SEATTLE
POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/270284_connellyrebut16.html
9/11 Commission report is a
lie
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
RICHARD CURTIS
GUEST COLUMNIST
Writing about a speech by one
of the members of the 9/11 Commission, P-I columnist Joel Connelly claimed:
"Each of us needs to understand why we are doing what we are doing."
("Sept.
11 show the flaws with protocol," May 8)
Indeed! The problem is that
the "why" we have been told appears to be a complete fiction.
Connelly seems to assume
that because the 9/11 Commission was bipartisan that we should accept its
conclusions and recommendations. But is that true? Is the commission's story
credible?
The commission's
conclusions and recommendations should be totally rejected. Its story is full
of lies, distortions and omissions of fact. Following are two of the more than
40 reasons why the official story about what happened on 9/11 is untrue.
First, who were the
hijackers? We do not know. None of those named appear on any of the passenger
lists released by the airlines. Most important, six of the men named by the
government are still alive and have never even been to the United States. We
know that because European media (as reported by The Associated Press, the
London Telegraph and the BBC) have interviewed them. It is not a matter of
mistaken identity not being noticed or someone using a false passport. The
commission insists that the people they named were the hijackers but that claim
is demonstrably false.
If that most basic claim is
false, and the information was available to the commission (which it was), and
the commission still claims that it has given us "a full account" of
what happened that day based on "exacting research," it's clear that
the members are lying. In his book, "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions
and Distortions," Dr. David Ray Griffin documents all that and concludes
the whole report is one long lie.
Second, in the months after
9/11 all of the surviving New York City Fire Department personnel who were on
the scene were interviewed. Those oral histories were recorded and withheld
from the public until Aug. 15, 2005. Only after losing in court three times did
the city of New York finally release them. All 503 are now posted on The New
York Times Web site. Why did the city fight so hard to keep them from the
public?
It turns out those oral
histories reveal details about what was happening in the World Trade Center
buildings that are completely inconsistent with the tale told by the
commission. Dozens of firefighters and medics reported hearing, seeing and
feeling explosives going off in the buildings that collapsed. Why were there
explosives, very powerful explosives by all accounts, going off in the
buildings? More disturbing, why was the pattern of those explosives identical
in some important ways with the pattern used in a planned implosion (or
controlled demolition of a building)?
In spite of Connelly's
faith in what commission members say, the report seems to be an obvious
cover-up. The question that we all need to ask is: What is the commission
covering up? Was 9/11, in fact, an inside job?
Richard Curtis, Ph.D.,
is an adjunct professor of philosophy at Seattle University and a member of
Scholars for 9/11 Truth; www.st911.org.
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