10 Reasons The 9/11 Report is Properly Classified as "Fiction"
November 26, 2013
Key points in the government's version of 9/11 events do not stand up to scientific scrutiny, according to McKnight
Professor Emeritus, Dr. Jim Fetzer, a distinguished philosopher of science, who has more than 20 books on scientific
reasoning, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Fetzer formerly taught at the University of Minnesota Duluth
and is the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.
Writing in a new book titled, "The Dynamic Duo" (CWG Press), about the events of September 11, 2001, and to me, Fetzer
offered multiple reasons as to why The 9/11 Report should be viewed as fantasy:
(1) "The government's explanation [of the destruction of the Twin Towers] would violate laws of physics and engineering
that cannot be transgressed." Among these is that melting point of structural steel AT 2,800 F., far above the 1,700 F.
of burning jet fuel. NIST studied 236 samples of steel from the WTC and found 233 had not been exposed to temperatures
above 500 F. and the others not above 1,200 F. "That these towers were brought down by fuel fires is not just improbable
but physically impossible." He added, "Most Americans may not realize that no steel-structure high-rise building has
ever collapsed from fire in the history of civil engineering, either before or after 9/11."
(2) Gravity operates in only one direction--down! But photographic records of WTC-1 and WTC-2 show them blowing apart in
every direction from the top down and being converted into millions of cubic yards of very fine dust. When it was over,
Fetzer observed, they left no stack of pancakes. These buildings did not "collapse" but were destroyed by powerful
explosives. "Just look at the visual record," Fetzer said. "It leaves no doubt about it."
(3) "We know that Larry Silverstein, who leased the WTC, said that World Trade Center 7 was 'pulled,' which means it was
brought down using explosives. This occurred hours after the other buildings came down. No plane ever hit WTC7 and its
collapse was perfectly symmetrical and again occurred at virtually free-fall speed. The building could not have been
'pulled' without prior placement of explosives." And there was a stack of "pancakes" of 5.5 floors or about 12% of the
height of the original, which is typical of classic controlled demolitions.
(4) Just six weeks prior to 9/11, the WTC complex was transferred to Silverstein Properties, Fetzer says, Silverstein
fired the security firm that had been looking after the property since its opening in 1970. "He insured the buildings,
now, against terrorist attack, and because there were allegedly two planes, got double indemnities, so he makes
something in excess of $4.4 billion on a $114 million investment," Fetzer said. Silverstein and his daughter, who also
worked in the building, Fetzer said, "always had breakfast at Windows of the World (restaurant) at the top of the North
Tower. That day, however, he did not show up, nor did his daughter."
(5) No airliner crashed near Shanksville, Pa. Authorities could produce "no wings, no engines, no seats, no luggage, no
tail," and most importantly of all, "no bodies." Fetzer said the government has hinted that the plane had disappeared
into an abandoned mine shaft. Then they should have broken out the bright lights and heavy equipment to dig in the hope
of finding survivors, as in the case of miners trapped in mine shafts. But that was not done, Fetzer said. The
government didn't bother "to recover the bodies that were allegedly entombed in the plane."
(6) As for the Boeing 757 that allegedly struck the Pentagon, "it would have left massive debris from the wings, the
fuselage, the engines, the seats, the luggage, the bodies, and the tail. Take a look at photographs taken shortly after
impact, however, and you will observe none of the above," Fetzer said. One piece of fuselage alleged to have come from
the plane has been traced back to a crash in Cali, Columbia, in 1995, he added. "They employed Hollywood-style special
effects."
(7) On the contrary, if a small fighter plane struck the Pentagon that would explain "the lack of massive external
debris, and a hole in the inner ring of the building, which the fragile nose of a Boeing 757 could not have created,"
Fetzer said. An air traffic controller's report of that day's events said of the aircraft that did hit, "its speed,
maneuverability, the way it turned, we all thought in the radar room---all of us experienced air traffic
controllers---that it was a military plane."
(8) Research by Pilots For 9/11 Truth has established that Flight 93 was over Champaign-Urbana after it had purportedly
crashed in Shanksville, Fetzer said. Flight 175, alleged to have struck the South Tower, was still in the air over
Harrisburg and Pittsburgh long after the WTC building was struck. He adds that four years later these two planes were
still in the air. FAA registration data shows that they remained in service until 28 September 2005. "And Bureau of
Transportation Statistics show that Flights 11 and 77 were not even scheduled to fly that day", he adds.
(9) Fetzer says government allegations that passengers were killed on 9/11 are false. "No passengers died on 9/11." He
added, "There weren't even any hijackers on any of those planes! In fact, independent analysis has already shown the
government had never been able to prove any of those hijackers were aboard any of those planes." Fetzer said, "their
names do not appear on any passenger manifest (and) five to seven of them have turned up alive and well and living in
the Middle East."
(10) Fetzer summarizes, "The plot of The 9/11 Commission Report--that 19 Islamic fundamentalists hijacked four
commercial airliners, outfoxed the most sophisticated air defense system in the world, and perpetrated these crimes
under the control of a guy in a cave in Afghanistan---can be disproven in every significant respect." Moreover, Fetzer
observes, the head of the 9/11 Commission, Philip Zelikow, had as his former area of academic specialization, "the
creation and maintenance of public myths", which, he concludes, is exactly what he gave the American people.
The book, "The Dynamic Duo," with Fetzer's arguments, may be ordered by going to CWGPress.com.
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Sherwood Ross is a media consultant to CWG Press.