REPUBLICANS, DEFENSE, AND MILITARY EXPERTS DEMAND 9/11 TRUTH

One of the loudest advocates of the most damning charge that "members of the
U.S. government actually orchestrated the events of 9/11 to fool the nation
into unpopular wars", was not a tree-hugging Green Party activist, but
rather a prominent Republican, in fact a Former Chief Economist under George
Bush, and professor at Texas A&M,

"Only professional demolition appears to account for the full range of facts
associated with the collapses of WTC 1 (North Tower), WTC 2 (South Tower),
and the much-overlooked collapse of the 47-story WTC building 7 at 5:21 pm
on that fateful day. If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the
World Trade Center on 9/11, then the case for an "inside job" and a
government attack on America would be compelling."
-- Morgan Reynolds.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reynolds/reynolds12.html

Google research of the growing list of other 9/11 skeptics of the official
story, some "convinced of U.S. government involvement," while others not
going that far, but pointing out that"the official story is highly
questionable and demands further investigation," yielded surprising results.
Including a host of high level Republican administration officials, defense
experts, intelligence experts, and respected scholars, as well as well known
celebrities who are now adding the spotlight of their names to the issue of
9/11. Among them were:

Former Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the U.S. Air
Force, under President Reagan, and combat fighter pilot

". . . we've been lied to not only about the war, but about 9/11 itself.
The Bush administration was warned. They were warned by the Clinton
Administration during the transition period, they were warned by the
intelligence agencies of eleven other nations, they were specifically warned
by one FBI agent that Moussawi was planning on flying a hijacked airliner,
"into the World Trade Center." They ignored the warnings, more than that,
we have mounting evidence that _at least_, they made it impossible for those
planes to be
intercepted.
. . . My sisters and brothers, that is treason!
-- Col. Robert Bowman (Caltech Phd in aeronautics and nuclear engineering).
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6900065571556128674
http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/bob_bowman_hanity_and_colmes.htm

Former CIA Intelligence Advisor to Reagan and George HW Bush and founder of
the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity,

-- Ray McGovern is one of 100 signatories to a petition "which calls for
immediate public attention to unanswered questions that suggest that people
within the current administration may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11
to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."
http://www.americanscholarssymposium.org/info/presenters.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Researchers_questioning_the_official_account_of
_9/11

Former department head at UL (Underwriter Laboratories) the company which
certified the steel which went into the WTCs upon their construction, and
inspected it after the WTC collapses in 2001.
". . . the results of these tests appear to indicate that the buildings
should have easily withstood the thermal stress caused by pools of burning
jet fuel.
. . . I think we can all agree that even un-fireproofed steel will not melt
until reaching red-hot temperatures of nearly 3000F (2). Why Dr. Brown [Dr.
Hyman Brown] would imply that 2000F would melt the high-grade steel used in
those buildings makes no sense at all."
-- Kevin Ryan
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041112144051451

Former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Senior Research Fellow at
the Hoover Institution, Research Fellow at Stanford's Independent Institute,
and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal,

"I guess the real story about 9/11 is about what the people are actually
saying. I've gotten hundreds of emails in response to my columns and many of
them talk about not getting the truth from the government or the media about
what really happened at the World Trade Center. I know many qualified
engineers and scientists have said the WTC collapsed from explosives. In
fact, if you look at the manner in which it fell, you have to give their
conclusions credibility."
-- Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.wanttoknow.info/050908insidejob911#roberts

Canadian National Defense Minister,

Why did the President just sit in the schoolroom when he heard the news? Why
did he not acknowledge that he already knew what was going on? As a former
Minister of National Defense, when the news came out I had to wonder. Why
did airplanes fly around for an hour and a half without interceptors being
scrambled from Andrews [Air Force Base]? . . . With a quick action alert
they should have been there in five minutes or ten minutes. If not, as the
Minister of National Defense, which in the United States is the Secretary of
Defense, I would want to say "why not?" . . . I think the inquiry has been
very shallow and superficial. And I would like to see a much tougher more
in-depth inquiry. . . . why were some members of the Bin Laden family
allowed to fly out of the United States? Why? There are so many questions.
What is going wrong here? Or was there something going wrong? How much did
they actually know? And you get into very deep territory . . . I would like
to see someone in a position of authority ask these questions and insist on
getting answers? At least to why some of the things happened that seem to
be, for an ordinary person, inexplicable.
-- the Honourable Paul Hellyer
http://www.septembereleventh.org/kc/multimedia/movies/Hellyer.mov

Minister for the Environment, and Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)

Not a single fighter plane was scrambled to investigate from the US Andrews
airforce base, just 10 miles from Washington DC, until after the third plane
had hit the Pentagon at 9.38 am. Why not? There were standard FAA intercept
procedures for hijacked aircraft before 9/11. Between September 2000 and
June 2001 the US military launched fighter aircraft on 67 occasions to chase
suspicious aircraft (AP, August 13 2002). It is a US legal requirement that
once an aircraft has moved significantly off its flight plan, fighter planes
are sent up to investigate.
. . . could US air security operations have been deliberately stood down on
September 11? If so, why, and on whose authority? The former US federal
crimes prosecutor, John Loftus, has said: "The information provided by
European intelligence services prior to 9/11 was so extensive that it is no
longer possible for either the CIA or FBI to assert a defence of
incompetence."
-- Michael Meacher
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8274552561914055825
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1036687,00.html

National Minister of Defense (Germany). Also, served as Minister of
Technology

Well, this is a big question because it happened in 2001 more than 60 times.
That, fighter[s] went up to clear what has been done to airplanes that
showed some irregularities. At 9 11, four planes for two hours were able to
drive around, fly around even one hour in the direction going toward the
west and then turn around and then comeback. The military air force was not
able to interdict them. It's [un]imaginable. And the whole story is
totally unclear what happened between the Federal Aviation Agency
(Administration) and NORAD . . . a covert operation. And this is a way to
influence, to brainwash the American people into long, long, ongoing
conflict with the Muslim world and all that you get to, for example the oil
companies, the last oil reserves which we need for the next decades before
the oil age is going out.
-- Andreas Von Buelow
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8274552561914055825

Former Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces, and chief of the
department for General affairs in the Soviet Union 's ministry of Defense,
General

"The organizers of [the nine eleven] attacks were the political and business
circles interested in destabilizing the world order . . . not satisfied with
the rhythm of the globalization process or its direction . . . only secret
services and their current chiefs (or retired staff with "influence inside
the state organizations") [have the] ability to plan, organize and conduct
an operation of such magnitude. Generally, secret services create, finance
and control extremist organizations. Without the support of secret services,
these organizations cannot exist—let alone carry out operations of such
magnitude inside countries so well protected . . . Osama bin Laden and `Al
Qaeda' cannot be the organizers or the performers of the September 11
attacks . . . [they] do not have the necessary organization, resources or
leaders . . . [instead] a team of professionals had to be created and the
Arab kamikazes are just extras to mask the operation."
-- Leonid Ivashov
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=NIM20060123&
articleId=1788
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&amp;code=NIM2006
0123&amp;articleId=1788>

Former MI6 British Counter Intelligence Officer,

"It is in fact a criminal offence to interfere with a crime scene and yet in
the case of 9/11 all the metal from the buildings is shipped out to China,
there are no forensications done on that metal. Now that to me suggests they
never wanted anybody to look at that metal because it was not going to
provide the evidence they wanted to show people that it was Al-Qaeda . . .
. . . They let it happen, they made it happen to create a trigger to be able
to allow the invasion of Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq and of course
what they're trying to do now is the same thing with the invasion of Iran
and Syria . . . I've seen the results of terroristic explosions and so on
and no terrorist explosion has ever brought down a building. When the IRA
put something like a thousands tonnes of home-made explosives in front of
the Baltic Exchange building in Bishopsgate and let off the bomb, all the
glass came out, the building shook a bit but there was no question about the
building falling down and it doesn't obey the laws of physics for buildings
to fall down in the way the World Trade Center came down. So you have the
comparison of the two, Building 7 compared with the north and south towers
coming down and those two things are exactly the same, they were
demolished."
-- David Shayler
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5403286136814574974

Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Philosophy at the University
of Minnesota, former Marine Corps officer, author or editor of more than 20
books, and co-chair of Scholars For 9/11 Truth,

"I created an organization of faculty and scholars to study 9/11 and we've
discovered that practically everything the government has told us about it
is false . . . [Scholars for 9/11 Truth members include] about 200 with
advanced research skills and about 85 that have affiliations including
physicists, mechanical engineers, pilots, aeronautical engineers. We've
discovered that the twin towers were brought down by controlled demolition,
We've discovered that apparently Osama Bin Laden appears to have had nothing
to do with it . . . the FBI has confirmed they have no hard evidence
connecting Osama Bin Laden to the events of 9/11 . . . We're trying to find
out exactly what happened [on 9/11/2001], our government has a considerable
reputation for telling things that are not true."
[Quotes from Dr. Fetzer, appearing on FOX News on Hannity & Colmes]
-- James Fetzer
http://www.911podcasts.com/display.php?vid=122

Professor of Physics, Brigham Young University, and co-chair of Scholars For
9/11 Truth,

"It is quite plausible that explosives were pre-planted in all three
buildings and set off after the two plane crashes, which are actually a
diversion tactic. Muslims are probably not to blame for bringing down the
World Trade Center buildings after all . . .

. . . the FEMA report says the best hypothesis, which is the only one they
looked at, fire, has only a low probability of occurrence. Further
investigation analyses are needed to resolve this issue, and I agree with
that . . . they admit there's only a low probability, and if you look at the
collapse, you see what I have studied is the fall time, the symmetry, the
fact that it first dips in the middle. That's called the kink. Which is
very characteristic, of course, of controlled demolition . . . all
scientists now reasonably agree that the fires were not sufficiently hot to
melt the steel, so what is this molten metal [found beneath the rubble,
still molten weeks after the WTC collapse]? It's direct evidence for the
use of high-temperature explosives, such as thermite, which produces molten
iron as an end product". [excerpts from Dr. Jones appearing on MSNBC's The
Situation with Tucker Carlson program.]
-- Steven Jones
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=964034652002408586

Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Religion & Theology, Claremont Graduate
University, and author or editor of some 30 books, including "The New Pearl
Harbor" and "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions"

"There was the extraordinarily high volume of "put options" purchased in the
three days before the attacks, with investors betting that stock in United
and American Airlines - the two airlines used in the attacks - would go
down. There were also a suspiciously high number of put options for Morgan
Stanley Dean Witter, which occupied 22 stories of the World Trade Center . .
.
. . . U.S. intelligence agencies monitor the market, partly to look for
signs of impending attacks. One wonders how information could be much more
specific than this . . .
. . . the United States military neglected to send fighter jets to intercept
the hijacked planes. Such interceptions usually occur within 10 to 20
minutes after the first signs of trouble and are routine, happening about
100 times a year . . ."
-- David Ray Griffin
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6837001821567284154

Professor of mathematics, University of Western Ontario, and founder of the
Scientific Panel Investigating Nine-Eleven (SPINE),

Detailed analysis of the debris field, physical damage, and other factors in
the alleged impact of a Boeing 757 on the Pentagon building on the morning
of September 11, 2001 reveals an almost complete absence of debris expected
from such an event. (Elliott 2003) The initial (pre-collapse) hole made by
the alleged impact on the ground floor of Wedge One of the building is too
small to admit an entire Boeing 757. In order to decide whether or not a
Boeing 757 (or aircraft of comparable size) struck the Pentagon on the
morning in question, a comprehensive review of all the debris and other
physical evidence is hardly necessary. It turns out that a study of the
wings alone suffices for the purpose.

Wings that should have been sheared off by the impact are entirely absent.
There is also substantial evidence of debris from a much smaller jet-powered
aircraft inside the building. We conclude with a high degree of certainty
that no Boeing 757 struck the building. We also conclude with a substantial
degree of certainty that a smaller, single-engined aircraft, roughly the
size and shape of an F-16, did, in fact, strike the building.
-- A.K. Dewdney
http://physics911.net/missingwings.htm

Aircraft crash investigation authority,

As painful and heartbreaking as was the loss of innocent lives and the
lingering health problems of thousands more, a most troublesome and
nightmarish probability remains that so many Americans appear to be involved
in the most heinous conspiracy in our country's history.

-- USAF Col. (Ret) George Nelson
http://www.physics911.net/georgenelson.htm

Former chief Pentagon arms negotiator for the Middle East,

". . . it was 12 September, I wrote to my friend Gen. Hugh Shelton, who was
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs at that time. He was transited out. And he was
replaced by Gen. Richard, what the heck was the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs' The name escapes me. He was a four-star Air Force General. And,
Myers, I guess, was the name. At any rate, I called together from 16 to 19
September, in the Pentagon area, not in the Pentagon, a group of military,
civilian and general aviation pilots. And for three days, we kicked around
what actually happened on 11 September . . . the group of pilots and they
will remain anonymous were a wonderful mix of commercial, military and
civilian pilots. At any rate, after three days, the decisions were
unanimous. [the report concluded that the flight crews of the four passenger
airliners involved in the September 11th tragedy had no control over the
aircraft. And they get into how the military industrial complex clearly,
that is elements of it, were in control]

. . . And I wrote my 24-page report up and submitted it to the Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs. And that report ultimately got into the hands of the Vice
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs on 23 January, 2002. The General was U.S.
Marine Corp General by the name Peter Pace. And I got a telephone call, 5
March, from one of his horse holders, who is a Colonel Air Force type. He
informed me that Gen. Peter Pace had gotten the twenty-four pages and that
he and his Sec. had no comment at this time . . ."

-- USAF Col. (Ret) Don de Grand-Pre
http://www.prisonplanet.com/022904degrand.html

Daniel Ellsberg, former military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation,
who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he released the "Pentagon
Papers" which exposed the government's lies about the Vietnam war.

". . . very serious questions have been raised, about how much they knew
beforehand and how much involvement there may been. Is the, is an
administration capable, humanly and physiologically of engineering such a
provocation? Yes, I would say that, I worked for such an administration
myself, Johnson, ah, President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the
Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his
people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it
had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.

-- Daniel Ellsberg, former military analyst
http://www.infowars.com/articles/terror/pentagon_papers_author_gov_maybe_did
_911.htm

"It seems to me like 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four
commercial airliners and hitting 75% of their targets, that feels like a
conspiracy theory. It raises a lot of questions . . . . . . [regarding
watching the events on 9/11 on television] there was a feeling, it just
didn't look like any commercial jetliner I've flown on any time in my life
and then when the buildings came down later on that day I said to my brother
'call me insane, but did it sorta look like those buildings came down in a
controlled demolition'?"
-- Actor Charlie Sheen (Platoon, Wall Street, etc.)
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/280606juggernautoftruth.htm

I would like to suggest to you emphatically that the 9-11 truth movement is
the most pressing issue of the peace & justice movement today. Here is why.
9-11 has been used to justify "endless war" and a continual rollback in
civil liberties that seems to have no end in sight. Yet, 9-11 remains the
least examined tragedy in modern American history . . .

. . . To date, no one has been held accountable for the massive defense
failures on 9-11, nor for the bizarre suppression of critical warnings prior
to 9-11. Furthermore, we still have no explanation for why the head of
Pakistani intelligence, who was meeting with top Bush Administration
officials in Washington on 9-11-2001, had wired lead hijacker Mohammed Atta
$100,000.00 weeks before 9-11. We still do not know who made the insider
stock trades in weeks and days leading up to 9-11, by betting "against"
United and American Airlines stocks (the aircraft used as missiles on 9-11).

What we DO KNOW is that $5 million of those insider stock trade "winnings"
apparently by someone who had foreknowledge of the coming attacks, were made
the day before 9-11 at AB Brown Trust. AB Brown Trust was headed until his
induction into the CIA by Buzzy Krongard, who is now the Executive Director
of the CIA. We also know that the current head of AB Brown Trust quietly
resigned his position on 9-11, with no media scrutiny nor apparently
government scrutiny. Lastly, and perhaps most bizarre is the fact that $2.5
million of those stock "winnings" against these airlines made at AB Brown
Trust . . . remain unclaimed.

-- Actor, Ed Asner
http://www.911blimp.net/videos/EdAsner-UnityIsTheKey.mov

"Welcome to Confronting the Evidence – A Call to Re-Open the 9/11
Investigation . . . we ask you to join us in a tribute to the fallen . . ."
[Ed Begley, Jr.s opening remarks at Confronting the Evidence: 9/11 and the
Search for Truth, National Townhall Meeting at the Manhattan Center Grand
Ballroom, New York City, September 11th, 2004]

-- Actor, Ed Begley, Jr
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7140359934129245752