Scholars for 9/11 Truth

Scholars for 9/11 Truth

A group of distinguished experts and scholars that include Robert M. Bowman, James H. Fetzer, Wayne Madsen, John McMurtry, Morgan Reynolds, and Andreas von Buelow conclude that FEMA and NIST reports regarding the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings are false and that crucial facts pertaining to the terrorist attacks of Sept 11 have been covered up by senior government officials. This group calls themselves Scholars For 9/11 Truth

Their conclusion is based on the results of extensive scientific and political research. These experts contend that the official version of events on Sept 11, 2001 are one of the greatest hoaxes in history which has led to war and unconstitutional policy and decision making. They also point out that the 9/11 Commission Report is permeated with omissions, distortions, and factual errors including absolutely no mention of Building 7 which was hit by no airplanes and completely collapsed hours after the twin towers were struck.

Here are some of the circumstances involved that these experts and scholars find profoundly disturbing:

In the history of structural engineering, steel-frame high-rise buildings have never been brought down due to fires either before or since 9/11, so how can fires have brought down three in one day? Frank DeMartini, a project manager for the WTC, said the buildings were designed with load redistribution capabilities to withstand the impact of airliners, whose effects would be like "puncturing mosquito netting with a pencil." Yet they completely collapsed. Since the melting point of steel is about 2,700*F, the temperature of jet fuel fires does not exceed 1,800*F under optimal conditions, and UL certified the steel used to 2,000*F for six hours, the buildings cannot have collapsed due to heat from the fires. It has been established by physics research that only controlled demolitions have ever been consistent with the near vacuum speed of fall and almost completely symmetrical collapse of all three of the WTC buildings. All three buildings fell straight-down into their own footprints while pulverizing the concrete into fine dust.

Recent scientific study of collapse by BYU Professor

In September 2005, Professor Steven E. Jones from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Brigham Young University published a paper on a page on the University web site titled Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?; on this site Jones presents a hypothesis for the controlled-demolition of WTC towers 1, 2, and 7, and calls for a serious investigation of the hypothesis that WTC 7 and the Twin Towers were brought down, not just by damage and fires, but through the use of pre-positioned explosives. A version of the website information was presented to an audience from BYU and Utah Valley State College on September 22, 2005. The paper will be published in "The Hidden History of 9-11-2001" by Elsevier, in spring 2006. Although Professor Jones is not a trained structural engineer, nor does he have training in controlled demolition, he calls for an independent and international investigation by experts in these areas outside of the bodies of NIST and FEMA. He especially focuses on the evidence of the molten metal found at the base of WTC1, 2 and 7.