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57 Erickson:profile on www.ae911truth.org;

58 Griscom:Griscom blog, www.impactglassman.blogspot.com;

59 Waser:profile on www.ae911truth.org;

60 thousand architects & engineers:Examples of others who have made their views known on the collapses, or joined their names to petitions, include:

In the United States:

Dr. Robert Bowman, formerly an Air Force lieutenant colonel who served as director of Advanced Space Programs Development, questioned the towers’ collapses and called for a new investigation (bio on

www.thepatriots.us

)

Major Jon Fox, former Marine Corps fighter pilot and pilot for Continental Airlines, thought research “proved” the use of explosives (statement to

http://patriotsquestion911.com

)

Former Navy commander Dennis Henry, who worked as a civil engineer for thirty-four years, doubted the simple collapse account (profile on

www.ae911truth.org

) Commander Ralph Kolstad, former fighter pilot and commercial airline captain, said the collapse story did not “make any sense” (statement to

http://patriotsquestion911.com

) Joel Skousen, a fighter and commercial airplane pilot, thought there was “significant evidence that the airplane impacts did not cause the collapse” (“Debunking the Debunkers,” by Joel Skousen, 2/14/06,

www.rense.com

)

Roy Andes, a former assistant attorney general of the state of Montana, signed a petition on the collapses (petition at

www.ae911truth.org

)

Barbara Honegger, a senior military affairs journalist at the Naval Postgraduate School, suggested that “the U.S. military, not al Qaeda, had the sustained access weeks before 9/11 to also plant controlled demolition charges throughout the superstructures of WTC 1 and WTC 2, and in WTC 7, which brought down all three buildings” (“The Pentagon Attack Papers,” by Barbara Honegger,

www.physics911.net

) Karen Johnson, a member of the Arizona state legislature, expressed doubt about the collapses and joined her name to a call for a new investigation (

Arizona Republic

, 5/3/08, petition at

www.ae911truth.org

)

William Nugent, former assistant director of research for Technology Services at the Library of Congress, thought “controlled demolition the only scientifically plausible explanation” of the collapses (statement at

www.ae911truth.org

)

Lon Waters, a former staff member of a Defense Department–funded computing and research facility in Hawaii, signed the architects and engineers’ petition on the collapses (petition at

www.ae911truth.org

)

Outside the United States:

In Denmark: Commander Jens Claus Hansen, of the Danish Defense Academy, thought “bombs must have been placed inside the Trade Center towers” (

http://patriotsquestion911.com

)

In Finland: Heikki Kurtila, a veteran in the investigation of pressure-vessel explosion accidents, said the “great speed of the [Building 7] collapse and the resistance factor strongly suggest controlled demolition” (“Collapse Examination of WTC7,” by Heikki Kurtila, 11/18/05,

www.syyskuun11.ja

)

In Japan: Yukihisa Fujita, a member of the upper house of the Diet, included doubt about

the collapses in a forty-minute presentation to the Committee on Foreign Affairs in 2008 (

http://patriotsquestion911.com

)

In Malaysia: Former prime minister Tun Mahathir bin Mohammad expressed doubts about the collapses and said he “could believe” the U.S. government would organize the strikes to have an excuse for war in Iraq (“No Place for War Criminals,” 10/6/07,

www.globalresearch.ca

)

In Norway: Lieutenant Commander Rolf Hustad, a navy weapons specialist, said the statistical likelihood of the “only three steel-framed buildings ever to collapse [due to fire] … is just too remote to grasp” (profile at

www.ae911truth.org

)

In Switzerland: Lieutenant Colonel Albert Stahel, senior lecturer in strategic studies at the Federal Institute of Technology, has raised questions about the collapses, and especially about Building 7 (“Je Mehr Wir Forschen, Desto Mehr Zweifeln Wir,” 9/15/06,

www.blick.ch

)

Celebrities:

Actors Ed Asner, Juliette Binoche, Janeane Garofalo, and Woody Harrelson have expressed doubts in a more general sense (

Post Gazette

[Pittsburgh], 11/27/06, Asner letter, 4/26/04,

www.septembereleventh.org

,

Telegraph

[U.K.], 9/1/07,

http://patriotsquestion911.com

)

61 Nelson:“Aircraft parts and the Precautionary Principle,” www.physics911.net, bio. at www.patriotsquestion911.com.

62 Latas:bio. at www.latasgroup.com, int. of Jeff Latas for Pilots for 9/11 Truth, audio on www.youtube.com; the Flight Data Recorder from Flight 77 was recovered from the ruined section of the Pentagon, in decipherable condition. The voice recorder, though also recovered, was reportedly so badly damaged as to be of no use (corr. NTSB’s Ted Lopatkiewicz, 2010, “Specialist’s Factual Report of Investigation Digital Flight Data Recorder, NTSB no. DCA01MA064,” 1/31/02, www.ntsb.gov);

63 Davis:www.patriotsquestion911.com;

64 Kwiatkowski:eds. David Ray Griffin & Peter Dale Scott, 9/11 and American Empire , Northampton, MA: Olive Branch, 2007, 28–;

65 Citizen Investigation Team:www.citizeninvestigationteam.com.

CHAPTER 11

1

200, etc.:

FAQ, 8/30/06,

http://wtc.nist.gov

;

2

NIST/FEMA conclusions/“no corroborating”:

Executive Summary, “World Trade Center Building Performance Study,” FEMA, Washington, D.C., 2002, & Executive Summary, “Final Report on the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers,” NIST, Washington, D.C., 9/05;

3

“pancaked”/bowing:

FAQ, 8/30/06;

4

Mackey:

“On

Debunking 9/11 Debunking:

Examining Dr. David Ray Griffin’s Latest Criticism of the NIST World Trade Center Investigation,” 5/08, corr. Ryan Mackey, 2009, 2010;

5

“baloney”/“violates”:

cited in Mackey, 137–,147;

6

“are so numerous”:

ibid., 2;

7

“breaking”:

David Ray Griffin,

Debunking

, 157, Mackey, 25;

8

“would be very”:

Griffin,

Debunking

, 248–, 181–;

9

no good evidence/​“particularly”/​“high-temperature”:

Mackey, 82–, 86;

10 Jones’s four samples:Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, et al., “Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe,” Open Chemical Physics Journal , Vol. 2 (April 3, 2009): 7–31, www.bentham.org;

11 fellow scientists:corr. Ryan Mackey, 2010, “Active Thermitic Material Claimed in Ground Zero Dust May Not Be Thermitic at All,” 4/13/09, http://undisettembre.blogspot.com, “Steven Jones,” article at www.ae911truth.info;

12 university website:Steven Jones, “Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?,” http://web.archive.org; Journal: Steven Jones, “Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Completely Collapse?,” www.journalof911studies.com;

13 coeditor/​“peer-​reviewed”:“Home” page, http://www.journalof911studies.com;

14 “masquerade”:Mackey, 13, 40, Mackey corr. 2010, but see Dr. Jones’s riposte to such criticism in “An Open Letter to Dr. Steven Jones by James Bennett, with Replies by Steven Jones,” www.journalof911studies.com. When Jones’s and his colleagues’ most recent take on thermite was published in 2009, in The Open Chemical Physics Journal , the person whose name appeared on the masthead as “editor” promptly disassociated herself from the publication. The article, said Marie-Paule Pileni, a highly distinguished French scientist, had been printed without her knowledge. She characterized the periodical itself as “sheer nonsense … I do not want my name associated with this kind of stuff” (“sheer nonsense”: “Chefredaktor skrider efter kontroversiel artikel om 9/11,” videnskab.dk, 4/28/09, excerpts translated from the Danish by Marianne Gurnee, 2010, corr. Marie-Paul Pileni, 2010).