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While I see that Gray has something similar on his site, I note that it's not overly comprehensive, and I was thinking (as someone else mentioned) that we need to have a list of references and resources that support the official story. Sort of a recommended reading list for those that want to understand the "official" claims of what happened on 9/11. For example:
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Official Reports:

NIST
FEMA
9/11 Commission Report

Papers:

B&Z
Brent Blachand's A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE COLLAPSE OF WTC TOWERS 1, 2 & 7 FROM AN EXPLOSIVES AND CONVENTIONAL DEMOLITION INDUSTRY

Websites:

http://www.911myths.com
http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/home


Books:

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 - Steve Coll
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 - Lawrence Wright
Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It - Terry McDermott
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Feel free to post your resources or recommended reading/veiwing, and when do I'll see if it's worth compiling into a master list that can be used by the forum.
 
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

I think its an excellent example of hubris and poor planning of the Iraq war aftermath.

Honestly if you read that and believe the jackasses behind Operation Iraqi freedom could pull of a super skerit 911 you've not been speaking to reality for a while.
 
The Naudet film for anyone that didn't see lower Manhattan on 9/11, first-hand:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6371069744838112957&q=Naudet

_AFTERMATH: World Trade Center Archive_
By Joel Meyerowitz - large format coffee table book that shows the size of the pile and the cleanup in all it's horror.
http://www.joelmeyerowitz.com/photography/book_aftermath.asp

Book: _Nine Months at Ground Zero_
By Stout, Vitchers, & Gray
(the authors were managers of different parts of the cleanup, right from the afternoon of 9/11 to the end.

_Watching The world change; The Stories behind the images of 9/11
By David Friend (documents the fact that three unrelated video cameras caught the impact of the first jet at WTC. Also shows just how much imagery exists for WTC on 9/11. )

Book: _102 Minutes_ by Dwyer & Flynn
On page 67 he cites that Steel spans buckled in 1975 fire.

(whooppee I can post URLS.)
 
Books:

1. Among the Heroes by Jere Longman; the definitive book on Flight 93. Unfortunately currently being cited by David Ray Griffin on purported cellphone call usage by Thomas Burnett.

2. Unprecedented by Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton. Behind the scenes at the 9-11 Commission. Again cited by Deniers only for the part about the NORAD response, but overall a devastating blow to the conspiracy theories.
 
On the more humorous side, Jon Ronson's Them is a great book detailing his dealings with the more vocal of the conspiracists including his Bohemian Grove adventure with Alex Jones.
 
I'm in the middle of Looming Towers, so far very interesting. Explains the philosophies of the various splinter groups in Islam very well, and the in-fighting within those groups that lead to futher breaking away.
 
9/11 Myths by Popular Mechanics.


e^n said:
I think a good background / primer on how the US government really manipulated essentially themselves is the 3 part BBC documentary:

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares
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I agree, it gives an excellent account of the background of the Neocons and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and tries to separate the real dangers from the hyperbole.
 
I have been reading Nine Months at Ground Zero, a compilation of first-person accounts of the work on the pile. Two of the construction workers witness the collapse of WTC 7, including one who gives a vivid description of the fire:

"So I said, okay, and started heading east where I ran into more MPs. By about 5 o'clock, I was about a quarter mile away from the Trade Center. I had a clear view down Washington Street of Building Seven, which was on the north edge of the site. All forty-seven stories were on fire. It was wild. The MPs said the building was going to collapse. I said, "Nah, I don't know." And then, all of a sudden, I watched the building shake like an earthquake had hit it, and the building came down."
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(Note for non-US readers: MP= Military Police)
 
I'm not far into it, but I think Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center by Angus Kress Gillespie is a good introduction to the Towers and the World Trade Center at large. It discusses the history of the Port Authority and the creation of a trade center in New York, their design and construction, and a record of an average day at the complex. Also, it has the advantage of being written before 9/11 (published in 1999), so it's a first-hand account of somebody actually being there, and not tainted by any conspiracy imaginings.
 
This week I'm reading The Grand Illusion, which is about Rudy Giuliani and 9-11. The book is critical of Giuliani on several counts including the location of the Office of Emergency Management in WTC 7 (certainly it looks like a mistake in hindsight), the ineffectiveness of OEM at providing a clear coordination between the response of police and firefighters, and on the inadequacies of the radio system used by the first responders.

I can get no clear sense whether or not this is a hatchet job by two reporters out to avenge perceived slights by Giuliani and/or opponents of him politically. As evidence of the former, consider this passage from page 12:

If the reporters were stunned, it was because it had been a long time since Giuliani had solicited their presence anywhere. He simply had no use for the people covering him. The relationship wasn't so much bad as it was nonexistent.
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One of the writers is a reporter for the Village Voice, which, it is safe to say, is not a Republican-friendly newspaper, and the other is a producer at CBS News.

There is no indication of any "Trutherism" in the book so far. Some of the sources seem just a little too prescient, and there is a claim (unfootnoted) that a police helicopter pilot reported that the South Tower was about to fall seven minutes prior to the collapse, although later it is indicated that the concern was that the top part would topple over, not that the entire building would crumble to the ground.
 
Brainster said:
This week I'm reading The Grand Illusion, which is about Rudy Giuliani and 9-11. The book is critical of Giuliani on several counts including the location of the Office of Emergency Management in WTC 7 (certainly it looks like a mistake in hindsight), the ineffectiveness of OEM at providing a clear coordination between the response of police and firefighters, and on the inadequacies of the radio system used by the first responders.

I can get no clear sense whether or not this is a hatchet job by two reporters out to avenge perceived slights by Giuliani and/or opponents of him politically. As evidence of the former, consider this passage from page 12:

One of the writers is a reporter for the Village Voice, which, it is safe to say, is not a Republican-friendly newspaper, and the other is a producer at CBS News.

There is no indication of any "Trutherism" in the book so far. Some of the sources seem just a little too prescient, and there is a claim (unfootnoted) that a police helicopter pilot reported that the South Tower was about to fall seven minutes prior to the collapse, although later it is indicated that the concern was that the top part would topple over, not that the entire building would crumble to the ground.
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That's by Wayne Barrett right? If so, he's written about Guilliani before, back before 9/11, in a book called Rudy!: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Guiliani, which basically bashes him. Barrett used to be one of Rudy right hand people, but apparently he got gypped or something and, you're right, he's been out for vengence. He was even on the Alex Jones Show once, I caught him during one of my random listenings. I think it's fair to say he's got a bias.
 
I flipped through Watching the World Change: The Stories of the Images Behind 9/11 during work today and even without reading it fully, I'd recommend it. If you wanted to know where the images of the Towers came from, either the iconic and popular to the hardly ever seen, it's in that book. I think it provides valuable source information if nothing else. And the hardcover is only $6 at Amazon now.
 
Report From Ground Zero, by Dennis Smith. It's full of accounts from the people on the scene.

It's very clear when one reads a few accounts like this that the CT people who claim to have a passionate interest in the subject haven't done so. The Smith book doesn't even mention the conspiracy theories, but it debunks them without even trying.
 
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