Useful 9/11 Research Websites
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There are endless Internet sites defending and doubting the official story of 9/11. In constructing this particular list, I looked for sites that seem comprehensive, at least on the issues they choose to cover, and which don't tend to have a vituperative tone. This last is not, of course, a guarantee of accuracy or usefulness in either direction, but I believe such a tone makes it difficult to approach the material in an analytically useful way (both for the author and the reader). For those who desire a more comprehensive list of sites, many of these have pages or navigation bars pointing to many other such sites.
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Tabbed browsing -- Many of these sites are "deep," in the sense that they have a hierarchy of pages with many branches. Exploring such a site is almost impossible unless you resort to tabbed browsing, for which an explanation has been provided.
9/11 Research
http://911research.wtc7.net
(Jim Hoffman) A very detailed, articulate examination of all aspects of 9/11, with original commentary and debunking of both debunkers and doubters.
Journal of 9/11 Studies
http://journalof911studies.com/
(Steven Jones et al) Peer reviewed research papers (PDFs) on a wide range of technical aspects of 9/11. These appear well-researched and well-thought out, but some have criticised the peer-review idea as not being as formal as used in paper journals.
Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice
http://stj911.org/
Lays out the various pro and con theories, with papers pro and con all of these. "'Scholars' emphasizes a scholarly and civil approach to inquiry," but of the 600 members not all are academics.
Study of 9/11
http://www.studyof911.com/
A number of good detail articles (HTML and PDF), plus collections of images (huge!) and videos, and forums for discussing the various papers.
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
http://ae911truth.net
(Richard Gage, et al) This site deals strictly with the World Trade Center. The main feature is a detailed slide show (also available on DVD as 911 Blueprint for Truth) of the evidence indicating the buildings did not come down as described.
9/11 Review
http://911review.com
(Jim Hoffman?) An apparently companion site to 9/11 Research, has articles, critiques (of both doubters and debunkers), letters, and an overall breakdown into three categories -- Attack/Coverup, Means/Motive/Precedent, and InfoWarfare (the press, and methods used on both sides to attack/confuse doubters).
(Note: not to be confused with http://911review.ORG, home to the encyclopedia and search tool referred to below.)
WTC Demolition Analysis
http://www.sharpprintinginc.com/911/
A large collection of original detailed analytical pages and links to a variety of other documents asserting or attempting to debunk various questionings of the Official Story.
Debunking 911
http://www.debunking911.com/
One of the best of the debunking sites. It seems thorough while not being (at least overtly) snide. It damaged a number of my own strongly-held opinions. The owner goes out of his way to say that he believes the real conspiracy was the neocon group (the former members of PNAC) in the Bush administration who used the attack as a pretext for war, though he rejects the possibility that they facilitated or augmented the attacks.
911 Myths
http://911myths.com
Another very good site. It says it is not interested in debunking theories, but in details, and that's what it does try to do. Their motto is excellent: "Don’t trust a site just because it’s telling you what you want to believe. Don’t believe us without evaluating our arguments and checking the references we provide, either (we’re as likely to make mistakes as anyone else). Look into the claims yourself, discover both sides of the argument, and make your own mind up. The truth deserves nothing less." The only catch, of course, is that sometimes there's more than two sides, and it isn't always easy to make up one's mind. We're not experts, either.
The Journal of Debunking 9/11 Conspiracies
http://www.jod911.com/
When I saw the "peer-reviewed" papers phrase, I first thought this was a snide take-off on the Journal of 9/11 Studies site. But it appears to be a serious, useful site.
AE911 Truth.INFO
http://www.ae911truth.info/
(Joseph Nobles) A point-by-point response to Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth's Blueprint for Truth slide show. (The owner describes himself as a liberal and agnostic who graduated from a Bible college.)
Complete 9/11 Timeline
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline
(Paul Thompson) There are other timelines (Google: timeline 9/11), but this one, compiled from thousands of news articles and videos and government documents, covering a span from the 1970's through to today, is probably the most thorough and trustworthy.
Attack Timeline
http://911review.com/attack/timeline/timeline.html
(Jim Hoffman) I've also created a perhaps slightly-more-usable localversion.
9/11 Search Tool
http://www.911review.org/search.html
Provides a keyword/phrase search of either the 9/11 related sections on the 911review.org site, or any of a large number of external doubter sites.
9/11 Encyclopedia
http://911review.org/#Encyclopedia
A comprehensive collection of a LARGE number of facts. Sections: Webites (eclectic), People, Topics. Finding things: words-in-titles, words, and the search tool (above).
Caution: although apparently frequently updated, much of the work done (judging from the page update dates) was back in 2003, and some things have been debunked (e.g., the CNN "passenger manifests").
WTC Modelling and Simulation
http://wtcmodel.wikidot.com/structural-data-wtc-1-2
(Lon Waters) This is a thorough documentation of floor and column data that apparently had dreams of creating a complete model of the Twin Towers, but seems to have stopped after the acquisition of data was complete. The unique core-column feature consists of a set of pages that each describe one of the core columns, providing the image of the cross section of each ~3-floor section of that column, and an animated gif graphic that shows the cross-section changing as you rise through the tower.
The WTC1-2 Core
More useful contextual information about the functional parts of the core, their roles in supporting various aspects of the buildings, and how these roles fit the observed features of the collapse (not the NIST analysis).
"Links to the best Photo Archives"
http://www.sharpprintinginc.com/911/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=7&MMN_position=9:9&MMN_position=203:203
A good, comprehensive set of links to a large number of9/11-related photo archives compiled by the SharpPrinting administrator (who compiled the following archive for his own site, which appears to be a T-shirt screen-printing site -- you just never know...).
World Trade Center: Fires, Collapses, and Debris
http://www.sharpprintinginc.com/911/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=51&MMN_position=2:2&MMN_position=202:202
Self-description: "Welcome to the Worlds Single Best Photo Archive Capturing the WTC Demolitions." Collections covering fire progression, debris, construction, and "specialty" collections (studies of the core-remainder "spire" and oxyacetylene torch cuts (to distinguish from thermite cutter charges)).
Video Evidence of the Destruction of the World Trade Center Skyscrapers
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/videos/index.html
(Jim Hoffman) A collection of short videos of the "collapse" of the Twin Towers, from varying directions and distances, most of which also offer navigatable frame-sequences of the videos, so you can step through the videos to watch closely what was happening.
Flamesong Videos
http://flamesong.com/911/
A large collection of more-than-just-a-clip 9/11 videos, though by no means all of them. Many are for sale on DVD from other sources; I'm not sure how "legitimate" the presence of these on the site is, but that's a separate issue.
YouTube 9/11 Videos (mostly short clips)
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=911&aq=f
Use the YouTube search tool: type "911" and "9/11" followed by a space. When you type the next letter, a list of categories beginning with that letter appear. If you type a second letter, the list is thinned to categories beginning with those two letters -- which often includes additional ones not shown at first. A list of relevant possibilities based on the first letter follows. I've omitted a few stupid ones, and all that start with the same word.
as it happened
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Google Videos -- 9/11, playable on Google
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=911&emb=1#
There are about 166,000 hits on this (more if you choose to search for "all videos" or to search the Web instead of just Google). You can choose to view these on Google or on the original site (often YouTube).
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