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9/11 Truth Movement


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The 9/11 Truth Movement is the name adopted by the loosely-connected organizations and individuals that question the mainstream account of the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States. Those involved with it and associated campaigns convene through the Internet and national and international conferences.[1][2]

Characteristics

Adherents

The common propositions among movement supporters are that the mainstream account of the events of 9/11, frequently referred to as the "Official Conspiracy Theory," or "OCT," is not true and that the truth has been covered up by high-level government officials and the official investigators. The 9/11 truth movement includes professionals from a wide range of backgrounds, including professors, physicists, engineers, scientists, pilots, intelligence and law enforcement officers, and government officials. It embraces a political diversity of members, including left, right, pacifists, paleoconservatives, Greens, anarchists, and libertarians.[3]

Most proponents of the 9/11 truth movement believe that the perceived cover-up and anomalies in the official account can be explained only by the theory that members of the US government planned, carried out, and covered up the attack or deliberately allowed the attacks to take place. There is a wide range of alternative theories about how the attacks might actually have been carried out, but many believe that US air defenses (NORAD) were deliberately rendered ineffective,[4] that the two World Trade Center Towers and WTC 7 were demolished in a controlled fashion, and that the motives for the attacks were to justify overseas wars and to increase domestic control.[5]

Goals

Proponents of the 9/11 Truth Movement describe their primary goals as evidence gathering, research, and promotion regarding the proposition that members of the US Government planned, carried out and covered up the attack or deliberately allowed the attacks to take place in order to pursue their own agenda. Many international, national and local organisations have been created to pursue these goals (such as research groups Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice, awareness groups such as the 9/11 Visibility Project, and litigation groups such as Justice for 9/11).

The central portal for the thousands of websites relating to 9/11 is 911truth.org, an organization formed in June 2004 to coordinate the efforts of the various regional 9/11 Truth Alliances.[6] This organization describes a two-step approach to what it refers to as "9/11 Truth": To understand the official account and the numerous objections it has raised and to confront the implications of that knowledge.[7] The website itself focuses on the first step by presenting its own articles Reasons to doubt the official story of September 11th, 2001, the 9/11 Family Steering Committee Review of the 9/11 Commission Report, and The 9/11 Commission Report: A 571-page lie, an article by David Ray Griffin based on his book Omissions and Distortions.

Media

The movement has received relatively little attention in the mainstream media, though it is discussed by the alternative media, especially on the Internet, including talk radio hosts like Alex Jones. Some individuals in the movement come together through regional and national meetings, events and demonstrations, but the internet is the main discussion forum.

Movement members have produced such books as Webster Tarpley's 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA (2005), David Ray Griffin's The New Pearl Harbor (2004), Michael Ruppert's Crossing the Rubicon, Paul Thompson's The Terror Timeline, Eric Hufschmid's Painful Questions (2002) and Nafeez Ahmed's The War on Freedom (2002).

Some of the movement's popular videos have been The Great Deception (2002) and The Great Conspiracy (2004) by Barrie Zwicker, 9/11 and the American Empire (2005) by David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Mysteries (2006), Loose Change (first released in 2005), 9/11 Press for Truth (2006), and Terrorstorm (2006).

Reception

Although at first the views of the movement were considered to be on the fringe of public opinion and were largely ignored by the mainstream media, a public opinion poll about 9/11, conducted by Zogby International in May 2006, indicated that:

42% of Americans more likely agree with people who believe that "the US government and its 9/11 Commission concealed or refused to investigate critical evidence that contradicts their official explanation of the September 11th attacks, saying there has been a cover-up."[8]

The movement has attracted the attention of some major mainstream media publications. For example on September 3, 2006: Time Magazine published a lead article, "Why the 9/11 Conspiracies Won't Go Away", noting that:

The population of world No. 2 [the 9/11 Truth Movement] is larger than you might think. A Scripps-Howard poll of 1,010 adults last month found that 36% of Americans consider it "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that government officials either allowed the attacks to be carried out or carried out the attacks themselves. Thirty-six percent adds up to a lot of people. This is not a fringe phenomenon. It is a mainstream political reality. [9]

Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone magazine has written that he has "two basic gripes with the 9/11 Truth Movement":

The first is that it gives supporters of Bush an excuse to dismiss critics of this administration. I have no doubt that every time one of those Loose Change dickwads opens his mouth, a Republican somewhere picks up five votes.... Secondly, it's bad enough that people in this country think Tim LaHaye is a prophet and Sean Hannity is an objective newsman. But if large numbers of people in this country can swallow 9/11 conspiracy theory without puking, all hope is lost.[10]

The movement has received criticism from a variety of sources. MIT engineering professor Thomas W. Eagar was at first unwilling to acknowledge the concerns of the movement, saying "if (the argument) gets too mainstream, I'll engage in the debate." In response to physicist Steven Jones publishing a hypothesis that the World Trade Center was destroyed by controlled demolition, Eager stated:

These people (in the 9/11 truth movement) use the "reverse scientific method"… they determine what happened, throw out all the data that doesn't fit their conclusion, and then hail their findings as the only possible conclusion.[11]

Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, wrote an essay presented on Cuban TV that stated:

We were fooled like the rest of the planet's inhabitants. Studying the impact of planes, similar to those that hit the Twin Towers, that had accidentally fallen on densely populated cities, one concludes that it was not a plane that crashed into the Pentagon. The truth behind the September 11 attacks with hijacked planes that killed nearly 3,000 people will probably never be known. [12]

History

The 9/11 Families Movement

In the weeks and months that followed the attacks, questions were raised about the official account:

  • Why had NORAD failed to protect the skies of America and the known terrorist targets, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon?
  • Why did the intelligence and security services fail to prevent the attacks from taking place despite numerous apparent warnings?
  • Why was President Bush allowed to stay in a Florida school classroom for over 10 minutes after being told that America was under attack?
  • No previous steel-framed skyscrapers had ever totally collapsed due to anything except controlled demolition, so why did it happen three times on September 11?

Most people believed that these questions would be answered in due course and that individuals and organizations within the government would be reprimanded for not preventing the attacks. However, the Bush Administration was reluctant to carry out an official investigation. Feeling that the mainstream media were failing to demand answers to these questions[13], some family members of victims of the attacks, most notably the Jersey Girls, along with survivors such as William Rodriguez, took it upon themselves to lead the press for a full investigation, beginning what became known as the "Families Movement."

In June 2002, the group Unanswered Questions held an event at the Washington National Press Club.[14] Various officials and some 9/11 family members used the event to call for an investigation of the events of 9/11. Another five months passed, before finally, on November 27, 2002, the 9/11 Commission was set up to prepare "a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks."[15]

The 9/11 Family Steering Committee and 9/11 Citizens Watch were formed to monitor the work of the commission. They submitted hundreds of questions for the public hearings.[16] The 9/11 families were told by the 9/11 Commission that their questions would be used as a "road map"[17] by the Commission, and would be answered in the final report.

The beginnings of the 9/11 Truth Movement

Even before the commission formed, a minority of people took the view that the only reasonable explanation for the supposed anomalies in the official account, and the perceived cover-up, was that (a faction of) the government either deliberately allowed the attacks to take place, or were actively involved in the planning and carrying out of the attacks.

On January 8, 2002, a rally and march on Senator Dianne Feinstein's San Francisco office demanded a Congressional investigation of 9/11. A delegation of activists from peace and human rights organizations met with Senator Feinstein's and Senator Barbara Boxer's staff and raised key questions about 9/11.[18] That month, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to limit the investigations to "intelligence failures."[19]

This was the beginning of what has become known as the 9/11 Truth Movement. In 2002, U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) became an icon of the movement when she questioned whether George W. Bush had foreknowledge of 9/11. [20] Examples of "9/11 truth" media produced before the 9/11 Commission Report include:

  • Alex Jones claims to have predicted the attacks in July 2001, on his syndicated radio show at infowars.com, even mentioning the World Trade Center as a potential target and that Bin Laden, the known Central Intelligence Agency asset, might be used as a "patsy".[21] He launched a campaign to try to stop the attacks, which he called Operation Expose The Government Terrorists. Jones has been referred to as the progenitor of the movement.[22]
  • Numerous websites, for example those connected with Indymedia, had a major role in promoting the questioning of the mainstream media account of 9/11 early on.
  • The publication and website From The Wilderness by Michael Ruppert.
  • Canadian journalist Barrie Zwicker aired a series on Vision TV titled "The Great Deception" in January and February 2002, the first televised questioning of the common account that charged a deliberate effort to allow the attacks to happen via suppression of the normal air defense systems over New York City and Washington, D.C..
  • The book 9/11 The Big Lie, by Thierry Meyssan, President of Voltaire Network, was published in France in March 2002. He emphasized purported anomalies in the photos of the Pentagon. His work has since been the subject of multiple critiques (including critiques written by prominent Truth Movement researchers), some of which allege that Meyssan's book is a form of misdirection and is generally discredited. [23][24][25]
  • Around the same time, the book "Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth" was published in France by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, documenting media reports in publications like the Times of India that said the US government had told numerous allies it was going to invade Afghanistan several months before 9/11.
  • The first work in English was "The War on Freedom" by Nafeez Ahmed in July 2002, emphasizing geopolitical motives.[26]
  • This was followed by Michel Chossudovsky's book, America's "War on Terrorism" [27]
  • In September 2002 Eric Hufschmid's Painful Questions was published, which promotes a controlled demolition thesis of the destruction of the World Trade Centre towers.
  • Numerous books became best-sellers in Germany, including Conspiracies, Conspiracy Theories and the Secrets of September 11, by Mathias Bröckers, The CIA and September 11 by Andreas von Bülow, and Operation 9/11 by Gerhard Wisnewski.

To raise awareness of the issues to a wider audience, there have been a number of campaigns and demonstrations. In September 2002, the first "Bush Did It!" rallies and marches were held in San Francisco and Oakland, California organized by The All People's Coalition.[28] Starting in October 2002, "Deception Dollars", an anti-Bush parody of the dollar bill that includes addresses of websites which say they prove that 9/11 was an inside job, began being produced and handed out at protests and rallies. They proved extremely popular, with over six million being distributed.

The 911 Visibility Project was formed in autumn 2003 with the aim of raising public awareness of the unanswered questions and the Bush Administration's "ongoing efforts to obstruct an inquiry". In January 2004, they organized a demonstration at Ground Zero; activists stood behind a large banner that read "The Bush Regime Engineered 9/11," and held signs reading "Support the Families: Stop 9/11 Cover-Up" and "Bush Knew". Thousands of leaflets were handed out pointing out supposed inconsistencies in the official account.[29]

On 20 March 2004, more than 100,000 people turned out for an anti-war demonstration in New York. 9/11 truth activists distributed thousands of "STOP the 9-11 COVER-UP" signs and the movement received national press exposure.[30]

Truth Movement reaction to the 9/11 Commission Report

To the consternation of the families and the "9/11 skeptics" in general, many of the questions that the Family Steering Committee put to the 9/11 Commission were allegedly not asked in either the hearings or in the Commission Report.[31] Lorie Van Auken, one of the "Jersey Widows", estimates that only 30% of their questions were answered in the final 9/11 Commission Report, published 22 July 2004. The story of the Families Movement and their monitoring of the commission is documented in the film 9/11: Press for Truth (2006).

The 9/11 Family Steering Committee produced a 25-page report summarizing the questions they had raised to the Commission, indicating which they believe had been answered satisfactorily, which they believe had been addressed but not answered satisfactorily, and which they believe had been generally ignored in or omitted from the Report.

In addition, the 339-page book "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions" by David Ray Griffin, points out 115 places in which, it is claimed, the report has either omitted important information or distorted the truth. He summarizes his book in the article "The 9/11 Commission Report: A 571-page lie", claiming that "the entire Report is constructed in support of one big lie: that the official story about 9/11 is true." [32]

Truth Movement reaction to the NIST Report

Immediately after the collapses of the Towers and Building 7, eyewitness testimony referring to explosions, along with features of the collapses caught on film that resembled footage of controlled demolitions, led many people, including some news anchors and engineers, to suspect that explosives had been pre-planted within the buildings.[33] Within hours, the explanation that the impact damage and fires had led to a "progressive collapse" was presented in the mainstream media. And in weeks and months that followed, articles in scientific journals explained that the global collapses of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers were inevitable, with most asserting that the impact damage and intense heat of the fires caused the floor trusses and the vertical columns to weaken and fail, and the "pancake" effect of floors crashing down on top of one another brought down the entire structure.[34] The initial government investigation, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Report (May 2002), reached similar conclusions, but recommended a more thorough investigation.[35] The full Report into the collapses of the Twin Towers by the official investigators, NIST, was published in June 2005.

Following the NIST Report, numerous responses were written by members of the 9/11 truth movement, many of them criticizing it for supposedly ignoring key evidence suggesting an explosive demolition, "distorting reality" by using deceptive language and diagrams, and attacking straw man arguments. The popular truth movement article by Jim Hoffman is entitled: Building a better mirage: NIST's 3-year $20,000,000 Cover Up of the Crime of the Century (December 2005).[36]

In the autumn of 2005, then-Brigham Young University Physics professor Steven Jones announced a paper criticizing the NIST Report and describing his hypothesis that the WTC towers had been intentionally demolished by explosives. This paper garnered a small amount of mainstream media attention, including an appearance by Jones on MSNBC. This was the first such programming on a major cable news station. Jones has to date failed to get his paper published in any established, peer reviewed mainstream science journal, other than publications produced by fellow truth movement members. Although Jones has been criticized by his university for publicizing his claims before vetting them through the approved peer review process and has since been placed on paid leave[37][38], he continues to remain a focus of public interest for his 9/11 research.

In March 2007, leading members of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, Dr. Judy Wood and Dr. Morgan Reynolds, submitted several requests for corrections to the NIST with the Department of Commerce[39] These documents were filed with the legal guidance of another prominent member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, attorney Jerry V. Leaphart. However, the majority of researchers and activists in the movement have rejected the claims in these submissions and those who submitted them.[40][41][42][43] Accordingly, in April 2007, some 9/11 victims' family members and the new Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice submitted an additional request for correction to NIST, containing their own views on the defects in the report.[44]

Truth Movement organizations

Since the publication of the official reports, a number of interconnected truth movement organizations have been formed to research the events of the day, to promote the 9/11 truth movement and 9/11 conspiracy theories to the general public, and to try and force a new investigation.

911truth.org

This organization was launched in June 2004 and has become the central portal for all the 9/11 truth movement organizations. It is run by Janice Matthews[45] (Executive Director), David Kubiak [46](International Campaign Advisor) and Mike Berger[47] (Media Coordinator), among others, and its advisory board includes Steven Jones, Barrie Zwicker and Faiz Khan. [48]

The organization co-sponsored the Zogby Polls that have shown an increasing number of people believing the government has covered-up the real story of 9/11.[49][50][51] A few of its sister and spin-off organizations include the 9/11 Visibility Project and Justice For 9/11. It also organizes gatherings and events, promotes "scholarly" research, warns about the discrediting effect of extreme alternative theories, and attempts to affect mainstream media coverage. [52]

In October 2004, an alliance of over 114 prominent Americans and 48 family members of those killed on 9/11 who signed the 911Truth.org statement in which they demand for a new and "deeper" investigation into the events of 9/11.[53]

Scholars for 9/11 Truth

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The original Scholars for 9/11 Truth was a group of people of varying backgrounds and expertise who rejected the mainstream media and government account of the September 11, 2001 attacks and offered a wide range of alternative hypotheses in its stead.[54] It was founded by James H. Fetzer and Steven Jones on December 15, 2005.

At first, the group invited many ideas and hypotheses to be considered; however, leading members soon felt that the inclusion of some theories advocated by Fetzer — ideas such as the use of directed energy weapons or mini-nukes at the WTC destruction, which were only weakly supported by the evidence or not at all — were discrediting the group and weakening it.

In December 2006, Jones wrote to all members explaining that he no longer wanted to be associated with Fetzer and intended to set up a new scholars group with a committee for decision making, which became known as the Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice, whose interest was in the use of the scientific method in analysis.[55] The original group took a vote and members decided on which group to join; out of 226 members, 10 members voted to stay with the original group run by Fetzer, while 168 members voted to move to the new group.[56]

Fetzer remains the head of the original group. During 2007, he has maintained his view that "If we don't consider the full range of possible alternative explanations, we may arrive at false conclusions by eliminating the true hypothesis from serious consideration because it seems farfetched or even absurd."[57] Judy Wood and Morgan Reynolds, leading proponents of the ideas that directed energy weapons were used to bring down the World Trade Center buildings and that no Boeing 757's nor 767's were used on 9/11, were invited to rejoin the group.[58]

Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice

Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice is the group that formed when a majority of members of the original scholars group chose to leave and form their own group in January 2007. Among its 500+ current members are[59]:

Members of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice have critiqued some theories as untenable, such as the mini-nuke claims[60][61] and the issue of the directed energy weapon.[62] Many members of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice believe the evidence suggests the World Trade Center Towers were destroyed through explosive demolition.

Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice also emphasizes the importance of perception and propaganda in discussions about 9/11.[63] In particular the way misinformation, straw man arguments, and the label of 'conspiracy theorist' are used to divert, divide and discredit skeptics of the official account. Many articles written by members are collected at the Journal for 9/11 Studies.

9/11 Research

9/11 Research is "a growing hypertext documentary of the attack and its aftermath, easily browsed archives of evidence, and a body of original analysis based on that evidence," created by Jim Hoffman and supported by a consortium of volunteer researchers.[64] Along with the related websites, wtc7.net and 911review.com, 9-11 Research is popular among members of the 9/11 truth movement. The main site, 911research.wtc7.net, explores the background to the attacks, the evidence of the attacks themselves the official account, mainstream media coverage and responses from scientific journals. The site 911review.com, discusses the means of attack, motives, and historical examples of "false flag" operations. It also points out errors seen some research articles and websites - misinterpretations of evidence, untenable alternative theories and "hoaxes".[65] The site wtc7.net focuses exclusively on World Trade Center Building 7, never hit by a plane on 9/11/01 but entirely destroyed that day.

9/11 Citizens Watch

9/11 Citizens Watch is a "citizen-led watchdog network established to support independent investigation, research and analysis into the attacks of September 11th and its political and economic aftermath."[66] The group was formed in 2002 by John Judge and Kyle Hence and, along with the Family Steering Committee, played an active role in calling for the establishment of the 9/11 Commission, and monitoring the commission closely. [67]

Since the 9/11 Commission Report was published in 2004, 9/11 Citizens Watch has produced its own commentary, "The 9/11 Omission Report", and co-sponsored the 9/11 Citizens Commission and Zogby Polls surveying public opinion on the subject.[68]

Hispanic Victims Group

The Hispanic Victims Group is a group created after the 9/11 attacks and headed by William Rodriguez, the last civilian survivor pulled from the wreckage of the World Trade Center, who is now an outspoken member of the 9/11 truth movement. The group was a key force behind the 9/11 Commission,[67] and was among the Families Advisory Council for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.[69] The group helped secure an amnesty for illegal Hispanic immigrants who perished.

Conferences

Members of the 9/11 truth organizations, such as the Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice, regularly hold meetings and conferences to discuss alternative theories about 9/11 and to strategize about how best to achieve their goals. Many of these conferences are organized by 911truth.org and some have been covered by the international media. [70][71]

The 9-11 Citizens Commission

One such conference that attracted the attention of the mainstream media was "The 9-11 Citizens Commission", held in New York on September 9 2004. This was a meeting by a group of United States citizens who were skeptical of the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report, and who purported to launch their own investigation into the events of September 11, 2001.

The event was billed as being modeled after the United States Congressional hearings which were conducted by the 9/11 Commission. A group of citizens heard testimony provided by witnesses, authors, experts and whistle blowers. The witnesses gave their testimony after having been sworn in, and were then questioned by the citizen panel. An audience and representatives from the press were also present. In the introduction, Kyle Hence said that citizen-panelists were not sworn in at the beginning of the 9/11 Commission, and that swearing in "only started because we made some noise about it, and the press raised some questions." The world premiere of Barrie Zwicker's The Great Conspiracy was performed after the end of the hearings and questions.

Citizen-panelists included Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, local Imam and Doctor Faiz Khan, and father of one of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, Bob McIlvaine.

A list of participants include:

Other major conferences

Smaller conferences regularly take place in New York [73], across America and in Europe. [74]

Argument-counterargument

Debunking 9/11 Truth theories

As the movement grew both on the Internet and in media coverage, many different groups and individuals issued rebuttals to these theories. These different groups included mainstream media outlets, widely-read scientific publications, government offices, independent researchers, and independent websites.

This is an incomplete list of the most well-known or often quoted sources of analyses that rebut 9/11 Truth theories or otherwise document the commonly accepted events of September the 11th:

Truth Movement responses to rebuttals

Members of the 9/11 truth movement have responded to publications and web sites that rebut their theories, claiming that the rebuttals misrepresent their views, ignore the strongest pieces of evidence in their arguments, and attack straw man arguments or hoax theories. They also object to being classified as "conspiracy theorists," which links them to such widely discredited notions as Holocaust denial or claims that the Apollo moon landings were faked.

Responses to rebuttals include:

Critique within the Truth Movement

While there is general agreement within the movement that individuals within the United States government (but not necessarily the government as a whole) are responsible for the attacks, alternative theories differ about what may have happened. Many in the 9/11 truth movement have come to recognize that what they believe are "genuine" objections and "plausible" alternative theories are discredited by association with unscientific and extravagant "conspiracy theories" without a basis in evidence. There have been a number of articles and responses written by members critiquing the methods and theories of other members, often in a scholarly format, as in the Journal of 9/11 Studies. There are also website articles reviewing some of the papers, books and films produced by other researchers. Some examples include:

Many scientists and professionals involved in the truth movement increasingly are seeking groups and websites which use the scientific method to research the events of 9/11/01.[original research?] In particular, the group which includes Steven Jones as a member, "Scholars of 9/11 Truth and Justice," supports scientific and civil research. However Jim Fetzer's group, "Scholars for 9/11 Truth," believes that the scientific method is unnecessary and that any imaginable event is worthy of advocating to the public as a potential cause for the events of 9/11. Reporting on a conference involving Fetzer's group, a Madison Times article stated: "By Sunday the conference had covered weather control, weapons from space, and the idea that the planes that struck the towers never existed at all."[75] Hence, scholars and researchers not connected to Jim Fetzer's "Scholars for 9/11 Truth" have written many papers refuting claims which do not have support in meaningful evidence, such as the idea that mininukes were used to destroy the WTC towers, or that energy weapons from space may have been used:

Prominent members of the 9/11 Truth Movement

Military, intelligence service, law enforcement and government officials

Architects, engineers, scientists and professors

9/11 survivors and family members

  • William Rodriguez, the last man pulled from the north tower, other than emergency service personnel; founder of the Hispanic Victims Group
  • The Jersey Girls, lost their husbands in the Twin Towers; part of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee
  • Bob McIlvaine, lost son Robert in the Twin Towers
  • Bill Doyle, lost son Joseph in the Twin Towers

Entertainment and media professionals

Major media

Books

One of the best known authors of 9/11 truth movement literature is theologian David Ray Griffin. His two books, The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (March 2004), which outlined a methodical, deductive framework for researching 9/11, and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions (October 2004), became best-sellers. His most recent work Debunking 9/11 Debunking (May 2007) looks at the way magazines such as Popular Mechanics have sought to debunk the alternative 9/11 theories.

In September 2004, the interactive "Complete 9/11 Timeline" website by Paul Thompson, which is a collection of mainstream media reports presented chronologically, was made into the book The Terror Timeline.

Michael Ruppert's Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil (October 2004) identified potential key insider suspects in the 9/11 attacks and provide an examination of their context: petroleum, geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and militarism. Webster Tarpley's Synthetic Terror: Made in USA (2005) described a link between 9/11 and previous accusations of false flag state-sponsored terrorism such as Gladio or the Red Brigades.

Barrie Zwicker's Towers of Deception (October 2006) provides twenty-six "exhibits" of evidence proving "beyond a reasonable doubt" that 9/11 was an inside job. Zwicker also presents case histories of de facto censorship by mainstream media and examines the psychological phenomenon of denial, false flag operations, psychological warfare, and an "invisible government" that secretly manipulates events.

Films

Popular films made by the 9/11 truth movement include Loose Change (2005) and In Plane Site (2004), amateur documentaries that present a range of alternate theories about how the attacks might have been carried out. In some cases, these theories have been rejected by other movement members.[76]

9/11 Press for Truth (2006) documents the struggle by the Jersey Widows to open a full investigation of the events, and their frustration while monitoring the 9/11 Commission as part of the Family Steering Committee. The film, partly based on The Terror Timeline by Paul Thompson, also looks at warnings received by the US government prior to September 11 and instances during the US invasion of Afghanistan where Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda managed to escape from US forces and flee into Pakistan.

Alex Jones has made a number of films about historical instances of false flag terrorism and points out similarities between them and the 9/11 attack. He also promotes the view that the US government has used 9/11 to increase domestic control via the Patriot Act, Homeland Security Bill and militarization of police forces.

Mainstream media coverage

See also

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