AE9-11Truth's Richard Gage v. Skeptic Magazine's Michael Shermer

The Elephant In The Room

Another great resource from Walter Ego's 9/11 Video Blog.

PressTV 9/11 Debate

9/11 Truthers vs. Some Reasonable Lady Holding A Camera

Jesse Ventura v. Arizona Local Reporters

The 9/11 Hotel

Another great resource from Walter Ego's 9/11 Video Blog.

English Professor Michael Keefer & Theology Professor Graeme MacQueen v. Journalist Jeff Flanders and Blogger John Ray

The Physical Evidence:

W.A.C. NY v. Joe Biden

As you can see this is 1/2 confrontation and 1/2 9-11 documentary, so prepare your stomach. If you need medicine for this upset stomach, read what 911myths.com has to say about this particular "complicated" claim.

No Lies Radio's Allen Rees v. NIST's Dr. Sunder

Another great resource from Walter Ego's 9/11 Blog.

Theologian Graeme MacQueen v. Dr. Shyam Sunder of NIST

NIST Media Briefing on the collapse of WTC7

NIST Video Report and Summary

Short video summarizing the findings of the NIST WTC7 report.

PSA Flight 1771: Eerily Similar to Shanksville

A video by Walter Ego. Commentary by video's producer below.

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 was a commercial flight that crashed in San Luis Obispo County, California, on December 7, 1987. All 43 people on board the aircraft died, including the man who caused the crash, a disgruntled former employee of USAir, the parent company of PSA.

The cash site was eerily similar to the Shanksville, Pennsylvania, crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 on 9/11/2001. Like Flight 93, PSA 1771 crashed at high speed after a steep dive leaving an impact crater in the ground and the plane disintegrated in small pieces scattering light weight debris (including vital clues to the cause of the crash) up to eight miles from the crash site.

First responder Detective Bill Wammock of the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office from the video: “Nothing that resembled an airliner... we went on for hours, before we heard the news reports of a missing airliner, believing that we were dealing with a small airplane full of newspapers that had crashed. We saw no pieces of the aircraft that were larger than, maybe, a human hand. It did not look like a passenger aircraft.”

Web Evidence

The Directory wants to bring you the truth about 9/11 conspiracies without having you to jump from site-to-site to find it. In this section, we highlight some prominent researchers in the debunking community who take complicated and detailed studies and simplify them for the lay-man to understand. Currently, we have been granted permission to host the research of two exceptional researchers. For more information about these researchers, please check out The Debunking Directory's site credits.

Click on a researcher's name for The Directory's compilation of their research

Mike Williams

Mark Roberts

Mike Williams Links and Studies

The following material has been compiled from the excellent research at 911myths.com. The author of this material is Mike Williams--a freelance writer from the United Kingdom. Though a new 911myths.com has been promised for quite sometime, these are the links posted as of Summer '08.

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Hijackers

Who were the hijackers? Did those named by the FBI really carry out the attacks?

• We’re told Ziad Jarrah was in Afghanistan in January 2001, yet his family say he was in Lebanon. Is this evidence of a double?

• Some of the hijackers were trained to fly by the US Government

• The hijackers reportedly had girlfriends, drank alcohol, went clubbing, not the acts of fundamentalists

• Mohammed Atta was a regular visitor to Jack Abramoffs casinos

• The security camera footage claiming to show Hani Hanjour at Dulles airport on 9/11 actually shows someone else altogether

• There’s no chance that one of the hijackers passports could be recovered from the WTC rubble

• Many of those named as hijackers are still alive

• And the FBI have even admitted they don’t know who many of the hijackers were

• How could such sophisticated attacks have been carried out by a bunch of flight school dropouts?

• The planes were flown to their targets by remote control, not hijackers

• A former German Defence Minister has confirmed the existence of Home Run, a remote control system present in all 757’s and 767’s

• The alleged hijackers don’t appear on the passenger manifests

• The FBI had DNA samples of the alleged hijackers before 9-11

• Resources and links

Foreknowledge

For many people, the most suspicious area of 9/11 is the way many people seemed to know about it in advance, and yet reportedly all these warnings were ignored. Or even deliberately buried. Is this proof that the US Government wanted the attacks to take place? Let’s take a closer look.

• Israeli intelligence operatives spied on the alleged 9/11 hijackers for months prior to the attacks

• John Ashcroft stopped flying commercial flights in July 2001

• Insider trading on American Airlines and United Airlines stocks prove foreknowledge of 9/11

• Jeb Bush declared martial law in Florida, 4 days before 9/11

• One day before 9/11 Rumsfeld announces $2.3 trillion missing from Pentagon funds, suspiciously perfect timing that kept the story out of the headlines

• 4000 Israelis failed to turn up for work on 9/11

• Israeli company ZIM Shipping left the WTC only two weeks before the attacks

• Bush was warned al Qaeda were taking part in activities “consistent with preparation for hijackings” only weeks before 9/11

• Odigo employees told of 9/11 a few hours in advance

• San Francisco mayor Willie Brown was warned not to fly on 9/11

• Top Pentagon officials cancelled their flight plans on September 10th

• Ariel Sharon cancelled a plan to speak in New York on 9/11

• Anne Tatlock of Fiduciary missed 9/11 by attending a small meeting of WTC business leaders at Offutt Air Force Base

• The five “dancing Israelis” set up a camera to film the WTC before the attacks occurred

• Why wasn’t Bush immediately removed from the Florida school on 9/11, after the second impact? Was it because they knew he was in no danger?

Standdown

According to the official story, fighters failed to intercept any of the hijacked jets on 9/11. Is this really plausible? Many conspiracy sites say no, but the information they use to support this isn’t always reliable.

• Payne Stewart and the story of the “speedy” interception

• "It takes about one minute" for the FAA to contact NORAD about a problem plane, after which NORAD can scramble fighter jets “within a matter of minutes” to anywhere in the United States

• Fighter intercepts are routine, with 67 taking place in 9 months before 9/11

• A June 1st 2001 change in intercept procedures required all requests for assistance in hijackings to be approved by the Secretary of Defence

• Dick Cheney was in charge of NORAD hijacking exercises on 9/11
  Eye-witness testimony casts doubt on the time NORAD claimed they scrambled jets to intercept Flight 11

• Intercepts of suspect planes normally happen within 10 minutes. Why not on 9/11?

• The hijacked planes should still have been tracked on radar, even if their transponders were turned off

• The many war games and exercises scheduled for 9/11 delayed military response to the hijackings

• Why were fighters not launched from Andrews Air Force Base, closest to Washington?

• When fighters were launched, they flew at suspiciously slow speeds

• General Myers initial story was that no fighters were launched until after the Pentagon was hit

• The 9/11 Commission say that NORAD didn’t recognise the threat from 9/11-type attacks until they happened, but that just isn’t credible

• Links to related sites

WTC (demolition)

Some people say the WTC couldn’t have collapsed the way it did from fire damage alone, that there’s convincing evidence the towers were brought down in a controlled demolition, and that steps were taken to obstruct any later investigations. But do these claims stand up to scrutiny?

• Progressive collapse doesn’t seem to happen outside of a terrorist incident

• A power-down at the WTC provided an opportunity to plant explosives

• As did the suspicious removal of the WTCs bomb-sniffing dogs

• Accounts of WTC explosions from William Rodriguez, Kim White, Louie Cacchioli and many more prove there were bombs in the building

• The seismic record proves both there were explosions before any planes hit the WTC, and just before the collapse began

• WTC collapse photos reveal steel columns being fractured and ejected at great speed, something that could only have happened through demolition

• The WTC steel was split into neat 30 foot lengths during the collapse, strongly indicating the use of explosives

• The towers fell at free fall speeds

• A purely gravity-driven collapse could not have provided enough energy to pulverise the WTC concrete and create the observed dust clouds

• Molten steel found at the WTC couldn’t have been created by fire, but does make sense if explosives were involved

• DP Grimmer tells us that it was possible to use thermite at the WTC, but do his calculations stand up to scrutiny?

• Thermate-signature chemicals have been discovered on WTC samples

• And don’t miss Dr Frank Greenings detailed paper on the WTC collapse, which he’s kindly agreed to let us host here

• But what about the streams of molten metal, the angle cut beam, the...

• Links to related sites
  

WTC (other)

• The WTC was designed to withstand the impact of an airliner, so why did it fall on 9/11?

• A Bush family member had links to a company responsible for WTC and airline security

• Black smoke from the tower fires shows they were starved of oxygen and could have been controlled

• Firefighter radio traffic reveals that there was no raging inferno in WTC2

• New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani had advance knowledge of the collapse. Who could have known they were coming down?

• Fire wouldn’t have brought down one tower so much quicker than the other

• If the Madrid Windsor survived a 26 hour inferno, why did the WTC collapse at all?

• The editor of Fire Engineering wrote an editorial saying structural damage and fire alone weren’t enough to bring down the WTC

• The Empire State Building survived a crash with a B-25 bomber, so why did the WTC have to collapse?

• And don’t miss Dr Frank Greenings detailed paper on the WTC collapse, which he’s kindly agreed to let us host here

• Links to related sites
  

WTC7 & Silverstein

Why did Building 7 in the World Trade Centre collapse? Did Larry Silverstein make huge profits from the attacks, and was it really all some huge insurance fraud?

• The WTC was losing money, suffering from major asbestos problems, and that may be one reason why they were brought down

• Why was the WTC specifically insured against terrorism just before the attacks?
  Silverstein Properties have made substantial profits as a result of the WTC collapse

• Building 7 wasn’t significantly damaged by the main WTC collapse, so there was no reason for it to fall

• The claim that there wasn’t enough water to fight WTC7 is a lie
  WTC7 only had small, limited fires.

• Footage of the WTC7 collapse shows clear signs of demolition squibs.

• Larry Silverstein admitted that WTC7 was intentionally demolished, anyway

• Links to related sites

Pentagon

Central to many conspiracy claims is the idea that American Airlines Flight 77 did not hit the Pentagon on 9/11. Does this stand up to scrutiny?

• An emergency drill covering the crash of a hijacked plane into the Pentagon took place in October 2000

• And the exercise was authored by Flight 77 pilot Charles Burlingame

• Why did Flight 77 make a complicated 330-degree turn around the Pentagon, before hitting it in an area that had recently been reinforced?

• Washington Air Traffic Controllers thought the plane was a military jet

• Flight 77 should have been shot down by the Pentagons missile batteries

• Flight 77 could not have smashed through all three Pentagon rings

• CNN reporter Jamie McIntyre said: "there's no evidence of a plane having crashed anywhere near the Pentagon"

• There was no wreckage identifiable as coming from a 757

• The Pentagon lawn was quickly covered in sand and gravel. What were they trying to hide?

• Tell-tale remains of the real plane that hit the Pentagon were placed in a box, covered in a blue tarpaulin, and quickly moved away

• How could the passengers bodies be identified, when the plane was destroyed by fire?

• Where were the passengers luggage and personal effects?

• Related links and resources

Flight 93

Was Flight 93 really downed in a brave rearguard action by the passengers? Or was it actually shot down, and the evidence then covered up?

• Flight 93 was reported as landing in Cleveland

• Telephone calls from the Flight 93 revealed the plane had been holed

• The final Flight 93 call reported an explosion and smoke within the plane

• An engine found away from the main debris shows that Flight 93 must have been hit by a missile

• Seismology reports reveal Flight 93 crashed 3 minutes after the time used in the official story

• Was there a crash at all? The mayor of Shanksville said “there was no plane”

• Resources and links

bin Laden

Has bin Ladin accepted responsibility for the 9/11 attacks? And does al Qaeda even exist?

• bin Ladin was trained and funded by the CIA

• Bush signed National Security order W199i to take FBI agents off the bin Ladin family trail

• bin Ladin met with a CIA agent only weeks before 9/11

• George Bush senior met with a bin Ladin brother on the morning of 9/11

• bin Ladin denied responsibility for 9/11

• And previously bin Ladin has clearly accepted responsibility for everything, why not this time?

• The bin Ladin family were rushed out of the US after 9/11

• The December 2001 bin Ladin “confession” video is an obvious fake

• Some say al Qaeda doesn’t even exist

• And that bin Ladin didn’t use the name al Qaeda until after 9/11

• Richard Myers said on the record that “the goal has never been to get bin Ladin”, and George Bush says he doesn’t care, either

• Links to related sites

Obstruction of Justice

It's claimed that not only did the US Government ignore indications of the terrorist plot before 9/11, they actively suppressed the warnings that appeared. And then worked to thwart the investigations after the attacks, too.

• Coleen Rowley and the “direct sabotage” of FBI investigations

• DIA analyst Julie Sirrs warned about dangers in Afghanistan, but was forced to resign

• FBI Robert Wright had his terrorist funding investigation shut down in January 2001

• The FEMA WTC investigation wasn’t even funded

• FEMA Building Performance Assessment Team weren’t allowed access to Ground Zero

• The recycling of the WTC steel prevented a proper investigation

Afghanistan

Was the Afghan war about fighting terrorism, or something else?

• DIA analyst Julie Sirrs warned about dangers in Afghanistan, but was forced to resign

• One of the motives of 9/11 was to overthrow the Taliban, and allow the construction of oil and gas pipelines across Afghanistan

• A Pakistani diplomat confirms that the Afghan war was pre-planned months before 9/11

• Afghan President Hamid Karzai was once a paid consultant for oil company Unocal

• The ISI, and perhaps the US, were implicated in the 9/9 assassination of Aghanistan's Northern Alliance chief Ahmad Shah Massoud

Others

• A 1997 book "The Grand Chessboard" said that a New Pearl Harbor would help gain support for US actions to gain control of Central Asia

• Neo-con think tank predicted a New Pearl Harbor

• Pakistan’s ISI helped fund the 9/11 attacks, and America covered it up, perhaps to avoid an investigation of the cosy relationship between the ISI and CIA

• There were suspiciously few passengers on each of the hijacked planes

• If the attacks were supposed to kill the maximum number of people, then why not fly a plane into a nuclear power plant?

• Many supposedly dead passengers are not listed as killed in the Social Security Death Index

• The cellphone calls supposedly made from hijacked planes on 9/11 were faked

• Air Force One was threatened on 9/11 using the top secret code word Angel, indicating insider involvement in the attacks

• The virtually indestructible black boxes all mysteriously disappeared

• A Bush-linked bank is given a record fine for laundering terrorist funds

• Bush and bin Ladin have financial interests in the Carlyle Group, which has made billions of profits from the Iraq war

• FAA records indicate two of the supposedly hijacked flights were not destroyed on 9/11

• The senior researcher on Popular Mechanics 9/11 Debunking piece is the cousin of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff

• A 9/11 Government conspiracy wouldn’t require as many people as some seem to believe

• A surprisingly large number of world-renowned microbiologists were mysteriously killed in the weeks after 9/11

• It’s impossible that the 7/7 London bombings could have so precisely corresponded with an antiterrorist exercise that was running at the same time

Flight 93 Radio Transmission

Commentary from AirDisaster.com: United Airlines Flight 93 was hijacked on September 11, 2001 near Cleveland, Ohio. The aircraft crashed some time later in a field in south-western Pennsylvania. The hijackers can be heard twice mistakenly transmitting messages intended for the passengers over the Cleveland ARTCC frequency. Please note that this tape is not chronologically accurate; periods of dead air (silence) have been removed for brevity. [Emphasis added]

Mark Roberts Links and Studies

Photo by: Scott Hurst

Below is a directory of the scrupulous research by NYC resident and tour guide Mark Roberts. Mark is frequently credited on this site and praised for his research and his unrelenting pursuit of the facts. His website is http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/ below is a directory of links that will direct you to his research.

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The 9/11 Terrorists, Confessions, al Qaeda & Jihadist History & Ideology
Admissions of responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, martyrdom videos

• The International Response
• U.S.Government & Intelligence Publications
• Al Qaeda History and Ideology
• Osama bin Laden
• The Other 9/11 Terrorists
• "Lying for Islam"
• Moussaoui Trial
• Other 9/11-Related Terrorism Subjects
• General Terrorism Resources
• Books and Video
• Related

The 9/11 Commission Report and hearings, Congressional Joint Inquiry Report, General 9/11 Research Sources, NY Times reporting, Journalism

• The 9/11 Commission Report
• General 9/11 Research Aids
• Books and videos: General 9/11 Studies, Journalism, Media coverage

NIST & FEMA reports & critiques, WTC collapse analyses,
articles by and about the tower engineers and investigators

• WTC7 Interim Reports
• NIST Final Reports on WTC 1 & 2
• WTC collapse papers with Zdenek Bazant as lead author
• Other explanations of the tower collapses
• Why didn't the towers, or the upper portions of them, topple over?
• Explanations of NIST's Investigation Methods
• NIST's Recommendations, and the Architectural and Engineering Community's Response
• Twin Towers' Structural Engineers on the Record
• Gene Corley on FEMA/ASCE investigation lessons
• Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl's WTC collapse investigations
• Investigations involving extensive computer modeling of the towers
• More on WTC engineering, articles by and about engineerswho worked on the buildings and on the investigations
• Others write about sensibly about the collapses
• WTC Twin Tower Construction Details Pertinent to Engineering Investigations
• Some Progressive Collapse Studies & Recommendations some Engineering & physics fundamentals & calculation aids

Fire Safety Engineering & the Performance of Structural Steel in Fires

• A few examples of structural steel failing in building fires
• NIST and FEMA Experiments, Studies, and Report
• Some comments on Fire Testing and Modeling in the NIST WTC 1&2 repor
• Building Code Changes and Recommendations Resulting from WTC Collapse
• Papers and articles about fire vs. structural steel, specific to the WTC
• Skyscraper fire protection in practice after 9/11, innovations, proposals
• Increasing use of concrete in skyscrapers
• Fire engineering history, general publication
• Links to several fire studies from Peter, an architect with experience in designing high-rises
• Miscellaneous related links

Did eyewitnesses report hearing or seeing bombs anddemolitions explosives in and around the towers?

• The collapses, truther denial, Graeme MacQueen's "118 witnesses" paper
• Lessons not learned

Accounts of Tower Structural Instability and Expected Collapse

• The North Tower
• NYPD Aviation Reports
• Inside the North Tower
• Outside
• South Tower
• Some knowledgeable onlookers who expected the towers to fall
  

Pentagon Attack & Flight 77 Evidence Summary & Links

• Flight 77 lost to radar
• Witness accounts of the attack, many saw airliner hit building
• First responders and rescue efforts
• Human remains recovery and identification
  

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• Flight 77 FDR analysis
  Computer simulations
• Moussaoui trial flight 77 summary: phone calls
• Flight 77 wreckage and parts identification
• Rumors of incoming planes, "twenty miles out"
  Norman Mineta's testimony
• Pentagon damage assessments and stabilization
• Photo and video resourcesA missile hit the Pentagon?
• Antiaircraft defenses?
• Pentagon construction info and post-9/11 reconstruction
• Other sites with good debunking of 9/11 Pentagon myths

Flight 93

• Evidence summary
• Phone calls from passengers and crew
• Eyewitnesses to Flight 93's final moments
• First responders & investigating agencies on the scene
• Victim and personal effects identification,
• Coroner Miller's accounts
• Memorial
• Flight 93-related journalism and movies
  

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• NORAD & ATC recordings
• Flight data recorder readouts before impact
• Cockpit voice recorder transcript
• Autopilot study
• Crater size and debris field
• Comparison crash scenes
• Aircraft parts collection
• Hijackers and identification
  

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Some of the Agencies, Organizations and Individual Experts Responding to and Investigating the 9/11 Attacks

...Or as the conspiracists would say, the "Liars, dupes, and shills" list.

They oughta know better: Critiques of the inept work, absurd claims, and deceitful practices of

• Richard Gage
• David Ray Griffin
• Software Engineer Jim Hoffman
• Physicist Steven E. Jones
• Physicist Heikki Kurttila
• Mathemetician Kenneth Kuttler
• Mechanical Engineer Gordon Ross
• Chemist Kevin Ryan
• Torin Wolf

Eyewitness Accounts of Impacts of Flights 11 and 175

• AA Flight 11 Approach
• AA flight 11 Impact
• UA Flight 175 Impact

9/11 Aircraft Parts and Contents Recovered in NYC

• Photos
• Eyewitness Accounts
• Personal Effects and Documents from Flights 11 and 175 Recovered

Seismic Reports, Protec paper, Info and videos aboutcontrolled demolitions, 1993 WTC bombing, Other skyscraper fires

• WTC Seismic Data & Analysis
• Controlled demolition info and why the WTC buildings weren't CDs
• Other skyscraper fires used as WTC comparisons by conspiracists
• 1993 World Trade Center Bombing
  

9/11 Forensics: Victim & Hijacker Identification

• Flight 93
• The Pentagon
• Hijacker Identification & DNA
• WTC: How many missing? How many dead?
• WTC Recovery Issues
• Books
• Ground Zero: The Search Continues, 2006-2007

FDNY & other WTC First Responders, Corporate Response, Volunteers

• Communications issues remain post-9/11
• Books – FDNY
• Other First Responder Accounts & Issues
• Other responders, corporate aid

Ground Zero worker health issues, Environmental testing, Use of respirators

• Environmental Testing
• EPA and other Government Response
• Private / Citizen Response
• Use of Asbestos in the World Trade Center
• Estimates of dust volume, energy of tower collapses
• Other lower Manhattan cleanup issues
• Respirator use at Ground Zero

9/11 Survivor Aid, Stories, Statistics, Tributes, Memorials

• Relief efforts, Family aid, charities & monetary donations
• Books
• WTC Memorial Design, Controversy
• Other 9/11 Memorials
• Exhibits, Artifacts in Storage

WTC Construction, Plans & Elevations, Power, Elevators,Underground, Security, Pre-9/11 Photos, Tenants

• World Trade Center Construction, Facts & Figures
• Site overview and Architectural Plans
• Core Construction, Elevator Shafts
• WTC Underground
• WTC Security
• WTC Photos Pre-9/11
• WTC Tenants

WTC Insurance Issues

Terrorism Insurance Issues

Rebuilding the World Trade Center Site and Environs

• Books
• Video
• Websites, Articles
• New WTC 7
• Freedom Tower

Photo & Video Resources

• 9/11 Photo Books
• General/Unsorted 9/11 Photo Collections
• WTC Photos
• WTC Aircraft Wreckage
• Moussaoui Trial Prosecution Exhibits
• Video & TV Programs
• WTC7 Videos

On Point: ABC's of 9/11 skeptics

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion_columnists/article/0,2777,DRMN_23972_4957231,00.html

Vincent Carrol, Rocky Mountain News

Truthers v. Opie & Anthony

!Warning: Mature Language!

Schock Jocks Opie & Anthony engage 9-11 truthers outside their studio in NYC.

Hat Tip: Yet another YouTube playlist compiled by Walter Ego

UBL's son: Change your ways