Fury as Academics Claim 9/11 Was 'Inside Job'

15:47pm 6th Sept. 2006 Daily Mail UK

The 9/11 terrorist attack on America which left almost 3,000 people dead was
an "inside job", according to a group of leading academics.
Around 75 top professors and leading scientists believe the attacks were
puppeteered by war mongers in the White House to justify the invasion and
the occupation of oil-rich Arab countries.
The claims have caused outrage and anger in the US which marks the fifth
anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Monday.
But leading scientists say the facts of their investigations cannot be
ignored and say they have evidence that points to one of the biggest
conspiracies ever perpetrated.
Professor Steven Jones, who lectures in physics at the Brigham Young
University in Utah, says the official version of events is the biggest and
most evil cover up in history.
He has joined the 9/11 Scholars for Truth whose membership includes up to 75
leading scientists and experts from universities across the US.
Prof Jones said: "We don't believe that 19 hijackers and a few others in a
cave in Afghanistan pulled this off acting alone.
"We challenge this official conspiracy theory and, by God, we're going to
get to the bottom of this."
In essays and journals, the scientists are giving credence to many of the
conspiracy theories that have circulated on the internet in the past five
years.
They believe a group of US neo-conservatives called the Project for a New
American Century, set on US world dominance, orchestrated the 9/11 attacks
as an excuse to hit Iraq, Afghanistan and later Iran.
The group says scientific evidence over the attacks on the World Trade
Centre and the Pentagon is conclusive proof.
Professor Jones said it was impossible for the twin towers to have collapsed
in the way they did from the collision of two aeroplanes.
He maintains jet fuel does not burn at temperatures high enough to melt
steel beams and claims horizontal puffs of smoke seen during the collapse of
the towers are indicative of controlled explosions used to bring down the
towers.
The group also maintains World Trade Centre 7 - a neighbouring building
which caught fire and collapsed later in the day - was only partially
damaged but had to be destroyed because it housed a clandestine CIA station.
Professor James Fetzer, 65, a retired philosopher of science at the
University of Minnesota, said: "The evidence is so overwhelming, but most
Americans don't have time to take a look at this."
The 9/11 Commission dismissed the numerous conspiracy theories after its
exhaustive investigation into the terror attacks.
Subsequent examinations of the towers' structure have sought to prove they
were significantly weakened by the impact which tore off fire retardant
materials and led the steel beams bending under heat and then collapsing.
Christopher Pyle, professor of constitutional law at Mt Holyoake College in
Massachusetts, has dismissed the academic group.
He said: "To plant bombs in three buildings with enough bomb materials and
wiring? It's too huge a project and would require far too many people to
keep it a secret afterwards.
"After every major crisis, like the assassinations of JFK or Martin Luther
King, we've had conspiracy theorists who come up with plausible scenarios
for gullible people. It's a waste of time."
But University of Wisconsin assistant professor, Kevin Barrett, said experts
are unwilling to believe theories which don't fit into their belief systems.
He said: "People will disregard evidence it if causes their faith to be
shattered. I think we were all shocked. And then, when the voice of
authority told us what happened, we just believed it."
As the fifth anniversary approached, the 9/11 Scholars for Truth is urging
Congress to reopen the investigation claiming they have amassed a wealth of
scientific evidence to prove their version of the terror attacks.