August 2011

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9/11 conspiracy theories: 10 years later

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14665953

It may be 10 years since the attacks in the US on 11 September, but conspiracy theories have not faded over time, says Mike Rudin.

Numerous official reports have been published since the Twin Towers fell, but just when a piece of evidence casts doubt on one theory, the focus then shifts to the next "unanswered question".

Here are five of the most prominent 9/11 conspiracy theories circulating in online communities.

1. Failure to intercept the hijacked planes

2. Collapse of the Twin Towers

3. Attack on the Pentagon

4. The fourth plane - United Airlines flight 93

5. Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7

BBC presents program on 9-11 "conspiracy theories" tonight

"A decade after the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, the Conspiracy Files looks at why some people still question what really happened on 9/11."

So reads a description of tonight's BBC segment on skeptics of the official version of the events of 9-11 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0148yz5).

BBC radio featured a segment this morning about 9-11 "conspiracy theories." Interviewees were Alex Jones and Neils Harrit, among several others, including some Brits whose names I did not catch. The thrust was that young people are more gullible and more likely to question government accounts than older, more sensible people. The spokespeople for 9-11 truth movement did a great job, sounding quite normal and presenting good arguments.

Announcing a Comprehensive New Book on 9/11 ....

 

Mounting Evidence by Dr. Paul W. Rea

The shattering attacks on 9/11 soon became the defining events of our time. But even now, over a decade later, how well does the public actually understand the tragedy?

Other books have covered key facets of 9/11—the fall of World Trade Center buildings, the air-defense failures, the hijackers’ backgrounds, or the Saudi funders. However, this is the first comprehensive treatment of the many different angles. It connects the dots, revealing the patterns.

In Mounting Evidence Dr. Paul W. Rea shows how, by understanding that dark day, Americans can end seemingly endless wars, take back personal liberties they’ve lost, and restore their democracy.

The Importance of The Toronto Hearings

http://ae911truth.org/en/news-section/41-articles/552-toronto-hearings.html#continue
Setting the Stage for Historic Hearings in Toronto
Written by Mike Bondi, PEng - AE911Truth.org

“The media will have to examine this,” says Adnan Zuberi. “They can’t just dismiss it.”

Click this link to watch the FULL CTV News interview
http://watch.ctv.ca/news/clip518347#clip518347

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7hkIA1UdXM

To capitalize on the strategic importance of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the International Center for 9/11 Studies ( http://www.ic911studies.org/ ) is sponsoring a four-day set of hearings, September 8-11, at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Officially called “The International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001”, this historic gathering of panelists, expert witnesses, and numerous key figures in the 9/11 truth movement is being more commonly referred to as the “Toronto Hearings" ( http://torontohearings.org/ ). Focusing primarily on the scientific forensic and other evidence and eyewitness testimony, with emphasis on the destruction of the three World Trade Center high-rises, the Hearings will identify some of the best evidence regarding the events of 9/11, thus encouraging and enabling national and/or international legal agencies to pursue formal investigations.

Italian TV validates 9/11 Truth Movement call for new inquiry

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Italian Truthers were shocked when a popular TV program devoted a full hour presenting the claims from the 9/11 Truth Movement while implicitly validating their call for a new, independent investigation.

On the night of August 26, 2011, popular host and television journalist Giovanni Minoli launched the first of a three-hour series commemorating the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Broadcast on RAI-2, the second public television channel, Minoli’s show used extended segments from “Loose Change” -- dubbed in Italian -- to present the audience with the most updated criticism leveled against the official version by the 9/11 Truth Movement.

Twice before had Italian television broadcast similar films from the 9/11 Truth Movement. In June, 2006, “Inganno Globale” (Global Deception) by Massimo Mazzucco was aired on Berlusconi’s Channel 5, serving as a platform for the ensuing debate on 9/11 which occupied our mainstream media for many months to come. In September of the same year RAI-3, the third public channel, aired Jimmy Walter’s “Confronting the evidence,” adding fuel to the fire.

In both cases, however, the hosts had kept their distance from the films’ contents, presenting them in an “objective manner,” neither endorsing nor criticizing them. (Even then, they took some serious heat from conservative commentators for having simply allowed such “nonsense” to emerge at mainstream level. But they eventually survived – and prospered, in fact - as their ratings had clearly gone up in the meantime).

In the most recent case instead Giovanni Minoli parsed the entire show with personal comments that underlined the absurdity of the official version, implicitly validating our calls for a new investigation. I have excerpted and collated his comments in the attached video for everyone to verify.

As far as I know, Giovanni Minoli has taken no heat whatsoever from political commentators...

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg has banned faith leaders from the upcoming 9/11 ceremony

A Pentecostal Perspective
Seeing life through the spirit with Rev. Ken Gurley

http://blog.chron.com/apentecostalperspective/2011/08/bloomberg-politicians-welcomed-preachers-shunned/#commentform

Have we already forgotten?
That was the first question that went through my mind after hearing the news that NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg had banned faith leaders from the upcoming 9/11 ceremony. Bloomberg has, over recent years, been decisively indecisive on the role of faith at this tragic site. He defended the display of the 20 foot tall cross standing in the midst of the debris of the Twin Towers. He also defended the right of the building of the mosque near Ground Zero. But, for this pivotal meeting, Bloomberg came up short.

For the tenth anniversary ceremony of this great national tragedy: A gaggle of politicians are welcome; but faith leaders are not. Bloomberg’s office defends this by saying that the focus this year will be on the families of the victims.

French Doc Featuring Remember Building 7 to Air September 4

 

M6, one of France’s largest TV channels, will air a documentary on September 4th that follows the stories of several 9/11 family and first responder groups, including the Remember Building 7 campaign.

(click graphic to watch trailer)

This is only the first of at least a dozen stories that foreign news organizations will be doing on the Remember Building 7 campaign around the 10th Anniversary. With this unprecedented level of media coverage bringing our message to tens of millions of people, combined with the 10th Anniversary Campaign, the Toronto Hearings and the release of 9/11 Explosive Evidence: Experts Speak Out, the 10th Anniversary promises to be a breakthrough moment in the pursuit of a new 9/11 investigation.

 

Please support all three efforts at once by going to RememberBuilding7.org/10 and making your pledge to donate between September 1 and 11. So far we have reached almost 600 pledges – please help us reach 1,000 by next Thursday September 1 when we begin accepting donations.

 

 

C.I.A. Demands Cuts in Book About 9/11 and Terror Fight

This article highlights a number of seemingly absurd CIA demands for redactions from Ali Soufan's forthcoming book on the CIA's pre-9/11 intel 'failures' and post-9/11 prisoner abuse, but, imho, the most significant info is buried at the end of the article; the hard cover version of Soufan's book is going to be 448 pgs, while Shane refers to a "600-page manuscript." This is possibly a round number; in any case, at least 152 pgs of material have been cut due to CIA demands. - loose nuke

C.I.A. Demands Cuts in Book About 9/11 and Terror Fight By SCOTT SHANE

WASHINGTON — In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against Al Qaeda.

The agent, Ali H. Soufan, argues in the book that the C.I.A. missed a chance to derail the 2001 plot by withholding from the F.B.I. information about two future 9/11 hijackers living in San Diego, according to several people who have read the manuscript. And he gives a detailed, firsthand account of the C.I.A.’s move toward brutal treatment in its interrogations, saying the harsh methods used on the agency’s first important captive, Abu Zubaydah, were unnecessary and counterproductive.

Neither critique of the C.I.A. is new. In fact, some of the information that the agency argues is classified, according to two people who have seen the correspondence between the F.B.I. and C.I.A., has previously been disclosed in open Congressional hearings, the report of the national commission on 9/11 and even the 2007 memoir of George J. Tenet, the former C.I.A. director.

CIA gets 200 pages of suggested cuts in “The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al Qaeda

https://rt.com/usa/news/cia-911-soufan-fbi-261/

One former FBI agent is finding out firsthand that freedom of speech isn’t something guaranteed to every American. Colleagues at the CIA are keeping him from printing some of his own personal accounts in an upcoming book about the 9/11 attacks.

In his upcoming book “The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al Qaeda,” Ali H. Soufan wants to write that the Central Intelligence Agency could have had a chance at keeping the September 11 terror attacks from happening. Soufan says that the CIA knew about two of the hijackers involved in the al-Qaeda plot, and while that information might have been of great interest to the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency withheld the crucial information.

Specifically, Soufan says that the CIA had detailed information on 9/11 hijacker Abu Zubaydah as early as January 2000 but neglected to act on it.

Media Roots – Afghanistan: Endless War for Resource Control

Afghan Poppy Field

MEDIA ROOTS- Last year marked the tenth anniversary of America's invasion of Afghanistan, officially making it the longest war in US history. Now that Osama Bin Laden is finally confirmed dead, the federal government's logic of continuing the occupation remains unclear.

Initially, the Bush administration irrationally insisted that any sovereign nation harboring terrorists was itself complicit in "terror" and therefore open for pre-emptive US military action. This rationale is absurd– just because one criminal might be living inside of a particular country doesn't make that entire country guilty of the criminal's crimes.

In 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was quick to tell CNN that US forces had successfully pushed the Taliban and Al Qaeda out of the region, and reports reveal that Osama Bin Laden hadn't even been in Afghanistan since 2001. Additionally, a White House spokesperson recently admitted that there hasn't been a terrorist threat in the country for the last eight years.

So what has the US been doing in Afghanistan for the last decade?

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