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.
The possibility does not prove the actuality.
You could smell the jet fuel that day all the way up on Columbia Pike. I still get furious every time I drive by there.
I suppose Bush was giving money to families of suicide bombers, funding the Hezbo's, secretly providing Iran with uranium enrichment technology, etc.
I wonder if Bush and the neo-cons are responsible for all the terrorist attacks in the 90's? How big is this conspiracy?
One other thing: if this is a Bush conspiracy, why weren't WMD's conveniently located shortly after the invasion into Iraq?
I can't believe that a conspiracy this well planned would overlook that little detail.
This idiotic "theory," which is so stupid that only professors - or the French - could fall for it, is the basis for a new movie that has just screened at the Venice Film Festival. "A Few Days in September" stars Juliette Binoche as a French spy trying to protect the children of her ex-partner, a US government operative (Nick Nolte) with inside knowledge of the 9/11 plan.
This risible tripe was greeted with great applause from the America-haters at the festival. My hisses and boos were quite overwhelmed.
We soldier on. Yes, we will once more be called upon to save Europe. But is Europe worth saving?
Around 75 top professors and leading scientists believe ...
But leading scientists say ...
Riiight.--Apparently these claims do not come from just ordinary nutjobs. They are the leading, top rated nutjobs in the land.
Agreed. If you want the US to fight the savages trying to tear Western Civilization down, vote Republican. If you want us to surrender, vote Democrat.
All academic eggheads like these guys THINK they are leading experts in whatever field of study they are polluting.
Actually CSPAN broadcast their recent conference. None of them are muslim that I could see. At first they sound like a bunch of far left democrat nut cases ... but then, at the end of the conf, Alex Jones, the leader, said the leadership of the Demonrats was even more responsible for 9-11 than Bush...
that comment didn't get the thunderous applause many of the other comments did...
Read: "delusional."
And who can forget all the rejoicing that went on in towel-headland when the towers fell?
Do these nutcases think their revered Bill Clinton was in on it because he was calling OBL dangerous in the 90s?
The profs think the use of box cutters is technology beyond the capability of knuckle dragging jihadists?
kooks
Don't have a clue regarding what made WTC-7 fall. I have gone and relooked at the tape, and Dan Rather is talking about how it looks just like a demolition job as it falls....
I'm looking forward to the Jan report by the NIST - it will go a long way to stopping this caturwalling....
They will probably say that since the Twin Towers were built in the late 60s and early 70s, Nixon had the charges planted there, for future use. They're that crazy!
I wouldn't mind seeing more treason investigations and prosecutions. That's very easy to say, since there have been NONE that I am aware of.
I had heard that the planes were built to withstand the impact of the biggest planes of the day, but that the effect of a fully-loaded jet's gas tank exploding was not forseen. That may or may not be true. Then again, I don't know of many buildings that could withstand that.
according to a group of leading academics.
Um, yeah sure if they say so.
What's even scarier is that it might be true, which is a commentary on the state of academe.
Considering the fact that professors need to deal in facts and reality, not even tenure should save these pampered idiots from being fired as they have ZERO grasp on the real world.
Don't forget, it's also "leading academics" and "scientists" who consistently push global warming.
"leading academic" = idiot!
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