And here is the lates incarnation:
Who's who in the 911-truth movement?
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, British author of
The War on Freedom: How & Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001, an early "inside job" book that would greatly influence others including David Ray Griffin. Expanded his material with
The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism and added a British dimension with
The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry. Writes on a blog called
The Cutting Edge.
Dylan Avery, Author of the Loose Change-video, which basically questions the different reports made about the 911 attacks. The project apparently started out as a work of fiction, but later Avery changed that to calling it a documentary. Is currently finishing the third version, called "Loose Change Final Cut". Has his own forum.
Robert Balsamo, AKA JDX – Pilots for 911 truth. Apparently a pilot who's online activity is centered around the analysis of the FDR, or ”black box”, of flight AA77 found at the Pentagon, where he claims its data disputes the official path. Author of the video ”Pandoras Black Box”. Has his own forum.
Kevin Barrett: University lecturer and a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Lectures about Islam.
Jason Bermas, researcher for the ”Loose Change” video – see Dylan Avery
Andreas von Bülow, german lawyer, writer and ex SPD politician. Wrote
The CIA and September 11, in which he claims 911 was an inside job. Member of
Scholars for 911 truth. Apparently
he claims that WTC7 was the staging post for the entire attack and his theory is that the planes were remote controlled to fly into the Twin Towers, after which WTC7 was imploded to cover up the evidence.
James "Jim" Fetzer , a Ph.D in philosopy, heads the "Scholars for 9/11 truth". Has had a recent breakup with Steven E Jones, who left and formed his own site. The breakup centered around Fetzers and Jones different opinions regarding certain 911-theories, eg the "Starwars"-theory of Judy Wood, the "no planes"-theory and the alleged use of small thermonuclear devices at the Twin Towers. He also has his own personal site.
David Ray Griffin, a retired professor of theology and philosphy, author of ”The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9-11 ” and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. Has his own non-911 related homepage.
Gerard Holmgren, an Australian 9/11 researcher who had a significant influence on early "inside job" thinking. His
support for more extreme views (the Naudet video was staged, the South tower impact videos are faked) have lead to Holmgren being eclipsed by others in recent years, though, and now he's best known for attacking everyone else (
Steven Jones, Alex Jones, Jim Hoffman, more).
Eric Hufschmid, author of the ”Painful Deceptions”-video. Also active in Holocaust Revisionism.
Jim Hoffman, a software engineer, author of ”WTC 9/11 Demolition Analysis. Homepages include 911 review, 9-11 Research and WTC7.net.
Daniel Hopsicker, a journalist who suggests the Florida-based pilots were involved in drug-smuggling operations and that there was high-level Government knowledge. Also notable for claiming that Mohamed Atta used cocaine, drank, partied with strippers and more. Hopsicker supports this with interviews from Amanda Keller, someone he says was Atta's Florida girlfriend (although
that's sometimes questioned, or
even ridiculed, and
she now denies it). Hopsicker gave his account in the book
Welcome to Terrorland, and publishes more stories on his own site,
The Mad Cow Morning News. He's
criticised by some 9/11 researchers, though, for avoiding theories like controlled demolition.
Phil Jayhan, suggested along with Deborah Simon that photos of the plane that hit the South Tower showed it had a "pod" on the underside, that may have fired a missile at the tower immediately before impact. Also gave Dylan Avery some money in April 2005 to help with pressing DVDs of the first edition of Loose Change, although the two have since fallen out and are now feuding.
Alex Jones, talkshow host and head of Prisonplanet and Inforwars.com and Infowars.net. Has his own Myspace-area.
Steven E. Jones, retired Ph.D in physics who after a dispute with James Fetzer left co-founded Scholars for 911 Truth, to form his own, called "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice". Steven Jones is the authour of the ”Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?”-paper, where he argues that thermite were used to bring down the Twin Towers. After publishing his paper on his homepage at Brigham Young University, his employeer put him on paid leave to review his 911-work. During this period however Jones and the University agreed on him going into early retirement.
Merc AKA Aldo Marquis,
together with Lyte Trip co-founder of ”Citizen Investigation Team” and author of The Pentacon - a video that claims to show that the AA77 flight flew on a different path towards the Pentagon. Uses the forum of Pilots for 911 truth.
Thierry Meyssan, french author and journalist who published 911 The Big Lie.
Mike Ruppert, former LAPD detective who runs the web site
From the Wilderness, "a newsletter and website dedicated to investigating political cover-ups". His web articles and book
Crossing the Rubicon popularised the idea that NORAD war games were key to the 9/11 "inside job", that "fake blips" inserted onto radar screens may have confused the FAA, that Dick Cheney was in charge of NORAD on 9/11, and more. Left the US in July 2006 complaining of harrassment, but still writes online at a
Peak Oil Blog.
Korey Rowe, producer of the ”Loose Change” - video – see Dylan Avery
Kevin R. Ryan, an lab director at Environmental Health Laboratories Inc. wrote an
open letter to NIST questioning their report. He claimed that his alleged employer Underwriter Laboratories had tested and certified the steel in the Twin Towers. The open letter which was published at
Septembereleventh.org led to mr Ryans subsequent termination at EHL. The reason given was that he had expressed his own opinions as though they were the institutional opinions of Underwriter Laboratories. I believe that Ryan is the source for the "No way WTC Steel Could Melt At 2000 F" -claim that later gave path for "Only CD could account for molten steel at WTC".
Richard Siegel, author of
9-11 Eyewitness. Apparently he has had
a fallout with other parts of the truther-community and seem to consider it a fraud. He has
called out for all truther-leaders to take a lie detector test, to weed out all infiltrators. Siegel has his own
forums, and
blog.
”Sofia”, AKA Sofia Shafquat,
author of the ”911 Mysteries”-video. She created and narrated the film 9-11 Mysteries Part 1: Demolitions with Brad Waddell. The film was based on a play that she and Brad performed in Los Angeles. Brad appears briefly at the beginning of the movie and Sofia appears briefly at the end. The film is controversial because it credits Eric Hufschmid, a Holocaust Denier, as introducing "Brad" to 9-11 Denial. In addition, Rick Siegel, maker of 9-11 Eyewitness, has threatened legal action against Sofia for using his footage in what
he says is disinformation.
Her website
is here. She is also the writer of a novel called
The Shadow Man which is described as "Thelma and Louise without the gunfire.".
Webster G. Tarpley: Author and historian. Author of 9/11 Synthetic Terror. Has a site
Tarpley.net.
Lyte Trip, AKA Craig Ranke,
together with Merc co-founder of ”Citizen Investigation Team” and author of The Pentacon - a video that claims to show that the AA77 flight flew on a different path towards the Pentagon. Uses the forum of Pilots for 911 truth.
Paul Joseph Watson and Steve Watson. Paul and Steve write most of the articles at Prisonplanet and Infowars. They also have another website, Jones Report and Paul has a site, Propaganda Matrix. See Alex Jones.
Judy D. Wood, a former professor of mechanical engineering. She's the main proponent of the ”Star Wars Directed-Energy Weapons (DEW)” - theory, that claims that secret Star Wars beam weapons took down the Twin Towers.
Barrie Zwicker, Canadian journalist who was one of the first to raise questions about the response of Bush and NORAD on 9/11. He has produced documentaries on the topic, including
The Great Deception and
The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw, which may have influenced UK MP Michael Meacher into speaking out about on 9/11 issues. 2006 saw the release of Zwicker's book
Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-up of 9/11, but this was generally a compendium of other researchers work and added little new in itself.
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