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9/11 Truth Movement

US-amerikanische Szene zu Verschwörungstheorien um die Anschläge vom 11. September 2001
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The 9/11 Truth Movement is a collection of groups, individuals, and researchers questioning the official account of 9/11 who disagree to varying degrees with the mainstream media account of what occurred during the September 11, 2001 attacks. They believe that the truth is not yet known by the general public, and state that they wish to bring the contrary evidence and analysis to their attention. The 9/11 Truth Movement is informal, decentralized and occasionally fractious; its members convene by list-serves, ongoing local meetings, and national and international public conferences.

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Rep. Cynthia McKinney's July 22nd (2005) Congressional Briefing: "The 9/11 Commission Report One Year Later: A Citizens' Response - Did They Get It Right?" Shown: John Judge, Nafeez Ahmed, Paul Thompson. (image:John Gannon, digitalstyledesigns.com)

History

Vorlage:Sep11 Immediately after the terrorist attacks, allegations of government complicity, also termed 9/11 conspiracy theories, appeared.

On January 8, 2002 in San Francisco, a rally and march on Senator Dianne Feinstein's office took place to demand 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 staffers and raised key questions about 9/11[1]. That month President Bush and Vice President Cheney asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to limit the investigations to "intelligence failures."[2]

The first book on the subject, 9/11 The Big Lie, was published in France in March 2002 by Thierry Meyssan, President of Voltaire Network. He emphasized anomalies in the photos of the Pentagon. Since then, however, a number of critics say they have refuted his claims, and have suggested that Meyssan's work is a form of misdirection ([3],[4], [5], and [6]), while many others[7][8] do not quarrel with Meyssan's work, and see those critics' claim as the true misdirection.

Around the same time Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth was published in France by Brisard and Dasquie, documenting media reports in publications like the Times of India that the US government had told numerous allies it was going to invade Afghanistan several months before 9/11.

In June 2002 the group Unanswered Questions held an event [9] at the Washington National Press Club. Various officials and some 9/11 family members used the event to call for a full investigation and greater transparency around the events of 9/11. At that time the Bush adminstration was working to oppose such an inquiry [10].

The first work in English was The War on Freedom [11] by Nafeez Ahmed in July 2002, emphasizing geopolitical motives, soon followed by Michel Chossudovsky's book, War and Globalization - The Truth Behind September 11th.

While these books inspired many activists of the 9/11 Truth Movement, others came to the movement via websites, e-mail and demonstrations. Indymedia websites, for example, also played a role in promoting the questioning of the mainstream media account of 9/11 early on. 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 and Washington.

In 2002, Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-GA, became an icon of the movement when she questioned whether George Bush had foreknowledge of 9/11. In November 2003, the 911 Visibility Project held the first coordinated national activism protest for 9/11 truth activists. In March 2004 came the book The New Pearl Harbor by the academic and theologian David Ray Griffin.

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9/11 Truth Movement members marching to the SF City Hall to present a letter to Mayor Willie Brown asking about his 9-11 flight forewarning during the 9/11 International Inquiry, Phase One, San Francisco, March, 2004.(image:Jan Hoyer, digitalstyledesigns.com)

The 911 Visibility Project distributed thousands of STOP the 9-11 COVER-UP signs at the historic anti-war protests of March 20, 2004, which received national press exposure and served to kick start the national 9/11 Truth Movement. Also in March of 2004, the first International Inquiry into 9/11 [12] was hosted in San Francisco, California, which brought together 9/11 researchers and activists from all over the world for presentations, dialog, and interviews.

To date, activists in the movement have distributed over 6 million "Deception Dollars" (an anti-Bush parody of the dollar bill that includes addresses of websites which aim to prove that 9/11 was an inside job). David Ray Griffin's address on "9-11 and the American Empire," on April 18, 2005, which was broadcast on C-Span and widely distributed via radio, community access tv, DVD, and in print, expanded the movement considerably.

The 9/11 Truth Movement received more publicity in the fall of 2005, when BYU Physics professor Steven E. Jones announced a paper 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.

Characteristics

The 9/11 Truth Movement embraces a political diversity of members, including 'left,' 'right,' pacifists, paleoconservatives, Greens, anarchists, and libertarians. While the mainstream media has mostly ignored the 9/11 Truth Movement, alternative media on the Internet, including talk-radio hosts like Alex Jones (U.S. journalist-polemicist) or Jeff Rense, and publishers like Larry Flynt of Hustler magazine, have addressed the presence of the Movement and some of the unanswered questions. Some of the questions asked by activists and researchers in the 9/11 Truth Movement were also put forth by the 9/11 Family Steering Committee to the 9-11 Commission in the hopes they would be responded to during the public hearings.

Within the 9/11 Truth movement, some activists are considered more radical than others. Some labelers have ascribed the acronyms "MIHOP" (Made It Happen On Purpose) and "LIHOP" (Let It Happen On Purpose) to designate two camps.

LIHOP-oriented activists maintain that the US government was merely negligent, whether intentionally or otherwise, allowing blame for 9/11 to remain on Muslim hijackers. MIHOP-oriented activists argue that the attacks were engineered by elements within the government, and not by Arabs (in other words, the alleged Arab hijackers were, at most, patsies). These activists argue that the physical evidence proves that the attacks could only have been orchestrated by insiders, and that, on 9/11, Americans were betrayed by Americans. Others promote the concept that pre-planted explosives caused the collapses of the WTC towers, suggesting that only insiders with full knowledge of the attacks could have gained access to and wired the buildings[13],[14], or else they just simply deny the government's collapse theory outright[15].

Popular books on the topic include David Ray Griffin's aforementioned The New Pearl Harbor, Crossing the Rubicon by Michael C. Ruppert, The Terror Timeline by "Paul Thompson", and The War on Truth by Nafeez Ahmed. Some of the movement's highly regarded videos are "The Great Deception" and "The Great Conspiracy" by Barrie Zwicker, and "Truth and Politics" and "9/11 and American Empire" by David Ray Griffin. In 2006 actor Charlie Sheen spoke out on the Alex Jones show in support of an independent investigation into the 9/11 attacks, an interview which was subsequently covered by CNN Showbiz Tonight.

The Citizens' Commission on 9-11

The Citizens' Commission on 9-11 was a hearing by a group of United States citizens who were skeptical of the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report, and who launched their own investigation into the events of September 11th, 2001. The meeting took place on September 9, 2004. The event was sponsored by 911 CitizensWatch, with support from 911Truth and Ny911truth.org. Kyle Hence, co-founder of 911 CitizensWatch, presented the event and Nicholas Levis, co-founder of Ny911truth.org, helped organize the event.

The event was modeled after the United States Congressional hearings which were conducted by the 9/11 Commission. A group of commissioners 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 commissioners. An audience and representatives from the press were also present. In the introduction, Kyle Hence noted that commissioners were not sworn in at the beginning of the 9/11 Commission, and that swearing in had only started after "we made some noise about it, and the press started to ask some questions." Hence also stated that some have dubbed the "9/11 Commission hearings" the "9/11 Omission Hearings". The world premiere of Barrie Zwicker's The Great Conspiracy was performed after the end of the hearings and questions.

Commissioners included Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, local Imam and doctor Faz Khan, and father of one of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, Bob Mcalvane.

Participants

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