International Inquiry into 9-11, San Francisco, CA, March 26-28, 2004
The opening press conference Friday of the International Inquiry into 9-11 was the subject of articles in the following Bay Area newspapers this morning:
San Francisco Chronicle -
includes a statement by a White House spokesman!
San Jose Mercury News -
included information on getting tickets
San Mateo County Times
Tri-Valley Herald
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/27/BAG525SD161.DTLSAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
With 9/11 in the news, conspiracy buffs gather
3-day conference draws critics of official version for films, speakers, chat
Harriet Chiang, Chronicle Legal Affairs Writer
Conspiracy theorists, anti-war activists and those with healthy doses of skepticism about the official version of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks converged in San Francisco on Friday for a three-day conference to try to figure out what really happened in the worst act of terrorism on American soil.
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"There is a 9/11 truth movement,'' said Nicholas Levis, another event organizer, as he addressed reporters while standing in front of a sign that read "Stop the 9/11 Cover-Up." Accusing the Bush administration of stonewalling,' he echoed the sentiments of other speakers that the White House had known ahead of time of the terrorist attacks, using it as an excuse to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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During the conference, participants also are ruminating over theories that the CIA created al Qaeda, that the military saw the planes heading for their targets but chose not to shoot them down and that there were links between Osama bin Laden and high level officials of the Bush administration.
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Meanwhile, Ken Lisaius, a White House spokesman, said he refused to dignify the organizers' charges of a cover-up with a response. He said the administration had fully cooperated with the commission, furnishing more than 2.3 million pages of documents and holding more than 100 briefings. "The president has directed his administration to support efforts to insure an attack like this will never happen to this country again,'' he said. "That's why it's provided unprecedented access to information and documents.''
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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/8291466.htm(...)
Ellen Mariani of New Hampshire, whose husband, Louis Neil Mariani, died when United Airlines Flight 175 was flown into the south tower of the World Trade Center, is a cult hero to many, in part because her participation in the ``truth'' conferences gives the group some legitimacy.
Mariani has filed a lawsuit against Bush and other White House officials that charges them with complicity in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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Growing doubts
The Internet has allowed Sept. 11 theories to spread like wildfire. And growing public concern about the government's rationale for the war in Iraq has fueled further speculation.
``It's morphed into one: The government set up Sept. 11 so they could go into Iraq so they can control the oil. There was a small number of activists who were suspicious from the start, and then once the anti-war movement got going a lot of people who were opposed to the war wondered if there was a link. But there are some serious people who are genuinely concerned that their government is hiding information from them.''
IF YOU'RE INTERESTED
For more information about this weekend's conference, go to www.911inquiry.org. Tickets are available through City Box Office at (415) 392-4400.
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TRI-VALLEY HERALD
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http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10669~2045588,00.htmlSame article also at San Mateo County Times:
http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87~11268~2045624,00.htmlSaturday, March 27, 2004 - 3:43:40 AM PST
Theorists share their views of 9/11
Alternative press and activists discuss conspiracy in the World Trade Center attacks
By Josh Richman, STAFF WRITER
SAN FRANCISCO -- Days after current and former government officials testified before the official panel probing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, dozens of activists, independent journalists and others from around the world convened Friday for their own inquiry.
These are people who believe the government is lying on a grand scale, and that the Bush administration at least passively let -- and at most, actively helped -- the attacks happen.
They believe that the independent commission now probing the matter is in no way independent, and that neither it nor the corporate-owned, government-beholden mass media can be trusted to ask the right questions to get at the truth.
"The truth is not going to come out unless we demand it," said Bill Douglas of Kansas, the founder of www.911visibility.org New York City activist Nicholas Levis said this weekend's International Inquiry into 9-11 is all about "making the connections that the mainstream media refuse to make," lest any real consideration expose "the complicity of the United States government" in the attacks.
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REQUEST FROM THE INTERNATIONAL INQUIRY INTO 9-11
In San Francisco, March 24-26, 2004
TO GAVIN NEWSOM, MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO
Delivered to City Hall by hand, March 25, 2004
Dear Mayor Newsom,
according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle on Sept. 12th, 2001, your predecessor in office, Willie Brown, stated that on the evening of Sept. 10th, he received a call from a source he described as his "security people at the airport," advising him not to take his scheduled flight to New York City the next morning. ("Willie Brown got low-key early warning about air travel," SF Chronicle, Sept. 12, 2001.)
We are concerned at this evidence that may lead back to persons who had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11th attacks on New York and Washington. We request that you investigate whether Mayor Brown's source is known to San Francisco or Bay Area authorities, and that you take up contact with your predecessor to clarify the matter.
Please note the many indications that specific advance warnings and prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks circulated among certain groups, including two Newsweek stories that top officials at the Pentagon cancelled travel plans for Sept. 11 on the evening of Sept. 10; and reports of stock trading in put options on American Airlines and United Airlines and other insider trading indicating advance knowledge in the week prior to Sept. 11 on international stock exchanges, including in San Francisco. For one listing of such warnings with links back to original press reports, please see:
http://cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/AAexactday.htmlWe await a response care of David Soule, 500 Buchanan #12, San Francisco, 94102.
Thank you.
The Conference Participants
International Inquiry into 9-11, Phase One
http://www.deceptiondollar.com/Inquiry911.htm 
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