After 9-11 I supported the Bush administration’s original invasion of Afghanistan for a few months. By spring of 2002, however, the Bush administration began beating the drums for war in Iraq. It was very obvious that the WMD charge was phony and the evidence fabricated. But it did not occur to me until I saw a lecture by physicist Stephen Jones in 2006 where he demonstrated that the government explanation given by NIST account of the destruction of the Twin Towers and World Trade Center 7 is physically impossible. These were all steel frame buildings, and the only way they could have collapsed at near free-fall speed as they did was for all the steel columns holding up the buildings to be simultaneously blown out with high explosives. In May of this year, Jones and Niels Harrit of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen demonstrated the ubiquitous presence in the dust of the WTC of such a high explosive, nanothermite. After reading it I became a supporting member of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Please check us out at ae911truth.org.

Everything we as architects, engineers, physicists and chemists understand about the destruction World Trade Center fits in perfectly with all that you have been saying here about the corruption within our intelligence services. As I see it, the people who engineered 9-11 are still at large while our army is running around Afghanistan chasing ghosts. They can strike again whenever it suits them and our country is completely defenseless. I believe bin Laden has been dead since December 2001. Yet the NSA has been regularly “authenticating” bin Laden recordings right up to last month. Who is putting out these recordings and who is “authenticating” them?

The 9-11 truth movement is very broad and there is much wild and unsubstantiated speculation within it. But Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth is the hard scientific core of the movement. Without our hard scientific evidence, the movement could be written off as “conspiracy theory”. But we do have hard evidence. We know this must be the case. We avoid speculation about the perpetrators and their motives. This will be determined by the open, public investigation for which we are calling.

Everybody in AE admires your work and we would love to join forces with you in pressing for a full investigation of Bush administration crimes, starting with the events of 9-11 itself.

I’m certainly part of the irate minority, but certainly not “tireless.” Sometimes, I get tired and downhearted. But your efforts, for one, inspire me to spring back to action. As a group, then, we can be “tireless,” affording members to nap now and then.

I’d like to add a note about the massive and deep ignorance in the USA:

Bill Maher said it’s a “stupid country,” and he’s right, of course. (Yes, “stupid” and “ignorant” are different.) He got up to speed on health insurance reform, but he has yet to show any deep understanding of the financial crisis, which is where the real truth lurks about our political-economic system. I recently passed 50 years of age. Not until this year did I finally emerge from relative ignorance and reach a level of understanding that allows me to answer my frequent questions of “why!?” For example, why Obama does what he does, so contrary to what he’d led us to believe he’d do. Early this year, it all became clear to me.

SINCE it took me this long to figure it out, most people are never going to figure it out. (They have their reasons: too busy, or unable, or unwilling.) So, I agree that only a learned, fairminded, and compassionate “minority” can light those “brush fires” and eventually bring about the change we really need. Let’s hope we succeed within our lifetimes!

Yours is a great effort. I hope my modest efforts will be of some help.

Thank you. Good luck too.

I have found this to be true at The Huffington Post, Truth Dig and even Antiwar.com to their shame where I was informed that I was banned for calling an Israeli writer a “war criminal” and an obfuscator of the truth. Their email to me indicated that not only was I wrong in my feelings, but also that my opions will be banned from now on. As a Palestinian whose family has suffered egregiously at the hands of the Israeli’s, I found that distortion to be repulsive, especially coming from AntiWar.com where they literally flag the word “jew” and the post is then moderated and the word elliminated.

Hopefully opinions will be respected and not silenced simply because they might not fit the current trends in acceptability. Time will tell, obviously.

Best of everything to you and the site and I will try and contribute what I can, when I can..

@Simon: Thank you very much. Hope we’ll have enough to put our reporters to work!

@ Remo: I’d say let’s get the Kiwis out of there first. I am a big fan of NZ, and want to consider it my second home (soon). Let’s invite our Kiwi friends over here and get them moving!

Today I’ll publish our Boiling Frogs interview with Former Senior CIA Analyst, Melvin Goodman. It is quite hot; WashingtonPost got an earful (not that it matters to them; nowadays they run ’saloons’ !).