Posted on 09/06/2006 7:45:51 AM PDT by Vasilli22
Fury as academics claim 9/11 was 'inside job' by JAYA NARAIN
The 9/11 terrorist attack on America which left almost 3,000 people dead was an "inside job", according to a group of leading academics.
Around 75 top professors and leading scientists believe the attacks were puppeteered by war mongers in the White House to justify the invasion and the occupation of oil-rich Arab countries.
The claims have caused outrage and anger in the US which marks the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Monday.
But leading scientists say the facts of their investigations cannot be ignored and say they have evidence that points to one of the biggest conspiracies ever perpetrated.
Professor Steven Jones, who lectures in physics at the Brigham Young University in Utah, says the official version of events is the biggest and most evil cover up in history.
He has joined the 9/11 Scholars for Truth whose membership includes up to 75 leading scientists and experts from universities across the US.
Prof Jones said: "We don't believe that 19 hijackers and a few others in a cave in Afghanistan pulled this off acting alone.
"We challenge this official conspiracy theory and, by God, we're going to get to the bottom of this."
In essays and journals, the scientists are giving credence to many of the conspiracy theories that have circulated on the internet in the past five years.
They believe a group of US neo-conservatives called the Project for a New American Century, set on US world dominance, orchestrated the 9/11 attacks as an excuse to hit Iraq, Afghanistan and later Iran.
The group says scientific evidence over the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon is conclusive proof.
Professor Jones said it was impossible for the twin towers to have collapsed in the way they did from the collision of two aeroplanes.
He maintains jet fuel does not burn at temperatures high enough to melt steel beams and claims horizontal puffs of smoke seen during the collapse of the towers are indicative of controlled explosions used to bring down the towers.
The group also maintains World Trade Centre 7 - a neighbouring building which caught fire and collapsed later in the day - was only partially damaged but had to be destroyed because it housed a clandestine CIA station.
Professor James Fetzer, 65, a retired philosopher of science at the University of Minnesota, said: "The evidence is so overwhelming, but most Americans don't have time to take a look at this."
The 9/11 Commission dismissed the numerous conspiracy theories after its exhaustive investigation into the terror attacks.
Subsequent examinations of the towers' structure have sought to prove they were significantly weakened by the impact which tore off fire retardant materials and led the steel beams bending under heat and then collapsing.
Christopher Pyle, professor of constitutional law at Mt Holyoake College in Massachusetts, has dismissed the academic group.
He said: "To plant bombs in three buildings with enough bomb materials and wiring? It's too huge a project and would require far too many people to keep it a secret afterwards.
"After every major crisis, like the assassinations of JFK or Martin Luther King, we've had conspiracy theorists who come up with plausible scenarios for gullible people. It's a waste of time."
But University of Wisconsin assistant professor, Kevin Barrett, said experts are unwilling to believe theories which don't fit into their belief systems.
He said: "People will disregard evidence it if causes their faith to be shattered. I think we were all shocked. And then, when the voice of authority told us what happened, we just believed it."
As the fifth anniversary approached, the 9/11 Scholars for Truth is urging Congress to reopen the investigation claiming they have amassed a wealth of scientific evidence to prove their version of the terror attacks.
Be sure to check out the comments on the web page. Total whack jobs.
Total whack jobs indeed. So exactly what is it that makes them "leading" academics?
The AP recently released a story where NIST and the State Dept have both set up websites to refute the conspiracy folks.
The NIST report detailing why WTC-7 fell has not yet been released however....due Jan 07.
Popluar Mechanics and John McCain have teamed up as well to combat this.
Bin Laden admitted it.
Is he on the payroll too?
This from a group that is, most likely, a bunch of idiot liberal athiests!
"Leading" academics no one has ever heard of in search of their 15 minutes. People with kids in those schools, and alumni, should make their opinions known about this kind of irresponsible craziness.
"Leading" in terms of the most deranged...
the left unmasked.
NIST is the world's expert on the behavior of fire; if they have a report to make on this, it's going to be the benchmark.
These are just more shrills ranting for the Democrat Party. America, you better get it right. The Democrat Party is going to do both you, your family and the USA no good whatsoever. This political party called Democrat needs to be totally destroyed at the ballot box. This election is more critcal than you know. If the Democrat Party does not regain the house and the senate, it will come apart and slowly destroy itself. So, all you Freepers thinking about sitting out this election better take care of business and vote for the Pubbies, even though theye are whimps of the first order.
Calling these nut jobs academics is as off-base as calling Islam a Religion of Peace. < / sarcasm>
And this guy is a Physics professor? I got news for you, it doesn't need to melt it you idiot, it just needs to weaken it.
I am shocked and ashamed that a professor from my own alma mater, BYU, would take such a position and then trumpet it and drag the good name of that school through the mud. He needs to go post haste.
According to these "leading" experts, he is probably just a puppet of the Bush regime.
What kind of "acedemics" would advance such a silly notion of wishful thinking (on their part)?
If this is what passes for "acedemics" then I should make a claim for a full department head post at Harvard for a salary of 200 K/year.
Just damn.
I haven't looked up the whole list, but Steve Jones IS a highly respected physicist--having researched and published the only "recognized by physicists" form of "Cold Fusion" (i.e. muon-moderated). Hard to believe that he would get involved in flakery like this.
I want to see one of these academics explain how a "controlled implosion" starts from the top of a building, since that is how the building fell. Also explain how months worth of explosives were set without being caught and structural, load bearing columns were cut and notched all while thousands and thousands of people worked in the buildings?
These f&%*ing, hate-America first DUmba$$es should be hanged for treason.
IMO of course
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