Scholars Question Cheney's Role in 9/11

Experts conclude Vice President possessed foreknowledge and suggest
Moussaoui trial a "distraction".

Duluth, MN (PRWEB) March 13, 2006 -- A society of experts and scholars
contends that the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui -- for willfully
concealing advance knowledge of the events of 9/11 -- has the status of
a Soviet-style "show trial" and functions as a diversion from the real
culprits. The nonpartisan group, Scholars for 9/11 Truth, asserts that
the evidence implicating Vice President ***** Cheney of that very
offense is more obvious and compelling. If they are even remotely
correct, then the alleged terrorists appear to have been cast in the
role of "patsies."

The experts base their conclusion on testimony presented to the 9/11
Commission by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta on May 23,
2003, which was omitted from its final report, and on related events at
the Pentagon. Members of the society will present their findings during
a press conference to be held at 1 PM on Tuesday at the United States
Courthouse in Alexandria, VA, the location of a trial to determine
whether Moussaoui, who is called "the 20th hijacker", should serve a
life term or receive the death sentence.

"Mineta's testimony is devastating," observed James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.,
McKnight Professor at the University of Minnesota. Fetzer is the
founder and co-chair of the scholars' society, which recently joined
with Judicial Watch in calling for release of documents, films and
videos, and physical evidence withheld from the public by the
administration. "It pulls the plug on the Commission's contention there
was no advance warning that the Pentagon was going to be hit."

According to Secretary Mineta's testimony, which is in the public
domain, when he (Mineta) arrived at an underground bunker at the White
House (known as the Presidential Emergency Operations Center), the Vice
President was in charge. "During the time that the airplane was coming
in to the Pentagon", he stated, "there was a young man who would come
in and say to the Vice President, 'The plane is 50 miles out.' 'The
plane is 30 miles out.'

"And when it got down to, 'The plane is 10 miles out,'" Mineta
continued, "the young man also said to the Vice President, 'Do the
orders still stand?' And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck
around and said, 'Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard
anything to the contrary?'" One way to construe these remarks could be
that the orders were to shoot down the plane.

The scholars suggest that that is an implausible interpretation. The
Pentagon, they observe, may be the most heavily defended building in
the world. If the orders had been to "shoot it down," then no doubt it
would have been shot down. Moreover, there would have been no apparent
reason for the young man to have expressed concern over whether or not
"the orders still stand." Shooting it down, under the circumstances,
would have been the thing to do.

"The only reasonable interpretation of the orders," Fetzer observed,
"is that the incoming aircraft should not be shot down, which would
have been an obvious source of anxiety for an aide. Since it
contradicts the official story about the Pentagon," he added, "it had
to be suppressed and was not even included in The 9/11 Commission
Report." And other scholars, including Professor David Ray Griffin of
Claremont Graduate University, have drawn the same conclusion.

Philip J. Berg, Esq., Former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania
and a past candidate for Governor, Lt. Governor, and U.S. Senate from
Pennsylvania, who is a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, added, "Those
who made it happen were obviously in the position to know that it was
going to happen and therefore could have sounded a warning alarm. The
case against Cheney is more powerful than the case against Moussaoui.
No one is more culpable than the perpetrators. If Moussaoui deserves
the death penalty, what does our Vice President deserve?"

Berg also represents William Rodriguez, a WTC witness, in a RICO
lawsuit against officials in the administration for complicity in the
events of 9/11, being U.S. District Court (Philadelphia) Case Number
04CV4952. Other members of the society include Robert Bowman, head of
the "Star Wars" program in both Democratic and Republican
administrations; Morgan Reynolds, former Chief Economist for the
Department of Labor in the Bush administration; Andreas von Buelow,
former assistant defense minister of Germany; Steven E. Jones, a
professor of physics from Brigham Young University and the society's
co-chair; and Griffin, a noted theologian and author of The 9/11
Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions.

Members of the society point to other indications of advance knowledge,
which include volumes of put-options placed by betting that the stock
value of United and American Airlines would drop. The SEC has detailed
information about those who placed the options, which it has not
released to the public. "Time and time again," Fetzer remarked,
"evidence that would expose the official account to be a deception and
a hoax intended to manipulate the nation has been concealed."

According to Fetzer, experts in the society of scholars, including
pilots and aeronautical engineers, physicists and mechanical engineers,
have established that flying these planes would have been beyond the
"hijackers" capabilities, that it would have been virtually impossible
for cell phone calls to have been placed during those flights, and that
even the Saudi Arabian Embassy has long confirmed that several of the
accused "hijackers" did not die on 9/11.

"It does not take rocket science to infer that, if these guys were
killed in the crash of these aircraft, then they cannot be alive and
well and living in Saudi Arabia," he remarked, "yet the FBI has not
bothered to revise its list of suspects." Other studies available on
the society's web site at www.st911.org indicate that the passenger
manifests for the four flights did not include the names of the
hijackers nor were autopsies conducted on them.

"A growing body of evidence supports the inference that these 19 men
were patsies for forces within the United States government," Fetzer
concluded. "This trial appears to be yet one more illustration of Karl
Rove's policy of 'creating our own reality' to serve the political
goals of the administration, even when it comes at the cost of the
lives and the security of the American people. The idea that Bush is
'the security president' is just a cruel joke!"

Documentary support for the conclusions reported here may be found at
the Scholars for 9/11 Truth web site at www.st911.org.

For Further Information:

James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.
Founder and Co-Chair
Scholars for 9/11 Truth
(218) 726-7269 (office)
(218) 724-2706 (home)
(218) 726-7119 (fax)
http://www.st911.org

Philip J. Berg, Esq.
706 Ridge Pike
Lafayette Hill, PA 19444
(800) 993-7445 (office)
(610) 834-7659 (fax)
(610) 662-3005 [cell
http://www.911forthetruth.com