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By virtue of his previous four books on the subject, David Ray Griffin is widely recognized as one of the leading spokespersons of the 9/11 truth movement, which rejects the official conspiracy theory about 9/11. Although this movement was long ignored by the US government and the mainstream media, recent polls have shown that the rejection of the official theory has become "a mainstream political phenomenon." No longer ignoring the 9/11 truth movement, the government and the corporately controlled media have released a flurry of stories and reports aimed at debunking it. In the present book, David Ray Griffin shows that these attempts can themselves be easily debunked. Besides demonstrating the pitiful failure of Debunking 9/11 Myths (published by Popular Mechanics and endorsed by Senator John McCain), Griffin challenges recent reports and stories put out by the US Department of State, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the "New York Times", "Vanity Fair", and "Time" magazine.

This book, by debunking the most prevalent attempts to refute the evidence cited by the 9/11 truth movement, shows that this movement's central claim - that 9/11 was an inside job - remains the only explanation that fits the facts.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Still making a compelling argument for an independent investigation, 22 Feb 2008

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Professor David Ray Griffin's first book on the atrocity of 11th September, 2001, was named The New Pearl Harbor. This was a clear synthesis of other people's research, conveniently assembled in one book, articulately written and refreshingly free of hyperbole and foaming-at-the-mouth 'anti-government' hysteria. Written before the Independent 9/11 Commission published its findings, The New Pearl Harbor was in some way a plea not to ignore difficult and controversial evidence.

Griffin's sequel, was a book that responded to the official report on 9/11. The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, analysed how the Independent Commission handled this important but neglected evidence and also looked at just how independent this investigation actually was. From the title, we can tell that Griffin was distinctly unimpressed, articulating the anger and disappointment expressed by some of the victims families themselves.

A few books later, Griffin has produced his most comprehensive work yet: Debunking 9/11 Debunking (a terrible title indeed). This book systematically dismantles the work that has been produced by the apologists for the 9/11 Commission and its Official Conspiracy Theory. The main offenders here are Vanity Fair (which was instrumental in promoting the NORAD tapes, which became the basis for the film United 93), the book Without Precedent, written by the Chair and Vice Chair of the 9/11 Commission (Thomas H. Keen and Lee H. Hamilton respectively), the NIST report on the destruction of the World Trade Center and finally Popular Mechanics book, Debunking 9/11 Myths. Griffin also looks at the mostly unconvincing arguments put forth by those from the political left of the spectrum, who argue that the whole '9/11 Truth Movement' is a dangerous diversion from more important areas of popular struggle.

It would be redundant, here, to explain Griffin's arguments as to why each one of the pieces put forth by defenders of the Bush administration's position on 9/11 fails to encompass all of the available facts. Griffin calmly takes apart and deconstructs each argument. This is not the work an academic theologian arguing that he understands engineering, construction, or military and defense issues better than those who have spent their entire professional careers within the respective areas of the 9/11 story - Griffin solidly supports his contentions with readily source-able information from Admirals and Generals, pilots, intelligence officials and physicists, engineers and firefighters, mainstream news reports and independent studies.

Debunking 9/11 Debunking is an indispensable guide to the latest research on 9/11. It methodically demonstrates that, despite the best pretences of the liberal-conservative consensus, the alternative theory is at present, the only one that encompasses the majority of the available facts. When ideology is put to one side and a cold, hard look is taken at the evidence, the official version of events simply lacks credibility, as uncomfortable as that may seem. If nothing else, Griffin's book is a reminder that the more evidence uncovered around the awful events of 11th September, 2001, the more questions that are raised and as a result, we need most what we haven't yet got: a truly independent, international investigation.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Does exactly what it says on the tin:, 3 July 2007

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: it debunks the "debunkers". Calmly, dispassionately, thoroughly, and completely.

In his latest deconstruction of the official fairytale, David Ray Griffin seeks to rebut the often rabid ad hominem attacks of the defenders of the official story by pointing out the absurdity of their claims, and by backing up his own claims with a wealth of evidence, referenced by over 1200 endnotes, in a way which the defenders of the official story simply cannot do without resorting to circular logic, distortions, and outright lies. Witness, for instance, the way the 9/11 Commission sought to "explain" insider trading, and the way that David Ray Griffin dismantles what amounts to a total non-explanation meaningless to all bar the easily-swayed:

"The Commission, however, did not provide evidence to support its conclusion. Its primary claim was that "[a] single US-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to Al Qaeda purchased 95% of the UAL puts ("put" options)." The implicit syllogism behind this conclusion, as I have pointed out, was the following:
- The attacks of 9/11 were planned and executed solely by Al Qaeda
- No other person or agency had any other role in, or even advance knowledge of, the attacks
- The purchaser of the put options on United Airlines stock had no connection with Al Qaeda
- Therefore the purchaser could not have had any advance knowledge of the attacks
The Commission's argument, accordingly, was perfectly circular: Taking as unquestionable the assumption that the attacks were planned and executed solely by Al Qaeda, with no help from US officials or anyone else, they concluded that if purchasers did not get advance information about the attacks directly from Al Qaeda, they did not get advance information, period. The Commission hence reached its conclusion by begging the question, which is precisely whether people other than agents of Al Qaeda were involved in planning the attacks."

This latest work does not answer every question about 9/11, but then it does not set out to do so. Rather it sets out to show that those defenders of the official myth, such as Popular Mechanics and NIST, have more often than not employed the very methods and anti-science which they accuse challengers of the official story of employing. In my opinion he achieves this aim quite admirably. If you are "on the fence" about 9/11 because of what you perceive to be the persuasiveness of arguments put forward by the US Government, NIST, PM, the 9/11 Commission, or anyone else who promotes and defends the official conspiracy theory, then I dare you to pick up this book with only a "30% open mind" and not be ultimately convinced that the official story is a lie of massive proportions.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An alternative to "Groupthink", 11 Feb 2008

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Like everyone else I was taken in by the events of the day: the shock and awe. Looking back though it is very strange: why did those towers EXPLODE? where were the fighter jets? How come they were experts in TV studios ready to give explanations on who was behind the attacks while the attacks were happening? Even people on the street ready to be interviewed with a complete story of how and why the towers collapsed? How come people knew in advance of the attacks and conducted insider trading? Immediately after 9/11 there was the Anthrax attacks? (Remember those?)

Loads of questions...

And then there was matters that was hushed up: the biggest being the collapse of World Trade Center 7 - this was a huge building. Small compared to the twin towers but would be huge in any other city except New York: 47 stories. Untouched by aircraft it collapsed in 6.5 seconds in what looks like a perfect controlled demolition. No live TV cameras showed it coming down and as far as I can tell, the few videos of it coming down have never shown on BBC1 or major TV channels! Why not? Shouldn't we at least be worried by skyscraper safety?

So let's re-cap:

Advance warning of the event: widespread.
Fires exploding skyscrapers? Impossible.
Towers collapsing at free fall speeds: Impossible.
Dust clouds and Molten steel at ground zero: Not possible from a fire.
4 airliners over 4 hours not being intercepted by jet fighters: Highly improbable.
Rumsfold announces $2.2 TRILLION overspend on September 10th and the only department destroyed at the Pentagon on the 11th September are the AUDITORS looking at the overspend: highly suspicious!!!

From there explore all the evidence: all the craziness of that day and decide: how could this not be an inside job? Like a magic trick, the art is in the preparation... Building rigged for demolition? They must have needed someone on the inside for that? I wonder who they could get? (Google it: the answer will surprise!) The Bush Administration wanted a "New Pearl Harbor" (See Program for a New American Century) and they got it on 9/11.

Why? Throughout history, when a country goes to war, the aggressor first blames its victim for some indiscretion. The Bush Administration needed a b-i-g justification for its war in Afghanistan and Iraq and 9/11 provided that justification!

I am happy to be proven wrong on these assertions. The only way to do it is to have a new investigation into 9/11 just as the relatives of the victims of 9/11 are saying in "9/11 Press for Truth".

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