted uranium munitions.

Now plans to attack Iran and the possibility of a new World War have been made public, meeting resistance even from moderate elements within the military due to the unforeseeable consequences.

Faced with the choice between a war, that according to some western leaders, will last for many years or a possible peaceful transformation we support the following demands: ...

International investigation of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. They are used as the central justification for the "War on Terror", but well documented evidence shows that the official explanation of 9/11 cannot be correct. International personalities in science, politics, and culture, including high-ranking military veterans, have called for a new investigation." [Bold added for emphasis by Editor of this website.] The full text of the petition is available at http://www.war-is-illegal.org

Philip Berg

Philip J. Berg

Philip J. Berg, Esquire – Former Deputy Attorney General, State of Pennsylvania.

* Article 10/29/04: "The official story of what actually took place on 9-11 is a lie." http://www.americanfreepres...

* Interviewed in the documentary film Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11 10/26/07:

"There is no question in my mind that those buildings, based on the laws of physics, could not have collapsed without the assistance of a bomb.".

* Statement 1/4/07: "Berg continued there is overwhelming evidence that: "Bush and his cronies made 9/11 happen or let it happen. And, if they let it happen, then they made it happen. Either way, they are responsible; and more important, they have completely and unequivocally covered-it-up!" MS Word doc at http://www.911forthetruth.c...

* Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:
"We want truthful answers to question. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:
o An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
o Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings.
o Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence.
o The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/art...

* Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice Association Statement: "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice is a non-partisan organization consisting of independent researchers and activists engaged in uncovering the true nature of the September 11, 2001 attacks."

* Bio: http://www.911forthetruth.com

Roy Andes

Roy H. Andes, MA, JD

Roy H. Andes, MA, JD – Former Assistant Attorney General, State of Montana.

* Statement in support of Architects and Engineers petition:

"As an attorney who is meticulously attentive to issues of evidence and proof, and one very-little inclined to conspiracy theories, I was profoundly skeptical when a friend asked me to view Richard Gage's "Blueprint for Truth" with him. Over the course of that two-hour viewing, however, I became convinced that there is substance to Mr. Gage's conclusions, and that they deserve serious attention from appropriate authorities. That this may have happened, causes me grave concern for our country. Under the circumstances, I am not sure to what authorities we can entrust this matter and its attendant consequences." http://www.ae911truth.org

* Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11, signed by more than 1,400 Architects and Engineers:

"On Behalf of the People of the United States of America, the undersigned Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth and affiliates hereby petition for, and demand, a truly independent investigation with subpoena power in order to uncover the full truth surrounding the events of 9/11/01 - specifically the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers and Building 7. We believe that there is sufficient doubt about the official story and therefore that the 9/11 investigation must be re-opened and must include a full inquiry into the possible use of explosives that may have been the actual cause behind the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers and WTC Building 7." http://www.ae911truth.org/j...

* Editor's note: WTC Building 7 was 610 feet tall, 47 stories. It would have been the tallest building in 33 states. Although it was not hit by an airplane, it completely collapsed into a pile of rubble in less than 7 seconds at 5:20 p.m. on 9/11, seven hours after the collapses of the Twin Towers. However, no mention of its collapse appears in the 9/11 Commission's "full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks." Watch the collapse video here. And six years after 9/11, the Federal government has yet to publish its promised final report that explains the cause of its collapse.

* Signatory: Lawyers for 9/11 Truth petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:

"Lawyers are trained to value the Constitution and the rule of law.

We are trained to examine evidence and to spot cover-ups or inconsistencies in the evidence and bias in witnesses or decision-makers.

Attorneys are also experts in weighing conflicting evidence.

For all of the above reasons, many lawyers have concluded that the 9/11 Commission and other government examinations were wholly inadequate, and did not follow proper rules of evidence or procedure.

We are demanding an end to the 9/11 cover-up, and a full investigation by unbiased people with subpoena power ... and the courage to demand that the Constitution and rule of law are followed, and all guilty persons held accountable for their actions.

The following legal scholars, judges and attorneys demand an end to the 9/11 cover-up, a new, full and unbiased investigation, and punishment of all guilty parties." http://www.l911t.com

* Bio: http://www.collaborationins...

Donald R. Bustion, JD
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Donald R. Bustion, JD – Former Assistant Attorney General, State of Texas. Adjunct Professor, Political Science, Southern Arkansas University.

* Member: Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth Association Statement:

"Scholars and professionals with various kinds of expertise---including architects, engineers, firefighters, intelligence officers, lawyers, medical professionals, military officers, philosophers, religious leaders, physical scientists, and pilots---have spoken out about radical discrepancies between the official account of the 9/11 attacks and what they, as independent researchers, have learned.

They have established beyond any reasonable doubt that the official account of 9/11 is false and that, therefore, the official “investigations” have really been cover-up operations.

Thus far, however, there has been no response from political leaders in Washington or, for that matter, in other capitals around the world. Our organization, Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth, has been formed to help bring about such a response.

We believe that the truth about 9/11 needs to be exposed now---not in 50 years as a footnote in the history books---so the policies that have been based on the Bush-Cheney administration’s interpretation of the 9/11 attacks can be changed.

We are, therefore, calling for a new, independent investigation of 9/11 that takes account of evidence that has been documented by independent researchers but thus far ignored by governments and the mainstream media."

Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:01:28 -0000

Annie Machon – Former MI5 Intelligence Officer (the UK equivalent of the U.S. FBI). Initially served in the Counter-Subversion department, officially known 'F2'. Later served in 'T Branch', the Irish counter-terrorism section and then 'G Branch', working on international counter-terrorism; 6 years of service. Resigned in 1996 to blow the whistle on illegal activities within MI5 and MI6 (the UK equivalent of the U.S. CIA).

* Video Presentation at College of Marin, Kentfield, CA 9/22/08:

"We picked up a book. Of course it's the first book many of us will have read about 9/11. It was The New Pearl Harbor by David Ray Griffin. And I devoured it in a period of 24 hours.

It was like the scales falling from my eyes. It's so obvious there's so much evidence that we at least require a new inquiry into this. ...

I feel passionately we have to do something about this. On behalf not only of the families of the victims and the survivors and the eyewitnesses, but also the first responders; all those thousands of people who did their best to help their fellow human beings and ended up sick and dying because they were lied to by the U.S. government.

It's the duty of any thinking citizen, I think, to just carry on campaigning for a new independent and potentially international inquiry to really get to the bottom of this.

And let's think; it's not for us to prove the whole of our theories; any theories we have. There are many, many examples of weak links in their chain; their official story.

Even the [9/11] Commissioners have now said that they were set up to fail. If that's not an indication we need a new inquiry, I don't know what is. ...

The controversy around why the towers came down; all three of them.

The put options; the financial speculation on the fact that the shares of the airlines would plunge.

The failures, massive endemic failures of the air defenses of this country. That at least should require a decent, proper inquiry. And a whole range of other issues. ...

So there's this whole wealth of evidence, strong evidence that directly contradicts the official account and that's why we demand a new inquiry. We need one." Beginning at 40:10 of the video at http://video.google.com

* Website: http://www.anniemachon.com

Andreas von Buelow

Andreas von Buelow, PhD

Andreas von Buelow, PhD – Former State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Defense of West Germany. Former Minister of Research and Technology. Member of Bundestag (Parliament) 1969 - 1994.

* Member: Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth Association Statement:

They have established beyond any reasonable doubt that the official account of 9/11 is false and that, therefore, the official “investigations” have really been cover-up operations.

* Video 5/6/06: "The official story is so inadequate and far-fetched that there must be another one." http://video.google.com

* Article/Interview 1/13/02: "The planning of the attacks was technically and organizationally a master achievement. To hijack four huge airplanes within a few minutes and within one hour, to drive them into their targets, with complicated flight maneuvers! This is unthinkable, without years-long support from secret apparatuses of the state and industry." http://www.ratical.org/ratv...

* Documentary Shadowplay 2008: "This whole behavior of government after 9/11 shows me that there must be these people which brought it about. It must be very, very high up. ... I think so. It's a covert operation, a typical covert operation where you have patsies, false flag, where you prepare everything to blame different people from the people which really did the things. But they are able to influence the public opinion in order to say, 'Well, the Muslims are our real foes, which we have to fight.'" http://www.youtube.com

Horst Ehmke

Horst Ehmke, PhD
Horst Ehmke, PhD – Former Minister of Justice (West Germany). Former Minister for Research and Technology. Cabinet Member under Chancellors Kurt Kiesinger and Willy Brandt 1966 - 1974. Professor of Law, University of Freiburg

* Article 7/22/04: "Terrorists could not have carried out such an operation with four hijacked planes without the support of a secret service." http://www.guardian.co

* Bio: http://translate.google.com

Eckart Werthebach

Eckart Werthebach, JD

Eckart Werthebach, JD – Former President, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence service 1991 - 1995. Mayor of Berlin 2000 - 2001. Berlin's Minister of the Interior 1998 - 2001.

* Article Euro Intel Experts Dismiss ‘War on Terrorism’ as Deception 12/4/01: "Eckehardt [sic] Werthebach, former president of Germany's domestic intelligence service, Verfassungsschutz, told AFP that "the deathly precision" and "the magnitude of planning" behind the attacks of September 11 would have needed "years of planning."

Such a sophisticated operation, Werthebach said, would require the "fixed frame" of a state intelligence organization, something not found in a "loose group" of terrorists like the one allegedly led by Mohammed Atta while he studied in Hamburg.

Many people would have been involved in the planning of such an operation and Werthebach pointed to the absence of leaks as further indication that the attacks were "state organized actions." http://www.rense.com

Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:50:18 -0000

opednews.com

Joel S. Hirschhorn, PhD

Sept. 5, 2007 – In an online editorial yesterday, Joel S. Hirschhorn, PhD, former Senior Staff Member of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), called for a new investigation of 9/11. “First, let the technical truth emerge. Then, if necessary, cope with the inevitable political, conspiracy and other questions. But let us not allow a possible painful truth block the primary task of determining once and for all what caused the collapse of the WTC towers and building no. 7.”

Dr. Hirschhorn is a nationally recognized engineer who has testified before Congress more than 50 times on technology, science, and environmental issues. In addition to his work for the OTA, Dr. Hirschhorn also served as Director of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources for the National Governors Association.

Dr. Hirschhorn admitted to his own personal “growing skepticism about the official WTC story”. He wrote “analyses by many experts reveal the collapse of the three WTC buildings was not caused by the two airplanes exploding into the twin towers.” He noted “the general view is that the buildings were brought down by controlled demolition.”

Dr. Hirschhorn endorsed the efforts of a new group, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, to launch a new, honest and comprehensive investigation that considers all the evidence and which examines the possibility of controlled demolition.

Dr. Hirschhorn issued a challenge to supporters of the official account of 9/11, “If those that believe the official 9/11 story - especially elected officials - trust their views, then let them support a serious effort to test the validity of the controlled demolition hypothesis. If they fear and reject doing so, then let us see that as suspicious and unacceptable.”

He concluded, “Horrific possible answers can cause us to shun a question. But clearing our minds of the fear of painful truths is essential to clearing our nation of destructive lies. Otherwise, we stay stuck in a delusional democracy."

The full text of Dr. Hirschhorn’s statement can be found at http://blogcritics.org

Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:40:52 -0000

Robert W. Poltz, BS Eng, MS Eng – Reliability Engineering Consultant, experienced in safety, reliability and maintainability engineering for more than twenty-five years in the biotechnology, aerospace, semiconductor, defense, and telecommunications industries. Member of the Society of Reliability Engineers' International Reliability Standards Working Group. Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and ASQ (American Society for Quality).

* Statement in support of Architects and Engineers petition:
"I became keenly aware that something wasn't right about the whole scenario surrounding the collapse of two skyscrapers. Having grown up in the shadow of the Empire State Building in New York City in my youth and young adult life, I remember hearing in school that lower Manhattan was "Ground Zero" in the event of nuclear attack. Living and working in skyscrapers is the norm in NYC. They are virtually indestructible given the amount of steel used and a history of over-building these structures. Then I saw the "Loose Change" video and that opened my eyes in disbelief that our government could do something like this and hope to get away with it. Let's start with independent hearings to determine the cause of failure of these buildings from a scientific analyses. Let the evidence lead us from there towards criminal prosecution of the guilty." http://www.ae911truth.org

* Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11, signed by more than 1,400 Architects and Engineers:

Kendall Young

Kendall Young, PhD, MBA

Kendall Young, PhD Math, MBA – Risk Management Specialist. Engineer and Engineering Manager. Thirty years of practical experience in product design, development, manufacturing, quality and reliability in the automotive, electronic device, motion control systems, aerospace, medical device and biopharma industries. Participant in the engineering analysis and "return to flight" decision for the Space Shuttle following the Challenger accident. Former Validation Engineer and Manager. Former Reliability Engineer, Senior Quality Engineer, and Quality Assurance Manager. Former Laboratory Engineer. Certified Quality Engineer, ASQC. Certified Reliability Engineer, ASQC. Member, ASQ (American Society for Quality).

* Statement in support of Architects and Engineers petition:
"It is physically impossible for the towers to have collapsed at near free fall speed under the "pancake" arguments put forth. Each layer, while the force of gravity, is attached to a structure with "large friction". [This is the "fasteners" that hold the layer to the vertical structure. The "friction" involves severing the "fasteners".] This "friction" would need to be overcome by the impulse of the layers falling above it. This would retard the falling rate slowing it down from "free fall". Also, each layer would contribute additional mass that is at zero velocity while the layer(s) hitting it have already been accelerated (by gravity) to some positive velocity. This would also retard the fall rate by inertial considerations.

Perhaps, if we observed the so-called "pancake" effect at the last few layers both the "friction" and the additional mass would not be that significant. However, the "pancake" effect does not apply to the vertical structure to which the layers are fastened. When a "magician" pulls the table cloth from under the dishes on the table, the dishes remain - although we always see them move slightly as a result of static friction.

The "pancake" theory, along with the irrefutable fact that the collapse was near "free fall", would have us to believe that the "friction" holding each layer in place was negligible. In that case, how is it that the structures stood as long as they did?

As for WTC 7, it's a classic demolition. (Didn't Dan Rather say so himself?" http://www.ae911truth.org

* Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11, signed by more than 1,400 Architects and Engineers:

Ken Jenkins

Ken Jenkins, BS EE

Ken Jenkins, BS Carnegie Mellon – Electrical Engineer. Documentary film maker.

* Video Speech 10/11/06: "Tonight I'm going to start by talking about a theory that I've put to together that explains some of the reasons there's so much evidence that 9/11 the official story is a lie and that there's so much evidence that it was an inside job. ...

According to the official story, radar contact was never recovered with Flight 77 as it was approaching Washington, DC. This is impossible. We have some the most sophisticated radar detection systems on the planet; both civilian and military. We also have satellites that are capable of spotting very small things, let alone airliners. And so the idea that Flight 77 where it turned around over Ohio -- Here's a close up shot of that.-- that it wasn't able to be detected all the way from there all the way to Washington, D.C., even though they were looking for it is -- It's absurd. It's just not possible." http://video.google.com

* Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11, signed by more than 1,400 Architects and Engineers:

Jeff King

Jeff King, MD, SB EE

Jeff King, MD, SB EE (MIT Science Baccalaureate in Biology and Electrical Engineering) – Family Practice Physician (27 years). Former Electrical Engineer (8 years).

* Video of presentation Confronting the Evidence Conference 9/11/04: "When I first saw the [WTC] collapses I was absolutely convinced they were not spontaneous. ... http://www.youtube.com

[Statement to this website 6/10/07: "And what we have learned in the years since then (2004) only confirms that initial impression. At the simplest level there is a gross violation of conservation of energy: for the towers to fall at or near free-fall speed, all the stored gravitational energy would have had to be used to accelerate their own mass downward. The same energy can’t be used twice, which is to say that any “work” extracted, for example to pulverize concrete, will slow the collapse by a corresponding amount.

In the case of the twin towers even a rough calculation of the amount of energy needed to pulverize all the concrete and gypsum to the very fine dust observed (and without including the energy needed to crumple and deform steel) indicates that it would have far exceeded the entire gravitational potential energy of the structures.

As measurements by Cahill have shown, dust particles were mostly <30 microns, with a sizeable fraction smaller than 0.25 micron. Not only is an immense amount of energy needed to break most of the chemical bonds holding the concrete together, but there is no mechanism that can be postulated with only a gravitational collapse that might account for such rapid and complete pulverization. Such a process is almost by definition an explosive event: the almost instantaneous conversion of a slab of concrete into a rapidly expanding cloud of dust.]

[Continuation of 2004 presentation] The obvious question is what does it mean that there was a controlled demolition. At the simplest level, it means that someone had a lot access to the buildings over a long enough period of time to set this up. It implies, as many other things have tonight, that the people who had effective control of the site had an interest in having it scrubbed and making sure that no information was available; that a forensic reconstruction couldn't be done.

Even in much smaller catastrophes we typically will reconstruct things as completely as possible. For example with TWA Flight 800 pieces were dredged off the bottom of the sea. A complete reconstruction was done to allow a detailed analysis. In this case, just the opposite was done. ... " http://www.youtube.com

* Bio: http://www.plaguepuppy.net

Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:35:54 -0000

Mitchell Scott Stein, MS CE, PE – Licensed Professional Engineer, State of Texas.

* Statement in support of Architects and Engineers petition:

"None of WTC 1, WTC 2, or WTC 7 could have fallen in the duration in took them to fall (on the order of 10 seconds), virtually directly downward, UNLESS the majority of their many key supporting structural elements on EACH FLOOR were 100% ineffective, or nearly 100% ineffective, and such a situation seems virtually 100% IMPLAUSIBLE, unless there was some sort of configuration for a controlled demolition in place PRIOR TO the planes hitting WTC 1 and WTC 2." http://www.ae911truth.org

* Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11, signed by more than 1,400 Architects and Engineers:

David Scott, AMICE, CEng, MIStructE
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David Scott, AMICE, CEng, MIStructE – Consulting Structural Engineer. Founding director of a structural and architectural design practice in Perthshire, Scotland. 20 years experience in building design.

* Statement in support of Architects and Engineers petition:

"Near-freefall collapse violates laws of physics. Fire induced collapse is not consistent with observed collapse mode. Lack of aircraft debris at Pentagon site leaves official story in tatters." http://www.ae911truth.org

* Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11, signed by more than 1,400 Architects and Engineers:

Jill Hacker, MS CE
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Jill Hacker, MS CE – Former Licensed Professional Engineer, State of New York. Employee of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1983 to 1996.

* Statement in support of Architects and Engineers petition:

"The true story of the defining event of our era — 9/11 — should be known.

The notion that the towers' disintegration was caused by the impact of airplanes is not consistent with the law of conservation of energy. If the energy of collapse went into keeping the collapse going, then there had to be another source of energy — the energy that destroyed the buildings' structures and pulverized the concrete floors and all the buildings' contents." http://www.ae911truth.org

* Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11, signed by more than 1,400 Architects and Engineers:

Larry Dodge, B.Arch
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Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:26:23 -0000

The professionals on our side just keep speaking up too...

Barry R. Komisaruk, PhD – Rutgers University Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Graduate School. Also Adjunct Professor, Department of Radiology, New Jersey College of Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Former postdoctoral researcher as a National Institute of Mental Health fellow at the Brain Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. Former Program Director in the Division of Minority Opportunities in Research at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Member, Society for Neuroscience. Member, American Physiological Society. Author of numerous scientific papers on neurophysiology, pharmacology, and endocrinology of reproductive behavior, and analgesia in laboratory animals and humans. Author of Reproduction: A Behavioral and Neuroendocrine Perspective (1987), The Science of Orgasm (2006).

* Founding Member: Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth Association Statement:

* Essay Rutgers Observer 9/11/07: Regarding 9/11

"Based upon my reading, published evidence leads me to a terribly disturbing conclusion as to the veracity of the official government accounts. ...

The observations are readily available and clearly evident from existing news reports, books, and photos and videos on the Internet. They have not been accounted for convincingly, or even at all, by the official U.S. government reports, and they have not even been challenged by the mass media. They raise serious doubts and questions as to what really happened on that day.

If the assumptions about the true nature of the events are erroneous, then the policies that have been justified by those assumptions must be questioned – ongoing policies that include the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, and suspension of the guarantees provided by the Bill of Rights and the Constitution – against torture and against warrantless spying on U.S. citizens.

If we turn a blind eye to the truth about the events that occurred on September 11, 2001, we do so at our peril, for revealing the truth may well change profoundly the course of future events." http://media.www.rutgersobs...

* Endorsement of Debunking 9/11 Debunking:

"In this astonishing and fearsome book, David Ray Griffin rigorously and brilliantly first dissects and then demolishes the recent published accounts that purport to debunk the critics of the Bush Administration’s official explanations of the events of 9/11. Dr. Griffin reveals how the purported debunkings ignore the blatant inconsistencies and obvious coverups in the official accounts. No amount of spin can honestly account for the pulverization and nearly free-fall collapse of the World Trade Center buildings by anything other than pre-planned demolition. No amount of spin can realistically explain away the absence of commercial jetliner wreckage at the Pentagon. No amount of spin can logically explain away the miles-wide dispersion of airliner debris if Flight 93 was not blown up in the air. Dr. Griffin carefully delineates crucial questions that must be answered directly and honestly, without bias, spin or conflicts of interest. This book is a challenge to the mass media. If the truth about the events of 9/11 remains concealed and ignored, it will be at our – and our nation’s – peril.

* Bio: http://psychology.rutgers.e...

Larry Burk

Larry Burk, MD

Larry Burk, MD – Former Director of Education, Center for Integrative Medicine, Duke University Medical Center. Associate Clinical Professor of Radiology and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center 1993 - 2004. Former Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

* Founding Member: Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth Association Statement:

* Essay 7/1/06: "The most plausible explanation for the incredible level of national denial even among otherwise well-informed, left-wing liberals, is that we have all been subject to a mass hypnotic trance induced by the carefully-scripted events on 9/11.

Even with my background in medical hypnosis, it took me more than 3 years to wake up to the flaws in the official story, which in retrospect, are rather obvious." http://nc911truth.blogspot.com

* Conference presentation, 9/11: Revealing The Truth, Reclaiming Our Future 6/3/06:

"The sequence of events on 9/11 has much in common with standard hypnotic techniques for rapid trance induction. These characteristics include hypnotizable subjects, focused attention, rapid induction, trance deepening, hypnotic suggestions, depth of trance testing, post-hypnotic suggestions, and delayed activation of anchors.

The hypnosis scenario explains why the majority of people did not believe what they saw with their own eyes; a controlled demolition of the World Trade Center. Although trances tend to wear off with time, repeated triggering of hypnotic anchors can prolong the effects indefinitely. The challenge now is to break the spell for a critical mass of people prior to any future false flag terrorist attack." http://www.911truth.org/911...

* Member North Carolina 9/11 Truth: Association Statement: "When the Twin Towers exploded on September 11, 2001, we stared in disbelief. Five years later, we now have ample forensic evidence to show that at least 3 of the World Trade Center towers were felled by controlled demolition, not airplane impacts. The investigative focus has now shifted to determine how terrorists gained access to make the extensive preparations required."

* Bio: http://www.911truth.org/911...

Tom Tvedten

Tom Tvedten, MD

Tom Tvedten, MD – Physician. Former Chief of Staff, Chicot Memorial Hospital 1978 - 1995. Founder of the 9/11 DVD Project.

* Founding Member: Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth Association Statement:

* Statement in support of Medical Professionals petition for Reinvestigation of 9/11:

"I happened to be watching the Today Show on NBC on the morning of 9/11/01 and saw the events unfold in real time. When the Twin Towers exploded and collapsed, I told my wife "That can't happen." I was sure that terrorists had somehow planted explosives in the buildings and that "Blow-back" was the motive for the attacks with the most likely suspects being Muslims retaliating for our imperialistic policies in the Middle East and for our support of Israel and denial of Palestinian rights. The possibility that it might have been a "false flag" operation did not occur to me until much later and I waited for the 9/11 Commission Report to explain the issues.

When the Report came out and failed to answer many of the questions I had about the events of that day I became suspicious and began to research the subject on the Internet. When I discovered the mysterious collapse of Bldg. 7 and saw Larry Silverstein's lame explanation of the same, I became convinced that 9/11 was an inside job used as a false flag operation to justify wars in the Middle East over control of the natural resources in that region as well as the implementation of stricter controls on the people of this nation and the expansion of the "military industrial complex" and its control of our government.

Since that time my research has nothing but further convinced me that my suspicions were justified. Only an in-depth investigation as described in this petition can clear up the many still disputed issues regarding the events of 9/11. I therefore am glad to have the opportunity to be a member of this organization and to sign the petition." http://mp911truth.org

* Video statement:

"I am a physician from Arkansas and I am the founder of the 9/11 DVD Project. You can come to my website at www.911dvdproject.com.

We need a criminal investigation into the events and the crimes of 9/11. The mass murder of our fellow citizens has not been investigated as a crime. And it is my job and yours to demand that a criminal investigation be done.

I can provide you with many different titles of 9/11-related DVD's for free or at my cost. You don't have to pay me in advance and you don't have to pay me at all.

I am committing myself to finding out the truth about 9/11 and I need your help finding it. 911dvdproject.com. And help me help the rest of our fellow Americans find out the truth about 9/11." http://911dvdproject.com

* Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth

Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon."

* Website: http://911dvdproject.com

Mary Ellen Bradshaw

Mary Ellen Bradshaw, MD

Mary Ellen Bradshaw, MD – Past President, American Association of Public Health Physicians. Former Chief, Bureau of School Health Services, Department of Public Health, Washington, DC. Co-chair, Arizona Coalition for State and National Health Plans. Member, Physicians for a National Health Program.

* Charter Member: Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth Association Statement:

Douglas Everingham

Douglas Nixon Everingham, MBBS

Douglas Nixon Everingham, MBBS – Minister for Health, Australia 1972 - 1975. Parliamentary Adviser, Australia's delegation to the United Nations 1982. Member, House of Representatives, Australia 1967 - 1975 and 1977 - 1984. Appointed Member by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to the National Consultative Committee on Peace and Disarmament 1998 - 2000. Vice-President, World Health Assembly 1975. Former family and hospital doctor and psychiatric registrar.

* Member: Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth Association Statement:

* Personal statement in support of the Political Leaders petition for a new 9/11 investigation:

"Unless U.S. and allied (including Australian) leaders move to demand independent investigation of the 9/11 catastrophe, the military sequels in Iraq and Afghanistan must be widely seen as war crimes falsely labeled as a war on terror." http://pl911truth.com

* Member: Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth Association Statement:

They have established beyond any reasonable doubt that the official account of 9/11 is false and that, therefore, the official “investigations” have really been cover-up operations.

Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:15:32 -0000

Yeah, by that logic, the mafias out there could not exist, m015094. Guess what a bigger mafia exists in our government.

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blubonnet — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:05:40 -0000

NIST testing for explosives for one. Using NIST as a source that has been proven to be lying multiple times and ways makes you lie inadvertently, but my bet is that you lie consciously. .

Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:03:17 -0000

NIST admitted that they never looked, you shameless liar!

Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:02:00 -0000

Lying comes easy for you Johnny, doesn't it?

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blubonnet — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:23:42 -0000

This fellow worked for NIST, why don't you listen to him?

James Quintiere, Ph.D., former Chief of the Fire Science Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has called for an independent review of NIST’s investigation into the collapses of the World Trade Center Towers on 9/11.

Dr. Quintiere made his plea during his presentation, “Questions on the WTC Investigations” at the 2007 World Fire Safety Conference. “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,” explained Dr. Quintiere. “Let's look at real alternatives that might have been the cause of the collapse of the World Trade Towers and how that relates to the official cause and what's the significance of one cause versus another.”

Dr. Quintiere, one of the world’s leading fire science researchers and safety engineers, also encouraged his audience of fellow researchers and engineers to scientifically re-examine the WTC collapses. “I hope to convince you to perhaps become 'Conspiracy Theorists', but in a proper way,” he said.

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blubonnet — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:00:03 -0000

U.S. FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

Max Cleland

Senator Max Cleland

Senator Max Cleland – Former member of the 9/11 Commission, resigned in December 2003. Currently serves on the board of directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. U.S. Senator from Georgia 1997 - 2002. Secretary of State of Georgia 1982 - 1996. Administrator of the U.S. Veterans Administration 1977 - 1981. Former Captain, U.S. Army. Awarded Silver Star and Bronze Star for bravery in Viet Nam. Triple amputee from war injuries.

* Article New York Times 10/26/03: "As each day goes by, we learn that this government knew a whole lot more about these terrorists before Sept. 11 than it has ever admitted." http://www.commondreams.org

* Article Boston Globe 11/13/03: "If this decision stands [to limit access to White House documents], I, as a member of the [9/11] Commission, cannot look any American in the eye, especially family members of victims, and say the Commission had full access. This investigation is now compromised. . . . This is `The Gong Show'; this isn't protection of national security." http://www.

* Article Salon 11/21/03: Regarding the 9/11 Commission "It is a national scandal." http://dir.salon.com

* Resigned from the 9/11 Commission, 12/03, after having served on it for 12 months. Former Senator Bob Kerrey from Nebraska was selected to replace him. The 9/11 Commission Report was issued 7 months later.

* Interview Democracy Now 3/23/04: "One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up." http://www.democracynow.org

* Bio: http://memory.loc.gov

Bob Kerrey

Senator Bob Kerrey

Senator Bob Kerrey – Appointed to the 9/11 Commission upon the resignation of Senator Max Cleland in December 2003 and served on the Commission during the final seven months of its 19-month existence. U.S. Senator from Nebraska 1989 - 2000. Governor of Nebraska 1983 - 1987. Unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992. Former member, Navy SEAL special forces 1966 - 1969, serving in Vietnam. Combat injuries resulted in the amputation of the lower part of one leg. Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life" for his service in Vietnam. Currently, President, New School University 2001 - present.

* Statement of Richard Greene, Air America Radio host 3/2/08:

"Now I went to Senator Kerrey and I said. "Senator --" because he's associated with Air America -- I said, "Senator, are you still believing that there wasn't enough time and enough money to do an investigation?"

And he said, "Absolutely."

I said, "Are you calling for a new investigation?"

And he said, "No, Richard, I am going further than that." He said, "I am calling for a permanent 9/11 Commission."

And I said, "Senator, is this public? Can I announce that on the air? And are you willing to come on the air and say that?"

And he said, "Yes." http://www.youtube.com

* Newsweek article by Philip Shenon 3/23/09:

"The [9/11] commission appears to have ignored obvious clues throughout 2003 and 2004 that its account of the 9/11 plot and Al Qaeda's history relied heavily on information obtained from detainees who had been subjected to torture, or something not far from it. ...

That has troubling implications for the credibility of the commission's final report. In intelligence circles, testimony obtained through torture is typically discredited; research shows that people will say anything under threat of intense physical pain.

And yet it is a distinct possibility that Al Qaeda suspects who were the exclusive source of information for long passages of the commission's report may have been subjected to "enhanced" interrogation techniques, or at least threatened with them, because of the 9/11 Commission. ...

Footnotes in the panel's report indicate when information was obtained from detainees interrogated by the CIA. An analysis by NBC News found that more than a quarter of the report's footnotes—441 of some 1,700—referred to detainees who were subjected to the CIA's "enhanced" interrogation program, including the trio who were waterboarded.

Commission members note that they repeatedly pressed the Bush White House and CIA for direct access to the detainees, but the administration refused. So the commission forwarded questions to the CIA, whose interrogators posed them on the panel's behalf. ...

Former senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, a Democrat on the commission, told me last year he had long feared that the investigation depended too heavily on the accounts of Al Qaeda detainees who were physically coerced into talking. While he thought the commission's larger narrative about the September 11 attacks held up, "there's reason now to suspect that we may have gotten some of the details wrong" about the 9/11 plot and about Al Qaeda.

Kerrey said it might take "a permanent 9/11 commission" to end the remaining mysteries of September 11." http://www.newsweek.com

* Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Terrill Arnold

Terrell E. Arnold, MA

Terrell (Terry) E. Arnold, MA – Former Deputy Director, Office of Counter-Terrorism and Emergency Planning, U.S. State Department. Former Chairman, Department of International Studies, National War College. Graduate of the National War College. Retired Senior Foreign Service Officer of the U.S. Department of State. He has served as a security and crisis management consultant for several Fortune 500 companies. He also served as a crisis management consultant for several Federal agencies, including The State Department, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Customs Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. U.S. Navy veteran of World War II and Korean conflict. Author, co-author, and editor of Fighting Back: Winning the War Against Terrorism (1986), Beyond the Iran-Contra Crisis : The Shape of U. S. Anti-Terrorism Policy in the Post-Reagan Era (1988), The Violence Formula: Why People Lend Sympathy and Support to Terrorism (1990), Think About Terrorism: The New Warfare (1991), A World Less Safe: Essays on Conflict in the 21st Century (2005).

* Essay It is Vital to Move Beyond 911 7/3/07:

"More than five years after the fact, Washington leadership keeps the American people fixated on the events of 9/11. They have brought us no closer than we were on September 12, 2001 to resolving how it was executed and by what enemy. They tell us repeatedly that it was the work of al Qaida, but they have yet to show us the proofs. They told us the official version of what happened that day, but their story is laced with contradictions, and the facts visible on the ground at the time belie much of the official account. Our leadership gave us a Sopranos blank screen ending to a terrible tragedy, while working below the radar to avoid our established laws and slowly to destroy our democratic institutions. Every American must look carefully at the pattern of decay that began with 9/11. ...

As an alleged post 9/11 defense, the War on Terrorism is a gigantic fraud. ...

We cannot let a single criminal act, the facts and perpetrators of which are still obscure, destroy our society. With all respect due to those who lost family and friends in the attacks of 9/11, there is no evident search for justice, truth or our future safety in the US government actions outlined in this paper. Instead we are watching the most brutal power games of our times that benefit the few at the expense of the rest of us." http://www.rense.com

* Interview Leading Counter-Terrorism Expert and Former High-Level Official Slams War on Terror and Questions 9/11 Washington's Blog 2/3/09:

Question: What facts or observations make you doubt that the official government story does not fully explain how 9/11 was carried out?

Terry Arnold: The nature of events in New York. The buildings falling down. I'm not satisfied by the notion that planes hitting buildings constructed as these would have caused them to collapse. The last building to fall was not even attacked.

Question: Now let's address the question of who carried out the attacks. You write, "They tell us repeatedly that it [9/11] was the work of al Qaida, but they have yet to show us the proofs."

As a counter-terrorism expert, what sort of proofs would you expect the government to show if al Qaeda had carried out the 9/11 attacks - at least without the help of any state?

Terry Arnold: There is a lot of work in getting sixteen people ready to commit voluntary and simultaneous suicide. The case has not been made. The official story is not persuasive because it does not address the real issues of complexity.

Question: You also say, "They told us the official version of what happened that day, but their story is laced with contradictions, and the facts visible on the ground at the time belie much of the official account."

What contradictions do you see with the official version of 9/11? And what facts belie the official account?

Terry Arnold: The sheer mechanics of the event. The chances of two buildings of that height and structure merely collapsing in their own footprint are extremely slim.

* Bio: Library of Congress

Angelo Codevilla

Angelo M. Codevilla, PhD

Angelo M. Codevilla, PhD – Former U.S. State Department Foreign Service Officer specializing in U.S. intelligence operations in Western Europe. Member of President-Elect Ronald Reagan's Transition Team within the State Department and principal author of the team's report on intelligence. Former Staff Member, U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee dealing with oversight of the intelligence services 1977 - 1985. Former U.S. Naval Officer. Currently Vice Chairman of the U.S. Army War College Board of Visitors.

Professor of International Relations, Boston University 1995 - present. Fellow of the Claremont Institute. Former academic appointments include Professorial Lecturer at Georgetown University; Senior Research Fellow for the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; Assistant Professor, Grove City College; and Assistant Professor, North Dakota State College.

Senior Editor of The American Spectator. Author of Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft (2009), No Victory, No Peace (2004), The Character of Nations: How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family, and Civility (2000), Between The Alps and a Hard Place (2000), The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli, translated by Angelo Codevilla (1995), Informing Statecraft: Intelligence for a New Century (1992), While Others Build: The Commonsense Approach to the Strategic Defence Initiative (1988), Modern France (1974). Co-author of War: Ends and Means (1988), Arms Control Delusion (1987).

* Essay in The American Spectator 3/13/09:

"Seven years after Osama bin Laden's last verifiable appearance among the living, there is more evidence for Elvis's presence among us than for his. Hence there is reason to ask whether the paradigm of Osama bin Laden as terrorism's deus ex machina and of al Qaeda as the prototype of terrorism may be an artifact of our Best and Brightest's imagination, and whether investment in this paradigm has kept our national security establishment from thinking seriously about our troubles' sources. So let us take a fresh look at the fundamentals.

Negative evidence alone compels the conclusion that Osama is long since dead. Since October 2001, when Al Jazeera's Tayseer Alouni interviewed him, no reputable person reports having seen him—not even after multiple-blind journeys through intermediaries. The audio and video tapes alleged to be Osama's never convinced impartial observers. The guy just does not look like Osama. Some videos show him with a Semitic aquiline nose, while others show him with a shorter, broader one. Next to that, differences between colors and styles of beard are small stuff.

Nor does the tapes' Osama sound like Osama. In 2007 Switzerland's Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, which does computer voice recognition for bank security, compared the voices on 15 undisputed recordings of Osama with the voices on 15 subsequent ones attributed to Osama, to which they added two by native Arab speakers who had trained to imitate him and were reading his writings. All of the purported Osama recordings (with one falling into a gray area) differed clearly from one another as well as from the genuine ones. By contrast, the CIA found all the recordings authentic. It is hard to imagine what methodology might support this conclusion.

Also in 2007, Professor Bruce Lawrence, who heads Duke University's religious studies program, argued in a book on Osama's messages that their increasingly secular language is inconsistent with Osama's Wahhabism. Lawrence noted as well that the Osama figure in the December 2001 video, which many have taken as his assumption of responsibility for 9/11, wears golden rings—decidedly un-Wahhabi. He also writes with the wrong hand. Lawrence concluded that the messages are fakes, and not very good ones. The CIA has judged them all good.

Above all, whereas Elvis impersonators at least sing the King's signature song, "You ain't nutin' but a hound dawg," the words on the Osama tapes differ substantively from what the real Osama used to say—especially about the most important matter. On September 16, 2001, on Al Jazeera, Osama said of 9/11: "I stress that I have not carried out this act, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation." Again, in the October interview with Tayseer Alouni, he limited his connection with 9/11 to ideology: "If they mean, or if you mean, that there is a link as a result of our incitement, then it is true. We incite…" But in the so-called "confession video" that the CIA found in December, the Osama figure acts like the chief conspirator. The fact that the video had been made for no self-evident purpose except perhaps to be found by the Americans should have raised suspicion. Its substance, the celebratory affirmation of a responsibility for 9/11 that Osama had denied, should also have weighed against the video's authenticity. Why would he wait to indict himself until after U.S. forces and allies had secured Afghanistan? But the CIA acted as if it had caught Osama red-handed." http://spectator.org

* Bio: http://www.claremont.org

Edward Peck

Edward L. Peck

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blubonnet — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:54:25 -0000

Hugo Bachmann, PhD – Professor Emeritus and former Chairman of the Department of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Author and co-author of Erdbebenbemessung von Stahlbetonhochbauten (Seismic Analysis of Concrete Reinforced Structures) (1990), Vibration Problems in Structures: Practical Guidelines (1995), Biege- und Schubversuche an teilweise vorgespannten Leichtbetonbalken (Structural Analysis of Linked Concrete Beams) (1998), Hochbau für Ingenieure. Eine Einführung (Structural Construction for Engineers. An introduction) (2001), Erdbebensicherung von Bauwerken (Earthquake-proofing Buildings) (2002).

* Tages Anzeiger Article 9/9/06: "In my opinion the building WTC 7 was, with great probability, professionally demolished," says Hugo Bachmann, Emeritus ETH [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology] - Professor of Structural Analysis and Construction. And also Jörg Schneider, likewise emeritus ETH - Professor of Structural Analysis and Construction, interprets the few available video recordings as evidence that "the building WTC 7 was with great probability demolished."
English translation: http://www.danieleganser.ch
Original in German: http://www.danieleganser.ch

* Book 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA: "As Bachmann told the Neue Züricher Zeitung Online on September 13, 2001, at first glance there seemed to be two possibilities in the fall of the towers. The first was the fire and its effect on the steel supports. But Bachmann had an alternative: "In the second scenario, an additional terrorist action would have caused the collapse of the buildings. In this way, according to Bachmann, buildings like the World Trade center can be destroyed without great logistical exertion." The article went on to say that "Bachmann could imagine that the perpetrators had installed explosives on key supports in a lower floor before the attack." If the perpetrators had rented office space, then these "explosive tenants" could have calmly placed explosive charges on the vulnerable parts of the building "without having anyone notice." http://www.reopen911.org/Ta...

* Bio: http://www.ibk.ethz.ch/emer...

Joerg Schneider

Jörg Schneider, Dr hc

Jörg Schneider, Dr hc – Professor Emeritus, Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Former President, Joint Committee on Structural Safety, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Elected member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences. Former Vice President and honorary lifetime member of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering.

* Tages Anzeiger Article 9/9/06: " In my opinion the building WTC 7 was, with great probability, professionally demolished," says Hugo Bachmann, Emeritus ETH [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology] - Professor of Structural Analysis and Construction. And also Jörg Schneider, likewise emeritus ETH - Professor of Structural Analysis and Construction, interprets the few available video recordings as evidence that "the building WTC 7 was with great probability demolished."
English translation: http://www.danieleganser.ch
Original in German: http://www.danieleganser.ch

* Bio: http://www.iabse.ethz.ch

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* Bio: http://www.ibk.ethz.ch/emer...

Joerg Schneider

Jörg Schneider, Dr hc

* Tages Anzeiger Article 9/9/06: " In my opinion the building WTC 7 was, with great probability, professionally demolished," says Hugo Bachmann, Emeritus ETH [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology] - Professor of Structural Analysis and Construction. And also Jörg Schneider, likewise emeritus ETH - Professor of Structural Analysis and Construction, interprets the few available video recordings as evidence that "the building WTC 7 was with great probability demolished."
English translation: http://www.danieleganser.ch
Original in German: http://www.danieleganser.ch

* Bio: http://www.iabse.ethz.ch

Hamid Mumin

Hamid Mumin, Ph.D., P.Eng., P.Geo.

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blubonnet — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:46:40 -0000

And...

Sibel D. Edmonds – Witness before the 9/11 Commission. Former Language Translation Specialist, performing translations for counterterrorism and counterintelligence operations, FBI.

* Letter to 9/11 Commission 8/1/04 : "I find your report seriously flawed in its failure to address serious intelligence issues that I am aware of, which have been confirmed, and which as a witness to the commission, I made you aware of. Thus, I must assume that other serious issues that I am not aware of were in the same manner omitted from your report. These omissions cast doubt on the validity of your report and therefore on its conclusions and recommendations." http://www.com

* Article 7/22/04: "My translations of the 9/11 intercepts included [terrorist] money laundering, detailed and date-specific information ... if they were to do real investigations, we would see several significant high-level criminal prosecutions in this country [the US] ... and believe me, they will do everything to cover this up." http://www.guardian.co.uk

* Interview The Alex Jones Show 7/24/06:

Alex Jones: I'm asking you-- I mean, clearly, where does the evidence point on 9/11?

Sibel Edmonds: Well, that is the whole point, Alex. They are not letting out all the evidence. ...

Alex Jones: But even if they cut evidence out of reports, we have the clear evidence of Thermite in the buildings, we have clear evidence of C.I.A. insider trading, NORAD standing down, U.S. troops already massed in central Asia, Bush having the launch order two days before to attack Afghanistan. I mean, Sibel, when you put all that together-- I'm asking you personally-- where does all the evidence point?

Sibel Edmonds: The evidence points to a massive government cover-up. ...

Alex Jones: Sibel, what I'm asking you is, in your gut, do you think 9/11 to some extent is an inside job?

Sibel Edmonds: Well, again, as I am telling you, I'm trying to tell you is, I have all the evidence of cover-up. Now, who were the people behind this? And why? And how? We don't have a definite answer. As I said, we can come up with theories, we can come up with speculation, but they do not--I mean, in my opinion, they are not facts. But also what government has been giving us, again, I don't consider those a total--you know-- total truth or fact either.

Alex Jones: Would you be surprised?

Sibel Edmonds: No. I wouldn't.

Alex Jones: You wouldn't be surprised if elements or criminal elements or private contractors were involved in 9/11?

Sibel Edmonds: No, I wouldn't be surprised.

Alex Jones: So you wouldn't be surprised like many others, because of the evidence and the cover-up you've seen, if 9/11 was an inside job?

Sibel Edmonds: At this point, I'd have to say no, I wouldn't be surprised.

Alex Jones: Do you think the evidence is leaning towards that?

Sibel Edmonds: Well, again, considering the level of cover-up and the length at which they have gone to gag people and prevent information-- this information from coming out, I would say yes.

* Bio: http://www.nswbc.org/nswbc_...

Bogdan Dzakovic

Bogdan Dzakovic – Witness before the 9/11 Commission. 14-year Counter-terrorism expert in the Security Division of the Federal Aviation Administration. Team Leader of the FAA's Red (Terrorism) Team, which conducted undercover tests on airport security through simulated terrorist attacks. Former Team Leader in the Federal Air Marshal program. Former Coast Guard officer.

* Video transcript 8/21/05 : Regarding the 9/11 Commission "The best I could say about it is they really botched the job by not really going into the real failures. … At worst, I think the 9/11 Commission Report is treasonous." http://www.911report.com

* Signatory of Petition to Release Information Pertaining to 9/11 10/5/06: "We, the undersigned, demand the immediate declassification and release of:
o all transcripts and documents relating to the July 10, 2001 meeting that took place between former CIA Director George Tenet and then National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice. It has been alleged that this urgent and out-of-the-ordinary meeting was called to discuss the increasingly dire warnings of an imminent al Qaeda attack within the U.S. ...
o the redacted 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry Into The Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 (JICI), and
o the CIA Inspector General’s report, CIA Accountability With Respect To The 9/11 Attacks

The disastrous nature of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks warrant the release of all of this information so that the American public may learn what its government did or did not do to protect them. Had this nation been properly warned of the looming and imminent terrorist threat, life saving choices could have been made that day." http://www.petitiononline.c...

* Bio: http://www.theaviationnatio...

Steve Elson

Steve Elson – Former Special Agent with the U.S. Navy, DEA and FAA. Specialist in Counterterrorism, Intelligence, and Security. Twenty-two years military experience, primarily in Naval Special Warfare and nine years Federal service with the FAA and DEA. Retired Navy SEAL.

* Article 8/3/04: "A former Navy SEAL and Drug Enforcement Administration rep in South America, Elson is not a timid man. "I'd give the commission a 'D' for investigating the FAA," he declares. ... "The commissioners knew a lot more than they included in the 9/11 report," he says. "They sold out." http://www.secure-skies.org

* Bio: http://www.nswbc.org/nswbc_...

Raymond Ciccolilli

Raymond A. Ciccolilli

Raymond A. Ciccolilli – Former U.S. Sky Marshal and Senior U.S. Customs Inspector. Retired from U.S. Customs and Border Protection after 33 years. Worked on almost every enforcement team within U.S. Customs.

* Statement in support of Architects and Engineers petition:

"I am ashamed that I spent so many years defending the borders only to now know that we are now living the most corrupt time in all of U.S. history. I had some questions in my mind about all the circumstances involved in 9/11 but it wasn't until I watched this DVD did all the pieces of the puzzle fall into place. I guess, I, too, was living in denial. No one wants to believe this, but having witnessed two jet plane crashes in the past, and watching the Trade Center buildings collapse, I know that the facts do not add up.

After viewing several other documentaries on 9/11, I am now convinced these building were deliberately destroyed. Someone has to be held accountable." http://www.ae911truth.org

* Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11, signed by more than 1,400 Architects and Engineers:

Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:37:07 -0000

Michael Levine – Former Senior DEA investigator. 25-year DEA career. Former DEA Country Attaché, Argentina and Uruguay (1979 - 1982). Former DEA Special Operations Officer, worldwide. Awards include the Octavio Gonzalez Award, given by the International Narcotic Enforcement Officer's Association for the undercover penetration of Roberto Suarez, Bolivian cocaine cartel; at that time, the biggest case in drug war history. Over twenty other awards from the US Justice and Treasury Departments and from foreign police agencies. Author of several nonfiction books on DEA investigations, including Deep Cover and Big White Lie. Radio show host and frequent media commentator on intelligence and covert operations.

* Bio: http://www.lawsonline.com/L...

Coleen Rowley

Coleen Rowley – Former Special Agent and Minneapolis Division Counsel, FBI. 24-year FBI career. Agent Rowley was selected one of Time Magazine's three 2002 Persons of the Year for revealing FBI headquarters' efforts to "throw up roadblocks and undermine" FBI field investigations of Al Qaeda operatives in the four weeks prior to 9/11.

* Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller 5/21/02: Regarding FBI headquarters (FBIHQ) obstruction of terrorism investigations. "The fact is that key FBIHQ personnel whose job it was to assist and coordinate with field division agents on terrorism investigations and the obtaining and use of FISA searches (and who theoretically were privy to many more sources of intelligence information than field division agents), continued to, almost inexplicably, throw up roadblocks and undermine Minneapolis' by-now desperate efforts to obtain a FISA search warrant, long after the French intelligence service provided its information and probable cause became clear. HQ personnel brought up almost ridiculous questions in their apparent efforts to undermine the probable cause. ...

When, in a desperate 11th hour measure to bypass the FBIHQ roadblock, the Minneapolis Division undertook to directly notify the CIA's Counter Terrorist Center (CTC), FBIHQ personnel actually chastised the Minneapolis agents for making the direct notification without their approval ...

I know I shouldn't be flippant about this, but jokes were actually made that the key FBIHQ personnel had to be spies or moles, like Robert Hansen, who were actually working for Osama Bin Laden to have so undercut Minneapolis' effort." http://www.time.com

* Interview 9/25/05: "And what I did was, I think, I put the first good dent in the blanket defense that for 8 and a half, 9 months, was holding - that 9/11 could not have been prevented.

... we were all settling for, ‘9/11 could not have been prevented’, it was ‘hindsight’. Condi Rice, "Well, no one could have ever imagined that someone would fly…" and of course, when she says that, she’s disregarding a whole bunch of things. People are letting her get away with it. She’s disregarding the fact of two or three prior incidents of people trying to fly planes into buildings, attempted takeovers of cockpits…We’re also ignoring the fact that in Minneapolis [FBI office], the acting supervisor, arguing with [FBI] headquarters said, ‘This is a guy [Zacarias Moussaoui] that could fly a plane into the World Trade Center’ on August 22nd!" http://www.nowpubli

* Editor's note: Despite Agent Rowley's high-profile revelations and intimate knowledge of FBI headquarter's efforts to obstruct investigations of Al Qaeda-related terrorist activities in the four weeks prior to 9/11, the 9/11 Commission never interviewed her. The 9/11 Commission's "full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks." contains no mention of her allegations that FBI headquarters "continued to, almost inexplicably, throw up roadblocks and undermine" FBI field agent counterterrorism efforts. The Commission Report only obliquely mentions Agent Rowley in a single footnote. See also Special Agent Robert Wright and Special Agent Harry Samit.

* Editor's note: Despite the repeated assertions by many senior members of the Bush administration that no one could have ever imagined terrorists flying airplanes into buildings, it had indeed been anticipated and planned for. Less than one year prior to 9/11, the Pentagon conducted the Pentagon Mass Casualty Exercise (Project MASCAL), in which a passenger airplane crashed into the Pentagon killing over 300 individuals. See the Nov. 3, 2000 article from the US Army website, which has since been removed, but which is still available on the Internet Wayback Machine. http://web.archive.org

* Bio: http://www.pbs.org/now/poli...

Robert Wright

Robert G. Wright, Jr.

Robert G. Wright, Jr. – Special Agent, International Terrorism Unit, FBI. The only FBI agent to seize terrorist funds (over $1.4 million) from U.S.-based Middle Eastern terrorists using federal civil forfeiture statutes, prior to 9/11. 17-year FBI veteran.

* Agent Wright's Lawsuit against the FBI, filed 5/9/02: "The FBI's conscious failure to undertake criminal investigations of suspected terrorists in the United States was further shown when managers from the FBI's headquarters (FBIHQ) Counterterrorism Division met with the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in Chicago and admitted to SA Wright that no one at FBIHQ reviewed or attempted to link all the reports filed by the FBI field offices regarding terrorist activities in the United States. ...

Regrettably, the largest obstacles to SA Wright's criminal investigation efforts of the HAMAS enterprise in the United States were the management of the Chicago field office and the FBIHQ Counterterrorism Division in Washington, D.C. ...

SA Wright's successful investigation, codename Vulgar Betrayal, led to the June 9, 1998 seizure of $1.4 million of funds destined for terrorist activities. ... The seized funds were directly linked to Saudi businessman Yassin Kadi. On October 12, 2001, Yassin Kadi, aka Yassin al-Qadi, was designated by the U.S. Government as a financial supporter of Osama Bin Laden. According to a U.S. Government source, Kadi provided $3 million to Bin Laden and his al-Qaida organization." http://www.judicialwatch.org

* Editor's note: Agent Wright was never called as a witness by the 9/11 Commission, nor is he mentioned in the 9/11 Commission's "full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks" nor the Commission's separate 155-page Monograph on Terrorist Financing:
o Despite Agent Wright's highly visible and credible criticism of the FBI's handling of investigations of suspected terrorists prior to 9/11,
o Despite the public controversy caused by the refusal of the FBI to provide his manuscript to the U.S. Congress' Joint Intelligence Committee Investigation of 9/11 (JICI),
o Despite the fact that he was the only FBI agent to seize terrorist funds (over $1.4 million) from U.S.-based Middle Eastern terrorists using federal civil forfeiture statutes, prior to 9/11, and
o Despite the fact that one of the people directly connected to the $1.4 million seized by Agent Wright was Yassin al-Qadi, aka Yassin Kadi, who on 10/12/01 was designated by Presidential Executive Order 13224 as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” and financial supporter of Osama bin Laden and had his financial assets frozen in the United States.

Yassin al-Qadi is also not mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report and is only mentioned obliquely in one footnote in the Commission's separate 155-page Monograph on Terrorist Financing.

See also Special Agent Coleen Rowley and Special Agent Harry Samit.

* ABC News Interview 12/9/02: "In a dramatic interview with ABCNEWS, FBI special agents and partners Robert Wright and John Vincent say they were called off criminal investigations of suspected terrorists tied to the deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. U.S. officials say al Qaeda was responsible for the embassy attacks and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.

"September the 11th is a direct result of the incompetence of the FBI's International Terrorism Unit. No doubt about that. Absolutely no doubt about that," Wright said. "You can't know the things I know and not go public." http://web.archive.org

* Judicial Watch Press Release 9/11/02: "The FBI continues to illegally refuse the release of SA Wright’s 500 page manuscript, Fatal Betrayals of the Intelligence Mission, that SA Wright submitted for prepublication review in October 2001. In fact, the FBI refused to turn the manuscript over to Sen. Richard C. Shelby, Vice Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, charged with investigating the FBI’s intelligence failures." http://www.judicialwatch.org

* Editor's note: Agent Wright's lawsuit to allow publication of his book is ongoing. The current status can be found here: http://www.judicialwatch.or...

Harry Samit

Harry Samit
(testifying at the Moussaoui trial Source: Agence France-Presse)

Harry Samit – Special Agent, FBI, assigned to the FBI Field Office in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Former U.S. Navy pilot and Naval Intelligence Officer. He is most noted for arresting Zacarias Moussaoui on August 16, 2001.

* Associated Press Article FBI Agent Slams Bosses at Moussaoui Trial 3/20/06:

The FBI agent [Harry Samit] who arrested Zacarias Moussaoui in August 2001 testified Monday he spent almost four weeks trying to warn U.S. officials about the radical Islamic student pilot but "criminal negligence" by superiors in Washington thwarted a chance to stop the 9/11 attacks. ...

But Samit told MacMahon he couldn't persuade FBI headquarters or the Justice Department to take his fears seriously. No one from Washington called Samit to say this intelligence altered the picture the agent had been painting since Aug. 18 in a running battle with Maltbie and Maltbie's boss, David Frasca, chief of the radical fundamentalist unit at headquarters. ...

Under questioning from MacMahon, Samit acknowledged that he had told the Justice Department inspector general that "obstructionism, criminal negligence and careerism" on the part of FBI headquarters officials had prevented him from getting a warrant that would have revealed more about Moussaoui's associates. He said that opposition blocked "a serious opportunity to stop the 9/11 attacks." Article archived at http://www.911truth.org

* Washington Post Article FBI Was Warned About Moussaoui: 3/21/06:

"An FBI agent [Harry Samit] who interrogated Zacarias Moussaoui before Sept. 11, 2001, warned his supervisors more than 70 times that Moussaoui was a terrorist and spelled out his suspicions that the al-Qaeda operative was plotting to hijack an airplane, according to federal court testimony yesterday. [Editor's note: All 70 efforts occurred in the 4 weeks before 9/11.]

Agent Harry Samit told jurors at Moussaoui's death penalty trial that his efforts to secure a warrant to search Moussaoui's belongings were frustrated at every turn by FBI officials he accused of "criminal negligence." Article archived at http://www.911truth.org

* Editor's note: The 9/11 Commission Report does mention differences of opinion within the FBI about obtaining a warrant to investigate the possessions of Zacarias Moussaoui and a few of Agent Samit's efforts to obtain the warrant are mentioned. However, there is no mention that Agent Samit made 70 frantic efforts in the 4 weeks prior to 9/11 to obtain that warrant. Agent Samit is not mentioned by name in the 9/11 Commission's "full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks," however, he is referred to as Harry S. in 3 footnotes. The Commission Report also contains no mention of Agent Samit's allegations of "obstructionism, criminal negligence and careerism" on the part of FBI headquarters officials. See also Special Agent Colleen Rowley and Special Agent Robert Wright.

Re: Inside The 9/11 WTC Building 7 Truther Conference: [Insert Motive Here]

blubonnet — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:23:55 -0000

No, it's not, it's for example, how do you explain this (and it is on video, so you cannot refute it), the incident of the woman stating WTC7 had gone down, collapsing, with it in the background, truly still there, at 5:00 p.m. Then, the picture "lost connection". Then, it actually did pulverize itself 20 minutes later. How about that! No, NIST can't explain that can they? That is factual, and anyone that has looked at the anomalies at all knows of that incident.

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blubonnet — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:09:18 -0000

Why do you care? Is anyone forcing you to be here to "endure" it? No, obviously the more the conversation goes on the clearer it becomes to anyone that has not abandoned their own objectivity, it is more than apparent, explosives were present in all three buildings, not to mention the peer reviewed piece in the physics journal confirming the nano-thermite, the US military material, no one else has access to but our government. We arent' saying they did it, but we know through rigorous scientific study by the large team of scientists now, and growing consistently too, confirming it. And you might still believe the government if you choose not to believe your own eyes. For God's sake you must be working awfully hard at the denial to continue to stand by it, and you would be a chump as well. So, closing it down serves someone.