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The 9/11 Truth Movement is the self-bestowed label of a group of loosely-connected organizations and individuals which question the official account of the attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. Those involved with it and associated campaigns convene through the Internet and national and international conferences.[1][2]


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[edit] Characteristics

[edit] Members

The 9/11 truth movement embraces a political diversity of members, including left, right, pacifists, paleoconservatives, Greens, anarchists, and libertarians, and includes professionals from a wide range of backgrounds, including Professors, Physicists, Engineers, Scientists, Pilots, Intelligence and Law Enforcement Officers, and government officials.[3] The common belief among all members is that the official account of the events of 9/11 is not true, and that the truth has been covered up by high-level officials and the official investigators.

Most members of the 9/11 truth movement believe that the perceived cover-up and anomalies in the official account can only be explained by the theory that members of the US Government planned, carried out and covered up the attack to pursue their own agenda, or at the very least, deliberately allowed the attacks to take place. There is a wide range of alternative theories about how the attacks might have been actually carried out, but many believe that the air defenses (NORAD) were deliberately rendered ineffective[4], that the three World Trade Centre Towers were destroyed by controlled demolition[5] and that the motive for the attacks was to justify overseas wars and increased domestic control[6].

[edit] Goals

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.[7] This organization describes a two-step approach to what it refers to as “9/11 Truth” – first to understand the official account and the numerous objections that have been raised to it, and second to confront the implications of that knowledge.[8] The website itself focuses on the first step by presenting it’s own article “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.”

The primary goal of the 9/11 truth movement is to force a new investigation into the events of 9/11.[9] Many organizations, international, national and local have formed to pursue that goal, including research organizations (such as the Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice), awareness organizations (such as the 9/11 Visibility Project) and litigation organizations (such as Justice for 9/11).

[edit] 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" by Barrie Zwicker, "Truth and Politics" and "9/11 and American Empire" by David Ray Griffin, "9/11 Mysteries" (2006) and “9/11 Press for Truth” (2006).

[edit] Reception

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’… 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.[10]

Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone 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.[11]

A May 2006 Zogby poll 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.’[12]

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. [13]


[edit] History

[edit] The 9/11 Families Movement

Immediately following the attacks, the vast majority of people believed the official account – that the attacks were carried out solely by Al Quaida, and were not prevented presumably due to various incompetences by US officials. But in the weeks and months that followed, various questions were raised about the official account, including…

The majority of 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 and, with the mainstream media and the general public apparently uninterested in finding answers to these questions, it was left to the families of the victims to lead the press for a full investigation, beginning what became known as the ‘Families Movement.’

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 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]

In June 2002, the group Unanswered Questions held an event at the Washington National Press Club. [20]Various officials and some 9/11 family members used the event to call for an investigation of the events of 9/11. Eventually, on 27 November 2002, the 9/11 Commission was set up to “prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks", including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The 9/11 Family Steering Committee and 9/11 Citizens Watch were formed to monitor the work of the commission. They submitted hundreds of well-researched questions in the hopes they would be responded to during the public hearings.[21] The 9/11 families were told by the 9/11 Commission that the their questions would be used as a "road map" by the Commission, and would be answered in the final report.

[edit] 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. This was the beginning of what has become known as the ‘9/11 truth movement’. In 2002, US Republican Senator Cynthia McKinney, D-GA, became an icon of the movement when she questioned whether George Bush had foreknowledge of 9/11. [22] 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 Centre as a potential target and that Bin Laden, the known CIA asset, might be used as a ‘patsy’.[23] 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.[24]
  • 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 and Washington.
  • 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. [25][26][27]
  • 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.[28]
  • This was followed by Michel Chossudovsky's book, "America’s 'War on Terrorism'" [29]
  • 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.[30] 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 6 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.[31]

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.[32]

[edit] 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.[33] 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.” [34]

[edit] Truth Movement Reaction to the NIST Report

At the time, many people, including engineers, were surprised at the way the World Trade Center Towers, particularly Building 7, had completely collapsed.[35] But 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 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.[36] The initial government investigation, the FEMA Report (May 2002), reached similar conclusions, but recommended a more thorough investigation.[37] 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).[38]

In the autumn of 2005, retired BYU 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 [39][40], he continues to remain a focus of public interest for his 9/11 research.

In April 2007, 9/11 Family Members and the Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice submitted a request for correction to NIST.[41]


[edit] 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 to the general public, and to try and force a new investigation.

[edit] 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[42] (Executive Director), David Kubiak [43](International Campaign Advisor) and Mike Berger[44] (Media Coordinator), among others, and it’s advisory board includes Steven Jones, Barrie Zwicker and Faiz Khan. [45]

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.[46][47][48] A few of it’s 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. [49]

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.[50]

[edit] The Scholars for 9/11 Truth

right The original Scholars for 9/11 Truth was a group including 300 people of varying backgrounds and expertise,[51] 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.[52] It was founded by James Fetzer and Steven Jones on December 15, 2005. The group includes some of the same members as some more specialized groups, including the Pilots for 9/11 Truth and the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

Critics said their website lists only three structural engineers as members, and argue that the engineers involved with the scholars have little or no relevant experience or qualifications in the disciplines related to structural engineering or controlled demolitions.[53] and argue that the engineers involved with the scholars have little or no relevant experience or qualifications in the disciplines related to structural engineering or controlled demolitions.[54] Critics also said that they have just one American Society of Civil Engineers member, Joseph M. Phelps. Other critiques have said the website is biased in favor of Pentagon views and includes information which has little basis in evidence.[citation needed]

At first, the group invited all ideas and hypotheses to be considered, however many members felt that the inclusion of the more bizarre theories, such as 'No-Boeing' theory and 'Pod' theory, was discrediting the group and preventing it's real message from being heard.[55]

In January 2007, the group split into two over the issue of whether or not to continue to be associated with 'no plane' type theories. The breakaway group, called the Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice [56], abandoned the more extreme theories to focus their efforts on what they believe are evidence-based, plausible hypotheses.

James Fetzer, a retired philosophy professor, remained loyal to the original group, stating his belief that "the range of alternative explanations that might possibly explain the explosion must include non-classic controlled demolition from the top-down using mini-nukes, and...non-classic controlled demolition from the top-down using directed energy weapons...The specific weapons used to destroy the WTC could have been ground based or space based." Fetzer argued 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]

Two other members of the group, Judy Wood (who believes the WTC buildings were destroyed by directed energy weapons[58]) and Morgan Reynolds (who believes a 'no plane' theory), then rejoined the group (they left a few months before the split due to disagreements with certain members of the organization, objecting in particular to the Scholar's rejection of their 'no plane' theories).[59]

[edit] Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice

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The Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice] is the name of the group that broke away from the Scholars for 9/11 Truth in January 2007. Among its members are:

  • Steven Jones, a retired physics professor, and co-founder of the original group.
  • Kevin Ryan, an engineer and 9/11 whistleblower.
  • Richard Gage, AIA Architect
  • Barrie Zwicker, a Canadian journalist, writer and political activist.

Members of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice have criticised some members' demolition theories as untenable, such as the mini-nuke claims[60] and the issue of the directed energy weapon as a plausible theory[61]. Many members of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice believe the evidence suggests the World Trade Center Towers were destroyed by a controlled demolition using pre-placed thermite cutter charges. [62]

The Scholars for Truth and Justice also emphasise the importance of perception and propaganda in discussions about 9/11.[63] In particular the way misinformation, straw man arguments, and the idea 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.

[edit] 9/11 Research

9/11 Research is a consortium of a few volunteer independent researchers led by mathematician Jim Hoffman.[64] Their websites are popular among members of the 9/11 truth movement and are endorsed by 911truth.org and the Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. Their main site, 911research.wtc7.net, explores the background to the attacks, the evidence of the attacks themselves and the supposed misinformation contained in the official account, mainstream media and scientific journals. It also presents an analysis of the evidence and what it considers to be a ‘more likely’ generalized alternative theory, Attack Scenario 404.

It’s companion site, 911review.com, discusses the means of attack, the motives, and historical examples of ‘false flag’ operations. It also points out a large number of what it calls ‘errors’ that have become prevalent within the 9/11 truth movement - misinterpretations of evidence, untenable alternative theories and ‘hoaxes’.[65]

[edit] 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 Report, and monitored it closely. [67]

Since the Report was published, it has produced it’s own commentary "The 9/11 Omission Report."[2], and co-sponsored the “The 9/11 Citizens Commission” and Zogby Polls. [68]

[edit] 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 undocumented Hispanic workers who perished.


[edit] Conferences

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

[edit] "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 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 Faiz Khan, and father of one of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, Bob McIlvaine.

A list of participants include:

[edit] Other major conferences

Smaller conferences regularly take place in New York [72], across America and in Europe. [73]


[edit] Argument-Counterargument

[edit] The ‘Debunking’ Media

In response to the growing truth movement, several mainstream media publications have produced articles that aim to expose and ‘debunk’ the alternative theories. Among these were:

[edit] Truth Movement Responses to the ‘Debunking’ Media

Members of the 9/11 truth movement have responded to much of the debunking media directly, accusing them of: misrepresenting their views, ignoring the ‘strongest pieces of evidence’ in debunking some arguments, and attacking straw man arguments and ‘hoax’ theories. They also accuse the debunking media of grouping the truth movement under the term ‘conspiracy theorists,’ thus linking them with holocaust deniers, fake moon landing theorists and UFO hunters and invoking the idea of the ‘conspiracy theorist’, in order to discredit the movement. For example:

[edit] Arguments within the Truth Movement

While there is general agreement within the movement that the government is responsible for the attacks, there are a large number of alternative theories 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’. There have been a number of articles and responses written by members criticizing the methods and theories of other members. There are also articles criticizing some of the information contained in some books and films that has been produced by the movement. Some examples include:

One of the biggest divisions in the truth movement is over the issue of alternative theories of the collapses of the Twin Towers and Building 7. In particular, the "Scholars of 9/11 Truth and Justice" and "9/11 Research" criticize some of the various controlled demolition theories held by members of "Scholars for 9/11 Truth". In return, members of Scholars of 9/11 Truth have attacked the scientific methods of Steven Jones. Some of the articles written on this issue include:


[edit] Prominent Members of the 9/11 Truth Movement

[edit] Military, Intelligence Service, Law Enforcement and Government Officials

[edit] Architects, Engineers, Scientists and Professors

[edit] 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

[edit] Entertainment and Media Professionals


[edit] Major Books and Films

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 scientific journals 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".

In October 2004, Michael Ruppert's "Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil" was published, which 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.

In September 2006, Barrie Zwicker's "Towers of Deception" provides twenty-six 'exhibits' of evidence proving 'beyond a reasonable doubt' that 9/11 was an inside job. It then presents case histories of de facto censorship by mainstream media and examines the psychological phenomenon of denial. "False flag" operations and psychological warfare are dealt with in detail, as is the "invisible government" - the powers pulling strings behind the scenes.

There have also been a number of popular films made by the 9/11 truth movement. "Loose Change" (2005) and "In Plane Site" (2004) are amateur documentaries presenting a range of alternate theories about how the attacks might have been carried out, many of which have since been debunked by members within the movement itself.[75].

"9/11 Press for Truth" (2006) documents the struggle by the Jersey Widows to get a full investigation of the events, and then their frustration while monitoring the [[9/11 Commission|Commission] as part of the Family Steering Committee. It is partly based on "The Terror Timeline" by Paul Thompson and also looks at several instances in 2001 where Osama Bin Laden and Al Quaida manage to escape from US forces in Afghanistan 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 has also explored how, he claims, the US government has used 9/11 to increase their domestic control via the Patriot Act, Homeland Security Bill and militarization of police forces.


[edit] Mainstream Media Coverage


[edit] See Also


[edit] References

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