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The 9/11 Truth Movement is a collection of groups and researchers questioning the official account of 9/11 who disagree with the mainstream media's account of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The 9/11 Truth Movement is informal, decentralized and occasionally fractious; its members convene by electronic mailing lists, ongoing local meetings, and national and international public conferences.

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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 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. Also "ECREP" (Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Proof).

While some 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. 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.

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 popular videos have been "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.

History of the Movement

Genesis

The movement started before the 9/11 Attacks with Alex Jones Operation Expose The Government Terrorists.

Almost immediately after the terrorist attacks, 9/11 conspiracy 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.,, ).

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 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 administration was working to oppose such an inquiry .

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Deception Dollar

The first work in English was The War on Freedom 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.

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

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 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.

On May 16 2006, the US 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. According to the website Prisonplanet.com, Chris Farrell, Judicial Watch's Director of Investigations & Research, said in an interview that his organization "could be the water carriers for a honey pot operation, in which the government attracts overwhelming attention to the Pentagon issue, making it the cornerstone of the 9/11 truth movement, and then blowing it out of the water by releasing clear footage of Flight 77." 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 of the Pentagon released.

Meetings

The Citizens' Commission on 9-11

The Citizens' Commission on 9-11 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 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." 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.

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.

Participants

Barry Zelman - lost his brother Kenneth in the North Tower
Mindy Kleinberg - widowed, single mom. Video testimony from her hearing to the 9/11 Commission.
Charlie Sheen
Jenna Orkin - plaintiff in potentional lawsuit against EPA, gave environmental hazard negligence testimony.
John Judge - co-founder of 911 CitizensWatch.
Barrie Zwicker - Canadian television journalist. transcript.
Michael Springmann - former Diplomat for the Department of State, Attorney, regarding giving Visas to terrorists.
Paul Thompson - author of The Terror Timeline.
Michael Ruppert - founder and editor of From The Wilderness.
Indira Singh - lived and worked at Ground Zero, she read a letter from Sibel Edmonds, and talked about Ptech.
Nicholas Levis - talked about The Omissions Dossier.
Carolyn Betts - attorney, addressed options for future, for example courts.
Tom Delonge

9/11 Truth Movement National and International Meetings

9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda Symposium

The 9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda Symposium was held June 24-25, 2006 in in Los Angeles.

Participants

Entity	Role	Statement
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Iran's government
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Mahmoud Ahmedinejad	Iran's President
Craig Murray	He is a commentator on government foreign policy and was the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Uzbekistan, until removed from his post on 14 October 2004. While in this office he publicly criticised the human rights situation in Uzbekistan, against the wishes of the British government, an action that he alleges was the reason for his removal. He also privately criticised the UK government for committing torture by proxy, that is, sending terrorist suspects to Uzbekistan for their security services to extract intelligence of dubious value.	He does not belive al-Qaeda exists
Curt Weldon		Regarding Able Danger: "This is so outragous it makes me sick to the stomach". Weldon only alledges a cover-up regarding prior knowledge, and demands new investigations.
Paul Lannoye	Belgian European Parliament Member
Michael Meacher	British Environment Minister
Catherine Austin Fitts	Former Ass. Secretary of Housing (Bush II)
Stan Goff	U.S. Special Forces Master Sergeant (Ret.)
Curt Weldon	U.S. Congressman (R-PA)
Mark Dayton	U.S. Senator (D-Minn.)
Louis Freeh	Former FBI Director (under Bush II)
Donald Buswell	Upon returning to his office the next day, Buswell discovered the locks had been changed, his security clearance was revoked, and an investigation had been launched for sending what was termed as messages disloyal to the United States.	"...if you weigh all options, do some simple studying you will see 911 was clearly not executed by some arabs in caves with cell phones and 3 day old newspapers! ... So, who benefited from 9-11? The answer is sad, but simple; The Military Industrial Complex."
Russ Wittenberg	Former Air Force and Commercial Airline Pilot
David Shayler	Former British MI5 Agent
Anatoli Kornukov	Russian Air Force Chief
Donn de Grand	U.S. Army Colonel (Ret.)
Karl Schwarz (politician)	former Republican Party
Stanley Hilton	attorney, political scientist, and former chief of staff for Bob Dole
Raymond McGovern	retired CIA and Clandestine service operations officer, CIA chief for Middle East, contact with Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush	(Iran-Contra, VIPS, S9/11T)
Morgan Reynolds	Ph.D, professor emeritus at Texas A&M University, former director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis headquarters, former chief economist for the United States Department of Labor during the George W. Bush administration	"The Bush administration blew the World Trade Center to kingdom come"
Andreas von Bülow	German state-secretary of the Federal Ministry of Defence, Minister for Research and Technology, SPD member of the German parliament, author	(Die CIA und der 11. September)
Wayne Madsen	former communications security analyst with the National Security Agency, former intelligence officer in the US Navy, testified numerous times to US Congress, now a investigative journalist, author, and syndicated columnist.
Robert M. Bowman	former Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the U.S. Air Force in the Ford and Carter administrations, former United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, Christian denomination founder, politician and author.
Michael Ruppert	former Los Angeles Police Department investigator, now author and activist	From The Wilderness, Crossing the Rubicon
Sibel Edmonds	Turkish-American former FBI translator and activist	National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
Cynthia McKinney	American current Congresswoman, activist	The World Can't Wait
Paul Craig Roberts
Mark Duryee	Retired Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class
	25 veteran former agents, analysts and other experts involved in national security

Scholars

Entity	Role	Statement
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David Gabbard
Daniel Orr
Judy Wood
Kevin Barrett		"i do know, i do not belive, i know 9/11 was an inside jobb"
Alexander Dewdney	Canadian mathematician, computer scientist, and philosopher
John McMurtry	Royal Society of Canada, Professor of moral philosophy and ethicist, also active in the peace movement
Kevin Ryan	former Site Manager from Underwriters Laboratories
Michel Chossudovsky	Canadian professor economics
David Ray Griffin	professor emeritus of philosophy, religion and theology.
James H. Fetzer	philosophy professor	Scholars for 9/11 Truth
Steven E. Jones	physics professor	Scholars for 9/11 Truth
John McMurtry	FRSC, moral philosopher, ethicist, and author.

Survivors, workers, and witnesses to the attack and the towers

Entity	Role	Statement
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William Rodriguez	9/11 awarded hero	Well known international hardline 9/11 Truth Movement activist. Cite error: A `<ref>` tag is missing the closing `</ref>` (see the help page).
Scott Forbes		Scheduled unprecedented power cut three weeks before 9/11, it looked like control demolition, not from plane or fire, it did not ring true.

Family members of the victims

Entity	Role	Statement
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Bill Doyle (9/11)		Cite error: A `<ref>` tag is missing the closing `</ref>` (see the help page).
Kristin Breitweiser	lawyer, politician, activist	Jersey Girls
Patty Casazza	activist, lost husband John, Jersey Girls	"Our families did'nt want us to ask all these questions, painfull, you know, we should just be breathing and healing. Well, part of our healing for us is finding out exactly what happened .
Lorie Van Auken	activist,lost her husband Kenneth ,Jersey Girls	"We do not know the whole story, about what happened on september 11, at all." in the trailer to the film "9/11: Press for Truth"
Mindy Kleinberg	activist, lost husband Allen .	Jersey Girls
Marilyn Rosenthal
Ellen Mariani
Donna Marsh O'Connor	Lost her daughter Vanessa Wanger (spelling?)	"When took his God-damn war, he took her name, and i am taking it back!", "Nobody Investigated that!", "Were was NORAD?", "Dick Cheyney needed 9/11 to happen", "Dick Cheyney had the most to gain", "im not even talking 'truth', just give me some honesty!", "why the hell do you call it an independant Commission?", "i am an American citizen, and i am so god damn, i am so fucking ashemed for all of us!", "you go get some men in suits to this meetings next time, c'uz this just isn't good enough" talking in front of the text "9/11 was an inside jobb"
40 family members
400 members of the families of the many victims of the attacks

Journalists

Entity	Role	Statement
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Victor Thorn and Lisa Guliani	Authors of 9-11 on Trial and hosts of WING Tv
Peter Lance	Masters Degree Investigative journalism, screenwriter and novelist — Miami Vice
Paul Joseph Watson	authour, webmaster and journalist	(prisonplanet.com, infowars.com)
Alex Jones	American investigative journalist, documentary film producer, radio host and television host	9-11: The Road to Tyranny
Steve Watson
Tyler Bass	Journalist

Film producers

James W. Walter — American [[venture

capitalist]], political activist and Film producer

Dustin Mugford — Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). He is also included in the Tec's "Bin Laden" lyric.
John Kellerman —
MC Moorman —
Chumbawamba —
Inner Surge —
Michelle Paris —
Ani Di Franco —
What Really Happened? —
Appono Astos —
Leftover Crack —
The Civilians Military —
The Dope Poet Society —
Truth Told —
Chuck D - Sung the hook on the remix of Immortal Technique's "Bin Laden" —
Remo Conscious —
CunninLynguists —
Virtuoso —
The Impossebulls —
Al uh Looyah —
Addek —
Zuma —

Activist

Jonathan Gold — Alternative News Owner of www.yourbbsucks.com
Michael Berger — Media Coordinator of

911Truth.org

Michael Rivero — alternative news blogger

— (What Really Happened)

Victor Thorn — Author of

[http://www.wingtv.net/911ontrial.doc/911ontrialindex.html 9-11 on Trial], host of WING Tv and protest organizer.

Lisa Guliani — Co-author of

The New World Order Illusion, co-host of WING Tv and protest organizer.

Groups

Former skeptics

Some people have questioned it before, but no longer hold that stance.

Howard Brush Dean III —

Polls

Internet

CNN Headline News

Do you agree with Charlie Sheen that the U.S. government covered up the real events of the 9/11

attacks? Yes: 83%, No: 17%.

Germany

Die Zeit, July poll:

"'One in five says it's possible that Bush ordered up

9/11 as a pretext for world conquest" and "31 percent of Germans under the age of 30 believed the US government was directly involved in the September 11 attacks." , , , , ,

USA

Washington Post

"Sixty-nine percent in a Washington Post poll published [31

aug 2003] said they believe it is likely was personally involved in the attacks carried out by al-Qaeda.

New York

Zogby International

49.3% of New York City residents and 41% of New York

citizens overall say that some of our leaders "knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act" more info