A consensus on the fall of the twin towers has emerged from the ivory tower.

Fury as academics claim 9/11 was ‘inside job’
by JAYA NARAIN
Last updated at 15:47pm on 6th September 2006

The 9/11 terrorist attack on America which left almost 3,000 people dead was an “inside job”, according to a group of leading academics.

Around 75 top professors and leading scientists believe the attacks were puppeteered by war mongers in the White House to justify the invasion and the occupation of oil-rich Arab countries.

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Professor Steven Jones, who lectures in physics at the Brigham Young University in Utah, says the official version of events is the biggest and most evil cover up in history.

He has joined the 9/11 Scholars for Truth whose membership includes up to 75 leading scientists and experts from universities across the US.

Prof Jones said: “We don’t believe that 19 hijackers and a few others in a cave in Afghanistan pulled this off acting alone.

For a bunch of bright professor types their website makes it awful hard to discover what they think really happened.

They criticize many facts in the various reports and opinions of others, especially the official government explanation. The logic is reminiscent of Johnny Cochran’s OJ defense. Here’s what James H. Fetzer says in a page titled Why Doubt 9/11?:

As the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, I would observe that our members, building on prior research by earlier students of 9/11, have established more than a dozen disproofs of the official government account, the truth of any one of which is enough to show that the government’s account–in one or another of its guises–cannot possibly be correct.

Basically the Scholars do not believe the WTC towers should have come down after suffering the damage they did on 9/11. Since they actually did come down there must have been help in the way of prepositioned explosives, which just so happened to be in the vicinity of the impacts. Someone must have planted those explosives, and for some reason braved raging inferno for tens of minutes after impact before detonating them.

The official NIST version, that the structure was well engineered but ultimately could not withstand the combined effects of the impact and sustained fire, is somehow harder for them to believe.

For Steven Jones it turns out PNAC is the key. In his mind neocon Jooooos and their stooge goyim run everything, or are trying to. They knew 9/11 was going to happen, just like that Joooo FDR knew about Pearl Harbor.

They let it happen to galvanize the country.

So they can seize power.

And conquer the world.

What PNAC actually says sounds reasonable to me.

UPDATE: Jones on paid leave. Free time to promote his conspiracy theories. Oddly enough this article doesn’t mention PNAC.