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October 17, 2016

The truth about the 9/11 tragedy

Scott Stockdale

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With the passing of the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, Toronto author and journalist Barry Zwicker thinks we are getting closer to the truth about a seminal event in our lives.

During a recent presentation in Toronto, Mr. Zwicker said that as more and more facts become available, the official version of 9/11 becomes more and more unbelievable.

He cited a video entitled 9/11 A Conspiracy Theory, by James Corbett, of The Corbett Report, as “the tightest and brightest summary of 9/11.”

In the video, Mr. Corbett questions how the alleged hijackers could have flown four commercial airliners wildly off course for over an hour without being molested by a single fighter interceptor - especially when the protocol requires fighter jets to respond after a plane has been flying off course for five minutes.

Mr. Corbett also said that according to the official version of 9/11, a plane hit the Pentagon in the budget analyst office where Department of Defence staff were working on the mystery of the $2.3 trillion that Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had announced was “missing” from the Pentagon’s coffers, in a press conference the day before, on September 10, 2001.

It is one thing to perpetrate such monstrous acts as occurred on 9/11 in the United States; but convincing the public about an official narrative, which defies and omits so many facts, would be even more difficult. In his video, Mr. Corbett alludes to this point:

“Luckily, the news anchors knew who did it within minutes, the pundits knew within hours, the Administration knew within the day and the evidence literally fell into the FBI’s lap.”

Illustrating with the example of the September 12, 2001 Canada's National Post story entitled “Towers Designed to Withstand Plane Impact” Mr. Zwicker said the strategy for the 9/11 tragedy was preplanned and preplanted (in the media).

He questions how, about 12 hours after the tragedy, the National Post already knew who did it and the newspaper was able to quote an “expert” - in the above-mentioned article - who said that as the steel heats up it loses its strength and if it burns enough it melts, causing a domino effect.

Meanwhile, no steel structure building in history, before or since 9/11, has ever completely collapsed due to fire. However, this fact was not published by the National Post or any other mainstream media outlet.

Mr. Zwicker said that psychologically it's very difficult to overcome an initial story such as the one in the National Post – various versions of which were promulgated by the mainstream media around the world.

Moreover, he said that for the past 15 years there has been total censorship of any investigative reporting on 9/11 (in the mainstream media); and instead, on the 15th anniversary we see a deluge of poignant stories.

“A Toronto artist's 9/11 drawings entitled “A Testament to Survival”; a Toronto man who saved a person in the tower. These are probably all true, but they're so far from questioning the official story. They're a total distraction,” Mr. Zwicker said.

Previously, Mr. Zwicker referred to a two-day conference (September 10-11, 2016) entitled Justice in Focus, at the Great Hall, Cooper Union, in New York City, as an example of an event presenting facts to counter the official version of 9/11, that was totally blacked out by the mainstream media.  

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Lawyers Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, NY State Legislative Action Project for 9/11 Justice, 9/11 Consensus Panel, 9/11 Truth Action Project were among those participating in event.

As part of the Justice in Focus event, we learned that after his Access to Information request to obtain the documents on the official investigation of 9/11 was ignored, attorney James Gory filed a law suit in Federal Court in New York and he received the documents.

Graeme MacQueen, professor emeritus in religious studies at Canada's McMaster University and the founder of the McMaster's Centre of Peace Studies in Canada and its War and Health programme, used these documents to do his own investigation.

Dr. MacQueen said he used these documents to prepare his own report, which includes testimony from 156 eyewitnesses to the 9/11 tragedy.

“My report includes testimony from 156 eyewitnesses; most used the word explosives. They themselves said “explosives” and they were U.S. government employees: employees with experience with explosives.”

Dr. MacQueen quotes two firefighters who were interviewed shortly after the destruction of the towers as saying “floor by floor starting popping, at regular intervals, moving down the building and tearing it apart. “

In one police officer's account in the official report, which he submitted to his superior officers, he described an explosion which “sucked the air out of your lungs.” Dr. MacQueen said this 14 year veteran of the police force had been trained in the U.S. Army on how to respond to explosives.

Among the other eyewitness reports, police officer Kruger, of the Port Authority, said in his testimony that while searching the floor, a big explosion knocked him off his feet.

Officer LeClair said in his testimony that an explosion blew him against a wall: “It was the distinctive sound of an explosion. The windows blew in, air went out. The rush of air sucked my lungs of air. It was negative blast pressure.”

Dr. MacQueen said 31 members of the Fire Department of New York used the term bomb. Moreover, they talked about explosions at regular intervals. He said these are not the natural explosions from a fire.

“None of the explosions that typically would be in a fire could have destroyed those buildings ... These explosives were synchronized and deliberate in nature,” Dr. MacQueen said.

Although all the U.S. Government agencies investigating 9/11 had access to the same information Dr. MacQueen used to make his report, Dr. MacQueen said the official 9/11 investigative report – all 935 pages – contains one sentence fragment about eyewitness accounts.

“FEMA and NIST did not mention eyewitnesses. They had access to the same information.”

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