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100 Professors Question
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Many respected and distinguished university professors have expressed significant criticism of the 9/11 Commission Report. A number even allege government complicity in the terrorist acts of 9/11. Below are the highly revealing public statements on this vital topic of over 100 university professors with links for verification and further investigation.
The collective voices of these respected professors along with over 50 senior government officials, over 100 pilots and aviation professionals, and hundreds of architects and engineers give credibility to the claim that the 9/11 Commission Report is tragically flawed.These dedicated individuals from across the political spectrum cannot be simply dismissed as irresponsible believers in some 9/11 conspiracy theory. Their sincere concern, backed by impeccable credentials, demonstrates that criticism of the 9/11 Commission Report is not only reasonable, it is in fact a patriotic duty.
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OVER 100 PROFESSORS QUESTION 9/11 REPORT |
David Ray Griffin, PhD
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David Ray Griffin, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Claremont School of Theology. Author and/or editor of over two dozen books, Prof. Griffin first questioned the 9/11 official story in 2003 while exploring a 9/11 timeline filled with reliable, verifiable facts suggesting a major cover-up. He then switched his focus from theology to 9/11 research. His seminal book on unresolved inconsistencies in the 9/11 official story, The New Pearl Harbor, has sold over 100,000 copies. His recent Debunking 9/11 Debunking gives in-depth analysis showing that most critics of the 9/11 truth movement are avoiding the deep questions on key, easily verifiable facts.
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Joel Hirschhorn, PhD
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Joel S. Hirschhorn, MS (Metallurgical Engineering), PhD (Materials Engineering) – Professor of Metallurgical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1965 - 1978. Senior Staff Member, Congressional Office of Technology Assessment 1978 - 1990. Testified more than 50 times before Congress on technology, science, and environmental issues. Author of seven books and more than 150 papers, articles, and book chapters on environmental science and technology.
- Essay, "Painful 9/11 Truth, " 9/4/07: "Many technical analyses cast doubt on the official explanation of the collapse of three World Trade Center buildings, including those presented by an impressive new group: Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. More difficult than discovering the truth, however, is convincing most of the public to accept [it].
When it comes to 9/11, we face the strong belief that only al-Qaeda caused 9/11. But analyses by many experts reveal the collapse of the three WTC buildings was not caused by the two airplanes exploding into the twin towers. The general view is that the buildings were brought down by controlled demolition.
It would have taken considerable effort by a number of people with expertise and access to the buildings to rig them so that they could be intentionally collapsed when the two jets hit the towers. Tough questions flood in: Who could have engineered all this? Could foreign agents accomplish such complex actions - and if they did, why not take credit for it? If Americans did it, why would they intentionally inflict inevitable mass death and devastation? Worse, they seemingly knew about the plan to fly the jets into the towers. Post-9/11, why have the government and official investigations not come to the same controlled demolition conclusion? This makes sense if the government was involved.
- Blog: http://dailyscare.com/blog/joel_hirschhorn
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A. K. Dewdney, PhD
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A. K. Dewdney, PhD – Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario. Author of Scientific American's "Computer Recreations" and "Mathematical Recreations" section, 1984 - 1993. Author of over 80 scientific papers on mathematics, computer science, engineering, astronomy and biology. Author of numerous books, including: Beyond Reason: Eight Great Problems That Reveal the Limits of Science (2004), A Mathematical Mystery Tour: Discovering the Truth and Beauty of the Cosmos (2001), Yes, We Have No Neutrons: (1997), 200% of Nothing: An Eye Opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy (1996), The New Turing Omnibus: Sixty-Six Excursions in Computer Science (1993).
- Essay : "The debris found outside the Pentagon is inconsistent with the impact of a Boeing 757 or any aircraft of comparable dimensions. In particular, in the absence of some agency (possibly unknown to physical science) that removed the wings, there is no way to avoid the conclusion that the wings (and therefore the aircraft) were never present in the first place. In this case, no Boeing 757 struck the Pentagon building on the morning of September 11, 2001." http://www.physics911.net/mi...
- Member: Scientific Panel Investigating 9/11.
Panel Statement: "We have found solid scientific grounds on which to question the interpretation put upon the events of 9/11 by the Office of the President of the United States of America and subsequently propagated by the major media."
- Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth
- Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._K._Dewdney
- CV: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/akd/PERSONAL/hp.html
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Richard Falk, JSD
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Richard Falk, JSD – Professor Emeritus, International Law, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University. In 2001 he served on the three-person UN Commission on Human Rights for the Palestine Territories, and previously, on the Independent International Commission on Kosovo. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Religion and Humane Global Governance; Human Rights Horizons; On Humane Governance: Toward a New Global Politics; and Human Rights and State Sovereignty. Honorary Vice president of the American Society of International Law.
- Foreward to The New Pearl Harbor: "The New Pearl Harbor ... explores the most sensitive and controversial terrain—the broad landscape of official behavior in relation to the 9/11 disaster—in the best spirit of academic detachment coupled with ... a willingness to allow inquiry to follow the path of evidence and reason wherever it leads. [It shows that] there are so many gaping holes in the official accounts of 9/11 that no plausible coherent narrative remains.
"[Author David Ray] Griffin shows, with insight and a firm grasp of the many dimensions of global security policy of the Bush Administration, that getting 9/11 right, even belatedly, matters desperately. The layer upon layer of unexplained facts, the multiple efforts by those in power to foreclose independent inquiry, and the evidence of a pre-9/11 blueprint by Bush insiders to do what they are doing on the basis of a 9/11 mandate is why the Griffin assessment does not even require a reader with a normally open mind. 30% receptivity will do, which means that all but the most dogmatically blinded adherents of the Bush presidency will be convinced by the basic argument of The New Pearl Harbor." http://www.transnational.org/SAJT/forum/meet/2004/Falk...
- Bio: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/events/event_files/past/_winter03/falk
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Robert Korol, PhD
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Robert M. Korol, PhD – Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil Engineering, McMaster University. Elected Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada for exceptional contributions to engineering in Canada. Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. Well known for research on steel structures; the plastic theory of metal structures, inelastic buckling, limit analysis, environmental assessment and life cycle analysis methodologies. Hamilton-Wentworth's 1998 "Engineer of the Year."
- Video of Hamilton, Ontario, 9/11 Truth Symposium 3/23/07 Clip 2 Duration 28:47: (See http://www.911podcasts.com/dis...)
[At minute 12:40, regarding the collapse of WTC Towers 1 and 2] "The whole idea of the pancake theory ... that NIST talks about means that you have no resistance on the way down at that particular floor level that was supposedly weakened significantly. And by significantly I mean all around the perimeter, all at the same time. What an amazing thing that all of the bolts would have failed at the same time. All of the welds would have failed at the same time. And the whole thing comes down very nicely.
There isn't even an explanation for how the core of the structure [collapsed]. It contained the elevators and the stairwells. It is an extremely highly structurally resisting part of the structure. So it is a very strong part of the structure. And it ... was virtually ignored [in the NIST report]. They just talk about the trusses that go across from column to column. And all of them fail at the same time. They start coming down. Even if you were to accept that, you've got resistance as the floors come down.
[At minute 26:05] I think Building number 7 is the big, big question mark and I don't know that there is an engineering explanation for that other than controlled demolition." http://www.911podcasts.com/files/video/hamilton...
- Bio: http://www.eng.mcmaster.ca/engalumni/macengineer...
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Lynn Margulis, PhD
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Lynn Margulis, PhD – Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983. Former Chair, National Academy of Science's Space Science Board Committee on Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution. Recipient of the National Medal of Science, America's highest honor for scientific achievement. Dr. Margulis is best known for contributions to evolution, especially the theory of symbiogenesis. She is the author of over 130 scientific works and numerous books.
- Personal statement to website, 8/27/07: "The 9/11 tragedy is the most successful and most perverse publicity stunt in the history of public relations. I arrive at this conclusion largely as the result of the research and clear writing by David Ray Griffin in his fabulous books about 9/11. It is clear to me that David Ray Griffin and his fellow critics are correct: the 9/11 'new Pearl Harbor' was planned in astonishing detail and carried out through the efforts of a sophisticated and large network of operatives. It was more complex and far more successful than the Allende assassination, the US bombing of our own ship, the Maine, that began the Spanish-American war, the Reichstag fire that was used to justify the suspension of most civil liberties in Germany in the 1930's, and even Operation Himmler, which was used by Germany to justify the invasion of Poland, which started World War II.
"I suggest that those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly erroneous official account of 9/11 be dismissed as a fraud and a new, thorough, and impartial investigation be undertaken."
- Bio: http://www.chelseagreen.com/authors/LynnMargulis
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David L. Griscom, PhD
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David L. Griscom, PhD – Research physicist, retired from Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC, after 33 years service. Visiting professorships at the Universities of Paris and Saint-Etienne, France, and Tokyo Institute of Technology. Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona (2004 - 2005). Fellow of the American Physical Society. Principal author of 109 of his 185 published works. Frequently cited by other researchers.
- Personal blog 2/9/07: "[Professor] David Ray Griffin has web-published a splendid, highly footnoted account of The Destruction of the World Trade Center: Why the Official Account Cannot Be True. This scholarly work, rich in eyewitness accounts, includes 11 separate pieces of evidence that the World Trade Center towers 1, 2, and 7 were brought down by explosives.
I implore my fellow physicists and engineers who may have the time, expertise, and (ideally) supercomputer access to get to work on the physics of the WTC collapses and publish their findings in refereed journals like, say, the Journal of Applied Physics.
The issue of knowing who was really behind the 9/11 attacks is of paramount importance to the future of our country, because the "official" assumption that it was the work of 19 Arab amateurs (1) does not match the available facts and (2) has led directly to the deplorable Patriot Act, the illegal Iraq war, NSA spying on ordinary Americans, [and] repudiation of the Geneva Conventions.
Surely these Orwellian consequences of public ignorance constitute more than sufficient motivation for any patriotic American physicist or engineer to join the search for 9/11 Truth!" http://impactglassman.blogspot.com
- Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice
- Bio: http://www.impactglassresearchinternational.com/index.html
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Howard Zinn, PhD
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Howard Zinn, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Political Science,
Boston University. Historian, social activist, and author. Former U.S. Army Air Corps bombardier in World War II. Author of numerous books, including the highly popular A People's History of the United States (1980 - 2005). Other books of his are Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (2004), Terrorism and War (2002), and The Zinn Reader (1997).
- Endorsement of The New Pearl Harbor: "David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9-11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation of the Bush administration's relationship to that historic and troubling event."
- Endorsement of Debunking 9/11 Debunking: "Considering how the 9/11 tragedy has been used by the Bush administration to propel us into immoral wars again and again, I believe that David Ray Griffin's provocative questions about 9/11 deserve to be investigated and addressed."
- Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:
"We want truthful answers to questions. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:
- Immediate investigation by NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
- Immediate investigation in Congressional hearings.
- Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence.
- The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026...
- Bio: http://www.heartbone.com/supcourt/howard.htm
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Steven Jones, PhD
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Steven Jones, PhD – Former Professor of Physics at Brigham Young University. Retired in October 2006 to devote more time to 9/11 research. Principal Investigator for experimental Muon-catalyzed fusion from 1982 to 1991 for the U.S. Department of Energy. Author of over 40 papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Founder of Journal of 9/11 Studies for scholarly papers questioning the 9/11 official story.
- Peer reviewed paper, Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Completely
Collapse? in Journal of 9/11 Studies, 9/06: "On the basis of photographic and video evidence as well as related data and analyses, I provide thirteen reasons for rejecting the official hypothesis, according to which
fire and impact damage caused the collapse of the Twin Towers and WTC 7, in favor of the
controlled-demolition hypothesis. The goal of this paper is to promote further scrutiny of the official government-sponsored reports as well as serious investigation of the controlled demolition
hypothesis." http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/200609...
- [Editor's note: World Trade Center Building 7 was 47 stories tall and was not hit by an airplane. However, no mention of the reason for 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.]
- Founding 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."
- Major media coverage: www.WantToKnow.info/steven...
- Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Jones
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John B. Cobb, Jr., PhD
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John B. Cobb, Jr., PhD – Professor Emeritus of Theology and
Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology. Prof. Cobb was a Fullbright professor at the University of Mainz, and visiting professor at Vanderbilt, Harvard, and Chicago Divinity Schools. Author, co-author, and editor of numerous books on religion, his writings include; Biblical Preaching on the Death of Jesus (1989), For the Common Good co-authored with Herman Daly and winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order (1991), Sustaining the Common Good : A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy (1994), Christ in a Pluralistic Age (1999), God and the World (2001), The Call of the Spirit: Process Spirituality in a Relational World (2005).
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John N. Cooper, PhD |
John N. Cooper, PhD – Professor of Chemistry, Bucknell University 1967 - 2003. Author of 35 published papers in the fields of chemical education and inorganic kinetics and structure.
- Review of Prof. David Ray Griffin's The New Pearl Harbor 3/29/04: "Griffin's approach is utterly admirable: coherently, systematically and objectively, he scrupulously and minutely documents the flaws, contradictions, inconsistencies and discrepancies in the 'official version' of the events of that day. Ultimately he assembles and tabulates a list of thirty-eight apparent irregularities in the timeline of, and evidence remaining from, these attacks and asks how they might plausibly be reconciled: Why were the 'standard operating procedures' for the emergency scrambling of fighter jets in the event of a commercial airplane's highjacking not implemented until after the crash at the Pentagon? Why was there no evidence of a passenger jet debris at the Pentagon crash site? What happened on UA flight 93?
Griffin refuses to throw out possibilities simply because they are outrageous, outlandish or shocking; he lets the evidence speak for itself. The results are deeply disturbing. With admirable academic objectivity, Griffin refuses to indict or endorse any specific hypothesis. Rather he presents a substantial body of very disturbing evidence. [He then] calls for a real, open, hardnosed investigation that does not begin with the proposition that only those scenarios in which the assumption that our government or its members play only a benign and benevolent role - seeking only the welfare and best interests of its citizenry - will be considered.
The New Pearl Harbor - Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 is a book that ought to be thoughtfully read and considered by every thinking, voting member of the electorate." http://www.axisoflogic.com/cgi-bin/exec/view...
- Bio: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/jcooper/
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Rosemary Radford Ruether, PhD
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Rosemary Radford Ruether, PhD – Professor Emerita, Pacific School of Religion and Graduate Theological Union. Author and editor of numerous books including; Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writing (1996), Women and Redemption: A Theological History (1998), Christianity and Ecology (2000), Christianity and the Making of the Modern Family (2001), The Wrath of Jonah (2002), Interpreting the Postmodern: Responses to "Radical Orthodoxy" (2006), Encyclopedia of Women And Religion in North America (2006).
- Essay: "Until recently I dismissed the suggestions that the Bush administration might have been complicit in allowing 9/11 to happen as groundless "conspiracy theory." Thus it was with some skepticism that I agreed to read the new book written by David Ray Griffin ... that argues the case for just such complicity.
"Griffin writes in a precise and careful fashion, avoiding inflammatory rhetoric. He argues for a high probability for the Bush's administrations complicity with allowing and facilitating the attacks, based not on any one conclusive piece of evidence, but the sheer accumulation of all of the data. He concludes by calling for a genuinely independent investigative effort that would examine all this evidence.
"I personally found Griffin's book both convincing and chilling. If the complicity of the Bush Administration to which he points is true, then Americans have a far greater problem on their hands than even the more ardent anti-war critics have imagined. If the administration ... would do this, what else would they do to maintain and expand their power?" http://www.thewitness.org/agw/ruether010804.html
Bio:http://www.cgu.edu/pages/3563.asp
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Niels Harrit, PhD
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Niels Harrit, PhD – Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen. Member, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Member, European Photochemistry Association. Author of numerous scientific papers with a special focus on nano-science.
- Essay 3/31/07: "Two official explanations of the events in Manhattan on 11 September have been put forward by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST).
In the final FEMA report, WTC7 is hardly mentioned. They note that there were fires in the building, but do not attempt to explain the collapse. The final NIST report was released in September 2005, but the section covering WTC7 was left out, with the promise that a final version would be released later. Publication has been delayed several times, and we are still waiting for it.
The attack on the World Trade Center was a tragedy for the people in the towers and in the airplanes, and a tragedy for their families. It also marked the beginning of the tragic war on terror. The current trends in Western society towards greater surveillance and the loss of civil rights can also only be called tragic. If we have also been lied to, the tragedy is complete.
How did WTC7 collapse? We are not asking 'why'. Some extremely simple observations have been made, and we want to hear an official explanation that is consistent with elementary physics and chemistry." http://www.911truth.dk/first/en/art_Harrit.htm
- Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice
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Peter Phillips, PhD
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Peter Phillips, PhD – Professor of Sociology, Sonoma State University. Director, Project Censored. Author of several books and chief editor of the highly regarded annual Project Censored books which uncover vital news neglected by the major media. Prof. Phillips is also a respected member of the intrepid WantToKnow.info team.
- Essay 3/6/05: "A threshold concept facing Americans is the possibility that the 9/11 Commission Report was on many levels a cover-up for the failure of the US government to prevent the tragedy. The report failed to address sources of external assistance to the terrorists. Investigations into this area might have lead to a conclusion that elements of various governments - including our own - not only knew about the attacks in advance, but also may have helped facilitate their implementation.
"Overall concerns with the official version of 9/11 have been published and discussed by scholars and politicians around the world. The response to most has been to label these discussions as "conspiracy theories" unworthy of media coverage or further review. Pursuit of a critical analysis of these questions is undermined by the psychological barrier about 9/11 issues as threshold concepts — too awful to even consider.
"We must step past the threshold and have the courage to ask the questions, demand answers, and support research into all aspects of this American tragedy. Perhaps the closet isn't as dark and as fearful as we envision. If we don't courageously look and search into the deepest regions of our fears, how can we assure our children and ourselves a safe and honest future?" http://www.commondreams.org/views...
- Bio: http://www.sonoma.edu/sociology/biopeter.htm
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Hugo Bachmann, PhD
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Hugo Bachmann, PhD – Professor Emeritus, former Chairman of the Department of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Author/co-author, 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 - 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. "
English translation: http://www.danieleganser.ch/zeitungsartikel...
Original in German: http://www.danieleganser.ch/zeitungsartikel...
- 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://educate-yourself.org/cn/collapseofWTCeyewitness...
- Bio: http://www.ibk.ethz.ch/emeritus/Bachmann
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Jörg Schneider, Dr hc
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Jörg Schneider, Dr hc – Professor Emeritus, Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Former Vice President and honorary lifetime member of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering.
- Tages Anzeiger Article 9/9/06: "In my opinion ... building WTC 7 was, with great probability, professionally
demolished," says Hugo Bachmann, Emeritus ETH-Professor of Structural Analysis
and Construction. And also Jörg Schneider, likewise emeritus ETH-Professor of
Structural Analysis and Construction, interprets the few available video recordings as
evidence that "the building WTC 7 was with great probability demolished."
English translation: http://www.danieleganser.ch/zeitungsartikel...
Original in German: http://www.danieleganser.ch/zeitungsartikel...
- [Editor's note: WTC Building 7 was 610 feet tall, 47 stories, and was not hit by an airplane. 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.]
- Bio: http://www.iabse.ethz.ch
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Daniele Ganser, PhD
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Daniele Ganser, PhD – Professor in the History Department at the University of Basel. Former Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Former Researcher at the Military Academy (MILAK) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Author of NATO's Secret Armies, on the history of U.S.-sponsored false flag operations in Europe after WW II.
- Interview 4/8/05: "Academics who study secret warfare find themselves between these three theories—LIHOP [The US government knew the attack was coming, but Let It Happen On Purpose], SURPRISE [The US government was not expecting the attack], and INSIDE JOB [The U.S. government planned and executed the attack]. They all are "conspiracy theories," by the way. Researchers try to find out which theory is best able to account for all the known facts.
"But unfortunately, the 600-page [9/11 Commission] report, published in July 2004 and accepted by Bush as the "official story" of what happened in respect to 9/11, does not even mention the LIHOP and INSIDE JOB theories! It presents SURPRISE as the only possible explanation.
"Now, [9/11 Commission Executive Director] Philip Zelikow is a respected professor of history. As a fellow historian I was therefore very surprised to find that his report is totally unbalanced. Of course, Zelikow is aware of the LIHOP and INSIDE JOB theories, no doubt. How can he author a book on 9/11, which claims to search for the truth, but which totally ignores these theories?" http://www.danieleganser.ch/e/interviews...
- Bio: http://www.danieleganser.ch/e/biographie/index.htm
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John McMurtry, PhD
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John McMurtry, PhD – Professor of Philosophy, University of Guelph. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Author of several books dealing with public policy issues, including: Value Wars: The Global Market Versus the Life Economy, and Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market As an Ethical System.
- Contributor to 9/11 and American Empire (Vol I): Intellectuals Speak Out: "The documented details that expose 9/11 denial will not be repeated here, because this volume and others have already reported them. They are impressively massive in confirming ... the long open pathway to the attacks and the blocking of all independent inquiry since then." www.snowshoefilms.com/mcm...
- Signatory: Petition For An Independent International 9/11 Truth Commission. "The Bush administration has never offered a detailed and documented account of its claims about the events of 9-11 which have allegedly revolutionized human affairs. Nor has it explained obvious and serious discrepancies in its own statements and actions. The Kean-Hamilton panel’s limited funding from Congress makes a mockery of the tragedy of 9-11, considering that it is only a small fraction of the huge sums spent to investigate Bill Clinton [for his sexual indiscretions].
"We therefore call upon statesmen, thinkers, journalists, investigators, artists, scientists, and other eminent personalities from around the world to form an Independent International Truth Commission dedicated to preventing unproven assertions about 9-11 from setting the stage for a new world conflagration." http://iitc.911review.org
- Bio: http://www.uoguelph.ca/philosophy/faculty
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Peter Dale Scott, PhD
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Peter Dale Scott, PhD – Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Former Canadian diplomat who served at the UN and the Canadian Embassy in Poland. Author of Drugs, Oil and War (2003), and several other books including Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1996) and The Iran-Contra Connection. Co-editor of 9/11 and American Empire (Vol I) – Intellectuals Speak Out (2006). His writings deal, among other matters, with U.S. covert operations and their impact on democracy at home and abroad. Prof. Scott is also a respected member of the intrepid WantToKnow.info team.
- Congressional briefing testimony 7/22/05: "The American people have been seriously misled about the origins of the al Qaeda movement ... just as they have been seriously misled about the reasons for America's invasion of Iraq. The 9/11 Commission Report assures Americans that 'Bin Ladin and his comrades had their own sources of support and training, and they received little or no assistance from the United States.' This misleading statement fails to consider that:
– Al Qaeda elements received considerable indirect U.S. Government assistance, first in Afghanistan until 1992, and thereafter in other countries such as Azerbaijan (1992-95)
– Key members of the network which became al Qaeda, such as Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, Ali Mohamed, Mohamed Jamal Khalifa, and lead hijacker Mohammed Atta, were granted visas to enter the United States, despite being suspected of terrorism.
– Repeatedly al Qaeda terrorists were protected by FBI officials from investigation and prosecution." [Editor's note: See also Coleen Rowley and Bryan Sacks.] http://socrates.berk...
- Bio: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/
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Terry Morrone, PhD
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Terry Morrone, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Physics, Adelphi University. Author of several scientific papers on the physics of plasma. Researcher and innovator in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and holder of 17 patents in the field.
- Essay in April 2007 Edition of Journal of 9/11 Studies Titled Proof That The Thermal and Gravitational Energy Available Were Insufficient To Melt Steel In The Twin Towers And 7 World Trade Center On 9/11
"In this communication I shall show that only explosives could have produced
the large amounts of molten steel found at the site of the World Trade Center (WTC)
in the days following 9/11. There is universal agreement by scientists in and out of
government that the temperatures reached in the fires were much lower than the
melting point of steel. Steel could have only have melted (assuming no
explosives were used) if it gained additional energy in falling. I shall show that this
gravitational energy is insufficient to cause melting.
Conclusions: Since there was molten steel in the wreckage of the World Trade Center,
and since the temperatures of the fires were insufficient to melt steel, and since
the gravitational energy was shown to be very much smaller than the energy
needed to melt steel, the Twin Towers and 7 WTC could only have been brought
down by explosives or cutter charges." http://journalof911studies.com/volume/200704/ProfMorrone...
- 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 9/11 attacks."
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Mike Hawryluk, MAT
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Mike Hawryluk, MAT – Professor Emeritus of Physics and former Division Chairman, Suffolk County Community College, NY.
- Statement to this website 3/30/07: "My wife and I, transfixed in front of a TV as the horror of 9/11 unfolded, watched as the topmost, undamaged floors of the WTC South Tower started to gradually lean (rotate) in the direction of the damage due to impact. In an instant, the rotation stopped, and that which was rotating began to fall, as if only under the influence of gravity! The fulcrum was no longer there!
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