Thank you, Louis, for the link to Steve Jones' support of Mormonism at http://www.physics.byu.edu/faculty/jones/rel491/handstext%20and%20figures.htm
I hadn't known of this link and wouldn't mind asking Steve about it, except the pressure on him right now due to his suspension from teaching is rather more important. AAUP has come out in Jones' support; will you? I take it, by your throwing this link back at us at this particular moment, that you want to support Alexander Cockburn of COUNTERPUNCH that each and every one of the skeptics of the government's 911 story are nut cases, which would include myself. _____ Jim, thanks for mentioning that "dreadful story about Arab 911 conspiracy theories on US National Public Radio yesterday. It talked about the large poll numbers that 'Arabs weren't involved' theories of 911 get in Islamic countries and treated them as totally irrational.... It didn't interview Paul or any of the other US folks who favor the 'Arabs weren't involved' theory." In my view, one of most telling critiques of the whole official story begins precisely at the identities of the hijackers. How? Well, take the L.A. TIMES, of September 21, 2001. It reported Salem al-Hazmi still alive (also discussed in THE TELEGRAPH a couple of day later). There are similar issues for TEN other named individuals! At some point the Director of FBI even said that we don't have proof of identities -- stolen or lost passports used by others is an obvious likelihood. The list is surveyed in Jay Kolar, "What we now know about the alleged 9-11 hijackers", HIDDEN HISTORY, Chapter 1. Kolar is not a nut case. So, given this easily demonstrable problem with the official conspiracy story of bin-Laden-and-19-Arabs-with-boxcutters, why does the 9/11 Commission go ahead naming the same names without even once interrogating their identities? Perhaps simply because its Executive Director, who was instrumental in controlling the agenda of the Commission, is an earlier co-author with Dr. Condoleezza Rice and is now appointed in the State Department to a major position. Many, many people in the Arab world know such things, things which a person like Cockburn choses to completely ignore and instead refer to nut cases. So, implicitly, by calling skeptics of the 9-11 story nut cases (including those in the Arab world), Cockburn is abetting the Bush agenda of war and has racist overtones. Joshua Frank in Monday's COUNTERPUNCH follows the same line. Paul Z. ************************************************************************** THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF 9-11-2001 --"a benchmark in 9/11 research", review Volume 23 (2006), RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, P. Zarembka, ed, Elsevier *********************** http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka
