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The 9/11 Truth Movement is a collection of individuals, groups and researchers who disagree with the governmental, mainstream scientific and media's account of the September 11, 2001 attacks. This movement is informal, decentralized and occasionally fractious; its members convene through the Internet and national and international conferences.[1][2]

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, and publishers like Larry Flynt of Hustler magazine, have addressed the presence of the Movement and some of the questions group members claim to be unanswered. 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 [12] 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.

While some group members maintain that the US government was intentionally negligent, allowing blame for 9/11 to remain on Muslim hijackers, others 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 of rapid falls of the three WTC skyscrapers could not have occurred as the result of aerial collisions, though these arguments have not been widely shared in the civil engineering or scientific communities. Researchers Jim Hoffman and Steven E. Jones 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. However, to date their theories and arguments have not been published in any established, peer reviewed science journal. Although Jones has been criticized by his university for publicizing his claims before vetting them through the approved peer review process, [13] he continues to remain a focus of public interest for his 9/11 research.

Popular books on the topic include Webster Tarpley's 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, David Ray Griffin's aforementioned The New Pearl Harbor, Crossing the Rubicon by Michael C. Ruppert, Inside Job by Jim Marrs, The Terror Timeline by "Paul Thompson", Painful Questions by Eric Hufschmid and The War on Freedom by Nafeez Ahmed. Some of the movement's popular videos have been "The Great Deception" and "The Great Conspiracy" by Barrie Zwicker, "Truth and Politics" and "9/11 and American Empire" by David Ray Griffin, "Pentagon Strike," "In Plane Site," "Loose Change" (2005) by Dylan Avery and "9/11 Mysteries" (2006). 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 movement has received criticism from a variety of sources. MIT Engineering Professor Thomas W. Eagar states,

These people (in the 9/11 truth movement) use the 'reverse scientific method,'" Eagar said. "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."[3]

On Sept. 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 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.[4]

For more poll data see 9/11 conspiracy theories.

History of the Movement

Origin

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Almost immediately after the terrorist attacks, skepticism of the official explanation and theories alleging government complicity or cover-up appeared.

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. His work has since been the subject of multiple critiques, which allege Meyssan's book is a form of misdirection.[14],[15], [16][17]).

Around the same time, 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 the US government had told numerous allies it was going to invade Afghanistan several months before 9/11. Up until 2004, Germany produced the largest number of books questioning the official 9/11 narrative; three of them, by Andreas von Bülow, Gerhard Wisnewski and Mathias Bröckers, were best-sellers, as were the aforementioned French works.

In June 2002, the group Unanswered Questions held an event [18] 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.

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Deception Dollar

The first work in English was The War on Freedom [19] by Nafeez Ahmed in July 2002, emphasizing geopolitical motives, soon followed by Michel Chossudovsky's book, War and Globalization - The Truth Behind September 11th. In September 2002 Eric Hufschmid's Painful Questions was published, which promotes a controlled demolition thesis of the destruction of the WTC towers.

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.

Alex Jones predicted that a known terrorist would commit an act of terrorism in 2001 and so he credits himself with predicting the US Government would orchestrate the 9/11 Attacks and blame it on Bin Laden, or some other CIA asset.[5] Jones claims to have made those statements six weeks before the terrorist attacks and called his alerts Operation Expose The Government Terrorists. Thus has Jones been referred to as the progenitor of the movement.[6]

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, providing a methodical, deductive framework. In 2004, Michael C. Ruppert's Crossing the Rubicon was published, which claimed to identify key insider suspects in the 9/11 attacks and provide an examination of their context: petroleum, geopolitics, narcotraffic, intelligence and militarism. In 2005 Webster Tarpley's 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA tried to make a link between 9/11 and previously known models of false flag state-sponsored terrorism such as Gladio or the Red Brigades.

Evolution

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[20]. That month, President Bush and Vice President Cheney asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to limit the investigations to "intelligence failures."[21]

The 911 Visibility Project distributed thousands of STOP the 9-11 COVER-UP signs at the 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 [22] 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 claim to 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. On September 7, 2006, Jones was placed on paid leave while his university reviewed the scientific basis of his work in this area.[7][8]

Films have provided a key method in disseminating information to the public for the 9/11 truth movement. Some of the more successful films have included Loose Change and 9/11: Press for Truth.

On May 16 2006, the Department of Defense, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by Judicial Watch, released more video of the Pentagon attack, which brought attention to members of the 9/11 Truth Movement.[9] Groups within the 9/11 truth movement including flight77.info, and Scholars for 9/11 Truth, say they are working to get the others of the 70 or more videos[23] of the Pentagon released.

911Truth.org

911Truth.org is the largest 9/11 Truth Movement organization that not only demands new investigations, but also proposes that the WTC towers collapsed due to explosives. W. David Kubiak[10] or Janice Matthews[11] is the executive director of 911truth.org or Michael Berger is the spokesman.[12]

  • August 30, 2004: The first Zogby International poll it sponsored :"Half of New Yorkers Believe US Leaders Had Foreknowledge of Impending 9-11 Attacks and “Consciously Failed” To Act; 66% Call For New Probe of Unanswered Questions by Congress or New York’s Attorney General"[10][13]
  • Oct. 26, 2004, An alliance of over 114 prominent Americans and 48 family members of those killed on 9/11 signed 911Truth.org statement.[14]
  • May 24, 2006: The second Zogby poll it sponsored : a telephone survey of adults nationwide conducted by Zogby International found out, among other things that 42% of Americans believed that the US government and 9/11 Commission are covering up the events of 9/11 while 48% did not agree. It also found out that 43% were not aware of the collapse of WTC 7.[15]
  • June 2, 2006 - June 4, 2006: it held a 9/11 Conference in Chicago where prominent members from Scholars for 9/11 Truth participated[16]

Hispanic Victims Group

The Hispanic Victims Group is a group created after the 9/11 attacks and headed by William Rodriguez. The group was a key force behind the 9/11 Commission,[17] and was among the Families Advisory Council for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation[18] The group helped secure an amnesty for undocumented Hispanic workers who perished. Their families were thus able to apply for the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund--with Rodriguez translating and helping them fill out the intimidating forms.[19]

Meetings

September 9, 2004: "The 9-11 Citizens Commission"

The 9-11 Citizens Commission: The Omissions Hearings 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 11th, 2001. The meeting took place on September 9, 2004. The event was sponsored by 9/11 Citizens Watch, with support from 911Truth.org 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 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 noted that citizen-panelists 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." 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 Faz Khan, and father of one of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, Bob Mcilvaine.

A list of participants include:

June 2006: "9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda Symposium"

The 9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda Symposium was held June 24-25 in Los Angeles.

June 2006: "9/11: Revealing the Truth"

9/11: Revealing the Truth -- Reclaiming Our Future was held in June 2-4 2006, many members of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth met in Chicago, Illinois, for a conference on 9/11 theories, which was covered by some international media.[20][21]

Other Meetings

Response

  • NIST's created an Official "Questions and Answers".[26]

Response to response

Media Coverage

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jarrett Murphy: The Seekers: The birth and life of the '9-11 Truth movement'. In: The Village Voice - Education. The Village Voice, 2006, abgerufen am 9. Juni 2006.
  2. ↑ Jonathon Gatehouse: Hijacking the truth on 9/11. In: MacLeans.ca - Education. Rogers Media Inc., 2006, abgerufen am 2. Juni 2006.
  3. ↑ Tad Walch: Controversy dogs Y.'s Jones. In: Utah news. Deseret News Publishing Company, 2006, abgerufen am 9. September 2006.
  4. ↑ [1]
  5. ↑ Vorlage:Google video
  6. ↑ http://www.americanscholarssymposium.org/
  7. ↑ Tad Walch: BYU places '9/11 truth' professor on paid leave, Deseret Morning News, 8. September 2006 
  8. ↑ Will Sullivan: BYU takes on a 9/11 conspiracy professor In: U.S.News & World Report, www.usnews.com, 11. September 2006 
  9. ↑ Bill Arthur: Pentagon Video Shows Flames, Smoke After 9/11 Attack (Update1) In: News and Commentary, Regions, US, Bloomberg L.P., 16. Mai 2006. Abgerufen am 9. Juni 2006 
  10. ↑ a b [2]
  11. ↑ http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/05/911_truth_i_dont_think_so.html
  12. ↑ http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/22/sbt.01.html
  13. ↑ [3]
  14. ↑ [4]
  15. ↑ [5] [6]
  16. ↑ http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/ChicagoConferenceJune2006.html
  17. ↑ a b http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0325/p03s01-usgn.htm
  18. ↑ a b [7]
  19. ↑ a b http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0512/S00291.htm
  20. ↑ a b Canada National Post: A theory that just won't die
  21. ↑ 9/11:Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming Our Future. Chicago, June 2-4, 2006
  22. ↑ pdf!
  23. ↑ http://wtc.nist.gov/
  24. ↑ [8]
  25. ↑ http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/01/news/conspiracy.php
  26. ↑ http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm
  27. ↑ http://911research.wtc7.net/reviews/nist/WTC_FAQ_reply.html
  28. ↑ http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/WhyNISTFactSheetWontDo.html
  29. ↑ http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/NISTandThe%20FootOfGod.html
  30. ↑ http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/gopm/index.html
  31. ↑ http://911review.com/pm/markup/index.html
  32. ↑ http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/100806popularmechanics.htm
  33. ↑ http://911physics.atspace.com/Pages/Debunking%20Popular%20Mechanics.htm
  34. ↑ Referenzfehler: Ungültiges <ref>-Tag; kein Text angegeben für Einzelnachweis mit dem Namen reuters.
  35. ↑ [9]
  36. ↑ Referenzfehler: Ungültiges <ref>-Tag; kein Text angegeben für Einzelnachweis mit dem Namen independent.
  37. ↑ http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,,1864657,00.html
  38. ↑ [10]
  39. ↑ [11]
  40. ↑ http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0512/S00291.htm
  41. ↑ http://www.indymedia.org/es/2005/12/829390.shtml
  42. ↑ http://www.voltairenet.org/article135703.html
  43. ↑ http://www.911citizenswatch.org/print.php?sid=923
  44. ↑ http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026093059633
  45. ↑ http://www.hesc.com/bulletin.nsf/0/4BFCEC44ACA9BE5F85256DF600528DE6
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